"Let's take a look at the laboratory environment."
"That's right, Mr. Ze~Mr. Ze~~~~"
"Are you there? Mr. Wen, Mr. Ze is going to make a big change."
Li Ze on the stage suppressed the words that were on his lips and showed a helpless smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Wen will come up."
"As for...the laboratory environment."
Li Ze glanced at the venue: "I'm sorry, we didn't know beforehand that everyone would be curious. The breakthrough in photoresist materials is very important, but it is not as demonstrable as the previous content, including the substrate discovered by Academician Cao's team."
"The reason why I mention this is just to show off."
"I'm not exaggerating. We at Bolang are really good. If Apple doesn't work harder, at least in the mobile phone industry, there will only be one high-end brand called Xinghai. Do you understand what I mean?"
After saying that, Li Ze, the slut, played a piece of explosive background music that he had prepared a long time ago, and took advantage of the situation to twist his butt.
He started singing while twisting.
"Invincible... is so... so... lonely."
"Invincible... is so... so... so... lonely~~"
Master Xing calls him an expert.
A piece of music that he would not create until two years later was released ahead of schedule.
Although the music is completely different, although this sentence is very common...
Wen Liang in the audience also called out the experts, and couldn't help but look at Chen Jiaxin next to him: "Aze...is he so showy?"
"Uh..." Chen Jiaxin looked back at the stage and scratched her head a little, "I'm not sure about this, but we, Mr. Ze, have always been very showy, right? The world's first CEO of a manufacturer went to live broadcast tightening screws, and showed a short segment...
…The figure is not that unusual either.”
"Have you never seen the rehearsal?"
"I haven't watched the whole thing."
"He didn't mention it in advance?"
"I didn't pay attention, but there must be clear procedures, otherwise the backstage wouldn't be so well prepared."
Wen Liang shook his head and sighed: "The first "Bolang Research" will probably be unforgettable forever. If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have allowed him to come on stage. I am quite introverted and can't stand this."
Chen Jiaxin: "..."
What can he say.
Mr. Wen, don’t insult the word introversion?
In his mind, when it comes to being playful, none of the co-founders can compare to Wen Liang.
Of course, it’s not just gentleness that is shown off.
There were also countless spectators at the venue.
and countless online viewers.
"Mr. Ze also doesn't follow common sense."
"Not to mention, Mr. Ze has something to do with those two twists. He definitely goes to nightclubs a lot~"
"Has no one ever bumped into it?"
"What is Mr. Ze's identity? The place he goes to is probably inaccessible to ordinary people. How can he bump into you so easily?"
"I really like Mr. Ze's arrogant attitude. I don't know how much effort Bolang has put in, but with how awesome Bolang is now, he should take some of it."
"There's something to say. I really like it too. I've been holding it back for so long and finally waited until today. It would be such a waste not to do it."
"..."
At the same time, some special viewers are also talking.
"Today's Bolang is a bit unusual. He keeps showing off his muscles, even a little too much. Did we overlook something?"
"I think so too. This press conference is full of strong provocation and venting."
"Perhaps we have ignored Mr. Wen. After he appeared with Mapleli at the Industry Content Summit, he has not had any public activities again. According to reliable sources, Wen Liang has not appeared very often since March.
After April, he never showed up at Huagong."
"There is news. A friend found some of Wen Liang's itinerary for April and May. His private plane went to many places, but he didn't go to any big cities, except for Jiangxia and Yangcheng."
"Huh? No...it can't be."
"impossible!"
"With his gentle background, who can put pressure on him? Whose pressure can he accept? He is the master of dialogue who can go straight to the red wall."
"Zang Feng?"
"You will know if you read on, the gentle man is at the venue."
"Too."
"..."
After more than a minute of background music, Li Ze finally stopped and said with a smile on his face: "Improvement, don't mind too much, haha~"
"Anyway, that's what it means."
After a pause, Li Ze straightened his expression and made a sideways gesture: "Next, our co-founder and IC design chief engineer Mr. Qin Zheng and deputy chief engineer Mr. Lin Tong will introduce to you the software installed on the Xinghai Tablet 1.
chip."
With that said, he left the stage while applauding.
Still playing videos on the big screen.
What appeared this time was Qin Zheng and Lin Tong, who were very strict.
The background is a room with some monitors and equipment. Qin Zheng and Lin Tong are sitting at the table.
The camera first follows Qin Zheng: "Our chip is the engine of the Xinghai series of mobile devices. With excellent chip design, we are able to empower the entire system with technological innovation, achieving stronger performance and excellent energy efficiency."
"This time, we creatively used 40nm technology to use less abundant transistors to complete processing tasks with high performance requirements and outstanding graphics processing tasks."
Qin Zheng introduced in a simple tone: "Thanks to this 4-core CPU's excellent 4 performance and energy-efficiency balanced cores, as well as further machine learning capabilities, we can better demonstrate the voice of 'Xiaoxing'
Synthetic technology…”
"And... various high-performance processing requirements, processing the feedback of each click with even more amazing efficiency..."
"...There is no doubt that this is the CPU with the best performance in current mobile devices! It is up to 35% ahead of the previous generation!"
Later, the camera followed Lin Tong, who stood up and gestured: "For graphics-intensive tasks, such as running several mobile games produced by Guofeng, this chip is equipped with our excellent dual-core GPU to drive amazing
Visual effects and light and shadow effects.”
“Working with existing hardware, it can produce amazing image effects.”
"Compared with the previous generation, graphics processing performance is up to 50% ahead!"
Qin Zheng took over the conversation again: "With the Xingchen Tablet System 0, it will achieve excellent high-performance processing capabilities and graphics task processing capabilities."
"Bringing the best to every user."
"Lovely, but not hot."
The creation of this short video is not simple. Professional shooting equipment and the most professional photographers were used to highlight the details of this laboratory.
For example, there are many electronic devices with the Xinghai logo.
For example, an unknown game appears to be running automatically on a screen.
At the end of the video playback, Li Ze's voice sounded at the right time: "Thank you Mr. Qin Zheng and Mr. Lin Tong for your explanation. I would like to ask Mr. Wen Liang, general manager of Bolang Group, to introduce more to you."
A beam of light hit the right side of the podium, moving with the movement of Wen Liang, focusing on him.
Different from last time, this time Wen Liang appeared in a more formal form.
The applause at the venue became enthusiastic.
The audience in the live broadcast room also regained their enthusiasm.
The barrage is so large that it can’t even fit on the screen.
"Mr. Wen, capture from the front row!"
"It has to be Mr. Wen!"
"This aura, this appearance, this posture, this..."
"Mr. Wen~~~"
Wen Liang kept pressing his hands: "Thank you, thank you all, thank you."
"I am very happy to be here to meet you. Thank you to all the employees of Bolang Group for their efforts, so that we can bring you some different content."
Standing in the center of the podium, Wen Liang looked down the stage with a pleased smile, and raised his left hand: "Just now, the two chief engineers of our IC design laboratory introduced to everyone from a technical level... this thing I have in my hand.
chip."
"The 40nm process has not made this chip lose its luster. It is so small that I am afraid that I will lose it accidentally..."
The audience burst into kind laughter at the right time: "Hahaha..."
He has a somewhat different style from Li Ze, which seems to have changed the atmosphere of the venue.
Wen Liang said unhurriedly: "Before Bolang actually started chip research, I never thought that the design of a chip would be so complicated. The simplicity of the unnamed chip installed on the previous generation Xinghai 1 made me
There is some misunderstanding of the chip."
"I don't think there's anything amazing about chip design."
"Reality taught me a lesson."
"When making more in-depth changes and designs based on ARM solutions, our team encountered endless difficulties. For the first time, I felt the horror of the crystallization of human cutting-edge wisdom, and I also admired those who have gone far in the chip field even more.
colleagues."
"Every subtle change and adjustment is a massive amount of trying and starting over."
"In the past 10 months, we have spent up to 4 billion yuan in research and development funds for this chip."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.
Wen Liang continued with a smile: "The number 4 billion sounds a bit thin. Let me put it another way. For example, my country's Chang'e-1 project took three years to finally run from the earth to the moon. Its project cost was 1.4 billion yuan. .”
"More closely, for example, ARM's full-year pre-tax net profit in 2012 was approximately RMB 2.7 billion."
"For example, the cost of a single chip of Apple's latest A6 chip currently on the market is about 176 yuan. The R&D funds we have spent on this chip are enough to produce 22.7 million A6 chips."
"This is some of our efforts, some trivial efforts, to bring you a better experience."
After saying that, Wen Liang changed the topic: "Because of this, we think it deserves an official name."
The big screen slowly changes.
A picture of a chip and some text appear.
Star Dragon
M1
Wen Liang turned sideways and looked at the big screen: "After careful discussion, we named it 'Shenlong', M is the abbreviation of 'Mobile Platform', and 1 is the first officially named serial number."
"In the future, the Shenlong M series will be widely used on Xinghai series mobile platform devices, empowering every bit of experience."
In the end, no complicated names were chosen, but the dragon was named with the word "god".
In fact, for this name, Bolang's team, or Li Ze and others, searched for a lot of information.
It's an ancient story.
[People during the Shang Dynasty believed that the universe was composed of heaven, where gods lived, and earth, where humans lived.
In the center of the sky is the Emperor of Heaven.
After the death of the immortal king on earth, he will come to the central kingdom where the emperor of heaven is.
And this empire is surrounded by four directions. The people who manage this place are the Four Phoenixes, also called black birds. They are mainly responsible for the connection between the heaven and the four directions.
The place where humans live is similar. The central country on the earth is surrounded by four directions. The difference is that the mythical beast in the human world is the tiger.
It guards the edge between the four directions and the national border, which is called the Four Edges.
There are divine turtles in the water below the ground, which can sense the will of heaven.
The intersection between the human world and the heaven, or the passage between the human world and the heaven, is the dragon.
People of the Shang Dynasty believed that dragons were a way to gain divine power and enter the heaven, or a technology.]
The reason why Li Ze and others used this story as a basis to persuade Wen Liang to agree is that these stories are in a sense the same as the ultimate pursuit of modern science.
Human beings have always tried to control/obtain the power of nature in some way.
In general, it is a beautiful wish and longing to name Bolang's truly first-generation self-developed SoC with this name, and to name a chip, a core component that is inseparable from all modern technology industries.
Using the divine dragon as a guide, he rushed to the stars and the sea.
The following number, M1, is Wen Liang's decision.
Wen Liang, who came back from 2022, certainly knew that Apple had launched the M1 chip. He snatched this title six or seven years in advance, which is some kind of bad taste for reborn people.
"..."
When Wen Liang announced the name, there was already discussion on the Internet.
"The name Shenlong is a bit simple. Qualcomm changed the name of mobile SoC to Snapdragon last year. So, does Bolang mean to compete with Qualcomm?"
"Absolutely. There have been rumors that a mobile phone from Xiaogaoliang has chosen the supply chain with Bolang. It is estimated that the chip will also use this Shenlong series."
"This is really a rumor, but if they are all the same SoC, how can you tell the difference between high and low."
"Do you think it's possible that this chip is also self-developed? After all, it cost 4 billion."
"It goes without saying that it was originally self-developed. In fact, the chip on Xinghai 1 is also the same. It's just that the depth of self-research is different. The ARM solution is very free. Apple's A6 is also a self-developed model of the ARM solution."
"So that's the case, but why doesn't Bolang promote it like this?"
"The word self-research is probably more important to Bolang. In their view, as long as it uses other people's things, it cannot be called self-research. For example... refer to the Star System."
"66666..."
In fact, Xiao Gaoliang’s Redmi series will not use the SoC with the Shenlong name.
This is also the reason why Wen Liang opened a vest when he was talking to Lei Jun.
Bolang Labs authorizes specific CPU cores, GPU cores, etc. to this company, and then the company will design them and then mark them for tape-out.
The method is similar to ARM licensing. For example, almost all mobile chips are now sourced from ARM, but each company will separate them, such as Qualcomm Snapdragon and Apple A series.
Naturally, the name cannot be Starry Sky Dragon.
Of course, at this stage, the ARM solution has not yet been refined. The company does not have much ability to carry out secondary design for the time being. It is just taking the drawings for tape-out, and it is taking a mid-to-low-end route, and the number of CPU and GPU cores will be small.
Some.
In fact, the main purpose of opening the vest is to promote the Galaxy instruction set ecology on a wider scale.
After all, now that there is Scode, each company will modify the UI, re-modify and package the Android system. In the process, use Scode to compile it, and the interface compilation between the operating system level and the processor level will be in place.
There is no problem that the system does not recognize the CPU.
Wen Liang glanced at the big screen again, then looked back at the audience: "The opening announcement of the first "Bolang Research" conference has come to an end here."
"We have been committed to providing the most outstanding electronic product experience to consumers around the world. Thanks to everyone's support for the Xinghai brand, we have more funds to spare no effort in in-depth research on various detailed technologies."
"Our preparations were rushed and failed to show the most satisfactory results to everyone. Some developer friends, both overseas and domestic, were unable to come due to the rushed time period, which also made today's press conference a little short.
Interesting experience, very sorry.”
"I hope all developer friends will have a good time in the next 150 meetings."
"thank you all."
Amid applause, the press conference came to an end.
Obviously, the end of the opening conference of "Bolang Research" also means the arrival of storm...
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PS: Originally I didn’t update today, but... I’m happy today, hahahaha~ Moyu wrote a chapter all afternoon, hahahahaha… Eat the feast, eat the feast.