Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

Bai Chuanfeng returned to Tokyo to deal with the accumulated matters at hand, and the time has entered mid-February.

People below will always pay attention to the Walkman market, and the next generation of product development tasks have also been assigned.

In the face of so many competitors, there is no shortcut but to face it head-on.

However, Shirakawa Electric's Walkman has been sold for more than a year, and the brand image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

With the market he has cultivated, Bai Chuanfeng still maintains a relatively optimistic attitude towards the Walkman business.

As for the handheld business, he also has some ideas. However, specific matters need to be discussed with HAL and Akagi.

Except for these more important things that are in front of Bai Chuanfeng, the only thing left is SIC.

Daikanyama, Shibuya, SIC building.

Unlike the empty scene last time, not only the front desk was already in place in the reception hall on the first floor.

There are also people in those small conference rooms, most of them are interviewing the talents needed by various departments.

The research and development of chips, the development of CD formats, etc. all require professional and high-end technical personnel.

Although Donggong University has a large number of highly educated talents, the practical experience is lacking after all.

Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of research and development, mature technical personnel are indispensable.

And considering the growth of SIC, the trainees in the school cannot be let go.

Both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard.

As for the specific talents that need to be recruited, it is up to Shimasa Toshi and the others to decide.

Led by his assistant, Bai Chuanfeng took the elevator to the fifth floor, where the SIC chip technology development area was located.

When the group of them arrived here, Uchijima Masatoshi and Yamazaki Akira were pointing at the computer screen in the office.

Bai Chuanfeng, who had already arrived, stopped the assistant's reminder, but stood behind them and waited quietly.

"The size adjustment of the transistor must be reasonable, not necessarily the smaller the better. Reducing power consumption and delay is our ultimate goal.

In addition, when the manufacturing process enters the sub-micron level, the influence of the interconnection delay between circuits on the performance of the circuit even exceeds the influence of the logic gate delay itself.

At this time, when we design the circuit, we must consider the capacitive effect and inductive effect between the wire nets.

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"Does the negative impact of clock skew and clock tree parasitic parameters also need to be avoided in advance?"

"That's right,..."

While Shimasa was talking eloquently, Akira Yamazaki on the side nodded from time to time, or continued to ask questions.

And Bai Chuanfeng, who was listening behind them for a while, soon felt a little dizzy.

Those technical terms don't seem easy to mess with.

Finally, when Shimasato picked up the coffee, he noticed the figure behind him out of the corner of his eye.

"Hey, President Shirakawa." Shimasato quickly put down his half-drinked coffee.

When Yamazaki Hui beside him saw Bai Chuanfeng, he subconsciously got up to greet him.

"Shima-san, you're welcome. You and Yamazaki-kun continue the discussion, and I'll take a look."

Bai Chuanfeng stretched out his hand to signal that they don't need to be polite, and he wouldn't bother them unless something happened.

Technology research and development is most taboo to be interrupted by various trivial matters, so the whole SIC building is relatively quiet compared with the surrounding area.

"Almost all the things that need to be discussed have been discussed, but if Bai Chuan-san doesn't come, I'm going to look for it myself."

Shimasa Toshi waved his hand to indicate that he was not in a hurry for the time being. He was mainly teaching Akira Yamazaki about chip design precautions.

Bai Chuanfeng randomly pulled a chair and sat down in front of them, "I'm really sorry, I just came to discuss the back-end design of the chip with Shima-san today."

When the SIC building was completed a few years ago, Shirakawa Kaede and Shimasato had held a meeting.

The front-end design of the chip is expected to be completed a year ago, and most of the work in the back-end design is also coming to an end in January.

According to the plan, physical design will be carried out in February, and this part of the work already needs to be docked with semiconductor manufacturers.

But because Bai Chuanfeng was delayed for some time at Akita, the development progress of the chip is slightly delayed now.

Fortunately, the impact time is not too long. Bai Chuanfeng rushed to SIC as soon as possible after dealing with urgent matters.

Now that Shirakawa Kaede is here, Shimasatoshi also gets straight to the point.

"Because I didn't identify the specific semiconductor manufacturer, I collected the process technology information of several major semiconductor companies in Japan and did some preliminary work."

As he said that, Shimasatoshi opened the design drawings on the computer and pointed them to Shirakawa Feng.

"The layout and wiring of the main body has been roughly completed. After the subsequent branching and details are completed, the integrated circuit layout can be entered into the actual process manufacturing stage."

Looking at the dense transistors and circuits on the computer screen, although Bai Chuanfeng couldn't understand them, he thought they were very cute.

This is the power of knowledge. Thousands of transistors are arranged neatly and orderly like ants on the computer screen.

The circuit composed of them is extremely complicated, but now it is necessary to gather all these on a small chip and run smoothly.

Among them, it is necessary to consider the interaction between the entire circuit, power consumption, delay, logic relationship, and so on.

Just thinking about it, Bai Chuanfeng felt daunting.

Sure enough, it is not an exaggeration to say that chips are the ultimate manifestation of human technological development.

And Bai Chuanfeng also admired the bigwigs in this industry.

"Shima-san, I don't understand technical things. You just need to tell me, now I can help it..." Bai Chuanfeng pointed to the circuit diagram on the computer screen, "What can I do for it?"

Shimasa Toshi likes Shirakawa Kaede's style of really wanting to do things, meaningless greetings and politeness are of no help to him.

"First, we need to confirm the processor of the chip as soon as possible. After the physical design is completed, it will enter the manufacturing verification stage.

This is equally important for chip design, any chip requires a lot of adjustment and verification before it is released.

Second, Bai Chuan-san, please consider the future application prospects of this chip as soon as possible.

If it is only designed but not used in production, then its existence will be meaningless. "

Needless to say, the first point is the most urgent task at present, and Bai Chuanfeng also has his own plan.

“What does Shimasou think of Fujitsu about the chip maker?”

"Fujitsu? Of course no problem." Shimasa Toshi knew several semiconductor manufacturers in Neon's homeland like the palm of his hand.

After all, not everyone can make high-end products like chips.

There are only a few in Japan, NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, among which Fujitsu probably ranks third.

In today's era, the chip manufacturing process is still at the micron level, and the technological gap between them is basically the same.

Therefore, there is absolutely no problem in choosing Fujitsu as the OEM. Technically speaking, there is absolutely no problem.

The reason why Bai Chuanfeng chose Fujitsu was because it was also a member of the First Bank Consortium.

With the good foundation of cooperation before, Bai Chuanfeng believes that there should be no problem with Fujitsu.

However, the specific situation needs to be known after talking with Fujitsu.

Seeing Shirakawa Kaede's confidence, Shimasato didn't delve into why he chose Fujitsu.

For him, as long as he can meet the technical requirements, it doesn't matter who he does it for.

The first thing is settled, then the second thing...

"Shima-san, I would like to ask, based on your estimated chip performance of SIC? How is it compared with Intel's 8086 or Zligo's 8000?"

To ask how the prospect of the chip is, of course we must first look at its performance.

Hearing Shirakawa Kaede's question, Shimasatoshi changed from his usual humility.

"I dare not say anything about the others, but at least they will not be weaker than them." Regarding this, Shimasa Toshi is quite confident.

Joking about the former family members of these two chips, he was personally involved in the design.

Even Zligo's Z8000, Shimasatoshi is also involved.

So he knows their performance well.

Moreover, at the beginning of the design of this chip of SIC, the target is Intel's 8086 and zligo's z8000.

The latter two are basically products of two or three years ago. Although SIC is a latecomer, it will not be worse than them.

Hearing Shimasatoshi's guarantee, Shirakawa Feng was very satisfied.

This is the first product of SIC, and it is really rare to have such performance.

"Regarding the prospect of using the chip, Shima-san will please list a range that is suitable for it later, and I will focus on it."

Of course, Bai Chuanfeng will not only make chips for his own use. He has already planned to familyize them.

Isn't the purpose just to bring it to the market and create profits for SIC?

To put it bluntly, a chip is also a product, Shimasatoshi is in charge of research and development, and Shirakawa Kaede is in charge of selling it.

Moreover, the larger the chip output, the lower the cost and the higher the profit.

"By the way, Bai Chuan-san, the research and development of the chip will soon come to an end. So what do you think about its naming?"

Nowadays, there is no habit of naming chips, and most of them are named directly after the model.

Later generations also retained this naming method on processors, with the exception of mobile phone processors.

Those who didn't know the names of all kinds of hanging bombs thought they were in the Conferred God War.

Xiaolong, Qilin, Tianji...Look, it's a proper fight between gods and gods.

However, Bai Chuanfeng didn't intend to do this, and it's still an era of selling products, not just a gimmick to sell a certain part.

And when he saw Shimasato's eager eyes, he knew that he couldn't hold it anymore.

"If Shima-san has a good idea, you might as well say it and listen."

Bai Chuanfeng is very open about this aspect, and as a designer, he also respects the other party's rights in this aspect.

Sure enough, hearing what Shirakawa Feng said, Shimasato immediately became very excited.

"Bai Chuan-san, how about calling it SIC8081?"

"8081?"

SIC Bai Chuanfeng understands what 8081 means.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Shimasato explained further.

"SIC was founded in '80, and its first chip was born in '81.

So putting these two numbers together as a commemoration, everyone thinks it is very good. "

If you explain it like this, it's not bad.

"According to what Yijima-san said, the first chip of SIC should be called 8081." Since everyone was satisfied, Bai Chuanfeng also followed suit.

"Yo Xi, SIC8081 will definitely enter the commercial stage this year."

This is a chip developed entirely by Shimasa Toshi himself, and he has put a lot of effort into its future.

Now that victory is in sight, he is also full of ambition.