Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 110

[one hundred and ten.]

Among the Brothers Grimm, the elder brother is named Weed • Green, and the younger brother is named Nurburgh • Green, both of them are only in their 30s. As the owner of the company, they are considered young in the entire industry.

But, sometimes, age doesn’t represent any problem.

Just like when everyone snapped their fingers and called “boy” in a restaurant, the waiter who came to wait for dispatch was not necessarily younger than the customer. In some restaurants with a long history and attaching great importance to tradition and heritage, there is even a lack of hair. White waiter.

This “boy” represents only a difference in status.

Therefore, facing Lu Zhenyu, who is in his early 20s but can be regarded as standing at the top of the industry, the Brothers Grimm are still a little nervous.

The current Lu Zhenyu, although it is easier to meet than the bosses of most companies, it is better to make an appointment. The behavior of rushing in like them is not very popular.

They were really encouraged by Lu Zhenyu’s interest in what they were saying.

They told Lu Zhenyu the ins and outs of the technology they developed called “subtraction pipeline”.

The subtractive pipeline technology does not mean that the internal reduction can be carried out in the chip to achieve the highest efficiency.

In fact, the self-adjustment function of this chip is absolutely impossible until the legendary so-called biochip is put into operation.

The subtraction pipeline technology is a kind of design that fully considers the special application environment and application requirements. For this special application requirement, through the simulation calculation, the general chip command processing pipeline is optimized and simplified, and the unused ones are eliminated. part, thus referring to the efficiency of the chip.

In the final analysis, this is just a complication of the development method of special-purpose chips. If we really want to talk about the technical content, that is, the technology of simulating hardware operation in the software environment combined with the subtraction learning mechanism for pipeline design, which can be developed in this way in the industry. There are not many companies.

This kind of design method of special-purpose chip is very much to Lu Zhenyu’s appetite, because the integration limit of the chip is there, a relatively streamlined single core can integrate multiple cores in the same space, if it can solve the problem of many cores The interface problem, then this special dedicated chip will be very powerful and very suitable for Lu Zhenyu’s needs.

The only fly in the ointment is that the Grimm Brothers factory only has 65-nanometer production technology. Although it is still a lot more advanced than the current 75-nanometer technology in China, it is not good enough after all.

As soon as Lu Zhenyu heard that the Brothers Grimm had brought samples, he immediately invited the Brothers Grimm to go with him to find a laboratory for testing.

This is what the Brothers Grimm hoped.

For Lu Zhenyu, the written and simple chip requirements were issued very early, and Intel and AMD were not restricted from publishing the requirements. However, for Intel and AMD, as well as the newly joined IBM, Lu Zhenyu both They were given a special test software alone.

This test software has a total of 177 test items, and Lu Zhenyu has long stated that as long as more than 120 items are passed, orders for this chip will be started.

At present, Intel’s laboratory has passed 92 items, and AMD’s chips have passed 97 items, which is still far from the passing line of 120 items.

Because this global IT summit forum is held in Silicon Valley, there are many companies’ nests nearby, so it is not difficult to find a laboratory. IBM’s laboratory here immediately expressed the hope that Lu Zhenyu and the Brothers Grimm would test this chip. put them there.

For the Brothers Grimm, this is undoubtedly an opportunity. If their chips can pass Lu Zhenyu’s test software, or, if they can perform better than Intel and AMD’s chips,

or even not too far behind, this will be a great opportunity for them from A chip supplier that is not even considered a second game has suddenly become a rookie in the industry.

If it fails, the loss is only the face of the two of them.

When they heard that Lu Zhenyu personally brought an unknown small company to the laboratory for chip testing, the participants in the forum were more or less curious.

They are already very interested in Lu Zhenyu’s chip requirements and the fact that the two giants are helpless. Some second-tier chip manufacturers or first-tier professional chip manufacturers are very interested in Lu Zhenyu’s test software, and they are thinking about how to tell Lu Zhenyu Open your mouth, make this software public, and let everyone play with your own products, and this happened.

Many people followed.

At this time, it showed IBM’s good popularity in the industry. In the small computing technology laboratory, nearly 200 people gathered in a short time.

The computing technology laboratory is not a high-clean laboratory. Under everyone’s attention, the Brothers Grimm took out a green pcb board from an aluminum safety box.

This board is larger than the average motherboard. Except for some necessary interfaces, there are 4 chipsets with pure copper heat sinks installed on the side of the motherboard.

When the elder brother Vider Green started to connect the motherboard to the equipment in the lab, the younger brother Newber Green followed Lv Zhenyu and the director of the IBM lab, explaining their design.

Because they are testing, they did not try to use a single-chip multi-core manufacturing process, but loaded 4 chips on a motherboard.

With special interfaces and dedicated controller connections, one or more chips can be selectively turned on.

It can also be closed at any time.

Although there are 4 chips together, because the pipeline structure of the chip itself is not too complicated, both power consumption and heat generation are better than the current mainstream chips.

Although he tried to stay calm, fine beads of sweat oozed out of Dan Nub • Green’s forehead.

Many of the people watching today are industry giants or extremely well-known technicians, who are not easily seen by the leaders of second-tier manufacturers like them.

Although they knew that these people were not here for them, since these people were all present, the importance of this test to them was invisibly raised to another level.

Veeder • Green’s method of operation is extremely serious and professional, and the rigorous and serious characteristics of the Germanic people are brought into full play by him.

On the board used for testing, in addition to some public interfaces, such as memory hard drives, etc., the connection with many other devices can only rely on flying leads and pin pins, and the densely packed pins only need to be connected to one wrong, then the test Completely failed.

After Vader Green had connected all the wires, he carefully checked it twice, and Nurburgh Green also came over to check it once before saying that the test could be carried out.

Before starting the test, IBM’s laboratory supervisor asked the staff around him: “How many items did we pass in Mr. Lu’s test software?” The

staff member said, “94 items.” The supervisor nodded noncommittally. , indicating to the staff on the side to power up the board.

A chip was opened, and the Brothers Grimm waited nervously for the results.

“Using the method of subtractive learning for pipeline testing requires a high degree of program perfection. Both of you brothers studied chip manufacturing. Did you write the program yourself?” Lu Zhenyu asked.

“Yes. The initial program group of the subtraction learning program is really too difficult. When we think about it now, it’s a bit incredible. However, we are only a small manufacturer with less than 2 streams. We have time and qualifications for repeated failures.” Vader • Green said.

“How many attempts did you have to get this far?” asked IBM’s lab director.

“It started from seeing Mr. Lu’s elaboration of subtraction learning theory in June. Until yesterday, we left the factory 4 days ago and came here, almost every day. The two of us took turns to program and test, and it was only at the end of September. With the preliminary program simulation results, then, according to the results, we make chips, design control chips and boards, adjust interfaces, and conduct various tests. We don’t have the money to support a group of mature experimenters and technicians, almost everything We all have to do it in person. After all, maintaining a laboratory to conduct general-purpose chip fabrication experiments is too extravagant for a special-purpose chip manufacturer with meager profits.” Vede • Green said.

Perseverance was written on his face.

The words of the two brothers immediately made all those present in awe.

In the IT frenzy back then, the era when one person dared to pull it up with creativity is long gone.

In the current IT world, there is not enough funds to burn, and it is almost impossible to achieve any results, and this pair of brothers really achieved some results with just two people.

These people present also understand how profitable so-called special-purpose chips can be.

Except for a few big players in the industry, most of the special-purpose chip manufacturers are the targets of exploitation.

“Director, 20 items have been passed.” A laboratory staff reminded.

Everyone’s attention began to focus on the test.

… About 20 minutes later, the Grimm Brothers chip began to hit the 80-item index, and at this time, they had only 102 items in total, and the pass rate was quite high.

…And this result made Lu Zhenyu very satisfied.

This test software was compiled by him, Yue Yu, Qingqing, and Bodhidharma.

Naturally, he knew the significance of those projects that passed and those that did not.

When the test reached the 127th item, the Grimm Brothers chip had already caused a huge sensation. They passed 100 of the 127 items, and had broken through the records of Intel and AMD, as well as IBM. Although the technical systems of both sides Different, it is difficult to make a horizontal comparison, but this result makes Lu Zhenyu very satisfied.

He said: “The last 50 items are all routine evaluations. Can you open the 4 chips together and let us see the extreme performance?”

At this time, the excited Grimm Brothers nodded quickly and said, “Okay.”

When the four chips were opened at the same time, the products brought by the Brothers Grimm passed a total of 144 tests, and had reached the standard that Lu Zhenyu said could be ordered.

Although the perfection of chips and the industrial design of boards still take time, a chip that can basically come in handy has finally appeared.

After everyone dispersed, Lu Zhenyu took Su Wan and Liu Yuanxia to meet the Brothers Grimm alone.

The first sentence Lu Zhenyu said was: “You have won. In this IT era where money is burning, you have won by will. This is a great achievement, congratulations to you.”

Lu Zhenyu’s warm praise made the Brothers Grimm very happy.

“Okay, I once said that as long as I can pass 120 tests, I will place an order. I want to ask, what do you think about the price of this chip and your production capacity?” Lu Zhenyu looked at Green Brother, asked.

“Mr. Lu, our production capacity… is currently only 20 pieces per day. If we count the boards and special control chips, we can only guarantee 10 sets per day. Moreover, we still have a very heavy production pressure. This time we won HP’s order, and the number is quite large. At the same time, the single-chip technology has been successful, we also want to try the single-chip multi-core technology, plus the improvement of the surrounding area, it will take some time.” New Bo• Green told the truth, the two of them did not dare to rashly agree to any request from Lu Zhenyu, and even Lu Zhenyu’s order made them very coveted.

“Well, I understand. You are rigorous and honorable Germanic people. I know that you will definitely provide me with the best products. However, my needs are really urgent.” Lu Zhenyu slightly strengthened his tone.

The two brothers Grimm looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and said, “Mr. Lu, we don’t have the money to expand the production line. If you can invest in us, we can work together to build a production line and research system that meets your needs.”

Lu Zhenyu With a smile, this may be part of his goal. It can be seen that the Brothers Grimm have indeed carefully considered all aspects of the matter.

And this matter was proposed by the two of them, which is quite rare.

After all, what Lu Zhenyu wants to do is likely to be an acquisition.

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“Oh? Concentrate on being my supplier? Do you think you can be satisfied with that?” Lu Zhenyu smiled, “Now, with me, IBM, Intel and AMD, everyone can It proves that you already have the ability to design and manufacture special-purpose chips for high-end computing applications? So your goal is to become my supplier?”

The Brothers Grimm didn’t understand now, isn’t Lu Zhenyu going to buy them?

Or take a stake?

Or develop a dedicated supplier?

Then their chips can have greater development?

“To be honest, I don’t know much about the chip field. That’s why when I encountered a computing bottleneck, I could only find those giants to cooperate with them and lure them with orders. However, your presence gave me a better choice.” Lu Zhenyu Say.

Brother Grimm chewed on Lu Zhenyu’s words and asked, “Are you interested in entering the chip field?”

Lu Zhenyu smiled again and said, “Interested? Of course. However, there are people who are also very interested. Everyone is not a strong company in this field, but it is very interesting to join forces.” Lu Zhenyu took out a letter of intent , put it in front of the Brothers Grimm, and said: “Look, I believe that the conditions here are more suitable for everyone. There is no question of who bullies who. If you agree, the Leipzig Global IT Summit will be held two years later. Forum, you are the hosts, and you are responsible for the reception.”

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