Chapter 148: Universal chip

A phone call from Zhang Rujin interrupted Meng Xiao's insistence. Meng Xiao saw that Liu Fan was very anxious to go to the company, so he offered to go home and let Liu Fan hurry.
At the insistence of Meng Xiao, Liu Fan paused the meal. Of course, Liu Fan really couldn't wait to take a look at the company because Zhang Rujin didn't tell Liu Fan directly what the chip technology had broken, but only said that Surprise.
Liu Fan, who was sold at this stage, was uncomfortable. After sending Meng Xiao home, Liu Fan drove to the core technology.
At this time, the core technology was brightly lit, and none of the rooms in the fifteen-story building was dark. Seeing this scene, Liu Fan was even more curious what Zhang Rujin said was a step forward.
"General Liu is here." As soon as he entered the R & D department, Zhang Rujin greeted him with a smile.
"Mr. Zhang, I left the beautiful woman and rushed over here. If you don't show me something real, I'll be with you." Liu Fan pretended to be angry.
"Ha ha ha ha ha." Zhang Rujin laughed and saw that he was really happy. "Then Mr. Liu came to see if this trip was worth it."
Fan Fan followed Zhang Rujin toward the laboratory. At this time, the laboratory was full of staff, and everyone's face was full of excitement.
"Mr. Liu, see what this is." Zhang Rujin took Liu Fan in front of a glass box and pointed at a chip inside.
Liu Fan still has a deep understanding of the chip, and he recognized it at a glance, "Universal chip?"
"You guess what the performance is." Zhang Rujin asked Aojiao aside.
"Mr. Zhang told me directly." Liu Fan was too lazy to guess, because he knew that the result must be good. For the chip, the most difficult thing was design, but Liu Fan was rewarded with a new architecture by the system. The new design, as long as the process can be realized, the chip will not be bad.
Moreover, Liu Fan never gave the stock core technology to the task of making low-end and mid-end chips, because many companies in Huaxia can make low-end general-purpose chips, and his task is high-end general-purpose chips. This possibility is either that a high-end general-purpose chip has been created, or that no general-purpose chip has been made.
"Okay." Seeing that Liu Fan was unwilling to guess, Zhang Rujin would not sell it. "We did a day of testing, and the performance is 1.5 times the current Intel latest generation Xeon processor."
"Is it only 1.5 times?" Liu Fan said in his heart, Liu Fan actually had great expectations for the living water structure. Although this result was enough to satisfy everyone, it was no longer what Liu Fan expected.
Is there something wrong?
Liu Fan decided to go back and study it carefully.
Liu Fan ’s disappointment was more or less in his face. Zhang Rujin looked in his eyes and asked misunderstanding,
Liu is always worried about how to bring this chip to the market?

Liu Fan came back to God and hesitated. If he was wrong, he would say, "Well."
Zhang Rujin said that it is indeed a big problem. Although the technology of general-purpose chips and special-purpose chips is common, the status is really different at present.
Although everyone has been speculating on special-purpose chips, especially AI-specific chips in recent years, there have also been many eras of special-purpose chips, and special-purpose chips replace general-purpose chips. But at least for now, this statement is actually unreliable. Even after studying the diagrams given by the system, Liu Fan still feels that this statement is unreliable.
You must know that there is an absolute disadvantage of special purpose, which is the limitation. The most apparent problem of special purpose chips is that they can only be used in one or a few specific areas. For example, you ca n’t use special chips for mobile phones, and even less. Go to the plane.
So now a mainstream saying is that it is not good for all industries to make corresponding special-purpose chips, and to compare them with personal customization, I think this future is particularly beautiful.
But a slightly deeper question is, once the industry involved in this chip is eliminated, what do chip manufacturers do? The most direct example is that the small island country used to be a camera-specific chip. Later, the development of smart phones has brought a huge impact to the low-end and mid-end camera market, and the manufacturers of camera-specific chips have naturally been affected, because The chip can only be used on the camera.
A very similar example in life is that universal remote control can turn on thousands of brands of air conditioners, but once the brand's exclusive air conditioner is gone, the remote control can do nothing. It's just that the air conditioner and the exclusive remote control are produced by the same manufacturer, but the chip is not, the chip and the terminal are basically separate.
Therefore, a chip company spends so much money on developing a special-purpose chip, and has to pray daily that the industry is not cold, otherwise the previous R & D costs will be wiped out in an instant. Uncomfortable?
So why are so many people blowing special chips now? First of all, the benefits of dedicated chips are indeed low energy consumption and high accuracy. But there is another reason that was mentioned before. Now is the AI ​​era, but is there any company capable of making high-end AI general-purpose chips? , Then only AI-specific chips can be made, otherwise how can the trend of AI in the times keep up?
But for more traditional industries, after all, AI has not been so popular in all aspects, so general-purpose chips, especially high-end general-purpose chips, are still in an unshakable position. The world can lose many special-purpose chips, but it must not be without general-purpose chips.
Because once the general-purpose chip disappears from the world, the entire industry collapses instantly.
Therefore, Zhang Rujin will misunderstand that Liu Fan is worried about bringing it to the market. That is because it is not a trivial matter to dare to move the cake of universal chips.
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Once the global dominance of general-purpose chips is lost, can the country still tolerate it?
What will come at this time is unpredictable.
Obviously, if Core Technology really wants to bring general-purpose chips, and general-purpose chips with better performance than Intel, to the market, it is bound to be a big war.
"What does Liu always think?" Zhang Rujin asked tentatively.
Liu Fan did not answer but asked, "What does Zhang always think, you have seen our general-purpose chip so long before I did, and you should have been thinking about it?"
"There are three core issues now. The first is the system. We use Huawei's system. We used to make mobile phone chips. Now we make general-purpose chips. How to get everyone to accept Huawei's system is a problem. The second is the interface. All our interfaces are international standards, which is a huge hidden danger for us. The third is adaptation, which we produced independently. We have not done any adaptation experiments except Huawei. "
"According to President Zhang, isn't it that the general-purpose chip we have produced so easily can only be a display? What exciting things do we have now?"
"The excitement is because we have this ability, even if it is a big problem to market, but this is enough to make us proud." Zhang Rujin said with a smile, "In fact, we also have a big advantage."
"What?" Liu Fan's eyes sharpened.
"We have the world's largest market, if we can bring Huaxia companies together."
Liu Fan understood Zhang Rujin's meaning in an instant, and said it meaningfully, "This is a big bet ..."