Future Super Intelligent System

A phone call from Zhang Rujin interrupted Meng Xiao's insistence. Seeing that Liu Fan was in a hurry to go to the company, Meng Xiao offered to go home and let Liu Fan go to work quickly.

At Meng Xiao's insistence, Liu Fan suspended the meal. Of course, Liu Fan really couldn't wait to go to the company to have a look, because Zhang Rujin didn't tell Liu Fan directly what the breakthrough in chip technology was. surprise.

Liu Fan, who sold this pass, felt uncomfortable all over. After sending Meng Xiao home, Liu Fan drove to Kunxin Technology.

At this time, Kunxin Technology was brightly lit, and no room in the fifteenth-floor building was dark. Seeing this scene, Liu Fan was even more curious about what Zhang Rujin said about taking a step forward.

"Mr. Liu is here." As soon as he entered the R\u0026D department, Zhang Rujin greeted him with a smile.

"Mr. Zhang, I left the beauty and came here specially. If you don't show me something real, I'll never end with you." Liu Fan pretended to be angry.

"Hahahahaha." Zhang Rujin laughed heartily, and he could see that he was really happy, "Then Mr. Liu, let's see if this trip is worth it."

Liu Fan followed Zhang Rujin to the laboratory. At this time, the laboratory was full of staff, and everyone's face was full of excitement.

"Mr. Liu, let's see what this is." Zhang Rujin brought Liu Fan to a glass box and pointed to a chip inside.

Liu Fan still has a deep understanding of chips, and he recognized them at a glance, "Universal chips?"

"How do you guess the performance?" Zhang Rujin asked arrogantly from the side.

"Mr. Zhang, just tell me directly." Liu Fan didn't bother to guess, because he knew that the result must be good. For chips, the most difficult thing is to design, but Liu Fan relied on the system rewards to give him a brand new architecture. Brand-new design, as long as the process can be realized, the resulting chip will definitely not be bad.

Moreover, Liu Fan has never given the stock Kunxin Technology the task of making low-end chips, because many companies in China can make low-end general-purpose chips, and the task he gave is high-end general-purpose chips, so for Kunxin Technology, there are only two. One possibility is that either high-end general-purpose chips have been produced, or no general-purpose chips have been produced.

"Okay." Seeing that Liu Fan didn't want to guess, Zhang Rujin didn't hold back. "We did a test for a day, and the performance is 1.5 times that of the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors."

"Is it only 1.5 times?" Liu Fan thought, Liu Fan actually had great expectations for the running water structure. Although this result was enough to satisfy everyone present, it was not within Liu Fan's expectations.

Could it be that which link went wrong?

Liu Fan decided to go back and study it carefully.

Liu Fan's disappointment was more or less expressed on his face. Zhang Rujin saw it in his eyes and asked misunderstood, "Liu is always worried about how to bring this chip to the market, right?"

Liu Fan came back to his senses and was stunned for a moment, then said wrongly, "Yes."

What Zhang Rujin said is indeed a big problem. Although the technologies of general-purpose chips and special-purpose chips are said to be compatible, their status is really different at present.

Although everyone has been hyping special-purpose chips, especially AI special-purpose chips, there have been many claims about special-purpose chips in the era of special-purpose chips, and special-purpose chips replace general-purpose chips, but at least for now, this kind of statement is actually unreliable. , even after Liu Fan studied the diagram given by the system, he still felt that this statement was unreliable.

You must know that special use has an absolute disadvantage, that is, limitation. The most obvious problem with special-purpose chips is that they can only be used in one or a few specific fields. For example, you cannot use special-purpose chips for mobile phones in cameras, let alone use them. to the plane.

Well, now a mainstream saying is that all walks of life can make corresponding dedicated chips. Compared with private customization, I think such a future is particularly good.

But a slightly deeper question is, once the industry involved in your chip is eliminated, what will the chip manufacturer do? The most direct example is when a small island country made special chips for cameras.

Later, the development of smart phones brought a huge impact on the low-end camera market, and manufacturers of chips dedicated to cameras were naturally also affected, because your chips can only be used on cameras.

A very similar example in life is that the universal remote control can turn on thousands of brands of air conditioners, but once the brand’s exclusive air conditioner is gone, the remote control can’t do anything. It's just that the air conditioner and the exclusive remote control are produced by the same manufacturer, but the chip is not. The chip and the terminal are basically separated.

Therefore, if a chip company spends so much money to develop a dedicated chip, it has to pray every day that the industry will not be cold, otherwise all the previous research and development costs will be wiped out in an instant. Are you uncomfortable?

So why are so many people talking about dedicated chips now? First of all, the benefits of dedicated chips are indeed there, low energy consumption, high precision is undeniable, but there is another reason mentioned before, now is the AI ​​era, but is there any company capable of making high-end AI general-purpose chips , then you can only make AI-specific chips, otherwise how can AI keep up with the trend of this era.

But for more traditional industries, AI is not so popular after all, so general-purpose chips, especially high-end general-purpose chips, are still in an unshakable position. The world can lose many special-purpose chips, but it must not be without general-purpose chips.

Because once the general-purpose chip disappears from the world, the entire industry will collapse instantly.

So Zhang Rujin misunderstood that Liu Fan was worried about the issue of launching to the market, and that was because it was not a small matter to dare to touch the cake of general-purpose chips.

You need to know why Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and other companies are still tolerant of Kunxin Technology at present, that is because at least what Kunxin Technology does are dedicated chips, but once Kunxin Technology makes a general-purpose chip, they can still tolerate it. what?

Once the global hegemony of general-purpose chips is lost, can the United States bear it?

What will happen at this time is unpredictable.

Obviously, if Kunxin Technology really wants to bring a general-purpose chip, and a general-purpose chip with better performance than Intel, to the market, it is destined to be a big battle.

"What's Mr. Liu thinking?" Zhang Rujin asked tentatively.

Liu Fan did not answer but asked instead, "What does Mr. Zhang think? You have seen our general-purpose chip so long before me. You should have been thinking about this issue, right?"

"Now there are three core issues. The first is the system. We use Huawei's system. It was okay to make chips for mobile phones before, but now we are making general-purpose chips. How to get everyone to accept Huawei's system is a problem. The second is the interface. All of our interfaces are international standards, which is a huge hidden danger for us, the third is adaptation, our independent production, except for Huawei, we have not done any adaptation experiments."

"According to what Mr. Zhang said, isn't it true that the general-purpose chip we finally produced can only be a decoration? Then what are we excited about now?"

"The excitement is because we have such a capability. Even if how to market it is a big problem, this is enough to make us proud." Zhang Rujin said with a smile, "And in fact, we also have a big advantage."

"What?" Liu Fan's eyes sharpened.

"We have the largest market in the world, if we can unite all Chinese companies."

Liu Fan instantly understood what Zhang Rujin meant, and said meaningfully, "This is a big gamble..."