Now that he already knows that the road of reduced instruction set can be taken, Wu Ming naturally will not go far to study chips with complex instruction sets.

Anyway, he researched it mainly for his own use, even if those American personal computer companies still chose Intel's X86 chips, it would not affect him at all.

You must know that the two projects of home consoles and handheld computers require tens of millions of chips, and Wu Ming's Xingchen Entertainment can completely digest them by themselves, thereby driving the development of CPUs.

When Wu Ming began to ask Yu Youcheng to go out of the mountain to develop a reduced instruction set CPU, Yu Youcheng refused. After all, the reduced instruction set is now completely theoretically feasible, and no one has developed a physical object yet, and we don't know what the future market will be.

Yu Youcheng came out of Intel and also started a business, knowing that there is no hardship in the market, so naturally he will not jump into the fire pit again.

It wasn't until after Xingchen Entertainment's Pokemon pet machine was released that Yu Youcheng saw the super high sales of Pokemon pet machines. Knowing that Wu Ming did have the ability to ensure that after the CPU was developed, there would be enough market, so he agreed to Wu Ming's invitation.

Because the English name of Aiwa Electronics is "Aiwa", this series of CPUs is named "Aiwa RISC Machine", referred to as ARM, which is the same as the name of the RISC chip in the previous life, but the name in this life is occupied by Wu Ming. And the one that is being developed now is named ARM8 because it is an 8-bit chip, referred to as A8.

Regarding Yu Youcheng's complaints, Wu Ming could only smile and said: "Aren't I in a hurry, you must know that our home host is already being developed, but because there is no chip from yours, the progress is relatively slow." If we don't develop it soon, we will only have to watch Atari dominate the home appliance market. ”

Last year, Atari ranked first in Christmas gift sales with its high performance and high game popularity, selling 1 million Atari 2600, and it is no wonder that Wu Minghui was nervous. If this continues, when Atari completely occupies the home console market, even if the "Phantasy Star" is developed, it can only follow behind and eat some scraps.

At that time, we can only wait until 1983, when Atari caused the "Atari Collapse" because of his own death, and all gamers abandoned Atari, and Wu Ming had the opportunity to dominate the home game console market again.

Yu Youcheng frowned, obviously knowing the recent scenery of Atari in the home machine market.

After thinking about it, Yu Youcheng said: "You little ghost, don't worry." After all, what we are developing now is only an 8-bit chip, although it is a reduced instruction set, but it will not take much time, and it will be developed in about another eight or nine months. ”

Obviously, Yu Youcheng didn't know how long eight or nine months was for Wu Ming.

Listening to the time given by Yu Youcheng, Wu Ming suddenly stood up and said loudly: "What, you said that it will take eight or nine months, it's not that the cucumber dishes are cold." I expect to let Xingchen Entertainment's home machine go on the market next year, how can I give you that much time. ”

Yu Youcheng spread his hands and said helplessly: "I can't help it, after all, people here in Xiangjiang don't pay attention to science and engineering, and they can't recruit some useful talents." Eight or nine months is already a long time. ”

Wu Ming rolled his eyes, walked up to Yu Youcheng, and said with a flattering smile: "Teacher, haven't you been in Fairchild and Intel before, you should know a lot of experts in this field, especially those Chinese experts." Why don't you dig them up so that we can speed up our research. ”

Yu Youcheng saw that Wu Ming was unusually unusual, calling himself "teacher" instead of "Old Man Yu", and his hair suddenly shrugged up, thinking that he was going to make trouble again. It wasn't until he said his thoughts that Yu Youcheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Yu Youcheng, who was relieved, scolded with a smile: "Okay, you little ghost, it turned out that this was the idea." It's not impossible, but they get a high salary in the United States, and the living environment in the United States is better than that of Xiangjiang. It's not easy to dig them up, and it's going to cost you a lot of money. ”

Wu Ming smiled when he heard this, and said, "What is this, I don't have much else now, just a lot of money." ”

Yu Youcheng also nodded and agreed: "Yes, I heard that your kid's Xingchen Entertainment now earns tens of millions of dollars a month, even if the real situation is not as exaggerated as the tabloids say, but I have calculated that there are still tens of millions of dollars in profits per month." Star Entertainment has only been established for less than half a year, and even in the United States, it is very remarkable. ”

Wu Ming smiled proudly and said, "This is natural, and you don't look at whose company it is." Now Star Entertainment has more than 30 million US dollars in cash, which can fully support you to poach people. ”

Yu Youcheng's face became a little more serious, and said: "Then I'll let go of my hands to dig people, with this batch of people, the time required for the development of our A8 chip should be reduced a lot." And after you reminded me of this, I thought that there should be people working on RISC chips in the United States now, and we can exchange experiences with them, so that the development time will be shorter. I'm sure I can develop the A8 chip in five months at most. ”

The 8-bit CPU with a complex instruction set was developed in 1972, and the 16-bit CPU was developed in 1978. The architecture of a reduced instruction set is not the same as a complex instruction set, but it does not have to be developed from scratch. Therefore, Yu Youcheng is confident that he will develop an 8-bit CPU with a reduced instruction set within five months.

"Then it was decided. ”

Wu Ming stroked his forehead, seemed to think of something again, and then said, "By the way, in addition to the experts in the CPU, you are helping me find some experts in the LCD screen." ”

Yu Youcheng had a puzzled expression on his face, and said puzzledly: "What are you looking for experts in this area, didn't our factory buy the patent and production line of TN screens?"

Wu Ming looked straight and explained: "Aihua Electronics' TN LCD screen is mainly for block machines and Pokemon pet machines, which you also know. ”

Yu Youcheng nodded and said, "Yes, the factory is still working overtime to produce LCD screens." After all, your Pokemon pet machine is too popular to sell, and you need a lot of LCD screens. When the cube machine is on the market, the sales volume is estimated to be not bad, and you also need to save some inventory. But you don't need to find an expert in this area, there is nothing wrong with this kind of LCD screen. ”

Wu Ming explained with a smile: "Players will not always be satisfied with black and white screens, and we will definitely develop color screen products when the time comes." But the disadvantage of color screens is that they consume a lot of power, so I want to find some experts to study some low-consumption screens. ”

Yu Youcheng suddenly understood that the players' desires were endless. There are color screens on the market, and gamers will definitely want to be able to play handheld consoles with various colors, rather than playing with black and white screens all the time.