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"Judging from the current tests, it is on par with NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti4200, and a little worse than Ti4600 and ATI's 9700."

Listening to Jiang Wenxi's introduction, Su Yuanshan also turned over the core in his hand and looked at it.

S300.

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As a "unhurried" pursuer, the core design of silicon core has been iterated internally, or upgraded three times - S300 is its core code name. At the same time, 300 is also the frequency that this core can currently reach. It has 150 million transistors, is packaged in an FPGA, and looks bigger than a processor.

Next to Su Yuanshan's hand is an engineering card that has just been pulled out of the test machine. It was designed by Meijie's board engineers. It is equipped with Lux DDR500 memory particles and uses a large-area aluminum fin cooling fan. At first glance, it looks like it consumes a lot of power.

"Compared to 3dfx?" Su Yuanshan nodded, put down the core, and picked up the graphics card to look at it.

"Ahem... It's a little worse. 3DFX has been the king of cards for seven years. Their latest Witcher series of Vidoo6 is the only one that can win the Meteor Butterfly Sword at the highest image quality." Jiang Wenxi coughed lightly. , admitted his shortcomings very simply.

"The highest image quality of Meteor Butterfly Sword is purely to show off skills. Who can use so many ambient lights and shadows in a competitive game... And they have always cooperated with Xinghai. It is normal that only 3DFX won." Su Yuanshan complained about Liu Xiang, Then he frowned slightly and began to ponder.

Yes, he knows that technology cannot be achieved overnight.

But the current momentum of 3DFX is a bit "desperate".

The current graphics cards on the market are not so much three companies competing for supremacy, but rather ATI and NVIDIA joining forces to fight against 3DFX.

But who is behind 3DFX? Its market value has soared in the past six months. Among the technology companies that have been listed in the entire Silicon Valley, it is the second largest technology company in market value after Microsoft and the largest entity company.

All of this, in addition to the recovery of the Internet, is largely due to the dominance of 3DFX and the sales of Xinghai's S series mobile phones.

And this also means that Xinghai may become the first comprehensive giant in Silicon Valley spanning the fields of semiconductors, electronic products, and the Internet.

With the support of CEO Carly, and with CTO Chen Haoming almost firmly implementing the principles set by Su Yuanshan for 3DFX, the probability of 3DFX falling on its own in the future is indeed a bit low.

Unless Su Yuanshan deliberately brought them into the pit - that would be impossible even with his toes.

"In this way, it does still take time to catch up. It is already remarkable that you can catch up with the mid-to-high end in three years."

After Su Yuanshan pondered for a long time, he smiled: "What is your next marketing strategy?"

Jiang Wenxi breathed out softly: "Our current positioning is to win the mid-to-low-end market first, focusing on cost-effectiveness and taking the Internet cafe route."

"Well, it's okay to go the Internet cafe route. But if you really want to catch up with the first echelon, you won't be able to rely on low prices and volume. That's just survival - if there are only two or three companies in the graphics card market, they can still survive together. But once there are four restaurants, Laosi basically won’t even have soup left.”

Su Yuanshan said with emotion: "The chip industry is so cruel."

Su Yuanshan's words immediately made Jiang Wenxi a little nervous. He pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.

Everyone knows that even people like Su Yuanshan and giants like Yuanxin have been losing money in their processor department for five years now...

But everyone knows that Yuanxin is the most dedicated to technology. Even if it keeps losing money, as long as it is correct, even if it hits the south wall, it will not look back and will directly break the wall.

"Consumer-grade graphics cards mainly rely on consumer recognition to gain market share. 3DFX now occupies more than half of the market share. Fundamentally, it is because they pioneered the 3D game era. At present, almost all 3D game developers in the industry have They cooperate."

"So cooperation with game developers is the key." Su Yuanshan looked at Jiang Wenxi: "You have a natural advantage in communicating with domestic game developers. You must not give up this advantage."

"OK."

"Besides, make sure you catch the right train."

"Catch the right train?"

"Choose the right partner and provide targeted optimization. As long as the partner takes off, you will also take off."

"On New Year's Day, Shushan will start testing, and in the second half of next year, World of Warcraft will start testing. According to known information, these two games represent the highest quality online games so far - don't focus on single-player games, The communication intensity and topic of online games are the highest, and they are also the key to your Internet cafe route."

Jiang Wenxi kept nodding, and suddenly asked: "Mr. Shan, let's see if Sony can consider buying a game console..."

"Well, I will help you ask Sony at that time, but it can only be a question, including Microsoft. It can help you connect. Whether the negotiation can be concluded in the end depends on each other's considerations." Su Yuanshan said After a pause, he chuckled and said, "But it's still easy to talk to the Department of Electrical Engineering."

Jiang Wenxi also smiled when he finally said this.

A very important reason why the S300 still cannot be ranked among the first-tier products despite Meijie's top-notch design is that the PCA (Parallel Computer Architecture) development environment developed for parallel computing involves a lot of their energy.

And this was what Yuanxin wanted, and they even sent a team of talented people from Pandora to stay there for a long time.

Frankly speaking, Jiang Wenxi is not ignorant of the advantages and prospects of GPU in parallel computing, but he wants to run before he can learn to walk... This can only be said that Yuanxin is "far-sighted".

Of course, the reason why Jiang Wenxi recognized Su Yuanshan's arrangement was not only because he believed in Su Yuanshan's vision, but also to a large extent because of the Electronic Science and Technology and Su Yuanshan's influence in the domestic supercomputing field - or in other words, Academician Su Xinghe's influence in the domestic supercomputing field. influence in the field.

At present, no one has tried to use GPU to design supercomputer.

In addition to supercomputing, the various computing requirements proposed by Pandora also represent the direction of AI development.

"My father has always been in charge of the supercomputing center of Electronic Science and Technology, and I can do this. In addition, the demand for computing power in the field of artificial intelligence is also growing day by day. As long as you can catch up with this wave of limelight, then even in consumption Failure in the market does not necessarily mean there will be no opportunities.”

As Su Yuanshan said this, he took out his mobile phone, glanced at it, and answered the call.

Liu Xiang called.

…

"Mr. Shan, I heard that you arrived in HK? I'm here too." Liu Xiang's voice on the phone said with a smile: "Are you free tonight? Please watch a movie."

"Movie?"

"Hehe, Shushan...just cut out, preview screening."

"Uh... we'll talk about it later. You have to be at Cyberport. Now you can come to Silicon Core and talk about your game."

"Mr. Shan calls, how dare I not come? Just wait for me."

After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan smiled at Jiang Wenxi: "I can probably make the decision on cooperation in the domestic game industry."

(Another chapter will be added tonight...)