Chapter 241 Inquiring about the enemy's situation

Author: Jing Jing

Chapter 241 Inquiring about the enemy's situation

Shimashita Masaki, who looked sad or happy, turned around and took off his glasses and let out a gentle breath.

"Fortunately, Shirakawa Sang."

Shirakawa Kaede stepped forward, stood in front of him and took a deep look, then bowed solemnly.

"The history of SIC will surely remember this day, Shimasan!"

Shimamasaki looked up and looked at the crowd still cheering and applauding, sighing and smiling.

"It's all the result of everyone's efforts, which reminds me of my experience when I first took a picture."

Shimasaki put on his glasses and looked at the chip on the instrument again. He was stunned and seemed to be trapped in some kind of memory.

"I was still abroad at that time. During the two or three months of preparing for trash, I felt anxious all day long and couldn't fall asleep.

I always wonder where is right or not, and whether there will be any problems.

When the chip came back and when I pressed RESET for the first time, I felt extremely nervous again.

The moment when you release RESET is the moment when you distinguish heaven and hell.”

Shimamasaki sighed and gently stroked the device in front of him.

"If the numbers displayed by the logic analyzer are confused, the mood falls into hell and cannot speak.

If everything is normal, people will feel like they are in heaven.

I feel like the whole world is spinning around me, and I am the king of the world."

As if he was amused by his former childishness, Shimasato shook his head with a chuckle.

"Okay, finally the overall structure is fine." He put his hands on his hips and breathed a long sigh.

"I have recorded the garbled code just now, and a small number of circuits can be slightly modified.

There are also some small bugs that can be bypassed through software.

However, two more mask boards may need to be remade. After all, we still need to add a little more money to Shirakawa Sang."

Looking at Shimamasato's slightly apologetic eyes, Shirakawa Kaede happily stepped forward and patted his shoulder.

"Shisan Shima, it's already amazing. The success of the filming is our greatest victory."

Hearing Shirakawa Kaede's approval, Shimasato nodded with a smile.

Finally, everything went smoothly, and more than one billion yen was not in vain.

As for modifying some circuits and re-creating two mask plates, Shirakawa Kaede doesn't care about this small problem at all.

The board-making fee of 30,000 to 40,000 US dollars is only a few million yen. Compared with the charge of 100 million yen, it is not worth mentioning.

What is most afraid of when drilling is that there is a problem with the overall architecture, which means that all designs need to be demolished and started over.

Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the hundreds of millions of yen that had been leaked before were all wasted.

If some small bugs are ignored, Shirakawa Kaede can already announce the official successful development of SIC8081.

"Please leave the part of the circuit repair in the back!" At this time, Yamazaki, who had just collapsed on the chair, had already stood up again and was full of fighting spirit.

Seeing his confidence, Shimamasaki did not refuse. "Okay, the adjustment part will be left to Yamazaki Kwan. I will review it myself after it is completed."

"Hay!" Yamazaki Hiro responded seriously.

Most of the subsequent work is the final details and fixes some small bugs.

Yamazaki Hiro, who has been studying with Masaki Shima for more than half a year, can also share some subtle work.

As for Masato Shima, he has another part of his work. It is a simplified version developed based on SIC8081.

If it is fast, it may be done in two or three months, after all, the general structure does not need to be moved.

If the knife technique is accurate, after one or two sketch designs, you can roughly enter the next test production of the drill.

Looking at the people who were still excited inside and outside the laboratory, Shirakawa Kaede finally let go of all his worries.

"Everyone, today is the most important day since the establishment of SIC, and history will remember today!

This is also the first commercial processor chip that Neon has developed completely independently, which is very difficult.

The success of SIC8081 is inseparable from everyone's hard work over the past year.

Everyone present, you are the heroes of SIC! Your names should be on the monument of SIC!"

"Oh~!!!" A louder cheer broke out again on the fifth floor of the SIC.

"Go and get champagne, for today's success, we must celebrate a glass!"

Shirakawa Kaede waved his hand and signaled the people below to bring the prepared champagne.

"San Shirakawa, you" Shimamasato looked at this scene with some confusion.

When he went to Fujitsu last time, he wanted to increase everyone's confidence.

He once made a joke to prepare everyone for champagne to wait for his triumphant return.

Now I didn't expect that Shirakawa Kaede took it seriously.

The champagne that had been prepared was brought up soon, but because it was a laboratory area, everyone was cautiously holding their wine glasses for fear of spilling.

"The conditions are limited, and we will hold a celebration banquet when the SIC chips are officially launched.

Then please, the king of the world!" As he said that, Shirakawa Kaede raised his head first and put the glass of wine into his stomach.

"Haha" When Shirakawa Kaede teased, Shimamasari burst into laughter, then raised his glass and drank it all.

Completed the simple celebration and took away the wine glass.

Everyone suppressed their excitement and began to devote themselves to the next step of work with confidence.

Although the chip's first slitting process has some minor twists and turns, it is generally successful.

Therefore, morale is encouraging, and everyone is more looking forward to and confident about their future work.

"The development of subsequent chip versions will be troubled by Shimasan."

Shirakawa Kaede hopes that the enhanced version of the 8-bit processor will be commercially available this year, but overall, time is still a bit tight.

"If everything goes well, maybe we can see it in the second half of the year."

Masato Shima can still guarantee this.

SIC is currently in sufficient staff, and its development efficiency will be greatly improved.

"By the way, do you have any ideas about the naming of subsequent versions?"

Different versions of chips will have models to distinguish them. The same is true for SIC chips.

The naming of the subsequent version? Shirakawa Kaede thought about it for two seconds and then reported a name, "It's called SIC8089."

"Hey" Shimashita Masato didn't understand what the meaning was.

"It's stronger than the 8-bit processor, then just 9." Shirakawa Kaede smiled and gave an explanation.

As for what happens to be a little bigger than Intel's chip 8088, it's a complete coincidence.

"Then let's go 8089." Shimasato had no objection to such a naming.

After chatting with him for a few more words, the work here at SIC has almost come to an end.

The chip design behind it is on track, and you just need to wait and see the next finished product.

As for commercial use, the promotion of 16-bit processors is difficult, at least this year.

After all, it is expensive, so it is estimated that only some professional servers will use it.

But this part of the market is too small to form a scale.

At present, the mainstream of the market is still the 8-bit processor, so the next 8-bit enhanced version of SIC is the highlight.

Shirakawa Kaede already has some ideas about its promotion.

But let these things be put back in advance and deal with what is happening in front of you.

Daitian District, Shirakawa Electric.

Shirakawa Kaede sighed deeply at the financial statements in his hand. There was some good news in SIC just now, but Shirakawa Electric Appliances were all bad news.

The Walkman business in March fell again compared with last month, down nearly 18% compared with the average of last year's second half of last year.

The decline in profit margins of about one-fifth is already a major impact.

As expected, the market that cannot be monopolized has become more effective in driving people.

Perhaps, like last year, the scenario where the highest monthly profit margin in the local area can reach 2 billion yen will never happen again.

Putting down the local financial statements, Shirakawa Kaede picked up the fax sent from North America again. As soon as he looked, he became smiled.

It has been just over three months since 1981. Shirakawa Electric's Walkman has shipped a total of 2.4 million units in North America, and its growth is gratifying.
To be continued...