Taiwan

August Flowing Fire,

Hsinchu Hi-Tech Park,

Tailian's wafer fab has a constant temperature all year round.

For the previously produced Youying Overlord, whether it is in the technical parameters of the production process, or the template and process of casting, all can be copied.

In the face of the 800,000 pieces of Youying Overlord from the mainland Chongguang Company entrusted by Hong Kong Feilong to act as an agent for filming, Tailian Electric shipped the package to Hong Kong in eight times at a package shipment rate of 100,000 pieces each time, and it only took a total of one month before and after.

Since the 80s, Europe and the United States have gradually relocated their wafer fabs to Asia, mainly benefiting countries such as Taiwan and South Korea with low labor costs.

Taiwan's media once exposed in the early years that although there are no high chimneys and particulate matter emissions, each wafer factory has to release hundreds of tons of benzene, toluene, methanol, isopropanol, dichloroethylene, trichloroethylene and other toxic chemicals into the air every year, including a large number of metallic gases, such as ******, phosphine, ethyl, methane silicon and other highly toxic gases.

Due to the extremely high cost of treating exhaust gases, the incredible low-cost OEM in Taiwan and South Korea has attracted more and more interest in Europe and the United States. In particular, semiconductor companies in the United States have single-handedly supported a large number of wafer factories in Taiwan with large foundry contracts.

In this year, the competition is fierce, and the life of Tailian's wafer factory is not getting better day by day, and it has lagged behind TSMC several times in the process technology, especially the production scale, so they dare not ignore the small batch orders thrown by Feilong.

According to Wang Lili's instructions, the first batch of 100,000 tablets was given to Changxiang Solution, the second batch of 100,000 tablets was given to VIA for the production of motherboards to support the sales of Cerix's 6X86 processors, and the third and fourth batches of 200,000 tablets arrived in Hong Kong were sent to HP Hong Kong Branch and Dell Hong Kong Branch.

These two companies are the buyers found by Feilong Technology, after Wang Xiaolong, the president of Feilong Technology, found them. After touting the Youying Overlord chip, and testing the samples provided by Wang Lili and the imagined Tianteng graphics card, they were also attracted by the powerful performance of the Youying Overlord coprocessor.

The two companies launched a graphics card design that mimicked the Imagination LX100 almost simultaneously, but it was not marketed as a graphics card. Instead, it is installed in its own brand of computer for use. They commissioned an electronics factory in Hong Kong to produce and assemble the products, and then quickly launched the products for sale in the US and Southeast Asian markets.

The personal computer business of these two companies is similar to that of Changxiang, and the products can be baked after a simple self-design, but Changxiang relies on its own factories for assembly, and these two companies are for profit. Almost entirely the assembly and production were handed over to the OEM. After all, the final production link has thin profits, high investment in fixed assets, and low technical content, of course, these large companies are not eye-catching.

According to the sales plan, more than half of this batch of complete machines will be sold to the United States.

So in late August, for the first time, home computers equipped with Youying Overlord chips appeared on the computer market in the United States.

As a well-known large company in the industry, HP and Dell have a very sound sales network in the American market, and the publicity department is also very strong, and soon, HP HP500 personal computers equipped with Youying Overlord chips. And Dell's "Dell Bobcat" personal computer is selling well in the United States.

In a computer mall in New York, the owner is selling his goods to customers:

"You see, right? The new HP500 can fully meet your needs, you can enjoy MPEG-1 format video and audio at home in the future, relying on QQ super solution software, your VCD can be played on the computer from now on. ”

The young customer said with satisfaction: "This HP's new machine is indeed powerful, but it is a little more expensive, the $3750 computer actually uses the Intel Pentium 75MHz processor, I know that the best processor now is the Pentium 133MHz, this frequency is about 60 megahertz behind!"

The boss wiped the sweat from his forehead: "But this baby is worth the price! You tried it just now, and she can run all the 3D games on the market perfectly." Even if you use a Pentium 133MHz processor, you have to pair it with a high-priced graphics card to achieve this kind of performance, and that model costs $5,000!"

The young man hesitated a little, looked to the side and asked, "How about that Dell? Isn't that also using the Shadow Overlord coprocessor?" and he pointed to the huge banner hanging on the ceiling of the mall, "In 1995, I spent $1995 to enjoy a super Pentium quality PC."

"Only $1,995?

The boss smiled: "That Dale Bobcat is not bad. It's also the latest in August.,But it's AMD's 486 processor.,Although the main frequency is 100MHz,But the performance is definitely not as good as this one.,After all, it's not a level of processor.。 ”

The young man licked his lips and hesitated, "Can you try it?"

The boss nodded: "Of course." The computer is on. ”

At the same time, another customer present was dressed in a straight suit and looked like a business person, and he said directly: "Boss, give me an HP 500." ”

The boss said happily, "Yes sir, please follow me to the cashier over there to pay the bill, you will not be disappointed." ”

The young man was alone with the Dell Bobcat, only to be surprised to find that the computer could also play VCDs smoothly, as well as Need for Speed and the hottest game of the moment, DOOM2 Warriors.

"Boss, I want this 1995 Dale Bobcat!"

After greeting the businessman just now, the boss came over and nodded: "Okay sir, you have a good eye, this is indeed the most value-for-money configuration." ”

For the young man's choice, the boss was actually not surprised, although he had just lured the young man to look at the high-priced goods for a long time, but after some conversation, he could see that the other party was not ignorant of personal computers, at least he had read a few related shopping magazines. In this case, the other party naturally will not know that this is the hottest Dell Bobcat currently sold on the market.

After payment, the clerk removed a brand-new Dale Bobcat from the warehouse, and the young man happily loaded the computer into the trunk of his car parked in the parking lot at the door, with the help of the clerk pushing the flatbed.

When the clerk returned to the store, he muttered, "This Dale Bobcat is selling so well, it's a big problem, he has made the other high-priced computers in my store almost unsellable." ”

The clerk reminded, "Boss, there is only one Dale Bobcat left in the warehouse." ”

The boss was shocked when he heard this: "I entered 20 units, and they were sold out in three days? God, hurry up and buy them!"

The clerk said, "Since this computer is hindering our high-priced computer sales, we should not enter it again." ”

The boss shook his head while flipping through the sales record sheet in his hand and said: "That's not good, we don't sell, there will be others who sell, and the return on profit that Dell gives us is not lower than HP, but the unit price of the product is low, we can't stop selling Chevrolet because we want to sell Cadillac." ”

The clerk nodded as if he didn't understand: "I just can't figure it out, why this Dell Bobcat and HP's HP500 look no different in performance from those high-priced computers for four or five thousand dollars?"

The boss didn't look back and said, "Because they all use the Youying Overlord coprocessor." With that, he walked over to his desk, picked up the phone and dialed Dell's New York sales center: "This is the Burnie Computer Store on East 223rd Street, I want to order 20 units...... No, 50 Dell Bobcats, please send them as much as possible...... Yes, the East 223rd Street Burnie Computer Store, near Pittman Street, as far as I say, all the time!"

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As sales of the Dell Bobcat and HP 500 home computers climbed, the entire North American home computer market saw sales declines for high-end PCs in varying degrees.

A large number of smart and savvy customers, after comparing the computer with the Youying Overlord coprocessor and the computer without this chip, wisely chose the two computers that were cheaper and more affordable.

Among them, Dell's Bobcat home computer, which was advertised as "spending $1995 in 1995 to enjoy a super Pentium quality PC", sold the most popular, and became the sales champion of the $2,000 level after entering the market, while the HP 500 became the sales champion of the $4,000 level computer at a price of $3,750.

It's no surprise that these two computers are the stars of this week's Home Computer America magazine.

Various expert technical articles and sales forecasts have also begun to emerge, and the computer industry in the United States has been surprised to find that there is still a Chinese semiconductor design company in the world that can design such an excellent product.

"Los Angeles Semiconductor Express" said in a newly released article: "The wolf is coming! Chinese have mastered high-end processor design technology!"

Home Computers USA: "It's an affordable coprocessor that's going to bring the price of high-end PCs back from the cloud to the ground." ”

Silicon Valley Journal of Computers and Microelectronics: "The once unknown Chinese company Chongguang has used this Youying Overlord coprocessor to show us their superb semiconductor design level and genius mathematical instruction set development capabilities.

According to reliable sources, Cyrix Semiconductor has launched in-depth cooperation with Chongguang Semiconductor, and the two sides may have reached a private agreement.

It can be expected that in the near future, a new home computer processor equipped with the multimedia instruction set and floating-point register architecture developed by Chongguang will come out soon!"

The New York Times wrote in its "Consumer Electronics Navigation" column: "Low-end price, high-end enjoyment, Youying Overlord coprocessor has given the market a heavy blow! The future trend of home computers is home entertainment! Coprocessor chips integrating multimedia instruction sets will become an important growth point in the computer market in the future!"

(To be continued.) )

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