Author: Jing Jing

Shirakawa Kaede returns to Tokyo to deal with the accumulated things at hand, and it is already mid-February.

People below the Walkman market will always pay attention to it, and the next generation of product research and development tasks have also been assigned.

Facing many competitors, there is no shortcut to take, so you can only face it head-on.

However, Shirakawa Electric's Walkman has been sold for more than a year, and its brand image is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

With the market he cultivates himself, Shirakawa Kaede still maintains a relatively optimistic attitude towards the Walkman business.

He also has some ideas about the handheld machine business. However, the specific matter needs to be discussed with HAL and Akagi.

Except for the most important things that are currently placed in front of Shirakawa Kaede, the only thing left is SIC.

Shibuya Yoshikayama, SIC Building.

Unlike the last empty scene, not only the front desk in the reception hall on the first floor has been in place.

There are also figures in those small conference rooms, most of which are interviewing the talents needed by various departments.

The research and development of chips, the development of CD formats, etc. all require professional and high-end technicians.

Although there are a large number of highly educated talents at the University of Technology, there is a little lack of practical experience after all.

Therefore, in order to improve R&D efficiency, mature technicians are indispensable.

Considering the growth of SIC, the interns in the school cannot let go.

You must grasp both hands, and both hands must be hard.

As for the specific talents that need to be recruited, it is up to Masato Shima and the others to decide.

Under the guidance of his assistant, Shirakawa Kaede took the elevator to head straight to the fifth floor, where it was the development area for SIC chip technology.

When they arrived here, Masato Shima and Kei Yamazaki were pointing at the computer screen in the office.

Shirakawa Kaede, who had arrived, stopped the assistant from reminding him, and instead stood behind them and waited quietly.

"The size adjustment of transistors must be reasonable, and it is not necessarily the smaller the better. Reducing power consumption and delay is our ultimate goal.

In addition, when the manufacturing process enters the submicron level, the impact of interconnection delay between circuits on circuit performance even exceeds the impact of logic gate delay itself.

At this time, when we design a circuit, we must consider the capacitance and inductance effects between the wire and networks.

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"Does the negative impact of clock offset and clock tree parasitic parameters also need to be avoided in advance?"

“Yes,…”

While Masato Shima was talking, Yamazaki Hiro nodded from time to time, or continued to ask questions about the places where he had questions.

And Shirakawa Kaede, who had listened behind them for a while, soon felt a little overwhelmed.

Those professional terms seem to be difficult to mess with.

Finally, when Masato Shima finally picked up the coffee, the person behind him could notice the shadow behind him.

"Hey, President Shirakawa" Shimasato put down his coffee after drinking half of it.

Yamazaki Hui beside him also subconsciously stood up to greet him when he saw Shirakawa Kaede.

"Shisan Shima, don't be polite. You and Yamazaki Kwan continue to discuss, I'll take a look."

Shirakawa Kaede reached out and signaled that they didn't need to be rude. If it weren't for something, he wouldn't usually disturb them.

The most taboo thing about technology research and development is to be interrupted by various trivial matters, so the entire SIC building is relatively quiet compared to the surrounding area.

"The matters that should be discussed have almost been discussed. However, if Shirakawa Sang doesn't come, I'm going to go and find them myself."

Shimasaki waved his hand to indicate that there was no hurry to work. He just now was teaching Yamazaki's precautions about chip design.

Shirakawa Kaede casually pulled a chair and sat down in front of them, "I'm so sorry, I just came to discuss the chip's back-end design with Shimasan today."

When the SIC building was completed a few years ago, Shirakawa Kaede, Shimamasari and others had a meeting.

The front-end design of the chip is expected to be completed before the New Year, and most of the work in the back-end design is coming to an end in January.

According to the plan, physical design will be carried out in February, and this part of the work already needs to be connected with semiconductor manufacturers.

However, because Shirakawa Kaede was delayed for some time in Akita, the progress of chip research and development has been slightly delayed.

Fortunately, the impact was not too long. After Shirakawa Kaede handled the urgent matter, he rushed to SIC as soon as possible.

Now that Shirakawa Kaede has arrived, Shimamasato has also come to the topic.

"Because I did not determine which semiconductor manufacturer, I collected process technical information from several major semiconductor companies in Japan and did some preliminary work."

As he said that, Masato Shima opened the design drawings on the computer and pointed them to Shirakawa Kaede.

"The layout and wiring of the main body has been roughly completed. After the subsequent branching and details are improved, the integrated circuit layout can be integrated and the actual process manufacturing stage will be entered."

Looking at the dense transistors and lines on the computer screen, Shirakawa Kaede couldn't understand them, but he thought they were extremely cute.

This is the power of knowledge. Thousands of transistors are arranged neatly and orderly on the computer screen like ants.

The circuits composed of them are so complicated that they now have to concentrate all of them on a small chip and run smoothly.

This requires consideration of the mutual influence, power consumption, delay, logical relationships, etc. between the entire circuit.

Just thinking about it, Shirakawa Kaede feels deterred.

Sure enough, it is no exaggeration to say that chips are the ultimate embodiment of human technology development.

Shirakawa Kaede also admires the big guys who are engaged in this industry.

"Shisan Shima, I don't understand the technical matter. You just need to tell me that I can do it now..." Shirakawa Kaede pointed to the circuit diagram on the computer screen, "What can I do for it?"

Shimamasaki likes Shirakawa Kaede's style of really wanting to do things. The meaningless greetings and politeness will not help him.

"First, we need to confirm the processing method of the chip as soon as possible. After the physical design is completed, we must enter the manufacturing verification stage.

This is equally important for chip design, and any chip needs a lot of adjustments and verification before it is released.

Second, please consider the future prospects of this chip as soon as possible.

If it is designed only without production and use, then its existence will be meaningless."

The first point is needless to say, the current top priority, and Shirakawa Kaede also has his own plans.

"What does Shimasan think of Fujitsu about chip manufacturers?"

"Fujitsu? Of course it's no problem." Shimasaki knew several local semiconductor manufacturers in Neon.

After all, not everyone can make high-end products like chips.

There are only a few companies in Japan, including NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba. Fujitsu is about the third place.

For this year, the chip generation process is still at the micron level, and there is basically no generation difference between them.

Therefore, there is absolutely no problem in choosing Fujitsu as the OEM.

The reason why Shirakawa Kaede chose Fujitsu because it is also a member of the First Persuasion Bank Consortium.

With the previous good cooperation foundation, Shirakawa Kaede believes that there should be no problem with Fujitsu.

However, the specific situation needs to be known after talking to Fuji.

Seeing that Shirakawa Kaede looked confident, Shimamasaki did not delve into why he chose Fujitsu.

For him, as long as he can meet the technical requirements, it doesn’t matter who he does it for.

The first thing is to have a place to fall, then the second thing...

"Shisan Shima, I'll ask you, based on your estimates, how about the chip performance of the SIC? So what about Intel's 8086 or Zligo's 8000?"

If you want to ask about the prospects of the chip, of course, you must first look at its performance.

Hearing the question of Shirakawa Kaede, Shimasato changed his previous humility.

"I dare not say anything else, but at least it will not be weaker than them." Shimashita Masaki has quite confident about this.

Just kidding the former family member of these two chips, he personally participated in the design.

Even Zligo's Z8000, Shimasato Shima was involved.

So he knew their performance.

Moreover, at the beginning of design, the SIC chip was targeted by Intel's 8086 and zligo's z8000.

The latter two are basically products from two or three years ago. Although SIC is a latecomer, it is not worse than them.

Hearing Shirakawa Kaede's promise, he was very satisfied.

This is the first product of SIC, and it is really rare to have such performance.

"About the prospects for chip use, Shimasan please list a range that suits it later, and I will focus on it."

Of course, Shirakawa Kaede will not only use it for his own use if he wants to make chips. He has already made plans to process it in a family way.

Isn’t it just to bring it to the market and create profits for SIC?

To put it bluntly, chips are also a product. Masato Shima is responsible for research and development, and Shirakawa Kaede is responsible for selling them.
To be continued...