Chapter 162: New Mission
Liu Meijuan entered the chip design project department to teach these engineers who have just learned complex general-purpose chip design.
"Everyone is from the integrated circuit design industry. I believe everyone understands some basic things, so I won't talk about them much.
Let me talk about my chip design outline. There are hundreds or thousands of chips. The chip we are going to design now is called a high-performance server processing chip.
The server is not directly used by users, so its multimedia functions are basically left to the user's computer for processing.
No matter how complex the computer is, users always see only text, pictures and sound.
Since the multimedia function has been handed over to the user's computer for processing, our server chip is only responsible for computing and processing, improving the uplink download capability and the response speed of data storage and reading.
In the calculation and processing field, I have adopted a distributed computing function, using server arrays and idle computers and other computing resources to do things that ordinary computers cannot do.
The advantage of this technology is that it does not work alone, but uses huge computing resources. In this way, when handling complex computing tasks, it is like a supercomputer. We can respond in milliseconds without causing lag in the machine.
However, this requires the software team led by Zhang Zhidong to help develop distributed computing-specific algorithms and software.
This is our first technological advantage.
Second, I have integrated compression decoding function inside this chip, which can significantly improve the network transmission speed.
Today's chip technology and software technology are very simple and have relatively single functions because they are both constrained by the chip process technology.
The current process technology can only integrate millions of transistors, and in the future it will be billions of or tens of billions of transistors.
Of course, it is not a random pile, but it constantly collects some special and dedicated functional chips into the chip and integrates several central processing chips of different powers together, called multi-core processing chips, which can handle multiple computing tasks at the same time, including high-frequency cores, strong performance, low-frequency cores, and share some simple computing tasks.
This is the trend of chip design in the future, so when I was in the underlying architecture, I considered modular design and could be added and deleted at will, so as to facilitate future technological upgrades.
As for the problem of improving data storage and response speed, there are two ways to solve it. The first is to develop a powerful data encoding rule that cooperates with efficient algorithms.
The second type is hardware materials technology. To put it clearly, it is wired materials. Just using pure gold or silver alloy materials cannot solve the fundamental problem.
Because the heat resistance of these two materials is not very good, it has a relative impact on the response speed of data storage and reading, and sometimes it will cause data blockage or disorder, and the heat resistance of the chip is not excellent enough.
I used a rare metal material…”
Liu Meijuan used easy-to-understand language to explain to these integrated circuit design engineers more systematically why she designed this way?
Liu Meijuan has roughly outlined the main structure of the chip, and the rest is to ask them to fill the flesh.
As long as the engineers understand her design ideas, the number of just a few million transistors will not take much time.
From this point of view, their task difficulty is far lower than that of the cloud operating system project department.
In the next few days, Liu Meijuan explained to them every day the design ideas of mips chips, as well as the technical points, especially the principles of the more than 100 instruction sets.
Liu Meijuan has completely transformed into a teacher, and these rare integrated circuit design engineers in the country have become students one by one.
The difference between the two is decades of technical knowledge. It is no exaggeration to say that Liu Meijuan is one of the best chip architects in China and even the world at this time. If she was not pregnant, Hu Weiwu would not be qualified to be a project manager?
With Liu Meijuan's teachings, these lucky engineers are growing rapidly and no longer able to design simple industrial control chips and octave or even four-bit low-level chips.
They have increased their knowledge and broadened their horizons, and stood at a relatively high starting point to design the first complex general-purpose processing chip.
This is their blessing and Dolphin Technology. After all, all heroes need three helpers. No matter how powerful Liu Meijuan is, she cannot conquer the world by herself.
Liu Meijuan is responsible for technical work, while Wang Yong's affairs are a bit complicated.
He first went to the Human Resources Department. In the office, more than a dozen people looked at him in unison, and then greeted him unevenly.
Wang Yong nodded, thinking of putting some pressure on these novice designers, so he said to them with a serious look: "I will tell you one thing: If an American customer is coming to our company to inspect smart home products, but you have almost no outstanding work now. This will miss the company's major events. Everyone should work harder!"
He gave up this sentence and did not care about the young designers who were frowning, but walked to Chen Shufen with a smile and said to her: "Secretary Chen, the company is going to recruit a few more people, an urban planning designer, and a few architectural designers. You go to Guangzhou Daily News Agency to advertise immediately.
Remember, by the way, you can also print out the advertisements that the company recruits software and hardware engineers, so don’t waste the page.”
"Boss, I can understand how to recruit architectural designers. What are we recruiting urban planning designers?"
"It's a bit strange. Other companies definitely don't need such talents. Our company is a bit special.
Hasn't Shaxi Village been converted into a high-tech industrial park? It's all our company's territory, so we can't build houses casually, and we have to have a master plan. This is a century-old plan, so the company plans to recruit an urban planner."
"Oh! So that's it. I understand. I'll go to the newspaper immediately." Chen Shufen, who figured it out, immediately agreed.
After completing this, Wang Yong left the Human Resources Department, went to the access control system project department to call Brother Xiao Ma, and went to his office to discuss the matter.
"Manager Ma, please sit down!"
Wang Yong took him to the tall floor-to-ceiling window, pointed at the leisure teahouse and asked Xiao Ma to sit down.
Then he sat opposite him with a big golden sword, without even having tea.
"Manager Ma, after a period of understanding, I found that your work ability is outstanding. Now the access control system project department has reached the end testing stage and nothing is done.
I decided to pull you out and be responsible for the network construction and construction engineering department. This is a brand new department. There is no one now, and all the personnel are required to be recruited.
Of course, through the Human Resources Department, tell Secretary Chen the talents you need, and the Human Resources Department is responsible for recruiting.
There are also the types of optical fibers of which specifications and equipment are needed. You can list a form and hand it over to the business department for procurement."
"Boss, to be honest, I'm not prepared at all. I don't know anything about network engineering. I'm just a software engineer, not a network engineer. Please give me a few days to let me understand this knowledge first."
"No problem! I feel at ease with your ability, so you can do it boldly!
But I can tell you that I decided to build the South China Cloud Computing Center on the side of Yanjiang Road, building a 25-story software building, with all the eighth floors below as computer rooms.
If you don’t understand any other technical issues, you can ask Director Liu.”
"Okay, boss, who is responsible for the access control system project department?"
"Let Zhu Tao take over! I will only be responsible for maintenance and improvement in the future. The task is not so urgent, and his level is enough."
"I understand, boss, then I'll leave first, goodbye!"
"goodbye!"
Wang Yong handed over the task to Brother Xiao Ma, which was a recognition of his ability. Brother Xiao Ma was still in a happy mood. He happily returned to the access control system project department to arrange the work.
Chapter completed!