Chapter 311

That's right, the questioner is someone Qin Miao had prepared in advance; since Intel's people have come, of course we must analyze in front of many media whose design philosophy is more advanced.

Actually, the flaws of x86 were not very apparent until now; they started to show in the Pentium era—massive power consumption, extreme heat, liquid cooling was researched then. Later, Intel's processors were still complex instruction set, but internal instructions could be executed in slices, which is absorbing the thinking of reduced instruction set.

But it still falls short!

So, as development continued, Intel processors became less and less popular, while another kind, the ARM processor developed on mobile platforms, became more and more popular, eventually even starting to seize the personal computer market; later, many computers touting AI slogans use reduced instruction set.

In the end, Intel almost had to sell itself.

Now, Dragon Core is starting out and will take the reduced instruction set route; this path is absolutely correct—not only can it be used in personal computers, but also in all kinds of embedded devices, its low power consumption being its greatest advantage.

As for program code being complex……that's referring to assembly instructions!

In this era, high-level languages already exist; take C language for example, the compiler has many built-in functions, which differ from mathematical functions in meaning—they are fixed program segments, also called subroutines, taking various parameters as input and returning results as output, making them very convenient to call.

In later times, a programmer's keyboard actually only needs the Ctrl, C, and V keys to be sufficient; after all, whatever instruction is needed, just copy that code segment, then debug—if no errors, it's OK; typing code line by line? That's something only seen in TV dramas!

Although Dragon Core has many instructions, programmers don't need to call them back and forth; as long as they remember the compiler's functions and call them directly, they can save a lot of code.

Simply put, each instruction of a complex instruction set can be understood as a function in a reduced instruction set compiler, so programming remains the same, but code execution efficiency is much higher because many unused instructions can be eliminated!

This way, Dragon Core's performance might truly surpass their 8086!

"Well..." Geluofu thought for a moment: "Let's not get hung up on these questions; please continue introducing the processor, for example, how high is the clock speed?"

"All right, then I'll continue the introduction; sir, if you have no further questions, you may sit down."

The shill has been used up already, right?

I didn't expect this guy to still not give up!

"I still have a question; even if you use some reduced instruction set and hear that execution efficiency is high, running speed fast, and power consumption low, I still think it can't beat the x86 processor, after all, the x86 clock speed ranges from 4.77 megahertz to 10 megahertz, and this clock speed determines how fast computation is."

"Really? You sound like you know what you're talking about; I didn't expect you to think clock speed is the deciding factor!"

"Well... besides clock speed, there's word width; the current 8086 processor is 8-bit, unless your Dragon Core is a 16-bit processor, in which case even with the same or even lower clock speed it could be stronger than the 8086; if it's still 8-bit, then I still don't think your performance is high!"

This... this guy is definitely a shill! And what he's saying implies...... could Dragon Core One be 16-bit?

Geluofu and Moore exchanged glances; at this moment, their hearts grew even more uneasy.

Just now we hadn't said it yet, but already many people thought Dragon Core was stronger than the 8086; now, if Dragon Core is still 16-bit, its performance would absolutely be crushing!

But... the beginning is always hard; the other side won't suddenly be this fierce, will they?

Intel made processors, too—first they made a 4-bit 4004, then an 8-bit 8008; these past years they've been refining 8-bit processors, and 16-bit ones haven't even hit the market yet!

How could Easterners possibly start with a 16-bit processor? That would be like leaping to the heavens in one step!

"Yeah, it's related to word width; can you mention anything else?"

These two, on the surface they're locked in argument, but actually they're playing off each other!

At this point, Zhang Wanhe also figured it out; he had originally wondered, given Qin Miao's attitude of not putting foreigners in his eyes, that foreigner causing a stir just now should have been kicked out by security, but unexpectedly he let him say all that.

Turns out he's a shill!

"Of course! Besides word width, it's the manufacturing process! The 8086 is a 3-micrometer process; although not the most advanced of this era, it's still quite good. I've heard that some manufacturers wanting to reverse-engineer the 8086, lacking the process, split its internal functions into several parts and made several discrete integrated circuits..."

On site, several Eastern manufacturer representatives' faces flushed; this foreigner, how does he know our affairs?

"We are currently researching a 1.5-micrometer process." Geluofu couldn't hold back: "In a few months, our new product will launch using this process."

Could Easterners have advanced technology? Even if they did, it's probably at most 3 micrometers; by revealing our hand early, we also let others know that in chip making, Intel remains the strongest!

"What, 1.5 micrometers! That might be the most advanced process in energy production, right?" This shill again started his performance: "Hmph, if your Dragon Core One also used a 1.5-micrometer process, I'd be convinced!"

Qin Miao shook his head: "No, we haven't used this process."

"Hmph, it looks like your processor still can't match Intel's!"

This shill has finally finished his task; at this moment he's in a good mood, smiling broadly.

"We're using a 1-micrometer process."

"What?"

The shout was loud; who knows how many people in the venue were shouting in unison, just in different languages, mostly English 'why?'

That's exactly the effect we wanted! Looks like our arrangements weren't in vain.

If we had announced it directly, we wouldn't have gotten this shocking comparative effect; now we've already hyped Intel to the heavens, and then... our Ha Gong Da's technology is in space!

From today on, who would dare say our process is poor?

"We used a full set of domestically made equipment, successfully achieving the goal of processing a 16-bit processor with a 1-micrometer manufacturing process."

Below, everyone's eyes were filled with shock.

"That's right, folks, you didn't hear wrong—our Dragon Core One uses a 1-micrometer manufacturing process, it's a 16-bit processor with several ten thousand transistors integrated inside; although the initial clock frequency is only 6 megahertz, I can promise our processor quality is excellent, and it can be overclocked to double speed with ease."