You Need Power to Get By

Chapter 92 You Need Power to Get By

Yang Yi watched Yu Dazui sit back in the second row before returning to the center of the stage.

"That's all for batteries. Now," he paused, "is the second main course of the day."

Yang Yi's words left everyone present dumbfounded. Wasn't dessert served after the main course?

Who taught you the second main course?

Suddenly, many people with a keen sense of smell noticed something was wrong.

Batteries are already at a level that can revolutionize most of the industry.

Technology that can be called a "second course" must be some kind of groundbreaking technology.

They truly cannot see through the young man on stage, nor can they see through the swarm of bees.

With the battery in place, they wouldn't be surprised if Yang Yi drove up in a Optimus Prime.

Yang Yi didn't keep everyone guessing for long. He turned to the side and gently clapped his hands towards the backstage area.

The sound of the cart wheels came through before the video feed.

Wang Teng carefully moved a computer tower from a small cart to the center of the stage.

The side panel of the chassis is made of black glass with a matte finish. It stands quietly under the light, not powered on, and nothing is inside.

I can't see anything.

Yang Yi walked over, reached out and patted the top of the computer case, making two muffled sounds.

"As everyone knows, Hive is a gaming company." He straightened up. "And everything in a gaming company is basically driven by games."

He paused for a moment: "Games need an engine, and the Queen Bee Engine is currently the world's largest general-purpose engine, bar none."

However, the first-generation Queen Bee Engine has been released for a year and a half, and it's gradually falling behind the development needs of games within the bee colony. We need to upgrade it comprehensively.

He braced his hands on the edge of the chassis: "Then we encountered a problem—the existing hardware couldn't support the computing power requirements of the new engine."

Some people in the audience nodded slightly. This is indeed a problem that all engine development companies encounter; it's nothing new.

"I've lost a lot of hair because of this."

A soft laugh rippled through the audience. It was quiet, but remarkably clear in the otherwise quiet hall. Once the laughter subsided, Yang Yi straightened up and removed her hand from the computer case.

"In the end, we chose a slightly special solution," he looked up and glanced around the audience. "We designed a completely new set of hardware to meet the upgrade requirements of the Queen Bee Engine."

Now everyone in the audience was in an uproar. What kind of rogue logic is this? If you can't poop, does that mean you have to change the rules?

The ball's gravity!

No, according to Yang Yi's logic, it was technology that was mentioned as the "main course" alongside the world's first battery at the press conference.

Could he have succeeded in his research?!

Yang Yi did not disappoint the audience; rather, he "disappointed" them.

A faint smile appeared on his lips.

"Gentlemen, we have succeeded."

He patted the black, windowless computer case next to him: "The results are in this small case."

Many audience members: No, not at all!

We're very happy that you've developed the world's best battery; after all, we can benefit greatly from your success, and it's not like it's impossible to surpass it.

Now that you've even solved the semiconductor problem, how are we supposed to catch up? Can China even research this stuff?

Wouldn't that make us seem incompetent?

The many bigwigs in the audience could only hope that the swarm design was just a special chip designed specifically to serve the queen bee engine.

Unfortunately, Yang Yi disappointed them.

Yang Yi glanced at Wang Teng. Wang Teng understood, went around to the back of the computer case, and pressed the power button.

The large screen behind me lit up along with the computer case, playing the previously recorded footage.

The internal lights of the main unit gradually came on.

Behind the black glass side panel, cool white light slowly illuminates from the inside, gradually outlining the internal structure of the chassis.

Heat sink fins, motherboard traces, and two chips covered by the heatsink stand in the center, one slightly larger and the other slightly smaller, their metallic luster giving off a cool and sophisticated feel under the light.

Yang Yi stood next to the computer case, waiting for hundreds of eyes in the audience to focus on the two chips on the big screen before raising the microphone to his mouth and speaking again.

"Let's start with the smaller one."

As soon as he finished speaking, the data for the chip on the left side of the large screen was displayed separately.

"Swarm Semiconductor's first-generation CPU, series codename FC190. TSMC 12nm process, eight cores and sixteen threads, base frequency 3.8GHz, all-core turbo frequency 4.6GHz, thermal design power 105 watts."

He deliberately slowed down his speech when he said this series of parameters so that each number could be remembered by the audience.

"For reference," Yang Yi switched the microphone to her left hand, "Intel's latest consumer flagship is the i7—"

The 8700K has six cores and twelve threads, a base frequency of 3.7GHz, and an all-core turbo frequency of 4.3GHz.

The audience fell silent.

Looking at the data alone, even if many people in the audience are tech professionals, it would be difficult to understand the actual performance of this chip.

Everything needs to be compared; there is no more intuitive performance demonstration than comparison.

"The FC190's multi-core performance is about 60% stronger than the 8700K, and its single-core performance is about 15% stronger," Yang Yi said, pausing for a moment.

To put it more simply, the 8700K's performance is roughly equivalent to the third-tier CPUs we've planned for.

—FC150.

Someone in the audience repeated in a low voice: "FC150 — two levels below the flagship."

Yang Yi didn't reply, but moved her finger to the graphics card.

The GPU's performance parameters are displayed simultaneously on the large screen.

"This is Swarm Semiconductor's first-generation GPU, the FG190. It also uses a 12nm process, and its traditional raster performance is better than the GTX 1080."

Ti is 53% stronger.

He glanced at the comparison data that popped up on the main screen: "Based on NVIDIA's release of graphics card performance improvement patterns, the industry-wide generational improvement from 1080 Ti to 2080 Ti is approximately 100%..."

Between thirty and thirty-five.

The FG190 is 53% stronger than the 1080Ti, which means it's about 20% stronger than the 2080Ti.

At this point, he gestured vaguely around the top of the computer case: "The development of the CPU and GPU is progressing simultaneously, and the supporting motherboards, cooling solutions, and power supply modules are all developed in-house by Swarm."

"It can perfectly unleash the full performance of both of the Hive's chips."

The audience fell completely silent.

The silence was different from when the battery data appeared earlier. It wasn't the silence of being stunned by the data; it was a silence that needed to be processed.

Two minutes later, sporadic sounds appeared in the exhibition hall, which then grew louder and louder, spreading throughout the exhibition area.

There was no other way; this data required time to process. Only after they had digested it did they realize just how terrifying the two chips from the Swarm were.

It even surpasses the next-generation chips of the three giants.

It's all aimed at tearing apart the three giants: Intel, Nvidia, and AMD.

Many tech media outlets blushed with embarrassment, exclaiming: China has also produced domestically made chips, and their performance far surpasses that of the three tech giants!

However, many experienced veterans breathed a sigh of relief.

He sighed inwardly, thinking that Yang Yi was still too young. What good was fighting skills when you were in the game? In the real world, you needed power and connections.

What good is superior performance if other software ecosystems don't want you? What can you do besides running your own engine?

And can't they urgently improve performance?

Do they really think these tech giants have no technological reserves?

Although I'm not very optimistic about Swarm Semiconductor's future, the fact that it can develop chips that outperform the three giants by so much shows that Swarm Semiconductor is no ordinary company.

With the support of cellular power supplies, which are already confirmed to be the world's number one battery manufacturer, it can still dominate the domestic market with ease.

We can't afford to mess with them, we really can't afford to mess with them.

This is the only successful one in the country, shouldn't the country cherish him?

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