Lin Qi talked to Yu Youcheng about business and technology for more than an hour, and even mentioned the reduced instruction set and complex instruction set, as well as the later assembly line technology......

Originally, I thought that as long as I shouted the royal way of streamlining the instruction set, and the heavenly punishment was complicated by the instruction set, the king's overlord would be shocked, and he would be able to persuade Lao Yu to kneel down and see the lord. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Yu Youcheng only felt funny, the owner of a game console company who obviously only had half a bucket of water, and he didn't even have the qualifications to be his student, how could he have the confidence to talk about what a reduced instruction set must be stronger than a complex instruction set?

Of course, Yu Youcheng also pays attention to cutting-edge scientific theories, but although the reduced instruction set is currently popular in the academic world, it may not represent the right route in the commercial market.

At present, major chip manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, and Motorola all produce chips with complex instruction sets. Countless applications have been developed on chip technology based on various complex instruction sets.

What kind of new architecture chips can be replaced, and what can be done even if the performance is stronger?

Originally, he was the technical backbone of developing 8080 chips for Intel, but later, he resigned to start a business and developed the Z80 chip based on 8080 chip technology.

Z80 excavates the technology of the 8080 chip to the extreme, and the price is cheaper than similar products from Intel. Therefore, after the product was released, it quickly grabbed Intel's market share, and in terms of CPU shipments, it was once stronger than Intel!

In 1979, Zilog developed a Z8000 chip, which is a 16-bit chip, and the performance of Intel's 8086 chip was completely exploded, until a few years later, Intel launched the 80286 chip, and the performance reached the level of Z8000. However, the Z8000 chip is a new architecture, and it is not compatible with the 8080, 8086 and Z80 chips, so the market does not buy it, and there are no hardware manufacturers and software companies willing to develop applications for it.

So, the Z8000 hit the streets...... The follow-up upgrade product, the 32-bit Z80000, is the same on the street!

Obviously, the performance is so strong, a generation ahead of Intel's chip performance, but why is it so miserable?

This is because, compatibility first, the majority of manufacturers may not be willing to give up the mature market for high-performance chips.

"Mr. Yu!" Lin Qi emphasized, "The difference between us and Zilog is that we are not a company specializing in chips. Instead, we made our own chips, initially to meet our own needs. It can be said that in the future, the demand for chips in our own company alone may be no less than that of the small half of the microcomputer market! High-performance chips will inevitably make the quality of our games stand out from the crowd, and then promote the sales of game consoles and the stability of game platforms...... If Mr. Yu has concerns about our company, he can think about it for a few months. Within a few months, our company will have a heavyweight product on the market, and this product alone can prove that our company has the need to digest millions or even tens of millions of chips every year!"

"Wait and see, I wish you success! If you really prove this, then I will seriously consider joining your company and help you develop a chip with a reduced instruction set!" Yu Youcheng did not question it on the spot, but looked forward to the result with interest!

He's been stumbling for a few years, so what's the point of waiting a few more months?

In fact, Yu Youcheng also has the enthusiasm to serve the country with technology, and after hearing about China's reform and opening up, he became the first batch to return to China and try to start a science and technology business in the domestic market.

Pity...... After going around the country, he found that the domestic market was too immature, whether it was making software, making computers, or supporting hardware, he couldn't see the market.

Moreover, the country cannot provide him with any financial loans, but instead expects him to spend money and invest. If you want to say that he has a little bit of technology, but he will be cowardly when he takes the money out, you must know that he has just failed to start a business and lost his blood. In the United States, there is a lot of debt, how can there be money to invest?

After going around in China, Yu Youcheng can only be like an evangelist, taking advantage of the opportunity of academic exchanges to introduce the technological revolution brought about by microcomputers to China. He gave lectures at many universities and research institutes in China, sold some cheap computers, recruited a group of students, and gathered more than 200 people to Hong Kong to run a two-year training course.

Staying in Hong Kong, Yu Youcheng still has a trace of illusion, thinking that there may be some opportunities in Hong Kong. However, after he arrived in Hong Kong, he did not see any new business opportunities except for training courses, and few of the wealthy people in Hong Kong were interested in investing in the computer industry.

After all, Hong Kong's businessmen are already very profitable in real estate, and who will invest in the semiconductor industry with uncertain prospects.

It is precisely because I went around in the country and Hong Kong that I got nothing.

After that, Yu Youcheng had to go back and return to Intel in early 81.

Of course, Intel is not smooth sailing, on the contrary, it is also a bit stormy. Originally, Intel, like other semiconductor companies, was mainly engaged in memory.

Memory is currently the largest market in the semiconductor industry, and the basic patent for this technology is the "magnetic core memory" invented by Chinese scientist Wang An in 48 years.

This technology was the precursor to later technologies such as game cartridges, computer memory, and flash memory.

But because of racial discrimination in the United States, the patent office has not approved his patents. Later, forced by the academic community's solidarity with Wang An, the patent office approved Wang An's patent, on the condition that the promising multibillion-dollar annual market value of the technology be bought out to IBM.

IBM obtained patents, and because of antitrust laws, it began to be forced to license to other companies. Indirectly, memory technology has become a technology with a very low threshold, and as long as you pay patent fees to IBM, you can produce memory.

In the 50s~60s, the memory market basically became an inexhaustible gold mine for the U.S. semiconductor industry.

However, in the 70s, with the expiration of a large number of patents in the memory industry, Japan entered the memory market in a big way, and began to fight a price war in the low-end market, so that not only the old companies in the American semiconductor industry went bankrupt.

Because, without the patent moat, the labor cost in the United States is more expensive than in Japan. Therefore, the low-end memory market is constantly being attacked, and after losing the broad market of low-end memory, high-end memory cannot reduce costs. Therefore, since the mid-70s, a large number of American semiconductor companies have collapsed one after another due to the dumping of cheap products in Japan.

Intel's performance has also become quite ugly, so in the 80s, it made a choice to completely abandon the memory market and focus on CPUs!

This decision led to the bankruptcy of a bunch of peers in the market, but Intel was lucky to survive. Moreover, it later became the X86 chip and became the hand-picked chip in the PC market, so Intel was a blessing in disguise and made unexpected profits.

Of course, Intel later put it to death, and there was a bit of luck in it. Without the timely rain of PC, the transformation to focus on making CPUs may quickly die due to the lack of stable orders!

Assuming that IBM delays the launch of PCs for a few years, and the reduced instruction set chip is also on the market at that time, IBM may not choose the expensive and high-quality X86 chip.

Now Yu Youcheng, under the persuasion of Lin Qi, although he did not decide to join the new start-up electronics company immediately, the idea of returning to the United States is not so urgent...... Wait and see, his heart is constantly in harmony with ...... Expectation!