Chapter 470： ["Xun Peng" spread its wings soon]

Luo Sheng came to the R & D department of Lansi Semiconductor. In addition, the head Xu Zhijun was also there. He took Luo Sheng to the Lh06xx server chip R & D department. This is the internal R & D code of Lansi Semiconductor. They entered in professional work clothes. Laboratory interior.

Engineers in the lab are all doing their own things. Xu Zhijun said: "Compared to mobile phone SoCs, the difficulty and threshold of server chips are much higher, and what we do is non-x86 architecture chips. In today's server market, the x86-based processor market accounts for more than 90% of the market. It is easier said than done to tear off a piece of meat from Intel in such a solid ecosystem. "

Having said that, Xu Zhijun couldn't help but sigh a long time, the x86 architecture is almost unshakable, and it takes great courage and determination to challenge such a hegemon.

However, Luo Sheng was quite optimistic and laughed: "It's not just us, x86 is a long time in the world, and some Arm-based manufacturers in foreign countries are trying to change this situation that makes many server application companies feel helpless, because they are rare in the x86 system Have bargaining power. "

It is worth mentioning that the Lh06xx research and development code inside Lansi Semiconductor is based on the Arm architecture server chip, which is the second-generation server chip developed by Lansi Semiconductor.

Another research and development department of Lansi Semiconductor is also working hard to develop its own underlying instruction set architecture. Not only that, the engineers of the Azure Coast Laboratory are also working together. The engineers after the Cell chip saw 127 people to lend Weiwei, most of them are disciples who Luo Sheng taught himself during the [planned project]. This is an important part of spare tires. After all, the Arm architecture is something of Europeans and Americans.

Nowadays, not only the server chip is based on the Arm architecture, but the Azure core "Blue Core L" series of Azure mobile phone processors is also the Arm architecture.

However, the self-developed low-level instruction set architecture still has a long way to go to replace the Arm architecture in the application stage. It is a huge success for server chips to be able to get rid of the Arm architecture in the fifth generation.

In other words, the third and fourth generations must continue to use Arm architecture.

The ability to spend money on scientific research is actually no more ambiguous than the French Riviera. Last year, total sales reached $ 32.5 billion, but R & D investment accounted for more than 30%, reaching a staggering $ 10.75 billion. After the French Riviera ($ 39.19 billion) and Blue Star Technology ($ 12.1 billion), it ranks seventh in the world rankings.

Because of the courage to invest in research and development, the profit is not as good as the Blue Coast, and less than Blue Star Technology, so the net profit of Weiwei last year was only 10.6 billion yuan.

But even so, Weiwei still feels that the R & D investment is far from enough, otherwise it will not be so eager to set up a junior electronics company with Luo Sheng again and set up an independent brand Honor Phone to expand new revenue growth points.

Lack of money!

Rongwei's R & D investment is mainly devoted to the R & D of communication basebands. The server project, which was originally an edge business, did not receive much R & D budget. The reason why it can still get the current results is due to Luo Sheng's blood transfusion order support. As a result, the company's server business has ample revenue to support the positive cycle of R & D investment.

Xu Zhijun laughed: "In the past five years, I have made great progress in the research and development of Arm server chips. The detour is naturally unavoidable. The first generation of chips is obviously not satisfactory. It is such a junk product. I did not hesitate to give a large-scale order for the seven data centers of Weiwei server, otherwise the server business sector may be half dead, and without you giving the list to others, how can there be such a satisfactory rate of progress today. "

This is the result of mutual accomplishment. The first-generation server of Weiwei is really rotten, and its performance is not as good as that of IBM's products. However, Luo Sheng still insists on the support of Bluestar Technology. It can be said that it is the only customer of the server business now. It's Bluestar Technology.

However, such a customer can support dozens of other large customer groups. Bluestar Technology is simply a super large customer.

To a certain extent, Bluestar Technology is continuously giving blood to the server business group. Luo Sheng has to forcibly support it and even completely replace North American IBM.

And Weiwei's server department did not disappoint Luo Sheng. He got an order here, and the reflowed funds did not hesitate to plunge into the development of new generation products, and gradually formed a benign positive cycle. It is obvious to all in the past five years. Compared with the previous generation, the latest generation of products is a leap forward.

This road has come bumpy and bumpy. For the server department, which has five years of R & D and market experience accumulation, it has passed the novice period and gradually entered the fast-growing fast track.

After a few laps in the laboratory, the two also came out, sat down in the R & D department lounge, and continued to chat and exchange.

Luo Sheng said: "The Lh06xx version of the chip is based on high-K45 nanometer technology. The second super factory of Xiongxin Electronics in Pengcheng is expected to complete the production line in the first quarter of next year. You can take orders without dropping the chain. Produced. "

Xu Zhijun nodded affirmatively: "You have to worry about this, I can pack tickets, and there will definitely be no problem. Now we have started to discuss the naming issue of the second-generation server chip officially released. What's your suggestion when talking about Luo? "

Lh06xx is just an internal R & D code, and the final version is Lh0611.

Luo Sheng began to lay out the entire domestic semiconductor industrial chain. As long as it is not the highest-end product, most of the production environment can be achieved in the mainland supply chain, and it is still being improved.

After hearing this, Luo Sheng thought for a while and said, "On the side of Bluestar Technology, we plan to build four submarine data centers from 2012 to 2015, one each year: the Bohai Rim Economic Belt, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Belt, and the Pearl River. The Triangle Economic Belt and the Qinghai Lake in the western part of the country set up a sink. The Qinghai Lake data center will be able to meet the needs of the western region for at least five to eight years. This is still an internal plan that has not been announced to the outside world. "

The life design of subsea data centers is a five-year cycle.

Xu Zhijun said with surprise: "What? Isn't this underwater data center project you started a secret project launched two years ago? Is it ready for commercial use so soon? Didn't you say that in a media interview before? . "

Lao Xu was really surprised. His R & D and output capabilities made him feel shocked. This is something no one has done before.

Luo Sheng laughed: "The original plan for commercial use was to go in 2014 or 2015, but a talented university student still studying at HKUST has solved several key core technical pain points in half a year since the beginning of this year, which has greatly advanced the plan. . "

Xu Zhijun's eyes brightened, and he said subconsciously, "Oh? What is the genius of HKUST? What is it called?"

Luo Sheng glanced at him lightly: "You should give me the idea of ​​this person less, he is already my person, but only put it up to the University of Science and Technology to support it. In addition, the last one who worked with me for financial strength, yes That is, the people of Microsoft have kneeled down to sing and conquer. "

Xu Zhijun paused for a while, and couldn't help but laugh at it: "Haha, look at what you say, gentleman loves but doesn't win people's love, but you need to borrow it for use, you can't excuse me, otherwise I can sue you Breach of contract. "

Luo Sheng could not help laughing, and nodded silently.

After the two sides reached a strategic partnership in 2004, they have established an agreement to open up talent barriers to each other, so to a certain extent, your talent is my talent.

Over the years, it has been sparse and common to borrow people to transfer posts. It is because of this paper contract that the human resources of both parties have been greatly optimized, and the return is more efficient R & D output capacity and more money. .

You know, grabbing people is very costly, for example, they will give the other party five times the treatment of grabbing people.

Luo Sheng said, "How about the official name" 鲲 鹏 "?"

"Okay, I can still take the naming right." Xu Zhijun nodded very simply.

In fact, when Luo Sheng said that he would build four underwater data centers, he knew that the other party would say this name, because Bluestar Technology ’s underwater data center project was published long ago, and the name was “Pengpeng Project”, and the second The first generation of server must be used in underwater data centers, which is a perfect match.

Xu Zhijun went on to say: "Unsurprisingly, we can launch the" Pengpeng "server early next year. Before and after the launch, we have been doing the ecological construction of the Arm server. In the face of the strong x86 ecosystem, if we want to get customer orders, definitely not It only needs one or two processor chips and two or three server products. The penetration and participation of industry organizations and platforms, the coordination of related hardware and software, etc., are very important and the most difficult to do. "

Luo Sheng nodded and said, "In fact, Arm server vendors still have a place to rely on ~ www.novelhall.com ~ That is the market has this demand and needs to break the monopoly of toothpaste factories."

Xu Zhijun laughed: "Sure enough the hero sees the same thing."

Luo Sheng has made clear the order contract for the four large submarine data centers of the "Pengpeng" server. As for whether it can open up new business markets, it is a matter for the business group.

Blue Star Technology's order can only be guaranteed to be alive, but whether it can survive a well-known company depends on its own business capabilities.

However, Luo Sheng is very confident about Yunwei.

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(Ps: emmm ... Three times in the history of U.S. fusing, quality has occurred. The last fusing event dates back to the distant March 9, 2020. I became one of the witnesses of history that day, and the memory is extremely deep. It feels like it happened a few days ago ... [manually funny])

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