Chapter 479: Public Enemy of the Tech World
Longtian single-chip microcomputer was born, laying three million units a day, and the follow-up supply is continuous, for the science and technology alliance, this not only means that the market share of China has shrunk significantly, but also may have to face a giant that has risen.
For their own considerations, companies have spent a lot of money to buy new equipment in the hands of North American players.
Inter Pediatric Research Laboratory.
The six largest shareholders sat on both sides, and more than a dozen top engineers from Soft, Gao, IMB, and Hewlett-Packard opened the X-shaped main chassis under the guidance of the chief engineer of Intel.
More than 20 people got up to watch.
"Thomson, what do you say?" "Shareholders are not directors and do not know much about the business itself.
"Dear boss, don't worry, I'll take a look!"
The chief engineer passed the instrument for a long time, and carefully disassembled it again, "If you ignore the topmost Longtian core integrated circuit, the mounted logic machine, and the coding machine, all that remains is a monolithic microcomputer, such as a chip with an integrated voice system, a chip with an integrated computing system, and a chip with an integrated network card control system...... If you remove the game, it can only browse the web, edit text, surf the web, voice chat, and run three business programs!"
After speaking, the chief engineer thought slightly, "It reminds me of the ARM architecture developed by the England Research Office, or rather, it is equivalent to the self-developed ARM architecture multi-core processor cluster!"
(Android and ios are both based on ARM research and development, Longtian sold ios to Pingguo, and used T-RAM made by Daoyi, and the principle of the two is similar.) )
"What is ARM?" the shareholders didn't understand.
"Uh...... It's just like ARM, which is a 32-bit reduced instruction set.
It is characterized by fixed instruction length, high execution efficiency, small size, low power consumption, low cost, support Thumb (16-bit)/ARM (32-bit) dual instruction set, and can be well compatible with 8-bit/16-bit devices.
Due to the extensive use of registers, instructions are executed very quickly, and most data operations are done in registers, which makes it flexible and easy to address, and the execution efficiency is extraordinarily high!"
Hearing this, the faces of the six shareholders instantly darkened, "We took out a lot of money, delicious food, drink and fun for you, and we were easily surpassed by a Chinese company?"
"No, no, no, boss, please don't worry! The ARM architecture is not at the same level as the X86 architecture we are using now!"
"What do you mean?"
"Let me give you an analogy...... There is no comparison, there is no comparison between the two. ”
"Why? Are we so far behind?"
"NoNoNo! It's that they're behind, we're ahead!"
The chief engineer was helpless, "You need to understand the difference between the two.
In terms of performance, the X86 CPU is casually 256M, 512M or more dual-core and even possible to reach quad-core, and is currently produced using a 90nm or even more advanced process. ARM's CPU is usually only 16M, and recently Longtian came out, only to use 64M CPU, using less than 200nm manufacturing process, it can be said that ARM is not the opponent of X86 structure system at all in terms of performance and production process.
In terms of expansion capabilities, our x86 architecture computers use a 'bridge' method to connect with expansion devices, such as hard disks, memory, etc., and x86 architecture computers have appeared for nearly 20 years, and their supporting equipment is varied, and the price is relatively cheap, so x86 architecture computers can easily expand performance, such as increasing memory, hard disks, replacing graphics cards, etc. As for the ARM......
It can only be connected between the CPU and the data storage device through a dedicated data interface, so it is difficult to expand the performance of ARM storage and memory. The principle of 'enough is good' is basically pursued. ”
The chief engineer's face was tangled, and he wanted to curse the designer of this machine.
It really can't expand the functionality, and if a new program is developed, it will need to add new integrated chips.
However, for this machine with additional core chips, logic machines, and encoding machines, as long as the compatibility characteristics are set in advance, the number of songs, movies, and games can be expanded by replacing or adding memory cards.
But the chief engineer didn't dare to say it explicitly, because he couldn't crack the core chip and the mysterious symbol instruction set, so he could only use metaphors.
"Also, in terms of systems......
The x86 system is dominated by the Win series built by us and the software and micro, monopolizing the personal computer operating system for more than ten years, forming a huge user base, and also deeply solidifying the usage habits of many users, at the same time, the x86 system has formed a unified standard in hardware and software development, almost all x86 hardware platforms can directly use the software and micro window system, and almost all the tools and software that are now popular.
ARM currently uses Linux or Shenlong, each hardware has to build its own system separately, which is incompatible with other systems, which also leads to its application software is difficult to transplant, whether it is Europe and the United States or China, there is no supplier of software and hardware systems in this regard, which seriously restricts the development and application of ARM system.
Through the above comparison, we can clearly understand that ARM and X86 structures cannot be compared at all, and ARM is not the opponent of X86 computers at all, and it is not even qualified to compare. ”
There is another point that the chief engineer does not dare to say.
Because the x86 architecture uses a complex instruction set and pursues speed and performance, the power consumption is particularly high, requiring a heat sink. And the ARM ...... In particular, the Longtian version of the ARM architecture microprocessor cluster using graphene materials is estimated to have no high power consumption for X86 an hour after ten days of use.
Just like the smart card that has been running at full strength for more than a month, it has only used up 12% of the power until now, which is to charge for an hour, and it can be used for more than half a year?
As for the cooling system......
The X86 architecture uses a fan and water cooling, and people can use it for a lifetime by pasting a layer of graphene heat dissipation film......
If they and soft micro can no longer think of a corresponding system suitable for mobile micro-terminals, the computer will lose the Chinese market is small, and I am afraid that the mobile micro-terminal in the world will be monopolized by Longtian Technology in the future.
After listening to the explanation, the shareholders slightly understood the difference between the two, but they were not industry insiders, how could they know about the mobile micro-terminal, and one of the shareholders said: "In other words, Longtian launched a cheap machine just to capture the Chinese market?"
The chairman of the Internet hurriedly replied: "Yes, even if it is as cheap as one or two thousand, no one will buy such low-end electronic products." ”
"Is there a countermeasure? You can't just be kicked out of China like this, right?"
"After the board of directors discussed with soft micro, it was decided to open XP permissions, let Huaxia crack it as much as you want, it doesn't matter if you pirate genuine versions, as long as you use more customers, we can hold the position over there, and when Longtian Technology and its partners find that it is impossible to recover the cost of investing in single-chip microcomputers, huge losses cause their own bankruptcy, and it will be us who will win. ”
"Very good!"
"In addition, bosses, we have reached an agreement with Soft Micro, Qualcomm and other companies to jointly launch smart phones with Windows Mobile system in order to target the strong smart card, and acquire Palm Company, which uses the Palm OS system to issue handheld computers, and the two products are launched at the same time, killing Longtian and NT (Tiancheng) in one fell swoop. ”
"Awesome!"
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Tech alliances are not monolithic.
Intel is close to Softmicro, and AMD, an old rival who is entangled in grievances and grievances, has studied the single-chip microcomputer of Longtian ARM architecture, and it is to bring a new product K8 architecture processor to Symbian to launch the Symbian system......
As for Pingguo, it bought IOS from Longtian Technology Group......
The alliance of other software and hardware manufacturers, the division of their families, have formed their own new industrial chains......
For a time, various new product launches emerged one after another......
But without exception, Longtian Technology has become a public enemy of the scientific and technological community!
At the same time, a running software that was recognized by overseas science and technology alliances and launched for single-chip microcomputers was quietly listed.