James Ellwood, Vice President of Technology at Cyrix, also said: " I agree with David's point of view, this technology is indeed very viable for a fabless IC company like ours with shortcomings in the process process, I agree with what David said, at least five years this technology will not be eliminated, with the help of onboard CPU technology, we can cross the threshold of L2 cache in one fell swoop, at present, according to our laboratory data, it is very difficult to integrate L2 cache by relying on process technology, not only the cost is very high, the yield rate is also very low, about less than 15% Intel's technology is much better than ours, but it can't guarantee a stable yield rate of more than 50%.

As long as we use the Slot1 interface of the new processor and the supporting motherboard as soon as it is launched, we can continue to maintain the technical advantage over Intel, and even the price advantage, according to the information I have got, Intel's 512K L2 cache processor yield rate is amazingly low, compared to about 50% of the 256K L2 cache processor, about half, only about 30%, which is a disaster for their quality control, I bet, their quality control director is now going crazy. Forcing a product with such immature technology is not only worrying about quality, but also costing a high level, even if their performance score is better than ours, but the price will never be lowered. I estimate that the next situation we face is that Intel's Pentium MMX processors with 256K and 512K L2 caches will be about 3% to 5% higher than our same frequency products with Slot1 interface, but we will definitely be much cheaper than them in terms of cost, we can sell a quarter or even a third cheaper than what they sell, which is the first choice for cost performance for a 3% performance gap!"

David Lini added: "And the quality! I bet Intel's quality will be in the big news sooner or later!"

James Ellwood nodded: "Yes! Quality! I'm waiting to see what they do! Unless Intel's 35-micron process technology can make a substantial breakthrough in the short term, it will definitely make mistakes! And I don't believe they can do this, under the current technology and equipment conditions, their chip area and integration have exceeded the fault tolerance limit, this is not scientific, and science will sooner or later punish their technological adventures." ”

Friedman was always smiling, and after listening to the speeches of the company's two technical authorities, his cheeks flushed, and his tall body was straight on the president's chair, "Now I will show you our new products, and by the way, I will ask our chairman, Mr. Cohen, to determine the name of the new product." ”

Friedman snapped his fingers, and then the door to the conference hall was opened, and two staff members walked out, one holding a cardboard box with black plastic cassette tapes inside, and the exposed PCB board was densely covered with comb-like gold pure copper pins, which looked like game cards inserted in a home game console. The other was holding a cardboard box full of motherboards.

As the cassette was handed out to each of the directors, the motherboard was placed in the center of the conference table in a block arrangement, and Friedman retracted his dramatic performance, "This is our new processor and companions!Based on the Slot1 interface!L2 cache 512K!Yes! We plan to launch the 512K L2 cache first! and then the 256K design, because people always pay attention to the data score at the beginning, so we need to come up with a big score first in order to make the big news!" ”

The directors were all smiling, and they tried to insert the CPU card in their hands into the card slot in front of them, and found that the buckles on both sides of the motherboard interface would be automatically buckled after insertion.

The directors applauded, "This thing is so simple! Kids can fit it! Brilliant design!"

"It's a great thing, and it's not even more inconvenient than the old pins. ”

"yes, I think users will get used to it right away, it's so easy, there aren't any technical issues that need to be transitioned. ”

Friedman smiled and broke the buckle on the motherboard in front of him, pulled out the CPU cartridge and held it in his hand, easily broke the two pieces of plastic, and held it up to show everyone the design of the internal board.

"Ah, that's amazing, this is the high-speed bus chip that connects the processor and the L2 cache, right?"

"It's a clever idea, these Chinese always have some whimsical ideas. ”

"Although it is not a normal technical route, I want to applaud the Chinese engineers of Chongguang this time, they came up with a genius solution, hahaha, to hell with Intel's technology!"

"It's indeed an ingenious design, I think probably only Chinese with underdeveloped process technology can come up with such a wonderful trick, hehehe, damn it, I like them this thing! I'm going to eat Chinese food tonight! Zuo Zongtang chicken! Hahaha!"

Friedman smiled and listened to everyone's nonsense and said: "Okay guys, now that our name call has begun, please speak enthusiastically, and finally invite our esteemed chairman, Mr. Cohen, to finally choose the name." ”

Adam Cohen had already smiled like a Maitreya Buddha at this time, turning a cassette in his hand, grinning, revealing a mouthful of delicately maintained white teeth and saying, "This is my honor." ”

Then the directors came up with a bunch of names, some suggesting that they continue to be called Dragon, which represents dragons, but add a Roman numeral two to distinguish them, some suggesting that they simply select dragon varieties from the dictionary so that they can be named into a series in the future, and some of them shouting all sorts of strange names, such as secret documents, black explosives, gold bricks, calculation cards, and so on.

At the end of the discussion, everyone finally came to their senses and felt that the existing brand advantage should not be given up, so they decided to continue to make a fuss in Longli.

After nearly three hours of discussion, the directors chose Stegosaurus as the name of this CPU according to the characteristics of the plug-in card type, and the full name follows the previous style, continuing to use 6x86 as the prefix, called 6X86-Stegosaurus processor, referred to as "Stegosaurus".

Adam Cohen was pleased with the final agreed name, "I like dragons, big guys, powerful, swift, fast, this thing always brings us surprises and good luck, since the advent of 6x86Dragon, our good luck has not stopped, our Chinese partners seem to use the dragon as the national totem, Cyrix is a collection of the most high-tech processor companies in the United States and China, the name of the dragon is very much in line with our common culture. ”

As a result, Cyrix was formalized and will continue to use the scientific names of various species of dinosaurs as the name of its product line.