Blooming America

Chapter 197 CPU, GPU, and APU

Bob is a third-rate director of Universal, but he has switched careers this year, and he is now a secondary agent of Dazzle TV.

I have to say that dazzling TV sets are indeed very good. Such outstanding display effects are indeed unmatched now. There is no problem in meeting the general visual needs of the family.

Although the agent dazzles the TV, Bob's own home has just installed the dazzle TV.

Maybe it's because in the days when Hollywood didn't go up or down, Bob didn't like watching movies and the like. He preferred to watch the news.

Especially Catherine’s 24 hours live broadcast of Angel News is his favorite.

"... The Internet is a network formed by connecting multiple computer networks. People can communicate and transmit data at any time on the Internet. The network using optical fiber has excellent security performance. The possibility of eavesdropping is almost non-existent, so it can be used in the military..."

Although it was already ten o'clock in the evening when Bob returned home, when he turned on the TV, the whole hour of news had just begun.

"...This plan will build a network that runs through the east and west of the United States, closely uniting the east and the west..."

What is being shown on TV is an analysis of the White House press conference.

This term is not new. In fact, there have been advertisements about it in California.

Although Bob left Hollywood, he still settled in Los Angeles.

"Hey, what a great little guy."

What Bob said was Catherine.

The first time I knew about this girl was because he visited his old friend Homan. He thought that Catherine's acting skills were pretty good, so he gave her a business card.

After that, Bob quickly forgot about the incident, until later, Catherine actually started making a movie, which made him remember the girl again.

Immediately afterwards, the girl soared into the sky and became the boss of a big business, making people fall through the glasses.

Bob originally thought that this girl named Catherine would eventually become a movie star, but the result was beyond his expectations.

"..."

This thing does seem very interesting.

...

The federal government showed off to the Soviet Union very much, as a response to the other party's theft of information.

And Catherine's project, after preliminary planning, can be quickly launched.

According to the argument, one billion dollars is definitely not enough.

But just need to connect the north-south route, and the rest is easy to say.

Now, all Catherine has to do is to quickly get the network done.

But for specific technical issues, Catherine cannot help. The matter of the optical fiber network has to be handed over to Ralph and Gao Kun.

Catherine couldn't take care of the fiber optic network. She could only wait for the good news.

These days, Catherine has taken out a lot of videos of Bruce Lee and the fighting masters, and she shows it to herself every day.

Although I already have a gun license, it is still very interesting to learn some self-defense skills.

Most of the techniques are with feet. This is not too stressful for Catherine. After all, she used to learn ballet. Although Catherine's legs look very slender, they are powerful.

But she didn't expect that the good news came in just a few days.

——The 16-bit CPU was developed.

This 16-bit CPU has 18,000 transistors and the frequency can reach 3MHZ.

To commemorate this first 16-bit CPU, Catherine named it "", rst-CPU.

Catherine’s thinking is somewhat different from that of people in this era. People at this time all like to study supercomputers and mainframe computers. Even Olson’s previous company focused on small computers—the so-called small computers. The volume is also huge.

Catherine thought, her X had squeezed out the name, maybe it was interesting to name her CPU.

Of course, this is somewhat different from the ly-mputer in history.

This CPU means "first hit", and Catherine will soar into the sky with a 16-bit CPU.

Of course, the performance is still a bit poor. Catherine's second 16-bit CPU plan is, that is, Super-rst-CPU.

Catherine thinks this meaning is very good, of course, people in this era will not know what is going on.

Catherine's goal has always been a personal computer.

Even the Internet, in a sense, is also a tool for personal computers.

In addition to this good news, there is also bad news.

——IBM introduced the floppy disk.

To be precise, this is a 32-inch giant floppy disk with no practical value at all, but for Catherine, the news is not very good.

The emergence of floppy disks will change the entire computer market. This kind of disc has been occupying the entire market until it is replaced by a USB flash drive.

Fortunately, IBM seems to be not paying enough attention to personal computers, giving Catherine more time.

At this time, Catherine also started her own new plan. First of all, it was to meet the legendary Eight Rebels.

they are--

Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Julias Blank, Eugene Claire, Kim Helney, Jay Last, Sheldon Roberts and Victor Grinick.

Historically, they couldn't bear Fairchild's transfer of unrestricted profit to the parent company, so they left the company in anger one by one.

In this era, because Fairchild's profitability has become stronger, contradictions broke out ahead of schedule, and because of this, the Eight Rebels also left faster.

As soon as they walked out the door, Catherine was dragged to Intel next door.

——Catherine has been paying attention to and instigating them.

"Hello everyone."

Catherine received them in the meeting room.

"Miss Edson, hello."

Compared to history, these eight people are still very young.

Perhaps because of the change in status, they seem to be longing for Intel, the sacred place of semiconductors.

"Welcome to the Intel family."

Sanders smiled.

The eight people were obviously very excited.

At this time, Catherine swept her gaze over the eight people, especially Robert Noyce, who proposed light calculation, and the legendary Gordon Moore.

But in this scene, Catherine almost didn't laugh.

The president of AMD "in history" welcomes the leader of Intel, who has been suppressing himself, to join the Intel company now in the ARK Group...

When Catherine met them, she returned to her office, and let Sanders receive them and stay there again, and Catherine might really laugh.

Catherine's ambitions became even greater because of the eight rebellions.

GPU development was put on the agenda, but Catherine soon thought of APU again.

APU, the full name is elerated-ng-ts, and the Chinese name is accelerated processor. In history, it is a product of AMD's convergent concept. It is the first time that the processor and the independent display core are built on the same chip. It also has high The processing performance of the performance processor and the latest discrete graphics card supports "accelerated computing", which greatly improves the operating efficiency of the computer and realizes the true integration of CPU and GPU.

In history, after AMD launched the APU, Intel ridiculed it fiercely, but later, Intel saw that this product was very good, and began to secretly research.

Finally, they quietly introduced their own core graphics CPU and integrated the graphics card on Intel's CPU.

However, this is not called APU. Intel changed its name to SNB-but as far as Catherine is concerned, he still thinks APU sounds better.

However, even in Catherine's era, APU still does not have a good combination of CPU and GPU.

Investigate its reason, this is mainly because the craft of CPU has been lagging behind GPU all the time.

In fact, Intel, a latecomer, has done worse than AMD. After all, in Catherine's time, AMD bought the graphics card production company. As for Intel's core graphics cards, the advertisements are very dazzling, but when used...then who knows who uses it.

Although the future GPU still has advantages. But in Catherine's view, if the APU is at the same technical level, it has a great advantage over the combination of CPU and GPU. Even if the graphics card has CUDA technology that can afford CPU operations, it is still not as good as the integrated APU.

The integration of APU is divided into four parts.

The first step is the physical integration process, which integrates the CPU and GPU on the same silicon chip, uses high-bandwidth internal bus communication, integrates a high-performance memory controller, and facilitates heterogeneous computing with the help of an open software system.

Integrated together, it can increase the transfer rate between the two, this part is better than separate CPU and GPU.

The second step is platform optimization. The interconnection interface between CPU and GPU is further enhanced, and two-way power management is unified.

——This part is the most critical.

The third step is architecture integration to achieve unified CPU/GPU addressing space, GPU use of paging system memory, GPU hardware schedulable, and CPU/GPU/APU memory coordination.

The fourth step is architecture and system integration ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The main features include GPU computing environment switching, GPU graphics priority computing, independent graphics card -E collaboration, task parallel operation real-time integration, etc., which require software support Of course, Catherine herself is the largest software supplier.

Good steel is used on the blade, this sentence is very good.

Talents should also be used on the blade, this is Catherine's idea.

Of course, in an era without 3D, GPUs are very useful, let alone APUs.

The core of the graphics card that Catherine plans to use in the next generation of personal computers is the 2D-Renderer, which is also the 2D renderer.

Catherine's requirements are not high. She hopes to achieve 4096-color display in the past two years. This is enough. As for enhanced colors and true colors... it is too early to say.

Catherine wrote a plan for accelerating the processor, and then gathered eight rebels to set up a new research group. She wondered if she could set up a laboratory in the future, and if she could separate it, maybe the efficiency would be better. high.