My Return to Life

Shanghai, which has been raining for three or four consecutive days, will continue to have fine weather from now on.

The temperature also rose slightly.

Colorful flags flutter in the Cultural Center by the Pujiang River, and the logo of the Frontier Science Developer Conference can be seen everywhere.

At a certain moment, the din broke through the barrier of the inner space, and vented out all at once.

"Fuck, shit, shit!"

"Frontier came up with a chip?"

"Is this a joke?"

"How come, when did the frontier enter the chip?"

"The world's first mobile phone processing chip with the most advanced 28nm process?"

"Beyond Apple's latest A5 chip in all directions?"

"It's not scientific at all!"

"Obviously this is a scientific developer conference!"

"..."

The uproar at the scene directly and rudely interrupted Academician Chen Jianye's continuation of the release.

The crowd was crowded, and many people stared fixedly at the stage, at the chip in Academician Chen Jianye's hand, which was as small as the size of a fingernail.

The camera captures a close-up, quite conspicuous.

On the one hand, I was looking forward to further content, and on the other hand, I couldn't help venting my emotions.

although!

Although there were a small number of ticket sales for this developer conference, almost all invited people had industry expertise.

It's not the kind where you just give a ticket to the uncle and aunt and you're done.

Compared with webcasting, anyone can be a completely different concept.

At least over 80% know that smartphones are already the computing center of the future.

Many people understand the inherent meaning of mobile phone SoC.

Excitement, excitement, disbelief, trance and other emotions blend together to form a soaring noise.

After a while, after the hustle and bustle of the scene had subsided, Academician Chen introduced this processing chip loudly.

"Okay, let me introduce this piece of Shenlong No. 1 to you."

"First of all, Shenlong 1 is the first in the industry to use a breakthrough 28-nanometer process technology. This extremely small-scale process challenges the current state-of-the-art global technology."

"For example, the A5 chip launched by Apple in March this year uses a 45nm process."

"So far, among similar chips and even personal computer processors, Shenlong 1's process is the most advanced!"

"..."

Every word of Academician Chen Jianye stimulated the nerves of the audience.

The excitement at the scene never stopped.

Applause and cheers sounded from time to time.

From time to time, someone would yell "Fuck".

Obviously a group of developers and media workers who are quite good, but suddenly they only yelled 'shit'.

Academician Chen Jianye has mastered the rhythm of controlling the venue with 5,000 people.

"Such a cutting-edge process can provide at least about 80% more transistors than a processing chip using a 45-nanometer process;

Shenlong 1 provides new functions with these additional transistors;

There are more efficient energy utilization and better performance! "

After a short pause, Chen Jianye emphasized his tone, "This! This is also the core reason why Shenlong 1 surpasses Apple A5 and any mobile phone processing chip currently on the market in terms of performance parameters!"

"..."

There was another round of applause from the audience.

In addition to the shit, there are two more words in this shout: Awesome.

The big screen showed some crude-looking content.

A full rendering of the chip followed on the next slide.

Chen Jianye pointed to the screen and said.

"Shenlong 1 has made an important design on the central processing unit!"

"Our architecture adopts the design of 1 large core + 3 small cores, adopts the synchronous core operation mode, the four cores will participate in the calculation at the same time, and manage the working status of the cores in a unified manner according to the amount of processing load;

With this design, more instructions can be run in parallel, resulting in better performance. "

"..."

"At the same time, it adopts the same Cortex-A9 architecture as the A5 chip. Although it is the same dual-instruction decoding as the previous generation, the order of instruction execution has changed from sequential execution to out-of-order execution;

Multiple tasks can be executed in parallel to maximize the performance of the processor..."

"GET BETTER PERFORMANCE AT RELATIVE LOW POWER!"

"..."

"At the same time, a large-capacity cache is integrated to meet the higher requirements of the App."

"..."

"Dragon 1's powerful 4-core design, with its conventional main frequency of 1.3Ghz, makes the performance of the central processing unit 70% higher than that of the A5 chip, which is currently the most powerful mobile processing chip!"

"It is far ahead of the same type of mobile phone processing chips in the same industry!"

"..."

The audience in the audience: "Fuck, you're awesome!"

"..."

"Shenlong 1 also integrates PowerVR's SGX540 graphics processor, which has the same specifications as Apple's A5."

"How excellent the graphics processing performance of the Apple A5 chip is, Shenlong 1 also has it, and thanks to the more advanced technology, it will only be stronger!

It can provide the best and most excellent game experience in the field of mobile phone processing chips! "

"..."

"At the same time! At the same time, Shenlong 1 is currently the world's first full 3G baseband chip that integrates WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and CMDA2000!"

"Have the best signal ever!"

"And the best data network experience so far! It can be called full Netcom!"

"..."

The audience in the audience: "Damn it! It actually supports mobile 3G!"

"..."

"Shenlong 1 is also loaded with customized technology that can bring a unique gaming and image processing experience..."

"..."

At this point, Academician Chen Jianye paused slightly: "Although I have introduced the excellence of this mobile phone's processing chip as much as possible, there will still be some omissions. Please watch the demo."

"..."

Then the video began to play on the big screen.

This is a video of less than 4 minutes jointly produced by Baize Laboratory and Nuwa Laboratory.

The opening is a list of processor renderings.

The central processing unit in the upper left corner, the graphics processor in the upper right corner, the baseband in the lower left corner, and the multimedia module in the lower right corner are displayed in sequence.

It wasn't the detailed picture that Fang Nian had seen before.

This video introduces the excellence of Shenlong 1 in a clearer and more organized manner, and specifically does not use reference objects for comparison.

It just intuitively shows the excellence of this processing chip.

One by one mentioned the excellent design in all aspects.

Including supported memory, baseband...

Including 8 million pixel camera support, 1080P display support...

etc……

The passionate catharsis again and again gradually calmed down the emotions of the audience and those watching through the live webcast.

Especially the audience, after all, their throats and the palms of their hands are a little sore.

This video of less than 4 minutes is to make them more and more curious about the same question:

"Having said so much, I understand how awesome and powerful it is, but I have a question. When did you start working on mobile phone chips?"

"Don't tell me so much, I already know that Shenlong 1 is the most powerful in the world, can you explain how the frontier changed its magic?"

"Why don't you reveal a little bit of news in advance?"

"Co-authoring just because your company is called Frontier, you can do a frontier trick, right?"

"I don't want to watch the video, I want to hear the explanation!"

"Come and tell me, how can Frontier be so awesome?"

"..."

Ok……

Basically curious about the same question.

Whether to talk or not, Fang Nian was actually a little curious.

After all, he doesn't understand chip design technology.

Academician Chen Jianye got off the plane yesterday morning and went to Yangpu. He raised the tape-out results with Fang Nian in the casual restaurant.

At first, Fang Nian thought it was because the Frontier Science Developers Conference was the highest priority of the Frontier, and it was difficult for Baize Lab to report failure after the tape-out was completed.

However, the result given by Academician Chen is a relatively conservative word: "After the TSMC current chip, the test was carried out on site for two days, and it was basically successful."

right.

Basically successful.

At that time, Academician Chen didn't mention anything else.

It didn't say, ah, the frontier science developer conference, the entire frontier department contributed its own strength, and even the frontier academics specially invited some professors to share technology, but Bai Ze didn't have anything.

Because of Academician Chen's conservative answer, Fang Nian did not immediately make a decision to release Shenlong 1.

He just asked Academician Chen to take another look and try again.

This morning, Academician Chen, who was in Shencheng and did not return to Luzhou, contacted Fang Nian again to meet.

It clarified in detail the results of various limit tests of Shenlong 1.

Not only the Baize Lab, but also the Nuwa Lab have exploded together.

The result is that after two failed tape-outs, the third tape-out was finally completely successful, and the limit test results show that it is far ahead of similar processing chips, and the performance of the central processing unit is fully improved compared to the Apple A5. 70%.

Fang Nian asked Academician Chen twice in a row: Can the test results be completely valid in such a short period of time.

Academician Chen answered twice in a row: yes.

Then Fang Nian made a decision to cancel several technical exchange meetings and change it to the first show of the frontier Baize Shenlong 1.

He also specially made a brief report with Du Mi and Sun Ganlong.

but……

Fang Nian still doesn't know how Bai Ze suddenly made Shenlong 1 so awesome.

The 28nm process will indeed be much stronger than the 45nm process.

But, didn't I say before...

Is the preset performance 20% higher than that of the Apple A5?

Now how to conservatively estimate that the performance has increased by 70%?

Why is it suddenly far ahead of all other mobile phone processing chips in the world?

"..."

……………

Watching the demo played on the big screen, Fang Nian beeped softly to Lu Weiyu next to him: "Time is still too tight, this demo doesn't meet my expectations."

"How to say?" Lu Weiyu was puzzled, "I think it's pretty good."

Fang Nian briefly described his thoughts: "My personal expectation is that in a laboratory, an engineer will directly introduce, instead of narrating and listing parameters."

"It's more immersive, isn't it?" Lu Weiyu said, rolling her eyes.

Fang Nian nodded, and then sighed: "Honestly speaking, I am as curious as everyone else now, how is Shenlong 1 so awesome."

"The requirements of the planning standards, including the name, are all determined by you. Are you still curious about this?" Lu Weiyu was shocked.

Seeing this, Fang Nian spread his hands solemnly: "You seem to suspect that I understand chip design?"

Hearing this, Lu Weiyu rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue embarrassingly: "Mine, mine, it's okay. Academician Chen will talk about it later."

"..."

Indeed, within half a minute after the demo was played, Academician Chen Jianye walked onto the stage again.

The academician's face was full of red, and he was full of energy. He looked at the audience and smiled: "Maybe everyone still has some doubts, because there is no way to actually demonstrate the chip alone now;

However, I will answer some of your doubts, which is a simple technology sharing and exchange. "

After a short pause, Chen Jianye looked calm: "First of all, let me explain a core problem. Frontier Baize Laboratory is a laboratory that only has the ability to design mobile phone SoCs, and does not have the ability to develop chips;

We only carried out a certain independent design on the authorization of the instruction architecture of arm;

According to incomplete statistics, the independent intellectual property rights of Shenlong 1 only account for 10%. "

"This is why when we introduced the parameters just now, we compared it with the Apple A5 chip, because the Apple A5 also uses the ARMv7 instruction set and Cortex-A9 architecture authorized by arm."

"Specifically, companies including Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, and MediaTek have adopted this model in mobile phone processing chips;

Usually, the industry believes that only companies with independent micro-architecture research and development capabilities are considered to have chip research and development capabilities, and micro-architecture research and development is also one of the most technologically-intensive fields in the chip industry. "

In the end, Chen Jianye made a brief summary: "Using Fang Nianfang's general words, the work done by Bai Ze Lab is just general solution integration; at most...

It was after putting together the scheme, and doing some, um... trivial, self-design work. "

After Chen Jianye explained this point of view, there were good-natured laughter from the audience.

Someone shouted: "Boss Fang is awesome, everything is insignificant!"

"..."

Then Chen Jianye said: "The next ten minutes are for answering, please ask professional questions as much as possible."

Soon there are staff shuttles among them.

If someone raises his hand very high, a microphone will be stuffed into his hand.

"Academician Chen, according to your statement, the mobile phone processing chip industry currently has the same model, so why does Shenlong 1 have such strong performance parameters with the same instruction structure, surpassing Apple A5 in all aspects?"

Academician Chen answered this question from a professional perspective with a smile.

"...So in general, the manufacturing process is a very important reason, and of course Bai Ze's design is also very important."

During the ten minutes, some professional questions were continuously raised in cooperation.

Includes floating point processing performance.

Including chip integrated graphics processing performance and so on.

Also includes out-of-order execution.

Also includes CPU 'dynamic' frequency.

It also includes questions about "full netcom".

Academician Chen answered one by one from a professional point of view, and it was easy and freehand.

This is a knowledge reserve system for academicians who want to contribute their whole life to China IC.

Even some tricky questions were answered very professionally.

Standing under the spotlight, Academician Chen Jianye seemed to be glowing when explaining professional issues in popular language.

Endless romance and freehand brushwork.

Although this was the first time Chen Jianye faced so many audiences, the academician handled it calmly.

Ten minutes is up.

Academician Chen Jianye made a gesture: "Due to time constraints, I can only answer the last question."

"Please ask."

At this time, the microphone was snatched by a media reporter.

"I'm sorry, Academician Chen, I'm a media reporter, and my question has nothing to do with my major;

I would like to ask a question on behalf of countless audiences on the site and on the Internet, how did Frontier suddenly have a mobile phone processing chip, and the performance of Shenlong 1 is so high that it is completely at the forefront of the world. "

"Please also answer."

Seeing this, Chen Jianye smiled slightly, with a friendly expression on his face: "Originally, I shouldn't answer this kind of question with my own technology, but I can say a few words from my point of view, which cannot be regarded as representing the frontier point of view."

After a short pause, Chen Jianye said peacefully: "Bai Ze is a laboratory established in Luzhou last year by Frontier. Mr. Fang Nianfang persuaded Luzhou local government to give strong support, and finally raised more than 12 billion yuan for the laboratory. Therefore, ..."

"From the beginning, Bai Ze's goal was not to design an ordinary chip."

"I personally think that Shenlong 1 can achieve such a success, and it should always be at the top of the credit list;

Because Mr. Fang always has only one attitude: he is responsible for spending money, and we are responsible for moving forward! "

"thank you all."

The release of Shenlong 1 has come to an end, but the speech and webcast are not over yet.

When Chen Jianye stepped off the stage from one side, Guan Qiuhe came on stage again...