"Report to the chairman, we have completed the first batch of GPU chip testing, and the speed of floating-point calculation and integer calculation has reached the design requirements."
"Polygon conversion and light source rendering speed are better, exceeding our design expectations."
At this time, the team members in charge of GPU design all smiled and reported the results of the latest test to Xu Zhenming.They told Xu Zhenming that this GPU can be used as an industrial-grade chip as well as a civilian-grade computer.
Civilian-grade computers generally refer to personal computers, and so far no real high-end 3D graphics cards have appeared.But on industrial-grade computers such as graphics workstations and minicomputers, 3D graphics cards have long been popularized for professional 3D graphics and image design.
Of course, the Galaxy III supercomputer must have this capability, so Yiming Group is required to design this industrial-grade GPU.Now, Xu Zhenming was naturally in a good mood when he heard the good news.
"Well...you did a good job. I hope you will do your work more carefully." He told everyone present, Professor Long, the person in charge of the Galaxy III project, that he will review this GPU tomorrow morning.
Only when this batch of GPUs pass the review, the work of these people can be considered as formal completion of the design task.Project bonuses will naturally follow.
"Xu Dong, I don't want bonuses. Please give me a week off. I want to sleep well."
"Me too, haha..."
This group of young people are in good mood, laughing and joking with Xu Zhenming.
At this time, Zhou Jiawei said with a straight face: "How can we relax now? In the Galaxy III project, the design of 1G memory is still lacking."
"Hey..." The engineers sighed and shook their heads.
Seeing this situation, Xu Zhenming waved to them, "You go back and make preparations first." After saying this, he took a few mouthfuls of food, and his eyes fell on the opposite Zhou Jiawei.
Zhou Jiawei knew that Xu Zhenming was looking for something to do with him, and just like Xu Zhenming, he waved straight to the engineers under him, "Xiao Shao, take them to work. You must be ready tonight."
"Yes, BOSS" Xiao Shao replied with a long tone.
This young man is a bit lively, and he dared to make fun of Xu Zhenming when he was reporting to work just now.At this time, he took his ordinary brothers and left, making faces with the engineers around him as he walked.
Seeing this scene, Xu Zhenming almost laughed out loud.After these people left, he put down the lunch box in his hand."How is the situation of the 1809 project and the 9701 project?" Xu Zhenming asked Zhou Jianwei with a solemn expression.
According to the R&D schedule to Longbow Group, both projects were delivered and completed around the end of October.If it cannot be completed as planned, the development progress of the Longbow Group's defense equipment will be affected.At that time, Xu Zhenming could not explain to Gui Changshu.
"Well... don't worry. According to my experience, these two projects are fine." Zhou Jiawei frowned when he heard this.
He is responsible for many projects, and he has now given up on the front line of design to manage the project progress.
The 1809 project has been undertaking for a long time, and now it has reached the stage of verifying the chip design.If there are no problems, we will arrange tape out recently and make sample chips for testing.
As for the 9701 project, the time to get it is relatively short, the task is urgent, and the workload is heavy. The chip design task is basically handed over to Longteng EDA software to complete.
The job of the project team members is to verify the automatic design of the software and modify the BUG.Otherwise, it will take at least 3 months for this project to see the test samples of the chip.
Zhou Jiawei is very clear about the projects in his opponents, and he can report the project data in one go without having to read the work notes.He broke his fingers and reported to Xu Zhenming on a project by project, and reported in detail the 1G memory sticks, 9701 and 1809 that Xu Zhenming cared about most.
Judging from the current progress, the progress of these projects is pretty good.Therefore, Xu Zhenming was finally relieved.
"This lunch box will be handled by you." He stood up with a smile, and put the half-eaten lunch box on the glass conference table.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Jiawei stood up and asked Xu Zhenming, "Xu Dong, do you have an appointment tonight?" He saw Xu Zhenming making an appearance that he was about to leave, so he asked.
Xu Zhenming nodded, "I have made an appointment with Zhang Nyjin. He is waiting for me in the office." After saying this, he waved to Zhou Jiawei and said goodbye to the steel structure workshop of this dust-free workshop.
Not long after, Xu Zhenming had already arrived in Zhang Neojin's office.
Zhang Nyjin didn't go home, and had already made an appointment with Xu Zhenming, waiting for Xu Zhenming's arrival.
The room was filled with the smell of Cuban cigars, Zhang Nyjin was typing.There is a Cuban cigar on the ashtray on the desk.On the head of this cigar, there is still a red open flame.Obviously, Zhang Neojin has just put down this cigar.
"Xu Dong, is this trip to the capital still going well?" Zhang Neo Jinsong opened his hands on the keyboard and looked at Xu Zhenming who walked in with a beaming smile.
Zhang Neojin is making a national inspection plan.Like Wanninggu, he is going to inspect the production bases of branches across the country, and put in place plans for the construction, installation, debugging and production of the chip production line.These are also one of the main reasons for Xu Zhenming's evening visit.
"It's okay. The advertising effect of the mobile phone release should be good. But the effect of the five-axis linkage CNC machine tool conference does not seem to work."
Xu Zhenming sat down at the coffee table with a calm expression, not paying much attention to the release of the product.What he is currently drawing is actually the influence of advertising, and the market will wait until later.
"But this trip to the capital is not bad, earning 400 million dollars from the Koreans." Xu Zhenming smiled in a good mood.
Hearing this, Zhang Nyjin opened his mouth and laughed, "Xu Dong, there is such a good thing? From this point of view, you don't learn this trip. Hahaha..."
Seeing his happy appearance, Xu Zhenming briefly introduced the process of the contest between himself and Sanxin Electronics Chairman Li.
"Sanxin Electronics has surrendered and spent money to buy our technology. Why is there no movement at Wanwantai Electromechanical Company?" Xu Zhenming frowned and asked Zhang Nyjin.
According to his idea, both Sanxin Electronics and Wanwantai Electromechanical Company will buy Yiming Group's technology, so that the Americans' abacus will fail.
But now in this situation, Wanwantai Electrical and Mechanical Co., Ltd. may have already purchased American technology.
"Why is there no movement? Dean Zhang has been in contact with our engineers these days. His plan is not simple, he wants to get technology through digging people." At this time, Zhang Nyjin told Xu Zhenming. A very surprising news.
From this point of view, Dean Zhang has not yet succumbed to the Americans.
"That's great!" Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming sighed.
He then instructed Zhang Neojin: "You are responsible for contacting Dean Zhang and saying that we can transfer the two chip process technologies at a discount of $100 million."
"A discount of 100 million dollars? Is our offer 400 million dollars?"
"No! Give them 300 million dollars. Everyone is a family, so naturally they want a discount." Xu Zhenming smiled badly.He just wanted to intercept Hu Miguo's plan and make the American people regret it.
Hearing this, Zhang Nyujin couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "High, this method is clever. Anyway, Wanwantai Electromechanical Co., Ltd. intends to purchase our technology, let's kill two enemies with one stone by the way."
In his view, once the deal is negotiated, both Intel Corporation of the United States and Wanwantai Electromechanical Company will be hit.
These two companies spend so much cash on technology, which is very detrimental to the company's development.
This is the case in the market, the same reason as on the battlefield.If the enemy's strength is weak, he will be stronger.
"It doesn't matter if the talk is not reached. We are not short of the 300 million dollars. At present, Dean Zhang may not dare to offend the Americans. They want to develop and grow." Xu Zhenming said again.
He didn't give Zhang Neodymium a hard target. This kind of business can only be operated as a project with no need.
Putting this topic aside, Xu Zhenming began to discuss the inspection plan of the ten major bases in the country with Zhang Neojin.
He asked Zhang Neojin to do his work carefully to ensure the smooth construction of semiconductor base factories in Luzhou City, Modu City and Xijing City.
The two worked until late at night to finish their work.
At around 10:30 in the morning of the second day, Xu Zhenming was in the conference room of the group company to receive Professor Long and his party hurriedly.
Professor Long is not the one here.He also summoned his team members to demonstrate the performance of China's first GPU.
An enlarged GPU pattern is projected on the wall in the conference room.This packaged chip has a Suzaku logo printed on it.
In order to distinguish between Yiming Group chips and Longteng Computer chips, Xu Zhenming specially asked a professional team to design this Suzaku logo.Since then, Yiming Group’s chips are actually called Suzaku chips.
The meeting room was full of people, and Zhou Jiawei led Xiao Shao and the backbone engineers of Xiao Shao's team to participate in this product demonstration meeting.As for the subsequent chip testing demonstration process, we will have to wait for the conclusion of this demonstration before we arrange it.
When everyone was ready, Zhou Jiawei began to preside over the meeting."Professor Long, our new GPU chip has a main frequency of 266M and comes with 256K memory. According to the current industrial-grade GPU parameters on the market, this chip is the fastest."
There is nothing wrong with what he said.Since the breakthrough of Yiming Group's chip process technology, the main frequency of chips designed by Yiming Labs has suddenly jumped, exceeding the speed of popular chips on the market.
"My obediently dumb hole, this speed is faster than our Galaxy III CPU."
"Is this a wasteful design?"
"Waste is not a waste. It's just that CPUs and other GPUs used to be, but now it's the other way around."
After listening to Zhou Jiawei's introduction, there was an exclamation in the meeting room.Professor Long and his team members were very shocked at this time, besides shock, they were a little suspicious.
Is Zhou Jiawei's design unreasonable?
And they don't know that with the development of technology, the speed of GPU will become faster and faster, and it will greatly exceed the situation of CPU.
For example, Intel Corporation in the United States is very worried about this trend.They are afraid that one day GPU will come to grab the job of CPU.
But Professor Long and others must have never experienced this kind of situation, so they have this idea.
Of course Xu Zhenming knew this trend, and smiled and explained to Professor Long, “Our GPU chip is also ready to shift to the civilian-grade graphics card market. So, this kind of main frequency is not surprising.”
Having said this, he nodded to Zhou Jiawei and asked Zhou Jiawei to report on the situation.
Zhou Jiawei understood, click the PPT file with the mouse, and display the following page, "This set of data is the speed of the chip's floating point operation, this set of data is the speed of integer operation, this is the triangle filling speed... etc."
The special data reports displayed on the projection screen are all collected and analyzed by the professional test system designed by Yiming Lab.Therefore, there are some data in these reports that are beyond Professor Long's cognition.
"Um...er? Okay..." Professor Long nodded nonstop at this time, very satisfied with the data Zhou Jiawei showed.Because these data are better than the data they provided at the beginning, far exceeding their expectations.
Is this okay?
Galaxy III will use this GPU as a graphics card, and the performance must be improved by about 3%.For this kind of supercomputer, it is very difficult to increase its performance by 1%, let alone increase it by 3%.
Therefore, in addition to satisfaction, Professor Long also has emotions such as shock, surprise, and pride.
"Who said that our Chinese are not good at computers? With this Galaxy III supercomputer, Americans will have a lot of eyeballs. Haha..." Professor Long thought with a smile.
"Professor Long, our product introduction has ended. Please ask your questions." At this time, Zhou Jiawei has completed the explanation of the GPU chip PPT document. Below is the time for the project demonstration team to ask questions.
Hearing this, Professor Long recovered from a state of stray thought.
"Liu Tao, let's talk about it first." He looked at his capable cadres and let them come first.
Powerful general Liu Tao is a 35-year-old middle-aged man, wearing a pair of glasses with thick bottoms of myopia.After receiving the order, he raised his eyebrows, picked up a light pen and pointed at the GPU chip on the screen.
"Zhou, what precision lithography technology does your GPU chip manufacturing process use?" Liu Tao looked at Zhou Jiawei with a grin.
He always felt that Zhou Jiawei's introduction was a bit unreasonable."This GPU has so many crystals integrated, why is the power consumption of the chip so low?" Liu Tao thought.
His idea is very correct. The more transistors the chip integrates, the greater the energy consumption and the greater the heat generation.If the 0.6-micron photolithography process technology is used for processing, the volume of the GPU chip will also be very large.So, this thing is a bit strange.
"Yes, Mr. Liu is right, it just happens to be the doubt in my heart."
"I am also very curious about the data introduced by Mr. Zhou. How does your group company do it?"
"Unless there is a situation, does your group company adopt a process technology of less than 0.2 microns?"
At this time, Professor Long's team members also followed suit to express their views.
In a word, they were surprised.
"Report to the chairman, we have completed the first batch of GPU chip testing, and the speed of floating-point calculation and integer calculation has reached the design requirements."
"Polygon conversion and light source rendering speed are better, exceeding our design expectations."
At this time, the team members in charge of GPU design all smiled and reported the results of the latest test to Xu Zhenming.They told Xu Zhenming that this GPU can be used as an industrial-grade chip as well as a civilian-grade computer.
Civilian-grade computers generally refer to personal computers, and so far no real high-end 3D graphics cards have appeared.But on industrial-grade computers such as graphics workstations and minicomputers, 3D graphics cards have long been popularized for professional 3D graphics and image design.
Of course, the Galaxy III supercomputer must have this capability, so Yiming Group is required to design this industrial-grade GPU.Now, Xu Zhenming was naturally in a good mood when he heard the good news.
"Well...you did a good job. I hope you will do your work more carefully." He told everyone present, Professor Long, the person in charge of the Galaxy III project, that he will review this GPU tomorrow morning.
Only when this batch of GPUs pass the review, the work of these people can be considered as formal completion of the design task.Project bonuses will naturally follow.
"Xu Dong, I don't want bonuses. Please give me a week off. I want to sleep well."
"Me too, haha..."
This group of young people are in good mood, laughing and joking with Xu Zhenming.
At this time, Zhou Jiawei said with a straight face: "How can we relax now? In the Galaxy III project, the design of 1G memory is still lacking."
"Hey..." The engineers sighed and shook their heads.
Seeing this situation, Xu Zhenming waved to them, "You go back and make preparations first." After saying this, he took a few mouthfuls of food, and his eyes fell on the opposite Zhou Jiawei.
Zhou Jiawei knew that Xu Zhenming was looking for something to do with him, and just like Xu Zhenming, he waved straight to the engineers under him, "Xiao Shao, take them to work. You must be ready tonight."
"Yes, BOSS" Xiao Shao replied with a long tone.
This young man is a bit lively, and he dared to make fun of Xu Zhenming when he was reporting to work just now.At this time, he took his ordinary brothers and left, making faces with the engineers around him as he walked.
Seeing this scene, Xu Zhenming almost laughed out loud.After these people left, he put down the lunch box in his hand."How is the situation of the 1809 project and the 9701 project?" Xu Zhenming asked Zhou Jianwei with a solemn expression.
According to the R&D schedule to Longbow Group, both projects were delivered and completed around the end of October.If it cannot be completed as planned, the development progress of the Longbow Group's defense equipment will be affected.At that time, Xu Zhenming could not explain to Gui Changshu.
"Well... don't worry. According to my experience, these two projects are fine." Zhou Jiawei frowned when he heard this.
He is responsible for many projects, and he has now given up on the front line of design to manage the project progress.
The 1809 project has been undertaking for a long time, and now it has reached the stage of verifying the chip design.If there are no problems, we will arrange tape out recently and make sample chips for testing.
As for the 9701 project, the time to get it is relatively short, the task is urgent, and the workload is heavy. The chip design task is basically handed over to Longteng EDA software to complete.
The job of the project team members is to verify the automatic design of the software and modify the BUG.Otherwise, it will take at least 3 months for this project to see the test samples of the chip.
Zhou Jiawei is very clear about the projects in his opponents, and he can report the project data in one go without having to read the work notes.He broke his fingers and reported to Xu Zhenming on a project by project, and reported in detail the 1G memory sticks, 9701 and 1809 that Xu Zhenming cared about most.
Judging from the current progress, the progress of these projects is pretty good.Therefore, Xu Zhenming was finally relieved.
"This lunch box will be handled by you." He stood up with a smile, and put the half-eaten lunch box on the glass conference table.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Jiawei stood up and asked Xu Zhenming, "Xu Dong, do you have an appointment tonight?" He saw Xu Zhenming making an appearance that he was about to leave, so he asked.
Xu Zhenming nodded, "I have made an appointment with Zhang Nyjin. He is waiting for me in the office." After saying this, he waved to Zhou Jiawei and said goodbye to the steel structure workshop of this dust-free workshop.
Not long after, Xu Zhenming had already arrived in Zhang Neojin's office.
Zhang Nyjin didn't go home, and had already made an appointment with Xu Zhenming, waiting for Xu Zhenming's arrival.
The room was filled with the smell of Cuban cigars, Zhang Nyjin was typing.There is a Cuban cigar on the ashtray on the desk.On the head of this cigar, there is still a red open flame.Obviously, Zhang Neojin has just put down this cigar.
"Xu Dong, is this trip to the capital still going well?" Zhang Neo Jinsong opened his hands on the keyboard and looked at Xu Zhenming who walked in with a beaming smile.
Zhang Neojin is making a national inspection plan.Like Wanninggu, he is going to inspect the production bases of branches across the country, and put in place plans for the construction, installation, debugging and production of the chip production line.These are also one of the main reasons for Xu Zhenming's evening visit.
"It's okay. The advertising effect of the mobile phone release should be good. But the effect of the five-axis linkage CNC machine tool conference does not seem to work."
Xu Zhenming sat down at the coffee table with a calm expression, not paying much attention to the release of the product.What he is currently drawing is actually the influence of advertising, and the market will wait until later.
"But this trip to the capital is not bad, earning 400 million dollars from the Koreans." Xu Zhenming smiled in a good mood.
Hearing this, Zhang Nyjin opened his mouth and laughed, "Xu Dong, there is such a good thing? From this point of view, you don't learn this trip. Hahaha..."
Seeing his happy appearance, Xu Zhenming briefly introduced the process of the contest between himself and Sanxin Electronics Chairman Li.
"Sanxin Electronics has surrendered and spent money to buy our technology. Why is there no movement at Wanwantai Electromechanical Company?" Xu Zhenming frowned and asked Zhang Nyjin.
According to his idea, both Sanxin Electronics and Wanwantai Electromechanical Company will buy Yiming Group's technology, so that the Americans' abacus will fail.
But now in this situation, Wanwantai Electrical and Mechanical Co., Ltd. may have already purchased American technology.
"Why is there no movement? Dean Zhang has been in contact with our engineers these days. His plan is not simple, he wants to get technology through digging people." At this time, Zhang Nyjin told Xu Zhenming. A very surprising news.
From this point of view, Dean Zhang has not yet succumbed to the Americans.
"That's great!" Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming sighed.
He then instructed Zhang Neojin: "You are responsible for contacting Dean Zhang and saying that we can transfer the two chip process technologies at a discount of $100 million."
"A discount of 100 million dollars? Is our offer 400 million dollars?"
"No! Give them 300 million dollars. Everyone is a family, so naturally they want a discount." Xu Zhenming smiled badly.He just wanted to intercept Hu Miguo's plan and make the American people regret it.
Hearing this, Zhang Nyujin couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "High, this method is clever. Anyway, Wanwantai Electromechanical Co., Ltd. intends to purchase our technology, let's kill two enemies with one stone by the way."
In his view, once the deal is negotiated, both Intel Corporation of the United States and Wanwantai Electromechanical Company will be hit.
These two companies spend so much cash on technology, which is very detrimental to the company's development.
This is the case in the market, the same reason as on the battlefield.If the enemy's strength is weak, he will be stronger.
"It doesn't matter if the talk is not reached. We are not short of the 300 million dollars. At present, Dean Zhang may not dare to offend the Americans. They want to develop and grow." Xu Zhenming said again.
He didn't give Zhang Neodymium a hard target. This kind of business can only be operated as a project with no need.
Putting this topic aside, Xu Zhenming began to discuss the inspection plan of the ten major bases in the country with Zhang Neojin.
He asked Zhang Neojin to do his work carefully to ensure the smooth construction of semiconductor base factories in Luzhou City, Modu City and Xijing City.
The two worked until late at night to finish their work.
At around 10:30 in the morning of the second day, Xu Zhenming was in the conference room of the group company to receive Professor Long and his party hurriedly.
Professor Long is not the one here.He also summoned his team members to demonstrate the performance of China's first GPU.
An enlarged GPU pattern is projected on the wall in the conference room.This packaged chip has a Suzaku logo printed on it.
In order to distinguish between Yiming Group chips and Longteng Computer chips, Xu Zhenming specially asked a professional team to design this Suzaku logo.Since then, Yiming Group’s chips are actually called Suzaku chips.
The meeting room was full of people, and Zhou Jiawei led Xiao Shao and the backbone engineers of Xiao Shao's team to participate in this product demonstration meeting.As for the subsequent chip testing demonstration process, we will have to wait for the conclusion of this demonstration before we arrange it.
When everyone was ready, Zhou Jiawei began to preside over the meeting."Professor Long, our new GPU chip has a main frequency of 266M and comes with 256K memory. According to the current industrial-grade GPU parameters on the market, this chip is the fastest."
There is nothing wrong with what he said.Since the breakthrough of Yiming Group's chip process technology, the main frequency of chips designed by Yiming Labs has suddenly jumped, exceeding the speed of popular chips on the market.
"My obediently dumb hole, this speed is faster than our Galaxy III CPU."
"Is this a wasteful design?"
"Waste is not a waste. It's just that CPUs and other GPUs used to be, but now it's the other way around."
After listening to Zhou Jiawei's introduction, there was an exclamation in the meeting room.Professor Long and his team members were very shocked at this time, besides shock, they were a little suspicious.
Is Zhou Jiawei's design unreasonable?
And they don't know that with the development of technology, the speed of GPU will become faster and faster, and it will greatly exceed the situation of CPU.
For example, Intel Corporation in the United States is very worried about this trend.They are afraid that one day GPU will come to grab the job of CPU.
But Professor Long and others must have never experienced this kind of situation, so they have this idea.
Of course Xu Zhenming knew this trend, and smiled and explained to Professor Long, “Our GPU chip is also ready to shift to the civilian-grade graphics card market. So, this kind of main frequency is not surprising.”
Having said this, he nodded to Zhou Jiawei and asked Zhou Jiawei to report on the situation.
Zhou Jiawei understood, click the PPT file with the mouse, and display the following page, "This set of data is the speed of the chip's floating point operation, this set of data is the speed of integer operation, this is the triangle filling speed... etc."
The special data reports displayed on the projection screen are all collected and analyzed by the professional test system designed by Yiming Lab.Therefore, there are some data in these reports that are beyond Professor Long's cognition.
"Um...er? Okay..." Professor Long nodded nonstop at this time, very satisfied with the data Zhou Jiawei showed.Because these data are better than the data they provided at the beginning, far exceeding their expectations.
Is this okay?
Galaxy III will use this GPU as a graphics card, and the performance must be improved by about 3%.For this kind of supercomputer, it is very difficult to increase its performance by 1%, let alone increase it by 3%.
Therefore, in addition to satisfaction, Professor Long also has emotions such as shock, surprise, and pride.
"Who said that our Chinese are not good at computers? With this Galaxy III supercomputer, Americans will have a lot of eyeballs. Haha..." Professor Long thought with a smile.
"Professor Long, our product introduction has ended. Please ask your questions." At this time, Zhou Jiawei has completed the explanation of the GPU chip PPT document. Below is the time for the project demonstration team to ask questions.
Hearing this, Professor Long recovered from a state of stray thought.
"Liu Tao, let's talk about it first." He looked at his capable cadres and let them come first.
Powerful general Liu Tao is a 35-year-old middle-aged man, wearing a pair of glasses with thick bottoms of myopia.After receiving the order, he raised his eyebrows, picked up a light pen and pointed at the GPU chip on the screen.
"Zhou, what precision lithography technology does your GPU chip manufacturing process use?" Liu Tao looked at Zhou Jiawei with a grin.
He always felt that Zhou Jiawei's introduction was a bit unreasonable."This GPU has so many crystals integrated, why is the power consumption of the chip so low?" Liu Tao thought.
His idea is very correct. The more transistors the chip integrates, the greater the energy consumption and the greater the heat generation.If the 0.6-micron photolithography process technology is used for processing, the volume of the GPU chip will also be very large.So, this thing is a bit strange.
"Yes, Mr. Liu is right, it just happens to be the doubt in my heart."
"I am also very curious about the data introduced by Mr. Zhou. How does your group company do it?"
"Unless there is a situation, does your group company adopt a process technology of less than 0.2 microns?"
At this time, Professor Long's team members also followed suit to express their views.
In a word, they were surprised.
