Chapter 420

This is a cross era product. When the biochip is really developed, everyone's head is still a little confused and feels a little dreamy.

To be exact, mastering advanced chip technology is just getting the key to the Internet and smart world.

The origin group still has a long way to go.

The first task is to determine the stability of biochip, which can ensure that biochip can be applied in various fields.

The second task is to find ways to mass produce biochips at a lower cost, because only the appropriate price and appropriate cost can make the road of biochips go further and more markets can accept biochips.

If the stability of the chip is not strong and can only be used in a demanding environment, or if the cost of the biochip is too high and far from ordinary consumers, the vitality of the biochip is doomed to be weak.

Origin group is a private technology company after all. Its products are mainly aimed at ordinary users.

Therefore, whether Zhou Xiao or Mo Li, they put the applicability and price of the product first.

The next month, the laboratory was still very busy.

Mo Lili's team needs to completely test all the functions of the chip and is ready to bring it to the market after ensuring its stability and reducing production costs.

During this period, Zhou Xiao and senior executives have been talking about a topic.

What kind of performance biochips will the origin group bring to the market?

At present, the floating-point operation of laboratory biochip is 2 billion times per second, but if the laboratory wants to go further, this data can be expanded hundreds of times, that is, the floating-point operation speed can reach more than 200 billion times.

The team in the laboratory can even guarantee Zhou Xiao that the experimental team has just opened the door of biochip. Biochips based on DNA storage technology still have great development potential. In the future, it is normal for the computing power of complex biochips to reach hundreds of billions of times.

But for Zhou Xiao, the biochip with 2 billion floating-point operations developed in the laboratory is enough.

"I don't recommend bringing 2 billion chips to the market at one go for two reasons." Ma Xin said from his own point of view: "first of all, in addition to the local tyrant level gamers and server users, the audience of high-end Intel commercial chips such as 10900k is also very small. Most users use only about 3 billion chip floating-point operations. We launch 2 billion chips at one go, At present, the hardware and software in the market can not keep up, and excess performance will not bring us greater profits. "

What Maxine said is very reasonable.

Because that's what Intel does.

Why did Intel say toothpaste factory? The main reason is that Intel already has chips with more advanced technology and faster computing speed. But Intel will never take out its most advanced things, but the performance of the chips launched every year is only a little higher than that of last year

Intel's purpose is not only to continue to lead its competitors, but also to control the progress speed of the chip.

In this way, Intel will be able to make the most profits and continue to have a voice in the chip industry.

This situation continued until amd developed more advanced chips than Intel, and the toothpaste squeezing mode was temporarily ended.

In fact, in addition to the chip industry, many industries also introduce new products by squeezing toothpaste.

One of the industries deeply affected by Xia is the panel industry.

Even now, South Korea has an absolute advantage in the LCD panel industry.

So how do South Korean LCD panel technology companies harm Xia enterprises and consumers?

If you are a little older, you can recall that from 2007 to 2009, LCD TV and plasma TV developed most rapidly in the world.

At the same time, South Korea and Toyo also have an absolute voice in both liquid crystal and plasma technology.

At that time, a LCD TV or plasma TV could sell for 7000 + in the domestic market. Better, it was normal to sell for more than 10000 yuan, and the supply was in short supply.

For many families, having an ultra-thin LCD TV or plasma TV means that the family conditions are relatively rich and their life is more quality-oriented.

Watching the brands of South Korea and Toyo encroach on Xia's TV market, domestic brands like Changhong are very anxious.

At that time, domestic TV production companies could also produce LCD TV or plasma TV, but all screens had to be purchased from South Korea or Toyo, and they had no production capacity at all.

However, the cost of assembling the screen you buy from others into a TV will be far greater than that of the other party, and you can't compete with companies in South Korea and Toyo in terms of word-of-mouth, quality and brand.

Looking at their business getting smaller and smaller, Xia's TV production enterprises are very anxious. Changhong is the most anxious.

Then, under the flicker of the South Korean company, of course, Changhong made its own decision mistakes. They spent a lot of money to buy the South Korean Orion company, which is famous for producing plasma panel technology.

After acquiring Orion, Changhong invested heavily in large-scale plasma production line.

When Changhong spent a lot of time and money, he suddenly turned back and found that the South Korean giants who had advised themselves to enter the plasma industry had long stopped using plasma technology and turned to LCD panel technology.

Changhong has never recovered since then until today.

In the LCD industry, the road of Xiaguo science and technology enterprises is also very rugged.

First of all, technology is in the hands of others. You can buy our goods, but you can't buy our technology.

Take the IPS screen as an example. When the LCD TV of the screen came out, the price was as high as 10000 yuan.

When Xia Guo's enterprise (BOE) spent a lot of money and invested a lot of scientific research time to develop IPS, South Korea immediately reduced the price of IPS LCD up to RMB 10000 to the level of three or four thousand, which made Xia Guo company unprepared.

Then a new generation of LCD panel technology OLED was launched. The price of the screen is also very high, and it is widely used in smart phones.

When BOE finally developed its own OLED technology with great efforts, the technology giant of China Southern Airlines immediately reduced the price of OLED, and then launched a new generation of flexible screen technology.

This is the advantage of squeezing toothpaste. You will always keep your technology ahead and let your opponent spend a lot of energy and time to catch up, but you will never catch up.

To sum up, Mr. Ma's opinion is to launch a biochip with 10 billion floating-point computing capacity. The capacity of the chip is far greater than the server level chip on the market, which can quickly occupy the market and make it very difficult for chip companies all over the world.

"If the floating-point operations of semiconductor commercial chips reach 10 billion times per second, the price can not be particularly high, which requires Western semiconductor companies to greatly improve their R & D, design and production capacity, and most importantly, provide the yield. This alone will make western chip companies very uncomfortable, We have launched 10 billion floating-point biochips, which can ensure that we will occupy a favorable position in the chip market in the next two to three years or even longer. "

"If Intel, Qualcomm or Samsung develop chips with 10 billion floating-point operations that are more people-friendly, we will launch biochips with 15 billion floating-point operations. Anyway, we want to be one level ahead of them and make them uncomfortable."

Ma Xin has been struggling in the science and technology industry for so many years. He is really fed up with the situation that the chip is stuck.

Ma Xin then said: "when I worked at Huawei, Huawei realized that in the field of chip market, the future will be subject to the West. Therefore, he has tried to do the whole industrial chain of chip design, production and packaging. "

"In the field of chip design, Huawei can be said to be a global leader. In the field of chip packaging, many enterprises in Xiaguo have done well, except in the field of chip production, we have no voice at all."

"What did Huawei do? The negotiation and public relations team went to the Netherlands to discuss the purchase of the lithography machine with ASML company in the Netherlands. In order to get the lithography machine, Huawei gave very favorable conditions, which belong to Huawei's trade secrets and are unknown to outsiders. But as far as I know, Huawei has made concessions on some bottom line issues. "

Recalling the events of the past few years, Ma Xin is still very angry.

He said: "the negotiation between Huawei and ASML went very smoothly. Huawei also paid most of the deposit to the company, but ASML and the West played us like monkeys. For a while, we wanted to sell, for a while, we didn't sell, for a while, we gave less deposit, and for a while, we had to raise the price, which really turned Huawei around."

"After a year or two of intermittent negotiations, I still didn't buy it!"

Xue Ninglu added: "the core technology still needs to be in your own hands to be insured. You can never take the initiative by relying on other people's handouts or sales."

Zhou Xiao said sharply: "Westerners are fundamentally different from us in ideology. What they are really willing to sell you is never the best thing, so never put hope on Westerners. They can't wait for the Xia people to never make a chip and buy it in their hands forever. "

After detailed discussions, the meeting decided to launch the first generation of biological chip called Kunlun.

The code is Kunlun d1100.

D means DNA. 1100 is the first generation chip with 10 billion floating-point operations per second.

Zhou Xiao said to Mo Li with a smile, "control the computing power of the biochip. Is there no problem?"

Mo Li said, "well, let's see if the boss is ready to let users overclock?"

Zhou Xiao said: "for computer enthusiasts and otaku, overclocking their chips is the most wonderful thing. This feeling is even better than knowing several long legged beauties. Overclocking is sure to overclock, but it can't exceed too much. If overclocking, it's enough to improve the performance of the chips by about 5 percent."

Mo Li made an OK gesture to Zhou Xiao: "no problem! Isn't it a piece of cake to lock in the computing power of biochips? "

Mo Li also asked the second question: "do you want the graphics card and chip to be one?"

To solve this problem, Zhou Xiao also refused: "at present, don't combine the two into one. Now the most important thing is to make the chip mass production. Say the important thing three times, mass production."

Mo Li certainly understands this, but it is not easy to mass produce biochips.

Origin group should build a complete biochip production factory from zero to one, and even cultivate a large number of biochip and production process talents.

Biochip talents should not only understand biology, but also mathematics and logic. This kind of talents is actually the most difficult.

Even if there are talents from Jiangcheng University and Jiangcheng University of technology, the origin group is also facing a serious shortage of talents

Because in the major universities of Xia state, the most despised major is biology.

Persuading people to learn biology is the same as lacking people to learn medicine.

The root cause of this problem is that it is difficult for students studying biology to find a job, or the income of students studying biology is much worse than those studying engineering, computer and finance.

For example, students who graduated from Jiangcheng University and majored in biology may work in some pharmaceutical factories or biological factories, and their monthly salary is only seven or eight thousand.

But students studying finance may get a salary of 10000 or 20000.

Students who study computer or software engineering can easily earn three or four thousand months as young code farmers.

Thinking of this problem, Zhou Xiao said to Mo Li, "you have to discuss with sister LAN. I'm afraid you need to contact major colleges and universities across the country to set up a life science and medicine major of the origin group. Students trained in this major will first supply our group. "

Zhou Xiao said: "biochips have just started. Our talent vacancy will be far greater than that of semiconductor chips. We must recruit the best people in the world."

At the end of the meeting, Zhou Xiao said, "of course, I also know that this time is boring. There is still a time from chip research and development to going out of the laboratory and business. What do we need to do during this time?"

Zhou Xiao's smile made everyone feel that someone would be unlucky.

Zhou Xiao said: "during this time, of course, we have to frantically test the performance of our chips. This test can occur in any field, any scene and any environment."

"I don't rule out allowing our laboratory personnel to use our biochip as a graphics card - mining!"

"Shit!" Mo Li couldn't help scolding Zhou Xiao for saying so.

"Don't you want to bloodwash the financial sector by means of science and technology?"

Zhou Xiao said with a smile, "I just want to tell you that many things in the world are not dominated by the West."