Chapter 578 Apple Embraces X86
Three years ago, with Mr. Qiao returning to Apple, Apple shifted its business focus from the traditional personal computer industry to consumer electronic digital products.
To be honest, Apple is indeed awesome in the field of product design.
Whether it is PDA or MP3 player, when Apple intervened, or Mr. Qiao returned, it caused a sensation in the market as soon as it was launched and quickly became a rival to Sony.
Su Yuanshan must admit that from the aesthetic perspective of industrial design, Yuanxin is still a bit worse. Therefore, in the exchanges between domestic and foreign R&D centers carried out at the beginning of this year, the design teams of the Capital Design Center and the Silicon Valley branch were the first to communicate.
But the design of Yuanxin does not mean that Yuanxin is not competitive...
Yuanxin emphasizes the power and technology guides the future - with the support of innovative technologies and ideas, no matter how ugly Yuanxin's products are, there are fans who are keen on digital products to pay for it.
What's more, Yuanxin's product design is only a little worse than Apple and Sony under harsh conditions.
This time, as Mr. Qiao came over with the chip design supervisor, Su Yuanshan guessed with just his toes that Apple should have designed a new chip based on the yx architecture to drill 0.25 micron process.
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Western Restaurant of Shanghai International Hotel.
"Mr. Qiao, I advise you to eat some meat."
Because it was a welcome banquet, there was naturally no reason to put down Apple and the other middle and senior executives. Su Yuanshan simply invited a table at the International Hotel, but sat next to Jobs himself.
Seeing that Mr. Qiao was only eating vegetarian dishes, Su Yuanshan shook his head.
He knew that the other party was a vegetarian, and it was even said that... Mr. Qiao's illness was also related to long-term vegetarianism, so he said earnestly: "There are also sayings about eating vegetarian food in the East, but those are limited to lay Buddhists who don't work much. If you work overtime every day, you can't just eat vegetarian food."
"Oh? Is that?"
"Yes."
Jobs smiled and nodded, but still had no intention of eating meat.
"Su, what do you think laptops can provide?"
He picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth. Jobs looked at Su Yuanshan and asked casually.
"Whatever you want to provide, it can provide." Su Yuanshan also answered casually - Mr. Qiao came to the filming process, which obviously means that the chip design was successful.
Even if Apple keeps it confidential, Su Yuanshan can guess the approximate performance through the yx public version architecture it uses.
Since Apple dares to directly use the most advanced process like 0.25 micron this time, it is obvious that its performance will definitely be good - at least it will not be worse than the chips used in the previous Xbook notebooks of Yuanxin.
But Su Yuanshan couldn't guess whether Apple would take this opportunity to enter the notebook market directly or lock in the tablet industry in advance.
If it is the latter... it is a bit worth being wary of.
Of course, it is also possible that Apple wants to enter the mobile phone industry ahead of time - but Apple does not currently have the ability to integrate baseband chips, and the current mobile phone chips have been pulled into the internal coil of baseband integration by Yuanxin in advance. If Apple wants to plug in baseband... the cost alone is a natural disadvantage, and it is obviously impossible to compete with Yuanxin and Sony, the two high-end brands.
Chapter completed!