The technological empire begins with polymer materials

Gao Yuan personally broke the news that Xinhua Zhang had been acquired, and there was an uproar in the live broadcast room.

Although the vast majority of people who eat melons do not know the difference between Xinhua Zhang and Xinhua News Agency, insiders in the semiconductor industry are still very excited.

After all, Xinhua Zhang is the strongest emulator supplier in China, and the emulator is the most important part of the EDA software series, used to verify the rationality of semiconductor designs.

What is the energy efficiency ratio of the chip you designed, whether it generates serious heat, what is the overclocking performance, how good is the storage efficiency, and whether there are bugs in the bus distribution. If you want to know the answers to these questions, you don’t need to go online to tape out, just run it with an emulator.

A good emulator can completely simulate real chip performance, reducing risks and saving a lot of money for enterprises.

It is no exaggeration to say that the emulator is the core of the EDA software series. It seems that Kunlun Group’s acquisition of Xinhuazhang intends to make a fuss based on Xinhuazhang’s smart emulator.

And this is undoubtedly a smart choice. After all, it is too difficult to start from scratch with no foundation. Even if it is as powerful as the Kunlun Group, it will take at least several years to do basic research.

"Sure enough, it is a powerful alliance! What kind of sparks will the domestic powerful scientific research group and the country's strongest simulator supplier collide with? I'm really looking forward to it!"

"Don't get the point wrong, okay? The point is that the national team actually agreed to let Kunlun Group acquire Xinhua Zhang!"

"It's true. The national team has put a lot of effort into Xin Huazhang, and now it actually sells Xin Huazhang to Kunlun Group? This shows that Boss Gao has a high status in the eyes of the national team, and there are considerable expectations and expectations for him. trust."

"Is this weird? Based on what Boss Gao has done over the years, wouldn't it be weird if the national team didn't side with the Kunlun Group?"

People familiar with the situation in the technology circle applauded the decision and used barrages to popularize science about the emulator and Xinhua Chapter to the general public.

"It's so funny. It's just Xinhua Zhang's agility. I thought Boss Gao really had some big weapons."

"That is, I have no ability, but I have acquired a small workshop that makes emulators, and yet I dare to talk about subverting the EDA industry? The Chinese people are indeed as thick-skinned as their Great Wall."

"Xinhua Zhang? That's it. The scale is probably a fraction of the three giants. It has no industry status. It's not worth holding a special live broadcast for this."

"Xinhuazhang, a small business that is not popular in North America, has become popular in China. This is the gap."

In major live broadcast rooms in the West, mocking barrages flooded in, thinking that Kunlun Group's acquisition of Xinhua Zhang was not worth mentioning at all. It was just a small business and no big deal.

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "As we all know, Xinhua Zhang's flagship EDA product is called Lingdong. Now we have acquired Xinhuazhang and integrated their Lingdong with our artificial intelligence Zero, thus creating an intelligent EDA product, Lingdong Zero."

"The biggest difference between Zero Smart and other EDA products lies in its powerful error correction capabilities, auxiliary design capabilities, and collaborative testing capabilities."

"To put it simply, other companies' products do not provide AI, but we have implanted the super artificial intelligence Zero. Many of the tedious and complex tasks in the past can be handed over to Zero in the future, thus improving work efficiency."

"Zero can help semiconductor developers build more accurate parameter models, optimize the parameter analysis process, improve the prediction accuracy of DRC, routing, congestion, etc., while exploring the physical design space and improving VLSI and QoR performance."

At this point, the vast majority of the audience could not understand it at all, but Gao Yuan remained the same. He greeted the backstage staff and displayed complex tables and algorithmic formulas on the big screen.

"This is the placement and routing tool we provide for chip developers, called Innovus. Through its built-in AI algorithm, it can improve the efficiency and quality of Floorplan."

"The second tool is called Project Virtus, which can solve the interaction between EM-IR and Timing through machine learning."

“Tool No. 3 Machine Learning OPC, this set of tools is amazing. It can improve the prediction accuracy of optical proximity effect correction output to the nanometer level, and at the same time shorten the execution time by 3 times..."

Gao Yuan started the lecture mode and carefully introduced the astonishing number of intelligent tool kits provided by the Zero Smart Series EDA software. This course, which the vast majority of people are destined to be unable to understand, was criticized by countless barrages.

At the same time, Gao Yuan’s approach of fully bringing EDA software into the era of artificial intelligence has made countless semiconductor practitioners cheer.

“Fourteen AI tools!”

"Nineteen styles!"

"Twenty-five models! Oh my God, Boss Gao is going to subvert the pace of the semiconductor design industry!"

"Even the register logic distribution bus can be assisted by AI? How happy is it? It feels like a dream."

"Awesome! EDA is fully intelligent and the efficiency is increased by at least five times!"

"What's more important is accuracy. Our chip design level is undoubtedly lagging behind that of the West. After the introduction of AI, it is quite a plug-in and adds an unpaid super employee! It will greatly shorten the relationship between us and the West. gap, and even achieve a lead!"

"That's it! Boss Gao has good intentions and Kunlun Group is awesome!"

The content of the barrage comes from people in the semiconductor industry and college students who are still studying. They realize the huge value of Zero Smart and cannot restrain their excitement and enjoy the party.

With the release of a large number of AI-assisted EDA tools, insiders have gradually begun to see the clues. It seems that Gaoyuan intends to introduce the distributed research and development of Galaxy Eye into the field of semiconductor design.

The reason for doing this is simple.

Semiconductor design work is really difficult, and with the advancement of technology, this work is becoming more and more difficult.

How difficult is it?

Taking mobile phone SOC as an example, currently, there are only six companies in the world, namely Huawei HiSilicon, Unisoc Spreadtrum, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Apple.

The rest, such as the famous Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Nokia, Siemens and others, have long been eliminated.

Is Nvidia, the king of graphics cards, awesome enough?

Lao Huang has superb swordsmanship, and has been criticized by players all over the world for many years. He can't even buy a graphics card with money, and his conscience is greatly damaged.

But in the field of mobile phone SOC, the awesome Lao Huang was directly beaten to death. He tried his best to break into the mobile phone field. As a result, NVIDIA SOC became synonymous with Fire Dragon. Whose mobile phone would have installed it? Nvidia chips are hot enough to boil water.

As a result, Nvidia only released a generation of mobile phone SOC, then exited the market in despair and went back to designing graphics cards.

And those companies that are still in the industry are not much better. Qualcomm's famous Xiaolong 810 series is also overturned.

MediaTek, the light of the broken island, has been overturned continuously before and almost went bankrupt. In the past two years, it has barely regained some share with the Dimensity series.

Samsung also benefited, saving Podao and Korean companies. This is really a great irony.

Gao Yuan firmly opposes competing on other people's tracks. He must publish academic papers in Chinese and engage in comprehensive localization of technology. He has seen Huawei's mistakes.

In short, it is really difficult to design semiconductors. This is why Huawei and HiSilicon are the only companies in China that can rank among the top ten in the world.

In an industry where even NVIDIA can be overturned, only strong willpower and persistent high investment can finally achieve results.

In the field of semiconductors, the strong will always be strong, while latecomers will find it difficult to catch up with the giants due to lack of technological accumulation.

But now, the launch of Zero Smart has reduced the difficulty of the game and adjusted the semiconductor design industry from nightmare mode to normal mode or even simple mode. The beneficiaries will be all related companies in China.

Like Unisoc Spreadtrum, they actually also make mobile phone SOCs, but most consumers only know that Huawei has the Kirin series and Qualcomm has the Xiaolong series. As for what Unisoc Spreadtrum has, no one knows.

The reason is very simple. Spreadtrum's technology is not good and it can only make ultra-low-end products. Only models with three SIM cards and three standbys priced at less than 500 yuan will use Spreadtrum SOC. The main buyers are black uncles from Africa. Chinese consumers have no idea. Out of reach.

With Zero Smart, even mediocre Spreadtrum can design products comparable to Qualcomm Xiaolong and Huawei Kirin. This is Plateau's biggest ambition!

He wants to use smart EDA to help domestic semiconductor companies develop plug-ins!

He wants the mediocre Spreadtrum to attack the territory controlled by the giant Qualcomm!

I'm a bit hypoglycemic, so I just wrote one chapter today, sorry everyone.

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