Strictly speaking, the 7-inch pocket computer that Hu Weiwu showed Lin Qi was not the third-generation platform developed by Zhangyu Company. Instead, the pocket netbook developed by Zhangyu Game Company. The dual-core arm processor, CPU power consumption is less than 1.5w, which is equivalent to one-twentieth of desktop power consumption, and has 8mb memory and 2mb integrated graphics card.

Other hardware is also a profound meaning of energy saving. In addition, although Sparrow is small, it has wired and wireless network functions. It has built-in browsers, Pangu WPS offices and software malls and other applications, and has built-in 500mb flash memory.

In addition to the system and default software, which occupies 70mb of space, the remaining one has more than 400mb of space for download.

Of course, it may seem that the space is far from enough to store videos, but the capacity should be relatively abundant when storing handheld games, or downloads and music.

Looking at this thing, Lin Qi couldn't help but sigh, although at most, it can be compared with the future mp4.

If it was launched for ten years, there would definitely be no market prospects. However, if it was launched now, it would be hard to say. At least, this product in the early 1990s should be a stunning work.

At least, I changed my laptop to be able to be put into my pocket. Some young people may be willing to buy this kind of progress.

The biggest innovation of this 7-inch pocket computer is probably to transplant the Pangu system to the arm platform after simplifying it. If it is successfully done in the future, Pangu laptop can directly use the arm chip instead of the mobile version of the xrm chip. After all, no matter how the xrm chip is developed, it can only be said to be power-saving than the x86 chip with complex instruction sets, but it is absolutely impossible to compare with the arm architecture.

For mobile products, xrm chips are not the best choice when battery life is the first priority.

The xrm chip is not bad either, it is just moving more and more towards high-performance chips. In order to maintain its leading position, power consumption is gradually increasing.

Therefore, in terms of low-power CPUs, we still hope to focus more on low-power arm! After all, arm does not pursue performance leadership at all, but only pursues a streamlined architecture, low-power, and usable chip. This kind of chip will undoubtedly cater to the development trend of mobile terminals in the next few decades.

After all, the technological development of batteries should be 50 years or even 100 years, and the technological development and breakthrough speed are extremely slow. Therefore, even if semiconductor technology continues to develop in the future, mobile terminals have more and more rich applications, but... it is still impossible to use high-performance chips. High power consumption is the way to death.

Later, Microsoft and Intel were traumatized in the mobile terminal market. Especially mobile phones and tablets, they repeatedly tried and failed. This is because neither Microsoft's system nor Intel's chips are suitable for portable terminals such as lighter mobile phones or tablets.

Arm chips are firmly watching low power consumption as the king, so later I found out that this is really the case in the mobile era. Low power consumption can really do whatever you want, not low power consumption chips!

Now, the newly entrepreneurial semiconductor, with a 0.5 micron production line, can produce about 30,000 dual-core arm chips with main frequency 50mhz each month, and the production capacity is still in the stage of gradually releasing. It is expected that when the production line stabilizes, the monthly production capacity can reach more than 200,000.

Each chip has a factory price of RMB 300, and the gross profit exceeds 50%. It takes about 1 million chips to produce, which roughly can recover the input cost of the production line. After the cost is recovered, the profit of the production line will gradually enter a period of rapid release. Therefore, if the production is full and sales are full, the cost is expected to be recovered in half a year. After that, continue to use these production lines that have recovered costs to continue production, and the cost has dropped to an extremely low level.

Of course, with the development of time, the global semiconductor process level will continue to develop. Even if a production line can last for five or even more than ten years, the prices of products produced in five years and ten years are almost the same as those of traditional industrial products. If you cannot make excess profits with advanced technology, you can only earn the hardest processing fee.

It is precisely because if there is no order at the beginning of the chip factory's new production line investment, it will become a huge loss industry. Because after a few years of investment in the new process, it will quickly depreciate due to the new process being put into production.

New entrepreneurial semiconductor companies and Lishan Semiconductors have now ranked among the top ten semiconductor companies in the world. The reason why they can grow so quickly is to a greater extent because orders have been urging them to start production of new production lines. It is not that they are looking for order opportunities outside after they start production lines.

This difference has caused the development of these two major companies to be almost similar to the development trajectory of Intel in the era when PCs are becoming increasingly popular. Both one factory has just started production, and a new chip factory project has begun to start again. At least three or five new factories are put into production a year, and more than ten new chip factories are put into production.

After each new chip factory is put into production, the process level will be improved. After that, old products can even be sold at a low price to suppress competitors.

...

Less than 500 meters away from the newly-start semiconductor company, and next door is Lishan Semiconductor Company.

These two semiconductor companies have always been peaceful. More because they all rely on new entrepreneurial organizations to make a living. Therefore, the competition between the two companies is not about life-and-death, even when patents are authorized, personnel borrowed each other, and orders can be transferred to each other. The relationship is almost the same as a company.

Lin Qi visited the newly-enterprise semiconductor company for a short time and went to Lishan Semiconductor Company to see it again. Lishan Semiconductor Company attaches great importance to Mr. Lin's inspection. After all, although Lishan Semiconductor is currently considering diversified development and no longer fully relies on orders from the new entrepreneurship department, 80% of its business is related to the new entrepreneurship department.

Because the 0.5 micron production line of Xinxing Semiconductor Company is used for the production of arm chips, Lishan Semiconductor Company is lucky this time that the CPU chip of Pangu's 8th generation computer was produced by Lishan Semiconductor Company.

This is also some differences in the strategies of Xinxing Semiconductor and Lishan Semiconductor. Xinxing Semiconductor is no longer satisfied with market orders for the xrm architecture, and has set its sights on the risky and challenging arm chip market, and plans to explore this emerging market field.

However, although Lishan Semiconductor wants to diversify, it is still hesitant, and its main business still revolves around Pangu Computer!

Pangu’s 8th generation computer, the biggest innovation is that the CPU technology has been improved to 0.5 microns.

1 micron is raised to 0.5 micron, and the span is obviously very large.

The chip architecture has also undergone a series of optimizations, and the code name of the new generation of xrm chip architecture has also been upgraded to the Luban second-generation chip.

Previously, although Luban 1st generation chips have been continuously increasing their core frequency, they have different frequency versions. Even the chips with 0.8 micron process produced by Amd Company are considered Luban 1st generation CPUs. Basically, the xrm chips processed at a process level between 1 micron and 0.8 microns are not only Luban 1st generation.

Compared with the 386 and 486 of the same era, Luban 1st generation continues to beat the entire x86 family. The performance gap is even more than doubled.

It was not until Intel launched the Pentium chip that the process level was improved to 0.5 microns. It was not until Intel directly relied on the advantages of the process to narrow the performance gap to an negligible level.

However, the xrm chip produced using the 1 micron to 0.8 micron process level can have similar performance to the Pentium chip produced by Intel's 0.5 micron process. The first generation of Luban can also be regarded as a generation of magic u.

As for the Luban 2nd generation frequency, the main frequency of Pangu 7th generation 66mhz was mentioned 100mhz, but the optimization of the architecture and process improvements resulted in at least doubled performance, but the power consumption dropped from the previous 30 watts to 20 watts. At the same time, the level 2 cache was added, so there is a huge room for improvement compared to previous products.

Furthermore, the power consumption is reduced and the heat dissipation is lower, so... it also provides space for overclocking. If you are lucky, you may not be able to exceed 150mhz.

For example, although the 75mhz version produced by Luban's first generation amd company was not officially adopted, it was regarded as a magic tool by some overclockers. The most awesome overclocking user surpassed 75mhz to 150mhz!
Chapter completed!