Xueba's technology tree

Chapter 39 Exchange Patents
Zhou Yu is learning about the scientific research progress of the R&D center in the office.

Wang Jian walked into the office and reported to Zhou Yuhui: "Mr. Zhou, I have sent the Fuxi-[-] chip and Nuwa-[-] chip to Huawei."

After Wang Jian finished his report, he asked suspiciously: "The chip we developed should be used in our company's own equipment first, why should we provide chip samples to Huawei."

"Of course it is to seek cooperation with Huawei. The patents of our two companies are extremely complementary." Zhou Yu explained indifferently.

He sent graphene chips to Huawei, which is asking for directions, looking at Huawei's demand for high-performance chips, so as to lay the foundation for future cooperation.

Graphene chip has very strong editability due to its preparation process characteristics. By adjusting its graphene transistor layout, many dedicated chips can be edited.

The most fundamental business of Huawei is not the production of chips for mobile phones and smart devices. It is the world's largest supplier of network equipment. 5G base stations require a large number of communication-specific chips, most of which are monopolized by European and American countries.

The United States used this trick of cutting off the supply of chips, which almost disabled ZTE, the world's fourth largest network equipment supplier.

Huawei needs to transfer a lot of benefits in order to obtain a stable supply of chips.

Knowing that Xinghuo Technology is expected to produce these chips, they will definitely come to the company to seek cooperation, so that Xinghuo Technology can also obtain the technology they urgently need.

"This should be their initiative to beg us. Our company has successfully manufactured graphene chips, and we no longer need chips from Huawei." Wang Jian asked puzzled.

Zhou Yu knew that the company's executives had this doubt, so he took the opportunity to explain: "Huawei's SOC also has a communication baseband in addition to the CPU and GPU.

CPU and GPU are the strengths of our company. Fuxi type I graphene chips can naturally process holographic images.

However, it is difficult for our company to develop the baseband. It takes more than ten years of investment in the communication field to develop an excellent baseband.

Otherwise, like Apple using Intel's baseband, the network signal is cut off and the call is unstable, which greatly damages the company's reputation.

Our company's technology on baseband chips is definitely not as good as Intel's. The technical field of communication cannot be done well by recruiting a few people.

What's more, we cannot directly avoid the patent barriers of silicon-based chips like we study graphene chips.

Patents in the communication field are more complicated. We just researched a new type of baseband, and we can't let all operators in the world change their network base stations.

If we do not cooperate with Huawei, and no other company can cooperate with us, which consumers will buy smart devices that cannot be connected to the Internet.

In fact, there is another solution, which is to use an external baseband solution.

But now the baseband is integrated on the SOC. Is this an external baseband or an SOC with a graphene chip? Besides, the graphene chip requires a special motherboard and is not compatible with the silicon-based chip motherboard. This is by no means a good solution. "

After listening to Zhou Yu's narration, Wang Jian immediately understood that smart devices that cannot be connected to the Internet will indeed affect their sales, and he also understood the purpose of the company.

In Pengcheng Huawei Research Center, hundreds of experts are stepping up research on the two chips sent by Spark Technology.

Tan Yingjiong, Huawei's chief expert in chip design, also called to communicate with chip designer Academician Tian Kai.

Qin Lishan, Huawei's rotating president in charge of technology, is awaiting the results of the experts.

After two nights and one day of non-stop research, the chip experts obtained the basic data of the graphene chip.

After verifying the performance of the graphene chip, expert Tan Yingjiong reported to Qin Lishanhui: "President, we have verified the performance of Xinghuo Technology's chip, and communicated with the chip designer, Academician Tian Kai, to learn about some characteristics of the graphene chip.

The performance of Fuxi-5.98 graphene chips is 6.15 times higher than that of our Kirin chips, and that of Nuwa-[-] graphene chips is [-] times higher than that of Kunpeng server chips.

Graphene chips can easily design and process the transistor layout, and our chip design can be easily transplanted to graphene chips.

More than 5% of chips related to 98G base stations can be transplanted to graphene chips.

The most important thing is that the graphene chip design is simple, which can save 80% of research time and research funds.

The production process of graphene chips is simple, it is very easy to produce on a large scale, and the cost of tape-out is low. The overall cost of the chip is only 40% of the original. "

After Tan Yingjiong reported the situation of the graphene chip, he provided Qin Lishan with a detailed report on the chip.

After Qin Lishan read the report carefully, he sighed: "I didn't expect such an advanced chip to be produced in China. I immediately reported to Mr. Ren and suggested a cooperation with Xinghuo Technology."

On June 6, Spark Technology ushered in Huawei's negotiating team.

The team leader is Qin Lishan, the rotating president of Huawei, the deputy team leader is Tan Yingjiong, the chief chip expert, and Yan Dali, the president of the enterprise BG.

Zhou Yu didn't expect Huawei to respond so quickly, and it can be seen from this that they are eager for domestic chips.

Not to mention that once a certain technology is localized, with China's powerful industrial system, it can be made into cabbage in an instant.

Just talking about supplying from multiple suppliers, companies can negotiate prices more flexibly, and there is no possibility of lifelines being choked, which makes many companies flock to it.

Zhou Yu also quickly completed the establishment of the Spark Technology negotiation team, with himself as the team leader, Tian Kai and Yu Zhenfeng as the deputy team leaders, and the heads of the finance department and the legal department accompanied the negotiation.

Huawei can negotiate with Xinghuo Technology so quickly, of course they have very high expectations for cooperation.

Spark Technology also hopes that they can reach a smooth cooperation for wireless communication technology.

The people in charge of both parties have a strong intention to cooperate, and they also know where the bottom line of the other party lies, and they will not push forward.

They were all trying their best to increase their own interests during the compromise. After several hours of long talks between Zhou Yu and Qin Lishan, a general cooperation plan was quickly reached.

Xinghuo Technology and Huawei jointly developed a 5G baseband based on graphene chips and a dedicated communication chip for 5G base stations.

Xinghuo Technology authorizes Huawei to use the graphene chip framework and intelligent instruction set, and the chip factory specializes in manufacturing various graphene chips for Huawei.

Huawei authorized Spark Technology to use all 5G communication patents.

Huawei and Xinghuo Science and Technology researchers formed a dedicated research and development team for 5G graphene chips to jointly develop chips.

After the cooperation framework was reached, Zhou Yu and Qin Lishan shook hands and said happily: "The cooperation is happy. I believe that the two companies will work together to develop the best 5G chip ecosystem."

"Win-win cooperation, we will jointly build a 5G ecological chain. Your company's graphene chip has a really high degree of freedom, which can minimize our transplantation costs." Qin Lishan said excitedly.

The two companies reached a cooperation agreement, and Huawei immediately dispatched a chip and communication R&D team to temporarily join the Xiongan Graphene Chip Research Institute.

They worked with Xinghuo Technology to develop a graphene chip-based SOC. At the same time, they also consulted the chip team of Academician Tian Kai to complete the design of a communication-specific chip with the help of Xinghuo Technology.

(End of this chapter)