Chapter 238: Enemies on both sides
The birth of the Athlon processor is entirely the result of Wang Anran's cheating.
At that time, Wang Anran took great pains to promote the entire R&D progress and at the same time downplay his own influence.
One of them is information.
It contains basic chip design theory, the architectural design concepts that I have refined over the years, and even clearly records in the data how to design registers, how to implement instruction sets in the chip, how to design logical processing units, how to implement communications of each unit, and what algorithms to use for branch prediction...
These materials are basically provided by Wang Anran in the name of downloading them from foreign servers. In fact, most of them were knocked out by him on his computer line by line. For this reason, he stayed up for a long time and lost a lot of hair.
At that time, the design process of the ASUN business department was basically a learning process, and of course, it was also a py process.
There was no way, it was impossible for me to build high-rise buildings at the beginning, and I naturally started with imitation.
The smooth progress of Athlon CPU, coupled with the successful research and development of Athlon Pro and Athlon second generation, Wang Anran formed an illusion that the CPU R&D business department could already stand on its own.
In fact, Xie Ruhui also thinks so.
"I don't understand. Mr. Wang thought CPU research and development was a play-off? Cancel it if you say it was cancelled, it was completely a joke."
It is understandable that Mr. Xie complained. After all, the results of his hard work were thrown into the trash can by Mr. Wang as garbage. Of course, Tan Delai himself was not very comfortable, and he was responsible for the structure.
"I don't believe that Wang Anran can develop a CPU by taking charge of it himself. This thing is not something that can be done by whoever has money or who has the upper hand."
Tan Delai whispered: "Mr. Xie, I heard that the Athlon processor was developed by Mr. Wang?"
"Haha, you came from later. If you don't know, he will just have a name. In fact, what he can do is just shout slogans."
Tan Delai simply stopped talking. Can it be that simple? Let’s not talk about CPU, graphics card chip, EDA software, video decoding chip, and small machine chipset. These things can be shouted out by shouting slogans. These things are all hardcore. It seems that Mr. Xie is completely blinded by complaints!
Of course, Wang Anran personally took charge, and many people questioned it. However, as soon as an expert took action, he knew whether there was any. In this world, no one knew the CPU development process better than Wang Anran.
The first promotion meeting is also a task arrangement meeting.
What is the basis for CPU development? It is application, that is, requirements. To put it bluntly, it is just what CPU development needs to do. To figure out what to do, the next thing will be much easier.
"The 180-nanometer manufacturing process has the largest transistor integration and the highest performance in history. Our products are not only facing the personal PC market, but also facing large server multi-channel processing structures, workstations, 3D graphics model rendering, network servers, and other complex application environments. How should our CPU be competent? This is a problem!"
"Tan Delai!"
"Mr. Wang!"
"In one month, I need the most complete application requirements report, including the relevant advantages and disadvantages assessment reports of existing similar products in various environments. Are there any problems?"
"Mr. Wang, is this time... tighter?"
"Dr. Tan, it should be very affordable for a month. In addition, report the progress to me every day and send me an email!"
"All right!"
Tan Delai lowered his head.
"Liu Mingliang!"
"Mr. Wang!"
"In the same month, I need all the mainstream processors on the world, and of course our own Athlon processor longitudinal evaluation report, including execution efficiency, power consumption, application effects of various operating systems, to provide reference for our next-level prediction and bus communication design."
"Mr. Wang, for the same problem, time won't be too fast!"
"The Athlon processor has already achieved comprehensive test results, and the Pentium 2 processor has also had a lot of research. All you need to do is analyze the data. Will the time be tight?"
"Okay, Mr. Wang!"
"About the instruction set..."
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Wang Anran has already had a problem with the design idea of the next generation processor, that is, the Tulatin p6 architecture. As for why he still has to assign tasks to do a lot of preliminary research, the reason is very simple.
Wang Anran hopes to discover some of the backbone talents through this "Immortal Bird" project, and in addition, it is also a training for the team.
"The capable ones go up, and the mediocre ones go down!"
At the same time, the "Immortal Bird" project also absorbed dozens of newly graduated students, but these people are not able to use them for the time being, so they can only start.
As for those who are ready to start a business in the project and want to go solo, Wang Anran will not refuse.
What China lacks the most is talent, and Huaxin Technology, as the country's most dazzling IT/IC company, does not lack job seekers at all.
What is missing is a platform that can be displayed to them. It is obvious that Huaxin Technology is.
After spending a week to sort out, Wang Anran received two news, one good and the other bad.
Academician Chen Chuangjia returned to Yanjing to work and made a huge breakthrough in the scientific research projects he led. However, what made Wang Anran helpless was that as the main project sponsor, he was not allowed to obtain detailed information.
Another piece of news made Wang Anran feel a little depressed.
Nvidia has released a high-profile tnt200 series display chip based on a 300-nanometer manufacturing process. Among them, Lao Huang directly announced that this generation of display chips no longer support Huaxin Technology's godson graphics interface.
Microsoft launches the diret 3d 2.0 interface in a timely manner.
It made Wang Anran feel the attack from front to back and forth, and the enemy was attacked from both sides.
Ati comes back to finish the work and releases the rerden 2.0 display chip.
Both companies compared the press conferences with the Tearman Pro. The test results can be imagined. The Tearman Pro lags behind completely, and the flagship Tearman Pro109 dual-core, and it can't even catch up with the TNT206 mid-range display chip.
Even when facing rerden290, the performance is only 60% of that of others, and floating-point calculations are only half of that of others.
This is not counting. What worries Wang Anran is that Musr Software Games announced that it will launch the next generation of German headquarters games based on the diret graphics interface, giving players a brand new 3D experience.
It seems that it is agreed at the same time that novalogigl and diret graphical interfaces are developed, Delta Special Forces, a third-person shooting game, can provide a more exciting game experience for shooting warfare.
Other game companies followed up and joined the army of godson◇版◇版◇版◆.
Wang Anran realized instantly.
"Huaxin Technology is isolated!"
"There is a problem here. Cs has a wide audience around the world, and Cs is designed based on the Godson graphical interface. How dare Nvidia do this, and how dare Ati do this? Are they not afraid of losing this part of the market?"
Chapter completed!