Chapter 0199 POWER Architecture CPU
Guan Zhilin's pampering and arrogance, after being disciplined by Tang Huan, was suppressed as soon as she emerged.
Regardless of whether Guan Zhilin is serious about going to school or not, the educational conditions provided by her parents are still quite good, Tang Huan didn't want the other party to waste such accumulation, so she had already helped her contact an American school to continue her studies, and by the way, she could often meet her mother and younger brother over there.
As for work, she just needs to work part-time, she is only eighteen years old, and it is not too late to read for another three or four years.
In this way, we will not be shallow in our knowledge and eat with our faces alone.
Tang Huan patiently analyzed all kinds of powerful relationships clearly, and Guan Zhilin obediently obeyed in the end, which finally made the man who took advantage of it have a much calmer conscience.
When Tang Huan, who was thoughtful and physically and mentally refreshed, sat in the office again, a document sent by the marketing department not only made him frown, but also in terms of word processing products in the office field, the competition between Wang An Computer and Fangyuan Computer became more and more fierce.
Wang An's word processor does not belong to the category of personal computers, but a kind of software and hardware with a terminal device, good support for Chinese, can be called an old fist product, IBM's similar products have been defeated by it, and currently in the Asia-Pacific region sales equipped with WordEasy word processing software Fangyuan computer, just in competition.
I was going to be looking at the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch, Tang Huan once visited Wang An in the United States, trying to seek cooperation, but failed to do so, never thought that now it has become the main competitor in the market.
Wishful thinking that "we are born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other" is undoubtedly very naïve and ridiculous. Let's wait and see. Anyway, Fangyuan computer is not afraid of challenges. And word processing is just one of many applications, and the most profitable is database EBase.
It just so happened that Zhou Weikun also came back from the mainland, so they sat down together and chatted about the situation over there.
The computer technology centers set up around local universities in Yanjing, Hucheng and Yangcheng have been successfully established, and business is also developing well.
The employment rules of Zheru Xiangjiang Company in the mainland are very flexible, not only limited to college students, but also those who have a good foundation in the college entrance examination are also considered, because the current employment standards are very simple, after short-term training. If you know how to use a computer, more professional problems will naturally be solved by the employees here in Xiangjiang.
After all, now the college entrance examination is really a single-plank bridge, and when the winner enters the university, he will become the proud son of heaven, and after graduation, the state is responsible for distributing work, and he has a golden job, and he may not look down on the capitalist's company in his concept, and there is no need for Zheru to drill that bull's horn.
Besides, due to the long lockdown. At this stage, young people in the mainland have a limited understanding of computers. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are all on the same starting line.
Although the starting point is very low, their subjective initiative to grasp knowledge is very high, and they often read it overnight after getting a book, which makes Zhou Weikun amazed.
"It's not difficult to understand the poor students." Tang Huan smiled.
At present, there are not many concrete things he can do on the mainland, and he only hopes that under the employment pressure brought about by the return of a large number of educated youths to their hometowns, some talented young people who are living in embarrassment can seize the opportunities provided by themselves and get a job with good treatment, so as to improve the living conditions of the entire family behind them.
For Tang Huan, it is no longer challenging to make money for himself, and he naturally wants to do something risky and difficult.
Why are great men called great men, one of the points should be that they can improve the living conditions of countless people in an era, although Tang Huan thinks that he can't do it, but emulating it will always make him more meaningful in this time and space.
"Seeing that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, don't be too tired, take a rest here in Xiangjiang." Tang Huan picked up the market report on Wang An's computer and handed it over, "Competition with the other party is competition, but don't tear your face, leave a room, maybe we will cooperate in the future." ”
"I know more about this situation, and I will tell the people below to pay attention to it." Zhou Weikun flipped through the documents and nodded in agreement.
Zheru Xiangjiang's business idea is very clear, that is, to continue to expand market share, Tang Huan soon finished asking about the things he cared about, and he suddenly remembered that at this time period, Run Run Shaw is going to officially join TVB.
Hu Yinmeng, who is in charge of TV dramas, records, and film business, went to Treasure Island, and the two of them happened to have staggered their schedules, and if Tang Huan wanted to know the latest developments in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, he had to find someone else.
I don't know how Wang Jing's "King of a Thousand Kings" is filming, Tang Huangang plans to contact the other party, Sharp's current president Saeki Xu, and sent a private invitation, Sharp's founder Hayakawa Tokuji, whose physical condition is deteriorating, wants to meet him.
Tang Huan did not hesitate, and immediately agreed, he was not surprised that the other party was close to him, not to mention the increasingly close business interests between Zheru and Sharp, only in terms of personal relationships, it has also reached this level, thanks to Tang Huan's foreign language talents, although he did not have much contact with Hayakawa Tokuji, but he has fully understood the development trend of IT.
When Tang Huan met the 87-year-old Tokuji Hayakawa in Osaka, Japan, he saw from the other party's already gloomy eyes that his days were numbered, and it is estimated that Hayakawa Tokuji himself also had a premonition of this.
The meeting place was at Sharp's headquarters, accompanied by Saeki Xu and other important high-level executives, and Tang Huan also understood from the meaning of Hayakawa Tokuji's words that this old man was exerting his residual heat, hoping that the cooperative relationship between Zheru and Sharp could be maintained for a long time.
Of course, the root of being so important lies in the RISC architecture CPU that Tang Huan is developing, and its fork has been fully realized by Sharp.
The technical basis of this project comes from IBM's PerformanceOptimizationWithEnhancedRISC in the previous life - POWER is the enhanced RISC performance optimization architecture, Tang Huan in order to achieve top secret, he did not even have a R&D codename, only the processor group.
In the original time and space, the POWER architecture originated from a plan started by IBM in 1974, that is, to create a large telephone switching network that can handle at least 300 calls per second, and it is expected that each call needs to process 20,000 instructions in order to achieve an instant response, and with it, a processor with a speed of 12MIPS is required, which is very difficult at the time.
Fortunately, IBM has never had a shortage of technocrats, who have realized that they don't need to emulate the complex design of contemporaneous processors, because the machine only needs to handle I/O, scratchpad addition, transfer data between scratchpads and memory, and no special instructions to handle a lot of math operations.
As for each step of the complex operation, it can be replaced by simple instructions, and all simple instructions are completed in the same amount of time. This is the philosophy of the Reduced Instruction Design, or RISC.
However, IBM's plan for a switched telephone network was aborted in 1975 before a prototype could be made. But the processor designed for this project was considered to be a promising general-purpose processor, so it was retained, and the follow-up work was made at Thomas? Building 801 of the Watson Research Center continues, known as Project 801.
In February 1990, the first IBM computer with the POWER architecture, the RISCSystem/6000 or RS/6000, was launched.
RS/6000 is divided into two levels, workstation and server, called POWERStation and POWERServer respectively, and the central processing unit used is called the "POWER" CPU.
This is often referred to as the first generation of POWER, and it has been continuously upgraded since then, and even evolved into POWER8 more than a decade later.
By this time, Intel's CPUs were already in full swing, and IBM realized that if it sold its own chips to other system manufacturers, it might be able to turn POWER into a widely used architecture.
So in 1991, Apple (Apple Computer Inc.), IBM, and Motorola (Motorola) formed the AIM Alliance after the initials of the names of the three companies to jointly build the AIM Alliance platform, and developed a new CPU from the POWER architecture, namely PowerPC.
The CPU of Apple computer was able to change from the outdated Motorola MC68000 to PowerPC, and the PowerMacintosh series, PowerBook series, iBook series, iMac series, eMac series and so on were born.
As for Jobs's later abandonment of the PowerPC and the replacement of Apple's CPU with Intel's Core, it was not entirely due to technical reasons such as laptop power consumption.
There are many other CPUs derived from the POWER architecture, such as the Cell processor used in Sony's game console Playstation 3.
At present, IBM is still conducting various demonstrations of its RISC processors, but Tang Huan has already started the actual research and development on the shoulders of the POWER architecture, which is almost self-evident, and Hayakawa Tokuji has long been fooled by the prospect that Tang Huan directly described in Japanese.
Throwing out all kinds of other factors, a person like Hayakawa Tokuji who is fully committed to his career is still very admirable, Tang Huan also greeted the other party's health in between talking about business, but he had already expected in his heart that according to the development of historical trajectory, Sharp will completely change the dynasty this month. (To be continued......)