Chapter 244: The Hidden Dangers of the Toothpaste Factory
Hu Yiting sneered and quickly changed the topic: "Although the toothpaste factory is powerful, I know that they are forced to fight back this time. ”
Wang Lili said: "Of course, passive counterattack and active attack are of course different, after these products are taken out, Intel estimates that the entire company has been beaten, and the research and development schedule of new projects must be urgent, otherwise once the market again unexpected new products suddenly attack, the company will not be able to come up with new weapons to fight back." ”
Hu Yiting said: "Sister Wang, you are right, but I guess that Intel is in a hurry to integrate the L2 cache on the processor, and it will inevitably face the problem of process adaptation, and the yield rate will not be high in the short term, I estimate that it will be 40-50%."
Although this is nothing for Intel's high and frightening gross profit margin, after all, their list price is already sky-high, but a large number of chips on a wafer do not meet the standard, which is a disaster for the quality control department. ”
Wang Lili asked, "Then what do you think they will do?"
Hu Yiting explained, "This kind of thing will happen, for the technical department, it must have been taken into account at the beginning of the design, and the design of the chip must have two independent modes, one mode with L2 cache at runtime, and the other mode without."
In this way, when the later test is carried out, the unqualified chips are picked out, castrated, and the second-level cache on the broken chip is shielded and sold as a product without second-level cache. ”
"Can you still do this? That's amazing! In this way, defective products can be sold as genuine products!"
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "But have you thought about it, how much pressure does this bring to the quality control and testing department? If I am replaced by the quality control supervisor, I will have the heart to commit suicide! In case some substandard products flow out of my own hands, users find that data loss and program crashes occur from time to time in use, and the last check is the quality problem of the secondary cache, which is a great blow to the reputation of the brand, and it is a disaster for the after-sales department.
In addition, castration chips also need process support, which is an additional cost, originally, the integration of the second-level cache is a high-cost process, do you do not cost money and then castrate, do you think it does not cost money? After castration, you have to go through the detection process again, in case there is no castration of good products into the market, it is a disaster. ”
Wang Lili covered her mouth and smiled: "In this way, Intel is making trouble for itself." ”
Hu Yiting also smiled: "I was forced to be helpless." As the industry leader, if you can't continue to maintain the leading position in technology, believe it or not, the stock market will fall every day, can capital have a good face for you? Next, the chain reaction, shareholders may forcibly interfere with the operation of the enterprise, in the name of maintaining profits, cut projects, sell factories, sell technology, and lay off employees...... It has been said that the greatest disaster for the world's enterprises is to go public, and the greed for profits of shareholders who do nothing but sit back and enjoy their profits is enough to destroy the best company. ”
Wang Lili is not a big deal to see the excitement: "Now it would be good if someone made some trouble for Intel, it would be lively enough." ”
Hu Yiting's eyes rolled and he thought about it: "I, I have a way to do this." ”
"You?" asked Wang Lili with a smile.
"With Intel's high level of technology, give them time, and they will definitely figure out a solution, for example, by splitting the processor and L2 cache into two chips, so that there is no problem with yield. ”
"Isn't that an on-board cache? Wouldn't Cyrix and AMD do the same with this kind of technology?"
Hu Yiting smiled and said: "But what if these two chips are installed on a PCB board like a game card? plus a high-speed bus control chip to make the two work in harmony?"
Wang Lili's expression was blank.
Hu Yiting continued to prompt: "As long as the CPU interface of the motherboard is designed in the form of a card slot, and then the PCB board with the processor and the second-level cache and control chip is installed as a whole, and plugged into the CPU interface as a processor, the problem will be solved!"
Wang Lili suddenly exclaimed, "Is this okay?! Hu Yiting, you are really a genius! Such a wonderful method! You can actually think of it!"
Hu Yiting smiled and said that in history, the toothpaste factory did just that! Because the yield rate problem after the integration of the second-level cache could not be solved, the toothpaste factory took out its own long-term accumulation of strong strength in the motherboard high-speed bus technology, and made a wonderful interface like Slot1, which saved the country from the road of motherboard architecture design in one fell swoop, bypassed the bottleneck of large-scale integrated chip process technology, and made the combination of CPU and large-capacity second-level cache no longer difficult, which is really superior wisdom! Other manufacturers were dumbfounded and amazed.
As a result, the inspired AMD directly copied the Slot1 interface, made its own SlotA interface, and put its own processor and L2 cache through the high-speed control chip, installed on the PCB cartridge and inserted into the motherboard SlotA interface, but the PCB card used not Intel's GTL bus protocol, but DEC's Alpha bus protocol EV6.
But even ghosts in the industry know what's going on, and the SlotA interface is a copy of the Slot1 interface......
Then the agricultural enterprise was sued by the toothpaste factory, saying that you are shameless, if this is not plagiarism, Lao Tzu will have your surname from now on!
Agricultural enterprises say that if you don't register this kind of insertion, then it's not your patent, if you want to sue you, anyway, if Lao Tzu falls, you just wait to be investigated by the anti-monopoly! Besides, we all started a business from Fairchild Semiconductor, and there are five of the top ten shareholders.
The toothpaste factory scolded, "Little brute, you will see! And then there will be no follow-up! In the end, it will not be done!
And Cyrix is miserable, although AMD is raised by the stepmother, but the stepmother is also a mother, so it is a father with the toothpaste factory. You Cyrix is an outsider, dare to try plagiarism? It's not fast enough to die, isn't it? Honestly do your 486 and 6X86, how long you can live depends on how hard your life is. As a result, Cyrix had to lie in the hospital bed for several days, and finally ran out of oil, and was acquired by his original partner, Taiwan VIA, and has since withdrawn from the world.
Wang Lili's brain turned quickly: "Hu Yiting, I think let's register the kind of structure you said quickly, as you said before, go your own way, and let others have no way out." ”
Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Sister Wang, you're right, let's go back and develop this interface immediately, and quickly sort out the patent documents and hand them over for registration." ”
Wang Lili smiled from ear to ear: "When the time comes, let's authorize Cyrix again, it must be another technical improvement, maybe Intel will come to ask us for authorization." ”
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