When he woke up the next day, it was ten o'clock in the morning, Hu Yiting found himself lying on the bed in the hotel, holding his head with a hangover and getting up, and saw a note left by Wang Lili on the desk, knowing that after he arrived at the hotel last night, he was carried into the hall by the doorman, and the doorman knew that the group of Chinese guests in the hotel were from the same company.

Hu Yiting thought that this time he would be embarrassed and thrown abroad, and thought again, isn't it just drunk, there are no drunks in any country, just a show for the people of Las Vegas. Thinking about it, he hurriedly showered and washed up, and rushed to the exhibition hall, today the road was particularly windy, blowing the colorful flags outside the exhibition hall, and looking up, you can see the hamburger wrapper blown into the sky by the wind, and the M with a bright yellow red background has become a free advertisement for McDonald's.

The exhibition on the 13th was uneventful, Hu Yiting and his colleagues worked until noon, and after a collective meal, they brought Wang Lili and the two visited the exhibition.

Wang Lili has been busy in the past two days, and Hu Yiting intends to help her adjust, but no one but her has brought her. The two of them held a Coke and walked leisurely in the exhibition hall, just to relax.

After the Intel booth again, Hu Yiting was surprised, it turned out that Intel released the news this morning, starting from December 1, one per month, continuously launched Pentium 133MHz, 150MHz, 166MHz, 180MHz, 200MHz five processors, and now during the exhibition, it can be publicly accepted for user reservations.

Hu Yiting took a leaflet from the Intel booth, the freshly printed snowflake paper is still warm, take a closer look, and see that among the various processors marked with thousands of pieces, the highest price is 200MHz, and the price is 1528 US dollars.

Hu Yiting took a closer look at the parameters, and it turned out that Intel decided to carry L2 Cache from 133MHz on the basis of 100MHz products, that is, L2 cache.

The previous Besturn 60MHz, 66MHz, 75MHz, 100MHz or not, all of which were stingy did not provide L2 cache, and only provided 16K L1 cache cache.

Hu Yiting took the leaflet and muttered: "The toothpaste factory is really undercrowded, and now I am in a hurry, and I have taken out all the bezoar dog treasures that I have hidden!"

Wang Lili opened her eyes wide and asked, "Toothpaste factory?"

Hu Yiting explained: "I mean Intel, his family has always delayed the release of products, deliberately suppressing the release date of new products, only when the performance of the product is approached by Cyrix and AMD, to grab business, they will immediately launch new products to suppress competitors." ”

Wang Lili smiled: "So that's the case, the metaphor of the toothpaste factory is really appropriate." ”

Hu Yiting said solemnly: "But their technology is not ambiguous at all, you see that they actually added two L2 cache options to the processor at once, starting from 133MHz, each provides 256K L2 cache and 512K L2 cache two options, the price...... It's really spicy......"

Wang Lili looked at the leaflet in her hand: "My God...... 200MHz processor with 512K L2 cache...... Batch price starts at 1,000 pieces...... It costs $1,528! It costs more than 10,000 yuan without tax! This is still the wholesale price!"

Hu Yiting took a sip of Coke: "It's no different from robbery, the toothpaste factory is now out of the way, so many new products are on the market, the purpose is to make as much money as possible." With L2 caching, the processor will have a very clear speed advantage when running some large software, and the performance improvement is significant, in my experience, at least 7% to 8% faster, and with the integration of 512K L2 cache, a 10% to 15% increase is not a problem.

If it is a 512K L2 cache, although the CPU is still inferior to the Dragon processor with built-in multimedia instruction set when comparing the same frequency on floating-point arithmetic, it does greatly narrow the gap, and the performance is probably only slightly worse than the dual-processor mode of the 6X86 processor and the external Shadow Overlord coprocessor. ”

Wang Lili patted her chest and said with a dangerous look: "Fortunately, we are still ahead." ”

Hu Yiting frowned and said, "What is the lead? Do you think Intel will compete fairly with us at the same frequency and level?"

Wang Lili was dumbfounded: "Isn't Cyrix able to produce processors with L2 Cache with high clock speeds?"

Hu Yiting sighed and said: "Cyrix has to have this ability, according to their low-price dumping route, Intel has already been blinded by them."

According to what I got from Friedman, Cyrix has some 150Mhz super-good products in his hands right now, and he plans to sell them for $590. They will start production of the new 133MHz 6X86-Dragon early next year, with the intention of pricing it at $490.

Then Cyrix is waiting to cooperate with TSMC, waiting for TSMC to help them gradually push the main frequency up, probably up to 200Mhz, but with my limited understanding of TSMC, they want to come up with products above 133Mhz, it will take at least a year! As for reaching the main frequency of 200MHz, I think there is no hope in 96, and it is still possible after the second half of 97. ”

Hu Yiting's speculation on TSMC is based on his own memory, and he feels that even if TSMC suddenly takes drugs and HIGH at this time and space, it will complete the process research and development one or two months ahead of schedule at most.

Wang Lili asked, "What about L2Cache?"

Hu Yiting said according to memory: "Cyrix definitely doesn't have the ability to build L2 Cache into the CPU, AMD probably can't do it now, it is estimated that they can only use the onboard way, put L2 Cache on the motherboard as a chip alone, that is, onboard L2 Cache."

However, the onboard L2 cache has obvious disadvantages, it is impossible to work at the same frequency as the CPU, and can only maintain the same frequency as the motherboard, which is a big difference in speed compared to the high-speed L2 cache integrated in the CPU. ”

Wang Lili said: "It's really nerve-wracking, I'm not an expert, but I also know that what affects speed is definitely not a good thing." ”

Hu Yiting nodded: "And this requires the motherboard manufacturer to design and customize the new motherboard equipped with L2 cache for them immediately." Hehe, today is really a memorable historical period, from now on, AMD and Cyrix's motherboards will say goodbye to Intel completely, and from then on, the motherboards of these three companies will no longer be compatible with other CPUs. However, I think AMD may still join forces with Cyrix, after all, compatibility with each other's motherboards can effectively resist the hegemony of toothpaste factories. ”

Wang Lili said: "AMD has sent us a letter to ask about technology licensing before, but after listening to our offer is still hesitating, I see the current situation, AMD may contact us in the near future, in the face of Cyrix's sudden rise and Intel's strong counteroffensive, they can't sit still." ”

Hu Yiting praised: "Sister Wang, your vision is very good! yrix has forced out the bloody nature of the toothpaste factory, and the CPU market must be a bloody storm next." ”

Speaking of this, Hu Yiting was a little excited, pulled Wang Lili to the side of the exhibition hall, and quietly told the truth about the discussion he had when he met with Yu Youcheng and others yesterday.

Wang Lili was surprised: "You mean, Mr. Yu Youcheng might help us convince Intel that they will authorize us to produce compatible processors?"

Hu Yiting said softly: "There is this possibility, but Yu Youcheng can't be the master at Intel, the real masters of the toothpaste factory are Andy Grove and Gordon Moore, these two don't nod, it's useless for us to shave our heads and pick hot heads." ”

Hu Yiting said again: "I didn't want to tell anyone, Sister Wang, you won't blame me for hiding it from you, right?"

Wang Lili said with a smile: "What nonsense Hu Yiting, you are ten times smarter than Sister Wang and me, you think it is feasible, I will go all out." ”

When Hu Yiting heard this, he smiled with Wang Lili, and told him what he learned about having dinner with Friedman last night, and even told him about Friedman's invitation to a strip club.

"This Friedman! I really can't see it! He's still a big pervert! Doesn't he have a wife and children? Why are you still so slutty! You're still a child, how can he take you to that kind of place! You can't go out alone with him in the future!" Wang Lili was a little angry, and the calf protector lashed.