Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 544 Xiaoyin Voice Assistant Upgrade

"Don't worry, boss. I've been a senior technician for so many years, I would never make such a basic mistake."

Li Jiahui nodded solemnly, then carefully stuffed the proposal into the file bag, as if he were carrying some rare treasure.

Even as he left the office, he still secretly glanced at the windows a few times before walking out.

…………

In the afternoon, Transsion Semiconductor's official Weibo account quietly posted a message:

"Taishan's self-developed neural network processor has officially completed 6 days of verification."

This marks the beginning of a new era for edge AI computing power.

In addition to the text teaser, the outline of the chip was also shown, along with a provocative statement:

The computing power is approximately equal to 4 * A7 NPU, with a 50% reduction in power consumption.

However, Li Qing's publicity department made a great effort to make the zero as small as possible, so that it looked like a 5% reduction.

The original intention was to hide it as much as possible.

However, the message was quite popular and was quickly discovered by Lazy Sheep's assistant, who forwarded it to their group chat.

"Brothers, look what I found! Transsion's NPU has made another breakthrough. Zhan sent a message earlier, then disappeared. I thought the project was canceled, but it turns out..."

"The performance is now four times that of the A7, which should be sufficient, otherwise I wouldn't have posted this Weibo."

This message was also pinned to the top by Lazy Sheep's assistant, and many people saw it as soon as they opened the group chat, and then couldn't believe it.

After all, this news was just too shocking.

"Group owner, you're not kidding, are you?"

"Was the group admin's account hacked?"

"that is……"

Lazy Sheep's assistant was furious. How dare someone question his professionalism? Did they really think he was called the King of Horse Racing Deciphering for nothing?

"If you don't believe me, go check the official website yourself. I'm still analyzing whether it's 50% or 5%..."

I don't understand how Li Qing picked up this bad habit too.

At the same time, Li Qing from the publicity department of Transsion suddenly sneezed.

"It should be 50%, after all, the power consumption of the A7 is what it is..."

It's not a fire dragon, but it's not some kind of ice heart either.

"If that's the case, four times the computing power of the A7, and half the power consumption—I remember Apple just boasted that this is top-tier in the industry, right?"

"What is Transsion doing? Even if they're trying to promote Lu Weibin, shouldn't they be releasing these bombshell revelations?"

"This is the kind of marketing a ship should do: less GG (game over), just release a bunch of technological breakthroughs, and you can attract all the attention."

"Didn't our competitors say they wouldn't give them a way to survive? This is what it means to give them a way to survive."

Of course, other bloggers wouldn't sit idly by. Soon, some bloggers affiliated with the US stood up, forwarded the message, and questioned the data.

"Keep bragging. You just hyped up lithography machines, and now you're hyping up NPUs?"

Everyone knows that Transsion's first-generation NPU was utterly terrible; they'd even given up on it internally. Now, a single PowerPoint presentation has you all excited again.

Soon after, a blogger who works in the chip industry also published a revelation: "Transsion has indeed invested a lot of money in semiconductors, but it still can't compete with rice..."

As far as I know, the rice company has invested 70 billion yuan in the Pengpai project from last year to now. With so much money, rice fans must keep a low profile.

We do have the Surge chip, and we also have the NPU that a certain company falsely advertised, and it's even better than theirs.

Just as Xiaomi bloggers were rewriting history as much as possible in an attempt to prove that Xiaomi and Transsion were indeed in the top tier, Qualcomm also obtained actual performance data through Huang Tianya.

A fourfold increase is just the beginning; with further refinement, it can become even stronger.

This immediately made Steve Mollenkopf restless, but considering his company's cooperation with Transsion, he quickly had the publicity department release some information about the graphics cards.

Otherwise, the stock price will be halved again!

However, a drop in prices is a good thing, as they can also profit from it.

…………

On the 18th, with only two days left until the press conference on the 20th, Transsion's publicity department had already begun its final efforts...

Various promotional channels were used, and Cai Xukun and TFBOYS, who had previously signed contracts, also released some promotional materials to promote the new product.

Although Cai Xukun is not a spokesperson for Bird, he has switched to Bird Z1 phones recently.

At that moment, Shen Fei also went to the intelligent voice laboratory, wanting to see how far the Xiaoyin Assistant development had progressed.

After all, the previous version was only usable, but now that the computing power has increased, it is natural to carry out a revolutionary upgrade.

If Zhang Lei, the project manager, heard this, he would be so angry he'd vomit blood.

After all, their Little Assistant, now known as Sakura Assistant, has surpassed Siri in both data accuracy and general user experience, leading all competitors...

Moreover, its integration with automobiles is absolutely perfect. Other competitors are angrily trying to catch up, but they definitely won't be able to catch up in less than three years.

In the end, the boss could only say it was usable...

"Boss, you've arrived."

Project deputy Li Pengcheng quickly greeted him.

"Come and see how far the project has progressed?"

"It's not going too smoothly. We're still far from meeting your requirements, but don't worry, Mr. Zhang and I will definitely work hard to develop it."

You will definitely not be disappointed.

"Never mind, I'll go check it out myself."

Li Pengcheng was delighted to hear this, but he kept trying to comfort himself.

These people really tried their best, but Shenyang Aircraft Corporation's requirements were simply too unrealistic; they really couldn't develop them.

But at the same time, he was wildly imagining whether the boss was dissatisfied with their work, so he personally...

Thinking of this, he hesitated as he walked, but just then, Shen Fei spoke:

"The targets I set for you were indeed a bit high, but don't worry, I'm not here to hold you accountable today, I'm here to help you with your research and development."

Li Pengcheng was instantly overjoyed. He had heard that Professor Li Jiahui had just obtained the boss's information.

After several S-level projects were established, they have finally been assigned to the project.

At that moment, he seemed to hear a song: Finally...

Meanwhile, in the intelligent voice lab, all the testers were working diligently on their tests.

"It still doesn't work."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lei, the project manager, also let out a heavy sigh.

He also saw the data on the project.

"Alright, everyone has done their best. I'll go see General Manager Shen for some advice tomorrow."

It's not that he wanted to give up; it's just that this data was really too difficult to obtain.

The model has been compressed to its limit, but the recognition accuracy has dropped to 82%, and the response time has also dropped to 1.2 seconds, which is far from the target of 0.3 seconds.

The other engineers nearby also sighed:

"Mr. Zhang, this is the limit of what we can do."

It needs to run locally, without accessing cloud computing power online. Chip computing power is limited; balancing accuracy and latency is impossible.