Technology: Breaking the monopoly global hegemony

Chapter 585 It's Difficult, Okay
The central processing unit is the core of modern electronic products. The first CPU was born in 1971. Until now, the most representative company in the global CPU manufacturing field is still Intel.

In 1971, Intel's first processor, 4004, integrated 2300 transistors.But 30 years later, at the beginning of the century, the transistors of the Pentium 4 processor could integrate 4200 million, and in just 13 years, the number of transistors of the Core i7 processor reached 18.6 billion.

Moore's Law has changed from a prediction at the beginning to an industry law.

Before Kyushu Technology did not intervene in the cpu processor industry, Intel was the world's largest computer CPU manufacturer, second only to Intel was AMD, and the global market share of the two was close to 100%.

But in this seemingly glorious history, there are many shady things that ordinary people don't know.

Intel has exposed the ME incident, confirming that a completely independent system exists inside the Intel processor.

This system can not only read the memory of the main system, but also connect to the network through the network controller, and most importantly, it can even run when the computer is hibernated or even shut down.

Technology company?

Spy Inc!

Therefore, after the launch of the Titan processor, due to many reasons, its stock price plummeted by nearly 24% in just one month, and its market value evaporated by nearly 645 billion US dollars. It can be said that the financial report at that time was the darkest day in Intel's history. The joint vertical and horizontal has contributed a lot.

Although it successfully blocked the "export" of Kyushu Technology's products some time ago, as a semiconductor giant, Intel still has rival companies such as AMD. The press conference actually produced a virtual reality technology product such as the Spirit Realm Lander, and the device's support for games is also outrageous. This sudden change made Intel's new CEO very uncomfortable.

In January 2021, the new CEO Pat Kissinger took office. Under the leadership of this full-fledged technology expert, the Core series chips finally ushered in the first real innovation in seven years-the first use of 1nm process, and He also formulated an ambitious revival plan, trying to return to the top, and announced that he would re-realize the catch-up of advanced manufacturing processes in 7.

But now...

Affected by the Kyushu Technology Titan processor, the Lingland lander, and its peer AMD's "shameless use of power consumption and stacking for performance", Intel still has no choice but to compress orders in the first and second quarters of 2022.

As Intel's old rival, AMD is actually having a hard time.

In February of this year, AMD completed the acquisition of semiconductor manufacturer Xilinx with a consideration of US$490 billion.Affected by the news, AMD's stock price soared, and its market value once exceeded 1977.5 billion US dollars, surpassing Intel's market value for the first time in history.

But AMD just made a big splash, and then was forced by the Titan processor to join forces with companies such as Intel and Pingguo.

"For enterprise servers, the Rocky X1 obtained by our laboratory has surpassed our flagship series in similar tests, and the Titan processor, which is a desktop processor for individual users, has surpassed the era.

In addition, Pingguo announced that it will convert all Mac series computers to M series self-developed chips by 2023.From M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max to M1 Ultra, Pingguo is rapidly improving its product layout of desktop processors, preparing for the complete elimination of Core processors in the future.

TSMC is expected to mass-produce the 3nm process in the second half of this year, and Hanxing is also expected to start mass-producing the 3nm process in the second half of the year.

We not only have to compete with Nvidia for orders, but also with Intel and Pingguo.

Everyone, I don’t want to hide anything, but now we have lost the trump card of secretly adjusting the power consumption of user equipment to overclock it. Kyushu Technology’s products can only be blocked for a while. Now is the era of globalization. Their products have With extremely strong competitiveness, many people are willing to take risks to smuggle.

How to face this increasingly fierce competition in the future is a problem. "

AMD Su's mother's complexion is not good, although the pigeon eggs in her hand are still so bright, but there is a trace of paleness.

Not long ago, Mick, a graphics expert who jumped from Intel to AMD, was sitting on an office chair with a gloomy face.

He changed from the head of Intel's game & graphics department to the vice president. Although he was promoted, the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy.

The CEO talked about the manufacturing process, shares, and orders on the stage. As an expert in the development of real-time light-tracing technology, what he saw was how powerful the light technology and engine interaction technology displayed by Kyushu Technology's game at the press conference. Unrivaled even.

In front of the game engine displayed by Kyushu Technology, the engines of Unreal [-] and Frost are like a comparison between a toddler who is learning to walk and a middle school student who can run.

Since getting the first-hand information, Mick hasn't had a good night's sleep, and now he heard that woman on stage was PUA, yes, he thought so.

Mick pursed his lips and rubbed his hairless head painfully.

And Su Ma on the stage was still berating Fang Qiu: "Collecting the strength of the world, can't we at AMD find talents who can develop the same framework?!
No, although Kyushu Technology has made strong anti-cracking settings, we still found out the chip frame structure after consuming a lot of Titan processors.

But we can't design it, and even if it is designed, TSMC's technical experts say they can't make it! "

The strong woman frowned and shook her head, while the directors and technical executives in the audience fell silent one after another.

Su's mother looked at Mick who was scratching his head, and suddenly asked: "How is our image processing technology and graphics card optimization progressing now? Can we achieve 80.00% or 70.00% of the expressive power of Kyushu Technology?"

Facing the CEO, Mick replied helplessly: "Our entire R&D team has completed the graphics card optimization for ourselves and Nvidia in the first half of the year, but Kyushu Technology is obviously not using the same technology as us.

So far, we have not had a single device for the Spirit Realm Lander, so just relying on the live video on the press conference and our experience, it is almost impossible to copy it. "

Su's mother is technically savvy, so she feels helpless when faced with the "uselessness" of the new vice president.

"Although the requirements are somewhat difficult, it is better to take the initiative than to sit still. Companies such as Nvidia, Intel, and Pingguo must also be discussing relevant countermeasures.

It is said that after the dinner a few nights ago, Nvidia was the first company to discuss cooperation with Kyushu Technology, but they didn't get any benefits, so we are still at the same level at this time. "

the same level?

Someone keenly heard Su Zifeng's implication.

(End of this chapter)