The birth of the Athlon processor is completely the result of Wang Anran's opening.

At that time, in order to promote the entire R&D progress and at the same time downplay his own influence, Wang Anran took great pains.

One of them is information.

It includes the basic chip design theory, the architecture design concept that I have refined over the years, and even clearly records how to design registers, how to implement the instruction set in the chip, how to design the logic processing unit, how to realize the communication of each unit, and what algorithm to use for branch prediction......

These materials are basically provided by Wang Anran in the name of downloading them from foreign servers, in fact, most of them are typed out by him on the computer line by line, for which he stayed up all night and lost a lot of hair.

At that time, the design process of the Athlon Division was basically a learning process, and of course, it was also a copy process.

There was no way, at that time, it was impossible to build high-rise buildings from the beginning, and it was natural to start with imitation.

The smooth advancement of the Athlon™ CPU, coupled with the successful research and development of the Athlon™ PRO and the second generation of Athlon, made Wang Anran form an illusion that the CPU R&D Division can already be in charge.

In fact, Xie Ruhui also thinks so.

"I don't understand, does Mr. Wang think that the research and development of CPUs is a trick? ”

Tan Delai didn't speak, and it is understandable that Mr. Xie complained, after all, the results of his painstaking management were thrown into the trash can by Mr. Wang like garbage, of course, Tan Delai himself was not very comfortable, and he was responsible for the structure.

"I don't believe it, Wang Anran is responsible for himself, and he can develop the CPU, this thing is not just for anyone who is rich and who is big. ”

Tan Delai whispered: "Mr. Xie, I heard that the Athlon processor was developed by Mr. Wang?"

"Hehe, you are later, I don't know, he just put on a name, in fact, all he can do is shout slogans. ”

Tan Delai simply stopped talking, can it be so simple? Let's not talk about CPUs and graphics card chips, just EDA software, video decoding chips, and minicomputer chipsets, these things can be shouted by shouting slogans, these things are all hardcore, it seems that Mr. Xie is completely blinded by complaints!

Of course, Wang Anran is in charge in person, and there are many people who question it. However, as soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he knows whether there is one, and in this world, no one knows the CPU development process better than Wang Anran.

The first promotion meeting was also a task assignment meeting.

What is the basis of CPU development, is the application, that is, the requirements, to put it bluntly, it is what the CPU is going to do when it is developed, and it is much easier to do the next thing.

"180nm manufacturing process, the largest transistor integration in history, the highest performance, our products are not only for the personal PC market, but also for the large server multi-processing structure, workstations, 3D graphics model rendering, network servers, these complex application environments, how should our CPUs be competent, this is a problem!"

"Tan Delai!"

"Mr. Wang!"

"In a month's time, I need the most complete application requirements report, including the relevant advantages and disadvantages evaluation reports of existing similar products in various environments, is there any problem?"

"Mr. Wang, this time is ...... Isn't it a little tighter. ”

"Dr. Tan, a month should be a lot of time, in addition, report the progress to me every day and send me an email!"

"Okay!"

Tan Delai lowered his head.

"Liu Mingming!"

"Mr. Wang!"

"In the same month, I need all the mainstream processors in the world, of course, including our own Athlon™ processor longitudinal evaluation report, including execution efficiency, power consumption, application effects under various operating systems, and the application effect of the processor, so as to provide a reference for our next step prediction and bus communication design. ”

"Mr. Wang, the same problem, the time will not be too rushed!"

"The Athlon processor has been comprehensively tested, and the Pentium II processor has also been heavily studied, what you need to do is analyze the data, will this be time-sensitive?"

"Okay, Mr. Wang!"

"...... on the Instruction Set"

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For the design idea of the next generation of processors, Wang Anran has already had a plan, that is, the Tualatin P6 architecture, as for why it is necessary to assign tasks to do a lot of preliminary research, the reason is very simple.

Wang Anran hopes that through this "Immortal Bird" project, some backbone talents will be discovered, and in addition, it will also be a training for the team.

"The capable go up, the mediocre go down!"

At the same time, the "Immortal Bird" project has also absorbed dozens of new graduates, but for the time being, these people are not needed, so they can only start.

As for those in the project who are ready to move and want to start a business alone, Wang Anran will not refuse.

The most important thing in China is talent, and Huaxin Technology, as the country's most dazzling IT/IC company, has no shortage of job seekers.

What is lacking is a platform that can show them, and it is obvious that Huaxin Technology is.

It took a week to sort out, and as soon as the preliminary work was on the right track, Wang Anran received two messages, one good and one bad.

Academician Chen Chuangjia returned to work in Yanjing and made great breakthroughs in the scientific research projects he led, but what made Wang Anran helpless was that as the main project sponsor, he was not allowed to obtain detailed information.

And another piece of news made Wang Anran a little aggrieved.

Nvidia released a high-profile TNT200 series display chip based on the 300nm manufacturing process, among which, Lao Huang directly announced that this generation of display chips no longer supports Huaxin Technology's Godson graphics interface.

And Microsoft launched the Dircet 3D 2.0 interface in due course.

made Wang Anran feel the front and back attacks, and the abdomen and back were attacked.

At this time, ATI came up again and released the Rerden 2.0 display chip.

The two press conferences took the ripper Pro to compare,The results of the test can be imagined,The ripper Pro is lagging behind in an all-round way,Flagship ripper Pro109 dual core,Even can't catch up with the TNT206 mid-range display chip。

Even in the face of the Rerden290, the performance is only 60% of the others, and the floating-point calculation is only half of the others.

That's not all, what worries Wang Anran is that MUSR software announced that it will launch the next generation of Wolfenstein games based on the Dircet graphics interface, giving players a new 3D experience.

It seems that at the same time, NOVALOGIGL and Dircet have a graphics interface to develop Delta Special Forces, a third-person shooter game, which can provide a more exciting game experience for shooters.

Other game companies have followed suit and joined the de-Godson bandwagon.

Wang Anran realized instantly.

"Huaxin Technology is isolated!"

"There's a problem here, CS has a wide audience around the world, and CS is designed based on the Godson graphics interface, how dare Nvidia do that, how dare ATI do that? Aren't they afraid of losing this part of the market?"