Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

IBM did not achieve its dominance in the personal computer era, but it achieved the wintel alliance that affects the fundamental pattern of the entire information technology era.Countless PC compatible machine manufacturers once told reporters bitterly that selling a computer can earn 100 yuan, of which Intel took 70 yuan and Microsoft took 40 yuan.

If ARM can block IBM's PC before the formal formation of the Wintel alliance, the future development of computers will remain uncertain.Using 32-bit ARM2 and the same 32-bit 80386 for pk, ARM2 is naturally far inferior.But if it is compared with the 16-bit 80286, it has an advantage in computing performance.

Of course, the real market competition is by no means simply piling up data. Compared with using CISC to design x86 architecture, the adoption of architecture has simple and practical advantages, but it is not without disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage of X86 architecture is its high power consumption.

From a more professional point of view, the main disadvantages of the X86 architecture are: the number of general-purpose registers is small, and the CPU has to access the data in the memory, so that the system speed will slow down; the utilization rate of computer hardware is low, resulting in slow running speed; the addressing range is relatively large. Wait a minute.

Compared with the complex instruction set CISC, the ARM instruction set with RISC as the architecture system has a unified instruction format, fewer types, and fewer addressing methods. Simple instructions mean that the corresponding hardware circuits can be optimized as much as possible, so that Improve execution speed.

The advantages of the ARM architecture are small size, low power consumption, low cost, and high performance. It supports Thumb (16-bit)/ARM (32-bit) dual instruction sets, is well compatible with 8-bit/16-bit devices, and uses a large number of registers. And most data operations are done in registers.

The instruction execution speed is faster, the addressing mode is flexible and simple, the execution efficiency is high, the instruction length is fixed, and the processing efficiency can be improved through multiple pipelines. The RISC architecture processor has a higher demand for memory capacity due to its fast operation speed.

This is the best plan that Bai Zirui can think of to fight against Intel, the future giant. The halo of rebirth is not a panacea. There is no way for him to create a new processor that can rival x86 out of thin air. Tian Computer Company developed it by itself, and it really doesn't have the strength.

Bai Zirui had only learned some programming in his previous life, and he was not as good as those technical masters with outstanding research and development capabilities.There are only a few familiar instruction set architectures in the previous life, among which the ARM architecture is the one he is most familiar with, and this is also the capital for his research and development of the ARM architecture.

Taking a step back, it doesn't matter if ARM still repeats the mistakes of the previous life in the competition with x86.Holding ARM in his hands is equivalent to holding the future mobile communication era in his hands, at least he has a way out.

The TRM processor R&D group is the most important topic in the semiconductor laboratory, and all funds, equipment, personnel, and venues are given priority.Although Professor Yao Zhaoming is the general director of the research group, in fact Bai Zirui is the real commander of the laboratory.

The Dingtian Group in Bai Zirui's vision will be a technology-innovative company, not a sweatshop, and the company's profit will never be realized by squeezing the income of its employees.Giving employees more favorable treatment can make everyone feel more ownership, be more loyal to the company, and be more passionate about their work.

After the Spring Festival, Dingtian Group held its first job fair in Wanwan, a city with a population of 1800 million and a well-established university education system, and hired a large number of high-achieving students from Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, Chengda University and other colleges and universities to work in Xiangjiang.

Wanwan is an important part of the world's computer and semiconductor industry in the future. Bai Zirui plans to build a research and development center in Wanwan next.Dingtian Game Company, a subsidiary of Dingtian Group, has a strong profitability by virtue of the Great Wall Cube and "Tank Wars" two arcade machines.The salary offered by Dingtian Group is one to two levels higher than that of similar companies, especially for R&D personnel, the treatment is even more favorable.

At first, Professor Yao Zhaoming only regarded Bai Zirui as a discerning investor, but with the contact and familiarity between the two, the whimsical ideas that Bai Zirui put forward in the research and development made him feel refreshed and enlightened.He thinks that Bai Zirui is a rare technical genius, after all, there are many such geniuses in the field of science and technology.

Bai Zirui asked Xiangjiang University's integrated circuit design and other fields and the electronics laboratory team of the Department of Computer Science to help write the computer-controlled cad industrial software. With the cooperation of the computer-controlled cad industrial software, it can process small machine tools with a length, width, and height of no more than 50 centimeters. The machining accuracy is in the within a controllable range of 1 micron.

Bai Zirui has invested heavily in R&D and innovation. With a population base of 526.45 million, Xiangjiang has two full-time universities, Xiangjiang University and Xiangjiang Chinese University, which are far from supporting Dingtian Group's investment in professional engineering talents, especially R&D. The thirst for talent.

Under the research and development team led by Professor Cen Haozhang, the first small machine tool was finally successfully developed.Bai Zirui looked at the CNC machine tool in front of him that only weighed 1.5 tons, but could process 6 surfaces.

They have developed products that are at least 10 years ahead of this era. The only drawback is that the current productivity is too low, and they can only be produced in laboratories at present.These machine tools are completely sufficient for the production of computers, mobile phones and some other small electronic products in the future.

Bai Zirui decided to develop the ARM (Reduced Instruction Set Machine) of Dingtian Computer Company, and the name would naturally be changed to TRM (Tingtian (Company) Reduced Instruction Set Machine).

Professor Cen Haozhang beside Bai Zirui said happily: "Bai Sheng, the software you hired someone to combine with my machine tool is definitely a match made in heaven. Its functions are more than what you see. The machine tool can process at least 100 pieces without complexity for an hour. products. If there are 100 such machine tools, it can be worth a factory with 1000 people.”

Bai Zirui nodded and said: "Professor, the machine tools are indeed very powerful, but let alone 100 machines now, we don't even have 10 machines, and now we only have 1 machine. Just relying on one lathe is not enough. We need to speed up the progress of CNC machine tools. Drilling machines, CNC washing machines, CNC grinding machines, CNC boring machines and small CNC machining centers have been developed."

Professor Cen Haozhang said: "Bai Sheng, what you said is already under development, we have a strong theoretical foundation, I will finish it all within a month, but the machining center is a bit troublesome, after all, there are too many workpieces involved.

We must order on a large scale. Only in this way can we speed up the progress of research and development. Bai Sheng, you need to invest more. The raw materials we are purchasing now are almost used up. We can now produce about 30 machine tools. "

Bai Zirui said: "Professor, I will add another 500 million US dollars, and all the personnel involved in the research and development will be rewarded with an additional 2 Hong Kong dollars. After all the work is completed, there will be more generous bonuses waiting for everyone. How much money you can get depends on Your contribution to this work."

Professor Cen Haozhang's assistants cheered when they heard that everyone was rewarded with 2 Hong Kong dollars. These postgraduate students can only get a little allowance every month, and 2 Hong Kong dollars is less than what they received last year. many.