Rewrite the Technological Landscape

On February 12, the news that Dafeng Group was going to invest more in Taobao leaked out, but today this news did not receive much attention, because there are two other major events in the technology circle today.

The computer co-operated by Apple and Intel will be released this evening Yanjing time, and the cell processor project co-operated by IBM, Dafeng Group, Sony and Toshiba will also be released in the middle of the night today.

The involvement of these companies has unsurprisingly caused waves in the global technology circle, but in Huaxia, the Dafeng Group naturally has to pay attention.

And Meng Qian, who is the party concerned, is dealing with some matters in the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industrial Park during the day. Like the previous life, Powerchip Semiconductor still acquired the factory of Macronix Electronics. Unlike the previous life, Dafeng Group and Powerchip Crystal Semiconductor's joint venture factory, Huajing Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was listed for business in Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industrial Park.

Dafeng Group holds 70% of the shares, and Powerchip Semiconductor holds 30% of the shares. The two companies will invest 5 billion to build a 12-inch fab, which is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2007, with a scheduled production capacity of 30,000 pieces per year.

The opening ceremony ended in the morning. In the afternoon, Meng Qian visited some companies in the industrial park. Near the evening, he went to his own company to learn about the latest situation of lithography machines.

According to Guan Xiangwen's report, the quality of the company's lithography machines is no problem, and the market reputation is getting better and better. Because of this, companies from Russia, Korea, Singapore and other countries have come to the company to order lithography machines, and because the first lithography machine It feels good to buy the engraving machine back, and there are many companies that continue to purchase. Now the company has 16 customers, and more than half of them have ordered two lithography machines.

According to Dafeng Group's current production capacity of 1.8 units a month, the order has already been scheduled for a year later.

But there is still no customer in the Omi area, which made Meng Qian feel a little bit thoughtful. After leaving the factory, Meng Qian called Canon and asked them to come to Huaxia for a chat after a while.

At six o'clock in the evening, Meng Qian returned to Tangchen Yipin, and as soon as he entered the house, he heard the sound of cooking in the kitchen.

"Why do you cook by yourself, just let auntie do it." Turning to the kitchen, Meng Qian saw Shen Jiawen cooking in an apron.

Shen Jiawen signaled Meng Qian to wait, after frying the dishes in the pot and serving them, she put the apron away before coming to Meng Qian's side, "Didn't you say that you like to eat the dishes I cook?"

Meng Qian looked at Shen Jiawen, and hugged her lazily.

"What's wrong?" Shen Jiawen asked worriedly.

"It's okay, I just want to hug for a while."

Shen Jiawen gently stroked Meng Qian's back, and the two hugged quietly for a few minutes.

After dinner, I got tired of it for a while, and when it was nearly half past nine, Meng Qian turned on the projection in the living room, ready to watch the live broadcast.

In the United States, Apple headquarters, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Intel CEO Paul Otellini appeared in front of the camera together. They will jointly launch the first iMac desktop and MacBook notebook with Intel processor in Apple's history.

At the press conference, Jobs and Paul were very friendly, as if they were old friends for many years.

"Is there a good relationship between Apple and Intel?" Shen Jiawen, who was snuggled next to Meng Qian, asked while looking at the live broadcast.

Meng Qian couldn't help laughing, "Apple used to be very resistant to Intel. In the late 1990s, Apple's TV commercials directly satirized Intel. They put the Pentium II logo on a snail, and made many times in public. Intel's remarks."

"Really? Look at the two of them. I thought they had a very good relationship."

"Jobs used to support IBM, but since the end of last year, Apple has slowly turned to ridicule IBM. This may be life."

"I remember that IBM and your Dafeng Group are allies, right?"

"Um."

"So your computers will use IBM processors in the future?"

"It is the cell processor that will be released soon, which can be regarded as a cooperative processor. Although Jobs is a master of face-changing, there is one thing he didn't understand, that is, how strong IBM's family background is.

In all fairness, Intel has indeed performed very well in the past two years, especially after launching the Centrino mobile computing technology in 2003, it was a major breakthrough in the field of computer processors, last year it launched a dual-core processor, and last month it launched a new generation of Pentium M processor core Yonah.

This is also the core reason why Apple chose Intel. If nothing unexpected, Apple's computer tonight should use the Yonah dual-core mobile computing processor.

Well, maybe IBM will slap Apple in the face. "

Shen Jiawen nodded and didn't ask any more questions, because the live broadcast reached the stage of product release.

Jobs used his unique personality charm to mobilize the atmosphere of the scene. Jobs said that the MacBook Pro was used to replace the previous Powerbook. Since then, Apple has entered the Intel era and said goodbye to IBM.

Jobs went on to introduce, "MacBook Pro provides two dual-core processors for different consumer classes. In fact, the higher-end MacBook is equipped with the latest Yonah dual-core mobile computing processor, Intel Core Duo dual-core processor, bus It is 667MHz, and the hardware technology includes PCI-Express interface, DDR2 667 memory technology, SATA hard disk interface technology, etc.”

At the same time, it also specifically mentioned that the MacBook Pro will have a built-in camera. Well, built-in cameras in computers are fashionable technologies these days.

As for Apple's new iMac, it also uses Intel's Core Duo dual-core processor, the graphics card is ATi's Radeon X1600, and of course, the operating system must be Mac OS X.

At the same time, it is equipped with Apple's latest iLife 06 software and built-in iSight camera. The new iMac has a hard drive size of 160 GB for the 17-inch version and 250 GB for the 20-inch version.

After introducing the product, it was time to announce the price, and when announcing the price, Jobs did not forget to say, "MacBook Pro will be at least three times better than the original PowerBook G4 in terms of performance. Hey, old love is old love, who cares?" What about your face?"

MacBook Pro has two price points, 1999 yuan version, 512M memory, 80G hard disk, X1600 graphics card.

The 2499m version, 1G memory, 120G hard drive, X1600 graphics card.

As for the iMac, the minimum configuration starts at 1299 yuan.

At the press conference, Meng Qian contacted Su Tianyue and asked her to lead a team to collect online news, especially overseas news, and send a summary to himself in ten minutes. At the same time, he also started to spread rumors.

Judging from the reactions on the Internet, many Apple fans are a little unhappy. There are two reasons for their displeasure. The first is that Apple did not cooperate with IBM and went to cooperate with Intel, which made some people unhappy. The other The reason is the price, which makes more fruit fans unhappy.

Those fruit fans who have accepted the cooperation between Apple and Intel have questioned on the Internet, you are selling it at the same price as before in cooperation with Intel, are you embarrassed?

And this situation happened in the past, even if Jobs kept saying that Intel’s chips were better than IBM’s, but more fruit fans, especially Omega fans, always believed that IBM is synonymous with high-end, and Intel is low-end. synonymous with IBM, so if you cooperate with IBM, your Apple is dropping prices, and if you cooperate with Intel, your Apple should reduce prices!

Even "Forbes" published an article saying that Apple's abandonment of IBM is to give up high-end and individuality, to surrender to the market, and to violate the personality that Apple has always created, which is disappointing.

This is the impression that IBM has created for the public for decades. In fact, he has always been synonymous with high-end. Even after more than ten years, it is just that he has lost his city in the fields of computer mobile phone chips and many people in later generations will be unfamiliar with him. .

But those who are disappointed are basically fruit fans. If they are not fruit fans, they don't have so many ideas. There are also many people who expressed their expectations, because Jobs boasted about the performance very well, and the MacBook Pro has a very good appearance.

Just like some variety shows in later generations, many old fans will find it unbearable, but those who are not old fans will think that there is something wrong with it, and the show will be over if it looks good.

At this moment in 2006, the base of fruit fans was not very large, coupled with the marketing follow-up by Intel and Apple, generally speaking, there was still a lot of anticipation on the Internet.

After Apple's press conference ended, Meng Qian, who was still reading rumors, received an international call from Samuel, "How does Mr. Meng feel?"

"It feels. Well. It's okay."

Samuel smiled on the other end of the phone, "Mr. Meng has brought great changes to the cell processor project, and I hope the cell processor can become a memorable birthday gift for Mr. Meng."

These words sounded quite touching, and Samuel specially set the conference time for Meng Qian at 11:30 p.m. in Huaxia, and then according to the procedure, he would explain the core of the cell processor at 12:00.

Well, it's kind of touching, but actually.

Samuel was partly pushing the blame.

Regarding the development direction and product details of the cell processor, Meng Qian quarreled with the other three bosses several times, almost causing the alliance to collapse. After all, as a reborn, an ordinary computer enthusiast knows what to do. , but standing in this era at the moment, they just can't see it. If they could see it, the cell processor project would not have failed like this.

So they are still very firm in their wrong views. In the end, under Meng Qian's strength and persistence again and again, the other three companies slowly made concessions. Of course, the more important thing is that Meng Qian came up with technical principles and product applications. Something more convincing.

But Samuel has always been uneasy, and has always been a little distrustful of Meng Qian. Therefore, if the cell processor fails, he will definitely blame Meng Qian. Meng Qian knows this very well. A birthday gift is just laying the groundwork for the future.

But Meng Qian himself is still very confident.

So the cell processor at this time is actually not the same thing as the previous cell processor.

How the cell processor will perform in this life will soon have an answer.