Chapter 915: Intel's Counterattack
In April 1995, according to the statistics of a global third-party organization, the global personal computer industry shipped 145 million units in the first quarter, a record high. Among them, the sales of the PC camp fell to 28% for the first time, and at the same time, the PC shipments of the Pangu camp rose to 71%. Pangu Computer Co., Ltd., on the other hand, also shipped a record 38 million units in the first quarter.
With a record market share, Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. has also introduced a new round of investment. New Venture Electronics Group, at a price of 1.5 billion US dollars, transferred 2% of the equity of Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. to the British Royal Family Asset Management Authority under the name of Queen Elizabeth!
With the acquisition of shares by the British Royal Assets Management Bureau, the valuation of Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. has further increased to $75 billion! At the same time, Goldman Sachs, the British royal family, and other institutions have made a series of shares one after another, which has further made Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. the focus of heated discussions around the world.
At present, we have promoted the listing process of Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. with shareholders and financial institutions, as the world's mainstream technology giant, we are willing to make ourselves more transparent through listing, and hope to share our business development dividends with more investors!"
With the intention of Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. to go public, the exposure of the global news media has been further enhanced, which has caused huge pressure on PC manufacturers, especially Intel and IBM!
Originally, Pangu Computer Co., Ltd. was already very strong, and if it went public and obtained more financing, it would be even more unfavorable to the PC camp!
The global software and hardware and Internet platforms, technology research and development are also more and more inclined to the Pangu computer platform, rather than the PC computer.
Although, the American PC camp manufacturers are also trying to use political means to forcibly reverse the disadvantage of market competition. However, in the end, the Clinton administration's credibility was still good, and after receiving the money, it was still the main consideration of withdrawing money. In addition, the current public opinion of the United States is still much more confident than that of later generations, and the political proposition is a neoliberal economy and the opening of the global market, so there is no need to use political means to overdraw the credit of American politics and serve the profits of enterprises for the time being.
In addition, at present, the technology of the Pangu camp is constantly opening up, and it is no longer a monopoly of the new entrepreneurial department, and even, the market share of the Pangu compatible machine produced by the local computer brand in the United States has been rising, and related software and hardware manufacturers can also make profits from the Pangu industry, so it is only a very small number of diehards of the PC camp who are damaged. It's not the entire U.S. tech industry.
As far as the Internet industry, which has the most potential for growth, there is not much difference between using Pangu computers and using PC computers. It's just a terminal for Internet access, and there are more technical standards behind it, which are formulated by the United States. Therefore, the United States' technological self-confidence will be much stronger in future generations.
In later generations, the United States launched a series of blackmail against ZTE, on the one hand, to replace it with a president who is not very particular, and on the other hand, the United States is not as confident in the field of science and technology as it was in the 90s.
In the market share continues to lag behind, the PC camp bosses led by IBM and Intel finally can't help it and make a technical counterattack!
On May 1, 1995, the PC camp led by IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other companies announced the launch of the Pentium II central processing unit, which was originally supposed to be launched in 97 years and was launched two years ahead of schedule. Although the code name is still Pentium 2, the specifications of the chip are very different from history.
"Last year, due to Intel's technical negligence, we made serious mistakes, which led to a continuous decline in our Besturn chip shipments and market share. It also affected some PC manufacturers, and their market share declined. However, we did not collapse at once, but made 100 times more efforts. Half a year after the Besturn chip had a bug, the Pentium II was launched!
The Pentium II CPU is manufactured using the world's most advanced 0.25 micron process, and compared with the mainstream 0.5 micron process technology on the market, the transistor density is far more than 1 times.
The Pangu computer on the market has a process of only 0.5 microns, and a single core integrates more than 1 million transistors at most, even if it uses multi-core cheating and integrates 8 cores, it can only integrate 10 million transistors at most.
And we know that the performance of a multi-core chip is far less than that of integrating the same number of transistors on a single core. Pentium 2 generation chip, with opponents completely unimaginable process, after our team's continuous efforts, the Pentium 2 chip single core integrated transistors, has been as high as 9.5 million, connected to 10 million transistors, such a density of transistors integrated on a core, compared to everyone can guess, our single-core chip performance will also exceed the 8 core of the Luban 3rd generation chip...... What's more, the Pentium 2nd generation chip starts with dual-core and four-thread, and the single-core working frequency reaches an astonishing 500MHz!
It can be said that there is no chip on the market, and the single-core performance is compared with the Pentium 2 generation, not to mention, we still have dual cores and 4 threads, and there are no shortcomings when encountering some programs and tasks that require multi-core and multi-threading to run!
It is conservatively estimated that the single-core performance of the Pentium 2nd generation dual-core processor is more than 10 times that of the Luban 3rd generation chip. However, the multi-performance, the two cores are far better than the 8 cores of the 3rd generation of Luban, and the overall performance is more than 5 times that of the 3rd generation of Luban chips! It can be said that this is an epoch-making chip, which is faster than the normal Moore's law. Intel CEO Grove declared brightly, "What's more, our chip is extremely cost-effective, only $450, you can buy such a flagship chip! Of course, if you are still too expensive, then, the Pentium 2nd generation also has a low-frequency version with a main frequency of 330 MHz, the price is only $99, although it is a reduced frequency version, but it is still 2 times stronger than the previous generation of Pentium...... What's more, we're compatible with the previous generation of motherboards! Users don't need to change motherboards and other hardware to upgrade!"
"What, the Pentium 2 generation is only 450 dollars?"
"There is also a low-frequency version, only 99 dollars? 2 times stronger than the previous generation Pentium? If it is true, return this CPU, it is the lowest cost upgrade solution!"
"It smells so good!"
At Intel, it was announced that the Pentium 2nd generation chip came out ahead of schedule, and the performance far exceeded that of the Pentium 2nd generation in history. Historically, at the end of the 80s, there were forward-looking papers in the computer industry, arguing that future CPU chips would gradually transition from single-core to multi-core. However, this prediction was not quickly accepted by the industry, in fact, the original 90s, it was still a race to continuously improve the main frequency of single-core CPUs. In the 21st century, as it became more and more difficult to increase the CPU frequency, it began to take out the multi-core chips that had been predicted in the 80s as a new selling point.
In this world, the XRM architecture of the Pangu camp has been backward since the beginning because of the backward process technology, and it is impossible for a single core to defeat X86, so a multi-core battle and a single core are used.
After a long time, the boss of the X86 architecture like Intel also had to accept the concept of multi-core in advance. It's just that Intel is reluctant to pile up 8 cores. At present, Intel's chips are still mainly dual-core, and it is a big deal to pile up to 3 cores and 4 cores. After all, Intel's single-core clock is higher, the process used is more advanced, and the cost of chips is more expensive. The cost of a single-core chip with a 0.25-micron process is much more expensive than the cost of an 8-core chip with a 0.5-micron process.
It is precisely because of this that the current Intel Pentium 2nd generation can be regarded as squeezing out ten times the toothpaste, and the price is equivalent to the previous generation, but it has basically not risen. This is already considered a ruin, ready to forcibly reverse the disadvantage with cost performance!