Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

How can they not be embarrassed?

One is the self-proclaimed second in the world, Asia's largest PC company - Lianxiang.

Another is the world's largest chip designer and manufacturer - Intel!

In a sense, both companies have achieved a certain degree of monopoly in their own fields, and they have absolute advantages over other PC or chip companies.

But when the Shenchuan was born, especially when the Shenchuan Jiaolong series computers equipped with Pangu chips were born.

Whether it was Lianxiang or Intel, they suddenly found that the technological and market advantages they had established before were suddenly gone.

Intel is okay, after all, Intel still occupies more than 85% of the global market share, and Pangu has not affected its own market share.

They came to the Shenzhen market this time, hoping to get the Jiaolong series of computers, just to see how the Jiaolong series of computers perform, and whether they can compete with Intel's mainstream products?

But Lianxiang's side is more sad, because Lianxiang's market share has been declining since the previous year, and during this period, the birth of the magic ship, the number of computer users around the world increased rapidly.

It stands to reason that the rapid growth of computer users around the world is beneficial to Lianxiang. After all, Lianxiang's PCs are much cheaper overseas than IBM, Dell, etc., which can attract more users. .

But it is a pity that Lianxiang does have some growth in overseas markets, but there is no way to offset the sharp decline in the domestic user market.

In the domestic market, Lianxiang not only added a small number of new users, but also some of the old users, especially enterprise-level users, turned to the arms of Shenchuan.

The two smiled awkwardly. Some of them reluctantly walked out of Shenchuan's direct sales store. The representative of Lianxiang's side was called Zhang Zhong, the deputy sales manager of Lianxiang Shenzhen.

A year or two ago, this position in Shenzhen was very popular. Basically, just make a phone call in the office, sign the order, and the order will be delivered.

Moreover, because Shenzhen is a pilot city after the reform and opening up, the special multi-user concept of various high-tech enterprises is much more advanced than that of inland cities.

Therefore, Zhang Zhong has no worries about customers and orders at all.

In the late 1990s, when the domestic per capita salary was only a few hundred yuan, Zhang Zhong received a year-end bonus of several hundred thousand.

But since the year before last, especially after the mass production of Shenchuan's computers last year, Zhang Zhong clearly felt that Lianxiang's share in the Shenzhen market has shrunk extremely.

This time, Zhang Zhong was ordered by Lianxiang Yanjing headquarters to get a Jiaolong series computer no matter what, the purpose is to analyze the performance of Jiaolong computer equipped with domestic CPU.

Seeing Zhang Zhong walking out of the point of sale a little disappointed, the assistant quickly asked, "How is Manager Zhang? Can I get the computer?"

Zhang Zhong said helplessly: "I didn't expect that today's sales would be so hot! All Jiaolong series computers were swept away."

"Also, I just heard that the people who came to snap up these computers were not ordinary users, but those computer dealers in Huaqiangbei."

The assistant had some surprises. He didn't expect the day when Shenchuan's computer was sold short!

Then the two discussed ways.

The assistant directly called the sales center of Shenchuan headquarters and asked when new computers would be put on the shelves.

It will take at least a week or two for the reply from Shenchuan Sales.

A new batch of computers will arrive in a week or two, but this batch will have fewer than 1,000 units.

Zhang Zhong believes that two weeks cannot be waited, because the order that Yanjing issued to him is that the computer must be sent to Yanjing's Lianxiang Laboratory within two days.

And even if there will be more than 1,000 Jiaolong series computers on the shelves of Shenchuan in two weeks, Zhang Zhong does not think that he has such good luck to buy one according to the frantic rush of some computer dealers today.

So Zhang Zhong said decisively: "We have been in Shenzhen for so many years, and we are familiar with some dealers in Shenzhen."

"It's not very good for me to show up here. You can find the employees who run the market below us and ask them to contact the distributors in Huaqiangbei. See if you can get a computer in the name of a private person."

The assistant also knows that at this time, it is absolutely helpless to find a dealer in Huaqiangbei in the name of a private person to get the Jiaolong series of Shenchuan.

The assistant never imagined that the dignified general representative of Lianxiang Shenzhen and the manager of the Shenzhen branch would actually buy computers of other brands in this way.

Does this also mean that Lianxiang's life may not be as good as it used to be?

Sighing and sighing, the assistant immediately found the company's sales staff and asked them to contact a larger computer dealer in Huaqiangbei.

Sure enough, the Jiaolong series computers were all sold out by the computer dealers in Huaqiangbei.

The dealer directly informed Lianxiang that he had the goods in his hand, but there were only 5 units.

These five units were wholesaled at high prices from the higher-level dealers.

The two sides did not talk nonsense. Zhang Zhong directly asked his subordinates to ask how much he could get a Jiaolong P series computer equipped with Pangu No. 2 chip.

The other party replied, "No matter how you say it, it's 12,000. I'm a friendship price, and I won't make your money at all."

Hearing this news, Zhang Zhong almost vomited blood.

The retail price of the Jiaolong batch series of computers is only over 7,000 yuan, and here it is directly added to 12,000 yuan.

More than 5000 yuan!

For Lianxiang, it is not a matter of money or not, but a major shame.

After all, the mainstream high-end computers that Lianxiang once built, even if they were snapped up by scalpers and increased in price, it would not be possible to directly add 5,000 yuan to sell them.

Zhang Zhong grabbed the phone and said: "I'm Zhang Zhong, is the price of the Jiaolong series a little more reasonable on your side? The starting price of the magic ship is only more than 7,000 yuan, so you just added 5,000 yuan to me. !"

These computer dealers in Huaqiangbei are talented people, and of course they also know Zhang Zhong, the sales manager of Lianxiangshen.

The other party said embarrassingly: "Manager Zhang, it's not that we are here to increase the price for you, but the Shenchuan Jiaolong series is really in demand!"

"We didn't get it when we queued up here. The computers in our hands were also obtained from other dealers at a higher price."

"I'll sell it to you at a price of 12,000, which is really not expensive, because there are already users in Yanjing and the Shanghai Stock Exchange who have directly offered me a price of 14,000, and how much is paid, I am looking at our cooperation. For so long, this price is given."

"I only have this one left here, just for you."

What the Huaqiangbei distributor said was no joke, it actually happened!

Because if you judge the price of a computer according to the comprehensive performance of the computer, the comprehensive performance of the Shenchuan Jiaolong series is better than that of the computer equipped with the most advanced commercial processor of Intel Pentium 4.

The cheapest price of Pentium 4 high performance is also around 15,000, and there is no one below 15,000.

Therefore, the price of 12,000 yuan on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to buy the computer of the Shenchuan series Shenchuan Jiaolong series is also reasonable.

What is the biggest use of the Shenchuan series, especially the Shenchuan computer equipped with the Pangu 2 chip?

It's just multitasking.

This is most used by some network companies or game companies in the Shanghai Stock Exchange!

Instead of spending more than 1.5 yuan or even 20,000 yuan to buy a commercial computer with Intel chips, it is better to spend 1.4 yuan to buy a Jiaolong series computer from a Shenzhen dealer, which is actually a scalper.

The performance of the Jiaolong series is even better and smarter than the performance of Intel with more than 15,000.

This is the advantage of dual-core processors and Firefly.

The dealers have said this, and Zhang Zhong is really eager to complete the task.

So I stopped bargaining, and decided to buy a Shenchuan Jiaolong P series computer from the dealer at a price of 12,000.

The dealer happily expressed thanks, and immediately sent workers to deliver the computer.

After getting the computer, Zhang Zhong told the staff to turn it on and yelled, "This kind of junk domestic computer is going to sell for 12,000! It's unreasonable!"

Zhang Zhong and most of Lianxiang's elite executives have the same idea. How high-performance chips can Xia Guo's technology companies make?

After all, Xia Guo had no technology at all in the chip industry for a long time.

After the employee disassembled the computer, Zhang Zhong also looked at the internal structure of the computer in detail.

In particular, I took a look at what the domestic Pangu No. 2 chip looks like.

From the appearance point of view, the size of the Pangu 2 chip is indeed much larger than that of Intel's high-end Pentium 4 series chips.

And the most striking thing is the huge radiator on the Pangu No. 2 chip head.

This shows a problem, the power consumption of Pangu No. 2 chip is very large, and the heat dissipation is not as good as Intel!

This is actually reasonable. After all, Intel's Pentium 4 processor uses 90-nanometer technology, and a small number of enterprise-level chips still use the highest-end 65-nanometer technology.

The Pangu 2 chip uses a relatively backward 130-nanometer process.

The computer was repackaged again, and Zhang Zhong immediately arranged for the staff to send the computer to Yanjing and hand it over to Yang Qing.

Yanjing, Lianxiang headquarters.

Yang Qing was in Lianxiang's laboratory, guarding the staff who disassembled the Jiaolong computer brought over from the Shenzhen market.

After disassembling the computer, the hardware configuration in the computer did make Yang Qing a little dumbfounded.

Yang Qing can clearly see that, from chips to motherboards to memory, hard drives, and even power supplies, all hardware is designed and produced by Xiaguo Technology Company alone, and of course, it is mainly designed by Changtian Technology.

Lianxiang's technicians are thinking about one thing - is the Pangu No. 2 chip produced by AMD as expected by Lianxiang, but packaged in Xiaguo?

Therefore, the technicians directly removed the chip first and studied it carefully.

As a result, everyone found that the overall structure of the Pangu No. 2 chip is completely different from that of AMD and Intel, and even the practice of pins is different.

This shows a problem, the chip is indeed designed by Changtian Technology and produced by Yanjiang Peninsula and the company.

Observing the chip under a precise instrument, the result is more obvious.

Because the logos of Changtian Technology and Yanjiang Semiconductor are engraved on the back of the chip.

The technician expressed his thoughts, "Mr. Yang, the pins of the chip are completely different from the common chips on the market, and the production of the chip requires standardized molds and supporting industries. If the structure of the chip, the pins If it is not the same, then the motherboards and other models designed later will also be different from those commonly found in the market.”

"It is absolutely impossible for AMD to independently design this kind of chip. The cost is too high, and the loss outweighs the gain.

Yang Qing asked again, "Whether it can be seen that the chip is a dual-core design."

The technician said, "It can be seen!"

"We can use two methods, the first is to disassemble the chip directly, and the second is to use software for testing."

Using professional equipment to disassemble the chip to view the core of the chip, this method can indeed see the internal structure of the chip, but the damage to the chip is irreversible.

At present, the Jiaolong series of computers are in short supply, and Lianxiang also spent a lot of effort to get this computer.

If the chip is disassembled and there is no way to restore it, it will not be worth the loss for Lianxiang.

After all, it is impossible to study the subsequent related performance.

Yang Qing said decisively: "Immediately test the Jiaolong batch series. We will use our own method to test, not the method that Wu Jun did at the press conference."

At the same time, Intel staff also used the same method as Zhang Zhong to find scalpers and bought a Jiaolong P-series computer for 14,000 yuan.

After the computer was packaged, it was also urgently sent to Silicon Valley in the United States.

Intel would never have thought of itself, and would even find a scalper to spend a high price on a computer made in Xia.

After Jiaolong 2 arrived at Intel's headquarters, Intel started the disassembly without any hesitation.

Other hardware, Intel doesn't care about it at all, the most concerned about is the chip.

When Intel's technicians used a very mature technical method to disassemble the chip (Lianxiang will not disassemble), the entire technical team was stunned.

Although the chip uses a 130-nanometer process, from a technical point of view, it lags far behind that of inter.

But this design concept of the chip, especially the dual-core design concept, completely surpasses Intel!

Intel's technicians can even tell. If Yanjiang Semiconductor can have the production equipment and technology of the 90nm process, Changtian Technology may really be able to design the most advanced chips than Intel's currently!

The terrifying degree of Changtian Technology, UU reading www.uukanshu. com is far beyond Intel's imagination.

This is no trivial matter, and it is not for the team at Intel's chip lab to decide.

The technicians of the chip lab immediately reported the chip's test performance schedule to Barrett, Intel's CEO.

Barrett worked at Texas Instruments until 2000 and at Intel after 2000.

He really knows the technology of semiconductors too well.

At present, the global Cpu production technology has encountered a bottleneck. Although the design has reached 65 nanometers, the mass production of 65 nanometers is very problematic, and even the mass production of 90 nanometers is also a problem.

To improve CPU performance is to do dual-core processors.

Intel began to study the design and production methods of dual-core processors as early as a year ago. This thing is very simple to say, but the actual difficulty factor is very large, so far Intel's dual-core processors are still in the laboratory. At this stage, there is simply no way to mass-produce it, let alone bring it to the market.

Changtian Technology actually came up with it!