"Dingling bell...beep..."

As a startup sound like a phone ringing sounded, and the words Windos95 appeared on the screen, not to mention the other scientific research and technical personnel of Qingtian Chip present, even Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan couldn't help but let out a long sigh and felt relaxed.

A lot.

Although they have tried the experiment hundreds or thousands of times and have already ensured it is foolproof, today is different after all. It is the day when the boss Fang Chen makes the final acceptance.

If a problem suddenly occurs now and the chain is lost, not to mention that the work of tens of thousands of scientific research and technical personnel of Qingtian Chip will be in vain, but it will definitely cast a thick layer of haze, reducing a lot of the first Huaxia

The glory of domestic computers.

Because the production scale has not yet increased, the number of employees of Qingtian Chip is not too large, only less than 25,000. However, in terms of the proportion of scientific research and technical personnel, it is definitely the highest among Qingtian.

of all major divisions of labor.

There are more than 10,000 scientific research and technical personnel, accounting for more than 40%.

It is also the branch of Qingtian with the highest average educational level. Even ordinary operators have a bachelor's degree. To put it bluntly, without a college degree, they can't even be a security guard at Qingtian Chip.

After all, the products here at Qingtian Chip are all high-tech products, and one must have a certain degree of education to identify them. Moreover, Qingtian Chip also conducts semiconductor knowledge training for security guards every month.

Not to mention the average salary, it is also the highest in the company.

There is no way, a higher academic level means a higher initial rank for joining Qingtian.

For example, in Qingtian Chip, basically everyone is at the T10 level, even the security guards are no exception. After all, the security guards in Qingtian Chip have worked in other branches for one or two years, and will be sent to Qingtian Chip only after passing the assessment.

The chip works every day.

Therefore, there are many security guards with ranks above T8.

In other branches, there are still a large number of lowest ranks such as T10 and T11.

Of course, the most important thing is that Fang Chen did not lower the wages of Qingtian Chip employees because Qingtian Chip had no income and was not making money, like other companies.

After years of reform and optimization, in Qingtian, basically as long as the rank is the same, the salary is basically the same. Even in new units like Qingtian Chip, due to high pressure, heavy work tasks, and a lot of overtime, the salary income will be higher.

Some.

While Fang Chen listened to the startup sound of Windos95, he suddenly felt filled with emotion. His palms gently rubbed the large display screen and keyboard in front of him, and finally he put his hands on the chassis, feeling the flow from the CPU chip.

The heat emitted by the sky is the heat of China.

The picture now displayed on this display screen was enough for him to declare that Qingtian Chip's first self-developed computer with complete knowledge products was a success!

This computer, from the CPU chip to the motherboard, memory stick, hard drive, power supply, radiator, and chassis, was all developed by Qingtian itself. It was even equipped with a major accessory that computers at this time were basically not equipped with - a graphics card!

This graphics card is built by Nvidia, the N card manufacturer that everyone is familiar with in later generations. It was just released in April this year. It is the latest GPU core graphics card.

This graphics card was named Genesis 18 by Fang Chen.

Genesis refers to the emergence of NVIDIA graphics cards, which will have a powerful subversive effect on the computer industry, the Internet industry, and the gaming industry.

The 18 behind it refers to a high-performance graphics card that supports 18-bit width and DirectD.

Although Huang Renxun feels that it is really shameful to name his first graphics card after Genesis, but whoever makes Fang Chen the boss, naturally it is Fang Chen who has the final say.

Although it is also engaged in the semiconductor industry and makes chips, Nvidia's growth path is not so bumpy.

After a year of polishing, the design drawings of the graphics card chips are ready, and then we can find some small chip foundries to tape out small batches.

Because of Fang Chen’s strong financial support, and now graphics card chips are in their infancy. Unlike CPU chips, they have always been at the forefront of the semiconductor industry. They are the most representative treasures of human industrial civilization and represent mankind.

The pinnacle of industrial civilization.

Therefore, the progress was very fast, and the first graphics card chip was completed within half a year.

Of course, doing it so quickly is not without cost.

The price was that the money was burned too fast. Fang Chen burned almost 300 million US dollars in half a year.

Although compared with the Optimus chip, it is a bit insignificant, but considering that Nvidia's project only has graphics card chips, and the technology is relatively mature, this speed of burning money is still very scary.

Fang Chen fiddled with the computer in his hand for a while, played Minesweeper for a while, and felt that there was no problem, so he handed it over to other Qingtian Chip research and technical personnel.

Other scientific research and technical personnel who had been impatient for a long time quickly opened some special performance testing software and demonstrated it to Fang Chen.

This Qingtian computer is one of the very few high-performance display (game) computers equipped with a graphics card on the market, and it was actually used by Fang Chen to play Minesweeper. It was such a waste and a waste.

And at the same time, they also turned on a Lenovo 586 computer next to it and tested various software at the same time.

To be honest, if we talk about CPU-Z, Chess Master, Winrar, PCmark, Dmark and other more commonly used computer testing software in later generations, Fang Chen probably knows a little bit about it.

But now, the test software running on Qingtian's computer are all suitable for Windos95, which can be said to be ancient-level test software. Fang Chen really doesn't recognize it. He can't even figure out what the test score is.

However, although Fang Chen does not understand, the scientific research and technical personnel of Qingtian Chip will work hard to make Fang Chen understand.

For almost every test software score, they will compare it with the Lenovo 586 computer nearby, and tell Fang Chen what all the test results and test content represent.

"Taken together, the overall level of the Qingtian computer is similar to that of the Lenovo 586 computer. As for the game display performance, especially the D game performance, it is far superior to the 586 computer. It can even be said to be blunt that the Lenovo 586 is not as good as the Qingtian computer.

They are not qualified to be compared together."

Speaking of this, even a humble person like Zhang Rujing couldn't help but show a strong sense of pride and complacency.

Just in terms of gaming performance, the Optimus computer is more than five times that of the Lenovo 586 computer. Otherwise, do you really think that the extra graphics card is in vain, and the extra 5W of power is in vain?

“It’s pretty good, but the heat is a little too high.”

Fang Chen touched the cases of the two computers at the same time with both hands and said to Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan.

Hearing this, the two old faces couldn't help but blush slightly.

Although they have been trying their best to reduce the heat of Qingtian's first-generation chips and use more advanced processes, such as 0.8 micron, which is only two generations behind the most advanced international processes and three or four generations ahead of the most advanced domestic processes in the past.

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But because Fang Chen wants to expand the chip area to increase the number of transistors and thereby improve chip performance, the heat of this chip is a bit unsustainable. It has basically reached 10W, which is one of the few in the history of chips. It is better than Intel and AMD at the same level.

Desktop chips are about twice as high.

"I don't blame you. After all, I asked you to expand the chip area. As the chip area expands, the heat will naturally be higher. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Even the temperature is much better than I imagined.

On the contrary, I would also like to thank you for developing and producing such an excellent CPU chip." Fang Chen said with a smile.

There was no hypocrisy in his words.

In the past few years, the most advanced semiconductor process in China was Huajing Factory's micron, which is at least four generations different from the 0.8 micron currently used by Qingtian Chip.

There is no way, who made the "908" project led by Huajing Factory fail? Not only did China fail to catch up with foreign advanced semiconductor companies, the gap even widened by two or three generations.

To put it bluntly, without the hard work of so many scientific research and technical personnel of Qingtian Chip, if you want to produce products like Qingtian first-generation chips, with the micron process of Huajing Factory, I am afraid that the power will have to be at least one thousand watts.

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It's almost the same as a little sun that keeps you warm in winter, and it's about the same size.

Fang Chen himself shuddered at the thought of putting a chip as big as a Little Sun into a computer.

But there is no way. If the manufacturing process falls behind, the only way to accommodate more transistors is to expand the area.

When Intel produced the 586 chip, it already used the 0.5nm process. On the contrary, when it came to the Pentium generation, it was not clear whether it was due to technical reasons or something, and it used 0.8nm.

But soon Intel launched a high-frequency Pentium generation chip with a maximum frequency of 10MHZ, and the process technology also skipped 0.5 nanometers and evolved directly to 0.5 nanometers.

Now the Qingtian chip can achieve the same performance as the Intel 586 chip even though the manufacturing process is one generation behind, which is really good.

In comparison, this amount of heat is nothing, it can be called a surprise.

"In order to suppress the heat of this CPU chip, Academician Ni also developed a four-heat pipe fin-type radiator specifically for it. Otherwise, the temperature would not be so low."

Seeing that Fang Chen was satisfied and did not blame him, Zhang Rujing breathed a sigh of relief and introduced him.

Hearing this, Fang Chen couldn't help but chuckle: "This is a huge investment."

Nowadays, because computer CPU chips do not generate high heat, most of them use static radiators.

What is a static radiator? It is an aluminum block with cooling fins pressed directly on the CPU chip without even a cooling fan.

Although it looks a bit shabby, after all, the power of the CPU chip at this time is too low, so it is enough, and it has the advantage of being silent.

On the contrary, some people don't like radiators with fans because they think they are very noisy.

Some high-end CPU chips are equipped with aluminum radiators. Their appearance is no different from the radiators that cost less than 20 yuan in the previous life. Compared with the former, they are even smaller in size, but they are

There is a fan.

Next, there are radiators with copper heat pipes, but usually they only have two heat pipes at most. Radiators that directly use four heat pipes like Qingtian are really rare.

Generally speaking, the thermal conductivity of copper is 1.69 times that of aluminum, so the more copper used on the radiator, the better the effect and the more expensive the price.

"There is no way. Our computer not only has a CPU chip that is twice as powerful as others, but also has an extra 5W graphics card. If we don't install more laptops on the radiator, the heat it emits will be terrible. No

Let's talk about fried eggs, but you really can't touch the computer host when it's running." Ni Guangnan said with a helpless smile.

Due to problems with the production process, it is still very troublesome to make the fins on the radiator. It requires a punch to punch them piece by piece. Moreover, because they are too thin and the aluminum material is used, the scrap rate is relatively high.

Coupled with the fact that copper is relatively expensive, the cost of this radiator alone is two hundred yuan.

Don't underestimate the two hundred yuan. If Qingtian Computer can sell ten thousand units, it will be two million. If it is one million units, it will be two hundred million. This is not a small amount.

But it won’t work without spending money. As we all know, high temperature is the enemy of integrated circuits. High temperature will not only cause the system to run unstable, shorten the service life, but may even cause some components to burn out.

Therefore, a radiator must be used to dissipate this heat into or outside the chassis to ensure that the temperature of the computer components is normal.
To be continued...