Build Madness

Longtian single-chip microcomputer was born, laying 3 million units a day, and the follow-up supply is continuous. For the technology alliance, this not only means that China's market share has shrunk sharply, but it may also have to face a rising giant .

For their own consideration, various companies have spent a lot of money to buy new equipment in the hands of North American players.

Intel Research Lab.

The six largest shareholders sat on both sides, and a dozen top engineers from Microsoft, Gaotong, IMB, and HP opened the X-shaped mainframe under the guidance of the chief engineer of Intel.

More than 20 people stood up and watched.

"Thomson, what do you say?" Shareholders are not directors, and they don't know much about the company's own business.

"Dear boss, don't worry, let me see!"

The chief engineer inspected the instrument for a long time, and carefully dismantled it again, "If you ignore the top-level Longtian core integrated circuit, mounted logic machine, and encoding machine, the rest are all single-chip microcomputers, such as integrated voice system chips, integrated The chip of the computing system, the chip of the integrated network card control system... If the game is removed, in addition to the above functions, it can only browse the web, edit text, surf the Internet, voice chat, and run three business programs!"

After finishing speaking, the chief engineer thought for a while, "It reminds me of the ARM architecture developed by England's scientific research laboratory, or in other words, it is equivalent to a self-developed ARM architecture multi-core processor cluster!"

(Android and ios are both developed based on ARM. Longtian sells ios to Pingguo and uses T-RAM made by Daoyi himself. The principles of the two are similar.)

"What is ARM?" Shareholders do not understand.

"Well...it's just like ARM, which is a 32-bit RISC.

It is characterized by fixed instruction length, high execution efficiency, small size, low power consumption, and low cost. It supports Thumb (16-bit)/ARM (32-bit) dual instruction sets, and is well compatible with 8-bit/16-bit devices.

Due to the extensive use of registers, the instruction execution speed is extremely fast, and most of the data operations are completed in the registers, which makes its addressing mode flexible and simple, and the execution efficiency is extremely high! "

Hearing this, the faces of the six shareholders darkened in an instant, "We took out a lot of banknotes and offered you delicious food, drinks and fun, and was easily surpassed by a Huaxia company?"

"No, no, boss, please don't worry! The ARM architecture is completely different from the X86 architecture we are using now!"

"What's the meaning?"

"To make a comparison with you... there is no comparison, the two cannot be compared."

"Why? Are we already so behind?"

"NoNoNo! They are behind, we are advanced!"

The chief engineer was helpless, "You need to understand the difference between the two.

In terms of performance, X86's CPU is casually 256M, 512M or above dual-core or even quad-core, and currently uses 90nm or even higher-level process technology for production. ARM's CPU is usually only 16M. Recently, Longtian came out and only used a 64M CPU, using a manufacturing process of more than 200nm. It can be said that ARM is not an opponent of the X86 structure system in terms of performance and production process.

In terms of expansion capability, our X86 structure computer uses a "bridge" method to connect to expansion devices, such as hard disks, memory, etc., and x86 structure computers have appeared for nearly 20 years, and there are various types of supporting equipment, and the price is relatively cheap. Therefore, computers with an x86 structure can easily perform performance expansion, such as adding memory, hard disks, replacing graphics cards, and so on. As for ARM...

It can only connect the CPU to the data storage device through a dedicated data interface, so it is difficult to expand the performance of ARM storage and memory. Generally, the capacity of its memory and data storage has been determined during product design, so the ARM structure system is adopted. , generally do not consider extensions. Basically follow the principle of 'enough is enough'. "

The chief engineer's face was tangled, and he wanted to curse the designer of this machine.

It really can't expand its functions. If a new program is developed, a new integrated chip needs to be added.

But for this machine with additional core chips, logic machines, and encoding machines, as long as the compatibility features are set in advance, the number of songs, movies, and games can be changed or increased by replacing or adding memory cards...

But the chief engineer didn't dare to say it clearly, because he couldn't crack the core chip and the mysterious symbol instruction set, so he could only use metaphors.

"Also, in terms of systems...

The X86 system is dominated by the Win series built by us and Microsoft. It has monopolized the personal computer operating system for more than ten years, forming a huge user base and deeply solidifying the usage habits of many users. At the same time, the x86 system has already been developed in hardware and software development. Forming a unified standard, almost all x86 hardware platforms can directly use Microsoft's window system and almost all popular tool software.

However, ARM currently uses Linux or Shenlong, and each hardware must build its own system independently, which is incompatible with other systems. This also makes it difficult to transplant its application software. No matter whether it is Europe, America or China, there is no supply of such hardware and software systems at all. This seriously restricts the development and application of the ARM system.

Through the above comparison, we can clearly realize that the structure of ARM and X86 cannot be compared. ARM is not the opponent of X86 computer at all, and it is not even qualified for comparison. "

There is another point that the chief engineer dare not say.

Since the X86 architecture uses a complex instruction set and pursues speed and performance, the power consumption is particularly high and a heat sink is required. And ARM...especially the Longtian version of the ARM architecture microprocessor cluster using graphene materials, it is estimated that the power consumption of X86 is not as high as that of X86 for one hour after ten days of use.

Just like the smart card that has been running at full capacity for more than a month, it has only used up 12% of its power. It needs to be charged for one hour, and can it be used for more than half a year?

As for the cooling system...

The X86 architecture uses fans and water cooling, and it can be used for a lifetime with a layer of graphene heat dissipation film...

If Microsoft and Microsoft can't think of a corresponding system suitable for mobile micro-terminals, it is small to lose the Chinese market in terms of personal computers. I am afraid that in the future, mobile micro-terminals in the world will be monopolized by Longtian Technology.

After a long silence, the shareholders digested the new knowledge and understood the difference between the two, but they are not insiders. Grab the Chinese market?"

The chairman of Intel quickly replied: "Yes, no one will buy such low-end electronic products even if it is as cheap as one or two thousand."

"Is there any countermeasure? You can't just be kicked out of Huaxia like this?"

"After discussing with Microsoft, the board of directors decided to open up the XP authority and let Huaxia crack it as much as possible. It doesn't matter if the pirated version is genuine. As long as there are more customers using it, we can hold the position there, and wait for Longtian Technology and its partners. When we found that we could not recover the cost of investing in single-chip microcomputers, the huge losses caused our own bankruptcy, and we were the ones who won."

"very nice!"

"In addition, bosses, we have reached an agreement with Microsoft to jointly launch a smartphone using the Windows Mobile system in response to the powerful smart card, and to acquire Palm, which uses the Palm OS system to issue handheld computers. The two products will be launched at the same time. Kill Long Tian and NT (Tian Cheng) in one fell swoop."

"Excellent!"

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Tech alliances are not monolithic.

Intel and Microsoft are getting closer, while the old rival AMD, which has been entangled in grievances and grievances, has studied the single-chip microcomputer of Longtian ARM architecture, and brought the new product K8 architecture processor to find Symbian, which launched the Symbian system. ...

As for Pingguo, it bought ios from Longtian Technology Group...

The alliances of other software and hardware manufacturers, and the divisions of the divisions have established their own brand-new industrial chains...

All of a sudden, various new product launch conferences emerged one after another...

But without exception, Longtian Technology has become the public enemy of the technology world!

At the same time, a running score software for single-chip microcomputers approved by overseas technology alliances was quietly listed.