Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker.

Chapter 231 Young man, can you do it?

The voodoo graphics card took a month to finalize, which was quite a rush.

The first one released was the voodoo109 graphics card, which has three vertex processing units. Each vertex processing unit has two texture mapping units and two triangle processing pipelines.

This is based on Zhongxun's 500nm manufacturing process, and each wafer can produce more than chips.

Each chip produced must undergo rigorous testing. The one with the best quality is the 109 core, with a frequency set at 120M Hz, equipped with 4M video memory, and sells for $999.

For those with average physique, according to the design frequency of 80MHz, equipped with 3M video memory, it is named voodoo107 graphics card, priced at US$799.

As for the defective chip, it can be easily dealt with by shielding the defective vertex units and turning it into a 105 core with only two vertex processing units, coupled with 2M video memory, named voodoo105 graphics card, priced at US$599.

As for the one with a lot of flaws, the two vertex units were directly blocked, leaving only one vertex processing unit, equipped with 1M video memory, named voodoo103 graphics card, priced at US$299.

This is not the cheapest. There is also a specially produced popular version of the core, the voodoo101 graphics card, which has only one vertex processing unit. Each vertex processing unit has only one pipeline and one texture unit. It is equipped with 512kb of video memory and costs $149.

There are five graphics cards in total, and don’t expect to play any 101D games with the voodoo3 graphics card. In the eyes of Mr. Zhao, this is an accelerator produced for the Windows operating system. With a voodoo101 graphics card and a 386 computer, you can at least run Windows 3.0 smoothly. 2.0, or Linux Windows .

"God! This product is incredible!"

In Compaq's laboratory, he loves the voodoo109 graphics card more than most people, and business president Carl Geldof smoothly operates the host equipped with the voodoo101 graphics card.

In his view, the biggest factor affecting the popularity of computers is price.

Voodoo101, combined with the window system, perfectly solves this problem.

"Voodoo101 also comes with a sound card, so consumers can save money on a sound card..."

You must know that a sound card generally costs more than a hundred dollars, and a better one costs more.

Moreover, if you install the voodoo101 graphics card, you can still decode some videos if you use Zhongxun's player and mobilize the resources of the CPU and graphics card.

"It is foreseeable that voodoo101 will become a hit!"

Compaq even typed up the advertising slogans!

The name is voodoo101, allowing you to enter the multimedia era in advance!

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Compared with the volume of mobile phones, the volume of graphics cards is really too small. Compaq and HP are already big customers, and the combined order volume is only 100,000 units.

Teacher Xiao Zhao did not advertise around the world. After all, the DIY market was not mature yet. As for the major PC manufacturer IBM, Zhao Guoqing arranged for people to lobby, but IBM did not give Zhongxun a chance...

In Institute 102, the display chip X180 based on the 109nm process has also been released. The full core has 12 vertex processing units, 48 ​​triangle functions, and 24 texture processing units. It is equipped with 16 1m memory particles and floating point calculations. The capability reaches the level of 486 million operations per second, which is more than 150 times that of the processor!

The Tamron 180, a graphics card based on the 109nm process, is equipped with two x109 chips. Zhao Guoqing personally designed a pure copper radiator for this graphics card, using a radiator fan imported from Japan.

Commander Xu Weifan took a long breath and said, "If this monster were to appear, I'm afraid it would shock the whole world!"

Zhao Guoqing smiled and said: "We don't need to shock their jaws. Let's play with ourselves."

Graphics cards can not only play games and watch videos, but also have an important function, which is scientific computing.

The architecture of a graphics card is inherently a vector computer.

The calculation amount of 100 million times has exceeded the large-scale tube computer manufactured by China eight years ago. Of course, Teacher Xiao Zhao is still not satisfied with this performance.

Based on the AXI enhanced bus designed by the ARM6 processor, thirty-two AXI bus interfaces are designed to directly connect to the CPU.

ARM engineer Ognyan Koroman has always believed that designing so many direct bus interfaces for ARMv6 is a complete waste.

Ognyan's original words: "These useless interfaces will give the CPU 12% more transistors, and these 12% transistors could have further improved the performance of the CPU..."

At this time, Xu Weifan finally understood that all the instructions given by Director Xiao Zhao had a purpose. The PCB computer motherboard designed based on the ARMv6 processor has 32 AXI data bus interfaces stacked on it. On the special computer case, 109 cables lead the interfaces to specific locations, and at these locations, they have been installed Got a Longteng x graphics card.

Thirty-two graphics cards, the theoretical total floating point computing power reaches 10 billion times per second!

On July 1992, 7, the first prototype was successfully completed.

The CPU is an ARMv6 enhanced version processor, the memory is 32 16M SDRAM memories, a total of 512M memory, thirty-two Longteng X109 graphics cards, and five IBM's latest 2G capacity high magnetic resistance magnetic head hard drives are mounted at the same time, with a total capacity of G , the configuration is extremely luxurious...

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Comrade Lei Jun was very busy and very productive at work. Within two months of coming to Shenzhen City, he developed a set of CAD software. According to the original plan, he continued to develop subsequent drawing software, and a phone call from Mr. Zhao made it possible. Turn his attention to office software development...

Zhao Guoqing came to Lei Jun specifically this time. Now there are more important things than office software, and Lei Jun's wisdom needs to be used.

Zhao Guoqing said: "I want to take you to a place. Before you go, you need to sign an agreement!"

"protocol……?"

Teacher Xiao Zhao's assistant placed a confidentiality agreement in front of Lei Jun. When he saw the terms above, Lei Jun fell silent.

"State secrets, Mr. Zhao..."

Violating the agreement is regarded as collaborating with the enemy. This is scary!

"Representing the top technology of 102 institutes, technology that you can't imagine, technology that you would not be able to buy on the market even if you were as rich as the rest of the world..."

Teacher Xiao Zhao's words were so confusing. Lei Jun wrote down his name one after another. He just wanted to avoid leaking the secret. He thought he could do it.

Arriving at the 102 Nanshan District Computing Research Center, Lei Jun saw the tight security here and felt that it was extraordinary.

Teacher Xiao Zhao took Lei Jun to the computing center, which was a computing device the size of a refrigerator. Lei Jun had seen many minicomputers, but had never seen anything like this.

"This is?"

Assistant Cheng Jianguo said: "This is a microcomputer manufactured by 102!"

"This is a microcomputer?" Lei Jun was speechless. He naturally knew what a microcomputer looked like. He also had a 386 computer, but thinking that it was a computer produced by China itself, he nodded self-righteously.

"We made the CPU and stuff?"

Cheng Jianguo said: "Of course, except for the hard drive, everything is made by us!"

Lei Jun just wanted to ask how the performance of the CPU produced by 102 compares with the 386?

At this time, a bald man in his thirties walked up to Mr. Lei, stretched out his hands and said, "Hello Mr. Lei, I am Xu Weifan, the person in charge of this project!"

"Mr. Xu!"

The two shook hands and looked at each other.

Looking at the young man in front of him who was in his twenties, Xu Weifan couldn't help but wonder: "Can this young man complete the task assigned by Mr. Zhao?"

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For an advanced computer, the hardware is definitely very important, and similarly, if you want to maximize the performance of the computer, the software is also very important.

What is different about this computer is that there are thirty-two graphics cards connected to the computer bus. How to use the computing power of these thirty-two graphics cards is a system project that needs to be solved.

young people! can you?

(End of this chapter)