Ten minutes later.

They came to the microelectronics laboratory together.

After Ni Guangnan became the chief chip designer, he discussed and designed several chips based on the accuracy of the lithography machine, but there was no way to commercialize them.

In the end, they had no choice but to take a step back and choose the 150-nanometer process, which has a relatively low defective rate and is relatively mature, to make processors!

Two types of personal computer processing chips, one dedicated for servers, and one for mobile phones, four types of chips are being started at the same time!

This level of generosity is unique even in the world!

This not only requires a large amount of investment, but is also related to ecological barriers.

Fortunately, server chips can be used to manufacture large-scale and even supercomputer systems.

But computer chips and mobile phone chips can be said to be completely different paths.

The personal computer chip designed by Infinity Company is a chip designed and produced by itself based on the x86 complex instruction set published by Intel Corporation. It is fully compatible with Intel's standards.

Mobile phone chips use a simplified instruction set, which is optimized for some simple instructions and can achieve low power consumption when processing some relatively simple tasks.

At first, researchers in the design, manufacturing, and materials departments of these four chips were still arguing and could not be finalized, which slowed down the work efficiency of Ni Guangnan and others.

In order to maximize the performance of the chip, Ni Guangnan and others had to stop many times and modify the design plan.

If Li Xi'er hadn't come forward to coordinate, both sides would have started to quarrel.

Finally, Chen Weidong felt that the equipment in the company's hands was advanced enough, and when it was time to invest, he had to invest!

The result was that those researchers spent a lot of money to make samples of all four types of chips!

But now, Ni Guangnan asked Chen Weidong again whether the research should focus on computer chips or mobile phone chips?

Personally, he prefers computer chips.

Because there is a certain experience base in doing this in China, their current chip can be put on the market immediately as long as it passes performance testing, environmental testing, aging testing, etc.

The computer is obviously a revolutionary technological product and will definitely be a mainstream product in the next few decades!

At that time, they can even gradually expand into integrated manufacturing and sales of computer hardware, graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, etc.

Even if you just casually update and upgrade the technology, you can earn countless profits.

His statement was recognized by most people.

Chips are the highest crystallization of wisdom in human society.

Now they have made breakthrough progress. The current 150-nanometer process is slightly ahead of the international mainstream level, and there is even more room for improvement.

Although the subsequent investment will be huge, at least we have seen the light of day, and the future returns are worth looking forward to.

As for the "smart" mobile phone chips that Chen Weidong mentioned, they have no experience at all. They need to continue to experiment and there are still many things to improve.

It is very possible that it may even not work at all in the end.

With the current technical level of Infinite Company, it is not difficult to imitate the mobile phones of Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia.

But Chen Weidong feels that their mobile phones cannot be called "smart" at all, and if Infinity Company wants to be more advanced than them!

Starting from scratch is fast.

However, having this and being respected by others are two different things!

What's more, the research effort required for each of these research directions is extremely huge.

Infinite Company has a limited number of researchers. If we add up all of them, there are only close to 400 people!

More than two hundred of them are still engaged in research on materials and precision instruments, and the remaining researchers also have their own research projects.

However, computers require a large amount of related research to be carried out.

If we follow what Ni Guangnan said, we will expand from chips to motherboards, monitors, sound cards, hard drives, network equipment, and other subjects. At the same time, each subject requires specialization in order to have a place in the world.

Then this investment and the allocation of research forces are a quite huge number!

This decision is directly related to the future development path of Infinity Company.

Although many people have different opinions, I hope to convince the academic committee.

But no one dares to make a hasty judgment on such a big decision.

Internal discussions became increasingly intense.

In the end, the decision can only be made by the company's top executives, Chen Weidong and a few others!

Regarding this issue, Chen Weidong did not hesitate. He wanted to say both on the spot.

But Lin Zeju immediately said: "I did a rough calculation. If I follow what they said, the investment in the next ten years will not be less than 100 billion!"

Even if it is just the process upgrade of the chip, the annual investment is huge. Just like Intel, it invests tens of billions of dollars in research and development every year to maintain the leading position of the chip.

And once they participate in this competition, they cannot stop casually. At that time, everyone will have to compete for technology and financial resources.

It is even possible to be sanctioned by the United States like an island country.

After all, computers and semiconductors are their foundation. The so-called freedom of trade is nothing more than the banshee’s veil!

After a heated discussion.

Chen Weidong finally made a tough decision: "Let's go ahead. I'll figure out a solution for the money issue. If we don't have enough people, we can also recruit people. With the money the company currently has in its account, there's no problem in supporting tens of thousands of people!"

In the conference room, he made the final decision.

....

April 2000.

After conducting comprehensive tests on the performance of the chip, Infinite Company finally officially announced that it has successfully developed the "Dimensity One" processor!

This is China's first general-purpose high-performance microprocessor chip with independent intellectual property rights!

The name "Tianji" is inspired by the sixth bright star of the Big Dipper. It has been a guiding star since ancient times and also represents the wisdom of the East.

The real significance of the emergence of this chip is to create something from scratch and break the technical barriers. It has benchmark significance in alleviating the domestic "core shortage"!

The most striking thing is.

It is made using the industry's most advanced 150nm process, with a core composed of 60 million transistors, and a processor speed of up to 3.8GHz!

Far surpassing the Pentium 3 series processors released by Intel last year!

The special design and hyper-threading technology used in it support the highest performance desktop computers on the market, and can also run multiple computing applications at the same time.

What? You don’t understand?

To put it more bluntly, it can improve your computer performance by more than 25%!

Therefore, once this chip was released, it shocked the world!

The eyes of countless people have once again focused on the East, focusing on this listed company that has only been established for a few years.

Not only Intel, but also chip giants such as AMD were shocked and said it was impossible! Even the investment elites on Wall Street were awakened by the sudden ringing of the phone in a dark and quiet night!

Because the Hang Seng Index has gone crazy!
Chapter completed!