Chapter 310: The End and Beginning of a Myth
In the blink of an eye, it was May, and Duke was like a spinning top tossing and turning on various R&D projects, but fortunately, except for his own experimental reactor, which needed to be done by himself, the other projects were to solve some difficult problems, so as not to exhaust himself to vomit blood.
However, after many seeds were sown, the harvest season is now gradually ushering. Williams brought the latest tape-out successful mobile phone CPU chip codenamed Gemini2 (Gemini), and happily reported the good news to Duke, a wealthy owner.
Although Williams offers this CPU with only two cores, it is optimized by Kerry for many key parts of the CPU, such as branchprediction and speculatlonexecution.
After a detailed analysis of more than 3,000 mainstream applications running on Nmobile mobile phones, Kerry mastered the operating characteristics of these applications, thereby greatly improving the design of branch prediction, so as to improve the accuracy of branch prediction and speculative execution in these mainstream applications to nearly 100%, avoiding the idle waiting of the pipeline and improving the computing speed of the CPU in disguise.
Not only that, because this CPU Duke intends to run only on the operating system developed by itself, so that most of the redundant design used as operating system compatibility in the original design has also been cropped, so that the area of the new Gemini2 is greatly reduced, and the sample area is less than 35mm2, these improvements make the new CPU power consumption greatly reduced, but the performance is not much different from the 4-core products of the same frequency.
On the mobile phone operating system developed by Duke, the performance is very good, and the current mainstream application runs like a cloud, and it is completely impossible to see that this is a dual-core CPU behind the support, compared to the performance of the latest 8-core CPU products on the Android platform, which is inherently defective.
The power consumption is better than the previous single-core CPU, which fully meets the low-power requirements that Duke has always emphasized, the performance is sufficient, the complexity of production is not high, and the cost is basically the same as the original single-core CPU.
With the new CPU and new display, the energy consumption of Nmobile's latest flagship phone in the future has been reduced a lot, and Duke's improved media decoding and processing part, with Williams' Gemini2CPU, can not only cope with the new mobile phone, but also be able to meet various needs on smart TVs.
In this way, on the core basic platform, SAL's mobile phones, navigators and smart TVs have basically realized the common platform, which greatly reduces the repeated waste of R&D investment in the two products, of course, the most important thing is that in the supply of core general components, from the system platform, CPU to the display, SAL has now achieved independent production, no longer controlled by others, and has stronger advantages in technical route and cost control.
In the production chain of mobile phones, it can be said that in addition to the communication baseband chip, there is nothing else that can restrict SAL's mobile phones, because the market competition of these accessories such as memory and capacitors is relatively sufficient, and the substitution is very strong, and Duke does not have to worry about being stuck in this regard.
So this Williams picked up by Du Chengyi is really a real talent.
Duke was very satisfied with Williams's results, and directly granted Williams a five-percent dividend option in the newly established Dukes Electronic Chip Design Co., Ltd., as a reward for Williams' contribution to the company, you must know that according to Duke's production plan, the production volume of this CPU should be at least more than 200 million pieces, and according to the current pricing of similar CPUs, the wholesale unit price per thousand pieces should be more than $15/piece.
In other words, the annual output value of this new company is already as high as 3 billion US dollars just for the use of its own products, and even if calculated at 20 percent of the profit margin, this 5 percent dividend option will earn at least 10 million US dollars a year. In order to envelop Williams, Duke spared no expense.
The benefits of this CPU to Duke are not only in mobile phones, navigators and smart TV products, but also for Duke's nuclear power, CNC machine tools, and special steel production process improvements, this CPU can also come in handy, and the on-chip embedded system improved according to the mobile phone operating system also needs a large number of embedded low-power CPUs.
It can be said that with the Gemini2 provided by Williams, the industrial chain of Duke's industrial empire has truly formed a relatively complete system. In this way, with SAL as the leader, through the main products such as mobile phones, navigators, smart TVs, and software based on intelligent voice recognition technology, the current profit center of the Duke industrial empire has been formed.
In the near future, led by Dushi Heavy Industries, through CNC machine tools, special materials and nuclear power equipment, a new profit center will be formed within 3-5 years.
MI, on the other hand, is looking to the long-term future, waiting for future breakthroughs in biotechnology, and is expected to become a leader in the biotechnology era in 10-20 years.
Once this pattern is formed, Duke will have a rather formidable industrial group, which can be compared with the established conglomerates of Europe and the United States in terms of scale, relying on the continuous development of leading technology to climb to the top of the world's conglomerates.
The company, which bears the distinctive label of Duke, has grown like a monster and has now become an unrepeatable business myth and a classic case study for professors in major business schools.
It's just that when he dreams back at midnight, Duke thinks that when he provides enough nuclear fuel for Billem and completes Billem's plan, even if the two don't owe each other, if Billem takes Kerry from him at this time, then how will he continue to walk.
Now, relying on their own conglomerate, not only do hundreds of thousands of people need to eat on their own and live a good life, once they don't have the big killer of Kerry, let themselves become ordinary people again, and no longer have a superhuman level of research and development, will everything they have now be wiped out soon?
Every time he thought of this possibility, Duke shuddered a little, although Duke now enjoys a lot of benefits brought by the technology provided by Billem, but there is really no friendship between Billem, and now the two are just an exchange of interests.
In order to avoid a myth that has just begun and then ends in a hurry, Duke feels that he should do something to prepare.
(This is the end of the business myth, in the next volume, Duke will usher in the most difficult period of his life, life will become bumpy, if you want to know the future, stay tuned for the follow-up exciting!) )