Reborn Millennial Gamer

"Fuxin recently held a press conference regarding Liang Mengsong's prosecution by TSMC. Liang Mengsong himself denied all TSMC's accusations on the spot, saying that he left TSMC out of consideration for personal development and challenges, and that he had never violated any laws, and Leak any TSMC technology.”

"TSMC's 'Rebel General' Liang Mengsong claimed that he was unjustly accused."

"TSMC finally takes action on complex cores!"

"The peak showdown between the strongest foundry companies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait!

"........."

After reading the news for a while, Lu Fei put down his mobile phone and looked at the scenery outside the car window. These days, he has been running back and forth between the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party, and finally controlled the first wave of logical sanctions to an acceptable level. The scope only limits the import of mobile phones and tablets, but is still open to headphones, MP3 and other products.

After all, the major shareholders of the Beats headphone brand include Sony, Microsoft, Sequoia, Blackstone, Philips...

"Mr. Lu, Yingwei has arrived."

Wang Ben parked the car in front of the company.

"Ah."

Lu Fei got out of the car and walked directly into the CEO's office.

I saw the leader of the nuclear explosion, Huang Renxun, wearing a black leather jacket as always. The moment he saw him, he immediately stood up to greet him.

"Mr. Lu, you came just in time."

Huang Renxun smiled and shook hands.

"Where did this come from?"

Lu Fei cast a questioning look.

"I just received the news that Samsung has made an appointment to see me this afternoon." Huang Renxun told the truth.

"Is it also for NVIDIA packaging orders?"

Lu Fei immediately guessed the purpose.

Huang Renxun said: "Samsung's PoP packaging technology is one of the best in the industry, but I didn't expect Samsung to come uninvited and join in the fun."

"What about TSMC? Has TSMC been here?"

Lu Fei didn't care.

Huang Renxun nodded, "Jiang Shangyi led the team here three days ago, and provided CoWoS technical information and price plans."

"What do you think?" Lu Fei asked.

"To be honest, I'm very excited. This technology has indeed enhanced the performance of NVIDIA GPUs, reduced latency, and increased bandwidth. But the only drawback is that it is too expensive."

Huang Renxun shook his head and laughed: "It actually costs seven cents per square millimeter. You have to know that Samsung dared to quote five or six cents."

"If our info technology can give us 3.5 cents, and if the volume is large, we can give you a further discount."

As soon as Lu Fei raised his hand, Zhang Tianmei handed the technical information, price plan and other documents to Huang Renxun one by one.

"3.5 cents! So cheap!"

Huang Renxun took a breath of air-conditioning and couldn't wait to flip through the document, "What about the packaging performance?"

"It's definitely a little worse than CoWoS and PoP technologies, but the price can be at least half cheaper." Lu Fei said with a smile.

After Huang Renxun looked at it carefully, he couldn't help but sigh: "Your Info technology is simply a cheap version of CoWoS technology. TSMC's CoWoS. Because the silicon interposer uses a silicon wafer, the cost is high. You might as well replace the silicon interposer with Other materials are used to reduce costs by sacrificing connection density.”

"It's not a cheap version, it's a cost-effective version."

Lu Fei's lips curled up, "Whether it is Samsung or TSMC, such a large cost gap cannot be eliminated through technology in a short time. It can be said that Fuxin's info technology is the most cost-effective advanced packaging technology in the world! "

"It seems like I have no reason to refuse to cooperate with Fuxin." Huang Renxun touched his chin and immediately agreed.

If Samsung's quotation is not lower than 3.5 cents per square millimeter, and if the final sample passes Nvidia's testing and evaluation, Nvidia will hand over the large order to Fuxin.

"Smart move!"

Lu Fei smiled and said, "Isn't NVIDIA planning to increase production capacity this year, which can be used for multi-core packaging?"

Huang Renxun doesn’t hide anything, and he can’t hide it from Mr. Lu anyway. He is NVIDIA’s major shareholder and director. Sooner or later, he will know that NVIDIA will launch an ultra-efficient customized architecture CPU based on the ARM instruction set for the first time this year, and next year——

GeForce GTX600 series graphics cards will be released.

This type of graphics card greatly reduces the structure that has nothing to do with games and focuses on graphics performance, thus greatly improving the energy efficiency ratio.

"You plan to develop computing cards and game cards separately?"

Lu Fei raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, NVIDIA's computing cards are weaker than AMD's, but gaming cards are definitely NVIDIA's strength. I'm ready to go all out for gaming cards and make the best graphics technology more affordable!"

Huang Renxun said: "Of course, NVIDIA will not give up mobile GPUs. This year we will launch two models, the dual-core Tegra2 in the first half of the year, and the world's first quad-core Tegra3 in the second half of the year, which can be used on mobile phones and tablets. "

Speaking of the mobile terminal, Lu Fei couldn't help but feel embarrassed, "Well, originally I was the one who proposed to cooperate in the research of mobile GPU..."

"It doesn't matter. Working with you on GPUs has accumulated valuable experience for Nvidia, and Logic also allows Nvidia to use the research and development results for free." Huang Renxun smiled, "For the newly launched Tegra2, HTC, Xiaomi, and Motorola have already come to cooperate. Mobile GPU, surpassing AMD!”

"That's good."

Lu Fei's smile grew wider.

One of Huang Renxun’s wishes is to defeat AMD!

"When I come here this time, getting orders for Fuxin is not the focus. The key is coming here for CUDA."

Lu Fei crossed his legs.

CUDA is NVIDIA's nuclear weapon that dominates artificial intelligence. As soon as it was launched, it triggered the rise of GPU computing. For example, if a mathematics professor is asked to compete with 100 primary school students in terms of mathematics ability, then throw in an advanced mathematics equation and the mathematics professor will be relaxed. Get it done, 100 elementary school students will be stunned on the spot.

But if 100 four arithmetic problems are thrown, then the calculation speed of 100 primary school students will definitely exceed that of the professor.

The professor plays the role of the CPU, and the 100 primary school students play the role of the 100 cores of the GPU, and the 100 four-arithmetic problems are general GPU computing.

With the application of CUDA, you can use the parallel processing capabilities of GPU to deal with the most complex computing challenges, and precisely, artificial intelligence deep learning relies on general-purpose GPU computing!

Nvidia launched the world's first integrated deep learning supercomputer, DGX-1, and donated it directly to the start-up OpenAI.

"How do you want to cooperate?"

Huang Renxun adjusted his glasses.

"I noticed that Nvidia's artificial intelligence department has expanded from more than 100 people last year to nearly a thousand people. This shows that you think artificial intelligence is one of the future directions, so you are betting on artificial intelligence, right?" Lu Fei Take a drink of water.

"I want to transform NVIDIA from a graphics card hardware company to an artificial intelligence company, so I overcame the public opinion and made CUDA open source as a free platform that matches all GPU chips."

Jen-Hsun Huang feels like a kindred spirit.

"That's just right. Fuxin now has an artificial intelligence team of thousands of people." Lu Feitu said.

Just like the Android system that Google cooperates with Logic, Fuxin also wants to join forces with Nvidia to develop a CUDA platform. It is best to expand the programming language so that developers can easily program GPUs, which is conducive to building a GPU ecosystem.

“What do Nvidia and I get?”

Huang Renxun smiled, saying that CUDA has been in business for five years. Although it has been losing money and making money, Fuxin cannot intervene just because it says it will intervene. It must give some benefits at least.

"You have my support."

"Your support?"

"Your artificial intelligence transformation plan and the CUDA platform are so different on the board of directors. If I vote for you, I can also convince other directors to support you." Lu Fei said seriously, "Originally, I planned to use logic in the name of logic. Cooperate with NVIDIA on the CUDA platform, but the logic is now sanctioned, so it won’t implicate you. How about Fuxin? Do you think those who oppose it will still insist on disagreeing? "

Huang Renxun raised his eyebrows, but it was not enough!

"As for what Nvidia will gain."

Lu Fei knocked on the table. Before the sanctions, he had already transferred all Logic's chip department and artificial intelligence department to Fuxin, and reorganized it with Pengpai Technology, the wafer foundry department, etc. to form a new 'Fuxin' group. Su Zifeng is the talker. “In the planning of artificial intelligence, I envision hardware, system software, software platforms, and application frameworks. Through the unified computing platform CUDA, we can build a comprehensive GPU ecosystem. Fuxin can help Nvidia make supporting software for artificial intelligence. Hardware research and development, enriching various GPU application scenarios, you know, Fuxin definitely has this capability."

Lu Fei said quietly: "If NVIDIA alone does it, it may take 10 to 15 years, and if there is a complex core..."

"Maybe five or six years, maybe six or seven years."

Huang Renxun smacked his lips and weighed the pros and cons.

Mr. Lu is so greedy!

Android is now charging taxes on Android smartphones.

If CUDA is involved, artificial intelligence will really shine in the future, and you can collect taxes from artificial intelligence!

Mr. Lu, your calculations are really loud!
But he seemed to have no reason to refuse. After all, he needed a strong supporter to silence the short-sighted people on the board of directors.

"But definitely within 10 years."

A meaningful light flashed in Lu Fei's eyes.

"I don't have any objections, but we need to work out a charter on how to cooperate." Huang Renxun said with a smile.

"Then, happy cooperation."

Lu Fei raised his water glass.

"Happy cooperation!"

Huang Renxun clinked glasses and replaced the wine with water.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a while about the current situation in the industry, and under the arrangement of Nvidia, the group went to the hotel for dinner.

After the banquet, people dispersed.

After all, they had to meet Samsung in the afternoon. Neither Lu Fei nor Huang Renxun wanted to run into anyone from Samsung. However, Samsung hadn't come yet, but Jiang Shangyi called first, specifically to inquire about the situation.

"Mr. Huang, I heard that the people from Fuxin came this morning?"

"You guys are really well informed."

Huang Renxun didn't care. After all, he revealed his own schedule, "Yes, Mr. Lu personally led the team here."

"Mr. Lu! He is actually in the United States!"

Jiang Shangyi couldn't help but be surprised, but it was reasonable. Logic was included in the sanctions list, and there would be trouble if he didn't come to the United States.

But all of a sudden, my heart felt heavy, and I felt like I was facing a formidable enemy, "Then Mr. Lu must have also introduced Fuxin's info technology. I wonder how it compares with our CoWoS technology..."

"Without beating around the bush, I can tell you directly that if Samsung's quotation does not satisfy us, Nvidia will adopt Fuxin's Info technology solution."

Jen-Hsun Huang put it bluntly.

"what?!"

When Jiang Shangyi heard that TSMC was directly excluded, his heart skipped a beat, "Why?"

"The reason is simple: cost-effectiveness."

Huang Renxun replied: "I am only willing to spend less than 5 cents per square millimeter for this technology."

"Does Fuxin offer such a low price?"

Jiang Shangyi had a premonition that it was definitely not in the range of 4 to 5 cents, but probably 3 to 4 cents. In this price range, was Lu Fei crazy?Is Fuxin crazy?What the hell are you making?
"I can't disclose the specific figures because they involve commercial confidentiality." Huang Renxun said with a smile.

"Although Fuxin is cheaper than us in terms of price, I'm sure that Fuxin's info is not as good as TSMC's CoWoS, right?" Jiang Shangyi still wants to get a chance.

"You get what you pay for. Your CoWoS technology is indeed good, but it's not worth spending so much money on packaging. In comparison, the multi-core solution is more cost-effective!"

Huang Renxun politely informed TSMC that it was eliminated.

Jiang Shangyi was anxious. Before he came, he promised Zhang Zhongmou and his colleagues that they would win the game. Unexpectedly, the flag fell like this and was cut down by Fu Xin, so he had to play the emotional card.

For the sake of our ancestral home being in Wanwan, I’d like to help this fellow countryman!
They even lowered the price from 7 cents to 6 cents.

"Six cents? Still too expensive."

Huang Renxun directly refused. A fellow is a fellow, and business is business. TSMC’s offer was too high, and Nvidia simply couldn’t accept it. If he insisted on choosing TSMC, Lu Fei, as Nvidia’s major shareholder and director, could go to the board of directors.

"Mr. Huang..."

Jiang Shangyi tried for one last time, but Huang Renxun didn't give him this chance at all. He said, "Don't call me for the time being. I'm afraid Mr. Lu will misunderstand" and hung up the phone.

"Beep beep."

"boom!"

Jiang Shangyi angrily smashed the receiver on the landline, looked ugly, and cursed: "Ganni mother!"

The rest of TSMC looked at each other in confusion.

If you can't get orders from Nvidia, just relying on Xilinx's monthly wafer orders of thousands of wafers will be a drop in the bucket. Compared with the R&D investment that burned tens of thousands of waste wafers, it is simply a loss of money. No return!This is an absolutely unbearable price!
Especially, he lost to Fuxin!

"It's okay, Nvidia just doesn't know what it's about. It's cheap but not good. Info technology is definitely not much better. We also have Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Texas Instruments..."

An executive stepped forward to boost morale.

"Go and ask Qualcomm how they are thinking about it? If you are also hesitant about price." Jiang Shangyi gritted his teeth, "Just lower the quotation from 7 cents to 6 cents, and then open up the market for CoWoS first. With the third If there’s one, there’s the second.”

"receive."

Everyone immediately went out to make phone calls.

Soon, only Jiang Shangyi was left in the house. He was restless, sometimes pacing, sometimes stamping his feet, staring at the door. Suddenly, there were bursts of rapid footsteps.

"How about it, is it good news?"

Jiang Shangyi couldn't help but be excited when he saw his secretary.

The secretary's expression froze and he hesitated: "Uh, Mr. Jiang, I just received a call. The Texas Elephant Party members and judges we have made an appointment with are temporarily busy and may not be able to come to the party."

"Why can't you come? What happened?"

Jiang Shangyi was stunned.

"They're going to a charity dinner."

"What charity dinner?"

"The Koch family organized it specifically for Lu Fei to call on congressmen and wealthy people to pay attention to charity. It is said that the leader of the Elephant Party, the Cech family, and the Bush family will all go."

"what!"

Jiang Shangyi's body trembled suddenly as if he was struck by lightning.

I thought Lu Fei's connections and connections in the United States were very strong, but I didn't expect them to be so strong!

As soon as I thought about this, I suddenly thought that the court accusing Liang Mengsong was located in the United States, "That's bad! We shouldn't choose Texas!"

The secretary looked confused. Didn't he say that I have the advantage?

When Jiang Shangyi was extremely anxious, there was another sound of footsteps in his ears, and the senior executives hurriedly ran to him.

"Dad Jiang, Paul Jacobs' phone number."

"Gollum."

Jiang Shangyi swallowed subconsciously and had an ominous premonition in his heart, and it turned out that the premonition was true!
Dear Jiang, don’t call me again.

I'm afraid Mr. Lu will misunderstand!