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Chapter 937 Processor Development Plan

"Elsa, help me send these two documents out later, one to Intel and one to Thunder Labs. I want them to speed up their research. We now have the time and opportunity to tell...

For them, money is not an issue, as long as they can quickly develop new technologies, that's all."

Catherine said this.

"Okay. But what are we going to study? Why do we need to draw up a special document?"

Elsa didn't understand Catherine's behavior very much. Catherine usually just made a phone call or asked the other party to come directly and give verbal instructions. But what happened today?

Elsa had never seen Catherine ask her to make a special trip to get the documents.

"Because waiting is the hardest thing. I don't want to wait, I want to control...that's it."

Catherine said this.

"Now is not the time to wait, I need better technology, more advanced technology, more complete technology, so I need to let them do better research..."

Catherine didn't know whether she was trying to encourage others or playing checkers, but Catherine knew that she really didn't have the patience to wait any longer.

Waiting is the most boring thing.

Development may take time, but within this time, why can't we use our own will to make the industry more rapid?

Now Clay's new generation supercomputer is almost completed, so at this time, Catherine also decided to charge towards a higher level of technology.

In Catherine's opinion, the biggest difference between the 1960s and the 21st century is the birth of the computer.

It is precisely because of the existence of such advanced computers in the 21st century that the 21st century is unique.

Computers can be said to be the most wonderful and miraculous existence in human history.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Catherine to give up computers at this time.

In Catherine's view now, the development of computers has also become a bottleneck for Catherine.

Although Catherine has many new technologies, each new technology has a very high dependence on computers. Therefore, Catherine needs a rapidly developing computer era at this time, rather than a swaying and unsteady era like in history.

The era of hurry and slowness.

Since the invention of the transistor in 1947, technological progress has been astonishing, giving rise to products with more advanced and powerful functions while taking into account cost-effectiveness and power consumption.

Although technology is advancing rapidly, the waste heat and leakage generated by transistors are still the biggest obstacles to shrinking designs and processors. However, Catherine, who was foresighted, had already adopted what she knew to be the best materials in the future, and compared with others.

It took a lot less detours than Catherine.

In fact, Catherine originally wanted to use high-k materials. In this case, the materials of the later 32nm era were directly used. It would definitely kill the gods and kill the Buddhas.

But the problem is...Catherine has no idea what high-k means at all. In the 21st century, this is Intel's commercial secret, and it is not an easy thing to understand.

Historically, AMD has lagged behind Intel in terms of manufacturing processes, and material limitations are also a reason.

Looking at the history of transistors, the first transistor appeared on December 16, 1947. Bell Labs successfully produced the first transistor, which changed the history of mankind.

But now in history, as we are about to enter 1975, things have already changed.

From the earliest 10 micron processor, it went through 6 micron, 3 micron, and then to the current highest process of 1 micron.

Whenever a new generation of CPU comes out, people will be keen to discuss how many micron or nanometer processes it uses. Indeed, every process advancement will have a decisive impact on the chip manufacturing industry and interpret classic legends.

According to Moore's Law...well, now Edson's Law, this shows that only by continuously improving the process and increasing the level of transistor integration can the chip's main frequency and performance be improved.

Historically, Intel released its first microprocessor 4004 in 1971. The 4004 was produced using a 10 micron process and contained only more than 2,300 transistors with a clock frequency of 108khz. Due to its weak functionality and slow computing speed, the 4004 could only be used in

busi calculator.

Catherine advanced the 10 micron process by almost ten years, so although Catherine is only in the mid-1970s, she almost has the technology of the mid-to-late 1980s.

Moreover, Catherine has money, so she can invest in research without limit and continue to increase scientific research efforts.

If there are no accidents, maybe in five years or ten years, Catherine will be able to enter the era of ghz.

But at this time, Catherine was ready to make big strides forward.

After observing the market, she found that there is no product on the market that can catch up with her own processor. Now that she has entered the new 0.8 micron process, the other party is still attacking the 1 micron technology. Although it is not

It can be manufactured in small quantities, but it is impossible to have mature technology...

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At this time, Catherine decided to skip the 0.5 micron technology and directly attack the 0.35 micron technology, which is 350 micron technology!

Historically speaking, this is a technology that was only available in the early 1990s. Based on Catherine's current development, it will probably not be available until the late 1970s or early 1980s.

——Historically, in the early 1990s, the advent of the 800nm ​​Pentium made CPUs completely move from the micron era to the nanometer era. Pentium contains 3.1 million transistors, and representative models include pentium60 (60mhz) and

Pentium66 (66mhz). After that, Intel launched Pentium 75mhz ~ 120mhz, and the manufacturing process was improved to 500nm. After that, CPU development jumped directly to the 350nm process era.

Catherine's development is still faster than the "Edson's Law" proposed by Catherine herself. After all, Catherine is constantly moving closer to later generations in terms of materials. As long as new technologies are available, they will be used.

Moreover, Catherine is very particular about the efficiency and performance of the processor, so Catherine's current development is faster than in history.

Well, speaking of it, it does not violate the law. Historically, Moore himself said that it would double in 1 to 2 years. If we go by the minimum, Catherine does not meet the standard...

However, historically, it only took two years to go from 800 nanometers to 350 nanometers, which was even more incredible than Catherine. So at this time, Catherine felt that this was okay.

The higher the technology, the better the performance of your computer, and the higher the power of the supercomputer, the closer it is to Catherine's goal.

There is a reason why Intel is so eager to develop 0.35 micron, which is 350 nanometer technology.

Now the digital TV project has started. At this time, Catherine decided that the computer should also be able to play digital videos. At this time, Catherine must require that the system system can meet the standards. Even a specialized decoding chip also requires craftsmanship.

Only if the performance meets the standard!

Historically, products using the 0.35 micron process include Intel's pentiummmx, pentiumpro and early pentium2 (klamath core) and Celeron (gton core) products.

And this classic product pentiummmx with 0.35 micron technology is what Catherine wants to create.

Pentiummmx is the first processor with mmx (multi-media-extensions, multimedia extension instruction set, a multimedia instruction enhancement technology invented by Intel in 1996) technology. It has ""b data l1cache, ""b instruction l1cache

, has 4.5 million transistors and consumes 17hz.

It’s not just the CPU. After studying the technology here, Catherine also notified the Thunder Lab and asked them to start deploying a new graphics card plan.

Although the APU is very good, in the eyes of Catherine now, the performance of the APU alone is still not enough, so it is still good to have a powerful graphics card. At worst, it can be used to improve performance through crossfire technology!

In the 21st century, isn't there just a 3a platform...

At that time, Catherine will also come up with a 3i platform to let others buy a set as soon as it is sold.

Catherine's new generation graphics card focuses first on 3D technology.

The graphics card that Catherine is targeting is the legendary voodoo5 series.

Most people may not know much about voodoo graphics cards, but to put it bluntly, when voodoo graphics cards were in their glory, the so-called n-cards and a-cards were both at the junior level, and they were incomparable to the big brother of the other party!

And 3dfx in the 1990s was also an era when the other party was absolutely awesome.

But in the 21st century, the convenience has disappeared.

Because she has been exposed to computers since she was a child, Catherine also knew about voodoo graphics cards in her previous life and was quite familiar with this type of graphics card.

Voodoo is the 3D chip with the highest market share in the world. Its market share was as high as 85% that year. Voodoo adopts the form of a daughter card and is used with the 2D display of the main card. The specialized 3D chip can provide better performance at the same development cost.

3d performance.voodoo

It is the most influential 3D chip. It is precisely because of the success of voodoo that it brings users into the "3D world", making it a shining example of 3D acceleration equipment in the PC field and laying a solid foundation for the vigorous development of 3D accelerator cards in the future.

foundation, thus ushering in a 3dfx dynasty.

And Catherine aims at Voodoo2 series graphics cards during the highest period of Voodoo.

In November 1997, Voodoo2 was born, Voodoo2 -the most popular 3D graphics card to push 3DFX to the peak. The launch of the 3DFX domineering position was even more unshakable. At that time, Voodoo2's performance made it difficult for the opponent to look back. Voodoo2 chip had three three chips.

Mutual processor composition, one of which is used for polygonal settings, and two for material stickers

The maximum memory capacity of Voodoo2 graphics card is 12MB, which was an absolute high -end at the time.

Catherine pays more attention to 3D effects and performance. According to Catherine's thoughts, this generation of machines may be able to run games like CS, that is good.

Today, Blizzard has accumulated a lot of FPS experience in "Electronic Hegemony". Catherine believes that they can perform well in the production of CS.

Elsa asked Pu Guanshui to send the file, and then he returned soon.

"Speaking of it, do we want to dual -core now ...?"

Catherine looked at Elsa, but suddenly asked such a question.

"What dual -core?" In the case of ears, Elsa could better understand the computer, so at this time, Elsa seemed to understand: "You mean, the computer's processor?"

"Yes, although I wanted to live dual -core at first, but now I think that in fact we can start researching now ... Well, of course, if you are listed on the market, you have to wait."

Catherine said that.

Dual -core is simply two cores. The core is also called the kernel. It is the most important part of the CPU. The bulging chip of the center of the CPU is the core.

Calculation, accepting/storage commands, processing data is executed by the core. Various CPU cores have a fixed logical structure, first -level cache, second -level cache, execution unit, instruction level unit and bus interface and other logic units.

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At the beginning, Catherine had considered whether he could get dual -core now. If there is a dual -core processor now, it is definitely a man who blocks killing. The Buddha blocks the Buddha!

Perhaps the frequency of dual -core will not be too high, but as long as the current software can adapt to dual -core, isn't it enough?

If the software can optimize the dual -core, it will definitely be better.

Before, Catherine didn't think so. At that time, Catherine's idea was that he could only adapt to the market by himself now.

Now, Catherine has huge funds. Catherine believes that if he now persuade those third -party collaborators, maybe it will be effective.

"The trouble of this problem lies in the majority of software developers. We need to convince them to optimize the software ..."

Catherine said that.

"But in our plan, isn't dual -core technology ready to start research?" What Elsa thought of.

"No, some are different ..."

The technology that Catherine wants to come out now is the dual -core technology of the 21st world!

Although Catherine doesn't know much about it, she can see it by comparing the difference between the single-core era and the dual-core era.

A Pentium 3.1ghz CPU is not as good as a dual-core 1.6ghz CPU. This is a good illustration.

"Kate."

At this time, Elsa decided that it was necessary to calm down Catherine: "I think that according to the plan you just gave Intel, we can guarantee that we will not fall behind in the microcomputer era in ten years."

"……Um?"

Catherine didn't expect Elsa to say that.

"Kate, you seem to have forgotten something very important - computers are more than just CPUs and graphics cards! The development of memory and hard drives is also necessary! Haven't you been talking about hard drives before? And don't you want hard drives?

Will it replace the optical drive? The development of the optical drive has now calmed down, and the reading speed of the computer can no longer be faster. At this time, we should consider replacing the hard disk as the system medium, and then improve the efficiency of the memory. This is the most important thing.

The most important thing!"

Catherine patted her head: "Well...I'm sorry, Elsa, I seem to have forgotten about this..."

Catherine smiled bitterly.

"The water capacity of a wooden barrel depends on the shortest board..."

Catherine shook her head.

As for memory, the best technology now is able to develop a single 8MB, which is already a miraculous development. As for the interface, the speed of the current memory interface has also reached the bottleneck, so now we need to develop the next generation

memory interface.

And the most important shortcoming is the hard drive.

It can be said that if we replace it with the earliest giant magnetoresistive hard drives, today's computers will face a qualitative leap, at least in terms of reading speed.

Nowadays, because computers all use optical drives as media, both games and software vendors will optimize optical drive reading, but when loading content, you still have to wait for a while.

But if you replace it with a hard drive from the 1990s, the loading time will be reduced to at least a quarter!

Although the optical drive has a large storage capacity, with the improvement of system performance, the problem of slow reading of the optical drive has gradually become apparent. The current dual optical head technology is also a strange product of a special era. When reading, the system will read

The data is divided into two, and then it is read and processed. This also needs to rely on the support of the software and the system itself to be useful.

Although this technology can meet the current needs, it can be foreseen that in the near future, this technology will inevitably become outdated, and the next generation of computer technology will inevitably be revealed.

"Giant magnetic resistance hard drive..."

Historically, giant magnetoresistive hard drives took a total of 8 years from the discovery of the giant magnetoresistive effect to the final product. So how far can you achieve it?

"Well...not just hard drives, but also digital development, which is also necessary..."

Catherine murmured.

If we are similar to history, giant magnetoresistive hard drives will be developed probably next year or the year after.

"Hey, by the way, didn't we have a Japanese graduate student who developed a solid-state storage medium? Where is this graduate student's current research product?"

There seems to be no news, did you not study it yet?

"Do you want me to ask?" Elsa asked.

"Well, okay."

Catherine nodded.

Alsha picked up the phone, and then asked the past.

"Kate, the Japanese graduate named Sakagang Fujishi, after graduating, worked in Intel, and he has been studying what that ... Flash storage chip.

So the other party thinks that this kind of capacity is not worthy ... but the application is not without, this medium is also used as a storage system inside the optical drive. I heard that the next generation of the game console is ready to adopt. ""

"" B, it seems that except for the archive, it can't do anything.

The speed is not comparable to memory, and the capacity is not even as good as the current mechanical hard disk, that is, because it is solid, so it has great advantages ...

"I see."

Catherine nodded.

"What do the other party have been studying now?"

"The other party is seeking a large -capacity storage method."

Although so, the current capacity is definitely not as good as a hard disk -after the research of the huge magnetic resistance, I am afraid it is even more difficult to reach.

After thinking about it, Catherine said, "You find a chance to ask each other, and then see if we can engage in a working group. We organize the other party.

Move, at least be able to replace the current tape, right? "

When Catherine had no way, the tape has always played the role of the U disk.

But now that the Lord is developing, Catherine decided to change the positioning of the tape.

Data tapes should move in a large capacity direction, and the emergence of the U disk can be more civilian ...

"Then, the next thing will be settled ..."

Catherine murmured.

"Well ... by the way, why didn't the report this month not mentioned Fullene ... uh, is it the information about football?"

"It seems that there is no progress on the opposite side, but they seem to have used laser recently ... They are too complicated, I haven't listened carefully.

Elsa thinks it should be like this.

But she never guess, how wonderful the word "hitting and hitting" in the world.

Just then, the phone in the Catherine office rang.

"Miss Edson! Yes! We observed it! It is football! Absolutely football! We succeeded!"

The sound from the opposite side made Catherine a little lost.

Although I don't know who the opposite is, this news does excite Catherine, which is not over the authority that Catherine gave them directly to the phone!

"... you said, have you studied it?"

"Yes! We have indeed been studied!"

Catherine and Elsa looked at it.

The latter shrugged: "They did say that the distance is still far away ..."

Nympho

Well, I don’t want to disassemble this chapter ... There are two more more ~

Tiger touches Xiao Chai ~

Then, then

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