That night, the two brothers who slept in Nie Chuan's nursing room had difficulty sleeping at the same time, it stands to reason that the two of them are also "geniuses" in the eyes of others.

The younger brother also followed. Judging from the academic achievements of the two, one has a slight success, and the other is also an elite with an unlimited future, and others naturally have all kinds of envy in their eyes, and even their families are honored, but only they know that the actual future is not so bright, on the contrary, they know their own suffering.

To start a sect and become a family of its own, of course, it is the pursuit of ambitious scientific researchers, but if you want to reach that stage, then what you have to go through in the process is a long experience.

It's important to take the right path, but that's only the first part, and it's just as important to get through the ups and downs, it's a game of the pyramid after all, but it's not a step at a time to get to the top, it's a maze where every step can go astray, some roads can turn back, and some roads will find it difficult to return.

And now, Nie Yun has embarked on a dead end in the labyrinth, in the University of Science and Technology, the boss on his head covers the sky with one hand, and his disobedience is not only that he can't get out, but even his younger brother may also fall into a dead end, which is very simple, because you can't do scientific research on your own, you need a laboratory, you need resources, you need funds, and these are in the hands of the "boss" above your head, as long as you are biased, you are talented, and it is also a rice cook.

As for whether you can choose another branch, for the two brothers who have no background like them, this is a matter of luck, counting on someone who is better than Chen Yue, otherwise he will become an "outsider" in the eyes of other places after leaving the University of Science and Technology, and how many years of time and cost will it take to build trust, if he encounters someone who has no score, it is better than under Chen Yue.

Of course, these are actually secondary, what is really important is the enthusiasm that wants to do a career, and gradually drink cold.

So the two brothers of the Nie family in this night felt unreal. Combined with Cheng Ran's age, what he said, and what Cheng Ran did in reality, there was not only the excitement of expecting the ideal to become a reality, but also the confusion and anxiety that the whole thing was not down-to-earth.

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That is, in the three days that Nie Chuan was hospitalized, an incident happened again in what they thought was a mysterious process.

After agreeing to Cheng Ran, the Nie Yun and Nie Chuan brothers participated in a meeting in an atmosphere similar to that of holding their breath before the storm.

In the conference room, I met not only Professor Hu Zhiwei, a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Technology and Research of HKUST, but also Academician Li Taihang, who was the director of the Academic Committee of HKUST, but actually ran outside all year round, and it is said that he was still in Europe a few days ago.

In the scientific research circle where the hierarchy is strict and the institutional structure almost determines the right to speak and the correctness, an existence like Li Taixing, if he wants to be in an academic seminar on seniority, Nie Yun at this time is not even qualified to sit in the outermost corner and accompany the last seat.

Then Nie Yun and Nie Chuan saw a scene that was difficult for them to evaluate, and they didn't even have the most fundamental politeness, the high mountain in the eyes of everyone Li Taihang entered the door, their eyes found Cheng Ran, and they went straight to him, and asked, "How did you get the authorization of that company?"

Hu Zhiwei, who was following him, also widened his eyes and his cheeks flushed.

"In exchange for a key technology company...... Schema Authorization. ”

Hu Zhiwei's Adam's apple fluctuated, "You mean you got the authorization of the instruction set?"

Including Li Taixing, Hu Zhiwei, and several core figures of the Institute of Planning and Research of the University of Science and Technology, they all stared at Cheng Ran with uncertain and indescribable expressions.

ARM in later generations, with the popularization of mobile phones and various devices, is probably a company that everyone knows, but at this moment, even for students of the Academy of Computer Science, you ask AMD Many people know, but ARM company, most of the time are shaking their heads and not knowing.

In the final analysis, ARM is still a little-known company, just a link hidden in the upstream of semiconductors, and its presence is not high.

Of course, Li Taihang and others, who have been running for the field of domestic integrated circuit semiconductors, are not strangers to this company.

Compared with various concept technology companies with countless gimmicks, ARM never bares its teeth and does not show its presence by sticking people's necks at every turn, and even the reason why this company was born and embarked on its own path is simply that it can't get along in the field dominated by Intel.

And from beginning to end, ARM follows its own IP licensing business model, as long as you can get the money, then you can get the license from ARM at a fair price, and you can even send people and tools to guide your company to ensure that you can operate and use their licenses, which greatly saves costs, so ARM has always been harmless and irreplaceable.

Of course, within ARM, there are also extremely sensitive exclusion zones, which are the highest level of architecture authorization.

Of course, Apple was one of the earliest shareholders of ARM Inc., and it is not surprising that it can obtain ARM architecture authorization, in addition, in the future, ARM has affected 80% of the market authorization, most of which are kernel licenses or use level licenses.

When it comes to architecture licensing, or it is a major impact on the normal development of ARM in the future, for example, cooperating with the top three companies in the industry to achieve the purpose of winning the market, perhaps a key patent exchange, or an extremely important technology. Otherwise, it can only be an almost impossible crisis related to the survival of ARM, otherwise it will not be easily obtained.

For example, Cheng Ran, who seized the opportunity of the rapid growth of ARM's mobile field, hit the right path, and used blocking key technology companies to block ARM and get high-value benefits, may not be there again in the future. ARM has been bitten and will only be more vigilant.

Li Taixing sighed, "It must have taken a lot of money." ”

"It took a bit of effort. Cheng Ran nodded.

In order to ambush on the road that ARM must pass, Cheng Ran originally thought backwards and asked Zhao Qing to buy five companies in related fields, all of which were based on the idea of fighting big with small things. Eventually, the private design and Allen software hit the target.

The two Nie brothers saw that Cheng Ran asked Zhao Qing to open the notebook and open the technical information of the documents inside, Li Taixing and Hu Zhiwei stepped forward to look at the folders containing the relevant information, clicked on the English technical operation guidance directory from ARM Company, and couldn't take their eyes off it.

Nie Chuan and Nie Yun looked at the atmosphere in the conference room, and only felt that these big people that day could only be described in two words: fanatic.

"This is the latest V6 instruction set authorization, which allows us to give full play to the advantages of the ARM architecture, adding or removing modules, which means that we can recreate, expand, and even develop our own architecture based on the instruction set, which can be a starting point. We can develop our own microarchitecture based on the instruction set. ”

"Of course, this is just an idea, at least it offers this possibility, and if we want to take a path of localization, this is a good path at the moment. ”

Li Taixing, Hu Zhiwei and others all nodded.

But there is no doubt that although this is frenetic, there will be a lot of current problems like a basin of ice water.

Li Taixing looked at Cheng Ran, "This must be very good." But at the moment there will be a big problem, you know, with the ARM architecture, even if we all know that if we can use the architecture to achieve a self-developed microarchitecture, it is something that really belongs to us. But it still doesn't work, because it doesn't fit the mainstream thinking and slogans. ”

No one understands the current situation better than Li Taihang, in fact, after Li Taihang was expelled from the Nanxing Group, the influence behind the Nanxing Group, which represents a faction, makes Li Taixing in some contexts portrayed as ambitious and talented, ignorant of current affairs, and even ignorant of political evaluation.

Yes, the current problem is that since the issuance of Document No. 18 and Document No. 51 of the State Council, the slogans of revitalizing national industry and building domestic independent semiconductors have been shouted everywhere......

A series of media and packaging that at first glance sound exciting, people mistakenly think that semiconductor research and development is a project that can catch up with the explosion of technology.

And after experiencing the lessons of those events, the relevant high-level executives, industry levels, and the people will wake up to the fact that the technical barriers can knock people to the ground.

This is never a simple thing reported in the newspapers, it is a systematic, complex, and high-tech project with the world's most elaborate structure of the foundation of the information society in every field.

Before accepting those lessons, Li Taihang saw this very accurately, using ARM architecture chips, there will always be people who say that it is not independent research and development, and put it in front of a large number of "high-end projects" led by national policies of "independent research and development of national pride", and the project proposed by Cheng Ran will definitely not get any strong support.

It may even be dug up by competitors and used to form public opinion to slander.

It's not impossible.

Cheng Ran said, "You don't need to apply for state funding. ”

"Are you going to rely on Fulong?" Li Taixing frowned, "Don't forget that I am a consultant of Fulong, I know very well that the NASDAQ bubble burst, European and American countries are cutting funds for basic research and development of telecommunications, and Fulong's overseas market is shrinking, and at the same time, Fulong is also tackling 3G technology, developing embedded chips, and the funds are used on the knife edge, which is quite tight. ”

After experiencing the patent blockade in the United States, Fulong could only rely on greater R&D investment to turn to other technical directions, and then Cheng Feiyang's trade union shareholding system was launched, which was essentially a move to deal with the impact, improve the cohesion of employee morale, and reduce the financial pressure on Fulong.

"I don't want this project to be subject to this kind of constraints, I hope that this project can be completely controlled by us, and we need to be able to decide the direction and operation in a timely manner, and the project is flexible. ”

Li Taixing said in a deep voice, "That also requires a lot of funds." ”

"Yes, I have summarized several points to overcome, the first is to introduce advanced technology. The second is to seize the leading talents. The third is to bear long-term losses. The first point is already in place, the second point is being formed, and many of you here may become the founders. The third point is that we don't expect national support, but local support. ”

Cheng Ran smiled, and said like a crackling abacus, "I hope to find a few Boles in the high-level of Nanzhou, no matter how bad it is, the more scientific research support from the University of Science and Technology, the better." No matter how small a mosquito is, it's meat. On the other hand, we can also introduce the R&D model of cooperation between enterprises and universities, and enterprises can invest in it, in short, I will find a way to fund it. At present, it is still talented, and you need your team. ”

"Since you have this determination. I'm just going to show this old face, give you some opportunities, and pick as many as you can. Li Taihang nodded, "I think the leader of the project team, Hu Zhiwei can be competent." He is a computer system architecture professional, originally studied under the first generation of computer experts in our country Academician Xia Pei, microprocessor design, integrated circuit design is his strength, today I inform him to come, but also to test your things. ”

"I've always had a question. Hu Zhiwei looked at Cheng Ran, "When Professor Li told me, I was still skeptical, but now when I see it, I know that what I said is true, and even exceeds my expectations, why did you think of doing these things when you are so young?"

Not only Hu Zhiwei, but also the researchers behind him, the brothers Nie Yun and Nie Chuan, all cast their eyes.

Yes, this kind of thing, not only the meaning behind it, but also its decision-making, execution, and the accuracy of the vision, all represent a lot of things, a person's knowledge, knowledge structure, social experience and experience, if this is led by Academician Li Taixing, everyone will not have any objections, but all this happened to a freshman student, not so much surprise, but it makes people feel faintly frightened.

People must have a motive for everything they do, and what Cheng Ran did is indeed of great significance, he can't say that he saw those history and profound lessons in advance, so he doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past?

Even Li Taixing also looked at it together, obviously, he had thought about this kind of thing, and now he is expecting an answer.

The identity of Cheng Feiyang's son of Fulong Company is not convincing enough to explain what he did and his motives for doing such a thing.

In the midst of everyone's gaze, Cheng Ran, who pondered for a moment, said, "Among the scientific researchers I have always admired, Academician Wang Xuan, who invented laser phototypesetting technology, is one of them. China is the first country to invent printing, and it is also the first country to have movable type printing, but Chinese characters are born to need more movable type than letters, and because of the backward technology of modern China, so the modern Chinese regime in the nineteenth century, the advanced technology introduced to the West, the first is guns, and the second is printing technology. ”

"China's modern printing technology has gone through engraving, and nearly a hundred years of lead printing as the mainstream of the technical era, lead printing needs to be all manual, typesetting workers must have a fairly high level of education, but also need good physical strength to hold dozens of pounds of lead plates, the seventies urgent printing booklets, it takes more than ten days to go on the market, hundreds of pages of lead printing books, most of the publishing house publishing cycle takes one year. In the mid-to-late 70s, when China completed the popularization of basic industries, began to catch up with the world's advanced technology, and needed to promote the latest international scientific and technological information more efficiently, typesetting technology was the shortcoming of China's book publishing industry, and it can also be said to be the bottleneck that limited the entire China's scientific research. ”

At that time, the newspapers of developed countries in Europe and the United States, such as Germany, Britain, and the United States, had all adopted electronic typesetting technology with computer phototypesetting technology, and at the same time, Western companies were also actively updating their technology, developing laser phototypesetting, and studying Chinese character printing, preparing to occupy the East Asian market. At this time, China is solving the problem of the efficiency of China's publishing industry. The 748' project was launched, but in China in the 70s, the technical bottleneck was very large, because the basic font of Chinese characters was much more complex than the Western alphabet, the amount of data was very large, and it took hundreds of G, and China would not make disks at that time, and two magnetic drums could store 1M data, so the country generally opposed to digital typesetting, or preferred to use paper mold optical typesetting, Wang Xuan joined the 748 project at that time, and proposed to carry out vector description of Chinese character strokes, solve the problem of excessive data volume of Chinese character font, and realize data compression, and the idea was ten years earlier than the West. ”

Li Taixing and the others listened and nodded slightly. Cheng Ran narrated Wang Xuan's deeds from another angle, and they were all fascinated by it.

Cheng Ran continued, "But at that time, Wang Xuan, who put forward the idea, was considered braggart by most of his peers, Wang Xuan firmly advocated his own opinion, with the Xinhua News Agency's 1.4 million equipment investment, and the coordination and support of the Computer Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, Wang Xuan set up a team, Weifang Computer Factory was responsible for assembly, and insisted on developing a domestic laser phototypesetting system, in 1981, Wang Xuan took out Huaguang I, and in 1983, he took out Huaguang II. But lack of mass production experience, there are many BUG problems, when the era of planned economy has come to an end, the era of market economy is coming, so in 1984, the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency have purchased foreign equipment, ready to kick the annoying Wang Xuan away, at that time many people looked at Wang Xuan's jokes, saying that the autumn of 1984 was the end of the 748 project. ”

At the end of 1984, the American IBM Company went to the Xinhua News Agency to introduce its products, and the Xinhua News Agency people actively used American software and persuaded Wang Xuan's project team to give up, saying that everyone had ready-made products, so what else are you doing? In 1985, the People's Daily gave the American HTS company $4.3 million to buy equipment, but Wang Xuan's team could not get a penny. ”

At the end of 1985, Xinhua News Agency was short of money and said that the Asian Games were coming, and the News Building would be built, and it could no longer subsidize this hopeless domestic project. Project 748 is really at the end of its rope. However, at this time, there were still a small number of cadres who knew that it was better to build than to buy, and they used the last bit of power in the planned economy era to order the Economic Daily directly under the State Council to use Wang Xuan's equipment, so that Wang Xuan had the last bit of funds. But the Economic Daily also issued an ultimatum, if it can't solve the BUG problem of Huaguang III, it would rather print in lead type. In the summer of 1987, most of the problems were finally solved. ”

"The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in October, and the Economic Daily got the Xinhua News Agency telegraph for 20 minutes, and the typesetting was completed through the computer. Other newspapers are still typesetting in lead typesetting, and it takes three or four hours at the earliest, and after the Economic Daily was published, Wang Xuan and his Huaguang 3 type stood out. ”

In 1988, Wang Xuan received the full support of the Economic Daily, and the equipment was upgraded to Huaguang IV, which can process 110 Chinese characters per second, which is the strongest in the world. What used to take a year to typeset a book now takes only three days. ”

"In 1989, foreign phototypesetting systems were completely withdrawn from the Chinese market. ”

After a pause, Cheng Ran looked at everyone, "The road ahead is difficult and long, but fortunately, there are people like torches in front of us." I was lit by the torch, so I had a lot of heart to do something like this. ”

Everyone present finally solved the mystery. When people see the torch, they do have the will to gallop. With so many people here, who hasn't been inspired in this way?

"I'll take it. Hu Zhiwei nodded, "So, what about the name of the project?"

Cheng Ran was stunned, "Huh?"

"Wang chose Huaguang, if the team you set up makes something, what will be the name?" Hu Zhiwei looked at him and said, "I think you should decide the name." ”

Li Taixing looked at him with a smile, and the eyes of everyone present were burning.

Under the focus, Cheng Ran glanced at Nie Chuan and Nie Yun brothers, making the two of them inexplicably nervous, and then he looked up after a little thought, "Tang Sect and Song Ancestor...... Emperor Qin and Han Wu. ”

"It's called ...... Han Wu. ”

"Hanwu One. ”

"Academician Wang Xuan's team created Huaguang that year and was born. I hope that our Han Wu can also be like Huaguang. In the field of chips, go all out, don't have to wait for the torch, if there is no torch after that, we are the only light. ”

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