Chapter 223 Solve semiconductor problems, starting with EDA software!
While the plateau was thinking hard, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.
When I opened it, I saw that it was Cao Feiyu and Chu Luoluo. They were dressed neatly and asked Gaoyuan to have breakfast together. Then I would continue to conduct investigations and arrangements between the Gobi and Kunlun Mountains.
After all, Kunlun Group is the owner of Sky City and has invested huge amounts of money in this future urban project. Many project outsourcing contracts are still to be formulated.
As for the project to lead the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau water system into Xinjiang, the most expensive Eastern Front will be undertaken by the national team. The Western Front will be cooperated with several major state-owned enterprises. The city will be built in the future and grain and fruits will be planted in the Tarim Basin. The national team will also have shares.
Idealists like Plateau are never afraid of their own interests being tied to the national team. As long as they can achieve their goals, they will see China leading the world towards the sea of stars in their lifetime, and everything else must make way for the ultimate goal.
"Boss, are you worried?"
While having breakfast, Chu Luoluo saw Gao Yuan absent-minded and often fell into a daze, so he asked curiously.
Gao Yuan shook his head, "It's nothing. I just wonder how to arrange the company's next task after I go back."
So that's how it is...
Chu Luoluo nodded repeatedly, feeling that being a boss was really tiring.
Gaoyuan is the backbone of the entire company. The hardware department and the software department are more than 100,000 people waiting for Gaoyuan to issue orders and point out the direction of R&D. The boss will definitely be under a lot of pressure.
Gaoyuan does not intend to make the chip plan public and promote it with great fanfare.
After all, this is the core competition in the field of earth's technology. Back then, in order to kill Huawei's communication technology and chip technology, North America's actions can be described as crazy.
The Ansa group is like a crazy pack of wolves, guarding its territory tightly.
Chips, aerospace, biopharmaceuticals, military industry, satellite communications, artificial intelligence, genetically modified agricultural products, quantum, culture...
These are the core competitive areas of the major forces on Earth, and some of them are China, such as Kunlun Group's artificial intelligence, Chinese Academy of Sciences' quantum communication and quantum computing.
There are also some things that China is catching up at full speed, such as the aerospace field. With the support of super materials, super machine tools, aurora motors, solid-state batteries and other black technologies, the aerospace field is catching up quickly, but there is still a long distance ahead.
Plateau decided to take secret actions and quietly extended its tentacles to the semiconductor field.
It’s not that I’m afraid of something, but that North America is now on the verge of madness. Plateau is not afraid of them attacking themselves. It has systematic support. Kunlun Group is a pure R&D group, which does not manufacture products or participates in market operations.
But if they attack Kunlun Group's partners with all their might, it will inevitably cause a lot of trouble, so it's better to take action quietly and wait until they truly master the technology of the entire semiconductor industry.
For three consecutive days, Gaoyuan led Cao Feiyu and Chu Luoluo to travel around the Western Xinjiang, signed a large number of engineering contracts and improved a large number of engineering details.
When the plateau set off for the Jiangnan headquarters, the passionate young Xu Qingzhou also arrived in Western Xinjiang at the same time.
Xu Qingzhou was full of enthusiasm and patted his chest at the plateau and promised that he must witness the establishment of the Sky City with his own eyes, protect the Western Xinjiang, benefit the people, etc., so he will leave it to him to complete it!
Gao Yuan felt deeply relieved and told Xu Qingzhou to contact him for something, so he patted his butt and returned to Jiangnan, leaving Xu Qingzhou at the dusty construction site, and as the representative of the project party, he performed his supervisory duties.
The news that Gao Yuan and Cao Feiyu returned made the company's employees very excited.
According to Kunlun Group's usual rules, when a scientific research project is over, a holiday will be given first, and the bonus will be given, and then the next project will be.
I don’t know what work the boss will arrange for everyone. Given the strong personal ability of the plateau, everyone is full of blind admiration for him, and thinks that as long as the tasks assigned by the plateau are all correct.
"We must not be greedy for success and make progress. We must use the second half of the year to consolidate the achievements." Gao Yuan said at the meeting: "The software department focuses on zero and let our artificial intelligence enter more industries and fields."
"For example, in the field of architectural design, I don't want our Sky City to have the same architectural form, and using zero as an auxiliary to make the architectural form more creative, which is a symbol of our taste."
Gao Yuan talked freely, and his requirements for the software department were to provide supporting facilities for the industrial department.
The group has the most awesome polymer building materials in the world, so Zero should enter the field of architectural design to improve the ornamentality of buildings and the efficiency of land utilization.
In addition, Zero has room to play in many fields such as machinery, aerospace, and medical care.
After explaining to the software department, Gao Yuan began to make requirements for the hardware department again.
In a short period of time, don’t think about new technologies. You can’t eat too much. You can first understand the technologies you have mastered before talking about them. You must also cooperate with the software department to tap the potential of existing technologies.
He raised a finger and Gao Yuan said seriously: "One move will make you eat all over the world."
"You must never forget that the reason why we can get to this day is actually entirely due to the support of polymer x-series chemical fibers and carbon nanotube composite materials, these two basic technologies. Therefore, we must continue to improve the purity of these two basic materials, especially carbon nanotubes. The higher the purity, the better..."
The plateau calmly arranged the task of purifying and demetalizing carbon nanotubes and other tasks together, as if it was just a very ordinary one among the countless tasks in the hardware department. Such arrangements did not attract anyone's attention.
When the meeting ended, Gao Yuan called the three heads of the software department, Chen Tianshi, Chen Yunqi and Chu Hongfei, to his office and handed them the software underlying architecture planning plan prepared in advance.
“eda!”
Seeing the name on the file bag, all three of them were stunned.
EDA is the abbreviation of electronic design automation. In short, it is an integrated circuit design tool, such as CPU, multi-frequency modem used in mobile phones, and a bridge chip that solves data exchange problems, all need to be designed first and then used to the semiconductor factory to cut.
Eda is such a design tool, but unfortunately, its technology and patents are completely controlled by the West. The first step for Ansa Group to attack Huawei was to cut off their Eda software. As a result, Huawei did not surrender as in Western design, so it took a series of subsequent sanctions.
At the same time, because Huawei refused to surrender and the national team increased its investment in the integrated circuit field, almost all semiconductor companies in China, including SMIC, DJI, Huahong, etc., were included in the sanctions, thus triggering a comprehensive confrontation between China and the West in the field of semiconductor technology.
Gao Yuan said in a deep voice: "According to statistics from the Integrated Circuit Fund, in 2018, the global sales of EDA software were 43.76 billion yuan, and China sold 350 million yuan, accounting for only 0.8% of the global market share."
"It's so pitiful to say it. This is when we were subject to comprehensive sanctions. Many companies moved from importing software to domestic substitution. In the first few years, our share was even lower, almost zero. Only a few semi-official companies such as Huada Jiutian are struggling to persist."
"The problem will be solved sooner or later, and it will be solved before wafer, lithography, packaging, and etching technology, so I contacted the national team and prepared to acquire Xinhuazhang."
"New Huazhang!?"
"The national team agreed!?"
All three of them were stunned, as if they were hit hard, and looked at the plateau with unbelievable eyes.
Although most ordinary people do not know the Xinhuazhang company, in the field of EDA, the name of Xinhuazhang is like a thunderous initiation, and once even surpassed the domestic top spot, Huada Jiutian Group.
On November 26, 2020, Xinhuazhang launched a high-performance multi-function programmable adaptation solution, flexible, and new simulation technology that supports domestic computer architecture, which attracted attention from the entire industry for a time.
Simply put, Xinhuazhang can provide supporting domestic computer architectures. For example, domestic Feiteng servers and some special computing systems used in scientific research and military fields can use Xinhuazhang's agility.
Despite its limitations, it is definitely one of the most important milestones in the history of domestic integrated circuit ecological.
After all, simulation technology is a key technology to ensure the correct design of integrated circuits. All chip design companies must simulate the behavior of digital circuits through software to discover and fix problems.
The smart emulator technology is quite strong, supporting x86, arm, risc-v, mips, gpgpu, npu, etc., almost all mainstream semiconductor architectures.
Xin Huazhang is a very strong card in the national team. The agreement to allow Gaoyuan to acquire it means that he is very optimistic and supportive of Kunlun Group entering the EDA field.
Smack sex~
His fingers hit the desk in the office, Gao Yuan lowered his voice and said to the three of them: "This matter needs to be kept confidential and kept a low profile. After all, Xin Huazhang's emulator is staring at it all over the world."
"Cao Feiyu will sign a private agreement with the national team. In a few days, a deputy general manager and a group of core engineers will be sent to us. You must also select suitable candidates and send them to Xinhuazhang to complete the team docking."
"I understand." Chen Tianshi said: "When you enter the village quietly, you don't want to shoot. After all, our tree attracts wind. Once the West gets news, we have the intention to enter the semiconductor field, and we will definitely make bad things in secret."
Why does this sound so awkward?
Gao Yuan frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. After instructing the three of them, he asked them to bring back the underlying architecture plan they had made for research.
The underlying architecture is like the outline when writing novels. After all, although the abbreviation of EDA software is only three letters, it is actually an extremely huge semiconductor design tool. Xinhuazhang's emulator is just one of the branches, and there is still a lot of work to do.
The three of them put the information bag handed over by Gao Yuan to their armpits and turned around and left.
With excitement, Chu Hongfei returned to his office, threw the information bag on the table, and rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Father, the boss asked you for a meeting, what are you talking about?" Chu Luoluo poked his head out from behind the thick bookshelf and asked.
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The father and daughter worked in the same office. When they did not follow the plateau, Chu Luoluo would learn from her father.
"It's time to come out after a long call." Chu Hongfei sighed: "Although the boss didn't say much, I felt from his words and eyes that the company is probably going to enter the semiconductor field this time."
"Really!? I'm going to do semiconductors!?"
The girl was excited, jumped up and ran to her father, her eyes full of anticipation.
"It should be true." Chu Hongfei said.
"What's in this bag? It's so heavy." Chu Luoluo picked up the file bag on the table and weighed it with both hands.
Chu Hongfei frowned, "The boss said that it was the underlying architecture of EDA that he made, and I haven't had time to see it yet."
"There is a specialty in the art industry. Although the boss has superhuman talents in the fields of materials, electrical, machinery, etc., his level is just that. It's probably on a whim and a joke."
Chu Hongfei disagreed with the structure of the plateau.
joke!
Who do Gao Yuan thinks he is?
Einstein dared not say that he was proficient in every discipline. It would be fine if he had talent in the fields of materials, electrical and machinery, but he would also have to intervene in the software architecture and algorithm plateau?
The architecture of a layman like Plateau is definitely for self-entertainment, and Chu Hongfei is too lazy to waste time.
However, Chu Hongfei didn't care. When Chu Luoluo heard that it was made by the plateau, she immediately narrowed her eyes into a slit, "So amazing, the boss can also do the architecture!"
"Dad, can you show me first?"
Chapter completed!