375: Global uproar, Intel's future!

“Next up is the issue of the mobile phone industry.”

After everything had concluded, Lin Chen looked at the surprised expressions of the guests and audience and murmured to himself.

The computer industry was now settled, but the mobile phone industry was about to face challenges from companies like Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.

If the mobile phone industry were to be defeated by them, the entire Shuguang Technology would face huge problems, and the Zhuzhou Project would be forced to stop.

After all, among other things, Shuguang Technology is currently working on overcoming the next-generation 65 nanometer process chip production equipment.

This 65 nanometer process involves 17 core production equipment and other non-core production equipment, and the research and development funds for so much core production equipment also require nearly 26 billion US dollars!

Such a massive expenditure cannot be supported by the computer industry alone; only the combined profits of the mobile phone industry and the computer industry can support such a huge research and development expense.

Therefore, the mobile phone industry must be protected, and it must continue to maintain its current market position as the sales leader!

However, Shuguang Technology’s many competitors did not know what Lin Chen was thinking.

At this moment, Intel CEO and President of Microsoft in the VIP section seemed to be discussing something, judging by their solemn expressions.

This time, the Intel-Microsoft alliance might truly unite and exert their full strength!

Given the revenue and research and development capabilities of the two companies, it seems that it will not be easy for Shuguang Computer to maintain its current monopoly trend.

Of course, the future outcome cannot be determined now, but within the next six months, Shuguang Computer’s monopoly position in the notebook computer and desktop computer complete machine fields should be guaranteed.

Time flew by, and after the press conference ended, the guests left feeling satisfied.

The reporters also quickly sent the news they had gathered through their respective channels to their media outlets.

Thus, it wasn't long before domestic and foreign internet media outlets reported the relevant news first.

“Shuguang Technology Creates Another Miracle, Dawn CPU and Shuguang Graphics Card Successfully Become the World’s Strongest!”

This was the headline of the Penguin Portal Website.

“Great News to Excite the Entire Nation, the Coming Era is the Era of Great Xia Computers!”

This was the headline of the NetEase Portal Website.

“Is the High Cost-Performance of Shuguang Computer Going to Bankrupt Competitors?”

This was the headline of the Sina Portal Website.

“Simulating Earth! Is the Dawn Unified Computing Architecture’s Claim of Being Able to Simulate Earth True or False?”

This was the headline of the Souhu Portal Website.

At the same time, as the four major domestic internet portal websites reported the relevant news, foreign internet media were also reporting on the press conference.

“Shuguang Technology Creates Another Miracle, the Low-End Dawn R3 Ryzen Processor Actually Defeated Intel’s Strongest pentium 4 EE Processor!”

This was the headline of Japan's most famous internet portal website, Yahoo Portal Website.

The focus of Yahoo Portal Website’s report was on how powerful the Dawn Ryzen Processor was, stating that even a mere low-end Dawn Ryzen Processor surprisingly annihilated Intel’s and AMD’s strongest processors.

When Yahoo Portal Website reported this news, the article was full of disbelief and astonishment, but the final result was that they admitted Shuguang Technology had indeed created a miracle.

However, at the end of the article, they expressed anticipation for Intel’s mysterious Core Processor, claiming that to defeat the Dawn Ryzen Processor, one could only look to the Core Processor.

The author of the article, however, clearly did not know that the Core Processor they were anticipating, which was about to be released, was not as strong as they imagined.

They didn't know that the actual performance benchmark of the Core Processor could only reach around 130 points; let alone competing with the Ryzen R7, it couldn't even compare with the weakest Ryzen R3.

After all, although Shuguang Technology’s Ryzen Processor and the Core Processor both use 90-nanometer, Shuguang Technology’s instruction set architecture, X86-S, is already different from the original X86 architecture.

The Dawn X86-S Instruction Set abandoned decades of accumulated historical baggage, optimized its structure, specifically aimed for high performance, and finally, benefited from the assistance of a super-large cache.

Under these circumstances, let alone the monkey-version Ryzen Processor using 90-nanometer, even the true first-generation Core Processor released in 2006, which used the 65 nanometer process, could not compare with it.

In this situation, Intel either has to expend enormous effort and cost, then utilize the advantage of the 65 nanometer process, using more transistors to forcibly defeat the Ryzen Processor.

Or, like Shuguang Technology, they abandon decades of accumulated historical baggage, optimize the X86 Instruction Set structure, and develop their own X86-S Instruction Set.

Otherwise, trying to defeat Shuguang Technology at the same level of process technology would truly be a lot of effort for little gain!

It’s like a lean, short man and a tall, obese man resembling a giant.

Although theoretically, every step the giant-like obese man takes is equivalent to 2 steps of the lean, short man, in an actual race, the lean, short man would win.

Because the obese man has too much fat on his body; every step he takes requires him to fight against gravity and against the many layers of fat on his body!

It's a bit exaggerated to say he breathes heavily with every step, but the reality is that he cannot fully utilize his advantage of being tall like a giant and taking steps equivalent to 2 of others.

So the winner is not the obese man, but the lean, short man who can exert his full body strength.

Therefore, Intel either continues to increase the advantage of its large size, which is the leading advantage of the 65 nanometer process.

Ignoring the fat that prevents him from exerting his full strength, diligently adding more transistors to make himself even larger.

Becoming a super giant whose every step is not 2 steps, but 4 or 6 steps.

Or, he loses that fat, develops his own X86-S Instruction Set, and becomes lean and powerful!

And if Intel actually does this, it would be bad news for Shuguang Technology, as the West genuinely has a lead in process technology.

They have successfully solved the problem of the 65 nanometer process and have produced processor chips using the 65 nanometer process; the only problem they face now is how to improve the yield rate for large-scale mass production.

So, Intel, with its leading process technology, is equivalent to a tall, obese man whose every step is equivalent to 2 steps of others.

At this point, if Intel sheds that fat, abandons decades of historical baggage, and optimizes its instruction set structure to become equally lean.

Then for the shorter person, which is Shuguang Technology, it would be devastating news!

Fortunately, however, technological research and development must adhere to scientific reality; it's not something that can instantly appear just because you initiate a project.

Even Shuguang Technology took over a year to solve the problem of 90nm process chip production equipment.

Under these circumstances, even if Intel wants to shed that fat and develop its own X86-S Instruction Set and corresponding processor, it's impossible to complete it immediately; it would take at least two years.

Of course, they don't necessarily need to develop the X86-S Instruction Set to defeat Shuguang Technology, because they have the advantage of the 65 nanometer process!

Even with their X86 Instruction Set carrying a burden of historical baggage, given their giant-like massive body.

As long as the number of transistors is sufficient, miracles can be achieved, ultimately defeating the smaller Shuguang Technology with a massive number of transistors!

Of course, developing a new processor with more transistors also cannot be achieved in a short time; it would take at least one to two years.

So, Shuguang Technology still has one to two years. As long as Shuguang Technology also develops the 65 nanometer process within one or two years, the Dawn CPU can continue to maintain its leading edge.