"Qin Feng, Intel has announced the release date of the new generation of CPU!" Lei Jun immediately called Qin Feng after learning the news.

"I've seen it!" Qin Feng looked solemn.

Nowadays, with the launch of submarine optical cables in China, communication with the other side of the ocean has become smoother.

In this case, Qin Feng naturally learned about a lot of international news as soon as possible.

Intel has announced the release date of its next generation CPU, Pentium 3: Tualatin.

Its launch date is January 1, 1999.

In 1999, this very special year, the company went public on the first day.

Tualatin! Intel is finally going to show off its trump card.

The god U of that generation was truly a being that most Chinese people believed in.

It can be said that Tualatin is the reason why countless people really praise Intel. Even though many people choose to buy AMD chips because of financial constraints. However, you only need to ask them which CPU is better?

Basically, the answer to you nine times out of ten is, if you don’t have enough money, buy Intel. If you don’t have enough money, buy AMD.

This is already a consensus in the computer industry. This is not only a consensus among netizens, but also a consensus reached by many related media and even industry insiders. As long as there is no shortage of money, then buy Intel.

If you are short on money, consider AMD.

Tracing its origins, it comes from Tualatin, which is completely invincible in the world.

At that time, Tualatin completely crushed AMD and made AMD completely unable to compete with it.

In fact, speaking of it, AMD and Intel were competing for the 1GHz frequency. As a result, AMD launched the 1GHz Athlon processor in advance, which made Intel lose face.

After all, Intel is the CPU leader. So Intel later launched Pentium 3 and 1.13G, but it was not the Tualatin core. Because Intel has always made money first. This first-generation Pentium 3 is not so much a Pentium 3

, it is better to say it is a revised version of Pentium 2.

In addition, in order to distinguish it from the Pentium 2 revision and avoid the cynicism of the industry, it changed the packaging model. This model of old wine in new bottles has been tried repeatedly by Intel. However, the result was due to carelessness, resulting in insufficient packaging and extremely high temperatures.

, and the radiator is not easy to replace. If the player is not careful, the chip will be damaged.

Therefore, Pentium later launched Pentium 4 in a hurry to save face. In fact, this is the real Pentium 3. However, Intel still did not get rid of its bad habits and still wanted to use previous chips to cope with it.

market, just get it out after overclocking.

The result is as you can imagine. That is high frequency and low energy. The frequency looks very powerful, but in fact, the performance is horribly low.

It was hammered by AMD Athlon One Pass.

This can only be said to be self-inflicted. After all, it is not that the enemy is too strong, but that it is self-inflicted.

After this, Intel learned from the pain and stopped squeezing out toothpaste. Instead, they really came up with their next-generation processor: Pentium 3: Tualatin.

This is Intel's real Pentium 3 generation processor architecture. Before this, it was just deceiving people.

Its performance is terrible. The so-called Pentium 4 chip, with a frequency of 1.6G, has similar performance to Tualatin 1.13G. However, Tualatin consumes only half of the power and generates only half of the heat.

The difference between this can be imagined.

The final result is that no one cares about the Pentium 4 on the market, and no one wants it. The whole country is crazy about Tualatin. As a result, it is difficult to find a Tualatin on the market. The price is even increased.

The rival Athlon series CPUs were disgraced by Tualatin and completely lost the limelight when they were first launched.

However, historically, Tualatin was not launched until 2000.

But it is only September 1998, which is a full year and a half ahead of schedule.

This year and a half could have been a golden development period for Loongson.

What should we do now?

"Qin Feng, what should we do?" Lei Jun asked.

According to the current chip information released by Intel in all aspects, regardless of performance, power consumption, and heat dissipation, Loongson is beaten in all aspects, and it is not an ordinary beat, but a crushing beat.

Let alone comparison between the two, basically even a comparison would make Tualatin feel embarrassed. Because Tualatin should not be compared with Loongson at all.

Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"There's nothing I can do about this purely technical gap." Qin Feng smiled bitterly.

"Well, we can indeed increase the frequency now. I can get a frequency of 1G now, but the heat generation is too scary, which requires a very large radiator. Moreover, the performance has not improved much!" Lei Jun was helpless.

explain.

When your core architecture is not good enough, forcibly increasing the frequency will not result in an improvement in performance. In other words, the performance improvement is not proportional.

Will players accept it?

Qin Feng thought for a long time.

"Mr. Lei, I think we can only study it as soon as possible. As for the final result, we will see then." Qin Feng could only decide, "Of course, the CPU performance is not as good as Intel, that's for sure. So.

, we focus on developing GPUs. The GPU I told you must be developed."

GPU, this is the display core processor. A CPU specially used to process image data.

This only came about later. It's too early now. I'm afraid only Nvidia has a little idea and is trying to study it. Other graphics card manufacturers are not aware of this at all.

And this is decisive.

Because, when the GPU came out, the market position of the graphics card was established. Because in the future, the graphics card will no longer rely on the computing power of the CPU. It can be said that from the time the GPU came on the market, the performance of the CPU is no longer so critical.

Of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't matter at all. It's just that the CPU performance is weaker, which doesn't affect anything. Because the graphics card has its own GPU to perform calculations and does not rely on the powerful computing power of the CPU.

This performance improvement is very powerful. It is no exaggeration to say that GPU has directly changed the world.

Of course, the consequence is that Intel has become even more lazy. The current generation of Core has been more than ten generations. As a result, every time it is updated, it squeezes a little bit of toothpaste to improve the performance.

This kind of promotion is simply a hooliganism.

Of course, Intel is helpless. After all, the desktop market has begun to slump, and the mobile phone market has begun to rise. But Intel is weak in this aspect. This is also the reason why it does not want to make progress in the desktop market.

"Okay, I understand." Lei Jun was also very human and calmed down quickly.

Since the CPU cannot be surpassed in a short period of time, it is better to save the country through curves.
Chapter completed!