Intel is a core strategic and important enterprise, and from the perspective of high-end technology content, its performance has exploded countless streets of AMD. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoFor Alice, of course, performance is a hundred times more important than the low-consumer user market, so after coming to the company's headquarters and obtaining the title of technical consultant as a major shareholder, she began a detailed investigation of the specific business of each department.

The technology department, the most critical and the most elite, has the largest office area but also the most cluttered area. Here, Alice asks about an important new project from an employee named Gendry.

"This is the flash memory chip, Miss Alice. ”

The young Gendry handed Alice a chip with a thumbnail-sized area: "We are now planning to use flash memory chips to carry the motherboard's BIOS system, which can make the driver boot up more than ten times faster." ”

Alice wiped it with a towel and then carefully pinched the small chip with her fingers. Flash memory chips, but she hasn't read the company materials given by Gordon Moore carefully, this is a promising baby product!

"Flash memory chip ......" Seeing that Gendry was still talking, Alice preemptively stopped him: "I know what this concept is, but I'm not sure how far you have developed......" In order to avoid saying the wrong thing, she decided to give the other party the right to speak: "Tell me, man, tell me a little about this thing." ”

Alice was just a simple sentence, but it really put a lot of pressure on Gendry. God swears, Gendry is just an ordinary technician, and he just graduated three years ago, and he usually comes into contact with classmates and colleagues of similar age and background. Now, a young girl who has just reached high school age, taking on the role of his new official and the boss of the shareholder, and asking such a vague question is really too much of a test of his technical knowledge.

"The accurate name for a flash memory chip is non-volatile random access memory, or NVRAM. Gendry was really thinking about the words, after all, he knew that Alice was not a layman after all. The more people in the industry know, the more they understand what level Alice has made, and if he recklessly says something too common-sense, he will not be disliked.

"I think you know the meaning of ordinary memory, NVRAM is very different from the common memory of computers, it is closer to the concept of hard disk, divided into NOR-type and NAND," Gendry thought about the wording, "and the difference between these two types is also very big. ”

Alice already knew everything, but she still had to listen to Gendry before she could move on to the next step.

"NOR flash memory is more like traditional memory, with independent address lines and data lines, but the price is more expensive and the capacity is smaller; while NAND type is more like a hard disk, the address line and the data line are shared I/O lines, and all the information similar to hard disks is transmitted through a hard disk line, and most importantly, the cost is lower and the capacity is larger. ”

It's one thing to know the future development model, it's another to open your mouth and reveal the core secrets of a business. Let a new shareholder who is a "layman" know about Intel's SSD under development, Gendry said that the goal has been achieved at this point, and for more introductions in the future, Alice just listened lazily, just to put on a show for more technical employees around her.

"And the data transfer speed of flash memory is really very fast, according to our calculations, the current peak is definitely about ten times that of ordinary hard drives. Ten times over, Miss Alice," Gendry thought to himself, "If we could one day replace hard disks with flash memory, how far would the performance of computers leap!?"

"That day will definitely come, as long as Moore's law stays in effect. Listening to Gendry all the way here, Alice knew it was time to give her say. She stood up, surrounded by desks filled with a whole department of employees who had at least half of their attention focused on this place rather than their work as Alice listened to Gendry's tirade.

"So, guys, I have an interesting idea for the future of computer accessories. ”

Seeing that the new boss suddenly spoke to all the members, at least twenty employees around him immediately put down all the work at hand. Not far away, a bearded man hiding in a large number of manuscripts shouted loudly: "Attention, everyone! Miss Alice has a new idea!"

"Coming, coming, wait for me!" said an employee in the distance, scrambling to finish the last line of code and dragging a stool over to it.

"Alice, oh my God, when is our new boss coming? Wait, boss, you don't have a tape recorder!" This was a further location, and he didn't even know that Alice had come to inspect the work because he was so focused on his work.

Of course, Alice is happy to get most of the members of the technical department together, just like her position in Microsoft, she is a shareholder with the title of technical advisor, but she has always been the favorite person of the technical department. A few moments later, when Gendry's desk had been surrounded by three floors, inside and out, she spoke.

"It is an inevitable trend for PCs to go to thousands of households, and the expansion of the production of hardware products and the expansion of the country's popularization of information technology education will definitely allow more and more people to adopt the form of assembling their own computers in the future, rather than directly buying the brand computers of large companies. ”

"We at Intel specialize in hardware, and this extremely expanding market capacity will definitely bring us amazing profits," she said. However, the consumption capacity of ordinary users is not uniform, and the demand for hardware matching is even more varied, which requires us to expand the product category, and at the same time develop more efficient products, it is also divided into clear gears to meet the needs of various users, rather than a situation where a product wins the world. ”

These words are uttered entirely out of the current state of Intel. The current CPU is far from the moment of prosperity and development in the future, and the new models developed every two years on average are already the most efficient products that the company has made with all its might, and it is definitely not qualified to pay attention to the degree of product classification. But this did not prevent everyone from imagining the scene, especially under Alice's reserved description, a beautiful paradise scene immediately spread.

The market is full of dazzling models of products, or individual or corporate customers walk around the e-mall like a vegetable market. CPU, motherboard, memory module, graphics card, sound card, hard disk, optical drive, all kinds of products are staggered into low, medium and high price ranges, almost everyone can buy the right product according to their own needs.

"Obviously, it won't take long, as long as Moore's law has been working, let's just do the math, I believe you usually don't do less. Looking at the flickering eyes of the audience, Alice knew that she had a spectrum in her heart, and said: "So, since the hardware that we are working hard to develop will definitely usher in explosive growth, then the combination of non-stop hardware has become a crucial thing rather than simply buying higher-performance products." ”

Having said so much, just for the foreshadowing below, Alice carefully pinched the flash memory chip that Gendry gave her again and said: "I know that whether it is a mechanical hard disk or this kind of flash memory, the storage capacity is pitifully small, but their data transfer speed ratio is real. ”

"Then we can imagine that the data of the computer can not only be stored in a hard disk, the computer needs to be booted and booted, and the smooth running speed of the computer is closely related to the data transmission of the operating system. So...... Think about this idea, this idea of assembling your own computer. ”

Looking at the crowd whose eyes flickered like computer indicators, Alice had already remembered those employees who were particularly smart: "Load the operating system with a flash hard drive with a higher cost and smaller capacity, but the data transfer speed is definitely fast enough, so as to achieve faster boot and daily operation." Ordinary data is still stored in the mechanical hard disk currently used by our computer, and it is used as a simple warehouse...... What do you think of that?"

These words undoubtedly aroused the infinite reverie of the audience, and since all of them were technicians, no one even applauded them as loudly as the clerks who loved to shoot the boss's horses. For a moment, there was silence all around, and as far as the eye could see, all the programmers were in a state of imagination.

In this regard, Alice not only did not care, but smiled slightly for the achievement of the goal.

Many technological developments in modern society are often carried out out of simple market demand, but the market demand is undoubtedly ever-changing, which also leads to a high degree of waste of resources. The ternary computer is a typical example, the Soviet official sentence I want, how many resources are spent here, the Soviet official again I don't want it, countless resources are wasted.

But more often than not, it's just whether the R&D personnel's brains meet the standards.

For many years, the "slow development" of SSDs is not because the technology is not up to standard, but simply because of the rampant mechanical hard drives. Corporate tycoons will allocate funds for research on new projects, but they must only be limited to a certain scope, knowing that they will "raise" them until they have use value before they start selling. As for how to sell when it really goes on sale, it is a delicate question.

But what if you start with the business moving towards a specific goal?

Wouldn't that save a lot of time and resources in an instant?

Now that you're going to describe the future of SSDs, who in the company wouldn't be impressed?

Using an entire SSD as a system disk is a luxury.

But if it's ......

"I think we can start a new research project," Alice said with satisfaction after seeing that most people had already thought of a deep step, "for example, hybrid hard drives?" (to be continued.) )