On November 29, before December, the first batch of X32115 on-board chips and supporting ternary storage particles/memory went offline.

To tell the truth, Huaxin International and Modu Huahong are very confused about these two orders, not that they don't understand, their chip engineers know that these chips are ternary when they look at the picture.

It's 2015 now, 24 years after the demise of the alliance, and the basic players who play the ternary system are amateurs, using tubes or relays to make some simple circuits to shoot videos, and there are no practical ternary electrical components at all.

The ternary computer died in its infancy, and it was completely incomparable with the already mature and strong binary system, and there was no need to spend a lot of money on research, and the devil knows how Xinyuan would spend a lot of effort to get this thing.

The batch of 28nm process manufactured by Huaxin International has 1.8 billion transistors, which form 860 million analog effect transistors (Xinyuan engineers call the three-dimensional basic components simulated by diodes), which is obviously an extremely complex and mature design.

Huaxin International didn't even know what to do when conducting the yield test, so it could only ask Xinyuan engineers to come to help, and then the first batch of chips was accepted.

200,000 pieces, the total price is 590 million yuan, tape-out and testing cost more, and the total price of the kits produced by Huahong is also 180 million yuan, and the cost of the chipset that can be used by 200,000 cars is 770 million yuan, and each car is amortized 3850 yuan.

Supplemented by other components and installation tests, the estimated cost is about 9,000 to 10,000 yuan.

With this batch of chips, the 100 XC4 engineering prototypes that have been produced a month in advance finally have usable chips.

According to Xin'an's design, both battery management and intelligent driving will be handled by X32115, so when there is no chip, you can only test the mechanical performance and crash performance of the sports car, and then wait for the chip.

At the Xin'an Automobile Factory in Shancheng, the first XC4 was installed with a complete X32115 control chipset, and then flashed into the XW151 intelligent driving system.

The XW151 intelligent driving system is divided into two parts, the most important battery control and driving part is flashed into the ternary storage particles on the motherboard, and the remaining human-computer interaction, which is also the largest part is flashed into the traditional SSD connected to the motherboard.

This is mainly because the price of producing ternary storage particles is too expensive, if it is purely the use of silicon carbide MOSFET in the system, the storage density is actually higher than that of NAND flash memory of solid hard disks, but the cost of using analog MOSFET is too high, the price of 1G capacity is as high as 10 yuan, which is two or three times more expensive than NAND flash memory of the same era.

So for the secondary human-computer interaction part, Micron's 1T solid-state drive is used, which requires adding a conversion chip to the motherboard, but it is still much cheaper than ternary storage particles.

After installing the X32115 chip and intelligent driving system, the 2-ton XC4 was considered a complete body, and it was first driven to the closed test road of Southern Automobile by Xin'an engineers.

At this time, although 4G technology has appeared for several years, the base station is far less popular than later generations, so the intelligent driving system in this period cannot rely on networking and dense base stations to assist, most of the time it has to be judged according to the vehicle's own sensors, and the system requirements are very high.

In the circular closed road, many employees of Southern Automobile also stood here, watching the legendary space sports car.

Last month, there was also a space trip, and the specially launched CS105 Space Commemorative Edition won 41,000 units (including pre-sales) in the first month at a price of 350,000 yuan, which was a sales volume of 14 billion yuan.

After all, although CS105 can indeed reach the grade in terms of configuration, after all, domestic brands are here, where can they easily sell at a high price, and it is simply a god to have a sales performance of 40,000 units in the first month...... Tsiolkovsky bless!

And this is still in short supply, many 4S stores have to increase the price to pick up the car, and many people are still waiting for the next batch!

Other domestic car dealers are envious, jealous and hateful, but this kind of operation is out of print and cannot be replicated at all, so they can only watch Nanfang Automobile climb all the way, and at the same time pay more attention to Xin'an Automobile, the son of the new distant relative.

In 2015, new energy vehicles gave the impression that they were still shoddy, like an electric donkey on four wheels, with poor safety and performance.

But Xin'an XC4 has a different style, a 2-ton coupe, 100 kilometers of acceleration in less than three seconds, the battery management of the dedicated chipset and the intelligent driving system, but also promote "aerospace-grade quality", which is indeed very exciting.

On the test track, the engineer first drove the car and turned on the sport mode to enter the performance state, testing the acceleration to 100 kilometers and the battery performance.

Chen Jun, the CEO of Xin'an, sat in the passenger seat, nervously staring at the fluctuations in parameters on the laptop screen.

The XC4 drives to the start line and accelerates at the throttle as soon as the signal turns green, and the motor's natural characteristics allow the 653 kW power to burst out in 0.1 seconds, outputting more than 1,100 Nm of torque.

Chen Jun only felt a strong thrust in an instant, and then the car slammed out, and he could vaguely feel a slight tire slippage when he started.

The torque burst of the motor is so terrifying that it has an advanced advantage over the oil truck in principle, so that the ABS system is difficult to design, and only the use of semi-hot melt tires in a dedicated field can ensure the grip of the start.

The numbers on the laptop screen jumped from 0 to three digits too fast to produce afterimages, but fortunately, the test engineer slowed down in time and slowly stopped.

0-100 km/h in 2.43 seconds, tested top speed 186 km/h

Power Remaining: 98.2% (492 km usable) Status: Excellent Battery pack maximum temperature: 34 degrees. ”

After the acceleration test of 100 kilometers, the results are better than originally expected, and the most important thing is that the temperature of the battery pack is not high under the management of XW151, and the curve of the output power is also very soft, which means that even if the sudden high current output, the battery pack still does not hurt the battery under the excellent adjustment of the electronic control, delaying the life.

However, the number of available kilometers is only a reference, and it is a reference to the most energy-saving ideal state.

Later, the test engineer began to run laps to test the rapid speed, and ran to a maximum speed of 316km/h under the condition of completely releasing the limit, and the maximum limit of 260km/h in the sport mode open to the user, this test was not assisted by the intelligent driving system.

Then the test engineer starts the XW151, turns on the advanced driving assistance and sets the mode to "Sport", and then the performance of the XW151 is tested.

The first is the basic lap, where the test engineer ran the lap in a modest but high-speed manner and immediately felt the difference.

After XW151 intervened, the feedback of the pedal is more linear and accurate, the power is still so much but the distribution is better, and the power can be clearly felt when you step on it, and there is no feeling of slowing down and slowing down to the rear at all.

In addition, when you turn on lane keeping, you can feel the system helping to slightly correct the steering wheel and throttle, which is more stable than when you do it manually, and even novices are not afraid of slipping when cornering and losing their grip.