Chapter 522 A toddler challenges a giant
Huating Hotel is very lively.
"Dear reporters, I have kept you waiting for a long time." A person appeared on the rostrum. Soon, someone recognized him. This person was Mr. Qin's most trusted subordinate, Xu Zhengyang. When he appeared, Mr. Qin also wanted to coming!
“Now, please keep quiet.”
No one spoke anymore, the camera flashed and the camera started working.
“Now, I would like to invite Mr. Qin from our Mingzhou Group to give a speech!”
Applause sounded. With a smile on his face, Qin Tao walked onto the stage, faced the reporters below, and raised his right hand.
For a moment, all the cameras were focused on Qin Tao's right hand, which held a small glass ball. Inside the glass ball was a chip!
"What you are seeing now is the first processor developed by Loongson Company, a subsidiary of our Mingzhou Group, Loongson One. Its English name is Godson, which is directly transliterated to Godson. This is also our first domestically produced processor. A general-purpose processor! Its emergence has ended the history of our inability to develop processors by ourselves. From now on, we no longer have to spend precious foreign exchange to import CPU from abroad, and we Chinese can use Chinese chips!"
There was a sound of applause below.
Countless cameras are clicking, and their hearts are full of excitement. This is the beginning of a new era, and the motherland is gradually becoming stronger!
“What architecture and instruction set does this processor use?” someone asked below.
Qin Tao pointed to the slogan behind him: "Sir, you should be able to understand these words, right? Dragon architecture, Dragon instruction set, we are the descendants of Dragon, of course we have to name this new set of processor indicators after Dragon. .”
“Can you tell us something specific?”
“Well, there are too many. Next, we welcome a large number of downstream companies to cooperate with our Loongson Group, and we will provide more detailed technical information. It is not convenient to disclose it here for the time being.”
“So what system are you planning to use? Is this instruction set compatible with X86?”
Compatibility is a very polite term. In fact, it is asking, are you changing the shell based on X86?
Qin Tao shook his head: "It's not compatible. Currently, our relevant technical staff are Chinese-language localization of Linux. It will become our first domestic operating system. We have cooperated with relevant domestic companies and named it Hongqi Linux." . Relevant domestic software companies can also provide us with office suites. In this way, we will have a stable domestic platform. Our country lacks core and soul, but now it will be completely changed."
All use open source or domestically produced ones!
Linux is a model of international open source cooperation. The source code of the entire operating system is open to the public, which also facilitates compilation on different devices. In 1994, this system was finally perfected and became the famous version 1.0. Loongson Computer will rely on this system to create an original ecological system!
“So, that means it has nothing to do with Microsoft?”
"Yes, our system is to break the wintel alliance." Qin Tao said simply: "There should be no monopoly in the world. An absolute monopoly will bring absolute huge profits. Take the current processors. It is said that an ordinary processor costs one to two thousand yuan, a high-end one costs four to five thousand yuan, and the price of a brand-name machine is easily two to thirty thousand yuan. This is definitely a huge profit. The emergence of our Loongson is to provide benefits to the people. We want more people to be able to use computers. Here, we announce that the price of this Gouson No. 1 is 999 yuan!"
If the price is set too high, no one wants it, if the price is set too low, people will lose money. Therefore, Qin Tao also played a trick and set a suitable selling price.
This price is definitely not expensive.
Its performance parameters are equivalent to the 486. When the 486 was launched, the price was US$950. Now, the price has dropped to about US$300, which is more than two thousand dollars when converted into domestic currency.
At the same price, you can buy two Gouson No. 1 machines to form a dual-CPU computer. The performance must be better than the Pentium Pro!
999 yuan!
Everyone was shocked.
“If it can only be used for office use, then the market prospect of this computer is still not optimistic. What does Mr. Qin think of this problem?”
There are indeed experts present. They have solved all kinds of systems and office software, and the prices are cheap. However, if you want to occupy the market, you still have to look at the needs of users.
“Well, we also invited the person in charge of the goose factory today and asked him to say a few words to you.”
Goose Factory!
Now Goose Factory is already a world-famous Internet company. It has been listed in the United States, and its stock price has soared, which is very eye-catching. Such a company actually comes to support it?
“Our ICQ software will launch a new version to meet the needs of Loongson computers, and we will also launch the voice function first in the version used by Loongson computers.”
Today's ICQ can still only use text to chat. Although a video version was developed at Qin Tao's request, the network bandwidth required is very high and only a dedicated network can meet it. Qin Tao has this condition at home. Not necessarily for others.
So, a simplified version of this video, the audio version, was created.
If you only transmit voice, the network bandwidth required is still not much. Those Internet cafes with fiber optics can first meet the requirements. If it is in a local area network, there will be no problem.
The audio version?
Everyone was shocked.
This is definitely a breakthrough!
In this era, not every household has a telephone, and long-distance calls are still not easy to make. If you can make voice calls on the Internet, it can replace long-distance calls!
“Is this function only available on Loongson computers?” a reporter asked. Obviously they noticed this key point. If it is only available on Loongson computers, it means that Goose Factory is supporting this computer in disguise.
"Of course not, we will fully launch the voice call function. However, because the instruction set used by the Loongson processor has a large number of multimedia instruction sets, it will run faster." Zhang Dong continued: "Of course our company will We take care of users around the world and will not do anything special for Loongson. By the way, our company is about to launch a brand new game. Here, we will introduce it first."
Qin Tao stepped down and handed over the leadership to Zhang Dong, treating it as a launch ceremony for violent motorcycles. Sure enough, everyone was shocked when they heard about this interesting game.
Can you still play like this?
This game will definitely be a hit!
"Since the game requires an Internet connection, it places high demands on computer performance. It can only be used with Pentium pro processors. The release price of the game is 199 yuan, but everyone who is here today can get it when they leave. It’s a set of games, I hope you guys can enjoy it.”
If a game wants to be popular, it must advertise, and advertising requires money. Now, these reporters are free publicity targets. Providing them with some game backup is also a common method. Journalists still have many advantages.
North, Lxiang Company.
"They are really unique. They have come up with their own set of everything, a brand-new architecture, instruction set, system, and supporting software. Do they think they can open up the market in this way? It's really ridiculous. They also say they want to wintel The alliance has launched a challenge, but it is ridiculous to think that it is too big a tree!" Liu Zhongyeol said to the people around him while drinking water from an exquisite teacup.
Since Loongson Company was holding a press conference, they did not get off work too early today. However, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the tall office building and looking at the brightly lit city below gave them a sense of accomplishment. They were the leaders of this era. winner.
"Yes, what they are doing now is completely meaningless. Even if it is reduced to 999, no one will use a brand new system." Yang Qingfeng said.
Even if they know that Loongson is far-sighted and down-to-earth, they still won't worry. After all, what Loongson is doing now is like a toddler trying to challenge an adult, no, it should be a giant.
This is simply not possible!
“Mr. Qin, what have you done recently?” Liu Zhonglie continued to ask.
“I heard that I am coming to the capital to have an exchange with the army’s electronic warfare unit.”
No one paid attention and didn’t know what this meant.
"It seems that he has returned to his old job in the army. He probably wants to sell something to the army." Liu Zhonglie made a judgment.
the next day.
"Taozi, you are finally here. Recently we are summarizing the last exercise. We just finished the commendation meeting. At the meeting, everyone was praising the contribution of your Mingzhou Group. If you are here, you can hear more So many compliments." After Wu Shengli saw Qin Tao, he couldn't help but tease him.
Qin Tao smiled: "I don't dare to come. If I do, I will be roasted on the fire by you. We are a private enterprise and cannot bear so many compliments."
“We are very happy to hear that Loongson has been released. After all, this is our own thing. Don’t worry, we will be able to purchase it when you mass produce it.” Wu Shengli said.
The processor is available, and memory modules can be produced, but to assemble it into a computer, there are still some things missing. The most important of these is the north and south bridge chips that match the processor.
Since Loongson has been working on processors and has no time to develop more chips, the north and south bridge chips that match it were handed over to VIA, a company that also makes computer accessories. The north and south bridge chips it produces are for When Intel and AMD are paired together, the performance is excellent, even better than Intel's original version.
Wait until VIA Company builds the North Bridge and South Bridge chips, then the real Loongson computer will be released.
Wu Shengli has already expressed his position that the navy supports the Mingzhou Group.
“Dad, your military support is not enough. We also need the government’s support. The quantity you purchased is too small.” Qin Tao said: “We need the government departments to strongly support our domestically produced computers.”
Wu Shengli's face became serious: "This is very difficult. As you know, the army and the local government are two different departments. We cannot have too close contact, let alone ask them to support any projects."
Of course, government procurement is the big one. The government has so many departments, and each department must be modernized. It requires a lot of computers. If I remember correctly, what are the main objects of government procurement? L Xiang, and Fang Zheng How come these companies with computer science and university backgrounds come looking for their little-known Godson?
Yes, Loongson is famous. A large number of newspapers and televisions are reporting on it and praising its breakthrough in chips, but what’s the use of that? Every company has its own network of relationships when purchasing!
Qin Tao's eyes were bright: "Dad, I didn't ask you to be a door-to-door salesman. What are you afraid of?"
Wu Shengli smiled awkwardly, what is this called? He is soft-spoken and soft-handed. During this exercise, the Mingzhou Group made great efforts. Even if it made some extraordinary requests, he had to agree.
Fortunately, Qin Tao did not make excessive demands.
“Then what do you want me to do?”
“Aren’t we going to have a demonstration of electronic warfare? Can you invite the leaders to observe it?”
Observe the exercise?
Wu Shengli was a little surprised: "They are not soldiers, why are they observing?"
"At the beginning, during the 1991 war, the modern homeland air defense system established by the world's fourth most powerful military power did not work. Wasn't it because the printers of their office systems had been implanted with viruses in advance?" Although this is a The rumors spread by falsehoods could not be actually confirmed, but Qin Tao had to speak out about them.
Wu Shengli nodded.
"Although the risk of face-to-face wars will become smaller and smaller, invisible wars are everywhere. The office systems of our government agencies use equipment produced by foreign countries. Is there a big problem in this? Danger?"
Wu Shengli reacted: "You want those people to know that foreign products are unreliable and domestic products are the best choice?"
Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, wherever the gringo's things are reliable, they will be cheated casually. The household registration information of the household registration department will be stolen, and the information of those with illegal households will be forged. The state-issued The financial allocation will be revised, tax evasion targets under the tax department’s supervision will be informed in advance, and the banking system’s..."
When talking about the banking system, Qin Tao stopped. This dirty water should not be thrown away. The banking system does not use Windows.
Needless to say, in this era, even in 2020, if you go to the bank counter and look around, you can see that the interface operated by bank employees has a black screen, just like the DOS era. They don’t need fancy functions. What is needed is security, so banks have always used Unix systems.
However, the previous ones are enough.
Wu Shengli frowned: "Is it so dangerous? Okay, I'll call all the people from the relevant systems. Where do you plan to demonstrate it?"
“It is best to have our electronic warfare personnel in a certain unit conduct external attacks to let them feel the vulnerability of their own systems. In order to avoid losses, they need to back up data in advance.”
Wu Shengli nodded.
The electronic warfare demonstration was all proposed by Qin Tao. After the press conference, Qin Tao had already thought of how to build momentum.
Of course we need to publicize the insecurity of using the current system, and first attack the lairs of those who are not enterprising! Let’s start with government procurement!
"For you, these should be trivial matters." Wu Shengli thought of something and continued: "After the national defense lottery project starts, the army will be able to obtain a large amount of funds for construction, and our navy will have more abundant funds. The bidding for the Aegis battleship should start soon, you should be ready, right?"
Although the last aircraft carrier formation looked majestic, it was actually put on the shelf in a hurry, and the various escorting warships were cobbled together.
Therefore, next, the Navy will definitely continue to develop aircraft carrier formations, especially the **** warships, which must be Aegis battleships. This project has been demonstrated for many years. If it were not for the incident on No. 138 last year, construction would have officially started. .
The day has finally arrived this year.
Bids will start soon!
"It has been prepared for a long time." Qin Tao said: "Our plan is the most complete, and we will definitely be able to give the Navy a satisfactory answer. However, what we are doing now is not a trivial matter. We already have the God Core, and the A.D. Shield Battleships need powerful computer systems, so we have to use them. We don’t need to outsource computers, we can use our own, which is safer.”
The research and development of Loongson relies on the civilian market to make money. After all, the civilian market is the largest. However, military use is also an important aspect. In the future, whether it is a fighter plane or a warship, Loongson will be installed on it!
The current Loongson only has a main frequency of 100 MHz, which sounds very small. However, military equipment does not take main frequency as the main consideration. It must also consider other aspects. If there are domestically produced chips, of course they must use domestically produced chips. Yes, this is safer.
Wu Shengli nodded.
It was not easy to gather the bosses from various departments. Qin Tao waited for two days, and finally got the chance on the afternoon of the third day.
"Our tax department replaced thousands of computers manufactured by L Wanting last year. The performance of these computers is very good and has greatly improved our work efficiency." In an office of the tax department, the person in charge said with a smile: " I heard that the system we are using now is unsafe, but we want to see where it is unsafe."
"The North American air defense command system has been penetrated by hackers, and our current system is full of loopholes." Qin Tao is very confident: "Now, you are willing to use this computer as our electronic warfare unit We are honored to be on the stage to show our strength. So, let’s start now?”
"OK."
Qin Tao picked up his mobile phone and dialed a phone number: "Start now, show your skills!"
"Although we use the Internet, we still attach great importance to network security. The systems we connect to the outside world have gateways and firewalls. Even each of our computers has KV300 software installed, which is quite safe." said the person in charge of the computer network.
A few minutes later. That's right, just a few minutes later, there was an icon on the desktop. It was a bright red flag, which looked very eye-catching.
Then, the icon began to be copied and pasted crazily, and the mouse also danced wildly on the desktop. Soon, the entire desktop was filled with icons. The red flags filling the screen were dizzying.
“How could this happen?” The person in charge was completely dumbfounded, and other department leaders who were observing were also dumbfounded.
This is not too easy at all. You were **** down in just a few minutes? This is just copying some icons. What if the computer files are deleted? What if we directly format the hard drive?
“Because this latest win95 system has vulnerabilities, our electronic warfare troops can easily use the network to log into this computer after finding the vulnerabilities,” Qin Tao said.
Loophole?
Everyone stared with big eyes and small eyes, and the person who was just in charge of network security was also shocked: "What's going on?"
"Actually, it's not a loophole. Our electronic warfare unit analysis is Microsoft's test backdoor. After a system is built, it needs to undergo various tests, and various backdoors need to be left. When this happens After the system is officially released, some backdoors will be blocked, and some backdoors will be left open. I don’t know if the test engineers forgot it or for other reasons.”
The system has a backdoor and can be logged in remotely at will! This is too terrible!
Everyone’s face turned dark. Have they forgotten? It must be intentional! Microsoft releases this kind of system, which means that they can log in to the computer remotely at any time and get what they want.
Especially the leaders of key departments, sweat poured down their backs.
“How many people know about this backdoor?”
"Currently, only our electronic warfare unit, of course, Microsoft engineers may also know." Qin Tao said: "We are not sure. No one knows how many problems there are in this kind of non-open source system. If you want to be safe, , it can only be an open source system, and all the source codes are in hand, so that you can know clearly."
“That’s right, we can’t use this problematic system!”
“We have to re-tender!”
Qin Tao secretly laughed in his heart. He had succeeded in throwing dirty water. Of course, this is not a dirty water. This vulnerability is a core vulnerability of Microsoft. It exists in WindowsPrintSpooler and has not been modified from win95 to win10. However, because no one knew about it, I was too lazy to change it.
This vulnerability was discovered by Zhang Dong and Wang Hua, and they were also behind the so-called electronic warfare force.
"In addition to the system, there are also problems with the central processor." Qin Tao said: "This is because the FPU unit of the CPU has a defect that affects the FDIV (floating point division operation) instruction. However, the probability of the problem occurring is very small. In 9 billion times Only one error may occur in the division operation, so Intel has not modified it. We have a special program here that can catch this bug. If you are interested, we can demonstrate it."
Whether it is software or hardware, there are problems! This is also passed down from generation to generation, Intel’s CPU is defective!
But no one knows, 9 billion times, or division, who cares?
However, this is not the case for government agencies. Statistics of the national population data require a lot of calculations. As a result, one of the calculations was wrong? How does this work?
The tax authorities verified the national taxation, but found that one set of data did not match?
"How could this be? We need to verify it!" The leader's face became even darker.
If there is a problem with the system, they can just replace the system or replace it with a Linux system. But what if there is a problem with the hardware? That would be big trouble!
Qin Tao took out a stack of floppy disks: "Each one is a complete program. You can go back and verify it to see if your unit's computers have this kind of defect."
Anyway, it is just a matter of controlling the computer to perform nine billion division operations and then finding the problematic error among them. It is very easy.
Of course it is possible to verify on the spot, but if they go back and find that their computers have calculation errors, hahaha, wouldn’t it be appropriate to re-tender?
(End of this chapter)