If only pay attention to the PC market, the rules of the Wintel monopoly, there has been no change. In fact, Intel and Microsoft, still is the master of the PC market, still can get huge profit every year.

Times is changed, however, although the Wintel alliance is still in the big money, but the PC, the only access is no longer a people on the Internet, or even no longer is the main channel. Mobile phone has become the ever-present communication platform, and PC will be the host work, of course some high-end game, mostly to play on the PC machine better.

In recent years, each year about PC sales, is a negative news. Because the PC software and hardware technology, has developed to the point of very mature, revolutionary technology is not obvious, the PC renewal speed, slowed down significantly. - for example, this document, is to use 2011 ThinkPad laptop, Windows 7 operating system, as well as Word2007, plus sogou pinyin input method, with fine, unless a hardware failure, you couldn't see what is the upgrade of demand.

Growth: Intel semiconductor textbooks

Corresponding with the IT market is the market value of the company, Intel value be qualcomm more than once (qualcomm was, of course, pick off the monopoly, China market is down, will write history of the world's top five qualcomm). Then the rise of many Internet companies, including Google, FaceBook, tencent, alibaba and so on, were worth far more than the Intel.

Tencent, for example, the company has market value of more than $250 billion, equivalent to the sum of Intel and qualcomm. But on turnover and profit, tencent is far inferior to any of the two home.

Why is this so? Is simple, the capital market is no longer on the traditional software hardware company, although they also make money, but the lack of growth, there would be no the imagination of the hype. Today, they are more focused on Internet companies, in particular, has dominated the mobile Internet company.

In fact, even in the era of mobile Internet, Intel is the winner. Although mobile phones and terminal, Intel chips are not the mainstream, but on a web server, Intel but earn rich, light a variety of high-end server chips every year, can sell 120 billion dollars on sales.

Read the history of Intel, more like the United States this decades the development of the silicon valley a window. With innovation, struggle, successful business operation, with the top of the world, there are the stagnation of the era of change, like a memorable IT industry encyclopedia.

As one of the IT industry veteran, I has been paying attention to the development of the Intel company. Starting learning microcomputer principle, from the assembly language to the later of the PHP language, from working on Unix operating system to the later transformation in writing, almost every day in the use of Intel's X86 architecture of computer. To sum up, the Intel on the domestic semiconductor industry, has a very profound significance.

Growth: Intel semiconductor textbooks

(1) the accumulation of core technology, is sustained by input, and can't get. Intel go today, always maintain margins in the industry, support of all this, also is the continuous high intensity of r&d. Compared with domestic companies, huawei and lenovo, the growth of the two companies fate, more can see it clearly.

(2) in the IT industry in the United States, especially in the traditional IT company, obviously entered the development periods of stagnation. Mature with the development of software and hardware technology, the market is saturated, and the update rhythm slow down obviously, this leads to the well-known IT companies, lose the imagination of growth, capitalists are voting with their feet. Intel recently announced layoffs, jobs nearly 10%, for since the financial crisis in 2008, the largest scale seems to show that the original poster that some time ago, the traditional IT industry, golden age growth has become the past, IT is difficult to support high above the value of the shares. Not only so, Intel, IBM, qualcomm, HP and so on industry giants, are facing the same risk of stagnation.

(3) in the mobile Internet era, the United States while maintaining traditional Wintel monopoly, the rapid rise of qualcomm, Google (android), apple, Facebook and other mobile Internet new upstarts. But in this day and age, China is not backward, not only in the global smartphone market, in the top 10 firmly occupied seven, and the world's ten biggest Internet companies, China accounts for four, ahead of the Internet to achieve the goal of G2.

To sum up, Intel is very great, in the PC era, has been leading the trend of The Times. Its founder, Moore's law (roughly 18 months, the chip performance double), is the important index of technological progress to guide the industry.

Semiconductor industry is one of the largest industry, the gap between China and the United States patent system, ecosystem, manufacturing process, from the United States has a very large gap. And on the core technology, core technology of semiconductor industry, the United States and the west, have been sealed off. Way to go in China, has a long way, still need to countless investment in manpower and financial resources.

Intel's growth history, no doubt, is a vivid textbook, regardless of ideology, I would like to salute to the company.