What happens every year or every few months in integrated circuit design companies is almost the same as daily routine. Taping out is just an added challenge.
But at Tesla, what they are about to welcome is the first industrial tape-out!
The last time it was tape-out, Zhao Song opportunistically joined the MPW tape-out service provided by Fujitsu for academia. Several companies jointly paid for the tape-out money. But this time for industrial tape-out, Fujitsu Semiconductor only served Tesla.
, Zhao Song paid for it himself.
After receiving the call about the latest appointment from Ding Tao, Wan Hean walked out of the laboratory and took deep breaths in the corridor, trying to minimize the psychological changes caused by the change in position.
Wan and An don't want anything to go wrong when it comes to tape-out, even if their annual salary is one million! Professor Zhou can't stand the trouble anymore.
But who can guarantee that the tape-out will be 100% successful? Ding Tao just said on the phone that the boss has gone to Yonghe Temple to offer incense.
Wan Hean couldn't help but smile, turned back to the laboratory, and paid his respects to Mr. Guan again.
In the laboratory, more than 20 servers and workstations are still running Benchmark. Professor Zhou and his students are still trying to find whether there is an architecture and size with better performance.
During this period, the time management of this group of people was almost the same as hardware design, parallelism, assembly lines, Da Vinci sleep method - they used all the time they could save!
These people are using their own ways to repay the young boss's trust!
In a company that has just been established for one year, we tape out twice a year. If we succeed twice, we will get a year-end grand prize. If we succeed once, we will get a small prize. If we fail even once, everyone will think that we will go bankrupt.
Tesla, which has not yet successfully tape-out, is not like a small company at all. Zhao Song accepts failure. As long as there is innovation and progress, he will pay the tuition fees and not abort.
Taping out is not expensive, but for every industrial-level tape-out, budget funds, cross-border cooperation, confidentiality agreements with various contract terms, and multi-party mediation, the manpower and material resources consumed, plus the salaries of researchers, are astronomical.
Especially Tesla's industrial tape-out this time was countless times faster than the normal process. Zhao Song and Wei Fang did not tell everyone how much it cost and how much it cost!
In the corner, Guan Erye was in full swing. In the center, Professor Zhou was discussing something with the students and the engineers sent by Fujitsu with a serious face. Wan and An Wanxiang came to the computer screen and looked at the netizens.
Criticism of Tesla intensifies.
Wan Hean frowned and glanced twice. If his voice could be heard by these netizens who didn't distinguish between right and wrong, he really wanted to tell them loudly what the young Tesla in their mouths was doing, and the younger Zhao
What is Song doing! He has seen the betting purchase contract between Tesla and Elpida. According to the current situation, Tesla will win the betting contract.
After reading the contract, Wan and Anzhen felt that it would be cheaper to buy than to rob.
"Xiao Wan."
Just when Wan He'an was feeling angry, Professor Zhou called him. Wan He'an looked up and saw him walking over. He quickly closed the web page and left his seat: "Professor Zhou, what's the matter?"
Professor Zhou told Wan He'an with a solemn expression: "Just now, Fujitsu's engineers said that the company on the island country that was originally going to tape out had an accident, and asked us whether we can do it the day after tomorrow. If we don't do it the day after tomorrow, it will have to be postponed to seven days.
"
"Two days in advance..."
Wan Hean lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then asked after thinking clearly: "Will the production line process change?"
Professor Zhou shook his head: "No, they are all 0.65."
What an opportunity!
Wan Hean rubbed his trembling hands and asked again: "What do you think?"
"I think do it!"
Professor Zhou's answer was unequivocal, "We have checked all the problems that can be checked, and the simulations that need to be done have been repeated twice. There is no difference between one day later and one day earlier."
"Then do it!"
Wan He'an took out his cell phone and said, "I'll call the boss and talk to him right now."
Just say it, because Zhao Song will definitely agree. It's not that Zhao Song is stupid and has too much money, it's because he knows the difficulty of filming, and Zhao Song will never be reluctant to spend the money.
Professor Zhou also understood Zhao Song: "I'll book a flight!"
"Don't."
Wan Hean didn't care about making phone calls, and quickly reached out to hold Professor Zhou's arm: "Teacher Zhou, the boss won't let you go."
Professor Zhou took his arm out of Wan Hean's hand, patted him on the shoulder and sighed: "Let me finish this lesson for them. From theoretical basis to post-strip testing, if it can be successful, these
Even if the students have experienced a complete practical education! It is much better than those in domestic design institutes who only rely on simulation teaching.
Xiao Wan, before we determine the level of those people at Spreadtrum, they will be Tesla Microelectronics’ greatest asset!”
It is also the best gift you can leave to Tesla!
Wan Hean did not say these words, and did not stop Professor Zhou anymore. He picked up the phone again and told Zhao Song the news.
While waiting to be connected, he suddenly remembered a passage from a foreign semiconductor senior in the NHK documentary "Report of the Founding of Electronics":
"Every time the chip tape goes out, I feel very uneasy and can't sleep well. I always wonder if there is something wrong and what is wrong. When the chip comes back and I press RESET for the first time, I feel extremely nervous.
The release of RESET is the moment that distinguishes heaven from hell. The numbers on the logic analyzer are confused, and the mood instantly falls into hell, with no one willing to speak. If everything is normal, people will feel like they are in heaven, as if the whole world is spinning around them.
It's like I'm the king of the world."
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At the same time, also around 5 p.m., Huashi Computer issued a statement on major websites saying:
"Recently, Long XX and Zhang XX extorted US$5 million from Huashi Computer on the pretext that Huashi Computer used a test version of the CPU during maintenance. This seriously violated our company's legitimate rights and interests, and also affected our company's normal operations.
The business has been greatly affected. The persons involved in the case have been criminally detained by the public security organs. Huashi Computer issued the following solemn statement on this matter.
As a responsible company, Huashi Computer regards product quality as the life of the company, and has always actively treated any issues and suggestions related to products or services in an attitude of serving customers and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. However, there is now sufficient evidence that
Not long ago, Long XX and Zhang XX mastered the so-called "Hua Shi".
The incident in which a maintenance engineer asked Huashi Computer for US$5 million on the grounds that he replaced a user with a 'beta version CPU' is not an ordinary product quality or service maintenance issue, but a suspected extortion case. This matter has now entered the law.
procedures, the judicial authorities are conducting further investigation and handling."
The Chinese Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law, which was implemented on January 1, 1994, is just a legal provision. The public does not know much about it. They are more concerned about the figure of 5 million US dollars, and will not immediately go to it.
I wonder if the two consumers have been cheated, and no one pays attention to what the two consumers will face at this time.
Compared to buying a Mercedes-Benz that leaks oil, Huashi Computer is an advanced example of cheating consumers!