Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 71 The company’s scientific research develo

Meng Qian’s words caused Fang Chen and others to fall into contemplation. For scientific researchers like them, they certainly hope that more companies will have the courage and spirit of sacrifice to develop core technologies and basic technologies, but their experience has changed. Let them also understand that businessmen make profits. They are not qualified to force businessmen to do these things, and it is not easy for them to start a business.

So at the beginning, they only knew that there was a company called Dafeng Technology and Innovation to make independent chips, and they were already looking forward to it. Now they know that Meng Qian is going to challenge the foundation and full autonomy of the entire chip field, and their mood is extremely complicated.

First of all, they must be happy. They are happy to meet such entrepreneurs. At the same time, they are also shocked. They are shocked that a young enterprise has such courage, but they have more hearts, but they are actually questioning how much this stuff is. The difficulty is on the one hand, but the key is to burn money.

How much does it cost to complete independent research and development? One billion? Billions? Ten billion? Even one hundred billion can’t be dealt with. Meng Qian’s idea of ​​this kind is certainly worthy of encouragement and praise, but Dafeng Science and Technology, really does this bowl of rice?

A 19-year-old young entrepreneur, maybe he is just a newborn calf and he is not afraid of tigers?

This kind of complex emotions made everyone silent for a while, not knowing what to say.

Meng Qian saw it in his eyes and continued his own statement, “After talking about the long-term goal, let’s talk about the current situation. Crafts, materials, and equipment are all my non-professional fields, so in these three aspects, I can only pray for more There are so many talents, there is nothing to repeat here.

I mainly want to talk about the chip architecture. ”

Meng Qian wrote X86, ARM, MIPS under the chip architecture while talking.

“Intel’s chips, Microsoft’s Windows, and the powerful Microtel Alliance have successfully proved the terrible nature of the combination of software and hardware, but this has also led to Intel’s operating thinking in the chip field being too closed, so regardless of whether X86 can be authorized, I I also know that some companies are talking about it, but I personally don’t want to choose the X86 architecture because it lacks the space for secondary development.

So when we still have to use other people’s architecture, I personally prefer ARM and MIPS, which seem to be behind X86 now.

I heard that Chinese Academy of Sciences will choose MIPS architecture, right? ”

Fang Chen was taken aback, then nodded.

“Since you know this, you should also be very clear about the biggest advantages of MIPS, openness, basicity and malleability.

I personally also support choosing the MIPS architecture. If you want to face the computer directly, the MIPS architecture that can carry more instruction sets and greater scalability can give us more room for development.

What about the ARM architecture? The ARM architecture, which is the same source as the MIPS architecture, has many similarities with the MIPS architecture, but in my opinion, the ARM architecture has some characteristics that appeal to me because I have been full of curiosity about a market recently, that is Symbian mobile phone system.

I recently watched the news and said that Nokia will further develop and apply the Symbian system, and we will soon see Nokia’s Symbian smartphones.

Microsoft has ruled the computer system for so many years, but it seems that they have not been very interested in the mobile phone system until now, but this thing is particularly interesting to me.

I spent a lot of time researching this Symbian system. At the same time, I also felt about the Symbian system. I personally think that the mobile phone system will have an immeasurable future because it allows mobile phones to make calls and send text messages from a simple The thing becomes a multi-functional multimedia device that can have more applications.

You guys can boldly imagine that if one day you can handle files, instant messaging, watch movies and even play large games with a mobile phone, do you think people would prefer to use a mobile phone or a computer?

Even if everyone prefers to use a computer, can you hold a computer anytime, anywhere? But you can hold a cell phone anytime, anywhere, even on the bus, even when going to the toilet.

So the Symbian system gave me a very big imagination, and this imaginary future made me full of expectations for the mobile phone system. For this reason, Dafeng Technology will start preparing the mobile phone system project team from this year.

Correspondingly, one thing we need is a mobile phone chip that is more suitable for smart phones.

Looking back at the three architectures at this time, the advantage of X86 is performance in the final analysis, but in order to maintain this performance, bulkiness and power consumption are also the reality that the X86 architecture has to face.

Let us imagine, how many problems will the X86 architecture encounter in the realization of small-sized mobile phone chips? Can the power consumption problem of the X86 architecture be solved smoothly on the mobile phone?

Instead, it’s the ARM architecture. This architecture with fewer instruction sets, and this architecture with greater performance at low frequencies, will have obvious advantages on small chips such as mobile phone chips.

It can better achieve small size, low power consumption, low cost, and in the mobile phone market, the performance of the ARM architecture will be more valuable, because mobile phones and computers have completely different information processing requirements.

More importantly, a major drawback of the ARM architecture, the problem of system inconsistency can be improved in the mobile phone market. As long as the mobile phone system we make is unified, the inconsistency of the ARM architecture on the Linux system will end in the mobile phone field.

So in terms of chip architecture, my consideration is to use ARM and MIPS at the same time, but the focus is different.

The computer chip project team uses the MIPS architecture to create more instruction sets and expand adaptability, with the goal directed at the Microtel Alliance.

The mobile phone chip project team uses the ARM architecture, combined with the company’s mobile phone system project team, focusing on the production of mobile phone chips.

At the same time, I have another idea about chips, which is inspired by the mobile phone market, which is dedicated chips.

Now these chip architectures have a feature that is universal, but universal means not dedicated, which means a lot of waste of resources.

For this reason, I am thinking about the future and market of dedicated chips. From a theoretical point of view, the design cost and manufacturing cost of dedicated chips will be greatly reduced. The only drawback is that it is only applicable to a dedicated scene, but if we do in the field of dedicated chips Early enough, the plates are big enough, and the corresponding fields are selected with foresight. This may be a future development direction for chips.

In terms of system, if we can finalize the choice of ARM architecture and MIPS architecture in the end, the system will naturally be Linux.

But let me explain to you first that the system project of Dafeng Technology will give priority to the development of mobile phone systems, and then turn to computer systems.

This computer system will naturally be connected to our computer chip later.

I hope that if one day we really want to defeat the Weitel Alliance, we will use our own chips and our own systems.

As for the EDA software, there is not much that can be said for the time being, it is mainly a tough problem.

So we reorganize our thinking at this time. The company’s long-term goal is to build a huge ecological chain formed by the six foundations of a complete chip industry chain and independent systems.

And the breakthrough of this ambitious goal is the smart phone field that has not been valued by Microsoft now!

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