Chapter 58: Lite ARM
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Liang Yuan sat on the sand and bowed his head silently, thinking about it for a long time and having no clue, but this kind of thing can't resort to flipping a coin, patting his forehead, Liang Yuan decided to put this matter aside for the time being.
"Lao Su, I have to think about this, first tell me what is going on with the new processor? I remember that the next generation processor is still on the x86 architecture. Liang Yuan asked curiously.
"The new processor is a continuation of the x86 architecture, but we now have the opportunity to get a completely new processor. Su Liangyu said with a smile.
Hearing that there was a ready-made processor, Liang Yuan became interested.
"Wang An's computer Xiaoyuan should know, right?" asked Su Liangyu.
Liang Yuan nodded and said: "Famous and thunderous, I was received by party and state leaders more than a year ago, and I am an iconic figure of Chinese Americans." ”
In the entire history of the computer industry, there is no Chinese person who can compare with Wang An's historical position in the computer industry.
From the 70's to the mid-80's, the logarithmic computers, small commercial computers, word processors and other office automation equipment produced by Wang An Computer Company, and office software such as ORD were the first to be developed and made clear by Wang An Computer Company.
Bill Gates once said that if Wang An Computer Company could complete the second strategic turn, it is very likely that there would be no Microsoft in the world today, and Bill Gates would not become a hero in the personal computer era.
"I could be a mathematician somewhere, or I could be a lawyer." Gates said.
The first turning point of the computer industry was to change from a military mainframe to a small and medium-sized computer suitable for commercial applications, and entered the fields of word processing and office automation
In 86, Wang An handed over the company to his eldest son Wang Lie, and as a result, it lost $425 million that year, and the stock price of Wang An Computer Company is still declining. The losses continued. Su Liangyu shook his head with some regret.
"The chip I'm talking about is from the research department of Wang An's company, Wang An's computer room. ”
The reasons for Wang An's computer crash have been interpreted countless times by major business schools around the world, from strategy, technology, and the personality of the founder. We have done a comprehensive analysis of the external relations of the enterprise and so on. All major business schools admit that Wang An's handing over the company to his son Wang Lie is one of the root causes of the company's failure.
"My university alumnus, Fang Xingdong, joined Wang An Computer in the 70s and has been in charge of the research of medium-sized commercial computers, after the rise of personal computers in the late 70s. Lao Fang had built a company to follow up, but at that time, Wang An believed that the future of the company was to compete with IBM for large and medium-sized computers, and there would not be much capacity in the personal computer market. ”
Although the company did not provide support, out of interest, Lao Fang still used his spare time to tinker with a very simple processor, due to his limited personal energy. The design refers to the MOS65O2 processor used in Apple computers, and the reduced instruction set (RISC) processor architecture is selected. ”
"Lao Fang 6 continued to do more than two years, only to finish this processor, the result is just in time for the personal computer market sales explosion, limited to the situation Wang An decided to start the personal computer business, in order to save the time of new products, the old side recommended the processor just designed to the company, after testing Wang An company is now this chip performance is very good, decided to buy the processor authorization from the old side. ”
"Because Wang An's computer has always been incompatible with IBM's software. Therefore, Wang An's personal computer business has not improved, because the company's performance is not good, the research department has caused a great contradiction, after Wang Lie took over the company, he believes that the root cause of the company's loss is that the research department can not come up with good products. It has nothing to do with incompatible IBM software, the old party's views have always been in conflict with Wang Lie, and he had a big quarrel with Wang Lie in April, and finally chose to resign in anger. ”
Su Liangyu briefly introduced the source of this processor. continued: "A few days ago, after I got the news of my old classmate's resignation, I mailed samples of the bladeless electric fan and air purifier in the Science and Technology Park to the old party. Then invited him to return to China to work, thanks to your toss in the United States, the old side is very optimistic about these two products, at the beginning of the month, he also returned to China to visit the science and technology park, and felt that our side was not bad. ”
"Oh, Lao Su, why didn't you sign it directly, it's rare to meet a scientist who can take a fancy to a man like us. Liang Yuan said with a smile.
"The problem is that the old party is different from me, he firmly believes that the RISC architecture is the future direction of the processor, if the old party is invited to come to work, although there is a ready-made processor available, but the follow-up research direction of the science and technology park has to be rerouted, we do not have the strength to carry out a dual layout on the X86 architecture and the RISC architecture. ”
Liang Yuan grinned when he heard Su Liangyu finish speaking, it seems that every time he goes abroad to be lazy, he will encounter more difficult problems when he comes back, not to mention Liang Yuan, Intel, which will almost dominate the rivers and lakes in the future, is only dominating the x86 architecture, on this planet, researching processors of two architectures at the same time is tantamount to looking for death.
Su Liangyu's research direction is mainly in the direction of x86 architecture, the current science and technology park to get out of the 6xx series processor can be said to be a copy of Intel 8O series processor, in a very disadvantageous position in the patent, Su Liangyu hurry up to open the next generation of processors, but also to circumvent some of Intel's patents.
"Old Su, what do you think of these two structures?" Liang Yuan decided to kick the ball over first.
"Xiaoyuan, if I say that these two architectures should have their own strengths, there is no problem of one overpowering the other, in terms of power consumption and operation, the RISC architecture processor has certain advantages, but the X86 architecture is stronger than the RISC architecture in terms of difficulty and tools. Su Liangyu gave a vague answer.
"Lao Su, you threw me two big problems just after I came back, it's really inhumane. Liang Yuan said with a bitter face.
"If Xiaoyuan feels embarrassed, he can just draw lots. Su Liangyu said with a smile.
Liang Yuan was relieved when he heard that Su Liangyu still had the mind to joke, Su Liangyu's attitude showed that he was not exclusive to the RISC architecture, after all, Su Liangyu was the core of the chip room, if he chose the RISC architecture to change the research direction, it meant that most of Su Liangyu's previous work was done in vain, and Liang Yuan could not help but consider Su Liangyu's feelings.
"Old Sue. Show me the data on the new processor. Liang Yuan decided to use his relatively poor computer knowledge to compare the information to see if he could find more familiar words, and the more familiar words he found, the greater the potential of this processor.
Test whether a technology is excellent and whether it has a promising future. There is no better way than time.
Su Liangyu opened the drawer of his desk. He took out a medium-thick brown paper bag from inside and handed it to Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan untied the lanyard of the paper bag and pulled out the text.
Flipping over the cover, the first line of English on the text stopped Liang Yuan.
advannete。 Advanced condensed instruction set machine qì what is this looking at the three bright capital letters, Liang Yuan's heart beat hard, and he quickly looked at it at a glance.
This processor from Fang Xingdong is slightly different from the Arm that was widely known in later generations. In addition to a lot of professional terms such as addressing space, addressing range, scratchpad, and counter that Liang Yuan couldn't understand, Liang Yuan noticed that this processor uses a 16-bit jù bus, which means that this is a 16-bit processor, which on paper looks much more advanced than the 6X series of eight-bit processors currently produced in the Science and Technology Park, and is a level higher than the new processor that Su Liangyu is developing.
In Liang Yuan's impression, Arm, which was established a few years later, officially launched a 32-bit microprocessor.
After reading the information, Liang Yuan has a general understanding of this processor. The processor, which Fang Xingdong named C2, is very streamlined, and according to the description in the data, only 2oooo transistors are needed to make the processor officially work.
The C2 processor does not have the microprogram that is common in the X86 architecture, which decomposes a series of complex instructions into relatively simple instructions, and does not contain any high cache. Compared to the 7oooo to 8oooo transistors integrated into x86-based processors, the extremely compact C2 requires very little power to keep the processor running.
Due to the very small number of integrated transistors, the C2 processor has the characteristics of low cost and low power consumption, and uses a reduced instruction set in the processor control. The C2 has high program execution efficiency under certain conditions, and has higher performance than X86 architecture processors in the same category.
It can be said that Fang Xingdong got the core idea of this C2 processor. It is basically the same as the ARM architecture that will sweep the world in the future, and it is a 16-bit lite version of ARM.
At the end of the article, Fang Xingdong made a brief introduction to the design reference of the C2 processor, the MOS65O2 processor, which came out in the seventies and was the fastest processor in the world at that time.
65O2 excellent performance not only brings a huge revolution to personal computers, but also is widely used in all walks of life, the emerging TV game industry - tvgame has chosen a large number of 65O2 chips as the processor of game consoles.
When Liang Yuan saw that there was a Nintendo enterprise in the user composition of 65O2, he couldn't help but laugh to himself, he really didn't expect that the C2 processor could be connected with the world-renowned red and white machine.
If the C2 processor is put into production, it shouldn't be difficult to copy Nintendo's red and white machine, and I don't know if the copycat Nintendo's Xiaobawang enterprise has been established now, Liang Yuan thought a little out of tune.
When Liang Yuan turned to the last page of the text, and saw that Hughes and Grumman had also used the 65O2 processor, his heart tightened, the advent of the 65O2 processor just coincided with the research age of the F14 fighter, is it possible for this thing to be used in the F14 fighter, Liang Yuan thought a little nervously.
If your guess is true, the C2 processor also has the potential to be used in the military industry.