On November 3, 1994, Amd Company CEO Jerry Sanders was the first to jump out and attract the attention of the market. Of course, it was not just to gloat about his old enemy Intel. [This chapter was first released - Ai-You-Sound-Novel Network, please remember the URL] In fact, it is more important to take advantage of the popularity and take advantage of Intel's danger to become Amd's opportunity.

In the second half of the press conference, it basically became an amd product price reduction promotion conference.

"Our K5 multi-core company of Amd can completely replace Intel's Pentium. Although its performance cannot be said to be stronger than Pentium, its cost-effectiveness is far better than Pentium. What's more important is that Pentium floating-point computing bugs have not appeared on the k5 chip. This is thanks to Intel, which insists that Pentium's patented technology will no longer be licensed to its peers. Therefore, the new bug only exists in Intel's own products, and our Amd's x86 architecture chip is a blessing in disguise, and there is no similar bug!" Jerry Sanders said humorously, "So, some users are worried that Pentium has bugs, so it is absolutely right to choose our k5 chip."

Since amd is not the leader in the core technologies of x86 and xrm architectures, and only obtains the authorization to use the architecture, it is naturally not possible to compare core technologies, and it can only be cost-effective for the time being. For example, the CPU of x86 architecture currently launched by amd, with a dual-core k5cpu with a main frequency of more than 133mhz, and the price has been reduced to a affordable US$129. In addition, the retail price of the quad-core k5 market is only US$299.

In history, K5 was the first time that Amd has independently developed, and it is no longer entirely based on Intel's chip architecture. This is not that Amd wants to rely on itself and work hard. Instead, Intel has regretted licensing the architecture to a large number of competitors since the 386 era. Before, the authorized patents could not be recovered, but subsequently patented technology was no longer shared with competitors. Therefore, Amd was forced to independently develop the K5 processor. This processor should have an old architecture, not as good as Intel's Pentium. More importantly, Pentium has gradually begun to use 0.35 to 0.25 micron process, but Amd's K5 is still mainly 0.5 micron process.

However, the k5 is still slightly inferior to the Pentium, but the price is far lower than the Pentium.

Of course, the global processor market has changed a lot compared to history. Even x86 architecture chips such as Pentium and K5, in addition to the instruction set performance, process, and main frequency, multi-core performance is also valued by consumers.

Originally, the multi-core chip was because Lin Qi felt that even if the process was backward, even if the architecture was advanced, the single core could not compete with Intel, so he began to use multi-core ultimate moves in advance.

But now multi-core has become the industry standard, and even innovations such as single-core bilinear linearity will not be bought by consumers. After all, one more physical core will always be stronger than a single-core disguised as two cores.

In addition, the Luban 1st generation, Luban 2nd generation series CPUs and Amd Company also quoted $69 to $399.69 for the dual-core CPUs of Luban 1st generation architecture, with a chip with a main frequency of 85mhz.399, and the Luban 2nd generation 8-core CPUs with a main frequency of up to 120mhz.

After the press conference of Amd Company ended, it quickly worked. A large number of PC-compatible machine manufacturers took a wait-and-see attitude towards Intel and sent CPU orders for newly produced assembled machines to Amd Company. In a short time, Amd quickly locked in CPU shipment orders of more than US$1 billion next year.

According to market analysis, amd is expected to earn US$4.5 billion in revenue in 1994, while revenue in 1995 should be expected to exceed US$6 billion. In terms of profit, annual net profit in 1994 is expected to exceed US$200 million, while in 1995 it is expected to exceed US$350 million.

Given that Amd's shipments in both x86 and xrm are increasing, they are becoming increasingly optimistic by the market.

As a result, the stock price of amd company has also begun to take off, soaring by 30% in the short term. The market value growth within this year has doubled, and the total market value has once again exceeded the 10 billion US dollar mark.

At the same time, Intel's market value plummeted by 20% from a market value of more than US$15 billion, returning to a level comparable to Amd.

Another CPU manufacturer in the x86 camp, Cyrix, also announced that the cyrix686 chip has launched a popular single-core version and a $98 dual-core version, which has quickly relied on Intel's floating-point computing bug crisis to seize a lot of market share.

After Intel broke out a floating-point operation bug, it was amplified and promoted by the media in a short time. In the entire market, most CPU manufacturers outside Intel are basically beneficiaries.

However, the Pangu computer camp that benefits the most should be the Pangu computer camp. For a long time, consumers around the world still believe in the technological advantages of the United States. Even if PC computers are high-priced and low-profile, they are not ahead of their performance. However, a considerable number of government and enterprise-level consumers around the world believe that PC computer systems are more stable and have fewer bugs.

Even Pangu computers have always had performance that exceeds PC and are cheaper in price. Even the after-sales service provided is far better than the PC camp. For a long time, the market share has fluctuated around 35% to 52%.

Overall, the total user scale of PC computers around the world is still more than that of Pangu computers.

However, after a bug in Intel's floating-point computing this time, Pangu's computer camp's shipments increased significantly in the short term, temporarily steadily suppressing the shipments of PC computers.

"After a series of complex evaluations, we concluded that the 8th generation Pangu computer with a $1,000 floating point computing level, and even a PC of $2,500. It is slightly better than PC in terms of startup speed, application software opening speed and gaming performance, etc. The gap between the two is mainly because in terms of CPU architecture, the XRM architecture is a more scientific and efficient streamlined instruction set, while the CPU used by PC is an x86 architecture, and its design concept is an outdated complex instruction set, and there were problems such as bloated and inefficient architecture in the early stage. In order to ensure compatibility, it is impossible to correct these problems. The increasingly complex x86 chip is not only inefficient, but also the more critical over-complex instruction set architecture, which also increases the workload and difficulty of designers, which may also cause more undiscovered bugs...

In terms of single-core performance, the 8-core Luban 2nd generation chip is slightly behind 3%. However, in terms of multi-core performance, the 8-core Luban 2nd generation CPU is directly leading the six-core Pentium chip by more than 40%. At the market price, the 8-core Luban 2nd generation chip only costs US$399, while the six-core Pentium 133mhz chip is as high as US$790.

From the perspective of cost-effectiveness, ordinary consumers should consider Pangu computers more. Not only are the CPUs of Pangu computers cheaper, but other accessories are also more cost-effective.

For gamers and graphic design workers, Pangu computer performance and experience are obviously more satisfying...

As for compatibility, a large number of software developers will most likely develop Pangu version when developing PC version applications. If one develops Pangu platform version, then other developers will also provide similar products. Unless a small number of hardware and special niche software only runs on specific platforms, ordinary users really don’t need to consider the compatibility issue between Pangu and PC platforms.

At least, when it comes to surfing the Internet, whether you use Pangu or PC, you can log in to the website, and the experience is basically the same.

Pangu computers are cheaper every year on Double Eleven. For November 11, Pangu computers should also be considered."

On November 8, 1994, the Yahoo Technology Column convened hundreds of experts from the computer industry to evaluate and demonstrate Pangu computers and PCs.

These reviews and arguments finally made some facts clear. PCs are more expensive and have worse performance than Pangu computers. For ordinary consumers, purchasing Pangu computers is obviously a more cost-effective choice.

For a moment, the Pangu camp's momentum increased sharply, and many compatible machine manufacturers also planned to increase the production capacity of Pangu compatible machines next year and lower the production plan for PC compatible machines next year.

Some industry insiders even made extreme judgments, believing that the crisis caused by Intel's bug may be similar to the flood of junk games in Atali in the early 1980s, losing the trust of mainstream gamers in the market, and eventually leading to a counterattack on Pangu consoles and becoming the mainstream of the home game console market.
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