thirty-seven

Cao Changchang is an ambitious person, it sounds like ambition, his greatest ideal in his dream is to be able to use a desktop server with 128 CPUs and 256G memory, but his heart is higher than the sky, his life is thinner than paper, and he often worries about whether to upgrade his old Athlon.

Seeing that the rich Xiaobai are all dual-core, dual-channel, and dual-graphics card siLi configurations, I can't wait to go to the street to rob the bank, and I'm afraid that the security guards will collapse.

After having a new life, often YY creates a time of his own, but finds that there is no way out, the reality is suffocating, and even a sample of the CPU has to beg grandpa to tell grandma.

Finally, I actually ran into Yu Youcheng, and after a few conversations, I seemed to have the meaning of starting my own business, and I was really excited to tears for a long time, and I couldn't wait to hug Dr. Yu's thigh and shout: "Big brother, accept me as your little brother, I was born for you!"

However, Chang Chang felt that this was too shameless, so he automatically deleted this memory, and said to Dr. Yu instead: "Mr. Yu, let me show you something." ”

Although he was a little tired after a long day of teaching, Dr. Yu still found it interesting to talk to this little guy, so he followed him to the guest house, although he still didn't know what Changjiu was doing.

Chang opened his luggage, took out the information he had collected, that is, the 8-bit CPU he designed himself, and handed it to Dr. Yu with both precious hands, "You can comment on it and see if there is anything going on." ”

When Dr. Yu saw this posture, he also took it very solemnly and looked through it slowly.

As soon as he read the beginning, Dr. Yu was a little surprised, the beginning of the "microprocessor?" data predicted the performance parameters of the finished product.

8-bit microprocessor, the architecture has never been seen, it seems to be greatly simplified, there is no cache, and the performance actually has to reach 1 million instructions per second, which seems a bit exaggerated.

But continuing to look through the information, I feel that it seems a little possible, Dr. Yu himself is an expert in this area, of course, you can see at a glance whether this thing is true or false, and whether it is feasible.

After reading the information quickly, Dr. Yu shook his head painfully and remained silent.

Cao Changjiu's heart sank, and he comforted himself: "It's okay, this is just an experimental processor I made, and there is still a lot of room for improvement." ”

"It's a pity I don't have any money," Dr. Yu said with a smile, "otherwise I would have invested in you." ”

Cao Changjiu was pleasantly surprised: "Are you saying that this design is okay?"

"Quite improvised!" Dr. Yu flipped through the information and commented, "Although it is an eight-bit processor, it seems a little late, foreign countries are developing 16-bit microprocessors, and I know of Intel's 8086." Maybe it's because I haven't followed the development of microprocessors for a long time, and I'm a little unfamiliar with your architecture, but it's very creative, a bit of Risc, and it's the first time I've seen it in a microprocessor. ”

"That's right," Cao Changjiu was excited, "It's Risc, I just took into account Huaxia's manufacturing capacity to choose Risc, the structure is simple and regular, the speed is easy to go up, and the design cycle is short, which is all advantages in my eyes." ”

"There should be a lot to be done in the mainland, you don't have the burden of software, if the finished product can achieve the performance you said, it is possible to play abroad. Unlike me, I opened a company and lost a lot of money, hehe, and now I have fallen to the point of being an agent of Intel. Dr. Yu laughed at himself.

"Oh," Cao Changjiu was very interested, "tell me, I like to hear legendary stories the most!"

Dr. Yu was pestered, so he had to talk about his experience of starting a company.

"When I was at Intel, I was thinking about a question, what can the chip do if it is getting smaller and smaller, and the performance is getting higher and higher? ”

"MITS launched the first microcomputer in 1975, and in 76 years someone made a game console with a microprocessor, and then I thought that the most potential for microprocessors in the future should be the home market, that is, electrical appliances that every family can enjoy. ”

"Think about it, how many families in the United States can sell microprocessors and memories if they buy a home computer for 1 in 10,000. This is domestic, internationally, isn't it crazy. ”

"I was a little crazy about the idea, but no one agreed with me, only one friend was moved by my words, and they worked together for this illusory goal. We plan on paper all day long, weaving home computer dreams in our minds. ”

"In '77, I left Intel with my dreams, raised $1 million, and registered my own company, VideoBrain. At the time, my old boss, Andy Grove, was skeptical that there was a market for this home computer, and now I think he was right. ”

"We quickly designed our product, called VideoBrain, which means it can control the video, and we also equipped the home computer with a special image processing chip, and all the software is stored in read-only memory, just like a game console. There are checkers games, there is the BASIC language, there are financial software, and so on. Anyway, it's some really amazing features, and I think graphics are the most important aspect of home computers. ”

"You don't know how difficult that thing is, we can only use assembly language to develop software, use audio tapes to store programs, and actually write more than a dozen software for us, it's a miracle, I felt that there was no difficulty that could not be overcome. ”

"LAST YEAR MY HOME COMPUTER HIT THE MARKET, WELL, WITH APPLEII, AND IN FACT, WE DID VERY WELL, WE RECEIVED A LOT OF ORDERS, AND I NAIVELY THOUGHT THAT THE MARKET RESPONSE WAS GOOD. ”

Soon, just a few months later, the home computer was finally beaten back to its original shape, and no one knew what it was used for, and no one wanted to pay for a machine with only a dozen pieces of software. WHILE APPLEII IS THRIVING AND POPULAR. ”

"This, that's it, there is no way out, and I owe a lot of debt, so I have to come to the mainland to try my luck, fortunately the development momentum is good, otherwise I can only ask for food. ”

Dr. Yu told a lot of stories about the servant street, and Cao Changjiu listened to it interestingly, "You are really a servant, you bumped into APPLEII's body, can you have good fruit to eat?"

"It's different, even if there is no apple, it is destined to be this result. Now that I think about it, VideoBrain is not only less software, but also more restrictive, it is simply a presentation machine, and no one will buy a computer that can only be used for viewing. "Apple is a successful example of a computer that is easy to use, bought by programmers to program software, and as a result, it has created a commercial market." ”

"Then now have you ever thought about starting your own business in the mainland of the motherland, now that the mainland is reforming and opening up, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, and you would rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow. "I have long felt that there is hope, and if there is a heavyweight like Dr. Yu Da involved, the hope of realizing my ideals will definitely increase greatly.

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Lao Yu is going to climb Mount Tai on the weekend, which is a labor union compulsory labor, and he will save two days of drafts before talking. Let's be less these days