1991 Starting from the core

Soon, IBM handed over a schedule to Yuanxin, and Yuanxin also stepped up its efforts to make arrangements for reception staff.

The next morning, with the arrival of Jiang Shangwen, senior vice president of TI, the International Semiconductor Development Conference invited and hosted by Yuanxin also officially kicked off.

After the Shanghai leaders were invited to deliver the opening speech, as a qualified "Industrial Party", the leaders were very polite to the many technocrats who came this time, and led everyone to the Oriental Pearl Tower with Su Yuanshan as hosts to take a look.

Immediately afterwards, Su Yuanshan arranged a half-hour private meeting between the leader and Gerstner, and Li Mingliu personally acted as the translator to ensure that certain technical vocabulary could be accurately understood.

After that, Zhou Xiaohui, along with Gerstner and his secretary, took Yuanxin's business plane directly to the Special Administrative Region - the secretary specially asked the civil aviation company to get the route in such a short time. Only Mr. Bacon, IBM's technology president, was left to attend the semiconductor conference.

It was only then that many of the technocrats present at the meeting breathed a sigh of relief - this is what we call talk! A group of technical people are discussing how to promote memory technology. What can a cigarette seller understand while sitting there?

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The next day, at the Oriental Pearl TV Tower Roundtable Conference Center, domestic companies such as Yuanxin, Deyuan and Huajing were present. IBM and Texas Instruments are the lighthouse countries. Technocrats from Japan's Sony, NEC, Nikon, Fujitsu, Toshiba and other companies gathered together.

In addition, the Shanghai Science and Technology Bureau also sent a technical official to attend the meeting to minimize the official attitude and influence.

Except for a few people here that Su Yuanshan has never met, most of them are people he has interacted with or heard about during his visits. Therefore, as the initiator of this meeting, Su Yuanshan officially stood in front of the stage for the first time.

Moreover, everyone noticed that when Zhang Rujin presided over the opening ceremony and introduced the participants, he addressed Su Yuanshan as "Professor".

"Thank you Dr. Zhang for your introduction, thank you. At the same time, I would like to thank everyone for attending this meeting. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks again."

Su Yuanshan nodded slightly to Zhang Rujin, smiled and glanced at the agenda - today Li Mingliu should be introducing the current progress of flash memory technology. But in order to give everyone enough time to understand, everyone at the meeting got the technical files provided by Yuanxin as soon as they arrived.

The reason why Zhang Rujin was chosen to host the event was because, as a veteran of the semiconductor industry, Zhang Rujin was able to hold up the event in terms of both seniority and qualifications.

"Since everyone here is an engineer, let's abandon other unnecessary processes and go directly to answering questions."

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, Yuhi Okamoto, the head of Toshiba's flash memory department who was sitting diagonally across from him, coughed lightly.

Everyone's eyes suddenly turned to him.

Yuhi Okamoto is in his early 40s and was originally a member of Fujio's original team. Due to Toshiba's short-sightedness, after Fujio resigned with hatred, he became Fujio's successor.

With the promotion of Intel and SanDisk in the flash memory market, Toshiba gradually realized that it might have missed an excellent industry. Therefore, Okamoto Yuhi's team has received more and more attention in recent years.

However, the technical field is no different than other fields. If you don't develop for a day, you will most likely be surpassed by your opponents - because technology can be acquired through learning.

Not to mention a semiconductor giant like Intel with strong R\u0026D and innovation capabilities.

Therefore, although Toshiba is the inventor of flash memory, it has been like an outsider in these years, watching "latecomers" continue to make breakthroughs in capacity, architecture and even applications, while no one cares about the SM cards it released...

You said they didn't have anything else in mind...that's obviously a lie.

The emergence of Yuanxin's MLC particles gave Toshiba a final blow to its self-esteem.

After thinking about it for a long time, Toshiba finally decided to put down its "dignity" and fully cooperate with Yuanxin.

But even if it is a cooperation, as the only company in the Japanese semiconductor industry that truly owns flash memory technology, Okamoto Yufei still has to show his professional status.

"Mr. Su, our question is, how do you solve the leakage problem in MLC particles?"

Su Yuanshan's smile did not diminish and he turned his head to glance at Li Mingliu, who was sitting second to his left. The latter smiled slightly and replied in English: "I'm sorry, Mr. Okamoto, this is a matter of technical know-how... But since you can pay attention to this, I can remind you that this is not the result of the efforts of our architectural design department. , but the result of the joint efforts of the fab, EDA, and us.”

After a pause, Li Mingliu continued: "Mr. Moore of Fairchild Semiconductor has always been my idol. He proposed that the number of transistors that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18 months - that is, Moore A law is a law that we have always believed in and have been testing. Before it becomes invalid, we must believe that it is correct."

After listening to Li Mingliu's off-topic remarks, Okamoto Yufei frowned slightly and looked at him with some confusion.

“What I mean by mentioning this is that as the number of transistors becomes larger and the density becomes higher in the future, it means that the cooperation between chip design, wafer fabs and EDA will become more and more important and closer. .”

Li Mingliu ended his speech with a slight smile.

Yuhi Okamoto finally nodded in approval after hearing this.

Subsequently, the technical director from NEC asked another question, but this time he was not as reckless as Okamoto Yuhi, who directly asked for technical know-how. Instead, he chose to ask about the progress of Yuanxin's next-generation flash memory.

After all, on the first day of today, Yuanxin is here to explain everything to everyone, so that everyone present has a clear idea and hope.

This is the foundation of the alliance.

Li Mingliu glanced at Su Yuanshan and smiled softly when he saw Su Yuanshan nodded slightly.

"Mr. Fujita, if you ask me how long it will take for the next generation of flash memory to be taped out, then I definitely can't answer you. But if you ask about the progress, I can answer."

"As for the next generation of TLC particles, I can responsibly say that we have solved all the theoretical problems."

Many technical officials present who were not good at chip design were shocked!

Solved all the problems of the theory? Wouldn't it mean that the next step is to tape-out directly?

However, Okamoto Yuhi frowned again.

He had seen Fujio working on the first generation of flash memory... he knew that solving the theory only meant that he had a direction to work towards. We don’t even know whether this direction is correct or not.