Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

"In order to develop the Cornerstone System, we solved nearly a thousand technical problems and applied for 1,500 technical patents. The Cornerstone System source code reached an astonishing 10 million lines. Even after several optimizations, its size is With a huge size of 200M."

"This amount of data far exceeds the storage capacity of the largest hard drive in the personal computer field today. Even in the server field, there is almost no single piece of hardware that can load it."

"The reason why it's so huge, I just explained it, is to meet our requirements for the best desktop system."

"But there is only one reason why we dare to make the system so big: yes, we already have the hardware to run it smoothly."

"How do we allocate our animation computing resources? The answer is, allocate them to the graphics card."

"We realized that the logic of graphics operations is different from that of general-purpose processors. It is actually a waste to use the CPU to perform graphics operations."

"So we developed an independent graphics processing unit - the graphics card, which transfers all display-related operations of the computer to the graphics card to avoid wasting computing resources."

"The Blue Dragon graphics card has a main frequency of 200 MHz and 30M of independent memory. In addition to helping your computer complete some small animation effects, it can also allow you to smoothly play some games that require more image processing."

"In order to demonstrate the performance of the Blue Dragon graphics card, we made a game demo."

As he spoke, Patrick opened an icon on the desktop.

It was a simple silhouette of an M16 assault rifle. Soon a menu bar appeared on the screen. Patrick randomly selected a few of them and clicked start.

As soon as the screen turned, a fully 3D building appeared on the screen, and Patrick played a special police officer, rushing into a building with his teammates and engaging in gun battles with numerous robbers.

Yes, this is a castrated version of CS. It has only one map and only two or three weapons to choose from. There is no online battle function, and you can only fight enemies played by computers.

The sharp-edged character modeling, the extremely blurry textures, and the rigid and rigid movements, in the era before Murphy time traveled, no one would take a second look.

But this was still 1990, and the video game industry was still dominated by arcades. Almost all fun computer games were transplanted versions of arcade games, and most of them were 2D side-scrolling games.

A 3D computer game that can move in all directions and from all angles. Not to mention that you have never seen it, you just have never dared to think about it.

Is it because game developers don’t want to make a game with more realistic graphics and a more immersive game?

Of course not, but based on the hardware level at this time, just running some exquisite 2D texture animations is almost draining the performance.

3D, gunfight? That's the stuff of dreams.

But now, someone has made the things in their dreams come true.

In order to demonstrate the effect, Patrick seemed to have practiced this game. After a while, he killed two terrorists and was later killed by a grenade.

But the scene still continues, and the teammates and enemies played by the computer are still fighting.

"My marksmanship is not very accurate," Patrick smiled self-deprecatingly. "Usually I get killed before I enter the warehouse."

But now, no one cares about Patrick's gaming skills. A Japanese young man from Nintendo stood up and said, "Excuse me, what chip does this graphics card use? Do you plan to sell this chip?"

"The graphics card uses the Blue Dragon GPU. GPU means image processor. It has a main frequency of 200 MHz and uses a 0.3 micron process. It has 3 million transistors. Its computing performance exceeds all existing commercial chips, and we have carried out It has been specially designed to make it more suitable for graphics and image processing."

"Of course we are ready to sell this chip, but due to production capacity factors, we can only give priority to supplying our own products at the moment. However, we will launch this chip to the market next year."

next year……

In other words, this chip with absolute technological dominance will be dominated by computer products - or in other words, it will be dominated by blue queen computers for a whole year.

At least for the next year, Blue Queen Computer will be the most outstanding and high-end gaming platform.

The Japanese young man immediately picked up the phone. He must report the matter to the headquarters immediately.

Another young man stood up and asked not about the Blue Dragon graphics card but the storage hardware. "You just mentioned that this cornerstone system has a capacity of up to 200M, but you said before that it is loaded on an SSD solid state drive. Does this mean that Umbrella Company has developed a solid-state drive with a capacity of over 200M?”

"How many storage pellets did you use? How much does it cost?"

Patrick looked at the other party's location, oh, IBM's.

"In fact," Patrick said, "our solid-state drive capacity has reached 500M. As for its storage particles, there are 25. The price is 10,000 pounds."

In other words, the capacity of each storage chip is as high as 20M.

The average storage capacity per M is worth £20.

This sounds like an extremely expensive price, but you must know that the world's first solid-state drive launched by IBM last year only had a capacity of 1M, and its price was as high as $3,500! And the performance is not even as good as an ordinary hard drive.

But the response speed of Umbrella Company's solid-state drives has far exceeded that of ordinary mechanical hard drives, exceeding IBM's by countless times.

The price difference is nearly a hundred times, but the performance is even better.

It is conceivable that the flash memory market will be dominated by umbrella companies in the future.

As for floppy disks and the like, forget about them. With such cheap flash memory, who would use that useless thing?

IBM's path to storage chips has been completely blocked.

Then, Patrick introduced the mechanical hard drive in the computer with up to 100G and a read and write speed of 3200 rpm, as well as a huge 50M memory - Mana.

Compared with the hard drive capacity of about 1G and the memory capacity of about 1M at this time, these are two blockbusters that are enough to destroy the competitors.

Next is the LCD display.

At this time, the display devices of computers and televisions were generally CRT electronic picture tube displays. They were huge and bulky, and due to the limitation of the deviation range of electronic picture tubes, the display ratio of 4:3 was generally chosen.

Even though Apple's computers have made some designs on the monitors to make them look more modern and have unique design aesthetics, they can only produce 16:9 wide-format, ultra-thin and lightweight LCD monitors. It will look old and outdated.

Especially after the advantages of LCD display panels were demonstrated in a shocking way such as a super large screen wall, Patrick's words, "LCD is the future of the display market." It completely took root in everyone's hearts.

Finally, there is the chip.

This part is actually the easiest.

There is no need to show any design or humanistic care, Patrick just put the values ​​​​of Silver Dragon One on the screen.

0.2 micron process, 10 million transistors, 1GHz frequency.

This is equivalent to a product that will be around 2000 years in the future. You must know that the most advanced 486 processor at this time has only 1.2 million transistors and a main frequency of just over 100 MHz. Facing a monster with ten times the performance of itself, Just like the space force trying to block the water droplets, being instantly killed to pieces is the only ending.

At this moment, all the giants in the electronics industry present at the meeting, including IBM, Intel, Microsoft... all understood what Patrick said at the beginning.

I hope you won’t hate me too much after the meeting...

Thanks to Yue Bandun'er for the reward~Thank you for your support~

Starting from the next chapter, the plot is about to rush forward~ Dear readers, sit tight and hold on tight~