Rewrite the Technological Landscape

The annual meeting of Dafeng Sci-Tech Innovation Agents ended successfully. In the next two days, "Red Moon", "Millennium" and "Dark Light" finally announced the official public beta time. After the year.

"Red Moon" public test time: February 10, 2001.

"Millennium" public beta time: February 17, 2001.

"Dark Light" public beta time: February 24, 2001.

And when Dafeng Kechuang opened the agent annual meeting, "Stone Age" came. Judging from the situation a few days after the public beta test, it was much better than the original "Legend". Of course, the success of "Stone Age" may be a factor. Also because "The Legend of God" did nothing.

On January 18, 2001, the employees of Dafeng Science and Technology were preparing for the company's annual meeting on the second day. Because there were a lot of things at the end of the year, when Sun Xiaojing asked for everyone's opinions, everyone hoped to move the time of the annual meeting as far back as possible. Focus on work first, and then have more fun during the annual meeting.

That's why we set the time on January 19th, because from January 20th, employees have been going home early to prepare for the New Year.

And on January 19, 2001, Dafeng Kechuang ushered in a team's visit.

"Everyone, you've had a hard time on the road." At two o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Qian arranged for two cars to pick him up at the airport in person. This was a seven-member team, and the team leader was named Fang Chen.

"Boss Meng has a heart." Seeing Meng Qian personally pick up the plane, Fang Chen quickly stepped forward to shake hands with Meng Qian and expressed his gratitude. After that, Meng Qian shook hands with the remaining six members of the team one by one.

The whole team consisted of six men and one woman. Three of them, including Fang Chen, seemed to be around fifty years old, and the other three men and one woman were all in their thirties.

And what they represent today is Ni Guangnan.

After the last meeting, Ni Guangnan had two phone conversations with Meng Qian. The team he sent this time is, in a sense, recommended to Meng Qian. How did Qian and Fang Chen chat?

As for Ni Guangnan, he couldn't come to Dafeng Science and Technology to help Meng Qian take charge of the overall situation, so he could only help Meng Qian in other ways and identities.

After understanding the situation, although Meng Qian was sorry, he expressed his understanding and gratitude.

Later generations of media did not write in detail about why Ni Guangnan went there, but some media also mentioned one thing. These two phone conversations made Meng Qian further speculate that Ni Guangnan may have participated in the Godson project.

The establishment of the Godson Research Group was in 2001.

He ran into the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Meng Qian didn't have much to say. He went to snatch people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On the way back to the company, Fang Chen and the others started chatting with Meng Qian about development issues after a brief exchange of pleasantries. It was obvious that they were all people doing things. As soon as they arrived at the company, Meng Qian took seven people to the conference room to start a discussion.

Pulling the blackboard to the middle, Meng Qian took a pen and wrote down several key words: chip architecture, system, EDA, process, equipment, material.

"Everyone on the road asked me what I was going to do, and on a large scale, it was these things.

In my opinion, these are the six cores in the chip field, and these six cores, we are now fully behind.

So to make a chip, the first thing I want to make clear is that we must do these six things, and none of them can be dispensed with. "

"Do you want to start independent research and development from these six segments?" Fang Chen subconsciously asked.

"Yes." Meng Qian nodded.

"I'm too anxious." Fang Chen hesitated for a moment and then opened his mouth, "Now that we rely on other people's technology to make chips, it is still a problem, so we want to conquer more basic things, which will bring more investment costs and time cycles. It's all a company can't bear at all, right?

International chip companies such as Samsung are also using other people's architectures. So far, I have not heard that they plan to develop chip architectures from scratch. It would be great if they could develop their own architectures, but "

"I'm really anxious, very anxious." Meng Qian responded to Fang Chen, "Because the breakthrough in the field of chips is too difficult, it is not only a product, but also an ecology, which means that it is not only a technical dispute , is the accumulation of time.

Let’s take craftsmanship as an example, and see the big from the small. For example, optical lenses. Zeiss and Nikon have always been in the leading position. We have also worked hard for many people in this industry. Why can’t we surpass them? Because they have a lot of experience.

They have a sander who can polish for a lifetime, but we may not even find a master with polishing experience.

What is the gap? This is the basic gap. When it is enlarged to the chip field, we will never do these six basics. In the future, we will not only face the competition of technology itself, but also the backwardness of time accumulation.

So in my opinion, chips are a field in which competition is based on a ten-year-based time unit. It may take 30, 50, or even 100 years to achieve full autonomy, but if you start earlier, you will have greater success. probability.

I often think, what should we do if one day others don't authorize their architecture, they don't let us use their EDA software, and they don't sell us lithography machines?

Are we waiting to die?

However, it is also a very realistic problem for Mr. Fang to consider from the perspective of enterprise development, so in the field of chip research and development, I am going to set up a special project team, which I call the project team of the unknown.

What does that mean? To put it simply, the company will carry out chip research and development from two levels. The first level is closer to the company's revenue generation. We purchase architecture authorization, purchase EDA use rights, purchase lithography machines, and even in the early stage, we do not do production ourselves and directly hand over Companies like TSMC will do it.

And the second level is the Nobody project team, their job is to tackle the six foundations,

For the time being, I intend to divide the company's annual scientific research investment into the regular chip project team and the unknown person project team in a way of 70-30%.

This project team is destined to be non-profitable for a long time, and it is not even ruled out that they will not be profitable until Dafeng Science and Technology Innovation goes bankrupt.

Perhaps, they will always be unknown, no one knows that such a project team ever existed.

But maybe, one day in the future, the Nobody project team will become the most dazzling miracle in the entire technological field.

And what I have to do is to do my best to protect this group of unknown people so that they can have a better environment to do scientific research.

Although I don't know what will happen in the future, but I just have an inexplicable premonition that the nameless person will become famous all over the world.