The acquisition of Pixar and the establishment of Digital Light & Magic (DLM) were not urgent. Both companies require high-performance computers, or graphics workstations.

As the saying goes, "A skilled craftsman must first have the right tools."

SGI, a US-based company, is currently the most well-known developer of graphics workstations. Just last year, SGI launched its first batch of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) workstations, becoming one of the world's earliest RISC workstations.

Films such as "Jurassic Park," "The Lord of the Rings," and "Emergency Landing" were all produced on SGI graphics workstations.

The success of "Titanic" was largely due to its extensive use of computer animation, which successfully simulated the tragic scenes of the time. The world-renowned digital studio Digital Domain spent a year and a half using over 300 SGI super workstations to create the computer special effects for "Titanic."

This demonstrates the significance of graphics workstations for computer special effects companies.

Coincidentally, the computer developed by Wujiang Group is also a RISC computer, which belongs to high-performance computing. With some improvements, it can be used to develop a graphics workstation and is expected to achieve great success in the field of supercomputing, competing with companies like Silicon Graphics and IBM.

In its previous life, SGI held more than half of the market share among the world's 500 largest supercomputers.

In this lifetime, history may be changed.

Wujiang Group should be able to get a share of the supercomputer market.

When it comes to research on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) computers, neither SGI nor ARM can compare to Wujiang.

Under Zhao Ye's leadership, Wujiang has been dedicated to the research of RISC chips, and has successively launched the 8-bit Kirin 1 processor and the 16-bit Kirin 2 processor. Now, even the 32-bit Kirin 3 processor is about to be developed.

In fact, developing a 32-bit RISC processor is not difficult.

Acorn Computers, the parent company of ARM, developed the 32-bit ARM1 chip in less than a year a few years ago and also launched a microcomputer with the ARM1 chip.

Loongson Design, a subsidiary of Wujiang Group, is no longer a novice. After several years of development, Loongson Design's technical team has been cultivated and its technology far surpasses that of ARM.

A simple comparison of a set of data reveals the gap between Loongson's current design company and ARM.

ARM developers: around 10 people.

The number of developers working on the Kirin microprocessor series is approximately 200.

The two are simply incomparable.

Although ARM released a 32-bit processor, its performance was not powerful, and they could only keep trying to improve it.

The Kirin series, designed by Loongson Design Company, was designed from the outset with a focus on powerful performance.

Only through continuous improvement can the 32-bit Kirin 3 processor be used in personal computers and compete with Intel chips.

ARM chips, to date, have struggled to find widespread adoption in personal computers.

Furthermore, ARM's development has become even more difficult due to competition from the Kirin 1 and Kirin 2 chips.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, ARM has absolutely no chance of rising to prominence.

In fact, Loongson Design aims to create an incredibly advanced "Loongson architecture," which was researched and designed by Zhao Ye based on his understanding of multiple reduced instruction set architectures such as ARM, MIPS, and RSIC-V from his previous life.

There's no need to worry too much about patents, because many technologies haven't been developed yet.

Therefore, as long as Loongson Design Company develops these technologies first, they will belong to Loongson Design Company's patents and can also curb the development of competitors.

The Loongson architecture chips have significant advantages, such as small size, low cost, low power consumption, high performance, fast instruction execution speed, pipelined processing, and modular functionality.

The modular design of the Loongson architecture allows developers to select the appropriate instruction set for development based on specific scenarios. This modularity enables developers to easily design server CPUs, home appliance CPUs, industrial control CPUs, and even CPUs used in sensors smaller than a finger, all based on the Loongson instruction set architecture.

That's why there are so many developers working on the Kirin series chips.

It can be seen that the Kirin chip is actually a type of Loongson architecture.

Now, all that's left is to wait for the Kirin 3 processor to be released, and Wujiang Group can launch its personal computer brand and further design and develop graphics workstations, servers, and supercomputers.

...

Around noon, Zhao Ye had lunch with the senior executives of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio and chatted with them.

Zhao Ye picked up a piece of beef, chewed it slowly, and listened to them talk about the film studio.

"Boss, the works of Zheng Yuanjie, the king of children's literature in China, are very good. Our film studio is interested in adapting his works, such as 'Shuke and Beta.' I don't know if you've read them," said Xu Xiangming, the director of the film studio, while eating.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye immediately thought of "Shuke who flies airplanes and Beta who drives tanks." Although he had never read the fairy tale novel, he had watched the cartoons. Back then, his children loved watching cartoons, and he had watched some with them.

"Shuke and Beta" is a very interesting work and it's quite popular.

So Zhao Ye suggested, "I haven't seen it, but you can try adapting it."

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