industrial maniac

Chapter 424 The Sudden Hacker War

The X-Series graphics cards have been on shelves for a month now.

But as of August 8, the real-time sales volume displayed on Octopus Technology's official website was only 3 pieces.

Octopus Technology is affiliated to Tiepi Company, and its offline sales channels include Dongfang Supply and Marketing Cooperative, International Supply and Marketing Cooperative, TEP Direct Store, RGB Direct Store, Wanjia Repair Shop counters, Leifei Pet Hospital counters, Pupu Hotel counters, etc.

It is unbelievable that such a terrifying distribution volume has only sold in three digits.

The reason why this happened is nothing more than that the X series graphics card only supports the graphite X patch used by the power bank to transmit data, and does not support AV, VGA, DVI, etc. (HDMI interface is a plan. Before HDMI became popular, X Series graphics cards will not replace this interface, lest Western technology alliances collectively abandon HDMI).

As a result, the user's original electronic equipment cannot use the X-series graphics card.

If you can't use it, you will naturally not buy it, and there will be no sales.

But the dismal sales volume did not prevent Director Xu from becoming a dark horse in the technology field.

Because Director Xu redefines 'graphics card'.

The uniqueness of the X-series graphics card is not to be independent from the host computer, but to help customers improve the display effect.

Instead, it uses the network to connect to the 'database', and then based on the resources in the database, it brings display enhancements to customers.

These are two concepts.

The former belongs to hardware support, as long as the performance of the graphics card is excellent, the game screen will be better.

The latter belongs to data support, just like Meteor Butterfly Sword, the maximum officially supported resolution is 1280x960, no matter how expensive Nvidia graphics card you replace, no matter how awesome the display is, the resolution of this game cannot exceed 1280x960, otherwise There will be bugs such as blurred pictures, misplaced operations, and program freezes.

But if you use an X-series graphics card, after connecting to the database, the graphics card will look for materials similar to the game screen in the resources, help you fill the 1280x960 rendering effect, and then enhance the display.

The more powerful the X-Series graphics card, the stronger the effect that can be enhanced.

For example, the 688 version, which is the X graphics card priced at 688 red notes, can help you improve the picture quality of the Meteor Butterfly Sword to 1440x1080.

For example, the 1288 version, which can help you increase the picture quality to 1960x1080.

For example, the 2688 version, which can help you increase the picture quality to 2048x1536.

In this way, for some very classic old games, such as Age of Empires, Diablo, Fantasy Legend, etc., you only need to purchase X-series graphics cards to experience high-definition picture quality.

Of course, you must be equipped with an XLED display that supports higher resolutions in order to make better use of the X-series graphics cards and obtain a better gaming experience.

And this has nothing to do with the CPU, because the X-series graphics card processes the data passed by the CPU for delivery to the display device.

The approximate process is:

In the first step, the CPU reads the original data from the file system, separates the graphics data, and puts it in the system memory. At this time, the GPU is in a daze, waiting for the CPU to hand over the work to her.

In the second step, the CPU prepares to hand over the graphics data to the GPU. At this time, the system bus becomes busy, and the data is copied from the system memory to the GPU's video memory.

In the third step, the CPU asks the GPU to start processing data, the CPU is in a daze, and the GPU starts to be busy. Of course, the CPU will still periodically ask how the GPU is busy.

In the fourth step, the GPU uses its own GPU core circuit to process the data, and the processed data continues to be stored in the video memory, while the CPU is still in a daze.

In the fifth step, the GPU finishes processing the data and tells the CPU that I am done and ready to output or have already output.So the CPU takes over the work, reads out the next piece of data, and tells the GPU that you should work again, and then repeat the first step, the second step, the third step, and the fourth step.

In general, the design concept of the X series graphics card is to regard the CPU as the commander and the GPU as the legion.

The commander does not need to appear on the scene in person, just give the order, and the GPU will complete all tasks.

In this way, in the process of playing games, the workload of the CPU is reduced by 90%, and the GPU takes on everything.

In the process of running the game, the speed of data processing is determined by the graphics card channel, graphics card memory, number of display cores, and the bandwidth of the graphics card signal transceiver module.

Then, if a player buys an X-series graphics card, the existing CPU in his hand, no matter how backward, can basically run all the large-scale games on the market, and there is no need to replace the CPU, memory, motherboard, etc. in the future, because the processor responsible for processing data It is the GPU, and it is the GPU that will be replaced in the future.

So, Director Xu redefines 'graphics card'.

Therefore, the Western Science and Technology Alliance panicked, and would rather give up AMD's plan to acquire ATI, but also bring the TEP Group and let Uncle James fight against the dog dealer.

As for killing the dog dealer...

The Western Science and Technology Alliance dare not even think about it, because not only can it not be killed, but it may also catch itself.

After James acquired ATI, he was also quite powerful.

That night, under the words 'no one in the world knows graphics cards better than me', he scolded Xu Fei for plagiarizing the display enhancement technology of United Defense.

The technology stems from image restoration, photo identification, and display content enhancement.

For example, spies in North America took a set of pictures in South Vietnam, but the distance was too far and the photos were very blurry.

After the NSA gets the photos, it will search for the scenery of the shooting location according to the longitude and latitude contained in the photos, and then use the "keyhole satellite" to take pictures of the scene again, and extract the elements in the spy photos to enhance the display effect of the spy photos.

If the photos taken by the spy contain people, the faces cannot be discerned due to the distance.

At this time, the NSA will calculate who the person in the photo is based on the "target action track" recorded in the intelligence system.

Then, the NSA will calculate the person's height, body shape, etc. based on the outline of the person in the photo, and then compare the "three suspects" to finally figure out who is in the photo.

This technology used to be manual + computer + database, and the processing was very complicated and slow, and it took at least two days to get the answer.

Later, James proposed the concept of "selecting answers", which is to organize the world's intelligence into a "database", and then design a "CPU that does not require too much computing power, but requires a lot of simple calculations", so that this CPU can be used from Exclude, compare, and determine in the database, and finally get the answer.

As long as this CPU requires multiple simple processing modules, the one that meets the requirements becomes a GPU.

And the GPU+ database, it only takes 2 minutes to identify who is in the spy photo.

Therefore, the X-series graphics card plagiarized the military intelligence technology of United Defense, and North America should send the dog dealer to the International Military Court.

James replied tens of thousands of words eloquently under Xu Fei's swish fox mood of "no one in the world knows graphics cards better than me".

In the end, he used the "hacking ability" of the TEP computer service company to give 10 billion likes to his comments, and posted more than 2000 million comments, all of them are "shameless dog dealers".

It is said that Mr. He, who was going to ride around the East, trembled with anger, scolded James for being a thief and shouted "stop the thief", and at the same time took out the experimental records of the "image enhancement technology" developed by the German North Laboratory three years ago.

However, James also took out the experimental records of the "image enhancement technology" developed by FMC Food Chemical Machinery Company, a subsidiary of United Defense, three years ago, and asked Aite Xiaobu to testify.

Xiaobu paid all the oil fields in Iraq, and finally won the full support of James. He will definitely not easily offend James.

And Xu Fei...

Wall Street has just signed an agreement of 'peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit' with the other party, and North America is currently focusing on finance, so Xiao Bu naturally doesn't want to offend the dog dealers.

then.

That night, Xiaobu lost his official mobile phone.

It is said that important information is stored in it, involving more than ten secrets.

The White House even issued an announcement overnight, offering a reward of $500 million for its recovery.

Of course, what happened to Xiao Bu did not affect the scolding battle between Xu Fei and James.

James said that the X-series graphics card technology was plagiarized by Xu Fei from United Defense.

Xu Fei said that when James' image enhancement technology was separated from TEP, James secretly copied it from Debei Lab in violation of business principles.

The two sides said that the public is right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law is right. After scolding for a whole night, the more they scolded, the more angry they became, and the more they scolded, the more they got on the top. If they hadn't concealed their positions from each other, they might have staged a confrontation with calves.

Then Xu Fei proposed a decisive battle in the North Pole, but James refused.

Because Germany is implementing the "electric industrial system", the performance of related weapons in harsh environments is far stronger than that of internal combustion engines.

Then James proposed a decisive battle in Australia, but Australia refused.

Immediately James proposed a decisive battle on Wajima, but Wajima refused.

Frustrated, James used the "hackers" of the TEP computer service company to kill the Internet in the two regions, and then attacked the network system of the Ironhide Company.

In less than 5 minutes, the Daze e-commerce procurement system, the official website of TinPhi Toys, the official website of TinPhi Company, the TinPhi Forum, the supply and marketing system, the industrial server of the East Factory, the electronic server of the West Factory, and the smartphone server of the South Factory... were paralyzed one after another.

But 10 minutes later, director Xu's nephew, Director Huang, led Daze's militiamen into the Eastern Headquarters of TEP Computer Services Company, held the technician's head against the head of TEP, and demanded that all Internet services be restored.

Fifteen minutes later, Ironhide Computer Services was established, and with the support of the "Red Eagle Alliance" hacker organization, it counterattacked the Boston headquarters of TEP Computer Services.

While protesting Xu Fei's behavior to the east, James spends money to hire hackers to launch a counterattack.

An hour later, German hackers, French hackers, and Italian hackers announced that they would join the Ironhide camp.

An hour and a half later, Japanese hackers, Canadian hackers, and Australian hackers announced their joining the TEP Group.

The problem is that James took advantage of the strength of the TEP computer service company to kill Wajima and the Australian Internet at the beginning. Currently, the two regions are undergoing emergency repairs, and local hackers will have to wait at least seven or eight hours to 'connect to the world Internet'.

At this time, the Internet in Canada fell, and the official websites of all offices and large enterprises were all pasted with the banner of the Iron Crusaders and the image of a skull.

The North American White House held an emergency meeting and called for a strike on both sides.

But James, who lost a game, how could he let it go.

At 10:[-] in the morning, a worm virus was born on the Italian Internet. Computers infected with this virus will frantically copy a set of error codes that cannot be deleted, and eventually destroy the platform program in the computer's Flash BIOS chip, resulting in damage to the motherboard.

By 11:11 in the morning, Italy had lost [-] computers.

The manager of Italy angrily criticized James for having no bottom line in business.

But James said: If there is no bottom line, I will learn from Soros and directly engage in a European economic crisis.

The chief executive of Italy didn't dare to say any more, let alone dissuade the domestic hackers from supporting the Iron Sheet Company, so he didn't get sick.

At 12:[-] noon, the computer worm virus named T-virus spread to Switzerland, France, Austria, Balkan heroes, chickens and other regions.

By 1 pm, these worms followed the e-mails and arrived all over the world, except Germany and North America.

The number of damaged computers worldwide has exceeded 300 million.

At this time, the Western Science and Technology Alliance suddenly reacted.

If computers all over the world are destroyed, who is the vested interest?

It must be the Western Technology Alliance, because the whole world needs to buy new computers.

So at the request of Intel, Microsoft opened the win back door to facilitate the invasion of worms and burn the chip.

Then Intel announced that the dog dealer's worm has been upgraded, which has a high probability of destroying the CPU.

Seeing this, Nvidia also had a bad idea, and used the back door of the win system to secretly update the firmware of all graphics cards.

Then it was announced that the dog dealer's worm had been upgraded again, with a high probability of destroying the graphics card.

Dog dealer... No, Director Xu was out of breath and sent several Swoosh messages in succession.

"The face of Western capital is obvious to all around the world."

"The worm virus is obviously a product of TEP Computer Services, but it has to be thrown on my head with a high-sounding sound."

"People all over the world, keep your eyes open, let us unite together and bring down capitalist imperialism!"

In less than 10 minutes, the comments below exceeded 60 billion.

But this did not stop the attack of the worm.

Soon, the supply and marketing computer room fell.

Director Xu, the major shareholder behind the supply and marketing system, angrily kicked TEP Group out of the Daze Industrial Complex and confiscated the other party's equity worth [-] trillion yuan.

The conflict between the Iron Sheet Company and the TEP Group has escalated in an all-round way.

That night, [-] large oil tankers of the TEP Group-Exxon Mobil Corporation headed to Iraq and Krypton sank in Panama.

Thirty large oil tankers sailing from 'Libya' to North Germany sank in Gibraltar.

Overnight, 6000 million computers worldwide were damaged.

This is the largest hacker war in human history, and it is also the largest commercial conflict in human history.

In less than three days, the total loss of the world economy has accumulated to 2.6 trillion, and it is on a straight-line upward trend.

The parent star joint meeting called on both parties to restrain, calm down, and strike, and sent representatives to visit the two parties.

But Director Xu has disappeared and disappeared on a bicycle.

In order to integrate the assets of the oil faction, James also secretly went to the European region.

Moreover, the fall of the supply and marketing computer room angered the Eastern hackers, and a bigger hacker team battle broke out again.

If someone has a set of 'Internet map', they can see that computers all over the world are working, even the computers that are turned off are forced to turn on, and then turned into a weapon for hackers to be consumed slowly.

Countries around the world that suffered heavy losses trembled under the top-level capital, but did not dare to talk nonsense, so they could only cut off their connection to the world Internet, or directly cut off power throughout the country.

One week later, one-third of the world's 11 billion computers were damaged, and the total economic loss reached 16.8 trillion, twice the total economic loss of World War II.

This includes financial, water conservancy, electricity, transportation and other systems based on computers.

Among them, all stock exchanges around the world are closed, the World Bank's exchange function is closed, and global air transport operations are suspended...

Some experts said that the hacker war set back the global economy by 20 years.

Some experts also said that the computer virus this time is not only the T virus, but also a new virus developed by exploiting the Lsass buffer overflow vulnerability of Microsoft's operating system. It is similar to a worm but more destructive.

This was confirmed by a computer engineer who left Microsoft to join the Boston headquarters of TEP Computer Services.

Another engineer who left Intel even exposed the inside story of Intel's involvement in virus research and development, and stated that the virus was called Sasser.

Seeing the solid evidence, Microsoft quickly fired a group of employees, claiming that this was the personal behavior of the relevant employees, and apologized to global users for its own poor management, and lowered the price of the win series system as compensation.

The world suffered heavy computer losses, and Intel was already happy. It pretended to lower the supply price of chips, and openly hoped that computer manufacturers could give customers profits.

It's just that everyone knows, but what everyone doesn't know is that the Western Science and Technology Alliance collectively adopted the HDMI interface in the new round of shipments.

Including desktops, laptops, televisions, projectors, video cameras, digital cameras...

At this moment, the Iron Sheet Company and the TEP Group, which also suffered heavy losses, have ceased fighting.

Xu Fei brought out his mood from half a month ago as a concluding note: "There is no one in the world who understands graphics cards better than me!"

James: "tui!"

It seems that the countries on the home planet have experienced a world war: these two dogs finally stopped.

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8 month 16 number.

Eastern Liao Province, Liunan Village.

Since the tentacles of the Daze Industrial Complex have just arrived in the three eastern provinces, and the restoration plan of the supply and marketing system in the three eastern provinces has not been implemented for a long time, there are not many charging stations here.

When Xu Fei passed Fengtian Mansion, he fully charged the smart bicycle, then let the other party go home by himself, then took the mechanical vicious dog, and continued to walk northward.

As for the lost bike...

Wherever it is lost, the place will be responsible, and the consequences will be serious.

So in the past two weeks, he has not encountered road tyrants during his riding, let alone been robbed, and the villagers in the villages along the way are very enthusiastic.

I have to say that apart from the Roadhog factor, this is really an era of simple folk customs.

Just like Liunan Village in front of you.

Just when the spring corn was ripe, Xu Fei came to the entrance of the village on foot. Busy people greeted each other in Northeast dialect and invited them to have lunch.

The food is not very delicate, nothing more than boiled corn, stewed beans, and stewed eggplant.

During the meeting, the two sides communicated, the ancestors of this family are from Pennsylvania, the father of the family next door is from Jishui City, and there is even an old lady in the village who is from Huangnigang.

Out of curiosity, Xu Fei gnawed on the corn and found the other party. Although he looked very unfamiliar, he reported the name of Mr. Xu, good guy, it turned out to be Mr. Xu's second cousin, we should call him aunt.

Xu Fei walked all the way and met too many people of all kinds. Faced with this situation, he suddenly felt that this mother planet was really a bit small.

After all, after walking such a long way and coming to such a remote place, you can still meet relatives.

"This is fate!"

That night.

More than 50 transport-type Kirovs, loaded with various mechanical devices, arrived in Liunan Village.

An agricultural machinery assembly plant named "Yuan Lai Such" has sprung up.

At the same time, the plan to contract the Northeast also quietly started.