Chapter 83: Conversation with Kyro (1)
In the previous life, game consoles such as the small BA Wang, which was popular in the mainland, were products that cracked their game engines and games using Motorola and Zilog architectures. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info because these publicly sold chips and chip materials can easily allow people to completely obtain the game engines and game codes of these game companies through chip decryption and reverse programming.
Even if it's not the mainland, do you think there are no copycat factories in the United States?
In the previous life, those game companies that were not attached to Atari without a certificate obtained Atari's full set of technologies by virtue of chip decryption and reverse programming, so as to launch many inferior games like fishing in troubled waters, pushing the game console market in the United States to the bottomless abyss!
In addition, after playing for a few years, there is no change, and it is a game that is completely a routine, and it is strange that the people of the United States are not bored.
At this time, the novel games and novel gameplay of the Fuso people must be extremely fresh and exciting for the people of the United States who have played the same game for several years!
To know, what is the most important thing about playing games?
First of all, it is the player's participation in the process of playing the game, followed by whether the game is fun or not, the beauty of the graphics, and finally the price of the game.
In these aspects, from Ye Kai's professional point of view, Bushnell did not do a good job, but blindly relied on his hobby to constantly launch new games to force customers to accept. And this philosophy of his has been consistent since he left the company.
This is one of the reasons why Ye Kai has obviously bought this company, but he is indifferent to the founder!
To be honest, when Ye Kai took over this company, he didn't have the idea of inviting Bushnell back, but after thinking about it for a long time, he finally gave up!
The reason for giving up is very simple, Atari was founded by Bushnell, but Ye Kai is ready to make Atari's products disappear from the market, and let Atari become a pure sales company, with the help of Atari's reputation, launch his own products! Can Bushnell accept it?
At least as the founder of this company, I definitely disagree. Not to mention Bushnell, the reason why the name of the new company contains the names of both companies in the name of the company that has been acquired or merged is that in addition to relying on the reputation of the other company, the bigger problem is that the founder of that company explicitly asked for it, and did not agree? Then I won't sell it!
This is similar to the idea of Chinese people dying to leave a name, right?
Besides, Bushnell's strength lies in developing games, and for Ye Kai, who comes from his previous life and has seen so many classic games, creativity is priceless! With such an idea, Ye Kai cut off the idea of inviting Bushnell!
Despite this, Ye Kai still admires Bushnell's decision to loosely manage the company, any technology company is loose in the management of technical personnel, such management is just right to release the pressure of technical personnel, can give them a relaxed working environment, get countless opportunities for inspiration!
Therefore, Ye Kai is also ready to continue this system, but there is no good candidate in his hand, so he can only temporarily hand over this job to Roland. No, Roland gave Ye Kai a big surprise from the information of this company!
This surprise gave Ye Kai a glimpse of the future, and also gave Ye Kai the opportunity to enter the chip industry, and even allowed Ye Kai to find the best person in charge of the chip department!
That person is Carrot!
However, how to convince Kailuo is what he needs to face at the moment, after thinking about it for a long time, Ye Kai didn't come up with a good plan, so he had to put it aside for the time being, and laughed with his three future beautiful presidents for a while before walking towards the conference room.
Kailuo had been waiting in the conference room for 1 hour, and when he saw the young and handsome Ye Kai walking in, his nervous mood suddenly calmed down for some reason, and perhaps there was a faint sadness in his heart.
Because, he doesn't think that such a young person will have much understanding of the chip industry, maybe this guy is just coming for the game console, and he can't see the great prospects of chips at all, and can only see the disadvantages of investing a lot of money.
However, as the conversation between him and Ye Kai began, he was deeply impressed by Ye Kai's profound professional quality, and Ye Kai was even more surprised and shocked from Kailuo's work report!
Yes, it was indeed a shock and a surprise.
Because, Carlo and his R&D team not only designed the central processing unit, but also designed the digital collaborative processor, you must know that in the previous life, there was a coprocessor before Intel's 486 CPU, which was to improve the floating point computing power. Therefore, at that time, the CPU was weak and needed a coprocessor, and then the personal computer was completely able to meet the needs of the individual because the CPU was gradually stronger, and this coprocessor did not exist, it only existed on the supercomputer.
And this 286 chip, when they were designed, they only had a floating point unit (FPU), its mathematical ability is relatively poor, in order to meet the needs of high-end users and mathematical operations, Carrot began to develop collaborative processors. At the same time, a special instruction set was designed for this chip to match the 286 chip secretly named by Ye Kai to jointly improve the mathematical operation ability.
At the same time, Carroto also has its own unique ideas and R&D ideas for the next generation of 32-bit chips, that is, using the 286 core as the infrastructure, adding a new instruction set, and then minimizing the core area of the next-generation chip to minimize the complexity of the instruction set circuit.
These thoughts and ideas all opened Ye Kai's eyes, and he thought in his heart, if Intel's 286 chip in the previous life was really designed by the person in front of him, then why did Intel take so many detours? Will it make the core of the CPU more and more bloated?
Ye Kai, who couldn't find an answer for the time being, had to continue to chat with Kailuo about the chip of the game console.
The chip of the game machine also made Ye Kai full of surprises, because, the game machine in this era does not have a special image processing chip, but the same as the sound processing circuit of the arcade machine, it uses a cheap microprocessor as a video signal processing circuit, and the video pixels processed by such a chip are very low, and the colors that can be restored are relatively small.
With the new image processing chip, the ability to process animations and images will be greatly enhanced, and more colors can be parsed, from 8 colors on the Atari console to 64 colors, but correspondingly, the storage capacity of the game will also be twice as large as it is now.