Fang Peng's shouting was immediately translated by his colleagues to his bosses Tariq and Malmö, and the two immediately surrounded him.

At a glance, everyone found that there were some subtle differences between this imagination motherboard and Intel's public design, that is, next to the Northbridge chip, there was an inconspicuous chip the size of a thumb.

Li Tonghe, the reception manager of Cyrix, stood in the audience, anxious.

This motherboard was used by him, and now that such a big thing has happened, once the company traces it down, he will undoubtedly bear the main responsibility.

Li Tonghe hurriedly grabbed the little girl at the reception, ordered her to go to the reception, and took the information that came with the motherboard.

Li Tonghe took out the information submitted by Chongguang Company from the cardboard box, ran to the front of the stage in a mood, and explained to Fang Peng: "Old Fang, I'm really sorry!"

Fang Peng glared at him, but ignored him, only looked anxiously at the door of the venue, waiting for his engineer to come back from the real room.

Li Tonghe said with a sad face: "This motherboard was brought by a company called Chongguang, and it was said to be a new product produced in cooperation with Changxiang Computer. This motherboard uses their coprocessor chip, which is able to increase multimedia processing power.

I was so stupid, I thought they just integrated a video decoding chip on the motherboard, who knew that it would cause such a big disaster. ”

Fang Peng saw the distressed appearance of his old classmate, not like a fake, and also felt that with the relationship between the two, Li Tonghe had no reason to cheat himself anyway.

Fang Peng was puzzled, took the pile of materials and looked at it carefully, only to see that on a few pages of paper, the words of the heavy light company were coarsely sprayed with a four-color inkjet printer, and there was a trademark like a sundial.

In the text introduction at the bottom, he first advocated the development trend of home computers in the future, which is the so-called building of a home multimedia entertainment center, and then introduced the co-processor of Chongguang Company.

The article claims that their "Shadow Overlord" coprocessor chip has built-in floating-point registers and 57 multimedia instruction sets, which can perfectly match all computer CPUs on the market that are compatible with the X86 instruction set. Decompress and compress videos and images to improve the processing speed of the CPU for images and videos.

Fang Peng knew that Li Tonghe did not lie to him, and it was not mentioned in the promotional materials, saying that this chip could increase the floating point computing speed of the processor. Instead, it focuses on its outstanding performance in gaming and video decoding. For example, the number of frames in the picture, the speed of pixel filling, etc., that is to say, this material focuses on the application effect of the chip, and does not talk much about the principle and number. With the background of Li Tonghe's graduation in business administration, of course, I can't see that behind this is the strong floating point computing performance.

Fang Peng couldn't help but complain: "Why didn't you give me the materials earlier? How much floating-point computing power is needed to achieve the above performance? This is not a video decoding chip at all, this is a coprocessor! I say, the running scores are soaring! You are too delayed!

Malmö knew a little Chinese, and when he heard Fang Peng complaining about Li Tonghe, he hurriedly came up to ask, and Tariq also came over to listen when he saw this.

Fang Peng spoke in English, 1510 about his judgment of the unknown chip on this alternative motherboard, and Malmo and Tariq were both dumbfounded.

Tarik was surprised and asked, "Do you think this is a block coprocessor specifically designed to increase the floating-point performance of the CPU, thereby speeding up the processing of multimedia texts?"

Fang Peng nodded: "It can only be like this, otherwise it shouldn't appear next to the Northbridge chip that connects the CPU transmission number at all."

According to the data, it has a built-in 57 multimedia instruction sets. It is tailored for the C language standard library that comes with windows, when windows runs the program, the program language of the application layer will trigger the chip to take over the relevant function calculation work when calling the function library of the jù layer, and use the 57 instruction sets in the driver chip to complete all video and image operations. ”

Tariq himself is a R&D background, and understands the seemingly simple principles described by Fang Peng, but to implement these functions, it is definitely an extremely complex top-level IC design project.

"I know that there is such a company in China, but where did this Chongguang company come from? I have never heard of such a powerful IC design company in China. ”

At this time. The engineer who went to the real yàn room to dismantle the motherboard also ran back, and was installing the motherboard, and said without thinking about it: "I've heard that this heavy light seems to be opened in the Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, right? They are all the sons of the Computing Institute. ”

Fang Peng hurriedly explained to Tariq, who then sorted out the context of the matter in his heart, and suddenly realized: "It turned out to be designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it seems that your top IC design team in China is still very powerful." ”

When Fang Peng heard this, a trace of pride inexplicably swelled up in his heart. In the past, these foreigners looked polite, but in their hearts they looked down on Chinese IC engineers. As long as we talk about technology, we have always had a dismissive attitude towards China's IC industry.

"Yes, the Institute of Computing Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is currently the strongest computer research and development institution in China. Fang Peng suddenly had a smile on his face: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tariq, for making such a big joke this time." ”

At this time, under Tariq's high brow bones, a pair of blue eyes began to sparkle: "No, it can't be said to be a joke.

I once heard a Chinese engineer say that crisis means danger and opportunity in Chinese, and opportunity is always accompanied by danger.

Malmö, Fang, we must turn this mistake into a success, and turn danger into opportunity!

It's like a presidential campaign, if you say something wrong, you have to fix it right away, and I think it's still too late. ”

Malmo and his roommate nodded hurriedly, their eyes fixed on Tariq, and listened to him explain like this.

Tariq then smiled and announced to the audience that the motherboard was installed and would be tested again.

This time, he and Malmo did not encounter Oolong again, and the 100 MHz 6X86 processor really ran a score of 254.3, which is about 78% of the Pentium Cup score with the same main frequency.

But the agents and employees in the venue, at this time, their minds were no longer on this low score without suspense, everyone was concerned about how to have such a high running score just now, whether Cyrix was cheating, or something else.

Tariq knew that if he didn't give everyone an explanation today, tomorrow rumors would spread throughout China and even the world that the US National Semiconductor Company had tampered with the test software and cheated in the calculation speed test.

In that case, the company's image will be greatly damaged, sales will inevitably be affected, and his position as CEO of the Asia Pacific region will be achieved.

After a quick draft, Tariq held the microphone with his head held high, and said with a confident look: "As you can see, our floating-point performance is indeed 78% of Intel's same frequency Surge without adding coprocessors. ”

As soon as these words came out, the discussion in the audience suddenly stopped, and everyone pricked up their ears, because Tariq had just revealed a key piece of information, coprocessor! )

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