Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Although Andy Grove is famous for his stubborn temper, he can only pretend to be a grandson in front of Tang Huan, because Intel is indeed at a loss at this point.

"Since you have so many concerns, then compare the previous intel8086, Intel will continue to set up a second supplier for intel80286." Andy Grove promised with a smile, "I will still give you a license, now Always rest assured. In addition, we have not slackened in increasing production capacity."

"If this is the case, the development of a personal computer using intel80286 will reduce some serious worries." Tang Huan's expression slowed down and nodded.

However, with the increasing complexity of the cpu architecture, even if it is formally authorized, the development progress of third-party vendors will still lag greatly.

In the original time and space, in the era before Intel introduced microprocessors, similar copycats of AMD often took about a year to go on the market.

Therefore, in this time difference, the passivity is still very obvious, but we can only believe in Intel's ethics.

In fact, in terms of business ethics, Intel in this period is still remarkable. For example, it has set a restriction for itself, that is, it does not enter the field that competes with its customers.

The specific performance is in the personal computer market. There is no shortage of processor manufacturers. They are jealous when they see customers taking their own microprocessors to assemble products that are welcomed by the market, so they enter this industry with a heel.

After launching the extremely successful microprocessor 6502, it was acquired by Kang Maoda due to financial difficulties.

As a result, the company has formed a complete vertical system from cpu, memory to personal computer. Since pet, Apple’s Apple and Dondi’s trs-80 pushed the development of personal computers to the second stage, the marketing has become more Becoming more aggressive.

This year, Kang Maoda released a new eight-bit personal computer 64, the hardware configuration is not bad, but the price is only 595 US dollars, and there are even cheaper personal computers on the product line. It is a posture to wipe out other cheap and low-end computers of the same kind.

Therefore, now Apple does not directly purchase 6502 from there, but chooses a compatible cpu from Synertek, the second source of supply.

Another unkind cpu manufacturer is Texas Instruments, when the calculator market was booming in the early 1970s. It grabbed this market with users who use its own microprocessors. While providing chip sales prices, it fought a price war with calculators, squeezing the living space of competitors, and the result was a market collapse. All the participants were out. At that time, Kang Maoda was one of the victims.

Today, in the field of personal computers, Texas Instruments plays the same role. It and Comoda are in the low-end market under $500, fighting to the death.

And these two companies coincidentally, set the home video game consoles during this price period as the target of the fire, and most of the CPUs used in such products are their products.

It is not difficult to guess, if Intel also relies on this vertical integration of cpu, memory, and personal computer advantages. What kind of chaos the market will be if you join the battle group.

Tang Huan is very disdainful of the business strategy of Kang Mao Da and Texas Instruments. Relying on the advantages of industrial integration, in the low-end market shopping, in addition to the seemingly considerable sales volume, how much actual profit can be said.

And limited by the current level of development of the semiconductor industry, the low-end products at this time are far away from the low-end products that can be evaluated as "sufficient" in the original time and space decades later. It's simply using trash to fool curious but unaware consumers.

Think about the two cpu manufacturers that have brought huge market pressure to their own Xiaobawang game consoles, and look at the submissive Andy Grove in front of him, Tang Huan doesn't have so much resentment against Intel.

Therefore, as the atmosphere of the talks became harmonious. Tang Huan made a clear statement, "Intel wants to quickly avoid the inevitable bugs in the early days of intel80286. We are also starting to develop personal computers with intel80286 processors. As for the compiler, we will naturally not forget."

Having said that, Tang Huan smiled playfully. "I want to see if I am fast or ibm is fast."

"It doesn't matter which of you is fast. Intel is the beneficiary of the drought and flood guarantees." Andy Grove, with a smile on his face, thought to himself.

After Andy Grove left contentedly, Tang Huan called his cheap student Anders Heelsberg over and instructed about the compiler.

After the release, although Anders Heelsberg was young, he also established his own position. Seeing that he could convince the public, Tang Huan made him the head of the programming tool software department.

The support for intel80286 is nothing more than the support for new instructions, especially the exception handling mechanism, you know, this is a good thing, with it, the program crash will be obviously controllable.

But the difficulty is also limited to this, after all, the intel80286 is far from reaching the level of earth-shaking changes in the structure, Anders? Heelsberg is pleased to take the lead.

The research and development of personal computers using intel80286 naturally has to be undertaken by the R&D center. Tang Huan solved it after only a meeting in the past.

The reason why the weight is so light is that Gein's second-generation Fangyuan computer system, that is, the standard, is not empty talk.

The key point of this upgrade is mainly reflected in the research and development of the north-south bridge chip matched with intel80286, and then follow up with the operating system. Other hardware architectures such as buses do not need to be changed for the time being.

Of course, the more difficult technical difficulties are not without, the problem mainly appears in the biggest improvement of intel80286-it provides two modes of operation: real mode and protected mode.

Intel did not realize how deep-rooted the stickiness of software is, that is, compatibility with older versions of application code is becoming increasingly important.

Although intel80286 still supports the real mode of intel8086, it cannot be switched back after switching to the unique protection mode of intel80286, and the protection mode itself is not fully compatible with real mode.

In the original time and space, Intel also realized that it took it for granted in this upgrade transition. So a virtual protection mode was added in the later intel80386 to solve this problem.

The second-generation Fangyuan computer is far more advanced than ibm-, for example, it does not use a fixed number to define the purpose of the upper part of the memory address space like the latter, thus avoiding many shortcomings. In theory, the standard of the second-generation Fangyuan computer can achieve no difference between the real mode and the protected mode.

However, in terms of specific implementation, for the inherent characteristics of the cpu such as memory addressing, the second-generation Fangyuan computer standard is still unavoidably restricted like ibm-, and has to make some adjustments specific to Intel's cpu.

Fortunately, compared to ibm- which is inherently inadequate in design. These technical problems were much easier to solve. After Tang Huan gave some guidance, he turned his attention to the computer image function of Fangyuan's personal workstation.

Specifically, it is the processing of visual effects in many categories, and-computer animation.

Just as for cad, Tang Huan established a satellite company that specializes in operating software products, and for this purpose, he also established another satellite company-the digital field or d2.

Spielberg has finished filming "e.t. Aliens", the newly established d2, and Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic. Take on the task of special effects together.

A "et alien", for Spielberg, is not much work, so he still has free time to write and shoot a horror movie for MGM ""-"Noisy "Ghost", gradually began to track d2, taking on more special effects tasks.

James Cameron, who is actively preparing for the "Terminator", has contributed a lot to the improvement of d2's business capabilities.

In addition to visual effects, computer animation is also a major business of d2.

However, even Tang Huan frequently turns on the golden fingers of the tech madman. However, Fangyuan's personal workstation still lacks the performance of computer graphics, and cannot achieve the level of complete computer animation in the original time-space movie "Toy Story" released in 1995.

This is the objective reality. No matter how great Tang Huan is, he can't get rid of the shackles of the basic rules of the world.

then. Tang Huan’s goal for d2 is to first become an effective aid to traditional animation, stop-motion animation and other animation methods, and to find a breakthrough in computer animation short films. Finally, the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was released in the original time and space in 1988. The technical level of cooperation between two-dimensional animated characters and real actors is the goal of the first stage.

At present, d2 has completed two computer animation short films, both of which are advertising videos for ea.

The first is the animation of "Street Fighter", which mainly shows the wonderfulness of Chinese Kung Fu. The effect is self-evident. Just as in the original time and space. Blizzard’s amazing cg for "Warcraft 3" has aroused worldwide admiration.

Although the role of the monk in the game cannot be so vivid, but the appearance is there, and this advertising short film has greatly aroused the interest of the audience, making "Street Fighter" the most popular arcade game at the moment.

This may have something to do with the current overall economic situation in the United States. Because people have not seen any improvement yet, people subconsciously need a simple way to relieve stress, and the very shocking "Street Fighter" has become a A good choice, in the dynamic music, the opponent temporarily escaped from reality.

The popularity of "Street Fighter" can be seen from the players on the Xiaobawang game console repeatedly asking ea when to launch the version of the home TV game console.

Of course, these players are destined to be disappointed. The graphics acceleration module of the current Xiaobawang game console is not as powerful as the Xiaobawang arcade machine, and it is temporarily unable to provide the hardware performance required by "Street Fighter".

Moreover, in Tang Huan's view, even if the version of "Street Fighter" for home video game consoles can be launched now, it may not be more effective than waiting for the industry to collapse after the entire North American market.

d2’s second advertising video was used to help Cassidy’s game console fight back against the low-end computers of companies such as Kang Maoda. Because of the other’s marketing slogan, “Instead of buying a game console that can only play games, it’s better to buy one A personal computer that can both play games and learn" is really disgusting.

This commercial short for counterattack is inspired by the Chinese allusion that “painting a tiger is not an anti-dog”. For low-end computers such as Kang Maoda, it seems that both games and learning are taken into consideration, but in reality, it is not a delay. It was a mockery of marketing that was completely fooling laymen.

Computer animation, a novel method of content production, naturally once again attracted people's attention to a great extent, and ea slapped its competitors severely.

Kang Maoda has no counterattack to this ~www.wuxiahere.com~ because the video effect of the 1982 version of the Cassidy game console has reached the level of the current general arcade machine-naturally not including the own Cassidy arcade machine, their low-end In contrast, cheap personal computers are indeed a lot more amateurish.

However, Kang Maoda has shown offensiveness in marketing as always. It immediately announced that it would lower the price of 64, which was released this year, by $100.

Seeing this scenario, Texas Instruments immediately made a tit-for-tat response, and lowered the price of the products corresponding to 64 by $100.

Home video game consoles and low-end cheap personal computers coexist in this market. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that it is **** and mournful. It depends on which one cannot withstand such a fierce price war and is the first to get out.

It can be seen how powerful this computer-animated advertising short film that triggered a chain reaction in the market has become.

Currently, d2 is undergoing another challenging task assigned by Tang Huan. (To be continued.)

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