Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 403 HTC’s helplessness, dual-core is beating quad-core!
"Yes, Chairman, we have hired more people. The chip design team alone has more than 600 people," said Williams.

This number is already terrifying.

Even HiSilicon's current R&D team has only a thousand people, and the chip design team has only two to three hundred people.

"Great, can we advance three projects at the same time?" Wang Yi asked.

威廉姆斯点点头：“可以，目前我带着200人研发40纳米集成基带的鲲鹏510 SOC。乔治带着200人研发28纳米不集成基带的鲲鹏700芯片。”

"There are still 200 people, and I have handed them over to Zhang Chao, who is a very outstanding young man. I asked him to lead the team to develop the Kunpeng 900 SOC with integrated baseband! I will fully assist in the entire development process. Don't worry, Chairman, I will immediately join the development of the 510 SOC after Kunpeng 900 is completed!"

"Zhang Chao!" Wang Yi nodded. He had an impression of this man.

He received his undergraduate degree from Huaqing University and his master's and doctoral degrees from MIT. Upon learning that Xingyi Technology had invested heavily in chip research and development, he directly rejected offers from Intel and Qualcomm and joined Xingyi Technology.

At first he was just an ordinary R&D engineer, but in the development of Kunpeng 510, he put forward many creative suggestions, which made Williams praise him highly.

After some testing, Williams found that Zhang Chao's level was no less than George's.

And as a Xia citizen, he works harder and harder than George.

So, Williams directly handed over the Kunpeng 900 project to Zhang Chao and the team of 200 people.

In this way, the Kunpeng 900 project can be launched ahead of schedule.

With Zhang Chao leading the team, even if Kunpeng 900 cannot be completely completed, it can still make rapid progress.

After Williams has finished Kunpeng 510, he will go to help Zhang Chao and he will definitely get it done quickly!

Wang Yi was very satisfied with this.

Both Williams and George are Westerners.

And Zhang Chao is from Xia!
To be honest, Wang Yi would rather see Xia Guoren catch up, accumulate strength and even become the helmsman of Xingyi Semiconductor in the future.

"Very good, William. Zhang Chao will be in charge of the Kunpeng 900 SOC. You should finish the Kunpeng 510 as soon as possible. There will be a more advanced Kunpeng 900S overclocked version chip waiting for your research and development later!"

"Kunpeng 900S overclocked chip?" Williams suddenly had an idea: "Chairman, do you want to create a chip without baseband but with super performance, comparable to Apple A6X?"

"Yes, as far as I know, Apple is about to release a new generation of iPad, equipped with an A6X chip, which has much better performance than our Kunpeng 900. By then, our Xingyi tablet will definitely suffer a performance hit, and we can only develop Kunpeng 900S as soon as possible and launch Xingyi tablet 2!"

"Okay, Chairman, I understand. Leave it to me!"

With Zhang Chao's emerging talent, Xingyi Semiconductor has gained another leading figure.

In the future, Williams, George, and Zhang Chao can fully advance the research and development of three chips at the same time.

Pang Liguo led the baseband team to focus on solving baseband problems!
The coordinated development of the four pillars will undoubtedly enable Xingyi Semiconductor to have better development.

There is no way, our competitors are too brutal now.

Texas Instruments is giving up its mobile chip business.

Nvidia’s baseband is not good, which leads to the short-term development of its mobile chip business.

But Qualcomm is too powerful. This year's APQ 8064 is equivalent to Snapdragon 600. Starting next year, it will launch four series of Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, and 800 at one time!

All of them are made using 28nm process.

As for Apple, it is equally fierce. In addition to the A5 of the iPhone 6, there is also the A4x of the iPad 6th generation.

Both pose a huge threat to Xingyi Semiconductor.

If the Xingyi mobile phone and Xingyi tablet want to continue to lead and crush their competitors, they cannot lag too far behind in chips.

Fortunately, we now have sufficient manpower and several projects can be advanced simultaneously, which can completely shorten the generation gap.

After all, Kunpeng 510 is only slightly better than Nvidia Tegra 3 and is half a year behind.

Kunpeng 700 is only slightly better than APQ 8064 and is about half a year behind.

As for Kunpeng 900, it will not be released until next year, and it will lag behind Qualcomm 800 by half a year.

As for Kunpeng 900S, it still lags behind, half a year behind Apple A6x.

There is no way. As a rising star, Xingyi Semiconductor is already very powerful to have caught up to this point.

As long as you achieve a breakthrough from 0 to 1, you can go from 1 to 100 in less than two years!

Afterwards, Wang Yi went to George's department again: "How is the progress of Kunpeng 700?"

George was a little excited: "The progress is relatively smooth. The highest main frequency of Qualcomm 8064 is 1.5G. Thanks to our adoption of the new V8 architecture, we have achieved a main frequency of 1.8G, surpassing Qualcomm, which can guarantee better power consumption. However, the GPU is not enough. The GPU of Qualcomm 8064 is a bit strong, so we still have to make adjustments!"

"Okay, when do you expect it to be completed?" Wang Yi asked.

George thought for a moment and said, "After all, it's a brand new 28-nanometer chip. It will probably be released in December."

"December? Good! Good luck." Wang Yi patted George on the shoulder.

Some things cannot be rushed.

Even so, developing a chip in half a year is considered fast.

Of course, Kunpeng 700 is based on Kunpeng 510 and does not have a baseband yet, so it progresses faster.

If there is a baseband, it will be complicated.

Then, Wang Yi went to the Kunpeng 900 department.

"Chairman, you are here!"

Zhang Chao stood up quickly. He had big dark circles under his eyes and fluffy hair, and it was obvious that he had not rested well.

The biggest difference between engineers in Xia country and overseas engineers is that they are both hardworking and dedicated!

Overseas engineers who work overtime until 8 p.m. are considered heavy overtime.

But it is normal for engineers in Xia country to work until midnight and 996 every day.

Wang Yi nodded: "William said that you are very good and a good seedling!"

"Thank you for the compliment, Director. I just pushed forward the research and development of Kunpeng 500 SOC based on Kunpeng 700 and Kunpeng 900. Director William will handle the follow-up key issues."

Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "Williams has a new project. After the Kunpeng 510 is completed, it will directly enter the research and development of Kunpeng 900S. As for the research and development of Kunpeng 900 SOC, if you don't help, it will be handed over to you!"

"What?" Zhang Chao was shocked. "Chairman, I... I... Can I? Kunpeng 900 SOC is comparable to Qualcomm's flagship SOC chip next year. I..."

"Lack of confidence?" Wang Yi smiled.

Zhang Chao nodded: "Yes, a little."

"That's normal. It's a bit too much to ask you to take the lead at the beginning. But our chip research and development lags far behind Qualcomm and Apple. We don't have time for you to grow slowly. We can only be more aggressive!"

Wang Yi smiled and said, "And I'm optimistic about you. Williams and George are optimistic about you too."

"This..." Zhang Chao was still a little unconfident.

Among these people, he has good abilities and has solved many technical problems.

But after all, he is a newcomer with little experience, so it is normal for him to lack confidence.

Wang Yi patted Zhang Chao on the shoulder and said, "Where there is a will, there is a way. With a desperate struggle, the Qin Pass will eventually belong to Chu! Believe in yourself, you can do it. After all, I am younger than you, and I have still done many incredible things. And you can do the same!"

Although Zhang Chao is much older than Wang Yi, he regards Wang Yi as his idol.

Wang Yi is now an absolute legend in the semiconductor circle, the technology circle, and the business world!

Not to mention that Zhang Chao admires Wang Yi to the core, other Internet tycoons are either completely convinced or hate Wang Yi with a vengeance!

After all, the development of Xingyi Technology has subverted too many industries and destroyed too many Internet giants.

Either worship or be filled with resentment.

Faced with the chicken soup for the soul from his idol, the young Zhang Chao was so excited that he forgot everything else: "Chairman, don't worry, I will work overtime every day to get the Kunpeng 900 SOC out!"

Wang Yi smiled faintly: "You don't have to work so hard, health comes first, come on!"

"Okay, Chairman, I will!"

Looking at Wang Yi's receding back, Zhang Chao was filled with emotion:
"Mr. Wang thinks highly of me and let me be in charge of a high-end project from the beginning. I will never let Mr. Wang down!"

Then, Zhang Chao looked at the others and said, "From now on, we will be responsible for the Kunpeng 900 high-end SOC project. If we can make the first domestically produced high-end 28nm SOC chip with integrated baseband, you and I will go down in history. If we can't do it, we will all leave!"

"We haven't worked hard enough. Director Wang treats us well, gives us adequate remuneration, and entrusts us with important tasks. Let's all work harder!"

"Yes!"

Hearing this, everyone was excited.

The first domestically produced high-end chip with 28nm integrated baseband!
If it is really developed, it will indeed go down in history.

Its strategic significance is no less than Huawei's Kirin 910, a 28nm high-end domestic SOC.

However, Kirin 910 was launched in 2014, while Kunpeng 900 was released a year in advance.

At present, Huawei is still polishing the 40-nanometer K3v2!

It is worth mentioning that Huawei’s self-developed HiSilicon K3v2 has been released in spring and will be available in autumn.

Huawei is very confident about K3v2, and feels that it is the strongest chip, crushing Samsung 4412, beating Nvidia Tegra 3, and even competing with Qualcomm's APQ 8064.

But Wang Yi knows that the K3v2 quad-core chip has great performance, but it generates a lot of heat, and the actual experience is very poor when the core is locked and the frequency is reduced, even worse than Qualcomm's dual-core chip.

It was not until 2014's HiSilicon Kirin 910 that it really stood up.

因此王逸丝毫没有和K3v2一较高下的心思，鲲鹏510也都在按部就班的开发，虽然发布的比K3v2晚，但性能、功耗绝对碾压K3v2。

After leaving the Kunpeng 900 department, Wang Yi went to the baseband department.

Unlike the mobile phone chip research and development which is divided into three teams, the current baseband department has only one team, which is the team led by Pang Liguo.

The number of people has exceeded three hundred, but they cannot be divided into two teams because they are missing a leading player.

There is no way. The baseband is more complicated than the chip. Apart from Pang Liguo, no one else can handle it alone.

But Wang Yi was very satisfied with the progress.

Pang Liguo said with a smile: "Chairman, initially the baseband department had only 100 people. I led them to complete the Pterosaur 2800, a 40-nanometer 3G full network baseband. Currently, these 100 people have become the technical support team, working on the Kunpeng 510 SOC project to support Director William in integrating the baseband."

Wang Yi nodded, the integrated baseband does indeed require support from the baseband department.

"Later, I led 200 people who joined us to develop the 28-nanometer 3G all-network baseband Pterosaur 3000. We have now reached the testing and verification stage and are progressing smoothly. In December, we can tape out the chip together with the Kunpeng 12 chip."

"Okay." Wang Yi nodded: "Director Pang, take a look at the newcomers. If there are good ones, you can train one or two. We still have to develop the 4G baseband next year."

"Okay, Chairman." Pang Liguo responded.

He knew clearly that it was okay not to develop 4G baseband this year, but he would have to develop 4G baseband next year.

There is nothing we can do about this.

It would be best if they could be divided into two teams. In the future, Xingyi chips will be like Qualcomm chips, with three-level processors (high, medium and low) and fully integrated basebands. The core personnel of the baseband department will be required to join the three-level chip R&D department to help with the baseband integration work.

Seeing that the four teams in the chip department were all on the right track and developing rapidly, Wang Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it is half a year slower than Qualcomm, it still has a promising future.

The future is still bright.

Wang Yi and Huawei have different strategies.

Huawei's strategy is to go all in on K3v2 and develop K3v2 as its flagship chip.

而王逸的战略则是鲲鹏510、700、900，翼龙2800、翼龙3000，甚至未来的鲲鹏900S，支持4G的翼龙4000基带，全面推进！
What Wang Yi wants is not the success of a single chip, but the success of all three levels of chips, including SOCs with integrated baseband and chips without integrated baseband!
Even chip manufacturing has a strong layout.

In the future, chip updates and replacements will be too fast. If we don’t make such a layout, we will not be able to compete with Qualcomm at all.

Of course, Huawei will change its strategy in the future and will make a comprehensive layout and advance madly like Wang Yi... but it will be a little late.

But even so, Huawei still crushes 95% of mobile phone manufacturers.

In the evening, Wang Yi returned to Lin Shu's house.

The cool air from the air conditioner made Wang Yi feel relaxed and happy:
"It's too hot today, 35 degrees, and it's not raining. No, I have to take a shower."

After running around all day and inspecting everywhere, Wang Yi felt a little uncomfortable.

"Take a shower!" Lin Shu, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly brightened up his eyes, then he remembered something and his face turned red.

Wang Yi laughed dumbly: "Xiao Shu, what bad things are you thinking about?"

"No, of course not!" Lin Shu said stubbornly.

Originally, Lin Shudu had returned to Jeju for the summer vacation, but he missed Wang Yi so much that he went back to the capital to accompany Wang Yi and cook four meals a day for him despite his parents' objections.

"You still don't admit it!" Wang Yi said with a smile, "You don't want to take a shower with me, do you?"

"No, how could that be possible! I don't want it!"

After three consecutive denials, Lin Shu's face became redder and redder.

Now she is becoming more and more interested in Wang Yi, and also wants to unlock the new experience of washing together.

"Really not?" Wang Yi looked straight at Lin Shu.

Lin Shu felt a little embarrassed when being stared at. She lowered her head, clenched her hands, and said, "I...I...I just want to give you a bath. Nothing else!"

"Yes, I'm just giving you a simple scrub. I'll help you with the places you can't reach!"

As Lin Shu spoke, he just felt like he was going crazy.

I don't know when I became like this...

Incredible.

Wang Yi was in a good mood. He felt that Lin Shu in front of him was so cute and attractive.

Other people's pure desire is just pretending, but Lin Shu's pure desire is real pure desire.

"The facts show that I do need a bath. Come on, Xiaoshu!"

As he spoke, Wang Yi took Lin Shu's hand.

"Okay!" Lin Shu replied with a red face and followed Wang Yi into the bathroom.

The bathtub was full of water, and I was just going to scrub my body, but as I was scrubbing, I suddenly...

Three days later, Huawei's quad-core mobile phones AscendD quad and quad X were launched in China, equipped with its self-developed k3v2 processor.

It uses 1G RAM, 8G storage, 720P resolution, 800 million pixels, and is priced at 2699!

This configuration has advantages over Xphone 1, but is far behind Xphone 1pro.

After all, like the Xphone 1pro, it is a 40nm quad-core, but Huawei's quad-core has only 1G of RAM and the front camera is much lower.

There is no way. This phone was released in February, but it was not launched until August because it had to wait for the self-developed K2v3.

Therefore, many parameters are benchmarked against Xphone 1.

With a configuration similar to Xphone 1, and an upgraded quad-core processor, Huawei thinks it will definitely beat Xphone 1!

If the dual-core Xphone 1 can sell so well, Huawei's quad-core will definitely sell even better, and the company has even set a sales target of tens of millions.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yi did not abide by his moral principles and released the Xphone 1pro before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona!

The fully upgraded Xphone 1pro not only beat the Xphone 1 in seconds, but also took away Huawei's quad-core. It was launched six months earlier and attracted a large number of customers.

This makes Huawei's quad-core very embarrassing. In addition, its configuration and appearance are not as good as Xphone 1pro, and its sales are not as popular as expected.

Of course, as a self-developed processor, this point alone has attracted a lot of fans.

The older generation, in particular, is very supportive.

As a result, Huawei AscendD quad / quad X also sold well, with sales far exceeding Xiaomi 1T and Meizu quad-core.

But it is still far behind the Xphone 1pro which has been on the market for half a year.

However, Zhu Changlin treated this as a formidable enemy: "Chairman, Huawei's self-developed quad-core mobile phone is coming out, and it looks like it's coming with great momentum. It's estimated that it will have a serious impact on our Xingyi mobile phone."

Wang Yi waved his hand: "Don't worry, Huawei's quad-core is not a big threat."

"Why?" Zhu Changlin was puzzled. "Although Huawei's quad-core only has 1G RAM, the price is more than 2000 yuan cheaper, which is still very advantageous. On the contrary, our dual-core Xphone 1 is yuan more expensive than the quad-core Huawei!"

Wang Yi smiled faintly: "You will know later that Huawei's quad-core cannot beat Xphone 1pro, or even Xphone 1!"

“???” Zhu Changlin was puzzled.

Wanting to ask more, Wang Yi just said calmly: "Remember the day after tomorrow, we will go to BOE to inspect the screen!"

"Okay, Chairman."

Zhu Changlin responded, still thinking about Wang Yi's words: "The chairman said that Huawei's quad-core can't even beat the dual-core Xphone 1? How is that possible?"

"Could it be that Huawei's quad-core has failed?"

"No way?"

Zhu Changlin had a plan in mind and returned to the laboratory decisively to conduct a series of tests on the Huawei quad-core processor he had just received.

As a result, the expression became very interesting.

"Sure enough, Huawei's k3v2 failed!"

Although K3v2 is a quad-core with powerful theoretical performance, it generates severe heat, has locked cores and is frequency-reduced, and consumes a lot of power, so it is not as powerful as Qualcomm's dual-core processor.

In addition, with the new processors, many software are not optimized and adapted properly and have many bugs, which further reduces the actual performance.

In fact, it wasn’t just Huawei’s K3v2 that failed, Nvidia’s Integration 3 also failed.

Wang Yi had anticipated this, so during the development of Xphone 1pro, he put the heat dissipation module first.

With the support of advanced heat dissipation module, the performance of Tegra 1 in Xphone 3pro is very powerful. It does not lock the core and reduce the frequency due to severe heat. Instead, it exerts the performance of a quad-core.

But the competitor's Tegra 3 is in a terrible situation.

For example, the HTC One X equipped with Integra 3 had to cut its price for promotion after it was completely beaten by Xingyi Technology, the world's first quad-core mobile phone.

I thought that after the price reduction, the hard work would pay off due to the great cost-effectiveness and the product would sell well.

However, due to severe heat generation, core locking and frequency reduction, the quad-core HTC is actually not as good as the dual-core Xphone 1 in actual use!

Similarly, Sony and other competitors that launched the Tegra 3 also all suffered setbacks.

The degree of failure is not much different from that of Qualcomm Fire Dragon 810 in the previous life.

A 40nm quad-core processor will inevitably generate serious heat unless the heat dissipation is improved. The core will be locked and the frequency will be reduced, and the actual performance will be worse than that of Qualcomm's dual-core processor.

This is the case with NVIDIA's Tegra 3 and Huawei's K3V2.

There is no way around it. Quad cores on a 40nm process is already a bit of a stretch, and failure is inevitable.

If it is 28nm with 4 cores, it will be much safer.

Fortunately, Wang Yi has always attached great importance to heat dissipation, and he had people develop a series of advanced heat dissipation technologies for later generations, making the Xphone 1pro's tegra 3 exceptionally cool and powerful.

But if we change to our competitors, they don’t have such powerful cooling technology.

As expected, within two days, Huawei's quad-core product failure became a hot topic:
"The Huawei Ascend D quad heats up too much, consumes power quickly, and is too hot to touch."

"Don't mention it. They say the self-developed quad-core is so powerful, but it lags when playing games. It's worse than my friend's Xphone 1!"

"That's right, let alone compared with Xphone 1pro, it's really not as good as the dual-core Xphone 1."

"I am a hater, absolutely a hater. Even if Huawei AscendD quad is worse, it is still a quad-core. How can it be worse than the dual-core Xphone 1?"

"You are the hater, your whole family is a hater. If you don't believe me, go and try it yourself. When playing a large game, Huawei Ascend D quad will lag a lot. It's a waste of four cores."

"I can prove that the quad-core of Huawei's AscendD quad is really not good and is very slow."

"And Huawei's Ascend D quad has many bugs, and the actual experience is far inferior to the Xphone 1."

"If you have money, go for Xphone 1pro, if you don't have money, go for Xphone 1. Huawei's Ascend D quad has failed miserably."

……

Looking at these public opinions, everyone at Huawei was dumbfounded.

But we have to admit that Huawei's AscendD quad really failed, or rather, k3v2 failed.

HTC is somewhat gloating about this.

Originally, people criticized HTC's quad-core phone for not being as good as Xingyi Technology's dual-core phone. Now, people are criticizing Huawei!

Chairman Wang Hong was in a good mood: "Huawei has finally experienced the suffering that HTC has gone through. Haha, that's great. Open the champagne and celebrate!"

"Okay, Chairman, but how come the Xphone 1pro's tegra 3 didn't fail? What's their cooling technology?"

Wang Hong nodded. "Yes, their cooling technology is so powerful, and the algorithm is tuned to make the Tegra 3 extremely cool. We couldn't do that, so we failed. Huawei couldn't do that either, so it also failed."

"So that's it." The subordinate suddenly realized.

Wang Hong continued, "We are actually fine. The Tegra 3 failed, but it's okay. We won't use the next generation and will just switch to Qualcomm APQ 8064. But Huawei is different. They developed their own K3V2 and spent so much money on it that they had no choice but to use it."

"Yes, I guess Huawei will equip all its products with K3V2 as standard in the next year or so, so there's nothing to worry about, haha."

"Yes, it is Xingyi Technology that is giving us a headache. Who would have thought that their dual-core Xphone 1 can still beat our quad-core phones!"

Wang Hong sighed: "I'm speechless!"

(End of this chapter)