Chapter 344 CPU Autonomous Architecture
Although Zhou Shi was amazed by the design of Galaxy SOHO and Wangjing SOHO, he was a little disappointed when he saw the top view of Galaxy SOHO and the overall image of Wangjing SOHO. One building is four eggs and one is pork kidney. Even if you don't talk about these, among these buildings, I heard that there are many special-shaped patterns, some are close to triangles, pentagons, trapezoids, hexagons, and even optical illusions. Zhou Shi didn't want their office environment to become like this.
After contacting Hadid again, Zhou Shi did not be polite to her, mainly because he changed two places, four eggs became three eggs, and they had to be round on the outside and square on the inside, one of the buildings represented the sky and was used by Time Company, one on behalf of the land, for Friends Network, and one on behalf of people, mainly rented to entrepreneurs in various industries. Zhou Shi also explained his positioning of time and friends, needless to say, the friend network, mainly social networks and artificial intelligence, cloud computing. Time Inc. is an explorer of cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and its role as a place for ideas to take place and an incubator for companies.
After Hadid's design plan is completed, it is construction, Pan Shiyi may mean free voluntary assistance, but Zhou Shi will not let SOHO Huaxia suffer for a small amount of money, but the high standard requirements still have to be met, a variety of high-performance curtain wall systems, daylight collection, 100% underground parking, sewage recycling, high-efficiency heating and air conditioning systems, CFC-free refrigeration methods, high-quality building automation systems and other green building technologies must be utilized. As for high technology, forget it, more than ten years later, the current high technology will soon become backward technology, and the cost of construction improvement will become more expensive. It's better to plan ahead and leave room for improvement.
After basically completing the design of the headquarters, Zhou Shi returned to Yenching University again before leaving Yenching. I haven't seen it for a long time, there are many changes in Beijing, and although the changes in the school are a little smaller, there is still some strangeness to Zhou Shi. However, the shared bicycle is still in operation, Zhou Shi also saw a number of statements on the Internet, and there was a period of time when it was considered to be seriously damaged, and the procurement was not timely, which caused a lot of contradictions. At the same time, various rules and regulations have been adjusted, many cameras have been installed in the school, and each bicycle has been numbered, which has alleviated the situation of some collapse of the sharing bicycle project.
"Why do they continue to insist on sharing bicycles, if they can't do it, they won't do it, it's not our Yuanpei's obligation!" Zhou Shi asked Professor Wei curiously
"Everyone feels that it is necessary to make such an attempt, if even our school can't do such a thing, then there is something wrong with the moral education in Huaxia. Yuanpei's students are still very thoughtful. "Professor Wei
"How big is Yuan Pei now!" Zhou Shi
"In the entire Yuanpei, there are about 600 people in the four grades. "Professor Wei
"That's a lot!" Zhou Shi thought about his classmates who had only been in one or two classes before.
"The need for education reform!" Professor Wei
"How is our fund doing now?" Zhou Shi asked again
"Well, you'd better wait and ask the person in charge, do you have something to do?" Professor Wei said embarrassedly
"There is really something, I want to find out something from the director of the Microprocessor Research Center of Peking University!"
"Looking for him, I don't know him!" Professor Wei
"Someone knows, but I still haven't thought about something!" Zhou Shi
"What, can I help you with anything?" Professor Wei
"I have a plan that hurts others and is not good for myself, but it is very helpful to the national industry, and I don't know whether to promote it or not. "Zhou Shi
"It's hard to decide, which industry won't be semiconductor chips?" Professor Wei
"That's right, it's the chip industry. "Zhou Shi
"Are you sure your idea works?" Professor Wei
"I'm thinking about it from an economic point of view, and there is a lot of hope for success. Zhou Shi took the initiative to explain, "I want to promote the chip design of open source architecture. ”
"The chip is open source, is this okay?" Professor Wei
"Not sure, but there is a lot of hope for success. Zhou Shi honestly said that next year, the University of California, Berkeley, will design an open source architecture of the reduced instruction set RISC-V. This is an instruction set architecture that allows you to choose the appropriate instruction set for specific scenarios. For example, design server CPUs, home appliance CPUs, industrial CPUs, and CPUs used in sensors smaller than a finger. It is completely free, open source using the loose BSD protocol, which is completely free for enterprises to use, and also allows enterprises to add their own instruction set to expand without having to open and share to achieve differentiated development. What Zhou Shi wants to promote is such a product, and he doesn't get any benefit from the architecture itself, but the companies that use it.
RISC-V has many advantages, such as being completely open source, simple architecture, easy to port (such as Linux system), modular design, selecting different module instruction sets according to different use scenarios, and a tool chain that is easy to develop and design (a window for software developers to interact with the CPU).
When Zhou Shi finished talking about these 1510 and Chen Xu, the director of the Yanda Microprocessor Research and Development Center, he fell into silence for a long time. Logically speaking, such a product will have a lot of corporate support, but it is difficult to explain things in the high-tech field, and the status and persuasiveness of domestic universities and experts in the scientific and technological world are not so obvious. Besides, the funding of the research center mainly depends on state grants, and who knows if it can be approved from above. What the state wants is a CPU with independent intellectual property rights, and now there are several domestic enterprises such as Loongson, Zhongzhi and Ark in operation. Moreover, not long ago, the first-generation system-on-chip PKUnity-3 (SK) tape-out of Yanzhongzhi's "Super K Project", which lasted for four years, successfully entered mass production. Oh, I forgot to mention that Yan Zhongzhi belongs to Chen Xu's management. He has his own independent architecture, UniCore, and their own Linux system.
"This matter is very difficult to do, even if it is done well, it will not be of much benefit to the country!" Chen Xu politely refused.
"This can break the monopoly of inter, can give domestic chip design companies a chance to participate in international competition, now we have no such opportunity" Zhou Shi knows, whether it is X86 or ARM is unfair to domestic enterprises, even if ARM's architecture-level authorization has never been given to Huawei, domestic chip companies have to complete the shortlisting under unfavorable conditions, this task is not an ordinary difficulty.
"I need to be responsible for the state's funds, and the state didn't give me the funds so that I could do public welfare for the world. "Chen Xu
(End of chapter)