My Return to Life

"Boss Lei is counting money today until his hands cramp. Instead of continuing to flaunt his wealth online, he actually has time to call me? How rare."

As soon as Fang Nian opened his mouth, he became an old hermaphrodite.

There is no way, after all, the other party is from old Versailles!

Lei Jun was accustomed to Fang Nian's tone and didn't care. He smiled and said, "For every dollar that Xiaomi earns in the mobile phone business, at least thirty-five cents will be taken by you, Mr. Fang!"

"Nonsense, twenty-five cents at most." Fang Nian also laughed.

"..."

Theoretically, for every dollar Xiaomi earns in the mobile phone business, 25 cents are square years.

But the truth is...

Fang Nian's total gross income from these businesses is probably about the same as Xiaomi's gross income.

If you take the Redmi 1 as an example, it will be quite scary.

In the price of 799, regardless of Xiaomi’s gross profit, Frontier Nuwa Laboratory took 4 yuan, and Fang Nian took another 36 yuan through Shunwei Capital’s 30% shares;

Just equal to Xiaomi's gross income on Redmi 1: 40 yuan.

Then... Fang Nian would take 10 yuan out of the 40 yuan gross income.

Of course, all are gross income.

Anyway, for Xiaomi, Redmi 1 is really a business that basically does not make money. A net profit of 20 yuan per machine is the best.

On the contrary, Fang Nian and Lei Jun may have earned more considerable money through Shunwei Capital.

"..."

After joking around, Fang Nian took the initiative to say, "Is there always something for Lei?"

"Not really, I just want to chat with Mr. Fang." Lei Jun said casually.

"The sales situation of Redmi 1 is really beyond expectations. 1.15 million units were sold out in a few tens of minutes. Now the number of remaining pre-orders but not purchased has risen instead of falling. It has reached 15 million."

“Market research is basically useless.”

As soon as Lei Jun said it, Fang Nian understood it, and thought it over: "It is not appropriate to increase the production capacity too much, and it is enough to guarantee a maximum shipment of around 18 million this year;

However, after the opening of the sale, the climax of user purchases may continue until September 2. After all, this time of the year is the peak season for sales of mobile phones below 1,000 yuan. "

"Oh?" Lei Jun was a little surprised, "Why did Mr. Fang suddenly become conservative?"

Fang Nian smiled and said calmly: "I just think that Redmi 1 is the first generation product that can be launched by the domestic industry chain, and it may have flaws. The focus should be on the super version."

"The meal version..." Lei Jun pondered for a while, and agreed, "It makes sense."

"After all, we have abolished the first generation of Redmi internally, so we should have a certain risk perception."

Said, Lei Jun sighed with emotion: "It's really thanks to Mr. Fang's foresight, otherwise Xiaomi would not be able to coordinate the supply chain so quickly and work overtime to supply sufficient materials."

"The current short-term inventory should be basically equal to the purchase demand of users, and it can probably be maintained."

Fang Nian laughed: "Mr. Lei, just relax, tomorrow's sales won't be as fast as today."

"We won't let Xiaomi break his promise again and again."

Lei Jun smiled: "The borrower is always auspicious..."

"..."

Lei Jun's phone call was mainly to exchange news with Fang Nian and exchange business ideas.

After all, in this wave, Fang Nian said he would be slapped in the face, and he did...

The result really made Fang Nian right.

The next day was also open for sale at 10 o'clock. The stock was only urgent, but it was not sold out.

There is still a gap between 850,000 units a day.

As long as it is found that there is stock no matter what, the user's strong buying enthusiasm will naturally diminish.

It is difficult to reappear yesterday's super retaliatory buying and consumption tide.

Sales in the future will also gradually decline to normal purchase levels.

With the performance of Redmi 1, it will probably maintain around 100,000 units per day.

This is already an exaggerated number.

The reason why Mi 1 seems to be so out of stock and always has to be grabbed is because of the marketing strategy.

Open for sale once a week, with 200,000 units shipped,

Calculated, the daily average is less than 30,000 units.

The reason why Lei Jun dared to use another marketing strategy on the Redmi Project was because of Fang Nian's promotion, the starting point of the Redmi Project itself, and the absolute vacancy of the thousand-yuan price point.

"..."

…………

Summer vacation is decreasing day by day.

The little Fang Xin also became honest and well-behaved day by day.

Still will pay attention in advance.

I know that I should go to study now.

Even though Ms. Lin Feng has started to get busy these two days, Fang Xin is not as naughty as before——

The "Sneak Free" restaurant in Pudong is scheduled to open on August 28.

Fang Nian is preparing various affairs for going to the capital.

In the past two days, good news has also come. Academician Chen Jianye has led a team to Shanghai.

People basically stay in the center which is less than one mile away from Junting in a straight line.

Considering that Fang Nian's request for this chip is that the sooner the real chip is available, the better, so Chen Jianye simply went ahead and personally.

For the time being, only the technology alliance formed by Baize, Loongson, and Jingjiawei has achieved high efficiency under the magical power of Bai Ze's laboratory spending a lot of money.

To be honest, Fang Nianfang, who occasionally looked through the documents and reports, was always a little skeptical. Is this the Godson and Jing Jiawei he knew?

Although Fang Nian didn't know exactly whether Jing Jiawei had claimed to have produced a domestic GPU in 2014 or 2015, at least he didn't have the current technical level in his impression.

What's the matter, the research and development capabilities are so weak now?

Could it be that from the 6th of this month to the present, the 300 million R\u0026D funds spent on this project alone have burned a golden road?

In a word, simulation verification is completely fine.

Originally, with the cooperation of Baize and Godson, the design of the CPU part was basically no problem.

In the past ten days, Jingjiawei has also come up with a GPU solution with a small part of self-controllability.

It uses the IP authorization of overseas manufacturers, and has carried out a certain independent design. The degree of autonomy is far worse than that of Loongson based on the MIPS instruction set.

But these are not important, the important thing is: Jingjiawei can provide drivers and so on completely independently.

It is enough to achieve these in the first step.

Anyway, judging from the summary report, the technical level of performance in all aspects is much more optimistic than Fang Nian's estimates.

With Academician Chen Jianye around, Fang Nian is not worried about things like Hanxin.

After all, although the inside of this business looks complicated, laymen can easily expose lies...

In a flash, several days passed.

At 11 o'clock in the morning on the 28th, the Shimao Binjiang store of "Sneak in Time" officially opened.

That's right, the location of "Sneak Free" is near Mr. Guan's Shimao No. 5, and it is also close to Mingzhu Primary School.

Of course, Ms. Lin Feng will not arrange any publicity.

All she knew was that the neighbors in the yard where she and Fang Xin lived had also sent flower baskets.

Of course Fang Nian, Lu Weiyu, Guan Qiuhe and others all went to the scene.

Not to mention helping, just go and have a look.

Not much movement.

After all, fireworks and firecrackers are not allowed in this area now.

The opening went well.

Because it was a specially chosen day with beautiful weather, it really didn’t rain, and it was still cloudy.

Ms. Lin Feng can be regarded as letting go of her worries.

Anyway, profit or loss doesn't matter, it's just to have something to pass her time that is too much to waste every day.

On the 30th, Lin Feng went back to Xiangchu again to send Fang Nian's grandmother home.

Fang Nian's grandma is really tired of staying in Shencheng, and the weather is not good. Who can stand the rainy day for a whole month.

The small book booth that book lovers used before has been hung up, and now they are basically using \\Mi\\Mi\\Reading\\\\.

On the same day, Samsung Electronics held a press conference to inform the Chinese market that it will be listed on September 9.

But the good news that Fang Nian was looking forward to did not happen immediately, so after careful consideration, he simply postponed the plan to go to the capital...

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On September 1st, Fang Xin happily put on her schoolbag and walked into the campus of Mingzhu Primary School under the leadership of Ms. Lin Feng and Fang Nian.

Fang Xin's new school year begins now.

From today, she is a fifth grade pupil.

When I entered the fifth grade, the class teacher did not change.

This young and middle-aged female class teacher was quite impressed with Fang Nian.

Although Fang Nian only came to Mingzhu Primary School once in the whole last semester.

The female head teacher also laughed and talked about what happened last time: "The last time Brother Fang Xin came to pick Fang Xin up, I misunderstood it, mainly because you two brothers and sisters don't look alike."

"Yes, yes, Teacher Lao took a lot of care." Ms. Lin Feng continued, "This time I specially brought him here to thank the teacher."

Naturally, Fang Nian just kept smiling and didn't say a word.

"..."

From about two days onwards, Ms. Lin Feng stopped taking Fang Xin to and from school.

From the residence to the main entrance of Mingzhu Primary School, there are a total of three streets, with a total of two turns.

The whole distance from the door of the house to the door of the classroom is within 350 meters.

In fact, last semester, Fang Xin took the initiative to bring up this matter. In this matter, Ms. Lin Feng did not make her own decisions, and she vented to Fang Nian.

Fang Nian was saying to take it easy.

Because at that time not all arrangements were made properly, only Erzi and Sanmao often changed shifts.

At the end of May, a former driver joined the security department of Mingzhu Primary School through normal channels.

After more than a month of work, I have integrated into the collective.

Earlier, three foreigners who came to apply successively became the gatekeeper and security guard of an old community on Nanquan North Road, the toll collector of a parking lot, and the female cashier of a convenience store.

Like many ordinary people from small places who have not read much and come to Shanghai for a meal, there is nothing outstanding.

In short, in all aspects of these aspects, Fang Nian has to spend at least several million yuan in labor costs every year through the frontier.

"..."

There was no class on the first day of school, and they simply picked up their books and went back to their respective homes.

So Fang Xin followed back to Junting.

After arriving at Junting, Fang Nian received a call from Chen Jianye even before he could sit still.

The four words I want to hear when I wait for it: I made it.

…………

At the Dongjiao Hotel, which is the same straight-line distance from Junting, Fang Nian saw Chen Jianye who looked a little tired.

Fang Nian didn't talk too much nonsense, and cut straight to the point: "Academician, may I have a look at the samples?"

Chen Jianye took out two samples: "This is a fully packaged CPU, and this is an unpackaged shell pin."

Fang Nian took it and looked at it, a little strangely said: "Is this a fusion?"

He still knows a few words on the internal components, such as: prraphics.

Academician Chen Jianye nodded with a smile: "Yes."

"This is also the reason why the film was released three times before and after."

"Although the performance cannot compete with the Intel Core series, at least we should strive to be on par with Intel. They are just the first-generation core display that is glued together. The second-generation i5 released this year is completely integrated."

"This chip has also achieved perfect integration. Not only that, but also like the second-generation i5, the memory controller and PCI-E controller are integrated on the chip!"

"After all, we have experience in this area. In fact, it is not as complicated as a mobile phone SoC, and so many things need to be integrated."

In fact, whether it is a mobile phone or a computer, SoC will be a major trend.

Of course, in the computer field, the scope of SoC integration will not be very large.

For example, a CPU equipped with a nuclear display is basically not the choice of high-end players, after all, the performance of the nuclear display is generally not good.

But it depends on the demand.

For the current frontier, this integrated chip is the best.

Of course, all aspects of performance and so on need to be improved.

Fang Nian looked at the chip and said, "How about other aspects?"

"The performance is about the same as expected, and the main frequency is still 1.6Ghz, which is basically the design goal."

Chen Jianye replied.

"A long time ago, we have established in-depth communication with the core development team of the DeskOS project, and the DeskOS team has also specially developed a new beta series version, which is completely based on our self-developed instruction set architecture;

It's just that this version of DeskOS is limited in what it can do with this chip;

Because the targeted modification of the nwL supporting compiler that we cooperated with Nuwa Lab did not go very smoothly;①

Not to mention that the new compiler has to be compatible with other development tools. "

Finally, Chen Jianye concluded: "The actual performance of the translation and execution of the X86 target is not as optimistic as before, only 35%. The transplanted application can run, but it does not run very smoothly."

The result: it works, but it definitely doesn't work.

In fact, the operating system can only be regarded as a bridge. The application software obtains the CPU control right through the operating system, and then executes what it wants to do.

Now the application software is not targeted for modification.

One is that the compiler has not been completed, and the other is that this new system has not yet been opened to the outside world.

Therefore, although a large number of applications based on DeskOS can run in the new software and hardware environment, because they were all targeted at the X86 system before, they can be executed only because of the initiative to be compatible with this new instruction set architecture.

It is equivalent to forcibly translating and executing at the binary level, and the performance loss is much more than expected.

35% of the execution performance, in popular terms, is once back to 99 years.

What is less optimistic is that the current problem is not stuck in coordinating various application vendors, but that it has not been resolved internally.

The thing is very simple, Baize and Nuwa plus Loongson can solve the compiler problem as soon as possible, especially compatible with all development tools on the market;

Application developers who originally supported DeskOS only need to compile the source code through this modified compiler to generate a new program to obtain 100% performance.

Fang Nian is familiar with the process here.

He thought for a while and said, "These tasks are done step by step. The work of the compiler is not too difficult. After all, the most difficult part has already been completed."

With that said, Fang Nian withdrew his gaze from looking at the chip, and looked at Chen Jianye who was opposite him: "Does the academician have any name suggestions?"

"Chip?" Chen Jianye asked.

"Instruction set, microarchitecture, chip family."

"We haven't decided on a name internally. We just want to hand it over to Mr. Fang. Without your unlimited support and promotion, we can't do it."

"My name is very simple."

Chen Jianye smiled and said nothing: "..."

"Okay." Seeing this, Fang Nian smiled, "In this case, let's follow my usual naming method."

"The instruction set is called: Bzloong."

After finishing speaking, Fang Nian muttered: "Godson's contribution is not very much, and the name takes up so much, which is a bit of a loss."

"You can decide the microarchitecture internally."

"The chip... let's call it Bailong D1."

Academician Chen Jianye was not surprised by Fang Nian's random name, and nodded happily: "Since Mr. Fang handed over the micro-architecture to us, I plan to call it 'Unfinished'."

Then added: "There is no rule that the micro-architecture cannot use Chinese."

"..."

In the end, Fang Nian explained a few words: "Academicians have worked hard, but you have to devote your energy to completing the chips that can be used in notebooks as soon as possible."

"..."

"Come here for the research, and I will arrange other things."

Chen Jianye said seriously: "Thank you, Mr. Fang."

This sentence is said with mixed feelings.

"..."

Almost after meeting Chen Jianye, Fang Nian called Miao Wei's office number.

Although Miao Wei didn't leave him a business card at the beginning, Fang Nian couldn't be bothered, even through the frontier official channels.

The phone was connected quickly, and before Fang Nian reported his family name, Xiang Miaowei said, "Boss Fang? A rare visitor."

Fang Nian: "..."

Although a little surprised, Fang Nian quickly and clearly expressed his desire to see Leader Miao.

Miao Wei gave an affirmative answer without much hesitation.

That afternoon, Fang Nian went to Beijing and wanted to hug his thigh...

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①: The compiler translates the high-level language into binary code in the following order: high-level language (Python, C, Java, and nwL in the book, etc.) → assembly language (describing the instruction set in a language that humans can understand) → binary machine code (Instruction Set).

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