In Nakajima's Heitaro's opinion, this is a matter of cutting corners, but Shirakawa Kaede thinks it is normal.

The real cutting corners have to look at the various operations of later generations, and I am already very conscientious now.

At least Shirakawa Kaede feels that it is a normal business practice to reduce costs without affecting basic functions.

In the final analysis, it's about making money, and you can't make a portable CD player that everyone is satisfied with, but there is no profit at all.

What is the meaning of the existence of such a company? Shirakawa Kaede is very realistic, he just wants to make money.

After reading the portable CD player, Shirakawa Kaede finally had some bottom in his heart.

Just be able to come up with a physical product that works, even if it's a lab product, even if it has some minor flaws.

Anyway, when the time comes, standing on the stage is blowing by yourself, and others can't see the specific product.

With the products that support the field, Shirakawa Kaede began to shift his gaze to the computer on the side again.

"This is our prototype?"

"Hey, it works like a CD player, but because of the time rush, all the parts are made separately.

It's just barely working now, but it's still a bit of a hassle in terms of software and system support. ”

Kaede Shirakawa and Heitaro Nakajima surrounded the small black box on the table, and the two of them discussed it as they looked at it.

This is the optical drive that Shirakawa Kaede has always wanted to work on before, and at this press conference, he also wants to bring out this kind of black technology to make a debut.

However, the optical drive on the table is just equivalent to a concept machine. Like a portable CD player, it's the product of lab hand rubbing.

"So what kind of presentations can it make?"

The concept machine is the concept machine, as long as you can blow it well, Shirakawa Kaede's requirements are not high.

Heitaro Nakajima turned on the computer and said, "It's probably text and a customized picture." ”

This. It seems to be a little different from what I thought.,The disc in Shirakawa Kaede's impression is that everything can be stuffed into.。

"Senior Brother Shirakawa, although we know exactly how the optical drive works, the means to achieve it are not difficult to do.

But storage devices, in addition to hardware requirements, also need to be supported by software and systems. ”

As if knowing that Shirakawa Kaede was a little disappointed, Heitaro Nakajima turned on the computer and entered the system, and tossed for a while before entering an interface.

"If our optical drive only has hardware, and no system identification and software support, then it will be no different from a piece of scrap metal."

Soon, under his operation, a green indicator light on the top of the black optical drive box on the table lit up, accompanied by the sound of a motor turning.

"Because of the urgency of time, I didn't have time to contact Microsoft for system support. We can only ask Fujitsu to modify the underlying logic and forcibly identify the optical drive.

Now it can only recognize relatively low-capacity text, as well as specially processed images.

You can't do it any more, and the computer will go down. The operation of the optical drive can also be problematic and even damage the surface of the disk. ”

To put it bluntly, the current use of optical drives is very restrictive.

This computer has undergone special debugging to recognize the optical drive, and the content in the optical drive has also undergone special screening before it can be operated on the computer.

Everything is custom-made and extremely unstable.

Under the careful operation of Heitaro Nakajima, the computer screen occasionally stuttered.

It can be seen how rough the current optical drive is, and the software support is equivalent to nothing.

Shirakawa Kaede sighed, okay, it's better than nothing.

"It's hard work, brother, but the prospect of the optical drive must also be understood. It has the potential to become our next staple product at Shirakawa Electric, so please keep it under your sight. ”

"Of course" Heitaro Nakajima nodded, this is his area of expertise.

And at this time, he is also personally full of energy, and Shirakawa Electric is about to go public, in addition to the original shares purchased internally.

Shirakawa Kaede also gave him some incentive shares, although this is a virtual stock, but there will be some dividends in the future.

Isn't the reason why he has such preferential treatment because of his contribution to CD technology?

Therefore, Nakajima Heitaro was also very interested in optical drives at this time, and he also knew that this storage technology was even more promising than floppy disks.

The prospect is the money scene, and he can't help but care.

Portable CD player and optical drive, these two things are the black technology that Shirakawa Kaede is preparing to show at the press conference.

If you don't come up with some dry goods, how can you sell stocks, and how can you raise the stock price.

Everything is for profit, everything is for money.

After going through the products to be announced at the end of the month with Heitaro Nakajima, Shirakawa Kaede went straight to Shimamasatoshi's office.

What to do, to avoid the possible problems of your own chips.

"Shima-san, there is no similarity between our chips and Intel's products, right?"

The ongoing IBM industrial espionage case has given Shirakawa Kaede a wake-up call.

At the beginning of the design of its own chips, in order to be compatible with Intel's chips, some compilation instructions are universal.

He did not know whether this constituted an infringement or not, and if there was a risk, it was too late to adjust.

When the SIC grows big enough in the future, Intel suddenly comes to the door, which is not a joke.

The amount of losses is in US dollars.

"Rest assured, Shirakawa-san has now developed our own compilation software with our own coding and instructions.

In addition to the first batch of products that were used in the arcade, the subsequent chips have all updated the underlying instruction code. ”

"That's good~" Shirakawa Kaede quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The first batch of arcade machines only shipped tens of thousands of units, and they are all neon, so there should be no problem.

Shimamasatoshi understands the reason why he is so nervous, after all, IBM's case, Neon is now almost universally known.

In the past, people did not have the concept of software copyright, and in some aspects it was easy to directly copy the designs of friends.

It can be seen from the prevalence of plagiarism in the video game industry that not only the general public, but also many corporate entities are not aware of this.

I believe that after this battle, the neon club will be more hidden when copying others, at least it will not be visible at a glance.

But Masashi Island is different, he has been in Silicon Valley for nearly ten years, how can he not understand the truth.

In the beginning, SIC8089 was compatible with Intel's design in terms of compilation instructions in order to quickly bring it to market and for the convenience of developers.

However, long ago, after the chip was in mass production, he was developing SIC's own compiler.

In order to replace the previous compatible design as soon as possible and form its own compilation style.

With the huge investment of more than one billion yuan in Shirakawa Kaede, the supporting design of the development software is naturally not a problem.

After all, the chip structure is not so complicated now, and everything from scratch is not as high as the threshold of later generations.

The so-called compiler, compilation software, is to translate high-level code into machine language that can be understood by the processor, similar to an instruction set.

It is compatible with the chip's architecture, making it a tool that can improve development efficiency.

In fact, Intel's requirements for the secrecy of the instruction set are not high, after all, the architecture of the chip is top secret.

However, even a layman like Kaede Shirakawa knows that the architecture of the chip is its core.

How could it not be taken into account when developing SIC's own chips.

Now all the chips of the SIC are used, and Masatoshi Shima and Masaaki Matsumura teach the new architecture that they have developed with great concentration.

This architecture is the most distinguished from Intel's x86, and the purpose is to form its own processor camp.

Shirakawa Kaede knows how outrageous Intel's X86 hegemony is in later generations.

Except for a few chip companies that exploited vulnerabilities in the early days, Intel hardly allows any other vendor to use its own x86 architecture.

With the continuous expansion of the processor market, the X86 architecture is also constantly optimized, and its patent barriers are getting higher and higher.

In the later days there was hardly any other company that broke its monopoly in the terminal processor market.

So Shirakawa Kaede and Shimamasatoshi emphasized at the beginning that they would develop their own chip architecture.

It doesn't matter if it's slow, it's okay if it's a little problematic, after a long time of slow adjustment, a qualified chip architecture will eventually be born.

Fortunately, the current chip structure is not complicated, and there are only tens of thousands of transistors inside, so there is no problem in rebuilding the circuit architecture.

If hundreds of millions of transistors are integrated in the future, then it will be troublesome.

In more than two years, SIC has also successfully developed its own chip architecture design, which is named SIC architecture.

Simple and crude, easy to remember and easy to understand.

The SIC architecture was developed only two years later than Intel's X86, and the gap is not very significant.

Especially now that Intel's main business focus is still on DRAM chips, the CPU business is still very weak and not taken seriously.

This gives SIC a chance to catch up and time for SIC to develop.

Intel is having a headache for the decline of DARM business at this time, and the encirclement and suppression of neon semiconductor manufacturers has made the pressure on it heavier.

As for a processor chip that has been developed obscenely in the neon homeland, it has no time to care at all.

's own processor chips are in a free-range state, how can they still care about others.

Even the self-developed X86 architecture has been used for free by other second-party manufacturers.

For example, NEC refers to the V20 produced by Intel8088 and the V30 produced by Intel8086.

After a few years, Intel abandoned the DRAM business that was forced to surrender by neon manufacturers.

When you go back to the development of processor chips, there will definitely be a good show.

Your neon manufacturer forced me to give up the DRAM business, and you even dared to secretly copy my processor chip architecture?!

Wait to lose money!

At that time, it must be that the enemy will be very angry when they meet, and Intel's big knife will definitely unceremoniously slash at NEC.

SIC invested heavily and painstakingly to develop its own architecture, and that's the reason.

And it has to be said that the chaotic war in the DRAM market has also provided an excellent cover for the development of SIC.

At the same time, the closure of the neon market has also achieved the rapid growth of SIC.

If it were in Europe or the United States, SIC would have attracted the attention of others a long time ago.

There are also benefits of closure on small days, don't you think this protects the SIC very well?

The architecture is completely new and patents are also registered. The compiler has long since circumvented and eliminated all possible infringements.

After confirming the situation, Bai Chuanfeng finally put his mind at ease, after all, the old rice is sued for infringement at every turn, so it's right to be careful.

After going through all these things, the time has entered the end of July, and the briefing of Shirakawa Electric is about to be held.

At the same time, there were some reports about the progress of the case between Hitachi and IBM.

At the July trial, a delegation of Hitachi's lawyers questioned the relationship between IBM and the F.B.I. and whether there was insider trading between the two.

They even demanded that the prosecutors produce documents to prove the relationship between the two, and to prove the connection between IBM and Perlin, who was the messenger.

Hitachi took this as an opportunity to file a counterclaim.

I have to say that Hitachi is really strong, and even then he is reluctant to admit the fact that he is seeking confidential information from IBM.

Because of Hitachi's trouble, nothing came out of this trial.

It is foreseeable that this tug-of-war will continue for a long time, but Hitachi's toughness is also destined that IBM will not go to Fujitsu early.

In this case, it is time for Shirakawa Electric's briefing session to be held.

(End of chapter)