The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 159 The Immortal Guiding the Way

"It's really for this reason!" Our boss Huang never tells lies.

"It's okay!" Ni Guangnan looked at Huang He speechlessly, and then said, "So, the main purpose of your chips is to build servers?"

"Yes!" Huang He said.

"Then it's actually a little easier!" Ni Guangnan pondered for a while, but a smile appeared on his face.

"Really? Didn't you say that servers are more difficult than computers? Why are server chips simpler than computer chips?" Huang He asked puzzled.

"Because there is no computer chip now, it can be used for Windows system!" Ni Guangnan sighed, his face full of helplessness, "Computer chips do not meet the needs of computers, they can be used if they can calculate, in fact, computer chips still need to cooperate Only a controlled system can perform perfectly."

"Except for Apple, 99.99% of the world's computers use Microsoft's Windows system, so all computer chips must be matched with the Windows system, and the design must be designed around the Windows system. .”

"The windows system has always been bound to Intel chips, which use a lot of Intel technology patents, so if you want to design a chip that can perfectly match the windows system, you have to find a way to bypass these Intel technologies. Patents, there are pitfalls here, if I really want to do this, I'm afraid it will be impossible in my whole life!"

"Since Intel's patents cannot be bypassed, let's bypass the Windows system!" Huang He laughed.

"Yeah, that's what I thought at the beginning, so I had the previous cooperation with Ark Company!" Ni Guangnan's expression became even more depressed. "At the beginning, Ark Company was an OEM for IBM and Intel. The manufacturing technology is available, and there are dozens of related engineers. It can be said that the foundation of development is excellent. Later, IBM and Intel did not let him do the foundry, and instead chose TSMC over there, so they Cut off the business, in order to survive, find me to cooperate in the production of brand new computer chips."

"At that time, I met the linux system, which is a foreign open source system. Although it is very simple compared with the windows system, it has great potential and strong scalability. From this system itself, a complete set of , a system that is no less than the windows system comes out!"

"So I think this is the savior of China's chip industry. We can design an embedded chip completely around the Linux system, which can greatly reduce the difficulty of chip design and patent traps."

"Facts have proved that my idea is not wrong. It took only two years for Ark 1 to be born. But only half a year later, Ark 1 completely withdrew from all markets, and there is no longer any enterprise or unit Willing to buy our computer, do you know why?" Ni Guangnan asked.

"I think it's probably because there is no software that can be used on Linux!" Huang He thought for a while and said, he didn't actually investigate the reason for the failure of Ark 1, because he didn't need to combine the experience of later generations, and he didn't need to think about it. , Where does linux fail, that is, the software library is approximately equal to zero.

Not to mention anything else, just take a normal white-collar worker as an example. He needs at least a set of WPS Family Bucket to work on a computer, and depending on the profession, he may also need PS, financial management software, medical software, etc. A wide variety of professional software.

However, the current Linux system does not even have a set of software that can open office files, and there are only a handful of software that can be used in the entire system, and there has never been a software company that specializes in producing software for this system, all of them are some personal computer enthusiasts We, self-made open source software.

This is a system that was born entirely out of interest and love, but interest and love are no match for capital after all. Without capital entering in batches, the Linux system is just a toy for some enthusiasts after all.

By 2021, the linux system has made great progress and has a lot of its own software. At least the family bucket of WPA can be opened, but let alone shake the windows system, even jumping to 1% of the market, Those are things that don't exist.

On the contrary, strictly closing their own Apple system has really moved the market, but the sales strategy of Apple Computer also determines that their market share is only so large, and it is impossible to shake the dominance of Windows.

"You are very smart, so I think you also understand why I said that server chips are easier to design than computer chips!" Ni Guangnan asked back.

"I probably understand!" Huang He nodded. The server needs a lot of data storage, circulation, and calculations. It doesn't need a lot of professional software. It only needs a set of control programs specially customized for the server. That's it.

So the server does not need any windows system at all, not even a linux system, as long as there is the most basic DOS system.

In this way, the architecture and design of the server chip will be much simpler than that of the previous Ark 1 chip.

"Well, but, after all, the server chip is for the server service, so our chip can also be specially designed according to the characteristics of the server, which can save a lot of unnecessary design and improve the computing power as much as possible. Or storage capacity!" Ni Guangnan said with a smile, "If you can find a qualified chip foundry manufacturer and gather a team for me, then I am confident that within a year, I will give you the design of the server chip. Get it out."

"However, I can't make a chip that is too advanced. It can only be a low-end chip. For a high-end chip, we have no foundation. Don't try to soar into the sky!"

"Although such a chip is useless in a computer, it is not a big problem to use it in a server. Anyway, the server can be designed in series with multiple chips, so the server does not need a high-end chip. As long as you connect the server group in series If there are enough, low-end chips can also achieve the effect of high-end chips, which is called strength in numbers.”

"For example, the supercomputers that have been advertised in foreign countries and our country recently, how powerful the computing power is, seems to show how advanced our domestic computer technology is."

"In fact, these are nothing more than stringing thousands of CPUs together and performing calculations, which is actually quite simple."

"And it's your network company's servers, most of which are used to store and transmit data. They don't have high requirements for computing, but they have high requirements for storage functions, so they can be connected directly in series."

"Okay!" Huang He nodded vigorously. This Professor Ni Guangnan really did not make a mistake, but with just a few words, he completely helped Huang He clear the clouds and fog, and directly helped Huang He open a way out.

This road is actually a bit opportunistic. For example, if you want to lift a [-]-ton stone, the advanced level of foreign countries is to design a lifting device that can lift a [-]-ton boulder with one's own strength.

However, Ni Guangnan's plan does design 10 lifting devices that can work together to lift the stone together. Although this sounds a bit stupid, the effect is indeed the same.

And there is a saying that the more precise something is, the easier it is to damage, and the simple thing is very solid to use.

"Then Teacher Ni, are you willing to lead a team to cooperate with us to accomplish this?" Huang He asked excitedly.

"Me? Forget it!" Unexpectedly, Ni Guangnan shook his head and said, "You don't need me to be famous for this matter. I have a student with excellent abilities. He is enough to help you solve these problems."

Ni Guangnan's subtext is very simple, that is, Huang He's server chip design is too simple and not breakthrough, which makes our teacher Ni not interested.

"Teacher, you are wrong. Although the server chip is simpler than the computer chip, it is a chip that we do not have in China. Without an experienced master like you to control it, how could we succeed?" Huang He quickly said, "Besides, the server chip is only the first step. When we understand the server, we will definitely enter higher-end servers in the future. Moreover, right now, we still have a detour to overtake and overtake." Windows system opportunity!"

"Exceeding the Windows system?" Ni Guangnan listened, and looked at Huang He with eyes like an idiot, "My child, I know you need it very much, but don't say such stupid things that even laymen won't believe. Makes you seem smart, or ambitious."

"It's true that it can't be surpassed on the computer. I'm talking about 20 years!" Huang He smiled and nodded, "But if we change the platform, it's still unknown."

"Change to another platform? What platform? There are still platforms in this world that have more demand for chips than computers?" Ni Guangnan asked in surprise.

"This!" Huang He took out his Tianxing mobile phone from his waist.

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"This old guy, he didn't let me eat!" Huang He didn't come out of Ni Guangnan's room until 8 o'clock in the evening. Although Ni Guangnan still didn't agree to help him on the spot, Ni Guangnan agreed to go with Huang He next week. Cao County, go to Wenzhou again to investigate the actual situation of Jiangnan Group, and prepare more detailed plans and plans.

In other words, as long as Ni Guangnan believes that Huang He is really serious about servers and chips, then he will come out for the third time to help our boss Huang, which makes Huang He very happy.

It's just that Ni Guangnan didn't care about food, which made Huang He very sick. Now he is very hungry.

"Zhiwen, you're still waiting for me here!" When Huang He came out of the apartment building, he found a young girl standing downstairs, staring at a big naked tree in a daze.

"Too bad! I forgot about her!" Huang He slapped his head. Originally, Huang He brought Leng Zhiwen there, but when he thought about bringing a female secretary like Leng Zhiwen there, it seemed a little frivolous, so he went by himself He went up alone, but forgot to tell Leng Zhiwen to let her go home.

Well, in fact, Huang He didn't expect that he would chat from three o'clock in the afternoon to eight o'clock in the evening, a total of five hours. Leng Zhiwen might have been waiting below for the same five hours.

"It's nothing, this is the duty of a secretary!" Leng Zhiwen said without sadness or joy, but when the girl showed such an expression, it meant that she was already angry.

[PS: I have been working on high-intensity codewords for a week, and I really can't bear it. I will rest for two days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and there will be no updates. I will maintain the normal update of two updates a day, starting from August 8st. , to make up for the previously promised additions! 】

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