Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

In Nakajima Heitaro's view, this is a matter of cutting corners, but Bai Chuanfeng thinks it is normal.

The real cutting corners still depends on the various coquettish operations of later generations, and I am very conscientious now.

At least Bai Chuanfeng felt that it was a normal business practice to reduce costs without affecting the basic functions.

In the final analysis, it is still for making money. We can't make everyone satisfied with the portable CD player, but there is no profit at all.

So what is the meaning of the existence of the enterprise? Bai Chuanfeng is very realistic, he only wants to make money.

After watching the portable CD player, Bai Chuanfeng finally had some understanding in his mind.

Just come up with a working physical product, even if it's a lab product, even if it has some minor flaws.

Anyway, when the time comes to stand on the stage, I will be boasting, and others will not be able to see how the specific product is.

With the supporting products, Bai Chuanfeng began to turn his attention to the computer next to him.

"This is our prototype?"

"Hay, it works like a CD player, but all the parts are made separately because of time constraints.

Now it is barely usable, but there are still some troubles in terms of software and system support. "

Shirakawa Kaede and Nakajima Heitaro surrounded the small black box on the table, discussing non-stop while looking at it.

This is the optical drive that Bai Chuanfeng has always wanted to do before. At this press conference, he also wanted to show this black technology.

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

"So what kind of demonstrations can it do?"

The concept machine is just a concept machine, as long as you can let yourself blow it up, Bai Chuanfeng's requirements are not high.

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

This... seems to be a bit different from what I thought. The CD in Bai Chuanfeng's impression is that everything can be stuffed into it.

"Junior Brother Bai Chuan, although we are clear about the working principle of the optical drive, the means to realize it are not difficult.

But storage devices, in addition to hardware requirements, also need software and system support. "

Seemingly knowing that Bai Chuanfeng was a little disappointed, Heitaro Nakajima turned on the computer and entered the system, and it took him a while to enter an interface.

"If our optical drive only has hardware without system identification and software support, it will be no different from a piece of scrap iron."

Soon under his operation, a green indicator light lit up on the top of the black optical drive box on the table, accompanied by the sound of a motor turning.

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

Now it can only recognize text with relatively low capacity and specially processed pictures.

No more, and if there are more, the computer will go into a down state. There will also be problems with the operation of the optical drive, and even damage the disk surface. "

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

This computer can only recognize the optical drive after special debugging, and the content in the optical drive is also specially screened before it can be operated on the computer.

Everything is custom and extremely unstable.

Under the careful operation of Heitaro Nakajima, the computer screen occasionally freezes.

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

Bai Chuanfeng sighed, okay, something is better than nothing.

"Brother, thank you for your hard work, but you must also understand the prospect of the optical drive. It has the potential to become the next flagship product of our Baichuan Electric. Please take care of it."

"Of course" Nakajima Heitaro nodded, this is his field of expertise.

And at this time, he is also very motivated personally. Baichuan Electric is about to go public, except for the original stock purchased internally.

Bai Chuanfeng also gave him some incentive shares. Although these are false shares, there will be some dividends in the future.

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

Therefore, Nakajima Heitaro was also very concerned about the optical drive at this time, and he also knew that this storage technology had a greater prospect than the floppy disk.

The prospect is Qian Jing, so he can't help but not care about it.

Portable CD player and optical drive, these two things are the black technology that Bai Chuanfeng is going to show at the press conference.

If you don't come up with some dry goods, how can you sell stocks and raise the stock price.

All for profit, all for money.

After going over the products to be announced at the end of the month with Nakajima Heitaro, Shirakawa Kaede went straight to Shimasatoshi's office.

What to do, to avoid possible problems with your own chips.

"Shima-san, there is no similarity between our chips and Intel's products, right?"

The ongoing IBM industrial espionage case reminded Bai Chuanfeng.

At the beginning of the design of our own chip, in order to be compatible with Intel's chip, some compilation instructions are common.

He doesn't know whether this constitutes an infringement. If there is a risk, it is too late to adjust it now.

When SIC grows big enough in the future, but Intel suddenly comes to the door, it is not a joke.

The amount of loss that might be lost is in the unit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Bai Chuan-san, don't worry, we have developed our own compilation software now, with our own codes and instructions.

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

"That's good~" Bai Chuanfeng quietly let out a big sigh of relief.

The first batch of arcade machines only shipped tens of thousands of units, and they were all in Neon, so there should be no problem.

Masatoshi Shima understood the reason why he was so nervous. After all, the case of IBM is now almost well known by everyone.

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

From the mutual plagiarism in the video game industry, it can be seen that not only ordinary people, but also many corporate legal persons do not have this awareness.

I believe that after this battle, Nihong's club will be more concealed when copying others, at least it will not be obvious at a glance.

But Masatoshi Shima is different. He has been in Silicon Valley for nearly ten years, how could he not understand the truth.

The original SIC8089 was compatible with Intel's design in terms of compilation instructions in order to quickly introduce it to the market and for the convenience of developers.

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

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

With Bai Chuanfeng's huge investment of more than one billion yuan, the supporting design of software development is naturally not a problem.

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

The so-called compiler and compiling software are to translate the high-level code into a machine language that the processor can understand, similar to an instruction set.

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

In fact, Intel's requirements for the secrecy of the instruction set are not high, after all, the architecture of the chip is the top secret.

But even Bai Chuanfeng, a layman, knows that the structure of the chip is its core.

How could this not be taken into account when developing SIC's own chips.

Now all the chips of SIC are fully applied, and Professor Masatoshi Shima and Matsumura Masaki have developed a new architecture with great concentration by themselves.

This architecture is distinguished from Intel's X86 to the greatest extent, and the purpose is to form its own processor camp.

Bai Chuanfeng knows how outrageous Intel's X86 hegemony is in later generations.

Except for the early chip companies that took advantage of the loopholes, Intel hardly allowed any other manufacturers to use its own X86 architecture.

With the continuous expansion of the processor market, the X86 architecture is also constantly optimized, and its patent barriers are also getting higher and higher.

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

Therefore, Bai Chuanfeng and Shimazatoshi emphasized from the beginning to develop their own chip architecture.

It doesn’t matter if you slow down, and it doesn’t matter if there are some problems. After a long time of slow adjustment, a qualified chip architecture will eventually be born.

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

If hundreds of millions of transistors are integrated together in the future, it will be troublesome.

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

Simple and rude, easy to remember and understand.

The development of the SIC architecture is only two years behind Intel's X86, and the gap is not very obvious.

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

This gives SIC a chance to catch up and also gives SIC time to develop.

Intel is suffering from the decline of DARM business at this time, and the siege of neon semiconductor manufacturers has put more pressure on it.

As for a processor chip developed far away in Neon's homeland, it has no time to care about it.

Their own processor chips are all in a state of stocking, so how can they care about others.

Even the X86 architecture developed by itself has been used by other second-party manufacturers for free.

For example, NEC refers to V20 produced by Intel8088 and V30 produced by Intel8086.

After a few years, Intel gave up the DRAM business that was forced to surrender by neon manufacturers.

When we go back to the development of processor chips, there will definitely be a good show.

Your neon manufacturer forced me to give up the DRAM business, and you dare to secretly copy my processor chip architecture? !

Waiting to lose money!

At that time, the enemy must be extremely jealous when they meet, and Intel's big knife will definitely slash at NEC unceremoniously.

SIC has invested huge sums of money and painstakingly developed its own architecture, and this is its intention.

And it has to be said that the chaos in the DRAM market also provides an excellent cover for the development of SIC.

At the same time, the closure of the neon market has also contributed to the rapid growth of SIC.

If it is in Europe or the United States, SIC has already attracted the attention of others.

There are also benefits of being closed in small days. Don’t you see that this protects the SIC well?

The architecture is completely new and also patented. The compiler has also done circumvention long ago, eliminating all possible infringements.

After confirming the situation, Bai Chuanfeng finally felt relieved. After all, old ricers would sue for infringement at every turn, so be careful.

After going through all these things, the time has entered the end of July, and the explanation meeting of Baichuan Electric will be held soon.

At the same time, the United States sent back some progress on the case between Hitachi and IBM.

During the trial in July, Hitachi's lawyers questioned the relationship between IBM and the FBI and whether there was insider trading between the two.

They even asked the inspection agency to produce documents to prove the relationship between the two, to prove the connection between IBM and Palin who tipped off the letter.

Hitachi took this as an opportunity to file a counterclaim.

I have to say that Hitachi is really tough, even if it is, it is unwilling to admit the fact that it is seeking IBM's confidential information.

Because of Hitachi's fuss, nothing came out of the trial.

It is foreseeable that this tug-of-war will continue for a long time, but Hitachi's toughness is also doomed that IBM will not find fault with Fujitsu early.

That being the case, it is time for Shirakawa Electric's briefing session to be held.