Chapter 359: Appearance at the Hannover Messe
"386 level, are you sure?" Pete frowned.
What chip R&D technology does Dongfang have? It's just that the chipping maps Intel's 8086 processor, which is not a big deal, after all, the 8086 processor has long been backward, as for the more advanced ......
In the past, Dongfang definitely didn't have this ability, but now it's different! The Pacific Group is very evil, the chip production technology they are tinkering with has suddenly reached the 0.8 micron process, and even the islanders have started to purchase their equipment!
You must know that Intel's upcoming mass production of the 486 processor still uses a mature process of 1 micron, and will not be upgraded to 0.8 microns until the later stage.
However, no matter how advanced the production technology is, it is impossible to create a similar processor, after all, this still needs to be designed, with the improvement of the chip process and the increase of integration, it is no longer possible to study it in the way of slicing.
Unexpectedly, the other party can actually produce 386-level processors? It seems to have to be taken seriously!
"Yes." Yang Qingfeng said: "It is indeed at the level of 386 chips, which contains 300,000 transistors and belongs to the ...... of 32-bit processors."
Yang Qingfeng introduced it in detail, after all, these were all told to him by Bai Weiwei herself, how could it be wrong? It's a pity that he came back to report in a hurry, otherwise he could still linger with Bai Weiwei, after all, there would be no chance in the future, and the two would definitely turn against each other.
"Mr. Pete, we are eagerly looking forward to working with Intel." Seeing that the conversation was almost over, Yoo Zhongyeol continued to get down to business.
"I know." "I'm very satisfied that you can tell me this inside information, and when I get back, I'll have the company send you a test of the 486 processor, and you can develop a motherboard that fits this processor first," Pete said. ”
"Thank you, Mr. Pete!" Liu Zhonglie was very excited, and finally got on Intel's free ride, hugged Intel's thigh, and there was no need to cooperate with Loongson in the future!
Backed by the computing institute, and related to many government departments, l think that the future is limitless!
Walking out of the bar, Liu Zhonglie was still full of spring breeze.
"Hmph, Intel didn't put forward any statement about the north-south bridge chip, and it was completely possible to use the existing motherboard chip to match the 486 processor, that Mr. Qin was clearly deliberately making things difficult for us!" Yang Qingfeng spoke, with anger in his tone.
"No, he's showing off!" Liu Zhonglie spoke: "He shows off Loongson's strong chip research and development capabilities, but we don't want to!" Hmph, he thinks he's good? Even if he can produce chips, it's useless! ”
Yang Qingfeng was suddenly overjoyed: "Mr. Liu, do we still have countermeasures?" ”
"Of course." Liu Zhonglie said: "If we want to build computer boards, we need to go to the Pearl of the Orient, and we don't have a background in computing institutes, and their Pacific Group is just a private enterprise, and they are not qualified to build computers!" ”
Now there is not a complete transition to the market economy, and many productions need to be approved by the state, just like building cars.
In the era of planned economy, the production of computers was arranged by the state, and at present, only a number of old computer manufacturers in China have this production license, and they wanted to be established in 84, and after making a lot of money by relying on Hanka, they also wanted to enter computer manufacturing, but even they had no way to get a birth permit in this computer field.
In desperation, L wanted to go to the Pearl of the Orient, and officially established the Xiangjiang Lenovo branch on June 14, 88, and in October of that year, bought the factory of a local company as a manufacturing base. Computers produced from the Pearl of the Orient can enter the mainland as imported goods, perfectly circumventing this restriction.
It wasn't until the 90s that I had the opportunity to set up a board factory in the mainland, so I had this production license.
When talking to Ni Lao, Liu Zhonglie only said that he would work together to become bigger and stronger, and did not say these insider stories, and although Ni Lao was a veteran in the industry, he didn't care about these details at all because he only studied technology, and Liu Zhonglie kept these and didn't say it, which is also his last move!
"Next, let's contact other factories and tell them how chicken Loongson No. 1 is, so that everyone should not touch it, hmph, even if they have chips, they still can't build computers!"
A smug smile appeared on Liu Zhongyeol's face, l thought that the road ahead was already a smooth road, and Loongson, hum!
March 15, Silicon Valley, USA.
In the spacious venue, there were many people, and countless reporters carried cameras and cameras, taking wild pictures of the venue, especially in front of the venue, on the projection screen next to the high rostrum, there was a row of large characters: 486 Processor Press Conference.
People in the computer industry know the famous Moore's Law, but few people know that Moore is the chairman of Intel Corporation, but generally speaking, the chairman is behind the scenes, the president of Intel Corporation is Andy Grove, today, he will announce to the world that the general-purpose processor used in microcomputers is about to enter a new era!
The people sitting in the venue are all the elites of Silicon Valley, and they came to attend this press conference together, and they also have mixed feelings, some people are envious, some people are jealous, and some people are looking forward to replicating it as soon as possible, after all, Intel is not the only one that can produce processors!
While everyone was waiting, a small guy walked up to the rostrum, and there was a burst of cheers and applause from below.
People can't be good-looking, and it couldn't be more perfect for Grove's body, this unattractive little man is at the helm of Intel Corporation!
He became president in '79, when Intel was facing a crisis, the electronics industry in the island country was developing rapidly, and the memory chips produced in the island country were of high quality and low price, which made Intel breathless.
At that time, after Grove went to heaven, he came up with a 125% solution, which translates to an eight-hour workday to a ten-hour workday! Who said that the West could not be involved, and who said that trade unions would protect the rights and interests of workers? Here at Intel, it doesn't hold up at all!
In the face of the doubts of the trade unions, Grove raised his arms and shouted: Intel is the last hope for the US electronics industry to defeat the electronics industry of the island country, and we must not give up! As a result, the unionists began to boil with enthusiasm and chanted along with him.
However, the contradiction will not turn around because of the slogan, Intel's crisis is getting more and more serious, and it is Grove who has made an important decision: to give up the memory chip business and go all out to develop processors!
Intel started with memory chips, but in the face of a crisis, it was able to break the wrist of a strong man and give up the chip business, which is enough to show Grove's courage, and get rid of this burden, Intel can also travel lightly and completely transform into a processor production plant, thus starting a new glory.
Now, the emergence of 486 means that Intel's career has stepped onto a new level!
"Dear friends, welcome to our press conference, where we are about to reveal the world's most advanced processor, the 80486DX ES!"
Although they are all called 486, there are different versions to distinguish them, and the earliest test sample is the 486SX, which has an operating speed of only 16 megahertz, which is even slower than some 386 processors, and is only used for engineering testing, and the number is scarce, and there is no intention of mass production.
Then came the 486DX, which was mainly the addition of some modules compared to the previous version.
"This product is the first processor in the world that includes a floating-point combinator, which is an FPU, inside Intel!" Grove's Hungarian-accented English is a little slurred, and if it were the first time I heard him speak, you might not understand what he was saying, but he was sonorous and powerful, and he liked to drag his tone, giving people a sense of power.
"This is a revolutionary change that makes it more than 4 times faster than the 80386 with the 80387 math coprocessor! Yes, at this time, you must be wondering, why is it so much faster, in addition to the FPU, it has many changes, for example, it also uses RISC reduced instruction set technology, which greatly speeds up the execution of instructions per cycle, and it also uses a burst bus......"
The biggest change in the 486 is that it has a floating-point arithmetic unit, which is quite fast when performing floating-point arithmetic, but when it comes to production, some floating-point arithmetic units do not work properly, and these units will be masked during testing, and then it will be treated as an SX model without a floating-point combinator.
Intel is an old tradition to do this, and it is also the case in later generations, all the internal cores can be used normally, that is, i9, and there are a few problems that are shielded out, that is, i7, i5, if there are only a few cores inside that can be used, the shielding is i3, so that all the chips on the production line can be used, and it can also distinguish between high and low grades.
"Then the most exciting moment has come! How fast is this processor? It's a whopping 25 megahertz! ”
When Grove said this, the people below were stunned.
What's going on?
Half a point, that's all the speed?
You know, the current 386 processor, the most physically robust product coming off the production line, can reach 40 megahertz computing speed! This 486 is not as good as 386?
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"I know what you're thinking, when the 386 processor was released, the computing speed was only 12.5 megahertz, and although our 486 processor started at 25 megahertz, its future is limitless, and soon there will be higher frequency processors, even reaching 100 megahertz, 25 megahertz is just the beginning!"
Now it's a sudden occurrence.
The speed is slow at first, and then gradually becomes faster, which is also the law of the development of the processor, especially in the hands of some gamers, it can be overclocked, so that the processor can reach a faster limit speed.
The 486 processor is aimed at 100 megahertz!
"Okay, now let's talk about the price that everyone cares about the most! I've said all that, everyone must be very interested in the price of this processor, right? Our great cross-era processor 486, currently priced at $950! ”
The following is shocked, the computing speed is 25 megahertz, which is not as good as the 386, the price is high, the 386 processor is less than 300 dollars a piece, and your 486 processor sells for 950 dollars a piece?
Who will buy it?
Grove is confident that it won't be long before the market will be full of 486s!
After the press conference, Grove was still excited, and he returned to the break room to look at his old partner.
"Moore, what do you think of those people today?"
Moore frowned: "Grove, you probably don't know that when we had a press conference, the Oriental Loongson was also publicly displayed in Europe......"
"I know Loongson, doesn't it mean that the performance of this processor is only at the level of our 386?"
"No, no, we've all been deceived, the performance of this Loongson No. 1 processor is stronger than our 486!"
"No, it can't be!" Grove was stunned.
Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany, am Lenner.
The north-south and railway lines intersect here, and the Sino-German Canal flows slowly, as a hub with developed transportation, it has become a city with a highly developed industrial manufacturing industry, and is the center of Germany's automobile, machinery, electronics and other industries.
However, at the end of World War II, it was still in ruins, and Germany was on the verge of despair, and the Germans at that time believed that the best way to regain the economy was to show their goods to the outside world!
In order to restore everyone's confidence and see the recovery of the economy, the Hannover government decided to hold an exhibition in 47 years, and in this way, the Hannover Messe kicked off, the whole exhibition had 21 days, more than 1,000 exhibitors set up their booths, signed 2,000 contracts, and the amount was more than 30 million dollars!
Since then, the Hannover Messe has been handed down in this way, and until now, the emblem of the side portrait of Hermes can be seen everywhere at the exhibition site, as if trading here would be helped by the god Hermes in charge of the market and trading in Greek mythology.
The scale of the exhibition has grown and has now developed into five professional pavilions, which display products from different industrial fields, such as machinery manufacturing, automobiles, electronics, etc.
With the development of the times, electronic technology is becoming more and more important, so at the Hannover Messe, electronic products are in a separate exhibition hall, which has tens of thousands of square meters and can accommodate more than 500 booths.
The booth of Loongson, a subsidiary of Pacific Group, is located in the corner of the entire exhibition hall.
This is not because Qin Feng doesn't want to spend money and rent a cheap booth, after all, the current Pacific Group has long been out of pocket, and he doesn't care about this money at all.
However, they started too late, when Qin Feng decided to come to Europe to exhibit, he was already preparing for the opening ceremony, and the well-located exhibition area had already been rented out, so he could only rent such a corner.
However, Qin Feng didn't care, the last time he came to Germany to participate in the exhibition, there was still no booth, and the Pacific Group still became the most dazzling existence.
"Mr. Qin, can you start?" In the booth, Liu Yang didn't know how many times he asked Qin Feng.
Qin Feng smiled: "Don't worry, wait." ”
"Mr. Qin, if you wait any longer, today's day will be over!"
"Yes, Mr. Qin, we spent a lot of money renting the booth here, and on this day, almost no one came to our booth, if we don't do it again, it will be over today!" Hu Miaomiao was also very anxious.
The big guy got Mr. Qin's order, he was very happy, he had been properly prepared before going abroad, and he planned to come here to make a splash, but he didn't expect that from the morning to now, Mr. Qin didn't let him act, what are you waiting for?
Qin Feng looked at his watch: "Well, the time is almost up, let's start." ”
"Okay, Mr. Qin, you can look at us!" Liu Yang said, picked up the remote control, and then gently pressed one of the knobs.
A buzzing sound rang out.
At this time, it is already three o'clock in the afternoon, Germany is seven hours faster than the United States, that is to say, the United States is eight o'clock in the morning at this time, the 80486 processor has just been developed, even if they can get the news from Germany in time, they have no time to react, let's release it at the same time!
At this time, the venue of the expo also happened to be the most crowded, and there were bustling crowds everywhere, but they almost all stayed in front of those big factories, and there were only some ordinary tourists who could run to this edge and corner, and these people were not potential customers, and there was no point in selling them to them.
However, at this point, they were the first to notice the anomaly.
When the buzzing sound sounded, the tourists in the corner looked up, and then their eyes lit up.
A strangely shaped flying machine flew up from a certain booth!
In this era, there are various model aircraft, generally ordinary aircraft shapes, if you want to take off and land vertically, it is the shape of a helicopter, with a large horizontal propeller on the head and a small vertical propeller behind the buttocks.
However, the aircraft in front of me is different: it is a flat structure with four crossbars sticking out, each with a motor at the top to drive a propeller, and four rotors at the top of the aircraft, all in one plane!
I'm afraid this kind of aircraft can only fly in a vertical direction, right? After all, the air flow from the rotor is facing the below!
In the eyes of everyone, this special flying machine slowly pulled up, and at the same time, it also brought up a banner made of red silk cloth below.
On the front reads: Loongson processor, challenge one million bits of pi calculation!
The flip side is: the Pacific Group, where microcomputer performance catches up with supercomputers!
Last time I used Future Soldier for propaganda, this time I used a quadcopter drone for propaganda! Although our booth is biased, our advertising is good and can reach the sky!
The interior of the room in the exhibition hall has a good ceiling, which is equivalent to a normal two or three floors, and the drone hangs a banner and flies directly to a height of six meters, and the banner below is also three meters high from the ground, saving it from being dragged down by people who do good things.
Next, the C position of the entire exhibition hall is at the booth of Pacific Group!
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