Chapter 07447 Drives Global Memory Price Increases

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Obviously, Tang Huan is creating a topic to attract attention to his supercomputer.

At a media briefing with a relaxed atmosphere, after Tang Huan introduced the plan with great enthusiasm, the host deliberately gave the first opportunity to ask questions to a beautiful female reporter from CNN, who was quite suspicious of taking care of a well-connected media.

However, the female reporter was embarrassed for Tang Huan, and asked as soon as she opened her mouth: "I believe that the Fangyuan supercomputer with a computing power of 10Gflops is very powerful, but is the investment proposal analyzed by the machine credible?"

"I see what you mean. Tang Huan smiled slightly, "It is undeniable that the protagonist of this plan is the mathematical model of financial analysis, and even if the computing power of the Fangyuan supercomputer reaches 1000gflops, it is only a supporting role to assist in calculation." We use the most advanced and comprehensive analysis methods possible to make our calculations more reliable. ”

"Then may I ask you, Don, will you believe it?" the female reporter asked.

"Of course I do. Tang Huan did not hesitate to show his attitude, "You know, this is science." ”

"In that case, will you invest based on the results of this analysis when the time comes? And how much investment will you use?" The female reporter "teased" the richest man's play, causing the media in the audience to snicker.

In the noise, Tang Huan replied with a little embarrassment: "You are right, if this analysis results only stay on paper and are not put into action, then it will be completely reduced to a commercial advertisement." Personally, I would like to invest a sum of money to validate the results of this program. As for the amount of funds......"

Speaking of this, Tang Huan raised a finger and shook it vaguely.

Seeing that the female reporter wanted another plan, the host hurriedly said, "The next opportunity to ask questions...... For a media professional in the IT field. ”

The second reporter's question is indeed much more serious, "The Taiji-II of the Fangyuan supercomputer reached 5.2GFLOPS the year before last. The latest Fangyuan supercomputer. To exceed 10Gflops in computing performance. The doubling of the increase is not insignificant. Excuse me, what is the key to supporting this leap?"

"A supercomputer is a comprehensive system, and any shortcoming in any link will reduce the overall performance. Tang Huan explained endlessly as a computer expert.

"Of course, it still follows the general laws of computer science, and the first key component is the CPU. ”

"The new system, using the third-generation version of the RISC microprocessor holder, is manufactured using the world's leading 1-micron process, and its maximum clock frequency is expected to exceed 100MHz. In addition, Holder-V3 has also been optimized in many aspects such as instruction set, cache, electrical, etc., and the performance has been significantly improved. ”

"It is no exaggeration to say that Holder-V3 is currently the world's most powerful microprocessor, which in turn provides ample computing power for the new generation of Fangyuan supercomputers. ”

"As for the more detailed specifications of the Holder-V3, if you are interested, you can read about it in the upcoming technical white paper. ”

"One thing I need to point out here is that in addition to the new performance of Holder-V3, its license system, as well as the programming language compilers such as Fortran, C, C++, and Pascal that run on it, as well as the copyright mechanism of the operating system Vientiane, will undergo some changes. ”

"To take a specific example, we all know that the holder product line is divided into four series, that is, according to different application fields, it is divided into Holder-L for embedded devices, Holder-M for workstations, Holder-H for servers, and Holder-S for supercomputers. ”

"Now, we intend to build a more open licensing system for holders, and we are going to try it out in a completely new application area first: video game consoles. ”

"EA is likely to be the first beneficiary, with its next-generation home video game console, the third-generation Bully console, featuring a customized version of the Holder, which is sure to give gamers a refreshing experience. Moreover, it will not make everyone wait too long. ”

Reporters from all walks of life didn't expect Tang Huan to come out to blow the wind this time and shake so much heavyweight news. Immediately, someone couldn't help but rush to ask: "Tang, what do you mean, EA's new generation of home TV game consoles, has entered the countdown to release? Holder-V3 performance is so powerful, what kind of specifications will the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles be?"

"For further details on the three generations of Xiaobawang consoles, please forgive me for not having a comment here for the time being. Tang Huan made a gesture of accidentally losing his words just now, "I can only say that after the personal computer entered the 32-bit era, the performance became more and more powerful, so that it has a very pleasing game effect." As a hardware platform dedicated to running video games, the CPU of the second-generation Xiaobawang game console is still a 16-bit customized microprocessor of the Motorola MC68000 series, and it is more troublesome to even support true color, and it is indeed time to make changes. ”

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What is called an industry leader? That is, a fart, there will be a lot of people come over to smell it, to see if it is garlic or onion, and it is best to analyze what kind of perfect tonic soup the owner has used recently.

After the media briefing, what the public talked about the most was that Tang Huan was embarrassed by a beautiful reporter's "teasing". Every day, celebrities in the United States respond to embarrassing situations with America's signature self-deprecation, but everyone obviously prefers to watch the richest man perform in action.

Now there is a special opening of the company, betting on what Tang Huan's outstretched finger means. $10,000, $100,000, $1,000,000, or more?

In a street interview conducted by CNN, more than two-thirds of the people believed that the richest man could not be too stingy in order to show the power of the supercomputer, and that the finger should represent $1 million.

As a veteran Tang Huanhei, the New York Post, who was not willing to be lonely, gloated: "We think that finger means $100 million." ”

Ordinary people have fun with the richest man, and professional observers have analyzed a lot of important IT industry trends from Tang Huan's speech at the media briefing.

First of all, the emerging Holder-V3 has made RISC shine more and more, and has the potential to indicate the future development direction of microprocessors.

There is even news that even CISC manufacturers such as Motorola and Intel have secretly formulated RISC R&D plans as an alternative to the product line.

Venture capital is even more popular, and it is favored by RISC-related startups.

According to market research, in addition to the Risc microprocessors such as Holder, MIPS, SPARC, and PA-RISC, dozens of companies, large and small, including IBM, DEC, Motorola, Intel, and Apollo Computers, are developing their own RISC microprocessors.

It is completely foreseeable that in the next few years, there will be a life-and-death battle in the field of microprocessors, and the outcome will not only determine the survival of those RISC microprocessors, but also affect the direction of CISC microprocessors.

In addition to the RISC battle, the three generations of EA's legendary Xiaobawang game consoles finally loomed into the tip of the iceberg in Tang Huan's careless "gaffe".

Although Tang Huan only mentioned it in a few words, the keen eyes of connoisseurs have already determined the general outline of the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles from several key points such as customized holder-v3, true color, and will not make players wait too long - it will be a 32-bit console that supports true color, and is expected to be presented to the public as soon as this year.

EA's game release trailers, including "Flight Sim", "NBAs", "FIFA", "Monopoly" and other new version titles, all appear in the mysterious "32" word, which seems to confirm this.

If all of this is true, then the fully recovered North American video game market is very likely to usher in a new console war. After all, Nintendo, Sega, NEC and other manufacturers that are currently at a disadvantage are unlikely to give up the favorable fighter of changing market rules in order to drag EA off the throne of hegemony. Perhaps new companies will join the warband.

These analysis results take a period of time before they can be verified to be correct or not. But there is one analysis that has shown its impact immediately.

The three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles that are about to come out have been determined to have a feature that supports truecolor like the fourth generation of Fangyuan personal computers.

The specific meaning of this concept is that the three channels that describe a pixel, such as RGB - red, green, and blue, will each be represented by a byte, and if the alpha channel representing the degree of transparency is enabled, there will be a fourth byte.

Depending on the resolution from 256x224 to 640x480, which is usually supported by video games, the minimum number of bytes required for an image is 24x256x224Γ·8Γ·1024=168kb.

In this case, the third-generation Xiaobawang game console is very likely to have a main memory of 2MB and a video memory of 1MB, plus audio memory, input cache, operating system firmware, etc., and the demand for memory is no less than that of a personal computer.

In other words, once the third-generation Xiaobawang game console is put into commercial mass production, a large number of memory chips will be consumed.

If this situation had been put in a year ago, it would not have been noticeable. But now is the time when the personal computer market is in full swing, and there is also a huge demand for memory chips.

In particular, the imbalance between supply and demand in the U.S. market has led to a sharp increase in global DRAM prices. If the three generations of Xiaobawang game consoles come to join in the excitement again, it can only be described as adding fuel to the fire.

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……

Obviously, Tang Huan is creating a topic to attract attention to his supercomputer.

At a media briefing with a relaxed atmosphere, after Tang Huan introduced the plan with great enthusiasm, the host deliberately gave the first opportunity to ask questions to a beautiful female reporter from CNN, who was quite suspicious of taking care of a well-connected media.

However, the female reporter was embarrassed for Tang Huan, and asked as soon as she opened her mouth: "I believe that the Fangyuan supercomputer with a computing power of 10Gflops is very powerful, but is the investment proposal analyzed by the machine credible?"

"I see what you mean. Tang Huan smiled slightly, "It is undeniable that the protagonist of this plan is the mathematical model of financial analysis, and even if the computing power of the Fangyuan supercomputer reaches 1000gflops, it is only a supporting role to assist in calculation." We use the most advanced and comprehensive analysis methods possible to make our calculations more reliable. ”

"Then may I ask you, Don, will you believe it?" the female reporter asked.

"Of course I do. Tang Huan did not hesitate to show his attitude, "You know, this is science." ”

"In that case, will you invest based on the results of this analysis when the time comes? And how much investment will you use?" The female reporter "teased" the richest man's play, causing the media in the audience to snicker.

In the noise, Tang Huan replied with a little embarrassment: "You are right, if this analysis results only stay on paper and are not put into action, then it will be completely reduced to a commercial advertisement." Personally, I would like to invest a sum of money to validate the results of this program. As for the amount of funds......"

Speaking of this, Tang Huan raised a finger and shook it vaguely.

Seeing that the female reporter wanted another plan, the host hurriedly said, "The next opportunity to ask questions...... For a media professional in the IT field. ”

The second reporter's question is indeed much more serious, "The Taiji-II of the Fangyuan supercomputer reached 5.2GFLOPS the year before last. The latest Fangyuan supercomputer. To exceed 10Gflops in computing performance. The doubling of the increase is not insignificant. Excuse me, what is the key to supporting this leap?"

"A supercomputer is a comprehensive system, and any shortcoming in any link will reduce the overall performance. Tang Huan explained endlessly as a computer expert. (To be continued.) )