Chapter 193 Technical Gambling
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"Relying on R2OOO chips. Liang Yuan repeated what Ning Lei had just said, and then smiled meaningfully.
"Uncle Ning, although we have obtained the technology transfer of MIPS for the R2OOOO chip, the outside world does not know the details of the transfer agreement, and in the settlement agreement with MIPS, Yuanjia paid a great price, and the seven basic patents about MPIS architecture technology that originally belonged to us were completely owned by MIPS. ”
As soon as Liang Yuan said this, the door sounded, and the two little girls walked in with Xiong Weixin, who was carrying a kettle, and Liang Yuan realized that half an hour had passed.
The two little girls were very familiar with the secrecy regulations of the army since they were children, and they didn't ask much after entering the house, but Ning Wanjia handed Liang Yuan a washed apple with a smile, and then the lady and Ning Wanfei sat side by side next to Ning Lei's bed.
Taking an apple handed over by Ning Wanjia, Liang Yuan took a bite before continuing: "Uncle Ning, what we got is only the inheritance authorization of the R2OOOO chip under development, that is to say, we can open a new generation of processors on the basis of R2OOOO, covering the patents originally attributed to MIPS, but we will never allow the direct production of R2OOO and MIPS to compete, regardless of whether MIPS has entered the country's market and industry." ”
"Therefore, even if we get back all the technology of the R2OOOO chip in a few days, it is still impossible to apply it directly with a slight modification, unless we make a breakthrough change on the basis of R2ooo. ”
And to make this change, Lao Su and they estimated. Putting aside the cost of research for the time being, just replacing the production equipment and replacing the 5-micron production line with a 2-micron production line suitable for the production of R2OOO derivative processors will require at least 4ooo US dollars.
If it weren't for Liang Yuan's sore spot in his hands and using a large amount of dollars to open the way, with the commercial savvy of the Americans, where would he transfer his core technology and cultivate potential competitors.
When Fang Dongxing transferred the basic patent and obtained the R2OOO processor bundled. The mips were keen to seize the opportunity. The core of the agreement is to force Yuanjia to continue to open the next generation of RISC processors based on the MIPS architecture, otherwise even if it has the authorization of the R2OOO processor, it can only wait and see.
Continuing to open the next generation of RISC processors, MIPS has been on research for two years in advance. If nothing else. In the first year, the R3OOO processor will be officially introduced. It is equivalent to drawing a technical gap for Yuanjia, and MIPS must be extremely confident in its own technology when it puts forward this condition, and firmly believes that Yuanjia will be blocked out of technical barriers.
Liang Yuan, Su Liangyu and others know the abacus of MIPS. Originally, the chip room had already started the research of the next generation of processors-C3, and the acquisition of R2ooo was only to shorten the research process of C3, so for the problem of MIPS, neither Liang Yuan, Su Liangyu, nor Fang Dongxing was regarded as a headache.
Su Liangyu and others agreed to MIPS because they were confident in their own research technology, and Liang Yuan wanted to get out the multi-core processor that originated from the parallel computing technology of the level computer in advance, and he didn't take the MVPS gambling agreement seriously.
However, Su Liangyu is still a little apprehensive about Hong Kong Basic Electronics' proposal to introduce a 2.o micron wafer production line, after all, Liang Yuan has long said that the group will not take a close line in wafer process technology, and the investment of 4ooo million US dollars is by no means an amount that can be decided lightly.
To Su Liangyu's surprise, Liang Yuan didn't mention the original words at all, but only updated the equipment plan proposed by Basic Electronics, marked the detailed procurement time period, and planned to start the entire production line procurement in 9o, and only updated part of the equipment in the real room this year.
Liang Yuan did not mention the issue of funds with Su Liangyu and others, but it does not mean that he did not mention it with Ning Lei, this is the critical period of the reopening of the republic, and the price attack and price opening have been implemented in the past two years, especially after this year, the voice of opposing reform and opening up and preventing peaceful evolution is getting louder and louder.
In the face of the upcoming harsher political environment, how can Liang Yuan not take precautions.
Obviously, Ning Lei's homework was relatively complete, and he directly kicked the ball back to Liang Yuan, and said directly: "The National University of Defense Technology is a regular military sequence, and it doesn't have the crooked minds of AVIC, just like the United Aviation of the Air Force, Xiaoyuan will do what he says." ”
Ning Lei knows the ins and outs of the F14 fighter is the best, so Liang Yuan's thoughts on the overhaul line of the F14 fighter jet, Ning Lei is also well aware, and as a result, after the battle in Nansha, AVIC fell into the well in a blink of an eye, overturning the original tacit agreement, to say that Liang Yuan has no grievances is pure nonsense.
However, with Ning Lei's temperament, he will definitely not use his own influence to change anything, so looking at Liang Yuan's decisive letting go, he also feels guilty, and the "New Year's red envelopes" Ning Lei and Tang Wan who just mentioned to Liang Yuan have put a lot of thought into it.
"But Uncle Ning will tell you that from now until three years from now, the annual scientific research funding of the computer branch of the National University of Defense Technology will not exceed four million yuan. Ning Lei added with a smile on his face.
After listening to Ning Lei's almost scoundrel-like addition, Liang Yuan's mouth was full of bitterness, similar to the playing AVIC, Liang Yuan was secretly refreshed and had no scruples at all, but the more Ning Lei was like this, the more Liang Yuan felt constrained.
Liang Yuan had to rack his brains to pull United Airlines into his future exhibition framework and seek a sustainable future, otherwise it would be as simple as Figure 154 above, which was convenient and convenient.
More than 10 million yuan in three years, which looked like a huge amount of money in the late 80s, but unfortunately in front of the extremely expensive semiconductor industry, it is not even qualified to plug the gap between the teeth. Not to mention anything else, at present, the domestic 286-level computer is above 2oooo yuan, and the 386-level computer is close to 4oooo yuan.
Compared with personal computers, the parts that can be saved by the level computer at this time are about only the monitor and floppy drive, if the 386 level chip is used as the main computing chip of the level computer, the cost of a single computing node is still more than 3oooo yuan, and the cost of the entire computer is more than 300 million is really easy.
Thinking about the previous life, when I saw the report, the developers of the first generation of the galaxy computer of the Republic in order to save costs. An ordinary electric soldering iron is used. The circuit board was almost assembled by hand to assemble the Galaxy 1 type computer, breaking the foreign monopoly on the technology of the republic, and Liang Yuan, who resolutely refused the words, could not say it anyway. As a new human being who has experienced the baptism of information explosion. Liang Yuan understood early on: "There is only the national." is the world", the deepest meaning hidden in this sentence.
In addition to the company's own struggle, the increasingly powerful republic is also an important factor that cannot be ignored.
Ning Lei looked at Liang Yuan with amusement, and his entire eyebrows were about to be pulled together. He patted Liang Yuan's shoulder gently and said: "In the past few years, we have never interfered with Xiaoyuan's independent judgment of affairs, Uncle Ning will not make an exception today, no matter what decision Xiaoyuan makes, Uncle Ning will gladly accept it, as long as Xiaoyuan slowly learns to understand, the greater a person's ability, the greater the responsibility." ”
"Uncle Ning, this matter is very complicated, and my focus is not all on funds.... Liang Yuan said with a sigh.
There are definitely pros and cons to be closely involved with the republican side, but it still does more harm than good to the current Liang Yuan, the republic has enough state-owned enterprises charging outside, and it is not a big deal to have more Liang Yuan, but it is different to emerge a large private enterprise, at least after the United States closes the door to cooperation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, technology introduction and a series of aspects will be treated in a series of ways that the state-owned enterprises of the Republic do not have.
After pondering for a long time, patting his forehead, Liang Yuan let out a long breath and said: "Uncle Ning, Hong Kong Basic Electronics and Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Company is a semiconductor manufacturer focusing on civilian high-tech fields, and its inherent business characteristics are not suitable for the top-secret field of thermonuclear weapons. ”
However, the importance of this matter that Uncle Ning said cannot be overstated, although the possibility that Yuanjia's small arms and legs can bear is very limited, but it can still be done with a little heart. ”
Ning Lei smiled as if Ning Wanfei had asked for an orange, and then listened to Liang Yuan in circles with a curious face.
In the early market research stage of the Yuanjia computer plan, Lao Su and the others decided to set up several new companies in the future to integrate various chips produced by basic electronics, which only plays the role of manufacturing and some functional chip research in the group's system, and does not involve specific products. ”
As early as the beginning of Liang Yuan's F14 fighter overhaul line, Liang Yuan discussed with Su Liangyu and others how to avoid the science and technology park itself from having a strong military enterprise color, and finally came up with this circumvention plan that only produces basic components and does not produce the final physical object.
However, with Yuanjia losing the control of the F14 fighter overhaul line, this plan was also temporarily shelved, and Liang Yuan didn't expect that he would be turned out by himself to save the emergency.
"After the old Su fully obtains the R2OOOO chip, the group will set up a large-scale computer production enterprise called Inspur, and in the future, the National University of Defense Technology can completely adopt the method of entrustment to issue a mainframe research and purchase order to this computer company, as the owner of the project, send technical personnel to be responsible for the research direction of the project structure, which is really a normal thing. ”
Ning Lei listened to Liang Yuan's few words, and made a matter that seemed very simple to him extremely complicated, and asked with some tears and laughter: "You are going to make Uncle Ning dizzy, but what is Xiao Yuan drawing such a big circle for?"
Of course, Liang Yuan can't say that while going around these circles to avoid many big troubles based on the future, he is also laying an inconspicuous hole in the solid republican labor procurement system.
For Liang Yuan, the words "joint development" in technology without military procurement look pleasing to the eye.
"Uncle Ning, my purpose in doing this is very simple, the National University of Defense Technology should not only lack funds for researching computers, even if the new company develops high-level computers, the National University of Defense Technology will not have the money to purchase them. Liang Yuan asked seriously.
"Xiaoyuan, if you can really make a computer that meets the requirements, the state will definitely allocate funds to buy it. Ning Lei said briskly.
Liang Yuan pursed his lips covertly, and said in his heart that the most risky research stage would not pay for it, and it would be a problem of running out of funds when it was time to buy.
"Uncle Ning, you see, it's all a market economy now, and it's not like that for the National University of Defense Technology to be so poor all the time, so I feel that it's better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish. Liang Yuan smiled and leaned towards Ning Lei's side.
"Yo, Xiaoyuan is out, Xiaoyuan said so, can't you make the chip available to the state for free?"
"I would like to, but the transfer agreement with MIPS clearly states that Hong Kong Basic Electronics does not grant any enterprise or organization the right to use the MIPS architecture, as long as Yuanjia is still mixed outside, this cannot be violated. Liang Yuan casually deducted the reason for refusal on the heads of foreign mips.
"Besides, even if I license the chip to the National University of Defense Technology for free, they will only save tens of millions of scientific research expenses for three years. ”
"Xiao Yuan, let's talk about it, is there any good way to solve this problem?" Hearing Liang Yuan say this, Ning Lei became interested, the military did not understand the importance of computers to the national defense industry, but the annual military expenditure is so much, and it is useless to say anything if you have no money in your pocket.
"Uncle Ning, in fact, computing power is essentially a commodity, if we regard the performance of the entire computer as a reservoir, then can we use the faucet method to charge the users of the computer according to the actual traffic. Liang Yuan turned out the common payment methods for computers in later generations.
At this time, the number of computers owned by the Republic or the international community was extremely limited, and the world's first commercial-grade computer with the charging method described by Liang Yuan would not come out until the end of 1991. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)