Chapter 1854 Shocked
"It's just about 500MHZ, not too high. Hasn't our Pentium 4 reached 1.3GHZ? Our chips are stronger than this!" Black actually doesn't understand technology very well, after all, he is a purchasing agent.
However, he still knows more or less the performance basis of the CPU, such as the main frequency, which is the core of a CPU. The faster the main frequency, the stronger the CPU will be.
Of course, after 10 or even 20 years, the main frequency is no longer measuring the core data of a processor. After all, the main frequency of top CPUs in 20 years is not much improved at around 4GHZ. It relies more on cache, core number, optimization structure, multi-threaded computing and other aspects to improve the comprehensive capabilities of the CPU. However, in 2000, the main frequency of a chip was still the core factor that determined the value of this chip.
"Sir, Pentium 4 is the strongest chip in the market level of our personal users at present, and it is a chip installed on a personal computer. But this is the handheld machine, which is the data of the chip used by the handheld machine!" The engineer said, touching his forehead.
"I know..." Black nodded, "But our CPU is relatively strong! We are the leading data!"
"Say that..." The engineer also understood that he might not be able to explain it clearly to Black, so he simply said, "Personal computers need to deal with a lot of complicated tasks, so the CPU's main frequency is very high."
"But a game console only requires game-related calculations, so the requirements for CPU main frequency are not very high. Sony's PSP's current chip is only 200MHZ."
"The CPU chip used by Qiankun Bian before Daqian is the top game processing chip developed by our Intel specifically for games. Its main frequency is only about 300MHZ!"
"But now, Daqian uses a 500MHZ chip, which has surpassed the computing power of our chips we used before!" The engineer explained hard.
"So, the chips used in game consoles are just mid-range chips. Daqian can indeed buy them from other chip manufacturing companies?" Black asked, strange. Didn't everyone around him say that Daqian's chips can only be purchased from Intel?
"No, they can only buy it here!" The engineer shook his head and said, "Because although the main frequency requirements of game chips are not high, they have high requirements for other capabilities, especially in terms of cache and architecture, these require extremely strong chip design capabilities to complete."
"And other chip companies do not have these design capabilities. Only our high-end gaming chips can achieve them. Daqian can really only buy our chips!" said the engineer.
"You're confused about what you've been trampled on me!" Blake knocked on his head. "Tell me now whether Daqian's chip is good or not, is it better than ours?"
"It's indeed much stronger than ours!" The engineer said helplessly. "Because the handheld game console is limited by its size, the chip has high requirements. The chip must be small enough, and the heat dissipation ability is strong, and the power consumption is also very low. Otherwise, the battery will not be able to support the chip's computing needs at all."
"Combining the above, with our design capabilities, the most we can design is a chip of 300MHZ. If we want to reach 500MHZ, this is something we Intel cannot do at present."
"What is most unintelligible is that the computing power of CPUs is almost dead ends. Because lithography machine technology has always been limited to the limit data of 70nm, it is impossible to integrate smaller computing units within a fixed range. In theory, 300MHZ is the limit of current design. Unless the process technology has made a breakthrough, how can a 500MHZ chip be built?"
"I also want to know now which manufacturer developed such a powerful chip. They may have become our strongest rival. At least in terms of gaming chip technology, they may have surpassed us!" The engineer said sincerely.
"This is impossible. No company in the world can surpass Intel. We don't have many powerful chips that have been sealed, just waiting..."
"Ahem!" The engineer quickly coughed a few times and said, "Mr. President, we do have enough technical reserves, but that is for the PC market. We do not have much technical reserves in gaming chips."
"So as you say, Daqian has really found a chip manufacturer that can supply them?" Black asked anxiously.
"Yes, at least this supplier is not our Intel, because we can't make such chips ourselves!" The engineer nodded helplessly.
"Damn it!" Blake left with a gloomy face, and the engineer's attention was still entirely focused on this small chip.
He still can't figure out why someone can achieve something that Intel can't achieve, and what kind of technology is there on this chip.
So the engineer planned to completely dissect the chip in the laboratory to see what scary things were inside.
At this time, Black obviously didn't care about these things. He just wanted to know who was so brave that he could not get along with Intel.
Especially after all 100 devices were borrowed and found that all CPUs were of the same model, Black became even more angry. It was obvious that someone had ripped Intel.
So Black began to use Intel's global resources to investigate the unit that secretly supplied Daqian, but searched all the manufacturers in the United States, Europe, Fusang, South Korea, and Bay Areas, but found no clues.
You should know that this batch of game consoles has more than 5 million, which means that at least 5 million CPUs have been sold, and it is impossible that there is no trace of them!
Black was panicked by the sudden emergence of the chip, and players found that the third batch of sales of Qiankun and Qianjue were indeed as Daqian said, with enough quantity and not sold out in a week.
However, a week later, the total sales of the third batch had exceeded 7 million. The three batches combined together, the sales of at least 20 million were certain. Daqian's Qiankun became a handheld machine and once again created the sales myth of the handheld machine industry.
Chapter completed!