1991 Starting from the core

After the live broadcast plan was determined, the staged summary of each industry and the outlook for this year were entered as usual - overall, the entire industry involved in FarCore is showing a positive, healthy and rapid development trend.

Especially in the fields of IT and the Internet, Yuanxin has completed its full involvement in the Internet through early investment and technical preparation. And in new application fields, Yuanxin has taken the lead and is ahead of all its peers.

Research institutions with Pandora and several major laboratories and research institutes in the Internet Center as the core have produced a large number of achievements in the fields of algorithms, artificial intelligence, data analysis and processing, and have laid the foundation for Yuanxin to face the intelligent era through open source. dominant position.

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After the meeting, Xi Xiaoding, Su Yuanshan, Li Mingliu, and Tian Yaoming stayed as usual, and used this rare gathering time to chat about technical issues.

However, compared to the past, Qin Weimin is missing from the position today - since Qin Weimin went out with the YX structure independently, in order to avoid losing the melon field, he directly withdrew from the executive board of directors - Yuanxin's executive board of directors has long been known to be no longer What a secret, but since the contents of the discussions are kept secret, this conference has been endowed with infinite associations.

Some people say that this is a routine liaison meeting similar to the Niguo Consortium, but more people regard it as a pair of invisible hands that control huge amounts of capital.

The former is okay, but the latter is a bit of a conspiracy theory.

Therefore, Qin Weimin simply quit the executive board of directors.

"We can't help you with Yidoo5 this year. Next year, we can give you a surprise." Xi Xiaoding lay on the chair and stretched. He took off his mask and smiled at Su Yuanshan: "Guess what it is?"

"How could I have guessed? You have so many projects there." Su Yuanshan picked up the tea cup and took a sip, with a nonchalant expression on his face - he knew Mr. Xi very well, as long as he acted calmly and calmly, With such a look, Mr. Xi will definitely not be able to bear it.

The technology that allows people like Mr. Xi to say "guess" can definitely bring surprises.

Xi Xiaoding: "..."

Tian Yaoming laughed. He subconsciously looked to his left, but when he found that there was no one there, he sighed slightly: "Don't say it, I'm really not used to Lao Qin leaving."

"I'll get used to it gradually." Xi Xiaoding replied casually, then looked at Su Yuanshan: "Guess?"

"I can't guess." Su Yuanshan would never be fooled.

"..."

"I guess it's artificial intelligence." Li Mingliu still admired Mr. Xi very much. He couldn't bear to see Su Yuanshan seducing Mr. Xi, so he guessed with a smile: "At the beginning of the year, I heard that you were recruiting people in NLU?"

"Huh? Why do you have such good ears?"

"Ahem... A classmate asked me about it." Li Mingliu knew that he had guessed correctly, and immediately asked: "Is it a robot similar to the Turing test?"

"No." Su Yuanshan replied on behalf of Xi Xiaoding.

Xi Xiaoding immediately looked at Su Yuanshan, who smiled slightly: "Intelligent voice AI, right?"

——In fact, he is already sure that Mr. Xi must be working on an intelligent voice assistant.

NLU, natural language understanding, is related to NLP, natural language processing.

——The usual understanding is to let the machine understand the meaning of human language. Also called computational linguistics. On the one hand, it is a branch of language information processing, and on the other hand, it is also one of the core topics of artificial intelligence.

Its primary form... is almost considered Gionee Voice King, while its advanced form is Siri, Microsoft Xiaoice, Tmall Genie, Xiaodu, etc.

Of course, no matter what form it takes, the logic behind it is to understand human language and then provide countermeasures - if it can disguise itself as a human and cause the communication partner to misjudge it by more than 30% and think it is a human, then Let's just say it passed the Turing test.

"Yes... the one who proposed the plan was Lao Niu, Niu Bingzheng. He is a heavy user of mobile phones, and he even did mobile phone reviews on mobile phone forums when he had nothing to do..." Xi Xiaoding didn't seem to mind that Su Yuanshan guessed it right away, smiling. He shook his head and said with some emotion: "But now limited by technology and hardware, the future we can foresee is still not clear enough."

"In the design, it must be connected to the Internet, and then fed back to the system based on the training data, so as to achieve voice operations on the mobile phone. Of course, you can also chat and so on... It can be regarded as a tool to relieve fatigue."

"Well, very good. Artificial intelligence will definitely move towards the stage of comprehensive voice interaction. If it can be used on mobile phones early, it will indeed be a big bright spot." Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile, confirming the direction of Pandora Labs: "And It can not only be used on mobile phones, but can also be used in places with large ticket prices.”

"Yes, but... now it seems that these tools are just the icing on the cake, and there is no way to make money on their own."

"Hey, do we have fewer projects to make money?" Su Yuanshan smiled nonchalantly: "If nothing else, the growth driven by 3G equipment and 3G mobile phones alone this year is enough for us to make a lot of money. Moreover, the processor side is about to make a comeback, and its ability to attract money is not comparable to that of ordinary businesses."

"Okay." Xi Xiaoding smiled slightly: "Then what do you mean about breaking out of the earth? Some people in Silicon Valley have started to develop recyclable rockets, and they are also clamoring to go to Mars."

Hearing this, Su Yuanshan coughed immediately.

Musk's SpaceX was established as promised last year, and this year it launched a powerful PPT, claiming to revolutionize the aerospace industry. It not only wants to develop cheap recyclable rockets and reduce space freight costs, but also says that the future of mankind is Break out of the earth.

According to ordinary people's understanding, this kind of PPT that almost has the word "liar" written on its face is unlikely to win the favor of capital. Even ordinary people, except for those fanatics and speculators who dream of breaking out of the earth, their attitude towards Musk is "laudable and worthy of encouragement."

But the reaction of the capital market surprised everyone—someone really wanted to believe this PPT.

The analysis given by Qin Si and Yuanxin's investment institutions is that after Wall Street capital understands that they have missed the IT and Internet wave - or that they have not made enough - they are no longer willing to be led by others. Instead of leaving, they will be the first to lay out a new track.

Space track.

Su Yuanshan also had a headache about this.

Because he knows that Xiao Ma is a real guy, and he has actually developed a recyclable rocket.

But...domestic...the timing is not good yet.

No matter from a policy perspective or a technical perspective, it is impossible for the higher authorities to provide support to Yuanxin in the near future.

After all, according to Yuanxin's willingness to spend money, as long as Yuanxin dares to ask Yuanxin to develop rockets, domestic astronauts will be poached in minutes...

Of course, if Yuanxin really wants to do it, it doesn't mean it can't avoid the policy - just put it in Hong Kong. But aerospace talent is also a big problem.

There are only a few people in the world who can build rockets. And if Yuanxin cannot obtain national support, it means that everything will have to start again...

That's a long way to go.

"Aerospace has to wait, but we can do biological interfaces..." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Aren't you doing neuromorphism? Add more virtual 3D imaging, maybe when we get old, we can You can travel around the world while lying in bed.”

"If I really want to travel around the world, wouldn't it be the same if I hired someone to carry me on a plane and fly around the world?"

"How is that the same? You are too old to move and still dare to fly?"

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In May, Yuanxin launched a tentative network-wide + TV live broadcast conference amid the epidemic.

In addition to the video conference, newbook and eso also specially opened graphic and text scrolling columns to provide full graphic and text explanations for users with inconvenient network conditions and lack of time.

This novel publishing method immediately caused a sensation across the Internet.

The most direct effect is that the first-day pre-sales of Yuanxin Yidoo5 reached 2 million units, and the first-day pre-sales of the long-awaited iPad also reached 200,000 units.

——Yidoo5 Not to mention, the popularity of Ipad is largely due to Apple and Microsoft’s sparing no effort in publicity and promotion in the past six months. According to their propaganda, it seems that tablet computers will be comprehensive in two to three years at most. It's like banning notebooks.

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Electrical Engineering Department, Principal's Office.

"Dad, congratulations."

After Su Yuanshan entered the door, he smiled directly at his father: "But why do I have a bad feeling that you are going to trouble me?"

"What did you guess?" Academician Su Xinghe poured a cup of tea for his son himself and looked at him with a smile: "How did you know that I was going to trouble you?"

"Electronic Engineering has established a college of integrated circuits. If you don't bother me, who will bother me?" Su Yuanshan took the tea from his father unceremoniously, closed his eyes, and sniffed with great satisfaction: "Well, this tea is good, give it to me. point."

"Take it if you like it, and drink less coffee." Su Xinghe sat down next to his son and looked at him with burning eyes: "Now that you are mentally prepared, tell me what to do with this integrated circuit school."

Since last year, Su Xinghe has been busy promoting the construction of a new integrated circuit college. And he also received strong support from Su Yuanshan.

——Although from the current point of view, the domestic semiconductor field has a place in the world, this place is almost entirely achieved by Yuanxin!

Of course, companies like Yuanxin can drive the development of the entire industrial chain and the entire industry.

However, due to insufficient talent reserves and training in domestic semiconductors, especially integrated circuits, and the rapid expansion of Yuanxin, an extremely obvious siphon effect has occurred - talents, especially talents in integrated circuits, are He ran towards the big system of Yuanxin.

What's even worse is that Yuanxin's treatment is extremely high and there is very little brain drain.

This turns Yuanxin into an actual oligarch - for a small country, an oligarch may be able to compete with the entire industry on behalf of the country, but for a large country with a population of more than one billion, the oligarch There are just too many risks.

For example, last year, the United States just glanced at Yuan Xin, and Yuan Xin was so frightened that he ran to Europe.

"Do it step by step."

Su Yuanshan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Dad, the cultivation of semiconductor talents does not happen overnight. It requires schools, policies, and enterprises to work together."

"I know this, I don't need you to teach me."

"..."

Su Xinghe chuckled and said, "Just tell me how many people from Yuanxin are willing to come to class!"

Su Yuanshan: "..."

"What? Don't want to?"

"It's not that we are unwilling, but we are an enterprise after all. Although we can represent the most advanced technology of integrated circuits, the technology is too advanced... so that we cannot explain it to students." Su Yuanshan spread his hands as he spoke, He smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay to bring graduate students. Let's think about it after class, right?"

"Graduate students have taken care of them before, but after taking them, you didn't return any of them to me." Su Xinghe got angry when he said this - the Department of Electrical Engineering has been in-depth cooperation with Yuanxin since a long time ago, and he had no intention of doing so. He stingily distributed a large number of professor titles to Yuanxin and his group.

The technical experts of Yuanxin also believe in credibility and have brought on graduate students one after another.

Su Xinghe's idea is very simple. If we can train a few scientific research and teaching talents for the Electrical Engineering Department, a virtuous cycle can be achieved.

However, the reality is that if he sends one to Yuanxin, Yuanxin will leave one behind... Even if they don't join the company, they are still willing to stay in Yuanxin's laboratory. No one wants to go back to school!

If the Electrical Engineering Department wants to build a professional integrated circuit school, it is essential to improve the level of teachers as a whole and use more practical tutorials. His idea is to turn this integrated circuit school into a school where graduates can immediately become competent. An elite college for working in integrated circuit-related industries.

Su Yuanshan coughed several times quickly.

"Dad, if you want to retain people, the salary must be improved."

Su Xinghe glanced sideways at his son: "How can I compare with you if the salary is higher? We have more funds than us, the environment is better than us, the salary is higher than us, and even the retirement salary is higher than that of the school. This is really crazy... What are you doing? A business is like a charity."

Su Yuanshan's father's remarks made him laugh out loud.

In fact, my father also missed one thing - Yuanxin has many R\u0026D centers around the world and can send people to wherever they want to go.

This advantage is only available to companies at the top of the pyramid, not to mention the electronics school.

Of course, this also illustrates how willing Yuanxin is to invest in research and development.

"Poach people, Dad."

After laughing, Su Yuanshan said seriously: "Running a school is just like running a business, and you also need to recruit people. In the past, the electrical engineering department was almost useless regardless of its ranking or strength. But now it has improved its ranking and its strength. It's We can find industry experts who are truly committed to education and have real skills.”

"And we, a group of people who are engaged in the semiconductor industry, may not be able to do it by taking classes, don't you think so?"

Su Xinghe frowned slightly and automatically ignored Su Yuanshan's last sentence and asked, "Tell me, where to dig?"

"Ni Country, the island, Hong Kong, Nanyang, Silicon Valley... As long as you can recruit people, we can provide special funds for teaching and research."

Su Xinghe looked at his son with a smile: "If I understand correctly, you mean you plan to do some charity? Hey, how are the sales of your mobile phones and tablets?"

"Hey, speaking of this...Dad, I have something to ask you for help."

Seeing the reserved look on his son's face, Su Xinghe immediately became alert: "What's going on?"

"The Department of Electrical Engineering will pilot an online interactive class."