"It's only about 500MHZ. It's not that high. Our Pentium 4 has reached 1.3GHZ. Our chip is better than this! "Blake didn't know much about technology. After all, he came from a purchasing background.
However, he more or less knew the basis of a CPU's performance. For example, the main frequency was the core of a CPU. The faster the main frequency, the more powerful the CPU.
Of course, after 10 or even 20 years, the main frequency was no longer a measurement of a CPU's core. After all, the main frequency of a top CPU 20 years later was only about 4GHZ. It didn't increase much. Most of the time, the CPU relied on cache, number of cores, optimized structure, multithreading, and other aspects to improve the overall capability of the CPU. However, in the year 2000, the main frequency of a chip was still the core factor that determined the value of the chip.
"Sir, the Pentium 4 is currently the most powerful chip in the personal market. It is the chip that is installed in the PC. But this is a handheld. This is the data of the chip used in the handheld! "The engineer touched his forehead and said.
"I know …" Blake nodded. "But it's because our CPU is stronger! We are in the lead in terms of the data! "
"Let's put it this way …" The engineer understood that he might not be able to explain it to Blake, so he simply said, "The PC needs to handle a lot of complicated work, so the requirements for the CPU's main frequency are very high."
"But a gaming handheld only needs game-related calculations, so the requirements for the CPU's main frequency are not very high. The chip used in Sony's PSP now has a main frequency of only 200MHZ."
"The CPU used in the Daqian's Qian Kun Change is the top gaming chip that Intel specially developed for gaming. Its main frequency is only about 300MHZ!"
"But now, the Daqian is using a 500MHZ main frequency chip. It has exceeded the computing power of our previous chips!" The engineer tried to explain.
"So, the chips used in gaming handheld are only mid-range chips. The Daqian can be bought from other chip manufacturing companies?" Blake asked. Strange. Didn't everyone say that the Daqian's chips could only be bought from Intel?
"No, they can only buy it from us!" The Engineer shook his head and said, "Although the main frequency of the game chip is not high, it has high requirements for other functions, especially in terms of caching and architecture. These all require extremely strong chip design capabilities."
"The other chip companies don't have these design capabilities. Only our high-end game chip can achieve this. The Daqian can only buy our chips!" the engineer said.
"You're making me confused!" Blake knocked on his head and said, "Tell me now. Is Da Qian's chip good or not? Is it better than ours?"
"It is indeed much stronger than ours!" The engineer said helplessly, "Because the handheld game console is limited by its size, the requirements for the chip are very high. The chip has to be small enough, and at the same time, it has to have a strong heat dissipation. It also needs to have a very low power consumption. Otherwise, the battery won't be able to support the chip's computing requirements."
"In summary, with our design capabilities, the most we can design now is a chip with a speed of 300 MHz. To achieve 500 MHz is something that even Intel can't do."
"The most confusing thing is that the computing power of the current CPU has almost reached a dead end. Because the technology of the lithography machine has always been limited to the 70nm data limit, it is no longer possible to integrate smaller computing units within a fixed range. Logically speaking, 300MHZ is the limit of the current design. Unless there is a breakthrough in the process technology, how can a 500MHZ chip be created?"
"I also want to know which manufacturer developed such a powerful chip. I'm afraid that they have become Intel's strongest competitor. At the very least, they have surpassed us in terms of game chip technology!" the Engineer said sincerely.
"That's impossible. Which company in the world can surpass Intel? Don't we have a lot of powerful chips in a sealed state, waiting …"
"Ahem!" The Engineer quickly coughed a few times and said, "Mr. President, we do have enough technical reserves, but that's for the PC market. We don't have much technical reserves for game chips."
"According to what you said, Da Qian has really found a chip manufacturer that can supply them with chips?" Blake asked anxiously.
"Yes, at least the supplier is not Intel, because we can't make such a chip ourselves!" The Engineer nodded helplessly.
"Damn it!" Blake walked away with a gloomy face. The Engineer's attention was still completely focused on the small chip.
He still couldn't understand how someone could achieve something that even Intel couldn't. What kind of technology was in this chip?
Therefore, the Engineer planned to completely dissect the chip in the laboratory to see what terrifying things were in it.
At this time, Blake obviously didn't care about these things. He just wanted to know who was bold enough to go against Intel.
Especially when he found out that all the 100 units were of the same CPU model, Blake was even more furious. Someone was obviously trying to sabotage Intel.
Hence, Blake began to use Intel's global resources to investigate the company that was secretly supplying the Daqian. However, after searching the United States, Europe, Fusang, Korea, and the manufacturers in the Bay Area, he couldn't find any clues.
One had to know that this batch of game consoles exceeded five million units, which meant that at least five million CPU chips had been sold. It was impossible not to find any trace of it!
Blake was panicking because of the sudden appearance of the chip. The gamers also realized that the third batch of Qian Kun and Qian Jue was just as the Daqian had said. There were enough units and they weren't sold out even after a week.
But after a week, the total sales of the third batch had exceeded seven million units. Adding all three batches together, at least 20 million units were sold. The Daqian Qian Kun had once again created a sales legend in the handheld console industry.
Those game developers who were secretly working with Sony saw that the Qian Kun and Qian Jue were still in stock, and many of them immediately disappeared. Some of them were halfway through signing their contracts, and they came up with all sorts of excuses, like they were sick, their parents had passed away, and some even said they were having an affair. Most of the people around Ken Kotogi had disappeared, and this made Ken Kotogi very disappointed. At the same time, he felt a sense of crisis. He flew to the United States with Satoru Iwata to find out where the Daqian had gotten the chip from.
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