The first batch of Kirin 959 is only more than 2,000 pieces, so the unit price is also very high, but it doesn't matter if it is mainly tested and used, and the cost of mass production will rise a little.

Compared to the previous generation flagship Mate9, the full ternary Mate10 consumes slightly more power, but it is acceptable.

The system based on XOS 3.2 is named HarmonOS, and it is already ready to use.

There were already four assembled prototypes in the laboratory, and there was nothing to say about the appearance, so Yu Chen Dong picked up one and smoothly entered the desktop.

XOS is perfect but not bloated, and the current Android7 is smoother, of course, this is also related to the powerful processing power given by Kirin 959, now Huaxin believes that the 28nm ternary integrated circuit should be on the table 14nm mainstream process, and 950 only uses TSMC 16nm.

Although most of the Kirin 959 is a direct translation of the 950 chip, HiSilicon designed a small AI module based on the guidance provided by Huanghe Semiconductor, which for the first time tried to use the ternary feature to support AI computing in hardware.

They named it NPU (neuron processing unit) and planned to use it to support smart voice assistant and camera algorithm tuning.

Under comprehensive evaluation, the laboratory believes that the Kirin 959 has surpassed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 by about 6% in terms of performance, and now it should be the first.

And before the delivery ceremony of the muscles, the Great Wall equipped with X32115 on the Great Wall G1X laptop was shocking to the domestic digital manufacturers of the "Poor Qi" dialogue artificial intelligence, back to Xiaomi, oppo, LETV and other manufacturers have announced that they want to develop the corresponding dialogue artificial intelligence.

Huawei is no exception, they have had the idea of a voice assistant before, and it is not small to upgrade it to artificial intelligence, the laboratory believes that in order to make the mobile phone reach the level of "poor strange", it is necessary to feed the data for at least one year, and then specially tune the NPU for it, which is expected to be available in 2018.

The Mate 10, which is expected to be released in January, does not have this feature for the time being, but it should be available after subsequent upgrades.

What needs to be solved now is the application.

In 2016, the software ecosystem for mobile phones has not expanded so rapidly.

QQ, WeChat, Weibo, Baidu, Douyin and other commonly used community software Yellow River Semiconductor has been approached by domestic manufacturers in the United Nations, first directly translating rather than new development, these APPs do not have high performance requirements, first go up, and then special development and optimization.

The rest is the game category, the king pesticide has been online for nearly a year, the volume is too large and the direct translation is too troublesome, the penguin has taken over the recoding work, ready to be completed in 4 to 6 months.

Lin Ju knew that after 2017, with the ultra-high share of 4G, the number of software would grow explosively, so Wang Minjiang tried his best to promote the teaching of X language and ternary circuit basic design during this time, and reserved talents in various colleges and universities in advance.

Manufacturers united across software and hardware output centered on Yellow River Semiconductor are also actively promoting the establishment of a new ternary semiconductor alliance under the initiative of the Commission of Science and Technology, ready to support downstream software vendors.

Yu Chen Dong recorded some of the key points of work after the test prototype memo,The operation logic of HarmonyOS is similar to that of ordinary Android,I almost didn't feel the difference。

It's good to use it often, but after four months at the earliest, the mainstream game developers will be able to adapt to the XOS environment and need to use the full SOC potential as much as possible, so it is estimated that there will be no shortage of optimization patches.

“I will run I will climb I will soar……”

Yu Chendong's personal mobile phone rang, it was the Science and Technology Commission.

"Leadership...... Yes? 500 units? No problem, no problem, the office software must be there, the documentation is supported, and Kingsoft has also joined. Okay, I'll go get ready right away. ”

The research director of the laboratory had a good relationship with Lao Yu, and stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter, someone wants to purchase 500 mobile phones?" ”

Yu Chendong: "The Commission of Science and Technology suddenly needs to customize a batch of confidential mate10, it should be that ZTE and Unisplendour are not as fast as us, so they found us, and they will be installed and taken in mid-December." ”

"Tsk, the ternary system is indeed confidential enough, we have to use a special conversion chip to surf the Internet and make phone calls ourselves, and outsiders can't use any means."

Yu Chendong: "Not necessarily, the teaching materials of X language and basic ternary integrated circuit design have begun to be mandatory in colleges and universities, which is basically semi-public, don't underestimate foreigners." ”

"So what? We are already at the forefront, even if the ternary system is still in a state of being able to use but not proficient, compared with peers, it is far ahead, whether it is hardware and software. ”

Yu Chendong: "There can't be Yellow River Semiconductor in the peers, they are said to launch three series of consumer-grade desktop processors and two server chips in one go, they are the inventors of ternary computers, and the whole world does not understand them."

Hey, we also need to engage in servers and big data, the future is the world of AI, without these is not possible, mobile phones are just one of the many businesses. ”

After speaking, he raised the Mate10 prototype in his hand, and the heavy weight made people feel very steady.

"But the computer is another matter, I have to hold it like this when the development conference is held at the end of December, anyway, in the field of mobile phones, this is really far ahead!"

……

Santa Clara, California.

This is where Intel's global headquarters is located, and in Intel's product testing lab, a group of executives and more than a dozen Chinese/American engineers gathered to study three books on the desktop:

Basic Design of X Language Programming (Editor-in-Chief: Wang Minjiang)

Integrated Circuits: Ternary

The Third State and Artificial Intelligence

After the Semiconductor Summit, the Commission of Science and Technology did not forget to cultivate the basic plate when organizing enterprises and colleges in the industry to carry out technical research, and compiled three basic textbooks at the fastest speed, which were distributed to some colleges and universities to carry out teaching in the departments of computer and microelectronics.

The textbook is not complicated and the content is very simple, because although the course has already started in the new semester, the instructor has to go to the nearby technical battle to participate in the company, and at the same time hand it over to the students.

Therefore, the content of the textbook is for introductory purposes only, and more textbooks are being developed.

However, because the textbooks are written by practitioners (mainly Yellow River Semiconductor), these three-tier software and hardware basic textbooks will be a rare good teaching resource in the domestic education system that can be connected with the forefront of the industry, and there will be no situation where the textbooks are seriously lagging behind the actual application.

The foreign giants who were deflated at the summit were not idle, and they got these three textbooks for the first time:

The president of Huaguo directly bought off the university's cleaning staff, stole three books between classes, and then airlifted them to Amico overnight.

Although the X language supports both Chinese and English, the grammar is still quite different, and it is written by local practitioners, which seems to be difficult for foreigners.

Pat Kissinger organized the Chinese engineers at the headquarters and after more than a month of hard study, he was finally able to test the performance of the ternary chip in his own way.

They turned a 32116 chip from Xin'an Automobile into a computer in various complicated ways, and then completed various performance tests using a rudimentary system that they had initially written.

Gordon Moore: "How's that?" What level has 32116 reached? ”

Chinese engineer: "We deciphered the peripheral environment of a small number of Xin'an car machines, as close as possible to their performance release, if you want to make an analogy, 32116 can roughly reach the computing power of E5 2689 V4, but it is more biased towards the way the graphics processor works, and has both rendering and AI deep learning capabilities."

In particular, the latter has extremely high potential, the third state of the symmetric ternary gives AI more flexible thinking ability, and the computing latency is also lower, in general, it combines the functions of mainstream professional processors and computing cards, and especially emphasizes the AI part. ”

(End of chapter)