Chapter 636： UISC Architecture

Chen Hao raised his head with surprise on his face.

"Professor Zhu, what's the matter?"

Compared to Chen Chong, who returned to China together, Zhu Chen's life was very simple.

In addition to taking a class from time to time, the rest of the time is devoted to MR smart glasses.

The technical content of MR smart glasses is not much lower than that of optical cores and photonic screens. After all, this project is not the glasses made by Microsoft and Google, but a veritable "MR" technology.

"Principal, the optical core has already been completed, right?"

Zhu Chen seemed to be stimulated by something, and said excitedly: "Principal, can you let the Optical Core Research Center cooperate with my research institute to develop a chip for MR smart glasses?"

In fact, many products now require chips, such as refrigerators, air conditioners and even car keys.

It's just that these chip categories are different. For example, there are many differences between computer chips and mobile phone chips. In layman's terms, mobile phone chips are based on ARM architecture, while computer chips are based on x86 architecture.

Like Apple's M1 chip, the performance is absolutely super, twice the performance of the A14 chip, if it can be installed in an Apple mobile phone, the performance alone is simply killing it.

But it can't.

Because the mobile phone is different from the computer, the area is limited, limited by the silicon chip area, power supply and heat dissipation, the number of cores, and the frequency are limited.

The heat dissipation and power consumption of the M1 chip are not what the mobile phone can bear.

It is worth mentioning that Apple's A-series chips have strong performance, but the heat dissipation capacity is too poor, which leads to the reduction of chip performance.

"No problem at all." Chen Hao agreed without thinking.

Seeing that the principal agreed so quickly, Zhu Chen, who had already done a lot of drafts, was speechless.

Zhu Chen couldn't help but ask a question of concern.

"Principal, what architecture does the optical core use? Shouldn't it be the ARM architecture?"

"of course not."

Chen Hao put down his chopsticks and smiled faintly: "The optical core is neither ARM nor x86 architecture, but our unique architecture."

"Isn't it RISC (reduced instruction set)?" Zhu Chen's eyes widened.

This is a big earthquake!

"No, you can call him Universal Instruction Set Architecture, or UISC (Universal; Set Computing) for short." Chen Hao said with a smile.

Thanks to the optical core technology (full version) that the system finally sent, it also comes with a more powerful instruction set architecture.

"Then, isn't that also compatible with computers, tablets, and watches?" Zhu Chen asked in a trembling voice.

"Theoretically, this is the case." Chen Hao said with a smile.

The ARM architecture adopted by the mobile phone chip is based on the reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture, so it can also be called the RISC architecture.

The x86 architecture used in computer chips is based on the complex instruction set (CISC) architecture, also known as the CISC architecture.

The former focuses more on the realization of high performance but high power consumption, while the latter focuses on the field of small size and low power consumption.

Let's say we want to order a person to eat:

The order issued by the CISC framework is [first take a spoon, then scoop up a spoonful of rice, then open your mouth, then put it in your mouth, and finally swallow it].

The RISC architecture uses very simple commands to let him do very complicated things, and only needs to issue a command [eat].

Does it seem that the RISC architecture is simpler than the CISC architecture?

But this simplification comes at the expense of high performance.

Instructions are more complex, which means more powerful instructions.

Or the example of eating.

[First take a spoon, then scoop up a spoonful of rice, then open your mouth, then put it in your mouth, and finally swallow it] This process can be completed by the CISC architecture with only 1 instruction, while the RISC requires 5 instructions to complete.

The UISC architecture (Universal Instruction Architecture) uses one instruction to complete the process of [first take a spoon, then scoop up a spoonful of rice, then open your mouth, then put it in your mouth, and finally swallow it].

It not only has the characteristics of small size and low power consumption of RISC architecture, but also can achieve high performance of CISC architecture.

It's a perfect structure!

"Principal, that optical core has offended both Qualcomm and Intel!" Zhu Chen inexplicably appeared Intel's figure in his mind, and couldn't help but be a little worried.

Under the same area, the performance of the optical core is far better than that of Intel's chips. Once Intel loses orders for computer chips, it will be a disaster.

Once the optical core becomes popular in the world, the mobile phone chip giants Samsung, Qualcomm, and Apple are all dead. Samsung and Apple are fine. People don’t need to buy their own, just buy them from Guanghua.

But Qualcomm is cool.

The same is true for computer chips. Intel makes chips but not computers. Once the optical core is opened to major PC companies, Intel will also follow in the footsteps of Qualcomm.

However, Zhu Chen is also happy to see such a scene. He was humiliated when he bought Intel's AR business. He has not forgotten these.

"But in this case, we will face a lot of resistance, and there will be problems with the ecological environment." When Zhu Chen thought of this, he couldn't even eat his meals in a hurry.

"The x86 architecture and ARM architecture are very mature, and major operating systems have also optimized them, and a major application manufacturer has established a corresponding development system and R&D team..."

Regarding Zhu Chen's concern, Chen Hao just waved his hand, "It's okay, it's still a few months before the mass production of the optical core, the outside world still doesn't know that our optical core uses the UISC architecture, we will wait for the optical core to be applied to mobile phones first, and so on. When the public can't live without it, we will introduce computer chips."

"As for the ecological environment, the UISC architecture is compatible with the x86 and ARM architectures, without affecting the operating system and application software, of course..." Chen Hao paused after saying this, and made a light "cough".

"Of course, after the operating system has been optimized for our UISC organization, the system is smoother, and the application software is the same. I think those application manufacturers should know how to do it?"

"This, this..." Zhu Chen was dumbfounded.

Good guy, I really don't give Intel a chance to survive. I want to know how Microsoft will stand in line. The same is true for other application manufacturers.

ps

...

Thinking of this glass, Feng Chaoyang said that he really despised it in the past!

This morning, after discovering that trace, they also did an experiment.

After tossing for more than half an hour I really can't break this glass wall...

Incredible!

He was thinking, if the heavy machine gun kept shooting at a point, could it be broken?

It should be possible, otherwise it would be too exaggerated.

"Captain Feng, you don't need to tell me this. I am very relieved to leave the safety of the Optical Core Research Center and the school to you." Chen Hao said disapprovingly.

The research institute of Guanghua University, whether on the Internet or in reality, cannot be broken by intruders, not to mention that there are people like Captain Feng, so there is no need to worry about security issues.

Feng Chaoyang was choked by Chen Hao's words. When I thought about it, wasn't this just for venting.

He now feels that nothing in this school is normal, maybe it's all camouflage on the outside, but in fact it's all high-tech.

After a few words of nutritious words, Chen Hao picked up the plate and put it in the recycling area, then left the cafeteria and walked slowly towards Guanghua Building.