In the early morning of April 26th.

Founder's internal cafeteria.

Xu Fei called Wan Tao to understand the current situation of Wanxin International, and at the same time thought about what technologies can be transplanted from the analog electronics industry to help Octopus graphics cards quickly become bigger and stronger.

As the saying goes, analog electronics is the bridge between the real and virtual worlds.

Like a digital camera, its working principle is to ingest the scene into the analog device-image sensor through exposure technology, and then the processor will count and translate the pixels that are lit up in the image sensor into 0101, and then compile it into code for convenient transmission, and finally present it to the user through the analog device-display.

Like the recording and broadcasting equipment, its working principle is to record the sound into the surface layer of the analog device - the ferromagnetic material, and then the processor counts and translates the current contained in the surface layer of the ferromagnetic material into 0101, and then compiles it into code for convenient transmission, and finally plays the sound through the analog device.

This is true for keyboards, mice, PLCs, CNC devices.

It can be said that no electronic product in the world can escape the law of "analog→ digital → analog".

If a country does not have an analog electronics industry, it will never be able to build a complete set of "electronic products".

Conversely, if a country does not have a digital electronics industry, it can reinvent its technology tree with the help of "analog→analog".

And in the graphics card industry.

The type of electronic products that Octopus Technology is preparing to develop must be digital electronic products, otherwise it cannot be compatible with existing overseas computers.

But the graphics card is also "analog→ digital → analog".

The first simulation refers to data entry, including photos taken by digital cameras, loss-loss diagrams made by designers, and game models built by artists.

Since the computer is a terminal and the graphics card is the final device, it is impossible to determine these analog values except for the games you make yourself.

Therefore, the entry of analog data has little relevance to the graphics card industry that is about to develop.

The second number refers to data processing, including the image delivered by the CPU, the GPU calling the API to draw the outline, the materials and textures made by the designer, and the rendering of the graphics card itself.

This requires a powerful data transmission channel, a powerful computing frequency, and a good graphics processor architecture, which is related to the materials, technology, production process, and packaging process of the Daze Industrial Consortium, and has nothing to do with the analog electronics industry.

The third analog, which is the final work of the graphics card, involves converting the digital signal to the analog signal and transmitting the analog signal to the display.

These two processes, one is called digital-to-analog conversion, and the other is called analog signals and imaging algorithms.

Due to the development of the analog electronics industry, it has been stagnant for more than 20 years, and these two technologies have been infinitely weakened on the surface, and no one even learns them, but in fact they are monopolized by large manufacturers, that is, they are eaten alone by the Dezhou Instrument gang.

Otherwise, Dongfang would have been able to produce professional displays a long time ago, and it would have been able to have speaker equipment without paying patent fees, and even develop its own "radio frequency chips".

This shows how important "digital-to-analog conversion" and "analog signal and imaging algorithms" are.

In the past, there was nothing in our own camp, let alone digital-to-analog conversion, even digital cameras, memory particles, and chips that could keep up with the development could not be built, and naturally the graphics card industry could not be developed.

I am fortunate to have and adults.

Two years ago, with the help of the computer that comes with the radar module, Xu Fei made his superiors understand the importance of analog technology and founded Wanxin International.

Wanxin International shoulders the development of the Oriental analog electronics industry, and has always attracted the attention of the board of directors since it landed in the magic capital.

Lack of money to make money, lack of talent to send talents, lack of technology to find and adults to buy technology, lack of materials to find and adults to buy materials, lack of equipment to find and adults to customize equipment......

Up to now, Wanxin International has become the largest and strongest electronic technology research base in the East, with many universities such as the University of Academy of Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Oriental University of Science and Technology, Xidu University of Science and Technology, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Dongshan University of Science and Technology and many other universities as a talent pool.

It's just that it is affected by the business environment of the home planet, and it is also for the sake of wealth not to be exposed, as the East

In the eyes of the outside world, Wanxin International, the first private company to study the analog electronics industry, has suffered serious losses year after year due to hindered business development, and its debts are as high as hundreds of billions of red money.

Of course, in fact, Wanxin International has won the PCB boards, graphite X patches, power supply interfaces, CCC network switches and other businesses of Hongqi Industry, Great Wall Industry, Oriental Aerospace Science and Technology, Red and Blue Founder Group, Lei Xize Group, and many domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

With the explosion of automobile, aviation, aerospace, mobile phones, speakers, digital 3C and other industries, Wanxin International's annual turnover is as high as more than 500 billion red banknotes, which is a major taxpayer who is not recorded in the Eucalyptus.

Wan Tao finished talking about Wanxin International's existing technology and talked about Octopus graphics cards: "In terms of graphics processing, you need to find your own way, and in terms of analog signal output, Wanxin International can provide a set of "realistic technology".

This technology, also known as display enhancement and intelligent lighting, is to process the analog data again through the analog chip after the "digital signal is converted to an analog signal", and then transmit it to the display.

It sounds like a bit of a superfluous move, but we tried to integrate the technology into the display, and the effect reflected was quite inadequate, not even inferior to the HDR technology developed by Qualcomm in 98, that is, taking multiple photos and then composing one HDR image to enhance the display effect.

However, our simulation technology can smooth the edges and corners of the staircase, making the staircase look more "pleasing to the eye" and softer, while Qualcomm's HDR technology makes the edges and corners of the staircase clearer, brighter and sharper.

It can't be said which is better or worse, it's just a technical means.

It's just that in the field of film and television, 2D movies played with realistic technology can allow people to enjoy a dynamic visual experience beyond 2D, while Qualcomm's technology looks clearer, more gorgeous, and more digital, which will be "tiring" in the long run.

In the field of games, the 3D game screen displayed by realistic technology is more realistic than that of ordinary graphics cards, and due to the addition of an analog chip, the workload of the graphics card is reduced, and even low-end graphics cards can be helped to present the effect of medium and high-end graphics cards.

Qualcomm's technology uses multiple photos to synthesize into one, which increases the workload of the graphics card by N times due to the occupation of data transmission channels, which will reduce the performance of the graphics card, making the mid-to-high-end graphics card at most present the effect of a low-end graphics card.

Of course, both sides added an image processing session, and the end result showed that the latency was the same, about 45 for them and 50 for us." (In this period, the response time of the display has not been taken seriously, not below 10 now, but high and terrible)

While Wan Tao was speaking, the fourth secretary compiled his words into a document, spread them on the dining table, and circled a few key points.

"That's the difference between having a secretary and not having a secretary."

Xu Fei sighed secretly, picked up the file and looked through it roughly, "Is our technology based on an ordinary graphics card or an analog graphics card?"

"Ordinary graphics cards, and are used with ordinary displays, after all, XLED panels are affected by the shipping price, and are currently mainly used in the field of smart phones, in the field of TVs and computer monitors, which only occupy 20% of the market.

"You license this technology to Octopus Technology, and you ask for a 5% license fee for each graphics card."

"Okay director."

After Wan Tao responded, he thought for a moment, "Since your Octopus graphics card uses a digital processing solution, we can't help it on our side."

"It's okay, as long as there is one advantage, capital can infinitely amplify this advantage, and cover up all the shortcomings, and finally sell it well. In addition, we are Daze Industrial Consortium, with many advanced materials, with the world's best packaging process, just like the outside world praises our driving computer, the architecture is not enough, the material is to make up, the performance is not good, the channel helps, stability and ease of use is the king."

"Are you sure this isn't a scolding thing?"

"Tao, you didn't give me a New Year's greeting this year."

"Don't worry, when the child is finished, I will take him to kowtow to you immediately."

"It's a good feeling."

Xu Fei hung up the phone with a smile,

sighed, "Time flies, I can't imagine that Wan Tao's children have been born."

"Actually, you can have it." The fourth secretary loosened his neckline for Wei Kecha and straightened his chest.

Xu Fei looked down at the computer and didn't pay attention to this scene, "The final stage of analog signal transmission is solved, and the next step is to solve the graphics processor."

The graphics processor is referred to as GPU, which is similar to the composition of the CPU, but the GPU is mainly used to process images, which does not require high computing power and is good at repetitive work.

This repetitive work, mainly for 3D modeling or 3D rendering, calculates vertices or pixels, so the graphics card needs a strong allocation ability to quickly allocate the resources transmitted by the CPU, and then requires many small processors that can calculate pixels to piece together the resources into a picture.

The data in a small processor is also called a "stream processor" because of repeated operation, and the data also flows repeatedly.

The number and distribution scheme of stream processors is the graphics card architecture, and it is also an important indicator to determine the performance of the graphics card.

With this thing, you also need a PCB board to carry it, and set up a series of capacitors, inductors, controllers, etc., when processing complex graphics, more power supply to avoid the stream processor not working, or when processing simple graphics, less power supply, to avoid burning many stream processors.

As of this step, in addition to the architecture, the above electronic devices can be produced in-house.

Next up is the video memory.

Video memory is used to hold the data processed by the GPU, or the rendered data that is about to be extracted, involving capacity, frequency, and bit width.

At present, mainstream graphics cards, such as N4MX and Core 4TI, use about 150n process, have 29 million transistors, and use 64M video memory, 128Bit width, set up 4 data channels, 2 rendering pipelines, frequency of about 250MHz~300MHz, bandwidth of 7.2GB/s.

Due to its own OEM memory particles and its own technology, it can give the Octopus graphics card a 120n process, 45 million transistors, 256M video memory, and 500Mhz frequency, which is used to run 3D games with better and better picture effects.

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Then use the packaging process of 1 large and 3 small GPUs to make up for the lack of data channels generated by the architecture.

In other words, the N card has 4 data channels, 2 rendering pipelines, its own 1 large and 3 small GPUs, and uses graphite X patches to form 8 data channels, which can completely surpass them.

In this way, all that remains is to combine all of the above things into a "graphics card".

However, whether it can be applied to a computer depends on the "interface".

If the computer interface, such as VGA, DVI, etc., is not compatible with your own graphics card, it is useless to build it.

If these interfaces are compatible, it means that you will have to pay a large license fee.

And Xiaobu made it clear that he would not allow the iron company to enter the field of graphics cards......

This means that even AMD, Dell, HP, and Pingguo, which maintain cooperation with the Daze Industrial Consortium, will not use and be compatible with their own graphics cards.

Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to "play hooligan".

According to Xu Fei's understanding, an independent graphics card is an electronic product that has a power supply, GPU, and heat sink independently of the CPU.

Then, if you take it out of the main chassis and turn it into a "small main chassis", it is completely feasible.

And this small main chassis, in order not to occupy space, can completely innovate the shape of the graphics card, design it as a "black octopus pirate", or design it as a "flying saucer", or design it in the shape of a "mechanical toy", as an "ornament".

In the same way, you can also add metal speaker functions, time projection, RGB lighting, and time hourglass to increase selling points.

It is even possible to add a separate display to alert the temperature, speed, power, or manually adjust the power and speed.

Even put the graphics card case with the display and sink it into the coolant to build

into a fish tank.

In short, separate the graphics card from the main chassis, and play it however you want.

Because it's an unprecedented market.

The problem is how to get the interface in place and get the computer CPU and computer motherboard to recognize their own discrete graphics card and then transfer the image to the existing display.

Xu Fei picked up the laptop on the dining table and counted the input and output ports.

Including U port, network port, VGA, and audio.

Obviously, a single interface cannot support its own "discrete graphics card" with many functions.

"It seems that it is necessary for TEP to popularize a new interface for simultaneous transmission of audio + video for computers after the T-type interface."

Xu Fei immediately contacted James and asked him to operate it.

In the world of capital, as long as the capital is strong enough, anything can be done.

In less than half an hour, James replied.

In the name of North American Tower, it invested 1 billion US dollars to call on global broadcasters, media tycoons, and consumer electronics manufacturers to jointly research a universal "high-definition multimedia interface" + "wireless network transceiver module" to eliminate the impact of "inconsistent interfaces" and "inconsistent signal frequencies" on broadcast signals due to the rapid development of electronic products.

The tower company invests in the company, the companies are out of the company, the scientific and technological achievements are shared globally, and the authorization fee is permanently free.

This makes many companies with interface patents dare not speak out, and many companies that are fed up with patent licensing fees are ecstatic.

TEP Chairman James spoke on BBS, Yahoo, and Sohu in less than half an hour.

Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toshiba, Philips, and Thomson have all cheered, and even expressed their willingness to donate as much or as much money as they want for the unification of global interfaces.

Immediately afterwards, Pingguo, Samsung, Bandai mobile phone, KingS mobile phone, Great Wall industry, and Red Founder responded to the call.

TEP has a lot of investments in the East, and James will not turn down the participation of Oriental Enterprises.

So much so that many wait-and-see Oriental enterprises, under the telephone contact of some people, also began to sign up.

Beatty, USI, APPO Mobile, Weihua Technology, ZTE Technology......

By the evening of North America, about one-third of the world's electronics manufacturers were participating in the program.

Immediately afterwards, James took a vertical lift private business jet, took the salesman Clint and the head of North America Faberle, and took the lead in visiting IBM under the support of the TEP emergency team.

James is known as the "major shareholder" of the North American overseas base, even Raymond, who is in charge of the Marine Corps, has to consider offending this guy, and when he checks his own accounts, his subordinates will use Mavericks to Boo him from the sky.

The fact that TEP actually controls overseas bases in North America is also the main reason why the oil tycoons value TEP and are quite polite to Strauss.

Now James comes to the door, just for a small audio interface, IBM, which has a military background, naturally will not resist, and even took the initiative to give TEP 20,000 of the latest high-performance laptops to support the "North American Recruit Training" project contracted by Joint Defense.

(Before United Defense was acquired by TEP, it had a "combat simulation cabin", which was responsible for the training of recruits in North America, and the mechanical simulation cabin such as trucks in Debei was a product of the imitation, and later Xu Fei reduced the simulation cabin to the size of a palm and placed it on the chest of the robot, which was used for the little squid to operate the robot and camouflage the intelligent robot.) ）

James got IBM done, rested on the spot for a night, and visited Dell the next day.

Dell, headquartered in Texas, is a capital enterprise that supports Xiaobu, and also belongs to the Morgan faction, so he naturally will not give a good face to James of the oil king faction.

But the ballot is a good thing.

Xiaobu received the news and rushed to Austin from Wharton Sheng on the same day, ceremoniously entertained James, Clin, and the general directors of Fauber, and pulled the 37-year-old founder of Dell, Michael Dell, to reach a strategic cooperation with TEP.

For example, the trip computer of TEP cars will be designed by Dell in the future (Xu Fei is an OEM

factory, TEP cars have always used the simplest ride controller)

For example, Dell introduced a T-type interface, and in notebooks and desktop computers, a U-port was removed and replaced with a TEP-dominated high-definition multimedia interface - HDMI.

The cooperation between the two major capitals is gratifying.

During the banquet, Xiaobu, who was very happy, expressed to James his concern about a certain dog dealer entering the field of graphics cards.

He even told the speculation of the RAND Corporation: Xu Fei is engaged in games→ enters the field of graphics cards→ training graphics cards → implanting electric power cars, creating smart cars→ monopolizing the global automotive industry, and carefully tells about it.

James, who was seriously injured by the dog dealer Boo and was hospitalized for half a year, immediately said, "We also engage in electric power, and walk the way of the dog dealer, so that the dog dealer has no way out!"

Xiaobu immediately picked up the goblet, "Thorn silk!"

"However, Mr. Xiaobu, we don't have supercapacitors, and our flywheel batteries are only suitable for the aerospace industry and cannot be commercialized on a large scale, so if we develop electric vehicles, we must find a power battery."

"Mr. James, do you have any plans?"

"We need to introduce lithium iron phosphate batteries from BYD, or consider their lithium-ion polymer batteries, or get the authorization of graphite X patch and introduce a combination battery of lithium-ion + graphite X patch."

"It's just a battery, it's not a technological barrier, your company will do it."

"Then trouble Mr. Xiaobu and ask Congress to draw up a list of commodity imports."

"No problem, come on, Thorn Silk!"

James also raised his goblet, "Thorn Silk!"

It's night.

The drunken James, born in the same year, hit it off at first sight, and almost developed into a disciple brother Xiaobu and Klin, as well as the head of Fayberle, flew straight to California, and then broke into the Ep Technology Building.

"Where's your boss, let's go to Las Vegas and have fun!"

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The other side.

Director Xu, who knew that TEP James would definitely get the interface, also came to the University of Science and Technology, stood on the top of the bulletproof version of the big red flag at the school gate, held the microphone, and began to speak.

"Students, there are many cruel truths in this world."

"The so-called cruelty is that you find yourself scoring more than 90 points in the school test time and time again, failing the subject every time, and excelling in character and learning every time, and when you leave school, you find that you are nothing, you have submitted a few points of resume, and the monthly salary of the job you have worked so hard to find is not even as good as moving bricks.

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"The so-called truth is that all high-end science and technology are not in the hands of schools, but are monopolized by large factories and monopolized by capital, and capital will not teach you what it depends on for survival to you who have nothing to do with capital."

"If you think I'm right today, come with me, and I'll make you a pillar of the tech field, with a monthly salary of over 10,000!"

Who is Director Xu?

It is the leader of oriental industry and technology.

Thousands of students were stunned and shouted and poured out of the school.

Xu Fei looked back at a group of bald men who were stopped outside by the engineers, "You should hang the street lights collectively!"