Chapter 223: Clusters

The Shudu Municipal Government and Sichuan Province have joined hands to build a high-tech industrial park, which is naturally a great thing, which means that the relevant supporting facilities can be more complete.

However, from the perspective of enterprise development itself, there is a saying that must not be ignored: "the iron is still hard", only when it has a strong enough influence and market competitiveness.

At that time, no matter where you went, there was a high-tech industrial park, just like Dr. Xiao Keli at the beginning of Silicon Valley, people could bring a bunch of industry brothers wherever they went, which was the lifelong goal of a scientific researcher.

As for doing business, although it does not advocate that Fairchild Semiconductor will eventually play itself to death, it has given birth to thousands of technical and managerial talents for Silicon Valley.

People are indeed worthy of being the "West Point Military Academy" in the electronics and computer industry, a veritable "cradle of talents".

Someone hurriedly registered another company again, according to the previous model, directly named "Kaiyang Semiconductor", which almost represented half of the semiconductor chip industry of the Republic ten years later, and was quietly listed.

Ni Guangnan, who worked in the subsidiary of Yao Optoelectronics, put down his work, and Professor Bai Siwen of the School of Telecommunications Engineering also immediately took a vacation, and in a simple office, the three of them jointly kicked off the prelude to the times.

After two consecutive days of detailed discussions and discussions, the meeting decided to put the Hanka technology developed by Ni Guangnan to the market in the first place in the company's current work.

The second is the localization of the 65C02 processor, only after taking this opportunity to fully master the CMOS process, the CMOS optical sensor painstakingly developed by Professor Bai Siwen can borrow chicken eggs.

At the same time, with the development of Hanka technology going smoothly, another industry, which is also indispensable for PC computers in the future, was finally proposed by Wang Zhengguo.

"Chief Engineer Ni knows very well what our goal is, the 6502 Chinese character office processing computer is just the beginning, what we really want to do, that is at least a computer that can achieve smooth running of the graphics operating system, and this trip to the United States, I heard about a new technology. ”

I took out the materials collected in the United States a month ago from my bag, although it was the original English version, but the three people sitting here were able to understand it completely, and the research on graphics acceleration graphics cards appeared for the first time on the desk of the office of the PC industry in the Republic.

In 1981, when IBM introduced the personal computer, it offered two graphics cards, one was a monochrome graphics card, or MDA, or shorter, and a color graphics card, or CGA.

As the name suggests, MDA is used with monochrome displays, which can display 80 rows x 25 columns of English numerals, while CGA can be used on RGB displays, which can draw color graphics and numeric materials.

Essentially, at this time, the Hanka developed by Ni Guangnan is probably no different from IBM's MDA monochrome graphics card, which is just designed to be able to display text on the screen.

The only difference is that it is more difficult to display Chinese characters on the computer than to display English letters, and it is usually solved by drawing them, just like the CCDOS system of Yan Yuanchao before, which is to draw Chinese characters on the screen, but the hardware of products like Hanka is strong and can be fearless of frequent "drawing" tasks.

In other words, Hanka itself already has a certain ability to draw, but it draws monochrome images, and it also has to integrate some other abilities, so it naturally seems large and complete, and the problem it faces is that it can't be proficient.

Ni Guangnan is roughly gnawing on the information, he is very concerned about the so-called graphics acceleration graphics card, and the complete Hanka technology at hand is about to be developed, and he has more thoughts about the future of PC computers, and is also considering how to solve the problem of the future graphics operating system.

Finally, he found the answer in Wang Zhengguo's information, which is a huge breakthrough in thinking, at least it can be regarded as adding another insurance to the development of a graphical operating system in the future.

Originally, the Republic did not have much accumulation in the field of central processing units for PC computers, and it is realistic to want to make a huge breakthrough at one time and directly reach the most advanced technological level equivalent to that of the United States?

If the operation is good, there may be some slight possibilities, but the eggs certainly can't just be put in one basket, in addition to the high-performance central processing system (CPU) to drive the graphics operating system, dedicated accelerated graphics cards also seem to be the solution.

Professional things, of course, have to be handed over to the professional subsystem to do, and the graphic display requires powerful floating-point computing capabilities, and this aspect is obviously not taken into account by the CPU, so it can only be solved by designing other system components.

"It's very inspiring, after reading this material, I finally understand where the development route after Hanka should be deepened, the United States in the field of PC research, they are indeed too far ahead of the world. Withdrawing his thinking from the data, Ni Guangnan sighed with emotion.

Wang Zhengguo didn't have time to sigh so much, he had to hurry up and get down to business, for the research of graphics acceleration graphics cards, he now needs to set a tone, but he can't take a detour.

For a long time in the future, there will be no domestic self-produced top CPU, in terms of graphics acceleration graphics card, of course, it is more appropriate to take the independent graphics route.

It just so happens that this independent display scheme is also relatively similar to the current Hanka model, which is a large and complete pluggable design, and the occupation is nothing more than a card interface, which is completely acceptable.

The integrated graphics card scheme is directly soldered to the motherboard, although it does not occupy the card interface, but it brings a reduction in graphics processing power, which is naturally unbearable.

As for further integrating the graphics display capability directly into the CPU and making it a core display solution, just think about the capabilities of Kaiyang Semiconductor, and don't think too much about it in a short period of time.

Although the cost of taking the discrete graphics card route is higher, it is also the best way to make up for the CPU performance gap, as long as the discrete graphics performance is passable, even if it is an ordinary 65C02 processor, maybe you can try to drive the graphics operating system.

"The graphics acceleration graphics card is roughly based on the Hanka card to greatly optimize the graphics display ability and improve the floating point operation ability. For other ancillary designs, such as the temporary storage of graphics processing data, I think it is better to pull them out separately and try not to occupy the small space of the computer itself. ”

If you can reduce the occupation of the computer's own memory, you should try to reduce it; if you can reduce the CPU memory occupation, you can't cut corners even a little; only by giving full play to the capabilities of each subsystem, this is what a high-performance PC computer should look like.

Ni Guangnan can obviously understand Wang Zhengguo's intentions, and he can roughly guess how the follow-up computer route of Yaoguang Electronics will go, and when pursuing high performance, it must tolerate large volume, high power consumption, and high price, which is the law.

"I'll take this information first, and then go back and study it carefully, which will play a great positive role in our subsequent technology development. ”

Ni Guangnan waved the information at hand, thought about it and then continued to add: "As for Hanka, the design has been completely completed, and it will probably be put into production when Kaiyang Semiconductor establishes the production line." ”

The production of Hanka does not have high requirements for the process, and only the existing technical level in China can cope with it, which is not as troublesome as the introduction of the 65C02 processor.

In fact, long before the establishment of Kaiyang Semiconductor, the procurement of relevant equipment and the training of production personnel have been carried out in an orderly manner, in order to meet the needs of 6502 computer sales.