Chapter 231: The Butterfly Effect
After Mphone's press conference in Huaguo, the number of reservations on the official website exceeded 200,000 in just half a month, which determines the number of users who have a foundation for both WeChat and Weibo.
When Mphone conquered the city in China, Jiaotong University held a press conference for Hanxin No. 1 in China.
Without the butterfly effect of Zhouxin, Hanxin No. 1 would have been developed by the end of 2002, and then a press conference would be held on February 26, 2003, which was presided over by the relevant departments of Shenhai City.
Because of Zhou Xin's participation, the press conference was brought forward, and in September 2002, the same people in Shenhai planned to start the show in advance.
"I am very pleased to introduce to you the successful development of Hanxin No. 1, the first 0.18 micron multimedia chip in China with independent intellectual property rights and reaching the international advanced level, designed by the Chip and System Research Center of Jiaotong University." Chen Jin looked complacent on stage.
"Hanxin No. 1 also has a 32-bit computing and processing core, which has reached more than 200 million instructions per second, with high speed, low power consumption and other characteristics, and can be widely used in information appliances, audio processing and other fields."
After Chen Jin briefly introduced Hanxin No. 1, the spokesperson of the relevant department made a supplementary speech:
Under the leadership of Professor Chen Jin, the R&D team of Jiaotong University completed the research and development of Hanxin No. 1 and successfully passed the review of the expert group composed of top experts in the domestic chip industry, such as Academician Zou Shichang, Academician Xu Juyan, Professor Yan Xiaolang, etc.
The expert group made a unanimous conclusion: it is believed that Hanxin No. 1 and related design and application development platforms have reached the international advanced level. In the future, Jiaotong University will do a good job in the transformation of production, education and research, and try its best to tap the commercial value of Hanxin. ”
The audience is all media who have been officially found on the platform, and they almost don't ask any sharp questions, and the questions are all focused on the breakthrough significance of Hanxin No. 1.
The launch of Hanxin No. 1 is undoubtedly a success, Xinxin technology is very strong, and the 0.13 micron CPU design has been technically realized, but this is not Huaguo's original technology, and Huaguo's R&D personnel have a very low degree of participation in it.
In the process of cooperation with Shenhai University, a large number of cooperation is concentrated at the student level, and there is little cooperation with professors in the Department of Microelectronics.
In fact, whether it was Guan Jianying's management of Xinxin Technology or Hu Zhengming's management of Xinxin Technology, he thought about cooperating with Shenhai University on some scientific research topics, but found that they could not meet the requirements, so he gave up.
Hu Zhengming, as a scientist who has been communicating with the academic community in the field of integrated circuits since 1985, is well aware of the current stage in the field of integrated circuits in China, and the lack of practical value of scientific research results is difficult to transform into achievements with commercial value.
This is not unrelated to the backwardness of Huaguo in the field of chips in the past, so Hu Zhengming's idea is that it is better to focus on cultivating Huaguo's newly graduated college students and graduate students, and to cooperate, it is necessary to find young scientific researchers who have overseas study experience and have just graduated for a long time.
It is precisely because of these reasons that although Xinxin Technology has been in China for a long time, Xinxin Technology is not well received by Shenhai and even the Chinese academic community in Shenhai.
From the perspective of their own interests, the interests of Hanxin No. 1 are much greater than those of Xinxin Technology, and no matter how large the revenue, profit and scale of Xinxin Technology are, they have nothing to do with them.
However, the more successful the new chip technology, the more prominent the results, and the less significant Hanxin No. 1 will be, which is why Hanxin No. 1 will hold this press conference about half a year in advance.
Anyway, the chips bought from Motorola are changed to logos, and there is no difference between releasing them half a year early and releasing them half a year later, the difference is nothing more than to train the expert group well and let them act according to the script.
Zhou Xin was already in Silicon Valley at this time, and he received the email only to know that Hanxin No. 1 had been released half a year ahead of schedule, he was a little stunned, and made a phone call after making an appointment with Hu Zhengming:
"Professor, did you attend the press conference of Hanxin No. 1?"
Hu Zhengming said: "Shenhai sent an invitation letter to Xinxin, I thought that we hadn't talked about Chen Jin before, and the R&D projects they were engaged in at Jiaotong University, we were relatively weak in the DSP area, so I didn't let other executives go on my behalf, I went to see it in person."
Judging from my personal experience, Chen Jin does not have this ability, and if he had this ability, he would not have been a test engineer at Motorola back then. Later, I asked my friend who works at Motorola to help me investigate Chen Jin's resume, and it is indeed the same as you said, he is not in the chip design group at Motorola, but mainly does chip testing.
Of course, if the research team of Jiaotong University is strong enough, Chen Jin will bring back the advanced experience of Motorola chip design and project management, and it is possible to make this result under the leadership of experienced R&D personnel.
The problem is that I went to ask Jiaotong University later, saying that I wanted to further cooperate with them around Hanxin, and hoped that they would take a few samples for us to test, but they refused very simply, saying that it was not mature enough and belonged to the laboratory product.
What I mean is that it doesn't matter if the laboratory products are in the lab, it just so happens that we can jointly develop and put Hanxin on the ground, and it just so happens that we lack a production line on DSP chips, and we have a natural basis for cooperation with Hanxin.
You must know that Jiaotong University was very active in cooperating with Xinxin before, but this time it was delayed, which made me suspicious. ”
When Zhou Xin returned to China before, he talked to Hu Zhengming about the academic phenomenon in the field of chips in China, and then mentioned that Chen Jin also said that when he was at the CAAS party in Silicon Valley, he heard that there were Chinese engineers who had worked in Motorola who returned to China to become professors, and they were still professors in the field of chip design.
Zhou Xin mentioned the names of Chen Jin and Chen Jin's projects to Hu Zhengming in a casual chat, which caused Hu Zhengming to send an email to Zhou Xin about the Hanxin No. 1 press conference after he felt that something was wrong.
At this time, it has been a week since Hanxin's press conference.
After listening to this, Zhou Xin said helplessly: "I feel that there is still a bit of a problem, so I will communicate with Huaguo to see if they can get a sample of Hanxin No. 1, and then we will test the sample to see what is going on." ”
Looking for someone is naturally looking for Cao Yongluo, Hanxin press conference was attended by people from the Science and Technology Department under the Ministry of Information Industry, Cao Yongluo's family has been operating since the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the predecessor of the Ministry of Information Industry, and it is not enough for him to get a sample.
(End of chapter)