Blooming America

Chapter 261 CUDA Trouble

After entering November, the weather finally started to cool down, and people began to put on warm clothing such as sheep máo shirts.

At the beginning of the month, Blizzard’s second arcade contest was a big hit.

"Emma Cube" and "Street Fighter" became infinitely popular.

And at this time, a major event happened in Japan-the PS architecture computer launched by IBM was finally on sale.

Watson didn't spend 5 billion dollars to reorganize these microcomputers this time, like the research on 360 mainframes.

Even the products purchased by Watson are only ready-made.

PS computers only have an 8-bit processor produced by Fairchild, and the memory is only 4KB. The hard disk is an extension of the host. Without a mouse, the cost of the entire machine is compressed to a very low level-they are not even equipped with a monitor, and need to be used. TV output.

The wealthy IBM chose the low-end route when dealing with the Japanese market.

——Or, because of time, they have to choose a low-end route.

After all, such a machine is strictly a patchwork without any technical content at all, and it is barely technical, and this is the cào operating system that imitates x.

Although this computer is so crude, it is an eye-opener for Japanese people who don't know much about computers.

The term "computer" quickly became popular in Japan...

IBM's big move, naturally, can't hide ARK. At this time, Catherine also started to unite with a third party and began to translate some games into Japanese-Catherine was going to list X in Japan.

"Well, the meeting will be tomorrow morning... well, that's it."

Catherine put down the phone with a smile.

My own Japanese version of X is ready to be developed. The Japanese version of X needs to be modified according to the characteristics of the Japanese. It is not advisable to copy it mechanically.

Just put down the phone, but suddenly the phone rang again, Catherine had to pick up the phone again.

——Because X is going to be launched in Japan, the third parties looked over as if they were fish smelling blood.

"Sister Edson, Mr. Alcom, the president of Atari, wants to find you..."

"Well, take the call."

Atari is currently the largest game developer. Their games have gained fame in the past two years and have achieved very good results. Even Catherine attaches great importance to them.

"Well... that's it, our meeting will not change and will be held tomorrow morning."

Putting down the phone, Catherine scratched her head.

Catherine feels that her plan is just a very ordinary business plan, but for the majority of game developers, this means differently-they rely on selling games for a living.

X is already a very good product. There are already millions of X game consoles in families across the United States, including tens of millions of people, who have already played or watched X game consoles.

So regarding this matter, after they heard about X, they called one or two before the meeting was held.

If the price of a game is US$50, generally speaking, the profit of máo should be around US$20. If there are 100,000 points of sales, that is a total profit of 2 million. If the sales are millions of points, then there will be 2,000. Ten thousand dollars in profit

This is very beneficial for large game companies.

If the carrier of the game can be changed from cassettes and tapes to optical discs, the profits of the game can be further expanded, so game manufacturers are also looking forward to the mbus game console.

——Of course, they won’t mind another extra extra profit. The Japanese market has long been coveted by these people.

Catherine, who put down the phone, took a sip of the black tea made by Elsa, but within this short period of time, the phone rang again, and Catherine had to pick up the phone again.

"Tell them, just say I'm out for a meeting, and tomorrow morning's meeting will continue as usual"

Catherine said this to the phone last, and then hung up.

For this matter, Catherine was really tossed to the ground.

"call……"

She breathed a long sigh of relief, but found Elsa snickering on the side.

"Elsa, there is nothing funny about it, right."

Catherine curled her lips.

"Of course... uh... I just think you look good when you are busy."

Elsa answered.

"Alright alright."

Seeing Catherine's helpless look, Elsa finally held back a smile.

"Elsa, help me see the status of mbus, and give me a copy of their information."

Catherine opened the file in her hand, and then began to look at it seriously. The company is now in the ascendant stage and cannot be separated from Catherine's management.

"Ok."

Elsa said and left.

mbus, light wheel game machine. Catherine has high hopes for this game console. The current X is so powerful and the third party is so enthusiastic. It is easy to imagine how much cheaper game consoles with better displays will have on the market , There is nothing more wonderful than this.

It’s just a pity that Roberts’ Thunder Lab’s research on GPUs has not made any progress, but they have produced a 16-bit CPU up to 13MHZ, but because the architecture is different from the one used by Catherine, this experimental one The CPU is not yet useful. This CPU, which doesn't even have a code name, was invented for the purpose of researching GPUs. It can perform better floating-point operations than Catherine's. Although it is not a GPU, they are indeed working hard in this regard.

"Boom, boom, boom."

mén was knocked.

"Give me the information"

Catherine thought it was Elsa, but she didn't expect the other person to stand still in front of her. At this moment, Catherine suddenly realized that she seemed to be the wrong person. She quickly raised her head, but saw that Ada was laughing at herself. .

"Ada? Why are you here?"

Catherine is a little strange. Today is not a holiday. Why did Ada come here?

"I'll see you, there is no class this afternoon."

Ada sat on the sofa next to him: "I just asked the reception desk. They said you were not there. Fortunately, I met Elsa and I knew that you did not leave."

"Oh, I'm sorry, because some calls... well, they really annoy me."

Catherine scratched her head awkwardly.

"It's ok."

Ada smiled.

"Why did you think of coming here?"

Although Ada is not here for the first time, she never comes here many times. Ada likes to come to her family's manor more.

"Come and see your work."

It suddenly occurred to Catherine that she seemed to have discussed this issue with Ada yesterday.

"I won't bother you, I just look at it."

Ada smiled strangely.

"Hey, the mind of the nv people..."

Catherine sighed in a barely audible voice.

To be honest, even if her current body is also an nv person, she still doesn't understand the nv person this kind of creature.

Usually it’s fine, but once they have some thoughts, it will be very headache...

"Well, that's it."

At this moment, another call came, and Catherine had to pick up the call again.

"Sister Edson, Mr. Roberts is looking for you, do I need to get the phone in?"

Could it be that the GPU has made progress?

"Okay, hurry up"

Catherine was very excited.

She originally thought that it might take several years for new products to be developed, but she didn't expect that there has been progress now.

However, the first words Catherine heard instantly extinguished her enthusiasm.

"Sister Edson... Regarding the development of the GPU, we have encountered a lot of trouble..."

"what happened?"

Catherine asked.

"It's about the CUDA architecture you proposed. Although this architecture is very mature, if our GPUs really come in this way, it may be very troublesome to study..."

CUDA is a relatively mature architecture, isn't this architecture bad?

"The CUDA architecture is indeed very good, but I think you seem to have complicated the problem. Our problem can actually be solved better, rather than adopting such an architecture."

Roberts euphemistically expressed his opinion.

Now Catherine seemed to understand.

——Because the architecture of own CUDA is a bit complicated, this is not a good thing for research.

In an instant, Catherine understood that the original CUDA architecture was born on the basis of the already formed graphics card technology, but for now, such a graphics card has not appeared at all.

After thinking about it, whether to use the CUDA technology that she knows, and to develop new technologies, Catherine immediately said: "You only need to continue to research, and the problem of architecture is not a problem."

The only disadvantage of this is that the motherboard that has been researched needs to be modified, but Catherine thinks it is worth it.

After all, ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the current 16-bit machine is just a rudimentary form, and the x-Stargate system is just a forward-looking version, and everything is still too late.

If Roberts made this call after everything had been settled, Catherine would naturally not say that, because at that time, if everything was overturned, it would be worth the loss.

After hanging up the phone, Catherine immediately connected the phone to Sanders’ office again and gave him an order:

"Saunders, our new system and new machines have to undergo some modifications. Please discuss specific matters with Roberts."

Putting down the phone, Catherine róu róu's head, there are so many things today.

and many more……

Catherine realized that she seemed to have done something extraordinary just now.

Hmm... let AMD’s president and Intel’s president sit down and discuss it?

Well, another boring evil taste...