The toy factory is transforming, are you transforming into a military factory?

Chapter 20 EDA industrial software and chip architecture are all open source!
  "It would be best to take this opportunity to drive Apple out of the market of big countries." Yang Yongming said whimsically.

Ren Fei smiled and said: "This is not impossible, but now, we just need to work together to encroach on their domestic market share."

In fact, no one refused to agree to this proposal, and they had no choice but to agree.

Because as long as Warwick has not taken the lead in raising the price of flowers, no one will buy it even if the price increases.

And now that they are in the same boat, this is the first time that friends and businessmen have been so united.

Soon Ren Fei took them to meet the boss of Dafa Toy Factory.

When these top founders in the mobile phone industry stood in front of him and were so groveling, Chen Yuan felt inexplicably relieved.

As for some compliments, such as saying that young people are promising and heroes come from young, he is tired of hearing them.

Chen Yuan took them on a cursory tour of the production line. Before the group could recover from the shock, Chen Yuan pulled them to sign the contract.

I just saw the price of the chips sold on the contract...

The bosses of these friendly businessmen all looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Rebus was the first to ask everyone's doubts: "I heard that the 3nm chip you gave Warwick was only , right? Why is it for us?"

"Because it's first come, first served," Chen Yuan said, "and they have invested 10 billion in the toy factory, okay? We have unlocked the privileges of Noble in our toy factory. If you also want to purchase cheaply, then hurry up and buy krypton. Gold bar.”

Ten billion……

Well, they're not as deep-pocketed as Warwick Hayes.

It's half as expensive as it is.

"Actually, there's nothing to be satisfied with," Rebus said gratefully. "You know, in the past, you had to start with Qualcomm's chips at a cost of one thousand, but now you can't get anywhere."

Chen Yuan felt that Rebus could handle this.

"However, the production speed of our production line is limited, and we cannot produce too many chips at one time to supply to several of your mobile phone manufacturers." Chen Yuan had just finished speaking when others interrupted.

"It doesn't matter, Boss Xiao Chen. Even if we get a thousand pieces for each of us first, that's enough."

"OK then……"

Soon, in order to promote their new phones and to revive the situation of domestic mobile phones, these manufacturers informed on the Internet platform that they had cooperated with 3nm chip suppliers.

A new machine equipped with a 3nm chip will be launched from now on, and the price will not exceed yuan.

As soon as the news came out, netizens immediately exploded.

"It feels like the mobile phone market is finally letting a hundred flowers bloom."

"Okay, okay, I'm already looking forward to it."

When such news quickly spread on the Internet, it also attracted overseas attention.

Especially the Federal Ministry of Commerce, Ms. Raimondo never imagined that so many new machines equipped with 3nm chips would be launched on the other side of the ocean at this time.

If these new machines generate huge repercussions in the market, they will inevitably affect Apple's sales.

You must know that Apple brings more than 380 billion U.S. dollars in taxes to the federal government every year. This is a real small financial backer.

No matter what, whether it was because of Cook's initiative to seek help or because of some international strategies, Raimondo would not allow this to happen.

"You mean a factory in a big country can produce 3nm chips?" Raimondo asked his subordinates.

"The current information is this." The other party said truthfully.

Raimondo thought for a while: "3nm chip technology has very high requirements. Even if we achieve independent breakthroughs in photolithography, I think some of the most basic and core things can still be used by us."

So Raimundo made a very bold decision.

What this decision will be, no one knows before it begins.

Just when the sales of domestic mobile phones are booming, users are overjoyed to see which brand has better cost control and is more cost-effective...

Some domestic chip and semiconductor companies are inexplicably stuck.

Because they found that the good EDA software they had been using suddenly became unusable today.

On Hayes' side, Zhang Xiaolong was sitting in his office when someone hurriedly broke in.

"Xiaolong is in trouble. Our EDA software suddenly locked up. Engineers now have no way to continue designing new Kirin chips."

Zhang Xiaolong frowned when he heard this. He thought that both Hayes and himself would be fine in the end. "I haven't been happy for a long time, so why did this happen again?" Zhang Xiaolong asked carefully, "Did the program be locked directly?"

The other party thought for a while: "Well... the expiration reminder pops up every now and then."

"Why don't you just pay the money and re-key it?" Zhang Xiaolong thought it was a big deal. "I remember that we have been using Kaiden Electronics' EDA software. I will send the email address of their Asia-Pacific regional manager later. Send it to you."

The man hesitated.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaolong felt that the other party seemed to have something unsaid.

"what happened?"

"Well... I have contacted Kaiden Electronics and they said they will not renew the contract."

Zhang Xiaolong, who had not taken it to heart at first, sat up immediately: "What about Synopsys?"

The other person shook his head.

"Don't tell me that Mentor International doesn't provide us with EDA either."

The other party nodded this time.

But Zhang Xiaolong's heart was broken.

You must know that the three companies he just mentioned are the three major EDA manufacturers, occupying more than 90% of the global EDA design market, and nearly 9% of the market share is occupied by ASML.

However, Dafa Toy Factory provides 3nm chips, and Hayes is still continuing to develop Kirin chips purely to realize the dream.

However, an old professor from the Dragon Academy of Sciences suddenly felt uneasy and worried.

This person's name is Ma Zhennan, one of the professors at the Dragon Academy of Sciences. He seldom interacts with people and focuses on artificial intelligence.

Recently, he has been optimizing deep learning chips for artificial intelligence.

The chip requirements for this kind of application in artificial intelligence are very high, and ordinary domestic EDA is not enough to meet the design needs.

It's just that he spent five years of research, but he can no longer continue because the software is locked.

"Professor Ma, do you still want to continue researching artificial intelligence?" asked his research assistant.

Ma Zhennan shook his head in despair: "Without EDA software, the entire deep learning chip design would be difficult to implement."

In fact, not only Ma Zhennan, but also people in other industries are having a hard time.

EDA technology has penetrated into all walks of life. As mentioned above, there are EDA applications in various fields such as machinery, electronics, aerospace, mining, biology, medicine, and military.

And the chip semiconductor industry has been hit the hardest.

Generally in the Internet industry, products and software can have first versions and then be iteratively optimized, but this is not the case in the chip industry. Because once a chip product is produced, it cannot be changed. If the chip produced does not meet the standards, it can only be scrapped.

Therefore, EDA software is needed for virtual design, simulation, emulation, etc., in order to ensure one-time success on future production lines and reduce overall costs.

The global output value of EDA software is only US$100 billion, but it dominates the global semiconductor market of nearly US$4500 billion!
  Now, there is a problem with the EDA software that controls the high-end market, and the entire precision chip design will also be in trouble.

And the most uncomfortable thing is not only the limitations of industrial software, but also the chip architecture.

Among the four major chip architectures, X86 and MIPS are both owned by federal companies, and ARM was previously acquired by SoftBank Group.

Without authorization, the only thing that can be used for these architectures is the open source RISC-V architecture.

However, the scenarios where this architecture is applicable are not yet widespread, because each chip architecture currently has its own advantages.

For example, X86 is mainly used in PCs, ARM is mainly used in mobile phones and tablets, and MIPS is mainly used in gateways and entertainment devices.

The RISC-V architecture is currently mainly used in smart wearable devices.

They are probably forward-looking. The chips released by Pingtou Ge, a subsidiary of Alibaba, are all based on the RISC-V architecture, but the efficiency is definitely not as good as ARM.

Chen Yuan also saw through the complexity of the problem at a glance: "Now it is not just the problem that 7nm chips cannot be produced, but 14nm chips cannot be produced either."

Chen Xinyi said with a hint of admiration: "But this doesn't affect us."

"It is impossible for Dafa to focus all its energy on chips, and only when most people join can the chips develop more prosperously and rapidly."

Chen Yuan pondered for a long time: "It seems that it's time to give the world a king bomb."

(End of this chapter)