Chapter 125: Assign Tasks
In the busy and development of Changsheng Investment Group, nearly a month has passed. The dry etching equipment development team led by Wang Bo of the Institute of Chemistry reported good news to Shen Danqing. The reason why they produce results so quickly is that the dry etching technology is actually developed on the basis of ion implanters, such as the same ion generation chamber, the same particle accelerator, and the same scanning system. It's just one more chemical reaction technology. Most of the technology can be copied, which is why they are developing so quickly.
Before they reported to Shen Danqing, they had tried this set of equipment many times, and the yield rate of the trial production of 16-bit chips suddenly increased to nearly 100%. Because as mentioned earlier, the entire set of chip manufacturing equipment, the process technology has reached the nanometer level, and only the etching technology is not up to standard. It is because of this shortcoming that the previous yield rate was only 53%. Dry etching technology, on the other hand, is tailor-made for nanoscale processes, so it is also very accurate. Now we use nano-scale process technology to make millimeter-level chips, of course, there is no scrap rate!
"Okay, very good!" Shen Danqing hung up the good news call from Wang Bo, and said heavily on the desk. It can be seen how excited his heart is.
Now he doesn't have the heart to work at all, so he just walks around the office, which is how he thinks when he's excited.
"Today, the entire set of chip production equipment has fully reached the nano-scale process technology. The only shortcoming is the Institute of Electronics. They don't have the ability to design chips that are too complex, and that's a big problem. No, I'll take a trip to the Institute of Electronics. Shen Danqing said to himself.
Think of it and do it, it's his character. Therefore, he didn't prepare anything, he just raised his feet and walked outside.
The outer room is Secretary Liu's office, and he is working seriously at this time. The boss came out very suddenly, and he hadn't reacted yet.
"Secretary Liu, come with me to the Institute of Electronics, and you can call someone to take over your work. Shen Danqing instructed Secretary Liu.
"Okay, boss, you wait a minute. Secretary Liu replied while going to the secretary's office next door to call someone, which is a common thing. Therefore, there have been fixed candidates for a long time. It only took a little over a minute for them to come.
"Hello boss. The substitute secretary greeted Shen Danqing.
"Hmm!" Shen Danqing just nodded and replied in a nasal voice. Then he walked outside, and Secretary Liu hurriedly followed. Shen Danqing is tall and long, and his steps are fast, Secretary Liu can almost use the pace of race walking to keep up, if she is a female secretary, she can't even think about it. Of course, except for the little girl, she has privileges, Shen Danqing must follow her steps, otherwise she will be scolded when she goes back.
When they arrived at the Institute of Electronics, Hong Tao led the management to warmly receive the two of them.
"Boss, is there anything important that you came to our office today?" Hong Tao was very curious about the reason for the boss's arrival, so he asked him.
"It's not because you've pulled back, now the entire set of chip manufacturing equipment has been successfully developed, and the process technology has reached the world's leading nanoscale. But you can only design 16-bit chips, and there's only one chip yet. It seriously restricts the development of the company, Director Hong, do you know?" Shen Danqing said to him in a questioning tone.
"Boss, I'm sorry! We are stepping up the training of intern students at Huachuang Vocational School. Designing chips requires a lot of skilled electronics engineers, and now sixteen bits is fine, and with a little more time, we can still handle it. At 32 bits, this is far from enough, and at least thousands of skilled electronics engineers are required to do it. Hong Tao hurriedly shouted, he thought that the boss was difficult for a strong man.
"Then you have to train them quickly, my requirement is to be able to design at least 32-bit chips. The 16-bit chip is too bad, and it can only be used for ordinary small household appliances, not even for mechanical and electrical products.
Also, I've been so busy that I forgot to tell you about my requirements for chip design. Take a note. Shen Danqing first complained, and then instructed the management present.
Hong Tao and the others hurriedly looked for paper and pens, and it took two or three minutes to prepare. They sat upright one by one, holding a pen in one hand and a paper in the other, like students who were taking a serious lesson.
Shen Danqing waited for them to be ready, and then said unhurriedly: "We only design a reduced instruction set chip. But in order to increase the speed of the chip reaction. We're going to put a variety of commonly used instruction sets. In the form of software, stored in the read-only memory inside the chip, the processor receives the instruction request, retrieves the pairing from the pre-set instruction set database, and then gives the calculation answer. This approach avoids, in addition, the drawbacks of designing complex processors, and importantly, we cannot get authorization from Intel.
In addition, I envision four RI chips. One is a pure industrial control chip and embedded chip, which requires simple and stable functions and fast response speed. Removing many complex functions, it is a dedicated chip.
The second is a high-performance chip, which is a server chip, or a supercomputer chip. This chip is also a special chip, which can remove multimedia functions, enhance computing performance, and network distributed computing performance, and most importantly, strengthen the speed of data retrieval and download.
The third chip is a multimedia chip, or desktop multimedia chip. This chip is also known as a multi-function chip and a general-purpose chip. Its main function is to be entertaining, and it does not require too complex computing performance. It needs to be able to request computer resources from a central server group. Remember, this feature is important, and it's the best way to improve the performance of general-purpose chips.
The last chip is a mobile chip. Its performance requirements are similar to those of desktop multimedia chips, but due to different use environments. Special emphasis should be placed on saving electricity, as well as not generating excessively high temperatures.
Because we are different from foreign companies. All the chips are designed by ourselves. Therefore, I require desktop multimedia chips and mobile chips to be able to communicate easily and not cause technical barriers.
Decoding chips, using high-performance chips to slightly modify the substitution, so it can't be counted as a category. In addition, there are image co-processing chips, audio co-processing chips, various memory chips, image decoding chips, electromagnetic signal coding chips, that is, Dsp chips, baseband chips, power management chips, wireless transmission chips, and finally positioning chips. All these chips are waiting for us to design, Director Hong, you have a long way to go!
Oh yes, the main line inside the chip and the important computing unit, the memory line, my idea is to use a single crystal copper wire as the connecting line. It is to drill a hole in the chip and arrange the single crystal copper wire to the other side of the chip. You need to take this into account when designing chips. I believe that this approach can greatly improve the performance of the chip. ”
"Boss, you're talking about too many tasks! We can't do it!" Hong Tao said with a bitter face.
"It's not for you to develop it all at once, you can do it according to your needs, and your own actual situation. In addition, when we arrive in Changsha, our company will set up a vocational school, and at that time, 2,000 electronics students will graduate from the two schools every year. In a few years, you will be able to reach tens of thousands. Won't you be able to do it then? Director Hong, take a long-term view and don't be afraid of difficulties. The more you solve the difficulties, the more progress you will make. Otherwise, you will always be a representative of technological backwardness. Shen Danqing preached to Hong Tao earnestly, and finally encouraged them to be brave in their work.
Shen Danqing is the boss, he just talks about it, he doesn't have to do specific things, where to understand Hong Tao's difficulties. Designing chips is not so simple, and it is not just a matter of adding some people. The main thing is to have a chip architect with a global view, without a good architect, ordinary talents are useless at most. Hong Tao is suffering, he knows that the boss came to give an order today, so this task, no matter how difficult it is, must be completed. Otherwise, he will definitely eat the boss's hanging. Therefore, he stopped talking about grievances, and it was useless to talk about it.
After Hong Tao sent the boss away, he convened the technical backbone of the institute to hold a technical seminar.
He sat on the rostrum, looking at the few dozen or so technical backbones below, and he didn't have any confidence in his heart. With these people, designing a simple 16 yuan chip is just enough. He took out a summary of the boss's speech just now, and saw the name of a large chip pressed in black on it, which was really a bitter word. But things have to be done, so he can only cheer himself up, and then take a few deep breaths to calm the noisy emotions. Then he began to say to his colleagues below: "The boss came here just now and told us that the chip manufacturing equipment has been successfully developed. He also reprimanded us for lagging behind in chip design capabilities, which seriously dragged down the company. I can't argue with that, because it's true. We must change our thinking, and we must quickly train a group of chip architects with macro layout capabilities. Otherwise we simply wouldn't have been able to complete the tasks assigned to us by the boss.
Of course, we also have to design simple and urgently needed chips according to the actual situation. For example, memory chips, IC power management chips.
In addition, we are most importantly. It is necessary to train internship students of Huachuang Vocational School as soon as possible. They are our reserve force and are very important for our future development! For each engineer, there are two to three intern students. You must let them grow up as soon as possible. This is what the boss asks for and what I ask for.
Finally, Zhang Dongfang and Wu Mandi, the two of you each set up a technical group. One is responsible for designing memory chips, and the other is responsible for designing IC power management chips. The power management chip should be simpler, and the personnel can be appropriately reduced.
So do it! After Hong Tao announced the adjournment of the meeting, he took the lead in walking out of the venue and returning to his office.
To be continued......