Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 70 The unknown

The annual meeting of Dafeng Technology Innovation Agents ended smoothly. In the next two days, “Red Moon”, “Millennium” and “Dark Light” finally announced the official beta time. I don’t know what the reasons are. The beta time of a single game is all Put it in the next year.

“Red Moon” beta time: February 10, 2001.

“Millennium” beta time: February 17, 2001.

“Dark Light” beta time: February 24, 2001.

At the time when Dafeng Technology Group opened its annual agent meeting, “Stone Age” came. Judging from the situation a few days after the public beta, the situation is much better than the original “Legend”. Of course, a factor in the smoothness of “Stone Age” may be It’s also because “The Legend of God” didn’t do anything.

On January 18, 2001, the employees of Dafeng Technology were preparing for the company’s annual meeting the next day. Because there were a lot of things at the end of the year, when Sun Xiaojing was seeking your opinions, everyone hoped to move the annual meeting time as far as possible. Focus on work first, and then you can have more fun at the annual meeting.

This set the time for January 19th, because since January 20th, employees have been going home in advance to prepare for the New Year.

On January 19, 2001, Dafeng Technology Co., Ltd. ushered in a team visit.

“You have worked **** the road.” At two o’clock in the afternoon, Meng Qian arranged two cars to pick up the plane in person at the airport. This was a seven-person team with the leader named Fang Chen.

“Meng always has the heart.” Seeing Meng Qian personally picked up the plane, Fang Chen quickly stepped forward to shake hands with Meng Qian and expressed his gratitude. After that, Meng Qian shook hands with the remaining six members of the team.

The entire team is six men and one woman. Three men, including Fang Chen, seem to be in their 50s. The other three men and one woman are all in their thirties.

And what they represent today is Ni Guangnan.

After the last meeting, Ni Guangnan and Meng Qian had two telephone conversations. The team sent this time is considered to be a person recommended to Meng Qian in a sense. Can cooperation be reached later, and how to cooperate depends on Meng Qian. How did Qian talk with Fang Chen and the others.

As for Ni Guangnan, he could not help Meng Qian preside over the overall situation in Dafeng Science and Technology, so he could only help Meng Qian in other ways and capacity.

After understanding the situation, Meng Qian expressed his understanding and gratitude although he was sorry.

The later media did not write in detail about why Ni Guangnan went there. However, some media mentioned one thing. The two phone calls made Meng Qian further speculate that Ni Guangnan might have participated in the Godson project.

The Loongson Research Group was established in 2001.

I collided with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Meng Qian didn’t have much to say. He went to grab people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Meng Qian thought about it and let it go. Later, he wanted to cooperate more with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On the way back to the company, after a simple greeting, Fang Chen and others began to chat with Meng Qian about development issues. They were all working people. As soon as they arrived at the company, Meng Qian took seven people to the conference room for a discussion.

Pulling the blackboard to the middle, Meng Qian took a pen and wrote down a few key words: chip architecture, system, EDA, process, equipment, material.

“Everyone on the road asked me what I was going to do. In a large scale, these are the things.

In my opinion, these are the six cores in the chip field, and we are now fully behind with these six cores.

So to make a chip, I must first make it clear that we have to do all of these six things, and none of them are indispensable. ”

“Do you want to start independent research and development from these six subdivisions?” Fang Chen asked subconsciously.

“Yes.” Meng Qian nodded.

“Too anxious.” Fang Chen hesitated for a while and said, “We are now relying on other people’s technology to make chips, and we are still thinking about conquering more basic things. This will bring input costs and time cycles. It’s all one company can’t afford at all, right?

International chip companies such as Samsung are also using other people’s architectures. So far, they have not heard of their plans to develop chip architectures from scratch. It would be great if they can develop their own architectures, but…”

“I am really anxious, very anxious.” Meng Qian responded to Fang Chen, “Because the breakthrough in the field of chips is too difficult, it is not only a product, but also an ecology, which means that it is not only a technology dispute. , It is time to accumulate.

Let’s take the craftsmanship as an example, and see the big from the small. ASML once threatened that even if they gave us the design drawings, we would not be able to make a lithography machine. Is there something wrong with what they said? Nothing wrong.

In fact, everyone should also know that more than 90% of ASML’s spare parts are purchased. They are a pure assembly company, but why they can assemble the best lithography machine in the world because they have rich experience.

One of their polishers can do polishing for a lifetime, but we may not even find a master who has polishing experience.

What is the gap? This is the basic gap. We will never do these six basics when enlarged to the chip field. What we will face in the future is not only the competition of the technology itself and the product itself, but also the backwardness in time accumulation.

So in my opinion, chips are a field where competition is based on a ten-year time unit. To achieve full autonomy, it may take 30, 50, or even 100 years, but start earlier. There will be a greater chance of success.

I often think, if one day others don’t authorize their architecture, others don’t let us use their EDA software, and people don’t sell us lithography machines, what should we do?

Are we waiting to die?

However, Mr. Fang’s consideration from the enterprise side is also a very realistic problem. Therefore, in the field of chip research and development, I am going to set up a special project team, which I call the Unknown Project team.

What does that mean? Simply put, the company will conduct chip research and development from two levels. The first level is closer to the company’s income generation. We purchase architecture authorization, purchase EDA use rights, purchase lithography machines, and even forward it directly to the company without production Companies like TSMC do it.

And the second level is the project team of the Unknown Generations. The work they are responsible for is to tackle these six foundations.

For the time being, I intend to invest the company’s annual scientific research investment into the conventional chip project team and the unknown project team in a way of seven to three points.

This project team is destined to not be profitable for a long time, and it is not even ruled out that they will not be profitable until Dafeng Technology collapses.

Perhaps, they will always be unknown people. No one knows that there has ever been such a project team.

But perhaps, one day in the future, the unknown project team will become the most dazzling miracle in the entire science and technology field.

And what I want to do is to do my best to protect this group of unknown people so that they can have a better environment to do scientific research.

Although I don’t know what will happen in the future, I just have an inexplicable hunch that the unknown will be famous all over the world…