Papadopoulos in the "Microprocessor Forum," the experts for the chip speech said: "The microprocessor is dead." He said, because the new computer chip manufacturing technology can be handled by a variety of software integration work, the central microprocessor control will gradually be responsible for covering all the functions of the peripheral chip. Therefore, Papadopoulos predicted, a complete computer on a single chip will be ] ] this is no longer in the microprocessor, but the "micro-system." Papadopoulos said that all the micro-system will have three connections: one connection memory, first connect to other micro-systems, and network connections.
June 10, 2002 - Visa International today announced that China Unionpay Visa Asia Pacific has been approved by the Board as the main member of Visa International, which is CUP cooperation with Visa International an important step. China Union Pay Co., Ltd. was established in March this year, has been dedicated to accelerating the interbank network, build a national unified interbank exchange bank card network, and continuously improve the quality of services and cross-bank exchange trading success rate. CUP join Visa International, Visa contribute to their experience and learn, and promote the development of Chinas banking card industry. Visa International Asia Pacific vice president and general manager of China Mr. Xiong Anping, said: "I am very pleased to see the CUP as a member of Visa. Visa across the globe are adhering to the sharing of this idea, at this point, CUP and Visa coincide. CUP after joining Visa, Visa will continue to assist in the operation of their organization to support its expanding banking card acceptance environment, to achieve the optimal allocation of its resources to make CUP with the international standards, and jointly promote China bank card industrial development. "