1991 Starting from the core

Just a five-minute demo version can make a group of testing technicians have a lot of fun. This is something Su Yuanshan did not expect.

But this just goes to show how attractive a "good" game is right now.

After testing all the mainstream configurations, everyone found that without the VOODOO accelerator card, even the most powerful configurations would not be able to play.

And with the VOODOO card, even Cyrix's 486DX and AMD486 can barely run...

There is no frame rate display at this time. Su Yuanshan can only judge with the naked eye that it is slightly better than the slide show, about 10 frames.

Li Mingliu had some regrets after playing with Cyrix's configuration. As a member of the CPU project team, he knew that Cyrix's future energy would be the same as here, all focused on the Sol core. At best, the old architecture needs to be tinkered with and the frequency improved.

"I didn't expect that Pentium would be fulfilled." Li Mingliu said with a smile.

"Well, it's okay. People are advancing rapidly in technology now, so naturally they have to enjoy the dividends brought by technology." Su Yuan chuckled, not caring at all.

Seeing Su Yuanshan's confidence, Chen Daohua couldn't help but joked: "Mr. Su, when you say that, I'm very curious about how powerful your new core can be - can it completely crush Intel?"

"It depends on Intel's subsequent development." Su Yuanshan answered conservatively.

As he said that, he stared at the 66MHz Pentium on the table for several seconds, then looked away, with a smile on his lips.

It is precisely because Intel moved so fast that Intel did not reach an agreement with Yuanxin EDA. Instead, it became the core partner of the EDA alliance in the lighthouse country and enjoyed the most "precious" services of several EDA companies...

In the past two years, due to a combination of blows from Yuanxin EDA, it is an exaggeration to say that the EDA market in the lighthouse country was completely defeated, but it is true that they were forced to integrate and form alliances.

Now in the field of EDA chip design, Zhiyuan, Synopsys, and Cadence are basically divided into three parts: Wei, Shu, and Wu. Zhiyuan occupies more than half of the market share, while Synopsys and Cadence specialize in automatic wiring and simulation functions respectively. They also open interfaces to each other and launch a counterattack against Zhiyuan EDA.

The result is that Intel has completely given up on Zhiyuan EDA this year...

Or, it has never used YXEDA on the Pentium architecture.

Therefore, its trajectory is the same as in its previous life.

There are no mistakes that should be made.

As someone who has worked for Intel, Su Yuanshan knows what mistakes Intel made on the first-generation Pentium.

Pentium FDIV bug (Pentium Floating Point Division Error) - a BUG or error that only exists in the first generation Pentium. It kept Andy Grove up all night, and finally made up his mind to recall all affected CPUs. This battle caused Intel to suffer losses of more than half a billion dollars.

The reason for this BUG is that Intel burned the entire multiplication table into the processor in order to speed up the calculation. Out of the 2048 multiplication numbers, 5 were entered incorrectly. So that when performing multiplication and division operations on specific numbers, incorrect results will be obtained.

This is caused by carelessness and is not a technical defect of Intel.

As a result, after the recall, it even miraculously established a brand effect of "dare to take action", so that its performance subsequently skyrocketed.

In Su Yuanshan's view, this is actually just the most basic honest choice made by Intel. As the saying goes, you should admit when you are wrong and stand upright when you are beaten. This is what they say.

However, in this life, Su Yuanshan will not easily let his "old club" suffer a blessing in disguise.

The more it sells, the better.

…

The next day, Li Mingliu finally said that he had rested and was determined to go back to work. He also said that labor is a natural human right and that even Su Yuanshan, the boss, could not deprive him of this sacred right.

What else can Su Yuanshan say? He could only warn Li Mingliu that the body is the capital of revolution. If you have no idea for the time being, you can consider getting other memory chips to change your mind.

After sending Li Mingliu away, Su Yuanshan returned to the provincial capital with three VOODOO accelerator cards, saying that he would take one and put it in the archives for future display in the museum - Yuanxin's attitude towards every historical node is very precious, or it should be kept. Either the video record is taken, or the physical product is left behind.

After he returned to the provincial capital, Xi Xiaoding also happened to return from the capital, and then his father also went to the capital with all the achievements of the 16-bit microcontroller...

It was decided in October that the academic members would be renamed academicians in order to be in line with international standards. At the same time, next year will also be the time for the biennial election of academicians.

Su Xinghe was a scholar after all. Even if he wasn't greedy for money and power, who would dare to let go of his reputation so easily? What's more, he will probably become the dean of the newly established "School of Computer Science and Engineering" next year. By then, with many mundane things and his growing age, it will be difficult to produce results himself.

Therefore, it is always right to run and compete.

Su Yuanshan has always supported his father's struggle, and due to his professional background, there is a high probability that his father will become the first batch of academicians of the Academy of Engineering established next year.

On December 10th, the Sony delegation quietly arrived in the provincial capital. The two parties negotiated for nearly a week, almost counting patents one by one, before finally reaching a patent licensing agreement and technology exchange that was acceptable to both parties.

At the same time, Yuanxin Chemical Laboratory also provided relevant test data and results on lithium iron phosphate cathode materials.

After obtaining the data, Dr. Kazunori Ozawa, the leader of the Nifang lithium battery team who came to Yuanxin in person, even made an unexpected request - he wanted to borrow Yuanxin's laboratory and test it right away.

Of course, his request could not be fulfilled, but Su Yuanshan told him that the two parties could have in-depth exchanges and sharing purely from an academic perspective.

Cheng Peng's team, which got the lithium battery solution here, acted quickly, intending to understand the technology as quickly as possible and then launch safe commercial lithium-ion batteries as quickly as possible.

…

At eleven o'clock that night after seeing Sony off, Su Yuanshan walked out of the Chemical Vapor Precipitation Laboratory.

After waiting for a few minutes at the door of the lithium battery laboratory next door, Li Xiao took off his white coat and walked out of the door while arranging his hair.

"how's it going?"

"Hey, even if you learn modern literature, you can't understand it so quickly, right?" Li Xiao stretched out, then put his hands behind his waist, straightened his chest, and made a stretching movement: "The information on Niguo people is all in Japanese. , and you have to translate it first - luckily Gao Chang has learned it, otherwise it would be too boring."

"Haha, why didn't you say that all our information is in Chinese?"

"That's right...but they gave me too much information. I feel like they did it on purpose."

Su Yuanshan just smiled.

Yuanxin and Sony already have a very in-depth cooperation. Of course, both parties will not worry about each other cheating and providing false information and data. But it’s perfectly normal to use someone who doesn’t understand the language to cause some interference.

After all, there will be competition after all.

Li Xiao put away his hand, stood up straight and said, "What's for dinner tonight? I think Dandan noodles are good."

"Well, whatever - but Sister Xiao, I have a mission for you."

"What mission?"

"Abandon the carbon negative electrode and consider other polymer materials as the negative electrode. At the same time, abandon the current electrolyte and use organic solvents as the electrolyte."

Su Yuanshan looked at Li Xiao: "My intuition tells me that this is safer."

Li Xiao: "!!!"