The technological empire begins with polymer materials

While Gao Yuan was thinking hard, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

When he opened it, he saw Cao Feiyu and Chu Luoluo. They were neatly dressed and came to ask Gao Yuan to have breakfast with them. They would then continue to conduct inspections and arrangements between the Gobi and Kunlun Mountains.

After all, Kunlun Group is the owner of Sky City. It has invested huge amounts of money in this future city project, and many project outsourcing contracts have yet to be drawn up.

As for the project to divert the water system from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into Xinjiang, the most expensive eastern route will be undertaken by the national team, while the western route will be undertaken by the Kunlun Group in cooperation with several major state-owned enterprises. In the future, cities will be built and grain and fruits will be grown in the Tarim Basin, as will the national team. Have shares.

An idealist like Gao Yuan is never afraid of tying his own interests to the national team. As long as he can achieve his goal and see China leading the world toward the stars and the sea in his lifetime, everything else must make way for the ultimate goal.

"Boss, are you worried?"

While eating breakfast, Chu Luoluo saw that Gao Yuan was absent-minded and often sluggish, so he asked curiously.

Gao Yuan shook his head, "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about how to arrange the company's next task after I go back."

So this is ah…

Chu Luoluo nodded repeatedly, feeling that being the boss was really tiring.

Gao Yuan is the backbone of the entire company. In the hardware department plus the software department, hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for Gao Yuan to give orders and point out the direction of research and development. The pressure on the boss must be great.

Gao Yuan does not intend to make the chip plan public or publicize it with great fanfare.

After all, this is the core competition in the earth's technology field. Back then, in order to kill Huawei's communication technology and chip technology, North America's actions can be described as crazy.

The Angsa Group is like a pack of crazed wolves, guarding their territory.

Chips, aerospace, biopharmaceuticals, military industry, satellite communications, artificial intelligence, genetically modified agricultural products, quantum, culture...

These are the core areas of competition among major forces on Earth, and in some of them, China has already taken the lead, such as Kunlun Group's artificial intelligence and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' quantum communications and quantum computing.

There are also some that China is catching up with at full speed, such as the aerospace field. With the blessing of super materials, super machine tools, Aurora motors, solid-state batteries and many other black technologies, the aerospace field is catching up quickly, but there is still a long way to go. distance.

Gao Yuan decided to act secretly and quietly extended his tentacles to the semiconductor field.

It's not that they are afraid of anything, but that North America is on the verge of madness today. Plateau is not afraid of them attacking it. It has system support. Kunlun Group is a pure R\u0026D group that does not manufacture products or participate in market operations.

But if they attack Kunlun Group's partners with all their strength, it will inevitably cause a lot of trouble, so they should act quietly and wait until they truly master the entire semiconductor industry technology.

For three days, Gao Yuan led Cao Feiyu and Chu Luoluo around Western Xinjiang, signing a large number of project contracts and completing a large number of project details.

When Gao Yuan set off back to Jiangnan headquarters, Xu Qingzhou, a passionate young man, also arrived in Xijiang at the same time.

Xu Qingzhou was full of enthusiasm and promised Gao Yuan that he must witness the establishment of the Sky City with his own eyes, protect Western Xinjiang, benefit the people of that area, etc., and leave it to him to complete it!

Gao Yuan was deeply relieved and told Xu Qingzhou to contact him if he had anything to do, so he patted his butt and returned to Jiangnan, leaving Xu Qingzhou at the dusty construction site to perform supervisory duties as a representative of Party A of the project.

The news of Gao Yuan and Cao Feiyu's return excited the company's employees.

According to Kunlun Group's consistent rules, when a scientific research project is completed, a holiday will be given first, bonuses will be paid, and then the next project will begin.

I don't know what kind of work the boss will arrange for everyone. In view of Gao Yuan's strong personal ability, everyone is full of blind worship for him, feeling that as long as it is a task assigned by Gao Yuan, it must be correct.

"We must not be greedy for credit and rush forward. We must use the second half of the year to consolidate the results achieved." Gao Yuan said at the meeting: "The software department will focus on zero and let our artificial intelligence enter more industries and fields. "

"For example, in the field of architectural design, I don't want our sky city to have the same architectural form. Using zero as an aid makes the architectural form more creative, which is a symbol of our taste."

Gao Yuan talked eloquently. His requirement for the software department is to provide support for the industrial department.

The group owns the most advanced polymer building materials in the world. Zero should enter the field of architectural design to improve the aesthetics of buildings and the efficiency of land use.

In addition, zero has room to play in many fields such as machinery, aerospace, and medical care.

After explaining the software department, Gao Yuan began to make demands on the hardware department.

In a short period of time, stop thinking about new technologies and bite off more than you can chew. First, you should thoroughly understand the technologies you have mastered. You should also fully cooperate with the software department to tap the potential of existing technologies.

Raising a finger, Gao Yuan said seriously: "One trick will eat you all over the world."

"Everyone should never forget that the reason why we are here today is actually due to the support of these two basic technologies, Polymer X series chemical fibers and carbon nanotube composite materials, so we must continue to improve the purity of these two basic materials. , especially carbon nanotubes, the higher the purity, the better..."

Gao Yuan remained calm and arranged the tasks of purifying and demetallizing carbon nanotubes along with other tasks, as if it was just an ordinary task among the countless tasks in the hardware department. This arrangement did not attract anyone's attention.

After the meeting ended, Gao Yuan called the three leaders of the software department, Chen Tianshi, Chen Yunqi, and Chu Hongfei, to his office and handed them the software underlying architecture planning plan prepared in advance.

"EDA!"

When they saw the names on the document bag, the three of them were stunned.

EDA is the abbreviation of Electronic Design Automation. To put it simply, it is an integrated circuit design tool, such as CPU, multi-frequency modem for mobile phones, and bridge chips that solve data exchange problems. They all need to be designed first and then taken to the semiconductor factory for tape-out. .

EDA is such a design tool, but unfortunately, its technology and patents are completely controlled by the West. The first step when Angsa Group attacked Huawei was to cut off their EDA software. As a result, Huawei did not follow the Western design Surrendered, so there was a series of subsequent sanctions.

At the same time, because Huawei refused to surrender and the national team increased its investment in the integrated circuit field, SMIC, DJI, Huahong, and almost all semiconductor companies in China were included in the list of sanctions, which triggered China and the West are in a comprehensive confrontation in the field of semiconductor technology.

Gao Yuan said solemnly: "According to statistics from the Integrated Circuit Fund, in 2018, global EDA software sales were 43.76 billion yuan, and China's sales were 350 million yuan, accounting for only 0.8% of the global market share."

"It's really pitiful to say it. This was still during the period when we faced comprehensive sanctions and many companies switched from imported software to domestic substitution. In the first few years, our proportion was even lower, almost close to zero. There were only a few semi-official companies such as BGI Jiutian. Enterprises of a similar nature are struggling to persist.”

"The problem must be solved sooner or later, and it must be solved before wafer, photolithography, packaging, and etching technologies, so I contacted the national team and prepared to acquire Xinhua Zhang."

"Xin Hua Zhang!?"

"The national team agreed!?"

The three of them were suddenly startled, as if they had been hit hard, and looked at Gao Yuan with disbelief.

Although most ordinary people do not know the company Xinhuazhang, in the field of EDA, Xinhuazhang's name is so popular that it once even surpassed the domestic leader, BGI Jiutian Group.

On November 26, 2020, Xinhuazhang launched a high-performance multi-functional programmable adaptation solution that is flexible and supports new simulation technology for domestic computer architecture, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire industry.

To put it simply, Xinhuazhang can support domestic computer architecture. Domestic Feiteng servers, as well as some special computing systems used in scientific research and military fields, can all use Xinhuazhang's flexibility.

Despite its limitations, it is definitely one of the most important milestones in the history of domestic integrated circuit ecology.

After all, simulation technology is the key technology to ensure the correct design of integrated circuits. All chip design companies must use software to simulate the behavior of digital circuits in order to discover and repair problems.

Smart emulator technology is quite strong, supporting x86, ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, GPGPU, NPU, etc., almost all mainstream semiconductor architectures.

Xinhuazhang is considered a very strong card in the hands of the national team. Agreeing to let Gaoyuan acquire it shows that he is very optimistic and supportive of Kunlun Group's entry into the EDA field.

Bang bang bang~

Tapping his fingers on the office table, Gao Yuan lowered his voice and said to the three of them: "This matter needs to be kept secret and kept low-key. After all, the whole world is watching Xin Huazhang's emulator."

"Cao Feiyu will sign a private agreement with the national team. In a few days, a vice president and a group of core engineers will be sent to us. You must also select suitable candidates and send them to Xinhua Zhang to complete the team. Butt.”

"Understood." Chen Tianshi said: "Enter the village quietly and don't want to shoot. After all, our big tree attracts trouble. Once the West gets news that we intend to enter the semiconductor field, we will definitely do harm in secret."

Why does this sound so awkward...

Gao Yuan frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. After giving instructions to the three of them, he asked them to take back the underlying architecture plan they had made to study it.

The underlying architecture is like an outline when writing a novel. After all, although the abbreviation of EDA software only has three letters, it is actually an extremely large semiconductor design tool. Xinhuazhang's simulator is just one of its branches. There is work to be done. There are a lot more.

The three of them tucked the information bag handed over by Gao Yuan under their armpits and turned to leave.

Chu Hongfei returned to his office with excitement, threw the information bag on the table, and rubbed his hands excitedly to think about it.

"Father, the boss has a meeting with you. What are you talking about?" Chu Luoluo poked her head out from behind the thick bookshelf and asked.

The father and daughter worked together in the same office. When they were not following Gao Yuan around, Chu Luoluo would study with her father.

"It's just what you've been waiting for." Chu Hongfei said with emotion: "Although the boss didn't say much, I felt from his words and eyes that the company is probably going to enter the semiconductor field this time."

"Really!? Are you going to engage in semiconductors!?"

The girl was so excited that she jumped up and ran to her father's side, her eyes full of anticipation.

"It should be true." Chu Hongfei said.

"What's in this bag? It's so heavy." Chu Luoluo picked up the file bag on the table and weighed it with both hands.

Chu Hongfei frowned, "The boss said that he made the underlying structure of EDA, but I haven't had time to see it yet."

"Skills have specializations. Although the boss has superhuman talents in the fields of materials, electrical, machinery, etc., when it comes to software, his level is only that much. He probably did it on a whim, just for fun."

Chu Hongfei was quite dissatisfied with the structure of the plateau.

joke!

Who does Gao Yuan think he is?

Einstein didn't dare to say that he was proficient in all subjects. It didn't matter if he was talented in the fields of materials, electricity, and mechanics. He also had to have a hand in software architecture and algorithm plateaus?

The structure created by a layman like Gao Yuan must be for his own entertainment, and Chu Hongfei was too lazy to waste time.

However, Chu Hongfei didn't care. When Chu Luoluo heard that Gao Yuan made the structure, he immediately narrowed his eyes and said, "It's amazing, the boss can also do the structure!"

"Dad, can you give me a look first?"

"Whatever." Chu Hongfei was thinking about something and waved his hand gently.

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