Our Rise Era

Chapter 278: Brilliant Stars (Part )

7 month 22 day.

The crescent moon in the sky is bright.

【Wheat Technology】.

Thomson stared closely at the [Xiaomi Intelligent Voice] on the computer.

With the arrival of the 4G era.

A mobile phone should not only have the functions of taking photos, watching movies and making phone calls, but it should also be truly smart!
Everyone knows that in the future era of smart phones, [intelligent voice] is an unavoidable key.

Android has Android Voice.

iPhone users can use Siri to search for information, make calls, send messages, get directions, play music, and find their phones...

The moment this feature came out, it amazed all the young people of this era...

They make the mobile phone more like a smart tool and a smart assistant, rather than a dull, single communication product that can only make calls and play games.

and……

This is just the first step. More importantly, we can use smart assistants to expand to surrounding industries, conduct various industrial integrations, and form our own unique industrial chain!

……

Because of this, Thomson, the developer of Wheat Voice by Wheat Technology, had actually been working on it several years ago.

However, unfortunately, due to the limitations of the system, hardware, and technology, they were powerless to do many things, and ultimately could only come up with a game like "Tom Cat".

Even until last year, this kind of technological breakthrough was still barely enough, and it was completely incomparable to the iPhone and Android systems...

Others are artificial intelligence.

You are artificially retarded.

……

However, just when everyone was in trouble and was trying to do something impossible...

Zhang Yang's actions during this period have begun to change this situation!

Until now, Thomson was still shocked by Zhang Yang's handwriting...

He seems like a madman!
Suddenly, he began to poach people everywhere without regard for cost or price, and even shamelessly. As long as the company was slightly related to intelligence, Zhang Yang would bring people to negotiate acquisitions in a big way...

As long as there is a little bit of technology and patents, Zhang Yang will buy, cooperate, and jointly develop...

……

In this world...

There are lots of stupid people doing lots of stupid things.

once……

In Thomson's opinion...

Zhang Yang is doing a stupid thing.

The stupidest thing in the world, like the sand being washed away by the waves.

The cost invested made Thomson realize clearly that it was totally impossible to make back the investment!
However, it was precisely because of this stupidity that Thomson found corresponding solutions among countless useless technologies, and also found several corresponding talents among countless people...

It is precisely because of this...

"Hello, Xiaomai!"

"Hello there!"

"Wheat sings a song..."

“Thank you, I can’t sing…”

"..."

The moon outside the window is bright.

Inside the room, everyone stared at the huge voice assistant. When the last step of the test of [Xiaomi Assistant] was completed and announced as a success.

Thomson breathed a sigh of relief!

Immediately afterwards...

I called Zhang Yang.

About a few minutes later, Zhang Yang walked in.

In front of Zhang Yang, Thomson demonstrated it once...

I saw Zhang Yang clapping!

"However, there is still a problem. The space occupied by [intelligent voice] is not small. We need a system and hardware to match it. We..."

"We have it!"

"what?"

"We got it!" Thomson stared at Zhang Yang's confirming expression in disbelief.

Then the pupils shrank...

"Could it be..."

"Yes! Over there, they are doing the final design test!"

....................................

outside the window.

The stars are brilliant.

Huge investment in dust-free laboratory.

There were bursts of heavy breathing sounds coming from inside the protective suit.

Ge Guoxing's eyes were fixed on the spot of light in the center of the glass not far away.

It was a computer, and the computer displayed data one by one...

Every piece of data represents the research and development process of chip design, and every beat of each letter seems to touch Ge Guoxing's heart.

The sweat on his forehead could not stop flowing out, and his breathing became heavier as the data not far away jumped. In the end, he tried to make his breathing light...

His highly concentrated mind made his heart beat wildly. The tense atmosphere surrounded his entire body, and the pores around him were constantly expanding...

Extremely nervous.

even……

It turned into a hint of fear again.

He was afraid that this time it was just a dream.

The higher the hope.

What I got in return was deeper despair...

……

not far away……

Lei Fu, together with the brothers called from overseas and the peripheral R&D team of more than one hundred people, directed every step of the chip design process.

Under the huge lithography machine...

Everyone seemed exceptionally small.

But everyone's eyes were fixed on the flickering light. "The front-end design demonstration begins!"

As Lei Fu's voice sounded.

His voice wasn't heavy, but it was trembling with a bit of excitement.

After he finished speaking, the team of nearly a hundred people in the laboratory began to move.

Everyone is in front of the computer, controlling every step of the argument...

The atmosphere around is extremely depressing!

In addition to the sound of the keyboard, a slight breathing sound could be faintly heard.

The expressions on everyone's faces showed no other emotions except solemnity.

……

Chip demonstration officially begins!
Start with front-end design: HDL coding, simulation verification, logic synthesis test...

It may seem like a simple step, but each step brings together the rigorous thinking and a lot of energy of everyone present.

During this time...

No, it should be these years, so many days and nights, when no one was optimistic, when everyone stayed at their respective posts, doing boring and even hopeless work.

Over the years, companions have left one after another, and joined one after another.

The office schedule has been refreshed again and again. Failed projects have piled up throughout the office. Everyone has experienced despair and collapse. Everyone knows that technological breakthroughs are never achieved overnight!
"Front-end demonstration completed!"

"..."

Ge Guoxing's palms were full of sweat.

My throat was surging and my whole body was shaking.

When he saw that all the data were normal or even above the average, he clenched his fists.

The front-end demonstration was successful!
"Back-end argumentation begins!"

Lei Fu took a deep breath.

The demonstration of every link in chip design is very important, and it can be said that one move affects the entire body!

The success of front-end demonstration only takes the first step!
"Signal interference!"

“Fever distribution!”

"..."

Lei Fu lowered his head and looked at the data table on the screen not far away.

Direct the back-end design argumentation in an orderly manner.

Back-end design demonstration, including DFT, layout planning, routing...

The data are jumping one by one.

Chip design tools and EDA tools were being tested under everyone's watchful eyes, with a team of hundreds of people all working around a chip.

The entire electronic design process from chip design, circuit board design to system-level design, logic synthesis, layout and routing, simulation verification...

The test data were submitted to Lei Fu one by one.

Lei Fu sometimes nodded, sometimes frowned, and sometimes relaxed, while talking to the staff.

Time passes little by little...

In a daze...

It seemed like more than an hour had passed...

Ge Guoxing stood blankly at the door, looking at the data inside...

Lei Fu's design concept is different from others'. Others use NM-level chip reduction...

However, once the chip area reaches its limit, no matter how much it is reduced, the effect will be minimal.

Moreover, if one wants to break through this limit in theory, one must at least surpass the standards of internationally renowned semiconductor companies such as Qualcomm and Intel.

Obviously, it is impossible for their team to obtain the technology to surpass these giants all at once...

Eventually, he took a different approach and adopted chip stacking technology.

The number of transistors that can be accommodated on the surface of a traditional chip computer is approaching the physical limit...

But if we go the other way and do vertical scaling, that is, increasing the number of transistors and semiconductor components by stacking them on multiple levels, rather than continuing to shrink the size of individual transistors…

However, the difficulty is not small...

Traditionally, silicon wafers are used as the main supporting platform for the growth of semiconductor components. They are bulky and each layer needs to contain a thick silicon "floor", which not only limits design flexibility but also reduces the communication efficiency between different functional layers.

However, during this time, they began to develop a multi-layer chip design that abandoned the reliance on silicon substrates and ensured that the operating temperature remained low to protect the underlying circuits. This approach allows high-performance transistors, memory, and logic elements to be built on any random crystal surface, rather than being limited to traditional silicon substrates. Without the heavy silicon "floor", the semiconductor layers can be in more direct contact with each other, thereby improving the quality and speed of inter-layer communication and improving computing performance...

However, all this exists on a theoretical level.

If you want to implement it, you need to be precise in every step and not have any omissions...

No one knows whether this design concept can succeed.

……

Sweat had wet Ge Guoxing's eyes.

Ge Guoxing did not wipe it off...

He stared closely at the steps ahead...

I don’t know how long it took…

He saw lights not far away lighting up one by one!

He saw that everyone's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and several young people wearing protective clothing collapsed on their chairs...

……

this moment……

He looked at Lei Fu not far away in a trance.

Lei Fu was also looking at him.

Lei Fu waved to everyone, nodded, and was the first to applaud!

Immediately afterwards...

In the silent laboratory...

Suddenly there was thunderous applause.

Almost everyone cheered excitedly.

Someone stretched out his hand and yelled like a madman.

The audience outside were all going crazy with excitement...

"Success?"

"Success!"

Ge Guoxing looked at Lei Fu in disbelief. He felt his head buzzing and was stunned for a moment. The feeling was indescribable!
Lei Fu nodded at him seriously and confirmed: "You can have a good sleep now! However, only the first step of the design plan was successful. The next step is to actually produce the chip and test it..."

"..."

(End of this chapter)