Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

When it comes to making game consoles, Wang Zheng really has no experience.

In fact, there is no way, the game content is too little.

If you rely on this little content to compete in the console market, you’re going to take the lead.

"Global Offensive" is not suitable for playing with a controller at all, so how many people will scold it.

But when it comes to making a computer like a game console, in this era, there is no doubt that Wang Zheng is the winner.

So Wang Zheng’s purpose is to sell computers and operating systems in the name of game consoles.

I don’t play many games, but I am well-rounded. In addition to playing games, I am proficient in everything from working online to watching TV.

And Wang Zheng also has a trump card - the e-sports league.

At this time, the only large-scale event in the world is the annual WCG World Electronic Sports Competition.

This festival was started by Bangguo in 2000 and has been very influential.

The Human Emperor SKY, Xiao Cang and other well-known figures among domestic players all began to make their mark in this game.

Wang Zheng plans to use "Global Offensive" to launch the global league system, promote the formalization of e-sports in advance, and then continue to develop e-sports games to consolidate his market position.

These jobs require a lot of talent and are unlikely to be accomplished overnight.

The good thing about Silicon Valley is that there are many talented people out there. As long as you are willing to pay, you can always find someone to work for.

He doesn't mind whether these people become famous in the future. They are all tool people anyway, as long as they are obedient and capable.

Those who disobey will be fired directly without any psychological burden at all.

In early June, Wang Zheng told Jim that Ultron would develop the computer business like Apple. Jim was very excited, and within a week he had hired a small team of eleven people, using his original residence as a

office.

This small team is mainly responsible for the design of Ultron's first generation console product.

In 2006, to measure whether a computer was good or not, we not only looked at the CPU, memory, hard drive and graphics card, but also the two crucial chipsets, Northbridge and Southbridge.

The Northbridge chipset was originally used for PCI data transmission, memory control and display functions. "Onboard graphics card" is the concept brought by Northbridge.

However, with the continuous breakthroughs in process technology, these three functions have been integrated into the CPU one after another, so the Northbridge chipset has now disappeared without a trace.

The Southbridge chipset is responsible for data exchange with additional devices such as keyboard, mouse, hard disk, optical drive and floppy drive. It has a longer lifespan and can live for more than ten years, but its functions will become more and more advanced as the technology becomes more and more advanced.

They are gradually integrated into the CPU and gradually disappear.

The reason why it is called a chipset, not a chip, is also for historical reasons.

In the early days of the development of personal computers, the memory controller was a chip, the display was a chip, the PCI controller was also a chip, and other IDE memory chips, PS/2 mouse and keyboard chips, USB chips, sound chips, all

All are independent.

Basically, each has its own manufacturer, and it is very common to have more than a dozen functional chips on one motherboard.

It is also due to the development of technology that the density of transistors is getting higher and higher, and the degree of integration has also been greatly improved. Integrating multiple functions into a single chip has become an industry development trend.

By the time Wang Zheng was reborn, the Southbridge chips were gone - USB was directly connected to the CPU channel, so what Southbridge was needed?

So the main chips on the motherboard are only the CPU, sound card, network card and BIOS chip. Next is the battle of the motherboard manufacturers' own special chips, such as Bluetooth wifi, EPU, Turbo and so on.

Ultron has not yet entered the chip field. All chips on the host have to be purchased, and they have to find someone to produce them.

Therefore, if Ultron wants to break through in the console business, it must find another way.

As a senior computer DIY player, Wang Zheng has complained countless times about how unreasonable a certain motherboard is, and how ridiculous a part-time job designing a certain graphics card is...

There are a thousand Hamlets and one truth in the eyes of a thousand people.

If Wang Zheng is asked to design the CPU by himself now, then he will definitely not do it.

Spending 100 million US dollars on it may not necessarily bring any splash - X86 now dominates the PC world, and POWER dominates the game console world. Should we go for ARM now?

If the craftsmanship cannot keep up, it is simply seeking death.

Therefore, assembling consoles is the best direction at the moment - even if the profit is a little lower, as long as more people can afford computers and use the new system, then it will be the first step towards success.

Now that the direction of the host has been decided, the design logic is very important.

What Wang Zheng wants to do is a computer console that can be used for a long time, is modular and expandable. At the same time, since it is called a game console after all, it must also have an exquisite appearance and sufficient performance for playing games.

Recalling the hosts he had used in his previous life, Wang Zheng suddenly thought of a video conferencing host—HP's Phantom series conference host.

It adopts the form of stacking. The core unit can be used alone, or additional accessories such as conference units, audio units, and storage units can be purchased and used in combination.

The Phantom series is only 10cm square. Of course it is impossible to achieve such a high degree of integration now, but it can be enlarged to 15cm.

If there is not enough room, then split the core unit and take out the graphics card unit separately. You can even take out the interface units such as network port and USB.

If the product is upgraded in the future, you can also consider purchasing the required unit directly.

This product is very much in line with Ultron at this time.

The first product must be unique, price-friendly, and highly playable.

Wang Zheng can think of many ways to play with this thing, such as the replaceable CPU and memory design, and the ability to make three levels of graphics card units, high, medium and low for users to choose freely.

At this time, most of the computers were stupid and crude. If Ultron made a fantasy series, I can’t say that it would soar into the sky, but at least it would gain a good reputation as a “pioneer.”

However, this kind of stacked design is not difficult to design, but there is a core problem, which is the connection method and communication delay between units.

The communication bandwidth of this connection interface must be large enough to meet the data transmission of each unit, and the communication delay must be reduced as much as possible to meet the usage requirements.

Finally, this interface must be very stable and can be used as a buckle to connect the units so that the units will not fall off easily.

By the way, this interface also needs power supply.

It's impossible for users to plug in one power cord for each unit. That would be too anti-human and would result in razor blades being sent to them.

After all the calculations, Wang Zheng planned to make a total of 8 functional units with a decorative base that has no function.

The core computing unit, low-end graphics unit and low-end interface unit are the standard version. With these three, it can be used as a small computer host. However, the performance is slightly inferior, but it is enough to play CS:GO.

Then there is the audio unit, the conference unit can be used with WeChat's video conferencing function, and there are additional storage units and power units.

If you add them all up...well, it must be worth a lot of money.