Chapter Seventy-Eight: Detonating a Nuclear Bomb

In 1994, when domestic enterprises and foreign companies confronted, they fell behind in an all-round way, and cooperation often had unequal treaties.

Even the enterprises in Wanwan and Hong Kong Island are superior to Chinese enterprises, of course, not all, there are many Bay and Hong Kong enterprises that are friendly to China, but obviously TSMC is not.

Wanwan's Executive Yuan has a stake in TSMC, more or less, TSMC has a bit of political @ governance color.

Ten years later, SMIC is an example, after several lawsuits, SMIC almost went bankrupt, and finally TSMC successfully took a stake in SMIC, which barely resolved the turmoil.

Wang Anran has experienced this era, and he has personal experience, according to his understanding, the Chinese who work in IBM basically have the experience of being treated as second-class employees.

This is the price that has to be paid.

The same is true of the foundry contract between Huaxin Technology and TSMC, and the exemption clause in the contract is very clear, and there is no guarantee for the yield rate and the quality of the chip.

The yield rate of chips requires the joint efforts of chip manufacturers and designers, which is a market practice, and there is no clear contract in the contract.

What's more terrible is the quality of the chip, in the case that there are no bugs in the layout, it may also cause production bugs in the chip because of the process.

As for the possible liability issues, Ji Xiaoqing's recording may not play a role, and Wanwan's legal Wang Anran is not clear, in the United States, many states do not accept evidence obtained by improper means.

Besides, TSMC can be said to be Liu Boxiong's personal behavior, and finally fired him.

To this end, Wang Anran arranged for Zhang Lei, in the name of Huaxin Technology, to send it to TSMC, asking the design team to participate in the production of tape-outs.

But what made Wang Anran helpless was that before he received a positive reply, the news fed back from the Hsinchu factory had been tape-out.

Wang Anran asked a little nervously: "How is the yield rate?"

Ji Xiaoqing couldn't hide his excitement and said: "Mr. Wang, the yield rate is 73%, the tape-out test after packaging is underway, and the display core can run stably at 83Mhz, and the memory frequency is better, and it can run stably at 103Mhz." ”

This is in the absence of heat dissipation measures, such a result can already be said to be excellent.

Wang Anran was relieved at this time.

A chip can put 146 GPU cores, and according to the yield rate of 70%, that is, nearly 100 cores of the whole pipeline will be obtained.

These cores will be tested and will be checked out for stable and high-frequency operation for flagship graphics cards at a good price.

Most of the stable ones can be used for popular graphics cards with large shipments.

And these defective products are not useless, some of them have been tested, and some of them can be shielded from the bug pipeline, and after castration, they can also be used on entry-level graphics cards.

Three days later, the first tested GPU tape-outs, memory tape-outs, were soldered to the PCB board of the graphics card in TSMC's lab, and the graphics card control program was written to the synchronized BIOS chip.

In the hotel, Wang Anran couldn't wait to insert the graphics card into the PCL card slot on a 586 computer.

Power on,Start,After a while,The logo of the Hongmeng SP system appears。

"Discover new hardware, search for drivers. ”

Wang Anran put the drive disc into the CD drive and clicked "Yes".

The system automatically boots the driver installation, and the driver installation will be completed in a short time.

The next step is to use environmental testing.

After installing the test program, double-precision floating-point test, 2 million calculations per second, because of the structure of the graphics card itself, in floating-point calculation, it has too many advantages over the CPU, and it is easy to kill the Intel Pentium 586 processor.

In terms of graphics processing, 480,000 triangles can be completed per second, and color filling can be completed.

In terms of specific pictures,800*600Counter-Strike resolution can be stable at more than 30 in the scene,If it weren't for the CPU's performance is too poor,The graphics card replaces the CPU to complete part of the floating-point operation,Otherwise, the GPU's performance will be better。

"Mr. Wang, what should I do next? Is it ready for mass production?"

Wang Anran glanced at Ji Xiaoqing and said with a smile: "Don't worry, continue to test, multi-scenario testing, and expose problems as soon as possible, next, Huaxin Technology will detonate a nuclear war in the IC world!"

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The game of 94 years, from the current point of view, can be described as miserable, which is not too much at all, and the mysterious island and the front line with rough pictures can even detonate the game market all over the world.

Now it seems that the word game mud of the incomparable middle two can also absorb a large number of die-hard fans.

People's expectations for the picture are very low, and the picture quality is often slightly higher than that of the red and white machine, which can meet the requirements of the public.

Now let the people who are used to eating pickles and radishes suddenly go to the full banquet of Qi Manhan, hoping that they will not hold on.

The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, although it is now in the tape-out test stage, there should still be publicity.

Wang Anran decided to hold a press conference in Wanbei nearby, inviting mainstream media such as Universal, The Times, and The New York Times, as well as professional newspapers and periodicals in the IT and IC industries.

The time is set for a week later, on the top floor of the Bay North Building.