Li Xiaohua did not rush to answer Zhao Mengguo's seemingly unreasonable question, but closed his eyes and thought about it carefully.

"Together, it's mutually beneficial!"

After Li Xiaohua opened his eyes, he spit out four words, and then continued:

"If the two of us join forces and re-turn the direction to attack the evolution of the SPARC T2 architecture, whether it is the next high-performance server, the small computer, or even the supercomputer we plan later, it is possible to get the opportunity to reshape the territory in China!"

"I think with our chip design capabilities, we can launch a new version of SPARC T2 in less than 2 years, not to mention anything else, as long as we improve its memory control so that it supports the latest DDR3 memory, and then double the core, and at least 2 times more performance of T2, we are quite sure that this design can be done!"

Zhao Mengguo's eyes lit up, although it was said that giving up the original project meant that everyone's hard work for several years was in vain, but compared to this more promising architecture and foundation, what about giving up a few years of hard work, not choosing a better architecture, how to quickly achieve corner overtaking.

"Mr. Zhao, compared with the previous unpopular architecture, the most advantageous thing to choose SPARC now is that there is no obstacle to our commercial expansion, Sun Microsystem open-source the operating system platform and hardware together, and does not limit our domestic market sales, the operating system and applications are compatible with a large part of the previous investment of enterprises, of course, Sparc compatible machines need to be sold to the international market also need to get their commercial license. ”

"This means that we can have the opportunity to replace the original SPARC market, in contrast, our platform is a separate system from hardware to operating system, there is no application support at all, and it is too difficult to promote it in the civilian market, and there may not even be a chance at all!"

Li Xiaohua is also saddened that his hard work has been abandoned, but under the premise of developing reason, he must see the various situations that the project will face in the next few years or even ten years.

Without the profits brought by commercialization, it is difficult to advance the cause quickly by relying on funding, and with their strength, there is no chance of winning against those giants.

But now with SPARC, Li Xiaohua knows that if he cooperates with Southwest Institute, which is good at SPARC server design, it will basically open up the upstream and downstream of this ecological chain, and the future commercial promotion benefits will be so great that the current project is unimaginable.

"I'll go talk to Li Shijie!" Zhao Mengguo finally made up his mind. Many of Li Xiaohua's words were also thought of after he got the test report, but emotionally he still couldn't accept the decision to stop the current project transformation.

At the same time, I am worried that the project team does not understand this aspect.

But now Li Xiaohua is equivalent to changing his position, which is equivalent to everyone's opinion, so Zhao Mengguo made up his mind.

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"Mr. Zhao, what kind of wind blew your brother from Jiangnan?" Li Shijie looked at Zhao Mengguo who came to visit him in great surprise.

"Mr. Li, it's not enough to have good things to hide, to be honest, when will the 64-way SPARC server come out?" Zhao Mengguo was not polite, and went straight to the point.

"Hehe, Mr. Zhao is well-informed," Li Shijie smiled, "It's still early, it's still early, I just drove out Road 32, and I estimate that it will take half a year to gnaw Road 64."

By the way, we don't have much research on hardware chip-level design, and we don't even have the built-in Gigabit LAN function, so you came just in time to support two hardware experts to help us solve this problem?"

"No problem!" Zhao Mengguo said with rare generosity.

agreed to come down so quickly, which caught Li Shijie a little off guard.

"Mr. Zhao, are you not joking?" Li Shijie was a little suspicious.

"No kidding. Today, I came to discuss with Mr. Li about strengthening cooperation between our two families, do you think we can find a place to talk in detail, or will we talk about it with you?"

Li Shijie's heart moved, this Lao Zhao seems to have something important to find him, his office is full of people, of course it is inconvenient to talk about things, maybe someone will find him after talking for a while.

"Let's go to the conference room. Li Shijie said.

"Xiao Wang, send my Longjing pot to the VIP room, and tell the people in the office, don't bother me this morning, I will take care of all the big things by myself!" Walking to the door, Li Shijie shouted to the office next to him.

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"So, you're ready to turn around?" Li Shijie was surprised in his heart after listening to Zhao Mengguo's words, but Li Shijie still admired the decisive decision of this old man on the same front.

The SPARC T2 produced by the current next-generation process technology is indeed at least three to five years ahead of their project performance, and even Li Shijie is ready to enter the industry chain of this processor design industry chain after building a machine to make money.

If Li Shijie has money now, he believes that there is little suspense that his project results will eventually surpass Zhao Mengguo's project results, after all, the five-year generation difference is not so easy to catch up.

Li Shijie has few people working on chips and needs to reorganize and excavate, so even if it takes two more years to learn and penetrate, the new generation of SPART T2 will definitely come out in two years at most.

With the existence of the SPARC Open Alliance, there must be a channel for consultation and solution to the big technical threshold, not to mention that Li Shijie's idea almost coincides with Li Xiaohua's side, and there are many smart people in the world.

Adding cores and modifying memory support This change is the least difficult and most noticeable performance improvement for getting familiar with the SPARC T2 core architecture.

As for the existing single-core performance optimization design, it is much more difficult in comparison.

"We have to pivot, or we'll end up in a dead end with no commercial use. Zhao Mengguo said firmly.

"You are the most powerful in China in terms of SPARC server design, and if the two of us join forces to do this and connect the chip optimization and improvement with the compatible server, then there will be basically no one else in this market who can compete with us. ”

Zhao Mengguo looked at Li Shijie with burning eyes.

"Now it depends on what you mean, Mr. Li. ”

To figure out Zhao Mengguo's intentions, Li Shijie knew it in his heart.

Regarding the other party's plan, Li Shijie did not feel that the other party took advantage.

Although this is the case in the short term, Jianchuan Computer has developed a 32-channel SPARC T2 server, and Jianchuan Computer is the most promising to seize the opportunity in the mainland market in the short term.

But...

Things are not so simple, most of the influence of Jianchuan computer is in this special sector in the southwest, and the fame or influence of these civilian departments such as finance is relatively small.

Relatively speaking, Jiangnan Institute also has the same problem, but after all, they can radiate several provinces in Jiangnan.

If we join forces to open up the market, it is actually a matter of mutual benefit.

The southwest and Jiangnan are like two columns of soldiers, and they are no longer fighting alone.

In the longer term, Li Shijie has his own plans to evolve SPARC T2 alone, and those friendly troops in the north are not blind, and it is inevitable that they will also have this thought.

Then Li Shijie has to rely entirely on his own business operations to support the coolies, otherwise they will get the new model out and improve the performance a lot, and the Jianchuan computer will soon be passive.

It's not that they don't sell chips to Jianchuan Computer, but through such a research and development, they can eat through the chips and design 32-channel or even 64-channel SPARC high-performance servers.

In this way, Jianchuan Computer's slight lead is gone.

And Zhao Mengguo's proposal for the two to unite is basically to get rid of each other's thoughts.

After all, Wu Zuhua has won the MIPS architecture, and now they have not replaced it and continue to gnaw, this is the strongest opponent in China in terms of processors, and the technical route in the MIPS architecture has been determined.

Zhao Mengguo: If they apply to change the technical route of SPARC architecture, with such a good foundation as SPARR T2, they will not have too many obstacles to apply and approve it, so Zhao Mengguo and they will take the righteousness of this scientific research and the support of national funds!

If it is commercialized together with the Southwest Institute, this way will be completely opened, and the mainland will definitely not let the SPARC processor research and development blossom everywhere to engage in duplicate construction, and those compatible server designers will have to rely on this series of processors of the Jiangnan Institute in the future.

In this way, the Southwest Institute and Jianchuan Computer have a fairly solid ally with each other.

So in the long run, this is definitely a good deal!

"If Mr. Zhao doesn't think we're dragging our feet, then we'll do it together!" Li Shijie is also a decisive person, thinking about the cause and effect, and then making a decisive decision instead of shirking.

Now the domestic camp is clear, the Northern Alliance and the National University of Science and Technology have obvious first-mover advantages, and the Southwest Institute is actually the weakest party in these camps, if it weren't for the SPARC Open Alliance, Li Shijie wouldn't know how to go next step!

Now that there is an opportunity to strengthen his camp, Li Shijie certainly does not want to miss it.

"Okay, Mr. Li is refreshing!" Zhao Mengguo was overjoyed, "Next, we will do an integration in business, jointly promote the commercialization process, and in terms of chip research, we will also re-do a division of labor, Mr. Li will see which piece is suitable to do, and we will discuss it together." ”

Now that they are united, of course Zhao Mengguo can't eat alone and grasp all the chip research and development in his own hands, which is obviously not conducive to unity.

"Since Mr. Zhao said so, the younger brother is respectful and obedient, there is a reluctant invitation first, the industry in the southwest is weaker, and I hope we can incubate a little high-tech things out, and the places are found for us, and a hundred acres of land in the high-tech zone are used for the construction of our server factory. ”

"Therefore, the younger brother has the cheekiness to discuss with Mr. Zhao, the headquarters of the new server company is placed on our southwest institute, and the semiconductor subsidiary is placed in your Jiangnan institute, anyway, you are closer to the foundry, and you will cooperate better with each other. ”

Li Shijie won it for the southwest side.

In the future, the output value of this server company should be at least several hundred million a year, which is estimated to be inconspicuous on the Jinhai side, but it is already a good high-tech enterprise in the southwest.

"No problem!" Zhao Mengguo waved his hand, he was really not as valued by the local people as Li Shijie in the southwest on the Jinhai side.

There is nothing wrong with the production of this server in the southwest, and the transportation cost is nothing for a server of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Seriously, with the tax incentives and exemptions in all aspects, the company will have more profits to support R&D work.

This is good for the big picture.

Cooperation is mutually beneficial, that is, to give full play to the advantages of both sides.

"Mr. Li, you see that we have made 16 roads, you have made 32 roads, and 64 roads will soon be made in the future, it can be said that the two of us can go together in the high-end market, when will we take out the results appraisal meeting and name our products?"

Zhao Mengguo asked with a smile, for him, the certification of the SPARC development laboratory is not as solid as the achievement appraisal.

They still have a deep influence in this regard, with Li Shijie's 32-way server, at least in the field of minicomputers, it is not a big problem to identify a domestic leader, with this foundation, they will be famous for the promotion of a piece of Jiangnan.

Their position is also good, they can go north and south, but they are blocked by the University of Science and Technology and the Northern Alliance, and it is estimated that it is more difficult to go north, so they can only go south to grab the market first.

In fact, if most of the market share of Jiangnan, South China, and Southwest China can be eaten, they can make a lot of money in at least three years.

Two billion a year may be a little too much now, more than a billion should be able to sell it, so how can he earn him five or six billion, half of this money is put in chip research and development, Zhao Mengguo thinks that it is enough to make a model!

Now their research and development is not as much as foreign counterparts to burn money, tape-out is thousands of calculations to verify the seventy-seven-eighty-eight before they dare to start, millions of tape-out opportunities, they dare not come a few more times.

"No problem, I think that's good. Li Shijie also knew what the other party meant. It's just that he felt that he was weak before, and it might not be good to engage in this appraisal meeting, after all, there is really nothing to brag about in terms of technical content.

Waiting for the 64-way server to come out may be able to blow a wave of domestic leading and world-class results.

Now there are many 32 roads in the international market, and there are no new things at all, and this world-class is really not easy to blow.

However, the 64-way is now announced by the Oriental people in research and development, if Li Shijie takes it out in advance before the Orientals, it will at least be called the international leader in the subdivision of the 64-way SPARC server.

With this cooperation, Zhao Mengguo can now provide stronger engineers to cooperate with Li Shijie to optimize the design of the motherboard.

On the basis of the 32-channel old motherboard, the performance of the network needs to be further improved in order to better unleash the power of the 64-channel server.

After all, this kind of multi-socket server, which requires multiple motherboards to be superimposed, is a new bottleneck in the communication bandwidth between them.

Now, if the capabilities of the existing chips are fully exerted on this bottleneck, the future development space of this 64-channel server is obviously more optimistic.

After the two bosses discussed the strategic intention of cooperation, the next integration, asset accounting injection and share distribution and other details, of course, could not be completed in a day or two.

However, the two sides hit it off strategically, and these details can be postponed, and it is imperative that the technical capabilities of both parties be reintegrated and the personnel allocated according to the priority of the project.

The first priority is, of course, the research and development of the 64-channel server, and Zhao Mengguo sent Li Xiaohua over to coordinate the technical development of the hardware.

For this already well-known family, Li Shijie still appreciates it very much, and he also happily left the hardware motherboard development to Li Xiaohua for unified arrangement.

Anyway, now the attitude of the two sides is very resolute. Of course, what technical achievements are signed by both sides, and the future market interests are also considered in accordance with the contribution of both parties and the balance of the original accumulation.

In general, everyone takes what they need, and that's fine.

This has evolved into such a thing that it has completely changed the strategic direction and outcome of the two important research theories in the original time and space.

This is something that people nowadays can't think of at all.

Liu Ruoyi, the initiator, was even more unaware.