1991 Starting from the core

"Mountain..." Gao Xiaodi sat in front of Su Yuanshan. Facing Su Yuanshan's sigh, he finally said nothing.

Gao Xiaodi is of course a veteran of Yuanxin, and he is even the only one among the department leaders of Yuanxin who has "systematically" trained newcomers. The newcomers at the time have now become the backbone of the design center here.

Ever since Su Yuanshan almost hand-in-hand led the CPU team, Gao Xiaodi has been the de facto leader of the CPU team - even when Li Mingliu was still in charge of the cache, the leadership of the entire CPU team was still in his hands. inside.

The reason is simple. He is the architect appointed by Su Yuanshan. This profession or position is not that easy to get.

Abroad, if you don’t have ten years or more of qualifications and experience, and don’t have a precise grasp and understanding of processors, the market, and even the future development direction of the entire semiconductor field, if you want to be qualified as an architect... then it’s really It's delusional.

Therefore, when he realized this, Gao Xiaodi began to follow Li Mingliu - learning Li Mingliu's desperate spirit.

This country is a country with a weak foundation, and Yuanxin is an enterprise with a weak foundation. Especially in terms of CPU, even with the great assistance and support from the Xinghaicyrix team, Yuanxin's team still has a very difficult time.

If Su Yuanshan hadn't planned out the architectural direction from the very beginning, if Yuanxin wanted to get involved in CPUs, it would have had to start step by step with the copycat 386/486.

And Gao Xiaodi was the one who personally negotiated the X86 license. He knew better than anyone how much Yuanxin had paid to win this ticket.

"Tomorrow I will go to the capital to win over the business of several domestic complete machine manufacturers." Since he didn't know what to say, Gao Xiaodi simply didn't say anything and simply stated his position directly: "At worst, let's make some profits." ”

Su Yuanshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, your market planning is not just to think of a new product, right?"

"What should we do? We can't enter the west now. You must know that we are purely exporting - unless we comply with the policy and enter at cost price, but in that case, if we are called INTEL, even AMD will sue... It will be even worse Don’t mention it, our processor is of the same architecture as Xinghai, and there is no obvious advantage.”

"Besides that are the European market and Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia has long been occupied by AMD and Xinghai. The only way for us to enter is to fight a price war... The European market is the back garden of the American family." Gao Xiaodi spread his hands with a look of helplessness on his face: "Tell me, what else can we do besides staring at the country?"

"It's right to focus on the country, but the partners are wrong." Su Yuanshan smiled and sighed.

"Huh? Tell me... we can't just stare at Chengdian High-tech and hang ourselves from a tree, right? With all due respect, Shan... it was a failure that we didn't personally enter the management of Chengdian High-tech. You are the principal at the school The older one, I also stayed in school for six or seven years - think about it, what can the teachers and school administrators in our school do?"

"Uh..." Seeing Gao Xiaodi ruthlessly complaining about his alma mater, Su Yuanshan didn't know what to say - because Gao Xiaodi was indeed right.

After all, it is indeed a bit bad that Chengdian High-tech still failed to achieve the expected performance even though it had Yuanxin and Zhongxin as shareholders, was not short of money or technology, and even had Su Yuanshan to specify the direction.

Fortunately, Principal Zhou was quite courageous. When he saw that the situation was not right, he decisively adopted Su Yuanshan's suggestions and recommended talents to completely restructure Chengdian High-Tech.

It's just that Qiu Aihua has just taken over, and the reform of Chengdian High-tech has not yet seen results.

"That's right, senior brother." Su Yuanshan said patiently: "We are a CPU design and production company, and we are the top link in the entire machine industry chain. Of course we shouldn't hang ourselves by staring at a tree."

"But how to promote it, who should be aligned with the direction and goals, and which companies should be selected as the main partners. This requires skills."

"Then who do you think we should look for?" Gao Xiaodi looked at Su Yuanshan with burning eyes, very curious about what kind of flowers this guy could tell.

"Dell, HP, IBM, Compaq - these well-known international companies."

"Huh?" Gao Xiaodi was stunned for a moment and looked at Su Yuanshan doubtfully: "Will they choose us?"

"Why not choose us? If the mainland can provide them with components from CPUs to screw nuts, and then to production lines... they only need to provide design and product ideas, and then control quality."

"Even if they can't use our processors on high-end models, I'm afraid it's no problem to use it on mid- to low-end models, right? And whether it's for the mainland market or the surrounding markets, … We both have cost and production chain advantages.”

Gao Xiaodi savored Su Yuanshan's words carefully, and his brows gradually wrinkled. After a few seconds, he nodded slowly: "Okay, it seems to be a way... At present, the country still thinks that foreign brands are very good, so we will directly break into the internals of foreign brands... After all, those computer blinds have almost no idea about processor models. .”

"Yes, the main thing is, this way we can maximize our advantages."

Su Yuanshan looked at his watch and stood up: "Let's go and eat. We will discuss it carefully and have a meeting in the evening."

…

In the next two days, Su Yuanshan has been holding meetings with the heads of various departments. Of course, more technical and direction issues are involved.

After all, he wanted to come up with an IEEE paper that would be on the table.

A thesis is not a novel, it requires a lot of theoretical and data support. Therefore, he focused on planning and prospects for the 64-bit architecture at the meeting.

He is quite familiar with the job of publishing papers. The more advanced the technology and theory are, the more popular he will be in the eyes of the editors sitting in the office.

…

After returning to the special zone, Su Yuanshan watched the two factories all day again. He even did not miss the safety tests such as acupuncture, squeezing and overcharging of lithium batteries, which made Wang Chuanfu frightened - even though the tape-out was stepped up. A batch of charge and discharge management chips will greatly improve safety, but there is still a probability in this thing.

What if?

Fortunately everything went well.

On the same day that Kutaragi Ken's plane arrived in Shanghai, Su Yuanshan got the world's first mobile phone equipped with flash memory particles and polymer lithium batteries.

The only pity is that there was a slight problem with the mobile operating system team. They did not complete the operating system for feature phones that adapts to the current environment. Moreover, the player optimization is seriously insufficient.

Therefore, the MP3 of this mobile phone is built with a hardware decoding chip.

But still, everything is ready.