31 December 1995.

During the night, there was a light rain in the sky.

Sleet to be exact.

The gray sky was swept back and forth by the light, and the rain mixed with light snow crackled and fell in the sky.

And even on such cold and wet days, the number of people who go to the temple to wait for the New Year's bell to ring still does not decrease.

It's as if enthusiasm melts the snowflakes and turns them into sleet.

Everyone knew today's weather conditions from the weather forecast in the morning, and it is estimated that they are afraid that holding an umbrella will affect others, so most people are wearing raincoats.

The same is true of Nao Tsuda.

Obviously shivering from the cold, but still smiling and wearing a New Year's kimono, and a transparent raincoat on the outside, it looks like a costume doll that has traveled through time.

The hair is clinging to the face due to the rain, and the whole face looks extraordinarily small.

It's a really amazing feeling.

Nao Tsuda has a strong sense of fashion when she dresses up in a modern outfit, but when she wears a kimono, you can deeply appreciate her temperament from the inside out.

The kimono, which has such a strong sense of antiquity, is covered with a transparent raincoat with a very modern meaning, but it presents an indescribable beauty on Tsuda's body.

It's really amazing.

There's a sense of stepping back in time.

As far as the eye can see, the people around me are probably the same.

"Nao, aren't you cold?"

Qing Zhiyuan said and stretched out his hand and gently held the other party's.

Unexpectedly, Nao Tsuda's palms were warmer than his.

In this way, it is very embarrassing, Qing Zhiyuan originally wanted to warm Tsuda's hands, but he didn't expect that he was the one who was warmed.

Just as he was about to pull his hand back, Nao Tsuda grabbed him in turn.

Looking over from the side, this beautiful girl was smiling lightly.

"I've got a baby warmer inside."

Tsuda said, "Also, if you don't hold my hand, it's easy to get separated." ”

Qing Zhiyuan smiled embarrassedly, but his heart settled down.

With peace of mind, he inserted his fingers into Tsuda's fingers, and clasped his fingers tightly.

It's nice to have a girlfriend like Nao Tsuda.

Boom!!!

Boom!!!

The New Year's bell rang and the crowd cheered.

The two men each bowed, and then walked down the mountain road.

On both sides of the road, there was heavy snow in the gray night.

The wind was blowing, and it was very cheeky to bring in the sleet that was scattered in the air, hit the faces of the two men, and then slid down the collars.

After a while, ice formed on the top of his eyebrows.

So Qing Zhiyuan gently tugged Nao Tsuda's hand and walked to her other side.

Tsuda looked at the man with some confusion.

To be precise, with Qing Zhiyuan's movements, the two of them turned one hundred and eighty degrees.

Qing Zhiyuan pulled Nao Tsuda backwards and walked back.

Nao Tsuda smiled and gave him a roll of his eyes.

"How old are they, and they look like children. Aren't you afraid of slipping and falling? ”

"What are you afraid of, I'm here." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile.

The two of them walked backwards for a while, and the roof of Sensoji Temple was hidden in the mountains.

The people around are also gradually becoming scarce.

There is only the sound of the wind, the rain, the snow falling......

And starry skylight.

This moment was extremely quiet, Qing Zhiyuan raised his head and looked at the sky, but his heart was extremely shocked.

For thousands of years, the eternal starry sky has given him a sense of traveling through time and space.

In his previous life, he also looked up at such a night sky countless times.

It was as if the starlight in the sky had connected the two planes together.

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't tell where he was for a while.

"Mr. River, there is no moon tonight." Nao Tsuda's voice next to him pulled Qing Zhiyuan back from the chaos of time and space.

When Qing Zhiyuan heard her words, the whole world suddenly became stable.

Yes, settled.

There is a particularly down-to-earth feeling.

The ground under your feet is also extremely solid.

The starry sky above your head is also very real.

What's more critical is -

Nao Tsuda next to him gave him this down-to-earth feeling.

Nao.

You are my anchor in this world.

Because of you, I won't go with the flow.

Nor will it be disoriented.

Qing Zhiyuan smiled and looked at Tsuda, "Because my Miss Moon is on the ground, there will naturally be no more in the sky." ”

Nao Tsuda was stunned for a moment, and then laughed lightly.

There is happiness between the eyebrows and eyes.

"Qingsang, you know what?" Nao Tsuda gently hooked her long wet hair from the front of her forehead to the side with her little finger, revealing her full forehead, and said, "I prefer rainy days to sunny days that most people like." ”

"Huh?"

"When it's raining, people rarely walk down the streets, and then I really like to walk in the rain in a raincoat like I do now."

"The rain around you is wonderful, and the louder it is, the more you feel like the whole world is quiet."

"The feeling of being hit by the rain is very comfortable."

Nao Tsuda laughed happily, "You don't have to think about anything, all your worries disappeared in the sound of the rain." No, it's as if I'm gone myself. ”

Disappear...... Is it?

Qing Zhiyuan lowered his head, thinking about what she said.

The rain crackled all around.

Qing Zhiyuan listened carefully.

At this moment, except for Nao Tsuda's hand, the whole world seemed to disappear.

Yes~

It's a really beautiful feeling.

Qing Zhiyuan raised his eyes slightly and looked at Nao Tsuda next to him.

At this time, Tsuda's whole body was wrapped in rain, and a circle of white light seemed to be smudged in the thick night.

Holy as a goddess.

But......

In Qing Zhiyuan's mind, what flashed was a huge fishtail.

"It's true." Qing Zhiyuan sighed.

"Like what?" Tsuda turned his face sideways and looked at him suspiciously.

"Mermaid Princess."

If there's one core to Pokeni's galgame, it's mermaid tears.

If there really is a mermaid princess.

Qing Zhiyuan felt that it should be like Nao Tsuda.

"Mermaid Princess?" Nao Tsuda sneered, "Why isn't it Miss Moon?" Not...... Green ......"

At this moment, in her sight, Qing Zhiyuan grabbed her hand, approached her, and gently hugged her waist.

The two of them stuck together.

The white rain hit the raincoat, like a white glow over the two people.

Odd.

Why is the rain white?

……

After a tiring night, Qing Zhiyuan slept until noon the next day and didn't wake up.

Seeing the sunlight shining in from the window, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but squint his eyes happily.

Yes!

It's been 5 years.

It seems like I just came to this timeline yesterday,

In the blink of an eye, it was already 1995.

In the past 5 years, Qing Zhiyuan has thought about it carefully, and has done a lot of things, but he doesn't seem to be able to do much.

His arrival seems to have advanced the times, but nothing has changed.

The biggest change may be that you met Nao Tsuda, right?

Qing Zhiyuan propped up his body, and Nao Tsuda did not make breakfast for the two of them as he expected, but sat in front of the computer and replied to the email.

It's a workaholic.

When Qing Zhiyuan saw this, his heart was a lot more steady.

So he fell on the bed and posed his body in a lazy big character.

Yes~

It's really nice to be in a state of being filled with another woman in this kind of life.

In just two days, they will be filled with each other's work.

So this time of the Chinese New Year is quite cherished by both of them.

……

After the New Year, Qingzhiyuan soon entered a busy state of work.

The company's projects are all in order.

The new "Border", a computer-based FPS game, has also been officially established, and Shinji Mikami is pulling the planners to write a planning requirements document non-stop.

The pre-research of the engine has also begun on the program side.

In addition, the progress of the company's "Pokémon 3D World" is also very gratifying, the "Eternal Ashes" on the side of the United States has also entered the final stage, and the [support] (jiangong) arranged by Qing Zhiyuan has also successfully arrived in San Francisco, and the team members are also expanding according to the company's development needs.

It looks like the situation is going well.

After about two weeks, the program director Ken Akanishi took the younger brothers to find Qing Zhiyuan.

"President. I can't figure it out. Ken Akanishi said directly.

"What can't be done?"

"The border game can't be solved."

"Huh? How is this possible? ”

After listening to the statements of several people, Qing Zhiyuan almost clarified the problem.

Although the game "Border" is the first FPS game developed by the company on the computer, it is not like Ken Akanishi said that it has no "basic at all".

There is still a foundation for 3D technology.

After all, the company has accumulated a lot of technology in the process of developing "Pokémon 3D World".

Therefore, many of the underlying basic requirements do not need to be planned and written, and other people's programs can be sorted out by themselves.

However, the core of the problem is -

The research and development of Pokémon 3D World is based on Sony's PS.

In the process of research and development, Sony PS pays great attention to 3D support, so they have special hardware support and special 3D graphics hardware......

These things have saved a lot of manpower, material resources and time for pokeni's 3D game development, and you are equivalent to standing on the shoulders of giants to create, and things are naturally much easier to do.

But developing a 3D game on the PC side is very different.

There is no hardware support now, mainly 3D graphics cards have not yet been invented, so many implementations can only be written by the program itself through software.

Software writing is not impossible.

However, the biggest problem is that it is all about programming, which actually brings a lot of consumption in the middle.

If you have a graphics card, it is equivalent to a lot of core functions written on the graphics card, which is simple, direct and effective when running, and now you have to take a part of the program processing and calculation every time, which adds additional costs.

For example:

Obviously 1+1=2 is a simple thing, but here it has become that you need to define what is 1, what is addition, and what is 2, and then prove through this series that 1 is 1 and 2 is 2, and finally you can get the result of 1+1=2.

Historically, a lot of hardware was born to simplify program overhead.

However, without this hardware, the execution efficiency is really low.

So Ken Akanishi and the others just calculated a little on paper, and found that with their level, even if they could make the game "Border", it was estimated that the computer would not be able to run.

"The overhead is too great, the program runs very slowly, and I guess it's going to get stuck."

Ken Akanishi said, "This kind of game can't be played at all. ”

"Hmm......"

Qing Zhiyuan's brows furrowed fiercely.

He was also a programmer in his previous life, and he also developed engines, so he naturally knew that what Akanishi Ken said was true.

Sometimes, it's not that your ability is not enough, but that the level of the world hasn't kept up yet.

Damn, damn it.

Now there is actually a graphics card on the computer side, but it is all 2D, and there is no 3D graphics card in the real sense.

After all, there aren't many 3D games either.

In this era of 2D domination, ATI and Lao Huang are still just hairy boys, and the real giants in the industry are Trident and S3.

S3's Trio64V+ (S3 765), a 2D graphics card released at the end of last year, has achieved the top configuration of 2D.

This amazing 2D graphics card is capable of supporting a resolution of 1024×768 and supports up to 32-bit true color at low resolutions.

It is known as the giant of graphics chips in the 90s along with 3dfx's Voodoo card in the history of graphics cards, which shows its respectful status.

However, the world needs 3D graphics cards!

……

Qing Zhiyuan's first reaction was-

Do we have the ability to design and develop 3D graphics cards?

It's possible!

At least during the period of study with Sony, Chikawa Hongichi has not been exposed to the research and development content of 3D graphics processors, and Neon, as a major chip design country, has this ability.

However, before making a 3D graphics card, there is a big hurdle to overcome-

Intel and Microsoft.

The x86 instruction set is an absolutely unavoidable threshold.

For the graphics card to be mounted on the computer, it is necessary to use a unified PCI interface.

The PCI standard, especially developed by Intel.

And then there's Microsoft.

Unless you don't use Microsoft's operating system.

Otherwise, the hardware will have to be developed according to the adaptation of other people's operating systems.

A lot of standard protocols are formulated by the United States company, not according to the rules formulated by others, Microsoft only needs to update the operating system, saying that I don't support the driver of this graphics card, and I don't authorize you to install the driver on Windows, then you are blind.

This is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

Of course, there is another very important issue involved in this -

Anti-Toslav agreements.

That is, antitrust.

In the United States, based on the principle of anti-monopoly, Microsoft is not allowed to restrict the operation of certain programs in the system, nor will they be allowed to do such things as [banning] the operation of certain types of graphics cards.

In the previous life, Microsoft felt that Netscape was likely to become an important competitor in the future, so it banned Netscape-related software, and as a result, it was anti-monopoly.

Microsoft almost didn't break it up, and since then, Bill Gates has never dared to use the platform monopoly rights casually.

Antitrust is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of these giant crocodiles, so that you will not be unable to innovate, let alone launch your own products on the computer.

However, in the United States, various companies are mutually authorized, interests are exchanged, and even bound together from the root.

In this way, it is possible to enter the field of development in this area.

Neon is actually similar, except that Neon focuses on the console platform.

If Qingzhiyuan doesn't want to run the computer platform to toss, using Sony's intellectual property swap, pokeni can ride a horse on the PS platform.

……

One of the most troublesome problems at the moment is that-

The United States as a whole suppressed Neon's chip business.

Doing everything possible to bypass neon and prevent neon from interfering in the chip manufacturing business is actually a very headache.

In other words, if a non-米國 R&D company still wants to get involved in graphics card manufacturing, the United States may not allow it.

This is very difficult.

In the previous life, the United States would rather spend a lot of money to let ASML in the Netherlands develop EUV lithography machines, rather than agree to let more mature neon semiconductor companies do it, in fact, beware of neon.

In fact, after the signing of the Miri Semiconductor agreement, it almost blocked the road of Neon's chips.

It's hard, it's hard.

Qing Zhiyuan was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks.

The people of the United States are really dogs.

But at this moment, Qing Zhiyuan suddenly remembered a company and a person-

Nvidia, Jensen Huang.

……

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There is no update tonight

Thank you

See you tomorrow

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