Chapter 244: A Little Trick
Of course, it will take a lot of effort.
If it succeeds, Goldman Sachs will reap hundreds of millions of dollars in consulting fees, and with other covert operations, the benefits will far exceed this figure.
For example, Goldman Sachs can secretly buy a part of AMD's stock, you must know that as long as the news of Huaxin Technology's acquisition of AMD is released, it is not surprising that AMD's stock in the market will rise sharply.
Of course, this is inside information, blatant operation, which is not allowed on Wall Street, and even faces hefty fines.
However, there are not a thousand but hundreds of offshore companies in Goldman Sachs' hands, and with them in front, the problem does not exist.
Releasing the news can not only test the reaction of Wall Street, but also speculate on the market in advance, so why not.
But for Huaxin Technology, Goldman Sachs can play a little trick, and Wang Anran is not a person who cares, but if you want to treat Huaxin Technology as a big wrongdoer, you have to say it!
At nine o'clock in the morning, Wang Anran appeared on time at the headquarters building of Huaxin Technology and came to the office, where the new little secretary had already made a cup of coffee and a stack of documents.
"Inform the graphics card division, I'll be over in the morning!"
"Mr. Wang, did you inform them of what they need to prepare? Also, Manager Lu of the Information Security Department has something important to report to you, and others are already waiting in the living room!"
"Let him in. Wang Anran knows that it must be related to what happened in the United States yesterday, no way, decades of experience make Wang Anran extremely urgent to obtain information, because he needs to know the dynamics of the semiconductor industry around the world.
Taking a sip of coffee is really uplifting, especially if it's not sweetened.
After a while, Lu Jinjun walked into the office.
"Mr. Wang!"
Wang Anran picked up the coffee tray in his hand and said, "Sit down, do you want to have some!"
Lu Jinjun handed over the document, waved his hand and said: "Mr. Wang, bad news, we commissioned a small-scale poll, on Wall Street, only 7% of Huaxin Technology's acquisition of AMD was supported, and another 67% of people expressed clear opposition. ”
Wang Anran waved his hand, "This is not an easy task!"
For the Americans, Wang Anran has a personal experience, known as freedom and fraternity, and has unlimited possibilities. It's bullshit, actually.
America is in the hands of whites, it is in the hands of capital.
The country that claims to be the least racist, and discrimination, racial discrimination, has penetrated deep into the ruling class of the United States.
Their favorite thing to say is, "The things I hate the most are racists and people of color." ”
Well, there is no point in discussing the United States now.
Lu Jinjun continued: "AMD's management and capital are very angry about this acquisition, they believe that if AMD falls into the hands of Huaxin Technology, it will be a shame for the United States, and they would rather rot AMD than sell it to Chinese. ”
Wang Anran smiled and said, "This is not what they are talking about. ”
A few years ago, Japan bought the Empire State Building of the United States, and the capital said the same, but when the Japanese raised the purchase price by 17%, those capitals were like dogs, kneeling and licking the ass of the Japanese.
Therefore, don't mind the face of capital at all, a bone can solve it.
"What else?"
"Mr. Wang, yesterday the New York Times released the news of Huaxin Technology's acquisition of AMD, as expected, AMD's stock price rose 17% on the same day, but what is more interesting is that the entire transaction volume has not increased much, we invited professional financial analysts to analyze, and came to the conclusion that about 70% of AMD's outstanding shares have become dead shares. ”
"Only 30% of the outstanding shares are on the books?"
"Yes, Mr. Wang, the transparency of the U.S. securities market has given us a lot of convenience, 70% of AMD's outstanding shares have been acquired by more than 30 companies, large and small, within three months, with a total market value of $1.4 billion, but the background of these more than 30 companies is complex, and we need time to investigate clearly. ”
"Got it! This matter has nothing to do with Qualcomm!"
Clark once told Wang Anran that the acquisition of AMD will be at a premium of 2~3 times, good guy, $1.4 billion multiplied by three, that is at least more than $4 billion, Lao Tzu takes so much money to cheapen you Qualcomm, that's really a hole in the brain.
To the Americans,[567 Chinese www.567zw.xyz] there was nothing polite.
Gao Zu is right when he says that cooperation is based on struggle, and the more you fight, the more united you become.
"This is just the beginning!"
Since Qualcomm dares to bet so much, it is certain that Qualcomm has already taken the lead, and Huaxin Technology has not yet entered the pit, which means that it has the absolute initiative.
"Let's put this on hold for now!"
Wang Anran's itinerary remained unchanged and came to the graphics card division.
Although the design task of the ripper second-generation graphics card is nearing completion, there is still some distance from tape-out production, and the complete processing architecture is not a simple stacked stream processor.
Just like the relationship between CPU and memory, the relationship between GPU and video memory also involves the design of the cache.
In addition, so many stream processors are involved in the work, parallel processing, how to distribute computing tasks, how to communicate between various processing units, and how to connect the grating units involved in 3D graphics processing, all of which are processes that need to be repeatedly corrected and verified.
Of course, compared to the design of the CPU, it must be much simpler, first of all, the instruction set is not a level.
However, simplicity is also relative, and for an intern, a slightly complex logic circuit will take half a day to study.
"Master, why should the 32-bit adder fit to the top of the cache with the door design, and the logic design of the command switch should be connected to the bus line?"
"Hey, you really have enough questions, okay, let's do this first, today Mr. Wang will check the work, and you will stop some first. ”
"Mr. Wang?"
"The boss of Huaxin Technology. ”
The young man's adrenaline was soaring.
The graphics card division is on the seventh floor of the Huaxin Technology Building, and the elevator is coming down, and there are many new faces today, all of whom are interns recruited by major universities.
As always, Wang Anran likes to go among researchers and talk to them about the progress of the project, and of course, he can also exchange academic problems.
"The Ripper II is a revolutionary display chip, no, not just a display chip, but with our newly designed CUDA Universal Parallel Computing Platform, we can combine the CPU and GPU to play to their respective strengths. ”
"This is our design idea, and our purpose is always one, we want to give users the smoothest experience through our hardware, through the operating system. ”
"Perfect, the data is read from the hard disk to the memory, processed by the CPU, transferred to the video memory, the GPU reads the data from the video memory, processes the data, and then returns the processing results, designs dozens of more channels, caches, processing processes, from the original data to the display on the display, a stagnation, will affect the final display, especially in the GPU to add complex programming, the higher the requirements for reliability. ”
Of course, if you come to the graphics card a few screens every day, even if the technology is advanced, it will be thrown into the garbage.
"Redundant check units are a must, but ECC checks on large amounts of data will slow down the efficiency of the whole system, and we need more experiments to grasp this degree. ”
"What should I do if the redundancy check is wrong? Is it that the GPU stops working and can only be carried out after the calculation results are passed?"
"This?"
"Isn't it just a frame and a half of a picture, and your eyes don't even notice it!"
Even the top-of-the-line GTX2080ti graphics card will experience screen tearing.
Pretending to be forced in front of these scientific researchers, there is no sense of accomplishment at all, current events create heroes, if these people are abroad, they have to bow their heads, intern for a few years, pull out the seedlings themselves, and push them to the position of standing alone one by one.
Wang Anran shook his head, and when he was about to turn around, his gaze swept to a familiar face.
Isn't this the heart inkstone that blackmailed himself for 20,000 yuan in the shopping mall, it's really a narrow road!
Xin Yan watched in the crowd for a long time, and she never thought that the person she met in the mall turned out to be the head of Huaxin Technology.
When Wang Anran's gaze swept over her and paused for a moment, Xin Yan already knew that he recognized himself.
Smile slightly and apologize.
Wang Anran nodded in understanding.
"How is he different from the picture?"
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The second generation of the ripper refers to the Feimi architecture, but due to the limitations of the manufacturing process and transistor integration, it does not include the extreme anti-aliasing TXAA technology included in the original Feimi architecture, nor does it include technologies such as adaptive vertical synchronization and 3D stereoscopic fantasy surrounding.
The 64 CUDA Cores are organized as 4 SM scalar processors with 16 cores, and the CUDA instruction set architecture ISA contains only 27 instruction sets.
However, even with such a shabby structure, the simulated floating-point computing power far exceeds the current world's most advanced CPU, of course, the Athlon II 400 processor.
"How long will it take to tape out?"
"We have at least three more months to go. ”
"There's no time!"
Both Nvidia and ATI have released graphics cards based on a 300nm manufacturing process that doubles the performance compared to the Ripper PRO.
Three months, enough for the world to forget about the Ripper graphics card.
IN PARTICULAR, THE GODSON DISPLAY PROGRAM INTERFACE, IN WANG ANRAN'S OPINION, IS SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE RIPPER GRAPHICS CARD.
YOU KNOW, NOW A NUMBER OF GAME COMPANIES HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY NO LONGER SUPPORT THE GODSON GRAPHICS INTERFACE, WHICH MEANS THAT RIPPER GRAPHICS CARDS HAVE LOST SOME ENTERPRISE USERS, PLUS POTENTIAL INDIVIDUAL USERS.
"Let's do tape-out production tests and refine the design during the tests!"
Xie Ruyan hurriedly said: "Mr. Wang, this will greatly increase our costs, and a tape-out production will require hundreds of millions of yuan. ”
Wang Anran shook his head, time is money, no matter how good the results of the simulation test are, they also need real tape-out tests to support, at this time, it is worth spending hundreds of millions more, because Wang Anran has already felt the pressure brought by Nvidia.
As for ATI, a mine has already been buried in it, and when it will be detonated depends entirely on Wang Anran's own preferences.
And Nvidia, like Intel in Wang Anran's heart, has been grouped as a strategic competitor.