Hammer of Technology

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After discussing with Sanyue, Ning Wei rushed into Liu Wei's room and began to explain his thoughts in detail.Of course, these were not only told to Liu Wei, but to inform Chen Mingcai and the higher-level leaders through Liu Wei's mouth.

It has to be said that this is a very grand plan.

From the most core general-purpose chip instruction set, to chip architecture, to chip production, and the supporting operating system... It is no exaggeration to say that it may take tens of thousands of people to make these things according to Ningwei's idea. The team of people performs their own duties, and these tens of thousands of people are also extremely smart people in China. They need to divide and cooperate to deal with the instruction set, chip architecture, chip design, circuit layout, and finally tape-out. All kinds of problems that may arise, in order to cooperate with this chip, type out all the codes of the operating system that Huaxia has complete intellectual property rights line by line.

However, when Ning Wei finally calmed down from the excitement of building the future, he realized that Liu Wei's expression seemed a little wrong.

Although Ning Wei is not very good at observing words and expressions, after all, Liu Wei is almost inseparable from him. The two are too familiar. In addition, Liu Wei rarely shows conflicted emotions. At this moment, his heart was really troubled.

Right now, Liu Wei frowned slightly. In the past ten seconds or so, she opened her mouth slightly twice, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't speak. All attention is on hearing him explain this grand idea...

Ning Wei couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother Liu, are you in a relationship?"

"Huh? Me? Falling in love?" Liu Wei raised her finger and pointed to her dry face, probably because she didn't use Dabao: "Do you think it's possible?"

"Are you not in a relationship? Then why do I feel that you are a little bit out of your mind? According to my experience, except when I think about Chenshuang, I can concentrate very much at other times, especially when talking about important things." Ning Said for granted.

"No, no, that's not the case. I do have something to say, but it has nothing to do with dating." Liu Wei shook her head, then smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I just want to tell you, Professor Ning, are you Is it too complicated to consider? In fact, designing an instruction set to make a chip is not as complicated as you think, and everyone actually means that we can have it.”

"It's enough to have it?" Ning Wei frowned subconsciously, and asked, "Does it mean not to consider the market?"

"I want to consider the market, but how much will it cost? Experts have already analyzed it. At present, it is difficult to say that we have a market environment that can completely replace the combination of Intel and Windows in the PC field. According to estimates, if we really want our The direct introduction of products to the market may require huge and continuous capital investment to support the relevant upstream and downstream industrial chains, and it may not necessarily meet expectations."

"So the meaning above is, if we'd better go step by step, we can first have the ability to design and manufacture chips by ourselves. At least in this way, we can be free from threats and obtain certain discounts in the current market environment. After we have this capability, we will explore the possibility of gradual replacement. For example, in some special fields, we will first use our own developed chips. As for the introduction to the consumer market, we have not yet thought so far.”

Liu Wei spread her hands and explained.

Ning Wei blinked... He really seemed to be thinking too much.

From Liu Wei to Mr. Chen, in fact, what he told him was only to design an instruction set, and then he thought of designing a micro-architecture, designing a chip, and making an operating system through the instruction set. I made a phone call to discuss whether windows can support the new chip...

Of course, Ning Wei felt that he couldn't blame him completely.Neither Liu Wei nor Chen Mingcai made it clear to him.

"Well, Brother Liu, what do you mean we should make a chip first and use it as a nuclear bomb? Just to scare others, we can also make this thing?" Ning Wei smashed his lips and asked dryly.

Liu Wei nodded embarrassingly and said: "Probably that's what it means. It's good to do supercomputing and other special-purpose CPUs, but if you really want to do general-purpose CPUs, everyone is not very confident. There is not enough confidence in the final market launch of the product."

Ning Wei suddenly realized that the lack of confidence in marketization was very appropriate.User habits, developer confidence, learning costs, global hardware supporting ecological chain...every problem is a difficulty.

To put it bluntly, it's not that I'm afraid of spending money at all. The key is that a large sum of money is poured into it, and it can't shake people's status at all.

It's really better to make things first, and don't rush to do marketing. If you don't do marketing, you don't have to consider the support of the operating system.

The opponent's technological lead is really daunting.It directly leads everyone to feel that it is difficult to make profits on the PC side as chips and operating systems.

Of course this is also understandable.In the current market, both chips and operating systems are high-input, low-output or even zero-output industries.This is also the reason why there are a large number of technology companies in China. Except for Huawei, everyone either doesn't think about chips and systems at all, or they only think about it.

Not worth it, no confidence.

Ning Wei is quite confident.And confidence really doesn’t just come out of thin air.

"Brother Liu, then I have to talk to everyone. Really, how about giving us more confidence and we can make a miracle?" Ning Weiwei said seriously.

"You also said it was a miracle. Ning Wei, spend more than ten years investing trillions of dollars to build an ecosystem that doesn't know whether it will be accepted by the market. Do you think it's worth betting on a miracle? So It is normal for many people to be hesitant. But as you said, if we really have something, it will be enough to deter some people from continuing to be aggressive at this level. It is probably the most cost-effective solution at this stage. "

"Of course, this is not to say that we don't want to apply it at all. Instead, we should first research the instruction set and make supporting chips. At this time, we can temporarily ignore the civilian market that is the most difficult to win. We can use those operations in the Internet open source community. System, let our chips be popularized in many non-civilian fields first. For example, servers, supercomputing, government support and military systems, etc. "

Liu Wei spoke like an endorsement, obviously repeating the results of the discussions of relevant experts.

There is no doubt that this set of development opinions is really selfless, and it can be said to be the lowest-cost development method.There is no doubt that building an operating system with an open source operating system such as Linux as the core will save a lot of money and energy than rewriting an operating program yourself.

Of course, this also means that the new system is unlikely to conform to people's daily usage habits like windows, and it is also unlikely to be supported by too many software.But for building servers, supercomputing and supporting departments, there is absolutely no problem.After all, these application scenarios do not require the operating system to support too many and complicated software. As long as the security is OK, everything is OK.

The only problem is that it makes Ning feel like his call to Satya Nadella was wasted.

It is agreed that in all fields, it will challenge the combination of windows and Intel. A real man can't say nothing.

The most important thing is that Ning Wei probably understands why the experts are worried. Simply put, they are afraid that the extremely high investment will not be proportional to the rewards. As a result, almost no private capital dares to challenge this direction, so the whole people can only spend money.If you can do part of it first, and wait until the economic situation is better before spending money on researching the operating system and laying the upstream and downstream industrial chains, you can be much more relaxed.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man.

The most feared situation is that the money is spent, the subsidies are given out, and the market is not built in the end. The chip is good to say, it is something that should be made no matter how much money is spent, but if the operating system developed by spending all the money is not sold Going out and no one is using it is really a waste.

"That's it, Brother Liu, you can go back and ask me, if I think about it, it doesn't take more than ten years, and it doesn't need trillions of dollars in investment. Would you like to try it? Or like this, what should the chip be?" The process is still a process, the operating system we go to the market. In the early stage, I will raise investment by myself. If the operating system is effective in the future, it can indeed replace windows. In other ways, give some benefits to the companies participating in the design research? "

"For example, give some discounts to companies in China that are willing to develop software for our operating system, and how much reward will be given if the operating system has reached a certain level of market share? What do you think?"

Ning Wei opened his mouth and gave what he thought was a compromise.

Without a proven solution, Ning Wei dare not pat his chest and say that the operating system he and Sanyue jointly developed will be loved by the public and sell well. Even if someone dares to say such a thing, it must be bragging .

But Ning Wei subjectively feels that this is indeed feasible, and he should give it a try.

"Ning Wei, are you so confident?"

"To tell you the truth, Brother Liu, I called Satya Nadella just now, and he almost freaked out when he heard that I was considering building my own operating system." Ning Wei nodded and said seriously .

It's not easy to brag in the market, but it's better to brag about scary things. There are precedents.

"Ahem... If you have this confidence, of course it's great... And why did you say it in advance? If you don't need support, why don't you just do it?" Liu Wei asked in a daze.

Ning Wei tilted his head and replied: "This question seems unprofessional. Brother Liu, this is a matter that affects the whole body. After confirming that it is suitable for a certain operating system, it will be used when designing the instruction set. There is bias. For example, if according to your previous ideas, our CPU chips in the future are mainly adapted to some open source operating systems, when designing the instruction set, of course we must consider these open source operating systems, mainly for servers The service is the same."

"However, if you want to design a general-purpose CPU for the general public, and adapt to a new generation of operating system that fits everyone's usage habits as much as possible, the design of the instruction set must of course consider many things, such as the most important requirement for multimedia data streams. Support. Otherwise, you will need to add new content to the instruction set and increase the extension set in the future, which will be very troublesome, so it is better to do it all at once.”

Liu Wei was speechless, and then said sincerely: "Mr. Ning, I actually didn't understand at all. What I told you just now were the opinions of relevant experts. I also understand your thoughts in general, and I think there will be one next time." A more important meeting. I suggest that you can also attend. If you say these things yourself, it will definitely be more convincing than my retelling."

Ning Wei shook his head and said, "Let's wait for me to produce some results first? I also have to ask the partners for their opinions first."

"Huawei?" Liu Wei asked.

"Is there any other family that has the courage and strength to do this now?"

This question was a bit sharp, Liu Wei thought for a while, but didn't answer.

"That's it, let's talk first, maybe they will be very interested. But after being slapped, anyone with a bit of backbone thinks about how to get the slap back, not how to slap the other face. Get together. And this world needs people who fail...otherwise, who do you let those successful people show off to?"

"Ning Wei, do you want those people to show off in front of you?"

"Brother Liu? Didn't you notice that you still have an M physique? Dare you think about it boldly, for example, after we successfully knocked down Intel and Microsoft, we can show it off in front of them?"

"Um……"

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I have to admit that Ning Wei's ability to fight chicken blood is getting stronger and stronger.

After he left Liu Wei's room, the senior security boss immediately called the leader to report the situation. Otherwise, he couldn't fully express his surging emotions.

Ning Wei was not idle either. After returning to his rest room, he decided to give Yan Ming a call.

"Mr. Yan, have you heard? We are going to design CPUs using [-]D silicon through transistor technology."

"Of course, we are one of the design units. We had a few meetings before, and we always suggested that you participate in the meeting. However, considering that you were preparing to build the Ningbo Class at that time, I didn't disturb you for the time being. Now I'm stuck In the battle of instruction sets, our opinion is to make our own instruction set."

"Well, do you dare to be bolder? Since you want to insist on making your own instruction set, shouldn't you make your own operating system and complete ecology by the way? Make the Huaxia market the basic disk, and then go to eat away at Yingsoft's market?"

"This one……"

"I've thought about it, and now is the best opportunity. Cangjie programming shouldn't just focus on doing Chinese programming as a gimmick. We have the best compiler, and we can develop an English version. The establishment of an ecology can't just focus on us. China has three acres of land. The future operating system will be programmed with Cangjie. To tell you the truth, I already have a bold idea about these.”

"Ahem, Professor Ning, this matter is relatively serious, so let's stop talking on the phone. Tomorrow, I will fly to the capital with experts, shall we have an interview?"

"Okay."

"Then it's settled, we'll set off early tomorrow morning."

"By the way, I'm not at school, let me know when the air ticket is booked, and I'll ask Brother Liu to arrange someone to pick you up at the airport."

"no problem!"

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343 Marketing?It's better to discuss with the whole people

On the first night in the R&D center, Ning Wei slept soundly, in fact he slept soundly every day.It's just quite amazing that he actually had a dream. In the dream, he presided over the development of a new chip and operating system, which was recognized by the whole world. Satya Nadella regretted not choosing to cooperate with him. He was all green, and when he came to Huaxia, he almost knelt down in front of him and begged for forgiveness...

However, this attitude is of no use.Because the whole world is demanding that the operating system that was originally only used in China should be released in other languages ​​as soon as possible, because they can't wait to use the latest [-]D operating system instead of just watching Chinese people use it.

As for Pat Kelsinger, he was eventually kicked out by Intel's board of directors because Intel's most important business had entered a dead end.The Core-based CPU was disliked by countless players because it failed to support the latest operating system because of the collapse of the negotiation with Huaxia, and the stock price fell again and again.Even Apple voluntarily gave up the MacOS and iOS operating systems in the end, just for its own products to get a share...

This dream was so real that he desperately wanted to see the blueprint of the chip and the source code of the operating system that could be used directly in the dream.It's a pity that just when he was sitting in front of the computer and was about to call up these two most important materials - he woke up from the dream!

Dreams are like this, always waking up at the most critical moment, without exception.What's even more exasperating is that this time, I can't find anyone to vent my anger on, because I was woken up by urination... It's really a depressing metabolism.

Lying on the bed with inexplicable sulking for half a minute, Ning Wei felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Although he woke up at critical moments every time he dreamed, at least he remembered the intoxicating feeling in the dream, which was very refreshing of.

If you think about it in another direction, you can support those scientific researchers to devote everything to solving each problem, mainly relying on spiritual motivation. Using this refreshing feeling as a foundation is enough to make people feel full of fighting spirit, so this is even encouraging him in his dreams Do you want to do this?

So after washing up happily, he sat in front of the computer, summoned March, and Ning Wei began to check and sort out the various data provided by the major suppliers that had joined the smart platform.

Global integration is manifested in the supply chain of downstream manufacturers, that is, the spare parts of a product often come from different manufacturers around the world.Huawei is no exception.The outline of the future blueprint in March is based on the integration of the industrial base represented by these suppliers, so Ning Wei needs to understand the specific distribution of these suppliers involved in future chip production and equipment manufacturing, especially some core accessories. Supplier distribution.

After experiencing the misappropriation of various tricks of the turbulence algorithm, Ning Wei has a natural sense of distrust for manufacturers in many developed regions.

Think about it, this group of vested interests and rule makers can treat commercial contracts that should be strictly performed as farts, and can tear up the agreement at any time for various reasons. When the product is actually designed, they will be used. When purchasing spare parts, it is very worrying if there is a temporary price increase or if they are not sold for various reasons.

So in the best case, everything should be prepared.In the research and development stage, it is necessary to make full preparations on a global scale. For those key accessories, there must be at least two to three suppliers. It is best if one of them is a domestic manufacturer. If the domestic technology in this area is really not up to standard, It is best to have a production line in China, so that it is easier to control.

Before the start of the project, you should know which direction is weak. In the past two years, Huawei can also find a way to adjust the purchase channel appropriately, use its customer status, and adjust suppliers. is allowed.

This is also the principle that Ningwei has always insisted on. To do something, one must be fully prepared, at least not to be castrated passively if half of it is done...

The two sides cooperated very well. Ning Wei had been busy all morning, and after sorting out all the supply chains, Yan Ming also rushed to the R&D center with two experts from Huawei.

The two experts brought here, one is the CPU technical expert of the HiSilicon Turing Division of the 2012 Lab, and also the director of the HiSilicon Supreme Technical Committee, Bian Zhehao, and the other is the director of the Huawei Operating System Kernel Laboratory, and also the Pearl Chen Haihua, Ph.D supervisor of Jiaotong University.

These two people are enough to represent that Huawei attaches great importance to Ning Wei's opinion. If you really want to ask them to put down their tedious work and come to the capital for a special trip, it may not be enough to honor the face.Of course, this also shows from the side that Ningwei's face is really big.

After a simple exchange of pleasantries, the four of them started a closed-door meeting as soon as the door was closed.

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Almost at the same time, Princeton, USA.

It was late at night and everything was quiet. In an apartment building about one kilometer east of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Lucasson Friend suddenly opened his eyes. Even though he was lying on the bed, he suddenly felt uncomfortable for no reason. , the curtains were not fully drawn, and there was light spilling into the room from the window, but he still felt a blur.

Struggling to sit up, wanting to press the light switch beside the bed, but only halfway through, I suddenly felt an indescribable dizziness in my head...

After all, the slipped hand touched the opening light, and the "pop" light came on, but he blinked, but found that everything he saw was still very blurry. He squinted his eyes, trying to see the time of the alarm clock in front of the bedside table, but found that the alarm clock It became a blurred disc in his eyes...

He reached out to bring the alarm clock closer.

"Bang", the alarm clock fell to the ground, made a muffled sound, and then began to roll on the floor...

"Mr. Friend, are you awake? I'm coming in..."

"Mr. Friend? What's the matter with you?"

"My God! Mr. Friend..."

"Hurry up, please call an ambulance, this is 19UniversityPlace, at the intersection of University City and NS Street No. 127, thank you, the patient's condition is very bad! Please hurry up, thank you..."

"Mr. Friend, hold on..."

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"Sorry……"

"why?"

"Sudden cerebral hemorrhage is not uncommon for Mr. Friend at this age. It is mainly caused by the rupture of small arteries. It may be due to some emotional reasons... Please be sorry."

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"Lucasson died in the middle of the night last night?"

"Yes, cerebral hemorrhage. The doctor said that it may be related to emotions. You know, he has been depressed recently."

"Okay, I see. I will certainly attend his funeral."

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"Fields Medal winner and lifelong honorary professor of Princeton University Lucasson Friend passed away due to illness at 69:[-] am yesterday at the age of [-]!"

This sudden news spread throughout the entire Princeton campus early in the morning, and then began to spread in the world mathematics community at a geometric speed.

No matter what Lucasson Friend did in his later years, he is a mathematician who has won the Fields Medal after all, and his research has been directly written into advanced mathematics textbooks in various countries. Students do not talk about it all over the world, but he has a great influence in the mathematics field. Still very broad.

For a while, mathematicians and students throughout Europe and America were mourning for this fallen old man.

Many times people's emotions are very contradictory.No matter from which point of view, the long-gone conflict between Lucasson Flender and Ning Wei is definitely the fault of this Flender, but on the day of his death, But there are many arguments that make people feel very reasonable.

"It's a pity that Professor Flender is only 69 years old, and he is still very young. If he hadn't been hospitalized twice in a row because of the dispute with Ning Wei, he might still live for 20 years, and he can also guide more children to learn about mathematics. direction."