Improve the performance of the Pentium, enhance the performance of the Celeron, and reduce the price.

This set of strategies is based on INTER's sufficient technical reserves. At the same time, it also represents a blow to Loongson. Position it at the level of Celeron processors.

I want to compare with inter, far from worthy.

"But here, I hope the board will approve that we launch the Pentium 2!" Grove said.

"Pentium 2!" many directors moved slightly.

In Inter's strategy, it is always said that after the value of a processor is squeezed to the highest, a new generation of processors will be launched under the market prospect.

Originally, in Inter's plan, the Pentium 2 generation, they planned to launch it early next year. In this way, the Pentium 1 generation, the Pentium CPU with integrated MMX instruction set can still make half a year's money.

Almost, just in time to empty the inventory. In this way, the benefits can be maximized.

But it's a bit early to launch it now.

"Our Pentium 1 generation, in fact, can be overclocked to achieve the suppression of Loongson! Now our external chips, mainly Pentium 200, but we can launch an overclocked version of 233, 266, or even 300. A director said.

In this way, it can surpass Huaxia Loongson in performance in an instant. In addition, after Celeron also integrated the MMX instruction set, the price was slightly reduced, and it was also able to cause a chase on Loongson. This is suppressed before and after, and Loongson's life is not easy.

"Simply pursuing the processor frequency, I believe Loongson can do the same. THEIRS IS A 0.18 MICRON PROCESS, AND I THINK, THEIR CHIP FREQUENCY, UNDER THE 0.18 MICRON PROCESS, CAN REACH AT LEAST 500MHZ. Although our Pentium 1 generation can also achieve it, because the process is not mature enough, if it reaches this frequency, it will cause extreme instability of the CPU. This in turn affects performance. Grove said, "Therefore, we directly launched the second generation and used the new CPU architecture to beat Huaxia Loongson! Otherwise, if we let it develop, I'm afraid it will be our most troublesome enemy!"

Grove's attention made many directors feel that it was a bit of a big deal. After all, profit comes first. If you launch it in advance like this, you will have less profit.

"I agree!" said Gordon Moore.

"Huh?" surprised many of the directors.

"Huaxia Loongson occupies a large market in China, we must pay attention to it, and we must suppress it this morning. Otherwise, they will be trickier than AMD. In particular, the other side has the courage to break the price floor!" said Gordon Moore.

With Gordon Moore's support, the entire resolution was quickly passed.

Subsequently, Inter announced that it will launch a new Pentium 2nd generation processor to the market at the end of the month: Klamath.

A CPU WITH A MINIMUM CONFIGURATION OF 233 FREQUENCIES AND A MAXIMUM FREQUENCY OF 333MHZ. And next year, the 100MHZ bus Pentium 2 will be launched, and its frequency can easily reach 450MHz.

At the same time, a new 0.28 micron process will be used. In addition, while the MMX instruction set is maintained, 32KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache will be provided.

As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked.

Because, this CPU is undoubtedly far superior to all current CPUs. In particular, the Pentium 2 generation not only improves the process, but also provides L2 cache. The emergence of this L2 cache will greatly improve the performance of the CPU.

It can be said that in the entire CPU high-end market, inter does not have any rivals.

The first generation of Huaxia Loongson, which was originally comparable to the Besturn MMX 200, was thrown away this time.

Performance will vary dramatically. Of course, at the moment, because it has not yet been listed, it is not known how much difference it is. However, the performance lead is certain.

Subsequently, Inter also announced the news of the Celeron processor upgrade.

Celeron 2 generation. The same 0.28 micron process is used, and although there is no L2 cache, the MMX instruction set is enhanced. And the price will be reduced to 600 yuan.

At present, the 1st generation of Celeron is priced at 800 yuan. Now, the Celeron 2nd generation, while the performance is enhanced, the price is within 600 yuan. This has to be said to be the impact on the current outside Huaxia Loongson.

Major newspapers and magazines have reported the news of inter. At the same time, they all declared: Huaxia Loongson's strongest opponent is Celeron 2?

Originally, the outside world believed that Huaxia Loongson was a processor that challenged Pentium. Looking at the blue screen now, with inter's strong technical reserves, I am afraid that its challenge can only be Celeron.

There is no way to compare with the Pentium competition.

Now, of course, everything is unknown. After all, Inter's chips are not yet on the market.

No one knows exactly what the numbers are.

We can only wait for its listing review.

But this time, the inter action came too quickly.

After announcing the news, only a week later, major foreign evaluation rooms got the latest Pentium 2 and Celeron 2.

"Qin Feng, this is the latest review of Pentium 2 and Celeron 2!" Lei Jun hurriedly took the latest data.

These latest CPUs, Qin Feng naturally can't get them. Including the whole of Huaxia, I didn't get it. Obviously, this is also a hand to prevent this side from having countermeasures in advance.

Qin Feng took the data and looked at it, his brows tightened.

Pentium 2, a CPU with L2 cache and 0.28 micron process, integrates 7.5 million transistors, and its performance is at least 1 times higher than the previous Pentium 1st generation MMX, chips of the same frequency.

This gap is a bit big.

"Of course, the price is also a bit high!" Lei Jun said, "This Pentium 2, a CPU with a L2 cache, costs as much as 5,300 yuan." ”

5300 yuan, this is even more outrageous.

Under the challenge of Loongson, the price is simply outrageous to the point of jaw-dropping.

This also shows that Inter didn't take Loongson in his eyes at all. And with an absolute performance advantage, it will crush you.

"What about Saiyang 2?" Qin Feng asked.

"With the addition of the MMX instruction set and the use of the new process, the performance of Celeron 2 is almost the same as that of our CPU. Compared with our Loongson, there is a 20% gap in integer performance, but the floating-point arithmetic power is about the same. Lei Jun said, "And the price, compared with the price on our market, is still a bit advantageous." After all, those bosses of SEG sell a little more expensive. ”

"Price-wise, no worries. We can ship at 400 yuan. That's still the game Jan is cheaper. Those bosses of SEG will not be ignorant of the market!" Qin Feng said, "They will not blindly make money." Especially so many people! It's just that the technology is short! Our technology is so poor!"

"Indeed, I suspect that there will be 3 or 4 generations after Inter. So what do we do now?" Lei Jun smiled wryly.

"Do you think that our challenge is too reckless!" Qin Feng asked.

Lei Jun nodded and shook his head again.

"The strength of inter has always been here, and if we don't challenge, we will miss opportunities. This is something we know from the beginning of making CPUs. Lei Jun said.

"Yes, so, we can only go up to the challenge!"