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Chapter 291 New Timetable

Although Wen Liang's attitude towards talents cannot be called a corporal of courtesy, it will not disappoint.

The initial communication between the two parties went smoothly.

Wen Liang expressed his expectation for Lin Tong's joining.

Lin Tong also expressed his expectation for joining Bolang.

All are happy.

In fact, Wen Liang only knew the general research direction of Lin Tong when he was studying in Berkeley, California. He didn't pay much attention to the specific research projects that Lin Tong would be responsible for after joining.

Two factors.

First, Bolang Lab covers a wide range of technical fields, including a large part of science and engineering, and even literature, history and philosophy.

The second is that it is rare for Qin Zheng to formally recommend talents to the company. Lin Tong is a Ph.D. At this level, Bolang Lab always has a position that meets his research direction.

Of course, as the direct person in charge of Bolang Laboratory, with Lin Tong's education level, Wen Liang always needs to ask a few questions according to the procedure.

After finalizing the basic intention, Wen Liang said enthusiastically: "Dr. Lin, on behalf of Bolang Lab, I welcome you to join."

Lin Tong responded with a smile.

Wen Liang turned to get straight to the point: "I'm sorry, our process is a bit misaligned today, and now we have to talk about something vulgar. What is Dr. Lin's expected annual salary?"

"Is there a need for a separate group studio, where do you expect to work?"

"Which aspect is the intended research direction?"

It was very straightforward to ask three consecutive questions.

Qin Zheng on the side, including Lin Tong himself, just realized that he didn't talk about the basic process of joining a company.

Lin Tong scratched his head slightly and smiled: "I'm sorry."

Then he answered Wen Liang's questions one by one: "I hope to work with Qin Zheng to be responsible for the independent research and development of the graphics processor (GPU) in the mobile phone processing SoC. This is also the goal that Qin Zheng invited me to join Bolang."

"It's been less than a year since I graduated with a Ph.D. The average annual salary of people with corresponding experience in Silicon Valley is 7.5 US dollars, and I expect to have an annual salary of 40 RMB."

Although Lin Tong has a Ph.D., it can be said that he has no work experience.

It is almost $5 a year lower than what Yang Xingshan and Dai Li could get in the Silicon Valley market.

On the contrary, his education is higher than that of Yang and Dai, who are masters.

Of course, Lin Tong is not the first Ph.D. to join Bolang Company, but indeed the first to have a Ph.D. who has overseas study experience.

In fact, Bolang has a lot of high-quality research talents, and if counted by participating in Bolang's research projects, more than 1000 PhDs have participated so far.

There are also 39 academicians of the two academies.

In the name of Bolang Terminal, Bolang invested the first batch of 16 billion research budget funds, which is still very powerful-the extra 1 million budget funds were allocated to Dr. Zhang Xingqiang's EUV lithography light source project.

However, the expected salary level proposed by Lin Tong far exceeds the average salary level of domestic doctoral graduates, roughly doubled, and even exceeds the average salary level of American doctoral graduates.

Although according to the salary that Lin Tong can get in the Silicon Valley market, he has lowered his worth in order to join Bolang and to match the domestic environment.

Wen Liang's focus was on the research direction mentioned by Lin Tong. He looked at Qin Zheng and then at Lin Tong: "Doctor, your intention is to independently develop mobile phone GPUs?"

"Yes." Lin Tong nodded seriously, "I have accumulated a lot of research in this area, and I have participated in related joint experiments with NVIDIA."

Qin Zheng said from the side: "Dr. Lin has this ability. During the visit, we often exchanged academic experience and learned a lot."

Wen Liang suddenly felt prickly.

He felt that Xiao Qin had acted very mellowly this time.

This guy is only in his third year this year, yet he calmly commented on the level and strength of an outstanding Ph.D.
Hey!
Amazing genius~
"It seems that your research directions match very well." Wen Liang said with a smile, "In this way, the annual salary will be set at 60, and other benefits and benefits will be matched with you by a human resources specialist."

"I can't smash our Bolang's signboard of valuing talents, don't wrong Dr. Lin."

Lin Tong: "..."

I'm a man of science and technology thinking right, but I'm not stupid!
How about you leave it here?
He never thought that the process of joining Bolang would be so 'twisty', and he would be used to pretend to be coercive~
Of course, for the sake of money, Lin Tong said that he could keep silent.

An extra 20 RMB a year is still very comfortable.

Because Lin Tong was in charge of researching GPUs, Wen Liang had a lot to talk about.

"I wonder if Dr. Lin is interested in the direction of GPGPU (general-purpose graphics processing unit)?"

Hearing this, Lin Tong said bluntly: "GPGPU must be the trend of the future, GPU is only used to process graphics, which is a great waste of computing resources;

From the introduction of the concept of Shader (shader), to NVIDIA's launch of the CUDA computing platform, Apple's launch of the openCL framework standard, and the realization of GPU-oriented programming, GPGPU has become an inevitable development trend. "

Speaking of this, Lin Tong paused for a while, and further said: "In fact, GPGPU is the direction I pay more attention to research. I hope to gradually transition to the research and development of mobile GPUs by completing the research and development of mobile phone GPUs."

GPGPU is not actually hardware, it can only be regarded as a concept.

In a broad sense, GPUs that support the CUDA computing platform in the NVIDIA product series, or other GPUs that support the openCL standard framework, are considered GPGPUs.

It can be understood that after supporting these standard frameworks, the GPU can be abstracted into a stream processor by writing programs, and its massive arithmetic operation units can be used to perform general calculations such as scientific operations and data analysis.

Wen Liang was very happy to hear it, and nodded his head in praise: "Not bad, not bad, I am very much looking forward to your in-depth breakthroughs in these directions."

"Bolang also needs to complete technology accumulation in these necessary blank areas."

Lin Tong didn't shout a slogan, but just pushed his glasses and said calmly: "I will work hard."

Wen Liang nodded slightly, and did not delve into more specific technical directions.

He doesn't know much.

It's just a little attention from being a man of science and technology in his previous life, and seeing Bolang's integration of technical information on related aspects.

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Under the leadership of Yuan Shiya, Lin Tong goes through the entry procedures.

Tang Pu, Li Bowen, Wang Zhiyi, and Zhao Mingjie who were in the company today came to the general manager's office.

Chen Jiaxin... Jiaxin has been busy recently.

As the legal representative and external spokesperson of Bolang Group, Chen Jiaxin now has quite a lot of things to deal with.

In the recent stage, I mainly attend some necessary business summits and the like.

First there was a lively exchange of pleasantries in the office.

Then everyone sat down, Wen Liang picked up a pot of tea, and said with a smile: "Xiao Qin has gained a lot from this study visit, and brought back an outstanding talent to the company."

"I can't see it~ Xiao Qin can actually pull people?" Zhao Mingjie immediately turned on fire.

Wang Zhiyi pushed the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose, pursed his lips and said, "Xiao Zhao, this is because you are not sensible. Our Xiao Qin is a genius, and genius naturally attracts talents, unlike you."

Li Bowen said in a good-natured tone: "Why did you attack me personally?"

Actually folded his arms to watch the show.

Tang Pu next to him also made exactly the same movements, he didn't even bother to say anything, and made it clear that he was watching the show.

The "resentment and hatred" between Wang Zhiyi and Zhao Mingjie cannot be resolved.

These two things are not attacking each other, or they are pretending to force each other.

After a few fusses, Tang Pu asked: "Let us, Mr. Wen, mention that Xiao Qin is a very good talent?"

Wen Liang nodded slightly: "Dr. Berkeley, California, will be responsible for the GPU self-development of mobile phone SoC."

"Fuck?"

"Fuck!"

Immediately, the sound of the trough was full.

Although GPU is less difficult to develop than CPU in terms of composition and structure, after all, under normal circumstances, GPU resources are controlled and allocated by CPU.

And because in general, GPU does not need to be adapted by the market, even GPGPU uses a dedicated standard framework to adapt to programming, and each company has its own standards.

Therefore, under the current situation, Bolang's demand for GPU self-development is not so urgent.

but!

However, in Bolang's planning, after all, it is necessary to fully control the self-development of each module of the SoC.

So, upon hearing this news, Tang Pu and the others were a little excited.

"It's also a coincidence." Qin Zheng said sternly.

Joyful joked a few words.

Wen Liang handed the brewed tea to several people, and then said: "Our mobile phone business is advancing step by step. In principle, the specific time plan is to be combined with your research progress, Xiao Qin."

"In this way, the first and second generation products will have a better transition and connection."

Tang Pu also helped explain from the side: "Because none of us had expected the actual difficulty of self-developed chips, so the timeline at that time may be slightly different from the actual situation. From the perspective of the company, of course we hope to have a clearer picture. The timetable facilitates the coordination of resources in all aspects."

Neither Wen Liang nor Tang Pu's intentions were euphemistic.

There is no other meaning.

Of course Qin Zheng understood, he smiled: "I understand, Old Tang doesn't have to be so careful, Mr. Wen is very frank."

"Yes, that's why we, Mr. Wen, are the core." Tang Pu was not embarrassed, very calm.

Wen Liang just smiled lightly and didn't interrupt much.

Qin Zheng sorted it out and said: "I have some thoughts on this matter. Let me talk about the progress at the technical level. The research before September is invalid in terms of results, but the results are not invalid. It has provided a lot of successful experience. ;

During this visit, I learned a lot of cutting-edge academics thanks to Academician Cao's help in coordination;
According to the current progress, with the resources of Huagong IC Design Laboratory and the support of the company, it can be as short as 4 weeks and as long as 6 weeks, and the first version of the instruction set system will definitely be perfected;

Now we don't need to design cores of different specifications under the same instruction set architecture like ARM, because we use it for our own use, and we only need to design a core of one specification. "

After a short pause, Qin Zheng continued to say: "After I set off to study, the company accelerated the design of a small amount of ARM-based SoC and produced a piece, which means that the relevant teams of Huagong IC Laboratory and Bolang Laboratory have completed the running-in process. Work;

It also means that everyone has successful experience;

According to these factors, the design of the instruction set in the first phase should be completed by the end of this year at the latest, the design of the CPU core in the second phase should be completed by the end of the first quarter of next year, and the design of the finished product in the third phase should be completed by the end of the second quarter of next year;
After that is the technical coordination with the foundry and the initial tape-out work, which is expected to take 45 days at the shortest and two months at the longest. "

"That is, the first chip will be rolled out no later than the end of August next year."

"Of course, this time did not take into account the limitations of resources and capital investment."

In fact, based on this time, the time cost of the first chip is already very high, a full 20 months.

Not to mention the investment of funds.

We must know that design manufacturers such as Qualcomm and Apple can produce at least one generation of products a year, and more can produce two or three types of products.

But after all, Bolang is a novice, and it is not surprising that the initial investment of several hundred million and then several hundred million may not work out.

After listening to Qin Zheng's explanation, Wen Liang thought for a while and asked, "Can Dr. Lin finish the GPU part on time?"

"It should be much earlier." Qin Zheng replied, "The difficulty of GPU design will actually be a little lower. If you follow the previous violent model for optimization, it won't be too complicated."

After getting a reply, Wen Liang made an arrangement: "Old Tang and Xiao Li, you should coordinate in the middle. After Xiao Qin and Dr. Lin complete the design of the instruction set system, you will subdivide different research and development groups. At the initial stage, there will be no less than five groups. Three groups of people will develop the equipment at the same time, and I will solve the problem of fund consumption.”

"clear."

"understood."

Tang Pu, Li Bowen, and Qin Zheng all nodded.

Wen Liang's meaning is already very clear, don't be stingy to invest in things that can be solved by spending money, and the most troublesome things that can't be solved by spending money.

For example, the process of creating a CPU from scratch relies on Qin Zheng's brain.

It's as if the system kernel relies on Zhang Yulin's brain from scratch.

In short, when Qin Zheng returned to China this time, the timetable for major research and development projects was set.
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