The God of Technology Begins with the Principal of a Technical School

With the continuous development of computer technology, graphics cards have also become an important part of computers. Especially now that the trend of Bitcoin and artificial intelligence is becoming more and more obvious, many people's demand for high-performance graphics cards is also rising.

As early as the late 1980s, domestic graphics cards were born.

However, as technology iteration accelerates, the technical gap in domestic graphics cards still lags behind that of foreign countries.

The ANI brand has a high technical level and rich experience in graphics card cooling, power supply, circuit design, etc. Domestic graphics cards have a long way to go.

Many manufacturers basically purchase technology licenses from chip IP manufacturers and build their own GPUs on this basis. The degree of self-research is not high.

However, there is currently no outstanding graphics card manufacturer in China. It would have been fine more than ten years ago, but now the competition in the electronics and semiconductor industry is fierce. Many graphics card manufacturers that looked good in the past have collapsed, or only a few small fish and shrimps are left.

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But even so, the domestic supply demand for mid- to low-end graphics cards can still be completely independent, and it can already replace most of the 980 graphics cards.

However, high-end graphics cards and chips are currently unable to keep up, and there is still a considerable technical gap with the three major international graphics card giants.

At present, with the support of Ziwei Semiconductor's "Flying Star No. 1" domestically produced lithography machine, the manufacturing of GPU chips is no longer a concern.

But this does not mean that it has entered the level of high-end graphics cards, because graphics card technology belongs to hardware technology to a certain extent. Most of the problems in hardware technology have been solved, but problems in software technology are still difficult to solve.

Among them, driver technology is more difficult than graphics card hardware technology!

Because the driver of this graphics card is related to the performance of all aspects of computer system operation and optimization, the performance in layer rendering is also an important performance reference indicator.

The driver problem has been initially solved. Xu Li used H language programming to edit a simple application driver and asked Dr. Lin Yingchang's team to improve it. It runs very smoothly with most systems on the market.

Moreover, Xu Li also added some artificial intelligence features to it, and cooperated with the Xiaohei intelligent assistant. The efficiency of the response commands was not only improved a little.

Although domestic chip manufacturing technology has broken through to 10 nanometers under the leadership of Suiren, it still needs to continue to deepen and work steadily to accurately attack the pressure of Western technology monopoly.

In terms of graphics cards, Suiren has completed research and development, but it is impossible to complete mass production in a short time.

Therefore, Xu Li needs to find a "foundry" to expand production, preferably one with some background.

The core of a graphics card is the GPU, and it is not difficult to produce a GPU. Many domestic companies can do it, but some companies are invested by relevant departments and are specially used in the industrial and military fields.

Of course, there are many graphics card manufacturers for civilian use, but the graphics cards of these civilian companies are used in embedded applications, not game graphics cards.

Although the display chip already has pictures, it is still unable to compete with the three giants in terms of single-precision float indicators. It can only be said to be usable, but not easy to use.

As for independent graphics cards for civilian consumption, there are very few that can be independently developed and manufactured in terms of nuclear graphics.

At present, all the major manufacturers in the computer business in China basically use the three major manufacturers for their core independent graphics. This is also based on the influence of environmental, market and other factors.

After Xiaohei's precise search, he found Moore Twp., a company mainly engaged in the graphics card business.

This company has been established relatively short, but its founder Zhang Haizheng’s resume is also significant. He once served as global vice president of Invista, and also served as president of the business division of famous computer manufacturers such as Huipu and Dell.

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The current technical team consists of senior engineers with more than 10 years of experience, and has built a relatively complete professional IC team in China.

Although there is a big gap between Moore Two-Way and ANI Factory 3, as a graphics card manufacturer, it is still good.

However, the capital behind this company is relatively complex. In addition to domestic capital, there is also foreign capital involved.

If you want to cooperate with this company, you may be able to invest in technology shares. However, Moore Twp has a greater demand for independent graphics cards in China. You can license the technology and foundry of independent graphics cards to him and let him develop independent graphics cards.

On the track, the core display is manufactured by Ziwei Semiconductor. When necessary, it cooperates with chip factories such as Loongson International and Microelectronics Technology to OEM GPUs, forming a scale advantage in the industry chain, which can speed up a lot.

"Wait a minute, this news is..."

Xu Li saw a piece of news about Moore's two-way trip, mainly a sanctions list on the other side of the ocean.

He couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly: "It seems that the negotiation with this company should be smoother this time."

Moore Twp.

Zhang Ming is worried about the recent sanctions that his company has encountered overseas. Recently, his company was included in the entity list by a black and white guy, which caused the company's overseas orders to decrease a lot.

But we still need the domestic fundamentals and government support to be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he has communicated this matter with the capital power behind his shareholders, there is still no progress.

He also knew that there must be Gaotong, Yingweida and Yingtel behind this.

Because although the consumer-grade graphics cards recently developed and produced by the company are much worse than the current 40 series and equivalent graphics cards, they are already very close to INVISTA's 3060 series, but they may not be as good as INVISTA in terms of drivers and ecology.

Such a behemoth.

However, these graphics card giants are much stronger in terms of technology and capital than his company, which was established less than a few years ago. If we want to resolve this crisis, we must break their monopoly on graphics card technology.

But now he knows how big the generation gap in graphics card technology between his company and Lao Huang is, and it is probably impossible to break through it in a short time. GPU design and manufacturing are okay, but drivers and compatibility are not enough!

When Zhang Ming was about to hold another meeting with senior executives to discuss the next countermeasures, the phone on his desk rang.

"Hello? What's going on?"

"Mr. Zhang, CEO of Ziwei Semiconductor is here to visit."

Listening to the voice on the phone, Zhang Ming murmured to himself: "Ziwei Semiconductor? I remember it's owned by the famous Suiren Technology, right? Forget it, please come in."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, I'll bring Mr. Gao in right now."

Not long after hanging up the phone, the secretary entered Zhang Ming's office with an urban beauty.