Chapter 331: Pangu Second Generation
"We will let every user present participate in the lottery with the on-site experience version of the VR glasses. Please be sure not to walk away, because the draw will be held 10 minutes before the end of the lottery and will only be valid for all of you. Lin Qi announced very generously.
"Hooray!"
"Long live Mr. Lin!"
In fact, these giveaways don't cost a lot of money, but they are very good for buying people's hearts and setting off the atmosphere of the audience.
Of course, this is also the first time that New Venture Electronics will give away the experience products at the press conference for free. In the past, there was no precedent for gifts, just because at that time, the new venture electronics needed to be careful and avoid extravagance.
But from now on, it will be possible to give some rare small things as gifts to the audience at the new product launch conference of the new venture electronics company.
After all, compared to the cost of holding a press conference, the cost of giveaways does not account for the majority.
While the people at the scene were still shocked by the VR equipment, the staff once again brought some mysterious boxes to the podium.
The size of the case does not cause speculation among fans, some people think it looks like a host, and some people think that it is a new generation of VCD. Of course, there are many users who make all kinds of strange conjectures.
However, there is no doubt that this box sparked the curiosity of most of the people present.
Lin Qi patted the box and said: "On this day three years ago, we released the first generation of Pangu host, which used our own XRM16-bit processor, equipped with 64K running memory and 64K video memory chip. The capacity of the integrated HDD is very small, and there is no capacity to install other application software outside of the Pangu system. Although it wasn't low at the time, we only thought of it as a gaming console. So, it doesn't matter if you can't install the app, you can run the game by reading the cassette and CD. Due to the capacity advantage of CD storage, our Pangu console has become the first large-scale game program capable of running more than 600MB. ”
The audience soon burst into thunderous applause!
The Pangu console is considered a classic of the first generation, and even the early versions can experience a stronger experience than other console platforms.
Later, the Pangu host increased the memory capacity to 128K, and there was no price increase, which can be called a conscience.
In addition, Pangu has also launched multi-core high-end models to meet the needs of more demanding players and users. Multi-core models of consoles are now not just imitations in the gaming industry. Even in the PC camp, some manufacturers have developed motherboards that support multi-core X86 chips.
It is precisely because of the success of multi-core that no one doubts that multi-core is also a new technological development trend in the computer industry.
"In the past three years, our XRM16 processor has improved in performance compared to the beginning, and now it is at least 20% better than it was at the beginning. But it's still a 16-bit chip, and its performance is limited by its architecture, and the potential for upscaling is already small. It's the idea that we design a multi-core CPU to improve its performance. However, when multi-core collaboration, there is always a large amount of energy loss, not one plus one equals two, it can only be said that the performance of two chips is significantly improved compared with one chip. Four are also better than two. But the constant increase in the number of chips will increase the power consumption, and at the same time, the design will become more and more complex, which defeats the original purpose of completely reducing the instruction set. The original intention of streamlining is lower power consumption, higher efficiency. Multi-core is actually a complex instruction set in disguise......" Lin Qi recounted the facts, "If a single core can meet the needs of users, the best case is to use a single core." Only if the single-core process cannot be broken through in the short term, it is an expedient measure to pile up the number of chips. ”
Originally, multi-core was an innovation made by a new start-up electronics company in the microcomputer market, and many companies in the industry were imitating it, but as a result, now Lin Qi admits that multi-core is wrong, which does not intend to surprise everyone present.
"That's right, today we will release the Pangu 2nd generation console! The initial version of this console is a single-core XRM32 architecture, at the same time, it uses 256KB of memory and 128KB of video memory capacity, in addition, the internal sound card and network card are integrated, making this machine not only have a better and more powerful gaming experience, but also will have networking functions. ”
After Lin Qi's introduction, many viewers at the scene were surprised.
Not only because of the release of the Pangu 2nd generation console, but more importantly, the XRM32 processor is used on the 2nd generation console. This also means that within a few months after Intel released 386, Xinchuang Electronics not only announced that its 32-bit processor was successfully developed, but also applied to the next generation of Pangu models.
"Mr. Lin, what is the biggest improvement of the XRM32 over the XRM16?" asked a large audience member.
"It's a big improvement!" Lin Qi said, "First of all, our XRM16 high-end version can only be equipped with 1MB of memory, not that we don't want to go to a higher configuration, but the technical bottleneck of the XRM16 chip." Although, we use a multi-core architecture, so that it breaks through the bottleneck a little, but it still can't support too much memory, it is estimated that the future mining technology potential, it can only achieve a maximum memory of 20MB, in the upward improvement, there is no need for that, because the capital cost and labor cost invested are not cost-effective. After upgrading to the XRM32 processor, the 32-bit processor can theoretically support 4GB of memory, which is more than 4,000 times greater than the technical potential of the 16-bit chip. Therefore, the 32-bit chip will become the dominant chip in the processor industry! In terms of floating-point operation and performance, the single-core XRM16 currently has a floating-point performance of up to 6 million times, and the high-end octa-core Pangu host designed for individual users has only doubled its performance to 12 million floating-point operations. It is also a great constraint on its efficiency. Our XRM32 chip, starting from 11 million floating-point operations, is slightly inferior to the Pangu generation console 8-core version, but because of the larger memory capacity it supports, the potential for future upgrades is also greater. In addition to that, it is power saving. Perhaps, individual users do not care about the extra consumption of tens of dollars of electricity every year. But...... If a company purchases a large number of computers, the annual energy savings are not small. This is especially true for mainframe computers, where a large number of 16-bit chips are used to build up performance, and the waste of energy is extremely high. The use of 32-bit chips will greatly save costs and increase efficiency......"
"As far as individual users are concerned, the first-generation Pangu console will not be eliminated immediately. In the early stage, the performance of Pangu II did not form an absolute advantage over Pangu Generation. However, the Pangu generation has lost the potential to replace hardware to improve the performance of the whole machine. However, with the development of time and the 32-bit platform becoming more and more mature, the Pangu second-generation host represents the future trend......