1991 Starting from the core

As the Internet speeds up, Yuanxin has its own system for summarizing work progress online. Therefore, Su Yuanshan can't talk much about business matters in the Shanghai Science and Technology Park. He only verbally encourages and motivates him to complete the work exchange. This kind of "business".

Just as the three of them were chatting and waiting to eat, Gao Xiaodi's cell phone rang, and not long after, Jiang Tao with a cheerful face appeared at the door.

"Mr. Shan, Lao Li, Lao Gao."

There was wind at Jiang Tao's feet. Judging from the way he entered, he must have been here many times.

"Why do you have such a sharp nose?" Gao Xiaodi was sitting near the door. When he saw his roommate coming over, he took his arm and slapped him hard on the butt.

The photo made Jiang Tao, who was wearing a suit and leather shoes, stagger forward.

Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu laughed loudly and stood up. Su Yuanshan joked: "Senior Brother Jiang, you are very particular about people. Wear such formal clothes."

Li Mingliu originally planned to sit still, but when he saw Su Yuanshan getting up, he also stood up: "Is Lao Jiang going on a blind date or meeting a client?"

"Of course I met the client." Jiang Tao came over to shake hands with the two of them and sat down. At the same time, he pulled off his tie and said with a smile, "Where do you think he is from?"

Gao Xiaodi: "We guessed nothing. You have to sell it at any time. Please be honest."

"..."

Su Yuanshan, on the other hand, looked at the high-spirited Jiang Tao happily, with a flash of emotion in his heart.

Since the establishment of Yuanxin, the number of people in Yuanxin has expanded sharply from a few dozen people to more than 100,000 people today - this is only the part of the personnel relationship left in "Yuanxin", not counting the holding and incubation within the Yuanxin system. out of other companies.

Among so many people, there are naturally many people who have resigned, started businesses, and been laid off.

Leaving aside Jiang Qingchuan and the group at the Internet Center, the first ones to leave Yuanxin were actually Jiang Tao and his CEOs from Yuanzhong Microelectronics.

At first, Jiang Tao and the others went to Dynasty Xin Zhongxin as the support team of Yuanxin, but they were later retained by Dynasty Xin. Later, they established a wholly-owned subsidiary Yuanzhong Microelectronics in Shanghai and worked conscientiously to take over some business. It started as a "small job" in chip design and gradually grew into a team of two to three hundred people.

Then, Yuanxin Shanghai Technology Park was established, and Gao Xiaodi took people to Shanghai to start the CPU project. Li Mingliu also retired from the lithography machine project and was arranged by Su Yuanshan to enter Shanghai to take over the processor project. Start the second level cache plan.

At this time, Yuanxin can be said to be eager to kidnap integrated circuit design talents from all over the world.

So Su Yuanshan took aim at Yuanzhong Microelectronics... He took away half of the team that he had worked so hard to pull together.

If you say Jiang Tao has no objection, that is definitely nonsense. But if you say Jiang Tao can object...then he really can't.

After all, no matter how you say it, Yuanzhong Microelectronics can be regarded as the grandson of Yuanxin, the kind that breaks bones and connects tendons.

Of course, Yuanxin did not treat Yuanzhong Microelectronics poorly. In the subsequent NAND plan, Yuanzhong Microelectronics fully undertook the design of Yuanxin's USB flash drives and solid-state drives, and was fully involved in Yuanxin's PCI-E bus design.

In this in-depth interweaving and cooperation with Yuanxin, Yuanzhong Microelectronics has gradually grown - real growth, not the kind of scale expansion that is only for profit.

If we want to classify the current domestic chip design companies into first, second, and third grades, then Yuanxin is undoubtedly beyond the level and not among the grades. But Yuanzhong must be first-class - Huawei, Panda, Yuanzhong. Now they are known as the three small giants in the field of domestic chip design.

The business fields of these three small giants are different. Warwick focuses on chip design for communication equipment, which forms a good complement to Yuanxin. Panda is unique in the field of FPGA chips - at least domestically.

Zhongxin, on the other hand, is making great strides in the field of main control chips for storage devices using Flash as a medium, and even has some dominance.

Su Yuanshan did not want to take credit for his own merits, but he was still gratified and proud that a veteran like Jiang Tao who came out of Yuanxin could achieve such achievements.

…

"I guess he's a friend on the island." Su Yuanshan looked at Jiang Tao with a smile and guessed.

"Oh no! Mr. Shan, have you arranged a spy beside me?"

Jiang Tao felt as if he had been bitten by a snake, his eyes widened with an exaggerated expression.

Hmm... Although he acted a bit exaggerated, he was indeed surprised by Su Yuanshan's accuracy at once.

Li Mingliu and Gao Xiaodi also looked at Su Yuanshan in surprise. They didn't know why Su Yuanshan guessed it right in an instant.

"It's actually very simple. In the past few years, the overall power of semiconductors on the mainland and on the island has reversed, and the Hsinchu Industrial Park is almost empty - okay, it's an exaggeration, but it's true."

"However, one fact that has been ignored by us is that in terms of the density of semiconductor talents in the total population...the island is indeed one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Moreover, these people are indeed awesome. We have dug up so many people over the years I have killed so many people, but I still can’t dig them all out…”

Hearing this, Li Mingliu had some different opinions. He coughed: "It's not good to have too many people. There are too many engineers on the island next door, which makes it a bit..."

Su Yuanshan smiled: "This is inevitable... But both Lao Zhang and Lao Liang are aware of this problem, and they are also working on solving it - I have the courage to solve the Yuanxin Gang, and they also have the courage to solve it TWB. In the second half of the year at the latest, they will make adjustments to various PE departments and disrupt them in each branch factory."

"It won't affect production, right?"

"It has an impact, but it's not a big problem. After all, it has been prepared for a long time." Su Yuanshan paused: "Compared to the three parties of the Turtles, the mainland, and the island, which are currently taking shape, this impact on production can be said to be minimal."

Li Mingliu nodded. As the dual boss of the Science and Technology Committee and the Executive Board, he naturally knew that Zhang and Liang had been working on it a long time ago, but he didn't know the specific progress and effect.

Su Yuanshan continued: "So our colleagues on the island are also demanding changes...First, chip design and production were suppressed by us, and then the board card factories were siphoned to the Special Economic Zone and Xiamen, and then new fields such as LCD panels and lithium batteries were They are all occupied by us... Even if the Ni people want to secretly support them and transfer LCD technology to them, BOE is keeping a close eye on them - BOE's attitude is very clear, I can kill them hard. you."

"So, do you think they dare to have hope in the midstream and upstream fields of semiconductors? Obviously not."

"But people always have dreams... If you can't reach the upper reaches, then you can still go downstream. Do integration, brand promotion and so on... right?" Su Yuanshan said cheerfully: "The HTC of Lao Wang's family on the island ( Didn’t HTC rush to get on Gates’s bandwagon? Do you want to fully enter the smartphone market?”

"Short-sighted." Li Mingliu snorted disdainfully: "If you have a little brain, you will know that YOS is the king, and PCPhone Edition is a piece of shit."

"Hehe, people still can't change their minds and don't want to cooperate with us..." Su Yuanshan said and looked at Jiang Tao: "We must admit that our colleagues on the island, although their minds are a bit like being driven by certain thoughts, The dog bit you, but you still have a good eye. In addition to mobile phones, storage devices and even DRAM are naturally an excellent direction... So, I guess your colleagues on the island came to you and wanted to get the main control chip."

After listening to Su Yuanshan's analysis, Jiang Tao gave him a thumbs up.

"ox!"

"There is another one. You know that I have always taken it as my mission to suppress semiconductors on the island. Today I came here in a hurry and asked us to guess. Of course it is related to the island..." Su Yuanshan said and shrugged: "Well, In fact, this is the main thing.”

Jiang Tao: "..."

Several people laughed again.

"Okay, anyway, Mr. Shan's guess is right. But I'm coming here...well, I do feel a little happy." Jiang Tao chuckled: "But the main thing is that we want to make progress."

"progress?"

"Uh... Mr. Shan, is the YX structure going to be separated?"

"Officially announced next month." Su Yuanshan looked at Jiang Tao: "What? Do you want YX architecture?"

"Yes...that..." Jiang Tao said and started to squirm: "Although Senior Brother Qin sounds like an acquaintance, once he leaves, he will definitely think more about it...and what policies and things...naturally There’s no such discount anymore. Hehe, right?”

Without even thinking about it, Su Yuanshan understood that this guy wanted to take advantage of the fact that the YX architecture was still within the Yuanxin system, so as to obtain various authorizations with a preferential policy.

Well...this is actually easy to negotiate.

So he chuckled: "No problem, but you have to tell me, what do you want to do? You know, the YX architecture has been changed for seven generations. In theory, products can be born in each generation... How many generations do you want?"

"I want the newest one."

"How ambitious! What do you want to do?"

"Last time, one of our brothers had contact with Mr. Xi's team leader, and then chatted with the brother from Silicon Core, and an idea came out."

"Oh?" Su Yuanshan's eyes lit up slightly: "What do you think?"

"We hope to design a special processor specifically for graphics computing based on the YX architecture - Mr. Shan, you said that the camera will be the eyes of smart devices in the future, but when this eye sees it, it needs to be analyzed. It’s a difficult task. Considering the application scenarios and power consumption of smart devices... we feel that it is necessary to have such dedicated chips in the future chip field."

"Among other things, if the monitoring and security equipment currently being vigorously promoted in China can be equipped with a dedicated graphics computing chip, various application scenarios can be realized in advance, such as alarming, tracking, specific picture retention, etc...."

Jiang Tao stared at Su Yuanshan closely as he spoke.

Frankly speaking, although what he said was clear and logical, he really didn't have much knowledge in his heart.

All of his basis comes from the integrated analysis of existing technologies by Yuanzhong's senior technical staff - as an enterprise with a deep Yuanxin brand, all behaviors of Yuanzhong Microelectronics are intentional or unintentional. Learn from Yuanxin.

Yuanxin has established R\u0026D centers in various places, and Yuanzhong has also established one, but on a smaller scale. Yuanxin has a science and technology committee, and Yuanzhong also has a peak technology team, but their influence is lower.

But in terms of behavior, Yuanzhong imitated it completely.

For example, regarding this special processor for graphics computing, it is not a traditional GPU, but a graphics processing chip combined with artificial intelligence AI.

But is this road feasible? In other words, is it the future?

No one knows.

Not every company has a genius like Mr. Shan...

"Can."

Just when Jiang Tao was feeling uneasy, Su Yuanshan agreed.

"Huh?" Seeing Su Yuanshan's straightforward answer, Jiang Tao forgot what to say for a moment.

Or his roommate understood him. Gao Xiaodi glanced at Jiang Tao and immediately looked at Su Yuanshan: "Is it OK to have an idea, or is it OK to authorize?"

"The idea is okay, this way is a way for the future." Su Yuanshan nodded affirmatively, but immediately became serious: "Brother Dan Tao, are you sure that the YX architecture can meet your needs?"

"Or are you sure that what you want is a dedicated processor, not... an AI processor based on neural networks?"

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Tao.

Jiang Tao has a good idea, but NPU is not something that ordinary people can do.

And according to Pandora's technical progress, even without Su Yuanshan's intervention, NPU will probably appear due to demand in less than two years.

Su Yuanshan did not want Jiang Tao to invest the good situation and resources he had just pulled into this kind of field that required a lot of technical resources because he was not aware of the difficulty.

What's more, Yuanzhong Microelectronics probably doesn't have many talents in the AI ​​field, right?

"We hope that the YX architecture and NPU will be perfectly combined - N refers to neural-network, right."

"Yes." Su Yuanshan's eyes sparkled, and it seemed that Jiang Tao was really prepared.

"If this is a way for the future, then we have confidence. At the very least, we have a goal to strive for." Jiang Tao looked back at Su Yuan and said sincerely: "Mr. Shan, although Yuanzhong is small, it still has a certain goal. powerful."

Su Yuanshan subconsciously wanted to cough, but he didn't mind when he caught a glimpse of the most "arrogant" Li Mingliu smiling in recognition, so he suddenly stopped thinking.

——No matter how much he "underestimates" other "heroes" except Yuan Xin, he still believes in Li Mingliu's vision.

After all, Li Mingliu lives in Shanghai, and Yuanzhong has a very close relationship with them. Li Mingliu obviously knows Yuanzhong thoroughly.

It seems that I really underestimated Yuan Zhong.

"Okay, since you have ambitions, Yuanxin will definitely support you." Su Yuanshan nodded decisively: "I will talk to Senior Brother Qin and Mr. Xi when we get back to see if Pandora has the technology you need, and then we can do it Organizing it will make it easier to authorize it to you, and it will also save you from taking detours and spending more energy."

"Then I can also promise you that if you can really succeed, Yuanxin will also purchase it."

Jiang Tao was obviously a little excited. He stood up and said very seriously: "Thank you Mr. Shan!"