"Haha, Zhou Xin is really merciless, and his evaluation of Lenovo is spot on."
"Zhou Xin has always been like this. If you are as successful as him at the age of twenty, you will be like him and speak freely without caring about other people's feelings."
"In the final analysis, Lenovo itself does not have good enough technology. I work at Xinxin. According to our internal information, the reason why Intel agreed to jointly develop the Pentium-M chip with Xinxin is because Xinxin can help Intel solve a certain big technology problem." problem.
This technical problem will seriously affect the performance and sales of Intel's next-generation CPU. "
"Is the person above telling the truth? Although Xinxin is indeed technically capable and has made a lot of noise in the chip field in the past two years, can it solve problems that Intel cannot solve? I doubt this."
"I just heard that, but I don't know whether it's true or not. Otherwise, why would Intel be willing to cooperate with Xinxin?"
"Isn't Intel still cooperating with Lenovo? This is for the Chinese market."
“Intel and Lenovo cooperate because Xinxin is ahead and Lenovo is behind. It has never been done before to jointly develop X86-based personal computer chips with other companies. Even AMD only obtained technology authorization from Intel in its early days.
This is a very important decision for Intel. For them to make concessions, Xinxin must have offered conditions that they cannot refuse. "
"Let's wait for the official news, but it is true that Xinxin is in the lead and Lenovo is behind. I hope that the cooperation between Xinxin and Intel and the launch of Xiaomi computers can bring down the price of domestic computers. These computer manufacturers are too dark now." ”
"I now hope that Xiaomi's production capacity can increase. Who can look down on the production capacity of only 100,000 units per week? I don't know how to make money even if I have money on the ground. The owner of Xiaomi computers in the computer city next to my home will increase the price by 1,000 when changing hands.
You argue with him and tell him that the price on the official website is only 3,999. He rolls his eyes and says whether he wants to buy it or not. What’s even more confusing is that you don’t know if the parts inside have been replaced when you buy it back. One of my colleagues broke down not long after buying it. He went to find someone to look at it and found that the parts inside had been replaced.
The Pentium M CPU was replaced by the first-generation Pentium. My colleague was so angry that he went to find his boss, who turned around and refused to admit it. I would rather wait than go to the Computer City again. "
"Going to a computer city will make you uncomfortable. I went to work in the computer city during the summer after my college entrance examination. He can sell you a computer with a configuration of 3,000 yuan for 6,000 yuan. It is because there are so many profiteers that Xiaomi Computer can sell so many people." People lined up to grab the goods.”
"However, due to the influence of Xiaomi, the prices of offline franchise stores and direct-operated stores of these domestic computer manufacturers have dropped."
The revelations made by netizens on the Tianya Forum were later confirmed. Intel’s technical director publicly stated in an interview with Silicon Valley Technology Magazine:
"We will cooperate with New Core Technology to jointly develop Pentium-M chips because New Core Technology has very keen insights and excellent R&D personnel in the chip field, and can propose excellent solutions in the chip field. They are very Good partners.
Everyone knows that the Pentium 4 Northwood is a classic Pentium chip. For the first time, the Pentium 4 chip uses a 0.13 micron process to achieve a main frequency of 2GHz. At the same time, the overclocking function can increase the performance by another 30%.
Now that the chip manufacturing process has entered the 90nm era, we hope to replicate Northwood's success on the next generation of Pentium chips. However, we face the same problem as AMD, which is that we cannot solve the heat dissipation problem.
After reaching the 90nm process, the chip will leak electricity, which causes the new chip to generate 60% more heat per clock cycle than Northwood, which also leads to 10% more power consumption. The processor can easily overheat, further leading to the failure of the 90nm process. The chip performance is not even as good as the 130nm process chip. "
"Is this why AMD claimed in an interview that the processor performance of the 90nm process may not be as wonderful as everyone imagined?"
"Yes, Pentium-based processors now have a feature called Thermal-Throttling. This feature will force the processor into an idle mode or shut down when the temperature is too high to prevent damage to the processor.
Therefore, all Pentium 4 and Xeon processors with 0.18 micron and 0.13 micron process technologies have very clear batch parameter limits, and will automatically enter protection mode when this limit is exceeded.
But after entering the 90nm era, we found that this feature failed. The reason for this change was leakage power. The part of the current that flows in the circuit but is not used causes differences in the heat dissipation, temperature and other parameters of each processor. different.
All 90nm process Pentium 4 and Xeon processors can only be individually tested before a specific protection parameter can be determined, which will determine when the temperature of the processor reaches a protection state.
If we adopt this method to solve the problem, it is obviously unacceptable to Intel. After we communicated with Xinxin, they have good experience in this kind of problem. We have a new solution, but how to solve it specifically involves When it comes to trade secrets, I won’t go into details. "
Chinese people in America who are active on Chinese forums forwarded this report back to China, which raised netizens’ recognition of Xinxin to another level:
"Xinxin is called core technology. If Intel can't handle the technology, Xinxin can handle it. Can other computer manufacturers have this technology?
I'd better wait for the party to support Xiaomi. "
The simple patriotism of the Chinese people has led a large number of users to buy Xiaomi rather than wait. The connection between Xiaomi and core technology was something Zhou Xin never expected.
However, he was on vacation in Hawaii at this time, and he had no other work arrangements after the interview. The Mphone has now been finalized, and manufacturers are stocking up in large quantities, and plan to launch it on a large scale in the spring of next year.
As for why Intel knows that Xinxin can solve the problems in the 90nm process, it is because during the cooperation with Sony, Xinxin reminded Sony of possible problems in the 90nm process and provided solutions.
At present, Xinxin is no longer a nobody in the global integrated circuit industry, but a company with full potential. It has unique technical advantages in some subdivisions, ranging from chip design to chip foundry to semiconductor equipment, covering multiple fields.
It is precisely because of the cooperation with Intel that Zhou Xin intends to attract Intel to the new wafer fab he is planning to build in the Lion City.
Why TSMC is able to grow by leaps and bounds has something to do with Intel's large stake in TSMC.
"Mr. Barrett, Xinxin's branch in Lion City is in the process of preparation. I don't know if Intel is interested in investing in Xinxin Technology's Lion City branch."
When discussing cooperation with Intel, Zhou Xin personally went to talk to Intel's current CEO Craig Barrett.
The previous chip foundry business in China did not involve the most advanced product lines, but mainly involved product lines that were two generations behind the most advanced international processes.
China's most advanced production lines were one generation behind the world's most advanced processes when they were introduced. By the end of 2002, they were already two generations behind.
Intel has no interest in this business at all, but Xinxin's Lion City branch is different. Xinxin's Lion City branch is focused on the chip foundry business with the most advanced processes and exploring the next generation of processes.
"Newman, you know, Intel has its own chip foundry business. We have invested in TSMC and UMC, and we have also invested in Samsung. I want to know what are the advantages of Xinxin's chip foundry business compared to them?"
When chatting with Craig Barrett, he had a very good attitude. After listening to Zhou Xin’s introduction, he only asked one question, which was the advantages of Xinxin.
The chip foundry business is a zero-sum game. The market share is so large that there is no way to expand this market. If you take a piece, others will lose a piece.
Later, TSMC occupied half of the chip foundry business, swallowing up all the market share that originally belonged to Intel and Samsung.
At first, Neon manufacturers withdrew from the chip foundry business, and Samsung and TSMC ate the cake. Later, TSMC gradually took advantage of it and snatched the cake from Samsung and Intel.
Zhou Xin said: “The advantage lies with me, because I am the founder of Xinxin, and my technical vision, technical taste and technical smell are Xinxin’s biggest advantages.
To use an ancient Chinese poem to describe it: When time comes, heaven and earth all work together, and heroes are not free when they are transported.
The general meaning is that when development is going smoothly, the whole world is helping you, but when the development momentum is interrupted and great luck is lost, no matter how powerful the talent is, it will not be able to give full play to its full potential.
The current Xinxin is in such a smooth development stage. Intel's choice to invest in Xinxin is absolutely the right choice. "
Zhou Xin doesn’t want to talk to Intel about how vast the smartphone market will be in the future. Mphone has already taken the lead in this market. Just providing the most advanced chips for Mphone is enough to support Xinxin’s wafer fab in Lion City. .
The logic of saying this is obviously much stronger than reading poetry, but saying this will heighten Intel's vigilance. It is unnecessary. Intel is not the only partner on the market.
Craig Barrett obviously did not expect such an answer from Zhou Xin, but this answer obviously suited his taste. Chinese people do not believe in God, but Americans do.
Barrett said: "This is a good explanation. How do you say this poem in Chinese?"
After Zhou Xin repeated it in Chinese, Barrett nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I think it is also because of this that you can achieve such great achievements.
Your own ability is on the one hand, and the whole world is helping you on the other. Very good, you have convinced me, and I will mention this project to the board of directors. I think they should also be very interested in cooperating with the amazing Newman. . "
Yes, no matter what answer Zhou Xin gives, Craig Barrett will agree to cooperate with Zhou Xin, because Zhou Xin's past record has fully proved himself.
"The opportunity to cooperate with Newman is worth more than $100 million" has become a popular saying in the entire Silicon Valley entrepreneurial circle.
Under this premise, Barrett just wanted to hear if Zhou Xin had more specific ideas, and even without him he would promote this cooperation.
The cooperation with Intel means that Xinxin has entered a new stage. With Temasek's financial advantage, Intel's market advantage and Zhou Xin's own vision advantage, Xinxin's Lion City branch will become a new player on the advanced process table. player.
"It looks like you're in a good mood, Newman." After the interviewer left, Li Jingyi, wearing a swimsuit with her beautiful figure in full view, walked up to Zhou Xin and said.
Zhou Xin said: "I naturally feel better now that I have been on vacation. This is my first vacation since coming to America. I have always been stressed out by work. When I come to Hawaii, I hope to change my mode, from work mode to vacation." model."
Li Jingyi has been at Amerikan for almost two years, and she is used to calling Zhou Xin by his English name.
Zhou Xin continued to complain: "If your friend hadn't caused trouble for me, I wouldn't even have to participate in this interview."
Li Jingyi said: "I also saw that you did not attend this year's Internet Conference. You can use this opportunity to tell what you want to say but have not said through an interview on Phoenix TV. Don't you complain to me every day at home about Lenovo and Hanxin?" , it just so happens that Phoenix Satellite TV has a relatively large scale, and the content you complain about will be broadcast intact."
When it comes to the Internet Conference, even though Zhou Xinyuan is in Hawaii, the topic of the Internet Conference is still inseparable from Zhou Xin.
Whether it is Robin, who attended the Internet conference for the first time, or Pony Ma and Jack Ma, who came back from Silicon Valley, they are all inextricably linked to Zhou Xin.
"We all know that President Xin invested in three companies here at the same time at the first Internet Conference at the end of 1999. Do you think which company here has developed best after three years?"
"Whether it's from the perspective of valuation, revenue or profit, I'm not being modest. Alibaba is the best. From the perspective of listing, only Sohu is currently listed among our three companies.
In terms of market segmentation, Pony's Tencent is a monopoly in the field of instant messaging. It can only be said that each has its own advantages.
If I had to choose, I would choose my own Alibaba. "
This year, the Internet people in China had a meal together at Jack Ma's call, and then everyone sat around a round table. Robin sat in the middle, Jack Ma and Pony Ma sat on either side of him, and next to him were Ding Lei and Zhang Chaoyang.
Jack Ma posted the photo on Weibo with the caption: "A gathering of Chinese Internet people."
The following post on Weibo is @zhouxin, "Why do I feel that Internet people who have not been invested by Mr. Xin are not worthy of appearing on this table?"
"Without the new president, the overall appearance index can only be improved by Baidu Li."
"I guess when President Xin is with them, they are more like leaders and subordinates. When President Xin is not here, everyone is an entrepreneur of the same level, so they can chat more openly."
"I always feel that there is no new CEO attending this year's Internet Conference. Everyone is a bit pretentious and their words are too official."
Seeing that Zhou Xin was @ by so many people, he also commented below: "Eat well and drink well. I will treat everyone to dinner next year."
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