1991 Starting from the core

Howard, the master who was "picked up" by Su Yuanshan at the Fields Bar, has made great achievements from the cordless phone he prepared to "sell" at the beginning to the base station and even the mobile phone.

He is already a well-deserved veteran of Xinghai, the kind who has already joined the founder team.

In a sense, he is more suitable and qualified to be CTO than Chen Haoming.

It's just that this guy is too young, careless and rude, so he is really not the material to be a leader. Otherwise, Xi Xiaoding didn't have to consider his successor at all.

"I just have a good relationship with the graphics team over there." Howard shrugged and smiled: "The VOODOO team has two ideas. One is to integrate 3D and 2D display capabilities according to the current GPU model. The other is Whether the 2D graphics unit is integrated into the CPU, the 3D function still takes the form of an accelerator card... so they have to build a high-speed switching channel."

"Oh..." After a few words, Su Yuanshan understood and couldn't help but smile: "The back road is an evil path. Go back and tell them not to go down it. In the future, GPU will be the king. But...low-end graphics card functions can be integrated on the motherboard. .”

Mei Jiebang is already conducting research on integrated graphics motherboards with VOODOO, but the progress is very slow, and it is the kind of technology that wastes money when idle.

Howard shrugged: "So their later idea was shot, but I think that for an open architecture like YX01, there is still room and necessity for integration."

"There is no need to integrate it with the baseband for the time being." Tian Yaoming dropped his pencil, stretched out and said, "The design is extremely troublesome. Let's integrate the baseband first."

Su Yuanshan: "..."

He glanced at the notes in the hands of several people and saw several boxes drawn with pencils on them, delineating various modules just like dividing fields. Then there were several arrows pointing to different areas, marking different protocols and plans.

——This means that these three people have nothing to do and start planning the architecture here...

Well, Su Yuanshan confirmed that they were indeed chatting.

But this is also the characteristic of Yuanxin, Xinghai, and even the entire technology enterprise community at present - as long as you think of it, just make a few strokes first, and don't say whether you can do it or not, leaving an idea there is the best way.

"This integration is indeed a bit too advanced. It won't be too late to integrate it again in five years." Su Yuanshan laughed: "But the integration of CPU and 3D graphics computing unit is indeed a direction that can produce applications immediately."

As PS continues to sell well, the development of PS2 has also been put on the agenda. According to Sony's ideas, PS2 must not only surpass PS1 in terms of functions, but also must be beautiful in appearance...

After all, it was placed in the living room.

Therefore, if we could design a high-performance CPU with integrated GPU, it would be simply beautiful.

And Sony also hopes to launch a product - Mr. Kutaragi Ken once secretly mentioned to Su Yuanshan that he was ready to once again revolutionize the life of handheld consoles that are currently popular in underdeveloped areas.

Nowadays, handheld consoles are still greedy, Tetris is very popular, and the audience is very wide, and the market is huge! As a pioneer in personal consumer electronics, Sony needs to provide these players with thoughtful services that allow them to play games anytime, anywhere.

——Just like the walkman back then.

Su Yuanshan understood immediately when he heard it. This girl was actually thinking about PSP now.

The PSP naturally needs a CPU with low power consumption and a highly integrated display core.

"So I think the idea he just mentioned is still feasible." Qin Weimin chuckled and threw the notebook on the coffee table. Su Yuanshan was happy when he saw it - there was no place for the baseband module at all.

As the person in charge of the YX architecture, Qin Weimin has been responsible for the integration of different architectures from the earliest cooperation with Sony, to later supercomputing, and then to the integration of baseband SOC. It can be said that in his hands, the YX architecture has been Played with flowers.

It is precisely because Yuanxin has withdrawn from so many successful solutions based on the YX architecture that the YX architecture has entered an explosive period, or harvest period, this year.

Not only has it successively signed several major architecture licensing orders, but its own CPU sales have also been very good, and it has now become the third officially profitable department of Farcore after its VCD and mobile phone divisions.

"You guys weren't talking about this this morning, were you?"

"We are mainly discussing the future development direction of mobile phone chips." Tian Yaoming crossed his legs, flicked out a cigarette and handed it to Howard, then lit one himself and said with a smile: "According to the current power supply scheme, power consumption control Basically, it’s the first factor. Can you believe that our mobile phone chips are down-clocked to 25MHz?”

"Yeah... the power supply can't solve the problem, everything is fake." Howard skillfully painted a smoke ring and spread his hands: "You can't carry several batteries on your back like a laptop, right?"

Qin Weimin nodded after hearing this: "That's right, Xiaoshan. How about the lithium battery?"

When Su Yuanshan heard about lithium batteries, he felt dizzy.

Yuanxin's chemical laboratory has been established for a year, but the progress is still extremely slow. It even gave up the electrolyte from the beginning. So a year later, Yuanxin still has not been able to exchange lithium battery technology after spending a lot of money. Create an assembly line battery.

Frankly speaking, only Yuanxin dares to do this.

Now the two teams on the lithium battery side have more than 100 people in total, and there are often all kinds of strange eye rolls in the laboratory, so much so that the security side directly sends a security guard to be on standby outside at any time...

And it can be seen from Li Xiao's recent facial expressions that her extreme is indeed a bit crotch-stretching.

After all, polymers belong to the field of materials, and any field of materials must involve luck.

Su Yuanshan was able to propose the direction of cathode materials, which was an unprecedented leap.

"You don't have to rush this thing, the main thing is to burn money, and then take your time." Su Yuanshan retracted his thoughts, smiled and said: "Claude has been fed too hard by you, I am here to see him today. .”

"I am coming!"

Before Su Yuanshan finished speaking, Claude's voice sounded at the door. His face was still a little red, and he was shrugging at Su Yuanshan at the door: "I went to your office, and they said you were here."

"Haha, let's go for a walk."

"Okay - I'm afraid of them." Claude glanced at the gentle Qin Weimin with lingering fear, and had a headache thinking about this guy's drinking capacity.

As the founder and chief architect of CYrix, Claude "visited" Yuanxin this time, and his "target" was actually Su Yuanshan.

Although he came here for a "vacation" in name, he actually came with concepts and ideas for the next generation architecture and came with a mission.