Chapter 677: Soft persimmon

"Of course, Eric, I am honored, but I have a better idea."
While talking, Jim Clark stood up and greeted a fat white man in his thirties who was chatting with Dr. Rice in the room: "John, John, come here."
Hearing someone calling him, the man couldn't help but paused the conversation with Rice. After looking around, he found Jim sitting on the sofa. He couldn't help but smiled. After politely apologizing to Dr. Rice, he walked over. .
Tan Zhenhua stood up politely when he saw him coming. Jim introduced them: "Eric, this is John Reloy Hennessy, John, this is Leon’s investor, it’s amazing. Eric Tan, the Chinese boy."
"Call me John." The visitor smiled and stretched out his hand and shook Tan Zhenhua's hand, and Tan Zhenhua also smiled and responded: "Good John, you can call me Eric."
To be honest, Tan Zhenhua was a little surprised when he first heard the name, and even wanted to laugh, because the word "Hennessy" to Chinese people generally refers to a certain kind of extremely expensive foreign wine, he did not expect it to be Others use this as the last name.
Does this Mr. John own a winery at home? While Tan Zhenhua was thinking about it, Jim continued to introduce: "John is a PhD in computer science from Stony Brook University in New York. He is currently working as an associate professor in our Stanford Computer Department. He leads a team. The ongoing research project is a 32-bit computer. This CPU uses a completely different architecture. I personally think that this chip will completely change the current CPU landscape."
"Oh?" Tan Zhenhua couldn't help but raised his eyebrows. Jim's words aroused Tan Zhenhua's interest, and at the same time made him seem to touch something in the depths of his memory but he was not sure for a while.
"What kind of structure?" He asked casually, pretending not to care.
"Microprocessorwithoutinterlockedpipedstages, a micro-processing framework without internal interlocked pipedstages." John replied. After talking about the lengthy name, he saw Tan Zhenhua's expression a little dazed, so he had to explain: "It's actually a RISC reduced instruction set architecture CPU, Eric, do you know the RISC architecture?"
I know, how could I not know. Not long ago, Tan Zhenhua bought a company called "Oak Seed" in Britain, and changed its name to the "ARM" that became famous in the world in the future. The road is paved for a small CPU with a RISC architecture called ARM in the future!
Today, now, at this moment, Tan Zhenhua heard that the structure of RISC was mentioned again, and his heart was suddenly struck by lightning!
It turned out to be him!
It turned out to be it!
MIIPS, apart from it, there can be no others!
As a former Huaxia military researcher, Tan Zhenhua is very clear about the importance of the MIIPS architecture to Huaxia, because, in his previous life, this was the only one that China had mastered intellectual property rights and could follow its own original structure. A CPU architecture that needs any development!
It is also on the basis of this framework that the Chinese CPU with completely independent intellectual property rights-Godson!
In his previous life, Loongson was unable to compete with the X86 giant Intel, AMD or another RISC giant ARM on the cruel commercial battlefield due to the late birth, poor promotion, scarcity of application software environment and development tools. , But it has obtained great applications in the high-performance computing and military fields. Whether it is the "Dongfeng Express" that has been talked about by military fans or the "Beidou Navigation Constellation" that makes Chinese people proud, there is one at the core of these devices. Loongson, which provides it with powerful data processing capabilities!
This structure is so important that Tan Zhenhua feels that since he met, he must never let go of anything!
In fact, the early 1980s was the era when CPUs flourished. In terms of basic architecture, they were divided into CISC and RISC camps. Among them, the representatives of the CISC camp at this time are undoubtedly Intel’s X86 and Motorola’s M68000. There will be one more AMD, and VIA will also come to the studio; as for the RISC camp, whether it is IBM’s PowerPC, SUN’s UltraSPARC, DEC’s Alpha, HP’s EPIC, Transmeta’s VLIW, Acorn’s ARM... these will be Short-lived or glorious names are still in gestation.
You can look at the owners of these CPU architectures. IBM, DEC, or HP are already towering giants. Tan Zhenhua wants to get these companies to obtain permanent authorization and secondary development rights for the CPU architecture. It is simply unrealistic. It is evident from the difficulties that he himself recently wanted to buy a computer with a slightly better performance. Counting with my fingers, Acorn and MIIPS are still two soft persimmons.
As the saying goes, "Pick the persimmons softly"... Is that correct? Of these two soft persimmons, one of them has been firmly held by Tan Zhenhua. In the future, ARM will focus on embedded and smart portable devices. His previous experience of seeing pig running tells him that the ARM architecture has nothing to do in this field. Comparable advantages, and in the field of high-performance computing, it depends on MIIPS.
Although he is not an IT major, Tan Zhenhua still knows that the MIIPS architecture has many outstanding features designed for higher performance levels and application efficiency. It does not consider the market performance and application environment of various CPUs, only from the design and performance of the processor. In terms of consumption ratio, if you want to compare the most classic RISC processor, MIPS is none other than MIPS. Even its competitors have to admit its elegance. It is regarded as a model of processor textbooks by the industry. After its birth, it can be found in the design of many other processors.
What's more, the starting point of this CPU is very high. Its first model is 32-bit. If you compare products from another camp, only Intel’s classic 80386 can be compared. However, that CPU requires It was officially born on October 17, 1985.
The decision was made in his heart, and the smile on Tan Zhenhua's face became more charming: "John, can you give me a detailed introduction to your CPU?"
"Of course, Eric, even without Jim, I'm afraid this is something I must do." John Hennessy replied with a smile, "Because Mr. Possack just told me that the samples I provided him have passed the test. , Will be applied to the new product he named "router"."
Tan Zhenhua almost knocked on his head.
How can I forget that routers also need a computing core! This is my own negligence... In fact, it is not negligence. Tan Er is currently in the IT industry only a god-stick figure who is fooled around the world based on his previous life experience. He wants to discuss some advanced knowledge, hehe, then he has to be counseled immediately!
Fortunately, Tan Er’s face is really thick, and he suddenly said:
It seems that when I didn’t know, Mr. John had already become an important member of our team. Then congratulations, John, but I just heard what Jim said. It means that your new CPU has not been finalized yet? Why has it passed Mr. Bosak's test now?"
"Actually it has been completed, but it has not yet been mass-produced." John Hennessy laughed and said, "Why didn't Leon tell you? Today's party is to celebrate the successful completion of the router equipped with this CPU. The basic test was successfully connected to our Stanford campus network. In the next six months, this CPU and the router equipped with it will continue to run, and our job is to find out all possible existence BUG."
"That's great," Tan Zhenhua smiled: "Jim and John, I have a hunch, I think we will soon become a family."