Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Early the next morning, Meng Qian, who drank a little too much last night, was directly "framed" to Hexinxingtong.

When they came to Hexinxingtong, Xie Jun, the chief designer of Beidou, and Hu Weiwu, the founder of Loongson, were waiting there. When they saw that Meng Qian was not enthusiastic enough, they almost came up to kiss him. Meng Qian was also in their room. Quick sober in enthusiasm.

"You two seem to be in a good mood." Meng Qian, who had regained his strength, began to tease.

"Because there is good news." Xie Jun didn't hold back, and directly showed the result, "The latest 55nm process navigation chip tape-out was successful.

Moreover, it is a 55nm high-precision consumer Beidou navigation and positioning chip, which can simultaneously support satellite positioning systems such as American GPS and Russian GLONASS.

Of course, the most important thing is that it uses the Hongmeng architecture! "

Xie Jun was very excited when he mentioned the four words Hongmeng architecture. For his generation, it is really a very happy thing to be able to use the chip architecture of a Chinese company.

"Godson has contributed a lot." Meng Qian turned his head to Hu Weiwu, "I have read related reports before, and I heard that the cooperation between Godson and Beidou is very deep."

"No matter what kind of cooperation we have, the rapid development of Huaxia Chip in the past few years is inseparable from your efforts." Hu Weiwu obviously loves Meng Qian more than Xie Jun, after all, his persistence lies in On domestic chips, "You have been promoting the development of Huaxia chips."

"Uncle Hu, don't flatter me. It would be great if I had such great ability alone. I didn't need to ask you for help at the beginning, and now I don't have to be subject to Intel." Meng Qian smiled humbly.

Hu Weiwu shook his head and said, "I have seen everything you have done, and I have also seen the development of Huaxia Chip. You have played the role of a magic needle."

Meng Qian didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while. In the past two years, Hu Weiwu praised himself highly every time he saw him. Meng Qian knew that this was Hu Weiwu's love for him, and it was because Hu Weiwu really understood Meng Qian. The impact on the development of China's chips over the years, but it is strange to be praised so much. There is no way, Meng Qian had no choice but to change the subject directly, "What is the purpose of those two people who brought me here early in the morning? It must not be just In order to tell me the news of a successful filming, and such a thing will not send out two people."

Xie Jun was a little more serious, "There is indeed something. If we go forward with 55nm, we will be the 40nm process of GPS. If it is in the past ten years, as long as we can realize the 40nm process, we can be regarded as catching up with the gap.

But just like what you mentioned yesterday when you said you wanted to build your own rockets, future satellites will be connected to cloud-connected technologies, and will be connected to terminal products such as smartphones, computers, cars, etc., which will affect the development of the entire future technology, obviously , The 40nm process will soon no longer be the standard for satellite chips.

The United States will definitely start to accelerate the process development speed of GPS chips and open up the development space of GPS chips in more fields in the future. Therefore, it is a kind of success for us to realize the 55nm process at this time, but it is also a kind of pressure.

Because we want to ensure that we will not fall behind in the future war situation, we must invest more in the United States, and must develop faster in the United States, otherwise once the technology matures, our previous efforts may be wasted. "

Xie Jun's judgment on the future is very accurate. From the development of the Huaxia Beidou chip in the past, it can be seen that even without the existence of Meng Qian, Xie Jun also viewed the future in this way. The only thing he misjudged was that he overestimated to the United States.

For a long time, navigation and positioning chips have not been a category that requires high technology. The GPS chip in the United States has not advanced after reaching the 40nm process, because for navigation and positioning chips, the 40nm process is completely sufficient, and it is a little bit better to improve the process. Superfluous means doing useless work.

However, the development of technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence has necessitated the technological progress of satellite chips. For example, after the Beidou chip plans to enter the 22nm process, it can integrate microprocessors, analog IP cores, digital IP cores and memory on a single chip. , Peripheral interfaces, etc. to achieve the characteristics of high integration, small size and low power consumption.

Because of the development of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, quantum communication and other technologies, the Beidou system is not just a navigation system, it will be applied to more industries, so the progress of technology can promote the better integration of Beidou system into more industries .

For example, smartphones, tablets, and the application of Beidou in small unmanned systems require Beidou chips to further integrate small intelligent processors such as vision and scene recognition on the basis of the system-wide, full-frequency, baseband, and radio frequency integrated SoC. A 22nm process is required, and if it is still a 40nm process, it will be useless.

So logically speaking, the GPS system should indeed enter more fields, and the GPS system chip should also improve the technology, but for some reason, the United States seems to be inexplicably slow in responding to this matter.

When Huaxia got the 28nm Beidou chip and started to develop the 22nm Beidou chip, the GPS chip was still mainly 40nm, and I don't know what happened to them.

It is not known whether it is true that we have not seen this future, or there is a problem with the old technology, or it is still being done secretly.

But Xie Jun has no prophet, so he naturally thinks that the United States will definitely promote the technology of GPS chips rapidly in the past few years.

Meng Qian didn't tell him the truth, because such pressure is a good thing for the development of Huaxia Beidou chips, so Meng Qian said cooperatively, "It is true, it is impossible for the United States to look at the future development direction and remain indifferent, especially looking at us. The performance of the Beidou system is getting better and better, and the United States will definitely increase its investment, which is the pressure in front of us."

Xie Jun nodded, "Now the research and development of Beidou chips is plainly three major problems. We need to bypass foreign patents, we need to make preparations for not making money, and we need to accelerate technological development."

"In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a matter of money." Meng Qian concluded, "It can be said that in recent years, whether it is our Dafeng Semiconductor, Loongson or Beidou, the biggest gain is that we have absorbed a group of outstanding talents.

The core of technological development is talent, and after the talent is in place, it is a matter of policy and capital. Now the policy environment is obviously improving, so the next thing is to spend money.

Moreover, in terms of technological development, domestic equipment is becoming more and more capable. "

"So we have set several directions now. First, we plan to complete the construction of the Beidou satellite navigation regional system in 2012, formally serve the Asia-Pacific region, speed up our Beidou industrialization process, and let our Beidou go out from the beginning. .

As we all know, the Beidou chip market is only about 40 billion soft sister coins, so most companies are unwilling to enter this field. The initial investment will be billions, but the cake is only 40 billion. Such a high risk is impossible for companies. accepted.

But the 40 billion Ruanmei coins are only in the Chinese market. If the Beidou system can go abroad, then this market will increase exponentially in the future. At least the unit must be changed from Ruanmei coins to rice yuan. "

"Your current plan is to let Beidou go out from 2012, starting from the Asia-Pacific region?"

"That's right, that's it. Through the expansion of the market, more companies will be attracted to enter the market. On the other hand, we must do a good job of leading the market, especially in the most difficult technical breakthroughs. The good news recently is that, The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, which was just established last month, plans to invest 5 billion in Beidou chips first.”

The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund was established in 2014, a full four years in advance, and this advance is obviously related to the butterfly Meng Qian, regardless of whether it was the former National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund or this generation. Yes, they all did the same thing, investing in Beidou chips.

"Since everything is ready, why are you two looking for me?" Meng Qian suddenly became a little confused. He has a direction, a strategy, and talents. Now that he even has money, why do he come to him.

Xie Jun unloaded a serious smile and said, "We want to ask you today if you want to cooperate with us. Let's make the Beidou chip cake bigger and push our China's Beidou system to the world."

Meng Qian was stunned for a moment, and then smiled unconsciously.

The national team deserves to be the national team. Thinking about the five-year outbreak of Beidou chips without money, it was a miracle in the history of China's chip development.

In this life, Meng Qian promoted the pace of China's chip development, and the national team really got up.

Today, when he thought he might need to help the national team again, he suddenly found out that the national team invited him to eat meat.

This kind of country's overall level of science and technology has risen, and it feels really cool to be able to rely on.

Meng Qian couldn't help laughing heartily, "If you have thighs, you can't hold on to the sky, I'm sure about the Beidou chip car."