Chapter 68 Chip Algorithms
The team building activities of the communication equipment manufacturing company under the Tenglong International Group were personally led by Wei Rulan, executive vice president.
According to the schedule, after arriving in New York, we will first visit the Sunset Park Industrial City in Brooklyn, Silicon Valley, New York, and hold networking activities with the employees of the New York subsidiary, and then visit Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum, the Natural History Museum and other tourist activities.
Participating in this team building activity are all employees who have made outstanding contributions to the company in the past year, including middle and senior managers, as well as front-line production and R&D personnel, with a total of more than 40 people.
Many of them are coming to the U.S. for the first time, and they are very happy to be able to participate in such an event. After the plane landed at LaGuardia International Airport, although it was a long flight, everyone had a smile on their faces.
Afterwards, the group got on a bus arranged by the New York subsidiary and drove towards the Holiday Inn located next to the industrial city of Sunset Park in Brooklyn.
Because she is Wei Rulan's secretary, Li Jingxi also participated in this team building activity with everyone. Like many people, it is rare to relax and play with everyone, and she is also in a happy mood.
On the way out of the airport to the hotel, Li Jingxi was taking pictures with his mobile phone. After arriving at the hotel, taking the opportunity of Wei Rulan to take a bath and wash, she also posted the photos taken on the road to her blog, shared her feelings, and praised the Holiday Inn she stayed in.
Soon, some netizens responded, some were envious and congratulated, and some volunteered to provide travel guides, which was not lively for a while.
Among the many netizens, a netizen called 'Flying Bird' claimed to be a Chinese living in New York, who could be Li Jingxi's tour guide for free, and enthusiastically sent Li Jingxi information about the New York subway and tourist attractions.
This made Li Jingxi feel that after going abroad, there was a feeling of blood connection between Chinese compatriots.
In an apartment in New York's Chinatown, a hip-hop young man sits in front of a computer, headphones on his head, and twists his body to the rhythm of the music.
At the moment, he is also browsing Li Jingxi's blog, and the screen name is 'Flying Bird'.
After retrieving the specific location of the Holiday Inn where Li Jingxi stayed through the network map, he took out his mobile phone, replaced it with a SIM card, then dialed a phone number, briefly said an address, hung up the phone, took out the SIM card and threw it into the trash.
After Dong Xiaowan and Dong Changfeng arrived in New York by plane, Dong Changfeng received a phone call as soon as they got off the plane.
"Elder Dong, the goal has been determined, and I stayed at the Holiday Inn near Sunset Park Industrial City in Brooklyn, and everything is normal at present. The person on the other end of the line said.
"Okay. Let people keep an eye on their whereabouts at any time and report them to me in time. Dong Chang said.
"Yes. In addition, I just booked a room at the Hittel Hotel, which is 500 meters away from the Holiday Inn, and now I can go and check in directly. ”
"Well, Rida, good job. After Dong Changfeng finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
"Xiaowan, you took us to the Hittel Hotel near Sunset Park Industrial City in Brooklyn, and we have already booked a room there. Dong Changfeng said to Dong Xiaowan.
"Elder, we need to call two taxis, you wait a minute, I'll call a taxi. After Dong Xiaowan finished speaking, she ran to the side of the road and beckoned to stop a taxi.
Before nine o'clock in the morning, Li Jingwei rushed to the Sunset Park Industrial City in Brooklyn according to the agreement with Wei Rulan.
Since it was work time, the streets were full of office workers in a hurry.
Brooklyn's Sunset Park Industrial City was an old industrial city that was abandoned as U.S. manufacturing moved overseas. Later, New York City** planned it as a high-tech park, and introduced tax incentives and other stimulus policies.
With many of the world's most well-known high-tech multinationals moving in, this once old industrial park has been revitalized, and the once empty streets are now full of traffic.
Tenglong International Group bought the G2 office building in the Industrial City and renovated it, with a focus on strengthening security facilities.
The core competitiveness of high-tech companies is the advanced technology or patents developed by the company. If a company invests heavily in research and development technology leaks, it will lead to huge losses for the company. That's why high-tech companies here are taking security very seriously, and so is this subsidiary of Tenglong International Group.
Every employee who enters and exits can only enter the building after face recognition and fingerprint recognition. After entering the building, different personnel have different permissions, and the elevator button has a fingerprint recognition function, and employees can only enter the authorized floor. After arriving at different floors, entering some core R&D departments, it is also necessary to verify biometric technologies such as iris recognition.
Before entering their office, employees must change into work clothes in the designated changing room, and mobile phones and other communication equipment must be placed in designated boxes for safekeeping, and are never allowed to be brought into the office. All phone calls and email records of employees in the building are kept for ten years.
As for visitors, to visit the company, they must apply one week in advance and go through the company's qualification checks before they can enter the building with a direct contact person and only in the reception area.
It can be said that this building is a castle with basically no dead ends.
When Li Jingwei arrived at the G2 building, Wei Rulan was already waiting below. The two have not seen each other for a long time since they parted ways in Wushi, and Wei Rulan is very much looking forward to meeting Li Jingwei.
"Mr. Li, thank you for coming. Wei Rulan saw Li Jingwei from a distance, so she trotted out to greet her.
"You're welcome. Keeping you waiting. Li Jingwei said, shaking Wei Rulan's outstretched hand.
"This building is our R&D center in the United States, and the security measures are very strict, so it may be troublesome to verify your identity later, sorry!" Wei Rulan explained, and took Li Jingwei through the reception channel into the lobby on the first floor.
Although she is the executive vice president of the group, Wei Rulan must also follow the company's rules, which is also an example for the rest of the company. Therefore, she cannot violate the company's rules without authorization.
The security measures here made Li Jingwei sigh very much, and thought in his heart, I would like to tell Pan Liwei that it is very necessary to improve the current security level for the X department of Jiexun.
After going through a rather complicated security procedure, Wei Rulan took Li Jingwei to a room in the basement of the building. This is a rather large conference room, and there are already five people waiting in it, and when they saw Wei Rulan come in, they all stood up together.
"Mr. Li, these are the core technical backbones of the company's chip research and development projects. Wei Rulan said. Then she introduced everyone to Li Jingwei.
Subsequently, Wei Rulan introduced to everyone: "This is Mr. Li Jingwei, a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is engaged in research in mathematics. I invite Mr. Li to come over today, and I want to talk about chip algorithms. ”
The five people present saw that Li Jingwei was very young, and they all felt a little contemptuous at first. Now I hear Wei Rulan say that he is already a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I am very surprised.
They all come from science and engineering backgrounds, and they know how difficult it is to become tenured professors at one of the world's top universities like MIT. Therefore, the original contempt of several people has also dissipated.
"Mr. Li, the chip project is a highly confidential R&D project of Tenglong International Group, and no information must be leaked before the project is successfully developed, otherwise it will lead to extremely serious consequences. If the international chip giant learns that we are developing this project, they will definitely try to obstruct the company's research and development of the chip. Wei Rulan explained, "So, you can't communicate about this matter on the phone, so I want you to come over in person." ”
Li Jingwei nodded in understanding, and then said, "Then please describe the problems you are facing now." ”
He doesn't like to drag his feet and wants to solve the problem as soon as possible.
In chip R&D, it is not only the hardware, such as transistors, that affects the computing power of the chip, but also the algorithm. Algorithm optimization can greatly improve the computing power of the chip under the existing conditions. Therefore, algorithms are also very important in chip research and development.
An engineer named Li Qingyuan took out an outline that had been laid out in advance and stated the 11 problems he had encountered one by one. In the process of re-presentation, he also presented the chip architecture of the current design through slides.
These 11 questions are all very difficult questions. There were 27 problems on the original problem list, and when I was in Huaxia, I asked the mathematics professors of Jinghua University to help solve 16 problems, and the remaining eleven were hard to bite.
In the process of Li Qingyuan's explanation, Li Jingwei recorded all the eleven questions. He first analyzed the correlation between the problems, and then circled six relatively easy to solve, such as the AES encryption algorithm. The current AES encryption algorithm cannot take into account the problems of small chip size and high efficiency requirements, and needs to be further optimized.
Li Jingwei asked Li Qingyuan for a laptop, and then asked them to find a way to find a large handwritten whiteboard. Then he said to Wei Rulan, Li Qingyuan and others:
"These dozen questions are tricky, and I need some time. Go ahead and go about your work, and I'll call you when you need to. ”
"Okay, Professor Lee. You see there's a green button here, and I'll come over when you press the button. Li Qingyuan said a button on a control panel on his desk.
Then, Wei Rulan and the others left the conference room.
To deal with these thorny issues, Li Jingwei really needs a person to calm down and think.
Throughout the morning, Li Jingwei was busy in the conference room, sometimes writing and drawing on the tablet, sometimes writing programs on the computer, and sometimes doing calculations on paper.
This office is also under the supervision of the company. Wei Rulan couldn't help her curiosity, came to the company's monitoring room, and saw what Li Jingwei was busy with through monitoring.
It is said that men are the most attractive when they work hard. At this time, Li Jingwei, who focuses on solving problems, is a charming man in Wei Rulan's eyes, and his demeanor of concentrating on work is so attractive.
Before she knew it, she had been sitting in the monitoring room for a morning. It wasn't until Li Qingyuan invited her to the company restaurant for lunch that she recovered from that state of lost consciousness and infatuation.
She looked at her watch, it was already half past twelve, and she remembered that Li Jingwei should also eat.
"Let's call Mr. Li along. Wei Rulan said and walked out of the monitoring room.