"Duke, our mobile phone CPU chip is now making very good progress, following Gemini2, our 4-core product Gemini4 and octa-core product Gemini8 are now in mass production, and began to provide these chips to SAL mobile phones, TVs and smart car electronics, which can fully meet the requirements of SAL company on embedded system chips, and the powerful Gemini8 can even replace other companies' high-performance desktop CPUs, It began to be used in advanced CNC machine tools and industrial control systems of nuclear power plants. Next, we will start working on a native 12-core product and a stacked 16-core product. ”

Williams reported his progress during this period, and he said that Duke had read the report and knew better, Williams' design team made Duke invest heavily in NDK after breaking through the Gemini2 design, so Williams used parallel research methods when developing Gemini4 and Gemini8.

Relatively speaking, there is not much essential difference between 4 cores and 8 cores in terms of technical difficulty, Williams has more than doubled the R&D team and invested in the two teams, and the research with sufficient resources is progressing smoothly, plus these technologies Williams himself is very sure, these technologies are not the most advanced today, the competitor ARM series has long completed the 8-core design, and now it has entered the 16-core era.

It's just that the Gemini2 architecture design has been optimized by Duke, and these new technologies are also applied to Gemini4 and Gemini8. Since whether it is Gemini4 or Gemini8, Williams adopts the design method of native 4-core core 8-core, not the superposition of two Gemini2 cores becomes Gemini4, although this design is much more complicated, but the system performance is one level higher than that of ARM same-core chips, so in fact, the Gemini8 developed by Williams has far exceeded the ARM8 core performance level.

Now Duke has designed a large number of Gemini8 solutions in various places that require high-performance chips, including the J-7 drone prototype, and Duke has used hundreds of Gemini8, so Duke is no stranger to these two chips.

Williams, of course, didn't come here to develop the Gemini16 nuclear product. According to the plan, Gemini12 is a native 12 cores, and Gemini16 core products will use two Gemini8 cores superimposed, which is not particularly important news, and the relevant planning has already been approved by Zhao Jianwu and other SAL R&D executives.

So Williams's these things are just an opening statement, "Okay, you all know these things, and I'm not here for this today," Williams looked at the two young people in front of him looking at him calmly, waiting to get to the point, then shrugged and changed the subject, in fact, he was not a very good lobbyist, so these foreshadowings seemed to be a failure.

Fortunately, Williams is a doer, so the next words made Duke and Zhao Jianwu immediately calm down. "I told you before I came to develop a general-purpose CPU, a high-performance CPU that can be used by both servers and desktops." With that, Williams stared at Duke, wanting to see how he reacted.

After all, this is a very money-burning move, and the investment is at least a billion dollars, in Williams' view, although Duke is a great rich man, but in the face of such a huge investment, he should also have a headache, after all, such a large investment does not necessarily lead to a successful product, let alone a reasonable output.

You must know that IBM invested $3.2 billion in R&D expenses in order to develop the POWER7 CPU, which was before 2010.

Now after almost seven years, prices are soaring, if IBM is to develop the same CPU, the investment cost will only be more than it was back then, not less, although Williams is confident that under his own auspices it will be much lower than this investment, after all, Williams can reduce the consideration of compatibility before and after, and has coordinated the entire industrial chain.

However, the investment cost is still more than one billion US dollars, and under this investment, without a huge industrial chain to maintain output, it will definitely only lose money and not make money. SUN's collapse back then also had a lot to do with over-R&D, and although the development of a top-notch development language and platform like Java made a significant contribution to the IT industry, SUN's free-to-use policy did not make the company get enough profit from Java.

Similarly, SUN's lackluster sales on servers have not been able to support the huge cost of CPU research and development. Let the once invincible SUN finally slide into the abyss of being acquired. Although M has invested in R&D and the number of patents, SUN still has an extremely leading position in the industry.

But Williams couldn't see any movement on Duke's face, so he continued, "In fact, I've started to work on it now, and secretly bought the full design scheme of the UltraSparc-T2 that I participated in the development of SUN, if the company can give me enough R&D investment, then now I can develop a new high-performance CPU on the basis of UltraSparc-T2, and develop a new high-performance CPU in about 2 years, at least not lose to POWER7+." new CPU. ”

That's what Williams is really here for. He still can't let go of the dream of the year, although the UltraSparc-T2 he acquired this time is a product ten years ago, according to Moore's Law, it has been three generations behind, and it is very outdated in terms of performance alone, so it can be said that if it is taken and produced directly, the value is very small.

But for Williams, this is a well-architected CPU with strong sustainable R&D characteristics, and the UltraSparc-T2 natively comes with 8 compute cores that can process 64 threads at the same time, maintaining extremely low power consumption with so many cores, and only a mere 85W of power is enough to put all the current 8-core CPUs to shame.

You know, it was produced with the process of ten years ago, and under today's more advanced manufacturing process, even if the design is not changed, it will have better performance.