Chapter 112: Visiting

The next day, the delegation came to Oranges, and when Li Yixuan greeted him at the entrance of the company, he found that Vice Minister Li personally led the team, and President Wang of the University of Hong Kong accompanied the delegation.

"Minister Li, principals, please look here! This is the arcade R&D department of DreamWorks, a Oranges company! Li Yixuan pointed to an arcade machine that had been placed in the exhibition area for a long time and said, "DreamWorks was the first company I opened, and now it is a subsidiary of the Oranges Group, we started with arcade games, and this arcade machine is a new game that we are developing now!" ”

As soon as Li Yixuan finished speaking, a technician next to him immediately walked to the arcade machine and began to demonstrate to everyone how to operate the game console. This is a semi-finished 16-bit arcade machine from Kung Fu Panda, using a 16-bit Core processor and ATI first-generation GPU. The background framework of the game is designed according to the "Mario Bros. in the previous life", which has been formed, under the control of the technician, the panda who has been cute and chubby is on the screen, doing a variety of jumps, forwards, backwards and a series of actions, and there will be some subtle stutters from time to time.

"The cartoon background screen on the display screen is actually the display result of the CPU and GPU in the game console after a large amount of data calculation. As you can see, there will be stuttering from time to time on the screen just now, which affects the smoothness of the game. This requires our technicians to continue to make further improvements to the game's data algorithms! Li Yixuan said with a smile.

This is the first time that Li Yixuan has shown his 16-bit arcade game to the outside world, and the core CPU on the motherboard is actually a simple version of the CPU used in the Oranges II computer. After all, it's just for the game, and all the functions that are not related to the game are cut, so it can save not the cost.

It was the first time for the mainland delegation to see the arcade, and the realistic picture, bright colors, and slightly visible hair on the giant pandas brought a great visual impact to the mainland delegation.

"Is there really a market for this kind of console? What price can it be sold for? One of the visitors asked that the game console was still a very new and unfamiliar thing for these principals in the mainland.

"We sell more than 40,000 arcade game consoles every month, with a monthly sales revenue of more than $80 million! ”

The data reported by Li Yixuan made everyone gasp, with a sales revenue of more than 80 million US dollars per month! The way everyone looked at this arcade machine was suddenly different. It's as if the frame of this console is not made of plastic sheets, but inlaid with gold.

Li Yixuan then broke a fierce news, "The CPU and GPU used above are designed and produced by our company, which is also the first 16-bit CPU in Asia, and the processor is only manufactured with a 2-micron process." ”

Hong Kong was able to build a 16-bit CPU, which brought more shock to the delegation, and what made everyone even more incredible was that the CPU process was only 2 microns.

He took a small box from his assistant and opened it, "Well, this is the first generation CPU produced by my company, the Core processor." ”

Vice Minister Li took the small box, a boxy processor lying inside, with three English letters written on it, which occupied half of the entire area of the processor, and the lower third was the name of the processor, Core 1015, and below was a line of small letters, Oranges, Made in Hong Kong.

Vice Minister Li handed the processor to Wang Jiagang, and after Wang Jiagang read it, he handed it to the next person, and so on.

Looking at this exquisite processor like a work of art, everyone was silent and did not speak, before they came, they always thought that the so-called CPU in Hong Kong is just an authorized imitation of the 6502CPU of the American MOS company, today I looked at the CPU produced by the Oranges company, only to find that I was very wrong, Hong Kong's semiconductors are not only not backward, but also very advanced, much more advanced than the mainland.

"What is the clock frequency and floating-point power of this CPU?" Wang Jiagang asked.

"The clock frequency is 20MHz, and the floating-point arithmetic is 3.8 million times per second." Li Yixuan reported the data, "This CPU is used in the arcade, it is a simple version, and the official version used on the computer is another one." ”

What, such a powerful CPU actually only uses the processor of a game console, so what about the CPU for a computer? The delegation was instantly dizzy.

Everyone followed Li Yixuan to the table in front of the wall, which was covered with a red flannel, Li Yixuan opened the flannel, and a new Oranges II computer appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Vertical case, 22-inch monitor, 101 keyboard, mechanical mouse. The whole computer, whether it is the monitor or the chassis, including the mouse and keyboard, adopts the classic minimalist design of later generations, and is full of a strong sense of technology. The computer in front of you is like a beautiful ornament, not a rigid scientific device.

There is also a small box next to the computer, Li Yixuan picked up the small box, opened it, and there was also a CPU inside, and the logo on it was the same as the one just now, but the number code at the bottom was 1020.

"The CPU that is really used for the computer at this time is also a 16-bit CPU, and the computer you see in your eyes is the latest 16-bit personal computer Oranges II developed by our company, which is a real 16-bit computer." After speaking, he handed the box in his hand to Vice Minister Li, who was standing at the front.

This time, Li Yixuan did not introduce to everyone, but asked a British white engineer to explain to everyone.

Li Yixuan nodded to him, and the white engineer said in fluent Mandarin: "Unlike the horizontal chassis used in the first generation of Oranges I eight-bit computers, this 16-bit computer uses a vertical chassis. This vertical case is not only good-looking, but it also has great benefits for heat dissipation, which can effectively reduce the temperature inside the machine. Li Yixuan introduced the superiority of this design to the mainland delegation, without hiding the pride on his face, "and this vertical chassis greatly saves the space occupied by various equipment, can maximize the utilization of space, is a very advanced design concept......

As soon as this engineer said it, his eloquence was called a convenience, a small vertical chassis, and he said it as if every detail was full of high-tech elements, and the members of the surrounding delegation were silent, and they didn't even know where to start with doubts.

You must know that the members of the delegation from the mainland are all elite talents in China, although they are not specialized in aerodynamics, but they have some knowledge of aerofluidics, and they know at a glance that this kind of vertical chassis is indeed significantly better than the horizontal chassis.

The white staff member, Helmer, joined the company last year. But not a pure British, he is actually a Chinese-British mixed-race, more European than the average Chinese-British mixed-race, and there is almost no trace of Chinese on his appearance, except for the black hair on that head.

Although British, he was born and raised in Hong Kong. Influenced by his Chinese father, Helmer was interested in Chinese culture from an early age, so he was able to speak not only standard London English and Cantonese, but also standard fluency in mainland Mandarin, and even the history of China's dynasties.

Li Yixuan didn't know that Hailmer was the protΓ©gΓ© of HKU President Wang Haihua.

Wang Haihua watched his students talk eloquently in front of everyone, and he didn't hesitate, all kinds of professional terms came out of his mouth, and what was even more commendable was that these jerky terms became easy to understand after being decomposed in his mouth. Even a novice who doesn't know anything about air fluids can understand it.

Wang Haihua is very proud of his students, and secretly applauds the wonderful performances of his students in his heart.

Li Yixuan hired him, mainly externally. After all, the computer is a highly specialized machine, and at this time, computers were not popular, and people were still very strange and mysterious about computers. Li Yixuan needs an engineer with excellent eloquence to give a popular science explanation to the public. I don't ask how high their technology is, but I ask them to be eloquent, so that a group of ordinary people who don't know anything about computers know that Oranges' computers are advanced in those places.

However, such talents are not easy to find, and many times Li Yixuan has to work with many scientific researchers in the company to compile popular science publicity materials.

In order to make it understandable to the public and not boring, Li Yixuan and many scientific researchers have spent countless brain cells. It wasn't until Helmer joined the company that Li Yixuan was completely liberated.

Helmer spent more time lecturing on Oranges' computers to the people of Hong Kong, and this time a delegation from the mainland sent him over.

The members of the delegation also secretly praised in their hearts that this white employee explained so well, especially because he spoke fluent mainland Mandarin, did not look at the appearance, only listened to the voice, and thought that they were explaining to them a pure Chinese.

It may be an exaggeration, but this vertical chassis should be better than the horizontal chassis, and that's what most of the members of the delegation who have been injected with high-tech jargon really think in their hearts.

"What is this?" A member of the delegation asked, curiously pointing to a strange part connected to the rear of the case.

The others looked in the direction of his finger and saw that it was a small oval made of plastic, with a certain curved surface, just right for one hand to cover it, and the finger in front of it was just above the two moving buttons.