1991 Starting from the core

"Claude and the others, do they have any ideas?"

Su Yuanshan asked while flipping through the authorization document.

"How could I not have any ideas?" Gao Xiaodi smiled and sighed: "Claude came to me for a drink several times, and his words were full of complaints. What can I do? I can only pass the responsibility to you. Even if I see him, I don’t dare to pick a fight with you.”

Su Yuanshan was happy and shook his head, putting down the heavy agreement.

He knew that Claude had always criticized Yuanxin for making big concessions to "please" Intel in order to obtain the X86 authorization.

In the view of Claude and even the entire Xinghai CPU team, Yuanxin can continue to advance the architecture and technology in the previous way with Cyrix. There is no need to obtain the authorization of X86 - Yuanxin's technology and architecture have passed To realize it here in Xinghai is equivalent to gathering the smartest brains from the East and the West. As long as we continue to maintain our architectural advantages, why worry about Intel dying?

It’s not like Xinghai doesn’t pay dividends to Yuanxin…

But it was good for Su Yuanshan, who had to do it in the name of Yuanxin, and then Intel pressed his head and signed an exclusive agreement. This basically cuts off the possibility of continued in-depth cooperation between Xinghai and Yuanxin in the future.

"From now on, Xinghai will only have to rely on themselves. By the way, did he dig up the people I asked him to dig up?" Su Yuanshan recalled that he asked Claude to dig up Jim Keller before he left.

"That Jim Keller you mean?" Gao Xiaodi asked immediately.

"Um."

"I was in contact before I left, and I also met. But because everyone was responsible for the architecture plan, we didn't talk too deeply. We just looked forward to the future architecture and instruction set direction. He believed that the MMX instruction set This is just the beginning. In the future, with the emergence of various application projects, more professional instructions will appear, and the update of microarchitecture is also important."

Su Yuanshan nodded and asked, "What do you think of him?"

"It's not bad. These trends and directions are not tricks. As long as you have a brain in this business, you can basically find some clues."

Seeing Gao Xiaodi's disapproval, Su Yuanshan smiled.

He didn't know that Mr. Keller was the legendary architect of the future - of course, not yet. And Su Yuanshan can also understand Gao Xiaodi. After all, Gao Xiaodi is deeply inspired by himself in terms of architecture, and what he usually talks about most is the development direction of architecture.

Therefore, it is normal for Gao Xiaodi to think that Jim Keller is nothing more than this.

Well, that's a good thing - as an architect, confidence is the most important thing.

Seeing that both of them had bloodshot eyes, Su Yuanshan stood up and said, "Then I won't disturb your rest. You will return to Shanghai in two days, and I will send you on a plane."

Gao Xiao was startled for the first time, and immediately said with great joy: "The private plane is back?"

"Correction... it's a business plane." Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "I haven't even flown on it... I'll take a call."

Su Yuanshan's cell phone buzzed. He picked it up and took a look, only to see that the caller ID was Li Mingliu.

"It seems that Lao Li is also here to congratulate you." Su Yuanshan smiled at Gao Xiao and pressed the answer button.

On the phone, Li Mingliu's voice was smiling and slightly tired.

"Originally I wanted to wait until the end of the year to surprise you, but after thinking about it, that's not my style... The layout has been officially sent to the mask factory. If everything goes well, we can see the world's first one in at most two months. A NAND chip with a double-layer unit architecture.”

Li Mingliu's seemingly meaningless words made Su Yuanshan's body stiffen immediately!

"nailed it?"

"Well, and... now my mind is clear, I already have a plan to get rid of the shackles of capacity, but it may require a lot of process investment and trial and error."

"Okay! I'll come over tomorrow!" Su Yuanshan said immediately with great joy, and then he realized that Gao Xiaodi and others had to rest here for a few days.

At this time, Gao Xiaodi probably guessed something and said with a smile: "Let's go together tomorrow - can your plane accommodate so many people?"

"Uh... forget it, even if we can sit down, we will leave separately. Sister Xiaohui, help me book a flight."

Zhou Xiaohui was holding back a yawn. She was slightly startled when she heard this. She blinked and immediately laughed: "Okay."

In the surprise, Su Yuanshan completely forgot that Zhou Xiaohui's current identity was more of an assistant to the chairman than his secretary.

Booking air tickets should be left to Wen Xiaoqian.

…

The next day, Su Yuanshan and Wen Xiaoqian took the first step on the civil aviation, while Gao Xiao and others took the "first time" on a business jet.

Sitting in Li Mingliu's Audi, Su Yuanshan couldn't wait to say: "Old Li, I remember not long ago you were saying that the craftsmanship was a bit difficult. How can you get it done right after National Day?"

In the field of semiconductors, the process of a new product and new architecture is not as simple as transforming an assembly line. There are dozens of processes before and after, and each process is interconnected and seamless. It doesn’t mean that you can just press a button twice or adjust parameters.

You know, the vast number of semiconductor companies, even some of them, from establishment to bankruptcy, all rely on a set of technological processes to produce one kind of device to maintain operations.

Therefore, when the process flow of NAND chips here encountered difficulties, Su Yuanshan was already prepared to give up hope this year.

Unexpectedly, Li Mingliu gave him a big surprise.

"Haha... The main thing is that our team has been promoting style before, and Deyuan's elite forces are all concentrated on Tamron processors and baseband chips." Li Mingliu had a night's rest and seemed to be in good spirits. : "Our team will suffer a little, and we should focus on cultivating talents. Now that both sides are done, it's our turn even if we queue up."

Su Yuanshan suddenly understood, and he patted his forehead sheepishly.

Indeed, regardless of political or market significance, Tamron processors and baseband chips have absolute priority over NAND chips.

After all, the acceptance of USB flash drives in the market is still just a concept, and many people don't even know the concept.

——Although the MLC particles developed by Li Mingliu's team have been difficult to produce, Jiang Tao's control chip has gone extremely smoothly. They completed the chip design two months ago and based on the existing SLC architecture NAND particles Created the world's first USB interface-based flash drive.

Jiang Tao named him Youpan.

16M of storage space, when paired with Meijie's high-end motherboard equipped with a USB1.1 interface, the full speed can reach a maximum transmission rate of 12Mbps.

As soon as it was released, it won a lot of applause.

However, it was just applause.

After all, this thing is still very expensive.