Relying on the efficient work of the teams of both parties, the relevant details were negotiated in less than two days, and New World Computer has since been subsumed under the umbrella of Dongfang Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., and the future game publishing work will be gradually taken over by Activision in the coming period. After completing the negotiations, Bei Yárez took the people from his department back to Santa Monica, where Activision was located, and Hong Mingjie left one person to continue to deal with the unfinished matters on the side of New World Computer, and then went to Santa Monica with the rest of the people, preparing to set up the US branch of Dongfang Electronic Entertainment according to the plan, responsible for coordinating and managing the Blue Dragon, Blizzard, and Blizzard in the United States nearby. Game development companies such as New World Computer chose Santa Monica because of the beautiful scenery of the place, and of course, the main reason was to better coordinate the related matters of game release.

At the same time, Zhang Lexing packaged the source code and finished CD of "Heroes of Might and Magic 1" obtained from New World Computer and related materials, and sent them directly to Beijing through the channels of VisualSystem Group. Then Zhang Lexing personally made a phone call to Beijing,Ask Chen Jingyi, the general manager of Fengyun Interactive, to immediately start arranging the sinicization of the game department,Prepare for the future game agent,And the first task after the establishment of this game sinicization department is the sinicization of "Heroes of Might and Magic 1"。

Heroes of Might & Magic 1 The sinicization can only be regarded as a test of Fengyun interaction,As long as the final quality of the finished product is good,Zhang Lexing is also ready to arrange Fengyun interactive to continue to sinicize more excellent games,In the next few years, the stage of high-speed popularization of computers,The domestic game market is also expanding rapidly,The introduction of some excellent foreign games will not have much impact on domestic games,On the contrary, it will bring a certain promotion effect,After all, appropriate competition can bring greater development momentum,Under certain pressure, domestic game companies can develop faster。

In addition, Zhang Lexing also hopes that Fengyun Interactive can master more game resources in his hands, and only when new games are constantly listed, can those software stores in the channel attract more players to buy, so as to maintain the sustainable development of the channel. Zhang Lexing remembers that the domestic stand-alone game market continues to shrink, an important reason is the lack of enough game works to support, the most glorious period of the game on the market reached 350 games, there are more than 50 game agents, more than 30 companies engaged in game development, but a few years later, the number of listed games is only less than one-tenth, as a result, the downstream software stores can not get new games, so they have to those old games or pseudo-genuine to fill the number, and even simply transform to do other businesses, so the channel will dry up。 Zhang Lexing doesn't want his channels to become like this, so from now on, he must take precautions and hoard some good game resources in his hands, after all, it is not easy to reach the scale of three or four hundred games a year by relying on domestic game development companies.

After arranging the task of Fengyun interaction, Zhang Lexing came to James Cameron's set in the Gulf of Mexico, where "Titanic" was being filmed. When he arrived at the scene, Zhang Lexing found that it was not the same as his imagination, and the set was still very simple, just some preliminarily built indoor scenes. James Cameron ran all the studios in Hollywood, London, and Eastern Europe some time ago, and couldn't find a suitable place to shoot "Titanic", so the set of "Titanic" was completely newly built on flat ground, and James Cameron also planned to build what may be the world's largest mechanical reservoir inside, which can hold 17 million gallons (64.352 million liters) of seawater according to the design. In addition, there is a 1:1 scale model of the Titanic, but for the sake of convenience and cost savings, this model is only planned to be built on the right half.

Because the whole set is still in its infancy, there are not many shooting tasks every day, but James Cameron is a person with a strong desire to control, in order to ensure that the final result of the film is consistent with his vision, he grasps everything very tightly and seems to be extremely busy, as a result, Zhang Lexing came to the set for two whole days, and the time to talk to him did not add up to more than 20 minutes. However, Zhang Lexing's trip was not completely in vain, in this short twenty minutes, he heard a news from James Cameron, the "Blue Diving" expedition funded by James Cameron has found the specific location of the wreckage of the Titanic, and after a while, James Cameron plans to go over and see the Titanic with his own eyes. According to James Cameron, the two submarines of the "Blue Diving" expedition are the best in the world, and there are no more than 5 submarines in the world that can dive to the same depth, so the opportunity to participate in this kind of diving can be said to be very rare.

When James Cameron was better prepared to go, Zhang Lexing had already come to Hong Kong, because there was good news from the research institute here, and the research on the integration of the main board had made a breakthrough. It has been more than a year since the last time the research task of integrating the motherboard was arranged, during this period, Zhang Lexing's assistant Zhao Jaw will report the relevant situation regularly every month, and the integration has been partially improved, and what alternative chips have been studied. However, the specific situation was not clear for a while on the transatlantic phone call, so Zhang Lexing took a plane and flew directly to Hong Kong.

When the plane landed in Hong Kong, it was just noon, and after a hasty lunch and no rest, Zhang Lexing drove to the Oriental Institute of Microelectronics with his assistants Yan Ruofei and Zhao Jaw who came to pick up the plane. When the convoy stopped at the gate, Vice President Ye of the research institute was already standing at the door to greet him.

After a few polite words, the convoy drove into the parking lot of the institute, and then under the leadership of Vice President Ye, Zhang Lexing and his party came to the conference room of the institute. Walking into the conference room, Zhang Lexing found that there were already people waiting inside, and after a closer look, it was actually Tang Wenyuan, the first researcher who supported Zhang Lexing's proposal last time, and it should be very good to look at his expression. Tang Wenyuan was also very happy to see Zhang Lexing's arrival, he was originally just an ordinary researcher, but with his continuous efforts in the integration of the main board plan, he has been promoted to the chief researcher of the integrated main board research group, responsible for the entire research project, although his personal efforts are very important, but he also knows that if Zhang Lexing did not give this opportunity, at least he would not be as smooth as he is now.

After everyone sat down, Tang Wenyuan glanced at Zhang Lexing again with grateful eyes, and then began his introduction. First of all, Tang Wenyuan closed the curtains, and then used the computer and projector to display a PPT describing the recent research situation on the screen, and then introduced while flipping: "Mr. Zhang, the current research on the integration of the motherboard has completed the theoretical verification, and several confirmatory integration motherboards have been produced in the laboratory, ready to be used in the next further research, and the integration of the motherboard technology has been introduced into the mature system for testing." You see, what is marked on this PPT is the progress of the work during this period, and the theoretical verification will be completed in July...... Small-scale production ...... in the laboratory began in August. ”

Zhang Lexing raised his head and took a closer look, and the projected chart was basically the same as that reported by Zhao Jaw, but it was written in more detail, and the details of the work in each month were specially written.

After introducing his recent work, Tang Wenyuan opened the curtains again, and then moved out from under the table what he called the "verification integration motherboard". It is worthy of verification, the size of this motherboard is twice as large as that of common computer motherboards, and Tang Wenyuan is still a little difficult to pick up alone, so he also specially invited someone to help support him on the other side, so that he can have the energy to introduce.

"Mr. Zhang, this is the verification integration motherboard that we have produced in the laboratory, which has realized the integration of the graphics card, sound card, and network card into the north and south bridges of the motherboard. This larger chip is the north bridge of the motherboard, and the chip below is the south bridge, but the current integration is not high, so the chip size of the north and south bridges is relatively large, and the corresponding PCB size and wiring spacing are also relatively large. Tang Wenyuan held the motherboard with one hand, and then held an insulating rod with the other hand, pointing at the motherboard while introducing.

Zhang Lexing leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but say, "Your motherboard is too big, can it be smaller?"

"Mr. Zhang, it's no problem to shrink, this motherboard itself is used for testing, in order to more conveniently determine the composition of each functional module, so the integration is not high. The final product will definitely not be larger than the common computer motherboards now, or even smaller. Tang Wenyuan explained.

"Oh, so can your motherboard work normally?" Zhang Lexing asked again.

"Yes, our motherboard is essentially the same as the motherboard used by the common Pentium processor now, but it integrates expansion cards such as graphics card, sound card and network card, as long as the CPU is plugged in to this processor socket, and then added accessories such as memory, it can be used normally. We've also built our own computer with a validated motherboard, which works even with the latest KylinWindows95 operating system, but the drivers need to be customized by ourselves. Mr. Zhang, would you like to take a look at our custom-built computer?"

Zhang Lexing shook his head and said, "Don't worry, you can continue to introduce the situation first." ”

"Okay, Mr. Zhang. Tang Wenyuan took the insulating rod and continued to introduce the composition and main performance indicators of the integrated motherboard: "...... The graphics card part of this motherboard uses the 3DRage chip logic provided by ATI, and has 2D and 3D processing capabilities, with 1 pixel pipeline and 1 vertex coloring unit, which can process light sources and support MPEG-1 hardware acceleration...... The sound card part uses the SoundBlaster16 chip logic improved by the innovative company, with a 16-bit sample size and a sampling rate of 44.1kHz to achieve the same playback effect as a CD, and supports additional hard-wave meter cards. Well, the hardwave meter card will work if it is installed in this special mini expansion slot on the motherboard...... The network card part uses Hess-100 chip logic derived from the network switching technology of the San Jose Research Institute, with 10/100M self-adaptation, and the dedicated ASIC chip optimizes the data transmission between the network interface and the PCI bus, and provides network management capabilities......"

After introducing this verification integration motherboard, Tang Wenyuan carefully moved it, and then replaced it with a very small motherboard, and the most obvious chip on it was the MIPSR-3000A that Zhang Lexing was very familiar with.

Seeing this strange motherboard, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but ask, "What does this motherboard do?"

Tang Wenyuan pointed to the motherboard and introduced: "Mr. Zhang, this is the application of integrating motherboard technology into a mature system just mentioned. After using the integration technology, through logic optimization, PCB layout optimization and other means, we can reduce the area of the PS game console motherboard provided by the Game Research Institute by 40%, and there is a possibility of further reduction if there is a new technology in the future......"

"What you mean is that if the PS game console adopts this technology, it can also significantly reduce the cost. ”

"Mr. Zhang, it is true, according to our estimates, the cost can be reduced by more than 20%. ”

After listening to Tang Wenyuan's introduction, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but think of the next generation of game consoles under development, although there is no shadow for the time being, but if some technologies in the research and development process of this integrated motherboard can be applied in the future, I believe that it can also greatly reduce production costs, so that it will be in a strong position in the future console market battle.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, and said happily to Tang Wenyuan: "Very good, you have done a good job, but you will continue to work hard in the future, and if you have updated integration technology, I hope to support the game console project of the Game Research Institute and help them improve the integration of products." ”

"That's no problem, Mr. Zhang, anyway, there is a technical exchange agreement between our two research institutes, and we have cooperated before. Now the distance between the two is a little farther, but when the research park is completed next year, everyone will move there, and it will be much more convenient to communicate with each other at that time. ”

"I hope that in the future, there will be more horizontal exchanges between your research institutes in order to form a joint force. Zhang Lexing turned to Vice Dean Ye and explained.

"We'll definitely pay attention. Vice Dean Ye nodded, then approached Zhang Lexing, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhang, this exchange problem will be easy to deal with after moving to the research park next year, we have planned to build a computer network system, coupled with the core of high-performance computers, it will be much more convenient to find information and exchange technology at that time." ”

"Ahem......" Tang Wenyuan coughed lightly, Zhang Lexing turned to look at him, but found that Tang Wenyuan was so good at kung fu There was a gray machine that looked like a PS game in front of him, and one end was connected to a projector, and the other end was connected to a mouse and keyboard through an adapter.

Seeing the confusion on Zhang Lexing's face, Tang Wenyuan introduced: "Mr. Zhang, this is a mini computer that we made with the motherboard just now. ”

"Mini PC?"

"Yes, strictly speaking, it is an improved version of the PlayStation console, plus a customized version of the operating system, to form this mini computer. You wait a minute......" Tang Wenyuan explained, went to the side and closed the curtains, and then turned on the projector, and the interface of KylinWindows95, which Zhang Lexing was very familiar with, appeared on the screen.

Zhang Lexing couldn't help but take the mouse and keyboard and try it himself, not only the interface is similar, but even the content inside is almost the same, and the feeling of operation is exactly the same, no wonder it's called a mini computer.

"By the way, how different is this improved version of your work from a normal PS console?"

"One is that KylinWindows 95 is more complex than the G1 operating system used in the PS console, so the memory is increased in order to leave enough space for applications. In addition, a hard disk was added, which was also required by the operating system. ”

"In this way, this improvement is of little value to ordinary PS game consoles, but it can be considered for the next generation of game consoles, and when the time comes, you can also get a custom system, which is similar to the operating system of the computer, so that you only need to recompile, and a game can run on the computer and the game console at the same time, even if there is a place to modify, it is estimated that the difficulty will not be too great, just like Xbox, so ...... Hehe!" Zhang Lexing thought about it, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

Mr. Zhang...... Mr. Zhang......"

Tang Wenyuan shouted a few times in a row, Zhang Lexing came back to his senses, saw everyone's attention, and smiled embarrassedly: "It's okay, I just thought of something, and I was happy for a while." ”

"Mr. Zhang, I've finished the introduction, do you have any other opinions?" asked Tang Wenyuan.

"Well, I think you're doing a good job, but the next step is to make the integration of the motherboard practical as soon as possible, and reduce the production cost as much as possible on the premise of maintaining reasonable performance, after all, sooner or later other companies will get involved in this area, so we have to hurry up. In addition, if allowed, the performance of the integrated graphics card should be better, at least the 2D performance should be the same as the mainstream graphics card on the market, so that the integrated motherboard has greater survival value......" combined with his impression of the integrated motherboard After saying a few opinions, Zhang Lexing remembered something again: "By the way, give me one of the mini computers, I am useful." ”

"No problem, if Mr. Zhang doesn't mind, I can give you this demo. Tang Wenyuan took the mini computer that had been put away and even a piece of the box and pushed it in front of Zhang Lexing.

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When leaving, the Oriental Institute of Microelectronics, Zhang Lexing and his entourage came to the Game Research Institute with the mini computer, and after a brief exchange with Chen Zhipeng, they left the mini computer and some ideas of Zhang Lexing's vision for the next generation of game consoles (high-performance processors, multi-processor collaboration, powerful 3D hardware acceleration capabilities, hard disks, DVD drives, and the interaction between computers, etc.), Zhang Lexing hopes that these things he has done can bring some help to the research and development of the next generation of game consoles, and hope to see the perfect host of his dreams as soon as possible。

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