Ten years ago, the UltraSparc-T2 was definitely a very good server CPU product, and the only thing that Williams felt was that it could only support up to 4 SMP systems.

This extremely regrettable limitation makes SUN's servers in competition with IBM, can only be limited to low-end servers, and the high-end part is completely inferior to IBM's use of POWER6 to support up to 32-way servers. When Williams was developing this CPU, executives proposed to improve it, but due to time and budget constraints, UltraSparc-T2 ultimately failed to implement the SMP feature to support more CPUs.

As a result, in the most lucrative high-end server field, SUN cannot come up with a suitable product to compete with IBM's super server that can support up to 32 circuits with POWER6.

Today, with the success of the Gemini series, it has once again awakened the dream that Williams had made back then, but although NDK has made good profits by relying on Gemini, it is still not enough to support the R&D investment of such a CPU, not to mention that the decision-making power of NDK is not in Williams' hands now, so he will come to China after getting the full design of UltraSparc-T2 through the old relationship of the year. Find support from Duke.

To be honest, the CPU design scheme that Williams got is a little too old, from the performance point of view, it is much worse than the latest model of the CPU of Loongson in China, but Duke originally started in the computer, and invested a lot of effort in the computer to collect relevant information, and Kerry's knowledge base has almost established the most complete and complete computer knowledge base in the world, and he knows that in terms of architecture, Williams said that the CPU is much stronger than the Loongson architecture, and has very good potential for improvement.

Although the POWER7+ mentioned by Williams is also an outdated CPU product of the previous generation IBM 3 or 4 years ago, it is almost two generations ahead of UltraSparc-T2, and the performance is much stronger than today's Loongson CPU. Then the domestic Loongson is basically not competitive.

This is an opportunity for Duke to touch the core part of the information industry, although Duke did not have any big expectations before, for NDK, Duke is satisfied with the supply of mobile chips, but now that Williams has given him such an opportunity, Duke feels a bit like pie in the sky.

It's just that after suffering the loss of the nuclear power ban, Duke's blockade and control of Western countries in this regard can be regarded as a living experience, so he looked at Williams: "Can this thing be taken to China for research and development?" Are there any special restrictions on intellectual property? "These are two issues that Duke is very concerned about, and if Williams develops something, and then the U.S. government restricts it from being taken to China to produce and use it freely, Duke will want to cry without tears.

Because even if it reaches POWER7+, it is considered an outdated CPU in the United States, and if you want to compete with IBM's latest POWER8 commercially to gain commercial benefits, you can't even think about it.

The largest market for this thing is domestic, and it is used in the military products that Duke is increasingly involved in, and as Duke upgrades domestic equipment to the road of full digitalization, it will use a lot of CPUs in the future, whether it is embedded or general-purpose CPUs.

For example, the J-7 drone, if Duke has a CPU like POWER7+ to use freely, it is possible to design a cheaper server to replace the current expensive purchased server, for Duke, who has improved the performance of supercomputers many times, with Kerry, the big killer, it is not difficult to make full use of CPU performance to improve a workstation and minicomputer-level server.

"No problem, I have consulted the relevant people, the design of this UltraSparc-T2 is much lower than the current Loongson CPU in your country, so it is no longer in the export embargo list, I can completely bring the design scheme to China, but in terms of intellectual property rights, if it is sold in China alone, it should not be a big problem, because these are relatively core technologies before, SUN did not register a column in China, but if you want to sell to the international market, It is subject to SUN's patents. "Williams seems to have really put a lot of effort into that.

"Okay, I hope the main design of this thing can be put in China to do," Duke heard this, and decisively made a decision, "Considering this research and development and design, at this stage, it is mainly foreigners, and I think the main design will be placed in Hong Kong, so that it will be convenient for you to enter and exit, after all, the Hong Kong SAR is an open international city, and I think the headquarters of NDK can be moved to the Hong Kong SAR now, and the current company in the United States will be downgraded to a branch." ”

"Anyway, through our cloud R&D application platform, R&D personnel are not very relevant to where in the world, and we can do a good job of cross-border collaborative development on this platform."

Now that there is an opportunity to enter the research and development of the most core components of the computer system, Duke is not afraid to spend money, as for the temporary disadvantage of technology, Duke is actually not worried at all, with the complete design of the UltraSparc-T2 acquired by Williams, Duke can completely let Kerry carry out in-depth optimization work on this basis, just like the original Gemini2, the dual-core CPU has made 4-core performance.

Duke believes that under Kerry's optimization, by adjusting the branch prediction algorithm, multi-threaded parallel algorithm, adding new caches and other measures, even if it is still 8 cores, the newly optimized CPU will be at least several times more performant than the original, so that the newly developed CPU to catch up with POWER7+ is really not a big problem.

Thinking of thousands of J-7 UAVs waiting for large-scale transformation, hundreds of thousands of CPUs needed in this big project, if Williams is fast enough, plus his own help, can quickly produce results, then Duke can use its own research and development and production of CPU to do the main control computer system core of this UAV, more importantly, Duke can also strengthen the speed of artificial intelligence and graphics image processing according to this application characteristics, making the whole system more suitable for the J-7 UAV application environment.

This is still the short-term demand, and in the long run, whether it is military or civilian, high-performance CPU is very useful, if Duke wants SAL to become a monopoly on the future communication industry leader, enter the communication system equipment market, in these communication system equipment, will also use a large number of CPUs and servers, can make breakthroughs in the core CPU, master independent control, obviously to establish its industry hegemony is very helpful.

What's more, now Duke has cooperated with the University of Science and Technology to come up with its own operating system, with this new CPU, from the work desktop computer to the super server system This product line has been established, if it can be operated well, the domestic market alone has tens of millions of computers sold every year, it can be said that the country itself is a huge market.

In such a large market capacity, it should not be too difficult to find a living space for the new CPU, especially SAL has a relatively rich software accumulation, through the transplantation and development of brainwave telekinesis helmet games, it has accumulated a very good platform in terms of game entertainment software, which can make most of the world's entertainment online games run on this platform, and can be seamlessly ported to the Nuwa operating system from this software platform.

In terms of office software for everyone's daily application, SAL has already been perfectly solved on the mobile phone platform, and has been transplanted to the new Nuwa operating system, plus high-performance database software, WEB service software and other important system software have been developed, the military has fully promoted the Nuwa system, and government agencies have also begun to implement the Nuwa system.

It can be said that the biggest obstacle to the application of Duke's new CPU in China has been solved, in this case, Duke's new CPU and Nuwa operating system composed of computers, although the compatibility with other companies' computers is not good, but most of the home, commercial, and office functions are already available. With the high ease of use of the desktop version of the Nuwa system and the built-in voice intelligence function, there is no problem in entering the new purchase market for home users.

In this way, relying on the domestic market, if it is operated well, Duke's computer system can occupy more than one-fifth of the domestic market, and it will be able to live very well.

With the support of the communications industry and the domestic computer market, it is not a big problem to feed NDK a CPU design company.

These things have long been hazy ideas in Duke's mind, and at this moment Williams put forward the requirements for the development of CPUs, and also made quite solid preliminary preparations, although things were too sudden to make Duke was surprised, but these emotions quickly flashed, and made a decision to put the research subject in China to ensure that the research results will no longer be restrained by Western countries in the future.

For this large deployment and investment in technology, Duke did not need to discuss with Cai Siqiang and them to make a decision, because Duke knew that this huge investment would definitely have new results, so he was not worried about not recovering the cost at all, but was very confident that he would fight his way out in this extremely competitive industry.

With Duke's full support, Williams returned satisfied, and when he returned, he could mobilize resources according to Duke's deployment and start research on the new CPU. For him, this research and development work does not matter much whether it is in the United States or in Hong Kong, and this is the last chance to realize his life's dream, and Williams must seize it.