Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu followed Chen Daohua into a dust-free workshop after changing into work clothes.

Of course, no matter how special their identities are, they won't wait until they come to start the assembly line. So when they entered the workshop, the PCB of the graphics card had already been completed and on the SMT (surface soldering) assembly line.

Since it is only an engineering sample card, and there are not many chips sent from Xinghai, there are only 20 graphics cards in this batch, which is still under 100% yield.

Chen Daohua couldn't tell if Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu had never seen an assembly line, so they explained in detail: "After the PCB board printing and punching is completed, it will be on the SMT workpiece table, coated with solder paste, and then automatically mounted. Once the patch is complete, the PCB board is fed into the oven to melt the solder paste. ”

"Our SMT line uses Sony's placement machine, and the yield rate is very high. Chen Daohua saw that Su Yuanshan was staring at the placement machine, and added.

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "I'm going to inspect it again, right?"

"Yes, after the patch is completed, a manual visual inspection will be carried out, and after the inspection is passed, it will enter the next assembly line, the manual plug-in assembly line. Here some components that are not easy to solder, such as slots, interfaces, vertical capacitors, and components in in-line packages, are manually installed. ”

Chen Daohua took Su Yuanshan to continue to move forward: "After the hand-inserted assembly line is completed, it will enter the wave welding, repair the welding feet after coming out of the wave welding machine, and then carry out a manual inspection, basically a board will be finalized." The rest is functional testing, packaging, sampling, and finally delivery. ”

Li Mingliu glanced around, and found that the graphics card that was on the SMT assembly line at the beginning had come out of the oven, and said with a smile: "It seems that the printing stage is still the slowest." ”

Chen Daohua nodded: "Yes, the more layers, the slower, but the speed is okay under the assembly line operation." After all, it's a motherboard that prints a large piece and then cuts it into smaller pieces. ”

Su Yuanshan added: "The printing workshop is the same as the wafer factory to make chips, the larger the wafer size, the more chips can be cut on a wafer, and the lower the cost. ”

This is also the reason why Su Yuanshan must introduce eight inches in the introduction of wafer factories - because until 2020, the eight-inch production line will still be useful.

The three of them visited the workshop all the way, and Su Yuanshan noticed that almost all the employees were young people. At this time, due to the high wages and "high grade" of assembly line workers in various electronics factories, a group of people want to come in...... It is far from being like the later generations that could not recruit people at all in some periods.

It didn't take long for the first graphics card to finally roll off the assembly line and enter the testing session.

"Now that the professional testing equipment is not in place, we can only play with a multimeter first. Chen Daohua smiled and said: "Fortunately, they are all engineering cards? Not a lot of them? When the time comes, we will directly test the machine, and Xinghai will send a game DEMO version and test software. ”

...... (This is probably the process of the assembly line of the board?) A buddy who has worked in an electronics factory should know better than me...... If you say something wrong? Welcome to this chapter to correct it. ）

didn't wait for all the graphics cards to go offline, Chen Daohua took two graphics cards and walked out of the workshop with the two? Enter a technical testing room.

Here, two brand new computers are already at the ready.

Su Yuanshan is holding an acceleration card? Looking at OCSS and Sirius above the core? A strange emotion arose. He handed over the naming rights of this accelerator card to the graphics card team, and Scott and others still followed the old path of history after discussing it for a long time.

That's right, the former 3DFX team, they still think 3D is a kind of faith.

And this belief should also be a bad taste.

So they named the core of this card Sirius? The graphics card is named VOODOO? The English meaning is voodoo (voodoo), and the Chinese transliteration is voodoo.

The two computers prepared by Chen Daohua use a Pentium processor with a frequency of 66MHz.

The memory uses two 32M 72-pin SIMM memory modules with a large capacity, a total of 64M.

Note: SIMM, is it a form of encapsulation of memory modules? It does not refer to chip packaging, but a standard for the application, arrangement, and integration of memory particles by memory modules. The full name is a single in-line memory module. ）

Of course, the motherboard is produced by Mejie? The highest-end motherboard that supports Pentium processors.

It is no exaggeration to say that once plugged in VOODOO3D accelerator card? It will be the most luxurious personal computer to date.

"Where's the camera?" asked Chen Daohua, who was about to watch the technician on the sidelines.

Someone replied, "Soon." ”

Chen Daohua nodded, turn off the computer? Then work with Su Yuanshan to insert the VOODOO accelerator card into the PCI slot? Then plug in the 2D graphics card.

Why is it called a 3D accelerator card? It's not called a graphics card, because the 3D core at this time, as in history, is just a simple 3D acceleration core, which can't display the picture and is only responsible for the acceleration of the 3D part.

Of course, the core of the next generation that is already under development will integrate display functions and become a true GPU.

In fact, at that time, Su Yuanshan also considered launching a GPU at the first time - this is not difficult technically. The main reason is that Su Yuanshan is also the same as the 3DFX people in his previous life, and there are dozens of manufacturers engaged in 2D graphics cards at this time. Quitting the GPU means making enemies of everyone – and God knows how many enemies will come.

It's okay if these enemies only catch up technically, but Su Yuanshan knows that those guys can do anything if they are in a hurry, and when the time comes, they will be disgusted if they engage in 3D uselessness every day.

Now it is launched in the form of an acceleration card with a 2D graphics card, which not only takes care of the manufacturers who engage in 2D graphics cards, but also does not "waste" the existing graphics cards for users, which is a good match.

As several people came over with cameras, Su Yuanshan and Chen Daohua also turned on at the same time.

The first to run was the test software, which was designed crudely due to the tight schedule, and only tested the generation of polygons. And there are no scoring criteria either, and the features tend to test whether the graphics card is qualified and stable.

After running the test, Su Yuanshan and Chen Daohua opened a beta version called Quake.

Looking at the main interface that was almost the same as in his memory, Su Yuanshan smiled slightly, and then quickly entered the game.

At the moment when the game screen was presented, Su Yuanshan heard someone beside him sigh.

Even Li Mingliu, who has never been very interested in games, stood beside Su Yuanshan and watched him press the keyboard, controlling the character to move quickly, searching for equipment all over the ground.

Then encounter the enemy and shoot.

The model is in place, and the pyrotechnic effects are in place.

As the game progressed, behind Su Yuanshan, the praise was endless.

However, the game only lasted five minutes before it ended - after all, this was only a demo version.

The whole test was unusually smooth and without any lag.

Su Yuanshan put down the mouse unsatisfied and turned his head to face the camera.

He smiled, "Scott, well done. John, too, did a great job. Hopefully, you'll be at CES in two months' time. ”

"Let's try a regular computer. Su Yuanshan turned back to the technician and said, "It mainly tests the CPUs of AMD and Cyrix, and the memory is also reduced to the mainstream configuration. ”