Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Chen Yiran's comparison tweet garnered over 100,000 retweets in less than an hour. The comments section was filled with mockery, with some saying Google was cosplaying, and others saying HTC and Sony were just there to be used as background figures.

Duck Video and Twitter now bear the deep imprint of Chen Yiran, where mocking Google is naturally politically correct.

However, this incident was perhaps too funny, especially the information labeled on his picture, which was so ironic.

On YouTube, Google's home turf, many videos satirizing Google have also appeared.

This is Google's home turf, yet a whole bunch of bizarre and absurd videos have appeared.

Someone did a frame-by-frame comparison between Larry Page's press conference and Chen Yiran's Doubao press conference, with Google's on the left and Doubao's on the right, and even the speaking rhythm matched.

There's an even more malicious one: someone photoshopped Larry Page's face into a clip from the variety show "Charades," where the host would make a gesture, and Page would mimic it.

Larry Page has already lost a lot of face, and this time he has lost even more.

However, the most hurt are Sony and HTC, who were dragged into this situation against their will. If they could have jumped ship long ago, they would have done so already.

This also means Google has to pay another integration fee for them to come and endorse the event despite the pressure. Of course, they also hoped that it would have some promotional effect and boost sales.

The final result was so disastrous that the competitors directly stated that the company was "going downhill," and they couldn't refute it.

The brand's strength has been hit once again, and even the stock price has dropped significantly.

Chen Yiran didn't pay much attention to these things; he started to focus on the coffee project team.

After all, this was his first real chip design, and it took several months to refine.

Now we've finally reached the stage of the first round of test chip fabrication and tape-out.

Chen Yiran visited the company after a long absence and met with the core team of the project in the conference room.

Gao Dewei stood up when he saw Chen Yiran come in.

"Boss, both sides are ready."

"Sit down and talk."

Gao Dewei sat down again and opened the folder in front of him.

"Let's talk about Samsung first. Mocha's test chip uses a 28nm process. The core module is a 16x16 systolic array slice, along with complete control logic and memory interfaces. We've run three rounds of integrated circuit physical verification and two rounds of transistor verification, all of which passed. We received the timing signature last night. The worst-case slack is positive, but the margin isn't large."

"That's good enough. It's just preliminary testing anyway. Have the blueprints been generated?"

"Generated, the 17GB file is packaged. I'll transfer it to Samsung's secure FTP server this afternoon."

"There's no need to queue for chip fabrication over there, right?"

"No need. After all, it's a deep collaboration, so they deliberately didn't make us wait in line. We can start in early May. The production cycle for 28nm is about ten weeks, which means the wafers can be back by the end of June. Packaging and testing will add another two weeks, so we should see the first running chip by mid-July."

This speed is normal. The 28-nanometer process involves more than 40 layers of photolithography. Each layer goes through dozens of processes such as deposition, photolithography, etching, ion implantation, and CMP. This is the pinnacle of human technology.

Chen Yiran nodded and turned to look at another project team leader who had been poached from AMD.

"What about the latte from Wan Guo Yuan?"

"The equipment on their 12-inch line was just installed and tested last month. The production line is in good condition and ready to receive the first batch. The 8x8 pulse array wafers are half the size of those from Samsung. However, the transistor density of WanGuoYuan's 40nm process is not as high as that of 28nm, so the chip area will be larger. They are still very confident about it."

"Is there anything wrong with the previous procedures?"

"After three rounds of testing, there were over a hundred violations in the first round, mostly due to insufficient metal density and antenna effects. After slightly adjusting the layout, there were only a dozen or so violations in the second round, and all of them were cleared in the third round, with no short circuits or open circuits."

The timing of 40nm is much more flexible than that of 28nm, with ample slack. It all depends on the stability of the production line there, since the 12-inch line was just installed and the equipment parameters are still in the break-in period.

Chen Yiran nodded and said, "It's alright. Tell them not to be so nervous. It's just for practice anyway. Let them try to do it themselves first. If it doesn't work, Samsung will back them up. It would be best if they could make it. We can also compare the price difference with Samsung and see the performance differences of the same architecture at different process nodes. This data is also very valuable."

There's also packaging. The packaging for test chips doesn't need to be too complex, but signal integrity must be guaranteed. We can practice with test chips using Chiang Shang-yi's advanced packaging solutions first.

"Professor Jiang has already said that he has prepared two packaging solutions. One is traditional wire bonding, and the other is a modified flip-chip package. We will try both."

"Okay, we'll do as he says."

Chen Yiran stood up to leave, but Gao Dewei stopped him.

After the project team left, Gao Dewei cautiously asked, "Boss, give me a straight answer, okay? What's our stance on TSMC and Nvidia?"

Chen Yiran looked at him with surprise: "They all have a very good attitude. TSMC has already started using our software, and we've been optimizing it for Nvidia as well."

Gao Dewei pursed his lips and said, "Boss, nobody's stupid. Nvidia has been spending a lot of money lately, pushing CUDA like crazy. TSMC, on the other hand, is still the last foundry to update its technology every time. I was hoping to get some guidance on your general thinking, otherwise it will be difficult for me to communicate effectively with both sides."

Chen Yiran thought for a moment and said, "In this way, TSMC's technical capabilities are too strong, we can't let them have it. We'll grant them licenses at the very least, leaving them half-dead, so that we can slowly poach people from their company. We'll talk about it when we've hollowed them out."

As for Nvidia, let's just observe their performance and see how they compete. I also developed OpenCL for AMD, and now the gap between us and Nvidia isn't that big. After our Aurora Group was established, they even came to ask if we could have cross-shareholding, but I refused.

If Nvidia adopts an overly aggressive approach, attempting to erode our position through the underlying CUDA ecosystem, then we'll have to fight them head-on.

Gao Dewei nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Chen Yiran stood up to leave, and just as he got into his car downstairs, he received a call from Lanai Island.

Amit reported to him: "Boss, those two administrators you kept an eye on have indeed started causing trouble. Just now, a few animal protection and cultural preservation organizations secretly boarded a boat and tried to force their way onto the island, but they were caught by the island's patrol team. What do we do now?"