"Haha Zhou Xin is really ruthless, and his evaluation of Lenovo is in place."

"Zhou Xin has always been like this, if you are as successful as him at the age of twenty, you will speak as freely as he wants, without caring about other people's feelings."

According to our internal information, the reason why Intel agreed to work with Xinxin to develop the Pentium-M chip is because Xinxin can help Intel solve a huge technical problem.

This technical challenge will seriously affect the performance and sales of Intel's next-generation CPUs. ”

"Is it true upstairs? Although Xinxin does have the technology to do it, and it has made a lot of noise in the field of chips in the past two years, but can it solve problems that Intel can't solve? I doubt it. ”

"I've only heard that it's not clear whether it's true or false, otherwise why would Intel be willing to cooperate with Xinxin?"

"Isn't Intel still cooperating with Lenovo, this is for the Chinese market."

"Intel and Lenovo cooperate because Xinxin is in the front, Lenovo is in the back, and the joint development of X86 architecture personal computer chips with other companies has never been done before, even AMD only obtained Intel's technology authorization in the early days of its business.

This is a very big decision for Intel, and they will give in must be the condition that Xinxin has made that they cannot refuse. ”

"Let's wait for the official news, but it's true that the new core is in the front and Lenovo is behind, I hope that the cooperation between the new chip and Intel and the launch of Xiaomi computers can bring down the price of domestic computers, and now these computer manufacturers are too dark."

"I now hope that Xiaomi's production capacity can go up, who looks down on the production capacity of only 100,000 units per week, I don't know how to make money if I have money on the ground, and the Xiaomi computer boss in the computer city next to my house will increase the price by 1,000.

You reasoned with him, saying that the official website price was only 3999, and he rolled his eyes and said that he would like to buy it or not. What's more pitiful is that you buy it back I don't know if he has replaced the accessories inside, I have a colleague who bought it not long after it broke down, and I specially looked for someone to see it, and found that the accessories inside were replaced.

The Pentium M CPU was replaced with the first-generation Pentium, which made my colleague angry, and went to the boss, and the boss turned his head and didn't admit it, and I would rather wait than dare to go to the computer city again. ”

"What kind of computer city to go, don't you feel uncomfortable for yourself, I went to work in the computer city after the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, and he can sell you 6,000 for a computer with 3,000 configurations, it is because there are many profiteers in this gang, so Xiaomi computers can make so many people queue up to grab goods."

"However, due to the influence of Xiaomi, the prices of offline franchise stores and direct stores of these domestic computer manufacturers have decreased."

The revelations of netizens on the Tianya forum were later confirmed, and Intel's technical director publicly stated in an interview with Silicon Valley Technology Magazine:

"We will cooperate with Xinxin Technology to jointly develop the Pentium-M chip, because Xinxin Technology has a very keen insight in the chip field, has excellent R&D personnel, and can propose excellent solutions in the chip field, and they are very good partners.

Everyone knows that the Pentium 4 Northwood is a classic Pentium chip, which uses the Pentium 4 chip with 0.13 micron process for the first time to achieve a 2GHz main frequency, and at the same time, it can increase the performance by another 30% under the overclocking function.

Now that the chip manufacturing process has entered the 90nm era, we hope to replicate the success of Northwood on the next generation of Pentium chips, but we are facing the same problem as AMD, that is, we cannot solve the problem of heat dissipation.

After the 90nm process, the chip will leakage, which causes the new chip to generate 60% more heat than Northwood every clock cycle, which also leads to 10% more power consumption, and the processor is easy to overheat, which further leads to the performance of the chip in the 90nm process is even inferior to the chip in the 130nm process. ”

"That's why AMD claimed in an interview that the 90nm processor may not be as wonderful as everyone thinks?"

"Yes, now Pentium processors will have a feature called Thermal-Throttling, which will force the processor into an idle mode or shut down when the temperature is too high, so as not to damage the processor.

As a result, all 0.18 micron and 0.13 micron Pentium 4 and Xeon processors have very clear batch parameter boundaries, which are automatically put into protected mode when exceeded.

But in the 90nm era, we found that this feature failed, and the reason for this change was the leakage of power, the part of the current flowing in the circuit but not being used, which caused the heat dissipation, temperature and other parameters to be different for each processor.

All 90nm Pentium 4 and Xeon processors can only be individually tested to determine a specific protection parameter that will determine when the processor reaches a protective state.

If this way is taken to solve the problem, it is obviously unacceptable for Intel, after we communicate with Xinxin, they have a good experience with this kind of problem, and we have a new solution, but how to solve this involves trade secrets, so we will not talk about it specifically. ”

The Americ Kenhua who was active on the China Forum transferred this report back to China, which made netizens' recognition of Xinxin a notch again:

"Xinxin is called core technology, Intel can't handle the technology, Xinxin can do it, can other computer manufacturers have this technology?

I'd better wait for the party to support Xiaomi. ”

The simple patriotic feelings of the Chinese people have led to a large number of users who would rather wait and buy Xiaomi, and the connection between Xiaomi and core technology is also something that Zhou Xin never expected.

However, he was on vacation in Hawaii at the time, and he had no other work arrangements after the interview, and the Mphone is now finalized, and the manufacturers are stocking up in large quantities for a large-scale release in the spring of next year.

As for why Intel knows that Xinxin can solve the problems of the 90nm process, it is because in the process of cooperation with Sony, Xinxin prompted the possible problems of Sony's 90nm process and gave solutions.

At present, Xinxin is no longer a nobody in the global integrated circuit industry, but a potential enterprise, with unique technical advantages in some subdivisions, from chip design to chip foundry to semiconductor equipment, involving multiple fields.

It is precisely because of the cooperation with Intel that Zhou Xin plans to build a new wafer factory in the Lion City.

Why TSMC can grow by leaps and bounds is not unrelated to Intel's large shareholding in TSMC.

"Mr. Barrett, the Xinxin branch in the Lion City is in the process of preparation, and I don't know if Intel is interested in investing in the Lion City branch of Xinxin Technology."

When discussing cooperation with Intel, Zhou Xin personally went to talk to Craig Barrett, the current CEO of Intel.

The previous chip foundry business in China did not involve the most advanced product lines, but mainly involved product lines that were two generations behind the most advanced international processes.

Huaguo's state-of-the-art production line lagged behind the world's most advanced process when it was introduced, and by the end of 2002, it was already two generations behind.

Intel has no interest in this business, but the Lion City branch of Xinxin is different, the Lion City branch of Xinxin is focused on the chip foundry business of the most advanced process, as well as exploring the next generation of processes.

"Newman, you know, Intel has its own chip foundry business, we have invested in TSMC and TSMC, and we have also invested in Samsung, I want to know what are the advantages of Xinxin's chip foundry business compared to them?"

When chatting with Craig Barrett, the other party had a very good attitude, and after listening to Zhou Xin's introduction, he only asked one question, that is, the advantages of Xinxin.

The chip foundry business is a zero-sum game, and the market share is so large, there is no way to expand this market.

Later, TSMC occupied half of the chip foundry business, swallowing up all the market share that originally belonged to Intel and Samsung.

At first, neon manufacturers withdrew from the chip foundry business, and Samsung and TSMC ate this cake, and later TSMC gradually grasped the advantage and snatched the cake of Samsung and Intel to eat it.

Zhou Xin said: "The advantage lies in me, because I am the founder of Xinxin, and my technical vision, technical taste and technical sense are the biggest advantages of Xinxin."

To use a poem of the ancient Chinese people to describe it: When the time comes, heaven and earth are all working together, and the heroes are not free.

It basically means that when development is going well, the whole world is helping you, and the momentum of development is interrupted, and after the great luck is lost, no matter how good the talent is, it will not be able to give full play.

The current new chip is such a stage of smooth development, and Intel's choice to invest in the new chip is definitely the right choice. ”

Zhou Xin doesn't want to talk to Intel about how broad the smartphone market will be in the future, Mphone has already taken the lead in this market, and just providing the most advanced chips for Mphone is enough to feed Xinxin's wafer factory in the Lion City.

The logic of saying this is obviously much stronger than reciting poetry, but saying this will raise Intel's vigilance, and there is no need for Intel to cooperate with only one person on the market.

Craig Barrett obviously didn't expect Zhou Xin to have such an answer, but this answer was obviously very much to his liking, the Chinese people don't believe in God, and the American people do.

"That's a good explanation," Barrett said, "How do you say this poem in Chinese? ”

After Zhou Xin repeated it in Chinese, Barrett nodded again and again: "That's right, I think it's because of this that you can achieve so much."

Your own abilities are one thing, the whole world is helping you on the other hand, and it's good that you convinced me that I would be bringing this project up to the board, and I think they should be interested in working with the amazing Newman as well. ”

Yes, no matter what answer Zhou Xin gave, Craig Barrett will agree to cooperate with Zhou Xin, because Zhou Xin's past record has fully proved himself.

"The opportunity to cooperate with Newman is worth more than $100 million" has become a popular phrase in the entire Silicon Valley startup circle.

Under such a premise, Barrett just wants to hear if Zhou Xin has more specific ideas, even if he doesn't have him, he will promote this cooperation.

The cooperation with Intel means that Xinxin has entered a new stage, with Temasek's financial advantage, Intel's market advantage and Zhou Xin's own vision advantage, Xinxin's Lion City branch will become a new player at the advanced process table.

"Looks like you're in a good mood, Newman." After the interviewer left, Li Jingyi wore a swimsuit, and her beautiful figure was unobstructed, and she walked to Zhou Xin's side and said.

Zhou Xin said: "I came to the holiday and the mood is naturally better, this is the first time I have come to Americon for a vacation, I have been nervous by work before, I came to Hawaii I hope to change the mode, from the work mode to the vacation mode." ”

Li Jingyi has also been in Ameriken for almost two years, and she is used to calling Zhou Xin's English name.

Zhou Xin continued to complain: "If it weren't for your friend looking for me to find trouble, I wouldn't even have to participate in this interview." ”

Li Jingyi said: "I also see that you didn't participate in this year's Internet conference, and I can take this opportunity to say what you want to say but didn't say through an interview with Phoenix Satellite TV. ”

When it comes to the Internet conference, even if Zhou Xin is far away in Hawaii, the topic of the Internet conference is still inseparable from Zhou Xin.

Whether it is Robin, who attended the Internet conference for the first time, or Pony Ma and Jack Ma, who deliberately returned from Silicon Valley, they are inextricably linked with Zhou Xin.

"We all know that at the end of 1999, at the first Internet conference, the new president invested in the three companies here at the same time, do you think three years have passed, which of the enterprises here has developed the best."

"Whether it is from the perspective of valuation, revenue or profit, I am not modest, Alibaba is the best, from the perspective of listing, at present, only Sohu is listed among the three of our three companies.

In terms of market segments, Pony's Tencent can be called a monopoly in the field of instant messaging, and it can only be said that each has its own advantages.

If I had to choose, I would choose my own Alibaba. ”

This year, the Internet people in China had a meal together at the call of Jack Ma, and then everyone sat around the round table, Robin sat in the middle, Jack Ma and Pony Ma sat on either side of him, and next to Ding Lei and Zhang Chaoyang.

The photo Jack Ma posted on Weibo with a picture: "A gathering of Chinese Internet people." ”

Weibo is all under @周新, "Why do I feel that Internet people who have not been newly invested in are not worthy of appearing at this table?" ”

"The new president is not coming, and the overall appearance index can only be pulled up by Baidu Li."

"It is estimated that when the new president is with them, he is more like a leader and a subordinate, the new president is not there, everyone is an entrepreneur at the same level, and they talk more openly."

"I always feel that there is no new president to participate in this year's Internet Conference, and everyone is a little bit upright, and their speech is too official."

Zhou Xinjian was @ by so many people, and also commented below: "Eat and drink well, I'll invite everyone to dinner next year." ”

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