Ling Shizhe has been living in a villa in Repulse Bay for the past few days, and he wants to accompany Li Li well and communicate with her more by the way.

The result of the exchange is not bad, but it is not so ideal, the biggest problem is the generation gap of thought, she always thought that Ling Shizhe was too doted on by the Ling family, so she said those words to his father, if it was in her family, his brother Li Zhen would never talk to Li Chunlai like Ling Shizhe.

Faced with this result, Ling Shizhe could only smile bitterly, it was not like this in the 21st century in his previous life, people at that time talked about filial piety to the elderly, not filial piety to the elderly, the difference between one word and the meaning is very different; Because in later generations, the status of parents and children is equal, and the communication between parents and children is like ordinary people, so that the children raised are independent and assertive, and in the later generations, if a child has no opinions, it is dangerous and will be eliminated by society; Filial piety to the elderly means that as long as the elderly do not do illegal and criminal things, they will generally follow the elderly.

Then in the sixties and seventies in Hong Kong and Treasure Island, parents and children belong to the relationship between the upper and lower, the father disciplines the child is still the traditional paternalistic education style, the father is what he says, no matter right or wrong, the father is right, the reason, there is no parent in the world who is not; Be filial to the elderly, regardless of whether the elderly are right or wrong.

This is completely the confrontation between traditional paternalistic thinking and modern democratic thinking; The collision between the rule of law and the rule of man.

Forget it, let's seek common ground while reserving differences, if we continue to fight, the two will quarrel again, although Li Li is a modern new woman, no matter how open-minded she is, she can't transcend the limitations of this era. Ling Shizhe's thoughts are simply deviant to people in this era, it is better not to challenge the bottom line of people's thoughts in this era, that is purely uncomfortable with yourself; Now Hong Kong is still a traditional Hong Kong, and young people on the street still dare not wear bell bottoms, a few holes in their pants, a metal chain buckle, and a toad mirror like the United States.

This situation will not be around for a few years, only in the 80s, those gangsters are covered with tattoos all over their bodies, for fear that others will not know that I am the appearance of the underworld, and Hong Kong in this era is still an era of tradition and innocence.

Mark set up the CISC lab in Hong Kong, and the members were the members he brought back from Canada, and then some people came from Canada, and some others were added in between, including one from Silicon Valley in the United States, Andy Grove, Damn, celebrity, former president of Intel, I don't know how he chose to join Ambrera? He is now Mark's assistant and helps him manage the CISC lab.

The earliest group of people who followed Ling Shizhe to found the company, except for a dozen or so who left, those who stayed became the company's veterans, many of them became department heads, and even the reception lady at the front desk became the head of the service department, not only that, but they also have the company's option awards and share awards in the future, which is a kind of welfare for Ling Shizhe's old employees, for the old employees who followed him to fight the world together, as long as they don't leave, Ling Shizhe will give each of them some preferential treatment, for the new joiners, If you want to get these benefits, then everything speaks for itself.

Mark and Nien were also promoted, with Nien in charge of the lab in Canada and Mark in charge of the lab in Hong Kong, both of whom were top leaders of the lab. There are a number of sub-labs under the lab, and Andy Grove is the director of the CISC lab, reporting directly to Mark.

Andy Grove is the first celebrity to join Ambrera's company, think about the future generations - there are many traversers on the Internet, the protagonist is not a bunch of celebrities as junior brothers, but to Ling Shizhe, there is not a celebrity junior brother in his hand, Andy Grove is still recruited by Mark, it has nothing to do with him, as a traverser, Ling Shizhe is too much of a failure.

Just as Ling Shizhe was about to go to the CISC laboratory to see this famous celebrity in history, Mark took Andy Grove to come to the door.

After the three of them sat down on the sofa in Ling Shizhe's office, he looked at Andy Grove, who was only in his thirties at this time, with a square face, not a strong body, and a polite manner.

After the secretary served coffee, Mark directly said his meaning: "Boss, we must design a new memory chip, otherwise the development of blade servers will be very troublesome?" ”

"Oh, what's the problem this time, it can't be on the hard drive, right?" Ling Shizhe's development of the blade server after the last hard disk problem, he is now fully prepared, he knows that in the development of the blade server, there will be many tricky problems, these problems are not in the blade server itself, but because the current hardware technology is too backward, the design of the blade server is just a design concept problem, as long as this layer of window paper is pierced, for the computer elite of this era, it is not difficult, the difficulty is difficult in the various hardware it needs, For example, hard disks, not to mention the small capacity of hard disks in this era, the volume is amazing, the volume of two refrigerators, see how you use it? The scrutiny was lax at the time, and the plan was almost ruined.

Mark nodded to Grove and asked him to tell Ling Shizhe, Grove did not shirk, and said directly: "This time it is not a problem with the hard disk, in fact, the research and development of the solid-state drive is going quite smoothly, and the first flash chip applied to the hard disk has been produced over there, and its performance is quite good, and it has successfully realized the reading and writing of data, which is much faster than IBM's mechanical hard disk, and it is quite accurate, and now the team led by Nien is following the plan proposed by the boss, Starting to make the world's first SSD, they are almost done, and I believe it won't be long before news comes.

And this time the problem is in the memory, boss, now the memory on the market simply does not meet our requirements, because the amount of computing on the blade server is quite huge, the computing speed is much faster than IBM's mainframe, so it is inevitable that there will be some small errors in the calculation, although these errors are not big, but it adds up to quite amazing, so the blade server has extremely high requirements for the error correction ability of memory, and now the memory on the market, its error correction ability is too low and too low, for the blade server, There is simply no error correction ability, and we want to be able to redesign memory and memory chips and its related standards. ”

"Is there a solution?" Ling Shizhe nodded, many people think that computers are infallible, but in fact, computers often make mistakes, because computers are designed by people, people will make mistakes, people make mistakes when designing computers, and computers will also make mistakes, such as the brain CPU of the computer, the current CPU is fine, only composed of thousands of transistors, and there will be hundreds of millions of transistors in the future.

There are so many transistors composed of gate logic circuits, chip designers in the design of the circuit, it is impossible to have a little bit of wrong design, once there is an error design, when the computer runs to the wrong circuit, there will be a conflict of operation, there will be a conflict, not only the hardware, the same is true of the software and instruction set code, sometimes not only because there are errors in the design, the circuit itself and the program code will also conflict with each other, which will cause the computer to make calculation errors.

In order to reduce the calculation errors of the computer, in addition to carefully checking and optimizing the circuit and program code to reduce the error, there is also the most critical protection measure, that is, error correction, the error generated by the computer when it is running is corrected, and the memory undertakes this most important function; In addition, later generations even added multi-level caches to CPUs and GPUs, not only to ensure its stability, but also to ensure that erroneous computing data can be corrected.

And the error correction ability of computer memory in this era can only be regarded as non-existent for blade servers, you must know that blade servers were born in the 21st century in history, and the memory at that time was powerful enough, so this problem will not occur, but put the blade server to the present, it will be infinitely amplified.

For Ling Shizhe, this problem is quite easy to solve for him, but he is not ready to say it now, he wants to see if his scientists have a good way, because it is impossible to call the boss to find a way to solve the problem, and his subordinates will eat ready-made, right? So what's the use of these subordinates, he wants to test them.

Grove looked at Mark, who nodded at him, and Grove said, "Boss, seeing the flash memory flash chip you designed, I wonder if I can use flash memory to make new memory?" ”

In fact, whether it is memory, hard disk or even cache, it is a memory device in the computer system, which is used to store programs and data.

Memory is divided into cache memory (which is what we call cache), main memory (memory), external memory (hard disk, USB disk, flash memory card, etc.); The memory that Grove said about using the principle of flash memory has a well-known code name in the computer industry in later generations - DDR; DDR, DDR2, and DDR3 are all well-known personal computer memory standards in later generations.

The memory of the server is no different from the memory of ordinary computers in terms of structure and appearance, the only difference is that it has extremely high stability and error correction performance and has a hot-swappable function, such as chipkill memory.

Ling Shizhe's ideal server memory is that it is the famous server memory standard, and it is the memory standard on almost all servers; DDR He doesn't intend to use it as a server memory standard, as in history, only as a PC memory standard.

Chipkill, developed by IBM to address the current technical shortcomings in server memory, is a new memory protection standard.

However, there is a disadvantage that only a single bit error can be detected and corrected at the same time, but if more than two bits of data are detected at the same time, there is nothing that can be done.

In later generations, the CPU performance is increasing in geometric multiples, while the performance of the hard disk drive is only improved by a few multiples, in order to obtain sufficient performance, the server needs a large amount of memory to temporarily save the data that needs to be read on the CPU, so a large amount of data access leads to a single memory chip on each access usually to provide 4 (32 bits) or 8 (64 bits) bit of data, read so much data at a time, the possibility of multi-bit data errors will be greatly improved, and can not correct the error of more than two bits, This is likely to result in the loss of all bit data, and the system will crash quickly.

IBM's chipkill technology solves this problem by leveraging memory subsystems.

The blade server that Ling Shizhe is developing now, the CPU used is only an 8-bit processor, and the performance is too far from the processors of later generations, and the memory is completely sufficient.

Now that Grove has grasped the key to memory, there is no need for Ling Shizhe to hide his secrets, and directly told him the principle and key technical points of the memory standard, and let Grove lead his technical team to develop it on his behalf.

After saying these points, the two of them also said goodbye, seeing Grove's back, Ling Shizhe thought to himself, Grove is the director of the CISC laboratory, it is a complete condescension, his stage should not be in the laboratory, but the entire semiconductor company, I believe Mark also saw it, so he brought him over, hoping that Ling Shizhe will promote him, well, after the development of the memory project, he will be transferred out as Foster's assistant, and let him be responsible for the operation and management of the Intel division in the future, As the name suggests, this department knows that it is the same as the Intel company in his previous life, which is exactly the same as the work he was engaged in in his previous life.