Chapter 1616

"Sanders, this is von. How is the research and development of the acceleration processor cooperated by SUPERWAY and yingweida? "

There are four main factors limiting the emergence of tablet computers, including three in hardware and three in software. And the operating system also has to be limited by the hardware, so it can't be developed and considered to be very useful. As a result, the hardware doesn't work at all, right?

As for the hardware, the most important is the processor, screen and battery. The processor includes CPU and GPU, and the screen also requires multi touch. Because the screen is larger, the performance of the battery is higher.

After the tablet computer was designed, Feng Yu's requirement was that people could watch videos for at least eight hours in a row.

In terms of batteries, there has been a breakthrough, but if the core energy consumption of the processor is too high, then there is not only the problem of power consumption, but also a major problem, that is, it will generate heat.

Tablet computers, like mobile phones, have no cooling fans. No one wants to play with them, so they feel hot on their hands, right?

There are also high requirements for the clarity of the screen and the sensitivity of the touch screen. At present, wind and rain electronics is one of the top LCD screens in the world, which can basically meet the requirements of Feng Yu.

The only thing is the processor, or not. According to the products provided by Chaowei and yingweida, the thickness of the tablet is close to 2cm.

And with other accessories, the weight of the whole tablet will be too heavy, even if it's made of plastic shell, it's also hundreds of grams. According to Feng Yu's design of aluminum alloy shell, it should weigh at least 800 grams.

It's hard enough for people to hold such heavy things all the time, let alone lie down and use them. One fell on his face carelessly, and he didn't smash it.

Feng Yu has told Lianxiang group several times that this tablet is not the miniaturization of the all-in-one computer, nor the ThinkPad of IBM or the tablatpc of Microsoft. Of course, it can't be understood as PDA.

The main purpose of this tablet is entertainment. With the improvement of performance, it can have office properties, but it is not developed for office.

So it's enough to satisfy some entertainment performance. It's not necessary to be so powerful.

It's the same with the system. There's no need to add all the functions. It should be the upgrading of the smartphone's operating system, not the reduction of the PC's operating system.

It's a product between a smartphone and a computer, so this system, too, is in between. This is true for both performance and size.

Even think of Yinshan in order to develop this IOS system, but also invested a lot of energy. For this reason, Lianxiang Yinshan has merged some small software design companies in order to get those professional software designers and expand the team.

Fortunately at this time, even think of silver mountain is not bad money.

When everything else is going very well, the processor is stuck.

Chaowei and yingweida didn't cooperate with each other, but they both wanted to make the product perform best, so they found that the architecture design couldn't satisfy them. It's either too thick, it's too big, or it has other shortcomings.

Today, Saunders received a call from Feng Yu again. He was very embarrassed and replied: "Feng, this design has not been made satisfactory. But we are speeding up, and we believe that we will have results soon. "

Feng Yu shook his head. Last year, you told me the same thing. A year has passed and nothing has appeared. That's what you said very quickly?

If it wasn't for super power's dual-core processor project to make great progress and profit, Feng Yu would be furious. At the end of the day, both SUPERWAY and yingweida don't pay much attention to this product, and they are more worried about the advantages that other companies have now surpassed.

It's not a mistake to focus on the advantage projects, but they don't know how much profit space tablet computers will have in the future.

The traditional desktop market will gradually shrink, the integrated computer 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 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 microprocessors are really unique, but their performance is too low. It's OK to be the core of a mobile phone. How can they be the core of a PC? " This company is in the same trade. How can SUPERWAY not understand it.

"I mean how about their product architecture scheme. If we use their product architecture scheme, can we give you some hints about whether we can speed up the processor faster?"

"This acceleration processor doesn't need much performance excellence. 800MHz is very good. 512KB of secondary cache is enough. It doesn't need much excellence in the aspect of graphics card. The core frequency of 256mhz is enough. What I want is low energy consumption, small space occupation, and it can be applied to our flat-panel computer."

The performance of tablet computer doesn't need so much excellence, and Feng Yu doesn't plan to make this a luxury. The price of about 500 dollars is enough.So designing a better product, on the contrary, will increase the cost, which is not worth the loss. Feng Yu temporarily positioned the tablet as an entertainment product. The price is too high, which will definitely affect the sales.

When Feng Yu said that, Sanders replied: "Feng, their product architecture is really mature, which can give us a lot of inspiration. But in this case, we will buy arm's patent license. I'm going to discuss this with yingweida and see how to apportion the expenses. "

Although both of them are subsidiaries of wind and rain holding group, they belong to different companies and have different shareholders, representing different interests of different people.

Of course, for Feng Yu, he can follow the profits of both companies, so he doesn't think about it in such detail.

"OK, then go to talk with Yang and give me a reply as soon as possible. Also, don't worry about contacting arm. It's better to contact arm again next month. "

Sanders was a little surprised. Feng Yu was in such a hurry to develop this product. He said he was not in a hurry to contact arm. What do you mean?

He suddenly thought that Feng Yu seemed to be very interested in hardware design and manufacturing companies. Is Feng Yu planning to buy arm?

It seems that Feng Yu said that he would be the biggest giant in the IT industry, which is really not a free talk.

Hardware, software, network and computer are all involved. It's not impossible to become the biggest giant in the industry in the future.

Now that Sanders said it had great inspiration, it should be OK. The former fruit company a series processor also adopts the arm architecture, thus creating a glorious era of their smartphones and tablets for many years.

But in this life, the fruit company should stay away.

…… (to be continued. )