Chapter 245 Everyone is laughing, only Intel cries (Central)

In April, after the 6x86cpu of cyrix was released, it participated in more chip test competitions and received widespread praise. The honor of "the fastest CPU in the world" was used by various authoritative computer newspapers and magazines to describe cyrix686.

Various good reputations naturally attracted a large number of orders in the market. PC manufacturers such as ibm, Epson, elite companies, nec, and Samsung have developed the main version of cyrix686 and placed orders with cyrix. Hardware manufacturers around the world expressed their support for cyrix686. It seems that Intel is about to fall, and cyrix, a company that insists on naming chips after x86, is the orthodox of 80x86 architecture chips.

Of course, many gamers questioned this praise. After all, some game enthusiasts personally compared the performance of cyrix686 and baby, and baby completely beat cyrix686.

The only thing that many people criticize is that this chip is just like the performance of Longteng Technology's stock in the securities market, and is constantly rising prices! Generally, Intel's newly produced chips were initially sold at a price of more than US$1,000, and then it consolidates the market by continuously reducing prices. After the price drops to the low-end price, more advanced chips will be released at a high price. Longteng Technology's chips were originally 500 US dollars per. Seeing that the market is invincible, it began to rise. From the beginning, the chips of 500 US dollars per unit were sold for 2 months, but the price rose to 650 US dollars per unit.

Longteng Company provides two treatments to domestic computer companies and foreign computer companies. Chinese PC manufacturers only need US$500 to get the goods at the initial price, while foreign manufacturers have to accept the cruel fact that Baby chips are constantly rising. Of course, except for Dell, the world's number one PC manufacturer, because Dell is also Zhang Bixuan's asset, so Dell enjoys a discounted price of US$500 to purchase Baby chips.

These two treatments naturally resulted in a significant increase in sales of Chinese computer brands overseas, and Dell was extremely awesome, and it was good news for purchasing baby chips with preferential prices.

Dell's stock has soared continuously in the Nasdaq market, with its market value exceeding the 60 billion US dollar mark. It seems that it was not a big problem to rise to 300 billion 99 years ago. The goal is to make it rise to 500 billion, and then sell all Dell's stocks mercilessly.

In fact, Dell's annual net profit is only US$100 million. However, even the stocks of high-tech companies that have been losing money after high listing can rise several times or dozens of times in a blink of an eye. Slightly positive news stimulates that the stocks of high-tech companies are rising like somersault clouds.

Baby chips have increased prices, but orders have been more. Many PC manufacturers are afraid that prices will continue to rise in a few days, so they mostly place orders as soon as possible and stockpile Baby chips. In the whole two months, Baby chips sold more than 2 million and had a net profit of 1 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to twice the amount of losses in the Intel Pentium bug incident.

Although cyrix686 did not shake the status of Longteng Baby, the conspiracy of price increase of Baby chips was also stifled. Baby chips began to follow market rules, reducing the price by an average of USD per day. If the stock performs in a bear market, it will generally continue to fall.

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"Cyrix's 6x86cpu provides two pipelines, each of which is seven-level. 6x86 combines the perspectives of risc and cisc in architectural design, making it have a superscalar and super pipeline execution core, and has the characteristics of temporary register rename, guessing execution, out-of-order execution, data dependence and exclusion, and can still execute x86 instructions in a sustainable manner. Intel Pentium has two five-level pipelines." Longteng Technology engineers reported to Zhang Bixuan's enemy situation, "What a good design!" The engineer did not forget to add his subjective evaluation.

"So what?" Zhang Bixuan asked.

"That means that the designers of Cyrix are really fucking geniuses!" said the engineer.

Zhang Bixuan suddenly wanted to stumble on this guy, and he was talking nonsense. Now, Intel, Amd, and Longteng are not using the two ideas of Risc and Cisc to design chips. Almost all chip design ideas are both simple and want to have technologies such as assembly lines.

The working method of the assembly line is like an assembly line in industrial production. In the CPU, a command processing pipeline consists of 5-6 circuit units with different functions, and then a x86 instruction is divided into 5-6 steps and then executed by these circuit units separately. This way, one instruction can be completed in a CPU clock cycle, thereby increasing the computing speed of the CPU. Since the emergence of pipeline technology in Intel 486, this technology has been popular. Of course, chip designers who pursue extreme simplicity will inevitably show disdain for pipeline technology.

Taking out your baby's drawings can be said to be a peerless work. No IC designer in the world can design chips that can be produced at a process level of 0.5 microns that are more powerful than Intel's 0.35 microns?

Looking at Zhang Bixuan's attempt to hit someone, the engineer hurriedly said: "The most important thing is that the cyrix production line may have reached the 0.35 micron level!"

Zhang Bixuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? This little guy is so skillful?"

Craig Berritt rushed to say: "It's not that Cyrix is ​​awesome, but that our Longteng's craftsmanship level has never been ahead of the market. Now that the amd can produce K5 means that their craftsmanship level has reached 0.35 microns. It is said that Ingel is improving its technology and preparing to increase it to 0.25 microns, and they are planning to produce a Pentium 2 chip that is completely leading the market."

"If we can improve the process level to 0.35 microns, just modify the baby's design drawings slightly, we can produce chips with 2 to 3 times stronger performance than the current baby! How long does it take to improve the production line to the 0.35 micron process level?" Zhang Bixuan asked.

Craig Berritt said helplessly: "The key problem is that many key equipment overseas are banned from us. At present, many equipment are obtained by our Physics Research Institute, and by means of smuggling. According to the existing conditions, the production line can be improved to 0.45 microns at most."
Chapter completed!