Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Meng Qian and Shen Jiawen went to the balcony to rest for a while, and returned to the living room on time at 11:30 to continue watching the live broadcast.

Unlike Jobs, Samuel in front of the camera has an indescribable self-confidence, which really makes people feel that Lao Tzu is the king of heaven. In line with his self-confidence, IBM's latest promotional video appeared on the big screen of the press conference. This is a documentary-style promotional video, presenting IBM's powerful history one by one. It has been almost king status for ten years.

With the end of the promotional video, there was warm applause at the scene.

Samuel returned to the middle of the stage again, "IBM is 95 years old, many people are looking forward to the appearance of a century-old IBM, and every IBMer is also giving his enthusiasm for the best century.

At this special time point, we saw tremendous changes in the computer industry. We began to realize that microcomputers, which began to develop in the 1970s, were about to usher in a big explosion era. For this reason, we, IBM, took the lead in establishing the cell processor project .

I saw many people commenting that the cell processor project was established to enter the field of microcomputers. What I want to say is that IBM never follows, and IBM only leads. "

In line with Samuel's words, the big screen lit up again, and IBM's first place in hundreds of fields appeared on it, and the scene once again burst into warm applause.

"It would be a waste if Samuel didn't talk about success." Meng Qian, who was watching the live broadcast, couldn't help but tease.

After a while at the beginning, the press conference finally started to get to the point, introducing the cell processor.

To be more precise, it is to introduce the platform technology jointly created by IBM and Dafeng Group, Thunder, which can be translated into Leiden or Leiming. In the future, Huaxia users will be more accustomed to calling it the Thunder technology platform.

The reason why IBM chooses this name is mainly to consider the feelings of Westerners. The kind of lightning that Thunder expresses includes feelings of fastness, domineering, and even anger. IBM thinks that it can express the speed of our technology platform and reflect the speed of IBM. The king's domineering, as well as the anger against Intel and AMD, after all, these two goods have been mocking IBM in the past few years, which has made IBM unhappy for a long time.

Leiming's technology platform is naturally Intel's Centrino technology platform.

Is it difficult to build such a technology platform? It is still quite difficult, because it not only involves the processor itself, but also requires a lot of related technical support, which requires a lot of related technical reserves and hardware reserves, so it is really not easy for ordinary companies to do it, but IBM and Dafeng Group If you do, it will naturally be different.

As for why IBM didn't do it back then? In fact, people have done it, but they just didn't do it well, just like they made a cell processor but didn't do it well, because IBM is indeed inferior to Intel in the field of chipsets and network card modules.

What Dafeng Group brings to IBM is of course innovation. When the Leiming technology platform is compared head-to-head with the Centrino technology platform, even laymen can see some clear data.

Intel is now using the third-generation technology platform Napa, which is an integrated platform composed of Intel 945 series chipsets, Yonah Pentium M processors, and Intel 3945ABG wireless network card modules. The system bus speed is increased to 667MHz. Dual-core technology and the use of 65nm process. Among them, the introduction of dual-core technology into the Yonah Pentium M processor is a key technology of Napa this time.

Looking at the Leiming technology platform, it is an integrated platform composed of DF660 series chipset, cell processor, and IBM's latest 655BTG wireless network card module. The system bus reaches 800MHz, and the data transmission speed between CPU and chipset is higher.

In addition, the Leiming technology platform is very concerned about breaking through the demands of the current microcomputer processor, high performance and low power consumption. For this reason, the dynamic front-side bus frequency switching technology is adopted. By changing the front-side bus frequency in real time, the core voltage will be reduced, and the CPU will enter a new state. Low power operating state, reducing operating power consumption.

At the same time, the cell processor also introduces the dynamic acceleration technology developed by IBM to improve the performance of single-threaded applications. That is, when the CPU is in a single-threaded working state, one core of the processor is idle to reduce power consumption, while the other running core can obtain additional TDP space from the idle core to achieve higher performance.

In addition, the Leiming technology platform has clearer video playback capabilities, better manageability and security. Dafeng Group and Sony have jointly developed new video technologies. Dafeng Group has provided a large number of security technologies. In fact, IBM's wireless network card module set is also developed in cooperation with Dafeng Group. After all, IBM has not made any achievements in the field of wireless network cards at this time.

When seeing this, many viewers felt a bit of entanglement and hesitation, because judging from the things introduced so far, the Leiming technology platform is very good, but if the things inside are taken out, the chipset of the Gale Group, compared with Intel Is it comparable?

Can the network card just released by IBM compare with Intel?

As for the cell processor itself. Well, what exactly?

When many people on the Internet were discussing this matter, Samuel began to reveal the parameters of the cell processor.

"The cell processor still uses the power architecture, but on the cell processor, we have made great changes to the power architecture. The core lies in the complexity. The cell processor greatly reduces the complexity of the power architecture and enhances openness. .

We launched three series this time, including cell T series processors, cell D series processors and cell M series processors, all of which adopt 65nm process, including single-core, dual-core, and quad-core! "

The scene suddenly became restless.

Discussions on the Internet also immediately became lively.

After Intel launched its first dual-core processor last year, IBM followed up with its own dual-core processor two months later, so many people say that the first dual-core processor was launched by Intel.

But to be precise, there are some problems. First of all, in the server field, the world's first dual-core processor was born in 2001, from IBM.

At the same time, in the G4 era, that is, in 2004, IBM actually launched a dual-core processor for computers, but the product was a bit of a failure, so no one took it seriously. When Intel launched a dual-core processor in 2005, it was relatively mature. Everyone also said that Intel was the first to launch a dual-core processor, plus the same sentence, later IBM lost in the field of personal computers, the winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit, so there is nothing wrong with you.

As for quad-core processors, Intel publicly stated last month, that is, in January 2006, that it would launch its own quad-core processors at the end of the year, so users are looking forward to Intel's quad-core processors.

However, when Intel had to wait a year for users, IBM took out the quad-core processor.

Of course, this quad-core processor is actually a pseudo-quad-core, that is, two dual-core processors are packaged together, but well, Intel's first quad-core processor did the same thing, and what many people don't know is , This packaging technology is really IBM's, and the packaging technology used by Intel's first pseudo-quad-core processor is IBM's.

So Meng Qian has been discussing this matter with IBM last year. This packaging technology is yours, but you are building a quad-core processor.

At that time, IBM's engineers were more realistic. They thought this was a quad-core processor. Isn't this deceiving consumers?

Meng Qian is also very speechless, Intel will do the same in the future, hey.

Fortunately, the engineer was finally persuaded.

The press conference is here, and it will be twelve o'clock in China time soon. Samuel said, "I have just heard someone asking where our cell processor will be applied. My answer is that it is ubiquitous. In the future, everyone will be in Hewlett-Packard's servers, Sony's PS3, Siemens switches and other products see cell processors.

In the field of personal computers, our biggest partner is our good friend of IBM, Dafeng Group. In a few days, the press conference of SG Computer will be held, and I am full of expectations for it. "

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