bloom america

Chapter 261 CUDA’s Trouble

After entering November, the weather finally started to get cooler, and people began to wear warm clothes such as woolen sweaters.

At the beginning of the month, the second arcade competition held by Blizzard was a big hit.

"Emma Cube" and "Street Fighter" became infinitely popular.

At this time, a big event also happened in Japan - the PS architecture computer launched by IBM was finally put on sale.

This time, Watson did not spend 5 billion to develop these microcomputers like it did with the 360 ​​mainframe.

Even the products purchased by Xiao Watson are only ready-made.

The PS computer only has an 8-bit processor produced by Fairchild Company, only 4kb of memory, and the hard disk is an extension of the host. There is no mouse, and the cost of the entire machine is reduced to an extremely low level - they are not even equipped with a monitor, and need to use

TV output.

IBM, which has deep pockets, chose the low-end route when dealing with the Japanese market.

——Or, because of time constraints, they had to choose the low-end route.

After all, in a strict sense, such a machine is just a patchwork without any technical content. It can barely be regarded as technical, and this is the operating system that imitates Phoenix.

Although this computer is so simple, it is an eye-opener for Japanese people who have no knowledge of computers.

The term "computer" quickly became popular in Japan...

IBM's big move could not be hidden from ark. At this time, Catherine also began to unite third parties and began to translate some games into Japanese - Catherine was preparing to launch them in Japan.

"Okay, the meeting will be tomorrow morning...well, that's it."

Catherine put down the phone with a smile.

My own Japanese version is ready to be developed. The Japanese version needs some modifications based on the characteristics of the Japanese. It is not advisable to copy it mechanically, so it needs to be modified again.

Just as she put down the phone, the phone suddenly rang again, and Catherine had to pick up the phone again.

——Because it was ready to be launched in Japan, third parties looked over like fish that smelled blood.

"Miss Edson, Mr. Alcomb, the president of Atari, wants to see you..."

"Well, take the phone."

Atari is currently the largest game developer. Their games have become famous in the past two years and have achieved very good results. Even Catherine attaches great importance to them.

"Well... that's it. Our meeting remains unchanged and will be held tomorrow morning."

After putting down the phone, Catherine scratched her head.

Catherine feels that her plan is just a very ordinary business plan, but for the majority of game developers, this means something different - they make a living by selling games.

It is already a pretty good product. There are already millions of game consoles in homes across the United States, including tens of millions of people, who have played or seen the game console.

So regarding this matter, after they heard the news, one or two of them called before the meeting was held.

If a game sells for $50, generally speaking, the profit should be around $20. If it sells 100,000 copies, that’s a total profit of 2 million. If the sales volume is one million, that’s 2,000.

million dollar profit

This is very beneficial for large game companies.

If the game carrier can be changed from cassettes and tapes to optical discs, the profits of the game can be further expanded, so game manufacturers are also looking forward to the Nimbus game console.

——Of course, they won’t mind earning an extra penny. The Japanese market has been coveted by these people for a long time.

Catherine put down the phone and took a sip of the black tea made by Elsa, but within this short period of time, the phone rang again, and Catherine had to pick up the phone again.

"Tell them, just say that I went out for a meeting, and the meeting will be as usual tomorrow morning."

Catherine finally said this to the phone, and then hung up the phone.

Catherine was really worried about this matter.

"call……"

She breathed a long sigh of relief, only to find Elsa snickering beside her.

"Elsa, there's nothing funny about this."

Catherine pouted.

"Of course... uh... I just think you look good when you are busy."

Elsa answered.

"Alright alright."

Seeing Catherine's helpless look, Elsa finally suppressed her laughter.

"Elsa, help me go to Imbus and give me a copy of their information."

Catherine opened the file in her hand and began to read it carefully. The company was currently on the rise and could not do without Catherine's management.

"OK."

Elsa said and left.

Nimbus, the Nimbus game console. Catherine has high hopes for this game console. It is so powerful now, and the third party is so enthusiastic. It is easy to imagine that once cheaper game consoles with better display effects appear, what will happen to them?

There is nothing more wonderful than how much impact this market has had.

It's a pity that Roberts' Thunder Lab still hasn't made any progress in GPU research, but they did come up with a 16-bit CPU up to 13mhz. However, because the architecture is different from that used by Catherine, this experimental

The CPU has not yet been put into use. This CPU, which does not even have a code name, was invented for the purpose of researching GPUs. It can perform floating point operations better than Catherine's SFC. Although it is not a GPU, they are indeed moving towards this.

Efforts have been made.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The mén was struck.

"Give me the information"

Catherine thought it was Elsa, but she didn't expect that the other person stood in front of her and stopped moving. At this moment, Catherine suddenly realized that she seemed to have recognized the wrong person. She quickly raised her head, only to see that Ada was laughing at her.

.

"Ada? Why are you here?"

Catherine was a little surprised. Today is not a holiday. Why did Ada come over?

"I came to see you. I don't have any classes this afternoon."

Ada sat on the sofa next to her: "I went to ask the receptionist just now and they said you were not here. Fortunately, I met Elsa and I knew you had not left."

"Oh, I'm sorry, because some of the phone calls...well, they really annoy me."

Catherine scratched her head in embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter."

Ada smiled.

"Why did you even think of coming here?"

Although it is not the first time for Ada to come here, she does not come here often. Ada prefers to come to her family's manor.

"Let's see your work."

Catherine suddenly thought that she seemed to have discussed this issue with Ada yesterday.

"I won't disturb you, I'm just taking a look."

Ada smiled a little strangely.

"Oh, what a woman thinks..."

Catherine sighed almost inaudibly.

To be honest, even though her current body is that of a woman, she still doesn't understand women as a creature.

It's fine at ordinary times, but once they have some small thoughts, it will be a headache...

"Okay, that's it."

At this moment, another phone call came, and Catherine had no choice but to answer the phone again.

"Ms. Edson, Mr. Roberts is calling for you. Do you need to pick up the phone?"

Could it be that GPUs have made progress?

"Okay, hurry up"

Catherine was very excited.

She originally thought that it might take several years for new products to be developed, but she did not expect that there was already progress.

However, the first words Catherine heard instantly extinguished her enthusiasm.

"Miss Edson... we have encountered a lot of trouble with the research and development of GPU..."

"what happened?"

Catherine asked.

"It's about the CUDA architecture you proposed. Although this architecture is very mature, if our GPU is really built like this, it may be very troublesome to study..."

CUDA is a relatively mature architecture. Isn’t this architecture bad?

"The architecture of CUDA is indeed very good, but I think you seem to have complicated the problem. Our problem can actually be solved better without using such an architecture."

Roberts expressed his views tactfully.

Now Catherine seemed to understand.

——Because the architecture of my CUDA is somewhat complicated, which is not a good thing for research.

Almost instantly, Catherine understood - the original CUDA architecture was born based on the already established graphics card technology, but for now, such a graphics card has not appeared at all.

After thinking about it for a while, she weighed whether to adopt the CUDA technology she knew and develop new technologies. Catherine immediately said: "You just need to continue researching. The problem of architecture is not a problem."

The only disadvantage of doing this is that the motherboard that has been studied needs to be modified, but Catherine thinks it is worth it.

After all, the current 16-bit computer is just a prototype, and the phoenix-stargate system is only a forward-looking version, and there is still time.

If Roberts had made this call after everything had been settled, Catherine would naturally not have said that, because if she overturned everything at that time, the gain would outweigh the loss.

After hanging up the phone, Catherine immediately connected the phone to Sanders' office again, and then gave him an order:

"Sanders, our new system and new machines require some modifications. Please discuss the specific matters with Roberts."

After putting down the phone, Catherine scratched her head. There were so many things going on today.

etc……

Catherine realized that she seemed to have done something extraordinary just now.

Hmm... Let the president of AMD and the president of Intel sit down together to discuss?

Okay, another boring joke...