Director Long's brain was thinking quickly.

There is no doubt that if we can cooperate with Lianchuang Technology, there will be many benefits to the Loongson research team. Lianchuang Technology has money, market, super-scale integrated circuit design and development experience and excellent team, which are incomparable to the Loongson team. However, Loongson research project is a national-level project after all, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a strategic project that is highly anticipated by the country. It is just handed over to Lianchuang Technology like this? He is always a little unwilling to accept it.

"Ahem..." Wu Yuying coughed twice. Now it was time for her to take action: "Dear leaders, I have a suggestion."

Director Long suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The people of Lianchuang Technology were going to speak, which was great. He nodded and said, "Ms. Wu has anything to say, but it's okay."

Regardless of whether what Wu Yuying said is useful or reference value, it at least gives me time to think.

"We Lianchuang Technology have rich experience in ultra-large-scale integrated circuit design and development, have its own wafer factory and complete packaging and testing capabilities, and have an excellent chip design team. We can proudly say that Lianchuang Technology's semiconductor business unit is already a world-class team. Since this is the case, we cannot join forces to jointly establish a new company?"

"This is absolutely possible!"

Before Lao Long could speak, another deputy director named Fu couldn't sit still and gritted his teeth and said to Wu Yuying: "Longxin is a high hope for the country in the field of central processing units..."

"Loongson is also a central processor based on streamlined instruction sets. Now more than 99.99% of computer applications on the market are developed based on complex instruction sets. No matter how much the country attaches importance to Loongson, how much national grant can Loongson obtain?" Wu Yuying interrupted Deputy Director Fu without hesitation and questioned.

Deputy Director Fu blushed and said hard: "This... there will always be a solution."

"There will always be a solution? Haha..." Since the words have been said to this point, Wu Yuying naturally would not be polite to them and sneered: "What method? Is it that Loongson's research team has a top genius in market operations. Can it use its best market operation methods to achieve a huge impact and gain enough market share and the favor of investors, or can it convince the country to spend hundreds or even hundreds of billions of dollars and make a desperate market?

There is not so much money. Just because of the 20 people in the Loongson Research Group want to compete with the huge core engineer team of more than 5,000 people owned by Inter and Amd? Just because of the 10 million given by the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Can we not tell jokes? Our Lianchuang Technology Semiconductor Division has more than 1 billion US dollars in semiconductor design and development every year."

As soon as Wu Yuying said this, Deputy Director Fu, who was stubborn, was speechless and wanted to say something. But... it was displayed here, what could he say?

The Loongson research team is now only 22 people. When it was first established, it was even worse, with only 12 people. It said that such dozens of people could compete with Inter, Amd, which has four or five thousand core engineers. Even if there is no understanding of scientific research, I know how big the gap between forty or fifty and four or five thousand is;

Not to mention the gap in R&D funds, Inter's annual R&D investment is as high as tens of billions of dollars, and Amd loses tens of billions of dollars each year, but the Loongson research team, when the Loongson research team was first established last year, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences could not apply for any startup fund! In this case, the Institute of Computing Technology had to provide all the innovation funds of the Institute: 10 million yuan before successfully launching the general-purpose processor development project, which is the current Loongson research team.

It would be a big joke to say that such a team can develop a desktop processor that threatens the x86 interest group.

But Hu Wei was so dazzled that he was so excited that he didn't even care about the leaders in the institute being present. He said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Lin...Mr. Lin, can your semiconductor business department really have $1 billion in R&D funding every year?"

Lin Zheng, who hadn't spoken much, nodded: "To be precise, last year was US$1.2 billion, and this year's R&D funding was US$1.23 billion."

Lin Zheng's words made several leaders of the Institute of Computing Technology want to die in an instant: the total fiscal appropriation received by the Institute of Computing Technology is only 1 billion yuan in a year. Well, the unit is still rmb, and this amount of money seems to be quite large, but how many projects in the entire Institute of Computing Technology need to be allocated? How many mouths are hungry? To put it bluntly, this amount of money is actually no different from sprinkling pepper.

"You... really have so much money?" Hu Wei couldn't help asking.

"I don't need to lie on such things, right?" Lin Zheng said: "Lianchuang Technology is not a state-owned enterprise or a listed company, so there is no need to lie and deceive investment."

"Uh...that means that if we cooperate, the Loongson research team can also get some funds, right?" Hu Wei asked cautiously, holding back the excitement in his heart.

"That's for sure." Lin Zheng nodded affirmatively.

Is it worth the little money you have? Buying some professional testing equipment is not enough.

With Lin Zheng's confirmation from Lin Zheng, Hu Wei could no longer help it. He stood up and looked at Director Long with red eyes and said, "Director. On behalf of our Longxin research team, I ask the institute to seriously consider cooperation with Lianchuang Technology."

Money, without money, you can't do scientific research. Since last year, the 10 million allocated to the institute will soon bottom out, but the new funding has not been released yet. How can you do experiments without money? How can you do tests without money? Want to do scientific research without money? Dreaming is not a bit more practical.

But now, the Loongson research team has encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: they not only met a big funder, but also a professional business operation expert. For the Loongson research team, technology is indeed difficult, but compared to technology, R&D funds and marketization are even more difficult! Hu Wei knows that if you miss this village, you will never encounter this store again in the future.

Director Long also hesitated, knowing that Deputy Director Fu, who had opposed it before, was also hesitating: More than 1 billion US dollars in R&D funding. There is no doubt that if the Loongson research and development team can get a part of it, the chance of the entire project being successful will undoubtedly be much higher.

"Director Long, I have a suggestion."

"Please tell me." Director Long said quickly. Lin Zheng was about to speak, and he had to be careful.

Lin Zheng said slowly: "My idea is that Lianchuang Technology Semiconductor Division, Loongson Research Group, our supercomputer center, and three other supercomputer centers in China can cooperate in the form of technical cooperation?"

"What?"

Lin Zheng's words not only shocked Wu Yuying. Even the people from the Institute of Computing Technology were shocked: Lin Zheng was not only interested in the Loongson research team, but also focused on the Supercomputer Development Center of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Computer Research Institute of the National University of Defense Technology, the Magic City Supercomputer Center and the National Parallel Computer Engineering Technology Research and Development Center, which are the four major supercomputer development institutions in the Republic? What is he trying to do?!

Facing everyone's surprised gaze, Lin Zheng slowly said: "My idea is very simple. Although our country is gradually approaching the world's first echelon in the field of supercomputers. However, the central processing unit can only be purchased from outside, and the core central processing unit cannot be produced by itself. You all engage in computer technology. It doesn't matter how big the hidden dangers are. Everyone understands that if Loongson is designed and based on the basic design, it will take into account the application needs of supercomputers..."

Director Long's forehead was sweating!

Tell him rationally that Lin Zheng’s method is feasible!

However, it is necessary to coordinate the only four supercomputer development institutions in the country. How difficult is it? It just makes people feel like they are so thrilling when they think about it!

But Lin Zheng's words are too tempting. Yes, China's supercomputer technology is gradually approaching the world's first echelon, but the core processor cannot be produced by itself. How big the threat is, the fool can understand. If Loongson considered the use environment of supercomputer at the beginning of the design... Comrade Lao Long's heartbeats!

If it is really possible to realize the self-producing of the central processing unit of a supercomputer, its significance is no exaggeration! But...

"This... this matter is too big, not the only one can decide," said Director Long, after a few slight words, "But I will do my best to explain the significance of doing so to the leaders of the hospital."

"Then it's hard for Director Long." Lin Zheng also knew that such a large-scale cooperation could not be finalized so quickly. It would be great to achieve this intention, so he nodded with a smile.

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"Boss, do we really want to cooperate with the four major supercomputer centers in the country?" As soon as the Institute of Computing Technology came out, Wu Yuying couldn't wait to ask Lin Zheng. She knew very well how much significance it would have to Lianchuang Technology if Lianchuang Technology had the ability to develop supercomputers.

"We have this intention. Is it another thing to say if they are happy to cooperate with us?" Lin Zheng smiled and shook his head. "Now we are so hot that we are so shaved. Maybe after hearing our proposal, they just curled their lips and said, "Which is amazing!" and it's all."

"That's their own stupidity," Wu Yuying immediately stood firm and unprincipled on the side of her company: "With the support of our Lianchuang Technology, they can't know how fast their progress can be..." After hesitating, Wu Yuying still asked Lin Zheng: "Boss, I have a problem."

"Yeah. You said." Lin Zheng nodded.

"Isn't Loongson, which adopts the MiPS architecture, a central processor for the simplified instruction set? Today's supercomputers use Xeon central processors with complex instruction sets. Can this thing be used as a central processor for supercomputers?" Wu Yuying asked.

"Yes!" Lin Zheng nodded affirmatively.

"Really?"

"It's really possible!"

A few years later, the Shenwei central processor used by the supercomputer "Shenwei Blu-ray" is a streamlined instruction set central processor with an alpha architecture. Shenwei's technical source is from the alpha21164 of Dec. This central processor is a typical central processor with successful technology and failed commercially. Dec's technical strength is very strong, and the alpha performance is even more amazing. Amd's popular K7 microstructure central processor was developed based on the technical data of the purchased alpha21264.

After several changes, China purchased the instruction set and microstructure of alpha from the Paq company, and developed its own instruction set based on the alpha21164 central processor, and finally successfully equipped it on the Shenwei Blu-ray supercomputer. In the end, "Shenwei Blu-ray" became the only supercomputer in my country that uses a domestic central processor.

Shenwei processors can be installed on supercomputers, and Loongson, which also has a streamlined instruction set, can also do it. After 2012, arm was ambitious to develop supercomputers based on the arm architecture.

If Lianchuang Technology wants to enter the supercomputer field, it is not impossible to start developing supercomputers based on the arm architecture from now on, but there is a biggest problem: the arm company is the core R&D. Lianchuang Technology can certainly purchase the authorization of the arm to develop it on its own, but every time the arm develops a new generation of core technology, Lianchuang Technology needs to purchase the authorization of the new generation of core technology, so as to ensure the advanced technology of Lianchuang Technology. This will not be different because Lianchuang Technology is the shareholder of the arm and is the largest shareholder.

To make a simple metaphor, if Lianchuang Technology, Inter, Samsung, Texas Instruments and other IC design and chip manufacturers are painters, then what Arm does is to provide painters with drawing paper. No matter how powerful you paint, you cannot draw outside the drawing paper. The drawing paper provider provides you with a size of A4, and you can only draw on such a large format drawing paper. It is impossible to provide you with a piece of A4 format drawing paper, but you can draw a picture of A3 format drawing.

But Loongson is different. Loongson purchased all the instruction sets of MiPS. It can develop the core and central processors they need as needed based on the original instruction sets, thus forming its own first, second and even more generations of central processors. Just like Inter, Amd and Arm do, truly achieving independent and sustainable development. This is what Lin Zheng values ​​Loongson.

As for Loongson, it is just like raising it slowly. How big is the market for arm three years ago? How big is the market for arm now? Not to mention that even giants like inter and amd will regard arm as their strong rivals 10 years later.

Wu Yuying doesn't understand these, but since Lin Zheng said that the Loongson with the MiPS architecture has the potential to be developed into a supercomputer with a central processor, what else can hesitate? He nodded heavily: "Then I didn't say anything, I have to take down whatever I say!"

ps: Another 4,000-word chapter, brothers, isn’t a thousand years worth of fun? Is it a monthly ticket worth it? (To be continued.)
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