My Return to Life

The six-story Luzhou Frontier R&D Center, which covers an area of ​​12 acres, is located just south of Shuxi Lake.

When you look at it, it appears rather thin among the wasteland.

Far less eye-catching than the frontier University of Science and Technology Research Institute under construction on the east side and the Dangkang Luzhou R&D Center on the east side.

As if in a barren, civilization suddenly began to'appear'.

Although the R&D center has only one building, it is roughly a comprehensive building.

The green area covers nearly four acres.

The nearest part of the building is also nearly 20 meters away from the highway.

There are basic fences on all sides of the entire area, which is not too high, about two meters, and the average adult can climb the wall with a little effort.

Of course, it can also play a general protective role, plus the high-definition camera assisted intrusion warning, basically it can only be accessed from a few entrances.

The whole building is an irregular cuboid, about 50 meters wide and 150 meters long.

As the surrounding infrastructure facilities are not complete, the building is equipped with independent staff canteens, retail stores, indoor fitness center and other basic convenience facilities.

All considerations are still in place.

Just...

If you are tired of eating in the cafeteria and want to eat outside, it’s a little bit harder. The nearest one is two kilometers away.

All in all, as far as the current situation is concerned, although it is considered sufficiently thoughtful, it is not convenient to live and relax outside of work.

Even if the research center arranges commuter buses in various areas, etc., it is still not as good as working in the city center and other places——

Fortunately, the office of the Baize Lab was originally two kilometers away.

The purpose is to adapt to the remoteness and barrenness of the high-tech zone in advance.

Excluding the space occupied by necessary facilities, there are still nearly 35,000 square meters of office space.

With a total of less than 700 people in the Baize Laboratory, it is more than enough to accommodate.

That's right, after a period of development, Baize Lab can be called a plethora of talents with the help of platforms such as Luzhou, University of Science and Technology, Frontier, and Frontier Institute...

Fang Nian and Lu Weiyu walked into the R&D center together, and there were brand-new traces everywhere, which was particularly pleasing to the eye.

It is obvious that the faces of busy people are smiling more.

Although the whole building was unveiled half a month after the renovation was completed, people are still not concerned about air pollution issues such as excessive indoor formaldehyde;

But as early as the beginning of the project, Fang Nian specifically asked relevant units to pay attention to this aspect.

Not only is there special attention to the decoration materials, but also special professional air purification, which is also the humanitarian standard that Dangkang has always followed.

After entering the elevator, Lu Weiyu suddenly asked: "Are you nervous?"

"Huh?" Fang Nian didn't react.

Lu Weiyu chuckled and repeated it again: "I mean, the film is officially launched today. Are you nervous?"

"What can I be nervous about." Fang Nian smiled indifferently, "I want to say that I have results in my heart, do you believe it?"

"Oh?" Lu Wei said, her eyebrows moved lightly, "Can you tell me?"

In response to Lu Weiyu's curious look, Fang Nian shook his head solemnly: "No."

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The building was not very high, and the elevator arrived immediately.

After getting out of the elevator, Shen Demin had already waited specially, and Lu Weiyu couldn't ask any more.

A group of people walked into the first meeting room that was just opened.

There were already a lot of people sitting inside.

After all, this is the first important high-level meeting since the establishment of the Baize Lab on a Chip.

The administrative department, headed by Shen Demin, came five people.

Administrative supervisor Shen Demin, two deputy supervisors, human resources and finance.

A dozen people came to the R&D team.

There are Academician Chen Fang Nian who has met several times in Shencheng, and Professor Zhang who has always been mentioned.

The others are important persons in charge of all links.

In addition, it is a group of people from Shanghai.

In addition to Fang Nian, Lu Weiyu, and Guan Qiuhe, Xue Si also attended the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Shen Demin.

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A simple opening remark, and then introduced the identity of Fang Nian and others.

Except for a few insiders, most people know that Fang Nian is Fang Nian for the first time.

Although there was an attendance at the opening ceremony just now, there was no introduction of the other party.

At the end, Shen Demin briefly reported on the administrative work of Baize Laboratory: "President Fang, the administrative work of Baize Laboratory is roughly like this."

Actually there is nothing to say.

Shen Demin knows very well what the core of Baize Lab is, and the administrative team is a coordinator.

Moreover, Baize Lab does not have independent financial rights.

Although the administrative team includes a human and financial team, it is only responsible for the financial accounting of laboratory employees and does not have independent financial distribution rights.

In summary, it is four words:

Cooperate properly.

Fang Young nodded lightly without making a speech.

Shen Demin immediately started the second process: "Professor Zhang, please give a summary report on the progress of the laboratory's research and development work."

Professor Zhang does his part.

I opened the folder and made a report at a glance: "President Fang, Mr. Lu, Mr. Guan, the research and development of the laboratory is progressing smoothly;

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Through the unremitting efforts of the team, the entire design process of the smartphone SoC has been completed. "

"..."

After Professor Zhang finished his report, the conference room fell into a moment of silence.

Fang Nian waited for a while and found that there was no text, and his brows could not help but frowned: "That's it all?!"

Then emphasized the tone: "What about the finished chip design? What about the expected parameters and performance indicators of the chip design? What about the tape-out plan?"

"I don't understand the internal design of the chip, but I can still understand the functional modules, parameters, and performance indicators to be achieved?!"

After Fang Nian's words fell, the needle in the conference room was suddenly heard.

Everyone felt the pressure brought by Fang Nian.

Professor Zhang, who was over half a hundred years old, got up quickly: "Sorry, President Fang, please wait a moment, I forgot."

Academician Chen, who is also over half a hundred years old, also hurriedly followed up: "I'm really sorry, we are not fully prepared."

"..."

Fang Nian didn't say much, and waited for the following.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became depressed.

Shen Demin is kind of strange, shouldn't he be prepared?

Fang Nian has also browsed the laboratory summary reports. They are all the specific progress of each stage, and there is no problem.

But he really didn't expect this to happen at the meeting.

Soon, Professor Zhang opened the U disk he carried with him through the computer in the conference room.

This is data with relatively low confidentiality, and there is no too strict standard, and it should have appeared in the meeting, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But Professor Zhang still explained: "This is the information that can be disclosed at internal meetings, and it is brought out in strict compliance with the confidentiality regulations."

"In principle, the finished chip design drawings are not allowed to be brought to the conference room, so there are none here."

Fang Nian nodded and signaled to continue.

Professor Zhang quickly started the PPT presentation.

"This chip, named Baize #01 internally, is designed in accordance with the 28nm process standard...

The CPU uses ARMv7 instruction set, cortex-A9 architecture...

Integrated PowerVRSGX540GPU...

Integrated baseband WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, CMDA2000......"

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"CPU clocked at 1.3Ghz, 4 cores, the expected processing performance will be 120% of Apple's A5 chip..."

"Support 32-bit dual-channel LPDDR2800mhz memory..."

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"Support 8 million pixel camera, support 1080P display, support NFC, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi..."

"According to the established goals of the project, the performance of the design plan in terms of graphics processing performance and processing new energy will comprehensively exceed the Apple A5 chip by 20%."

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From this point of view, Professor Zhang really just forgot for a while.

After all, PPT is well prepared.

After the same thing, Professor Zhang finally showed a mobile phone SoC simulation diagram through projection, showing the various components.

Divided into two columns.

From top to bottom on the left are: baseband: modem and Wi-Fi, digital signal processor (DSP), audio codec, system memory (RAM);

From top to bottom on the right are: graphics processing unit (GPU), central processing unit (CPU), image signal processing (ISP), multimedia and navigation positioning modules.

It can be seen from this rendering simulation that the mobile phone SoC is a complex integration solution.

It is almost a one-to-one ratio, and the CPU only accounts for 15% of the entire SoC.

The rest are all other functional modules.

In terms of these parts alone, Bai Ze Lab has a long way to go.

Looking at the trademarks of different companies on this picture, Fang was silent for a long time.

The meeting room also fell into silence.

For a long time, Fang Nian smiled and said, "Is there 5% of its own intellectual property rights?"

Facing Fang Nian's gaze, Academician Chen coughed slightly: "The current rough estimate is less than 10%, and it must be a little more than 5%."

Fang Nian laughed twice and said in a joking tone: "If, I mean, if from tomorrow, all chip solution suppliers, including the arm company, refuse to cooperate with Baize, how long will it take for Baize to Make a decent chip."

"According to the current technical reserves and accumulation, in extreme cases, it will take at least one year." Academician Chen also answered with a smile.

"It may be faster or maybe, because we have not fully absorbed the current technology accumulation of Baize Lab. After all... Now this chip numbered 01 has very strong requirements for the mass production time of the finished product."

Then Academician Chen explained: “In a harsher term, the laboratory is only an integrator this time;

This is also what almost all chip design companies do, based on the infrastructure of each solution supplier to carry out their own corners and corners;

After all, it is now a global cooperation. With foreign solution providers such as Qualcomm and ARM, commercial companies do not need to invest repeatedly. "

After Academician Chen finished speaking, Fang Nian smiled and nodded: "This is indeed the case, after all, it is too wasteful to re-create wheels."

With that said, Fang Nian sighed in his heart.

In fact, when this industry is really involved, we know how high the overall knowledge barrier is.

It is too difficult for a commercial company to do everything again.

It is not difficult to understand that from beginning to end, China has not had a semiconductor company with completely independent intellectual property rights.

Including the much-anticipated Hisilicon Kirin.

The CPU architecture is arm, the instruction set is arm, and the GPU is the mali series acquired by arm in 2006...and so on.

If you insist, outside of Qualcomm, that is, Apple has a higher degree of self-development. Following Qualcomm, the self-developed GPU is used.

of course……

No company in the world can achieve 100% self-owned mobile phone SoC.

Especially in the CPU architecture and instruction set of the mobile phone SoC, because all use arm.

but……

When Fang Nian founded Bai Ze, he felt that Bai Ze should challenge the complete self-determination of the core components.

100% impossible, try for 95%.

For example, the system memory particles are made in China.

Others are nothing more than protocol standards, such as Wi-Fi with patent fees, such as mobile communication standards.

It doesn't matter. Frontier academics are in the accumulation period in these aspects.

Even Wi-Fi, because with the development of the times, WiFi standards are also iterating...

The atmosphere in the conference room is finally much relaxed.

Academician Chen also added one more sentence: "From next week, some members of the team will enter the stage of technical combing and integration, and will systematically organize all the outputs in the past few months."

Fang Nian didn't say much, he glanced at the projection: "I heard that some mobile phone SoCs are beginning to integrate security chips, can they also be added."

Academician Chen groaned: "I have heard of it, but it is not the mainstream. The time window of this first generation is too tight. Can it be postponed?"

Upon seeing this, Fang Nian made a gesture and chuckled lightly: "Just ask to confirm."

"Although I don't understand the internal expertise of the chip, but seeing this picture, I have some ideas;

Mobile phone SoC is different from computer CPU, it is a highly integrated system chip, in order to realize more and more functions, will it gradually iterate some new functional modules with the development of the times?

Such as higher experience audio and video;

There may even be new processing units, such as artificial intelligence processing units;

I think the era of mobile intelligence has just begun. There are many unexplored areas. It does not necessarily mean that the West is an absolute standard. "

Finally, Fang Nian looked at everyone and smiled lightly: "Academicians of these issues can think about it carefully."

After listening to Fang Nian, all the R&D engineers present, including Academician Chen, were in a trance.

From the aura pressure brought by Fang Nian's two simple sentences, to the things mentioned under lightly now...

They finally realized why the actual helm of such a large frontier system is such a young youth.

Finally, of course, I also talked about the tapeout plan.

Professor Zhang said: "The original plan was to set off for the Gulf Streaming film this afternoon. Considering that currently only TSMC has a 28nm process and it is not fully mature and other possible impacts, the result of the first tapeout may not Not as expected by design;

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The overall planning cycle from the beginning of the tape out to the end of the test is 10 days, with 1 day redundancy;

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Finally, Professor Zhang also mentioned the crucial cost of tape-out: "Because it is the latest process, only a full-mask solution can be used. TSMC’s offer is 9.5 million US dollars once."

After Professor Zhang finished speaking, Shen Demin added: "We have negotiated with TSMC many times on the cost. It is a discounted price after considering the acceptance of the new process. There is no way to lower it."

After listening, Fang Nian showed a smile ~www.ltnovel.com~ and said: "Ideally, the cost of tape-out would also cost US$20 million..."

"In this way, let me make it clear first, at most three tapeouts can be performed under the current performance standard design scheme;

After that, you must give a decent solution anyway. The final time is June 15th. I only look at the results. Are there any problems? "

Academician Chen, Professor Zhang and others hurriedly answered seriously: "No problem!"

"Thank you, Mr. Fang, for his great support to our experiment."

"..."

The opening is 30 million yuan, more than two billion yuan of film costs, this kind of large-scale work is also the first time in their experience.

We must know that a large number of chip design teams, companies, laboratories, etc. may take two or three years to tape out once.

The key point is that this is not a low-process tape-out, only three to five million dollars at a time.

The $9.5 million tape-out cost is three times more expensive than the 45nm tape-out cost!

Even if it is for money, they have to bring out something.

After all, with the accumulation of massive knowledge and capital investment, it also provided three opportunities for actual modification. If not, Academician Chen felt that he was shameless.

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In the early afternoon, Fang Nian personally sent the team to Wanwan: "I wish you every success..."

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