Birth Of The Crafts-God-Chapter 414: Superior Product
Currently, the eighth product of the Seven Stars Springs Dealership was wrapped in a layer of mystery. This wasn't just in reference to the black screen that covered the display stand, but the fact that no one in the gathering had an idea what it was.
Originally, everyone expected the highlight of today's event to be the new stellar processor rumoured to be under production by the joint workforce of the Seven Sparks Forge and the Silverine Factory. When the Springfield stellar processor was brought out, some thought this was it and had their enthusiasm dampened, especially since the Springfield wasn't even announced as a signature product of the store.
There were those who didn't see the Springfield as such, and their suspicion was proven to be true after the Rain Dragon Z1 was launched. It was an era-defining creation that didn't rely on modification of an existing product, but was built from the ground-up with intense research and effort. The Rain Dragon Z1's appearance elevated the Seven Sparks Forge into the level of a stellar processor designer. This was especially so since the details of the speech showed that the Forge played the role of the designer while the Silverine Factory was simply the manufacturer.
However, as incredible as the new stellar processor is, it was only the seventh product.
This made the guests, and even the members of the press invited into the hall, confused.
"Could it be a new stellar processor?" Someone muttered.
However, he was quickly refuted by another.
"Impossible. Designing a stellar processor isn't like cooking rice or piecing together Rego sets [1]. It takes months of research and experimenting to get one completed, even for a big company with Master vestige-smiths like the ones in Paros city-state; and those guys rely on massive teams of vestige-smiths to be able to produce cutting-edge tech."
"Indeed." Someone else agreed. The speaker was an older man who looked more experienced than the other two executives.
He then continued, "We're quite behind compared to the companies in Paros, whether in terms of technology or skill, so it's even harder to come up with one. It's already insane that the Seven Sparks Forge designed one, but looking at the fact that it's backed by a Grandmaster, it makes sense. One should be their limit."
The man who asked the question, although knowing it was unlikely, still had a feeling.
"Shouldn't that be why they can pull it off? I mean, the Seven Sparks Forge has a Tier 1 Grandmaster backing them. It shouldn't be hard for the Grandmaster to make two stellar processors, right?"
"Honestly, I can't say for sure. Baylands city-state has never seen a Tier 1 Grandmaster before in action so we can't even tell the limit of their ability. But you might be right. However, that's on the condition that the Grandmaster is one under the computing and processor discipline. From what I've heard however, he's a weapons vestige-smith. It's already impressive to have designed one stellar processor. Don't forget, they also spent time modifying the Garland to produce the Springfield."
The old man shook his head and felt that the conjecture was not possible.
Similar to the old man, many others shared the same opinion. The Seven Sparks Forge has already done great to modify the Garland stellar processor into the Springfield stellar processor, and design the Rain Dragon Z1 stellar processor which was ready for mass-production.
Making another stellar processor? That would only be possible if they downgraded the Rain Dragon Z1 and sold it off as a new model. However, such a creation wasn't worthy to be unveiled as the final product of the day. Also, no one believed that the Seven Sparks Forge could do better than the Rain Dragon Z1. It was already incredible and just only slightly worse off than the unrelated Falcon X9: Yotsuga. Even if the Yotsuga was released, it would still be capable for competing with it.
Not wanting to keep the audience waiting, Altimo revealed the last product of the day's exhibition.
"That is...!"
"Impossible!"
Eyes were wide open, hearts were shaken, minds devoid of thoughts and mouths left agape.
The eighth and final product of the day was actually another stellar processor!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the Qin chip." Altimo smirked.
Needless to say, he had already guessed the thoughts of everyone as he too would have the same idea if he was in their position. Unfortunately for them, Altimo was an insider and already knew everything. Naturally, as an insider and the one standing on the glorified side, he was pleased with their reactions.
The display behind Altimo switched to now show the details of the Qin chip. Unsurprisingly, it was much better than the Rain Dragon Z1. So much so that when comparing the two side by side, the Rain Dragon Z1 appeared to be a low-end stellar processor.
The Rain Dragon Z1 has a total of 67 layers, but only 65 of those were related to the stellar processor's performance as two were simply protective layers.
Of the 65 effective layers, 30 were dedicated to stellar energy processing and were made using conductors formed from Blue Syca IV oxide substrate —a compound made from a unique element that was an excellent conductor of stellar energy. Blue Syca was the element and it was somewhat common in the stellar processor industry. Blue Syca IV oxide substrate was a compound Lucas had made from the element. As for the insulating layer, it was made with Ivoric Gold.
30 other layers of the Rain Dragon Z1 were electrical energy layers, functioning much like the layers on a standard semiconductor on Earth. However, rather than copper, the Rain Dragon Z1's electrical layers used Gretac-Vanadium as conductors; a sister alloy to Gretac-Titanium, except it was a very good conductor of electricity unlike the latter. Silicon dioxide was used as the insulating layer in return.
The final 5 layers were the control and they were made using Z-Tonic, which was actually Iso-Krenon IV oxide substrate; an alloy formed based on an element, Krenon, that was unique to this world.
On the other hand, the Qin chip had a whopping 83 layers.
36 layers were dedicated to stellar energy operation and were made using Ivoric Gold layers with Purple Iridium as the conductors.
The 36 electrical layers were made with sapphire substrate and Blue Silver as the conductors.
The 10 control cores used poly-dicroyl gantiuum alloy layers.
The last layer was originally a chromium layer, but after Lucas helped fix the previous manufacturing fault, it was swapped out for the same protective layer as the Rain Dragon Z1.
Of course, to maintain their supremacy, the actual materials used and their details weren't displayed to the crowd, except for the common ones.
Whether it was the layer count, core count, or even the materials used, the Qin chip surpassed the Rain Dragon Z1 to easily become a superior stellar processor.
"This, this is crazy."
All of the guests were stunned by this revelation.
Altimo smiled and continued with his speech.
"The performance of the Qin chip can be defined as revolutionary and it will become the first flagship product and stellar processor of the Seven Stars Springs Dealership.
"With a total of 82 effective layers and a 10-layer core, made with in-house produced advanced alloys, the Qin chip succeeded in breaking all benchmark records in existence within Baylands city-state."
The benchmark results were still on display, but this time around, the results from other stellar processors were shown alongside it to form a table. The performance of four other stellar processors were on display, and together with the Qin chip, there were five results shown for each parameter.
"Roughly 30% improvement to the Rain Dragon Z1."
Altimo declared.
The audience was stunned as the entire hall went silent.
30% didn't sound much, but this was when comparing it to the already incredible Rain Dragon Z1 —which was already 49% better than current flagship stellar processors. When pitted against the current market leaders like the KY chip or Novanio's Orion Core, the improvement was 94%.
Ninety four fucking percentage improvement!
Even if the Falcon X9: Yotsuga was in production, it still couldn't compete with the Qin chip. It was clear that once the Qin chip entered the market, both the Versailles Group and Novanio Tech would lose their market share.
The only way to survive was for either Novanio Tech or the Versailles Group to send in a request to their headquarters in Paros city-state for a new product design. However, chances were that the request would be denied.
In order to maintain a technological advantage, Paros city-state's City Lord Manor limited the distribution of designs by processor companies to other city-states. Generally, only lower-end models were distributed out.
The Falcon X series was a premium line and the X9 was the latest model under this line. Logically, it shouldn't even have reached Baylands city-state. However, with the goal of beating the Seven Stars Springs Dealership, the Versailles Group headquarters has struck a unique deal with the Paros City Lord Manor, which allowed them to outsource a redesigned version of the Falcon X9 —the Falcon X9: Yotsuga.
It could be predicted that in the next few years, it will be impossible for the Paros city-state's City Lord Manor to permit the Versailles Group to ship out a new design to Baylands city-state. Without the support of the headquarters, the Versailles Group in Baylands city-state would be unable to compete with Lucas for the premium side of the market.
"The rise of the Seven Stars Springs Dealership is inevitable."
