Chapter 328 This is a completely domestically made mobile phone chip
Because on the cloud, you can have almost unlimited elastic computing power.
Under the same IT cost, time cost can be saved to the greatest extent.
If chip design is not on the cloud, it may take hundreds of days to complete a simulation job using a local server.
If you go to the cloud, you can use multiple servers at the same time, which can greatly shorten the simulation operation time.
Everyone agreed with Luo Wenkun's point of view.
"Yes, I agree with Mr. Luo's opinion. The company has invested a lot of resources in research and development, and it doesn't need such a little bit. In addition, in the promotion of Fulon EDA, I suggest adopting a free approach in the early stage so that more chip design companies can have access to this EDA and become our potential users." said a company executive.
It is obviously unrealistic to make a new EDA become the mainstream in the industry all at once.
However, if they can feel the advantages of this EDA as early as possible, it is entirely possible for them to become users of Fulon EDA in the future.
"Okay, now we can invite all the major chip design companies to try out our EDA. They certainly won't be able to use our EDA to design chips right away, and we don't have to wait until the chips we design are made before inviting them."
Before Fulun Technology could contact these chip design companies.
There was a company that took the initiative to contact Fulun Technology.
This company is Xiawei Technology Co., Ltd.
Like Fu Long, Xia Wei was affected by the ban on bald eagles, and his mobile phone business was hit hard.
However, Xia Wei did not completely give up the mobile phone business. He actively looked for every opportunity and waited for the day to make a comeback.
Because of the ban imposed on Fulun Technology by the Bald Eagle, many companies that rely on Western technology have to stay away from Fulun Technology.
This does not include Xia Wei, who was also banned by the Bald Eagle.
Xia Wei hopes to try out Fulon Technology's EDA tools to understand the specific level of Fulon EDA.
Fulun Technology also welcomed this and generously authorized Xia Wei Company to use Fulun EDA for free.
After that, Fulun Technology also expressed its willingness to provide free trial services to some other mobile phone chip design companies and companies interested in mobile phone chip design.
However, these companies were not as proactive as Xia Wei, did not clearly express their attitudes, and took a wait-and-see approach.
They all know that, at present, such a new EDA has no application value to them and may even bring them some dangers.
Fulun Technology was mentally prepared for this and did not promote its EDA too much. Instead, it focused its main energy on chip design.
This is the first mobile phone chip designed independently by Fulun Technology.
Due to the limited capabilities of the cooperating foundry, this is a chip with a 14nm process technology, which is technologically behind that of the West.
However, this is the limit of the process technology we can achieve at present.
Even the United States cannot complete all chip process flows independently and needs to cooperate with other Western countries.
If we can complete all the processes of designing and manufacturing 14nm chips on our own, it will definitely be a feat.
"Although our process is backward, if we can bring out the limits of chip capabilities under such a process, we can definitely surpass their chips with the same process and even produce chips with higher precision. We have enough experience to follow in chip design."
Luo Wenkun is very confident about this chip, code-named "Loongson 001", which marks the first step in breaking the Western chip blockade.
With the smooth progress of each task, Loongson 001 has reached the processing stage and is about to enter the trial production of the chip.
Xu You is also very concerned about the news of the trial production of Loongson 001, which determines whether this chip can be mass-produced.
After the first trial production, the chip yield rate was released after testing.
Test results showed that the yield rate of the first batch of chips was only 35%.
This is obviously an unqualified data for a chip that wants to be put into mass production.
However, for this chip, important links such as EDA, chip design, and lithography machines are still in the exploratory stage.
Such a yield rate is not unacceptable.
Next, everyone summarized each link and continued to coordinate and improve the work.
Finally, in the fifth trial production, the yield rate of this chip has reached 95%.
This yield rate is even much higher than that of other chip models produced under the same process technology.
With the key chip, the release of the next generation of Fulon mobile phones is just around the corner.
After completing this major milestone, Fulon Technology announced the news to the world.
"The chip independently designed and developed by Fulong Technology: Loongson 001, has passed the trial production and entered the mass production stage. During the trial production, the yield rate of Loongson 001 reached 95%. Fulong Technology's next mobile phone will be equipped with this chip, so please stay tuned..."
As soon as this news was announced, it immediately aroused heated discussion among domestic netizens.
"This is really great news! We will finally have 100% domestically produced mobile phone chips! This time, we must support Fulong mobile phones no matter what."
"Looking at the detailed introduction, the manufacturing process of this chip is only 14nm. I wonder how it will perform in actual use."
"As long as the chip is mature enough, the 14nm process technology can also perform well. The battery life of the Fulong mobile phone is a great advantage, which can completely make up for the shortcomings of the process technology."
"If this generation of chips is successful, we may directly develop 7nm chips next. In this way, the gap between us and the West in chips will be narrowed a lot at once."
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Across the ocean.
"What? Fulong Technology is already preparing to mass-produce 14nm chips? How did they achieve so many technological breakthroughs in such a short period of time? Didn't we already impose a ban on them?"
"According to what they said, they have completed the development of the entire EDA, and all other technologies used are completely their own technology."
"Damn it! Didn't we just implement a bill to block chips for ten years? If they can really complete the mass production of this chip, then the gap between us will be less than ten years, right?"
"That's right, sir. If you calculate it this way, the gap between us may only be five years."
"Five years? The gap has been shortened by half in one go? The ban! We must continue to implement the ban!"
"But, sir, they didn't use any of our technology this time. We can't ask their own country's companies to impose a ban on Fulong Technology, right?"
