Facing the report sent by the processor business department, Hu Yiting sat in the office for a long time, and a feeling of being a person came to his heart.

This processor war is the result he wants, except that the focus of the current market is completely different from the previous life.

In the previous era, each processor compared its own multimedia instruction set to see whose CPU was stronger in multimedia processing.

Now the market has completely changed its taste, Intel, AMD, Cyrix, the top three financial use from the heavy light multimedia instruction set, so that the three are currently equal in multimedia processing power, the focus of the war is completely focused on the main frequency and L2 cache, who has a higher frequency and a larger L2 cache, who can have an advantage in running scores.

The users in the market are also brainwashed by the propaganda offensive of these three, staring directly at the running scores, judging the heroes by numbers, and almost every issue of various computer newspapers and magazines has a ranking list about the running score.

At present, Intel is undoubtedly the leader, relying on powerful process technology, they are the only manufacturer on the market that can provide 200MHz main frequency, integrated 512K L2 cache Pentium II processor, the price is as high as $599, considering the extremely low yield rate, this price is still very fair.

Probably because the competition is too fierce, the price of processors in this era is much cheaper than in previous lives. Hu Yiting remembered that when Intel launched the 166MHz Pentium generation processor last year, the starting price of 1,000 pieces was $632, and in just one year, the same 166MHz main frequency, and integrated multimedia instruction set Pentium second-generation processor was only sold for $299!

Hu Yiting knows that there is another reason for this, that is, the Pentium II in this life is not the same thing as the Pentium II in the previous life, and now Intel has launched this Pentium II, in fact, it is two products! Among them, 60Mhz, 66MHz, 75MHz, 100MHz These four products, their last life is called Pentium MMX, which integrates 32K to 128K L2 cache and multimedia instruction set. The four products of 120MHz, 133MHZ, 166MHz, 175MHz and 200MHz use the new P6 computing core, integrating 256K to 512K L2 cache and multimedia instruction set.

Intel named the two product lines together in history as Pentium II, which Hu Yiting did not expect, guessing that the toothpaste factory felt that the naming method of Pentium MMX and Pentium PRO was not strong enough, and it could not show a sense of product upgrading, so it adopted a market strategy. In this way, it sounds like a replacement product that completely surpasses the Pentium generation, but because Intel has already had a news release on Pentium MMX and Pentium PRO before, so people in the industry know what the so-called Pentium 2 product line is all about, that is, after the original high-end and mid-end two product lines are integrated, a longer product line covering the high-end mid-range is just a longer product line that covers the high-end mid-range, the advantage is that it sounds good, and for consumers, they don't have to spend too much time to distinguish which one is better, as long as they look at the main frequency, they can judge it。

As for the real Pentium II, it will not be born until Intel gets the SLOT1 interface, which is a processor that uses the same P6 computing core as the Pentium PRO, integrating the MMX multimedia instruction set, but the L2 cache adopts SLOT1's onboard mode, running at half the speed of the processor's main frequency, which is a design similar to Stegosaurus.

Hu Yiting knew that once Intel got the SLOT1 interface and took out the real Pentium 2 processor in history, the cost of the product would drop significantly, and Cyrix would no longer have any advantage at that time.

Cyrix is a short board in the process, according to the news they provided for Chongguang, although TSMC has just conquered the process of 166MHz products, but the current yield rate is only 30%, and it can't do a large-scale second-level cache, otherwise the yield rate will be even more unseeable, fortunately, Stegosaurus uses Chongguang's unique SLOT1 interface, which can provide the same size as Intel's 512K L2 cache in the form of cartridges, running at half the speed of the processor's main frequency.

But Friedman previously threatened that the 166Mhz main frequency of the stegosaurus is only 3% slower than the same frequency Pentium 2 processor, which is pure nonsense, according to the report submitted by the processor division of Chongguang Microelectronics, the product test results found that the 166MHz Pentium 2 processor using P6 computing core is nearly 15% faster than the stegosaurus, and various critical articles on the market have also emerged, all questioning Friedman's so-called only 3% slower statement.

And AMD's claim that the so-called 120Mhz K6 processor overclocked to 166MHz is only 15% worse than Intel's 166MHz Pentium 2 processor news,At present, it has also been debunked by many media,The test report of the heavy light processor division pointed out,The so-called 15% performance of the processor is relative to the 120MHz Pentium2。 And just yesterday, AMD itself publicly admitted this, but did not admit the rumors, only inferred that it was due to internal copywriting errors that caused the misunderstanding, claiming that this was originally a competition between two same-frequency processors.

Hu Yiting knows that this is the advantage caused by the P6 computing core, and Intel's products within 100MHz are indeed on par with the performance of the Stegosaurus, but from the 133MHz with the P6 computing core, there is a clear lead. Stegosaurus uses SLOT1 interface, so the gap is not too big, and AMD's K6 is to make the L2 cache into an independent chip and put it next to the motherboard North Bridge chip, this kind of L2 cache technology from the 486 era, the effect is naturally needless to say.

In addition, according to the so-called "internal information" provided by global partner Cyrix, Intel has completed the research on the SLOT1 interface in early November, and combined with their own pre-research technology on the SLOT1 interface, they should soon come up with their own cassette interface.

Hu Yiting had previously vowed to Friedman, claiming that once Intel came up with a processor similar to the SLOT1 interface, Chongguang would file a patent lawsuit against it as soon as possible, and Friedman said that once the lawsuit began, Cyrix would carefully select a team of lawyers to help Chongguang and Intel fight the lawsuit.

But Hu Yiting said this, but he knew in his heart that this lawsuit would definitely be lost. As soon as Intel fights at home, how can there be a good result in a lawsuit against the head snake in the United States. Second, the SLOT1 technology in Intel's history is the use of GTL bus protocol, and the DEC's Alpha bus protocol EV6 used by Chongguang is not the same thing, the only thing Chongguang can make a fuss about is Intel's board design, saying that he plagiarized his own SLOT1, and although Chongguang has registered a patent for this idea, if Intel makes some adjustments to the design, it is entirely possible that the court will find him innocent. Historically, Intel sued AMD for plagiarizing his SLOT1 interface, and in the end, it was not over. At that time, AMD argued that his SLOTA connector was plugged into the motherboard in reverse, so it was not the same thing as SLOT1.

Therefore, Hu Yiting understands in his heart that with Intel's ability, after researching SLOT1, he will be able to complete his own technology immediately and launch their own products similar to SLOT1 interface, and the time must be in the last two months, and even AMD may come up with a side-kick product next year to join in the fun.

Hu Yiting thought about it and felt that he was right to delay the patent exclusivity of Cyrix's SLOT1 interface. Although Cyrix proposed that Chongguang would give five or three years of patent exclusivity, and the terms were also very lucrative, if it was really given, Chongguang would lose an important bargaining chip with Intel, and in the future, once there was a patent dispute with Intel, after resorting to a local court in the United States, Chongguang could completely propose an out-of-court settlement and simply grant the patent to the other party in exchange for the benefits he wanted.

Although the current Cyrix is very different from history, the failed company that was passively beaten and finally forced to withdraw from the processor market in the previous life has now become the main force to compete with Intel, but Hu Yiting feels that this is far from enough to deal with Intel, although Cyrix is digging Intel's roots, but the action is too slow, if AMD can also participate in it, then Intel's blue dynasty will be in jeopardy.

The emergence of Chongguang has changed the history of the processor industry, especially to AMD, which has become the third in the industry, and its future survival is in jeopardy.

Hu Yiting decided to help AMD, make AMD live more moisturized, and work with Cyrix to dig up Intel's roots.

"I don't believe that a CPU company can survive on high-end products, without the support of large-scale shipments of low-end products, high-end R&D will be weak sooner or later!" Hu Yiting muttered to himself and made up his mind.

He called Kang Yaoxiang to inform him: "Mr. Kang, contact AMD, didn't they ask us if the SLOT1 interface patent could be licensed? You told them that the licensing price is the same as Cyrix, and only 5% of the product price is charged. ”