672 Chapter 671: All the Americans are here [seeking subscription]

After thinking for a while, the boss still dialed Xu Zhenming's mobile phone number.He believes that this kind of moment should also have a relationship with Xu Zhenming.Judging from the speed of the development of chip manufacturing technology, Yiming Group has ample stamina and may become a world giant. China's electronics industry is guaranteed.

"Xu Dong, I heard that your group company has made a major technological breakthrough. First of all, I want to congratulate you." After the call was connected, boss Ren didn't say anything else, and first chatted with Xu Zhenming.

On the other end of the phone, Xu Zhenming was preparing information and was about to join an important member.He was surprised by the phone call from boss Ren, "No wonder that Huawei Company can become a world-class giant, and its response is much more responsive than domestic enterprises."

Since Mingxin Manufacturing Company announced the very good news on its website, the boss of Huawei Company is the head of a domestic enterprise who talks with him on the phone.Relatively speaking, the bosses of other domestic electronic products should be dull and do not know that the electronic product industry will undergo tremendous changes.

Because of this, Xu Zhenming's favorability for being the boss has improved a lot, and promised on the phone to give Huawei a chance to do something special.After hanging up the phone, Xu Zhenming drove to the compound of Mingxin Manufacturing Company.He wants to hold an important meeting in the large conference room of Yiming Lab.

Participants at this meeting included experts such as Zhou Jiawei, He Changlin, Guo Liansheng, Liang Songsong, Hu Mingzhen, Zhang Ngjin and Wanninggu.

These people have a certain reputation around the world, and now they all work and hold shares in Yiming Laboratories.This is also one of the main reasons why Mingxin Manufacturing Company can achieve major technological breakthroughs.After all, scientific research personnel are the most important link in the development of the semiconductor and electronics industries.

After looking at the familiar faces in the conference room, Xu Zhenming opened the PPT file on the laptop.

"Dear colleagues, our chip Foundry process technology has made breakthrough progress, and the production process technology has achieved an international leading position. We must take advantage of this advantage. Let me first express my views."

Xu Zhenming believes:

In the near future, Intel Corporation of the United States will release a 300MHZ Pentium II CPU, which will start the battle for X86 architecture CPUs to dominate the country.In this environment, what should Yiming Group's chip industry do? Should it follow Intel's steps or go its own way?

The problem was so heavy that it calmed down the experts in the conference room.Everyone is seriously considering the issues raised by Xu Zhenming, and prepares to brew their opinions before speaking.

After a long time, He Changlin, who was in charge of the research of MCU and PLC, was the first to speak.

"Everyone, Dong Xu, I personally think that there will be no strict RSIC architecture or CISC architecture in the future CPU architecture. For example, we have adopted the [RSICMMX] instruction set for the Suzaku II CPU. Therefore, I think we break the convention and use RSIC +CSIC instruction mode to develop CPU."

Based on his own experience in developing 32-bit enhanced microcontrollers, He Changlin suggested that the next-generation CPUs of the Suzaku series adopt the compound instruction set mode.In this way, using the 0.22 micron Foundry process technology, the main frequency of Suzaku's next-generation CPU will not be lower than 300MHZ.

"Lao He's proposal is very innovative, Zhou Gong may be worth trying."

"Our team has been experimenting with this concept, but has not yet determined the number and characteristics of the instruction set."

"In this case, the composite instruction set should be a trend of future development. I suggest that our company should form a core code of the instruction set."

After He Changlin, the engineers in the conference room all spoke enthusiastically, speaking out their ideas for everyone's reference.

Generally speaking, their ideas can be consistent with the trend of chip development.

Intel also developed a CSIC+RSIC composite instruction set, which no longer obeys the constraints of the complex instruction set architecture.Formally because of this, they became stronger and stronger, and finally entered the ranks of supercomputer CPUs.

Xu Zhenming knows these processes, so he can grasp the strategic direction of Yiming Lab's chip development.After everyone finished speaking, he set his sights on Zhou Jiawei, waiting for the comment from the subject of the Suzaku series CPU.

"Xu Dong, according to the CPU research and development plan of our group company, in 1997 we will come up with a standard clock speed of 266MHZ, and the instruction set will adopt an enhanced RISC, code-named [RSICMMX] Suzaku CPU. So my team has been working hard and preparing to use 0.6 micron process to achieve this product. Now it is no problem to achieve this goal!"

Zhou Jiawei said with a smile on the progress of the research and development of the next generation of the Suzaku series of CPUs, the situation is still relatively optimistic.

At the beginning of the year, because of the hardware constraints of the chip production line.The people of their team have been using the means of increasing the chip area to improve the CPU frequency and performance.

Because of the breakthrough of Foundry's process technology, the bottleneck of chip manufacturing accuracy is gone. Zhou's family believes that the main frequency of the next-generation Suzaku series CPU can reach 330MHZ.Of course, these are all theoretical data obtained through science and technology, and it depends on the results of the final filming.

"Papa papa papa......" Hearing these words, there was a burst of warm applause in the meeting room.The engineers attending the conference room were very excited and applauded and congratulated with smiles.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zhenming was finally relieved.He is not demanding, as long as the Suzaku series CPU does not fall behind.

"The CPU below is named Suzaku PROICPU, and the Chinese name is'Suzaku Beyond'. Do you have any comments?" Xu Zhenming waited for the applause to fall, smiled at everyone, and named Suzaku's next-generation CPU.

He is the big boss, and his name "Suzaku Transcendence" has a profound meaning, which means he wants to surpass the Pentium CPU.How could the engineers here oppose?Ever since, there was a wave of applause in the conference room again.The engineers answered Xu Zhenming's question with warm applause.

After determining the general direction, the specific technical aspects of the "Suzaku Transcendence" project are here.

Engineers have made the "Beyond" series of CPUs into various models, such as the size of the first level cache, the size of the second level cache, and how many models with the main frequency range from 200-330.This method is very common in CPU design and production, giving customers a variety of choices.

After some discussion, five kinds of "Suzaku surpassing" CPUs with main frequencies of 200, 233, 266, 300, and 330 were determined.The release time of this CPU is also locked in January 1997.

With this plan guarantee, Xu Zhenming announced the meeting with satisfaction.

He also has the task of project layout. Recently, he will go to the Modu Economic Development Zone to negotiate, put the electronic sensor project in place, and prepare to settle in the Modu.But contrary to expectations, a group of guests from the United States interrupted Xu Zhenming's itinerary.

On the morning of August 3, in the meeting room of Siya Building, Zhenhua Company, Xu Zhenming led Hu Mingzhen and Zhang Nyjin to receive guests from TI Company in the United States.The leader of the opposing party is Merris, the boss of TI's chip division.

Meris was in his fifties, with blue eyes and blond hair, a tall man with a very big belly.

He likes to laugh and talks more humorously. After introducing him to Xu Zhenming, he deliberately learned a sentence of "Hello" in Chinese.

"Hello, Dong Xu. We are here to seek cooperation and want to obtain the foundry and sales rights of the Suzaku series of CPUs." Merris is a technical background, and he doesn't like to circle around, so he made it clear.

In fact, he is leading the team to focus on the DSP chip project, and he does not know why he is interested in the foundry and sales rights of the Suzaku series of CPUs.

Before the Pentium CPU appeared, TI could also design and produce personal computer CPUs.But with the strengthening of the X86 patent barrier, they have withdrawn from the R&D and manufacturing of the CPU of personal computers.

Xu Zhenming knew these developments, so he was surprised at Merris' request."WHY?" He looked at Merris in surprise.

"The board of directors of our company believes that the prospects of the Suzaku series of CPUs are very large, so we plan to OEM and sell this product in the United States.

"Um? Is your government willing? Your country seems to discriminate against our Yiming Group's products, so you don't want us to sell our products to the country." Xu Zhenming laughed.Although he is a little tempted to sell the Suzaku CPU to the United States, can the U.S. government agree to it?

"Um...this is a problem. But your group company can establish a joint venture with us to build a factory in the United States. Let our joint venture factory produce Suzaku CPUs, and it will be fine." Meiris suggested to Xu Zhenming: Yiming Group Co. Technology, TI produced equipment and jointly established a chip company.

Hearing this, Xu Zhenming understood the other party's meaning no matter how slow they were, "They are here to set up our Foundry process technology, and they want to steal the FinFET process and immersion lithography process technology through a joint venture model. The Americans are stubborn. I can't be fooled."

At this point, Xu Zhenming smiled and stretched out three fingers, “First, our technology shares should account for 40%; second, your company will help us order three KrF lithography machines; third, this chip Foundry cannot Go public and be permanently privatized."

This is to prevent the intervention of the American consortium, to prevent it from being eaten by others, and no scum will be left behind.

If these two process technologies are used to obtain three KrF lithography machines, Yiming Group's chip manufacturing development path will be much more stable.But only this one, TI company simply can not handle.

Because of this, Merris could only shook his head regretfully.From beginning to end, he never talked to Xu Zhenming about purchasing FinFET process and immersion lithography process technology.From this point of view, TI's idea of ​​coming to cooperate this time is very impure, and it is ready to pit Yiming Group.

After sending away the impure Meiris and his party, Xu Zhenming met another group of American guests in this conference room.This time the guest is the famous leadership of IBM.

Both parties exchanged greetings. Powell, the head of IBM's Microcomputer Business Unit, couldn't wait to put forward a suggestion: "Xu Dong, our group is going to sell the Microcomputer Business Unit. I wonder if your group company intends to buy it?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Zhenming couldn't help wondering: "Is IBM ready to let go of the burden?"

In another time and space, IBM sold the notebook brand to the Future Computer Company in China.There was a period of time when Chinese people were particularly excited.But in fact, the future computer company has not taken advantage of it, and has been running IBM notebook computers with a burden.

It can be said that in the future, computer companies will always work for Americans, and use the profits made from the mainland to subsidize the IBM laptop business unit.

How could Xu Zhenming do such a stupid thing?

Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming asked with a smile but a smile: "Mr. Powell, your group seems to have cancelled the chip production line. The IBM Microcomputer Division no longer produces personal computers. What use is it for us to buy it?"

"We, IBM, are the number one brand in the world. Once your group company purchases our microcomputer division, you can sell the Suzaku series computers worldwide. If your group is interested, you can also invest in the construction of factories in the United States to produce the Suzaku series. CPU and IBM microcomputer computer."

Powell confidently introduced IBM's fine traditions and drew a very bright prospect for Xu Zhenming.

It's really not simple for IBM:

Inventor and promoter of personal microcomputers, inventor and promoter of notebook computers, inventors of touch LCD screens, inventors of hard disks, inventors of FLASH memory and U disk concepts... etc.Many new computer technologies were invented by this company.

However, this company is too large and its organization is bloated, resulting in new technologies but not the profits it should have.They are now going to transfer the microcomputer business unit out, it should not be so random.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming asked straightforwardly: "What conditions do we need to pay?"

"Our two companies have established an RSIC architecture CPU alliance to form a standard for the RSIC instruction set." Powell smiled faintly and put forward a condition that Xu Zhenming could not refuse.

Once this kind of chip architecture alliance can be established, Yiming Group can be regarded as one of the leaders in the development direction of CPU.

There is a popular saying in the western business community: first-rate companies set standards, second-rate companies use standards to pay for patent fees, and third-rate companies work for second-rate companies.

If Yiming Group and IBM Group can lead the development trend of CPU, the status is high, the way of earning will also change.But how can this kind of pie falling from the sky fall to Yiming Group?

Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming looked at Powell with a smile, "Which company's instruction set is the core of the RSIC instruction set? Is it IBM or Yiming Group?"

"Do you still doubt it? It must be based on the POWER architecture! And the production of CPU is best in our country, and we will produce it together." Powell shrugged proudly.

The POWER architecture is well-known in the industry, but Yiming Group is ready to take another one.Besides, to put CPU manufacturing in the United States, isn't this putting fat on the fox's mouth?

"We do not agree to do this! Unless the two companies jointly formulate the RISC architecture instruction set." At this time, Hu Mingzhen objected.

He has seen that Powell's intentions are still peeking at the Foundry process technology of Mingxin Manufacturing Company.It's just that this person's routine is rather deep, and you can't tell at first.

Zhang Neojin also saw this, and kept winking Xu Zhenming and reminding Xu Zhenming.He was afraid that Xu Zhenming's head became hot, and for a grain of sesame, he threw away a big watermelon.

as predicted.

Xu Zhenming seems to be still very interested in jointly formulating the RSIC instruction set. He smiled and negotiated with Powell, "How about signing an agreement for the technicians to discuss the RSIC instruction set and then working together?"