1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan quickly read the documents and plans and patted his thigh continuously.

"Very good!"

He was really excited.

In the previous life, the old employer almost monopolized more than half of the 4G base stations in the country, let alone 5G. It was an absolute monopoly. However... the DSP processing chip of the base station has always been made by TI.

The same is true for FarCore. If it cannot produce its own DSP chips within two years, FarCore will still have to use TI for its base station DSP.

The reason why the country did not get involved in DSP chips was mainly due to the consequences of hiring a migrant worker to polish the chips. At that time, the confidence of the country and the common people in domestic chips was completely destroyed.

Now that Tang Jun is here, it is obviously impossible for the farce of sandpaper chips to happen again.

——Don’t be kidding, Yuanxin is a semiconductor company with a wafer factory...

But after getting excited, Su Yuanshan quickly calmed down. He looked at Tang Jun and said: "Brother Tang, if we design it as quickly as possible, how long will it take? How much IP do we need to buy? Will IBM be held accountable?"

Since Tang Jun comes from IBM, he will inevitably bear the brand of IBM and be influenced by IBM. Just like the architecture designed by Su Yuanshan, it is inevitably influenced by Intel and ARM.

It's just that Su Yuanshan is affected by technologies and patents that have not yet appeared in "later generations", so he can attack both sides in turn.

Moreover, in later generations, the IP cost of various patents and technologies will also account for a large part of the cost of a chip, even as much as 1/3.

But now, what Su Yuanshan is most concerned about is not the cost, but how quickly it can be designed.

When Tang Jun saw Su Yuanshan, he immediately asked about the idea. His evaluation of Su Yuanshan was a little higher again, and he said with confidence: "It should be tape-out in a year and a half at the earliest, but the premise is that I need a very elite team. As for the IP , I have more than a dozen personal patents, and IBM only needs to obtain a few authorizations. According to IBM's ambition, it should be no problem."

"Of course, even if IBM doesn't authorize it, we can go around it, or we can just use it directly and he can only stare... Anyway, the solution is more difficult than the difficulty."

"Well, that's good." Su Yuanshan has actually heard about IBM's magnanimity. It is a rare giant with aristocratic temperament and leadership style in Silicon Valley. Otherwise, why would it be called Big Blue?

"As for the team...have you had any contact with senior brothers Qin and Tian these days?"

Tang Jun nodded: "I have contacted them, these two are very good."

Tang Jun said with emotion: "The sudden rise of domestic chip design is really eye-opening and inspiring for those of us who are wandering abroad."

Su Yuanshan smiled when he heard Tang Jun use the word "wandering".

Regardless of Tang Jun's true mentality, it would be great if he could return home.

"What about the team...what did they say?"

If the Tang army wanted an elite team, it was obvious that they could only draw from Qin Weimin and Tian Yaoming.

"I just talked a few times and haven't mentioned it yet." Tang Jun smiled and joked: "We are embarrassed to say that you haven't come back."

Su Yuanshan looked back at Xi Xiaoding and saw Xi Xiaoding shrugging his shoulders and saying with a smile: "Your senior brother, go ahead and tell him."

"...Approximately how many people are needed?"

"The number of people is not large, just a dozen or so will be enough. I will find two more math masters in Pandora. At the same time, we can also slowly train new people." Tang Jun paused and said: "In addition, I learned about the direction of mobile phone SOC. Since mobile Internet must be considered in the future, SOC also needs to integrate DSP processing modules."

"um, yes."

"So, our three teams are all intertwined with each other, and there is no poaching by anyone."

After hearing that Tang Jun had prepared his words and reasons, he made a prompt decision and went directly to Qin Weimin's office.

After all, he is his own senior brother, so whatever he says makes sense.

…

"I knew you were coming to find me."

Qin Weimin came out from behind his desk, grabbed a handful of plums and handed them to Su Yuanshan: "Come and eat some plums from the mountains."

Su Yuanshan stuffed a plum into his mouth and hesitated: "Have you guessed it?"

"Nonsense." Qin Weimin said with a smile: "I talked with Lao Tian and found that Brother Tang is indeed a talent. He also asked for our opinions and believed that the DSP chips that Yuanxin urgently needs now should go to the mobile Internet, and in the future You also have to consider the floating point unit.”

"Well, that's right!"

"So it's no problem if he wants to send someone over. We have a team here that has been responsible for number calculations. Speaking of which, if he doesn't come back and we want to develop our own DSP, this team will be separated directly. Now it's just right. Someone is leading the group.”

Hearing what Qin Weimin said, Su Yuanshan felt calm, spit out the plum cores at the trash can two meters away, and said with a smile: "That's good, and DSP, YX architecture, base station baseband, your teams actually have overlap. If we all have the same old foundation, it will be much easier for cross-department cooperation in the future.”

"Yes, that's the benefit of mitosis."

Saying goodbye to his senior brother, Su Yuanshan went to find Tian Yaoming again. But I didn't expect Tian Yaoming to be more cooperative than Qin Weimin...

Later, Su Yuanshan understood after thinking about it.

This DPS is mainly used on the base station, and the base station is Tian Yaoming's project! If he doesn't cooperate, who will?

After telling Tang Jun the results and asking him to discuss directly with Xi Xiaoding on how to transfer to another position, Su Yuanshan dove into the laboratory.

Two days later, he completed the revision of the paper, and finally reviewed the paper several times with the rigor of an "old engineer". After making sure that the data, references, and answers to questions were all impeccable, he chose to send the email.

Then, he received news that a group of people from the other side of the ocean had boarded the plane.

…

September 17th.

Su Yuanshan, Xi Xiaoding, Qin Weimin, Tian Yaoming, these four big guys gathered at the provincial capital airport.

In order to welcome the upcoming big bosses, Yuanxin drove three seven-seater commercial vehicles.

"Should we use our privileges and drive directly to the airport to pick them up?" The four of them stood at the door chatting. Tian Yaoming looked at the passengers who kept coming out and joked: "It feels a little weird standing here."

"Don't..." Su Yuanshan said quickly.

"We'll wait until we buy a private jet." Qin Weimin smiled and said, "By the way, Xiaoshan, I heard that your brother-in-law has any plans to buy a jet?"

Su Yuanshan waved his hand: "Hey, you're just bragging."

As the National Day approaches, Zhang Ke's mall has already prepared for a "battle". In order to win this battle, Zhang Ke has begun to continuously build momentum for the mall. It is said that a nationwide logistics company will be established and aircraft will be purchased for air transportation to ensure that users can enjoy the products as soon as possible.

The logic behind it is nothing more than deep pockets.

Soon, along with Qin Si's beautiful figure, Xinghai and his party also appeared at the same time.