Rewrite the Technological Landscape

There were a total of 86 people, and the company's large conference room was full. Many of them saw Meng Qian for the first time. Meng Qian chatted with everyone for a while and got closer before starting today's business.

"Zhulong sensor has finally settled in the market recently. Although the final user feedback will have to wait for next year, I believe that Zhulong will definitely surprise the market. After Zhulong, the company will also enter the field of chip design. Next step planning.

I haven’t seen you all recently, mainly to give you a buffer period to adapt to each other. I learned from the personnel side that the biggest doubt you may have now is what to do next, so I invite you to Hangzhou today. Just to let you know what you want to do in the future. "

Meng Qian turned around, and four words appeared on the screen: computer chip.

"As far as I know, you have all done computer chip design in the past, but the only one who has tried CPU design should be Yuke?"

The leaders of each company nodded.

Meng Qian turned to the next page, and the classification of computer chips appeared on the screen: CPU, chipset, memory controller center, firmware controller center, graphics chip, power chip, network card chip, sound card chip

"A very important reason for the acquisition of the five companies present here is that the company's next core industry is computers, and Dafeng Group has always put independent research and development first, so we cannot do without computers. develop their own computer chips.

Everyone present here has certain relevant experience, so I won’t go into details here. Corresponding projects and work arrangements will be made one after another later. The key reason why I want to call the core technicians of each company over today is that we There is a most important project in the computer industry in China, the revolution of CUP and chipset. "

There were some small comments below, but they stopped immediately under Meng Qian's attention, "The mainboard has always been a structure of CPU+Northbridge chip+Southbridge chip, and there is really nothing wrong with this thing itself, and everyone is used to it. However, in the past two years, some problems have begun to appear.

Let's look at the essence through the phenomenon. According to the current motherboard structure, since the data exchange of the entire platform needs to go through the North Bridge chip, the data bandwidth of the North Bridge chip must be very sufficient to meet the use requirements of the entire platform.

As various applications have higher and higher demands on the performance of CPU, memory, and graphics card, and the data exchange rate between the three is getting faster and faster, the north bridge chip has long been overwhelmed, especially the data between the CPU and memory. Switching, the bus bandwidth between the North Bridge chip and the CPU is becoming increasingly difficult to meet the demand, which also restricts the performance of the CPU to a certain extent. "

Many people below nodded their approval, and Meng Qian continued to flip the PPT backwards, "Actually, there are many people who have seen this problem, but now the chip design companies are putting their energy into how to improve the performance of the North Bridge chip. There are even some motherboard companies putting the cart before the horse and focusing on the heat dissipation of the Northbridge chip.

But Gale Group will shift its attention from the Northbridge chip and choose a new direction. "

As Meng Qian spoke, the PPT turned the page again: stripping off the memory controller.

There was a small-scale discussion below, and Meng Qian simply waited for them to finish their discussion before speaking, "If the memory controller can be stripped out of the north bridge chip, the burden on the north bridge will naturally be greatly reduced, and many problems will no longer exist.

So where does the stripped memory controller go? "

The PPT turns to the next page, "We are going to integrate the memory controller into the CPU. The biggest advantage of this approach is that the data access delay between the CPU and the memory has been greatly shortened, and the operation of the two has almost reached The level of synchronization allows the performance of the CPU cores to be fully exploited."

"That is to say, we need to design a new CPU architecture?" Someone couldn't help asking, "No, to some extent, the architecture of the North Bridge chip has also changed."

"For the Northbridge chip, it's not just a simple change." Meng Qian continued to scroll down the PPT, "Splitting off the memory controller is only the first step. Next, I want to strip off the PCI-E controller and put the memory Both the controller and the PCI-E controller are integrated into the CPU, and this is the true motherboard revolution."

"It's impossible." Someone immediately denied, "If you want to integrate the memory controller and PCI-E controller into the CPU, the requirements for the chip technology are very high. I only estimate based on experience that it must be at least below 80nm." The craftsmanship, no one can do it now, this kind of design is completely impractical."

Meng Qian is very happy about the staff's major, "At present, the chip technology is limited by the lithography machine, and we have indeed encountered a process bottleneck, but our Dafeng Group is not researching the lithography machine. The reason why I propose such a design is that I have full confidence in the company's lithography machine research and development.

I can clearly tell you that in the next few years, the lithography machines of our Dafeng Group will definitely advance the chip technology to 2 to 3 generations. The technological revolution that can be realized is what we should do, otherwise our advantage of developing lithography machines by ourselves will be ruined.

Almost all other chip design companies have the same idea as you now, so they all focus on the North Bridge chip. practice three years later.

This is also the reason why everyone is asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement today. This thing will be one of the core secrets of Dafeng Group in the future. I will transfer this brand-new architecture design and motherboard design to the R\u0026D center. It will determine the success or failure of Gale Group in the computer field in the future. "

This time Meng Qian deliberately paused, and the discussion below became much louder.

"Mr. Meng, do you mean putting this project in the scientific research center at all costs?"

"It can be understood that Dafeng Group's scientific research center can let go of its arms to carry out project research and development, and the company will support it regardless of cost and consequences."

"What about other related computer chips? Just as our normal development project now?"

"Yes, including the current mainstream mainboard architecture, we still have to do it. After all, it is not two or three years later, but it will not be put in the scientific research center. In Dafeng Group, whether the project can enter the scientific research center depends on the recognition of the project. and a sign of importance.

However, in addition to the CPU and chipset, there is another computer chip that will be placed in the scientific research center, that is, the graphics card chip, but I have lifted the graphics card chip out of the computer chip, because it belongs to a graphics processor in a larger sense, here is It involves another industry in the company's future: multimedia, and what everyone has to do is multimedia chip design. "

Meng Qian used a few pages of PPT to let everyone know about the multimedia chips that the company will be involved in, "Computer and multimedia are the two core industries of Dafeng Group in the future, and CUP, motherboards and graphics processors will become our core industries in these two industries. Whether it can create a brilliant foundation.

So everyone's future work will be carried out around these two general directions, and everyone I invite to the scene today is the candidate who can enter the R\u0026D center in my mind. What is in front of you now will be a particularly interesting one. meaning challenge. "