Chapter 420: The First Generation of Star Computing Machines is Launched!
Luo Jia's idea immediately aroused everyone's strong interest, today's computer, one of the reasons why two memory chips need to coexist, one of the reasons is speed, the hard disk is slow, the memory is fast, so the hard disk data needs to be preloaded into the memory, and then the memory and the CPU establish a direct connection.
And the question of price, just like the relationship between Lamborghini and big trucks, although Lamborghini is fast, but expensive, big trucks are slow, but cheap, everyone likes big hard drives, after all, the bigger the hard drive, the more games and small movies can be loaded.
A 100TB super-fast hard drive can technically be done, but who wants to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for a hard drive? There is really so much money, and what kind of small movies do you watch, you have already practiced with the young ladies on the ground.
In short, the reasons are varied, and the end result is that there are two completely different memory chips inside the computer, which causes unnecessary trouble.
An Ran thought for a moment and said: "If we do it, we must not only strengthen the speed, but also increase the fault tolerance and addressing ability, increase the cache interval, and establish new rules for direct connection between storage and CPU, in short, it is more troublesome, but if we really do it, it will be very meaningful." β
"Seconded!"
"Seconded!"
The members of the brainstorming team expressed their positions one after another, and Fang Yuanchu of the semiconductor design department said in a deep voice: "I also agree to carry out the research and development of next-generation memory chips, after all, we all know very well that the future computer will be highly integrated, and at the same time, the computing unit, logic unit, memory unit, graphics unit, etc., are all placed inside a chip to achieve simplicity and power, the ultimate goal of this computing field." β
"The only problem is that the higher the degree of integration, the higher the difficulty of research and development, I don't know if I can catch up with the autumn offensive."
Xingchen Technology's semiconductor process is very advanced, only the first generation of technology, has reached an astonishing 0.1 nanometer, and the lower process means that the finished chip is very small, and the power consumption and heat generation are very low.
As long as you put more effort into the design, you can completely put the storage, CPU, graphics card, etc., in a chip that is less than the size of a fingernail, this process is called super integration.
Imagine what a great thing it will be to use high-performance desktops to run top triple-A masterpieces with mobile phones in the future.
However, the vision is long-term, but the reality is very troublesome, before Xingchen Technology did make a fully integrated CPU, the memory, flash memory, graphics card, all together, but the performance of that product is relatively low, the yield rate is also low, and the cost remains high.
The reason for this trouble is very simple, because the technical difficulty brought by the CPU plus storage is one plus one equals three, plus the graphics card, it is equal to six, and the more integrated functions, the more difficult the design will increase exponentially.
Luo Jia thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Don't wait, the autumn offensive will start on time, take the new generation of storage as the focus of research and development, and hand it over to the semiconductor center to carry out technical research, the autumn offensive can't catch up, and the winter offensive, the winter offensive can't catch up, then wait for the spring offensive." β
"In short, the semiconductor industry, we have to decide!"
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Luo Jia's strategy of establishing a super-large-scale supply chain and partner groups finally paid off on September 1, a week before the start of school, and the products using the Xingchen series of CPUs were officially launched.
For a time, a number of new product launches were launched at the same time on the land of China, and Luo Jiawan refused the invitation of Huawei's general manager and went to the headquarters of Xiaomi Group in Beijing to promote Mr. Lei.
The reason why Luo Jia did this is not because he has a bad relationship with Huawei, on the contrary, because the relationship is so good, even if Luo Jia does not attend, Huawei fully understands.
This huge product line is Huawei's strongest combat effectiveness, so Luo Jia hopes to help Mr. Lei, who is in trouble at the moment.
The press conference went very smoothly, Mr. Lei chose the location in the Forbidden City, full of gimmicks and eye-catching, coupled with Luo Jia, a heavyweight special guest, who spent 30 minutes of impromptu speech, which attracted countless attention from all over the country, whether it was audience interaction or the number of people watching the live broadcast, it created a record high.
At this press conference, Xiaomi launched four notebook products based on Xingchen CPU in one go, aiming at the freshmen who are about to start school.
New students and parents across the country have been looking forward to a whole summer vacation, waiting for computers with domestic CPUs to go on the market, and then buy and buy.
"The price of the youth version is two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine yuan!"
"The price of the standard version is three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine yuan!"
Mr. Lei was excited,With his very lame Mandarin,Announced the price of a new generation of Xiaomi notebooks,As expected,The price is quite low,The products on the market at the same time are Huawei,Razer,Tongfang,Ziguang,Hisense,Shenzhou, etc.,Among them, the price of Xiaomi and Shenzhou,Both hit below 3,000,And the most expensive is Huawei,The starting price is as high as 5,500 yuan,It's still the glory mark of the deputy factoryγ
In the final analysis, Mr. Lei is doing business, not charity, and the 2,999 yuan notebook also gives a lot of messy things, which looks affordable, but in fact, the quality is really average, which is in line with the saying that you get what you pay for.
But from the other side, it only costs less than 3,000 yuan to have a computer with Xingchen CPU installed, which greatly lowers the threshold for consumers to buy, which is by no means a bad thing.
In all fairness, there is no problem with Xiaomi Group's low-price strategy, and the company is absolutely united and can fight a tough battle, what Luo Jia is really worried about is Mr. Lei.
Think back then, Xiaomi mobile phones in India are in full swing, the Samsung Group was forced to suppress, once Mr. Lei went to India on a business trip, the plane landed at three o'clock in the morning, and there were talks with the Indian side at ten o'clock in the morning, and the time was very urgent.
According to the logic of normal managers, they should immediately find a hotel to stay, let everyone hurry up and sleep for two hours, shower and change clothes and have breakfast, and meet the business negotiations in a few hours with the fullest spirit.
However, Mr. Lei pulled everyone to KFC in the airport, saying that it was not worth opening a room for these few hours, everyone had something to eat at KFC, and when they were tired, they would lie on the table for a while, and they would go to the venue at dawn.
Therefore, a person who can become a big entrepreneur must have an outstanding IQ, and what determines the final achievement can only be a person's pattern.
"A computer with a domestic CPU installed, I'm buying it!"
"Xingchen Technology is awesome! In my lifetime, I finally used a domestic CPU! β
"It's still the Xingchen system installed, I heard that professionals use this, it's much more powerful than Windows."
The barrage is frantically refreshed, and on the major shopping platforms, the computer products installed with the Xingchen CPU were sold out in just a few minutes, and the major supply chain enterprises and assembly factories were running at full speed 24 hours a day, but they still couldn't meet everyone's crazy buying enthusiasm.
"I said, in addition to the Xingchen CPU, who uses the memory in the new computer?"
"I heard that Samsung and Hynix are used for memory, and Micron and Toshiba are used for hard disk."
"What's the matter, isn't this still imported?"
"Don't worry, you have to eat one bite at a time, Xingchen Technology has only been engaged in semiconductors for a few days, and it has continuously solved the big problem of lithography machine and CPU, besides, the bridge chip is also made of domestic goods, and the communication chip comes from Huawei HiSilicon, and the localization rate of this system is already very awesome!"
"By the way, semiconductors are not a joke, North America is strong, if you let North America build a computer by itself, they can't build it! There are so many things that need to be imported from abroad! β
Perhaps it is because I hope to have a completely independent semiconductor industry, but netizens are still a little anxious about the fact that a large number of imported chips are still used in the first generation of Xingchen architecture computers.
But the most anxious to catch fire is definitely not Huaxia netizens, with the last week of August, the large-scale listing of the first generation of Xingchen computing aircraft, the other side of the Pacific Ocean was completely shaken.