The rise of nanometers

Haifeng County, Pinghe Town Semiconductor Base.

Inside Factory Building No. 5.

When Huang Xiuyuan arrived at the factory secretly, Lu Xuedong, Zhang Jingjian and others, after these days of unremitting efforts, had already conducted six tape-out tests.

At this time, they are inspecting the chip for the sixth tape-out, using various testing instruments to find out the problems in the chip bit by bit.

Lu Xuedong's assistant Wang Zhiyuan inserted a chip into a mobile phone and began to do trial runs.

The people who were so focused did not notice that Huang Xiuyuan came to the testing room.

When one hand picked up a mobile phone, Wang Zhiyuan woke up with a start. He raised his head and saw the chairman who was operating the mobile phone. He greeted nervously: "Hello, Chairman."

Lu Xuedong, who was on the side, also saw him: "Xiuyuan, you appear and disappear all day long. I'm almost scared by you."

"There is no way, safety first, many people want me to explode on the spot." Huang Xiuyuan half joked, half reminded Lu Xuedong.

Lu Xuedong is not a fool. As the core scientists of the Suiren Department, they have long been on the blacklist of the CIA and the like. If they are not careful, they will only harm others and themselves.

"Xiuyuan, this is the chip for the sixth tape-out. We have tested it for two days and only found one minor problem for the time being."

Huang Xiuyuan is relatively satisfied with the optimization progress of Fuxi chips.

While operating the phone, he asked: "How is the running-in situation of the phone?"

"Lao Jiang's software lab and I optimized the chip and operating system together. Now the system runs very smoothly." After speaking, Lu Xuedong picked up a mobile phone on the workbench.

In fact, Long Totem's mobile phones and computers are already in small-scale production, and now they only lack CPU and GPU chips.

Fuxi's CPU chip is almost completed. In the absence of a GPU, Lu Xuedong and the others can only use GPU chips from companies such as Qualcomm and a converter to avoid incompatibility between the two.

This is just a stopgap measure for the smooth progress of the test.

Moreover, there are certain hidden dangers when using Qualcomm's GPU chips, because Qualcomm chips are not adapted to the Fuxi framework, which will affect the test results.

It’s just that the design work has not been completed in conjunction with the GPU. Although it is almost finished, it has not yet entered tape-out.

The mobile phone in Lu Xuedong's hands now is a test machine using Fuxi CPU chip and Qualcomm GPU chip.

Huang Xiuyuan was also holding a mobile phone. The mobile phone has adopted the full-screen that will be commonly used in the future. There is a fingerprint unlocking and camera on the back. On one side are the volume keys and power button, on the other side is the mobile phone card slot, and on the lower side is the charging port. Data socket, speaker mouth.

Although the full screen on the front still has obvious screen borders, Long Totem’s new mobile phone uses the unique technology of the Suiren series, an all-glass body processed by silicon nano-coating.

Due to the characteristics of silicon nano-coating, the physical resistance to drops and scratches of new mobile phones has been basically exhausted. Even mobile phones in 2030 are not so resistant to drops and scratches.

In this regard, the Suiren system has obvious advantages.

After pressing the power button, for about twenty-eight seconds, the ink-and-wash Bagua pattern of Fuxi's operating system flashed first, and then a dragon-shaped pattern emerged, and then the operating desktop of the phone entered.

On the operating desktop, some basic system built-in tools, such as camera, calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, and gallery, are all available.

After all, Huang Xiuyuan has the memory of future mobile phones. The interface layout of the mobile phone operating system and the built-in functions of the system are quite mature and diverse.

These systems came with their own tools, so he briefly operated them, then opened the Time Blog on his phone and tried to log in to his account.

After entering the password, although I logged in to Time Blog, there was a slight lag.

Lu Xuedong, who was beside him, explained: "In this case, I guess it may be the incompatibility between Qualcomm chips and Fuxi chips, which caused the program to freeze."

"How is your communication with the joint GPU project team?"

Lu Xuedong talked about the specific situation.

Because Huang Xiuyuan went to Huizhou to upgrade the design software database for the joint GPU project team and gave guidance for a few days, they had communicated with Lu Xuedong several times recently.

At least in the simulation calculations, the obvious big loopholes and incompatibilities in the data of the two chips are basically not reflected in the simulation calculations.

After listening to Lu Xuedong's report, he felt more relieved.

He continued to test the mobile phone in his hand. While browsing blog posts, pictures and videos, he found that there were obvious lags in these operations.

Perhaps in 2010, no one knew much about the specific situation of smartphones. Looking at it from a future perspective, Huang Xiuyuan naturally felt that there were a lot of problems.

After browsing the blog for a while, I also saw a lot of hot social news.

For example, the Xizhou debt crisis, culture and thieves, Rio Tinto's successful delisting, the premiere of the movie "Glory of the Republic 2", the completion of the Qintong water line...

He hurriedly scanned it, then exited the time blog, opened another small game, and played casually.

Finally, there is the social software Chaoxin launched by Time Information last month, which is basically based on the Chaoxin of Future Penguin.

In fact, the software Chaoxin had been tested internally on the large platform of Time Blog more than half a year ago, and it was called Moments at the time.

Last month, Moments completed its revamp and was officially separated from the larger platform of Time Blog. After being renamed Chaoxin, it was quickly launched on the market.

At present, Chaoxin has quickly accumulated 22.83 million new users with the help of 92.47 million users of Shiguang Blog in more than a month since it was launched.

As for Penguin Chaoxin in the future, Huang Xiuyuan doesn't care at all. After all, his butterfly effect has already changed the world.

After testing various functions of Chaoxin, I found that they are not much different from the future.

Although the new mobile phone is relatively complete, Huang Xiuyuan still sees some problems. For example, the resolution of the mobile phone screen produced by BOE is obviously a level lower than that of similar screens such as Samsung.

He wrote this down and told Zhang Weixin to go to BOE to inspect and increase investment to ensure that domestic products could be self-sufficient.

Around 4:30 p.m.

Wang Zhiyuan came over with a comprehensive inspection report.

The results of the sixth tape-out have been initially released. Huang Xiuyuan took them and browsed them at a glance.

After his optimization, it is obvious that Fuxi's CPU design work has almost entered the final stage. This time, the test results revealed two small problems.

With the help of Dragon Totem’s design team, these two minor problems can be solved in just a few days.

"Xuedong, it seems that after the design modification is completed this time, another tape-out will be carried out. If there are no problems, it can be put into mass production."

Lu Xuedong nodded: "I think so too."

"After I held the annual meeting, I planned to go north again. I will bother you with the work here." Huang Xiuyuan patted the other party's shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of everything." Lu Xuedong's tone was very firm.

Huang Xiuyuan was a little worried about his health, so he told Lu Xuedong to pay more attention to his health.

I stayed at the semiconductor base in Haifeng County for three days, and then went to the Huawei Semiconductor Base in Huizhou, where I also stayed for three days.

On December 17, Suiren Department entered into the annual financial statistics, virtual stock allotment, and preparations for dividend distribution.

The company's annual meeting also requires formulating future development strategies, all of which require Huang Xiuyuan to control the overall situation.