Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Chapter 196 New R&D Tasks

"Starting from today, we can use ARM's mature IP core to design our own mobile phone processor."

Everyone present was delighted when they heard the good news. Most people who work on chip design are ambitious people. Functional chips such as Bluetooth chips, fast charging chips, and power management chips are just trivial and do not show everyone's capabilities. Only by developing general-purpose processor chips such as mobile phone SOC, baseband chips, computer CPUs, and GPUs can we demonstrate our technical strength and realize our self-worth.

"The day has finally come. I joined Reda Technology Company to make mobile phone processors, but I couldn't figure out how to start. Now that I have the ARM architecture authorization, I can finally start."

"Both and each other, I have long been unhappy with the Qualcomm SOC chip on the Reda mobile phone. It has poor performance, high heat, and is so expensive. They have made less than half of the profit of the entire phone. Why. As long as If we work harder and develop our own mobile phone SOC, we can use our own core processor on the second-generation Reda mobile phone and significantly reduce production costs."

"Don't be too optimistic. Even if we develop our own mobile phone processors, there is still a mountain of baseband chips that need to be overcome. Otherwise, it will be like Apple replacing Qualcomm processors but still using Qualcomm baseband chips. It still needs Pay huge patent fees to Qualcomm.”

"We have to eat one bite at a time, and the road has to be walked step by step. As long as we continue to research and develop one item after another, sooner or later, we will be able to develop a purely domestically produced smartphone."

"Actually, I'm more worried about memory chips and flash memory chips. Each Reda mobile phone has at least four or more memory chips and flash memory chips. There is a saying in the industry, 'He who has the memory will win the world.' Now around the world, there are More than half of the memory chips and flash memory chips come from companies in Kimchi Country. If they want to do something wrong and raise prices collectively, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"No way, Kimchi Country is just a dog raised by Chou Country. How dare they show their teeth to Chou Country's father?"

"Don't forget that the real power in Kimchi Country is the major chaebols. What are chaebols? They are organizations that are stronger and more bloodthirsty than capitalists. In order to achieve greater interests and seize greater profits, they will not dare to What you did. Look at how hard drive prices have risen now. This is the result of capital manipulation behind the scenes. The floods in Thailand that flooded the hard drive factories and so on are just the things that the capitalists found to increase the price of hard drives. Excuse."

"What you said is true. It seems that this aspect is really worth guarding against. Since June, Reda mobile phones and rice mobile phones have been launched successively. Domestic smart phones have risen rapidly, and their sales have become larger and larger, crowding out many foreign countries. In the mobile phone market, there is no guarantee that they will not start from other aspects and stumbling upon us."

After the people below had finished talking, Qiao Ruida finally stopped and continued to speak: "There is another good news to tell everyone, that is, after more than a month of installation and debugging, Ruida Electronics Factory has conquered the 28nm process. With the technology, we can outsource the production of 28nm chips. Whether it is tape-out testing or small-scale mass production, there will be no problem. Based on this, the mobile phone processor we are going to design this time is a mobile phone processor based on the ARM architecture. , 28nm mobile phone SOC. It mainly consists of the following modules: CPU computing module, GPU graphics processing module, DSP module, multimedia support module, power consumption control module, and 3G or 4GLTE modem module." Next, the chip Qiao Ruida will develop The functions and design points of each module in the mobile phone processor were explained in detail, and then each module was separated and assigned to each group to be responsible for specific research and development. Of course, the most core and most difficult to develop CPU and GPU modules, Qiao Ruida still resisted on his own.

After the R&D work was assigned, everyone dispersed and returned to their respective workstations. They took the time to check information or draw drawings, and became completely busy. Qiao Ruida left the chip design area and went to the work area of ​​the software research and development team next door. He found the person in charge of this team and learned about the optimization progress of the next generation Android system from him.

"Boss, after two months of hard work, the next generation Android system has been almost optimized. We will test it for another two days. If there are no bugs, we can release the upgrade package."

Most of today's smartphones use Android 2.0 or 3.0 systems, which do not have automatic god-level functions. They need to download and install the corresponding upgrade package before they can perform system updates.

Qiao Ruida picked up a Ruida first-generation mobile phone installed with the latest system and operated it. She found that compared with the previous generation system, the smoothness was improved and the animation effect was better. She opened five programs in a row, stayed in the background, and opened them again. There was no lag in a game. He nodded with satisfaction and said: "The system optimization is good, you have worked hard. After this version of the upgrade package is released, the optimization work based on the Android system will stop, and I will arrange a big project for you."

Wang Guanyu, the leader of the software research and development team, moved his fingers habitually and asked: "Boss, can you tell me what the project is?"

Qiao Ruida answered lightly, "It's nothing. In the process of researching and optimizing the Android system, I found that there are inherent deficiencies in the design of the Android system. For example, the memory usage is too high, the touch priority is too low, and it is easy to get stuck after a long time of use. Dayton, chaotic permission management, etc. These flaws are congenital flaws that have been brought about by the Android system since the day it was born. No matter how much optimization we do, we can only improve it, but not eradicate it. Your next task is to imitate the Android system , write our own mobile operating system."

Hearing what Qiao Ruida said, Wang Guanyu was both excited and worried. I am excited because writing an operating system is such a great and glorious undertaking. Once it is completed, it will be remembered in history. He was worried because writing an operating system was very difficult and the workload was huge. He was not sure whether the 100 people in the software development team could complete the task. Moreover, a mature operating system also needs the cooperation of the software ecosystem in order to exert its power and be accepted by the majority of users. If there is not a sufficient number and variety of supporting software available, no matter how powerful the operating system is, it will be in vain.

(End of this chapter)