Chapter 141: Beating Friendly Companies

"To develop the Cornerstone system, we solved nearly a thousand technical problems and applied for 1,500 technical patents. The source code of the Cornerstone system reached a staggering 10 million lines, and even after several optimizations, it still has a size of 200M."

"This amount of data far exceeds the storage capacity of the largest hard drive in the personal computer field today, and even in the server field, there is almost no single hardware that can load it."

"The reason it is so huge, I have already explained just now, is to satisfy our requirement for the best desktop system."

"But the reason we dare to make the system so big is only one: yes, we already have the hardware that can run it smoothly."

"How is our animation computing resource allocated? The answer is, all allocated to the graphics card."

"We realized that the logic of graphics computing is different from that of general-purpose processors. Using a CPU to execute graphics computing is actually a waste."

"So we developed an independent graphics processing unit — graphics card, handing over all display-related operations of the computer to the graphics card, avoiding the waste of computing resources."

"Blue Dragon graphics card, with 200 MHz main frequency, 30M independent memory. In addition to being able to help your computer complete some small animation effects, it can also allow you to play some games that require more image processing smoothly."

"To demonstrate the performance of the Blue Dragon graphics card, we made a game demo."

Saying that, Patrick opened an icon on the desktop.

It was a silhouette of a simple M16 assault rifle. Soon a menu bar appeared on the screen. Patrick chose a few items at random and clicked start.

The screen changed, and a full 3D building appeared on the screen. Patrick, playing a special police officer, rushed into a building with his teammates and had a gunfight with many robbers.

Yes, this is a castrated version of CS, with only one map, and only two or three weapons that can be chosen, and no online battle function, only able to fight with enemies played by the computer.

That angular character modeling, blurry textures, and stiff and rigid movements would not be looked at by anyone in the era Murphy traveled from.

But this was 1990, the era when the electronic game industry was occupied by arcade games. Almost all fun computer games were ports of arcade games, and the vast majority were 2D horizontal games.

A 3D computer game that can move in all directions and all angles, let alone everyone hadn't seen it, they didn't even dare to think about it.

Is it that game developers don't want to make a game with more realistic pictures and more sense of substitution?

Of course not, but with the hardware level at this time, just running some exquisite 2D sticker animations was almost squeezing out the performance.

3D, gunfight? That's something in a dream.

But now, someone has made something in a dream.

To demonstrate the effect, Patrick seemed to have practiced this game, and soon shot two terrorists, then was blown up by a grenade.

But the screen was still continuing, and the teammates and enemies played by the computer were still fighting.

"My marksmanship is not very accurate," Patrick laughed at himself, "Usually I will be killed before entering the warehouse."

But now, no one cared about Patrick's game technology. A Japanese youth from Nintendo stood up, "May I ask, what chip does this graphics card use? Do you plan to sell this chip?"

"The graphics card uses the Blue Dragon GPU, GPU means graphics processor, 200 MHz main frequency, adopts 0.3 micron process, has 3 million transistors, computing performance exceeds all existing commercial chips, and we have designed it specifically to make it more suitable for graphics and image processing."

"This chip we are of course prepared to sell, but due to production capacity factors, it can only be supplied to our own products first. However, we will launch this chip to the market around next year."

Next year…

That is to say, this chip with absolute technical dominance will be occupied by computer-side products — or Blue Queen computers — for a full year.

At least in the next year, Blue Queen computers will be the most outstanding and high-end gaming platform.

The Japanese youth immediately picked up the phone. He must report this matter to the headquarters immediately.

Another youth stood up, but didn't ask about the Blue Dragon graphics card, but about storage hardware, "You just mentioned that this Cornerstone system has a capacity as high as 200M, but you said before that it was loaded on an SSD solid-state hard drive. Does this mean that Umbrella Company has already developed a solid-state hard drive of more than 200M?"

"May I ask how many storage particles you used? What is its approximate selling price?"

Patrick looked at the other party's position, oh, IBM's.

"In fact," Patrick said, "The capacity of our solid-state hard drive has already reached 500M. As for its storage particles, there are 25. The selling price is 10,000 pounds."

That is to say, the capacity of each storage chip is as high as 20M.

The average storage capacity per M is worth 20 pounds.

This sounds like an extremely expensive price, but you have to know that the first solid-state hard drive in the world launched by IBM last year only had a capacity of 1M, and its selling price was as high as 3,500 dollars! And the performance was not even as good as an ordinary hard drive.

But Umbrella Company's solid-state hard drive response speed had already far exceeded ordinary mechanical hard drives, exceeding IBM by I don't know how many times.

Nearly a hundred times the price difference, but the performance was even better.

It can be imagined that the flash memory market will be dominated by Umbrella Company in the future.

As for things like floppy disks, forget them. With such cheap flash memory, who would use that chicken-rib thing?

IBM's storage chip road was completely blocked.

Then, Patrick introduced the mechanical hard drive with a capacity as high as 100G and a read-write speed of 3200 rpm, as well as the 50M huge memory — Mana.

Compared to the 1G hard drive capacity and 1M memory capacity that were common at this time, these were two heavy bombs that were enough to destroy friendly companies into slag.

Then, it was the LCD monitor.

At this time, the display equipment of computers and televisions were generally CRT cathode ray tube monitors. They were huge and heavy, and due to the deflection range limitation of the cathode ray tube, they generally chose a 4:3 display ratio.

Even if Apple's computers made some appearance designs on the monitor to make it look more modern and have unique design aesthetics, in front of the LCD monitor that could make a 16:9 wide picture and be ultra-thin and light, they would only appear old and outdated.

Especially after showing the advantages of the LCD display panel in such a shocking way as a super-large screen wall, Patrick's sentence "LCD is the future of the display market" completely took root in everyone's heart.

Finally, it was the chip.

This part was actually the simplest.

No need to show any design or humanistic care, Patrick just hit the values of Silver Dragon No. 1 on the screen.

0.2 micron process, 10 million transistors, 1G Hz main frequency.

This is a product equivalent to around the year 2000. You have to know that the most advanced 486 processor at this time only had 1.2 million transistors, and the main frequency had just exceeded 100 MHz. Facing a monster with performance ten times its own, it was like a space army trying to block water droplets, and being instantly exploded into slag was the only ending.

At this moment, all the giants in the electronics industry who attended, IBM, Intel, Microsoft… all understood Patrick's first sentence.

Hope after the meeting, you won't hate me too much…

Thanks to the tip from Yue Ban Dun Er~ Thank you for the support~

Starting from the next chapter, the plot will be galloping forward~ Dear readers, sit tight~

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