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Chapter 758: Leader Inspection (First Update)
Because of her female identity and research results, my junior sister has received widespread attention from Western media.

Many media outlets have reported extensively on the results of this research?
Nature magazine is a thick journal that contains all papers related to PCR. The authenticity of the papers has been verified and recognized by top university laboratories around the world.

Of course, my junior sister also received awards in the country, and leaders of the relevant departments also came to inspect her research institute.

Of course, we can only look at it from the outside. After all, this kind of research institute has a strict management system inside.

In early 1983, the first reduced instruction set architecture chip officially passed internal testing in the chip laboratory of FiberHome Technologies. However, this chip, like ARM1, is only suitable for control systems and embedded systems. To be used in computers, it is also necessary to add support for the processor's built-in hardware multiplication circuit.

This is ARM2, which was supposed to be released in , but our own laboratory should be able to release it by the end of the year.

Although the founders of ARM created this great chip architecture, unfortunately, in 85, due to the collapse of the personal computer market, they lost control of the company and it was acquired by an Italian company.

Moreover, ARM is only responsible for design, while OEM and manufacturing are done by other companies.

As for Liu Hai, he also owns the chip manufacturing factory. As a person born in 2020, he certainly knows that chip manufacturing is sometimes more important than chip design.

In 2020, a company in China began to outsource the production of chips it designed. Later, due to the suppression of the Bald Eagle, no one did the OEM, so the design was in vain.

In fact, in this era, this type of chip is not favored by people because many companies can make it.

Before 1993, ARM chips had always had tight cash flow, which meant that business was always bad. If the company had not received part of the order from the Ministry of Defense, the company might have gone bankrupt long ago.

It was not until the emergence of ARMv4 and the cooperation with Texas Instruments that the growth of this chip company officially began.

The development of ARM chips was completed in a barn, and there were no senior technical talents, only 12 university graduates.

I'm afraid that the founder of ARM chip at that time could not have imagined that this company and this chip architecture would occupy half of the market in 2020.

ARM tried to find Motorola or Nokia to cooperate with it, but both companies thought that their tricks could be done better within their own company.

In fact, Motorola and Nokia definitely have the technical ability to copy all the products of this company, so although Liu Hai was quite excited, he did not show any excessive expression.

"Speed ​​up the research and development of the second-generation chips, and strive to produce computers with our own chips as soon as possible." Liu Hai nodded after reading it, and then spoke.

"As for the bonus matter, everyone just needs to be aware of it. Don't talk about it outside. We are developing it secretly now and don't want to attract the attention of other companies." Liu Hai doesn't want to make too big a deal about this matter yet.

"Boss, I understand!" Ni Nan nodded immediately after hearing Liu Hai's words, because our country does have a big gap with foreign countries in the field of chip design and manufacturing.

Because of the reduced instruction set chips, any company with a little bit of strength in the world can now make them.

What is the most important thing about chips? Application. If Texas Instruments had not adopted ARM1993 in 4, this chip company might have been lost in the long river of history.

No matter how good you say it is, I won’t use it and will just wait for you to go bankrupt.

Of course, this is also a drawback of all large companies, thinking that their own trash cans are better than others.

The bangs now have to be kept quiet, and outsiders shouldn’t notice it before the app is released.

Of course, this chip will now be used in various of our own products.

In addition to the licensed 8086 chip, we can produce basically all our products in our own fiber optic network.

Although some of the technology is licensed from abroad, it is fine as long as we get the authorization.

In fact, the development of chip technology in this era is not as fast as in 2020.

The main problem is the application. Whether it is personal computers or corporate computers, the annual sales volume is only a small amount, and the entire market is not large, which leads to slow progress in chip research and development.

After all, the market for the previous generation of chips has not yet been saturated, and when the next generation of chips comes out, it will cut off some of the profits of the previous generation of chips.

The 80386 chip, a disruptive product, was not developed until 85.

Liu Hai has been trying to obtain the technical license for the 80286 chip through distributors. Because chip design is generation after generation, if you don't get the technical license for one generation of chips, there is no way to bypass some of the development of the next generation.

However, as early as last year, Liu Hai bought back the 286 chip and asked the laboratory department to design the 386 chip based on this chip.

The Intel 386 chip also officially opened up the personal computer, and only personal computers with the 386 chip could run computer games.

The following are 486, 586, and of course the most important thing is the operating system.

The Windows operating system was not first invented by Microsoft. The Windows operating system exists now, but the interface looks very rough, with icons everywhere on it. Nowadays, computers are mainly used for office work.

Therefore, there are only a few office software programs in the computer. The computers launched by Apple in the past two years are randomly bundled with 5 office software programs.

Liu Hai also asked the laboratory to develop the same type of office software. Since Liu Hai did not understand the specific technology, he could only pay the laboratory to develop the software according to the other party's office software, but with a different technical route.

As for the compatibility issue, this will be considered later.

Of course, the successful design and manufacturing of this chip was reported to the higher authorities by Liu Hai.

When the higher authorities heard that Liu Hai's Fenghuo Technology Company had actually designed its own chip, although they had long known that Liu Hai had invested a lot of money in this company, they did not expect that it would produce results so quickly.

"Engineer Liu, you..." The leader of the department in charge of Fenghuo Technology Company was extremely surprised when he heard Liu Hai's report and looked at the information Liu Hai brought over.

The leader looked at the information carefully. The archive only contained data but no detailed explanation. After all, it was impossible for the leader to have such a deep understanding of chips.

The leader felt embarrassed because his department had not received any information at all, let alone any help.

The leaders knew about the 8086 production technology and equipment that Liu Hai bought. The 8086 and 8088 chips currently used in China are all produced by these manufacturers, but they did not expect that their R&D capabilities were so strong.

Although our country's current semiconductor chip research and development and manufacturing capabilities rank relatively high in the world, there are only a few countries in the world that are doing this.

Even in 2020, if you say you are ranked fourth or fifth in the world, you are at the bottom. In 2020, the bald eagle chip is the well-deserved first, including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Micron, Nvidia, Hynix, Texas Instruments, and then Samsung next door and MediaTek across the street.

If you say ranking fourth or fifth, that would be the last one.

Moreover, although our country's R&D and design capabilities have historically ranked fourth in the world, it is still at the tail end and has no effect in the application field. And to be honest, in this era, R&D and designing chips is actually not too difficult.

The key is still manufacturing, especially mass manufacturing.

Even ARM chips have historically been produced by outsourced foundries, as the company does not have the production capacity itself.

What is the annual output value of the chip semiconductor industry in Bald Eagle at this stage in history? And what is our output value?
Of course, this time and space have undergone some changes. With the development of industry, semiconductors are an indispensable field.

Control chips have been widely used in televisions, washing machines, various machines and equipment, engineering equipment, etc.

"I just got the news as well. I dare not disturb the leader before I succeed." Liu Hai smiled and answered modestly.

"Engineer Liu, I wonder if the laboratory over there is convenient? We as the competent department have been somewhat derelict in our duty." When the leader heard this, he understood that what Liu Hai said was true, because Liu Hai was busy with too many things.

"Of course there is no problem. Besides, our chip is not that advanced. Any foreign chip company can make it if they are willing to do it. So in order not to attract the attention of these foreign companies, I want this news to be kept confidential within a small range." Liu Hai made his request again.

"Of course there is no problem with that. We will organize an expert group to identify your chips later." The leader certainly knew what Liu Hai meant. Although the leader wanted to announce the news, he still had to listen to Comrade Liu Hai's opinion.

So the leaders of the competent department suddenly decided to inspect Fenghuo Technology Company.

When the department leaders came to Fenghuo Technology Company, they discovered that the strength of this company was a giant beast hidden underwater.

Ni Nan, a pure technical talent, likes to use data when reporting on his work.

"The optical signal conversion equipment developed by our company is at least one generation more advanced than similar equipment developed abroad."

"The optical fiber we developed has a lower attenuation rate than that developed abroad."

"The reduced instruction set chip we developed is the most advanced in this field, at least according to public information."

"Our second-generation reduced instruction set chip will be completed by the end of the year."

"We are already designing computers based on the second-generation RISC chips, which are expected to be available next year."

"The final stage of the development of mobile phones based on the first generation of reduced instruction sets and chips is underway, and the design is expected to be completed within three months."

"Within this year we will be able to design a mobile phone with our own independent intellectual property rights and manufacture it independently. It will be lighter and have a longer battery life than any other mobile phone on the market." The projects that Ni Nan mentioned are all very certain. As a technician, he would not mention other uncertain projects.

"My own phone!"

"My own computer!" The department head's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Do you have any difficulties here?" The leader comes to inspect and definitely wants to solve some problems.

"Yes, due to limited manpower in our laboratory, it is difficult to make breakthroughs in some technologies. We would like to seek third-party cooperation." Ni Nan took out the plan for cooperation with a third party that he had prepared long ago. Of course, this was also the order from his boss.

The department head picked up the plan and read it carefully.

"This is not a big deal. We will have a meeting later. You can achieve such results..." The leader breathed a sigh of relief after reading the plan carefully. Everything would be easy without funding from above.

As a department leader, allocating funds is the most difficult thing, because for you, those who ask for money are all like family members.

Give the eldest brother 10,000 yuan. How can the second, third, fourth and fifth brothers not give money when they are watching them eagerly?

The second, third, fourth, and fifth brothers should definitely accept two thousand as a token of their appreciation, if not ten thousand or one thousand.

As the leader of a department, it is impossible to give all the money in your hands to a certain department. What will other people in the department think?
Besides, the department is not a one-man show for oneself. Everyone else can speak up, so who can't take care of it?
Therefore, the biggest headache for department leaders is the issue of funding. As long as they have money in hand, they will first pass it down to the lower levels. For example, if they want to allocate 500 million to a department, they will say 800 million or 1000 million when passing the word.

Then naturally there will be other people who are dissatisfied and come to complain, and in the end I will give them five million, so that I can give an explanation to them. For those who make a lot of trouble, I will give them a certain amount, but for those who don't, there is nothing I can do.

When the leader saw that the plan did not require him to allocate funds, everything became easier to say. However, he felt a little sad because since he didn't need to pay, he felt like he didn't contribute much.

The other leaders who were accompanying the group also breathed a sigh of relief after reading the plan. Now no place is short of money.

Although Fenghuo Technology Company has made great contributions and has strong technical capabilities, other departments also need to survive and do research.

Although others may say that they have no objections on the surface, they must be full of opinions in private.

Now I just need to act as a matchmaker, and the cooperation is negotiated by both parties themselves. This is good. I don't have to offend anyone, and I don't have to worry about how to allocate funds. At the same time, any achievements will be mine.

"The solution from FiberHome Technologies is very good. I know a company that has done research in the field of switches."

“Yes…” Several other leaders also expressed their opinions.

"Thank you, leaders. This has been a great help to our company." Now it was Liu Hai's turn to express his opinion.

"But, leaders, if there are any problems in violating regulations or disciplines in future cooperation, I will personally go to you to file a complaint." Liu Hai was taking precautions against this.

Because it is inevitable that during cooperation some people are bold and will use your money to buy a car, decorate their office, and buy other things. Anyway, they are all public money. What can you do then?
In 2020, in some places, subsidies that should have been given to farmers were used by some people to build offices, buy cars, etc. It would be strange if there was no trick involved in poor counties spending tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to build office buildings.

"Mr. Liu, don't worry about this. I will personally deal with anyone who violates the rules and regulations." The head of the department in charge of technology immediately expressed his opinion.

Ni Nan was also surprised when he heard the leader say this: The leader calls the boss Mr. Liu?

(End of this chapter)