Chapter 82: It's worth trying

Today's banquet has exceeded the standard, even if AMD sought TSMC foundry at that time, it did not enjoy Zhang Damou's treasured hospitality.

You must know that compared with AMD, the current Huaxin Technology contract amount is not even a fraction of the contract.

Half an hour later, Zhang Damou excused himself and left early.

As soon as the boss left, Cai Shixing completely let go and pulled Wang Anran into a fierce pour.

Wang Anran is also happy, in 2017, Wang Anran entered TSMC as the official representative of AMD to coordinate the mass production of Ryzen processors.

At that time, I didn't have much contact with Zhang Damou, and the main work was to connect with Cai Shixing.

And at the wine table, Wang Anran is also at a disadvantage, there is no way, the prostate is not good, and there is no capital to harden it.

This scene seems to have happened yesterday, counting it, only a year has passed in Wang Anran's memory, and it seems like a lifetime.

When he was dizzy from drinking, Cai Shixing took Wang Anran's hand and said: "Brother Anran, I haven't admired a few people in my life, the boss counts as one, you count as one, my brother just doesn't understand, how did your Huaxin Technology come up with this wonderful product!"

Wang Anran shook his head, this matter is unspeakable.

Cai Shixing asked again: "Brother, is Huaxin Technology a cow?"

Wang Anran realized that when did you Lao Cai start talking tricks, but you have a set of management companies, but "clichΓ©s" are a technical job, and you Lao Cai may not even be able to get started.

"Brother Cai, why do you ask that?"

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Cai Shixing was stunned for a moment, isn't this obvious, what is the level of chips in the mainland, not to mention the level of design, it is impossible to come up with a complete set of physical layout of the one-micron production process.

In fact, after the chip test, the high-rise shook, and TSMC specially asked professionals to study the physical layout provided by Huaxin Technology, and the researchers found in one of the notes that the physical layout required high-resistance oxide filling of the shallow groove after etching.

This is a new attempt, as the scale of chip integration is getting larger and larger, the original chip is in a controllable state because of the large distance between the transistors. Now, when TSMC is researching the next-generation 800nm manufacturing process, the loss caused by leakage from the trench is about 20%.

This made them have to find a way to solve this problem, but they didn't expect to find the direction of the attempt on the description of a physical layout of Huaxin Technology.

How could this not shock them.

It is not without reason that Zhang Damou personally went out.

But what made Cai Shixing helpless was that Wang Anran on the opposite side was a stuffy gourd, he didn't answer anything, and finally spread his hands and went to sleep on the table.

"Go to Hilton and book a suite, and send Mr. Wang over!"

After Cai Shixing made the arrangement, he originally planned to go home directly to rest, but the research room sent a report overnight, which made Cai Shixing cancel the plan.

I looked at my watch, and it was less than ten o'clock. Cai Shixing took out his big brother and dialed Zhang Xiaofen's phone.

"Sister Xiaofen, I'm Cai Shixing, Dean Zhang, has he rested?"

"Not yet, come here. ”

Ten minutes later, in Zhang Damou's office.

"Shi Xing, this Wang Anran, what impression do you have on him today?"

"I can't say it, compared with my peers, I have a little more confidence and calmness, but that's all, I always answer technical questions when I ask him, and I don't say anything about the product. ”

Zhang Damou thought for a while and asked, "Shi Xing, you say, will this Wang Anran be the spokesperson promoted by the official?"

Cai Shixing handed the report in his hand to Zhang Damou, shook his head, and said: "Unlikely, according to the information of our mainland investigation, this Wang Anran originally went to study at MIT last year, but I heard that it was canceled because of women, and a few months later he founded Huaxin Technology alone."

At present, their company's main business is to assemble small computers, and three months ago, they released a Windows operating system based on the Linux kernel, and officially announced that it is permanently open source. ”

Zhang Damou smiled and said, "Shi Xing, do you say that a high-achieving student who is going to study at MIT will know nothing about technical things?"

Cai Shixing shook his head and continued: "Dean, another point is also shocking, the current news that this display chip and memory chip are developed by Huaxin Technology alone, without any foreign aid!"

"How is it possible? They don't even have EDA design software!"

"Dean, this is also what I find incredible, this Wang Anran is the one who designs EDA software!

At the beginning, he made a blank check of 7.5 million yuan, issued more than 500 design assignments, and organized tens of thousands of people to develop. ”

7.5 million can develop an EDA software?

Zhang Damou found that he hadn't been so excited for a long time as he was today, took a sip of water, and carefully looked through the report on the investigation of Huaxin Technology.

But as soon as he looked at it, Zhang Damou's brows furrowed.

In his opinion, this Huaxin Technology is like a bull, with a stick in the east and a stick in the west, in his opinion, there is no rule at all.

Minicomputer, operating system, display chip, memory chip, 3D engine.

That's right, the 3D engine.

Zhang Damou's mind lit up, he remembered that in the official announcement, the 3D engine was running in the Hongmeng SP system,

Everything seems to revolve around the HarmonyOS SP operating system......

But does an open-source operating system need such fanfare? With display chips and memory chips, it can already grow into a new generation of industry giants.

But if the graphics card is the main thing, why doesn't it support Microsoft's Windows/DOS system, you know, most of the world's microcomputers are installed with Microsoft's system......

Zhang Damou pressed his temples, feeling that his thoughts were a little insufficient, compared with the display chip, Zhang Damou valued the video memory chip more.

If Huaxin Technology opens up the video memory standard, it can try to enter the field of microcomputer memory, and the results of the DDR memory test are too gratifying, which is more than three times higher than the existing EDO DRAM performance.

And it can completely avoid a fatal weakness of EDO DRAM memory, that is, the standards are different, EDO DRAM memory is divided into 72 lines and 168 lines, each with different arrays.

Both sides want to unify each other, but neither side has the capital to unify because of their interests.

With its good performance and cost control of DRAM memory, DDR is completely likely to dominate the microcomputer memory market if sufficient support can be sought.

At this time, Huaxin Technology is completely indistinguishable in the eyes of Zhang Damou.

This is like putting a good card in the hands of a fool, Zhang Damou is a little anxious for an outsider.

"Shi Xing, keep an eye on this Huaxin Technology, and if necessary, you can send some people over.

The high-resistance oxide trench filling technology has been proposed by scientists as early as a few years ago, but no manufacturer has paid attention to it.

I think that this Huaxin Technology should be extremely concerned about the latest chip research direction.

Does that mean something?"

"What's the problem?"

"Huaxin Technology's eyes are always on the international market!"

If someone told Zhang Damou a month ago that some mainland companies wanted to fight with international giants in the chip market, Zhang Damou would definitely spray his face.

But now, this Huaxin Technology fully has this strength.

In the past two years, the chip market has not been good, but Zhang Damou is optimistic about the future market, and for this reason, TSMC has opened three new wafer factories against the current.

The consequence is overcapacity and serious losses.

One of the characteristics of the chip industry is that when new technologies appear, they will trigger a strong demand for chips in the market.

Whether Huaxin Technology can do it or not, triggering this climax, Zhang Damou has no bottom.

But it's worth trying.