Chapter 101: Chip development pressure

凡 Liu Fan strolled rare in the mountains. He took out his mobile phone when he was almost smooth.
Open the system app, and the text will appear immediately:
"mission completed
The task reward "Complete Flowchart of Chip Manufacturing" has been issued, please check it in time.
Task summary: Infinite potential brings infinite possibilities to human beings, and artificial intelligence brings infinite possibilities to human beings. "
凡 Liu Fan looked at the task summary and thought about it carefully. This seems to be the first time that the system task summary directly mentions artificial intelligence. What does this system have to do with artificial intelligence ...
I went back to the hotel all the way, and Liu Fan didn't think about anything. After taking a bath, he turned on his mobile phone to check the task rewards.
I opened the "Full Flow Chart of Chip Manufacturing", still familiar with the sense of ritual. After spending a few hours flipping through the content of more than 100 pages, Liu Fan frowned.
This task reward is very similar to the first reward
Big Data Processing In-depth Use
. It is a knowledge reward, but the difference is that
The Complete Flowchart of Chip Making
teaches knowledge in a graphical way. It is more straightforward to give a large framework to learn basic mathematics continuously.
But the chip involves too much content, from design to craftsmanship to materials, etc. Although "The Complete Flowchart of Chip Manufacturing" will teach this knowledge in a straightforward way, but I still cannot help but do some related Studying the basic knowledge is like learning the ninety-nine multiplication table. You have to recognize it first.
In addition to the need to learn by oneself, this award also has a trouble that Liu Fan needs people. Before the system directly gave the smart factory to build a lithography machine, but this time it was not working on the chip. In terms of craftsmanship, we must have a team to do this. We can do it on our own. If we die, we can't make a chip.
Liu Fan stayed in the hotel for three more days and did a simple analysis of the "Complete Flowchart of Chip Manufacturing" before returning to the company.
I parked my car and went upstairs. When I saw the company, I felt as if I had passed away.
The training during this time is too hard.
"Mr. Liu!" As soon as he entered the company, the front desk stood up to say hello, and Xu Jing, who was busy at the front desk, and the other two employees turned back to look at Liu Fan.
At this time, Liu Fan had great changes from appearance to temperament, which was judged as two.
"What about Sun Xia?" Liu Fan asked with a smile.
No one responded for a moment, but Xu Jing was the first to return to God and pointed to the meeting room, "Wait in there."
"Okay." Liu Fan nodded and went directly to the meeting room. "Sun brother."
Sun Xia, who was looking at her mobile phone, looked up, but also frowned, and frowned gradually, "Why have you been there for more than two months?"
"Go to school."
"Did you go to Huaguoshan to study?"
"..." Liu Fan found a suitable place to sit down, "Don't pull those, why are you so anxious to find me?"
"What else can happen." Sun Xia pretended to be angry, "Don't you tell me to talk to me about chips in the golden autumn? It's almost winter, okay, President Liu."
"Isn't it yet in November? Huawei has been so anxious about the chip recently. What the is going on?"
Sun Xia's face slowly sank. "According to reliable information, Intel, Google and Apple are about to jointly fund the acquisition of AIBrain."
"AIBrain?" Liu Fan recalled, "That company that makes AI applications for mobile phones and robots is awesome?"
"Yes." Sun Xia paused for two seconds. "In addition to the three of them, Samsung recently implicitly mentioned in an interview that the latest AI chips are coming soon."
Liu Fan heard Sun Xia saying that the three companies acquired AIBrain didn't feel much, but when they heard Samsung's AI chip, they immediately linked the acquisition event, "they have a big move on the AI ​​chip?"
"It's hard to say, now it's just guessing." Sun Xia's brow frowned even tighter. "You also know that IBM's mistaken skills were taken advantage of the deep learning processor by the Cambrian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After that, they never let go of it.
In recent years, we have always claimed to rely on AI chips to overtake corners, and the media has also been very popular, but we all understand the truth. In traditional CPUs, GPUs, and DSPs, the gap between us and them is over there. These years they I have never given up studying how to efficiently carry depth algorithms on traditional chips.
Once they can make any technological breakthroughs, our AI chips are likely to be overtaken before they have time to overtake. What's more, our own AI chips also have great limitations because of the limitations of the chip's process and design level. Just as our Kirin chip simply uses the public version of the ARM architecture, it has always been difficult for us to surpass Apple and Samsung.
I'll tell you something that is both funny and impossible to laugh at. Google claims to release TPU4.0 next year. "
Liu Fan Yiyi, "TPU4.0? Their TPU3.0 hasn't made it clear yet what is going on ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Google is playing the market?"
"Whether he is playing the market or not, this is a signal. We managed to get some good results on the AI ​​chip, and also gave us a little bit of voice in the global chip market. The impact of the absolute advantage on China ’s chip development is huge, especially the stimulus for everyone ’s confidence, which is a terrible thing.

When Sun Xia said this, the two fell into silence at the same time. After a while, Sun Xia spoke. "Ren said that what we can do at this time is only the strength of our ego. This is why I have been anxious to see you No matter how the Western media smear, but the level of AI technology of Mulong Technology is known to everyone in the industry, so we sincerely ask you to help us optimize the algorithm. In the semiconductor industry, we can't compete with them, then we will let us Fight against them as much as possible!
总 General Liu, for whatever reason, I have waited for you for more than two months. Let's talk about it today. "
"Rest assured, I won't run this time. I went out to study during this time for the development of chips in our country." Liu Fan asked after soothing a sentence, "The optimized ARM architecture currently used by HiSilicon Can you show me, can you help me to ask. "
"This ..." Sun Xia expressed a difficult expression, "I really can't answer you about this."
"Then ask first." Liu Fan patted Sun Xia's shoulder. "You tell someone who has the right to decide that Mulong Technology has a better chip architecture and asks if he is interested."
Suddenly Sun Xia, who was struggling, suddenly said, "Do you mean it?"
凡 Liu Fan did not answer, a meaningful smile ...