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Chapter 224 Ark Developer Conference (Part 1)

Jenny was lying tiredly in the room of the villa, this is New York.

Lily is currently developing photos in the darkroom, and Catherine and Ada are not here either. In everyone's secret base, there are only Jenny and Lily.

"Jenny, what's wrong with you recently?" Lisa, who had just returned to the United States, was still thinking about her new clothes.

"I have been doing research with my mentor recently. But... we have failed. At least so far, we have not succeeded."

"What exactly are you studying?"

Lisa asked.

"A kind of artificial skin. You know, burn patients need skin grafting, but many times, we need to use other people's skin, or his own skin for transplantation, but this method is only a temporary measure after all. So we are thinking

Something that can replace human skin..."

Jenny looked very disappointed.

"We use silicone as a material, but so far, what we have made cannot be called skin at all, and it is almost like clothes."

"clothing?"

Lisa couldn't quite understand what Jenny said.

"What clothes are they?"

Jenny said: "It's just a kind of latex. Although we make it breathable and comfortable, it doesn't look like it goes with the skin. It can only be used as clothing..."

"It seems interesting."

Lisa seemed to have seen a new continent.

"Oh, so what if it's fun? This project is about to be terminated, and then grandpa wants me to attend that damn cocktail party... Oh, I almost want to join those hippies..."

Jenny complained.

"Cocktail party?"

Lisa asked again.

"Yes. My parents and grandfather both want me to take my boyfriend to their cocktail party."

"I think going to a party is more fun than this." Lisa shrugged.

"Oh, maybe." Jenny shook her head, then sat up, "Damn... I feel like my luck has been really bad recently."

"Jenny, can you lend me the latex material you mentioned?"

Lisa suddenly asked again.

"Oh, no problem..." Jenny looked at Lisa, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "In exchange, how about you accompany me to the cocktail party?"

"no problem."

Jenny finally breathed a sigh of relief.

…

Also relieved was Catherine, who was currently busy in California.

The new 16-bit CPU is what Catherine has been thinking about now.

In July 1967, the SFC series CPU with a frequency of up to 7.67mhz was finally completed.

Although it did not reach the expected 8mhz, Catherine was satisfied. With the current technology, it is a relief to be able to do this.

The main frequency does not mean everything. Catherine has other ways to solve this problem.

For example, the historical -233 - that is, the Pentium 1st generation, compared to the 486 CPU, an aluu computing companion was added internally) to achieve dual pipelines and dual operations, with a speed ratio of more than 48 times, and for computers

What is the main frequency? The requirements are not high.

Dual pipelines and dual ALUs can work in parallel at the same time.

Superscalar is the performance it can achieve, which is actually commonly known as "dual core". Superscalar performance is generated through a dual-core structure.

Catherine has never considered using dual CPUs on game consoles, but it seems good to customize a "dual-core" CPU for game consoles.

——In fact, a dual-core CPU has only one CPU computing core. It just uses a time-sharing system. It looks like two CPUs, but it is not really two CPUs.

This is different from dual CPU.

After all, the dual-CPU architecture is very complex, which will only make third-party development more difficult - which is tantamount to asking for a dead end.

In history, there was a game console called PCE, which was very famous in Japan. It was because Nintendo was too strong at the time, which caused anger and resentment. Therefore, third parties joined forces, and powerful third parties cooperated with Nippon Electric Corporation.

Developed this game console that once surpassed FC in sales.

Therefore, Catherine, who has learned from the past, is very relaxed about the restrictions on third parties.

With the new CPU, the company's progress can begin. In this way, IBM will have no way to develop a 16-bit machine before itself.

The development of Pentium computers is still coming, and these CPUs will be used on minicomputers for the time being.

However, now that the new CPU is ready, the countdown to the launch of the new machine has begun.

In this case, the company's first "ark Developer Conference" is about to begin.

This developer conference is an interaction between Catherine and a third party, and it can be regarded as an important event in the history of computing - this sentence comes from the evaluation of later generations.

This Ark Developer Conference is a very important move for Catherine.

As long as this conference can be successful and become a management, it will be of great help to me.

The venue of this conference is in New York - Bruce bought a piece of land in Manhattan last time, and Catherine built it into a conference hall.

The exhibition will be held on July 5th, which is after the Independence Day of the United States.

At this conference, handheld consoles, Nimbus game consoles, and Pentium computers will become Catherine's flagship products. In addition, the conference will also have a software section and a game section.

After all, the current industry has not yet developed. In order to increase popularity, Catherine can only bring these three industries together.

For this conference, Catherine racked her brains and informed the media that it was necessary. Her own Angel News TV station would also broadcast the incident live.

However, what Catherine did not expect at all was that at this developer conference, the number of people turned out to be unexpectedly large, and the entire venue was packed to the brim.

"Are there too many people?"

Catherine had no idea such a thing would happen.

"It seems that many fans have also followed..." Sanders also looked a little dumbfounded.

Not only that, there are also a lot of media interviews behind me.

No matter how many people there are, it will be very helpful to increase the company's reputation, especially those media who will take notice of it.

Catherine has decided that after the conference is over, the venue will be expanded, preferably to become a main store for electronic products. This temporary stage is really not suitable for such a hot scene.

"Hello, gentlemen and ladies."

Catherine walked onto the display stage, then took the microphone and smiled at everyone.

"Oh she's Catherine Edson"

It seemed that someone from behind recognized Catherine.

"Oh it's Ederson"

The young enthusiasts behind seemed a little commotion.

Although it is good to increase the visibility, if it continues like it is now, then this conference will not be held. Catherine thinks that it is best to invite these enthusiasts to future conferences. After all, this is a "developer" conference.

"Ahem... Gentlemen and ladies, I hope you all like our company's products."

Today's young generation in the United States is deeply influenced by hippie style, and some people actually dress up like Elvis Presley.

However, when they heard Catherine's words, they finally became quiet, and Catherine breathed a sigh of relief.

"We at Ark Group have great expectations for this developer conference. I sincerely hope that this conference will be a success."

After chatting for a while, the drama finally started. First of all, the one in the mall was the handheld game player.

The design of the handheld console has been completed. On the stage, Catherine took out a handheld console designed by the company.

"This is our company's new concept product, we call it a 'handheld console'."

On the projection screen behind Catherine, a physical picture of the handheld device was displayed.

"This kind of game console uses 4 dry batteries as a mobile power supply and can run continuously for more than three hours. The game console is made of LEDs and chips..."

Catherine turned on her handheld console and started to show the game.

“Our handheld game console can run some games on the classic Overlord game console, such as Emma Cube and Snake. However, due to technical reasons, the games of our product can only be played like game-tv.

Built into the computer..."

Catherine was chatting, and everyone around her was attracted by this novel handheld device.

It can be seen that this product is very popular with these people.

This is natural.

No one has ever thought that they can carry a game console with them and only need 4 dry batteries to run it.

This product is not Catherine's flagship product, nimbus and Pentium computers are.

After introducing the handheld console, a picture of a Nimbus concept machine was placed on the projector.

"What's this?"

After seeing this machine with a round head, many people seem to be puzzled.

"Next, I will introduce to you our company's second product, which is the next generation game console - nimbus."

Originally, this thing was meant to be shown to third-party game developers, but since so many people have gathered here, Catherine did not hesitate to explain her new machine to them.

"Nimbus is our company's next-generation game console. Nimbus will be a revolution. It will be equipped with a 16-bit CPU. At the same time, the media media will also change from the current tapes and cassettes to optical discs. Of course, we will also

Backwards compatible with current cassette and tape devices..."

Catherine gave an overview of nimbus and watched people looking at the strange-looking machine with surprised expressions.

Immediately afterwards, a concept drawing of the Nimbus version of "Super Mario" was released, which pushed the atmosphere of the venue to a climax...