Now the person in charge of the "ACC" program project is Lu Siming, one of the five start-up team members of Bluestar Technology in the early days, and the Cote d'Azur was transferred from Bluestar Technology by Luo Sheng shortly after its establishment.

ACC Project Department.

"Boss, the Cell chip has been reborn in our hands, the performance is quite powerful, there is no pressure to carry ACC to become this year's next-generation host, and there will be no competitors on the market. However, it is still an old problem, engineers all over the world are accustomed to the x86 architecture, and there are probably very few third-party developers who are willing to develop software on our platform except for our own people, and the black history is too much. Lu Siming reported a good news, and at the same time said what he had been worried about.

In fact, this is the topic of the greatest concern for the entire ACC project team, as they are on the front lines and know the situation best, and so far only more than 800 engineers in the world have been able to play with the Cell chip architecture.

These more than 800 people are all in the Cote d'Azur, all of them are in the ACC project team, and since they have been in charge of this project, they have felt the deep malice of the Cell architecture towards them every day.

Imagine how much courage and perseverance does it take for a senior engineer to throw away all his life's learning and re-learn?

As for the rest of the world's engineers, the answer is absolutely no.

Human beings like a comfortable environment, and they will not realize change until they can't live anymore.

So in the end, the x86 architecture doesn't smell good? Or do you have masochistic tendencies and have to play with the Cell architecture?

"We don't need engineers from all over the world to understand the Cell architecture, we develop a super compiler to do it all." Luo Sheng said lightly.

Hearing this, Lu Siming said weakly: "Boss, this solution, the project team thought of this solution early on and tried it many times, but it ...... It's too hard, and we're helpless. ”

The implication is that this path has been tried, but it has also failed.

Luo Sheng glanced at him: "It's you, I'm not among them." ”

Lu Siming was slightly confused: "Huh? ”

Luo Sheng didn't say anything more, came to a work computer, opened his personal cloud private server with his hands dancing on the keyboard, and said with a smile: "I know you can't handle it, so I've done it." ”

Hearing this light remark, Lu Siming's eyes suddenly widened: "Boss of the fertile horse and duck, have you done it?" ”

As he spoke, Lu Siming's eyes quickly aimed at the screen, and a download progress bar appeared on the display screen at this moment.

After a while, Luo Sheng stared at the screen and smiled: "Okay, this is the first official version, take it to the project team for everyone to see, I haven't finished the patent yet, you let people arrange the patent issue clearly." ”

At this moment, Lu Siming said with an exaggerated expression and movements: "Boss, I'll kneel down for you, it's really ...... to throw five bodies to the ground."

said that Lu Siming was really about to kneel, but he was kicked by Luo Sheng before his knees landed, and finally failed to do so.

Compiler.

Just as if you want a machine to understand human emotion, there needs to be a "translation" between the two sides to act as a bridge between humans and computers, which is called compilation technology in industry terms.

Through compilation technology, high-level languages such as C and Java can be converted into low-level languages that can be read by machines, and complex and delicate code can be converted into binary instructions of 0 and 1, thereby eliminating communication barriers and taming machines.

It can be said that the compiler is the bridge between the software and the chip, and its performance efficiency directly affects the operation efficiency of the machine.

If you think of a compiler as a translator, it is like going to a country where you don't understand the language at all, and you can only communicate through translation software (virtual machine), which is inevitably inefficient. The compiler is more like giving him direct access to the local language, so that he can get rid of the translation software (virtual machine) and be able to communicate with the locals more smoothly, and at the same time, he does not have to learn the local language painfully.

Lu Siming picked up his personal ieP tablet and slid it a few times, and said curiously: "Boss, why is it called 'Ark Compiler'?" Ark, the name is too Westernized, and harsh netizens will definitely spray this. ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "What you want is the effect of Westernization, do you know the story of Noah's Ark?" ”

Lu Siming: "Of course I know...... Hey, boss, I understand haha, Noah's Ark, it means that you hurry up and board the ship, don't blame labor and management for not taking you to play when it's late, Ark, this name is simply clear to tell the industry insiders to hurry up and board the ship, and open up a new era with us together. ”

Luo Sheng glanced at him and said with a serious face: "Smart baby." ”

Lu Siming couldn't help but scratch his head when he heard this, because he always felt that the boss was mocking his IQ, but he didn't feel angry at all, not to mention the top boss, Luo Sheng got such a super compiler quietly by himself, and instantly felt that his IQ was completely exploded.

If you don't accept it, you can't.

In fact, Luo Sheng definitely can't do it so quickly, he has too much work every day, and a single project sector won't take up too much of his time, no way, there are too many industries under it.

Being able to do it so quickly is naturally inseparable from the assistance of AI Cortana.

"That's right, in front of you, boss, our IQ is indeed like a baby, hehe." Lu Siming took a bite of it decisively.

"Alright, alright." Luo Sheng shook his head helplessly.

After a while, Lu Siming said: "By the way, boss, shouldn't we rename the Cell chip, after buying it back from Sony, we have almost completely reconstructed the kernel, there are not many Sony genes in it, and it always feels inappropriate to use this name, it's too cheap Sony, what do you think it's good to rename it with another name?" ”

Luo Sheng suddenly looked at the other party and paused for two seconds, then shook his head and decisively denied: "You don't need to change it, just use the current name." ”

Lu Siming was puzzled: "Don't change?" Why? Wouldn't all the fame that will be born in the future be robbed by Sony? ”

I don't understand the boss's thinking very much.

Luo Shengle said hahaha: "You're right, but do you know why I decided to use my original name?" ”

Lu Siming: "Why? ”

Luo Sheng: "I'm going to be angry with Sony, Toshiba and IBM, and I want to make up what will happen to Sony when I see this situation in the future?" Three liters of vomiting blood is light, haha! ”

Sony has to pay the price for the 30% premium that year, but Sony has too many choices at that time, if Sony attaches additional conditions to restrict Luo Sheng from entering the home host market, he doesn't want the Cell chip business, and the big deal is to delay entering the market for a year or two.

So Sony doesn't really have a choice.

Lu Siming's eyes rolled away: ", I see, isn't this too ruthless, it's just murderous." ”

Luo Sheng put away his smile, glanced at the other party, and said lightly: "I'll just ask you if you're happy doing this?" Energetic or not? Looking forward to it or not? ”

Lu Siming held back for a long time and replied very unkindly: "Cool, it's too exciting, don't look forward to it too much." ”

Luo Sheng retracted his gaze and said as if talking to himself: "It's not just for the sake of anger, when the other party is not angry, emotions tend to affect the brain, and reason often takes a back seat, when a person is swayed by emotions rather than dominated by reason, it is often the beginning of making mistakes, and once competitors make mistakes, isn't it an opportunity for me?" ”

The boss Zhen Nyima is insidious, this old yin is more than that.

Lu Siming complained silently in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't dare to say it clearly, unless his skin was itchy.

After the vignette, Luo Sheng instructed: "Xiao Ming, you go and get the heads of all departments of the ACC project to the conference hall in a hurry, and the meeting will start in half an hour." ”

Lu Siming: "OK." ”

The focus of the conference was this fall's launch of the first generation of ACC consoles, announcing to the industry that the Côte d'Azur has officially entered the home console industry as a first party.

The venue for the launch event was finally decided at the conference, not in the mainland, but in Europe, in Cologne, Germany.

It must be said that the third hardware and electrical product of the Cote d'Azur cannot be released in the mainland, because the domestic game consoles have not yet been lifted, and since 2000, the ban on the sale of game consoles in the mainland has been in effect for ten years, and it will have to wait three or four years before the ban is lifted.

Luo Sheng also doesn't want to use his influence to speed up the lifting of the ban, not to mention that he will be severely criticized by parents like the last time he laid out e-sports, the most important thing is a very real problem.

Even if the ban is lifted now, few domestic players will buy it, one is that the problem of piracy cannot be solved, and the other is that PC games are becoming more and more abundant, and players have developed a model of charging for free props in games, so that mainland players have to pay before playing the game, which is unacceptable to 99% of players.

Habits are really scary things.

Therefore, the market of the first generation ACC host can only be 100% distributed in the international market, as for the mainland, let's look at it ten years later.

It is worth mentioning that the best location for this conference should be Los Angeles, North America, which just ended the E3 Game Show in June this year.

But since the last experience, Luo Sheng doesn't want to go to Lao Mei's territory to play, and it will be fun if he can't come back when he goes, Luo Sheng doesn't want to cause chaos to the country.

After thinking about it, there are only two locations left, one is Japan and the other is Europe.

In the end, it was decided in Cologne, Germany, which is also a city with a strong gaming atmosphere, and other game exhibitions have also been held here, including the local Cologne Game Show is also very famous in the industry.

And in October this year, Cologne will hold the third WRPO World Number One Player Championship, and now August has begun to warm up.

The WRPO event has been successfully held for two times, and now it is the highest stage in the hearts of e-sports people, and it is also the Olympic Games that replaced the WCG as the field of e-sports.

And this year's Cologne, Germany, is destined to be the focus of countless players, whether it is e-sports players or console players. And for this year's global console market to usher in a new first party, it is definitely the biggest historical event in the field of home consoles in 2010.

The ACC project plan has been highly confidential so far, and now Luo Sheng has not hidden it, and directly chose to announce the Cote d'Azur to be the first party in the most high-profile way to the entire industry.

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