What? The SPARC Open Alliance asked us to use the latest 32nm process technology to produce their SPARC T2 server processors? Isn't this nonsense? A good 65nm process technology is perfectly connected, saving time and effort, and everyone is low-cost. ”

"What? People have increased the unit price to $650 per piece, and the number has also increased to 1.5 million, including the demand for 200,000 pieces of Sun Microsystem itself?

What do these people think, this can install five or six hundred thousand servers, who are they selling it to?"

Zhang Rujin heard the phone call of Hu Jianguo, the general manager of the mainland, and was a little inexplicable.

32nm has just been debugged and can enter mass production, but it is still unstable, and the yield needs time to accumulate before it can be further adjusted.

Now directly on the extremely complex server processor, and far away from it is still designed according to the 65nm process process, doesn't this make the dragon factory jump directly into the fire pit?

Of course, this order is indeed very tempting, almost 1 billion US dollars, for the 32nm process technology, if it is a little more mature to be able to get such a large order, it is a very refreshing thing.

However, Zhang Rujin was not sure.

Putting down the phone, he turned his head to look at Liang Jisong.

"Lao Liang, there is a batch of orders specifying us to use 32nm to produce SPARC T2 processors, their original design is based on 65nm, this order is very large, are you sure about the technology?"

Although Liang Jisong has not yet been appointed as the vice president of technology, his status here is not much different from that of the vice president of technology.

So this person can't get along in TMS, and I really can't blame anyone else.

Finally solved the problem of the 32nm process process, and now it has finally begun to enter the state of mass production, Liang Jisong is full of confidence, "Mr. Zhang, we can afford this order!" I know that the performance of this SPARC CPU designed earlier is good, it is nothing more than the problem of power consumption and heat, and they chose the 32nm process technology to replace the 65nm process technology, I think it is nothing more than this consideration. ”

"After all, the new process has a very obvious effect on the power consumption and heat generation of the processor, so let them transfer the relevant technical documents from the 65nm process to the 32nm process, and I will first study and study to see where the difficulties are. ”

"In principle, this conversion from 65nm to 32nm will be greatly improved even if there is no need to change the circuit diagram of the internal design, and the risk in processing is not very large, and the problem now is that the yield of the 32nm process in our factory is not high, and I am worried that this cost is a bit difficult to control. ”

"You don't have to worry about the cost, the other party offered a single price of 650 US dollars, it is obvious that this is the relationship between our side of the gold owner in the hands of Zhongxin International Dragon Factory, and now the entire order is worth nearly 1 billion US dollars, and the yield is not high and can not be lost. ”

"And I can't say what kind of feeling it is, this business shouldn't be a one-shot deal, but I'm very curious how these needs can suddenly pop up, according to the scale of this processor, I'm afraid it will take tens of billions of dollars in server purchases to digest it." ”

Zhang Rujin said confusedly, of course, his estimate is based on the original server price of Sun Microsystem, and a 4-socket server with a mainstream processor starts at $100,000!

Even if these 1.5 million servers are 300,000 servers, it is at least nearly 30 billion US dollars in server sales market share, where can we find such a large market to digest now? Now the entire server market is not 30 billion US dollars a year, Zhang Rujin has not studied it, but it is about the same, so it is basically impossible for a single server to reach this scale.

This thing is really elusive, but fortunately, he doesn't need to care about how others sell it, the dragon factory can collect money after the processing is completed and accepted, and it doesn't matter if others spend a billion dollars to collect or do something else.

Liang Jisong didn't think about it at all, he was just a little enthusiastic, he felt that he had really come to the right place, and having this kind of big single challenge so soon was of course a great thing for his performance.

The conditions here have been discussed, there is nothing to say about the position and annual salary, the rules are all there, and everyone knows it.

But for a person of his level, the most important thing is what is in the option pool, which is meat!

The annual salary is just soup and water, it doesn't matter if there is more or less, and even in order to make the company balance the psychology of some people, Liang Jisong feels that it doesn't matter if the annual salary is compromised.

After all, he was parachuted in, and it was not appropriate for his annual salary to overpower the patriarchs all of a sudden.

When talking about this with Zhang Rujin, Liang Ji Songfu was still smart in his heart, and took the initiative to say that the annual salary should be arranged according to the current salary system of Zhongxin International, and he would not be presumptuous!

This attitude is quite correct, which makes Zhang Rujin, who has a headache, greatly relieved.

However, he also understands people, and naturally knows what this person is pursuing, so he agreed on a goal for Liang Jisong.

Within five years, the process will catch up with the competitor TMS, and the equity distribution of the option pool will definitely be ranked second!

The first is of course himself, even if Zhang Rujin does not have much pursuit of his own interests, but considering that a group of elders need to be taken care of, ranking Liang Jisong first is a public anger, and at the same time, he is also hateful to Liang Jisong.

At that time, Liang Jisong was very refreshed in his heart, and of course he said modestly that Mr. Zhang would just look at it.

TMS never mentions these treatments to him, and the TMS boss is good at everything, but he doesn't take care of the demand for core employee options, and he would rather pay dividends to everyone.

It's just that there is no match in this way, and of course it is good for ordinary employees, so they should be given bonuses.

For the core backbones, this kind of is a bit of a hooligan, why is high technology developing rapidly?

That's not after everyone works hard to earn equity, the company can develop and make a fortune!

Liang Jisong will never think about it in TMS, but Dragon Factory has now given him a chance, so Liang Jisong also attaches great importance to this first big order of 32nm.

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"Mr. Zhang, I understand the reason why they need to change the process. Liang Jisong got the technical documents and gnawed on them for several days, and his eyes were still bloodshot and came to Zhang Rujin.

"You see, the processors they produce according to the 65nm process process even if they run at 1.4GHz, the power consumption is as high as 123W, while Intel's Xeon is only 95W, which is only power consumption, which will have a lot of restrictions on their design of servers, such as 16-way, 32-way servers, even if it is difficult to deal with this power demand and heat dissipation. ”

"And they also want to increase the main frequency to more than 1.6GHz, the pursuit of better performance, limiting them if they want to control power consumption and heating, 65nm process production needs multi-channel processor heat dissipation safe and controllable, to control the main frequency to 1.2GHz and 1GHz level. ”

"So they pay more than 30 percent of the cost, and it's very likely that they get more than 50 percent performance improvement!

Zhang Rujin looked at the main points of the report pointed out by Liang Jisong. nodded, and finally figured out why the other party changed the process, so it was completely reasonable.

"Are we sure of the 32nm process docking technology?" Zhang Rujin asked, this is the problem he is most concerned about, the others are floating clouds, and the processing plant does not need to understand why the customer chooses, as long as it can afford to pay for it.

"I've carefully considered that this is similar to the complexity of our flagship graphics processors in TMS in the past, which can be solved in principle, but we need the original processor design company to work together to better import the process technology and improve the yield. ”

Liang Jisong pleaded.

"There is no problem with this, Sun Microsystems is the leader in the SPARC Open Alliance, and they now have R&D centers in Pengcheng and Xiangjiang, which can completely guide us on how to produce on site. Zhang Rujin breathed a sigh of relief and agreed to Liang Jisong's request.

"Then there is no problem, I will go to the production line to scrutinize, yesterday I saw this processor information, I think there is a device parameters that are now adjusted to some problems, if the production of this processor is imported, the tape-out is likely to fail!" Liang Jisong got what he wanted, and he couldn't stay in the office.

He is a person who was born for technology, and if he can stay in the production line, he will feel grounded.

Zhang Rujin now knows this person's habits. "Go, busy with you, report any problems in time, an old friend in Jinhai said that this batch of orders is very important to Zhongxin International, and may even affect the layout of the semiconductor processing system in the mainland in the future. ”

In other words, whether we are the first sequence of support objects in the mainland depends on this performance. ”

The fact that so many people were involved in a batch of orders was completely unnoticed by the Sun Microsystems insiders who spearheaded the SPARC Open Alliance.

For them, the sudden influx of orders has given them more confidence in the Solis cloud service, and if it is so widely used, there will be more customers based on the Solis cloud in the future.

From this point of view, this is a very good sign.

As for missing out on the opportunity to make a fortune with this wave of SPARC servers, they didn't pay much attention to it, after all, selling servers is almost a one-shot deal, and cloud services can collect money every year.

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...

Sun Microsystems still attaches great importance to this batch of processor foundry, and sent a heavyweight technical team to Xiangjiang for on-site technical cooperation, and knows everything about the technical details in the processing process.

It's exactly the same as when working with graphics card manufacturers, and the goal is to make production as smooth as possible.

With such a coordinated upstream design end, the work of cutting into the process process assembly line is progressing very quickly.

Soon, the first internal tape-out was a one-time success!

The test frequency of the first batch of tape-outs reached 1.5GHz, and the power consumption was controlled at the level of 85W, and most of the incomplete measurements were about 80W.

The power of the 32nm process is terrifying!

This result obviously made Zhongxin International and Sun Microsystem engineers very excited.

Record, analyze, tweak, optimize, and re-tape out a few days later!and agreed to a request from a SPARC Open Alliance customer to attend the ceremony.

The re-tape-out is also very smooth, Liang Daxian's ability is beyond doubt, the production line after tuning runs more smoothly and smoothly, and the quality of the core obtained is also higher!

The main frequency of this tape-out sample test reached a maximum of 1.9GHz, and the overall power consumption at this high frequency was controlled at the level of 105W!

If the frequency reduction control is controlled at 1.6GHz, it is 90W, and the frequency reduction control is 95W at 1.8GHz!

When a customer who was watching the ceremony saw the preliminary test results, he was so excited that he was left in tears.

Few people at the scene knew him, he was Li Shijie, an expert in the research and development of computer systems from the data center of the X Institute.

This time, along with a SPARC-compatible server manufacturer, everyone only knew that his name was "Li Gong".

Of course, the dragon factory itself is also very happy with this news, and some people shed tears, this production line for their employees from the mainland of Zhongxin International, the success of tape-out shows that 32nm has now become a competitive process, and can PK the most complex and valuable orders with competitors.

This time, the dragon factory has launched a strong impact on the process advantages of competitors, and the next step is to wait for the 28nm process technology to come out to catch up with the opponent and compete directly on the same stage.

So Li Gong's tears did not arouse any suspicion.

But Liang Jisong, at this moment of celebration, can only stay in Zhang Rujin's office, looking at the empty wall!

He is still in the "confinement period" of the non-compete restriction, and of course he cannot show his head on such occasions when there are foreign customers.

Although everyone knows it, it still needs to be pretended on the surface.

Zhang Rujin naturally celebrated at the scene, in fact, he prepared a lot of bottles of champagne for everyone, and when the test passed and got unexpectedly good results, the crowd at the scene was excited, and began to carnival.

Anyway, they are a viewing place set up outside the factory, and it doesn't matter if everyone is spraying around with champagne.

Mr. Zhang, who has always been serious, was unsurprisingly sprayed with a champagne shower effect tacitly!

It's just that this time Mr. Zhang didn't care at all, after a short carnival, Mr. Zhang raised his head to the sky, clenched his fists and chanted words, I don't know who he was talking to, or what oath he made in his heart.

None of that matters, though.

The successful tape-out of the 32nm process technology of the Dragon Factory has now changed the competitive situation of the semiconductor processing industry, and the equipment that has been put in place one after another will become the most important support for Liu Ruoyi's multiplication plan. It won't be long before Dragon Fab's 32nm capacity swells to 30,000 wafers per month.

Coupled with the 50,000 wafer processing capacity per month that 45nm is ready to expand, the advanced production capacity of Dragon Factory has reached an annual output of nearly 1 million wafer processing capacity!

The speed of this development has completely exceeded the best expectations at the beginning!

This is entirely due to the hard work of the top and bottom day and night, as well as the abundant cash flow to spend, and the other is the late-mover advantage, these production lines have successful cases in the front, at least on the equipment side, we don't have to worry about how to purchase and configure.

So that the hardware problem is solved by the predecessors, and the future generations will naturally stand on a better stage to perform.

And this biggest hero, Liang Jisong, couldn't find a few people to share the joy.

can only be alone in Zhang Rujin's office, drunk with Lao Zhang and the two lonely bottles one after another!