1991 Starting from the core

"More than 3 times, because theoretically no single mechanical hard drive can reach speeds above 50MB/s." Su Yuanshan corrected Luo Ming's mistake.

The interface of current consumer-grade mechanical hard disks generally adopts the IDE interface and the ATA66/100 standard, although in theory it can support a maximum bandwidth of 133MB/S. But in fact, due to the hardware limitations of the mechanical hard drive itself, it is far from reaching the upper limit.

Solid-state drives can meet the upper limit, but currently all Intel and SanDisk solid-state drives use SCSI interfaces and are targeted at server and industrial application scenarios, and they are not focused on the consumer market at all.

Of course, even if Yuanxin wanted to take a fancy to it, there was nothing they could do... After all, the cost was there, and it was difficult for the consumer market to accept a hard drive worth 10,000 yuan.

The launch of SATA interface and solid state drive can only be said to be a big move for Yuanxin to serve the next customized host. Then slowly rely on technology to reduce costs, and finally popularize solid-state drives.

"I included the disk array." Luo Ming chuckled: "Since we want to make a comparison, we must fully arm the enemy."

"..."

Su Yuanshan put down the hard drive and looked at the pile of information again: "You won't just take this pile of information to IEEE, right?"

"Absolutely, but I think now that we have the technology, it doesn't matter if we want IEEE or not. At present, we have reached a consensus with Fujitsu and Toshiba. They have expressed their willingness to accept the SATA standard, and then Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, and IBM will also send it. We received a technical invitation letter - as long as these major hard disk manufacturers are willing to accept it, we will form a SATA technical committee and work together directly without the need for IEEE stamps."

"As for the motherboard factory, they need to think carefully about how to promote it. Now Mr. Meijie and Chen are becoming more and more stingy, and they no longer do it as soon as they say it will start..."

Su Yuanshan smiled when Luo Ming said that Mei Jie was stingy.

Indeed, the gradual rise of the PC market means that the market is gradually maturing. Although Meijie is now firmly in the top spot, a group of young guys on the island are really aggressive and fight price wars to perfection.

In this case, any cost savings are extremely valuable, and Mei Jie naturally does not dare to support it just by saying it like before.

And... this also means that the board factory is moving towards its due position in the industry chain - its profit range and status cannot be compared with the top chip design and wafer factories.

As for the complete machine manufacturers with the lowest industrial chain... their status is naturally even lower.

"Don't worry, the competition among motherboard manufacturers is very fierce now. In addition to stacking materials and reducing prices, it is difficult to develop advanced technologies in the inherent categories of boards to improve competitiveness. Once there is a technology that can bring quality to the overall machine experience, A leap forward, no matter how high the cost is, board and card manufacturers who pursue it will still accept it."

"Don't say that our goal is a dedicated host." Su Yuanshan said and picked up the solid-state drive again: "But rather than promoting the interface, I am more concerned about its cost now... How much does this thing cost now?"

"If calculated based on the current production capacity, the cost of the main control chip alone is ridiculously expensive, at least one hundred thousand dollars."

Su Yuanshan was so angry: "Go away... quote a price of 50,000 units."

"That's cheap." Luo Ming did a simple calculation: "Excluding the necessary profits, it's about 700 US dollars."

"That's about it... Yuanxin will first purchase 10,000 laptops. Then for the rest, you will come up with server and workstation solutions as soon as possible."

"The next two years will be the two years when the Internet explodes. There will be many application scenarios for IO-intensive services. In this regard, solid-state drives are much higher than mechanical hard drives... In those computer rooms, no matter how expensive they are, superior."

As he finished finishing the last screw on Su Yuan's mountain, he stared at Luo Ming, endured it for a few moments, and then said: "In March next year, I can see the most awesome laptop currently, right?"

These guys delayed me for half a year... and lost the notebook I originally wanted to launch during the National Day.

This time, he had to get these people to issue a military order.

Luo Ming hesitated: "Mr. Shan, this depends on Mei Jie..."

"Don't fool me, I know Mei Jie's board design capabilities." Su Yuanshan stared into Luo Ming's eyes: "They can prototype a motherboard in a month at most, unless there are still problems with your SATA protocol."

Speaking of the agreement, Luo Ming immediately became serious: "No, Mr. Shan, the SATA agreement is perfect, no problem!"

"Then why did you wait so long?"

As Luo Ming spoke, he opened his briefcase and handed out a stack of documents to Su Yuanshan.

"Currently we have two cache solutions. One is the one in your hand, which uses DRAM as the cache. It is fast and the most expensive."

"The second option is to use SLC architecture particles to act as caches. Although they are not as fast as DRAM, they are acceptable because the SLC architecture particles themselves are faster than MLC."

"But... now we have another idea."

"If a technical solution can be used to carve out a part of the MLC space and run it in the SLC mode, then the speed will not be much slower than using SLC particles, but the cost will be greatly reduced."

Su Yuanshan put down his hand that was flipping through the information and smiled slightly after a moment of silence.

SLC simulated cache technology...

"Then May, okay?"

Luo Ming gritted his teeth: "Okay!"

…

After sending Luo Ming and others away, Su Yuanshan sat on the sofa and rested for a while.

Of course he is happy that Yuanxin can achieve a breakthrough in solid-state drives. But the lengthening of product lines also means that competition will become increasingly fierce.

Now Yuanxin is no longer as simple as benchmarking against Intel, but is benchmarking against such a terrifying existence as Intel+IBM+Motorola+Samsung.

It involves the design and manufacturing of chips, complete machines, servers, mobile communications, analog chips, consumer electronics products...

The reason why Yuanxin was able to win in the early stage was to be the first to accurately grasp the technical direction, and it relied on the word "quick".

Now, he has clearly felt that Yuan Xin has slowed down a bit.

After all, as Moore's Law continues to be realized, chip design becomes more and more difficult, and various sunk costs are getting higher and higher.

In this case, what matters is precipitation and accumulation.

As for Yuanxin, although it has gathered tens of thousands of outstanding engineers, they are still too young.

After sighing silently, Su Yuanshan stood up and walked to the desk.

The cell phone on the desk rang at the right time.

Su Yuanshan looked at the caller ID and was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

"Sister Qu Hui, why are you calling me suddenly?"

On the phone, Qu Hui's voice was still very cheerful: "Are you in the office?"

"exist."

"Okay, I'll be at your place in an hour - give you a surprise!"

"Wait a minute! I need a surprise right now. I can't wait for an hour... What on earth is this?"

"...It's boring to say it. Lao Zheng and I are together, you can guess for yourself!"

After finishing speaking, Qu Hui hung up the phone as simply as ever.

With Zheng Zhenchuan?

It seems that the double workpiece table is completed?

Su Yuanshan put down his phone and began to smile.