Ten minutes later.

Together, they arrived at the microelectronics laboratory.

After Ni Guangnan became the chief designer of the chip, he discussed and designed several chips according to the accuracy of the lithography machine, but there was no way to commercialize them.

In the end, they could only take a step back and choose a relatively mature 150-nanometer process with a low defective rate to make a processor!

Two kinds of personal computer processing chips, one server chip, one mobile phone chip, and four chips at the same time!

This level of magnanimity is unique even in the world!

This is not only a huge investment in money, but also related to ecological barriers.

Server chips can be used to make large, even supercomputer groups.

But computer chips and mobile phone chips can be said to be completely two paths.

The personal computer chip designed by Infinity is a chip designed and produced by Intel according to the x86 complex instruction set published by Intel Corporation, which is fully compatible with Intel standards.

The mobile phone chip uses a reduced instruction set, which is optimized for some simple instructions, and can achieve low power consumption when dealing with some relatively simple tasks.

At first, because of the design and manufacture of these four chips, the researchers in the materials department were still arguing endlessly, and they could not finalize the prototype for a long time, which dragged down Ni Guangnan's work efficiency from the schedule.

In order to maximize the efficiency of the chip, Ni Guangnan had to stop many times and modify the design plan.

If Li Xi'er hadn't come forward to coordinate, the two sides would have quarreled.

In the end, Chen Weidong felt that the equipment in the company's hands was advanced enough, and it should be invested, and it had to be invested!

As a result, those researchers used a lot of money to make samples of all four chips!

But now, Ni Guangnan asked Chen Weidong again, should he focus his research on computer chips or mobile phone chips?

Personally, he is biased towards computer chips.

Because there is a certain experience base for this in China, they can now go on the market as long as it undergoes performance testing, environmental testing, aging testing, etc.

And the computer, which is obviously a revolutionary technology product, will inevitably be the mainstream product in the next few decades!

At that time, they can even gradually expand to the integrated manufacturing and sales of computer hardware, graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, and so on.

Even if it's just a casual update and an upgrade process, you can earn countless profits.

His statement has been recognized by most people.

Chips are the crystallization of the highest wisdom of human society.

Now they have made breakthroughs, and the current 150nm process is slightly ahead of the international mainstream level, and there is even a lot of room for improvement.

Although the follow-up investment will be large, at least the light has been seen, and it is worth looking forward to the future returns.

As for the "smart" mobile phone chips that Chen Weidong said, they have no experience at all, and they need to continue to experiment, and there are many things to improve.

Even if it doesn't work at all in the end, it's highly likely.

With the current level of technology of Infinity, it is not difficult to copy the mobile phones of Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia.

But Chen Weidong feels that their mobile phones are completely out of reach of the word "smart", and Infinity has to be more advanced than them if it wants to do it!

From scratch, the speed is certainly fast.

However, this one has, and others can afford it, which is two different things!

What's more, the research force required for each of these research directions is extremely huge.

In an infinity company, the number of researchers is limited, and there are only nearly 400 people when it comes to the full calculation!

More than 200 of them are still engaged in the research of materials and precision instruments, and the remaining researchers also have their own research projects.

On the other hand, computers require a large number of related research to be carried out.

If you follow what Ni Guangnan said, the next step is to expand from chips to motherboards, monitors, sound cards, hard disks, network equipment, and other subjects, and each subject also requires specialization in order to occupy a place in the world.

Then this investment, as well as the allocation of research forces, is quite a huge number!

This decision is directly related to the future development path of Infinity Company.

Although many people have different opinions, it is hoped that the academic committee will be convinced.

But with such a big decision, no one dares to make a rash judgment.

Internal discussions are becoming more and more intense.

In the end, it can only be decided by the company's senior management, Chen Weidong!

Regarding this issue, Chen Weidong did not hesitate, and wanted to say on the spot that both should be on the spot.

But Lin Zeju immediately said: "I made a rough calculation, if you follow what they said, then in the next ten years, the investment will not be less than 100 billion!" ”

Even if it is just a chip process upgrade, the annual investment is huge, just like Intel, which invests tens of billions of dollars in research and development every year to maintain the leading position of chips.

And they, once they participate in this competition, it is impossible to stop casually, and everyone will have to fight for technology and financial resources at that time.

There is even a possibility that the island country will be sanctioned by the United States, just like the island country.

After all, computers and semiconductors are their foothold, and the so-called freedom of trade is simply a veil of banshees!

After a heated discussion.

Chen Weidong finally made a tough decision: "It's better to go up, the problem of money, I'll find a way, there are not enough people, we can also recruit, the money in the company's current account, there is no problem in raising 10,000 people!" ”

In the conference room, he made the final decision.

....

April 2000.

After conducting a full range of tests on the performance of the chip, Infinity finally officially announced that it has successfully developed the "Dimensity No. 1" processor!

This is the first general-purpose high-performance microprocessor chip in China with independent intellectual property rights!

The name "Dimensity" is inspired by the sixth bright star of the Big Dipper, which has been the guiding star since ancient times and represents the wisdom of the East.

The real significance of the emergence of this chip lies in starting from scratch, breaking technical barriers, and has benchmarking significance for alleviating the domestic "core shortage"!

The most remarkable thing is.

It's built using the industry's most advanced 150nm process, with a core of 60 million transistors and a processor speed of up to 3.8GHz!

Far more than the Pentium 3 series processors released by Intel Corporation last year!

The special design, Hyper-Threading technology, supports the highest-performing desktops on the market, and can run multiple computing applications at the same time.

What? You don't understand?

To put it more bluntly, it can improve your computer's performance by more than 25%!

Therefore, as soon as this chip was released, it shook the world!

The eyes of countless people once again focused on the East and on this listed company that has only been established for a few years.

Not only Intel, but also AMD chip giants were shocked and called impossible! Even Wall Street's investment elite was awakened by the sudden ringing of the phone on a dark and quiet night!

Because of the Hang Seng Index, it has gone crazy!

Chapter 210: The Birth of the Chip