1991 Starting from the core

Because of his deep impression on Rise (Hua Ju), Su Yuanshan knew their ending.

They once used exaggerated advertising content and a crosstalk actor-like performance to showcase their Rise MP6, which they had been honing for five years. This CPU defeated the Pentium II at the time in various indicators, and then stated that they were suitable for use in notebooks and could defeat Intel.

Awesome, right?

Then... they sold this technology to SIS.

Then there was nothing more - it was said that they went to work on embedded systems.

In the long history of X86, countless companies have challenged Intel one after another. Compared with another "tragic hero" company, Transmeta. They can't even be considered waves, they can only be regarded as amusing interludes.

By the way, most of the company’s employees and even co-founder “David” Lin Tinglong are from the island.

As for why they did not let David Lin come, but co-founder Lawrence, a management representative, is unknown.

Maybe... they felt a little embarrassed to license the purchasing architecture of Yuanxin, which was purely from mainland China, at the exhibition site.

…

The CTO office in Xinghai, Silicon Valley.

Although he has been serving as CTO for a year, Chen Haoming still regards himself as a software engineer working on the front line. Therefore, his office is a mess and does not have the orderly and "cold" atmosphere when Xi Xiaoding stayed there. .

Various journals and magazines were scattered everywhere, and a small blackboard was hung on the wall, listing various matters and times so that Chen Haoming could see it as soon as he looked up. His clothes were draped on the sofa, and there were two lunch boxes on the coffee table.

The ashtray on the desk was full of cigarette butts, and occasionally there were traces of coffee on the table.

"You don't want the secretary to clean up either?"

Su Yuanshan opened the door, sniffed, and found that there was no peculiar smell except the smell of smoke.

Chen Haoming raised his head, rubbed his eyes, poured the cigarette ashes into the trash can, and threw away the lunch box.

He picked up the clothes and chuckled: "The secretary is staying over at Claude's side—besides, we are technical people, what kind of secretary do we need?"

Su Yuanshan shrugged and said jokingly: "That's right, you don't dare to find a female secretary."

Chen Haoming laughed: "There is a Hedong lion at home, so there is nothing we can do."

Su Yuanshan pulled up a chair and sat down, stopping Chen Haoming from going to pour tea: "How is the framework doing?"

After setting the goal of fighting Sun's Oak language, which would most likely mutate into JAVA in the future, Xinghai began to go all out to build a development environment called Star. At the same time, the development environment will provide a free and open source CC language framework called Star.

In terms of operations, Xinghai will also establish an open source fund, and then establish a new open source organization based on the current open source community that mainly meets EDA. This open source organization is temporarily named Sea.

At that time, Sea will also launch the free and open source Ser HTTP Server - web server.

A star, a sea.

They correspond to the two magic weapons that were the success of JAVA in the previous life, Spring and Apache.

Hmm... also add IBM's Eclipse.

"We are working on it, but the open source community... I think we should leave Xinghai." Chen Haoming frowned slightly: "Especially open source organizations, once they get involved with us, they always feel that they are not pure."

Su Yuanshan: "What do you mean?"

"I have a preliminary idea. If you want to do it, just make it bigger. And since it is open source, there is no need for us to do it alone... Find a few more companies, let's invest in a fund together, and then establish an open source with no tendency at all. The big guys in the open source industry are responsible for the lab."

"Okay." Su Yuanshan nodded immediately: "You know, I have always supported open source."

Chen Haoming just smiled: "No wonder Linus, the great master, praises you so much."

"Oh? You and Linus know each other?"

"When I was in school, I added a few bricks to Linux." Chen Haoming said modestly: "It's a pity that I failed to invite him to Xinghai..."

"...If an open source laboratory is really established, I guess we can invite people." Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

Linus has advocated freedom and the spirit of rebellion all his life. The only time he joined a commercial enterprise was with Transmeta, a hero born to resist Intel. And he stayed at Transmeta for several years, and then stayed in the open source laboratory to retire.

This kind of person is unlikely to join Xinghai.

…

After leaving Xinghai, Su Yuanshan went to Burger King to grab a bag and then returned to the villa.

In the villa, Qin Si and Yang Yiwen were not there, only Tang Wenjie was waiting for his help.

Su Yuanshan opened the fast food on the coffee table, and the two of them took big bites of the burgers while dipping into the chili noodles Yang Yiwen brought from the mainland.

After finishing lunch, Tang Wenjie moved a bulky ThinkPad750C out of the bedroom and placed it on the coffee table.

"I've been doing this stuff for the past year, look at it." Tang Wenjie turned on the computer and glanced outside the door.

Su Yuanshan laughed and said, "Why are you acting like a thief?"

"Didn't you tell me to be careful?"

"You are too careful." Su Yuanshan moved the cursor with IBM's standard red dot, and then clicked on the WPS document.

The document begins with "A method for structural optimization of field-effect transistors."

Su Yuanshan's expression became solemn, and he began to look down.

Tang Wenjie stared at Su Yuanshan's expression, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

According to all the "intelligence", his junior brother's level in integrated circuit design has reached an extraordinary level - Tang Wenjie has every reason to believe that Su Yuanshan can guide his thesis.

Although it sounds ridiculous and even difficult to accept in the eyes of others, what does Tang Wenjie think - everyone has seen Su Yuanshan's genius, why should he be dissatisfied?

Time passed minute by minute, and as Su Yuanshan frowned, Tang Wenjie became more and more nervous.

Finally, Su Yuanshan raised his head.

"Brother, what are the solutions to the short channel effect and leakage?"

"It's still under consideration, but there is no way to do the experiment now. I can only say... this is an idea of ​​mine for the time being. I don't know whether it will work or not." Seeing that Su Yuanshan still looked cautious, Tang Wenjie couldn't help but clenched his fists.

After more than a year of hard work, what he fears most now is Su Yuanshan saying that this road is blocked.

Su Yuanshan nodded slowly, his eyes flickered a few times, then closed his eyes again, and began to recall the related technologies of FinFEt structure in his mind.

After a moment, he nodded slowly.

He couldn't accurately say that Tang Wenjie was heading in the right direction, because he wasn't playing this game in his previous life. But he couldn't dissipate Tang Wenjie's enthusiasm - this was something Tang Wenjie had been thinking about since Yuanxin, and he had immediately established the staged thinking results of the project when he came here. If he said there was a problem, Tang Wenjie would probably vomit blood.

Tang Wenjie took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"I'm not sure, but the direction is probably OK, but now... there's no way to verify it. This requires creating a new process. It can easily cost tens of millions of dollars - I can give you the money at will, but the chip line Not now."

Tang Wenjie nodded and said: "Indeed, this was originally considered for ultra-large-scale integrated circuits with tens of billions of transistors. The gates are below 10 nanometers - in other words, according to current predictions, the current MOSFET structure can probably There will be no leakage until 20 nanometers are used.”

"Well, yes, but isn't it our old skill to prepare for a rainy day?" Su Yuanshan said with a smile: "Just continue to improve it, anyway, just stick to the structure of integrated circuits. Senior brother, as long as you keep working on it, you will be famous in history in the future. "

"Haha, I don't care about that stuff." Tang Wenjie adjusted his glasses with a smile on his face: "I just long for my wife and children to be on the hot bed."

Su Yuanshan was startled and sighed: "...Actually, who is not?"