Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 196 POWER Architecture CPU
Guan Zhilin's doting and pride, after being disciplined by Tang Huan, she was suppressed as soon as she took the lead.

Regardless of Guan Zhilin's intention to go to school or not, the educational conditions provided by her parents are still quite good. Tang Huan did not want her to waste such accumulation, so he had already helped her contact an American school to continue her studies, and by the way, she could often communicate with her there. mother and brother meet.

As for work, it's fine to work part-time, she is talented, and it won't be too late to study for three or four years.

In this way, it will prevent me from being shallow and relying on my face for food.

Tang Huan patiently analyzed all kinds of powerful relationships, and Guan Zhilin finally obeyed obediently. This finally made the man who had taken advantage of him feel more at ease.

When Tang Huan, who had clear thoughts and refreshed body and mind, sat in the office again, a document sent by the marketing department not only made him frown, but in terms of word processing products in the office field, Wang An Computer and Fangyuan Computer competition has become increasingly fierce.

Wang An's word processor does not belong to the category of personal computers, but a terminal device with a combination of software and hardware. It supports Chinese well. It can be called an old-fashioned fist product, and IBM's similar products have been defeated by it. , is currently in a competitive relationship with the Fangyuan computer equipped with WordEasy word processing software sold in the Asia-Pacific region.

I originally set my heart to Mingyue, but Mingyue shines on the ditch. Tang Huan visited Wang An in the United States at the beginning, trying to seek cooperation, but failed to do so. I never imagined that now he has become a major competitor in the market.

Wishful thinking, "It's born from the same root, so why rush to each other" is undoubtedly very naive and ridiculous. Let's just wait and see. Anyway, Fangyuan Computer is not afraid of challenges, and word processing is just one of many applications. The most profitable one is the database. EBase.

It happened that Zhou Weikun also came back from the mainland, so they sat together and chatted about the situation there.

The computer technology centers established around local colleges and universities in Yanjing, Shanghai, and Yangcheng have been successfully established, and business is also developing well.

Zheru Xiangjiang's employment rules in mainland China are very flexible. It is not limited to college students. Those who have failed the college entrance examination with good background are also considered, because the current employment standards are very simple. After a short-term training, it is enough to use a computer, which is more professional A little problem will naturally be solved by Xiangjiang's employees.

After all, the college entrance examination is really a one-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses, and when the winner enters college, he becomes the emperor's favorite. After graduation, the state is responsible for allocating work, and he has a golden job. In his mind, he may not look down upon the capitalists. In the company, there is no need for Zheru to get into trouble.

Besides, due to the long-term blockade, young people in mainland China at this stage have limited knowledge of computers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are all on the same starting line.

Although the starting point is very low, their subjective initiative in mastering knowledge is very high. After getting a book, they often read it all night. Zhou Weikun was amazed by this effort.

"Students from poor families, it's not difficult to understand." Tang Huan smiled.

At present, there are not many specific things he can do in the mainland. He only hopes that under the employment pressure brought by the large number of educated youth returning home, some talented young people who are living in embarrassment can seize the opportunities he provides and get a treatment. A good job, which will improve the living conditions of the entire family behind it.

For Tang Huan, it is no longer a challenge to make a lot of money for himself, so he naturally wants to do something that is risk-free and difficult.

One of the reasons why great men are called great men should be that they can improve the living conditions of countless people in an era. Although Tang Huan thinks he cannot do it, imitating him will always make him more meaningful in this time and space.

"The Dragon Boat Festival is almost here, don't be too tired, take a rest here in Xiangjiang." Tang Huan picked up the market report on Wang An's computer and handed it over, "Competing with the other party is competition, but Don't tear your face apart, leave a room, maybe we will cooperate in the future."

"I understand this situation better, and I will tell the people below to pay attention." Zhou Weikun flipped through the file and nodded in agreement.

Zheru Xiangjiang Company's business idea is very clear, which is to continuously expand its market share. Tang Huan quickly finished asking about the matters he cared about. He suddenly remembered that Run Run Shaw will officially enter TVB at this time.

Hu Yinmeng, who was in charge of TV dramas, records, and movies, went to Baodao, and their schedules happened to be staggered. If Tang Huan wanted to know the latest developments in Xiangjiang's entertainment industry, he had to find someone else.

I don't know how the filming of Wang Jing's "The King of Thousand Kings" is going. Tang Huangang intends to contact the other party. The current president of Sharp, Asahi Saeki, sent a personal invitation. The founder of Sharp, Tokuji Hayakawa, whose health condition is deteriorating, wants to To see him.

Tang Huan did not hesitate, and immediately agreed. He was not surprised that the other party was close to him, not to mention the increasingly close business interests between Zheru and Sharp, but only in terms of personal relationship, it has reached this level. Thanks to Tang Huan's foreign language ability, although he has not had much contact with Tokuji Hayakawa, he has already fully understood the development trend of IT.

When Tang Huan met the 87-year-old Tokuji Hayakawa in Osaka, Japan, he saw from the lifeless eyes of the other party that his days were numbered. It is estimated that Tokuji Hayakawa himself had a premonition of this.

The place for the meeting was at Sharp's headquarters, and Asahi Saeki and other important executives were accompanying him. The specifications were grand, and Tang Huan also understood from the ins and outs of Tokuji Hayakawa's words that the old man was using his spare heat , I hope that the cooperative relationship between Zheru and Sharp can be maintained for a long time.

Of course, the root cause of being so highly regarded is the RISC architecture CPU that Tang Huan is developing, and Sharp has fully realized its awesomeness.

The technical basis of this project comes from IBM's Performance Optimization With Enhanced RIO****OWER in the previous life, that is, the enhanced RISC performance optimization architecture. In order to keep it top-secret, Tang Huan didn't even have a research and development code name, only the processor group.

In the original time and space, the POWER architecture originated from a plan started by IBM in 1974, which was to create a large-scale telephone switching network that could handle at least 300 calls per second, and it was expected that each call would need to process 20000 instructions in order to achieve real-time The response, to go with it, required a processor with a speed of 12 MIPS, which was very difficult at the time.

Fortunately, IBM has never been short of technical elites. They have realized that they do not need to completely imitate the complex design of processors of the same period, because this machine only needs to deal with I/O, register addition, and processing in temporary registers. It is enough to transfer data between the device and memory, and does not require special instructions for processing a large number of mathematical operations.

As for each step of complex calculations, it can be replaced by simple instructions, and all simple instructions are completed within the same time.This is the idea of ​​Reduced Instruction Design, or RISC.

However, IBM's plan for this telephone switching network was suspended in 1975 before a prototype could be produced.However, the processor designed for this project is considered to be a very potential general-purpose processor, so it is retained, and the follow-up work continues in Building 801 of the Thomas Watson Research Center, which is 801 plan.

In February 1990, the first IBM computer using POWER architecture, the "RISC System/2" or "RS/6000", was launched.

RS/6000 is divided into two levels of workstations and servers, which are called POWER Station and POWER Server respectively, and the central processing unit used is called "POWER" CPU.

This is often referred to as the first generation of POWER, and has been continuously upgraded since then, and even evolved to POWER 8 more than ten years later.

During this period, Intel's CPUs were already selling like a raging fire, and IBM also realized that if it sold its own chips to other system manufacturers, it might be able to turn POWER into a widely used architecture.

So in 1991, Apple, Apple Computer, IBM, and Motorola, Motorola, named after the initials of the three companies, formed the AIM alliance to jointly build the AIM alliance platform, and developed a new CPU from the POWER architecture, namely PowerPC.

Apple Computer's CPU was able to switch from the outdated Motorola MC68000 to PowerPC, and products such as Power Macintosh series, PowerBook series, iBook series, iMac series, eMac series and so on were born.

As for Jobs's abandonment of PowerPC and the replacement of Apple's CPU with Intel's Core, it was not entirely due to technical reasons such as power consumption of laptops.

There are many CPUs derived from the POWER architecture, such as the Cell processor used by Sony's game console Playstation 3.

At present, IBM is still conducting various demonstrations on its own RISC processor, but Tang Huan has already started the actual research and development on the shoulders of the POWER architecture. The prospect described flickers.

Throwing out various other factors, a person like Tokuji Hayakawa who devotes himself wholeheartedly to his career is still very admirable. Tang Huan also asked about the health of the other party while discussing business affairs, but he had already expected it in his heart. With the development of historical trajectory, Sharp will completely change the dynasty this month.

(End of this chapter)