My Return to Life

Academician Chen, who had originally planned to lead the team, was specially retained.

Administratively, Shen Demin led the team.

The research and development team is led by Professor Zhang.

A total of 19 people flew from Luzhou to Yangcheng and then to Wanwan Taipei.

This is a plan that has been decided long ago, and it is also the plan with the lowest overall time cost.

The confidentiality of the entire program is very high, and few people know the specific content.

At the very least, he failed to disclose the true purpose of the trip to Luzhou.

On business trip planning is written technical communication.

Even if you don't know how to communicate with the place, at least you can't release a signal of hope when you are obviously not sure of the time.

Although Professor Zhang was not fully prepared at the beginning of the meeting, the follow-up content report was still very clear, and Fang Nian would naturally not stop this planned plan due to a small matter.

Besides, it is within an understandable range.

After all, under normal circumstances, this type of affairs should be summarized and reported by the product manager, so it is difficult to omit a word.

However, the frontier has not yet set up this role in each laboratory.

Part of the responsibilities of this position was assigned to the partial affairs leaders of the R&D teams of each laboratory.

For example, Professor Huang from the Nuwa laboratory and Professor Zhang from the Baize laboratory.

This is mainly because of the particularity of the frontier.

Both laboratories are repeating the wheel, and Fang Nian personally determines the more cutting-edge development plans in the general direction.

of course……

When watching Shen Demin and Professor Zhang leave, Fang Nian was thinking about this in his mind.

Without thinking about it, just one idea:

‘Let professional people take charge of professional matters whole-heartedly. ’

"..."

After sending Professor Zhang and his party, it was almost lunch time.

Lu Weiyu and Guan Qiuhe hosted a banquet for some of the staff in Baize Lab.

There are low-level employees with outstanding performance, as well as administrative management and so on.

Specially found a big hotel to install, a total of five tables.

Fang Nian did not attend, but instead hosted a banquet for Academician Chen alone——

After Academician Chen announced to join Bai Ze after meeting Fang Nian through the relationship of Professor Zhang, Academician Chen is the most powerful one in the field of professional technology of Bai Ze Chip Lab.

After all, it is a very professional technical field, and there is no definite description of how awesome it is.

All I know is that after Academician Chen joined, Professor Zhang and other professors took the initiative to abdicate and let the talents.

I only know that more than half of the new doctoral students in the relevant majors of the Baize Lab on Chip are because of Academician Chen's face, and a small part are former students of Academician Chen.

The last handful is the face of the frontier courtyard.

"..."

Chatting and eating, Fang Nian didn't rush to get to the point.

When it was almost eating, Academician Chen took the initiative to bring up the topic: "President Fang specially left me and entertained me alone. What is your order?"

"Indeed." Fang Nian said frankly without ambiguity, "I have something to talk to the academician."

After a short pause, Fang Nian looked at Academician Chen and said with a smile: "Academician, forgive me, I have always had a doubt in my heart;

Before joining Baize Lab, the academician said, "I wasted half my life, hoping to realize the ideal of his youth." ’, what exactly do you mean? "

Facing Fang Nian's smiling eyes, Academician Chen looked slightly interesting: "I didn't expect a sentence of emotion, Fang Zong actually remembered not to miss a word."

Then he showed his memories and said: "About 30 years ago, my country established a large-scale integrated circuit leading group, formulated an IC development plan, and introduced integrated circuit technology from abroad for the first time...

At that time, I was still an ignorant teenager, and plunged into the field of integrated circuits;

Since then, in the integrated circuit industry, I have been squandering for decades, and I vaguely remembered my childhood ideals when I was over 50 years old. When I met Mr. Fang, I occasionally felt it. "

Speaking of this, Academician Chen paused briefly and said calmly and calmly: "Thirty years ago, my ideal was very simple. To make an excellent general-purpose chip belonging to our country, thirty years have passed, and the ideal is still just an ideal."

After listening to Academician Chen, Fang Nian frowned slightly, and said in confusion: "So, how could academician choose Frontier Baize?

You also said at the conference before that no commercial company will make repeated investments and use the advantages of globalization to integrate the technologies of various solution providers. This is already a common way around the world. "

Academician Chen showed a kind smile: "That's what I said, but Bai Ze has a stronger willingness to invest in chip design than at the frontier, not just a little trouble;

In the past five or six months, Frontier Baize has invested as much as 5.1 billion yuan in the design of the first chip in the laboratory alone. This reason is sufficient..."

"As a professional, I know better how high the knowledge barriers in Europe and the United States are in this extremely sophisticated field. It is almost impossible to create a completely autonomous general-purpose chip;

Specific to the mobile phone SoC, it is even more difficult. Just say which of the CPU, micro-architecture, instruction set, etc. on the SoC is easy, autonomous and universal? "

Having said this, Academician Chen has a smile on his face and has no regrets: "It would be great to be able to continuously promote the development of my country's integrated circuit industry towards self-contained in his lifetime."

Finally, Academician Chen smiled and emphasized: "After all, Bai Ze is the most likely laboratory I have encountered in these years."

Hearing Academician Chen telling his stories and ideas calmly and peacefully, Fang Nian felt a little admiration in his heart.

China's breakthroughs in various fields were not achieved overnight. Behind it is the efforts of thousands of people like Academician Chen.

Continue to accumulate knowledge reserves.

Eventually accumulate.

Fang Nian's thoughts turned for a while, and finally he frankly said: "In fact, I hope that academician can use your contacts to continue to recruit talents for Baize Lab. The current Baize Lab is too small."

"In the chip industry, I personally think that the preciousness is not too expensive." Academician Chen was puzzled.

Fang Nian pondered a little and said frankly: "I have more ideas for Baize Lab. The current professional researchers can indeed be called elite, but the number is far from enough."

After a short pause, Fang Nian said seriously: "Academician, I am sorry, what I want to say next cannot be passed out of this room for the time being, because there will be some unspeakable factors involved, please understand."

Academician Chen nodded solemnly.

Fang Nian cleared his throat and said slightly vaguely: "I have a bolder plan in my mind;

I know that academicians should have doubts, why Bai Ze has unnecessary investment in certain areas, and the funds are as high as billions. "

Academician Chen nodded.

Fang Nian said indifferently: "It's actually very simple. I hope that Bai Ze will become as self-contained as possible a chip design unit."

Academician Chen: "..."

What I said earlier?

Fang Nian didn't hesitate, and continued: "The mobile phone SoC is divided into several modules, including core chip units such as CPU and GPU, and some less important chip units;

I have two paths here. The first is to automate the less important modules such as multimedia, ISP, and DSP;

Of course, I don't like this road.

The second way is to give priority to autonomy of the two core chip units, CPU and GPU, and split a portion of energy to automate other units simultaneously. "

"..."

Academician Chen was silent for a moment, and frowned: "The first road is still a little bit possible, and the second road is too tortuous;

Excellent general-purpose CPU architecture and instruction set are a huge threshold, and there is no hope in a short time. The investment in this area is not comparable now. "

Fang Young smiled lightly, and asked, "Didn't RISC-V only appeared last year?"

"Academician, you should take the time to sort out all the technical data of Baize Lab. There may be some inconspicuous things that you have missed;

In addition, you should have heard of the company Frontier Academics. It has funded many research projects in various domestic universities, including in-depth research based on the RISC-V instruction set, and purely independent instruction set research;

Of course, it also includes processor architecture research projects;

And, more than half of the projects of the Frontier Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China and the cross-research centers under construction will serve related technologies. "

In the end, Fang Nian said in a calm tone: "In a broad sense, the purpose of the frontier is to build the wheel;

Of course, I am a businessman, and business interests will come first. "

After Fang Nian finished speaking, Academician Chen remained silent for a long time, frowning all the time.

Fallen into deep thinking.

Fang Nian did not urge.

It took a long time for Academician Chen to speak slowly: "This is why President Fang specially left me?"

Seeing Fang Nian nodded, Academician Chen said again: "But why?"

"The pure autonomy of an excellent general-purpose mobile phone SoC may cost more money than imagined, or even draw water from a bamboo basket;

Adding independent design elements to the existing solutions is the most suitable choice for commercial interests! "

Fang Nian smiled and said honestly: "For greater business interests;

You should have heard of the Nuwa system. After the incident some time ago, the independent intellectual property rights reached 85%;

Because of sufficient autonomy, commercial benefits have begun to become substantial enough, and the overall profit margin should have exceeded 50%. "

After a brief pause, Fang Nian said: "By the way, Nuwa Lab also chose the development route of first difficulty and then easy development."

Academician Chen pondered for a while and smiled: "I don't seem to have a reason to refuse, and I have no other choice."

"Thank you academician." Fang Nianlian said.

"..."

Then Fang Nian briefly talked about his plan.

"In terms of the long-term development of Bai Ze, this is what I think. It is not appropriate to show the edge too early;

Although the chips sent for streaming now look very good, all major international manufacturers can receive various licensing fees, which is an integrated design solution with a little technical content;

This is also an inevitable choice. Baize needs enough revenue to support the next R&D investment;

Now that Baize has its own office building, my idea is to establish a more independent confidential R&D department internally, and formulate stricter confidentiality regulations, which do not overlap;

This R&D department should be divided into different R&D teams, mainly for independent R&D at the CPU and GPU level. Of course, other independently developed processing units can also be appropriately added;

Strive to design a low-specification independent chip before the end of this year. The process is set at 65nm or even 90nm. The CPU chip unit must complete an independent breakthrough. "

"..."

In short, Fang Nian has related plans and requirements for almost every specific module.

All relevant resources will also be invested in.

Counting last year’s technology acquisitions and technology accumulation, it will take nearly 9 months to make breakthroughs at the low-standard level, which is an overall reliable development path.

of course……

The breakthrough of basic technology is uncontrollable to a certain extent, and it may be delayed.

However, the time set by Fang Nian is relatively loose and ideal.

After all, it's not a problem that can't be taken down at all.

It is nothing more than capital investment.

Anyway, I can still rub the research and development funds of the #01 chip.

At least it can relieve a large part of the financial pressure.

…………

After talking about this matter, Fang Nian turned to another matter.

"Academician, in fact, I still have a ruthless invitation here."

Hearing this, Academician Chen showed an expression of interest: "Oh? Tell me?"

"Frontier has or will build three new laboratories." Fang Nian said with a smile, "respectively for materials, industrial software, and communication standards."

"At present, these three laboratories lack a strong R&D team. I wonder if the academician can introduce some powerful and influential friends to me."

After a short pause, Fang Nian added: “But first I have to state that the investment in these three new laboratories is not large, and it is estimated that the total investment in this year will not exceed 1 billion yuan;

It is a relatively pure experimental research, only the accumulation of intellectual property rights, and there is no plan to launch a product alone for the time being. "

After listening to Fang Nian's words, Academician Chen smiled: "President Fang is trying to squeeze all my abilities, resources, and contacts, um..."

"There's a word "wool", you didn't catch a sheep like that, right?"

Upon seeing this, Fang Nian pretended to sigh deeply~www.ltnovel.com~ He sighed: "Academician, you don’t know, the frontier is difficult, and the talent absorption is too weak. I can’t wait to learn from Zhou Gong, but at all There is no way to ask for talent."

"Although each laboratory has established a Frontier Institute, it is still separated by a floor after all."

"Ugh……"

Academician Chen quickly interrupted: "Okay, OK, I'll contact Fang Zong right away!"

He is a half-year-old half-old man who has devoted his life to scientific research, so he has never seen such a scene.

When you talk about complaints, you will complain, the expression is really sad, and the listeners cry.

The Oscar actor couldn't bear it.

As soon as Academician Chen agreed, Fang Nian immediately showed a happy smile: "Thank you, Academician, just two days after tomorrow, the academician has been working hard during this time. Why don't you go to see the motherland?"

"I..." Academician Chen felt that his throat was blocked by sputum, and he wanted to cough especially.

Is this thing in front of me a person?

Did you really catch him and ‘squeeze’ hard by himself?

Academician Chen felt inexplicably that he was really too risky last year.

This half of his life has been to contribute his knowledge and ability to the country. When he grows old, he chooses to join the laboratory of a private enterprise. Although he is a named honorary director, he has not moved since he arrived in Luzhou. The facts of the state have been very obvious.

Now, is this not a guarantee for the late festival?