Reborn Shenhao Miner

Chapter 348: The Twenty-Four Heroes of the Splendid Chip Empire!!

Li Mingxuan wanted Ni Guangnan to design a multimedia smartphone chip.

Similar to the later Samsung S5L8900 chip.

The Apple 1 smartphone in 2007 used not Apple’s A series chip, but Samsung’s chip S5L8900 chip, the processor chip, clocked at 412MHz, single-core, ARM11 architecture, with the GPU is PowerIRMBX-Lite Due to the success of the iPhone series, the processor chip made by Samsung has emerged.

At that time, the S5L8900 chip was still quite advanced.

However, the problem is that it uses the ARM11 architecture, and according to Ni Guangnan’s explanation to Li Mingxuan, if they design chips that also use the ARM architecture, they must give ARM patent fees.

Because Comrade Xiao Li, who is afraid of scumbags, does not understand.

Ni Guangnan said in easy-to-understand language: “Architecture is a very vague word, the specific meaning is related to the context, now the market is the mainstream x86 or ARM architecture, refers to an instruction set, when discussing chip design, the discussion is about the circuit implementation level microarchitecture.” ”

“The CPU is an interpreter, the architecture is its algorithm, and a better architecture is a better algorithm that can do the same thing with fewer operations!”

Hearing his explanation, Li Mingxuan probably understood: “What do you mean, the architecture is equivalent to a series of formulas, although the final answers are the same after entering the data, but because of the different formulas, the complexity of the different operations to solve the answers is also different!” ”

Hearing this, Ni Guangnan nodded and said: “That’s probably what it means, but the actual situation is much more complicated, now PC chips mainly use the x86 architecture instruction set, the advantage of this architecture is superior performance, the disadvantage is that the power consumption is large, not energy-saving is only suitable for large machines such as PCs!” ”

“ARM pursues low power consumption (energy saving), and the disadvantage is that it uses a reduced instruction set, resulting in complex compiler processing, so the performance is relatively poor at 86!”

“Academician Ni, if I don’t want to use these two architectures, you know that these two architectures belong to foreign countries, and I prefer to be able to design a new architecture chip with independent intellectual property rights to bypass foreign patent barriers on chips!”

Li Mingxuan said.

He is well aware of what the rogue states of the West will do in the future.

If one day they refuse to use their architecture to design and produce chips, then you will be even better at chip design.

In the case of a violation of intellectual property rights, you cannot sell it abroad.

Therefore, in Li Mingxuan’s view, it is necessary to design a new instruction set independently developed.

Although this is bound to invest a lot of money, it just so happens that he is the least lacking of this.

In addition, although he is a scumbag, he remembers that future generations are not only x86 and ARM architectures.

Knowing that there is a more perfect architecture than x86 and ARM architectures.

Although he himself does not know what this architecture is, since others can study new architecture, there is no reason why it cannot be studied.

Li Mingxuan feels that as long as the money is spent, this world can always be studied.

And hearing his words, he laughed instead, although it is not easy to design a new chip architecture.

But it is by no means impossible, don’t forget that Fairview Microelectronics Company in addition to digging some chip design engineers from Texas Instruments, there are also some people from the Institute of Microelectronics.

These people are originally experts in integrated circuits, so they have long experience in chip architecture design.

I believe that with the help of these people, Fairview Microelectronics can design a new architecture.

Of course, there are certainly difficulties, but no matter how big the difficulties, as long as you are willing to overcome them, they can always be solved.

“Mr. Li, I can now see your ambitions in the chip industry!”

Ni Guangnan said with a smile.

“Hahaha, isn’t it bad? Either we don’t do it, we feel that we can’t lag behind others! ”

Li Mingxuan said.

“Back then, my conscience thought that if there was such courage as Mr. Li, I would have dared to study the PC chip of the flower family long ago!”

Academician Ni sighed.

“It’s not too late, one day whether it’s a mobile phone or a PC chip, we have to do it and be the first in the world!”

Li Mingxuan said with a smile.

Therefore, after he finished inspecting and leaving, Chief Engineer Ni immediately informed the technical backbone of Jinxiu Microelectronics.

Among them, five Texas Instruments chip design doctors, and the other eighteen are the original 772 institutes, and now seconded to Splendid Technology Masters.

A total of 24 people, including Ni Guangnan, opened a short meeting behind closed doors to convey the meaning of the Splendid Head Office.

“Chief Engineer Ni, you said that the Jinxiu Group Headquarters let us design a new chip instruction set!”

Yuguang Huang, Ph.D. graduate of MIT in electronic engineering, has 13 years of rich experience in chip design from Texas Instruments and Intel.

After hearing that Fairview Group began to exert force on chips.

After Ni Guangnan’s invitation, he also quit his million-dollar annual salary job at Intel and returned to China to do research.

Ni Guangnan is now the chief engineer of Jinxiu Microelectronics chip design appointed by Li Mingxuan.

Therefore, these people called him Chief Engineer Ni.

“Yes, Huang Gong, I just accompanied Mr. Li who came to the fab to inspect this matter, Mr. Li said that he was short of money to ask for him, as long as it was a reasonable expenditure, he would give it, and he would recruit himself if there was a shortage of people, he only needed to see the results!”

Hearing this, the other 23 people exchanged ears and talked.

Although these 23 people are far worse than Intel, Qualcomm and other hundreds of core design teams.

But these people are not gathered here just to make money, many of them are for ideals.

I hope that flower growers can rise in the chip industry.

“It’s great!”

Jiang Hong, who had just resigned from Intel, roared.

After graduating from the University of Illinois with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, he joined Intel’s technical team in 1996 and served as Chief Senior Engineer and Chief Architect of Visual Computing.

After receiving the call from Academician Ni, he immediately resigned and returned to China to discuss the big plan.

At this time, seeing that the Jinxiu Group is really sparing no effort to contribute to the chip industry, he feels hot in his heart, and he can’t wait to roar and go to work immediately.