Chapter 372 The Dilemma of Intel
However, Su Yuanshan immediately thought that Xia Xiaoxuan was considered to be a senior sister of Li Xiao’s school. The two of them were upstairs and downstairs in the laboratory. After staying there for so many days, they might have talked about these topics long ago.
"How long will it take to be put into commercial use?" Xia Xiaoxuan asked immediately.
"Haha... Not all scientific research success should be considered commercial. Of course, we are a profit-oriented enterprise, and commercialization is definitely the main goal." Su Yuanshan smiled slightly and said, "But before, we still had to use the data, confirm and repeat. Then consider the following - you have to know that in addition to the mechanical peeling method, the graphene preparation methods we can consider at present are very expensive."
"So after determining whether graphene is excellent, the most important area is to consider reducing the production cost while increasing the yield. Otherwise, it is possible that like lithium batteries, you have been in the laboratory for decades alone."
Xia Xiaoxuan nodded: "But the lithium battery has been successful, right?"
"So, the current cost has dropped to a level that is worthy of marketing promotion." Su Yuanshan said and prepared to get up: "Do you have something to do? If not... I will go back. If you have any questions, you can call me or send me an email."
"Ah...no."
"Yeah, come on!"
Xia Xiaoxuan sent Su Yuanshan out and returned to her position. She took a few deep breaths, then opened the drawer, took out the snacks and stuffed them into her mouth.
While chewing the crunch of the overlord, she looked at Su Yuanshan's comments again, and the evaluation of Su Yuanshan by attending the generals appeared in her mind.
——Yes, she did go to Xi Xiaoding to apply for signature by applying for experiment funds, and then happened to meet Xi Xiaoding when she was free, so the two chatted for a while...
Of course, the main thing that the two talked about was Xia Xiaoxuan asking about Su Yuanshan’s situation - after all, Su Yuanshan is her head and the nominal “boss”.
Then in Xi Xiaoding's mouth, Su Yuanshan could do almost everything.
"It's true that he is the mountain god." Xia Xiaoxuan looked at the comments and thought to herself how could this damn thing be a modification that a junior college student could make - this is completely a professor-level understanding!
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That night, Su Yuanshan, Chen Jing, Xi Xiaoding, Wang Chuanfu, Cheng Peng and Li Xiao and others invited Ken Kuodagi and his party on the third floor. When they learned that this photo had invited many domestic bigwigs to dinner, a group of Ni people obviously felt quite helpful.
After dinner, Su Yuanshan received a call from Claude, saying that the press conference was very successful. He also joked that he would have shorted Intel's stock if he had known...
"Haha, fortunately you didn't do it, otherwise you wouldn't be able to cry at that time."
"But now Intel's stock has begun to fall." Claude said unconvincedly: "And the bullets are still flying... If not, there will be news that Intel is not even arithmetic in the Internet world. You know, the sales of the first generation of Pentium were still very good last year."
"Then let's talk about it tomorrow..."
After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan took a shower first, then turned on the computer and connected to the Internet.
Due to the extra HK transfer route, the current network speed is barely acceptable. He logged into Yuanxin's code hosting forum - which has become the largest open source community in North America and is known as the paradise for programmers - after entering the hardware sub-forum, he noticed that a post titled "Why is the calculation test result of Pentium 66 different from other CPUs?" came out.
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Silicon Valley, Intel headquarters.
Andy Grove stood in front of the window, looking at the falling sunset outside the window, his eyes full of anxiety.
His secretary stood behind him, and he didn't dare to say anything.
In the past few hours, Intel has encountered its biggest crisis since its establishment.
Xinghai made a sound of wind half a month ago. CPU was like an invisible rope, tightening around Intel's neck - the whole Intel was even more nervous, even more nervous than Xinghai.
Because Intel doesn't know what level of Xinghai's CPU will be, because this CPU is said to use the most advanced technology from Yuanxin.
There is no doubt that it is the most nervous before the dust settles.
But after the release, Intel still breathed a sigh of relief.
Yes, everyone in Intel admitted that Xinghai CPU, which "takes the lead" in adopting the secondary cache technology, does have absolute advantages in the same frequency, and even has the advantages in execution efficiency compared to the second-generation Pentium with more than half of the frequency.
But Intel is not a vegetarian, it is nothing more than the improvement brought by the secondary caching technology, which makes anyone seem to have no.
The design department, which has no opponent for a long time, is even a little happy - the opponent is finally no longer a weakling who can only build a copycat.
However, as the forums and news groups used a certain test software to perform scientific calculations on CPUs and found that the first generation of Pentium would have completely different errors, the news quickly spread to various forums and news groups with the wind of Xinghai's release of a brand new CPU.
Even just a few hours ago, someone checked the open source code of the test software and reproduced the first generation of Pentium floating point division error based on the code.
To be honest, this error...intel knows it.
Last year, before the chip was officially released, test engineers discovered this "low-level" error. But the filming was successful at that time and was preparing for mass production. In addition, it was extremely coincidental to reproduce the error. Only in extreme large amounts of mathematics, science and engineering calculations would lead to erroneous results.
Most importantly, the first generation of Pentium is just a transitional product.
Therefore, almost all senior executives at that time believed that this was not a problem at all, and perhaps no one could find it during the use of elimination.
In fact, Andy Grove now believes that even if it is discovered now, it is not a problem. Intel has enough reason to convince users that this bug will not affect any performance and normal use of the CPU.
But just as Xinghai released a new product, a bug broke out, so there was a problem.
Andy Grove frowned tightly, turned to face the secretary, and said in a deep voice: "What is the result of their discussion?"
The secretary said carefully: "Explain to the user that this is not a loophole, nor a flaw, it is just an irrelevant little bug, and at the same time, it speeds up the launch of Pentium Por."
"Is there no other way?" asked Andy Grove.
The secretary gritted his teeth and whispered: "Yes, a comprehensive recall of the problematic CPU...but that way, we may spend more than $400 million!"
"Andy, most importantly, our stock price... has fallen 3% today. If we don't take action..."
Andy Grove took a deep breath.
As a listed company, especially a semiconductor company that is about to win the industry's number one, its share price has fallen by 3% in one day, which is an extremely serious signal.
"Let me think about it..."
Andy Grove waved dejectedly.
Chapter completed!