288 Argument before the meeting
It was said that it was preparation, in fact, what should be prepared had been prepared long ago. After Prince Wang and Tang Sen left the multi-functional hall of the headquarters building, they watched the video in the lounge, about today's press conference.
Although the press conference officially started at 10 o'clock, the live broadcast started at 8 o'clock. After all, this press conference was so popular that it could be broadcasted earlier and more advertisements could be broadcasted in the middle. Of course, the media is not uninvestment, such as using aerial photography equipment to record the scene of crowds queuing in, giving various close-ups to the headquarters of the Tang Dynasty, and knowing the situation in the venue, etc. There are also explanations and comments from specially invited Chinese chip industry experts and well-known critics, which will not make people feel bored.
It seems that now, the video has switched from the traffic waiting in line to the channel of the Datang Crown Prince's headquarters building to the host and guests in the studio.
"Professor Tan, you have been an expert in the field of internal chips and have also participated in the design and manufacturing of Loongson. Why don't you ask you to guess for all the audiences who are following this press conference, what products will be launched in this press conference?" After an introduction, the host directly asked a middle-aged man in his 50s in the video.
"Okay, host. But first I want to teach you what a chip is and why we need to develop a chip. Because some viewers may have misunderstandings, they think that it is a PU used on our computers or mobile phones. This is correct, but it is very one-sided. In fact, chips refer to all electronic components. They are circuit modules that combine multiple electronic components on silicon boards to achieve a certain specific function."
"Now all the electrical appliances we use in households cannot be separated from the support of chips, such as a small recorder, repeater, our smartphones, computers, etc. However, dsp and PU are recognized as the two core technologies of the chip industry. In China, dsp represents Hanxin, and the current technology level of PU is Loongson."
"So why should we vigorously develop the chip industry instead of directly advocating the use-making ideology? I will give you a more detailed data. Just for a chip the size of a fingernail, the country needs to spend about 200 billion US dollars a year. This includes imported chips and patent fees for large foreign companies. More importantly, chips are the core technology of the current Internet. Without their own chips, they do not have the qualifications to define their own products. In other words, it is difficult to get rid of product homogeneity, and they can only follow and cannot be at the forefront of the industry."
"So back to today's topic, in my opinion, the possibility that the product launched by Datang Crown Chip today is DSP chip or PU chip technology is very small. Why? It may be unclear if you have not come into contact with this industry. It is difficult to design a PU or DSP chip with independent technology. Especially from writing independent instruction sets and core architecture mounts, even microprocessors used on mobile phones can never be successfully developed in half a year. Take our Loongson for example. It has been 15 years since its establishment in 2001, and even if it is industrialized in 2010, it took nine years. The situation of Hanxin is similar, so in my opinion, it is unlikely that Datang Crown Chip will be released at this press conference today."
After listening to this long speech, Tang Sen curled his lips disdainfully. He commented dissatisfiedly: "It's the old saying again. I say that these old people just stick to the rules and always talk about their own things. If they can't develop it, it doesn't mean that others can't do it. And what kind of thing is Loongson? You can't even support a video, so you have the nerve to show it out?"
"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense." Prince Wang glared at Tang Sen and commented: "I probably understood the development of Loongson. When this project was first established, it was just a research team. There was not much money at all. They could not do it by purchasing the permanent authorization of the MiPS instruction set. The situation was very difficult at that time, and Intel could not sell the permanent authorization of the 86 architecture to them. Even if Intel was willing to sell it, it would be difficult for Loongson to pay so much money at that time. Besides, if I really bought the 86 architecture Loongson, it would encounter troubles for the market. Do you know that Quanmeida? You probably don't know that it was a PU manufacturer that had a good development momentum. It was because they made Intel feel that they loved threats, so Intel directly sued the court. The two companies fought for two years. Although Intel finally lost the case, no one dared to do business with Quanmeida in the past two years. This company was dragged to death by Intel for two years."
"So, in fact, according to the conditions at that time, there was no way to buy permanent authorization of Loongson. Now they cannot open up the civil market. It can only be said that the biological chain of Intel and Microsoft is too powerful, and it is difficult for other instruction set architectures to be inserted into it."
"But we have indeed developed an independent architecture now!" Tang Sen immediately retorted, then looked at the expressionless face of Prince Wang, and immediately added: "Okay, I admit that I don't understand these things, and I don't have much effort, but it's developed!
"Not everyone has a genius teammate like you!" Prince Wang's comment was very pertinent, and Tang Sen rolled his eyes helplessly. Every time he argued about this, he would have nothing to say, because if he continued to talk, he was definitely the one who was hit.
Fortunately, another guest in the video happened to speak, which attracted his attention.
"I don't agree with Professor Tan's statement. Although I am not an expert in this regard, according to the statement of Prince Wang of Datang, their new products will subvert the entire mobile smart product industry ecosystem. As Professor Tan said just now, PU and DSP technology are the core technologies of the chip industry, so I can't imagine any new products that can subvert the entire industry in addition to the major innovations of these two technologies."
"This is also a question that I am very confused about, but the same sentence is that this difficulty is for outside the industry..."
Just as the two were about to argue, the host suddenly interrupted.
"Hey, Professor Tan, please wait. We just received the news. Huaxin.com just published a brief message. It has been confirmed that the press conference of Datang Crown Chip today will be Pu and GPU products with full independent property rights. It is said that this is the first-hand information that Huaxin.com reporter Xu Xiaohua met President Wang of Datang Crown Chip at the scene and obtained from him. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, he failed to get the specific performance parameters of the product. It seems that Professor Tan's information was wrong in this first round of confrontation. But when he came back, he must be quite pleased to know these Professor Tan, right?" (To be continued...)
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Chapter completed!