1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan does not expect to be able to completely convince these engineers who have already thought about dual-core from the fantasy of a castle in the air. He only needs to express his attitude and does not support glue dual-core...

He hopes that Yuanxin’s CPU team will lay down relevant ideas for AMD’s CCX architecture in the future from now on, so that it can be completed in one step in the future.

But if Gao Xiaodi really touches the field of hyper-threading, then he will definitely support Gao Xiaodi to get hyper-threading out first.

Gao Xiaodi stood in front of the blackboard with a piece of chalk.

"Referring to the Pentium processor, our Sol architecture also incorporates similar features such as superscalar, out-of-order execution, multiple registers and register renaming, multi-instruction decoders, and predictive execution."

What Gao Xiaodi was talking about was the current design of Yuanxin's benchmark Pentium processor - in terms of features, Yuanxin's CPU has more features than Xinghai's, and it is stronger in certain scenarios. Because of this , the progress is also several months behind.

After a pause, Gao Xiaodi continued: "These features allow the CPU to have a large amount of resources, and can run instructions in advance and in parallel to increase the efficiency of instruction execution."

"With the improvement of manufacturing processes and frequencies, we can easily predict that not all computer scenarios will fully utilize the CPU's performance - in fact, the current Pentium 100MHz will have idle performance in many scenarios. ”

"If we can use the idea of ​​dual-core to perform dual-core simulation on the current single-core CPU, then we can only use a small part of the resources..."

Gao Xiaodi looked at the crowd, and finally looked back at Su Yuanshan: "We can simulate an extra thread. By establishing a development protocol standard between the operating system, CPU, and application software, we can realize the mountaineering process at a very small cost. What they always call 'squeezing out the performance of current CPUs'"

Su Yuanshan pursed his lips, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and a smile began to spread on his face.

"Not bad, okay, very good."

Sure enough, what Gao Xiaodi understood was hyper-threading.

…

After putting down the chalk, Gao Xiaodi shrugged to everyone: "Everyone, please cancel your vacation first."

"Well……"

"Are you planning to take a vacation?" Su Yuanshan looked at everyone: "Where are you going?"

"I just said it on my lips." Gao Xiaodi smiled and said: "I couldn't figure out my thoughts before, so I planned to take a vacation to relax."

"Never mind, we're just waiting for the simulation now anyway." Su Yuanshan said nonchalantly: "There is an upper limit to human brain power. Only by combining work and rest can we get inspiration."

"That's not necessarily true." Li Mingliu had been leaning on Gao Xiaodi's large desk after entering the door, watching with an idle attitude. At this time, he retorted with a smile: "Sometimes you need to use your brain intensively. Only then can inspiration burst out.”

Gao Xiaodi looked back at Li Mingliu and couldn't help but said: "Old Li, don't spread your desperate tactics everywhere. Xiaoshan is right here... Aren't you afraid that he will drag you on vacation again?"

Li Mingliu shrugged.

The people present also smiled knowingly - when Li Mingliu went crazy with caching, Su Yuanshan came over and took him to rest for a few days. This incident has become one of Yuanxin's anecdotes.

"You can make your own arrangements for your department's affairs."

As he spoke, Li Mingliu raised his buttocks from the desk, walked towards Su Yuanshan, and glanced at Su Yuanshan - the meaning was obvious - am I right?

Su Yuanshan smiled.

Indeed, Lao Gao has grown up.

But what makes Su Yuanshan happy is that Li Mingliu has also grown up.

Although he still maintains his hard-working attitude, at least his perspective on people and things has changed. He is no longer a leader in charge of a certain department, but is in charge of the Shanghai Science and Technology Park. people and a higher perspective.

This is very good. It is not in vain for Su Yuanshan's long-held hope for him, nor is it in vain that Su Yuanshan resisted the pressure and sent him to Shanghai - when the Shanghai Science and Technology Park was first established, although no one was obviously greedy for this technology. No one "dare" to come to Su Yuanshan for the position of director of the park.

But secretly, Su Yuanshan knew that many people hoped that Qin Weimin or Tian Yaoming would take charge of the overall situation.

——This may not be the true thoughts of Qin Weimin or Tian Yaoming, but they are representatives of the "Electronic Technology Gang" and deserve to occupy such an important position.

…

Now that Gao Xiaodi had decided on the direction, Su Yuanshan did not disturb him. He just informed Gao Xiaodi to have dinner together in the evening and went to Li Mingliu's office.

Li Mingliu's office is decorated simply. There is a set of sofas in the sitting area, several murals hanging on the wall, and a wall full of professional books.

Su Yuanshan looked at these books. It seemed that they were not just used for decoration, but actually read.

He knew that Lao Li was following his example and Xi Xiaoding's example.

——Most entrepreneurs in China, in order to show off that they are studious, will build a giant bookshelf in the office and fill it with all kinds of messy books. Do you think they have time to read it? I'm afraid I don't even believe it myself.

But Yuanxin is different. These big guys with technical backgrounds have never given up on technology from beginning to end. Xi Xiaoding still has a teaching position and is preparing to write a textbook on neural networks.

Li Mingliu licked his mouth, peeled off a piece of chewing gum and threw it into his mouth. He threw another piece and handed it to Su Yuanshan: "You guy, I'm too embarrassed to smoke when you come here."

"Then let's quit..."

Li Mingliu chuckled and said, "I don't engage in whoring or gambling. I'm not greedy or corrupt. I just smoke. If you ask me to quit, what's the fun?"

"..."

"Haha, but we have no surprises for you here." Li Ming and Liu Youyou said: "All progress is progressing step by step. At most, next month, all problems of flash memory based on the Universal Serial Bus will be solved."

Su Yuanshan's eyes lit up: "Holy crap, isn't this a surprise?"

"What a surprise...according to our tests, the current USB transfer rate is still too slow, sorry for the price of flash memory."

"...You are so heartless that you swallow the elephant like a snake." Su Yuanshan sighed: "The USB protocol is nothing more than a word from us. As long as the USB flash disk is developed, the USBIF will definitely be able to improve the protocol and standards."

Li Mingliu was surprised: "Is the influence already so great?"

"That's right." Su Yuanshan smiled quite proudly.

After the rebirth of Nirvana, Mei Jie's development has far exceeded Su Yuanshan's expectations.

Whether it is voodoo3D accelerator card or various high-end motherboards, Meijie has moved towards the position of dominance.

Since it is the overlord, it must have market appeal - even if the USBIF does not cooperate, then Yuanxin, Xinghai, and Meijie can independently promote the evolution of the USB protocol.