Two good news in a row, so that Ling Shizhe is in a good mood, the good news is not only, on August 20th, the world's first gel battery produced in the battery industrial park finally successfully rolled off the assembly line, the new battery off the line was soon sent to Audi and Ford Motor Company for testing, if there is no problem, they will soon place an order with the company, with these two car companies as a guarantee, the future sales of gel batteries will be much smoother, and the prospects will be bright.

The battery project is recommended by Foster to Ling Shizhe, whether the battery can pass the inspection smoothly, and his bonus and the amount of the future pension have a direct relationship, Foster spent too much effort on the battery project, and did not want to fall short at a critical moment, he and Grove soldiers divided into two ways, Grove went to Audi in Europe, and he personally went to Ford in the United States to star.

How many cars does Ford Motor Company produce each year? Ling Shizhe did not count it, but in the 21st century, he saw a report that Ford Motor produced and sold more than 10 million vehicles a year, making it the second largest car company in the world.

With so many cars produced every year, what will be the demand for car batteries? Arbitrarily allocated millions of amounts, this is an astronomical order, the world does not know how many battery manufacturers for this order, do not know how many heads broken, now Ambrera company production of gel batteries sent to Ford Motor Company for inspection, through, orders continue to flow, business is prosperous without worrying about sales, this will be how many battery manufacturers will be jealous? Ling Shizhe didn't have to think about it, he understood it with his toes, so Ling Shizhe personally instructed that Foster must watch it himself to prevent someone from secretly playing ghosts.

Grove is also in the spirit of 120,000 points, the battery project is not the main business of Ambrera, he is also responsible for the development of ECC memory, but he is Foster's assistant, is the future top person in charge of Hong Kong Ambrera Industries, Ambrera is a large company with annual sales of more than 5 billion US dollars, in charge of such an international large company, think about it, Grove is excited.

Grove believes that the battery project is a test for him, passed, and it will be smooth sailing in the future, but if it is not passed, the future will become very bleak, he temporarily put down the development of the ECC project, rushed to Europe, staring day and night, eating and living in the testing laboratory of Audi, the gel battery has not left his sight for a moment, for fear of any accidents.

After more than 20 days of hard waiting, the inspection results of Audi finally came out: all of them were qualified, and then Ford also announced the results and passed the results.

Ford placed a purchase order for one million gel batteries per year with Ambrera on the spot, and when the news came back to the company, the whole company cheered.

Compared with Ford, Audi's purchase volume is much worse, Audi produces high-end cars, so the annual production and sales are not much, and there are only less than 100,000 orders per year.

This is already very good, as long as the gel battery is used in the car for a year or two and proves to be a very good battery, then will the orders of other car companies be far away? The retail market will also be opened, and just thinking about how much car batteries are consumed each year around the world makes people's blood boil.

Gel batteries are still a new thing, and their price is many times more expensive than ordinary batteries, and Ford will not install it in every car it produces, but will only use it in mid-to-high-end cars.

Ling Shizhe is ready for a big explosion of production, as long as the competitor appears, he will burst the production capacity, try his best to seize the most market share, and let the low-end cars also use gel batteries.

On the day when Ford Motor Company officially placed an order with Ambrera, Ling Shizhe gave a generous half-year bonus to all employees of the company in order to boost the morale of the whole company.

The whole company was jubilant and elated, but there was one person who wasn't so happy, and that person was Mark.

Today, Mark came to Ling Shizhe's office and asked him a question: "BOSS, do you think that the RISC processor and the CISC processor are better?" ”

Ling Shizhe, who was in a good mood these days, was stunned by Mark's question, and thought: How could Mark ask this question, hasn't this question been debated many times, what else is there to say, what does Mark mean by asking this today?

looked at Mark and saw that he was not in a very good mood, and after thinking about it, he immediately understood what Mark meant.

When Ambrera was first established, Mark was the head of the CISC laboratory in Hong Kong, and Nien was the head of the RISC laboratory, and after a few years, both of them were promoted, and Nien became the head of the North American laboratory, and Mark also became the head of the Hong Kong laboratory.

In the past few years, the development of the RISC laboratory led by Nien can be described as a rapid progress, with the continuous expansion of the computer camera market, the production and sales of processors based on the RISC architecture are booming, and the RISC camp is very good; Conversely, what about the CISC lab led by Mark? Although the C4000 and C8008 CISC processors were launched, there has been no sales.

Mark had worked hard and actively sought sales for these two CISC processors, but he was pessimistic to find that he did not know who the two processors were going to sell to, IBM they had their own chip factory to produce their own processors, and they did not need to. Texas Instruments, Hughes, Motorola? All the same, no, they all produce their own CISC processors, and they don't need your CISC processors at all.

What kind of equipment needs a CISC processor, a computer camera? NO, it uses RISC; Scientific Function Calculator? It's still RISC; Even Wang An's word processors, dot matrix printers, and newly launched NP electrostatic copiers use RISC processors; The C4000 and C8008 complex instruction set processors developed by the CISC laboratory do not seem to have any market at all.

Mark is a pun intended, since the birth of RISC in the early 80s, there has been a debate about which of the two architectures is the best processor, and he has not stopped arguing until he crosses over.

RISC is a reduced instruction set processor, CISC is a complex instruction set processor, which of the two processors is the best? Behind it is actually a conflict of interests.

Both processors have their own different application markets, and CISC has a second kill for PCs and laptops, as well as low-end servers; And what about RISC? In the field of mobile terminals, high-end servers and industrial control, CISC is also killed, in addition to the dedicated fields they already occupy, there are many fields that they intersect with each other and compete with each other. For example, ATM machine, there are two kinds of ATM machines used on the market, one is the ATM machine that uses the RISC architecture CPU, and the other is the ATM machine that uses the CISC processor, just in the field of ATM machines, RISC and CISC are indistinguishable, the CPUs of these two architectures have their own advantages and disadvantages, who is good and who is bad, or who is better, can never be said.

The killing is so tragic in the ATM machine alone, let alone in other common fields, so there is no need to give examples here; In short, as long as there are interests involved, the debate about which of the two processors is better, RISC and CISC, will continue to be debated.

Mark came to Ling Shizhe this time to put it bluntly, and asked Ling Shizhe to find a way for the CISC architecture CPU. RISC Ling Shizhe has shown it a way, but CISC has not, so Mark came.

Knowing Mark's intention, Ling Shizhe didn't speak, personally brewed a cup of coffee for Mark, gave him another cigarette, and lit another one for himself.

Ling Shizhe, who was sitting on the sofa, looked out the window, and after a while, he turned his head to look at Mark, who was sitting opposite him.

Looking at Mark like this, Ling Shizhe felt uncomfortable for a while, Mark was one of the first people to follow him, Mark has been conscientious all these years, and has always been loyal to Ling Shizhe and Ambrera Company, if it were not for him, there would be no current Hong Kong CISC laboratory, it will always be an empty shell.

Since the beginning of this year, the production and sales of RISC processors have reached a new peak, and seeing RISC in the market, while his CISC has been doing nothing, makes Mark himself feel very frustrated, and he begins to wonder if his persistence in the past few years is worthwhile.

Ay! Ling Shizhe sighed, took out the key to open a drawer under the desk, and after a moment, took out a thick piece of information from it, and said to Mark: "Mark, I originally wanted to wait until Grove made ECC a little eyebrow-raising, and then took out this plan, but now it seems that if I don't take it out again, the hearts of the people in the CISC laboratory will definitely be dissipated." Come on, you take a look first. ”

Mark took the information, and it was written on the cover that Learningmachine; I don't understand, what do you mean? I quickly flipped through the information and looked at it carefully line by line.

Learningmachine, Chinese translation called computer learning machine, in later China famous, in China throughout the 90s, when the computer for many people, is still a luxury, the price is unattainable.

At that time, D Lao said that the computer should start from the baby, so the whole country set off a vigorous movement to learn computers, but unfortunately, at that time, the computer was too expensive, in addition to enterprises and institutions, and that family bought it? Therefore, the cheap computer learning machine was born, and the famous models in the country at that time were Xiaobawang, BBK, Yuxing computer, and other miscellaneous learning machines were countless.

The basic architecture of this learning machine is improved from the first generation of 8-bit game mechanism produced by Nintendo of Japan, most of the CPUs used in these learning machines are NTEL C8080 processors, and Yuxing computers are more special, it uses Zilog company to launch Z80, so its price is more expensive on the market, one costs more than 1,000 yuan, and other learning machines Xiaobawang, backgammon only a few hundred yuan can be.

When Ling Shizhe first joined the work in his previous life, he bought a learning machine, Yuxing Computer 1280 yuan, and spent several months of his internship salary, it was through this learning machine that he learned the first computer programming language in his life - BASIC, and began the road of future computers.

Mark can see that the learning machine on the information is the architecture of the Yuxing computer learning machine,Yuxing computer uses101Keyboard,The keyboard and the host are a whole,In addition to a cassette slot,There is a 3.5-inch floppy drive on the right,On the left side of it is a jack with 2 gamepads。

In addition to the information of the learning machine, there are also relevant materials of the Nintendo red and white console, and the computer learning machine wants to play the role of the learning machine, it is necessary to use a floppy drive, and it is better to engage in a game console without a floppy drive.

Give Mark both documents and let him choose for himself.