Chapter 177: Pangu Host

November 11, 1982. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info early in the morning.

The press hall of the headquarters of the new venture electronics company gathered hundreds of journalists from all over the world.

Because, the new venture electronics company will release big news on this day every year, for the consumer electronics industry or the news media practitioners in the technology industry, if you miss the big news of the new venture electronics company, it is undoubtedly a big loss. Therefore, this year, there are about 130 media from all over the world, and not all pheasant media are eligible for the ticket, and they must be large media with a certain influence.

For example, in Hong Kong, only 10 media outlets have been invited, and it is still for the sake of the local media's relative care, otherwise, Hong Kong's status and influence will only be able to get two or three places at most.

Of course, Xingchen TV is not on the list, because Xingchen TV is the organizer.

"This is Xingchen TV, the Double 11 party of the new start-up electronics company broadcast live for you......"

Compared with other news media, Xingchen TV is close to the water and has the first month, because it is the same boss's company, so the press conference of the new venture electronics company this year is also arranged by Xingchen TV.

This year's press conference, unlike the past, is that a one-hour wonderful singing, dancing, acrobatics and other variety shows were held before the opening.

Celebrities from all walks of life are invited to perform on stage for a short time, and in addition, people from all over the world can watch magic, dance, and acrobatics without having to understand the prophecy.

At this year's Singles' Day launch, the biggest performer was David Copperfield. The appearance fee for inviting David to perform is not low, a full $3 million. However, for the sake of news topicality, Lin Qi is still willing to spend money.

As the finale, with the cooperation of on-site lighting props, David constantly changed all kinds of tables and chairs on the stage, and changed them again. Flowers appear in the hands for a while, and a few pigeons fly out for the next......

Basically, it's not nonsense, it's a clean and neat performance, and the whole scene continues to burst into applause.

Although, everyone knows that magic tricks are fake and deceive people's sights, hearings, and brains. However, both the audience in person and the audience in front of the TV found it magically exciting.

Finally reached the climax of the show, David began to conjure up technology products constantly, suddenly conjuring up a handheld game console for palm entertainment, and a CD player for a while. These are basically disruptive products that have been released by the New Startup Department before.

In the applause of the audience, David once again "transformed" into a machine that no one had ever seen.

Then, Magician David bowed...... In the next second, David disappeared in full view of everyone.

"What about the magician?"

"David has turned himself into nothing?"

"I don't see any flaws at all. ”

It took the audience a long time to react, and the applause rang out.

Next, with a shocked look, the host walked onto the stage and said, "Thank you, thank you David for your performance, but...... What about the Davidians? I don't know what's going on. But leave David alone, this machine is the star of the day, with the logo of the new startup electronics company written on it. Well, this year's protagonist may be it, let the new start-up electronics company explain it to us!"

Half an hour later, Gao Tian walked out from behind the stage curtain, greeted everyone, and said: "Hello everyone, my Gao Tian, the technician of Xinqi Electronics, this thing is a new product developed by our team for more than two years. There are not many chances, and there will only be 10 lucky viewers who deserve to be rewarded. ”

Someone in the audience said, "Microcomputers?"

"Home consoles?"

"Maybe it's a CD player for listening to music, right?"

Gao Tian showed a mysterious smile and said, "What everyone said is quite reasonable, saying that it is a CD player audience, you can ask, why do you think so?"

"I bought a new Feipai CD player at home, and I saw that there was a slot for inserting CDs on the machine, and as long as I pressed it, it could pop up. After that, put the CD on it and it's ready to play. The viewer said confidently.

"You have a point. "It can indeed be used as a CD player, but it's more than that. Because what you say makes sense, when the answer is announced, you can get a machine like this on the table. ”

When I pulled it down, it was the active interaction of the other live audiences.

"Think it's a computer, because it looks like it. ”

"Home game consoles, it should be, isn't your company mainly based on games? Handheld consoles and arcade machines are not the whole game market. The home game console market occupies a larger dominant market, and such a box, in addition to being a home game console, what else will it be?"

These reasonable viewers have all received rewards.

"Summarizing the speculation of the audience. Gao Tian said, "That's right! It's mainly a home game console, the most high-tech machine in the history of our new venture electronics company - the Pangu console!"

"In fact, at the same time as the handheld project, we already have multiple projects in the same period. The handheld project, because it uses an 8-bit CPU, is relatively simple to develop and will soon be marketed. ”

"And our Pangu host, naturally, can not be used, a listed 8-bit CPU machine that has technically lagged behind. Gao Tian said, "With 16-bit CPUs, as we all know, whether it is Intel or semiconductor giants like Motorola, its mainstream 16-bit chips are expensive, and the performance does not meet our requirements." Just imagine, an 80286 chip, a chip alone costs more than 200 dollars, and the performance is not so powerful, so to develop an expensive and not good machine, consumers can accept? So, the Pangu host, of course, is the use of self-developed reduced instruction set CPU, XRM16 architecture chip. For example, the same 16-bit chip 80286, Intel's main product, it has 134,000 transistors, from the perspective of process level, it represents the first line of process level in the current large-scale mass production of CPU, but Intel, which has advanced technology level and production capacity, is not very good!

"The XRM chip is also a 16-bit CPU with a clock frequency of 20MHz and a floating-point performance of up to 5 million times per second. The clock frequency of the 80286 is 4MHz at the entry level, and after that, there are versions of 6MHz and 8MHZ. However, its floating-point performance is only more than 1 million operations per second, which is not much better than our previous generation X8. Our XRM chip can top 3~4 80286 chips! price, because we currently produce and sell this new film, there is not enough capacity to supply the market for the time being, but, in any case, it is far cheaper than the high-priced and inefficient 80286!"

The audience immediately burst into applause.

After all, everyone else doesn't understand, but 80286, which seems to be a CPU that was only launched at the beginning of this year, was adopted by C64 and PC respectively.

In the eyes of many ordinary people, this is already the most advanced CPU.

However, the new start-up electronics company dares to say that Intel can't!

Actually, it's not that Intel can't do it, but it doesn't dare!

The customers and markets accumulated in the past have also constrained the development route of Intel's technology.