Hu Yiting saw that the Cyrix booth was so prosperous, and saw that he had stolen the limelight from several other CPU manufacturers, and the comfort in his heart was like drinking a large glass of honey to his heart.

Hu Yiting and his colleagues, especially the employees of the Beidu branch, Chongguang Microelectronics Division, gathered in front of the Cyrix booth to talk to their global sales director, Dean Wiener.

Hu Yiting introduced himself to him as the chief technology officer, vice president and director of China Chongguang Company, which made Dean Wiener impressed and attached great importance to him, and talked to him alone.

After listening to Dean Wiener's introduction, Hu Yiting learned that in the process of combining the two chips, Cyrix first worried that the previous Youying Overlord chip was designed based on a 1-micron process, and it was successfully projected with 0.8 microns in TaiUMC, so at the beginning, there were some concerns about the integration of the 0.35-micron process level directly using the 6X86 processor, but I didn't expect the integrated chip to succeed in the simulation test in one fell swoop, and it was even more successful in tape-out, and all the debugging was completed in only two times.

"After the Dragon was produced, the performance parameters were even better than we expected, thanks to the advanced 0.35 micron process of Texas Instruments' fab and the technical strength of our company," said Deenwiener. ”

Hu Yiting didn't want to refute his face, and said with a smile: "Well, indeed, when we first taped out, it was on a micron experimental line at the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University, and it could be perfectly transplanted to the 0.35 micron process, which shows that our design level of Chongguang is very remarkable, isn't it?"

Dean Wiener praised matter-of-factly, "Indeed, you have done a great job, and it is a masterpiece. ”

Hu Yiting smiled and asked, "What are your plans next?"

Dean Wiener said: "It stands to reason that it should be kept secret, but there is nothing to hide from your words, before the film was tested by professional equipment power-on, we have about 20% The next step we will put this part of the chip according to the 150Mhz fixed frequency, packaged and sold separately, of course, with the progress of production, the improvement of the process, we will produce and sell a higher frequency, our engineers are very confident in this chip, that it can be improved to 266MHz to 333MHz in the future. ”

Hu Yiting nodded, knowing that this practice of eating more than one fish is the industry practice of processor manufacturers, and it is not a secret. It can be seen that Cyrix is now very satisfied with the great success and profits brought by the 6X86-DRAGON processor, and presumably has no plans to develop the next generation of processors.

Hu Yiting remembers that in history, the 6X86 series is Cyrix's swan song on the processor, according to 6X86, 6X86MX (I made a few multimedia instruction sets stuffed into it but the performance is mediocre), Cyrix MII (that is, 6X86MMX, a CPU authorized by Intel's MMX instruction set patent, and Pentium 2 belongs to the same level of products, but it didn't take long to go on the market to the Pentium 3 era), and finally made a peculiar Cyrix before bankruptcy and acquisition GX (this chip is the first CPU with an integrated graphics processor, which is now called an APU, although it was a very avant-garde innovation at the time, but the performance did not have any advantages over Intel and AMD processors, this fancy way of saving users a piece of graphics card money did not win the favor of many low-end users, and ultimately could not save the company's defeat. Finally, he died.

"I hope that the emergence of Chongguang can bring the processor market into the Warring States period, because only the Warring States can contain Intel. Thinking of this, Hu Yiting sincerely congratulated Dienwiener and took his colleagues to leave the booth where processor manufacturers gathered.

As soon as he walked not far away, Hu Yiting was stopped by a foreigner with a broken accent, and when he looked back, it was Friedman, the global president of Cyrix.

Hu Yiting was surprised and delighted, surprised that Friedman originally said that he would come to the exhibition on the 15th to give a speech to him, and he was happy that he met an acquaintance in this foreign country.

"Hey, Mr. Friedman, I thought you wouldn't be in Las Vegas until the 15th. ”

Friedman let out a deep laugh from his 1.95-meter-iron tower-like body: "Haha, I'm here to surprise you, since our global strategic partner is here, how can I be absent as the home of the town." ”

Dean Wiener, who was beside Friedman, smiled and waved his hand at Hu Yiting, signaling that he didn't expect his boss to suddenly appear here.

"I arrived right off the plane and I heard that our processors were selling so well that I couldn't wait to see them for myself. Friedman gently carried the leather bag in his left hand, then stepped forward and stretched out his right hand to Hu Yiting, shaking hands with him vigorously, as if he was reuniting with old friends.

"I just visited your booth and it was amazing. Hu Yiting complimented.

Friedman smiled and nodded, thinking for a moment, "Okay, very good, so how about we have dinner tonight? I know of a really good steakhouse." ”

"Great. Hu Yiting smiled and nodded in agreement.

So Friedman happily led Dean Wiener to the company's booth, and Hu Yiting continued to walk with his colleagues to the other side of the pavilion.

After a while, everyone walked to the equipment manufacturer exhibition area, where some brands are very unfamiliar to most consumers, but they are well-known names in the industry, such as AMAT Applied Materials, LAM Colin R&D, LKA Kelei, ASML Asmail, Tokyo Weili Keke, Hitachi Pioneer......

These booths are relatively deserted in front of them, and visitors rarely stop, because their products are not aimed at general consumers, basically the people who will be interested are professionals in the industry, and the booths are basically empty shell models, or only information is available for reading, but Hu Yiting knows that these manufacturers are the overlords behind the chip manufacturing industry, because they sell equipment for the production of chips.

Hu Yiting remembered that some ignorant people on the Internet often attacked China with the shortcomings of China's chip manufacturing industry, and some people sneered proudly: "Your country is known as a strong country, but as a result, you even have to import chips, just import them to the United States and Europe, and you have to import them from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and you are proud of the country, which is really rubbish." ”

And now these manufacturers in front of you are the reason for this.

These manufacturers who provide industrial machine tools for the chip manufacturing industry, their latest generation and even two generations of products, all of which have been included in the list of the Wassenaar Agreement by the West led by the United States and thus the existence of an embargo on China, lithography equipment, etching equipment, testing equipment, packaging equipment, ion implantation equipment, meteorological deposition equipment, cleaning equipment, grinding equipment, metal targets, photoresists, without these manufacturers to provide cutting-edge equipment, how can China use low-level equipment to make a high-level chip manufacturing process!?

In the wafer fabs in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, all the equipment on the entire assembly line comes from these companies, and in the wafer fabs in South Korea and Taiwan, there is not a single equipment on the entire assembly line that they can build by themselves, and all of them have to rely on purchasing from Western groups led by the United States, and their wafer fabs only have the production process.

If China wants to buy the equipment of these companies, the premise is that it must first be able to develop and produce products of the same level with the same performance parameters, and then the West will be busy crossing the model of products from the ban list, and at the same time peddling them to China to seize the market, suppressing China's newly born equipment, making it impossible to produce in large quantities, so as to not enter the virtuous cycle of production-profit-R&D-reproduction.

Hu Yiting and his colleagues asked several companies, and as soon as the other party heard that it was Chinese, he immediately changed his face. Although the politeness on the face is still there, but the attitude of disapproval is obvious, some manufacturers directly said that this exhibition did not bring the old model of equipment information, according to the US law you Chinese can only buy those old models, these new models to tell you is useless.

Chongguang's colleagues stopped talking, and a mixture of depression and annoyance made everyone's faces look ugly.

Hu Yiting smiled gloomily, endured the unhappiness in his heart, and took the lead in collecting their product information from one booth after another.

Hu Yiting chatted with a Japanese person at the booth of Weili Science and Technology in Tokyo, because they are all Asians, and the United States, which is full of Caucasians, is so pleasing to the eye, it is convenient to talk to Hu Yiting in Japanese English.

Hu Yiting asked the sales staff of Tokyo Weili Kechuang whether their flat panel LCD manufacturing equipment was also a prohibited product, and the other party didn't know it, but he just boasted that his own products had been exported to South Korea.

In desperation, Hu Yiting had no choice but to ask him to go back to the headquarters and ask him again tomorrow.

Then Hu Yiting asked several manufacturers according to the equipment he cared about, and some equipment manufacturers searched for the information in the computer on the spot, printed a list of product models and parameter information that could be sold in China and handed it to Hu Yiting, and some manufacturers directly asked him to contact the manufacturer's office in China for inquiry.

When Hu Yiting left with his colleagues, he thought that this trip was not in vain, and he finally figured out the current mainstream products of these equipment manufacturers, and also got their contact information, and saw if he could get some familiar equipment from them in the future.

"One day, I'm going to ask you to beg China to buy your equipment!" Hu Yiting thought.