Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 259 Different Technical Approaches (5000+ words)
P.S.: I had some things to do today, so this is the only update.

"These are for the Taihu Lake Motorcycle Rally. We'll sell them to casual spectators from the mainland for one cent a bag. We'll also buy some fried instant noodles in bags, which we can just crush and sprinkle with seasoning to eat," Li Song said.

"Okay!" Tian Jiahui nodded.

"Just be careful about how much each person can buy at one time. We're here to serve the audience watching the game, not to make money off them."

"Of course, there are still quite a few loopholes, but for now, this is how it is."

"There's no need to investigate too much."

"Also, remember to restock regularly, since the competition isn't going to be over in just a day or two," Li Song said.

"Boss, what's the brand name?" Tian Jiahui asked after making a note of it.

"Give me a bucket!" Li Song said.

"The name 'Boss' is good," Tian Jiahui praised upon hearing the brand name.

"Yeah." Li Song nodded.

After the buffet ended, Li Song left from another location, leaving the reporters empty-handed. The dealer conference was scheduled for the 25th, at which time Li Song would give interviews.

On November 21st, Li Song returned to Guangzhou. He was recognized on the boat, and when people greeted him, he responded.

Then Li Song started reading today's Hong Kong newspaper.

In the newspaper, TVB's boss, Mr. Siu, publicly stated that some television stations only know how to engage in crooked practices and don't know how to cultivate their own talent.

Furthermore, it was stated that a television station cannot be established simply by having money; its future remains to be seen.

Furthermore, it was stated that TVB would never cooperate with artists who switched stations.

Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, and other newspapers have publicly stated that certain newspapers are best at fabricating false information and have called on Hong Kong Island residents not to buy these newspapers to avoid being misled by fake news.

Sing Tao Daily, on the other hand, said that Li Song was slandering their newspaper and that they would take legal action.

Hong Kong Island is only so big, and these newspapers are divided into camps. Moreover, the pie is only so big. When Li Song shouted the slogan of boycotting bad media, other newspapers naturally came out to ride the wave.

The boat soon arrived at the mouth of the Pearl River. Li Song heard a whirring sound and looked over to see speedboats navigating rapidly in the Pearl River.

This sparked a lot of discussion among the people on the ship, which was also Li Song's idea. At that time, Huangpu Port was one of the main ports for foreign trade.

There are many boats coming and going, and speedboats sailing here are basically advertising for outboard motors.

Furthermore, BMW's outboard motor manufacturer also provides complete modification drawings, showing how to connect several high-horsepower outboard motors in parallel, and also provides some key components.

This way, if someone buys these parts, they only need a hull to modify it themselves.

Li Song sometimes felt speechless. The ship passed through Huangpu Port, then went to Guangzhou for a loop, and then returned to the BMW motorcycle manufacturing plant.

There's nothing we can do about it; after all, it has to go through customs and such.

This time, Li Song first visited the Qiansheng Electronics Research Laboratory to check on the progress there, and to see the technical documents he had brought last time.

"Boss, this is our division of labor." Li Deqing handed a document to Li Song.

"Well, I have something to say first." Li Song looked at the people attending the meeting.

“Although no one mentioned it, I remember it. We did a great job on our first task, completing it within a month. So, everyone’s performance bonus of 3,000 will be paid along with this month’s salary.” Li Song issued the task at the beginning of the laboratory construction: a performance bonus of 3,000 would be awarded if the laboratory was built within a month, 2,000 if it took two months, and none if it took three months.

"Thank you, boss!" The people present had actually been thinking about it for a while, but they hadn't known how to say it.

Because they received a resettlement allowance from the boss, each person also had four job placement opportunities. Although it was a private company, the salary was not low at all.

Moreover, there are no restrictions. Age and education level don't matter, because the boss has many factories and can arrange for people to sweep floors or do other similar tasks.

If you have education, you can also take the exam to get other positions, or if you are younger, you can take training and then take other jobs.

Furthermore, these four individuals can also transfer their household registration to the city.

These women's status at home has risen dramatically, both in their maternal and paternal homes.

Of course, there are also troubles, namely, the inability to balance the needs of one's own family and one's wife's family.

As for the spouse's job, they can be transferred to other units in Guangzhou, or if they are unemployed, they can be assigned some good jobs in factories.

This wasn't included in the planned quota, so these people were too embarrassed to ask.

"Also, you guys need to get ready. Next month we're going to a few universities to recruit some people. You just need to prepare for the interview questions. From now on, all projects will be assigned in the form of tasks."

"You decide what kind of people your lab needs. If you hire people who can't do the work and delay the project, then don't blame me, the boss, for being biased if you don't get performance bonuses."

"Another thing you need to pay attention to is the staffing of the labs. I don't care about paying salaries, but you need to think about this: future performance targets will be in the tens of thousands. A single project could be worth tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions. So if there are more people, the amount you get will be less. Therefore, each of your labs needs to come up with a plan for staffing," Li Song continued.

"Okay, boss." Li Deqing and the others nodded quickly when they heard Li Song say that.

Li Song thus fully delegated power to the various laboratories below.

Then, we made full use of their interests to motivate them.

The main issue is that Li Song doesn't know much about semiconductors.

I never studied anything related to this field in my past life.

Li Song knew that professional tasks should be left to professionals.

Then Li Song left the Qiansheng Electronics Research Laboratory.

We've arrived at the BMW motorcycle manufacturing plant!

"Mr. Li, the higher authorities have approved your investment in the expressway from Guangzhou to Shenzhen!" Ma Shengli came directly to report to Li Song on some matters discussed with his superiors.

“Okay, my requirement is that the design and construction of the eight-lane dual carriageway be handed over to the mainland companies!” Li Song knew how busy this highway would be later, so he went straight for the eight-lane dual carriageway.

"Okay." You should immediately write down Li Song's suggestion.

"In addition, the higher authorities have completed communication with the Pakistani side and are waiting for the donated outboard motors to be loaded onto the ship!" Ma Shengli told Li Song another thing.

"Also, Mr. Li's semiconductor lab needs to recruit from which schools? Mr. Li, please make a plan, and the higher-ups will make the arrangements!" Ma Shengli then brought up the matter of recruitment!

"I'll give the plan to Mr. Ma as soon as possible!" Li Song nodded.

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Li Song had nothing more to communicate with his superiors about!
On November 22nd, Li Song arrived at the Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant by plane!

The aircraft's temperature-controlled assembly workshop is undergoing final testing.

It is expected to be put into use by the end of this month.

The business jet assembly will be completed in the next three to four months, and the first medium- and long-range civil aircraft assembly will be completed in the next six to eight months.

The assembly of these two aircraft will be slower the first time.

For the first assembly, follow the assembly manual.

Although technicians and workers have mastered the theoretical knowledge, there are still some differences between practice and theory!
Applying theory to practice requires a process.

This is also an opportunity to examine each component carefully.

All the aircraft parts were still in the same packaging as when Li Song transported them by cargo ship.

These components cannot be used for teaching purposes; they must be used in a temperature-controlled assembly plant.

Just like the assembly of aircraft engine blades, which requires precision down to 0.01 grams!
Accurate to this weight, then proceed with the balancing assembly!
Because the blades of an aircraft engine rotate at extremely high speeds, even a slight imbalance in weight can cause all sorts of problems!

In a highly sophisticated industry like aircraft manufacturing, assembly is a very complex and demanding process!
Some high-precision machining centers cannot be reassembled after being disassembled!
It's because the ambient temperature during assembly and the assembly process were not properly controlled.

Li Song was just taking a stroll and looking around; he couldn't really offer any help.

Li Song was still looking forward to piloting the plane for the first time, since it would be a human-caused flight, much better than the passenger planes he was currently on.

On November 23, Li Song came to Shanghai again.

While in Shanghai, Li Song had nothing to do and rested. He didn't go to the office of Qimiao Magazine, nor did he visit the film crew.

Because Zhu Ling wouldn't let Li Song visit the set!
On November 24th, Li Song returned to Guangzhou and then went back to Hong Kong Island!

November 25th is the dealer conference for BMW motorcycles and BMW outboard motors. Parkson Company has booked the entire hotel because of the large number of attendees!
When Li Song arrived at the hotel entrance, he was already surrounded by reporters.

These reporters came specifically for Li Song!

"Mr. Li!"

"Mr. Li, I heard that your bodyguard beat up Zhao Yazhi's ex-husband?" a reporter rushed up and asked!

“I’ve said it before, I won’t answer these private questions!” Li Song was speechless upon hearing this; these Hong Kong media outlets just love to report these kinds of things!
Of course, the media in Hong Kong Island have always been very bold, and luckily I am famous enough now. These editors and newspapers are afraid that I will sue them and make them pay money, so they do not directly mention my name when they write about me!

Use something like "the youngest billionaire" or "a world-renowned author"!

"Mr. Li!"

"Mr. Li, some people in the semiconductor industry have commented that your application for an embedded RISC chip is a misguided approach!"

"I wonder what Mr. Li's comments are?" a Western journalist asked.

Li Song knew that reduced instruction set chips were not a rare thing at this time.

The other party's statement mainly reflects their different technological development paths.

Texas Instruments, Intel, and Motorola could make it in no time.

However, now both Intel and Motorola have their own chips.

Intel's 8086 and 8088, Motorola's 68000.

Motorola's 68000 is a complex instruction set architecture chip, and it was used in Apple's first computer.

It is also widely used in industries such as manufacturing, gaming consoles, and printers.

The current mainstream trend in chip development is widely considered to be the x86 architecture and the 8086.
chip.

In fact, this type of chip architecture is indeed superior to RISC chips in many situations, especially in desktop computers!

The development of reduced instruction set chips is largely thanks to mobile electronic products.

Game consoles, mobile phones, tablets, and more!
So Li Song wasn't surprised at all when he heard a reporter say that, and at the same time, he felt a little secretly pleased.

Just like the design drawings of the medium-to-long-range narrow-body passenger aircraft that Li Song presented.

The mainstream trend for aircraft manufacturers worldwide right now is wide-body large passenger aircraft!

Therefore, these companies did not pay much attention to the aircraft patent applied for by Li Song.

Just like with their own RISC chips, these chip giants, such as Intel and Motorola, didn't consider Li Song's patent application a threat at all.

What's most important for chips? Applications and the market.

The mainstream market for chip applications is currently in Europe and the United States.

Intel and Motorola, on the other hand, have sufficient means or power to exclude Li Song's products from the country.

As for why semiconductor experts would make such remarks, that's something a reporter would definitely ask.

"Our company's semiconductor business has just begun, so we can only start with this simplest product."

"Therefore, the comments from the relevant experts are absolutely correct!" Li Song replied very modestly!

"So, has Mr. Li considered obtaining architecture licenses for other chips?" the reporter asked again.

“If Intel is willing to license its x86 chip architecture to us, we certainly are, and we will try to obtain the license later!” Li Song knew, of course, that Intel would not grant the license, because in the past, ARM had never succeeded in obtaining the x86 architecture license.

Of course, ARM didn't think much of Motorola's 68000 chip.

Because this complex instruction set has a drawback: it's slow!
In addition, it has relatively high requirements for hardware.

The complex instructions of the 68000 chip require the hardware to support multi-step operations, and the control unit needs to have a built-in microprogram to interpret the instructions, resulting in a large number of transistors and high power consumption.

Early Intel x86 processors broke down complex instructions into multiple micro-operations through microcode, but this increased the difficulty of hardware design and latency.

Reduced instruction set architecture (RISC) significantly reduces hardware complexity by simplifying instructions. Its control unit typically uses hard-wired logic to directly generate control signals without microcode conversion. This design improves pipeline efficiency—the processor can divide instruction execution into multiple stages such as fetch, decode, execute, memory access, and write-back for parallel processing.

"Mr. Li, none of the mainstream semiconductor companies are currently developing RISC chips, so isn't your company wasting its time applying for RISC chips?" another reporter asked.
"Our company currently lacks the technology and the team to develop complex instruction sets!"

"So we started by developing reduced instruction set chips to train people."

"Of course, if Intel is willing to license their x86 chip architecture, or Motorola is willing to license their complex instruction set chip architecture, we are certainly willing to exchange money for technology!" Li Song released another smokescreen.

In fact, it is impossible, because the two have opposing technical approaches. The Motorola 68000 chip instruction set design pursues "functional integration".

A single 68000 instruction can directly complete the entire operation of reading, processing, and storing data in memory, similar to "completing multiple tasks with one click".

This design was implemented because early memory hardware was relatively expensive. However, this also resulted in variable instruction lengths and high hardware decoding complexity.

Reduced instruction set chips take the opposite approach, retaining only the most basic arithmetic instructions such as addition and shift, and each instruction has a fixed length (using 32-bit or 64-bit unified encoding).

This design simplifies the hardware decoding process, allowing instructions to be executed within a single clock cycle.

This is why Motorola's chips didn't see further development; they were simply too slow to react.

Reduced instruction set chips have an inherent advantage in industry, namely, their fast multi-threaded processing response speed.

The processing equipment for both types of chips is several times faster than that for complex instruction set (CIS) chips.

The time spent working on the assembly line is money.

This is why Motorola's complex instruction set chips saw no further development!

When the reporter heard Li Song say that, he actually believed it to be true.

"Mr. Li, does your company have the capability to produce chips?" another reporter asked.

"not yet!"

"We do not rule out the possibility of seeking out contract manufacturing." Li Song was just throwing out another smokescreen.

"Mr. Li, was this chip designed in mainland China?"

"It seems there are no related reports in mainland China?" a reporter asked again.

"We are a private company, and we don't report everything to the government!"

"We private companies have our own independent product development!" Li Song did not directly answer the other party's question.

"Mr. Li, do you have any expectations for this dealer conference?" a reporter asked.

"This isn't a business transaction based on mutual consent!"

"Mr. Li, Temple Run has grossed over $450 million worldwide!"

"What do you think about this film grossing over $450 million in its first month?" a reporter asked again.

"There are still 50 million US dollars to go before I predicted the figure. I think we still need to work harder!" Li Song was secretly pleased. With such high box office numbers, he was sure to get a good share of the money!

No wonder so many people want to make movies and enter the entertainment industry.

This is making money way too fast!
In Temple Run, I can get tens of millions of dollars. To earn that much money in the real world, I don't know how long it would take.

Tens of millions of US dollars translates to hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

This further solidified Li Song's determination to exploit the entertainment industry during the years when he maintained a good relationship with Ami in mainland China.

"Thank you all for your support. I'm going upstairs for a meeting now." After saying that, Li Song entered the hotel under the escort of hotel security personnel and his bodyguards.

"Boss, everything is ready!" Tian Jiahui waited inside the hotel, not daring to leave, as he would be surrounded by reporters if he did.

"Let's go!" Li Song nodded and followed Tian Jiahui to the dealer conference venue.

Li Song prepared a wealth of valuable information for this dealer conference.

Moreover, the two brand ambassadors for BMW motorcycles are currently incredibly popular, and with my own celebrity status, I'm sure I'll achieve great success.

(End of this chapter)