Chapter 307: The Gap Between the Two
The first product is a sound card.
Compared to the generation launched by the innovative company, it is a sixteen-bit sound card.
All the sound blaster cards launched by innovative companies can do is make "computers speak", and the richness of the timbre, the roundness, and the imitation of various sounds are far from the same.
However, this sound card launched by Infinity uses sixteen-bit plural tones, and the synthesis effect of human voices, animal onomatopoeia, and electronic sounds has been quite good.
Both the operating system and the sound card are introduced by Infinity Company, and how to maximize the performance of the drivers, combining the two to the best extent, naturally makes it difficult for them.
This is the main reason why some users have purchased a Sound Blaster card, but the results are still not very good.
As soon as the reporters heard Bill's introduction to the sound card, they immediately understood.
What's in the other box is naturally a video card!
Indeed, as they guessed, inside the box is a video card, but this video card is also a discrete graphics card.
Infinity's view operating system, when it comes to presentations, is able to show superior performance and shine in multimedia, in addition to the performance of the software itself.
These two hardware cards are the most important.
Its greatest achievement is that it reduces the burden on the CPU processor and hands over audio, video, and graphics data to a specialized processor for processing.
In this era, personal computers, which were still relatively weak, can also run under the effect of multimedia.
This is not simply a matter of separating audio and video, but an epoch-making initiative.
Its appearance represents the advent of the real multimedia era!
In order to launch this set of ancillary equipment, Infinity spent a lot of money to buy the rights of many movies and animations from major film and television companies in the world.
Stimulate hardware with software. Accelerate Infinity's hardware standards and become a standard accessory for computers.
Bill was quick to announce an offer for the two hardware devices.
The reporters at the scene, after hearing the price, were moved on the spot: the sound card was only sold for 98 dollars!
Graphics cards are slightly more expensive because of the integrated video playback function and image display.
The offer is: two hundred and ninety-nine dollars!
In total, it's less than four hundred dollars!
With such a low price, it's hard to refuse!
It's just the American middle class, two days' income.
Some reporters have expressed doubts about whether the two devices really have the same effect as Bill boasted.
Bill smiled confidently, called a staff member on the spot, and moved out a brand new bare metal.
It was clear to everyone that this was an ordinary HP computer with an Intel Pentium 4 processor.
Windows + is likewise installed inside.
As soon as the staff opened the player, the reporters who were surrounded by water rushed back.
Zizizi~
The sound is too harsh!
The animation is played like a slideshow, and you can't watch it at all!
Bill made a gesture, and the staff immediately stopped playing and shut down the computer.
He took the sound card and graphics card from the box, inserted it into the computer expansion slot, checked that the connection was normal, and pressed the power button again.
Turn it back on.
The same was playing a file, and everyone had a smile on their faces.
A reporter applauded softly, and then everyone applauded enthusiastically.
Multimedia! This is the real multimedia era!
Without any hesitation, those reporters who had purchased the operating system of Infinity asked to buy these two products on the spot.
When a small trolley rolled out a mountain of sound and graphics cards, everyone rushed over like crazy, for fear that if they were one step slower, they would have no share of their own.
It was only when they calmed down from the warm atmosphere of the venue that they suddenly discovered that the operating system, sound card, graphics card, including the LCD used for playback, were closely related to Infinity.
Could it be that Infinity intends to occupy every electronic field and become the king of high-tech?
It's too much to accept!
This is America, not China!
The only thing that gives them a little peace of mind is the sound card and the graphics card, which are still peripheral accessories of the computer after all.
Even if Infinity occupies these two commanding heights, they are barely acceptable.
But if Infinity continues to be obsessed with the same obsession as before, trying to advance into the field of computer chip manufacturing.
Then, they decided that they would do everything to explain the harm to the public, and they must not allow Infinity companies to intervene in the semiconductor market in the United States.
As if he understood their thoughts, Bill smiled and raised the sound card and graphics card in his hand high, and said loudly: "Everyone, many of you have a deep understanding of the current semiconductor technology.
"So, can you tell me what level our integrated circuit manufacturing process has reached now?"
The reporters did not understand what he meant, and they talked to each other.
Someone said, "About 0.5 microns, right?" ”
A knowledgeable person immediately corrected: "No, the Pentium 4 processor is the one hundred and eighty nanometer technology used, and now more than a year has passed, it should have reached one hundred and twenty nanometers." ”
Another person said: "This refers to commercial use, if you only refer to the laboratory, it should reach 68 nanometers." ”
Bill smiled, nodded repeatedly, and then pointed to the sound card and graphics card of Infinity and said, "So, do you know what the manufacturing technology of these two products is?" ”
Without waiting for the reporters to answer, he said to himself: "It's 260 nanometers!" ”
Two hundred and sixty nanometers?
Many reporters breathed a sigh of relief, and they smiled at each other.
It turns out that the technology of the Chinese people is not good, and it is only equivalent to the level of the Pentium 4 processor.
And Intel is ready to launch a new generation of processors.
When the time comes, the performance will be even more powerful!
What they didn't expect was how much effort it would take for researchers at Infinity to achieve a stable manufacturing accuracy of 260 nanometers and make cheap computers affordable for most people.
Moreover, this is also the closest distance to the world level so far for Huaxia's high-precision semiconductor manufacturing technology to be commercialized.
They just need to be clear that if they really compete, the Chinese are far from their opponents.
That's enough.
There was a reporter on the spot, who shouted unscrupulously: "Bill, we all know that you have made great sacrifices, but you can't look at the Chinese people and use such a clumsy product to fool us!"
"Let them open up the technology of these two products! With such a simple product, let the Chinese people make money, what face do we have? ”
"Yes, if we use our technology to manufacture these two products, we will definitely achieve better results, Bill, we have always supported you, don't let us down!"
Many reporters, ignoring the Infinity technicians present, roared loudly.
Lu Zhanhai and many other infinity software engineers all stood aside with iron faces.
Only now do they know why Chen Weidong has always been cautious and treading on thin ice when entering the American market.
The people of the United States profess to be free, but in fact, their own national self-esteem is extremely strong.
They can't see others as better than them, and if they can use stratagems, they use stratagems to bring down their opponents.
If they can't do it, they will act roughly.
All in all, they want to make sure that they are always the strongest in the world.