Building madman

Longtian single-chip microcomputers were born. Three million units were installed a day, and the follow-up supply continued. For the technology alliance, this not only means that China's market share has shrunk significantly, but it may also have to face a rising giant. .

For their own consideration, various companies have spent big prices to buy new equipment in the hands of North American players.

Intel Research Room.

The six largest shareholders sat around on both sides, and dozens of top engineers from SoftMicro, Gaotong, IMB, and HP opened the X-shaped main box under the guidance of the chief engineer of Intel.

People in the twenties stood up and watched.

"Thomson, what do you say?" The shareholders are not directors and do not understand the company's own business.

"Dear boss, don't worry, let me see!"

The chief engineer inspected the instrument for a long time, and carefully disassembled it again. "If you ignore the top-level Longtian core integrated circuit, the mounted logic machine, and the encoder, the rest are all single-chip microcomputers, such as integrated voice system chips and integrated The chip of the computing system, the chip of the integrated network card control system...If the game is removed, in addition to the above functions, it can only browse the web, edit text, surf the Internet, voice chat, and run three commercial programs!"

After finishing speaking, the chief engineer thought a little bit, "It reminds me of the ARM architecture developed by the England Research Office, or it is equivalent to the self-developed ARM architecture multi-core processor cluster!"

(Android and ios are developed based on ARM. Longtian sells ios to Pingguo, and uses T-RAM made by Daoyi. The principles of the two are similar.)

"What is ARM?" Shareholders don't understand.

"Um... It's just like ARM, which is a 32-bit streamlined instruction set.

It is characterized by fixed instruction length, high execution efficiency, small size, low power consumption, and low cost. It supports Thumb (16-bit) ARM (32-bit) dual instruction set, and is well compatible with 8-bit and 16-bit devices.

Due to the extensive use of registers, the instruction execution speed is extremely fast, and most data operations are completed in the registers, which makes its addressing mode flexible and simple, and the execution efficiency is extremely high!"

Hearing this, the faces of the six shareholders turned black in an instant, "We took out a lot of banknotes, and provided you with delicious, delicious and fun things. Just so easily surpassed by a Chinese company?"

"No, no, boss, please don't worry! The ARM architecture is not at the same level as the X86 architecture we are currently using!"

"What do you mean?"

"It's an analogy to you... It's impossible to compare, they are incomparable."

"Why? Are we so behind?"

"NoNoNo! They are behind, we are advanced!"

The chief engineer is helpless, "You have to understand the difference between the two.

In terms of performance, the X86 CPU is casually 256M, 512M or more dual-core or even quad-core, currently using 90nm or more advanced process technology for production.ARM's CPU is usually only 16M. Recently, when Longtian came out, 64M CPUs were used. The production process is less than 200nm. It can be said that ARM is not the opponent of X86 structure system in terms of performance and production process.

In terms of expansion capabilities, our X86-structured computers use a “bridge” method to connect with expansion equipment, such as hard disks, memory, etc., and x86-structured computers have appeared for nearly 20 years. There are many types of supporting equipment and the price is relatively cheap. Therefore, the x86 structure of the computer can easily expand the performance, such as increasing memory, hard disk, replacing the graphics card and so on.As for ARM...

It can only connect the CPU to the data storage device through a dedicated data interface. Therefore, it is difficult to expand the performance of ARM storage and memory. Generally, the capacity of its memory and data storage has been determined during product design, so the ARM structure system is adopted. , Generally do not consider expansion.Basically follow the principle of'enough is enough'."

The chief engineer looked tangled and wanted to curse the designer of this machine.

It really cannot expand its functions. If a new program is developed, a new integrated chip needs to be added.

But for this machine with additional core chips, logic machines, and encoders, as long as the compatibility features are set in advance, the number of songs, movies, and games can be expanded by replacing or adding memory cards.

But the chief engineer did not dare to say clearly, because he could not crack the core chip and the mysterious symbol instruction set, so he could only use a metaphor.

"In addition, in terms of systems...

The X86 system is dominated by the Win series built by us and Software Micro, monopolizing the personal computer operating system for more than ten years, forming a huge user group, and deeply solidifying the habits of many users. At the same time, the x86 system has been developed in terms of hardware and software. Form a unified standard, almost all x86 hardware platforms can directly use the software and micro-window system, and almost all popular tools and software.

ARM currently uses Linux or Shenlong, and each hardware has to build its own system separately, which is incompatible with other systems. This also makes its application software difficult to transplant. Whether in Europe or China, there is no supply of software and hardware systems in this area. This has severely restricted the development and application of the ARM system.

Through the above comparison, we can clearly realize that ARM and X86 architectures cannot be compared at all, and ARM is not an opponent of X86 computers at all, and even has no qualifications for comparison."

There is one point that the chief engineer dare not say.

Because the X86 architecture uses a complex instruction set and pursues speed and performance, the power consumption is extremely high and a heat sink is required.And ARM...especially the Longtian version of the ARM architecture microprocessor cluster that uses graphene materials. It is estimated that it will not consume as much power as X86 for an hour after ten days of use.

Just like the smart card that has been running at full capacity for more than a month, it has only used 12% of its power until now. This is one hour of charging, which can last for more than half a year?

As for the cooling system...

The X86 architecture uses a fan and water cooling. People can use a layer of graphene heat dissipation film for a lifetime...

If you and iSoftStone can no longer think of a corresponding system suitable for mobile micro-end, the computer loses the China market is small, I am afraid that in the future, the mobile micro-end of the world will be monopolized by Longtian Technology.

After listening to the explanation, the shareholders slightly understand the difference between the two, but they are not insiders. How can they know about the mobile micro terminal. One of the shareholders said: "In other words, Longtian launches cheap machines just to capture the China market?"

The chairman of Intel hurriedly replied: "Yes, no one will buy this kind of low-end electronic products even if it is as cheap as one or two thousand."

"Is there any countermeasures? I can't be driven out of China by others like this, right?"

"After the board of directors discussed with SoftMicro, they decided to open up the XP permissions and let Huaxia crack it. It doesn't matter if the pirated version is used. As long as we use more customers, we can hold our position and wait for Longtian Technology and its partners. It is found that when the cost of investing in the microcontroller cannot be recovered, a huge loss causes its own bankruptcy, and the winning will be us."

"not bad!"

"In addition, bosses, we have reached an agreement with SoftMicro, Qualcomm and other companies. In order to target the strong smart card, we are preparing to jointly launch a smart phone using the WindowsMobile system and acquire Palm, which uses the PalmOS system to distribute handheld computers. Two products Go online at the same time and kill Longtian and NT (Tiancheng) in one fell swoop."

"Excellent!"

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Technology alliances are not monolithic.

Intel is close to SoftMicro, and AMD, the old rival AMD, who has studied the Longtian ARM architecture, has brought a new product K8 architecture processor to the Symbian company that launched the Symbian system. ...

As for Pingguo, it bought ios from Longtian Technology Group...

Various other software and hardware manufacturers have united and separated, and have established their own brand new industrial chains...

For a time, various new product launch conferences emerge in endlessly...

But without exception, Longtian Technology has become a public enemy of the science and technology industry!

At the same time, a benchmark software for single-chip microcomputers that was recognized by the Overseas Technology Alliance was quietly listed.