paranoianovel Chapter 158 Flowers Can Bloom Even in the Desert
Chapter 158 Flowers Can Bloom Even in the Desert
"The next selling point is..."
The big screen suddenly went black, and then a short video appeared.
What is the actual level of China's semiconductor industry?
"In 1983, the world's first commercially available mobile phone, DynaTAC, was launched globally. It weighed approximately 794 grams and was priced at 3995..."
Since mobile phones entered the Chinese market in 1987, the electronics industry has entered a period of rapid development, from PHS phones and feature phones to today's smartphones.
The market is constantly changing, but China remains stagnant.
Motorola-related mobile phones flashed by, exciting many audience members.
Some of them had used these classic styles.
This promotional video also made them a little angry. They manufactured so many phones, but they were all assembled machines, without any real core technology.
It can truly be described as stagnation!
"As of today's press conference, China's mobile phone industry has reached an unprecedented scale, with an annual output of hundreds of millions of mobile phones, influencing even the world market."
Despite leading global sales, they can't even produce a single fully self-developed mobile phone core chip.
Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Sanso have firmly locked up the high-end market. We can only assemble and outsource, and we can only earn a meager living through hard work.
We use whatever chips others provide, and we pay whatever price they set.
If others try to cut off our supply, we have no choice but to give in, or they will cut off our supply.
Some of the more emotional men in the audience clenched their fists and blushed as they watched the promotional video.
This isn't shyness, it's anger.
"It has been 10 years since we entered 2000. These 10 years have been 10 years of rapid development for the electronics industry, but also 10 years of stagnation."
The mobile phone manufacturing industry has complete devices, but no soul; it has output, but no core technology.
"We can manufacture the most mobile phones in the world, but we can't manufacture a heart of our own."
Sitting in the audience, Zhang Shiqing clenched his fists silently; this was the most devastating blow.
Low-price dumping makes you feel that it's better to buy than to make, and better to rent than to buy.
The lithography machine project was forced to be cancelled under this mentality. At one point, China's lithography machine technology was only about one generation behind that of foreign countries.
But now it will take 10 or even 20 years to catch up. Fortunately, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation took advantage of the economic crisis to acquire a lot of good stuff from the United States.
That's when things took a turn for the better.
As they reminisced, the narration began again:
"But today everything has been completely rewritten."
From nothing to the top, from a long period of blankness to directly shocking the world.
Following this press conference, China not only possessed its first fully self-developed chip, but also achieved overwhelming performance, directly becoming number one in the world in terms of architecture and energy efficiency.
As soon as the promotional video ended, the audience was immediately captivated and applauded with all their might.
Is Huaguoxin really coming?
Is this day really coming? Some of the burly men in the audience even wiped away tears of emotion... They had been waiting for this day for far too long.
The stage lights came on again, and Shen Fei walked out from the side.
"Transsion S2 is the world's first dual-core SoC manufactured using a 28nm process."
It integrates a CPU and GPU, and its performance is three times that of the Qualcomm MSM8255.
Shen Fei held up three fingers, letting everyone catch their breath.
In 2010, it was common for semiconductor performance to double every 18 months. But triple performance meant being a generation ahead.
Some people in the audience stood up, while others opened their mouths but couldn't say a word.
They subconsciously overlooked the fact that the 28-nanometer process is the most important issue.
"Three times stronger! Three times stronger than the strongest chip on the rice! How is that possible?"
"You're just bragging, aren't you?"
"How could I be bragging? Look at how many nanometers that is."
This is 28, Qualcomm's is 45... When did the semiconductor industry develop so fast?
"Was this manufactured by TSMC or by Samsung?"
Is there really such a big gap between us and the world's advanced semiconductor technology?
"We hope that the first phase of the National Semiconductor Fund can exert more effort and catch up as soon as possible."
"To the person upstairs, I don't know, but this technology probably doesn't exist in the world..."
That means...
Some of his older brothers stared at the big screen in disbelief. Either the craftsmanship was fake, or…
I can't imagine! I really can't imagine!
"I know most of you probably won't believe it," Shen Fei smiled. "Then let's run a benchmark test first. Then we'll explain the detailed design."
Many people in the audience nodded in agreement!
They don't understand technical terms, but these straightforward numbers help them understand the chip's performance level.
Super Rabbit appeared on the big screen again.
The Taishan 900 Enhanced Edition started running benchmarks, and the score soared all the way up, eventually settling at 9152 points.
Next to it is the Qualcomm 8255's benchmark score of 2886.
The ticket price was more than three times the original price, and the whole place erupted in cheers. Some people took out their phones to take pictures and post them on Weibo.
Ren Zhengfei sat in the audience, outwardly calm, but inwardly equally excited.
Two years ago, "Big Mouth Donkey" mentioned developing his own chips. He rejected the idea at the time, saying that the industry was too murky and could easily lead to disaster.
However, Yu Dazui is a stubborn mule. After Huaxin invested, he immediately increased the project budget for the semiconductor department, and it is now being developed in an orderly manner.
In retrospect, he was indeed a lucky charm!
Hopefully, their semiconductor division can also recover quickly. With a powerful backer, surpassing MediaTek should be relatively easy.
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Meanwhile, in California, USA.
Jobs sat in his office, his computer in front of him playing a live stream of Transsion's press conference.
He didn't know Chinese, but there was a translator interpreting for him.
When the translator said that the chip's performance was more than 82553 times that of Qualcomm and that it used a 28nm process, his pupils contracted slightly.
He picked up what he thought was the perfect iPhone 3GS, looked at the 480p screen, and at the ordinary 1220mAh battery.
Then he took a liking to the Transsion S2 in the live stream, with its 720p screen, 4000mAh battery, and their popular fast charging technology.
He remained silent for a long time.
"We adopted the latest A9 mobile platform for the design, and also adopted a dual-core design. The large core is mainly used for high-load scenarios such as games, while the small core is mainly used for daily use."
This solution retains strong performance while also achieving significantly better power efficiency.
These descriptions made Jobs increasingly feel that his Fruit 4 was just junk.
"When did China have companies like this?"
The translator next to me didn't know how to answer...
Jobs watched for a while longer, then turned off the live stream, a huge idea forming in his mind.
This year, Fruit 4 cannot afford another failure in the Chinese market, otherwise they really won't be able to recover.
Should this imperfect product be scrapped and reworked...?
However, the iPhone was already in mass production, and it still had a 3.5-inch screen with 960×640 pixels and a pixel density of 326 PPI. Under normal observation, the human eye could not distinguish individual pixels at all.
They even gave this screen a brand new name: Retina Display.
But now that term has been stolen by the telepathic communication; just how much did this thief steal from them?
Looking at his opponent, he felt a sense of uncertainty for the first time.
"Notice of the convening of a shareholders' meeting to discuss important issues."