Blooming America

Chapter 224 ARK Developer Conference (Part 1)

Jenny lay tiredly in the house of the villa, this is New York.

Lily is doing photos in the darkroom now, and Catherine and Ada are not there either. In everyone's secret base, there are only Jenny and Lily.

"Jenny, what's wrong with you lately?" Lisa, who had just returned to the United States, was still thinking about her new clothes.

"Recently, I have been doing research with my mentor. But... we have failed. At least so far, we have not succeeded."

"What are you studying?"

Lisa asked.

"A kind of artificial skin. You know, burn patients need skin grafts, but many times, we need to use other people's skin, or his own skin for transplantation, but this method is only a stopgap measure after all. So we are thinking Something that can replace human skin..."

Jenny looked disappointed.

"We use silica gel as the material, but so far, what we have manufactured is not called skin at all, and the clothes are pretty much the same."

"clothes?"

Lisa could not understand Jenny.

"What kind of clothes?"

Jenny said: "It's just a kind of latex. Although we made it breathable and comfortable, it doesn't seem to fit the skin. It can only be clothes..."

"It seems very interesting."

Lisa seemed to have seen a new continent.

"Oh, what's the fun? This project is about to end, and then Grandpa wants me to go to that **** cocktail party... Oh, I somehow want to join those hippies..."

Jenny complained.

"Reception?"

Lisa asked again.

"Yes. My parents and grandfather want me to take my boyfriend to their reception."

"I think going to a party is much more fun than that." Lisa shrugged.

"Oh, maybe." Jenny shook her head, then sat up, "Damn...I feel like my luck has been terrible lately."

"Jenny, can you lend me the latex material you mentioned?"

Lisa asked again suddenly.

"Oh, no problem..." Jenny looked at Lisa, her eyes suddenly lit up, "In exchange, how about you accompany me to the reception?"

"no problem."

Jenny was finally relieved.

...

Also relieved, and Catherine, who is now busy in California.

The new 16-bit CPU is something Catherine has been thinking about.

Stepping into July of 1967, a series of CPUs with a frequency of up to 7.67MHZ was finally completed.

Although it did not reach the expected 8MHZ, Catherine was already satisfied. With the current technology, being able to do this is already a relief.

The clock speed doesn't mean everything. Catherine has other ways to solve this problem.

For example, the historical MMX166-233-that is, the Pentium 1 generation. Compared with the 486 CPU, it adds an ALU (CPU's computing companion), which realizes dual pipelines and dual operations. The speed is more than twice that of the 486. , And the requirements for the main frequency of the computer are not high.

Double pipelines and double ALUs can work in parallel at the same time.

Superscalar is the performance it can achieve, in fact it is commonly known as "dual core". The dual-core structure produces super-scalar performance.

Catherine has never considered using dual CPUs on game consoles, but if you customize a "dual core" CPU for game consoles, it seems good.

——In fact, dual-core CPU means that there is only one CPU computing core. It just uses a time-sharing system. It looks like two CPUs, not really two CPUs.

This is different from dual CPUs.

After all, the dual-CPU architecture is very complicated, which will only increase the difficulty of third-party development-it is tantamount to seeking a dead end.

In history, there is a game console called E, which is very famous in Japan. It was because Nintendo was too strong at the time, which caused anger and resentment. Therefore, the third party united and the powerful third party cooperated with NEC. Developed this game console that once surpassed sales.

Therefore, Catherine, who has learned from the past, has very relaxed restrictions on third parties.

With the new CPU, the company's progress can begin. In this way, IBM has no way to develop a 16-bit machine before itself.

The development of Pentium computers is yet to come, and these CPUs will be temporarily used in minicomputers.

However, now that the new CPU is ready, the launch of the new machine has entered a countdown.

In this case, the company's first "ARK Developer Conference" is also ready to begin.

This developer conference is an interaction between Catherine and a third party, and it can be regarded as an important piece in the history of computers-this sentence comes from the evaluation of later generations.

This ARK Developers Conference is a very important move for Catherine.

As long as this conference can succeed and become a manager, it will be of great help to oneself.

The venue of this conference is in New York—the last time Bruce bought a piece of land in Manhattan, and Catherine built it into a hall.

The time of the exhibition is July 5th, which is after the Independence Day of the United States.

At this conference, handhelds, mbus game consoles, and Pentium computers will become Katherine's main products. In addition, the conference will also include software and games.

After all, the industry has not yet developed. In order to increase popularity, Catherine can only bring these three industries together.

For this conference, Catherine racked her brains to inform the media that it is necessary. Her own Angel News TV station will also broadcast the event live.

However, what Catherine did not expect at all was that at this developer conference, the number of people was unexpectedly high, and the entire venue was crowded.

"Too many people, right?"

Catherine did not expect such a thing to happen at all.

"It seems that a lot of fans have also followed..." Sanders was also a little bit dumbfounded.

Not only that, in the back, there are still many media interviews.

No matter how many people are there, this is very helpful to enhance the company's reputation, especially those behind the media who are moved by the wind.

Catherine has decided to expand this venue after the conference is over, and it is best to build it into a main store for electronic products. Faced with this popular scene, this makeshift table is really too uncomfortable.

"Gentlemen and ladies, hello."

Catherine stepped onto the showcase and smiled at everyone with the microphone.

"Oh she is Catherine Edson"

It seemed that someone from behind recognized Catherine.

"Oh, Edson"

The young fans behind seemed to be a little commotion.

Although it is very good to increase the popularity, if it is the same as it is now, then this conference will not be held. Catherine feels that it is best to invite these fans in future conferences. After all, this is a "developer" conference.

"Ahem... Gentlemen and ladies, I hope everyone will like our company's products."

The younger generation of Americans is now deeply influenced by hippie style, and some people actually dress up like Elvis.

However, when they heard Catherine's words, they finally became quiet, and Catherine was relieved.

"At this developer conference, our ARK Group has great expectations for this conference, and I sincerely hope that this conference can be a success."

After chatting for a while, the meat show finally started. First of all, the mall was the handheld.

The design of the handheld has been completed. On the stage, Catherine took out a handheld designed by the company.

"This is a new concept product of our company, and we call it a ‘handheld’."

On the projection screen behind Catherine, the physical picture of this handheld is displayed.

"This kind of game machine uses 4 dry batteries as a mobile power source and can run continuously for more than three hours. The game machine uses LEDs and other chips to make..."

Catherine turned on her handheld and began to show the game.

"Our handheld game console can run some games on the classic Cassidy game console, such as Emma Cube and Snake. But for technical reasons, the game of our product can only be like Game-TV. Built into the computer..."

Catherine was talking freely, and everyone around was attracted by this novel handheld.

It can be seen that this product is very popular with these people.

This is natural.

No one has ever thought that they can carry a game console with them, and only need 4 dry batteries to be able to run.

This product is not Catherine's main product, mbus and Pentium computers are.

After introducing the handheld, a picture of the mbus concept machine ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ was placed on the projector.

"what is this?"

After seeing this machine with a round head, it seems that many people are puzzled.

"Next, I will introduce our company's second product, which is the next generation game console-mbus."

Originally, this thing was to show to those third-party game developers, but since so many people have gathered here, Catherine did not hesitate to want them to explain her new machine.

"Mbus is our company's next-generation game console, mbus will be a game. It will be equipped with a 16-bit CPU. At the same time, the media medium will be changed from the current tapes and cassettes to optical discs. Of course, we will also Backward compatible with current cassettes and tape devices..."

Catherine gave an overview of mbus and watched people look at the strange-looking machine with surprised expressions.

Immediately afterwards, a concept map of the mbus version of "Super Mario" was released, which pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax...