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"What everyone said makes sense. It is not so easy to become a fat man with one bite. What's more, it is still unknown when our EUV lithography machine will be available. But at the same time, if we want to have an To be competitive, we must make high-performance chips as much as possible. Like Fulong mobile phones, relying on mobile phone battery life to gain competitiveness is not feasible in the computer field.”

Compared with mobile phones, the battery life of laptops is not such an important indicator data.

When most people use a laptop, they are always plugged in.

Only a small number of users often use their laptops unplugged.

"Professor Xu, what do you think?"

"My idea is that we can conduct research on these two solutions at the same time. We must study chips with 14nm or 10nm process technology. This is the basis of our design work. Such chips can also be used in some mid-range On a computer. If the chip is optimized particularly well, a chip with a low-precision process technology may not necessarily have a particularly large gap in performance compared to a high-precision chip."

After a pause, Xu You continued:

"In addition, we have to start research on chips with high-precision process technology at the same time. With our existing EDA software, we are fully capable of accurately designing 5nm chips. Once our EUV lithography machine can be put into use, we can prepare The preparation of high-precision process technology chips has begun."

Everyone knows that it is very difficult to study even a chip with a 14nm process technology.

Not to mention, two programs were carried out at the same time.

However, since Xu You has such full confidence in this, everyone has no further opinions.

In fact, if artificial intelligence has not developed to the current level, it is enough to help humans complete the design of chips.

Xu You did not dare to develop these two directions at the same time.

In that case, Xu You will design a product in the transitional stage like the first generation of Fulong self-developed mobile phone, and not rush to occupy the market.

But this time, Xu You obviously has greater ambitions.

Now that you have decided to enter the computer industry, you must make a truly outstanding product.

...

In the following time, Xu You, Lou Song and the others worked together on the design of the chip using the artificial intelligence.

What Xu You and others did was not to design chips directly, but to try to use artificial intelligence to learn the knowledge of various computer chips, understand the meaning and function of computer chips, and accurately score the designed chips.

This kind of thinking is very similar to Xu You's original calculation of superconducting materials using artificial intelligence.

These tasks are very difficult to perform because of the complexity of the chip itself.

Fortunately, Xu You can also directly interact with the artificial intelligence through the wireless brain-computer function.

This method also greatly speeds up the learning progress of computational artificial intelligence.

After countless attempts, Suanjing artificial intelligence finally grasped the essence of computer chip design, and began to design chips of various processes.

Through the scoring of the chip scoring system, some chips designed by artificial intelligence even surpassed other chips with the same process technology.

After getting the news, Luo Wenkun was also very excited, and hurriedly found Xu You and asked about it.

"Xu You, have we designed a chip that is better than Intel, AMD, and Fruit Company?"

"According to the score of the test system, it is indeed the case." Xu You said truthfully.

"Is the test system ... its scoring convincing?"

Xu You smiled when he heard this, but didn't answer directly.

Xu You naturally had full confidence in his own test system.

"Speaking of which, the test system of this chip is also a very important part of this research. This link is an essential part of chip design. As far as we know, the chip test systems of other chip companies will have test time There are many problems such as long time and slow test speed, and the troubleshooting of possible faults is not accurate enough.”

Xu You explained the basic principles of the chip testing system to Luo Wenkun. Although Luo Wenkun didn't understand the knowledge very specifically, he quickly understood Xu You's explanation.

"So, this is not just a simulation test, but also a hardware test, right?"

"That's right, there are not only software simulation tests, but also tests of programmable devices such as programmable array logic and general array logic. This kind of test is specially applied to the test system of integrated circuit chips."

If it is a chip with a low-precision process technology, only by simulation can still verify the performance of the chip very well.

But if the accuracy is as high as 5nm, even with Xu You's current brain power, it is difficult to complete the simulation with great accuracy.

Being able to test with a programmable logic gate array is a much safer approach.

"According to the other chips we got from friends, the best chips from Intel, AMD, and fruit companies, in our simulation test system, the final scores were 980.9, 960.3, and 973.8 respectively. And our 5nm process chip's The theoretical value of the score has reached 1246.8, 10nm and 14nm have reached 862.6, and 632.8. Regardless of whether the final 5nm chip can be successfully prepared, even if the 10nm chip is used, it is fully capable of occupying a part of the computer market.”

"That would be great! We can conduct trial production of 10nm and 14nm chips first, and then proceed to trial production of 5nm chips after our EUV lithography machine is completed. The products launched earlier can not require sales and profits. , as long as we start our slogan. The company that can complete system and chip design and manufacturing by itself, looking at the whole world, is only Fulong Technology."

Even if the first personal computer released by Fulong Technology is not the best product in the industry, this is understandable.

Compared with immediately occupying the position of the leader in the industry, it is more important to show one's own strength.

Fulong Technology needs to let the world know that they are capable of all things.

Cooperating with Fulong Technology is the only choice.

Otherwise, it will only be ruthlessly defeated by Fulong Technology.

"Wen Kun, in fact, we don't need to rush to release our products immediately. My idea is that according to different chip positioning, we can develop computers with different prices. In addition, in addition to the chip and system work, we have another task Need to prepare."

"What mission?" Luo Wenkun asked.

"The work of system ecology." Xu You replied lightly.