Technological Hegemony

Luo Jia's idea immediately aroused everyone's strong interest. One of the reasons why two kinds of memory chips coexist in today's computers is speed. The hard disk is slow and the memory is fast, so the hard disk data needs to be preloaded into the memory. Then establish a direct connection between the memory and the CPU.

The issue of price is like the relationship between Lamborghini and big trucks. Lamborghini is fast but expensive, and big trucks are slow but cheap. Everyone likes big hard drives. After all, the bigger the hard drive, the more it can load. Games and short movies.

A 100TB ultra-fast hard drive is technically possible, but who wants to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a hard drive? If you really have so much money, why don’t you watch a small movie? You should have practiced with the ladies and sisters in the field.

In short, there are various reasons, and the final result is that there are two completely different memory chips inside the computer, causing unnecessary trouble.

After thinking for a while, An Ran said: "If we do it, we must not only enhance the speed, but also increase fault tolerance and addressability, increase the cache area, and establish new rules for direct connection between storage and CPU. In short, it will be more troublesome, but if we really Once it’s done, it will be meaningful.”

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

The members of the brainstorming group expressed their opinions one after another. Fang Yuanchu from the semiconductor design department said in a deep voice: "I also agree to start the research and development of next-generation memory chips. After all, we all know that future computers will be highly integrated. At the same time The computing unit, logic unit, storage unit, graphics unit, etc., are all placed inside a chip to achieve simplicity and power, which is the ultimate goal of the computing field.”

"The only problem is that the higher the level of integration, the more difficult it is to develop. I don't know if it can catch up with the autumn offensive."

The semiconductor technology of Stellar Technology is very advanced. Only the first generation of technology has reached the shocking 0.1 nanometer. The lower manufacturing process means that the finished chip is very small, and the power consumption and heat generation are very low.

As long as more efforts are made in design, storage, CPU, graphics card, etc. can all be installed in a chip that is less than the size of a fingernail. This process is called super integration.

Just imagine that in the future, high-performance desktop computers will be stuffed into small mobile phones, and it will be such an awesome thing to use mobile phones to run top 3A masterpieces.

However, the vision belongs to the vision, but the reality is very troublesome. Before, Xingchen Technology did make a fully integrated CPU, integrating memory, flash memory, and graphics card, but the performance of that product was relatively low, the yield rate was also low, and the cost was high. Not high enough.

The reason for this trouble is simple, because the technical difficulty brought by the CPU plus storage is one plus one equals three, and if the graphics card is added, it equals six. The more integrated functions, the more difficult the design will be. multiple growth.

Luo Jia thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Don't wait, the autumn offensive will start on time, and the new generation of storage will be the focus of research and development, and it will be handed over to the semiconductor center for technical research. If the autumn offensive can't catch up, there will be a winter offensive. Spring Offensive."

"In short, the semiconductor industry, we have to decide!"

...

Luo Jia's strategy of establishing a super-large-scale supply chain and partner groups finally received a reward one week before the start of school on September 1st, using the products of the Star series CPU,

It's officially on the market.

At one time, several new product launches were launched simultaneously on the land of China. Luo Jia declined the invitation of Mr. Ren of Huawei and went to the headquarters of Xiaomi Group in Beijing to promote Mr. Lei.

The reason why Luo Jia did this was not that he had a bad relationship with Huawei. On the contrary, it was because the relationship was so good that even if Luo Jia didn't attend, Huawei would fully understand.

In this huge product line, Huawei has the strongest combat effectiveness, so Luo Jia hopes to help Mr. Lei who is in trouble at the moment.

The press conference went very smoothly. Mr. Lei chose the location in the Forbidden City, which was full of gimmicks and eye-catching. In addition, Luo Jia, a heavyweight special guest, gave a 30-minute impromptu speech, which attracted countless attention from all over the country. Whether it is audience interaction or the number of people watching the live broadcast, they have created a record high.

At this press conference, Xiaomi launched four notebook products based on Xingchen CPU in one go, aiming at the new students who are about to start school.

The freshmen and their parents all over the country have been looking forward to the whole summer vacation, and they are all waiting for the computers installed with domestic CPUs to go on the market, and then buy them.

"The price of the youth version is 2,999 yuan!"

"The price of the standard version is 3,999 yuan!"

Mr. Lei was very excited, and announced the price of the new generation of Xiaomi notebooks in his very poor Mandarin. As expected, the price is quite low. The products listed at the same time include Huawei, Razer, Tongfang, Ziguang, Hisense, Shenzhou, etc. Among them, the prices of Xiaomi and Shenzhou are all below 3,000 yuan, and the most expensive one is Huawei, with a starting price of 5,500 yuan, and it still has the glory label of the sub-factory.

In the end, Mr. Lei is doing business, not charity. The 2,999 yuan notebook also gives away a lot of messy things. It looks affordable, but the quality is really average, which is exactly what the saying goes. You get what you pay for.

But from another point of view, you can own a computer with a Star CPU installed for less than 3,000 yuan, which greatly reduces the purchase threshold for consumers, and it is by no means a bad thing.

In all fairness, there is no problem with Xiaomi Group's low-price strategy, and the company is absolutely united and able to fight tough battles. What Luo Jia is really worried about is Mr. Lei.

Back then, when Xiaomi mobile phones were in full swing in India, Samsung Group was suppressed abruptly. Once Mr. Lei went to India on a business trip, the plane landed at 3:00 in the morning, and there was still a meeting with the Indian side at 10:00 in the morning. The time was very urgent.

According to the logic of normal managers, they should immediately find a hotel to stay in, let everyone take the time to sleep for two hours, take a bath and change clothes, have breakfast, and meet the business negotiations in a few hours with the most energy.

However, Mr. Lei dragged everyone to the KFC at the airport, saying that it was not worth opening a room for these few hours. Everyone would eat something at KFC, lie down on the table for a while when they were tired, and go to the meeting place at dawn.

Therefore, a person who can become a great entrepreneur must have an excellent IQ, and the final achievement can only be determined by one person's pattern.

"A computer with a domestic CPU installed, I'll fucking buy it!"

"Xingchen Technology is amazing! In my lifetime, I will finally use a domestic CPU!"

"The installation is still the Xingchen system. I heard that professionals use this system. It is much more powerful than Windows."

The bullet screens are refreshed crazily, and on the major shopping platforms, computer products with Xingchen CPU installed are sold out in just a few minutes. The major supply chain companies and assembly factories are running at full speed for 24 hours. It still can't satisfy everyone's crazy buying enthusiasm.

"I said, besides Xingchen CPU, whose memory is used in the new computer?"

"I heard that Samsung and Hynix are used for memory, and Micron and Toshiba are used for hard drives."

"What are you doing, isn't this still an imported product?"

"Don't worry, you have to eat one bite at a time. Star Technology has only been working on semiconductors for a few days, and it has solved the big problems of lithography machines and CPUs in succession. Besides, the bridge chips are also made in China, and the communication chips are from Huawei HiSilicon. , The localization rate of this system is already very good!"

"Damn, semiconductors are not a joke. North America is strong. If you let North America build a computer, they can't make it! Many things need to be imported from abroad!"

Perhaps it is too much hope to have a completely independent semiconductor industry. Regarding the fact that the first-generation star architecture computer still uses a large number of imported chips, netizens are still a little anxious.

But it is definitely not the Chinese netizens who are most anxious to get angry. With the large-scale launch of the first generation of Xingchen Computing in the last week of August, the other side of the Pacific was completely shaken.