Chapter 466 This is the only option
"What everyone said makes sense. It's not easy to achieve success overnight, especially since it's still unknown when our EUV lithography machine will be available. But at the same time, if you want to be competitive in the computer market, you must make high-performance chips as much as possible. Relying on the battery life of mobile phones to gain competitiveness, like Fulong mobile phones, will not work in the computer field."
Compared to mobile phones, the battery life of laptops is not such an important indicator.
Most people keep their laptops plugged in all the time.
Only a small number of users often use their laptops without plugging them in.
"Then Professor Xu, what do you think?"
"My idea is that we can study these two solutions at the same time. We must study chips with 14nm or 10nm process technology. This is the basis of our design work. Such chips can also be used in some mid-range computers. If the chip is optimized very well, the performance of the chip with low-precision process technology may not be much different from that of the high-precision chip."
After a pause, Xu You continued:
"In addition, we will also start researching high-precision process chips. With our existing EDA software, we are fully capable of accurately designing 5nm chips. Once our EUV lithography machine is ready for use, we can prepare high-precision process chips."
Everyone knows that even researching a chip with a 14nm process technology is a very difficult task.
Not to mention, both plans were implemented at the same time.
However, since Xu You was so confident about this, no one had any objections.
In fact, if artificial intelligence had not developed to its current level, it would not be enough to help humans complete chip design.
Xu You also didn't dare to develop these two directions at the same time.
In that case, Xu You would design a product in the transition stage, just like the first generation of Fulon self-developed mobile phones, and would not rush to occupy the market.
And this time, Xu You obviously has bigger ambitions.
Now that you have decided to enter the computer industry, you must make truly outstanding products.
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In the following period of time, Xu You, Lou Song and others worked together on chip design using mathematical artificial intelligence.
What Xu You and others did was not to design chips directly, but to try to let the algorithm artificial intelligence learn the knowledge of various computer chips, understand the meaning and function of computer chips, and accurately score the designed chips.
This idea is very similar to the way Xu You used artificial intelligence to calculate superconducting materials.
Because of the complexity of the chip itself, this task is very difficult to carry out.
Fortunately, Xu You can also interact directly with the mathematical artificial intelligence through the wireless brain-computer function.
This approach has also greatly accelerated the learning progress of mathematical artificial intelligence.
After countless attempts, Suanjing Artificial Intelligence finally mastered the essence of computer chip design and began to design chips with various process technologies.
According to the chip scoring system, some chips designed by artificial intelligence even outperform other chips with the same process technology.
After receiving the news, Luo Wenkun was very excited and quickly found Xu You to ask about this matter.
"Xu You, have we designed a chip that is better than Intel, AMD, and Apple?"
"According to the test system's rating, that's indeed the case," Xu You said truthfully.
“This test system…are its scores convincing?”
Xu You smiled when he heard this, but did not answer directly.
Xu You naturally has full confidence in his testing system.
"Speaking of which, the chip test system is also a very important part of this research. This link is an indispensable part of chip design. According to our understanding, the chip test systems of other chip companies have many problems such as long test time and slow test speed, and the troubleshooting of possible faults is not accurate enough."
Xu You explained the basic principles of the chip testing system to Luo Wenkun. Although Luo Wenkun did not have a very detailed understanding of this knowledge, he quickly understood what Xu You said.
"So, this is not just a simulation test, but also includes hardware testing, right?"
"That's right. There are not only software simulation tests, but also tests of programmable devices such as programmable array logic and general array logic. This type of test is specifically used in the test system of integrated circuit chips."
If the chip is manufactured using a low-precision process, the performance of the chip can still be verified well by simulation alone.
But if the precision is as high as 5nm, even with Xu You's current brain power, it would be difficult to complete the simulation with particular accuracy.
Being able to use a programmable logic gate array for testing is a more secure approach.
"According to other chips from other competitors we have obtained, the best chips from Intel, AMD, and Apple, in our simulation test system, finally obtained scores of 980.9, 960.3, and 973.8 respectively. The theoretical score of our 5nm process chip reached 1246.8, and the scores of 10nm and 14nm also reached 862.6 and 632.8. Regardless of whether the 5nm chip can be successfully manufactured in the end, even if the 10nm chip is used, it is fully capable of occupying a part of the computer market."
"That's great! We can start with trial production of 10nm and 14nm chips, and then after our EUV lithography machine is ready, we can start trial production of 5nm chips. For the products launched earlier, we don't need to ask for sales and profits, as long as we can make our slogan known. Looking around the world, Fulong Technology is the only company that can independently complete system and chip design and manufacturing."
Even if the first personal computer released by Fulun Technology is not the best product in the industry, there is nothing wrong with it.
Compared to immediately occupying the position of industry leader, demonstrating one's own strength is more important.
Fulon Technology needs to let the world know that they have the ability to accomplish everything.
Cooperating with Fulun Technology is the only choice.
Otherwise, they will be ruthlessly defeated by Fulong Technology.
"Wenkun, we don't have to rush to release our products right away. My idea is that we can develop computers of different prices based on different chip positioning. In addition, in addition to the work on chips and systems, we have another task to prepare."
"What mission?" Luo Wenkun asked.
"System ecology work." Xu You replied indifferently.
