The actual protagonist of this press conference is actually the "belated" bee heart 4xx processor, whether it is the new version of the PT wave X game console, or the WAFER wave X flexible computer, its biggest highlight is this new processor.

Speaking of which, 64-bit processors are nothing new, they have been implemented in commercial mainframes for decades, and civilian PCs have been using them for decades. With desktop processors on the road, the difficulty of moving 64-bit processors on mobile processors is actually much smaller, and Arm released the 64-bit ARMV8 processor architecture as early as three years ago, and is trying to sell it to chip manufacturers.

Since Apple launched 5S a year and a half ago and was enthusiastically sought after by consumers, Android manufacturers have begun to be anxious, saying that "no 64 bits are unhappy". Since buyers have demand, chip manufacturers must find ways to provide goods, so they hurriedly invest resources to develop their own new processors.

Then after more than a year of research and development process, last year, 64-bit mobile processors were released one after another, and related mobile phone products have also entered the rhythm of release and listing, and Bee has not been released until now, which is obviously a little late in the eyes of these reporters.

Especially when they saw the details of the parameters of the highest 6-core and 28-nanometer process, most people began to shake their heads in their hearts, and domestic reporters complained that this was a shame to be thrown abroad, and those European and American reporters also felt that they had gone for nothing.

There are two ways to buy a license from Arm, one is to buy a V8 architecture license like Apple, and then design your own independent architecture and keep it compatible, and the other is to directly buy a ready-made CPU core IP, and then under the technical guidance of the former, you can freely combine GPUs and other chip IPs as needed, and finally integrate them into a SoC chip, which can be handed over to the fab for production.

The 64-bit mobile processors on the market now, except for Apple's own A7 and A8, and Intel's X86Atom, all chose the latter, after all, they are in a hurry.

However, it is trouble-free to use the public version of the solution, but there are a lot of troubles in the follow-up, homogenization is a problem, and what is more serious is the heating problem of the A57 core.

As a CPU core that emphasizes high-performance performance, its main frequency can reach 1.7 or even 2GHz, but at the same time, the TDP also reaches 3W or even above, and the power of the general USB hand warmer is only this number. Therefore, it is no wonder that Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which uses four A57s, was questioned about the heating problem after its release, and wondered if it would become a hand warmer when the mobile phone was launched.

In fact, as a father, ARM has long known this problem, and has specially launched a TDP of only 300 milliwattsA53 core to match with it, and it is recommended to form a high and low core structure with the former, so that when playing games, watching videos, and brushing web pages, enable the large core to enjoy high speed, and automatically switch to the small core for daily use, so as to achieve the purpose of taking into account both performance and battery life, and 810 is indeed doing this, it uses 4 A57 and 4 A53 to form large and small cores.

However, Atletico are not optimistic about this kind of large and small core design.

The idea of this design is actually very good, but this idealized combination is really an overestimation of the discipline of the Android app developers.

It's like a chef who says to the restaurant owner that for the sake of the health of the diners, we should prepare big fish and meat and millet pickles at the same time, and be sure to sell them together, what kind of response will he get?

The boss will definitely give him a lecture and say something like "There are more delicious big fish and meat to sell, and my grandma is so idle that his eggs hurt to sell millet and pickles?" Besides, diners only care about the pleasure of eating, and as for obesity or something, let's talk about it when we get fat!".

For application development, there is also this situation, after all, the intuitive feeling of application power consumption is not as obvious as the application stuck, the developer must give priority to the problem of fluency, and then naturally the whole process of high energy is not negotiable, of course, the entire power consumption can not come down, and the heat will run up.

In this case, it is better to directly serve a bowl of pickles and lean porridge, whether the diner loves meat or pickles can be satisfied, Apple's dual-core AX and Bees' multi-core BH, are practitioners of this concept, ignoring the lively large and small core architecture of the Android camp, still choose CPU automatic frequency conversion and idle core automatic shutdown such a "traditional" energy-saving means.

Originally, the development plan of 64-bit bee heart was carried out very early, and after the release of the V8 architecture, Bee Microchip was the first batch of manufacturers to purchase licenses.

The new generation of processors has a higher number of transistors in order to deliver more powerful performance, but this also introduces new adjustments to the manufacturing process, which necessitates the use of higher processes to ensure that the chip area does not increase and the power consumption does not surge. Due to the cost and production capacity, the Bee Heart 4xx uses a slightly backward 28nm process, which is much more difficult to optimize than those using 20 or even 14nm products, which is naturally more time-consuming.

Even so, their main achievement is that the power consumption does not increase, and the performance does not change much. 4xxThe performance increase is mainly due to the "native multi-core glue-free" and the benefits brought by large memory, which is why the bee mobile phone did not eat 4xx for the first time, but let the two boxes go first, their memory is large enough to play the advantages of 64-bit processors.

In addition, the structure of the 41X series SoC is the simplest, so it is only natural that it should start with simplicity.

The naming convention of the fourth-generation bee heart has undergone some changes, 40X is a low-power processor, mainly for IoT and smart bracelets and other devices, 41X is a desktop processor, somewhat similar to the fusion processor APU on the desktop platform, 42X is a tablet processor, with more DSP, ISP, ASP, and BDS (Beidou) and wireless modules, and 42X is a mobile phone processor, with more baseband modules.

The other three are already available in the 3xx era, which is actually a separate division of a 41x desktop processor for the upgraded version of the PT special version 314.

In fact, it is a desktop processor, and their performance and power consumption are still quite far from their peers in the x86 architecture, so they still use group fighting tactics and pursue multi-card and multi-core.

As the press conference came to an end, he motioned to the host to announce the Q&A session. Although they were a little dissatisfied with the press conference, the reporters dutifully began to raise their hands to ask questions in order to have a manuscript to be handed over.

As the moderator began to point out other reporters, the questions became deeper and sharper.

A white woman with red shoulder-length hair raised her hand, and after getting permission, she stood up and introduced herself first, and then asked: "Mr. Ma, your cookie box seems to be a desktop computer using an ARM processor, so can it install other operating systems, such as Android?"

"Of course, we actually have two systems for it, in addition to our own Beeos6 and the other is the Android 5-based Elephant System 2, which has millions of applications on both platforms, and users don't have to worry about its use. ”

The microphone reached a brown-haired, big-nosed male reporter, and his question became even more scathing, starting with a long and sensational sentence: "It's a misfortune for the boys who just received their Christmas gifts, the ones they just received are outdated, and that's really bad!"

Then, he asked: "Mr. CEO, the previous PT was only a 32-bit device, why is it equipped with 8GB of RAM, and who will pay for the wasted memory?

Atletico Madrid naturally noticed the trap in his words and solemnly denied: "There are no loopholes, no recall, only the preferential activity of buying an AI card and getting a new version of the box after the AI card is listed." In fact, if you've ever looked at PT's SDK (Software Development Kit) or the games on it, you should know that memory is being used efficiently. ”

"Then why are you putting out a new version so quickly?"

"This is naturally due to the fact that the new chip is more powerful and allows our players to enjoy the game better, especially the AI card, which is a miracle!"

The previous version of PT was actually a mini computer cluster consisting of four subsystems, each of which had an exclusive 2GB of memory, so naturally there was no problem of wasting memory.

Atletico's plan to sell the AI card paid off, and someone asked again about the AI card and what it was for.

Atletico breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and waved his hand easily: "There is a saying in my country that 'a hundred times is better than seeing it with your own eyes', just today we have prepared a trial equipment, if you are interested, please follow the guidance of the staff to try the game, and when you have an experience, you will naturally understand what they can be used for." ”

Wang Wei in the audience originally planned to leave when it was over, but as soon as he heard that there was a trial session, he stopped the idea of going out, and turned around and followed the bee people to another conference room.

There was no chair in this hall, only two rows of tables, Wang Wei found that there were 36 LCD TVs back to back on the table on the left hand side of the door, and the new version of PT Wave X connected to it, while there was only one flat box on the table on the right hand side. Of course, a pair of handles is also indispensable, in addition to them, there are also a bunch of somatosensory ankle rings and wireless headsets as optional peripherals for PT.

The case of these cookie boxes is on the ground because it is a bit large. Compared with the vertical chassis that Atletico Madrid showed at the press conference before, which can insert 16 cookie cards, the black chassis on the ground at the moment is three times its size, and it should be the largest cookie box with 48 card slots, no, it is a cookie box!

There are a total of 14 such biscuit boxes, 7 of which are connected to the projector next to them by cables, and the other 7 are not connected to the signal cable, which should be used to demonstrate the wireless projection function. Half of the PT side also uses wireless projection mode, and no signal cable is used.

Wang Wei quickly figured out the configuration of these monsters, there are 16 BH416 and 32 AI100 in it, nearly 100 CPUs, and AI cores have also reached the level of 1024, which is really a monster.

All 50 devices are running the same demo game called Goblins.

The game operation is very simple, first-person perspective, the left and right handles control the left shield and right sword of the game character respectively, and the foot rings on the ankles of both feet sense the movement state and relative position of the lower legs, so as to control the movement of the game character and the actions such as foot kicking.

The Goblin Goblin is a very common and well-known monster in Western fantasy stories, this humanoid creature has green skin, pointed ears, nose and chin, inferior civilization, and a bullying personality. Due to their poor combat effectiveness and sheer numbers, they are often the first opponents of the protagonists of novels or games.

The right hand stabbed forward and downward, and the steel sword on the screen pierced the chest of a goblin green, splattering large expatriates of dark green blood. With his left hand raised, his shield flapped and tossed over several green skins, then took a small step forward, his right foot lifted and stepped heavily on the earbuds, and the crunchy sound of bones shattering and the dying howl of the goblin was immediately heard. Fortunately, the carpet on the floor is of good quality and the soundproofing of the building is quite good, otherwise the residents downstairs would have called to complain.

However, as the name of the game suggests, the monsters here are all in groups, hundreds or thousands, so their combat power is much stronger than the miscellaneous fish and level 1 soldiers in other games, because the number is also combat power, and soon these large and small screens appeared one after another bloody gameover text.

As for the doubts about the AI card, no one has it anymore.

One more AI card,The monsters close to the player on the TV screen become more vivid,The reaction is more natural and diverse;32 more AI cards,The monsters on the big screen are hundreds of times more at once,The sense of presence is stronger,Even if there is no VR equipment on the head,There is still a strong sense of immersion,So that there have been no less than ten physical collision accidents caused by overconcentration just now,The impact red marks on those people's arms are evidence。

However, everyone didn't care about these small aches and pains anymore, and I don't know who got up, and the people who were lying on their stomachs or sitting or lying down and were busy panting laughed as if they had really experienced a fierce battle with all their might.

"This is really a monster!" Wang Wei involuntarily muttered as his gaze turned to the large screen that returned to the initial screen.

"Whata touch Nster (what kind of monster is this)!" the foreigner next to him also muttered.

Of course, some people remembered the "miracle" that Atletico just said, and repeatedly chanted the word "fanracle" in their mouths. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net