Author: Bai Lian Zi Ren

Bai Zirui can rely on underhanded tactics to hack IBM and Intel, but in another computer market that is about to rise rapidly - the workstation field, TRM is unlikely to be very competitive in the short term.

If a personal computer is an ordinary-performance microcomputer, then a workstation is a more professional and higher-performance microcomputer, which is also called a server.

Early workstations all used Motorola's 32-bit mc68000 processor. The TRM processor had no advantage at all. The reason why the mc68000 failed to replace the 8086 as the mainstream CPU in the personal PC field was mainly because its price was too high.

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TRM has the advantage of simple RISC architecture design in this regard. The TRM that has just been prepared for tape-out integrates 30,000 transistors, while Motorola's mc68000 integrates 70,000 transistors.

Under the same process, the size of TRM chips will undoubtedly be much smaller, which means that many more chips can be divided from one wafer, and the manufacturing cost will naturally be cheaper.

However, the high-end workstation market is far less sensitive to price than personal computers. Customers first consider the performance of the computer. This is the main reason why the mc68000 was able to occupy the workstation market in the early 1980s.

Since Bai Zirui cannot use the existing TRM architecture to seize the workstation computer market that is about to enter a period of rapid growth, he must make other arrangements. Finding a new processor architecture is undoubtedly the best solution to the problem.

The University of Berkeley and Stanford University in the United States each have a research group studying the RIAC architecture, and the leaders are two technology giants of later generations, Professor Patterson and Professor Hennessy.

When Bai Zirui was in Meiliguo, he arranged for the Meiliguo branch to communicate with two universities. Professor Hennessy's MIPS research team was more interested in the business development plan proposed by Bai Zirui.

Bai Zirui considered that he was familiar with the MIPS architecture. After all, it was the mainstream architecture in the embedded field after ARM in later generations, so he decided to cooperate with Professor Hennessy of Stanford University to jointly develop commercial processors with the MIPS architecture.

In fact, the architecture being developed by Professor Patterson of the University of Berkeley is also very excellent. The SPARC architecture of the later Sun Company (Sun) was developed on this basis. Of course, the MIPS architecture is more familiar to Chinese people, and the later Chinese Loongson,

It adopts the relevant patent authorization of the MIPS architecture.

MIPS architecture (MIPS architecture, the abbreviation of Microprocessor without interlocked piped stages architecture, also a pun of Millions of Instructions Per Second), is a processor architecture using reduced instruction set (RISC), developed and authorized by MIPS Technology Company

, is widely used in many electronic products, network equipment, personal entertainment devices and commercial devices.

It is a concise, optimized, and highly scalable RISC architecture. Its basic features are: containing a large number of registers, instructions and characters, and visible pipeline delay time slots. These features enable the MIPS architecture to provide the highest per-

mm2 performance and the lowest power consumption in today’s SoC designs.

Bai Zirui read the email sent by Professor Hennessy and replied to him, giving his own opinions on some of the issues he raised in the email. Bai Zirui relied on the golden finger of rebirth and his understanding of the MIPS architecture

The familiarity allows the Hennessy team to avoid many detours during exploration.

Therefore, Professor Hennessy recognized Bai Zirui's ability more and more, and their email exchanges became more frequent. Although Bai Zirui relied on cheating to impress the president of Stanford University, he was also somewhat proud of himself.

With the development of semiconductor technology, the performance of microcomputers is also improving with each passing day. Workstation computers will soon replace the current position of small computers in the next ten years.

Because IBM will soon make a table-topping approach to open technical standards, the future personal computer market will become a completely transparent free competition market. As competition becomes fiercer, profit margins will continue to decline.

Therefore, in Bai Zirui's plan, Aikang's research and development focus in the field of personal computers will gradually shift to the development of mobile computers, that is, laptop computers. Because in this field, no company has followed IBM's example of fully opening up its own standards, and in future generations it will not

I have never heard of any consumer being able to assemble a laptop by themselves.

In contrast, the more expensive workstation computer market is much more profitable, and this is the area that Aikon Computer will focus on in the future. Dingtian Company has made plans in advance and cooperated with Stanford University to develop commercial processors based on the MIPS architecture

, the target is the future workstation market.

What Bai Zirui does is different from those wealthy people in Hong Kong. Those wealthy people in Hong Kong buy luxury cars and yachts, and can spend millions just to get a special license plate. Bai Zirui doesn't care about these at all.

In order to allow Dingtian Company to access the network, he specifically asked the Xiangjiang Telephone Company to pull over an optical fiber line, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for this without even blinking an eye.

The connection of Dingtian Laboratory to ARPANET has caused considerable controversy within the company. Because the current ARPANET is not very mature, Bai Zirui's reason for facilitating communication between the company's various R&D centers around the world has also been criticized.

He retorted because fax could completely replace the immature email, but he still acted arbitrarily and decided to connect to ARPANET.

The Hong Kong Telephone Company has not yet started laying optical fiber throughout Hong Kong. Dingtian Company is the first to try it. Not only has it built optical fiber lines between Dingtian Company headquarters and laboratories, but it has also funded Hong Kong University, Chinese University and

Polytechnics are also connected via fiber optics.

Moreover, there are no undersea cables in this era. If the nodes of Dingtian Laboratory want to connect to the ARPANET of Beautiful Country, they must transmit through satellites, which is another huge expense.

Therefore, in order to complete the entire project, Bai Zirui invested 5 million US dollars in one go, equivalent to 20 million Hong Kong dollars. Such a large price is enough to buy a villa in Taipingshan. Moreover, the annual maintenance fee for the entire networked system will be high.

Millions of Hong Kong dollars. It can only be said that he is playing with high technology, which makes those wealthy people in Hong Kong who buy luxury cars and luxury houses feel embarrassed.

Bai Zirui controlled the computer to log into an electronic bulletin board system, which is more commonly known as bbs. The Chinese bbs forum was most popular in the 1990s. In fact, it had already appeared in Chicago in 1978, founded by two computer enthusiasts.

They invented it. Later they introduced their invention in "Bit" magazine, so the electronic bulletin board system became popular in the United States in the late 1970s.

Since Bai Zirui has networked Xiangjiang University, Chinese University and Polytechnic together, he might as well create a BBS forum that is similar to that of later generations, and that every domestic university has.

He didn't have time to do it himself, so he solicited design plans from students from the three universities in the name of Dingtian Laboratory. Finally, under the auspices of Dingtian Laboratory, it took more than two months to synthesize electronics from the three universities.

Thanks to many excellent plans by computing students, a forum called Oriental Pearl was finally established, and the forum's server was placed in the computer room of Dingtian Laboratory.
Chapter completed!