As Fang Chen's words fell, the atmosphere in the room fell into an inexplicable dead silence again, Fang Chen took a cup of tea and took a leisurely and elegant sip, while Duan Yongping's eyes were rolling wildly, and he was thinking about something at a glance.

Han Guang, who was in charge of guarding the outside of the house, saw that there was no sound in the house, and also glanced at the house from the balcony, and saw that Fang Chen and Duan Yongping's expressions were fine, but they had not yet reached the point of tension, so they couldn't help but shrink their heads, and went down again, as if they had disappeared from the balcony out of thin air.

After a long time, Duan Yongping said with a heavy expression: "You plan to undertake the R&D and production of VCD core components, no, how long will you bear it?"

To tell the truth, he was more desperate, the money that should have been spent was spent, and the people who could be invited were also invited.

The result is good, not to mention catching up with Philips and Scottber, it is not even qualified, and it can be used.

Especially the decoding chip is even more worrying, the design scheme of the whole chip is simply a mess, not bullshit.

The design of the chip is mostly a top-down design.

The first is the behavior-level design of the system, determining the function and performance of the chip, the allowable chip area and cost, etc., and only then do we start to think about manufacturing.

He didn't believe in evil before, and approved the design team of the decoding chip to go to Baodao to find a chip foundry company called TSMC for tape-out, that is, the trial production of chips.

It cost the company 20 million, and the resulting chip, not to mention that it can be used, has not even reached one-third of the performance index, which can almost be said to be a product of twenty or thirty years ago.

At that time, he knew that TSMC came from Treasure Island and docked with the engineers of Xiaobawang, why did he look at him so strangely.

The co-author thinks that others are stupid and have a lot of money, otherwise how could they dare to spend money on tape-out even such a bad chip design.

However, the most important thing now is that if it is really according to Fang Chen's intentions, it must be invested in VCD core components such as decoding chips, and will not stop if it is not successful.

Don't say much else, let's just say that the tape-out cost of this decoding chip is 20 million at a time, how many times does this need to be taped out before it can be talked about success?

Do you need to spend hundreds of millions during this period, or more than a billion, or even dozens of billions?

And according to his understanding of Fang Chen, Fang Chen will definitely not be satisfied, just to design an excellent decoding chip can be satisfied, the next step Fang Chen will inevitably enter the chip production involved in silicon purification, wafer manufacturing cutting, photocopying, etching, layering, packaging, testing and other necessary links.

If you don't take all these links into your own hands, and you can produce them by yourself and not be stuck, Fang Chen will never give up.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt big.

"It shouldn't be too long, even if it doesn't work now, within three or five years, spending one or two billion, it's about the same, and you can make some achievements. Fang Chen shrugged his shoulders and said with an indifferent expression.

For him, spending one or two billion should be nothing, not even hurting his muscles and bones, at most it is a little bit of skin.

Moreover, he is not just this 15 billion, and there will be no more after spending it, and the five major branches under his name are like cash cows, constantly entering profits into his pocket.

After hearing this, Duan Yongping was speechless for a moment, why did he think that when Fang Chen said these two billion, he would be so lightly understated?

To put it mildly, let alone individuals in China, there is no one other than Fang Chen who can afford this money, even an enterprise company, I'm afraid there is none.

But the most infuriating thing is that what Fang Chen said is just the truth, and he really doesn't care.

Speaking of which, the whole Qingtian is already so huge, with more than 50,000 employees, and each branch is either a monopoly or the leader of the industry, and the money earned every day is enough for ordinary people to spend in eight lifetimes.

But the entire Qingtian, the five major branches, and more than 50,000 employees combined, the earning ability is still not as good as Fang Chen's.

From the establishment of the company to the present, excluding the cost of expansion, the remaining profit is about 7 billion, and 5 billion of them are brought by the three major Russian companies.

In the past year or so, Fang Chen has earned almost 2.4 billion US dollars, equivalent to 13 billion Huaxia coins.

Basically, this is equivalent to twice the efforts of these more than 50,000 people over the years.

By the way, Fang Chen is still on the Shencheng fortune certificate, earning more than 200 million, or more than 300 million.

Exactly how much, he couldn't remember.

After all, it's just a little bit of money.

Seeing Duan Yongping's eggplant with frost and a wilted look, Fang Chen patted Duan Yongping's shoulder with a smile and said with relief: "Okay, don't feel uncomfortable, this money will be spent, and if you can't lose, it will be regarded as a training team." ”

"This decoding chip should be all for them to practice, and when they will experience it on the decoding chip, then what game consoles, learning machines, repeaters, and even 04 chips on the machine, we can design and produce them ourselves, so don't we make money?"

Hearing Fang Chen say this, Duan Yongping's eyes couldn't help but light up, and a small flame called hope ignited in his heart.

The cost of chips has always been one of the most important components of electronic products such as game consoles, learning machines, repeaters, including 04 machines, etc., and the price is terrible.

Especially the chips on the first three are just such a small thing, not as big as a fingernail, but the result is equivalent to between one-fifth and one-quarter of the cost of the whole machine.

He even calculated that if these chips were calculated by weight, they would be more expensive than the same weight of gold, which was terrifying.

And the most infuriating thing is that these chips that are so expensive are actually products of foreign countries several years ago, or even more than ten years ago.

Like the chip on the first-generation Xiaobawang game console, the 6502CPU, is actually a cheap CPU developed by Mos Technology in the 70s, which was originally applied to the Apple-1 computer.

That's almost 20 years since then.

If you want to talk about the design cost, tape-out cost, equipment cost and so on, some fixed costs have long been amortized and only 0 is left, and there is no more at all.

And just considering the production cost of the chip, it is not unusual for him to say that the 6502 chip has three times the profit and seven or eight times the profit.

If Qingtian can produce its own 6502 chips, not to mention the sharp rise in profits, the key is that the company's products are more competitive, and the low-price and high-quality products are simply invincible killers, and no one can resist it.

Seeing this, Fang Chen chuckled, "The most important thing is that the latest generation of chips is indeed quite difficult, but like the 6502 chip, a product from 20 years ago, it shouldn't be difficult for us to develop and produce it, right?"

"It's not hard. Duan Yongping nodded.

And in the next moment, Fang Chen's face suddenly turned grim, "This is not difficult, in fact, it is the success of establishing a decoding chip, or the investment of a lot of manpower, material resources, energy, and financial resources, if we can't cultivate a group of qualified and even excellent CPU design, production, packaging and testing, and talents who master all aspects of the decoding chip, even if 6502 is an old-fashioned backward CPU, we can't build it." ”

"If we can really build it, then why should we buy foreign companies and let them make our money from companies like Towa Ricoh. ”

After hearing Fang Chen's words, Duan Yongping suddenly had a deep understanding.

Now, he knows that the reason why Fang Chen wants to develop and produce decoding chips at all costs, master the core technology, and not be controlled by other companies or even the country is part of it, he can get higher profits and be more competitive, but cultivating talents is part of it.

Seeing that Duan Yongping finally understood what he meant, the corners of Fang Chen's mouth couldn't help but pull a smile.

As I said before, talent is the most important thing.

And now there is no such talent in Huaxia, so it can only be cultivated little by little, and constantly spend money to let them practice, only by learning lessons from failure again and again, these people can grow.

Just like the army cultivating sharpshooters, if there is no sufficient supply of ammunition, then I am afraid that no matter how talented he is, I am afraid that he will not be able to become a sharpshooter.

As the so-called spark can start a prairie fire, this group of people who are now Qingtian may be the seeds of China's future chip industry.

In the near future, it will be able to slowly develop and produce decoding chips, 6502 chips, and one day, it may be able to develop some desktop-level CPUs to compete with Intel and AMD.

After all, in the previous life, Hisilicon Kirin was able to fight with Qualcomm to win and lose, comprehensively suppressing MediaTek and Samsung's Orion, each leading the way for half a year, why did he invest in the layout now, but he couldn't?

And fortunately, most of the people invited from abroad are Chinese, including many top college graduates such as Shuimu, Yan University, and University of Science and Technology of China, but there are not many foreigners.

As for the undergraduates recruited from China, this is especially true for master's students.

This is also the basis for cultivation.

After all, Fang Chen has always believed that if he is not of my race, his heart will be different, this sentence.

People who were born in China and did not study abroad until they graduated from university, and there are many banana people who have become yellow-skinned and white-hearted, not to mention those purebred foreigners.

Of course, at this stage, these are the only people who are willing to join a Chinese company to develop CPUs.

Those foreigners, when they heard Qin Shujun say that Xiaobawang was going to develop a decoding chip, basically turned around and left.

What are you kidding, in a place like Huaxia, where science and technology is deserted, there are still companies that plan to develop CPUs, don't make international jokes, and they don't want to go to a poor and backward place like Huaxia to suffer hardships and suffer crimes, and they can't give any amount of money.

In other words, he is willing to spend money and is willing to train a group of CPU design, manufacturing, packaging and testing talents for China, but these people must be Chinese people, or most of them are Chinese talents.

Otherwise, after he threw the money, the talent was also cultivated, and this talent turned around and went directly to Intel and AMD, then he would not have lost a fortune.

He doesn't have this leisure and elegance, and he is better treated than Intel and AMD.

Moreover, Qingtian is a Chinese company after all, and those Caucasian people are naturally more inclined to Intel and AMD.

Of course, it's not that there will be no Chinese people willing to defect to Intel and AMD, it's just that Intel and AMD are also xenophobic.

Basically, there is no possibility of ascending to a high position.

After all, Intel and AMD are also afraid that the Huaxia people will give him a counter-plot and steal their design technology.

Therefore, Fang Chen felt that as long as the money was enough, and then when he accepted people, he would put a bright spot on the move, and if he didn't recruit some white-eyed wolves, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Of course, if there are any foreigners who are experts in chip design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, and are willing to come to Qingtian, he also welcomes them.

After all, this kind of good thing that can buy technology with money is simply unavoidable, and it has a great role in promoting the growth of Qingtian chip talents.

"Moreover, I believe that decoding chips can be developed sooner or later, as fast as one or two years, or as slow as two or three years, after all, Scooper is also a Chinese-founded company, and a large part of its researchers are Chinese, so there is no need for them, but we can't. ”

As he spoke, an inexplicable light flashed in Fang Chen's eyes.

When the time comes, if he really can't develop it, don't force him to enlarge his moves.

It's a big deal for him to dig up a few Chinese core chip design engineers from Scooper.

Seriously, if it weren't for the fear of startling the snake, he would still be in his stomach when he fell into his decoding chip, and he didn't know when he would be able to come out, and Scottberg broke his decoder chip again, completely suffocating the VCD in his stomach, he really wanted to dig a few people from Scotber.

"And after a little results, we can put it in our own low-end products, reduce product costs, increase product strength, and occupy a lower price range, so as to expand the market and expand sales, so there is no need to panic. Fang Chen said.

In terms of self-developed CPUs, the best and most worthy of his reference is Huawei HiSilicon's Kirin chip.

Kirin chip's first 9 series flagship chip, 920 when it was just listed, was also scolded by consumers as a dog, bullshit is not, it is more difficult than MediaTek one core, and the seven core onlookers are not much stronger.

But after all, it is sold, there are sales, and HiSilicon has more or less made purchases, not just to lose money, and to have more funds to invest in the research and development of the next generation of CPUs.

Therefore, the Kirin chip is getting better and better, especially in 960, when it suddenly emerges, and it can be used again, not only can it be rubbed on the ground by Qualcomm weakly, but even better than the Qualcomm Snapdragon series flagship chips in some places.

Seriously, if the Kirin chip was applied to some of Huawei's mid-range machines at that time, the sales of the Kirin chip would be better and would go more smoothly, after all, although the original Kirin chip was very far from the flagship chip of Apple and Qualcomm, it was still possible to hit the mid-range chip.

But the disadvantage is that it will be difficult for Kirin chips to go high-end in the future, just like MediaTek.

If you are cheap for a long time, it will be difficult to get expensive.

Therefore, Huawei gritted its teeth and would rather be scolded as a dog than maintain the status of the flagship of the Kirin chip.

But he doesn't.

Everyone still cares about the quality of the mobile phone CPU, and even determines the life and death of a mobile phone.

But in the previous life, VCD sold hundreds of millions of units around the world, but how many people know what chip VCD uses, what kind of performance it has, how many cores there are, the hertz size of each core, and what instruction set is used.