Chapter 734 of the text is the sea and the sky

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Coincidentally, Lin Qiangsheng only paid attention to SGI after acquiring Sun Company.

The company, which also produces high-performance computer systems, has a strong aversion to investors. But after Lin Qiangsheng got to know this person, he became interested in him.

Jim Clark once said that only those who discover new things are eligible for success, and those bankers and investors who sit back and enjoy it have no credit.

Of course he was qualified to say that now, but Jim was still a scumbag until the age of 34.

When Jim was in middle school, he tried to make his own smoke bombs, and after he was done, he tried to show off his invention on the school bus, but it exploded in one fell swoop, which almost made him not listed as a terrorist. Fear. Divide. Child.

Later, when Jim was in English class, when the teacher scolded him for not being able to read aloud, he directly said loudly to the teacher: "Die!" ”

The school finally couldn't bear it anymore and finally swept this troublemaker out of the way. It can be seen that the school and English teachers at that time decided that Jim Clark was a scumbag, and it would be good if he was not in danger of society, and he would not have thought that he would become a billionaire in the future.

So Jim didn't even graduate from high school, and after a period of idleness at the age of 17, he decided to join the army, and Jim went to New Orleans and became a Navy soldier.

After joining the Navy, Jim's rebellious and aggressive temper still persisted, and it was common for his superiors and veterans to wear small shoes. At one point, the boss dumped food on the floor and told Jim to clean it up. On another occasion, he was accused of "hacking" a computerized scoring test system, however, at the time, Jim had never even seen what a "computer" looked like.

He later described his three-year life in the army: "No one can be trusted, I felt that the world was a piece of. And I'm sitting in the middle of this! ”

In order to change the fate of "", he began to be angry and strong, and since then he has embarked on the academic road of "red and professional", and genius will shine if he has a little sunshine.

After 3 years in the Navy, Jim completed all of his high school courses on his own, earning a high school equivalency degree. Some people are suitable for self-taught.

He received his B.S. in Mathematics ↘↘ from Louisiana State University in 1970, his M.S. in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1974. The naughty boy who was once expelled from school became an "invincible academic bully" in this way!

After graduating, Jim could have worked as a quiet college teacher. However, he was still the wild and unruly love of freedom and unruliness, and in 1978 Jim was dismissed from his professorship at the New York Institute of Technology, this time against his boss. In the same year. His second wife also left him, and Jim's wife and job were gone in an instant.

At this time, he was 34 years old, and he still had no relationship with billionaires, and he was a middle-aged uncle who was down

In early 1979, he moved to Silicon Valley to work as an assistant at Stanford, where he developed the world's fastest geometry engine, just as the name Geometry Engine. But this computer chip is only the size of a fingernail and can be neatly arranged on a silicon wafer. This chip allows engineers to complete design models on a relatively inexpensive computer, saving months of work and thousands of dollars.

In the early years, chips with the same computing power probably occupied an acre of land, and the house could not fit in, and technological progress was so fast.

Jim Clark invented something. It must be known to the whole world, just like when I was a child, I invented a smoke bomb to be on the school bus with the most people.

This time, he is going to license his invention to some famous computer companies IBM, HP, Apollo, and DE, so that the whole world is using his computer chips, and he is completely popular!

It's a pity that these visionless companies have rejected him. Jim Clark gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to produce his own computer.

In 1982, Jim Clark and a group of Stanford professors founded SGI, a supercomputing-powered visual graphics workstation, or Silicon Map for short, with a $25,000 grant from a friend.

The workstation uses his "geometry engine" computer chip, which allows the computer to produce fairly realistic stereoscopic pictures.

Jim also used his invented 3D graphics software i-Day SGL (the predecessor of OpenGL) to synthesize a three-dimensional Snoopy puppy and make it fly around the dog house, which is a miracle in 82 years, okay!

Jim Clark was too poor as a teenager to afford a musical instrument he liked and fantasized about owning a cool sports car, but now he has a company with a promising future.

Therefore, it is not a bad thing to love dreaming when you are young, Ma Yun said well, you still have to have dreams, in case they come true.

Another computer company, Misps Computer, is a team of researchers from Stanford University and "retired Silicon Valley veterans" who are excellent at reducing instruction set architecture. Among them were Professor John Henness from Stanford, Skyp Stoit from Motorola, and John Moserius from IBM.

Professor Henness is leading a research group at the company to develop a reduced instruction set processor. From the beginning of '84 to September of this year, they have launched the finished product within a year, and are refining the product process, and plan to launch a 32-bit processor with 110,000 transistors in January next year!

The processor may not be familiar to many people, but the original Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 game consoles should be no stranger. Although Sony later co-developed the APU with AMD, it remains at the heart of the "most exciting" and "most distinctive" consumer products!

With 275,000 transistors, the 80386 has the advantages of simpler design, shorter design cycles and faster design cycles than the complex instruction set structure adopted by Intel, and can apply more advanced technologies to develop faster next-generation processors.

The product emphasizes design principles that focus on efficiency and simplicity and scalability, emphasizing the synergy between hardware and software to improve performance while simplifying hardware design.

The performance of the fans PS processors is very strong, and the speed of the first processor reached an astonishing 15MHz, which is the opponent of the Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386.

The system structure and design concept are relatively advanced, and the instruction architecture of China Loongson 1 and Loongson 86 is incompatible with each other.

The root of Americans' monopoly on IT is actually the monopoly of instruction set patents. Purely technically, the design of the chip is no longer a high-end thing.

If there are no patent restrictions, China can design and produce 86-compatible desktop processors and motherboard chips. Designing the high-end may have difficulties behind Intel, and mid-range ones such as the i386 instruction set are patented.

This is what Lin Qiangsheng wants most now, at least he has a patent right for an instruction set that has a certain market, so that in the future processor market, the Chinese market will not be completely reduced to fish on the cutting board, at least in the mobile field, the processor has a great deal! Of course, it is absolutely impossible for him to give up some benefits to certain people because of this!

In addition, the acquisition of Sun, SGI, and Fan PS also gave Lin Johnson another idea, why not use the technology of these companies to enter the field of video games!

Lin Johnson immediately took action, and he quickly gathered the founders and key engineers of these companies to Silicon Valley. The highest-end high-level exchange meeting in the history of Dongxing Group has attracted the attention of many American media for a while! (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: SGI was very good in the 90s, when Spielberg was directing "Jurassic Park", and the film included a lot of virtual reality special effects shots, and SGI perfectly realized the realistic 3D effect of "Jurassic Park" for the first time.

The film's huge success made SGI the world's most famous manufacturer of computer graphics workstations, with Star Wars, Toy Story, Jurassic Park, Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, and Emergency Landing all produced on SGI's graphics workstations.

"Titanic" alone used more than 300 SGI super workstations, 50 special effects artists, and more than 500 days to complete the continuous production 24 hours a day. u