I Have a Little Black Hole

After strolling around the robot lab for a while, Lei Tiantang asked Kong Yu who was standing next to him with a smile: Manager Kong, I just heard from Chen Zijun that the current CPU chip for this home robot is developed by our company. produced?

Yes boss, in fact, Director Chen said a little less, this robot is not only developed and manufactured by our chip laboratory, but also its GPU chips and other chips are also developed and manufactured by them!

There are several types of chips used in a robot, so our chip lab is currently developed according to the overall design SOC!

It is also because our company's most profitable product is home robots, and our home robot chips have been cut off due to mutual sanctions with Laomei.

Although our reserves can still be used in February next year, we can only rely on ourselves to produce the following chips, so the current focus of the chip lab is the intelligent chip of the robot! Kong Yu replied with a smile.

Lei Tiantang is also familiar with chip R\u0026D and design. The company's robots are all intelligent robots, and the AI ​​requirements of chips are very high. The CPU is only a central processing unit, which is just a processing element. There is no way to support it with a CPU alone. The company's robots run.

Therefore, there is almost no simple design of the CPU, but the SOC is directly designed. There must be a GPU in the SOC, so there is no need to hand over the AI ​​computing tasks to the CPU. Do this repetitive calculation.

Okay! To be honest, although our company has money, the money for purchasing these chips really hurts us a bit! We now have our own chip R\u0026D and manufacturing capabilities, which is very important to the company's future!

Walk! Let's go to the lab on a chip and take a look! I want to know the current situation. Lei Tiantang said happily.

While chatting, the two sat in the battery car and drove in the direction of the chip lab. Because the R\u0026D and production of chips have high environmental requirements, the chip lab is an independent building that has been individually decorated. Just one building was built. After Lei Tiantang got the experimental equipment, the building was assigned to the lab-on-a-chip.

After the dust removal operation and the change of the dustproof clothing, Lei Tiantang also walked into the chip laboratory for the first time. To be honest, he did not expect them to make progress in the experiment so quickly.

It took less than half a year to hand over the experimental equipment and production equipment to them. He thought that chips would not be developed until next year at least, so after the equipment was handed over to them, he did not pay any attention to it.

boss,

Welcome to Lab on a Chip! You can finally think of our lab-on-a-chip! As soon as we met, Wu Guisheng, director of the Lab on Chip, said with a smile.

Haha, what you said, Lao Wu! My fault, I really care less about your side, but you should tell me if you have a breakthrough. If you said this at the last meeting, I would Check it out already!

I really did not expect that you could design various chips used in robots in such a short period of time. Now the difficulty of chip design has been reduced? Lei Tiantang also replied with a smile.

He doesn't care about Wu Guisheng's jokes. Everyone is young and familiar with each other. Lei Tiantang has had many technical exchanges with him, that is, Lei Tiantang's technology has completely surpassed the supercomputer department. There will be less contact after that.

This guy is a real genius. He was originally a top artificial intelligence expert in the supercomputer department. After knowing that the company was going to develop its own chip, he approached Lei Tiantang himself and asked to be in charge of the project.

At that time, Lei Tiantang was shocked by him. You must know that many of these masters were recruited by him personally, not to mention that Wu Guisheng was the first batch of hackers who passed the screening and were recruited by him.

When recruiting him, Lei Tiantang valued his advanced awareness in the field of artificial intelligence, but he did not expect him to be a top hardware expert. After chatting with him for an afternoon, Lei Tiantang immediately agreed to let him To be responsible for the company's chip research and development projects.

How could it be that the design difficulty has been reduced! Boss, your question is sad again, and everyone has worked hard for so long to complete the research and development of the chips needed for the robot!

The reason why so many kinds of chips can be developed so quickly is not only because the equipment provided by the boss is very powerful, but also the latecomer advantage is also a key factor!

We are not developing chips from scratch now. Everyone has a good understanding of all chip technologies on the market, and from experience, we have taken a lot less detours.

The most important thing is that our company's artificial intelligence 'origin' has helped us too much in chip design! As long as we design the structure of the chip in detail, and then input all the design data into the supercomputer, Origin will simulate and calculate our design.

For example, whether the layout is reasonable, whether the various indicators of the chip meet the requirements, whether there are conflicts in the multi-threaded design, etc., the 'origin' can be used to find out the defects at the first time through simulation calculation.

In this way, our design work has reduced a lot of trial and error links, real-time modification, real-time simulation calculation, it is just like opening the hook, with such an artifact, how can our research and development speed not be fast! Wu Guisheng replied triumphantly.

Okay! That's good! But 'Origin' is so powerful, what step have you done with the server chips you designed for it? Lei Tiantang asked with a smile.

Of course we won't ignore such an important thing. The more computing power we add to Origin, the more it will help us, so the plan to add servers to it is also launched simultaneously.

However, because what the company needs most at present is related chips for robots, the research and development of server chips is a bit behind. Now the whole project has entered the middle stage, and it is estimated that it can be completed in a few months!

The main reason is that the chip requirements for servers are much higher than those used in robots, so in terms of research and development difficulty, it is a step higher than the chips used in robots.

Fortunately, the chip used in the robot has been developed, and there is not much work in this area except for various tests, so now everyone's energy has been put into this! We promise to let 'Origin' use the server developed by our company in the shortest possible time! Wu Guisheng said confidently.