Chapter 660: AMD Turns the Face (Fourth Update, Plus Update)
After the reform and opening up, on the one hand, China has enjoyed some dividends from the global division of labor, gained many employment opportunities, and developed its economy. However, the United States and other countries are taking advantage of their investment in China to stuff a bunch of Western political brainwashing. In this regard, when China needs Western capital, technology and markets, it can only pretend not to know. Moreover, at the time of the existence of the USSR, Western countries did not act too much against China.
However, before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international situation suddenly deteriorated for China, and many of China's chess pieces laid out by Western countries also suddenly concentrated their efforts. In the event of a failure of peaceful evolution, the United States will naturally become angry and carry out a series of economic attacks and fabrications.
The new venture is undoubtedly a budding bird, this company has not only brought a lot of employment to China, but also is currently in the field of civilian consumer goods, one of the few technologically advanced fields in China. If there is no insistence on R&D investment in the new entrepreneurship department, the state may not make a series of revisions to the layout of industrial policies.
In essence, the formulation of the country's industrial policy is mainly aimed at supporting and planning existing resources and industries. Industries that do not exist at all will naturally not be supported by the state out of thin air.
In a sense, the latest entrepreneurship department has received the most encouragement and subsidies from the state's policies, which is the largest among joint ventures or private enterprises, but it is also the new entrepreneurship department that competes for its own strength! Let the state see that supporting the new entrepreneurship department is a small profit and a big benefit, and the benefits produced will exceed those of other industries and enterprises, and it will naturally give more resource support.
Lin Qi thought for a while, then went home, and Meng Xin also mentioned this issue, and the two basically had the same opinion.
There is a temporary difficult stage in the development of China's relations, and most of the new entrepreneurship departments will be affected. Moreover, in the early stage, the United States will not deal with the new entrepreneurship department in an all-round way, but will be stuck in key technologies!
For example, the United States has always believed that the success of the newly entrepreneurial Pangu computer is largely due to the high-end chip manufacturing capacity of AMD, a high-tech enterprise in the United States. Without AMD, the XRM chip of the new entrepreneurial department is bound to lag behind the chip of Intel!
In fact, this is the current fact, so Lin Qi has always attached great importance to the relationship with AMD. But even then, it doesn't last forever.
Even if Lin Qi has a 25% stake in AMD, it will not affect AMD's decision-making, nor will it be difficult to influence US policy. Even, even the strategic cooperation with AMD is not so solid.
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"Mr. Lin, this is our statistics on the chip foundry orders issued by AMD. "Xiao Xiao took a document and showed it to Lin Qi.
It's okay not to watch it, but I was surprised when I saw it.
AMD's order for cooperation with new startups was only 15 million chips at the beginning. But last year alone, AMD produced 60 million high-end XRM chips for new start-ups.
Last year, Pangu desktops sold about 70 million units, and Pangu notebooks had 15 million units.
In other words, only 2,500 chips of mainstream Pangu laptops are produced domestically. At this stage, the production capacity of high-end chips is seriously insufficient for domestic start-up semiconductors and Lishan semiconductor companies. The largest production is actually the XRM 16-bit chip, as well as the Pangu 2nd and 3rd generation chips. Even, there are smart TVs, industrial control chips, and so on.
In the high-end field, the Americans still dominate!
Even the current 1-micron process line has already begun to be put into trial production. But now, there is only one 1-micron production line that has achieved mass production, with a monthly production of about 100,000 high-end chips. There are still 5 1-micron production lines left, which can be put into operation this year and next year. However, in general, the dependence on AMD is too serious at the moment.
Lin Qi's face is very ugly, although nominally AMD is only an OEM and cannot modify the design of the XRM architecture. However, AMD can come up with the so-called hybrid architecture on the basis of non-default, that is, two of the four cores of a CPU are XRM architecture chips, without any modifications, but the other two chips can be AMD's own design architecture, so that it is compatible with the XRM architecture and has some new features.
If AMD does this, it can gradually steal some XRM users. Introduce users of XRM architectures to new architectures.
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In fact, Lin Qi's worries are not unnecessary.
At the beginning of January 91, Sanders, president of AMD, officially announced: "AMD hybrid architecture chips, it is the launch, we have the strength of XRM and X86 chips, and launched a hybrid architecture chip independently developed by AMD, which is streamlined, complex, and integrated." At the same time, the chip can be compatible with XRM and X86 most of the instruction set, for PC users, you use our chip, you don't have to consider Pangu, PC compatibility issues, you can install both Pangu operating system, can also install the operating system on the PC platform...... Even, you can partition the hard disk and divide it into two system disks, one system disk for the PC's operating system and the other for the Pangu operating system. This great initiative allows users to switch between PC and Pangu without having to buy two computers!"
Soon, IBM, Microsoft and AMD announced that they would jointly develop a new generation of PCs with hybrid architecture chips!
"Microsoft company for many years of polishing, plans to launch a new generation of windows, indos91, this system, more excellent than any system on the market, dos91 system, mainly has the following characteristics, small installed capacity, fast running speed, more humanized operation experience, a lot of optimization for the system, abandon some redundant design on Pangu, and the system comes with a series of software, the new system costs 39 US dollars, and free upgrades for life. Bill Gates was invited at the same time, and said in high spirits, "You know that although the Pangu system is free forever, their system is bundled with a bunch of bloated applications, many applications, users can't use them at all! And we're not going to do that, $39, get a clean, won't bundle system!"
"IBM is aware of the obsolescence of the old PC platform, so it plans to launch a new generation of PC platform, and the new platform is mainly a hybrid architecture processor. instead of using x86 processors. ”
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After the press conference, the three companies jointly launched a new PC with a hybrid architecture that can be compatible with the old PC technology and the software of the Pangu system.
"Microsoft didn't lie this time, the system is very smooth, don't move, just say that the boot speed is a little faster than Pangu. ”
"Yes, compared to the six generations of Pangu, the price is about the same, and it can also have the advantages of Pangu and PC. ”
"Sure enough, the cost performance depends on market competition. ”
The response of the U.S. market has been very good, and in less than half a month, the new PC has been overwhelming, with sales reaching 2 million units. What makes IBM proud is that this new platform is completely dominated by IBM, and it no longer opens up the technology, allowing any compatible machine manufacturers to snatch the cake.
The traditional PC-compatible machine camp and the Pangu camp under the leadership of Intel are feeling the pressure at the same time.
"From now on, AMD will be the greatest CPU company in history! Neither Intel nor China's new startup electronics company will be our opponent!" Sanders said after the new PC was a big seller, "The debate between the reduced instruction set and the complex instruction set can end here, and we will make a mixed instruction set multi-core chip that combines the advantages of complex instruction set and reduced instruction set." Multi-core, naturally a mixed instruction set!"
After the launch of the hybrid architecture chip, the North American branch of the new venture electronics group, although it sued AMD, it did not help.
AMD has conclusive evidence that it has not modified the XRM architecture, and it is still packaged into a multi-core hybrid architecture CPU with the original XRM architecture chip. At most, the process is more advanced, with some increased transistor count and efficiency.
After that, the new venture department fought with AMD in the media, and the two sides tore up for a long time and released a bunch of cruel words, but they could not stop AMD's ambition of hybrid architecture.