Chapter Eighty-Nine: Questioning

As soon as a reporter friend took the microphone, he questioned in an unkind tone: "Miss Ji, as far as I know, one of the most advanced microprocessors in the world, the floating-point computing power of the Pentium 586 is only close to 1 million times per second.

And you are more than three million times, I really can't believe it, your Huaxin Technology's chip design level has surpassed Intel?"

There were many people at the scene, nodding in agreement, yes, this performance is too exaggerated.

They set their eyes on Ji Xiaoqing on the stage, hoping to get a reasonable explanation from her mouth.

Ji Xiaoqing smiled faintly, took the microphone, and said, "This reporter friend shouldn't be engaged in chip-related work!"

This is clearly saying that the other party is a layman, and the reporter turned his head and said: "Miss Ji, then you are wrong, I have been engaged in professional reporting in the IT/IC industry for more than ten years, I think I am also a semiconductor professional!"

Ji Xiaoqing shook his head and continued: "Since you are a professional, you can't tell the difference between a professional chip and a central processing chip.

The work that the CPU needs to undertake is not only floating-point computing, but our graphics chip, designed to process images, is to professionally process floating-point computing, I think these two chips, simply take out some indicators to compare, it is meaningless!"

Well, yes, the CPU deals with floating-point calculations, that is, the scientific computing units in it, and people's graphics chips are designed to deal with floating-point calculations, which is really incomparable.

After answering the question, many people in the audience raised their hands, and Ji Xiaoqing handed over the right to ask questions to a reporter from the New York Times, a blonde lady.

"Hello, Miss Ji, I'm Jessica, a reporter from the New York Times, and my question is, how do you get the frequency of the memory to a height of 133MHZ, as far as I know, the general frequency of EDO memory on the market is still in the range of 33 and 66MHZ.

In addition, when I heard your introduction just now, you said that your memory is named DDR memory, is DDR memory the new memory standard? Miss Ji, please explain? ”

Ji Xiaoqing paused, the field control was just right, this performance made Wang Anran also surprised Ji Xiaoqing's adaptability, who would have thought that such a young girl who had just graduated had completely integrated into the atmosphere on the stage.

Remember to choose Ji Xiaoqing as the host of the press conference, Wang Anran also thought about it.

At that time, Wang Anran was also a general, and he heard that Ji Xiaoqing used to be the minister of the Speech Association, so the firing line appointed her as the host of the ability press conference.

Now it seems that the reason why many talents are unknown is that what they lack is just a platform for them to give full play to their strengths.

Ji Xiaoqing held the microphone in his hand and said in the direction of New York Times reporter Jessica: "Miss Jessica, your question used to be where we were confused.

As I mentioned earlier, the frequency of our core GPU chip is as high as 133MHZ, and the existing memory frequency is generally 33MHZ and 66MHZ.

This creates a bottleneck, low-frequency memory cannot fully exploit the performance of the GPU, unless the complex dual-channel, four-channel bridge is designed for the video memory, and EDO memory has a fatal weakness. ”

"What Achilles' heel?"

The interest of the audience in the venue was aroused at once.

Ji Xiaoqing said unhurriedly: "Haven't you noticed, I think EDO memory is too expensive, Huaxin Technology released the Ripper Extreme GF109 graphics card, with 32M memory, you might as well calculate, according to the current market situation, a graphics card, how much does it cost to spend on video memory alone." ”

Now a 2M one costs $69, a 4M one costs $149, and a 32M one is at least $1,500 or more.

"Oh my God, even if you don't count the display chips, plates, and processing, it will cost you $1,500 for memory alone, which can be configured with a brand new 586 computer. ”

Jessica took the microphone and asked Ji Xiaoqing, "Miss Ji, can you tell us the price of DDR memory?"

Ji Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Miss Jessica, I can reveal that the release price of the GF109 Extreme graphics card I am holding in my hand will not exceed $1,000." ”

"Less than a thousand dollars, that is, the price of 32M video memory is not more than 500 dollars, how is this possible?"

"yes, maybe lower, and it provides two and four times the performance gains. ”

"I don't know if I can use the memory of the microcomputer......"

Ji Xiaoqing's voice gradually became quieter when he waited for the audience, and then picked up the microphone and said: "Double-rate dynamic storage DDR memory is specially made by Huaxin Technology for the ripper chip with strong performance.

So far in our testing, the two fit perfectly......"

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In the audience, Samsung's representative Li Chenghuan was a little worried while incredible.

He is judging the authenticity of the content released by Huaxin Technology, in fact, although Samsung Technology started relatively late compared with the old internal storage giants such as Micron and Toshiba.

But after more than ten years of development, Samsung has completely surpassed Micron Technology and become the world's second largest internal memory production company.

As for this Huaxin Technology, Li Chenghuan is clear that the other party is negotiating foundry matters with Samsung Technology, and the other party has already paid a deposit of 1 million US dollars.

Originally, Samsung did not do OEM business, but in 1994, the global chip market was too poor, and in order to reduce the idle production line, Samsung also had to make changes.

But for this press conference, Samsung Technology originally did not plan to attend, but for the sake of money, it sent a manager Li Chenghuan to attend.

And this attendance, Li Chenghuan secretly rejoiced that he had come to the right place this time.

He now needs to report back to headquarters as soon as possible......

And offstage, Jessica's microphone has been picked up by 3 DFX, the representative of the newly established graphics chip company.

Before the man could hold the microphone steadily, he couldn't wait to ask Ji Xiaoqing: "Miss Ji, you said so much, how do we know that the performance improvement you mentioned is real." ”

Ji Xiaoqing smiled, the on-site test was originally a predetermined procedure, but it was disrupted by questions from the audience who came unexpectedly!

Of course, it's not too late to test at this time.

Ji Xiaoqing turned his head to look at the back of the stage, waved his hand, and the staff who had been waiting for instructions behind the curtain received the signal, and then launched two microcomputers to the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these are the two microcomputers we used for testing, one of which is equipped with Microsoft's most advanced Windows NT operating system, and the other is equipped with HarmonyOS SP operating system.

Now I'm going to put this graphics card on the computer of the HarmonyOS SP system, and I don't know if there is anyone in the field who is willing to serve as a volunteer for this test. ”