Vol 2 Chapter 433: The development of lab-on-a-chip

After strolling in the robotics laboratory for a while, Lei Tiantang smiled and asked Kong Yu, who was standing next to him,
Mr. Kong, I just heard Chen Zijun say that the current CPU chip used in this home robot was developed by our company. produced?"
"Yes, boss. Actually, Director Chen hasn't said a little bit. This robot is not only the CPU chip developed and manufactured by our chip laboratory, but also its GPU chip and other chips!
There are several types of chips used by a robot, so our chip laboratory is currently developed according to the overall design SOC!
It is also because our company's current most profitable product is home robots, and our home robot chips have been cut off due to mutual sanctions with Lao Mei.
Although our current reserves can still be used until February next year, the following chips can only be produced by ourselves, so the current focus of the chip laboratory is the smart chip of the robot! Kong Yu replied with a smile.
Lei Tiantang also knows about chip R&D and design. The company’s robots are all intelligent robots, which have high requirements on the AI ​​of the chip. The CPU is only the central processing unit, it is only a processing element, and it cannot be supported by a CPU alone. To start the company’s robots.
So there is almost no pure CPU design now. They are directly designing the SOC. There will inevitably be a GPU in the SOC. Therefore, there is no need to hand over the computing tasks of AI to the CPU. The GPU must be more proficient and faster to deal with this problem, and more suitable Perform this repetitive calculation.
"Okay! To be honest, although our company has money, the money to purchase these chips really hurts us! We now have the R&D and manufacturing capabilities of our own chips, which is very important to the future of the company!
go! Let's go to the lab on a chip to have a look! I want to know the current situation. "Lei Tiantang said happily.
The two chatted while sitting in the battery car and drove towards the direction of the chip laboratory. Because the development and production of chips have high environmental requirements, the chip laboratory is an independent building that has been renovated separately. This is the early days of technology companies. Just built a building, after Lei Tiantang got the experimental equipment, the building was assigned to the name of the lab on a chip.
Lei Tiantang walked into the lab-on-a-chip for the first time after performing dust removal operations and changing dust-proof clothing. To be honest, he did not expect them to make experimental progress so quickly.
It took less than half a year for the experimental equipment and production equipment to be handed over to them. He thought it would be at least until next year before the chips were developed, so he hadn't paid attention to the equipment during the time after the equipment was handed over to them.
"Boss, welcome to the lab on a chip! You finally thought of our lab on a chip!" When we met, Wu Guisheng, the director of the lab on chip, said with a smile.
"Haha, old Wu, what you said! My fault, I really care less about you, but if you have a breakthrough, you should tell me. If you talked about it in the last meeting, I I came here long ago!
I really didn't expect that you could design various chips used in robots in such a short time. Now the difficulty of chip design is reduced? "Lei Tiantang also replied with a smile.
He didn’t care about Wu Guisheng’s jokes. Everyone was young and knew each other very well. Lei Tiantang and him had many technical exchanges, that is, Lei Tiantang’s technology completely surpassed the supercomputer department. The contact was a little less in the future.
This guy is a real genius. He was originally a top artificial intelligence expert in the supercomputer department. After knowing that the company was going to develop its own chips, he found Lei Tiantang himself and asked to be responsible for the project.
At that time, Lei Tiantang was shocked by him. You must know that many of these masters were recruited personally, not to mention that Wu Guisheng was one of the first hackers who passed the screening and was recruited by him.
When recruiting him, Lei Tiantang valued his advanced consciousness in the field of artificial intelligence, but he did not expect that he was still a top hardware expert. After chatting with him for an afternoon, Lei Tiantang immediately agreed to let him To be responsible for the company's chip research and development project.
"How could it be that the design difficulty has been reduced! Boss, your question is sad again, and everyone has worked so hard to complete the research and development of the chips needed on the robot!
The reason why so many kinds of chips can be developed so quickly, in addition to the powerful equipment provided by the boss, latecomer advantage is also a key factor!
Now we are not developing chips from scratch. Everyone knows all the chip technologies on the market very well, and from experience, we have avoided a lot of detours.
The most important thing is that our company's artificial intelligence ‘origin’ is really helpful to our chip design! We only need to design the structure of the chip in detail, and then input all the design data into the supercomputer, and Origin will simulate and calculate our design.
Such as whether the layout is reasonable, whether the various indicators of the chip meet the requirements, whether there are conflicts in the multi-threaded design, and so on, the ‘origin’ can be found in the first time through simulation calculations.
In this way, our design work has reduced a lot of trial and error links, real-time modification, real-time simulation calculation ~EbookFREE.me~ is almost the same as opening up, with such an artifact, how can our development speed be slow! "Wu Guisheng replied triumphantly.
"Okay! That's good! But people's ‘Origin’ is so powerful, which step did you design for the server chip?" Lei Tiantang asked with a smile.
"Of course we will not take such an important thing seriously. The more computing power we add to Origin, the more it will help us, so the plans to add servers to it are all carried out simultaneously.
However, because the company currently needs the robot-related chips most, the server chip research and development work is a bit behind. Now the entire project has entered the mid-term, and it is estimated that it will be completed in a few months!
The main reason is that server chip requirements are much higher than those used on robots. Therefore, in terms of the difficulty of development, it is a step up to the chips used on robots.
Fortunately, the chips used on our robots have been developed. Except for various tests, there is not much work in this area, so now everyone's energy has been invested here! We guarantee to let Origin use the server developed by our company in the shortest time! "Wu Guisheng said confidently.