Technological Supremacy Chapter 420: The first generation of Star Computing is on the market!
Luo Jia's idea immediately aroused everyone's strong interest. One of the reasons why two kinds of memory chips need to coexist in today's computer is speed. The hard disk is slow and the memory is fast, so the hard disk data needs to be loaded Enter the memory, and then establish a direct connection between the memory and the CPU.
The issue of price is like the relationship between Lamborghini and big trucks. Lamborghini is fast but expensive, and big trucks are slow but cheap. Everyone likes big hard drives. After all, the bigger the hard drive, the better Load more games and small movies.
A 100TB ultra-fast hard drive is technically possible, but who is willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a hard drive? If you really have so much money, why don’t you watch a small movie? You should have practiced with the ladies and sisters in the field.
In short, there are various reasons, and the final result is that there are two completely different memory chips inside the computer, causing unnecessary trouble.
After thinking for a while, An Ran said: "If we do it, we must not only enhance the speed, but also increase fault tolerance and addressability, increase the cache area, and establish new rules for direct connection between storage and CPU. In short, it will be more troublesome, but if We really made it, and it will be very meaningful.”
"Second!"
"Second!"
The members of the brainstorming group expressed their opinions one after another. Fang Yuanchu from the semiconductor design department said in a deep voice: "I also agree to start the research and development of next-generation memory chips. After all, we all know that future computers will be highly integrated. At the same time, the computing unit, logic unit, storage unit, graphics unit, etc., are all placed inside a chip to achieve simplicity and power, the ultimate goal of this computing field.”
"The only problem is that the higher the level of integration, the more difficult it is to develop. I don't know if we can catch up with the autumn offensive."
The semiconductor technology of Stellar Technology is very advanced. Only the first generation of technology has reached the shocking 0.1 nanometer. The lower manufacturing process means that the finished chip is very small, and the power consumption and heat generation are very low.
As long as more efforts are made in design, storage, CPU, graphics card, etc. can be installed in a chip that is less than the size of a fingernail. This process is called super integration.
Imagine that in the future, high-performance desktops will be stuffed into small mobile phones, and it will be such an awesome thing to use mobile phones to run top 3A masterpieces.
However, the vision belongs to the vision, but the reality is very troublesome. Before, Xingchen Technology did make a fully integrated CPU, integrating memory, flash memory, and graphics card, but the performance of that product was relatively low, and the yield rate was also low. , the cost remains high.
The reason for such trouble is very simple, because the technical difficulty brought by the CPU plus storage is one plus one equals three, and if the graphics card is added, it equals six. The more integrated functions, the more difficult the design will grow exponentially.
Luo Jia thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Don't wait, the autumn offensive will start on time, and the new generation of storage will be the focus of research and development, and it will be handed over to the semiconductor center for technical research. If the autumn offensive can't catch up, there will be a winter offensive. Then wait for the spring offensive."
"In short, the semiconductor industry, we have to decide!"
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Luo Jia's strategy of establishing a super-large-scale supply chain and partner groups finally received rewards on September 1st, a week before the start of school, and the products using the Star series CPU were officially launched.
Several new product launches were held simultaneously in China. Luo Jia declined the invitation of Mr. Ren of Huawei and went to the headquarters of Xiaomi Group in Beijing to promote Mr. Lei.
The reason why Luo Jia did this was not that he had a bad relationship with Huawei. On the contrary, it was because the relationship was so good that even if Luo Jia didn't attend, Huawei would fully understand.
In this huge product line, Huawei has the strongest combat effectiveness, so Luo Jia hopes to help Mr. Lei who is in trouble at the moment.
The press conference went very smoothly. Mr. Lei chose the location in the Forbidden City, which was full of gimmicks and eye-catching. In addition, Luo Jia, a heavyweight special guest, gave an impromptu speech that took 30 minutes, attracting people from all over the country. Countless gazes, whether it is audience interaction or the number of people watching the live broadcast, have created a record high.
At this press conference, Xiaomi launched four notebook products based on the Xingchen CPU in one go, aiming at the freshmen who are about to start school.
Freshmen and their parents all over the country have been looking forward to a whole summer vacation, and they are all waiting for computers equipped with domestic CPUs to go on the market, and then buy them.
"The price of the youth version is 2,999 yuan!"
"The price of the standard version is 3,999 yuan!"
Excited, Mr. Lei announced the price of the new generation of Xiaomi notebooks in his very poor Mandarin. As expected, the price is quite low. The products listed at the same time include Huawei, Razer, Tongfang, Ziguang, and Hisense. , Shenzhou, etc. Among them, the prices of Xiaomi and Shenzhou are all below 3,000 yuan, and the most expensive one is Huawei, with a starting price of 5,500 yuan, and it is still the sub-factory glory label.
In the final analysis, Mr. Lei is doing business, not charity. The 2,999 yuan notebook comes with a lot of messy things. It looks affordable, but the quality is really average, which is exactly what That phrase you get what you pay for.
But from another point of view, you can own a computer with a Star CPU installed for less than 3,000 yuan, which greatly reduces the purchase threshold for consumers, and it is by no means a bad thing.
In all fairness, there is no problem with Xiaomi Group's low-price strategy, and the company is absolutely united and able to fight tough battles. What Luo Jia is really worried about is Mr. Lei.
I think back then, when Xiaomi mobile phones were in full swing in India, they suppressed the Samsung Group abruptly. Once Mr. Lei went to India on a business trip, the plane landed at 3:00 in the morning, and there was still a meeting with the Indian side at 10:00 in the morning. The time was very urgent.
According to the logic of normal managers, they should immediately find a hotel to stay in, let everyone take the time to sleep for two hours, take a shower and change clothes, have breakfast, and meet the business negotiations in a few hours with the most energy.
However, Mr. Lei dragged everyone to the KFC at the airport, saying that it was not worth opening a room for these few hours. Everyone would eat something at KFC, lie down on the table for a while when they were tired, and go to the meeting place at dawn.
So, a person who can become a great entrepreneur must have an excellent IQ, and the final achievement can only be determined by one person's pattern.
"I'll **** buy a computer with a domestic CPU installed!"
"Xingchen Technology is amazing! In my lifetime, I finally use a domestic CPU!"
"The installation is still the star system~IndoMTL.com~ I heard that professionals use this system, which is much more powerful than Windows."
The bullet screens are refreshed crazily, and on the major shopping platforms, the computer products installed with the Star CPU are sold out in just a few minutes, and the major supply chain companies and assembly factories are running at full capacity. Hours of continuous rotation, but still can not satisfy everyone's crazy buying enthusiasm.
"I said, besides the Xingchen CPU, whose memory is used in the new computer?"
"I heard that the memory is Samsung and Hynix, and the hard disk is Micron and Toshiba."
"What are you doing, isn't this still an imported product?"
"Don't worry, you have to eat one bite at a time. Xingchen Technology has only been working on semiconductors for a few days, and it has solved the big problems of lithography machines and CPUs in succession. Besides, the bridge chips are also domestic products, and the communication chips come from Huawei HiSilicon, the localization rate of this system is already very good!"
"Damn, semiconductors are not a joke. North America is strong. If you let North America build a computer, they can't make it! Many things need to be imported from abroad!"
Perhaps they want to have a completely independent semiconductor industry too much. Regarding the fact that the first-generation star architecture computer still uses a large number of imported chips, netizens are still a little anxious.
But it is definitely not the Chinese netizens who are most anxious to get angry. With the large-scale launch of the first generation of Xingchen Computing in the last week of August, the other side of the Pacific was completely shaken.