1991 Starting from the core

"Please, brothers, listen carefully in get out of class from now on. Even if Yuanxin is known as the Whampoa Military Academy in the semiconductor industry, when you come in, you must at least have some basics."

In the CPU Design Center, Gao Xiaodi is giving the first lesson of induction training to employees who have just returned to the design center from Deyuan to familiarize themselves with the process.

This group of people are all outstanding graduates of integrated circuit design majors from well-known domestic universities.

But when faced with Gao Xiaodi, the head of the CPU design center who calls himself "Principal", these people have no temper at all - it is said that half of the leaders of the current architecture department were from the entrepreneurial period when Yuanxin rented an office. It was brought out by Mr. Gao himself.

Or rather scolded.

Only one person was a little unconvinced: "President Gao, we have no chance to go to class."

"Then listen carefully now." Gao Xiaodi knocked on the whiteboard: "Everyone, you have been in the wafer factory for half a year, and you must have understood how a chip is born."

"At the same time, we also know that there are three legs that restrict CPU performance." Gao Xiaodi paused and said, "I don't know if your textbooks have been updated. Anyway, we didn't even talk about it back then. We only talked about the process, assembly line, and instructions. These basic things can’t be more basic.”

The people below shook their heads.

What they have worked on the most is the 91 microcontroller. Although the 91 microcontroller has blossomed all over the country after so many years of development, and has derived various different architectures and instructions, as a student, even a graduate student, they must only start from the most primitive. Start with standard.

"The main reason why our Tamron series processors can compete with Intel is because of our microarchitecture..."

Gao Xiaodi was frothing in the conference room, but unexpectedly the door was suddenly pushed open, and then he saw Li Mingliu standing outside the door.

Gao Xiaodi immediately said: "Well, of course, the caching technology developed by Mr. Li back then is also very advantageous."

New employees:"……"

"Principal Gao, it's not over yet?" Li Mingliu nodded to the new employees and said cheerfully.

"Then let's adjourn the meeting today." Gao Xiaodi also said simply: "Everyone, just remember one thing. In the field of chip design, Yuanxin is the most awesome."

…

Li Mingliu and Gao Xiaodi walked into the elevator side by side and went up to the sunroom on the roof.

The secretary quickly came up and prepared a tea set. Although there were only two people, there were four cups.

"Are you bragging a little too harshly?" Li Mingliu picked up the tea cup. His words were obviously referring to Gao Xiaodi's statement just now that Yuan Xin was the most awesome.

"Hey, don't be too harsh. Are these people afraid that they will have to kneel down when they see Intel? And in a sense, we are indeed the most awesome. Didn't that guy Jiang Tao make big news? "

Li Mingliu smiled and shook his head.

At this time, there were footsteps at the door, and Jiang Tao and Luo Ming, as they mentioned, also came to the sun room and sat down.

Seeing people gathered, Li Mingliu coughed and said seriously: "Everyone, before Mr. Shan leaves, let us come up with a solid-state drive solution and use it at the Semiconductor Achievements Exhibition in April - everyone should know that in the second half of last year, the IS Alliance Those little tricks he did are obviously playing tricks on us."

"Let me put it bluntly, if it weren't for Mr. Shan's great reputation, those guys working on flash memory would have surrendered to the enemy long ago - look at Deyi as a living example."

Speaking of Deyi, several people present had strange expressions on their faces.

——I heard that when President Shan knew that Deyi was coming over at the meeting, he smiled strangely and said: Let them come!

Then he ran away to Ni Country without saying a word.

Hmm... It seems that Jiang Shangyi, the senior vice president of Deyi, is feeling depressed at Zhang Rujin's place right now, right?

After laughing, Li Mingliu continued: "So, we not only want to create a solid-state drive in the fastest time, but also have the largest capacity, the fastest speed, and the highest security."

"In the future, the flash memory market will not only be a battle for single-chip capacity, but also a battle for product performance." Li Mingliu said and looked at Jiang Tao and Luo Ming: "You two, what do you say?"

Luo Ming originally came up with a plan to comprehensively improve I/O and struggled with it for a while. Of course, he has not succeeded yet. But this does not hinder his team's current achievements in the field of system bus.

As for Jiang Tao, he has perfectly fulfilled what it means to be silent for three years and become a blockbuster.

As the technical support team leader sent by Yuanxin to Daozhongxin, he was immediately entrusted with a big responsibility after being retained by Chaoxin, and he single-handedly started Yuanzhong Microelectronics.

One thing to say is that at the beginning, Yuanzhong Microelectronics actually had no great ambitions. It just wanted to take advantage of the severe shortage of various chips in the country and do some casual work - after all, there is a remote core above the head. In the field of chip design, who Dare to compete with Yuanxin for first place?

Unexpectedly, as Yuanxin got involved in the field of flash memory, Su Yuanshan personally sent Li Mingliu over and pulled Yuanzhong Microelectronics to start working on flash memory...

How scary it is for Li Mingliu to work! You want to dawdle? Afraid of being dragged to death...

Therefore, under the baptism of Li Mingliu, Yuanzhong Microelectronics gradually completed its transformation.

"Lao Li, according to the existing market and technology, your request is actually fine, but the ceiling effect is too serious." Jiang Tao picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea. The moment he lowered his head, he revealed the top of his head that was no longer lush. .

"In fact, what currently restricts the development of solid-state drives, or in other words, restricts the development of the entire nand flash memory field, is the protocol. Whether it is USB1.2 or ATA, they are somewhat behind the development of flash memory hardware technology."

Li Mingliu said: "Don't worry about USB. There is already a team working on it and a USB 2.0 solution will be available soon. The main difficulty is still the hard disk interface."

As he spoke, he looked at Luo Ming.

If he, Li Mingliu, is the most powerful general of Mr. Shan, then Luo Ming is his machete.

"We have ideas." Luo Ming knew that Li Mingliu was most concerned about flash memory products, so he said seriously: "But everyone knows that it is easy to propose a bus solution, but it is difficult to promote it - we discussed it with Meijie , and even contacted established mechanical hard drive manufacturers such as Hitachi and Toshiba. How can I put it, in the storage industry, we still don’t have a high say.”

At this time, Gao Xiao waved his hand and said: "Lao Luo, don't complain yet, what is your thinking?"

"Build a new serial hard disk solution that will directly eliminate the current ATA protocol. Moreover, if we can unify the I/O interface, the CPU can also directly intervene."

Gao Xiao was speechless for the first time: "...It would be a lot of trouble for you to do this."

"It's a bit complicated, but I think it is inevitable to unify the next generation of I/O interfaces. If we don't do it, it will be done by Intel or AMD." Luo Ming picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea: "If we really want to do it, it will be done by Intel or AMD." Theoretically, for NB hard drives, given some time, we can try to get a new ATA interface with Meijie - but if others don't cooperate and can't pass the IEEE Standards Committee, it will be a long loss."

Li Mingliu frowned deeply. At this moment, he suddenly wanted to ask Su Yuanshan.

He took out his cell phone and hesitated for a long time, but finally failed to dial the number.

"Never mind, I'll give you a year to come up with a top-notch interface. Then Lao Jiang, you guys will come up with an SSD solution that's the best solution at the moment, and I'll personally select the chips for you."

"Also, Lao Gao, Lao Luo is right. Sooner or later, I/O interfaces will have to be unified. Either we follow Intel's lead, or we do it ourselves... As long as we can come up with technologies that are better than the current situation, and integrate them vertically and horizontally, then It’s Mr. Shan’s mission.”

After finishing speaking, Li Mingliu took a deep breath: "How does the appeal come from? Of course it comes from continuous leadership in technology. If we lag behind, the steps will be bigger."

"Aren't you afraid of pulling your balls?"

"Afraid of me!"

…

At this time, Zhang Rujin’s office.

"Brother Shang Yi, in the 0.5 micron process contract signed last time, although the technology based on TI's 0.5 micron process must be shared and licensed unconditionally. But the core of our 0.35 micron process is not based on the 0.5 micron process - —It was achieved by Dr. Liang Mengsong, our vice president of technology, and his team took a different approach. I hope you can understand this, and there are also contributions from the telecore light source team."

Although Zhang Rujin still looked like a good old man, his tone gradually became tougher.

Jiang Shangyi didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to pick up the tea cup and take a big sip. After a moment of silence, he sighed and said: "Brother Zhang, I know that the last time we transferred 0.5 micron... the headquarters was indeed a bit difficult. But as an old man from Deyi, you should know the concerns of the headquarters."

Zhang Rujin said without raising his eyelids: "Brother Shang Yi, in his position, seek his position. I am the chairman of Deyuan, and my first consideration should be the development and future of Deyuan."

"And you also said that I am an old employee of Deyi, who has been working for twenty years." Zhang Rujin finally couldn't help laughing when he said this.

It's just that his smile was a bit bitter: "But no one would let me go when I begged for help. Even the factories I built before, they guarded me just like they guarded their enemies."

"In the end, Mr. Xiaoshan ran to Texas and agreed to many unfair conditions, and then the headquarters completed the authorization."

Zhang Rujin said slowly: "Brother Shangyi, I still want to save face."

Having said this, Jiang Shangyi understood that whatever he said this time would be useless.

"Let me say something unpleasant, Brother Shang Yi."

Jiang Shangyi said, "Can you say anything worse?"

"Brother Zhang, please speak."

"Deyi, from the beginning, we have not regarded Yuanxin as a real partner. Instead, we have regarded Yuanxin as an object of utilization and a tool for increasing capital." Zhang Rujin picked up the tea cup and said slowly: "With this mentality, so that Faint moves occur frequently."

"For comparison, it's Sony."

"Mr. Xiaoshan will go to Ni Country for a total of ten days this time, and he will stay at Sony for four days alone. The two parties will discuss all-round cooperation in the field of digital products."

"You may not know the result yet." Zhang Rujin said, pointing to his laptop: "Sony's stock price rose by 5% today."