Chapter 30: 142? Not even half my IQ!
Dai Guangchao took a breath and looked at Luo Yao in disbelief.
"Little brother, are you saying that we can completely avoid the problem of incorrect chip power consumption calculations during front-end design?"
"That's right. When combined with other modules, it can perfectly support designs with process technology below 7nm."
“Below 7nm?!”
Everyone in the conference room was stunned, because everyone knew that this was something that only the three major EDA manufacturers could do.
Other EDAs cannot support chip designs below 7nm, which means that even if there are lithography machines below 7nm, it is impossible to produce chips with a process below 7nm.
Luo Yao thought the others were making a fuss, so he ignored them and continued, "When I was in junior high school, I was exposed to linear models and ensemble models in machine learning. Obviously, the random forest model from the ensemble model is more reasonable in this case."
"You're already exposed to machine learning in junior high? How did you get into it so early?"
People in the EDA department looked at each other in confusion, wondering when the country had become so advanced that they were learning machine learning in junior high school.
"I barely attended classes in junior high school. Whenever I had time, I would go to the school library to read. The books there were all old books that the teachers had collected from various sources. There was a wide variety of books. I wasn't picky about books; I would just read whatever I picked up."
Xiang Yeming frowned and asked, "Why are they old books? Shouldn't the school buy new books for the students' health?"
Luo Yao looked at him puzzledly and said, "How can we buy new books if the school has no money?"
Xiang Yeming regretted what he had just said. According to Luo Yao's description, the place where he was staying didn't seem to be a big city.
"Director Xia, what you meant just now was that this EDA was developed by this young man?" Dai Guangchao turned his attention to Xia Qing.
"He developed it, Luo Yao, who just entered his freshman year at our school."
"Freshman???"
They knew Luo Yao looked young, but they didn't expect he was only a freshman.
"Little brother, how old are you?"
"16 years old."
At the age of 16, he developed a complete set of EDA software that was comparable to Synopsys.
How does this sound so outrageous?
Peng Li asked in his most amiable tone, "Little brother, did you really develop this software all by yourself? Didn't you have any other help?"
Now they no longer doubt the originality and authenticity of the EDA that Luo Yao produced. They just want to know whether there is someone working with Luo Yao behind the scenes.
After all, developing a complete set of EDA by one person is huge in terms of workload and technical challenges.
What does a 16-year-old do?
"I started thinking about it when I was ten years old, and it's been six years now. Before, I just wrote the code. It wasn't until I went to the Supercomputing Center of Tokyo Institute of Technology that I moved the code into programming tools."
Oh my god! I started thinking about this when I was ten years old and it took me six years to come up with this idea!
No one in the conference room had ever encountered anything so outrageous.
Xiang Yeming even said, "Impossible! How could a kid like you do this without any downstream market data to back you up?"
“Because I can think.”
"Downstream market data is based on user feedback, so all I need to do is understand the users."
"I would use all my time online to check the feedback from chip manufacturers' customers and infer their demand."
"Impossible! Even if you can work backwards to understand the needs, you won't be able to solve all the problems!"
Luo Yao was getting a little tired of explaining. He looked at Xiang Yeming who was refuting him and asked, "What's your IQ?"
Xiang Yeming said proudly: "142."
After hearing this number, Luo Yao was even more disinclined to pay attention to him. He simply sat down on the chair and asked curiously, "142, that's not even half of my IQ. Why do you think I can't do it?"
142, not even half his IQ?!
What? Is your IQ 300?
What a boaster!
Although they said so, at this moment everyone only dared to complain silently in their hearts and did not dare to express it out loud.
The reason is simple. Luo Yao has a complete set of self-developed EDA, so they have to endure it no matter how dissatisfied they are.
"Luo Yao...it's true that our school recruits talented students whose abilities are stronger than those of ordinary college students. So, I'll let President Meng come and take a look." Xia Qing was very troubled by Luo Yao's personality, but at this moment she couldn't care less.
If the EDA developed by Luo Yao is real, then the entire chip market will undergo earth-shaking changes.
After Xia Qing finished talking to Meng Xiangping, she received a call from her teaching assistant.
"Professor Xia, you have a class this afternoon, and it's going to start in ten minutes."
Xia Qing can't .
Attend class?
She has more important things to do here!
"Please ask for leave for me. I have something to take care of."
The teaching assistant agreed and hung up the phone, still wondering why Xia Qing asked for leave today since he never asked for leave.
The other side.
After receiving the news, Meng Xiangping came to the conference room. After listening to everyone's reports, the shocked Meng Xiangping walked up to Luo Yao, who had been silent.
"Little brother, your name is Luo Yao, right? Do you want to sell this software or cooperate in other ways?" Meng Xiangping tried hard to restrain his excitement and looked at Luo Yao expectantly.
“Not for sale.”
Not selling?
Meng Xiangping felt like a bucket of cold water was poured over his head.
“I want to continue to engage in technical research and development, but I need someone to help me.”
This means we want to cooperate!
After hearing Luo Yao's words, Meng Xiangping suddenly felt hopeful again.
As long as you can make a request, it will be easy!
What he feared most was that Luo Yao would remain silent and ask for nothing. Then he would have no idea what the other party wanted, and it would be difficult to please him.
"Don't worry, we will definitely provide you with all the help you need. We will provide you with the project team members, resources, and funds. As for the EDA issue, please take a look..."
"If you can really do what you say, I'm willing to cooperate with you." Luo Yao said lightly. He never listened to how good others were. He only looked at how others would do it.
Meng Xiangping excitedly said yes repeatedly.
It's no wonder that he showed his emotions so openly. The main reason was that they had originally planned to spend five years to develop a new EDA, but now, Luo Yao directly saved them these five years!
How many five years are there in a lifetime!
How many five-year periods does a company have!
How many five years does the market have!
There are advantages to releasing a product even one day in advance, let alone five years in advance!
Meng Xiangping tried to calm himself down and went out to call Rao Huiling, the technical director of 012 Laboratory.
Half an hour later, Meng Xiangping came back.
"Student Luo Yao, please stay in the park tonight. We have a special rest area here, just like a hotel." Meng Xiangping winked at Xia Qing.
Xia Qing had no choice but to say, "I'll help you explain to the school. Just rest here tonight. I'll be here with you."
Although Luo Yao was young, he knew that he would not be able to leave here easily if he took out a full set of EDA.
As a large technology research and development company, Hua Ji must have close ties with the government.
Now that EDA has emerged that can save the chip market, it is impossible not to alert the authorities.
Thinking of this, Luo Yao said, "Okay, do you want to write test cases? I still have some time to accompany you. I want to read a book later."
After hearing this, Meng Xiangping hurriedly waved to Dai Guangchao to go over.
"I'll leave the manager's test to you. You must cooperate with Luo Yao!"
After making the arrangements, Meng Xiangping took the others to another meeting room.
"No one can go back today. Oh, and sign the confidentiality agreement. You can't reveal anything about Luo Yao or the EDA he developed."
"Got it?"
Although everyone was unhappy with Luo Yao's attitude, they all knew the seriousness of the matter at this moment.
They were originally transferred to the EDA department to develop a completely new set of EDA, so they definitely have a sense of confidentiality.
But they didn't expect that the work would be completed before they were fully on the job.
"Oh my god, is our department the worst off? We haven't even started our business yet and it's gone." Someone said while making an expression -\_(ツ)_／-
"That's great. Now it's a finished product. We just need to consider the launch and post-production." Pei Yun revealed a look of joy as he spoke.
"The test team will probably be working on test samples all night tonight, so let's not sit idle and sort out everything we can." Peng Li was also very excited. Full-process EDA! He had never dreamed of this!
Meng Xiangping smiled, fully understanding their feelings. He gave a few instructions and went out to find Xia Qing.
"Director Xia, we may need to trouble you for a while." Meng Xiangping said a little embarrassedly.
"Is it because of Luo Yao's matter?" Xia Qing replied.
Meng Xiangping nodded and said, "We'd like to check the monitoring at your school's supercomputing center. I wonder if that's convenient."
"Director Xia, you know we can't use software of unknown origin, so Luo Yao's case needs to be thoroughly investigated."
Xia Qing nodded. She knew that Meng Xiangping was right. The EDA software provided by Luo Yao was for commercial use. Once used commercially, it would involve copyright and patent issues, so Meng Xiangping had to investigate it thoroughly.
"Then come back to school with me and we'll check the surveillance footage."
"good."
Xia Qing and Meng Xiangping hurriedly drove to East China University of Technology. When she just returned to the office to get the pass issued by the school, her teaching assistant appeared.
"Professor Xia, you're back just in time. The principal is just notifying everyone to hold a meeting."
Xia Qing quickly said, "Please ask for leave for me, I have something urgent to do." After that, Xia Qing left.
The teaching assistant had never seen Xia Qing so anxious, and he specifically mentioned it when reporting the notification to the principal.
After learning that Xia Qing had taken an afternoon off, the principal was worried that something might have happened to him, so he called to inquire.
"Principal, I'm fine. I'm just busy with Huaji's project." Xia Qing had no choice but to find an excuse.
Sure enough, after hearing that it was because of the Huaji project, the principal stopped asking questions.
Xia Qing took Meng Xiangping to check the surveillance of the supercomputing center . When they saw that Luo Yao was indeed programming alone in the supercomputing center, their hearts sank.
"Genius, this is a true genius. Did you see how fast he programmed? He almost kept going!"
Xia Qing, on the other hand, had doubts: "How could he possibly complete such a large project by himself?"
Meng Xiangping smiled and said, "Didn't he say that? He wrote down the code by himself before, probably in a notebook, and didn't port it until he came here. He knew how difficult it was to develop EDA on ordinary computers, so he didn't find the opportunity until he came to school."
The surveillance footage showed that Luo Yao had indeed typed the code himself without referring to anything else, which really surprised and reassured Meng Xiangping.
He doesn't even use GitHub, a must-have tool for programmers, which shows that all of Luo Yao's code is indeed purely original.
"Director Xia, if I'm not mistaken, Luo Yao should be smarter than those of us who received offers from the 'Genius Youth' program!"
"I feel relieved with your words. This child is not only smart but also hardworking. I hope Mr. Meng and you won't let me down."
"Director Xia, you have brought us such a genius. We will certainly cherish him."
"At present, President Rao has already initiated the highest level of notification."
Xia Qing's eyes lit up: "You mean..."
