Chapter 136 News from TSMC
After an OTA, the experience of using FlexPai mobile phones has been improved to a new level.
Some users were surprised to find that after the system update, there was an "Ultimate Performance Mode" option in the game space.
Many netizens directly added benchmarking software like AnTuTu into the game space out of curiosity, and ran a score in the latest extreme performance mode.
What is surprising is that this time the running score in the extreme performance mode has improved by leaps and bounds.
Among them, when the Tianxuan 800 processor model does not use the ultimate performance benchmark, the general benchmark score is basically maintained at just over 510,000.
When the extreme performance mode is turned on, the running score directly reaches around 560,000 points, which is completely close to the running score of Fire Dragon 865 in terms of performance.
This increased score all comes from the GPU score increase.
At the same time, the guaranteed score of Tianxuan 900 processor chip has also increased from just over 580,000 points to 640,000 points, directly defeating the Fire Dragon 865.
After the corresponding processor chip monitoring and the decomposition of the newly added gpu driver, users finally understood where the gpu driver upgrade was this time.
Originally, the frequencies of the GPUs of the two processors were basically maintained at 462 to 484mhz.
However, after adding a new GPU driver, the GPU frequency of the two processor chips can be increased to a maximum of 658mhz under certain circumstances.
Although this kind of GPU driver will increase the frequency of the GPU, resulting in increased power consumption and heat generation, the improvement in performance is also very obvious.
This time the upgrade of the system's GPU driver is equivalent to overclocking the GPU of the current Tianxuan processor chip.
This allows these two processor chips to have better performance release and image quality in some extreme gaming environments.
"Haha, damn, Tianxuan can still be upgraded. This time the performance of Tianxuan 800 plus the optimization of Flexpai is probably no worse than that of Fire Dragon 865!"
"It is true that the optimization of FlexPai is quite impressive. Tianxuan 900 is currently the most powerful 5G processor chip on the surface!"
"Mr. Lei is being slapped in the face!"
Netizens are also paying attention to the performance of the Flexpai system after the upgrade.
Obviously, the addition of the GPU driver this time has revitalized the Tianxuan processor chip, even when facing the new generation of Fire Dragon 865 processor chip.
At the same time, in addition to performance upgrades, image photography is still the most powerful improvement in this upgrade of FlexPai.
After all, the last version of the system was updated in August last year, and after August last year, the company made corresponding upgrades in the imaging team and recruited professional talents to polish the algorithm.
After almost half a year, the imaging capabilities of Roupai's algorithm are even more powerful than those of the previous major version.
For this reason, Roupai Company also used two different system versions of the same mobile phone to compare images on its official Weibo.
In terms of taking pictures.
The contrast of daily photography has been significantly increased, making the quality of the photos taken more in line with the aesthetics of mass users.
At the same time, in high-pixel mode and in some strong light environments, there will be a loss of image quality in terms of details. However, in the new version, the image quality and detail performance have been improved a lot.
Secondly, in terms of focusing on items used in daily photography, the focus level this time has basically improved by 30%, allowing for better focus and shooting of photos.
In addition to polishing the details.
This product has even more obvious improvements in night scene photography.
The addition of the Nightingale algorithm makes it possible to capture clear objects in extremely dark light environments with the help of the corresponding algorithm.
At the same time, in complex industrial environments, it can also ensure that the photos taken will not have problems such as ghosting or glare.
Overall, the photography level of this new version has been significantly improved compared to the previous version.
In terms of mobile phone photography, this system update of FlexPai also smoothes the zoom that occurs during shooting.
This makes the picture quality captured by the entire phone smoother when the phone uses zoom shooting, and the overall experience will not fall behind Guozi's shooting level.
"The SoftPai phone works this time. After this upgrade, I feel that my photography skills have improved a lot!"
"Indeed, SoftPai is quite conscientious. The Youth Edition I just bought also provides the current system usage experience. It feels much easier to use than my last Mi9!"
"I think we can wait. After all, there will be a more powerful SoftPai 2S series in April. That phone should be good!"
With the commotion made by the rice company at the press conference, coupled with the very powerful marketing publicity of the softpai company, the status of the softpai in the eyes of users has gradually improved.
In particular, the FlexPai mobile phone has both powerful hardware configuration and such an optimized system. Many users who pursue cost-effectiveness and flagship products have begun to pay attention to the FlexPai mobile phone.
At the same time, with the release of the GPU driver for Flexpai mobile phones, some manufacturers who had ordered Tianxuan processor chips found Roupai.
The corresponding software of gpu driver is a very useful software driver for major manufacturers.
After all, all FlexPai phones equipped with Tianxuan chips can be used for OTA. Users of other models equipped with Tianxuan processor chips will inevitably have unpleasant thoughts in their hearts.
However, Zhou Zhen still sent the GPU driver package to various manufacturers for free.
In fact, Zhou Zhen could charge a fee, but Zhou Zhen thought about it and chose the "free" strategy.
After all, sometimes free stuff isn’t cheap.
In Zhou Zhen's mind, the Tianxuan processor chip will become a processor chip used by major manufacturers like Huolong and Tianji in the future.
Although it is possible that we will not be able to reach this level in the next few years, with the successful development of the ice engraving machine, it will be the time for the rise of Yuzhen Semiconductor.
It is also a good way to build relationships with manufacturers in this way.
At the same time, several big guys on "Xianan" have extracted the gpu driver installation package of the SoftPai mobile phone. As long as the phone is slightly rooted, and then the gpu driver installation package is installed, a series of operations of gpu overclocking can be achieved.
There was even a big guy from a certain security company who cracked the gpu driver installation package and raised the GPU frequency of the Tianxuan 900 processor to an astonishing 844mhz.
As a result, after extensive overclocking of this phone, the running score reached a terrifying score of 690,000 points.
Generally speaking, GPU driver is not a core technology, and giving it to other manufacturers for free will not cause any harm to FlexPai.
So soon machines from other manufacturers equipped with Tianxuan 800 and 900 also ushered in a wave of performance breakthroughs.
In early March, a phone call from the other side of the country made Zhou Zhen nervous.
"News has begun to spread over there. It is estimated that we will start targeting... in May or June..."
"After discussions with our senior management, we will complete the order as soon as possible by the end of April or early May, but I heard that the restriction is the 7nm process technology..."
Listening to the voice on the other end of the conversation, Zhou Zhen also frowned slightly.
Although he had expected this day for a long time, he did not expect it to come so quickly.
However, judging from the information obtained by the other party, our company is still much lighter than Juchang.
It is simply that we cannot continue to use processes above the 7nm process for corresponding chip production.
Process technologies like 8nm and 10nm can produce processor chips.
However, as TSMC continues to develop, the manufacturing process will also develop and progress, which will lead to the reduction of the corresponding production lines and eventually replacement with the latest process technology production lines.
This means that TSMC may be able to produce 8nm process processor chips for Yu Zhen, but it may be very confident in terms of production capacity.
Of course, Zhou Zhen believes that if Yu Zhen Semiconductor exposes the latest processor chips currently developed by the company, Zhou Zhen may even have to say goodbye to production.
"This means that the 8nm manufacturing process can still be used, right?"
"Yes, the company still has two production lines with 8-nanometer manufacturing technology, but it is expected to remove these two production lines and replace them with 6-nanometer manufacturing technology production lines by the beginning of next year!"
Zhou Zhen also started further communication with TSMC in depth, wanting to know about TSMC's current production capacity and how long it can continue to produce.
"Our company also wants to produce 8nm processor chips. Can the 8nm production line be postponed and withdrawn?"
"This won't work. After all, the company has already planned the upgrading of the product line!"
Of course, Zhou Zhen also hopes that the other party can leave a few production lines with 8nm process technology, but according to the current development, it is basically impossible.
Of course, Zhou Zhen also hopes to seize the remaining opportunities and produce more processor chips.
Even if it is a processor chip made of 8nm process technology, Zhou Zhen hopes to get more of it.
However, after in-depth understanding, Zhou Zhen also discovered that his company may need to quickly design new processor chips and hand them over to TSMC for production.
After all, time is limited, and the current production line of TSMC's 8-nanometer process technology is still mass-producing part of the Fire Dragon 750g processor, which also compresses the production capacity that Yuzhen Semiconductor can obtain.
Through exchanges with TSMC, Zhou Zhen also gained some insight. Currently, TSMC's two production lines can each produce about three million chips per month.
The Fire Dragon is now using a production line, and production is expected to last until November this year.
This means that one line of production has a production capacity of about 9 months, and the other one only has a production capacity of 2 months.
If Yuzhen Semiconductor can now produce chip circuit integration design drawings, it is estimated that it can also bring production capacity of 33 million chips.
Chapter completed!