Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

In April, Wujiang Microelectronics' CPU chip design team established an independent subsidiary called Loongson Design Company.

The first chip brand is: [Kirin].

In a spacious and bright laboratory, members of Loongson Design Company are testing and analyzing data from Kirin 1 and Z80 chips.

The first CPU they designed, Kirin 1, targets the Z80 chip.

"The Z80 has 9000 transistors and supports up to 158 assembly instructions, while Kirin 1 has 1.2 transistors and supports up to 256 assembly instructions. Its performance is much better than the Z80!"

As soon as a researcher finished speaking, a man walked in carefully holding a cardboard box outside the door, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Zhou Qing, what are you holding in your hands? You are so careful for fear of falling!" someone asked.

Zhou Qing put the box on the table and replied: "This is a 32-bit chip ARM-1 recently released by the British Acorn Computer Company. This chip, like our Kirin chip, is also based on reduced instruction set (RISC). ) and designed!”

It’s also a reduced instruction set (RISC) chip! ! !

When everyone heard this, they were immediately startled and came over one after another.

Since complex instruction set (CISC) developed earlier than reduced instruction set (RISC), most chips on the market are complex instruction set chips, such as Intel chips.

When everyone heard that some companies also used reduced instruction sets to develop chips, they couldn't help but feel that we were not alone.

"Zhou Qing, open the box quickly and let's take a look at what a 32-bit RISC chip looks like!"

They had just designed an 8-bit RISC chip, so they were very curious about the 32-bit RISC chip.

Zhou Qing slowly opened the carton. A square chip smaller than a matchbox lay quietly there. It was packaged on the outside and the specific structure could not be seen clearly.

Everyone couldn't wait to pick up the ARM1 chip and put it on the laboratory machine for testing.

Soon, the data of ARM1 came out.

ARM1 has 25000 transistors, is a 3um process, runs at 6MHz, uses an 84mm package, and is 30mm wide. There are yellow ceramic disc capacitors on the ARM1 motherboard.

Take a closer look at the ARM1 chip and you may see its functional blocks, such as 100-byte registers and a basic 32-bit ALU.

After reading these data, everyone was amazed.

Zhao Ye walked in at this time.

Seeing everyone talking about the ARM1 with envious faces, Zhao Ye just glanced at it lightly, and then said: "This ARM1 chip is indeed excellent, but the next Kirin 2 we develop will not be worse than it. Kirin 2 will jump Pass 16-bit chips and directly develop 32-bit chips!”

If it weren't for training these people, Zhao Ye could have designed a 32-bit chip himself, but the workload would be too much.

In the future, we will need to design more advanced CPUs, which cannot be completed by one person. This requires a good chip design team.

It is quite necessary to cultivate talents.

Kirin 1 can be regarded as their hands-on production under the leadership of Zhao Ye.

The chip that can really be applied to PCs depends on the 32-bit Kirin 2.

However, the performance of Kirin 1 is also quite powerful, surpassing that of Z80, and is enough to be used in many fields.

Next is Zhao Ye's class session.

He had studied this ARM1 extremely thoroughly in his previous life.

Zhao Ye walked to the blackboard in the laboratory and began to explain the design principles and methods of ARM1.

Everyone listened mesmerized, and when Zhao Ye talked about some important points, they quickly took notes.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but nodded secretly when he saw that everyone was so eager to learn.

People in the 21s and s grew up in poverty, were diligent and eager to learn, and cherished the opportunity to learn. College students generally have real talents and practical learning. In the st century, as universities expand their enrollment, many people go to university just to get by. Graduation often equals unemployment.

Zhao Ye is really very satisfied with the Loongson design team.

Their progress is very fast, and they take the initiative to work and study overtime until late at night almost every day.

This would have been impossible in the previous life. Very few people were willing to take the initiative to work overtime, and overtime pay was not given.

The improvement work of the BG-101 stepper lithography machine is also going very smoothly. After all, there is strength in numbers.

Kirin 1 chips are produced on a small scale in the laboratory using an improved BG-101 stepper lithography machine, and the chip production yield exceeds 87%. Academicians such as Huang Kun are currently writing production processes based on laboratory research and development, and will then conduct trial mass production in the wafer fab.

In the past few months, the changes in the domestic semiconductor industry can simply be described as thriving.

But in the final analysis, China's foundation is better.

In the early 1980s, China's semiconductor technology was still at the forefront of the world.

In the past, there was a lack of funds, equipment and materials. No matter how hard the scientific researchers worked, it was just a matter of skill.

The wisdom and diligence of the Chinese people are engraved in their bones.

In the past few months, Zhao Ye couldn't help but admire the hard-working and diligent research spirit of the scientific researchers, especially the older generation of scientists, such as the 76-year-old Academician Huang Kun, the founder of China's semiconductor technology. , and spent the whole day doing research in the laboratory with a group of young people.

If Zhao Ye hadn't been worried about his physical condition and forced him to rest, he might have moved his bed into the laboratory and lived there directly.

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“The trial mass production of Kirin 1 is about to begin, and it’s time for Wujiang Group to enter the game console market!”

Zhao Ye stood in front of the window, looking at the big osmanthus tree outside the window, and murmured to himself.

Boom boom boom!

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in!"

Zhao Ye shouted loudly.

Immediately, secretary Liu Yinyin opened the door and walked in.

"Boss, the construction of Wujiang Computer Training School has been completed. The founding ceremony will be held in a week. Principal Chen Guoliang asks you to attend the founding ceremony!"

"Well, it's natural to attend such an important event as the school's founding ceremony. Is there anything else?"

"Yes! Currently, students from the Wujiang Imagine typewriter training class have graduated one after another. So far, there have been more than 3,600 people. Imagine print shops are located in various large, medium and small cities across the country. Lu Maoshi, the head of Wujiang Investment Department, worked hard to Finally, we successfully negotiated with the government and realized our investment plans in Shandong Sun Paper and Shanghai Peony Ink Factory.”

Nowadays, it is more difficult to acquire state-owned enterprises. If Wujiang Group was not well-known and could reach Tianting, it would be difficult to complete this investment plan.

Zhao Ye couldn't help but look happy when he heard this.

Lu Maoshi had reported to him before that he was interested in Shandong Sun Paper and Shanghai Peony Ink Factory, and felt that these two companies had greater development potential.

Zhao Ye also had to admire Lu Maoshi's vision.

Shandong Sun Paper and Shanghai Peony Ink Factory were both domestic industry leaders in 2024 in their previous lives.

Now for only 250 million yuan, you can become a major shareholder of these two companies. Among them, 100 million was spent on investing in Sun Paper and 150 million was spent on investing in Shanghai Peony Ink Factory.

Wujiang Group’s shareholding ratio in these two companies has reached 49%.

In the future, Wujiang Group will also find ways to increase capital and completely control these two companies.

"Boss, if everything is okay, then I'm leaving." After Liu Yinyin reported, she was ready to leave.

"Well, go ahead and get busy."

Zhao Ye was in a good mood. He walked to his desk and sat down, and continued to think about the game console. He had an amazing idea in his mind, which was to overthrow the Nintendo mountain...

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