Strictly speaking, the 7-inch pocket computer that Hu Weiwu showed Lin Qi is not the 3rd generation platform developed by Zhangyu Company. Rather, it is a pocket netbook developed by Palm Entertainment Games. The dual-core ARM processor consumes less than 1.5 CPU power, which is equivalent to one-twentieth of the power consumption of a desktop, with 8MB of RAM and 2MB of integrated graphics.

Other hardware is also deep energy-saving, and, although the Sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs, with wired network and wireless network functions. Built-in browser, Pangu PS office and software store and other applications, and built-in 500MB flash memory.

In addition to the system and default software, which take up 70MB of space, the rest has more than 400MB of space for downloading content.

Of course, it may seem that the space for storing videos is far from enough, but for storing handheld games, or downloads and music, the capacity should be relatively generous.

Looking at this thing, Lin Qi couldn't help but sigh, although, at most, it can be compared with the future MP4.

In other words, if it is launched for ten years, there will be no market prospects. However, if it is listed now, it is difficult to say. At least, in the early 90s, this product should be called a stunning piece.

At least change the laptop to fit in your pocket. This kind of progress may be willing to be bought by some young people.

The biggest innovation of this 7-inch pocket computer is probably the Pangu system, which has been streamlined and transplanted to the ARM platform. After all, no matter how the XRM chip develops a low-power version, it can only be said that it is more power-efficient than the X86 chip with a complex instruction set, but it is absolutely impossible to compare with the ARM architecture.

In the case of mobile products, the battery life is the first, and the XRM chip is actually not the best choice.

XRM chips are not bad, but they are developing more and more in the direction of high-performance chips, and in order to maintain their leading position, the power consumption is also gradually increasing.

Therefore, in terms of low-power CPU, we still expect to focus more on low-power ARM! After all, ARM is not pursuing performance leadership at all, but only pursuing a chip with a streamlined architecture, low power consumption, and usability. This chip undoubtedly caters to the development trend of mobile terminals in the coming decades.

After all, the technological development of batteries should be 50 or even 100 years, and the speed of technological development and breakthrough is extremely slow. Therefore, even if semiconductor technology continues to develop in the future, mobile terminals have more abundant applications, but ...... It is still impossible to get a high-performance chip, and high power consumption is the way to die.

Later, Microsoft and Intel hit their heads in the mobile terminal market. In particular, mobile phones and tablets have been tried and tested again and again, this is because neither Microsoft's system nor Intel's chips are suitable for portable terminals such as lighter mobile phones and tablets.

ARM chips are firmly focused on low power consumption as king, so it was later found that in the mobile era, this is really the case. Low power consumption can really do whatever you want, not a low-power chip!

Now, the new venture semiconductor, with a 0.5 micron production line, can produce about 30,000 dual-core ARM chips with a frequency of 50 MHz per month, and the production capacity is still gradually being released. It is expected that when the production line stabilizes, the monthly production capacity can reach more than 200,000 pieces.

The ex-factory price of each chip is 300 yuan, and the gross profit is more than 50%. About 1 million chips need to be produced, and the investment cost of the production line can be roughly recovered. After the cost is recovered, the profit of the production line gradually enters a period of rapid release. Therefore, if the production is full and the sales are full, it is expected that the cost will be recovered in half a year, and after that, the cost has been reduced to a very low level by continuing to use these production lines that have recovered the cost.

Of course, with the development of time, the global semiconductor process level will continue to develop. Even if a production line can be used for five or even more than ten years. However, the price of the products produced in five and ten years is already about the same as that of traditional industrial products, and the excess profits of advanced technology can not be earned, and only the hardest processing fees can be earned.

It is precisely because of this that the new production line of the chip factory is put into operation, and if there is no order at the beginning, it will become a loss-making industry. Because after a few years of investment in the new process, it will depreciate rapidly because the newer process is put into production.

The start-up semiconductor company and Lishan Semiconductor Company are now among the top 10 semiconductor companies in the world. The reason why it has grown so quickly is that orders have been urging it to put into production of new production lines. It's not at all about looking for order opportunities outside after the production line is put into production.

This distinction has resulted in the development of these two companies almost in a similar trajectory to Intel's development in the era of the increasing popularity of PCs. All of them have just been put into operation, and the new chip factory project has started again, with as little as three or five new factories put into operation a year, and more than ten new chip factories put into operation.

After each new chip factory is put into operation, the process level will be improved. After that, the old product can even be sold at a low price to suppress competitors.

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Less than 500 meters away from the start-up semiconductor company. Next door is Lishan Semiconductor.

The two major semiconductor companies have been doing well. It's more because they all rely on the new entrepreneurship department to eat. Therefore, the competition between the two companies is not a matter of life and death, even patents are authorized to each other, personnel borrow from each other, and orders can be transferred to each other, and the relationship is almost as good as a company.

Not long after Lin Qi visited the new venture semiconductor company, he went to Lishan Semiconductor Company to see a wave. After all, although Lishan Semiconductor is currently considering diversified development and no longer completely relies on orders from the new entrepreneurship department, 80% of its business is related to the new entrepreneurship department.

Because the 0.5-micron production line of Xinchuang Semiconductor Company is used for the production of ARM chips, Lishan Semiconductor Company is more fortunate this time, and the CPU chip of Pangu 8th generation computer is produced by Lishan Semiconductor Company.

This is also the difference in the strategy of Xinchuang Semiconductor and Lishan Semiconductor. Xinchuang Semiconductor is no longer satisfied with the market order of XRM architecture, and has set its sights on the ARM chip market with risks and challenges, and plans to explore this emerging market area.

However, although Lishan Semiconductor wants to diversify, it is still relatively hesitant, and its main business still revolves around Pangu computers!

The biggest innovation of the Pangu 8th generation computer is that the CPU process has been upgraded to 0.5 microns.

1 micron to 0.5 microns, the span is obviously very large.

The chip architecture has also undergone a series of optimizations, and the code name of the new generation of XRM chip architecture has also been upgraded to the Luban 2nd generation chip.

Previously, although the Luban 1st generation chip continued to improve the core frequency, it had different frequency versions. Even, the 0.8 micron process chip manufactured by AMD is also regarded as the first generation of Luban CPU. Basically, the XRM chip processed at the process level between 1 micron ~ 0.8 micron is the first generation of Luban.

Compared with the 386 and 486 of the same era, the 1st generation of Luban continues to beat the X86 family. The performance gap has more than doubled.

Until Intel launched the Pentium chip, the process level was improved to 0.5 microns. Relying directly on the advantages of the process, the performance gap has been narrowed to a negligible level.

However, the XRM chip produced at the 1 micron ~ 0.8 micron process level can have similar performance to the Pentium chip produced by Intel's 0.5 micron process. The first generation of Luban can also be called a generation of god U.

AS FOR THE LUBAN 2ND GENERATION FREQUENCY, THE PANGU 7TH GENERATION 66MHZ MAIN FREQUENCY WAS MENTIONED AT 100MHZ, BUT THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESS HAS LED TO AT LEAST DOUBLE THE PERFORMANCE, BUT THE POWER CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM THE PREVIOUS 30 WATTS TO 20 WATTS. At the same time, Level 2 cache has been added, so compared to the previous product, there is a huge room for improvement.

Furthermore, the power consumption is reduced, and the heat dissipation is lower, so ...... It also provides room for overclocking. IF YOU'RE LUCKY, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO EXCEED 150MHZ.

FOR EXAMPLE, THE 75MHZ VERSION PRODUCED BY AMD OF THE FIRST GENERATION OF LUBAN, ALTHOUGH IT HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY ADOPTED, IS REGARDED AS AN ARTIFACT BY SOME OVERCLOCKING ENTHUSIASTS. THE MOST AWESOME OVERCLOCKER, 75MHZ OVER 150MHZ!

Therefore, the Luban 2 generation is a 0.5 micron process, 100MHZ factory frequency, overclocking to 110MHZ does not even increase the heat. IF YOU LIKE TO TOSS, IT SHOULDN'T BE TOO DIFFICULT TO OVERCLOCK TO MORE THAN 150MHZ.