Chapter 325 Everything is ready

Author: quiet thoughts

Chapter 325 Everything is ready

To Heitaro Nakajima, this was not cutting corners, but Kaede Benikawa thought it was normal.

The real cutting of corners will depend on the various tricks of later generations. I am already very conscientious in doing so.

At least Hongchuan Feng feels that it is normal business behavior to reduce costs without affecting basic functions.

At the end of the day, you can't make money if you don't do it. You can't make a portable CD player that satisfies everyone but make no profit at all.

What is the meaning of the existence of such a company? Hong Chuanfeng is very realistic, he just wants to make money.

After watching Portable CD Player, Hongchuan Feng finally felt a little confident.

Just take out a physical product that can work normally, even if it is not a laboratory product, even if it has some minor flaws.

Anyway, when the time comes, they will stand on stage and brag, and they won’t be able to see how the specific product is.

With the products to support the show, Hongchuan Feng began to turn his attention to the computer next to him.

"Then take their prototype?"

"Hey, its working principle is similar to a CD player, but because of the tight time, all the parts cannot be made separately.

It's barely usable now, but it's a bit troublesome in terms of software and system support."

Hongkawa Kaede and Nakajima Heitaro gathered around the small black box on the table. They looked at it and discussed it non-stop.

Then there was the optical drive that Hong Chuanfeng had always wanted to develop. At that press conference, he also wanted to show off that kind of black technology.

The optical drive on the table is equivalent to a concept machine. Like the portable CD player, it is a product of a laboratory.

"So what demonstrations can it do?"

A concept phone is just a concept phone, just give it a good try. Hongchuan Feng’s requirements are not high.

Heitaro Nakajima turned on the computer and hesitated, "Probably just text and a customized picture."

That seems to be a bit different from what I thought. Hongchuan Kaede's impression of the CD is that everything can be inserted into it.

"Junior brother Hongchuan, although they clearly understand the working principle of Qunmao drive, they have realized the desolate and healthy legs and arms.

But for things like storage devices, in addition to hardware requirements, it also requires software and system support.”

Seemingly knowing that Hongchuan Kaede was a little disappointed, Nakajima Heitaro turned on the computer and entered the system. He struggled for a while before entering an interface.

"If their optical drive has hardware but no system identification and software support, it will be no different than a piece of scrap metal."

Soon as he was operating, a green indicator light came on on the top of the black optical drive box, and there was a sound of motor rotation.

"Because time is urgent, there is no time to contact Microsoft for system support. They can ask Fujitsu to modify the underlying logic and forcibly identify the optical drive.

It can now recognize text with low capacity and specially processed images.

No more, otherwise the computer will enter a downtime state. There will also be problems with the operation of the optical drive, or even damage to the disk."

To put it bluntly, the use of current optical drives is very restrictive.

The computer must undergo special debugging before it can recognize the optical drive, and the content in the optical drive must also undergo special screening before it can be operated on the computer.

Everything is uncontrolled and extremely unstable.

Under Heitaro Nakajima's careful operation, the computer screen would occasionally freeze.

It can be seen that the current optical drive is very rough, and the software support is equivalent to nothing.

Hongchuan Feng sighed, okay, it's better than nothing.

"Thank you for your hard work, senior brother. I believe that the future of the optical drive is bright, too. It has the potential to become a flagship product of their Hongchuan Electric Co., Ltd. Please be sure to pay more attention to it."

"Of course" Nakajima Heitaro nodded, that was not his area of ​​expertise.

Moreover, he was personally very motivated at this time. Hongchuan Electric was about to be listed on the market, except for the original shares purchased externally.

Hong Chuanfeng gave him some incentive shares. Although these were not virtual shares, there would be some dividends in the future.

Isn't the reason for such preferential treatment because of his contribution to CD technology?

Therefore, Heitaro Nakajima was very concerned about the optical drive at this time, and he also knew that this kind of storage technology had far greater prospects than floppy disks.

The future is not about money, so he can't help but care about it.

Portable CD players and optical drives are the black technologies that Hongchuan Feng is planning to show off at the press conference.

If you don't come up with some practical information, how can you sell stocks and how can you raise the stock price?

Everything is about profit, everything is about money.

After going over the products he wanted to announce at the end of the month with Heitaro Nakajima, Hongkawa Kaede went straight to Shima Masatoshi's office.

What to do, to avoid the problems of our own chip cocoa.

"Shima-san, their chips are not similar to Intel's products, right?"

The ongoing IBM industrial espionage case gave Hongchuan Feng a wake-up call.

From the very beginning of design, our own chips are not compatible with Intel's chips, and are certain compilation instructions universal?

He didn't know that the structure would constitute infringement. If there was a risk, it would be too late to make adjustments now.

When SIC grows large enough in the future, it would be a joke if Intel suddenly comes looking for it.

Maybe the amount of losses is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Please rest assured Hongchuan-san, they have now developed their own compilation software, with their own coding and instructions.

Except for the first batch of products used in Jiaowang, all subsequent chips have been updated with underlying instruction codes."

"That's good~" Hongchuan Feng quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiaowang shipped tens of thousands of units in the first batch, and most of them are in Neon, so there should be no problem.

Masato Shima understands why he is so nervous. After all, the case of IBM and Neon are now well known to everyone.

In the past, people did not have the concept of software copyright, and in some aspects it was easy to directly copy the designs of competitors.

It can be seen from the common plagiarism trend in the video game industry that not only ordinary people, but also many corporate and legal persons have no awareness in this regard.

I believe that after this battle, Neon's club will be more secretive when copying them, at least it will not be obvious at first glance.

But Fudao Zhengli is different. He has been in Silicon Valley for nearly ten years, so how could he not understand the reasons behind his popularity?

The original SIC8089 could not be quickly introduced to the market, and could it be convenient for developers, so that the compilation instructions were compatible with Intel's design.

A long time ago, after the chip was mass-produced, he was developing SIC's own compiler.

The purpose is to replace the previous compatible design as soon as possible and form your own compilation style.

With Hongchuan Feng’s huge investment of more than one billion, the supporting design of the development software is naturally not a problem.

After all, the current chip structure is actually not that complicated, and starting from scratch does not have as high a threshold as in later generations.

The so-called compiler, compiled software, translates high-level code into machine language that the processor can understand, similar to an instruction set.

It is compatible with the chip architecture and is a tool that can improve development efficiency.

In fact, Intel's current confidentiality requirements for faulty instruction sets are not high. After all, the chip architecture is top secret.

Even a layman like Hong Chuanfeng knows that the architecture of a chip is its core.

How could you not take that into consideration when developing SIC's own chips?

Now all SIC chips are applied, and professors Shima Masato and Matsumura Masakiyoshi have devoted themselves to developing the new architecture.

That kind of architecture differentiates it from Intel's X86 to the greatest extent, so as to form its own processor camp.

Does Hong Chuanfeng know how outrageous Intel's X86 hegemony will be in future generations?

Except for a few early chip companies that exploited loopholes, Intel hardly allows any other manufacturer to use its own X86 architecture.

As the processor market continues to expand, the X86 architecture is also constantly optimized, and its patent barriers are getting higher and higher.

Later, almost no other company broke its monopoly in the terminal processor market.

So Hongkawa Kaede emphasized with Shimamasa and others from the beginning to develop their own chip architecture.

Slow down, and there will be no problems. If you adjust slowly over time, a qualified chip architecture will eventually be born.

Fortunately, the current chip structure is not complicated. There are tens of thousands of external transistors, so there is no problem in rebuilding the circuit structure.

It would be troublesome if hundreds of millions of transistors were integrated together in future generations.

In more than two years, SIC has also successfully developed its own chip architecture design, which is named SIC architecture.

Simple and crude, easy to remember and understand.

The development of the SIC architecture was two years later than Intel's X86, and the gap is not obvious.

Especially now that Intel's main business focus is on DRAM chips, the CPU business is still very weak and not taken seriously.

That gives SIC a chance to catch up and also gives SIC time to develop.
To be continued...