Reborn in the red age

Since the Southern Tour in 92, domestic reforms have entered the fast lane. If you want to develop, civil engineering must come first. At this time, the whole country has become a huge construction site, construction is going on everywhere, and real estate has entered a period of rapid development.

With the development of the construction industry, market competition has become increasingly fierce, the number of construction companies has continued to increase, and a situation of more people than jobs has gradually emerged.

Not only are projects difficult to get, but it is also becoming increasingly difficult to get project payments.

When undertaking a project, construction companies are often required to advance funds for construction. Party A, relying on its dominant position in the market, willfully delays paying the construction company's project fees.

He Guangqin almost got scolded by Li Qingfeng. He didn't dare to go and talk to the company's leaders, so he called Zhao Sijiu, the assistant in charge of the design in the office, and criticized him.

He was then informed that the design drawings were rejected by the chairman, who required him to re-contact the construction company and ask them to redesign them. He Guangqin packed his dinner in the company cafeteria and went home after get off work.

Zhao Sijiu was so angry after being criticized by He Guangqin that he called the people from the construction company over overnight and scolded them.

The reason why it is called a construction company instead of a design company is mainly because the design fee is paid by the construction company. The design company does not take money from the Lemon Company. Zhao Sijiu feels that the people in the design company will not spoil him.

After venting his anger, he threw the design drawings directly to the people from the construction company and asked them to go back and redesign them.

When the people in the construction company were scolded, not only could they not get angry, but they also had to smile and inquire about the reason why the design drawings were rejected.

It doesn't matter if I get scolded a few times. After all, life is hard now. This project of Lemon Company is not only big, but also they don't lower the price, and they settle the bills quickly without any delay.

There are not many high-quality clients like this these days. There are too many companies eyeing this project, and they will be kicked out if there is any mistake.

Wang Qiang, the project manager of the construction company, said with a big smile on his face: "Assistant Zhao, calm down. Please tell me what the problem is. We will rectify it immediately when we return."

Zhao Sijiu sat on the sofa in the reception room, took a sip of tea and kept silent.

Wang Qiang quickly took out a pack of yellow Panda cigarettes from his handbag and gently placed it on the coffee table in front of Zhao Sijiu. "Assistant Zhao, this is a small gift. You work so hard, so this is our token of appreciation. Please give us some advice so that we can improve the design and win this project."

It is said that Huazi is the best gift to give, but the Panda brand is much more high-end than Huazi and ordinary people simply cannot afford it.

Panda cigarettes were used as gift cigarettes as early as the 1950s. They were not sold on the market and were only enjoyed by a few people.

In the past, this cigarette was only blue, and only the leaders and state guests in the lake could smoke it.

When the Asian Games were held a few years ago, the capital asked Shanghai to provide Panda cigarettes. However, due to problems with the raw materials, these cigarettes could not be mass-produced.

In response to the above requirements, the Tobacco Bureau decided to implement the "one brand, two colors" plan and produce a yellow Panda with a higher formula level than Huazi but lower than the blue Panda to supply cigarettes for the Asian Games.

Since then, Panda brand tobacco has appeared on gift lists and gradually become known to more people, but it is still rare and precious.

Seeing the cigarettes on the table, Zhao Sijiu put down his teacup and slowly said, "Manager Wang, this gift is a bit heavy, but since you are so sincere, I will tell you a few words."

After listening to Zhao Sijiu's story, Wang Qiang thought about it and didn't understand what fairness meant. How could ordinary employees be fair to their leaders?

"Assistant Zhao, I'm a little confused about the fairness you're talking about. Could you explain it to me again?"

"This is fair. I think that the housing types of employees and leaders must be the same. We cannot have 200-square-meter four-bedroom apartments or garden houses."

Wang Qiang wanted to curse after hearing this. What he said was nonsense. I was asking about the solution. Who asked you to explain to me what fairness is?
Wang Qiang cursed in his heart, and Zhao Sijiu continued: "As for the apartment type, those standard rooms will be cancelled. The starting point is a one-bedroom apartment with one bedroom and one living room, and the largest apartment will be designed to be a large apartment with four bedrooms and two living rooms."

"You mean to make the commercial housing into a shantytown model, with a three-bedroom apartment, with each bedroom equipped with a bathroom, making them separate rooms, with the living room and dining room shared?" Wang Qiang said thoughtfully.

"I figured out what the chairman meant, this should be the case."

"I understand. Thank you Assistant Zhao for your advice. I will keep this in mind. If the project is approved, I will definitely reward you handsomely in the future."

"Of course, of course. It's all for the smooth progress of the project."

The two of them worked out a plan for sharing a house in the future.
After sending Wang Qiang away, Zhao Sijiu did not dare to delay and hurriedly picked up the Panda cigarettes on the table, walked towards the office, reported to his leader, kept half for himself, and handed over the rest to the logistics department.

After all, the company's prosecutor's office is not a decoration. If someone accepts benefits privately without reporting it, once the prosecutor's office finds out, no matter the size of the gift, they will directly report it to the personnel department and the person will be fired.

At the design company, the formal residence has already been designed. We only need to delete the design of the standard room and make changes to the existing apartment types and number of floors according to the client's needs.

Therefore, the latest version of the design was submitted very quickly.

After checking the revised design drawings this time, Li Qingfeng was very satisfied with them and immediately approved them.

The construction company had already made a lot of preparations for this project. After Li Qingfeng nodded, they immediately began to arrange workers to enclose all five plots of land of the Lemon Company. Machines and construction materials were brought in, ready to start construction.

As construction began at the site, Huaxin's first batch of GPU chips and video memory chips rolled off the production line smoothly.

Before the temperature of the freshly-baked chips can completely drop, a dedicated person will immediately send the chips, which are still warm, to the laboratory for environmental testing.

Li Qingfeng didn't pay much attention to the testing of the first batch of tape-outs. After all, there was no such thing as a chip that would succeed on the first try. Without several setbacks and spending millions, it was impossible to succeed.

As expected, Li Qingfeng, who was watching TV at home, received a report from the laboratory. During the GPU tape-out testing process, it was found that the heat dissipation performance was poor when running under high load and there were delays in some data transmission.

This kind of situation was normal, so Qingfeng Li just replied with an "oh" and then paid no more attention to it.

After five rounds of back and forth, and spending more than 10 million, after the fifth tape-out, Li Qingfeng, thinking that most of the bugs should be found, went to the laboratory to conduct the tape-out test himself.

Li Qingfeng, wearing a white coat, inserted the graphics card equipped with GPU and video memory chip into the motherboard slot, and calmly pressed the power button on the host.

The host started up smoothly, and after waiting for the graphics card driver to be installed, I clicked the pre-installed test program to start the precision floating point test. The graphics card performed 1.9 million calculations per second very smoothly.

Next was the graphics processing test, which also passed smoothly.

At this point in the test, everyone perked up.

The first two tests were normal, and only the final scene test was left. If it can pass the scene test smoothly, it means that this epoch-making graphics card has been successfully developed.

Under the expectant gazes of the crowd, Qingfeng Li slowly clicked on a game scene that had been written in advance.

The picture slowly unfolds. Li Qingfeng manipulates the keyboard, constantly controlling the character to move in the scene. The light and shadow of the surrounding environment change naturally and smoothly, without any lag or delay. The resolution of 800×600 pixels is stable at more than 30 frames.

After all the game scenes were demonstrated, there was cheering and warm applause from the audience, with the loudest applause and cheers coming from the international student engineers.

"Teacher Li, I said that we would succeed in the research and development in one year, and I finally lived up to your trust." Sun Kangmei said excitedly, his eyes full of pride and excitement.

Qingfeng Li nodded slightly, a pleased smile on his face: "Old Sun, you and your brothers have worked hard this year."

“It’s not hard, it’s what I should do”

The two chatted for a while, and Xu Yuanming, who had been waiting for a long time, came over immediately and said with a smile: "Teacher Li, the graphics card has been successfully developed, and the planning department has also prepared a sales plan. Would you like to take a look first?"

"Oh? You're talking to me about sales now. It seems that you, Lao Xu, are very confident about the sales plan of graphics cards." Li Qingfeng raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

"Of course. If the graphics card hadn't been developed yet, I would have sent the plan to your desk long ago."

Looking at Xu Yuanming's smug expression, Li Qingfeng became extremely curious about their plan and couldn't wait to see what kind of plan it was that could make Xu Yuanming so proud.

Xu Yuanming had already made preparations before coming. Seeing that Li Qingfeng wanted to look at the plan on site, he reached back and his secretary immediately put a folder in Xu Yuanming's hand.

After receiving the sales proposal, Li Qingfeng did not look at it immediately, but asked about the yield rate.

"Eighty-four percent, one wafer can produce about 120 chips"

In the chip industry, a yield rate of over 90% is considered excellent, and a yield rate of over 95% for mass-produced consumer-grade chips is the norm. However, a yield rate of 84% is already good for Huaxin, after all, the foundation is there.

Moreover, this is a newly designed chip that has just started tape-out production, so there is still a chance that the percentage can be increased to more than 90% in the future.

Li Qingfeng nodded with satisfaction and began to look over the plan.

The above is normal. It is nothing more than classifying chips into different grades. Chips that can run stably and at high frequencies are high-end models, aimed at professional graphic designers and sold at high prices to high-end gamers.

Chips with slightly lower performance but still able to meet mainstream gaming and daily graphics processing needs are positioned as mid-range models, focusing on price-performance and intended for large-scale shipments.

After testing, the defective chip still has certain basic functions. After being castrated, it is sold as a low-end junk graphics card.

This set of operations is not uncommon, everyone is using it and it is normal operation.

Intel does the same thing, and they also play the CPU grading game in a very cool way. Now it is graded, and after entering I7, the inferior I7 will be directly castrated and sold as I5 after the frequency is reduced.

Li Qingfeng skipped over the previous part, but the innovation in the latter part made his eyes light up.

The planners divided graphics cards into two categories, and limited the floating-point precision of graphics cards through technical means. The complete graphics cards were sold as professional graphics cards to those in professional fields who needed modeling and rendering.

After being restricted but still able to meet gaming needs, they are sold to gamers as gaming graphics cards.

Not bad, not bad, it has the shadow of NVIDIA in the future.

There were no professional modeling graphics cards these days. There were only graphics accelerator cards on the market, which were not comparable to this graphics card from Huaxin. A graphics card without restrictions could be sold as a real professional graphics card.

The mainstream graphics accelerator cards on the market now sell for three to four hundred dollars each. It’s not too much to sell our epoch-making professional-grade graphics card, plus various drivers, for seven or eight times the price of $2999, right?

Although the market for professional graphics cards is not as big as the mainstream gaming market, the global demand is not small. After all, various design, mechanical engineering, scientific research, and data analysis industries all require such graphics cards. At least a few million sets should be sold, right?
It's a pity for game players. After reducing the precision of floating point, the effect of the game will definitely be greatly reduced, and the experience will not be so friendly.

But it doesn't matter. The gaming experience these days is not that good anyway, and the graphics are very simple. Players are used to eating pickled radishes and vegetables. There is no need to give them a full banquet. Just some scrambled eggs will make them happy.

After reading all the content on the plan, Li Qingfeng smiled and nodded: "Not bad, not bad, this plan is very good, professional graphics cards are sold to professionals, and gaming graphics cards are sold to gamers. Both parties get what they need, which can not only meet the needs of different groups, but also maximize the value of the product in the market."

Xu Yuanming grinned and said, "In that case, shall we prepare a global press conference? To shock the whole world?"

"Yes, of course we have to hold a press conference in the name of Lemon Company, right at our headquarters building in Hong Kong. We should not only invite journalists and media from all over the world, but also people from various industries to come and see the performance of our graphics cards." Li Qingfeng waved his hand and immediately agreed to Xu Yuanming's request to hold a press conference.

While everyone was happily discussing the requests to the media, Xie Wanmin, who had received the news that the graphics card test was successful, ran in.

After hearing that everyone in the lab was planning to hold a press conference, he immediately interrupted them and said, "No, we can't hold a press conference directly, and we can't hold one in the name of Lemon Company."

"????"

Facing the eyes of the crowd, Xie Wanmin said calmly: "Huaxin is a semi-state-owned enterprise with state shares. With such great achievements, we should report to the superiors first, receive praise from the superiors, and then announce our research results to the public."

"In addition, the press conference should also be held in the name of Huaxin and hosted by relevant leaders" (End of this chapter)