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October 12, 1968.

The Mexico Olympics officially opens.

All of a sudden.

All important things are forgotten by everyone, whether they are French or Americans, more or less.

Attention is focused on the Olympic Games. Although compared to the future Olympic Games.

The Olympics at this time was not a money-making project.

But there is no doubt about the influence of the Olympic Games.

And taking advantage of the trend of the Olympic Games.

Anti-war opponents stood up again"．nowan

"They shouted this slogan.

Although according to convention, the war should be stopped during the Olympic Games, this rule has never been realistic. It was Lyndon who insisted.

Johnson no longer intends to continue being president.

He is even more shameless - in fact.

Since the federal government sent troops into Detroit to suppress workers' uprisings last year, he has lost hope of re-election.

The U.S. government doesn't buy it, but the Olympics are still worth looking forward to.

But at this time, the inside of Hou Qi D was running at full speed.

"Capnisonn-Capricorn." This is the company's latest CPU plan.

"We are trying to use Thunder graphics cards to complete the integration of the 2D renderer, but we have encountered some difficulties. The specific time may need to be postponed," Roberts.

Noyce.

He wandered around the JK Group and finally switched jobs to Intel

Now he is responsible for the development work of Capricorn.

The reason why it is called "Capricorn" is based on the twelve constellations of the zodiac.

Catherine is preparing to develop some epoch-making CPUs.

But at this time, she suddenly thought of a certain Xiaoqiang named "Xingya".

So with a stroke of her pen, "The Zodiac Plan" was launched magnificently.

Capricorn is the first CPU that Catherine plans to develop.

"It doesn't matter. We still have time." Catherine responded to the other party. "After all, the zodiac constellation plan was also started at the same time as the 32-bit CPU plan. Capniconn development is not in a hurry."

Since it is not a 32-bit CPU.

Then "epoch-making" has no meaning.

"But I think we should work hard on memory. I think memory should be a bottleneck that limits system performance." Noyce seemed to have some doubts.

"Well. We can only do this slowly..." It's impossible to say that we don't know much about memory, right?

Catherine complained silently over there.

Integration of Thunder graphics cards.

It's the first step in Catherine's plan.

The next step is to integrate the graphics card into the CPU. The CPU actively integrates GPU and other units into the chip, and allows the system to recognize it as a processor through a unified bus control mode.

This is Capricorn's plan.

In other words, it is the concept of fusion processor.

In the original history.

This kind of development is very difficult. In view of the huge differences in the functional units of CPU and GPU and the complete incompatibility of the instruction sets, we want to create a perfectly integrated product.

It's impossible without some basic skills. But because of the integrated development and application, there will be huge performance improvements due to processor integration.

Fusion processors have therefore become the focus of the industry.

Now.

This concept was picked up by Catherine at the end of the decade.

In the future, the fusion processor market will be roughly divided into three types. Intel has its own sangdbnidge architecture Core series processors (integrated GPU units).

APU products released after AMD's long-term preparation (mainly integrating GPU units).

The Maxwell processor that nvdia is planning (GPU actively integrates ARM architecture CPU unit).

besides.

There are even Microsoft's xcgpu and so on. Except for the last one, which is mainly used for arm architecture.

Tegna processor is its killer copper used in mobile phones and tablet computers.

But it has little to do with the PC world, and the first two categories are mainly concentrated in PCs. The instruction set of the GPU and the instruction set of the CPU must be integrated and developed.

There are indeed some difficulties.

Because x86 itself is a complex instruction set.

But these problems are not problems now.

Catherine's computer is still in its infancy.

The architecture is not yet perfect because the GPU has been developed in advance.

Therefore, the two can completely rely on each other for development.

The two complement each other.

The first integrated CPU in concept.

This is the capniconn that Catherine is planning now - Capricorn.

In fact, in the original era of Intel, they had already made such an attempt in the 1980s. The processors developed by Intel began to integrate co-processors.

The concept of coprocessor disappears and becomes the fpu (floating point processor) inside the cpu.

After this.

It’s rare to hear of “coprocessor” in computers—at least in the PC world.

For ordinary people.

This concept almost doesn't exist anymore.

But gpu is in position.

It's not just a "coprocessor".

In a sense.

The status of gpu is as important as cpu.

And the concept of fusion processor is from the current point of view.

Far more important than later.

In the 21st century, computer performance is generally in a state of excess performance.

In this state.

Computer performance comes after the user's data.

Generally there is still a lot of room left.

But it's different now.

This era is an era where engineers are strapped for development of a hardware platform.

Engineers' imaginations are completely limited by the computer's hardware.

For current equipment, fusion processors.

At least it can bring substantial performance improvements.

Don’t underestimate this 10%. For software engineers, what they can do will be greatly increased.

It's like it was in an era when pocket technology couldn't be realized, or the technology was still very backward.

Someone thought of an extravagant method - to use the rendered hash textures as the background.

In the process of calculation.

Just render the character.

Earlier, engineers had an even more outrageous trick - using dots and lines to build an interface similar to Chi. This interface was completely built based on the projection of a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional image.

The picture book bua, which is not Kabuto itself, is vibrating.

Jobs looked at the TV picture with great anticipation.

The game he is playing is "Resident Evil". To be precise.

It should be a beta version of Resident Evil.

As the creator of "Metal Slutrist".

Jobs is also qualified to be able to enter and exit Blizzard at any time. Because of this, Jobs is giving this game that is developing.

This alpha version of "Biochemical Crisis".

It was Jobs that it was easy to get it from the company, so he even signed a confidential contract.

And the game can only be played within Blizzard.

Can't bring it out. But this is enough.

The reason why this game is played.

It was because Jobs had I heard on the Internet that there was a "Zombie Survival Manual".

He about this book.

I always cared about it. At this time, he heard such a "biochemical" type of game, and Jobs naturally focused on this side. Originally, he wanted to pull Gates to play together

This game, but unfortunately Gatz lives in Seattle.

So I want to have a little trouble. "But why is this game confidential?

Strangely. "Jobs was a little strange about signing a confidentiality agreement. But it can only be that. Although other games also need to sign a confidentiality agreement to get in touch, but if you want to bring it out, you only need to write a application.

But this "Biochemical Crisis" is different.

In fact, the reason for doing this is because the so -called "zombies" of the present still have something to do with the monsters. But Catherine wants to turn "Resident Evil" into a science fiction. For this reason

Do not have the point of view of ancestors. Otherwise, the crotch becomes yellow.

It is difficult to wash it again.

In the original history, before the game "Resident Evil" was released, no one expected the advent of a brand new "horror era". At the time, there was no figure in the first fifty of Famitsu's new expectations. Therefore, Pengnian

When the 5th Day "Resident Evil" was released.

The strongest dark horse in history was born! In the end, the sales volume of 10,000 copies may have surpassed the most wild imagination of Capcom and the producer San Shang True. Of course, of course.

San Shangzhi is still a little fart.

Catherine's ambition to "Resident Evil".

It is like the original history.

Create an era.

And it is not an ordinary three -minute game.

"Residentevies"

A bloody Wen Yu appeared on the screen.

Then there was a weird music.

Now.

Nimbus has been loaded into the game.

"Hao Ga".

Slightly ... coffee ... horror? "

Jobs swallowed a sip.

Although it was scary, curiosity forced him to continue, Jobs chose to start a new game.

With the beginning of the game.

The picture starts to load.

The background of the pseudo -relaxation appeared, making Jobs shine.

"It's cool!"

Such a background is definitely that the current game console cannot be achieved.

Jobs has never seen such a picture on the game console.

As if it is a real world.

It seems that there are some different.

This strange drawing skills really make people don't know how to describe it. The only word that Joobs can be sighing now is this "cool".

Yes.

This is cool.

But the connotation of this game is far more than that.

There is another more.