The coming of 2017 is a crucial node in the PC chip industry, which can be said to be silent for a long time to come to a conclusion. It is also a year that the performance of the blowout system has evolved. During this year, AMD completed its work on Intel The counterattack, in the past, basically Intel installed platform alone dominated, and even people have always said that 'Intel Core i3 silent second AMD family' this year, this situation has been reversed, the birth of AMD Zen series products Rui Long series, With its excellent cost-effective rapid rise, not only the performance of the previous product is not enough, and the power control is also very good, but also in the DIY market set off a multi-core battle with the Intel CPU, whereby the share price of AMD jumped to double this year.
In 2017, AMD's Jedi counterattack
On the consumer side, the Ryzen3, 5 Series, 7 Series and high-end Threadripper processors introduced by AMD this year can be said to satisfy all the segments of high, medium and low-end users, and have won the A-Fan's favor again after many years. , And AMD's new Ryzen not only in the process technology to catch up with Intel's 14nm, while redesigning the CPU's internal architecture, focusing on single-core performance enhancements, compared to the previous generation of excavator architecture has 40%! More importantly, Threading Technology! Graphics Card Following the Polaris graphics card, another well-anticipated video card based on the 'Vega' architecture is featured at a high profile, focusing on new areas such as AI, game design and visualization. The server market, with The release of EPYC means AMD's return and determination in the data center market.
Intel finally showed panic and taken various countermeasures
In the face of this year's Jedi counterattack AMD, Intel showed a rare panic this year, according to Intel's convention, the release of each generation of new products and the previous generation must be separated by a year, but due to this year's strong AMD attack, Just eight months after the announcement of the seventh-generation Core Duo processor, Intel officially unveiled the eighth-generation Coffee Lake on August 21, US time.
And on the entry-level processor, Intel will also be the entire generation of the Pentium have been upgraded, including the T version (energy-saving version): G4620, G4600, G4560 ,, G4600T, G4560T, based on the original two physical cores Join the Hyper-Threading feature, the realization of the four logical core, the general specifications directly with the i3 series, and multi-core products, May 31 Intel released a new generation of high-end processors, the new product has up to 18 processing cores, mainly for gamers And computer enthusiasts.
It can be said that in the face of AMD's all-round blockade this year, Intel is also fully defensive counterattack, all the signs are rare in the past Intel platform, from the side you can feel AMD has exerted no small pressure on Intel.
Qualcomm once again reached the PC chip market this year, and AMD will reach a cooperation
See this year, Intel and AMD love to kill, Qualcomm finally sit still, decided to once again reached the PC chip market, so that the instability of the market once again increased.In fact, Qualcomm into the PC market, this is not the first time As early as 2009, Qualcomm had hoped to kill the PC market with its own chip (ARM architecture) + Android smart, but the result was not good and was defeated a year later.
Until 2012, Qualcomm has been working with Microsoft to launch new products once again reached the PC market, the product was the Windows + ARM combination of Surface RT, but the results are still unsatisfactory, but more awkward is the Windows + Intel x86 architecture Surface Instead, it has become the representative product today!
However, a few years ago, the rapid growth of mobile phones made Qualcomm earn pours, but now the global smart phone market has become increasingly saturated, and IDC data shows that the second quarter of this year, the global mobile phone market for the first time showed a decline. Let Qualcomm's vision once again stare into the PC chip market, and hope to extend the advantages of mobile terminals to the PC, Qualcomm think the next trend will always be the PC era.
Qualcomm introduced this always-connected PC products, the depth of integration with Microsoft at the operating system level, the perfect support for the latest Win10 system, these equipped with Snapdragon 835 mobile PC platform can always have a connection to keep the battery has a week Life, but also has no fan, low power consumption, long standby, more lightweight, real-time online 4G and other advantages.
AMD is also announcing its cooperation with Qualcomm, which may break Intel's monopoly position in the PC market, Qualcomm is responsible for providing 4G LTE high-quality connectivity and AMD is responsible for high-performance computing chips. Intel caused a certain threat.
DIY market in 2017 what fun?
E-sports will be the theme of these years
In fact, in addition to more and more adequate chip market, smell of gunpowder, so that consumers have tasted all kinds of sweetness, many changes in the DIY market this year have made it more and more interesting, the most important thing should belong to the popular e-sports industry Bring the impact of gaming as hot money in recent years more into one of several industries, the major live broadcast platform is closer to the distance between star players and ordinary players, if this year Jedi how to become a live burst Paragraph game, became so hot in the country, must be inseparable from the contagious live broadcast platform!
And these have been the concern of various PC manufacturers, have launched their own gaming products, the establishment of a separate gaming brand and operating department, training their own gaming anchor, sponsor their own star team.And for now, Although the shipments of all the game brands are very impressive data, but far from saturation, which means that in the next few years there is still plenty of room for operation.
RGB LED lights can be linked to lead the new trend
Corresponding to the hardware itself, in addition to the eSports wave, the 2017 most worth playing than the 'light', the monotonous monochromatic light era has ended in the past, today's lighting effect is about RGB lighting effect, but also by Light effect controller allows the user to switch between different light effects or different modes of light effects such as breathing light, flashing effect, and the composition of the linkage RGB effect of the keyboard, motherboard, memory, graphics cards, etc. With the various types of hardware in the light effect The rapid development of the elements, with the light effect of the hardware element has been led by a new wave of fashion.
VR more and more clear the direction of the future
In addition VR is also a must mention in 2017, compared to the popular two years ago, this year's VR market really want to shrink a lot, although we are very optimistic about the future of VR, but at this stage VR equipment flaws are Large, we also see in the eyes, it's motion sickness, human-computer interaction is not enough natural problems are still widespread, leading to VR technology in entertainment, social and other consumer-side applications are limited.
However, within the commercial range, the existing VR technology can meet the needs of some industries and business applications.More and more traditional industries are combined with VR.In the fields of marketing and sales, education and training, remote monitoring and operation, etc. Derived a lot of 'VR +' success stories. Even VR live, such a live form has been a lot of contest organizers, live platform, the user's great interest, these are the future direction of the VR.
AI era, everyone is striving to be the protagonist
In addition, big data and AI technology are also besieged cakes, Intel is a positive transition to the AI market, and NVIDIA continues to implement AI strategy, AMD launched this year's 'Vega' architecture is also focused on AI, surely we all understand the truth , How important it is to have a place in the future AI market, and AI needs to rely on more sturdy infrastructure, which means that the semiconductor manufacturers are still the protagonists behind the AI era.
