When Ling Shizhe woke up the next morning, he found that Zhao Xiaoyun had already gone to the company, got up, took a shower and finished eating, and arrived at the company at nearly 9 o'clock. ∈ ↗ top novel,

Bai Lu made him a cup of coffee, and before he could take a sip, Ollie from the software laboratory came, along with Li Shihong, the head of the research and development of the workstation computer.

Ling Shizhe personally brewed a cup of coffee for the two, and after the two sat down, Li Shihong said: "Boss, the company is currently developing the WE computer workstation and NT workstation, and the hardware research and development is progressing very smoothly, but we only communicated with colleagues in the software department and the animation department, and found that the workstation lacks a key equipment, without this key equipment, it will become very difficult for cartoonists to use computers to draw, they are not computer masters after all." ”

The structure of WE computer workstation and MT computer worker is designed by Ling Shizhe, the former belongs to UNIX workstation, CPU uses RISC processor professional workstation computer, he adopts the mature highly modular design concept of later generations, which can be used as an industrial computer and a graphics computer, only need to add different modules according to the needs of users, and at the same time can also be networked with multiple computers for parallel computing, which is a low-cost and efficient computer that has long been rotten on the street in later generations.

The other is the NT workstation, which uses a CISC processor, which is a derivative of PC applications. In the mid-eighties, the world's first workstation computers were built on the PC platform, and later with the development of hardware technology, the RISC processor became cheaper and faster, so it gradually replaced the PC workstation computer, and later the NT workstation computer was only used as a cheap graphics computer, generally used in the fields of architectural design, comic production and advertising production.

But it can't be said that the price of the NT workstation is cheap, you have to see what kind of graphics card is installed in it, if it is a professional-grade graphics card, or even multiple graphics cards in parallel, then the price is definitely not cheaper, and it may even be more expensive than the price of the general UNIX workstation.

"What's missing?"

Li Shihong took out a document from his briefcase and said, "Boss, please look, we need to equip them with an electronic drawing board." ”

The information is very thick, there are more than 30 pages, but Ling Shizhe quickly finished it, and when he heard the electronic drawing board, he already knew what it was, so he didn't need to look at it page by page at all, just take a general look.

According to their method, the cost of a computer sketchpad is at least tens of thousands of dollars, so Ling Shizhe picked up the pen and redesigned the structure of the sketchboard.

A computer drawing board, also known as a digital drawing board, is a kind of computer input device, which is a computer input device like a keyboard, mouse, and a writing tablet.

It is a product specially designed for computer painting, consisting of a board and a pressure-sensitive pen, just like a painter's drawing board and brush, but this is a digital product, which needs to be connected to a computer and used in combination with software.

The digital drawing tablet allows you to get back the feeling of drawing on paper with a pen, it can simulate the brushes of various painters, for example, it simulates the most common brushes, when we use force, the brush can draw very thick lines, when we use very light force, it can draw very thin and light lines, it can simulate an airbrush, when you use more force, it can spray more ink and a larger range, and it can also spray out fan shapes and other effects according to the angle of your pen tilt In addition to simulating the traditional effects of various brushes, It can also take advantage of the computer's ability to create effects that are not possible with traditional tools, such as sticker painting based on the amount of pressure, and you can easily draw a meadow full of flowers of different sizes and shapes with just a few strokes

Electromagnetic induction is the key technology of the digital drawing board, although Li Shihong mentioned it in the plan, but the mark is very vague, so Ling Shizhe made a detailed plan for the drawing board technology.

He divides the technology into five categories, induction technology, pressure sensitivity level, writing style, personalized modeling, and recognition rate, of which pressure sensitivity level is the key parameter.

Information such as brushes with different pen strengths under different pressure levels is fed back to the computer through the digital drawing tablet and digital pen, so as to form stroke effects of different thicknesses and draw works with different effects. Combined with Painter, Photoshop and other drawing software, you can create works in various styles such as oil painting, watercolor painting, drawing, polypropylene, danqing, Chinese painting, and gongbi painting.

Later generations of drawing tablets used touch LCD, which is not much different from tablet computers, but the LCD technology in this era obviously did not meet the requirements of later generations, so the pen tablet designed by Ling Shizhe is somewhat similar to the handwriting tablet that appeared in the 90s.

In order to give full play to the function of the digital drawing tablet, Ling Shizhe also designed an HV-IV chip for him, which can not only correctly evaluate when you put down the pen and when to close the pen, but more importantly, it can repair the function and trajectory of your brush to ensure the smooth movement of the brush.

Of course, Ling Shizhe learned the lesson of designing the Povos processor last time, but only designed the basic architecture of the Gaoman chip, and he was ready to let the chip design department complete the rest of the specific details.

"You guys go according to this plan." Three hours later, Ling Shizhe finally completed the structural design of the digital drawing board and handed it to the two of them.

The two carefully looked at Ling Shizhe's plan, then asked a few more questions, and then Ollie said: "Boss, Mr. Lucas wants to use our supercomputer to do his movie special effects, you see how this matter is handled." ”

After the development of the supercomputer, Ambrera produced five of them, mainly to detect design flaws in chips and software. After Lucas once visited the central computer room of Ambrella's headquarters, he strongly asked Ambrera to provide him with supercomputers to make Star Wars movie special effects, but the price of supercomputers is extremely expensive, each unit costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and no one in such a big company dares to call the shots, so Ollie came over today to ask Ling Shizhe.

After thinking for five minutes, Ling Shizhe made a decision: "Yes, but the supercomputer we use is not suitable for making movie special effects, so make a special one for him." ”

Ambrera's supercomputer is a turbine-like design, with each blade being a server that works together and can be scaled up or down as the application requires. Lucas wanted a supercomputer for special effects, so on each blade, the number of CPUs would decrease accordingly, and the proportion of GPUs would increase accordingly.

"Star Wars" will not only make such a film, in the history of 80 years Lucas launched the second episode of "Star Wars", plus DreamWorks itself filmed movies, also need to use special effects, so that although supercomputers are expensive, but they can also be used after the mid-80s, it will become very cost-effective economically, and at that time, maybe 32-bit supercomputers will come out, and it will not be too late to replace them.

As soon as the two left, Bai Lu came again and gave him a financial report last year, Ambrera Group's annual sales exceeded 20 billion US dollars last year, and the net profit was as high as 4 billion US dollars, of which the battery business accounted for a large proportion of the company's sales, reaching 6 billion US dollars, it is obvious that whether it is a gel battery or an alkaline battery, the market demand is particularly huge, you must know that the global annual battery market is more than 100 billion US dollars, and the battery provided by Ambrera to the market is advanced in technology, mature and low cost. It is very popular with the market, so his sales volume is naturally very large.

According to the report, nickel-metal hydride batteries have been successfully developed and will be launched on the market in the near future, and Ambrera's turnover is expected to exceed $8 billion in the future.

Affected by the economic downturn, the sales of high-end ceramics, these two years has been in a downward trend, to last year's annual sales of high-end ceramics, only a little more than 600 million US dollars, 20% less than the peak, but ceramic knives have ushered in explosive growth, reaching 200 million US dollars in sales, industrial ceramic tools and ceramic semiconductor components sales have also increased, the current turnover of Ambrera ceramics for the first time broke through the $1 billion mark.

Apple also has $1 billion in annual sales, and PC PCs alone account for half of its turnover, and PC sales continue to grow rapidly, and today it is estimated that it will exceed $15 in turnover.

John. Martin's electrical company had a turnover of less than $50 million last year, but Martin has reached a patent swap with Philips for energy-saving light bulbs, and high-voltage insulator materials are also a gold-absorbing weapon, and I believe that Martin will put a satellite this year.

The video game company was established at the latest, and there is only one arcade game called "Contra", but its growth is the fastest among all its subsidiaries, and the total amount of orders has been received, which has reached 300 million US dollars, and the net profit is more than 50%, Ling Shizhe has to lament the huge profits of the game industry.

The most profitable is the semiconductor chip business, with annual sales exceeding 10 billion US dollars, and net profit exceeding half of the company's profits.

Bai Lu knocked on the door and walked in and said, "Boss, Mr. Andrew, the mayor of Montreal, will visit you in person tomorrow morning." ”