Rebirth of the Wild Age

After the speech, Song Weiyang visited Fudan's computer room and computer laboratory. This time there were only a few leaders leading the team, and the other professors were busy with their own work. Anyway, they were in no mood to mess around with Boss Song.

When he came to the Institute of Parallel Processing, Song Weiyang was quite surprised to find that the student who was arguing with him was also there, and couldn't help but ask, "Are you a graduate student?"

Chen Haibo said: "Junior, I'm in the 00th grade."

"Then what are you doing in the research institute?" Song Weiyang asked.

"It's a start," Chen Haibo said with a smile, "The project I'm currently participating in is to transplant and optimize the backend of the vliw instruction set gcc of a certain Philips chip. This year, the sophomore ends the summer vacation, and the boss (Dean Zang) sees me I had nothing to do, so I was dragged to the research institute to dawdle."

If you are a master, you are a master, and you are still dawdling.

Even before he started his junior year, he was invited to the research institute to participate in Philips' chip outsourcing project. This is a dream job for undergraduate students, and even if they are white jobs, there are countless people rushing to do it.

Dean Zang came over to shake hands and said, "Mr. Song, welcome to the Parallel Processing Institute of Fudan University."

"Senior, you're welcome," Song Weiyang said with a smile, "I'm in level 94, which level is the senior?"

Dean Zang said: "I am in the 83rd grade."

Song Weiyang said: "Then you are an old senior."

Dean Zang said: "When you were an undergraduate student, I was a lecturer at Fudan University, but I have admired the name of Song Xuedi for a long time. It is no exaggeration to say that Fudan University is well-known."

Song Weiyang asked: "I remember Fudan Parallel Processing Institute, there is also a project of China Science and Technology?"

Dean Zang nodded and said: "Yes, we have participated in the research and development of the China MP3 chip, and are responsible for the decoding of the wma format."

As early as 1997, a Samsung department manager proposed a development plan for the mp3 thing. But Samsung didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Later, the department manager was forced to retire early by Samsung because of the Asian financial turmoil. This dude went to another Korean company and made the world's first mp3 player in 1998.

But the market response of Korean mp3 is not very good, you can regard it as a digital version of Walkman. Diamond Corporation of the United States later launched an mp3 that can download music from the Internet, which immediately caused a sensation, and was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright issues.

In the following two or three years, mp3 added many new functions, and was carried forward by Apple in 2001-ipod was born!

Moreover, ipod also bundled online music and introduced a relatively complete payment system. The Recording Industry Association of America can benefit from this, so it helps Apple to vigorously promote ipod.

Due to the great success of the ipod in the US market, China Science and Technology Company wanted to make mp3 players last year, but the market research data was relatively poor. First, the download speed of China's Internet is generally very slow; second, China's online music resources are extremely scarce. These two factors lead to the poor sales of mp3 products in China, at least for the time being the market size is not large.

However, China's Internet is developing rapidly, and Shenzhou Technology has decided to develop mp3, and even directly develop mp3 chips. The technical difficulty of this thing is not too great.

What makes people speechless is that China Technology has just planned to stream the film, and the world's first mp3 that supports wma format was born in South Korea, and it quickly became a new industry benchmark. This is due to Microsoft being too rogue, promoting wma crazily, and restricting the development of mp3 with all its strength, causing people in the industry to think that the mp3 format will end sooner or later.

So China Technology overturned the mp3 chip and redone it. The team led by Dean Zang was responsible for wma format decoding. He also had a part-time job in Shenghai R\u0026D Center of China Technology.

Dean Zang took Song Weiyang around the research institute, and said casually: "The United States already has mp4, which is still in the category of mp3, but it has more video playback functions. I think Shenzhou Technology should also develop mp4 chips in advance. Brother Song can think about it."

Song Weiyang asked: "Why did you bring it up to me directly? Does the R\u0026D center in China disagree?"

"It's not that I disapprove," Dean Zang explained, "It's that the Shenzhou R\u0026D Center has decided to launch the lowest-level mp4 chip, and I suggest going directly to a more advanced one."

Song Weiyang was completely a technical novice, and asked, "Is there any difference?"

Dean Zang explained: "The lowest-level mp4 chip can only support one or two multimedia codecs, that is, it can only support a small number of video formats. The problem is that there are more and more video formats, and low-end chips have many formats. The videos cannot be played, and it may be slowly eliminated in two or three years.”

"What's the difficulty?" Song Weiyang asked.

Dean Zang explained as simple and understandable as possible: "To perform video codec on traditional risc and dsp processors, it means that these processors must run at a very high speed, and require a lot of memory and consume a lot of power, but in It’s not going to work in a portable device.”

Song Weiyang asked: "Do you have a solution?"

"Yes," Dean Zang said, "using a configurable processor design can solve this problem."

Song Weiyang asked: "If you are entrusted to lead the project, how long will it take to see the results?"

"I don't know." Dean Zang said.

"I don't know?" Song Weiyang looked at him.

Dean Zang laughed and said: "Because I only know the principle of configurable processors, and I haven't started to operate it yet. If I'm lucky, it will be done in half a year. If I'm not lucky, it may take three to five years."

Song Weiyang was completely speechless: "You are practicing with a project! No wonder the Shenzhou R\u0026D Center refused to agree."

Dean Zang smiled like an old fox: "The configurable processor belongs to the international cutting-edge technology and represents the future trend of chip design. It can also be used in computers and mobile phone chips developed by China in the future. Brother Song, if you want to develop in the field of chip design in the long run , configurable processor technology must be mastered, even if the development of the mp4 chip project fails, it can still accumulate a lot of experience for the future."

Song Weiyang scratched his forehead and said with a smile, "You seem to have convinced me."

"Then when I finish the two projects in hand, I will launch this project immediately?" Dean Zang asked expectantly.

Song Weiyang said, "It needs a lot of money, right?"

Dean Zang said: "I don't know exactly how much it will cost. No one in China has done this."

The more mysterious the man said, the more unreasonable Song Weiyang's confidence became. He nodded and said, "All right, I'll say hello to the company later, and you guys should work out the project budget first."

Dean Zang flattered him: "Brother Song is the richest man in China, and he has a long-term strategic vision. Admire, admire!"

Song Weiyang was dragged to visit by two other computer departments, and Dean Zang sent him downstairs before returning.

Chen Haibo sneaked up to Dean Zang and asked, "Boss, have you received a new job?"

Dean Zang said happily: "Well, there is a new project. Big bosses who don't understand technology are easy to deceive. I have only seen the design of configurable processors in foreign journals, and I haven't even touched the physical chip. Looking back Please help me collect relevant information. If you make this thing, the graduation thesis of your senior brothers will be available." The latest chapter of the rebirth of the wild age comes to the website: