Chapter 310: Causing trouble? This is a plant!

Behind the podium.

"Engineer, this is your stage, go up!"

"No, I'm not interested in this, San Shui, the whole project was started by you, you go up!"

Seeing that continuing to delay would make the audience below anxious, Qin Miao had no choice but to go up.

Back then, I also did this to give my senior sister a stage, right? For such occasions, I'm not scared either—just go up if you're going to go up.

The heating in this Northeast is blazing, so Qin Miao, wearing a suit and leather shoes, won't feel cold going on stage; he walked up with light steps.

"Ladies and gentlemen, friends, ladiesandgentlemen, welcome to beautiful Ha Cheng, welcome to the Ha Gong Da Microelectronics Center. Today is a special day; our East's first domestically made microprocessor is officially launched! This is inseparable from the care of our superiors. Now, please let Leader Li of the State Electronic Computer Industry Bureau give a speech!"

What is Leader Li's role?

It's just to give a speech on stage in such occasions, acting as a mascot! Better not to manage anything; in a market economy, just let go and let things develop freely!

Below, Liu Zhonglie's face was stern, his hands clenched. Humph, at this glorious moment, they didn't even invite the leader of the Computing Institute; Ha Gong Da is becoming more and more outrageous—you could develop Loongson One, but it's still mainly thanks to the engineers of our Computing Institute!

"Comrades, I believe you've all seen the exhibits in the exhibition hall and should know about our development process in the semiconductor field. This road hasn't been easy, but we've finally caught up!"

A round of applause came from below.

Five minutes later.

"Alright, that's all I'll say today. I wish our integrated circuit industry continued growth and prosperity, standing at the pinnacle of world science and technology!"

Amid the applause, Qin Miao went up on stage again.

"Everyone is here for our Loongson One, so now I won't say much more; let's introduce Loongson One, this processor, which we independently developed..."

"Is it just a copy of X86?" At that moment, a voice sounded from below.

A blond-haired, blue-eyed foreign man spoke a sentence in fluent English; as soon as he said it, the scene became somewhat chaotic.

"Sir, please don't assume and criticize our Eastern technology. You should have just seen those exhibits; although our East's entry into industrialization was recent, we are striving forward and have already caught up with the pace of the world's advanced technology. How can you call our independently developed product a copy?"

"We know that for a processor, what matters most is architecture and instruction set. Currently, Intel's 8086 processor is widely used worldwide, employing the X86 architecture and instruction set. Don't just change a name and claim it's your own independent development!"

Geluofu furrowed his brows; this old guy, is he here to cheer for Intel? Is he here to disrupt the Loongson One launch? Our side didn't arrange such a role, nor have we heard that other companies did!

"That's right, you know the X86 architecture and instruction set; then do you know what they specifically are? For example, the instruction set is divided into two types..."

"Of course, these two are complex instruction set and reduced instruction set; Intel uses the complex instruction set, unless you're using the reduced instruction set, then..."

"That's right, we're taking the reduced instruction set route." Qin Miao said: "Ten years ago, computer memory was very expensive, so back then computer engineers hoped to reduce program code length by using a complex instruction set, thus saving memory space—for example, Intel's X86 and IBM's System/360 are representatives of this, but..."

Qin Miao looked at everyone present; today's press conference isn't just to explain that Loongson One differs from X86, but more importantly to show that Loongson's path is the correct one!

"Over these years, computer technology has developed rapidly; I've heard that manufacturers are already researching 64K memory. You're all industry elites; you should know that back then, 640B memory was already a powerful computer. Now, memory development has made what those engineers imagined unimaginable. Right, is Mr. Moore here too? What I admire most is Moore's Law!"

Gordon Moore also furrowed his brows; you little brat, it sounds like you're saying we Intel took the wrong route?

"The number of transistors on a die doubles every eighteen months while the price halves, so we can imagine that soon a terabyte of memory will appear, and a gigabyte of memory will also appear in ten or twenty years; therefore, we fundamentally don't need to worry about memory!"

"You mean the reduced instruction set is more advanced than X86? I don't believe it! Unless you can convince me!"

"Cough cough, this... this isn't right? Intel people have also come to our venue; how can we say... these two instruction sets actually each have their pros and cons. Um... Mr. Geluofu, Mr. Moore, these are just my personal opinions; if I'm wrong later, please feel free to point it out!"

Below, Geluofu and Moore were seething inside, but they couldn't show it on their faces, only able to put on a gentlemanly demeanor.

"This complex instruction set: a single instruction covers multiple tasks, so when designing programs, the code quantity greatly decreases, which facilitates computer popularity; and because the instruction count is reduced, memory is saved. Mr. Geluofu, Mr. Moore, is what I'm saying okay?"

"That's right."

"Let me also talk about the reduced instruction set; this concept was only proposed last year by scholars like John Cook. It uses fixed length, each instruction executes one command; thus, to complete an operation, multiple instructions must work together, making program writing more complex and memory usage higher, but the processor executes instructions quickly, overall operation runs more smoothly, and processor power consumption is lower..."

Having said this, Qin Miao again looked at the people below: "Mr. Geluofu, Mr. Moore, do you say I'm saying this correctly?"

The two exchanged a glance, not knowing how to answer.

It can be said that the concept of reduced instruction set, which only appeared last year, was proposed precisely to counter the flaws of complex instruction set; those reporters might not remember other details, but this point—fast instruction execution, smooth operation, low power consumption—is definitely remembered!

If this gets out, wouldn't it be saying that Loongson is more advanced than X86?

No way, absolutely not!

"Well... when executing the same task, a reduced instruction set requires a large number of similar instructions, which greatly increases code volume; this is also a major flaw..."

"Yeah, that's a problem; therefore, we designed and developed an efficient compiler for the Loongson processor, integrating a large number of functions in this compiler to make it easy for programmers to call; do you two think this design solution can solve that flaw?"

"This... this is absolutely falling into the opponent's trap; that questioner just now wasn't here to cause trouble—this damn thing is clearly a plant!"