Extraordinary Genius

“Sanders, it's Von. How's it going with the accelerator processor that Super Wei worked with Eagle Wei Da? ”

There are four main factors that limit the appearance of tablets, three in hardware and one in software, primarily operating systems. The operating system is also subject to hardware limitations. It cannot be developed to think that it works well. As a result, the hardware does not work at all, right?

As far as hardware is concerned, the main ones are processors, screens and batteries. Where the processors include CPUs and GPUs, etc., the screen also requires multi-touch, and because the screen is larger, the performance of the battery is higher.

Once the tablet has been designed, Feng Yu's request is to have at least eight consecutive hours of video viewing.

On the battery side, breakthroughs have been made, but if the core of the processor consumes too much energy, then there is not only the problem of power consumption, but also the main problem, which is heat.

Tablets, but like cell phones, without heat fans, nobody wants to play, it feels like the tablet on their hands is hot, right?

There are also high requirements for screen clarity, touchscreen sensitivity, etc. Currently, windstorm electronics is one of the world's top LCD display screens, and this can basically meet Feng Yu's requirements.

The only thing is the processor side, or not. Tablets are now made with products from Superior and Eagle Weitar, so the tablets are close to two centimeters thick.

And if you count the other accessories, the entire tablet will weigh too much, and even with a plastic case, it will cost hundreds of grams. If it is designed according to Feng Yu's aluminum alloy housing, it should weigh at least 800 grams.

Something so heavy, it's hard enough to hold it with your hands all the time, let alone lie down and use it. One accidentally fell on his face, and he didn't smash it.

Feng Yu has told Lenovo several times that this tablet is not a miniaturization of the all-in-one machine, nor is it the ThinkPad of IBM, Microsoft's TablatPC, and of course, it cannot be understood as a PDA.

The primary use of this tablet is entertainment, which can combine office properties as performance improves, but definitely not developed for office purposes.

So satisfying some entertainment performance is enough, there's no need to be so powerful.

The same goes for the system, there is no need to add anything upwards, it should just be the smartphone's operating system upgrade, not the PC operating system shrink.

This is a product that goes between smartphones and computers, so this system, if it goes between them. This is true of both performance and size.

Even thinking about Silver Mountain invests a lot of energy in developing this YOS system. To that end, Yinshan merged a number of small software design companies to get professional software designers to expand their teams.

At this point, even thinking about Silver Mountain is not bad money.

When everything else is going very well, the processor is stuck.

Superior and Eagle Weida are not uncooperative with each other, but they all want this product to perform optimally, so they find that architecture design is always unsatisfactory to them. It's either too thick or too big, or it has other drawbacks.

Saunders got another call from Feng Yu today, and he was embarrassed to say, "Feng, this is not a satisfactory design yet. But we're speeding up, and I'm sure we'll have results soon. ”

Feng Yu shook his head. That's what you told me last year. A year went by and nothing showed up. Is that what you said soon?

Feng Yu would have gone mad if it hadn't been for the super virtue dual-core processor project. Ultimately, neither Super Wei nor Eagle Weida attach much importance to this product, and they are more worried that their current strengths will be outweighed by other companies.

It's not wrong to focus on strengths, but they don't know how much profit the tablet will make in the future.

The traditional desktop market will shrink, the all-in-one market will expand, the notebook market will expand, the tablet market will expand and the PC market will expand as a whole.

According to this pattern, products with a more rational layout, less space and less energy consumption would be more popular.

“Do you know ARM? What do you think of their product architecture? ”

“ARM? They do have a unique microprocessor, but it's too low performance. How can they be the core of a PC if it's okay to be the core of a phone?” This company is a colleague, how could Super Wei not understand?

“I mean, what about their product architecture plan, and if we use their product architecture plan, can we give you some hints and make it faster to speed up the processor? ”

“This accelerator processor doesn't need so much performance, 800MHZ is fine, secondary cache 512KB is fine, graphics doesn't need so much excellence, core frequency 256MHZ is enough, what I want is low energy consumption, small space, can work on our tablet. ”

Tablet performance doesn't require so much excellence, and Feng Yu doesn't intend to make this into a luxury item for around $500.

Isn't it necessary to design better products instead of raising costs? Feng Yu temporarily positioned the tablet as an entertainment item, the price is too high and will definitely affect sales.

Having heard Feng Yu say this, Sanders replied: "Feng, their product architecture scheme is really quite mature and can inspire us a lot. But in that case, we're going to buy ARM's patent license. I'm going to talk to Eagle Waitar about this and see how this cost is shared. ”

Although both are subsidiaries of the Rain Holding Group, they are, after all, affiliated with different companies and have different shareholder composition, representing the interests of different people.

Of course, for Feng Yu, both companies were profitable, and he was able to follow suit, so he wasn't thinking in that much detail.

“Well, then go talk to Yang and give me an answer as soon as possible. Also, don't rush to contact ARM, it's better next month. ”

Sanders is a little surprised. Feng Yu is so anxious to research and develop this product. What does this mean that he can't contact ARM in such a hurry?

He suddenly thought that Feng Yu seemed very interested in hardware design and manufacturing companies. Is it true that Feng Yu was planning to acquire ARM?

Looks like Feng Yu said he was going to be the biggest giant in the IT industry.

Hardware, software, networks, computers, etc. are all involved in the hunt. If the future really becomes the biggest giant in the industry, it's not impossible.

Now that Saunders says it's inspiring, it should be fine. Didn't the previous Fruit Company A Series processors also adopt the ARM architecture, thus creating years of prosperity for their smartphones and tablets?

But in this world, fruit companies should lean aside.

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