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Chapter 92 Starting from MMX

Feedback from Silicon Valley Xinghai was soon heard.

Without Su Yuanshan's judgment, after Carly and Xi Xiaoding came into contact with Cyrix, Klaus, one of the founders, was in a state of turmoil. Although the low-end CPU of the gx486dlc series that has just been launched can allow Intel's 386 users to upgrade on the spot and enjoy the speed of 486, the basic reason is based on 386 magic modifications and there is no floating point operation. It can only be completed by inserting an external 80387dx floating point operation chip. Therefore, even if it is cheap, the market prospects are still unknown. At least, I have not received a large number of orders from the local market - don't forget that there is a copycat brother Amd in front.

In history, cyrix has truly successfully entered the low-end market and is well-known to people, and it has to wait until 1995 to the birth of 6x86 and mii. After becoming famous, cyrix sold it to National Semiconductor without hesitation.

So when Carly proposed the acquisition tentatively, Klaus did not express his clear objection. He was just surprised because it violated common sense - something abnormal must have a demon, and this sentence is standard everywhere. So Klaus said that he needs to think carefully with the team.

As the acquisition plan has been advanced, Yang Yiwen, who originally planned to stay in China for one month, had to end her vacation early and return to Xinghai to preside over legal and patent transfer affairs. At the same time, the investment department under Qin Si will also be independent and become an independent subsidiary of offshore Xinghai. Its main business in the future will be angel investment and patent management.

And there is another reason for being independent, that is, Chen Haoming has graduated from a doctorate and is about to officially join Xinghai and become Xi Xiaoding's successor. For ordinary office romances, Yuanxin's rules are very relaxed, as long as they are not superiors and subordinates in the same department. As for senior executives, the organizational structure must be separated.

After all, Yuanxin is a high-tech enterprise and cannot be as nervous as a business-oriented enterprise.

...

When Su Yuanshan returned, he went to the construction site for a walk and found that it was worthy of being a construction supervisor sent by Ni people. It had been working for a month and the foundation of the Wuchen workshop was still laid. But Su Yuanshan was not in a hurry. Chen Jing had just purchased a batch of motors through Meijie on the island and was preparing to enter the pass from Xiangjiang River. Chen Jing told Su Yuanshan that if he could not leave the island in normal circumstances, he would probably have to go by water.

Where did Su Yuanshan play such a sexy operation in his previous life? He could only say, I don’t worry if you do things...

However, Su Yuanshan knew a lot about similar operations. For example, the tiled girl who is lying on the Black Sea slowly rusting will come to China in a few years - everyone thought she would become the casino dealer in Odo Island, but she did not expect that she would become the first big boss of the navy, Sister Liao.

...

Back at the office, Su Yuanshan opened the document and began to recall the mmx instruction set.

The instruction set is not mysterious, and it can even be simply understood as a collection of instructions optimized for certain programs. For example, the mmx instruction set is the support for multimedia videos. Before there is no mmx instruction set, a lot of calculations are required to play the video, but after the instruction set is available, the execution efficiency can be greatly improved.

As a former Intel engineer, Su Yuanshan first came into contact with the mmx instruction set, so he knew that this thing was actually a product of compromise. In order to take care of the win95 that has been released for a year, the mmx instruction set adopts a compatible mode and can be executed without any modifications from the operating system.

The result is that it not only does not mean that it is bloated, but also supports integer operations. When performing floating-point operations, it will conflict with the x87 coprocessor responsible for floating-point operations.

Since it only supports 2d videos, when Amd launched 3dnow!, Intel hurriedly launched SSE. Later, with the continuous improvement of SSE, CPU performance continued to increase, and nothing happened to mmx.

But in this era, it is an absolute killer. You must know that it was only proposed in 1996.

Su Yuanshan frowned and stared at the monitor and kept turning his pen.

Since there is no Pentium processor design project, he cannot perform simulation and design, so he can only write down the instruction format and some functions of the instruction set according to memory. Once he takes over cyirx, he will redesign the core architecture and add mmx without hesitation.

In fact, Su Yuanshan can design a new core in advance, but now he is the only one who is good at x86 architecture. Even if he is from the future, he was once a "top commercial spy who has been undercover for three years" at Intel, and it would be a dream to solve the core architecture by himself.

After thinking about it, Su Yuanshan grabbed the phone and dialed the number in Lin Yonggu's office.

After the phone was answered, Su Yuanshan asked, "Mr. Lin, how is your progress?"

On the phone, Lin Yonggu couldn't hear his emotions: "It's OK, it's been advancing steadily."

"Well, I wish you success in advance." Su Yuanshan said, and said with a pause and said, "Haha, that... Mr. Lin, when can I come back?"

When Lin Yonggu heard Su Yuanshan ask the Taoist, he was stunned for a moment and immediately became anxious: "They can't leave now, it's a critical period!"

"..." Su Yuanshan was amused when he heard this: "I didn't say I'd like to do it soon. After all, we are in-depth partners. Even if we want them to come back, we have to say hello to you a long time in advance, right?"

Lin Yonggu then breathed a little relieved and said with a smile: "I thought your government has put pressure on them to come back."

Of course he could guess that Su Yuanshan sent a group of people over to learn some experience and could not take the initiative to recall them unless he was under some pressure.

To be fair, at the beginning, UMC was a little underestimated to those who came from Yuanxin, but after the running-in period and the project continued to advance, UMC discovered that the person sent by Yuanxin was really not a rookie. He was really capable - at least he was smart.

Therefore, the tasks of more than a dozen people in Yuanxin in the group are becoming more and more important. They have now fully integrated into the team. If they really want to leave, the project will immediately stop.

"Haha, the yx chip that my dad showed on the island last time was the one I told you before. The architecture is purely owned by our own property rights. I said last time that if you need it, we can authorize it to you." Su Yuanshan pondered the sentence and said softly: "I know, you also want to get on the x86 car. But now Intel has filed a lawsuit against Amd and Cyrix - can your CPU bypass the 338 patent?"

Lin Yonggu was silent, and after a while, he smiled bitterly: "No, no one can get around."

"If you take a lawsuit, can you stand it? If you can stand it, you can consider planning the mainland market. If you can't stand it..." Su Yuanshan paused, "Actually, I personally recommend that you choose to embrace the yx architecture."

Lin Yonggu smiled after being silent again: "We can start simulation here soon. As an architect, you have to design a CPU to be content."

Su Yuanshan sighed and said softly: "I can understand, I wish you good luck - it means that it won't take long, senior brother and the others will be able to come back?"

“Yes, up to three months.”

"OK."

After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan let out a long sigh.

In three months, Huajing happened to start production, and he had almost sorted out the structure.

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