The black technology empire started with a debt of one billion

"Is the 7-nanometer lithography machine independently developed by Modu Microelectronics?" Guo Kezun asked curiously.

"They independently developed it," Cao Mang replied.

"How did they solve the problem of light source and lens?" Guo Kezun asked again.

Cao Mang smiled slightly and did not answer her question, but Guo Kezun had already guessed the answer. Not surprisingly, these two things were solved by the company.

"By the way, you guys try to design independent graphics cards by the way. Don't do low-end graphics cards, just high-end graphics cards." Cao Mang said.

"Okay, Mr. Cao." Guo Kezun nodded.

After the two chatted for half an hour, Guo Kezun left. When Cao Mang picked up her mobile phone and dialed Zhou Zixue's number, Zhou Zixue also said hello happily after answering the phone. You must know that Deep Blue Technology is SMIC's bread and butter.

Now 90% of SMIC's orders have been contracted by Deep Blue Technology.

"Mr. Cao, why are you calling me when you have time? Do you want to sign an order for next year?" Zhou Zixue asked with a smile.

"Mr. Zhou, we plan to stop some memory chip orders to produce other chips." Cao Mang said.

"Mr. Cao, there is no problem. Please ask the people below to contact our Commerce Department." Zhou Zixue said.

"Mr. Zhou, for some special reasons I hope SMIC can help us order a batch of imported equipment." Cao Mang said.

"I wonder what kind of equipment Mr. Cao wants to order?" Zhou Zixue asked curiously.

"I hope you can help me order a batch of oxidation furnaces, etching machines, ion implanters, polishing equipment, cleaning equipment and testing equipment," Cao Mang said.

"Has Deep Blue Technology already developed a photolithography machine?" Zhou Zixue asked in surprise.

These equipments are supporting equipment for photolithography machines. No one except those who run wafer factories would buy these equipments. Zhou Zixue could not think of any other uses for them.

"We have just developed a 65-nanometer photolithography machine. It will take a long time to go further," Cao Mang said.

"So that's it. If it's just 65 nanometers, Mr. Cao can purchase domestic ones. Domestic ones are enough to handle 65 nanometers." Zhou Zixue replied.

"We will produce higher-standard chips in the future, so I plan to purchase a batch of the most advanced ones. If it is ordered in the name of Deep Blue Technology, it is estimated that foreign companies will not sell the equipment to Deep Blue." Cao Mang said.

After hearing what Cao Mang said, Zhou Zixue fell into deep thought.

This helps foreign equipment companies that may be offended by this matter in the future.

But if he doesn't help, he will offend Deep Blue Technology. Cao Mang is asking him to choose between two options.

However, he would rather offend foreign companies than Deep Blue Technology. The nature of SMIC's business is destined to require him to help his own people.

"If Deep Blue Technology develops the latest lithography machine, it will be given priority to supply to us." Zhou Zixue said with a smile.

"Mr. Zhou, please contact Shanghai Microelectronics. They already have the latest lithography machines. I have not placed an order with them. You will not have much problem getting the first batch of goods." Cao Mang said.

"Have they already developed a 14-nanometer photolithography machine?" Zhou Zixue asked in disbelief.

"Mr. Zhou's imagination is just a little bit behind. Let's improve it by two levels." Cao Mang said with a smile.

"7 nanometers?" Zhou Zixue said in surprise.

"Yes." Cao Mang smiled.

Zhou Zixue, who was on the other end of the phone, swallowed his saliva. He couldn't believe his ears. Could it be that Shanghai Microelectronics had successfully overtaken the curve and developed a 7-nanometer photolithography machine.

Zhou Zixue felt that this matter must be related to Deep Blue Technology. Deep Blue Technology must have provided technology to Modu Microelectronics, otherwise they would not be able to produce such cutting-edge equipment.

"Mr. Cao, you can just send me the list later, and I will help you order it all from abroad. I also need to stock up on equipment here, and I will reserve all the 7-nanometer production capacity for Deep Blue." Zhou Zixue said.

Cao Mang told him before that he had not placed an order with Modu Microelectronics. Cao Mang was obviously selling them a favor to let them place the order first, otherwise Cao Mang would not have told him about the lithography machine.

Of course, this idea is the result of Zhou Zixue's own imagination. In fact, Cao Mang just doesn't like EVU lithography machines. Deep Blue Technology has nanoimprint technology that can be used. If he places an order for EVU lithography machines, it will be really difficult. What's more, Cao Mang is stupid and has too much money to spend.

Although Cao Mang had so much money that he had nowhere to spend it, there was no need for him to do such a thing.

Even if the nanoimprinting machine comes out, he will not sell the nanoimprinting machine to the outside world.

"Then I'd like to thank Mr. Zhou here first." Cao Mang said with a smile.

December 2017, 1.

Two days ago, Intel released the eighth-generation I7 processor. The eighth-generation I7 processor uses a unified memory architecture. The top-of-the-line I7 8900Puls adopts a 10-core design and uses a large and small core heterogeneous architecture, and also supports native HMBSR memory control. device.

I7 8900Puls比上一代I7 7900K性能提升了足足有70%之多。

I7 8900Puls is the flagship model among Intel's personal products and sells for US$2999 per chip.

As for other I-series products, I7 and I5, both use a unified memory architecture. Only these two series of CPUs support native HMBSR memory controllers. The average performance of these two series has increased by more than 50%.

As for the cheapest I3 series, it uses the KabyLake-S architecture. The KabyLake-S architecture does not support the native HMBSR memory controller.

The remaining low-end products can only use the most traditional DDR3 and DDR4 memory.

This is a consensus reached after discussions by the American Semiconductor Association. This is to ensure the survival space of memory chip manufacturers. If the new generation of computers all use Deep Blue Technology's HMBSR memory, then these chip manufacturers will not be able to survive to the next stage.

As for AMD, they also released their latest CPU products two days ago. Like Intel, their products use the latest unified memory architecture, but they are not named after the unified memory architecture, but anyone who knows technology knows that They use a unified memory architecture.

In addition, AMD also applies the unified memory architecture to servers.

After AMD's CPU adopts a unified memory architecture, the performance can be improved by up to 100%, and the performance of the lowest-end CPU has also been improved by about 30%-70%.

Although AMD's CPU performance has improved a lot, it still cannot compare with Intel. This is mainly because their research and development capabilities are too weak and they cannot fully understand the unified memory architecture in a short period of time.

The price of the new product is only slightly higher than the price of the previous generation product.

A certain computer city in Magic City Computer City

In the Computer City, people shuttle between huge electronic screens, and various sounds converge into a noisy background.

Blazing lights illuminate the facade of each store, and fascinating devices such as laptops, tablets, and game consoles are displayed in the windows.

Some young people queued up for the latest electronic gadgets, while others tried out computer games and cheered.

In a certain corner, there is a store whose entire space is covered by black computer tables, with a large number of computer accessories and tools placed on each table.

The owner of this store is talking to customers about the latest CPUs and graphics cards, with a serious and focused expression.

In another corner, a mini-cinema happened to be showing a science fiction movie, and the entire space was filled with screen effects and shocking sound.

In this digital city, people can stop to admire the bright lights and the latest electronic products, and enjoy the latest technological experience.

Qiu Xiuguo took advantage of his break to assemble a new computer for his relatives. As usual, he went to the store he was most familiar with in the entire computer city.

"Lao Qiu, long time no see." A young computer salesman greeted Qiu Xiuguo warmly when he saw him. "Long time no see, Lao Yan." Qiu Xiuguo greeted.

"Come here to install the computer today?" Yan Yongqing asked with a smile.

"Well, I'm helping my relative install a new computer." Qiu Xiuguo nodded.

Then the two of them casually sat down at a table in the store.

"What price do you plan to put on it?" Yan Yongqing put the billing paper on the table and asked.

"Get an I3 8100, and then a 16G colorful HMBSR memory, and then give me a dark blue 2." Qiu Xiuguo was interrupted by Yan Yongqing before he could finish his words.

"Lao Qiu, I3 8100 does not support HMBSR memory and KOS hard disk." Yan Yongqing said helplessly.

"What's going on?" Qiu Xiuguo asked with a frown.

"The new generation of products are all locked. Low-end products can only use DDR3 and DDR4 memory." Yan Yongqing replied.

"Isn't HMBSR memory backward compatible? Why can't it be used in this generation?" Qiu Xiuguo asked with a frown.

"Intel has directly imposed restrictions on the chip. If you want to use HMBSR memory, you must buy an I5 or above CPU. The same situation exists with AMD. New low-end products do not support HMBSR memory, and high-end products do not support HMBSR memory." You must use native HMBSR memory.

The price of native HMBSR memory is almost one hundred more than the compatible version of HMBSR memory.

I heard that the manufacturer seems to have reached an agreement. The compatible version of HMBSR memory has been discontinued. Now the compatible memory on the market is in stock. If you want to use it in the future, you can only use native memory, native memory interface and DDR memory interface. Not the same yet. Yan Yongqing said.

"Fuck, these damn Americans are clearly restricting Deep Blue." Qiu Xiuguo couldn't help but complain.

"No way." Yan Yongqing said helplessly.

"Can the KOS hard drive still work?" Qiu Xiuguo asked.

"The old motherboards used to work, but now the new motherboards can't be used, and only high-end products can be used, and the new products have been locked." Yan Yongqing replied.

"Has the price of the previous generation I3 dropped?" Qiu Xiuguo asked.

"It's been reduced by almost 30%," Yan Yongqing replied.

"Then install the previous generation I3 number for me." Qiu Xiuguo said.

Deep Blue Technology Industrial Park.

Cao Mang was sitting at the tea table drinking tea with Deep Blue Semiconductor Sales General Manager Shang Shaoyu.

Because Intel and AMD have very good confidentiality systems, Shang Shaoyu has just learned about these two scandalous operations. Even the OEM manufacturers only found out about it today. Many OEM manufacturers canceled their orders after learning about this incident.

Once the motherboard does not support compatible versions of HMBSR memory and KOS hard drives, products produced using these two chips will inevitably plummet.

So they had to stop cooperating with Deep Blue Technology, otherwise they would have a large backlog of inventory. If these people cancel orders, Deep Blue's inventory will become larger. Shang Shaoyu can only find Cao Mang for help.

"You don't have to worry about inventory pressure. I've just adjusted the order, so you don't have to worry about the rest." Cao Mang said.

"Okay, Mr. Cao, I'll go back to work first." Shang Shaoyu replied.

After Shang Shaoyu left, Cao Mang picked up his cell phone and called Brian Krzanich.

Because Brian Krzanich hadn't fallen asleep yet, he also answered Cao Mang's call immediately.

"Cao, why do you call me when you have time?" Brian Krzanich asked with a smile.

"Mr. Brian, are you forcing me to invade the PC market?" Cao Mang said in a very serious tone.

"Cao, actually we don't want to do this either. This is a decision made by the Semiconductor Association. We can't object to the association's decision, but it's not impossible to solve it. We just put restrictions on the BIOS and just need to modify it. The BIOS will support it.

But on the surface we can't do this. I have sent the relevant information to your mailbox. Maybe you haven't checked my mail yet.

As for the manufacturer, I believe they will secretly leak these BIOS files soon. "Brian Krzanich said in a very serious tone.

After hearing Brian Krzanich's explanation, Cao Mang also twitched his lips and couldn't laugh or cry.

This group of people really plays it clear that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.

"Brian, I suggest you open Orion and take a look at the PC chip ladder list when you have time. I will release the second-generation Xingtian CPU later. If you think Intel can still compete with us after reading it, then Deep Blue will be on the list. Enter the PC market to compete with you as soon as possible.

Okay, it's getting late over there, so I won't disturb your sleep. "After Cao Mang finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

America.

Brian Krzanich hung up the phone before he could reply to Cao Mang. Brian Krzanich was so angry that he didn't expect that Cao Mang would dare to threaten him on the phone. This was the first time in his life that he was being harassed by someone. threaten.

However, he immediately calmed down his bad mood. The other party who dared to threaten must have some trump card.

Otherwise, Cao Mang would not have been able to blatantly threaten him.

"Has Deep Blue Technology already developed a photolithography machine?" Brian Krzanich murmured.

Then he threw off the quilt and quickly got up and ran to the study. When he arrived in the study, he opened his laptop as soon as possible, and then logged into Orion to check the PC ladder list.

原来PC天梯榜No.1还是他们英特尔的I7 8900K的，现在天梯榜No.1已经换成了刑天2。

天梯榜内I7 8900K跑出的分数是1988分，刑天2后面显示的分数却是2375分，随后他点击刑天2查看详细信息。

Brian Krzanich was completely stunned after seeing the details of Xingtian 2.

刑天2CPU 10颗核心，CPU时钟频率更是达到3.6G，采用4大6小的异核心构架，每个大核心集成多达192KB一级指令缓存、128KB一级数据缓存，4个核心共享12MB二级缓存。小核基于宽执行架构，每个核心集成128KB一级指令缓存、64KB一级数据缓存，4个核心共享4MB二级缓存。

The previous parameters seemed normal, but when he saw the level 3 cache, people were stunned. Xingtian 2 actually integrated 1GB of level 3 cache.

The cache in the CPU is to speed up the CPU to read data and also to give the memory a buffer period.

Because the CPU operation speed is too fast, memory reading and writing alone cannot keep up, and the data exchange in the CPU cache is much faster than the memory. Most of the time, the CPU can read the data directly from the cache, and if it cannot find it, read it from the memory. fetch, this can save the time wasted when the CPU reads memory data.

The 1GB level three cache can only be described as abnormal.

He couldn't believe his eyes. What kind of design did Xingtian 2 adopt? What kind of design used 2G level 3 cache.

Even their most advanced I7 8900K only has a 16M cache.

But when he saw the CPU manufacturing process, he was stunned. Xingtian 2 actually used a 28-nanometer process.

In other words, Deep Blue's technology is one generation behind to create a CPU with more powerful performance than theirs.

除此以外刑天2的TDP功耗也只有65W而已，I7 8900K的功耗可是高达95W。

"Hiss~" Brian Krzanich took a breath after reading the entire parameters of Xingtian 2. (End of chapter)