"Sanders, how is the development of the accelerator processor that Chaowei and Yingweida cooperated with?"
There are four main factors that limit the emergence of tablet computers, including three in terms of hardware. In terms of software, the main one is the operating system. The operating system is also subject to hardware limitations. It cannot be developed and thought to be very useful, but the hardware cannot run the system at all, right
As for the hardware, the most important ones are the processor, screen and battery. The processor includes CPU and GPU, etc. The screen also requires multi-touch, and because the screen is larger, the battery performance requirements are higher.
After the tablet computer was designed, Feng Yu's requirement was that it could allow people to watch videos for at least eight hours continuously.
In terms of batteries, there has been breakthrough progress, but if the processor core energy consumption is too high, it is not only a problem of power consumption, but also a major problem, which is heat.
Tablets, like mobile phones, do not have cooling fans. No one wants to feel the tablet in their hands getting hot while playing with it, right
In addition, there are very high requirements for screen clarity, touch screen sensitivity, etc. At present, Fengyu Electronics is one of the top LCD screens in the world, and this can basically meet Feng Yu's requirements.
The only thing is that the processor still doesn't work. If a tablet computer is made according to the products currently provided by Chaowei and Yingweida, the thickness of the tablet computer will be close to two centimeters.
And including other accessories, the weight of the entire tablet computer will be too heavy. Even with a plastic casing, it weighs several hundred grams. If it were designed according to the aluminum alloy shell mentioned by Feng Yu, it would weigh at least 800 grams.
It would be difficult to hold such a heavy thing with your hands, let alone use it while lying down. If one accidentally falls on the face, the person will be stunned.
Feng Yu has told Lianxiang Group several times that this tablet computer is not a miniaturized all-in-one computer, nor is it IBM's ThinkPad or Microsoft's TablatPC. Of course, it cannot be understood as a PDA (handheld computer).
The main purpose of this tablet is entertainment. With the improvement of performance, it can also have office attributes, but it is definitely not developed for office use.
So it is enough to meet some entertainment performance, there is no need to make it so powerful.
The same is true for the system. There is no need to add all the functions. It should be enough to upgrade the operating system of the smartphone, not to reduce the PC operating system.
This is a product between a smartphone and a computer, so this system must be between the two. This is true both in terms of performance and size.
Lianxiang Yinshan also invested a lot of energy in developing this yos system. For this reason, Lianxiang Yinshan merged with some small software design companies in order to obtain those professional software designers and expand the team.
Fortunately, at this time, even thinking about Yinshan is not short of money.
When everything else was going very well, the processor got stuck.
It's not that Chaowei and Yingweida don't cooperate with each other, but they both want to achieve the best performance of this product, so they find that the architectural design cannot always satisfy them. Either it's too thick, it's too big, or it has other shortcomings.
Today, Sanders received another call from Feng Yu. He replied with embarrassment, "Feng, we haven't come up with a satisfactory design yet. But we are accelerating, and I believe we will have results soon."
Feng Yu shook his head, you told me the same thing last year. A year has passed and nothing has appeared. Is this what you call fast
If it weren't for the fact that Chaowei's dual-core processor project was progressing very well and the profits were very good, Feng Yu would have gone crazy. In the final analysis, neither Chaowei nor Yingweida attach much importance to this product. They are more worried that their current advantages will be surpassed by other companies.
It’s not wrong to focus on improving advantageous projects, but they don’t know how big the profit margins of tablet computers will be in the future.
The traditional desktop market will gradually shrink, the all-in-one market will expand, the notebook market will expand, the tablet market will expand, and the overall PC market will also expand.
According to this rule, products with a more reasonable layout, smaller space and lower energy consumption will be more popular.
"Do you know ARM? What do you think of their product architecture?"
"ARM? Their microprocessor is indeed unique, but its performance is too low. It's okay to be the core of mobile phones, but how can it be the core of PCs?" This company is a peer, how could Chaowei not understand it.
"I'm talking about their product architecture plan. If you use their product architecture plan, can you give you some tips? Can it be made faster to speed up the processor?"
"This accelerator processor does not need to have excellent performance. 800mhz is very good. The secondary cache is 512kb. The graphics card does not need to be excellent. The core frequency of 256mhz is enough. What I require is low energy consumption and space occupation. It’s small and can be used on our tablets.”
The performance of a tablet computer does not require so much excellence, and Feng Yu does not intend to make this a luxury product. The price is only about five hundred US dollars.
So designing better products will actually increase costs, which is not worth the loss. Feng Yu temporarily positions the tablet computer as an entertainment product. The price is too high, which will definitely affect sales.
Hearing what Feng Yu said, Sanders replied, "Feng, their product architecture solution is indeed relatively mature and can give us a lot of inspiration. But in this case, we have to purchase arm's patent license. In this matter, I We need to discuss with Yingweida to see how the cost should be shared."
Although both companies are subsidiaries of Fengyu Holding Group, they belong to different companies, have different shareholder compositions, and represent the interests of different people.
Of course, for Feng Yu, he can make profits if both companies make profits, so he doesn't think about it in detail.
"Okay, then you can discuss it with Yang and give me an answer as soon as possible. Also, don't be in a hurry to contact arm. It would be better to contact you next month."
Sanders was a little surprised. Feng Yu was so anxious to develop this product quickly. He said there was no rush to contact arm. What did he mean
He suddenly thought that Feng Yu seemed to be very interested in hardware design and manufacturing companies. Could it be that Feng Yu was planning to acquire arm
It seems that when Feng Yu said he wanted to be the biggest giant in the IT industry, he was not just talking casually.
He has mastered hardware and software, and is involved in networking, computers, etc. It is not impossible to become the biggest giant in the industry in the future.
Since Sanders said it was a great inspiration, that should be fine. In the previous life, Fruit Company's A-series processors also adopted the ARM architecture, thus creating a prosperous era for their smartphones and tablets for many years.
But in this life, the fruit company should stay aside.
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