1991 Starting from the core

At half past one, Su Yuanshan woke up on time.

Yuanxin currently implements a system of working from nine to six, with a two-hour break and seven hours of actual work. At present, weekend breaks have not been implemented yet, which is a natural 966.

Yang Yiwen and Sun Xihui, a royal sister and a mature woman, were sleeping soundly on the sofa, with half of the towels and quilts pulled down. Judging from their sleeping positions, it is indeed not suitable for resting in an adult's office. It is only suitable for me, a "minor".

Su Yuanshan got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. When he came back, he opened the folder, pulled out a fax and fell into deep thought.

This fax was forwarded from Pan Xiaojun from SZ.

The name of the unit is United Microelectronics Co., Ltd., also known as UMC. It was the first semiconductor company established on the opposite island in 1980 and currently has five branches. In front of it, TSMC, which is now bent on engaging in professional foundry manufacturing, is just a younger brother within a younger brother. After that, TSMC grew rapidly by relying on its advantage of concentrating on foundry, and soon a battle between dragons and tigers was formed. Later, a fire severely damaged UMC's vitality, not only losing factories but also losing orders. Tens of billions of Taiwan dollars were wiped out, forcing UMC's five factories to merge into one to recover and regain its strength.

Unexpectedly, misfortune would strike again soon. UMC listened to IBM's lies and formed a three-party team with Infineon, which was independent from Siemens, to tackle the then 0.13 micron process. What else could the three parties do besides fighting against the landlords? So TSMC was the first to develop 0.13 micron, and since then it has lost the high-end market.

Entering the new millennium, the domestic semiconductor godfather Zhang Rujing (whose real name is used here to show respect) returned to Shanghai. In just two years, he built the most advanced wafer fab in the country and quickly encroached on the low-end market. It even once became the third largest generation fab in the world. factory. Although UMC has been aggressive since then, it was eventually overshadowed by TSMC.

UMC's fax requesting to purchase FarCore EDA and requesting technical support was right in front of them - to request technical support, one must send someone to the factory. To put it bluntly, UMC had a keen eye and chose to cooperate deeply with FarCore at the first time.

If Yuanxin was just a company focusing on EDA, it would be so happy to be invited by such a semiconductor giant.

But at this time, UMC had not yet transformed into a professional foundry, and it still maintained its chip design business. With the "XX Consensus" reached next year, a large number of domestic markets will be opened to the opposite side. In other words, the current wafer fab like UMC, which can both design and produce, will be Yuanxin's most direct opponent in the next few years.

After all, Yuanxin is not a company that only sells EDA. In the next few years, Yuanxin's main profit direction will still be based on chip design and derivative fields.

Pursing his lips, Su Yuanshan took a deep breath, finally signed his name, and asked Pan Xiaojun to invite UMC representatives to make an appointment to meet in Xiangjiang. At the same time, he asked Pan Xiaojun to contact Dynasty New and choose UMC for the second-generation factory.

Huajing's production capacity is not enough to meet the demand for pager chips - you must know that after the opening of private stations, the number of pager users next year will increase to nearly 3 million, which is twice the total of the previous years. If the chips that Yuanxin has independent property rights cannot sell even one million pieces, then stop playing.

Similarly, if Yuanxin is afraid of even UMC, a scumbag in the IC design world, then stop playing.

At this time, the two people next to me happened to wake up. Yang Yiwen rubbed her eyes, checked the time, walked to Su Yuanshan's desk, pulled out a piece of paper and wrote, "When will you recruit two subordinates for me? Now I have to do everything by myself."

"Now we need to recruit people who are proficient in English and understand foreign trade and patent law... Where can I find them?" Su Yuanshan spread his hands and handed the fax document to Sun Xihui and asked her to pass it to Pan Xiaojun.

"How about you and Brother Tang get married first." Su Yuanshan stared at Yang Yiwen and joked: "I have to lock you in the company first, lest you run away unhappy and I will be blinded."

"...Stop talking nonsense and approve the money quickly."

After Su Yuanshan signed, he got himself a glass of water and returned to the computer.

At noon, Qin Weimin said he was resting, but in fact he was still sorting out information. During lunch, he said he had a good idea. Now that noon has passed, Qin Weimin has written the idea into a document and sent it over the LAN.

This is an idea about caching. Su Yuanshan just looked at it briefly and felt that it didn't make much sense - there were too many ideas about new architectures recently, and he was a little numb. But when he saw the end, he was suddenly startled, and a moment later he slapped the table!

"Senior brother is really awesome!"

Su Yuanshan suppressed his excitement and strode towards the workroom.

At this time, Qin Weimin was using Yuanxin EDA to design registers and corresponding instructions in order to bypass existing patents.

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"Brother, you are awesome! The combination of these instructions is a magic touch! It can greatly reduce the time of reading the cache." Su Yuanshan approached Qin Weimin, shook his shoulders and said loudly.

Qin Weimin turned around and was startled for a moment: "Is there any?"

"Yes! As long as we apply for this patent, any CPU imitating the ARM architecture will not be able to bypass it!" The reason why Su Yuanshan said so definitely is because in the continuous improvement of the ARM architecture in later generations, there is also a patent similar to Intel338, but Because ARM has an unlimited license, no one comes to challenge its patents, so it is not famous.

"Senior brother is amazing!" Su Yuanshan praised again. At this moment, he even wanted to personally intervene in Qin Weimin's design, and directly produce the first chip architecture and launch it on the market in a month or two.

However, his reason immediately told him not to encourage others. Qin Weimin himself had a talent for chip design, especially in architecture. I had carefully led him for so long, not just so that Qin Weimin could look at me in confusion and applaud him for showing off - Qin Weimin was going to be the chief architect of mobile phone SOC in the future!

You can guide Qin Weimin to avoid detours, but you must not overstep his will.

After Su Yuanshan briefly described the consequences of several instructions, Qin Weimin immediately switched to ARM's patented instruction set for simulation. Soon he also came to the conclusion that if he wanted to use ARM's instruction set to complete cache-like reading and writing To operate, you really must use your own few instructions.

"Then apply for a patent now? Apply internationally or domestically?"

"You can't apply now. You have to complete our instruction set before you can apply together." Su Yuanshan took a deep breath, suppressing his excitement, but he couldn't hide his smile.

Patent barriers are important, but the most important thing is that Qin Weimin has grown up.

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