"Mr. Lin, tell me, what innovations may subvert personal computers in the future?" Gao Tian couldn't help but ask.

"That's a good question. Li Yuntao glanced at Gao Tian, "My personal expectation may be that the development trend of the Internet in the future is the Internet of Everything." That is to say, everything will be connected to the Internet and become the entrance to the Internet. Desktop computers and laptops will no longer be the only or primary devices for internet access. Mobile phones, for example, can browse simple web pages and chat with TT now, and in the future, mobile phones may continue to evolve. There is also a TV, which can be used as a terminal device to connect to the Internet, now mainly because the Internet speed is very slow and the traffic is very expensive, so the TV has not yet been able to access the Internet at will, just on the basis of cable TV, it provides some similar Internet functions. But in the future, the TV can directly select TV dramas, movies, animations, etc. on the network server, and even video chat...... Let me tell you, even if it's a rice cooker, an air conditioner, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, we'll put chips into it in the future, connect it to the Internet through a wireless network! There is also artificial intelligence, and complex artificial intelligence may be difficult to achieve in the short term, but you can tell the TV set, I want to watch the first few episodes of a certain TV series, and soon the TV will be able to search for the TV series and play it for you. You can tell the refrigerator that the minimum temperature is quick-frozen, and the refrigerator will adjust itself to the lowest temperature...... You don't need a remote control or a button to turn off the light, tell the light to turn it off, and it will automatically turn off the light. Do you say these technologies are complicated? I don't think they are complicated, as long as we develop the corresponding chips, have the corresponding code, and can do some things, and connect these devices through the technology of the Internet, we can do it! These places that were not originally realized by everyone exist in endless markets!"

"As for it?" Gao Tian was shocked by the future described by Lin Qi.

In fact, if Gao Tian thought about it carefully, he knew that the future described by Lin Qi was not pure nonsense, but the current technology is, and can even be partially realized. Some technologies should be able to be made even if the hardware level is a little higher, and there is a team willing to invest in R&D.

It's just that, for the convenience of turning off the lights, add a chip that can recognize the language to the lighting. Refrigerators, TVs, etc., are also adding these features, is it really cost-effective from a cost point of view?

Now, if such a chip is developed, the cost may be more expensive than the refrigerator and TV itself. It is estimated that not many consumers are willing to pay twice the price for this kind of feature!

"I'm just describing the possibilities of future products, and I can't let you lose in vain. Now you may think that the cost is not cost-effective, but in the future, the chip will become cheaper, and the cost will be cost-effective!" Lin Qi said, "You see, TVs, mobile phones, etc. are competing with you for the user's time and time to surf the Internet, and the time for users to use traditional personal computers will become shorter." Even, in the future, there will be a variety of devices that will compete with you for users. If you don't have a number in mind, I'm afraid it's very dangerous! These unknown products produce asymmetric competition, although the operating system and chip architecture are different. But with Pangu computer, in fact, it is still a product of the same era, what we can do, what we can do, our Pangu platform, will soon imitate. Moreover, in many aspects of innovation, we are even ahead of the curve, which is why we have barely come to the point where we are now. But don't let your guard down and think that the status quo is already stable. As a matter of fact...... In the past, Wang An Computer Company also thought so, but personal computers and printers completely lost the market for word processors, if it wasn't for my rescue and the transformation of Wang An Computer into a printer business, then now Wang An Computer is estimated to have gone bankrupt. Apple, at the end of the 70s, defeated all the leaders and became synonymous with personal computers, and at one time many people thought that Apple was the end of the future personal computer, but ...... Due to the stagnation of innovation in Apple's computer,Well,You can't blame Apple yourself,It should be said that it was pitted by the CPU company,6502CPUAlthough it is a generation of godsU,But who would have thought,This company is so uncompetitive,Only rely on a CPU to eat to death。 If you are unlucky and encounter the 6502 chip, Apple's market share will not drop to negligible. All in all, don't let your guard down on future crises because you think you have a great advantage......"

Regarding Lin Qi's sense of crisis, many company veterans and even ordinary employees feel that they are a little too pessimistic. After all, in many cases, Mr. Lin's intimidation did not really happen.

The biggest crisis may be the time when AMD's chip supply was cut off, but Mr. Lin had made a plan before. When handing over the strongest chip orders to AMD foundry, the improvement of the process level and chip production capacity of the domestic start-up semiconductor company and Lishan Semiconductor Company have never given up.

Although, the process of the two chip manufacturers is more than 3 years behind AMD.

However, at a critical juncture, the chip process level of the lagging generation can be compensated for by the upgrade of chip architecture design.

It is precisely for this reason that after the chip supply of Pangu 5 generation computers gradually decreased, Pangu computers soon came out of Pangu 6 and Pangu 7 generations.

The success of these two generations proves that Pangu has no dependence on AMD's high-end chips. Pangu 6 generation may be a parallel import, the performance is not better than the Pangu 5 generation, only by water cooling and heat dissipation, the performance exceeds the Pangu 5 generation by less than 10%.

However, since the beginning of the Pangu 7th generation, the performance has been more than 60% ahead of the 5th generation of Pangu. Of course, this is mainly obtained by increasing the power consumption of the chip, so the heat generation of Pangu 7 generation is the highest in previous generations of chips, and the power consumption of previous generations is less than 15, but the power consumption of Pangu 7 generation chips has been increased to 45. The power consumption is very unenergy-efficient, and the power consumption is even higher than that of the current 386 and 486 chips.

So much so that Intel once ridiculed that the XRM architecture already consumes more power than even the complex instruction set. Relying on higher power consumption to pile up performance, it can be seen that the XRM architecture team is exhausted.

But it's also an indisputable fact that the performance has gone up. At the same time, the 7th generation also defaults to water cooling and heat dissipation, so the performance of the chip will not be affected by heat dissipation problems.

"Mr. Lin, can you specifically point out the direction of the new business in the future to prevent us from going astray?" said Zhang Daqiang, a senior technician of the Pangu team.

Lin Qi couldn't help but be embarrassed, because he was not engaged in technology, so he refined his ability to learn from Ma Yun, ran trains with his mouth, and instilled some chicken soup in people. Perhaps, because he can foresee the future, this chicken soup makes sense in the future.

However, the problem now is that the directions that Lin Qi pointed out will not see profits in the short term, and they are not the circle of competence that the Pangu team is better at.

Therefore, Lin Qi thought for a while and said: "After the Pangu team, personal computers will be the main at the same time. It is necessary to focus on more profitable special computers, for example, advertising companies have the need for graphics rendering, and can customize some graphics workstations with larger memory and better graphics cards for these users. With the advent of the Internet era, many websites and Internet software need dedicated servers, rather than low-performance personal computers to act as servers, and the server business must also be the next wave of growth points, and the profit and growth rate should be faster than the personal computer business. Also, take the initiative to go to the factory to see if they need chips, whether they need computers and software for design. Go deep into all walks of life, and gradually solve the needs of all walks of life, these more professional fields, there is endless potential in the future. For example, in the industrial sector, I tell you. In the future, it will be a huge moat that does not use computers to monitor and control industrial production, all kinds of industrial control computers, and industrial control systems! In the longer future, it can be said that most of the electrified things have chips, computers, and codes behind them. If we don't let the chips and codes used in the electrified things be ours, I am afraid that they will be occupied by others! The market potential of the codes and chips in these invisible places may be much greater than that of the current computer market! To put it simply, we must keep our eyes open and take a serious look at the markets that were invisible in the past, and invest greater manpower and material resources to occupy these markets......