"What's the matter, Chen Yu? Are you in trouble?"
After introducing the professors to Chen Yu, Li Biqing looked at Chen Yu with a smile.
"It's not much trouble, just some ideas that I can't figure out."
"Oh, tell me about it."
Chen Yu was not modest.
Today, he came to Li Biqing to listen to their ideas.
"Dean Li, three professors, you must know that we have entered the mobile phone industry recently."
"Yes."
Everyone nodded and signaled Chen Yu to continue.
"However, as Dean Li said on the phone just now, our mobile phone doesn't have much technical content. It may sell well now, but in the future, when the competition is fierce, there will be pressure. "
With that, Li Biqing nodded. "Mobile phones are a huge market. The major mobile phone manufacturers will definitely do their best. Your Tianyu mobile phone can be considered as stealing a chicken, but when they recover, they can also sink into the low-end market. In addition, there are some foreign mobile phone giants. Your future survival will be very stressful. "
"So, we want to do something with technical content."
"You're promising."
The three professors all nodded their heads.
Things without technical content would be eliminated from the market sooner or later.
"So, you want to cooperate with the school and do something with technical content?"
"Yes."
"This is a good idea. You can donate some money to the school and we can set up a research lab. What do you think?"
"Okay, no problem."
Chen Yu agreed readily.
Of course, donating money was not a problem.
If donating money could solve the technical problem, Chen Yu was willing to donate one billion.
However …
At this time, Li Biqing continued to ask, "Chen Yu, I haven't asked you which area of technology you want to focus on?"
"Chips."
"What …"
Not only Li Biqing, but the three professors also trembled when they heard Chen Yu mention chips.
"Chips?"
Li Biqing looked at Chen Yu and asked.
"Yes."
Chen Yu nodded and said seriously.
"This, this …"
Li Biqing was a little embarrassed.
"Dean Li, what's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
"Do you need to donate a lot of money to make chips?"
"There's no such thing …"
"What is that?"
Chen Yu asked weakly, "Could it be that the school can't do it?"
"Cough cough …"
Li Biqing coughed heavily and said, "You little brat, are you making fun of us?"
Seeing Chen Yu's serious tone, Li Biqing glared at Chen Yu.
Chip technology.
Not to mention Shencheng University, even Peking University and Tsinghua University were in an awkward position.
Of course, it was not only in China. In this world, other than a few countries in Europe and America, other countries did not have any chip technology.
"No, Dean Li, I really want to make chips."
Chen Yu wasn't joking. He continued, "Actually, before I entered the mobile phone market, I was thinking about this problem. When it came to mobile phones, the chip was the strongest. However, our mobile phone chips have always been restricted by foreign manufacturers. You might not be able to see anything now, but when you grow bigger and stronger in the future, you will be restricted by them sooner or later. "
Chen Yu said honestly.
"Chen Yu, you are really far-sighted."
Hearing Chen Yu's words, Professor Liu sighed and said.
As professors in the field of computer science, they were the clearest about this.
Although the domestic electronics industry was developing fast, to be honest, there weren't many companies with real technology.
Many mobile phone manufacturers were actually assembly companies.
Even if it was just Lenovo, there wasn't much real technology.
Not to mention chip technology, there were a series of other key technologies that were extremely inferior to others in China.
"It is indeed far."
Li Biqing nodded and said, "Why do I feel that you want to compete with the international mobile phone giants?"
"You have to have a dream. What if it comes true?"
Chen Yu didn't say yes or no.
"You are really daring."
Li Biqing gave Chen Yu a thumbs up.
However, after a while, he said in an extremely serious tone, "However, Chen Yu, it's really too difficult to make chips."
"Dean Li, I don't know about technology. Can you be more specific?"
"How should I put it …"
Li Biqing hesitated for a while.
He didn't know how to say it.
To be honest, when it came to chips, he didn't know where to start.
Of course, this was a bit exaggerated.
However, on the other hand, it could be seen that chip technology was almost as difficult as aerospace.
In fact, to some extent, it was even more difficult than aerospace.
After all, the country had been researching aerospace since the founding of the country. However, chip technology was only emphasized in the last ten years. Whether it was technology or theory, there was a gap of decades between them and foreign countries.
Otherwise, why couldn't a single China core be made in China?
Speaking of which, this was an extremely embarrassing thing.
Even though Chen Yu was joking, it couldn't be that Shencheng University couldn't make it, right?
It was embarrassing to say that they really couldn't make it.
"Chen Yu, I'll tell you about the chip manufacturing process first."
To talk about how to make domestic chips, one had to start with the chip technology.
"If you want to make your own chip, the first step is the chip architecture, which is the chip design."
"This is understandable. It is like making a mobile phone. First, make a design."
"What do you mean understand? Do you think chip design is so simple? If it was so simple, we would have done it long ago. "
Li Biqing shook his head. "Alright, let's not talk about other things. Let's just talk about the chip architecture. If you want to make a chip, the first step is to come up with the design. If you can't come up with the architecture, then there is no need to talk about making chips. "
"The chip architecture is also known as the instruction set. It is the command that instructs the computer to process various operations and functions. Currently, there are four mainstream chip architectures in the world. The first is the x86 architecture. It is mainly targeted at the PC market. Intel's technology is the most mature. "
"The second is the MIPS architecture developed by Stanford University in the US. This architecture is the same as ARM. They mainly don't produce chips themselves. If chip manufacturers want to produce chips, they can buy the MPIS authorization."
"The third is the powerPC architecture developed by IBM and Apple. This architecture is targeted at the server market. It is not useful for you guys for the time being."
"The fourth is the ARM architecture. This is also the architecture used the most in various electronic products and mobile phones."
Li Biqing briefly introduced the four most commonly used chip architectures to Chen Yu.
Although Chen Yu did not understand technology, he still understood this kind of simple introduction.
"In other words, we can't even do the first step now?"
Chen Yu asked.
"You can't say that."
Li Biqing shook his head, then nodded. "It is not that we can't do it at all. But to really produce a mature architecture, there are still difficulties in this aspect."
With that said, Chen Yu understood.
Even if they combined the best professional research in the country for many years, they might only be able to produce a simple chip architecture. Moreover, this chip architecture might be decades behind others.
If that was the case, then it would be meaningless.
"Now, the domestic chip manufacturing industry is leaning towards buying mature architecture plans and then making appropriate modifications to produce our chips. But even so, it is still difficult for us to produce a mature chip. On one hand, our technology is limited. On the other hand, some chip architecture companies will not license the best chip architectures to us. We can only buy mid-to-low-end chip architectures. "
Chen Yu understood this very well.
In his previous life, when ARM was awesome, they sold dozens of architecture licenses a year.
But every one of their architectures was different.
In other words, Apple's chip design was different from Qualcomm's and Huawei's.
There was no doubt that Apple and Qualcomm's designs were more awesome. Huawei's was not bad, but it was still lacking.
The worst was MediaTek's, which was a low-end chip design.
"Buying it is not a solution."
Chen Yu shook his head. "Buying the chip architecture license seems to solve the problem temporarily. But if we can buy it now, what if they don't sell it in the future?"
"So, there is also a problem."
Li Biqing also agreed with Chen Yu. "It may take a long time to do it ourselves. And even if we do it ourselves, we may not be able to produce a mature design. Buying from others will choke you from time to time. "
"Now you know why it is so difficult to produce chips."
Li Biqing said helplessly.
In fact, this was only chip design.
There were still many problems in the production of A.I. Chips.
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