Chapter 1438: Saving the Nation Through Curves

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"Qin Feng, Intel announced the release date of the new generation of CPU!" Lei Jun immediately called Qin Feng after learning the news.

"I've seen it!" Qin Feng looked solemn.

Nowadays, with the launch of submarine optical cables in China, communication with the other side of the ocean has become smoother.

In this case, Qin Feng naturally learned about a lot of international news as soon as possible.

Intel has announced the release date of its next generation CPU, Pentium 3: Tualatin.

Its launch date was January 1, 1999.

In 1999, this very special year, on the first day, it went public.

Tualatin! Intel is finally going to show off its trump card.

The god U of that generation was truly a being that most Chinese people believed in.

It can be said that Tualatin is the reason why countless people really praise Intel. Even though many people choose to buy AMD chips because of financial constraints. However, you just need to ask them which CPU to buy?

Basically, the answer to you nine times out of ten is that you are not short of money to buy Intel. If you are short of money, buy AMD.

This is already a consensus in the computer industry. This is not only a consensus reached by netizens, but also by many relevant media and even industry insiders. As long as you're not short of money, buy Intel.

If you are short on money, consider AMD.

Tracing its origins, it comes from Tualatin, and is completely invincible in the world.

At that time, Tualatin completely crushed AMD and made AMD completely unable to compete with it.

In fact, speaking of it, AMD and Intel were competing for the 1GHz frequency. As a result, AMD launched the 1GHz Athlon processor ahead of schedule, which made Intel lose a bit of face.

After all, Intel is the CPU leader. So Intel later launched Pentium 3, G, but not the Tualatin core. Because Intel has always made money first. This first-generation Pentium 3 is not so much a Pentium 3 as a revised version of the Pentium 2.

In addition, in order to distinguish it from the Pentium 2 revision and avoid cynicism in the industry,

Just changed the packaging mode. This model of repackaging old wine in new bottles has been tried repeatedly by Intel. However, it turned out that due to carelessness, the packaging was not qualified and the temperature was extremely high. Moreover, the heat sink was not easy to replace. If the player was not careful, the chip would be damaged.

Therefore, Pentium later launched Pentium 4 in a hurry to save face. In fact, this is the real Pentium 3. However, Intel still hasn't gotten rid of its bad habits, and still wants to use its previous chips to cope with the market, but only after overclocking them.

The result can be imagined. That is high frequency and low energy. The frequency looks great, but in fact, the performance is horribly low.

It was hammered by AMD Athlon.

This can only be said to be self-inflicted. After all, this is not because the enemy is too strong, but because he is seeking death.

After this, Intel learned from the pain and stopped squeezing out toothpaste, but actually came up with their real next-generation processor: Pentium 3: Tualatin.

This is Intel's true Pentium 3 generation processor architecture. Before this, it was just deceiving people.

Its performance is terrible. The so-called Pentium 4 chip has a similar frequency to G, but Tualatin consumes only half of its power and generates only half of its heat.

The difference between this can be imagined.

The final result is that no one cares about the Pentium 4 on the market, and no one wants it. The whole nation is crazy about Tualatin. As a result, Tualatin is hard to find on the market. Even to the point of increasing the price.

The rival Athlon series CPU was disgraced by Tualatin and completely lost the limelight when it was first launched.

However, historically, Tualatin was not launched until 2000.

And it's only September 1998, which is a full year and a half ahead of schedule.

This year and a half could have been a golden development period for Loongson.

What should we do now?

"Qin Feng, what should we do?" Lei Jun asked.

According to the current chip information released by Intel in all aspects, regardless of performance, power consumption, and heat dissipation, Godson is beaten in all aspects, and it is not an ordinary beat, but a crushing beat.

Between the two, let alone comparison, basically even a comparison would make people feel that Tualatin is embarrassed. Because Tualatin should not be compared with Godson at all.

Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"There's nothing I can do about this purely technical gap." Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"Well, we can indeed increase the frequency now. I can get a frequency of 1G now, but the heat generation is too scary, which requires a very large radiator. Moreover, the performance has not improved much!" Lei Jun was helpless. explain.

When your core architecture is not good enough, forcibly increasing the frequency will not result in an improvement in performance. In other words, the performance improvement is not proportional.

Will players accept it?

Qin Feng thought for a long time.

"Mr. Lei, I think we can only study it as soon as possible. As for the final result, we will see then." Qin Feng could only decide, "Of course, the CPU performance is not as good as Intel, that's for sure. So. , we focus on developing GPUs. The GPU I told you must be developed."

GPU, this is the display core processor. A CPU dedicated to processing image data.

This also came later. It's too early now. I'm afraid only Nvidia has some ideas and is trying to study it. Other graphics card manufacturers don't realize this at all.

And this is decisive.

Because, when the GPU came out, the market position of the graphics card was established. Because, in the future, graphics cards will no longer rely on CPU computing power. It can be said that since the launch of GPU, the performance of CPU is no longer so critical.

Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't matter at all. It's just that the CPU performance is weaker, it doesn't affect anything. Because the graphics card has its own GPU to perform calculations and does not rely on the powerful computing power of the CPU.

This performance improvement is very powerful. It is no exaggeration to say that GPU has directly changed the world.

Of course, the consequence is that Intel has become even more lazy. The next generation of Core has been more than ten generations. As a result, every time it is updated, it squeezes a little bit more toothpaste.

This kind of promotion is simply a hooliganism.

Of course, Intel is also helpless. After all, the desktop market has begun to slump, and the mobile phone market has begun to rise. But Intel is weak in this area. This is also the reason why it does not want to make progress in the desktop market.

"Okay, I understand." Lei Jun was also very human and calmed down quickly.

Since the CPU cannot be surpassed in a short period of time, it is better to save the country through curves.

GPU must be developed. If they don't develop it, they really don't have a weapon against Intel. By then, I'm afraid I will really be beaten by Intel.