Break the bowl and ask for a monthly pass.

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Academician Chen, who was originally planning to lead the team, was specially retained.

Administratively, it is Shen Demin who leads the team.

In terms of R&D, Professor Zhang led the team.

A total of 19 people flew from Luzhou to Yangcheng first, and then transferred to Wanwan Taipei.

This is a long-established plan, and it is also the plan with the lowest overall time cost.

The nature of the programme as a whole is very high, and very few people know the specifics.

At the very least, the true purpose of the trip was not revealed to the Luzhou locality.

It is a technical exchange that I write about in a business trip plan.

Even if you don't know how to communicate with the local community, at least you can't send out some kind of signal of hope at a time when it is obvious that you are not absolutely sure.

Although Professor Zhang was not fully prepared at the beginning of the meeting, the follow-up content report was still very clear, and Fang Nian naturally did not stop the planned plan because of a small matter.

Besides, it is also within the understandable range.

After all, in practice, this kind of work should be summarized and reported by the product manager, so it is difficult to leave it out.

However, at present, Frontier has not set up this role in various laboratories.

Some of the responsibilities of this position are assigned to the partial leaders of the R&D teams of each laboratory.

For example, Professor Huang from Nuwa Lab and Professor Zhang from Bai Ze Lab.

This is mainly because of the peculiarities of the frontier.

Both laboratories are reinventing the wheel, and the more cutting-edge development plans in the general direction are determined by Fang Nian himself.

Of course......

When he saw Shen Demin and Professor Zhang and their entourage leave, Fang Nian was thinking about this matter in his mind.

You don't need to think about it, just one idea:

'Let professional people take charge of professional things wholeheartedly. ’

“......”

After sending off Professor Zhang and his entourage, it was almost lunch.

Lu Weiyu and Guan Qiuhe had an east banquet and invited some of the personnel of Bai Ze's laboratory.

There are low-level employees with excellent performance, and there are administrative management and so on.

I specially found a big hotel to install it, a total of five tables.

Fang Nian did not attend, but hosted a separate banquet for Academician Chen-

After Academician Chen announced that he would join Bai Ze after meeting Fang Nian through Professor Zhang's relationship, Academician Chen was the most powerful one in the professional and technical field of Bai Ze Chip Laboratory.

After all, it is a very professional technical field, and it is impossible to describe it exactly.

I only know that after Academician Chen joined, Professor Zhang and other professors took the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian.

I only know that more than half of the new doctoral students in related majors in Bai Ze Chip Laboratory are because of Academician Chen's face, and a small number of them are former students of Academician Chen.

The last handful is the face of the front yard.

“......”

chatting and eating, Fang Nian was not in a hurry to get to the point.

When the meal was about to be eaten, Academician Chen took the initiative to bring up the topic: "Mr. Fang specially left me and invited me to a separate banquet, what are your instructions?"

"Definitely. Fang Nian was not ambiguous, and said frankly, "There are some things I want to talk to the academician." ”

After a pause, Fang Nian looked at Academician Chen and said with a smile: "Academician, forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, I have always had a doubt in my heart;

When the academician joined Bai Ze's laboratory, he said that he had spent half his life, and he only wanted to realize the ideals of his youth. What do you mean?"

Facing Fang Nian's smiling eyes, Academician Chen's expression was slightly interesting: "I didn't expect that Mr. Fang would remember a word of emotion. ”

Then he recalled and said: "About 30 years ago, China established a large-scale integrated circuit leading group, formulated an IC development plan, and introduced integrated circuit technology from abroad for the first time......

At that time, I was still an ignorant teenager and plunged into the field of integrated circuits;

Since then, in the integrated circuit industry, I have been up and down for decades, and I vaguely remember the ideals of my youth when I was more than half a hundred years old, and when I met Mr. Fang, I occasionally felt it. ”

Speaking of this, Academician Chen paused slightly, and said calmly: "Thirty years ago, my ideal was very simple, to make an excellent general-purpose chip that belongs to our country, and thirty years have passed, and the ideal is still just an ideal. ”

After hearing what Academician Chen said, Fang Nian frowned slightly, puzzled: "I see, how could the academician still choose the frontier Bai Ze;

As you said at the conference, no commercial company will reinvent the wheel, and it is a common way to take advantage of globalization and integrate the technologies of various solution providers. ”

Academician Chen showed a warm smile: "That being said, but compared to the cutting-edge Bai Ze, he has a stronger willingness to invest in chip design, not just a small fight;

In the past five or six months, Frontier Bai Ze has invested as much as 5.1 billion yuan in the design of the first chip in the laboratory alone, and this reason is enough......"

"As a professional, I understand how high the knowledge barriers in Europe and the United States are in this extremely sophisticated field, and it is almost impossible to create a completely independent general-purpose chip;

Specific to the mobile phone SoC, it is even more difficult, just talk about the CPU, microarchitecture, instruction set, etc. on the SoC, which is easy to be autonomous and general-purpose?"

Speaking of these, Academician Chen had a smile on his face and no regrets: "It is good to be able to continuously promote the development of China's integrated circuit industry towards self-ownership in his lifetime." ”

In the end, Academician Chen emphasized with a smile: "After all, Bai Ze is the most likely laboratory I have encountered over the years. ”

Listening to Academician Chen calmly and peacefully tell his stories and thoughts, Fang Nian felt some admiration in his heart.

China's breakthroughs in various fields are not achieved overnight, and behind them are thousands of people like Academician Chen who are working hard to promote it.

Continuously accumulate knowledge.

Eventually, it will accumulate steadily.

Fang Nian's thoughts turned around for a moment, and finally he said openly and honestly: "Actually, I hope that academicians can use your connections to continue to recruit talents for Bai Ze Laboratory, the current Bai Ze Laboratory is too small. ”

"In the chip industry, I personally think that it is not much more expensive. Academician Chen looked puzzled.

Fang Nian pondered for a moment and said frankly: "For Bai Ze Laboratory, I have more ideas, the current professional researchers can indeed be called elite, but the number is far from enough. ”

After a pause, Fang Nian said seriously: "Academician, forgive me for taking the liberty of what I am going to say next, I can't get out of this room for the time being, because there will be some unspeakable factors involved, please understand." ”

Academician Chen nodded solemnly.

Fang Nian cleared his throat and said slightly vaguely: "I have a relatively bold plan in my head;

I know that academicians should have doubts about why Bai Ze has invested unnecessarily in some aspects, and the funds are as high as billions. ”

Academician Chen nodded.

Fang Nian said indifferently: "Actually, it's very simple, I hope Bai Ze will become a chip design unit as self-owned as possible." ”

Academician Chen: "......"

What I just said in vain?

Fang Nian didn't hesitate much, and continued: "The mobile phone SoC is divided into several modules, including core chip units such as CPU and GPU, and some less important chip units;

I have two paths here, the first is to first autonomize less important modules such as multimedia, ISP, and DSP;

Of course, I don't like this path.

The second way is to give priority to the autonomy of the two core chip units, CPU and GPU, and simultaneously separate part of the energy to independently other units. ”

“......”

Academician Chen was silent for a moment, frowned, and said: "The first road is still a little possible, and the second road is too tortuous;

Excellent general-purpose CPU architecture and instruction set is a huge threshold, and there is no hope in a short period of time, and the investment in this area is not comparable to what it is now. ”

Fang Nian smiled lightly and asked rhetorically, "Didn't RISC-V only appear last year?"

"Academician, you should take the time to sort out all the technical information of Bai Ze's laboratory, there may be some inconspicuous things that you have omitted;

In addition, you should have heard of Frontier Academic, a company that has funded many research projects in various universities in China, including in-depth research based on RISC-V instruction set, and pure independent instruction set research;

Of course, processor architecture research projects;

In addition, the interdisciplinary research center of the Institute of Frontier Research of USTC has been and is under construction, and more than half of the projects will provide related technical services. ”

At the end, Fang Nian said in a calm tone: "In a broad sense, the purpose of the frontier is to build a wheel;

Of course, I'm a businessman, and business interests come first. ”

After Fang Nian finished speaking, Academician Chen was silent for a long time, and his brows kept frowning.

Caught up in deep thought.

Fang Nian did not urge.

After a long time, Academician Chen slowly spoke: "This is the reason why Mr. Fang specially left me behind, right?"

Seeing Fang Nian nodding, Academician Chen said again, "But why?"

"The pure autonomy of an excellent general-purpose mobile phone SoC may burn more money than imagined, and even draw water;

Adding autonomous design elements to the existing solution is the most commercially beneficial choice!"

Fang Nian smiled and said honestly: "For the sake of greater business interests;

You should have heard of the Nuwa system, after the incident some time ago, the independent intellectual property rights reached 85%;

Because of the autonomy of the sufficient, the business benefits have begun to become substantial enough that the consolidated profit margin should already exceed 50%. ”

After a slight pause, Fang Nian said again: "By the way, Nuwa Lab has also chosen the development route of first difficult and then easy. ”

Academician Chen pondered for a moment and smiled: "I don't seem to have any reason to refuse, and I have no other choice. ”

"Thank you, Academician. Fang Nian said.

“......”

Then Fang Nian briefly talked about his plan.

"In terms of Bai Ze's long-term development, I think so, it is not advisable to show the edge too early;

Although the chips sent to tape-out now look excellent, various major international manufacturers can receive various licensing fees, which is an integrated design scheme with a little technical content;

This is also an inevitable choice, Bai Ze needs enough revenue to support the next R&D investment;

Now that Bai Ze has his own office building, my idea is to set up a more independent confidential R&D department internally, formulate stricter confidentiality regulations, and do not intersect with each other;

This R&D department should be divided into different R&D teams, mainly independent R&D at the CPU and GPU level, of course, other self-developed processing units can also be added appropriately;

Strive to design a low-specification independent chip by the end of this year, the process is set at 65nm, or even 90nm, and the CPU chip unit must complete an independent breakthrough. ”

“......”

In short, Fang Nian has relevant plans and requirements for almost every specific module.

We will also invest all aspects of related resources.

Counting last year's technology acquisition and technology accumulation, it will take nearly 9 months to make a breakthrough at the low standard level, which is an overall reliable development path.

Of course......

Breakthroughs in basic science and technology are uncontrollable and may be delayed.

However, the time set by Fang Nian is still relatively loose and ideal.

After all, it's not a problem that can't be solved at all.

It's nothing more than a matter of funding.

Finally, I can still rub the R&D funds of the #01 chip.

At the very least, it can alleviate a large part of the financial pressure.

............

After talking about this matter, Fang Nian moved on to something else.

"Academician, in fact, I have a reluctant request here. ”

Hearing this, Academician Chen showed an interested look on his face: "Oh?

"Frontier has built or will soon build three new laboratories. Fang Nian smiled, "They are for the field of materials, industrial software, and communication standards." ”

"At present, these three laboratories lack a strong R&D team, and I wonder if the academician can introduce some powerful and influential friends to me. ”

After a pause, Fang Nian added: "However, I have to state that the investment in these three new laboratories is not large, and it is expected that the total investment will not exceed 1 billion yuan this year;

It is a relatively pure experimental research, only the accumulation of intellectual property rights, and there is no intention to launch a separate product for the time being. ”

After hearing what Fang Nian said, Academician Chen smiled: "Mr. Fang is going to squeeze all my abilities, resources, and connections out, well......"

"There's a word for wool, and you didn't catch a sheep like that, did you?"

Seeing this, Fang Nian pretended to sigh deeply, and sighed: "Academician, you don't know, the frontier is difficult, the talent attraction is too weak, I can't wait to learn from Zhou Gong, but there is no way to seek talents." ”

"Although each laboratory has set up a frontier institute, after all, it is still separated by one floor. ”

"Alas......"

Academician Chen hurriedly interrupted: "Okay, okay, I'll help Mr. Fang contact immediately!"

He is a half-old man who is over half a hundred years old, and he has devoted almost his whole life to scientific research, who has never seen such a scene.

When you say that you complain, you complain, and the look is really sad for those who hear it, and tears for those who hear it.

The Oscar winner couldn't bear it when he saw it.

As soon as Academician Chen agreed, Fang Nian immediately showed a happy smile: "Thank you, academician, it happens to be two days after tomorrow and the weekend, and the academician has worked hard during this time, why don't you go to see the motherland?"

"I ......" Academician Chen felt that his throat was blocked by phlegm, and he especially wanted to cough.

Is this thing in front of you or a person?

Is it really just a matter of catching him alone and 'squeezing'?

Academician Chen inexplicably felt that he was really too risky last year.

Half of his life is to contribute his knowledge and ability to the country, when he is old, he chooses to join the laboratory of a private enterprise, although he is the honorary director of the name on the surface, but he has not moved his nest since he arrived in Luzhou, and the Spring Festival is spent in Luzhou, what the truth is, it is already very obvious.

Now isn't this going to be 'late and unsafe'?

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PS: It's 2 shifts today, maybe it's from staying up too late since October, often sleeping at more than four o'clock, getting up early and going to work, and having a strong discomfort;

There's no way.,Now I can only adjust it.,Don't write it before 11 o'clock every night.,Strive to take time during the day to sort out what you want to write every day.,Shorten the pause time of the codeword.,Finish 3 chapters before 11 o'clock as much as possible.,After all, I still owe a lot of more~