Chapter 250 DDR Memory Era
In Zhang Bixuan's hands, Longteng Technology has become one of the world's mainstream chip factories. Microsoft occupies 90% of the world's computer users' operating systems. Cisco, Huawei and other companies occupy a large part of the global Internet construction and development. It can be said that the Longteng system is the main force in promoting the development of the global information technology industry.
However, in words that make people feel bloody, he is not satisfied with his existing achievements. Zhang Bixuan is still working hard to contribute to global scientific and technological progress.
In April, when he was kicked out of the chip design department by Dr. Yu, the new director of Longteng Technology's chip design department, Zhang Bixuan suddenly thought of the idea of promoting the development of the memory industry.
According to the famous von Neumann system proposed by Von Neumann, the father of modern digital computers, the computer consists of five parts: controller, operator, memory, input device, and output device. Memory is the memory mentioned in the von Neumann structure. Just first of all, memory is an indispensable and important component of a computer.
If a computer is compared to an office where people work every day, then the person at work is a CPU. All kinds of data files in the office need to be stored in a file cabinet, and the hard disk is the file cabinet. Sometimes, staff need to open the file cabinet and put the files on the table to facilitate work. The memory is equivalent to a table in an office. The larger the table, the more files can be placed, and it is more convenient for us to work to improve work efficiency. If the table is too small and can only place a small part of the files, then most files are still locked in the cabinet. Staff need to frequently get files in the cabinet, and work efficiency is naturally not ideal. If the machine has a large memory, it is equivalent to a large table, and can place many files. CPU directly calls files in the memory, which is much more efficient than calling files from the hard disk.
Among all kinds of semiconductor chips, the development rules of CPU chips are completely in line with Moore's Law, but the memory industry has hardly developed in 4 years since 1991. The memory sticks of at least 500 US dollars in the entire market are expensive, but I'm sorry to everyone if I stay between 4mb and 16mb.
Moreover, since the CPU has developed to 32 bits, the memory is still stuck in 16 bits. At this time, if you want to install memory, you have to install at least two pieces to use with the CPU. Even if you add a few pieces of memory, it would be great that the PC memory can reach more than 40 mb. Such a computer cannot play graphic online games at all, and at most you can play mud games.
Now, the main frequency of Baby chips is about to exceed 250mhz. According to the improvement of the process level, the main frequency of the first-generation Baby chips is estimated to reach 350mhz. Even if the performance of the future Pentium 2 is estimated to be half a pound of the ultimate version of the first-generation Baby. In the plan, the process level of Longteng Technology can be improved to 350 nanometers next year, and Baby 2 can be launched in 1995. At that time, it is estimated that the performance of the chip can reach the level of the Intel Pentium 3 era.
However, the development of the memory industry cannot keep up with the development speed of baby chips. If the CPU chips are developing alone and the development speed of other hardware cannot keep up, it is really a company developing alone.
As we all know, if you don’t have memory, you will be fucking stuck. If you don’t have memory, you will be dying. If you don’t enter the DDR era, the 2D online game plan you have formulated may not be realized after the bursting of the Internet bubble. At that time, it would be good to send online game companies to Nasdaq to list in ten years and increase by several times. What’s so attractive?
We must take advantage of the golden opportunity of the 1990s to send a company with a profit of several million to the group of fools of Nasdaq, and then turn the market value into tens of billions to make a big deal. After 99 years, the era of stupid and expensive people will pass. A company with a profit of 100 million US dollars every year can have a market value of 3 billion US dollars at most when it is sent to Nasdaq. That is not a fool, it is equivalent to giving money to Americans!
Zhang Bixuan decided to produce even if the memory cannot be made, and promote it to PC users. For online games and for the late 1990s, it is dedicated to the cute Nasdaq stock market!
After making this decision, Zhang Bixuan called Craig Berritt and said, "Come manpower and modify some workshop production lines. I decided to produce memory sticks in Longteng Technology! And we want to release new standards!"
"Boss, do you think Longteng Technology wants to build memory? No!" Berritt disagreed. In the 1980s, under the attack of Japanese semiconductor companies, Intel gave up memory to survive. And defeated Japan, which became the world's largest producer of memory, most memory factories still suffered losses every year and could not get any advantage.
"This is the time, and there is the time! Nowadays, PC users are growing at a rate of tens of millions every year. Not to mention those mainframes, even ordinary users around the world need at least 10 million memory sticks per year. Can they lose money?" Zhang Bixuan said, "Don't look at the problem with the old eyes. In the 1980s, many computers did not even install hard drives. Look at which computer does not install hard drives now? By the way, they can still produce USB drives, flash memory, etc."
Zhang Bixuan thought to himself, he was unconscious and was ahead of his way again.
The two of them stared at each other with big eyes.
Berritt thought to himself, what is U disk and what is flash memory? Or the boss came from that star, or I am a Martian and I don’t understand the world of the earth!
After Zhang Bixuan explained the role and principle of the U disk and flash memory, Berritt said: "It seems that there may be some prospect!"
"Forget it, anyway, the equipment required for memory is much lower than that of CPU. We can use the 386 production line that is about to be eliminated to modify the production memory stick!" said Berett, "This will not affect our CPU chip production too much!"
In this way, at Zhang Bixuan's request, Longteng Technology dispatched dozens of technicians and hundreds of workers to produce several longteng memory and practiced hands in the laboratory in a few days according to Zhang Bixuan's requirements.
Then, based on longteng memory, Zhang Bixuan asked everyone to produce a "ddr longteng" memory, that is, "double-speed Longteng" memory, and ran to lead everyone to the era of ddr memory. The ddr runs mainly three types: 60mhz, 100mhz, 133mhz, and 166mhz, which means that Longteng Technology has increased the memory from 16mb to 64mb and 128mb standards! If this memory can be popularized, at least there will be no problem playing 2D games.
Zhang Bixuan was already thinking about how many online game agent operators should be registered around the world by then, and then send these companies to Nasdaq to cheat people.
In May, Longteng Technology established a memory branch and signed an agreement with Sony, Nec, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, IBM, Texas Instruments and other companies to issue the ddr memory standard. Soon after, chip manufacturers such as Amd, VIA, and Cyrix expressed their support for this standard.
Chapter completed!