In June, Amd released the Athlon 700 (Athlon) 500mhz, which uses Amd K7 architecture and 180nm process technology. The core is composed of 9.5 million transistors. The frequency starts from 500mhz and can reach more than 1Ghz later.
Athlon 700 challenges pentium3!
The lonely Intel company finally met a strong competitor!
In November 1996, at the DEX Computer Showcase and Trade Fair in Las Vegas, Intel Chairman Grove confidently described to 7,000 attendees what Intel's chips would look like in 2011. He said that there are 5.5 million transistors on the Pentium Pro today, and by then, the number of transistors will reach 1 billion; the main frequency will jump from 200MB to 1 MHz; Intel sold about 60 million microprocessors in 1996 , by 2011, Intel hopes to sell hundreds of millions of units per year.
Grove proudly said at the time that no obvious technical threats had been found so far. The biggest long-term threat to Intel was that market demand grew too slowly.
The competition between the two giants is a good thing for global computer companies such as Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Guozhi, and Lenovo.
Guozhi Computer Company took the lead in booking 50,000 pentium3 (500MB) for use in Everest brand computers.
Intel Corporation couldn't ask for it.
At the end of June this year, Guozhi CPU Research Institute added 165 high-end R&D personnel (R&D personnel recruited by Guozhi Supercomputer), bringing the total number of R&D personnel to 1,075, divided into desktop CPU R&D department, notebook CPU R&D department, and server CPU R&D department. Department and Supercomputer CPU R&D Department (newly added), of which the R&D personnel in the Desktop CPU R&D Department account for 60%, and the research resources and technical achievements of the four R&D departments are shared with each other.
Guozhi CPU Research Institute recruits doctoral students in computer hardware and software, embedded systems, computer network engineering, computer CPU design and other CPU-related majors from prestigious domestic and foreign universities all year round with high salaries.
Nowadays, in terms of technical strength in computer CPU research and development, Guozhi CPU Research Institute is ranked second in the country, and the Computer Technology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences dare not be ranked first!
In September this year, academician Li Guangjie replaced Wang Shuhe and was appointed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the director of the Institute of Computer Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and concurrently as the chairman of Sugon Company of China. Academician Li took the development of Sugon supercomputers and software as the main direction of the Institute of Computing. He did not hear about the research and development of Loongson. and microcomputer operating system plans.
In a previous life, Hu Wei, the chief designer of Loongson, said in an interview with a CCTV reporter that in early 2000, Academician Li Guangjie, then director of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, squeezed 1 million yuan from the institute's scientific research funds and appointed him as the Loongson research team. The team leader found a group of young people who had never been exposed to the field of chip design to start developing Loongson.
Guozhi Semiconductor Research Institute invested 200 million yuan, and the desktop CPU R&D department began to develop GZ-cx3, which is comparable to pentium III and Athlon 700, on September 21.
The development of CPUs is changing with each passing day. Although Guozhi CPU Research Institute is still in the role of a chaser, it does not worry about R&D funds and application markets. It has strong R&D strength, and Intel and AMD do not dare to take it lightly.
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"Academician Xia, thank you for your hard work!"
In order to successfully develop the Guozhi supercomputer as soon as possible, Ni Guanglan invited academician Xia Peishu, who retired only last year, to serve as a guiding expert.
In 1960, Academician Xia successfully developed China's first self-designed electronic computer, the 107 computer. He began to develop high-speed computers in the 1960s and solved the key problem of digital signal transmission in large-scale high-speed computers. In the late 1970s, Academician Xia proposed the overall function The design idea of integrating design, logic design and engineering design significantly improved the computing speed. He presided over the development of the high-speed array processor 150-Ap and succeeded. The maximum computing speed of the machine was 14 million times per second, which was higher than that of the United States at that time. Computational speed for similar products embargoed in China.
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Academician Xia studied distributed supercomputers and parallel supercomputers, and was successively responsible for the development of the GF-10 functional distributed array supercomputer series and the bJ parallel supercomputer series.
Academician Xia is known as the "Mother of Chinese Computers".
In 1991, Academician Xia was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).
In August last year, Academician Xia turned 75 and retired honorably from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Mr. Sun, I just come up with ideas, and the research work is done by young people like Hu Wei!"
I heard that the richest man in China invested 100 million yuan in scientific research funds to develop a national intelligence supercomputer with a peak performance of 100 million floating-point operations per second. Ni Guanglan personally came to invite her to serve as a guidance expert. She worked two mornings a week and was shuttled to and from get off work by car. Pay an expert guidance fee of 10,000 yuan per month.
"Academician Xia, the National Intelligence supercomputer developed by young people like Hu Wei will definitely become the world's number one in the future, and Hu Wei also has a great future."
How could Sun Jian fail to hear that Academician Xia recommended his favorite student, Hu Wei, to him.
When Sun Jian saw the admission list, he immediately saw Hu Wei, an associate researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ph.D., in the first row of the list. His name looked very familiar!
1991.09-1996.03, PhD candidate in Computer System Structure at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received a PhD in Engineering.
1996.03-1997.06, Research Assistant at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1997.07-present, associate researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
After reading Hu Wei's profile, Sun Jian was immediately sure that this Hu Wei was Hu Wei, the chief designer of Loongson in his previous life!
Under the leadership of Academician Chen Yongqing, Guozhi CPU Research Institute has successfully developed GZ-cx2 after more than 10 years of rapid development, second only to pentium3 and Athlon 700. Now it has invested 200 million yuan and is working hard to develop GZ-cx2 that is comparable to pentium3 and Athlon 700. cx2, is it necessary for the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to invest funds in the research and development of Loongson?
After rebirth, Sun Jian didn't want to disturb the bright future of a group of big guys in his previous life. Fortunately, these big guys were unwilling to be subordinated and did not appear in Sun Jian's company.
Except for Qiu Zhongjun, whom Sun Jian "knew", no big boss came to seek refuge.
I wonder if Hu Wei was influenced by his mentor to apply for the job?
Hu Wei could become the chief designer of Loongson in his previous life, and Sun Jian would definitely not waste it!
"Thank you, Mr. Sun!"
Academician Xia also understood the implication of Sun Jian's words. He would not waste talents and would definitely cultivate them vigorously. The Guozhi Supercomputer Research Institute had a bright future. Her favorite student was wasted under Wang Shuhe. She agreed to Ni Guanglan's invitation. Call Hu Wei to apply for the job.
"Thank you, Mr. Sun, for your cultivation!"
After Hu Wei got married, he lived in Tongzi Building. He wanted to be allocated an 80-square-meter elevator room, but he didn’t know how to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse. I also signed up for the job, and my life changed forever.
Recommended by his mentor, Hu Wei, who studies computer system structure and has experience in developing the "Dawn 2000" supercomputer system structure, was appointed by Ni Guanglan as the director of the supercomputer system research department. The first batch was assigned to a finely decorated elevator with three rooms and two halls. house.
Hu Wei lived up to expectations and led 100 R&D personnel in the Supercomputer System Research Department to take the lead in developing the system structure of the Guozhi supercomputer.
