Hammer of Technology

Lu Dongyi glanced at Ning Wei, and said with a sneer: "You think too much, I just know very well, don't show off your superiority before you have developed, and you will have no chance in the future."

Ning Wei blinked, how should I put it, this answer is actually very Lu Dongyi, but it also shows that Brother Lu's mentality is really good.He didn't need to worry about the school's decision affecting the friendship between the two.

"Okay, then please come to Senior Brother Lu, I still have a lot of things to do recently, so I will go to work first."

"Oh, if you really want to thank me, remember not to come and go in front of me in the future, I'm already tired of aesthetics." Lu Dongyi waved his hand.

Ning Wei quickly turned his head and replied seriously: "Okay, Senior Brother Lu, I promise I won't show you in the future that an academician nominates me as a double academician this year."

Lu Dongyi thought for a while, looked at the well-kept courtyard around, and then said seriously: "Ning Wei, there are no bricks around to save you."

Ning Wei glanced at Liu Wei who was not far away, and said seriously, "Brother Lu, have you forgotten my super invincible Brother Liu? Really, No Brick actually saved you!"

"You should prepare for your interview in the afternoon. Director Tian asked me to remind you not to forget to promote the future Ningban. Let me go!"

Lu Dongyi decided to give full marks to Ning Wei's chatting style, even less points!So after leaving the last sentence, he resolutely walked towards his office without looking back, even though his office was next to Ningwei's office.

"... Those who can't get it will always be in turmoil, and those who are favored have nothing to fear..."

After a while, there was a rare moving singing voice in Brother Lu's office. For a person who never listens to pop songs very much, it is really difficult to accurately find this song to describe his mood.

Ning Wei smiled as he sat in the office, it was actually quite good.The biggest difference between him and Brother Lu is probably that Brother Lu’s greatest joy in life comes from mathematics itself, while his pleasure comes from the derivation of academics, so in fact, he feels ashamed every time he sees Brother Lu, after all, he lives Not as pure as Senior Brother Lu.

The main reason is that he knew that Lu Dongyi would not be really angry with him, at most he would be depressed for 2 minutes and then he would soon be attracted by those numbers and symbols.

Sure enough, the music was turned off before even a song was played, and the tranquility of the past was restored in the yard.

Well, probably the mentality has been adjusted, and I started working again.

Ning Wei also turned on the computer to start his own work. Recently, he has been busy thinking about the compilation of the textbook for the course of artificial intelligence number theory. Think about the structure, as Oda said, so that it is not so difficult for students to learn.It is fun to hold lectures and make other people's students autistic, but it is an accident to make my own students autistic in two classes.

This distinction is rather clear.

Just waited until he entered the password, only to find that his most obedient girl sent him a message.

This is actually very rare. It is said that raising a child is like flying a kite. When you were a child, you had to hold it in your hand and smooth it out. During this process, you must pay special attention to gentleness, otherwise this thing will break for you in minutes...

It has finally grown up enough to let it fly, but it must be firmly controlled, and the wind direction must be watched, otherwise this thing may plunge down from the low sky at any time. Although it is generally not fatal, it can always make people panic, and it is even more terrifying What's more, at this time, the little kite will stick to the ground when there is nothing to do, which is very annoying.

But when you grow up and go to college, you can really fly high. Basically, you don’t need to use any more effort, and you can fly very well in the sky. At this time, it takes a lot of effort to pull it back. , Of course, the line is still in hand at this stage, and I can still receive some signals from the kite every once in a while. Although it is weak, it is very firm and periodic. Generally, it can be summed up in two words: "Make money!"

Of course, when the kite flies higher and you still want to keep in touch with the kite, you really can only rely on you to pull the rope without any problems, and you can’t pull the rope with force, because too much force can break the rope if you don’t know for sure , and then completely lost connection.

This is the paradox of the kite, fearing not to fly high and fearing to fly too high.

The biggest advantage of March is probably that the thread that Ningwei is holding it is very stable and strong, but since this kitten has enough computing power, it has rarely sent messages to Ningwei on its own initiative. A doll that has grown up.

At this moment, seeing Sanyue take the initiative to send him a message, even Ning Wei was a little moved.

I clicked on it, and it turned out that the assigned task was completed.

In March, the children spent about five days designing three different plans for the future science and technology experience city in Luopu County, and also made a project estimate along the way, which can be regarded as a very caring little party.

Ning Wei probably browsed through all three sets of plans, and sure enough, it was still March. The first plan never considered cost issues. No matter how magnificent and brilliant it came, the project almost included the entire county. Directly into the scope of the future city, almost every park is a small city, Pearl Disney will have to kneel after seeing this design plan, of course, the investment will also be doubled crazy, according to the estimate in March, it will probably invest 1200 billion first. look...

This plan is definitely not an option. It’s not such a trick to cheat people. It looks like they only invested more than 300 billion to build a Disney.

The second plan is much more pragmatic. It covers an area of ​​more than 5300 mu. It is designed as three themed parks, a high-tech experience area, a game area, and a future area. The investment is also directly cut by more than half, and it can be done with about 400 billion yuan. .As for the three sets of plans, it is the most low-key, only needs 100 mu of land, and the investment is about more than [-] billion. However, in March, the surrounding planning was made. If the benefits are good, you can directly transition to the second set of plans.

How should I put it, in Ning Wei's view, the latter two plans are feasible, and the specific choice depends on the degree of optimism, courage and vision of investors for this project, and whether they are willing to spend money to achieve it in one step.

After thinking about it for a while, Ning Wei took out his mobile phone and called Yan Ming directly, and the phone was connected as soon as it rang, which shows how much he takes it seriously.

"Mr. Yan, I think of a project. I don't know if Huawei is interested."

"Yes, how could you not be interested? Let me tell you this, Mr. Ning, you have to have a clear understanding of yourself. After all, you are different from other top scholars. Most scholars still need to apply for this national fund. At the time of the national fund, you can already have social enterprises line up to give you money, so we can save the previous procedure, and we are all interested in your project." A strict and clear voice came from the phone .

This also made Ning Wei a little stuck.

Yan Ming's performance was too magnanimous, and he couldn't directly punish Ning Wei. These days, he had brewed a lot of preludes on how to unfold the story, but it was buried in an instant.

"Mr. Yan, don't worry. This project has a relatively large investment, and it may not necessarily make money. It can be said to be a project in concept. I think you should read the information before making a decision." Ning Wei said seriously .

"Oh? How big is the investment? Hundreds of billions of dollars?" Yan Ming asked.

"That's not enough, but it still needs an investment of 500 to [-] billion yuan. My idea is that everyone cooperates to start this project. For example, Huawei, Apple, and some major Internet companies are not included. After all, you have a certain amount of investment in your products. propaganda role." Ning Wei explained.

"Oh, the investment is really not small. Let's do this, no matter whether other companies follow or not, we will definitely vote, and I will be responsible for any problems. In this way, you can send me the project book first, and the specific planning report will be made earlier here. We started the project as early as possible."

Strict and sonorous promises came from the microphone.

Ning Wei was afraid that Yan Ming might get the wrong idea, so he spoke faster and explained: "No, Mr. Yan, listen to me first, I want to build a large-scale tourism project that can experience the future, and the project is tentatively named the Construction of Science and Technology Tourism City plan. The biggest selling point of this project is to allow people to experience some of the latest technologies here in advance, and even create an experience of living in the future.”

"The design of this city includes many aspects. For example, I plan to give all participating companies a special park to display themselves, showing the ideas that belong to their company's understanding of the future. Of course, the biggest selling point of the whole city is to experience the artificial intelligence. The convenience of human life and all these things.”

Soon, a response came from the other side: "Oh! This project sounds good at first glance. Tourism is a green industry. If you make a brand, you can't say it can compare to Disney. What's the meaning of the fairy tale world? The future technology world is king. Well, I think this idea works, although it does not fit well with our main business of Huawei, but since it is a future-oriented technology city, we can completely build our park into a window for external display!"

Ning Wei felt that the conversation could not go on, because Yan Ming had finished telling the stories he wanted to tell first, and did not give him a chance to express himself at all.For a moment, he couldn't even understand who was the initiator of the project.

"So Mr. Yan really thinks that this project has something to do?"

"Well, there must be something wrong. Is Ning always planning to do it in the capital or in the deep city?"

"No, no, I think this kind of project should not be selected in a big city in order to create the strongest sense of contrast, so I hope to start this project in Luopu County."

"Luop County? Where is this place?"

Finally, the conversation became normal, and Ning Wei also began to act normally: "Luopu is a small county under the jurisdiction of Kangcheng City, Sanqin Province. It's normal that Mr. Yan has never heard of it. It's a small place, not famous, but the surrounding The environment is very good. I went to inspect it a few days ago. There are green mountains and green waters, and outstanding people. The project budget is relatively high, and it is also to integrate our future city with the surrounding natural environment to the greatest extent. The concept of coordinated development of the environment."

"Oh! This idea is very good. Is there any point in putting such a high-tech city in an unknown small place? Wait a minute, let me check. There is no high-speed rail here. The distance from the nearest high-speed rail station is Luopu is more than 130 kilometers away, Mr. Ning, have you ever calculated whether the traffic throughput of such a place can bear the investment positioning and achieve publicity?"

Really, Ning Wei felt a little more relaxed when he was questioned. The previous rhetoric was useless, so he asked directly: "Mr. Yan, do you think it is possible for a person to do only the right thing in his life? Or a company will never have Any wrong decisions?"

"Forehead……"

"This project is not necessarily right, but it depends on what angle you stand at. As you said, this investment may not be recovered, and even if it is displayed, it may not be able to achieve publicity effects. In other words, this project There may be some places that violate conventional business logic from the beginning of its birth. But do you believe that many times seemingly wrong decisions can end up with correct benefits?"

"Well... so, Mr. Ning, if this future experience city is built around cities like Shencheng or Mingzhu, I can promise you right away. We will definitely invest in this project, but if it is in Luopu County, it may still be We need to hold a meeting to discuss it, and I really can’t make a promise directly at the moment.”

"That's right. I'll send the project plan to your email first, and your company will discuss it first. If you really don't like it, it's okay if you don't want to invest."

"Mr. Ning, don't worry about this. It's impossible not to vote at all. I'm here to protect my bottom, at least 100 billion! The main thing to discuss in this area is how deep the involvement is. After all, I don't own the company alone. If If I can just make a deal, I really don’t need another partner.”

"Haha, Mr. Yan, you still know how to talk. But this is not good. In fact, the more people involved in this project, the more fun it will be. Later, I will send you the plan. When you have discussed it, call me back, and I will look for it later. family."

"No problem, Mr. Ning!"

……

After hanging up the phone, Ning Wei felt very satisfied.

If you choose the second plan, one-fifth of the funds will be basically stable. If you change to the third plan, you can basically start construction within a few months.

Ningwei is still looking forward to the construction of the future city. It doesn't mean that it's all for Luopu's poverty alleviation and prosperity. What's more important is a blank piece of paper, how March can outline the blueprint for people's lives.

Yes, if the city is really approved, it will also mean that artificial intelligence will participate in the planning and construction of the city for the first time.Although it is only an experiential city, it can also accumulate enough experience for March.

For artificial intelligence, these experiences are invaluable, because they are groups of data that can be preserved forever.

After calling Yan Ming, Ning Wei focused on the work at hand.

Thinking of the students in Ning's class in the future, he actually felt a little distressed, so how useful are these children's little brains?This kind of entangled mentality of fearing that the textbook is too difficult for the child to learn, and that the teaching is too simple to waste the child's brain cells made Ning Wei entangled.

This is a compilation textbook...

How can children learn while scolding when taking this compulsory course in the future?

After thinking for a while, he finally thought of a name for his future course "Introduction to Big Data Science Cognition and Mathematics Foundation".

After typing the title, I suddenly felt my thoughts rush out...

"Introduction: Data is the most basic cognitive object of the brain because it connects real-world entities and their attributes with abstract cognition through perception and quantification. Data originates from the quantification and abstraction of entities, attributes and their relationships. Complexity Data is generated by arithmetic, function, analysis, statistics, numerical and computational operations. Deductive analysis and inductive synthesis of data lead to information, knowledge and intelligence, embodying the cognitive value of big data systems.”

"Chapter 1: Cognitive Models of Data."

"Data are intangible objects in the abstract world. They are the abstract quantification of the attributes or relationships of real entities and their symbolic representations. The essence of data has been clearly defined in the study of conceptual algebra..."

……

United States, California, San Diego, Qualcomm headquarters.

It was already night, but An Meng, the president and CEO of Qualcomm, was at his desk, listening to a report about the CNMD chip.And it is also a report on 180-nanometer technology.

Yes, this is the product released by Huaxia Intelligence Frontier Laboratory a month ago. The bosses of Apple and Intel have already made a trip to China for this small chip, but Anmeng is only now listening to the analysis report from the technical department .

It's not because Qualcomm's technical department is much slower than other companies, but because Qualcomm really did a series of the most tedious tests on the chip in hand, including through various circuit tests, trying to find this new structure. The working mode of the chip.

The reason is simple, for Intel, CNMD is still threatening their future, and for Qualcomm, CNMD has begun to threaten their present.Although Intel has always hoped to get a share of the current hottest mobile Internet field, after so many years of development, radio frequency and baseband chips are not its main business, and the most important source of revenue in the chip field is still CPU.

Qualcomm is different from Intel. With the help of 3G, 4G, CDMA and other communication fields, it has a strong patent layout, coupled with the strong high-end chip market of the Android mobile phone camp, basically all smartphone manufacturers cannot bypass Qualcomm patents regardless of whether they use Qualcomm chips. .

In other words, the current radio frequency, baseband patent licensing revenue and chip sales revenue together constitute the two pillars of Qualcomm's revenue, making Qualcomm a giant that can walk on two legs.Regardless of whether the CNMD structure can be developed into a future general-purpose CPU structure, it is now the only three-dimensional radio frequency chip in the world.

So for this first [-]D radio frequency chip, they have to study more carefully, such as how the chip works and whether their patents are used, which requires a lot of time for various reverse research.

How should I put it, the lawsuit that should be filed still has to be fought, and the countermeasures that should be taken must be taken, otherwise it may directly affect Qualcomm's revenue.In particular, the upgrade of each generation of communication standards can bring a wave of replacements that lasts for four to five years.

The global popularity of 5G networks has just begun to heat up. The first batch of 5G mobile phones are relatively backward in base station construction and the technology is relatively immature. It can be said that they have not fully enjoyed the convenience brought by 5G networks. , The wave of phone replacement is gradually becoming common. It is the time when Qualcomm should make a lot of money, but CNMD popped up. One can imagine how much pressure Qualcomm's semiconductor business and technology departments are under at this time.

"An Meng, the situation is not as optimistic as we thought before. According to this test report, although the new chips of the Huaxia people may use some of our technology in the CDMA system, you should notice that Huaxia Telecom has already Announced that the new 5G mobile phones launched in the future will no longer be allowed to carry the CDMA standard, in other words, at least those manufacturers in China will no longer need to integrate the CDMA standard into the baseband chip.”

"In other words, this kind of radio frequency chip has begun to be put into commercial use, and our patents cannot effectively control it. No matter who gets this technology, if we can't keep ahead, no matter who gets this technology in the future, it may become the next generation. A Qualcomm."

Reporting to Ammon was Red Astor, Qualcomm's vice president of product management.

This is no longer a simple technical issue, but a question of how to deal with the challenges of an emerging market.

History has taught executives of these companies not to underestimate any challenge, just like Nokia, the former overlord of the mobile phone industry, on the eve of smartphones leading the world, did not think that one day the world would be changed by a missing piece of Apple. It is obvious.

The former overlord is a thing of the past.

If Nokia at that time could have reacted earlier, started the mobile Internet, and laid out future-oriented smartphones, relying on its reputation accumulated in the hearts of consumers around the world for many years, it would certainly not have suffered such a miserable defeat, and it was almost powerless to fight back. It disappeared directly from the market within a few years, and even cooperating with Microsoft failed to save this once brilliant mobile phone brand.

"So you mean we should do everything possible to win this technology?" An Meng asked.

Rhett Astor didn't answer, because everyone knows that this is nonsense. Those who can research this technology will naturally know the meaning of this technology, and it will definitely not be so simple for you.

As for Qualcomm, it was originally a company that relied on patent licensing to survive, but now it is buying other people's licenses and licensing them to others?Such an excellent business routine is basically no longer considered.

"Okay, just kidding! Phew..." An Meng took a deep breath, and then asked, "Can you estimate the production cost of this [-]D chip?"

"We have consulted some companies and estimated that the initial production cost will not be too low. At the same time, we do not know the yield rate of the process, but we have received news that Huaxia has started internal and external bidding for this technology, but the choice Most of them are state-owned holding companies. According to our estimates, it will take about three months for these companies to lay production lines, update equipment, and train operators."

"And this period of time is enough for these manufacturers to communicate with major smartphone manufacturers and unify design standards. We have also received news that some of our partners have been called by major Chinese operators to a meeting to discuss the use of new-generation 5G mobile phones. The possibility of using the new [-]D chip, and even some departments began to collect opinions from our customers, let our collaborators raise concerns about the use of Huaxia's new [-]D chip, and start to design solutions."

"So, An Meng, the efficiency of the Chinese people is terribly high. I believe you know that they even claim to have improved the chip manufacturing process to 65 nanometers. Although we have not yet obtained the finished product, there are reliable sources. These are all It’s true. So we can’t wait any longer. If we really allow Huaxia people to successfully use the new chips into products, we will be very passive.”

"Maybe our customers are still hesitating now, and they even turn to us based on a safe mentality, but when the chip really starts to be promoted and applied to actual products, we don't say whether the performance can be superior to ours, even if it is just the same. For Qualcomm It is also disastrous for you. Because you should know the methods used by the Chinese to occupy the market. Once they have sufficient experience in the local market, they can and dare to minimize their profits in order to grab the international market."

Anmon nodded. He agreed with what Reid said, which was nothing more than history repeating itself.There are many reasons why China's manufacturing can cover the whole world, but the root of it is always inseparable from the four words of high quality and low price.This is true for industries that require extremely high investment, such as manufacturing, not to mention the business of lying on patents.

After pondering for a long time, An Meng said: "Maybe we should send an email to tell all our collaborators that the price of using our patent license will be reduced by 30.00% from the previous basis from this year, and continue to use our chip price Ten percent less. What do you think?"

Reid shook his head and gritted his teeth: "Not enough, An Meng, not enough, you have to know that there is another Huawei! They have even announced that they will definitely use 20.00D chips in the next generation of products, you should know the call of this company Effect. Therefore, we need to reduce the cost of our competitors more, so that we can have more room to compete in price! Therefore, I suggest that the price of RF and baseband patent authorization for other smartphone manufacturers be directly discounted in half, and the chip price is reduced by [-]%! This is not the time to worry about the annual financial report, we have to keep those customers, at least let them have no motivation to redesign the next generation motherboard architecture!"

"50.00%?"

An Meng closed his eyes and thought for a while, well, maybe Reid is right, it is true that Qualcomm needs the support of those customers at this time, after thinking about it for a while, he said: "Maybe you are right, Reid, but I I think some restrictions should be added. If our customers can promise not to use other companies’ chip technology within five years, then the patent licensing fee can be reduced by 50.00%, or even more! The chip price can also be reduced by 20.00% as you said. What do you think how?"

"This condition...may put pressure on some Huaxia customers." Reid nodded, slightly suspicious.

"This is a market behavior, and they can't take all the benefits. Reid, to get the board of directors to pass this price reduction plan, we must come up with something more convincing. It's not to take this chip and tell those people on the board of directors this How advanced they are, they will believe it. You must know that their emotions are not stable now! The price cut will make our financial report this year ugly. By the way, I have to talk to TSMC, their chips Foundry costs are too high! They should know that new chip manufacturing technology will not only affect us! They don’t have the ability to produce [-]D chips, and if we can’t make money in the future, so will they!”

"Well, An Meng, maybe you're right."

"So let's settle it for the time being. I will convene a board meeting tomorrow. You have to explain the pros and cons of the matter clearly. We have to convince those old guys together and let them know how bad the market environment we are about to face may be." Bad! God! Don't let them bring up the topic that the R&D department should be replaced as a whole! Don't they know that even damn Intel and IBM can't do anything?!"

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296 Besides us, who else can speak for the earth? !

Huawei, Shenzhen headquarters.

Yan Ming was looking at a map of Huaxia and thinking about it. The outline of Sanqin Province was specially outlined, and the location of Luopu County was the most important.At this moment, Mr. Yan is trying to figure out Ning Wei's thoughts, trying to find out the special features of Luopu from the map.

This is obviously difficult.

Yan Ming thought for a long time but couldn't find out what is so special about this little-known small county.This is actually very troublesome, because he will not be able to explain why Ning Wei made this choice at the rotating chairman meeting.

A little bored, he even wanted to call Ning Wei again, why did he put such a promising project in a small county in the inland of China.If this future city can really be built with the ability of March, it may become a new window for Huaxia to the outside world.

While thinking about Ning Wei's thinking mode, the secretary knocked on the office door.

"Please come in."

"Mr. Yan, I have been notified that a new topic has been added to the rotating chairman meeting in 10 minutes, and the topic has been sent to your mailbox."