The moment Huawei presented their strategy around the Dragon series of chips to the public, the huge product launch conference was filled with commotion.
Huawei's Chief Product Strategy Officer didn't stop there. In front of the invited guests, the media, and other participants, he announced the start of the live demonstration. This pushed the atmosphere of the venue to its peak.
Shao Yi gestured for the venue staff to bring two mobile phones onto the stage and place them on the table in the middle of the podium.
One of them was the meta100 concept phone with the 28nm Dragon series of chips installed, while the other was the mete30 with the 16nm FinFET Kirin 950 chip installed.
With the help of the on-site staff, the two phones started the game Demo of the same city scene at the same time.
Through the projector, the image on the mobile phone screen was quickly displayed in front of everyone without reservation.
Through the images on the big screen, it could be clearly seen that as the complexity and detail of the images increased, it even gradually exceeded the processing power of the built-in GPU in the mobile phone chip. The number of frames on the screen of the mobile phone with the traditional silicon-based chip was getting fewer and fewer, and even gradually became static. The temperature was indeed getting higher and higher, even to the point of burning.
On the other hand, the mete100 with the carbon-based chip was still running smoothly. As the scale of the city continued to expand, the details continued to improve, and it could be considered to have reached a "PC-like" level. The frame rate of the image was still stable at more than 60 frames per second, and the attendees were all astonished.
Not only that, but judging from the temperature data, although the surface temperature of the Meta100 had also increased due to the explosive increase in power, the temperature was still within the range of normal heating temperatures.
After witnessing this scene, there was no longer any suspense as to whether or not the carbon-based chip was still a concept.
Not only did they have data on paper, but they even had a concept phone in front of them.
Even though he couldn't believe it, and even though he didn't want to accept this reality, when the hard truth was placed in front of him, Mayberry finally realized that his pitiful prayers were useless.
No, it would be more accurate to say that from the moment he started hoping for a fluke, in the depths of his heart, they had already lost this asymmetric war.
Sitting next to him was the CEO of Intel, Swan. His face was also full of shock, and he stared at the stage in a daze.
However, he was slightly better off than Mayberry. He had seen all kinds of storms and waves, so he only needed to take a deep breath to recover from his momentary absent-mindedness.
He stared at the stage and suddenly spoke.
"Speaking of which …"
When Mayberry heard Swan's voice, he twisted his stiff neck and asked in a trembling voice, "What … what's wrong?"
"I don't know if you noticed," Swan said as he looked around the venue. He looked at the guest seats and said, "There doesn't seem to be anyone from Qualcomm here."
After hearing these words, Mayberry was slightly taken aback. Then, he also began to look around the venue with Swan.
Soon after, he realized what the problem was.
"Not just Qualcomm, AMD is also not here. Wait a second, other than TSMC, there isn't any other semiconductor company here … We seem to be the only American semiconductor company invited."
When Swan heard his colleague confirm his discovery, he suddenly had an intriguing look on his face.
If Huawei wanted to intimidate them, they didn't have to invite just Qualcomm.
If Intel came up with such an amazing technology, he would not hesitate to send an invitation letter to his "old friends" Qualcomm, AMD, Apple, Samsung, and other companies.
Regardless of whether they came or not, they would have done their best.
Thinking about it this way, Huawei didn't invite them just to intimidate them.
At least, that wasn't the main purpose.
Therefore, there was only one thing left for them to do.
After about ten minutes, Swan made this difficult choice in his heart. He looked at the product launch that was coming to an end. He took a deep breath and spoke.
"You go back to the hotel first."
Mayberry looked at him and said, "What about you?"
Swan spoke casually.
"I'm going to talk to their CEO."
…
After the GPU performance test was over, it was time to test the chip's stability, which was the commonly used pi test method.
Under the operation of the staff, both phones started the Super Pi software at the same time. Although the main function of this software was to use the floating-point computing power of the central processor to calculate pi, generally speaking, it was more widely used to test the stability and computing power of the CPU.
Just like everyone expected, the mete100 once again defeated the control group that used traditional silicon-based chips.
While the product launch site was in an uproar, the exhibition hall outside of the product launch site was also filled with cheers.
Even though most of the tourists couldn't enter the product launch site, they were still able to witness the mete100 concept through the big screen in the exhibition hall.
When they saw the two sets of contrasting images, one with exquisite workmanship and the other with crude workmanship, the visitors who passed by the convention hall could not help but stop in their tracks and cast a surprised look over there.
"Is this … GTA?"
"No way, it's just a demo program."
"F * ck! The crappy GPU integrated into the phone can achieve this level of image quality? Did they connect a PC's graphics card to it? Is it a phone or a computer?! "
"You know about the concept machine, it must be bullsh * t!"
"Not necessarily, I heard they're using the latest carbon-based chips. Apparently, the difference between silicon-based chips and transistors is even bigger than the difference between vacuum tubes and transistors."
"I don't believe it, Huawei is this nutty?"
"I think the chip was made by the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study … I saw the thesis, the corresponding author is Lu Zhou, he was probably the one who started this project."
"God Lu? Okay, you should've told me earlier … I'll believe half of it then. "
Someone took out their phone, recorded the video on the big screen, and uploaded it to the Internet.
Although they were separated by two screens, the visual difference was still so shocking that it could be seen with the naked eye.
After the news spread to the Internet, discussions about the Dragon chip and the mete100 smartphone began to spread like wildfire, quickly occupying the top trending spots on major media platforms.
The major Chinese mobile phone forums were also flooded with discussions about the mete100.
Whether it was Apple fans, bomb fans, or Hammer fans, they all remained silent.
In terms of the data on paper, this thing was simply a monster.
Regardless of how much the product on the assembly line could replicate the concept product, this kind of comprehensive performance improvement was overwhelming for mobile phones that used traditional chip technology.
People were surprised to find out that Huawei was also a semiconductor company.
In any case, whether it was the unreleased phone or the powerful carbon-based chip technology, both became popular …
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