Chapter 147: The second cooperation with MediaTek
The current dispute over short video platforms has come to an end.
The initial three-legged stand eventually became a two-legged rivalry.
Kuaiyin has basically accounted for 70% of the share of the short video platform and has become the overlord of the entire short video platform.
The remaining thirty percent was taken by Douyin, who had just acquired a certain hand.
However, judging from the current development trend of short video platforms, Kuaiyin platform is still the most potential company in the industry.
Now that the Kuaiyin platform has fully opened the live broadcast to bring goods, then it can be converted into an e-commerce platform or a domestic life platform with the help of the traffic of the Kuaiyin platform.
It can be said that the Kuaiyin short video platform has become the app with the most traffic after Penguin.
The road that the penguins once walked, the fast sound platform can also be completely done.
Group buying takeaways.
E-commerce platforms.
Music Video Entertainment.
Wait a minute!
Relying on enough traffic, it eventually became the most terrifying gold-absorbing beast in the entire industry.
Judging from the net income obtained by the company in the second quarter of this time, it is a sure thing that the company will obtain a net income of more than 100 billion yuan this year.
In Zhou Zhen's view, the Kuaiyin short video platform will become the most solid economic foundation behind his technology company, bringing enough financial resources to the company.
July passed quickly, but the summer was still unbearably hot.
As the most popular mobile phone brand among the entire domestic mobile phone manufacturers, Rice Company also released the news in advance that it will hold a new product launch conference for the 10th anniversary in August.
As a person who has come over, Zhou Zhen naturally knows that this is the 10th anniversary of the rice company's new product launch conference, and it may be the most successful new product launch conference of the rice company in recent years.
The new products released at the same time may also be the most representative products of the rice company.
However, Zhou Zhen did not care about his friends so much, but took the team of Yuzhen Semiconductor to the treasure island.
MediaTek, since June this year, has gradually become the main source of chip supply in the domestic market.
Dimensity 720, Dimensity 800, Dimensity 820 These low-end processor chips can be said to have been recognized by most consumers.
Cheap, sexually usable, the main thing is that the Snapdragon 765g of the same kind is not enough to play.
MediaTek has achieved such excellent results, of course, to make MediaTek's chip design department happy.
It's just that after being overjoyed, MediaTek found some problems.
Dimensity 1000+ overturned!
That's right! As MediaTek's flagship processor chip this year, the Dimensity 1000+ power consumption and heating have completely overturned.
At present, the only product equipped with Dimensity 1000+ processor chip in the entire mobile phone industry is the iQOO Z1.
It's just that although this product is said to be passable in performance, it often has the problem of heating and frequency reduction.
At the same time, there are signs of overturning in terms of power consumption.
Compared with similar flagship processor chips, it is simply weak.
This also made MediaTek feel a lot of pressure.
In order to make its own processor chips in the next generation be able to compete with the fire dragon processor chips in a real sense, MediaTek specially contacted Yuzhen Semiconductor to cooperate in the design of chips.
Although Yuzhen Semiconductor has a poor reputation in the entire global market, its overall strength cannot be underestimated.
Even MediaTek felt a numb scalp after seeing the Tianxuan 920 designed by Yuzhen Semiconductor.
The designed processor chip is not only powerful, but also comparable to low-power processor chips like Kirin 990 in terms of power consumption.
High performance, low power consumption, simply ridiculously powerful.
What's even more surprising is that the core architecture of this processor CPU is actually the core of the A76 core.
MediaTek also tested this core accordingly, and found that the performance of this core has improved significantly, and it is even 5% stronger than the core performance of A77 at the same frequency.
Now Yuzhen Semiconductor has been limited accordingly and cannot be foundry to produce processor chips with the latest process technology, which also makes MediaTek, which is in a cooperative and competitive relationship, breathe a sigh of relief.
Because of this, MediaTek chose Yuzhen Semiconductor as foreign aid when it encountered the current dilemma.
And this cooperation, MediaTek is not only willing to pay related expenses, but also willing to give 10% of the profits to Yuzhen Semiconductor like the G98H chip, and also allows companies related to Yuzhen Semiconductor to have the first purchase right.
Zhou Zhen gladly accepted this cooperation.
After all, now after the design of Yuzhen Semiconductor with Tianxuan and Nandou chips has been completed, there are some people who are vacant.
Zhou Zhen raised this group of employees in the company, and naturally he didn't want employees to "eat rice" in the company.
And now cooperating with MediaTek not only makes money, but also enables the company's employees to have something to do, which is also a good thing for the restricted Yuzhen Semiconductor.
After all, with the foundry of Tianxuan processor chips about to stop production, then in the next two years, Yuzhen Semiconductor will no longer touch the design of Tianxuan chips.
Helping MediaTek design chips not only makes money, but also allows MediaTek to suppress the paste.
And if MediaTek's processor chip this time has the participation of Yuzhen Semiconductor, then every time the designed processor chip is sold, Zhou Zhen will be able to obtain the corresponding income value.
At the same time, these designed chips, Zhou Zhen can match the new glory to use these chips, so that the new glory can better recover in the next year of independence.
"This is the design drawing of the Dimensity 1200 processor chip, please take a look at it from Chairman Chou!"
Zhou Zhen led the team of Yuzhen Semiconductor to MediaTek, and MediaTek couldn't wait to come up with the design drawings of the next generation of chips to Zhou Zhen's team.
Dimensity 1200!
As MediaTek's second-generation flagship processor chip, the overall design is very similar to Dimensity 1000+, and the performance of power consumption and heat generation is also obvious.
"How? Jay? ”
"I think I can try to redesign, and I think the 6nm chip is still a bit weak?"
Zhou Zhen squinted at the head of MediaTek's R&D team.
The design of the Dimensity 1200 in this category is very similar to the design of the historical Dimensity 1200, except that the ten-core H9 is used in terms of GPU.
In order to be able to open up the gap with the Dimensity 1000+ GPU, the frequency of the GPU this time was directly adjusted to 762MHz.
With such a configuration, the power consumption will definitely not be much better.
And this time, the processor chip is using 6nm process technology, obviously MediaTek has some concerns about the 5nm process process before choosing to settle for the second.
Redesign!
The person in charge of the MediaTek R&D team was not angry when he received such an answer, but after all, he looked forward to seeing how Zhou Zhen planned to redesign.
After all, where is the design of Tianxuan's processor chip, which makes the MediaTek scientific research team still believe in Zhou Zhen in front of him.
"First of all, the A78 is a very mature core performance and power consumption, which is very good, especially in the case of low and medium frequencies, which has a strong enough advantage!"
"So I think in terms of architecture, the 1+3+4 architecture is better than changing to a 4+4 architecture, and canceling the big core to prevent the power consumption from overturning under extreme performance!"
"On the other hand, we can change the processor process to 5nm, so that we can add 16 H9 cores inside the GPU to reduce the frequency to ensure that the GPU's performance and power consumption are at the same level!"
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With Zhou Zhen's explanation, the MediaTek R&D team also understood what Zhou Zhen meant.
The main upgrade of the flagship processor chip design this time is to upgrade the process technology to reduce the corresponding power consumption.
At the same time, efforts are made on the highest frequency of the CPU and GPU, reducing the occurrence of very high frequencies to ensure power consumption.
Obviously, Zhou Zhen did not absolutely greatly help MediaTek improve performance this time, but planned to stabilize the power consumption of Dimensity chips on the basis of MediaTek chips and improve the user experience.
And the running scores of the Dimensity 1000+ and 1200 flagship processor chips are indeed very good, but the actual experience is indeed a little unsatisfactory.
Dimensity 1000+ is a processor chip that surpasses the Fire Dragon 855 and Kirin 990 in terms of running scores, but the actual experience is not as good as these two chips due to power consumption reasons.
The same is true of the historical Dimensity 1200, with a running score close to the Fire Dragon 870, but the actual experience performance is completely inferior to the Fire Dragon 870 and Fire Dragon 865.
The hat of high score and low energy was not thrown off by MediaTek until the Dimensity 8100 chip appeared.
In fact, MediaTek has several chips with good performance and power consumption, and these chips all use the 4+4 core architecture without exception.
said that the Dimensity 820, which has a good reputation in the mid-range market this year, is also the Dimensity 8000 series two years later.
"Makes sense!"
After hearing Zhou Zhen's words, MediaTek's R&D team also felt that what the other party said was quite reasonable.
After all, the CPU architecture stacking that MediaTek is good at is obviously the core architecture of 4+4.
Therefore, with the assistance of Yuzhen Semiconductor, the R&D team began to redesign the CPU architecture.
4 x 2.75GHz A78 cores + 4 x 2.0GHz A55 cores.
From the original 1 3.0GHz extreme performance A78 core + 3 2.6GHz A78, it suddenly became four ordinary performance cores.
"I don't know if the design performance of the new chip can be maintained at the same level as the original......"
After the redesign, the loss of a large core processor chip also made some MediaTek design teams a little worried.
After all, the 1+3+4 three-plex stack architecture is the flagship framework for the current mobile phone SOC processor chip design.
The loss of a large core is likely to result in a significant reduction in performance.
"It should be a little stronger than the original!"
Looking at the worried looks of the people around him, Zhou Zhen said with confidence.
After all, the CPU architecture redesigned for MediaTek this time is actually a very mature architecture, and the combination of newly designed CPU cores has actually been used by MediaTek in the future.
It's just that the name of the designed processor chip is called Dimensity 8000.