Chapter 368 Sooner or later, the whole world will be enemies!
Tuesday, January 29th.
Another busy day.
In the morning, Wen Liang climbed out of bed rustlingly, and when he went downstairs, he saw Su Jian setting the dinner plates.
She has already prepared a simple breakfast.
The fried eggs were not burnt, the temperature of the milk was just right, and the noodles were not wet.
The craftsmanship is decent.
As usual, he first pinched Xiao Lirang's cheeks and then straightened up. When Wen Liang saw Su Jian standing beside him, he also pinched her little cheeks: "It feels like living a good life now."
Su Jian was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously nodded his head: "Yeah."
"Eat." Wen Liang sat down first and didn't notice Su Jian's expression.
At the dinner table, Li Rang was chattering about this and that.
Finally, he suddenly said: "I want to go to the company to visit my mother."
On the third day after returning to Yangcheng, Xiao Lirang finally thought of her dear mother.
Yes!
After so many days, she didn't even return home to Chi Chi, let alone go to find her mother.
I don’t even know what day it is today.
It’s not easy to remember.
"Okay." Wen Liang didn't tease her and agreed with a smile, "Then you have to come back and stay here tonight."
Li Rang nodded without thinking: "Okay!"
He looked at Su Jian again.
"I still want to go out and play in the morning."
"good."
"Where to go."
"Then I have to think about it."
"Don't think about it."
"That won't work."
Su Jian and Li Rang were chatting with each other, but it wasn't much.
Every time he sees this kind of scene, Wen Liang becomes a little worried about his future children.
Su Jian will also graduate from her bachelor's degree next year. She has no plans to go to graduate school because she is unlearned and has no skills. Time flies by very quickly. She will have to have a baby after she gets married.
This mother is still a baby.
He was obviously more mature than this last year~
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After the meal, Su Jian simply put away the dinner plate and mentioned the hottest textbook incident on the Internet: "Has Bolang been shot this time? I saw some netizens discussing it, saying that this kind of thing that tears apart potential interests is directly
It was placed on Bo Lang’s head.”
"It doesn't matter." Wen Liang's meaning was very clear, "Forget it if we haven't met. After all, I have already mentioned it on the wall. If I take the initiative to cause trouble again, it will appear that I don't trust Lao Pingtou. But now I have found it myself. It is impossible."
If someone diverts attention for a small profit, you must support it to the end!"
Su Jian expressed his deep support for this: "Poison textbooks have far-reaching impacts and should be supported to the end."
Turn to ask: "What is the situation now?"
Wen Liang said bluntly: "The old man said that Grandpa Ping's new appointment comes at the right time."
"As for how far it will develop, I can't say now. Everything has just begun. I just want to see the heads rolling in and I don't want to stop!"
Su Jian couldn't help but smile: "Although I also want to see it, but, Wen Liang... you are a bit arrogant when you say that, you have no decision-making power."
"Not necessarily." Wen Liang smiled, "Bo Lang is not afraid of being used as a weapon. If things don't go as planned, then go a little further..."
With that said, Wen Liang looked at Su Jian: "Don't forget, the number one Chinese comprehensive social networking platform is Xiaocheng Shu. Without the domestic and overseas versions, let's see who dares to bet on me!"
"If you have the ability to fight to the end, then blow up the Internet. Who can't flip the table?"
Su Jian felt a little helpless when he heard this: "But if we cross the line like this, Bolang will have no future."
"Have you ever thought that if you can't get to the bottom of it after being uncovered this time, then the entire future will slowly disappear." Wen Liang said calmly, "After all, culture is the blood of a nation."
"The older generation has long told us that anyone who dares to interfere with education issues is an enemy and must be resolutely and completely eliminated."
Su Jian looked solemn: "I thought too little of myself. That's true. You are right."
Wen Liang didn't say much.
This matter cannot be measured by pros and cons. It must be measured by the simplest right and wrong. Wrong is wrong and must be eradicated.
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After much delay, Wen Liang took Li Rang into Bolang at around 9 o'clock.
Li Rang was sent directly to Wang Wanyu's office.
Seeing Li Rang, Wang Wanyu smiled at first, and then pretended to be unhappy with a straight face. Li Rang quickly moved into Wang Wanyu's arms. She is older than her mother.
Wen Liang didn't stay long, turned around and walked out of Wang Wanyu's office and went to his own office.
Before he could even sit still, Li Ze walked in.
It comes faster than the beginning of summer.
Looking at Li Ze and then at Li Xia, Wen Liang made a gesture: "Li Zhu, you go ahead."
Li Xia only said one thing: "Lei Jun Lei's flight is delayed and he will arrive in Yangcheng at 11:35. Will your meeting with him be arranged in the afternoon instead?"
"I think it's okay." Li Ze actually spoke first, and then hurriedly said, "Mr. Wen, my matter has something to do with Mr. Lei."
Wen Liang was kind and gentle: "Then arrange it in the afternoon."
Lixia left the office in response.
Later, Qin Zheng, who rarely came to the company, actually walked into the general manager's office.
Anyway, he didn't sit still, so Wen Liang simply walked out from behind the desk, went to the reception area, and said, "What big thing are you causing today?"
Li Ze got straight to the point: "About the external sales of self-developed mobile phone SoC."
Wen Liang holds the pot and makes tea in an orderly manner, as if you continue to talk and I am listening.
Of course, Li Ze did not hesitate and expressed his thoughts concisely: "Our self-developed mobile phone SoC has entered the stage of docking with Huahong Huali Micro, and will use Huali Micro's currently most stable 40nm process. Considering that we
With the current performance of mobile phone terminal equipment, we initially plan to sell it externally to amortize costs."
"ZTE has also tactfully mentioned that it hopes to get core chip-level solutions from us. The demand is there."
"On the other hand, the connection between Xiaosorghum and Bolang Terminal was very smooth. According to the needs of Xiaosorghum, we jointly conducted market big data analysis during the communication process of Xiaosorghum, determined the breadth of the market demand, and predicted
At least 30 million units can be sold in the domestic market! If there is a good supply model, this number will exceed 70 million, which is the most natural promotion tool for self-developed chips."
"There is a core key here. The company has conducted big data analysis many times and reached almost the same conclusion. Even in today's smartphone era, which is still in its infancy, if there is no good application ecological support, it will be positioned as high-end.
The machine audience will not be patient, and only the user audience of the lowest-end series has the basis for patience."
"Just like people who are only willing to pay the price of a copycat phone, they rarely care about the annoying thing that the mobile phone system comes with countless applications."
"Redmi's positioning is the ultimate cost-effectiveness of less than 1,000 yuan, and it can... explore the future for us."
Wen Liang can understand the reasons stated by Li Ze. Using the Redmi series to initially build a new instruction set application ecosystem is indeed the most advantageous route. The risks are basically passed on and new markets can be opened up.
Wen Liang asked directly: "Does small sorghum have this efficiency?"
Li Ze answered affirmatively: "If it were our plan, of course we would. They would have already completed the first-generation model product, and they just replaced parts with almost standard specifications."
Then Wen Liang looked at Qin Zheng: "Xiao Qin doesn't want to talk about how you changed this fast-paced trick."
Qin Zheng’s answer is simple: “Our research and development has lasted one year and one month, and we have also accumulated experience using ARM solutions. It has been one and a half months since the instruction set was perfected. This kind of efficiency is normal.
.”
Finally, Qin Zheng added sternly: "Besides, it was you who said you would change time regardless of the cost."
Wen Liang is keenly aware of the problem here: "How much did it cost? My impression is that 40nm is just a backup solution to save tapeout costs when necessary, and it may not be able to copy details to TSMC's 28nm process."
Qin Zheng has always been upright, not good at words, and even worse at lying: "There is a new budget of 2.5 billion, and there is still more than 1.5 billion."
Wen Liang felt that the problem was a bit big: "After half a month, the budget has increased to 3 billion? And 1.5 billion has been spent?"
At this moment, Qin Zheng also added: "In fact, if the comprehensive research and development cost of the chip alone is calculated, it has exceeded 2.5 billion..."
So Wen Liang looked at Li Ze.
Li Ze spread his hands: "You may have forgotten some small details. Before the official decision was made to use a full set of ARM solutions to produce a chip, those research and development costs were not included in the comprehensive development cost of Xinghai 1."
"So if you include this part, the comprehensive development cost of Xinghai 1 is about 1 billion... Well, I know that Lei Jun and others are getting angry because they lost 40 million in developing the Redmi 1, but the two are not on the same level.
"
"This part is probably about 500 million different..."
Wen Liang suddenly realized and marveled: "Oh~ no wonder I was talking about 500 million tuition fees, and some colleagues in the Bolang Laboratory were so passionate. Damn it, it turned out to be a misunderstanding!"
"It was previously said that 2 million units of Ta Ma would cover the cost. 2.5 million units would barely cover the development cost, not counting the hardware cost of Ta Ma. Subtracting the 500 million yuan algorithm would make Ta Ma very different. It would be worth more than 1 million units.
The sales volume of Xinghai 1 has increased."
"What's going on with the next two billion?"
Li Ze answered one by one: "The Xinghai 1 chip plus the R&D expenses by the end of the year are almost 500 million, and the rest will be spent this month."
"Actually, it doesn't cost much. After all, it's comprehensive, and labor costs have to be taken into account. Now the monthly salary expenditure is almost 50 million. Generally, R&D consumption of 50 million a month is quite economical, and the rest is burned on the chip.
"
"But it's not one model, it's 8 models."
"There are 2 types of mobile phones, 2 types of CPUs for personal computers, 2 types of GPUs, and 2 types of CPUs for servers. You said that you want to establish the IPD process as soon as possible and that you want to leapfrog one generation, so we went hand in hand."
"In addition, except for the two models on the mobile phone, which really have two core specifications, the other two so-called models are developed through comparison. Whoever is the best will choose."
Wen Liang was not surprised at all, and was very satisfied: "Well done, this is how the first generation should be, and Mang is done."
Then he asked: “How many people do we need to recruit at such a huge labor cost?”
Li Ze replied: "About 1,000 people have been newly recruited. More than 95% of the Chinese engineers at home and abroad who are above the standard level in microelectronics have come to Bolang Terminal, and the average monthly comprehensive salary per person is 30,000."
Wen Liang asked: "There are still invitations, right?"
Li Ze said with regret: "Mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, some are still waiting and watching. If the Xinghai 1 chip was not very capable, even these 1,000 people would not be able to get together."
Finally, Li Ze took the initiative to mention the 40nm issue: "Two considerations: First, our own Starry Sky Semiconductor is mainly assisted by Huahong in planning, and the process has the same characteristics. In the future, the chips will definitely be self-produced, which can be regarded as the first to adapt;
In addition, the investment cost is too high, and I am under great pressure if I don’t sell the chips.”
"Oh, yes, if we want all the films to be produced perfectly, probably... we have to invest an additional 1 billion or so, and the upper limit is probably 3 billion."
Wen Liang said nonchalantly: "Flow it, spend it, tens of billions have been spent on research and development of semiconductors, and you still have this little bit left?"
He doesn't care about the research and development costs of the first generation of high-precision hardware.
Just get it out.
It's always useful.
After understanding everything in general, Wen Liang drank tea and asked casually: "Why did the development of personal computers and server processing chips suddenly start at the same time?"
Li Ze replied: "Originally, we started with the server first. The civil construction part of the data center cluster in Nansha has been completed long ago. This month, one-tenth of the area has completed the layout of the computer room and put it into operation;
The free area is very large, and we have proposed a plan internally to build a cloud service experimental server. Using our own processor will make debugging and optimization more convenient. After all, Xyun is also developing based on the Xingchen kernel."
"Later, Xiao Qin said that we had already started anyway, so we might as well start all of them. Maybe there would be sparks between different development teams."
At this time, Qin Zheng showed a smile and took over the conversation: "This is also true. The first connection with the production line of mobile phone SoC is a spark from the collision."
"That's not bad." Wen Liang said happily, "Now that we've come to this point, I'll talk to Boss Lei this afternoon and we'll just finalize the rules for selling chips externally. We will only sell low-end chips for the time being."
"More complex regulations will not be considered for now."
"Can the timeline be determined?"
Li Ze replied: "Yes, it's still the same process as before. It will be offline internally in April. I have communicated with the foreign bank before and he is sure that he can develop his own programming language and supporting integrated development environment internally in April. By then,
You can first launch a version that supports Android apk packages."
Wen Liang was surprised: "So fast?"
Li Ze only said one word: "Money."
"Don't ask. Anyway, the budget of 500 million is not enough. In a word, 85% of the idle supercomputing resources in China have been rented by us."
"How many engineers are there in the group now?"
"More than 10,000, there are more than 180 group studios. You are busy stabilizing the home front, and we are not idle either."
"Awesome."
Finally, Li Ze also mentioned something interesting: "Qualcomm sent a large team to visit us for 10 consecutive days, hoping that we would give up designing our own chips, and offered many preferential conditions."
"Xiao Qin said that their technical strength is not strong and they are much weaker than Apple, so they want to rely on market means. So this is why I want to win Xiao Sorghum. Boss Lei is so confident that he can brag about it at the press conference. Qualcomm's
His reputation has been blown up by him. The real strength of Qualcomm is the baseband. In the past, I still bought the baseband and got the chip for free!"
"Boss Lei also suggested that they put together series. The previous names were too complicated, but now it's better. The low, middle and high series are all separated, giving people a step-by-step foundation to seize market share."
"Originally, if we didn't keep it to the public, we wouldn't even be considered a competitor to Qualcomm. Its competitors are MediaTek, Samsung, Texas Instruments, etc. But I think this market can make money, and we are short of money."
Wen Liang is also... speechless.
Qualcomm’s strength was not that good in the past, present and future.
In this era of chaotic and fragmented mobile chip manufacturers, Juchang relies on its inferior K3V2, but does not even bother with Qualcomm.
Apart from anything else, Qualcomm's reputation in the domestic market is really lifted by Ray's comparison method.
Before, it was really a company that bought basebands and got chips for free.
The GPU of the Adreno series was purchased, and the CPU uses the ARM solution. Anyone who dares to modify the CPU will turn into a fire dragon.
To put it bluntly, Qualcomm is a market-leading company. It is the same as ARM. It is impossible to have Apple's totemic pursuit of performance. As long as there is no opponent, it will fail immediately.
The fact is that in the days without Kirin, Qualcomm failed all the way from the 888.
To sum up.
Bolang has another market competitor.
According to this development situation, sooner or later Bolang will be the enemy of the whole world! -
