Technological Hegemony

When the special plane carrying North American negotiators landed at Pudong Airport, they received a grand and friendly reception immediately. The representatives stayed in the most luxurious five-star hotel in Shanghai, accompanied by Hong Tao and Yu Chengdong, and began their daily life of debauchery. Life.

On the first day, the foreigners felt that the Chinese people were too enthusiastic, and the food was interesting and delicious.

The next day, foreigners expressed that baijiu was too spicy and had more stamina than expected, so Hong Tao suggested to drink some light rice wine today.

On the third day, the foreigners all said that the rice wine tasted very smooth and tasted better than white wine, but if they drank too much, they would almost die, and their heads would be muddled.

Hong Tao blamed himself for the poor hospitality, so he decided to make the hotel stew hangover soup, and replace the drinks with lighter beer, Wusu brand beer...

"Yesterday we ate local dishes from Shanghai, and the sauce was a bit heavy, so tonight I invited everyone to eat Huaiyang cuisine, which is known for its exquisiteness and delicateness. The tofu is cut like hair. Guaranteed to be enjoyable!" When the time came to the fifth day, Yu Chengdong excitedly introduced it to them.

The word Kung Fu immediately aroused strong interest among foreigners. Yu Chengdong took the opportunity to say that in order to eat authentic Kung Fu Huaiyang cuisine, he needs to go to Yangzhou in person. Anyway, it is better to go to Suzhou Gardens before going to Yangzhou.

After two days of shopping in Suzhou and finally arriving in Yangzhou, Yu Chengdong said, since we are all here, everyone should go to Nanjing to have a look, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, you will regret it if you don’t go...

How many people who can play high technology and occupy such a high position are fools?

It didn't take a few days before they discovered that the Huaxia people didn't seem to intend to negotiate immediately, but were delaying time.

Seeing that it is the Spring Festival, as long as the negotiation plan is postponed until the Spring Festival, when the whole country is on holiday, it can continue to be postponed.

An atmosphere of uneasiness spread rapidly. Past history has long proved that Luo Jia is by no means a kind person, but a typical profiteer, the kind who is treacherous and ruthless. the plan of.

Therefore, the West immediately acted, mobilized various relationships and forces, and asked why Star Technology deliberately delayed the negotiation?

Soon, they found out why.

RISC-V!

This is a combination of letters that all Chinese technology companies should remember, because it is the key to breaking the hegemony of chips in the case of a comprehensive Western blockade.

RISC-V is led by the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open source processor instruction set. Based on this instruction set, users can develop their own processors for free.

The main creator of RISC-V is David Patterson, who once won the Turing Award. Mr. David has a very high status in the world. He belongs to the great master in the field of computer architecture.

Not long ago, Mr. David opened a RISC-V laboratory in China. The address is located in Shenzhen Tsinghua Berkeley College, referred to as, preparing to let the open source processor instruction set land in China.

As the investigation unfolded, Luo Jia's Plan B was finally exposed to the western perspective. They were shocked by Luo Jia's ambition, and at the same time, they were grateful for the early discovery of Luo Jia's true purpose.

In the field of semiconductors,

There are countless kinds of products, the most high-end of which is undoubtedly the general-purpose processor, that is, the chip called CPU for short.

The RISC-V open source technology is the basis for making CPUs!

The reason why Star Technology has been delaying is because they are in close contact with RISC-V while talking with the Semiconductor Alliance.

After mastering the lithography machine and wafer, Star Technology started the plan to make CPU!

This news came out out of the blue, and everyone in the Semiconductor Alliance was shocked inside and out, and their scalps were numb.

The famous Lord of the Rings in The Lord of the Rings is engraved with a Mordo text that has been passed down in Middle-Earth. The Lord of the Rings belongs to the Supreme, and the Supreme guides the demons.

The status of the CPU is comparable to that of the Lord of the Rings. If anyone can create this thing, he can directly stage a big show of the return of the king in the semiconductor field.

Neon people, French, Koreans, British, Canadians, even Papua New Guineans, any nation on earth, any country, but any individual, there is no one who does not want to make a CPU.

Of course, the Chinese people are no exception. To put it bluntly, scientists dream about it, and they are almost crazy!

However, after thinking about it, in the real world, China's semiconductor industry started late, and it was born at an untimely time, and encountered the absurd era when compradors were in power.

In reality, Academician Ni Guangnan, who wants to develop independently, is crowded out everywhere, and he preaches the conscience of the US emperor that making is worse than buying. Instead, he holds power. How can scientific and technological workers not be disappointed in such a world.

It is easy to get on a pirate ship, but difficult to get off a pirate ship.

Academician Ni Guangnan once said sadly, do you really think that Microsoft is a good person? Of course they know who is using pirated versions. With their technical strength, it is not too easy to block pirated versions.

It is precisely because of free Windows that the domestic operating system has been tightly suppressed, and it cannot develop anyway. Now you know that Microsoft is powerful, right? The free ones are the most expensive. Before we know it, our fate has been handed over to the West!

This is especially true in the semiconductor field. If you want to build a CPU, you must first master the instruction set and architecture. Whether it is Intel's Core and Xeon, or AMD's Ryzen, the source of it is the X86 architecture.

Huawei's Kirin and Apple's A series, as well as the mobile phone SOCs made by Samsung and MediaTek, all originate from ARM's IP.

There are also domestic CPUs. For example, the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is made up of the Shenwei 26010 processor, developed by the Jiangnan Computer Research Institute, and its performance is not bad.

But it is a pity that Shenwei is a special-purpose product and valuable, but it cannot be used to break the monopoly of the West.

In addition, my country also has Zhaoxin Group.

Back then, after VIA Group, the world's third largest general-purpose CPU manufacturer, went bankrupt, many new companies were spawned from the giant's corpse, the two most famous of which were HTC and Zhaoxin.

Technology laymen may never think that the HTC Group, which is extremely lonely today, used to be the mobile phone department of VIA, a super technology company that can even manufacture CPUs.

In its heyday, VIA was one of the most powerful semiconductor companies in the world, beating a long list of famous Japanese and Korean companies, which can be called the light of the Chinese.

However, history will eventually make the most just verdict.

After all, Wanwan is just a province in China. The short-sighted leaders and petty people have played a good hand of cards to pieces.

Foxconn, Uni-President and other Wanwan companies are, in the final analysis, nothing but blood-sucking leeches lying on the mainland. Once they lose their identity and identity, what else will Wanwan have left besides TSMC.

All in all, after the collapse of the VIA Group, the mobile phone department became today's HTC. In just a few years, HTC was beaten by the Big Four, Samsung, Apple, and even her grandma couldn't recognize it. Technology companies, finally in the hands of Wanwan people, have become the 18th-rate small factories in the technology industry. Regarding this, we can only say that they deserve it.

In order to survive, VIA cross-licensed X86 to Huaxia Zhaoxin, which has become my country's plan A reserved in the field of general-purpose CPU.

The Huaxia nation has been tossing for thousands of years. It was once weak and only survived with its last breath, which shows that its desire to survive is still very strong.

Just as our country reserves three major armies in the field of memory chips, in the field of general-purpose CPUs, in addition to Zhaoxin Group, we also have a plan B, which is Haiguang Group.

On April 25, 2016, when the news was not reported on a large scale and was extremely low-key, Haiguang Group signed an agreement with AMD Group. Haiguang Group invested 290 million US dollars, plus future dividends, to buy AMD Group’s ZEN1 architecture license and X86 Instruction set authorization.

People who don't understand the semiconductor and technology industries may not understand the value of this agreement. This is the first time in China's history that it has obtained the world's leading general-purpose CPU architecture.

These technologies are digested and absorbed. If the CPU is built, it will directly have the computing power of the first or second generation Core. With the graphics card, it can even eat chicken smoothly. The technical content is too high, and the price is less than 300 million US dollars. It is the price of Chinese cabbage, which is about the same as that picked for nothing.

Facts have proved that the same is Chinese, but there is a difference between Chinese and Chinese.

As the world's second largest CPU manufacturer, AMD's president, Ms. Su Zifeng, is a respectable Chinese. This deal, which is obviously cheaper for China, was reached with the efforts of Ms. Su. Perhaps in the future, all It is not necessary to write down Ms. Su's name.

Another interesting gossip is that Nvidia Group, the world's most powerful graphics card manufacturer, and its founder, Huang Renxun, are Ms. Su Zifeng's cousin.

Of course, due to well-known reasons, this matter was not publicized with much fanfare, and 99% of the people in the country did not know about Haiguang Group.

But the consequences of this incident are as follows.

First, Haiguang obtained the first generation of EPYC, the penultimate development version, which is a complete X86 high-performance server SOC with 128 PCI-E3.0 channels.

Second, the architecture itself is a combination of 4 pieces of ZENDIE, that is to say, if it is directly disassembled, it can also create a complete desktop-level X86 processor, which is my country's plan B under extreme conditions.

Third, it is possible that among all the semiconductor companies in North America, AMD is one of the few companies that is more friendly to China. It is rumored that if the trade war did not happen too quickly, AMD would have sold the second generation of the ZEN architecture to sea ​​light.

The trade war is only a surface that ordinary people can see, and under this surface, there has been an undercurrent for many years.

Although there have been shameless counterfeiters and those who were eliminated with insufficient capabilities in history, we still have two lines of defense in the CPU field today. They are Zhaoxin and Haiguang. Once the worst happens, Both Zhaoxin and Haiguang can be used. Although it is not easy to use, at least it cannot die.

The West once thought that not being able to die was the upper limit of Huaxia in the field of general-purpose CPUs, and that was the case at best.

Until today, the terrifying news came, and the West suddenly discovered that Xingchen Technology is actually cooperating with RISC-V!

what is this concept?

Regardless of whether it is Intel, AMD, or the two major preparatory groups of Huaxia Zhaoxin and Haiguang, everyone's CPU technology is developed on the basis of the X86 architecture.

And the direction of Star Technology is RISC-V!

They are going to start all over again, based on RISC-V technology, to rebuild a whole set of CPU architecture and instruction set!

Everyone is playing with the X86 architecture, but Xingchen Technology, they don't play!