"Qin Feng, Intel has announced the release date of the new generation of CPUs!" Lei Jun immediately called Qin Feng after learning the news for the first time.

"I've seen it!" Qin Feng's face was solemn.

Nowadays, with the registration of submarine fiber optic cables in China, the communication with the other side of the ocean is also smoother.

In this case, Qin Feng naturally learned a lot of news from the world as soon as possible.

Intel has announced the availability date of the new generation of CPUs, Pentium 3: Tualatin.

Its listing date was January 1, 1999.

In 1999, this very special year, the first day, was launched.

Intel is finally going to come up with this killer feature.

The generation of gods at that time was also the existence that really made most Chinese people worship it as a belief.

Suffice it to say, Tualatin is what really makes countless people tout Intel. Even if many people choose to buy AMD chips because of financial constraints. But you just have to ask them what CPU to buy?

Basically, nine times out of ten, the answer to you is that you don't have to pay for Intel. If you're short of money, buy AMD.

This is already a consensus in the computer industry. This is not only the consensus of netizens, but also many relevant media and even industry insiders. As long as it's not bad for money, buy Intel.

If you're short of money, you should consider AMD.

Its roots are traced back to Tualatin, and it is completely invincible all over the world.

At that time, Tualatin was completely crushing AMD, making AMD completely unable to compete with it.

In fact, speaking of which, it was AMD and Intel who competed for the 1GHz frequency, and the result was that AMD launched the 1GHz Athlon™ processor in advance, which made Intel lose face a little.

After all, Intel is the CPU boss. So Intel also subsequently launched the Pentium 3, 1.13G, but not yet Tualatin cores. Because, Intel's urine sex has always been to make money first. This original Pentium 3 is not so much a Pentium 3 as a revision of the Pentium 2.

In addition, in order to distinguish it from the Pentium 2 revision and avoid cynicism in the industry, the packaging mode was changed. This model of old wine in new bottles has been tried and tested by Intel time and again. But the result is that because of carelessness, the packaging is not qualified enough, and the temperature is extremely high, and the heat sink is not easy to replace, and the player is not careful, resulting in damage to the chip.

Therefore, later Pentium hurriedly launched Pentium 4, wanting to save face. In fact, this is the real Pentium 3. However, Intel still hasn't got rid of its bad problems, and still wants to use the previous chips to meet the market, but it's just overclocked and made it out.

The result can be imagined. That's high frequency and low energy. The frequency seems to be terrible, but in fact, the performance is terrible.

Hammered by AMD Athlon blast.

This can only be said to be self-inflicted. After all, it's not that the enemy is too strong, it's that they are dying.

After that, Intel learned from the pain and no longer squeezed toothpaste, but really came up with their real next-generation processor: Pentium 3: Tualatin.

This is Intel's true Pentium 3rd generation processor architecture. Before that, it was to fool people.

As for its performance, it's terrifying. The so-called Pentium 4 chip, with a frequency of 1.6G, has a similar performance to Tualatin 1.13G, but the power consumption of Tualatin is only half of it, and the heat generation is only half of it.

The gap can be imagined.

The end result is a Pentium 4 on the market, no one cares about it, no one birds it. The whole people are chasing Tulatin. As a result, Tualadin is hard to find on the market. Even to the point of a markup.

The opponent of the Athlons series of CPUs was beaten by Tualadin, and completely lost the limelight when it was first listed.

However, historically, Tualatin was introduced only after 2000.

And now it's only September 1998, which is a full year and a half ahead of schedule.

This year and a half could have made Loongson a golden development period.

Now, what to do?

"Qin Feng, what should we do?" asked Lei Jun.

According to the chip information released by Intel in all aspects, regardless of performance, power consumption, heat dissipation, all-round hanging Loongson, and it is not an ordinary hanging, it is a crushing hanging.

Between the two, let alone compare, it basically makes people feel that Tualadin is embarrassed. Because, Tualadin shouldn't be compared with Loongson at all.

Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"I can't help this purely technical gap. Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"Well, we can increase the frequency now, I can get a 1G frequency now, but the heat is too scary, and it requires a very large heat sink. Moreover, the performance has not improved much!" Lei Jun said helplessly.

When your core architecture is not good enough, forcibly increasing the frequency is not in exchange for a performance improvement. In other words, the performance gain is not proportional.

Will the player accept it?

Qin Feng thought for a long time.

"Mr. Lei, I think we can only study it as soon as possible. As for the final result, it will be interesting to see when the time comes. Qin Feng could only decide, "Of course, the CPU performance is not as good as Intel, that's for sure." That's why we're focusing on GPUs. The GPU you were talking about, it must be developed. ”

GPU, that's the display core processor. A CPU dedicated to processing image data.

This was also a later thing. It's too early now. I'm afraid that Nvidia has a little concept and is trying to study it. Other graphics card manufacturers don't realize this at all.

And this is decisive.

Because, when the GPU comes out, the market position of the graphics card is established. Because, in the future, the graphics card will no longer depend on the CPU computing power. It can be said that since the launch of GPUs, the performance of CPUs is no longer so critical.

Of course, it's not that it doesn't matter at all. It's just that the CPU performance is a little weaker, and it doesn't affect anything. Because, the graphics card has its own GPU to calculate, which does not rely on the powerful computing power of the CPU.

This performance boost is very powerful. It's no exaggeration to say that GPUs have directly changed the world.

Of course, the consequence is to make Intel's side more lazy, and the core has been more than ten generations in the future, and as a result, every time it is updated, it will squeeze the toothpaste to improve a little bit.

This kind of promotion is simply a hooligan.

Of course, Intel is also helpless. After all, the desktop market has begun to languish, and the mobile phone market has begun to rise. But Intel is weak in this regard. This is also the reason why it is not enterprising in the desktop market.

"Okay, I see. Lei Jun is also very human, and he quickly calmed down.

Since the CPU can't be surpassed in a short period of time, it's good to save the country with a curve.

GPU, it must be developed. Without developing it, they really don't have a weapon against Intel. At that time, I'm afraid I will really be beaten by Intel.