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Zhang Lihua smiled and said nothing,

Ning Zimo looked surprised.

The situation in front of them made other people in the office puzzled.

Antarctic core?

SOC chip?

Tape out?

What are these things?

Why have I never heard of it?

Ning Zimo could see the doubts in everyone's eyes at a glance. He smiled in a good mood and waved his hand, "Let's go. Since the Antarctic core has been successfully taped out, I will take you to see what we have done."

New products coming soon to the world.”

"You call Mr. Ren and ask him to come and take a look." After a pause, Ning Zimo said to Zhang Lihua, "Let their 3G core team come too."

After saying that, Ning Zimo picked up the phone and dialed.

"Dad, why don't you and your aunt come to the Fourth Age to see it?"

"Was the tape-out successful?"

"Success!"

…

There are currently only two Quaternary laboratories in the country. In addition to the university cooperative laboratory located in Xi'an High-tech Zone, there is another one located in a factory not far from the Emperor Penguin Center.

It's just that unlike other factories in the Cambrian Industrial Park, the Quaternary Laboratory is not only surrounded by many factories, but also has a two-story-high exterior wall to strictly block it.

This was Han Qinghua's first time to step into this tightly sealed Quaternary Laboratory. The impression that the Quaternary had given him before was that apart from high walls, tight barbed wire, and dense camera surveillance, there were only tightly closed doors and windows.

It was printed in his mind.

This time, even though it was his cheap brother-in-law who brought him in, there was still a strict visitor verification and registration process that no one was immune to. This made him marvel at how meticulous the Quaternary Laboratory's confidentiality work was.

Forgetting to take another look at the four black shell patrol dogs that could be seen near the door, Han Qinghua whispered to his brother-in-law who was walking next to Zhang Lihua, "Zimo, the security work here in the Fourth Age is too strict.

Bar?"

Zhang Lihua glanced at Han Qinghua after hearing this, but still smiled and said nothing.

Ning Zimo looked back at Han Qinghua and others, smiled and said, "In addition to the boring work of chip research and development, there are also many confidential tasks in the process that are essential. The Fourth Age has an independent security team.

All are veterans. There are three shifts every day, and each shift has 33 people and 8 police dogs patrolling."

"Hey... the security force of the Quaternary Laboratory has almost caught up with 1/4 of the security personnel of the entire park."

Since the establishment of Cambrian, Ning Zimo asked Yang Jian to arrange to recruit many veterans through Wang Meng, the first retired driver of Emperor Penguin. Currently, the security teams of Shenzhen Cambrian Industrial Park and Cambrian Northwest Industrial Park combined

, there are nearly 700 veterans.

Although Cambrian security work seems relatively easy, the entry requirements for the security team are very strict.

You must be a veteran, you must be someone with relatively high ideological awareness, and you must be someone who never stops learning. With just these few requirements, Cambrian has actually closed the door to many people.

Although the veterans entering the Cambrian era only work 8 hours a day and enjoy 2 days of vacation per week, their work is not easy. In addition to the routine 1-hour field training four times a week, more

There are specialized cultural electives that must be completed outside of work.

Sometimes, these veterans even feel that the security work in the Cambrian is more stringent than what they had in the army.

But they are happy to do as required, because in addition to making them more valuable, the additional learning also gives them more possible experiences in the future.

What's more, the treatment of Emperor Penguins is quite good. In addition to their own salary being higher than the average level of other retired comrades, their wives can find a stable job in the Emperor Penguin Cambrian Industrial Park. Even the education of their children,

Emperor penguins are already being considered.

"In short, after you see the SOC developed by the Quaternary Laboratory later, you will know why we need such a security force." After changing into professional protective clothing and passing through the third access control of the Fourth Age Laboratory,

Ning Zimo said with a smile.

After saying that, Ning Zimo stepped into the heavily guarded iron gate at the signal of the security personnel.

…

Mike Zafirovsky glanced at the young man he had not seen for a long time through the glass. When he saw him walking into the laboratory with a large group of people, he instinctively frowned. But when he saw this group of people

After Yi Shui dressed neatly, the frown on his brows relaxed.

Carefully putting down the chip in his hand, Mike Zafirovsky smiled silently at Ning Zi, who was approaching him, "Boss, I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Yeah," Ning Zimo nodded, resisting the urge to look at the pile of chips in front of him, and nodded to Mike, "Aren't I afraid of putting too much pressure on you? That's why I never dared to ask.

"

Seeing the faint smile on Ning Zimo's face, Mike, who was still frightened, felt something touched in his heart.

Three years later, the young man who originally invited him to change jobs from Motorola is now someone that the world's communications giants cannot ignore. However, he is low-key and still fully supports the team in his own way, even carefully using his unique

way to reduce their stress.

Mike opened his arms, walked to Ning Zimo and hugged him.

In full view of everyone, the two patted each other on the back.

When they stood looking at each other, Ning Zimo saw Mike solemnly say in Chinese that was often awkward, "Boss, fortunately you have lived up to your mission. Our Fourth Age Laboratory finally completed the Antarctic core before the official production of the iPhone."

SOC."

"Yeah." Ning Zimo then followed Mike's instructions and looked at the Antarctic core, which reflected a glimmer of light under the light.

Looking at the chips that were successfully taped out one after another, Ning Zimo also sighed, "8 versions have been taped out in two years, and only the taping out and peripheral IP licensing fees have already cost 1 billion US dollars... Antarctic Core SOC, finally

Caught up!"

2 years?

8 versions?

$1 billion?

Looking at the ordinary-looking chips, members of the visiting group were shocked. They had no idea that the pile of chips in front of them cost as much as 800 million U.S. dollars?

Of course Ning Zimo saw everyone's doubts, especially when his father and aunt were surprised, there was still a hint of worry in their eyes.

Guessing that they were worried about their own financial problems, Ning Zimo picked up a SOC chip and showed it to everyone.

As he raised his gloved hand, everyone saw that underneath the gray-black chip, there were densely packed irregular but orderly solder joints scattered on the dark green board.

Glancing at the SOC in his hand, Ning Zimo turned to Mike and said, "Mike, can you explain to us all the development history of this chip?"

"Boss, my Chinese is still not very good, so let Ms. Zhang explain it to everyone." Mike smiled, turned around and threw this hot potato to Zhang Lihua.

Seeing everyone's attention focused on her, Zhang Lihua shrugged lightly and reached out to take the chip from Ning Zimo's hand.

Turning her head to look at Ren Zhengfei, seeing a listening look on her former boss's kind face, Zhang Lihua straightened her thoughts and said:

“Our Emperor Penguin officially acquired ARM in 2004, and the first version of the Antarctic core based on the ARMv7 core architecture was developed based on the 3-processor solution based on the ARMv7 core.

The first generation 3 processor is just a high-performance and low-cost ARM processor for the standard embedded market. Since it is a public version of the embedded design, it actually has quite a few shortcomings if it is applied to mobile phones.

.

Especially in the field of integrated solutions, we had many options in front of us at that time, including ASIC, ASSP, SoC and FPGA. But Dadajia asked us to target the two years of 2008 and 2009 from the beginning, so after consultation

Finally decided to start with the most integrated SOC solution.

The full English name of SoC is System on Chip, and the Chinese translation is called system-on-chip. It is a systematic solution that integrates central processing unit CPU, graphics processor GPU, main memory RAM, communication baseband, GPS module, etc.

.

Our consideration at that time was that due to the space limitations of mobile phones and the current small size, it was impossible to choose any accessories by yourself, combine them and lay them out separately, like a PC. We could only design SOC system-level chips by ourselves to solve the integration problem.

"

Zhang Lihua's explanation was very professional, and the professional words were even a bit sour and difficult to understand. But the importance that everyone attached to the project with an investment of US$800 million could be seen from the serious expressions on their faces and the attentive eyes.

After a pause, Zhang Lihua continued, "In 2005, ARM internally announced the 1-chip plan. They planned an ARM processor chip specifically for FPGA solutions.

Therefore, the boss invested 300 million in the same period, allowing ARM to secretly establish the A-series branch. During the same period, Quaternary mobilized a team of 10 people, plus 10 senior engineers poached from STMicroelectronics and Motorola to settle in ARM. In addition, from ARM

The two core founding team members and eight engineers assembled to form a secret team. And this team is the core R&D team of this Antarctic core SoC."

When Zhang Lihua said this, there was some unique light in her eyes that was easily caught by everyone.

But her narration never stopped, “This Antarctic core SoC includes our self-developed Dragon Ball 1 generation GPU based on the ARMv7-A instruction set. VIDAI invested 200 million and bought out the IP license. Dragon Scale 1 generation GPU.

And Quaternary cooperated with Huawei to develop and buy out the IP license for baseband chips that can realize 3G communications.

In addition, every time the tape-out is successful or not, TSMC needs to charge at least US$30 million in tape-out fees. Especially after the overall process was upgraded to 55nm in 2007, the tape-out fee rose to US$30 million. Therefore, 8 tape-outs plus

A total of US$240 million was spent on other peripheral expenses.

Coupled with the development of supporting motherboards and the cost of spare parts for peripheral accessories, Nanjixin spent US$800 million to complete this SOC-level integrated iPhone motherboard and chip."

"Lihua, you, Director Ning, are not giving Huawei to us for free." Ren Zhengfei suddenly said, "Don't forget that Director Ning still spent some money, at least the wages of the co-development team members were paid by you, Director Ning."

.”

Ning Zimo glanced at Ren Zhengfei, feeling that this old man was a bit too bad.

In June 2006, he managed to allocate 2 billion US dollars to invest in Huawei. In addition to exchanging 40% of Huawei's shares, he also asked Huawei to allocate some of its backbone forces to accelerate the research and development of 3G baseband chips that achieve 3G speeds.

You know, the reason why he didn't release a smartphone before Apple was because the iPhone released by Apple in 2007 had a very fatal flaw due to the design of the baseband chip - users would frequently drop calls during calls.

.

And it is precisely because of this defect that the first-generation Apple mobile phone is not so perfect. Moreover, the first-generation Apple mobile phone does not have enough apps. Therefore, the real smartphone battle actually started this year.

.

Now the baseband chip has been integrated into the Antarctic Core SOC, but Comrade Ren’s joke is a bit uncomfortable.

With a salary of 2 billion US dollars, anyone would lose a lot!

Sighing silently in his heart, Ning Zimo quickly got rid of the extraneous thoughts in his mind.

He then took over Zhang Lihua's words and said, "Chip design also needs to consider process issues, especially starting from this year, the 55nm process technology will become mainstream. In the past few years, our team has actually had a blank slate, so

No matter from team building to the actual research and development process, we still took some detours.

But fortunately, I have accumulated a lot of contacts in the past, and Mike and Zhang Lihua also used their contacts to recruit a lot of people. We spent a lot on CPU development, GPU development, baseband chip development and SOC integration.

money."

After a pause, Ning Zimo wiped his sweat. His sudden jump made the nervous mood of the people in front of him much relieved.

God knows how such a small chip could maintain such a calm and relaxed state every day during the three years of development that cost 800 million US dollars.

Ning Guoping suddenly remembered the deep look in his son's eyes when he was sitting by the fire eight years ago and talking about his decision to work directly instead of going to college.

It seems that from that time on, he already knew where he was going to go in the future, right?

Is this feeling of being able to see a thousand miles away at a glance really the son you have watched since childhood?

"The Nanji Core SOC chip has been successfully taped out, the supporting motherboard has been completed, various supply links for corresponding accessories have been opened, and all preparations for the iPhone have been completed."

Zhang Lihua raised her hand and held a PCB board. There was a space about the size of the Antarctic Core SOC just above the middle of the PCB board.

She opened her mouth softly and said, "Master, would you like to see how we arrange things in the future?"

Ning Zimo took the motherboard from her hand and gently took a piece of Antarctic Core SOC and placed it on the left space.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Zhang Lihua seemed to see that her boss's movements were not steady. This was the first time she had seen him so unstable.

Sensing a keen gaze in the crowd, Ning Zimo looked up and saw Zhang Lihua's eyes and smiled softly.

Taking a slight breath, Ning Zimo turned to Mike and asked, "Can the schedule be arranged at TSMC?"

Mike Zafirovsky nodded and replied, "TSMC is willing to free up its production lines to supply us, and we will complete the corresponding solutions for all board chips within the next two days."

"What is the acceptable scheduling time for TSMC?"

"It can start within this month."

"Okay, okay, okay!"

With three words on his face, Ning Zimo nodded repeatedly.

After a pause, Ning Zimo turned to his aunt Ning Liping and asked, "Auntie, when did you get the injection molding machine in place?"

Seeing her nephew suddenly asking him a question, her brows showed an extremely serious look at work. Regardless of her identity, Ning Liping hurriedly answered, "The new generation of injection molding machines have been in place since the beginning of the year. Whether it is the liquid silicone shell mold,

Or the accessories and grinding tools you customized, I will personally lead the team."

Ning Zi silently agreed, then turned to Wang Zijun and said, "From now on, three security teams will be mobilized to station in the Ningyuan factory and adopt the same management system as the Fourth Age."

"Okay, I'll arrange it in a minute." Wang Zijun responded.

Turning to look at Zhang Lihua, Ning Zimo said, "Can all the data of the iPhone appearance be given to Ning Yuan today?"

"No problem, these data have been made into files." Zhang Lihua nodded, "We will also provide a certain number of model machines."

Nodding again, Ning Zimo suddenly smiled and said, "Mike, you will be in charge of this press conference."

Mike Zafirovsky was stunned when he heard this, and quickly shook his head, "No, no, no, Da Dangjia. This is a product you have been planning for several years. It can be seen from our cooperation with NVIDAI Communications that you

I have thought about this day since I was less than 20 years old.

I can see that this iPhone must be a more advantageous product than the Apple mobile phone released last year. Not to mention that you have such a large layout in smartphone APP in the past two years, just look at the surrounding ecology

Supporting equipment is not something that I, a traditional hardware person, can explain clearly. Therefore, at the iPhone product launch conference, you must be invited to the podium yourself."

"After so many years of preparation, it's time to put your reserved personality back." Ren Zhengfei on the side suddenly laughed, "Use your identity as a young man to open a new door to the world! Everything you have done,

It’s worth standing at the front desk and talking to them!”

Ren Zhengfei's words made Ning Zimo stunned. Looking at the affirmative look in front of him, Ning Zimo could only nod.

"I'll do it, I'll do it."

After a pause, Ning Zimo raised his chin and said to Ren Zhengfei, "Brother Ren, after the iPhone is released, all our technologies will be developed correspondingly to Huawei's mobile phone division. Please be sure to choose the right person to take over!"

"That's necessary." Ren Zhengfei nodded.

This is part of the agreement for Emperor Penguin to exchange 2 billion US dollars for 40% of Huawei's shares. This young Emperor Penguin leader dares to mention it. Why doesn't he, the leader of Huawei, dare to take it?

Thinking that the future will undergo earth-shaking changes due to the long-term plan of this young man in front of him, Ren Zhengfei is increasingly looking forward to the release of the iPhone as soon as possible.

Perhaps, after officially hearing Ren Zhengfei's voice, Ning Zimo spoke again.

"If I advance the launch date to June 1 this year, and the actual product is shipped to customers on August 1, will the iPhone's production capacity be able to keep up?"

Zhang Lihua followed up, "We had a chat with the suppliers you negotiated at the beginning of the year and simulated this possibility. The answer from all of them was that delivery in batches can be completed."
Chapter completed!