Seeing Duan Yongping and others coming over, Fang Chen had no intention of starting a meeting immediately. Instead, he pointed to the sofa in the office and asked them to sit down first.

"Wait a moment for Wang Gongquan to come over. He went to Jinmen today to inspect the Qingtian House there. It will probably take a while before he can come back."

Fang Chen said somewhat unexpectedly.

Duan Yongping glanced at Fang Chen and confirmed that Fang Chen was indeed right. He wanted Wang Gongquan to attend this meeting. From Fang Chen's tone, it was obvious that Wang Gongquan should play a relatively important role in this meeting.

Then this is really strange. Although Fang Chen is no longer like the dragon in previous years, but generally speaking, the most he can do is meet him and Berezovsky and other branch presidents.

It is almost rare to meet a vice president, let alone let him attend some important meetings.

However, what they couldn't understand even more was that Fang Chen met with them this time to solve the sales problem of Qingtian Computer. How could it be related to Wang Gongquan? And looking at Fang Chen's attitude, it seemed that Wang Gongquan wouldn't be able to come.

Seeing at a glance what Duan Yongping and the others were thinking, Fang Chen chuckled, but said nothing. Obviously, he had no intention of letting Duan Yongping and the others clear up their doubts right now.

Just hold it in for now.

Wang Gongquan, the Six Wantong Gentlemen in his previous life, was the only one among Feng Lun and the other six who chose to stay in Qingtian. Therefore, after Pan Shiyi left, Wang Gongquan naturally took charge of Qingtian House.

Later, when Qingtian Corporation was established and the retail department was established, Wang Gongquan was the director of the retail department.

In the past two years, not to help Duan Yongping reduce his burden, he advocated that Duan Yongping promote a group of Q3-level vice presidents of the head office and let each of them be responsible for several departments.

In this way, Duan Yongping can control the trends of the entire company by controlling only these vice presidents.

In addition, these vice presidents are only at the Q3 level, which is still lower than Berezovsky's Q2 level, so Berezovsky and the others have no objections.

After all, you must know that in the past, only Berezovsky and the others could be appointed as vice presidents of the company. Not only did they follow Fang Chen in his career, they were also powerful officials in the country.

Regardless of practical or emotional considerations, it is impossible to say that these newly promoted vice presidents can be brought to a position on an equal footing with Berezovsky and others.

Wang Gongquan was among these promoted vice presidents.

Wang Gongquan obviously didn't dare to keep Fang Chen and the others waiting for too long. After twenty minutes, he rushed into Fang Chen's office.

Being able to participate in a small meeting held by Fang Chen alone is a rare experience for him. After all, this is a treatment that only Mr. Duan and other branch presidents usually enjoy.

Therefore, as soon as he received a call from Wu Maocai, he immediately rushed back from Jinmen.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's have a meeting. You should probably know the sales situation of Qingtian Computer now. If you haven't, take this information and take a look."

Hearing what Fang Chen said, Wang Gongquan looked at Duan Yongping and the others. Obviously, they had no intention of reading the information. And seeing Fang Chen looking at him, he had to laugh twice and take the information over to read.

Needless to say, Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan, as the person in charge of Qingtian Chip, if they don't even know the current sales volume of Qingtian Computer, it would definitely be Chi Guoguo's dereliction of duty.

In the past few days, Duan Yongping had been worried about the sales of Qingtian Computer and couldn't sleep all night, so he didn't need to watch it.

To put it bluntly, Fang Chen's information was prepared for Wang Gongquan.

However, this information is not thick, so Wang Gongquan finished reading it in two or three minutes.

"Now everyone has seen that the sales volume of Qingtian Computer is very poor. Only 1,300 to 400 units are sold every day, and it is still decreasing day by day. If this trend continues, let alone 100 units are sold.

Ten thousand units, two million units, even if we want to achieve the minimum target of 500,000 units, the possibility is not very high. This is obviously a huge blow to the newly born Optian Computer and even Optian Chip."

Fang Chen said in a deep voice.

Although they had already known this for a long time, when Fang Chen showed these things clearly again, the faces of Duan Yongping and others could not help but become clouded.

To be honest, especially for Duan Yongping, he has never seen Qingtian's products have poor sales. Even if the sales of DVD players are not good at the beginning, it is just the users' perception of the DVD players.

It's just insufficient, it's not that there's anything wrong with Qingtian's products.

Later, as the influence of DVD players spread, DVD players can be said to be Qingtian's most profitable product.

And even when the sales of video disc players were not good at the beginning, they continued to grow upwards. Unlike Qingtian Computer, which has been declining, sales are now less than 30% of the original number, and the number of returns every day is faster than the number of sales.

many.

Of course, he also knew that the reason why Qingtian Computer had such problems was related to the fact that the technological content and barriers of the computer industry were too high, and that they had never encountered an enemy as powerful as Intel.

This is not to say that Sony, Philips, Ericsson, Towa Electric, Nokia and Motorola are not strong, but their strength can be copied, and from a certain perspective, Qingtian is even stronger than them.

Intel is so powerful that it is difficult to even catch up, let alone copy it, and in the semiconductor field, Qingtian's advantage is really too small.

"I believe everyone is already aware of the disadvantages of Qingtian Computer, and these disadvantages cannot be changed in a while."

Hearing this, Zhang Rujing couldn't help but stood up in shame: "Mr. Fang, this is our problem, and we will definitely rise to the challenge..."

But Zhang Rujing had just finished speaking when Fang Chen bluntly interrupted him.

He said directly: "Dr. Zhang, there is no need to say anything about the review. You are confident and determined to come up with the 500nm process chip production technology at this time tomorrow and produce products with a technical level no less than Intel's Pentium generation. I have already

I feel very gratified and think you are great. So let’s stop talking about these vain words. Could it be that if you review and review, the development speed of the new generation processor can be improved to a higher level, or can you immediately come up with technologies to solve performance and heat issues?

Come?"

After hearing what Fang Chen said, Zhang Rujing was really ashamed and moved.

Seeing this, Fang Chen waved his hand noncommittally and motioned for Zhang Rujing to sit down.

Now that Zhang Rujing and the others had already done their best, Fang Chen really felt that it would be harsh to say anything like an apology.

Moreover, the tasks on Zhang Rujing and the others are already very heavy.

Let’s take the manufacturing process as an example. The current Optimus processor uses an 800nm ​​process technology. It seems that there is only one generation between it and the 500nm process. However, you must know that according to Moore’s Law, the manufacturing process will take 18 to 24 months.

Only then can one generation progress.

Even if 500nm is already a mature process for Intel, the latest Pentium II processor already uses a 350nm process, and Optimus Chip can help Intel and the others cross the river, then in just one year, if they want to make it

It is also extremely difficult to advance the manufacturing process by one generation.

After all, we need to know that high-end chip technology and equipment are blocked by Europe and the United States from China.

It can be said that this alone can block the possibility of most countries wanting to conduct semiconductor research and production, let alone make a generation progress within one year.

The progress of the manufacturing process is already extremely difficult, so the tasks of the processor architecture researchers led by Ni Guangnan will be even heavier and more difficult.

Everyone also knows that the reason why the Qingtian processor is so hot at this time is because the Qingtian processor actually has an architecture equivalent to the 486 processor. It was Ni Guangnan and the others who used larger processors under Fang Chen's instructions.

The chip area and process technology forcefully mention the performance of the 586 processor.

This is also the main reason why Qingtian processor is a big furnace.

And if you want the next generation of Qingtian processors to not only keep up with the performance, but also no longer be a stove, then it means that the architecture must also keep up.

There is a two-generation gap between the 486 processor and the Pentium generation, which means that Ni Guangnan must close the gap between the two generations within one year.

Therefore, in comparison, the task of improving the architecture is actually heavier.

It can even be said that these are some impossible tasks, but Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan still gritted their teeth and agreed.

In this case, let alone Fang Chen, even if Zhang Rujing and the others criticized themselves, Fang Chen would not allow it.

However, Qingtian Chip has advantages over Intel, that is, Qingtian has enough scientific researchers.

There are less than 2,000 scientific researchers in Intel's core architecture, but what about Optimus Chip?

A total of five thousand people!

As for AMD, they have less than 500 core architecture researchers.

After all, you know, AMD has less than 20,000 people in the company. If you exclude chip manufacturing, there are not even 6,000 people left.

It is almost smaller than the number of dedicated architecture researchers of Qingtian Chip.

This is undoubtedly very terrifying.

Although chips and architecture instruction sets are tasks that mainly rely on mental power, it is still feasible to do these tasks because there are more people and more power.

After all, you must know that no matter how high the technological content of chips and architecture instruction sets is, they cannot be separated from the scope of applied research.

Since it is applied research, you can obtain the desired research results through a large investment of resources and constant trial and error.

It can be said that in applied research, the investment of manpower and resources will play a decisive role. The more investment, the sooner it will be realized.

This is also the reason why Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan dared to guarantee it.

It is not like basic research, which mainly relies on the flash of inspiration of some peerless genius such as Newton or Einstein.

In addition, Qingtian Chip has also cooperated with well-known domestic universities such as Shuimu, Yanda, University of Science and Technology, etc. to open processor architecture classes.

Once these people graduate, they can immediately start working at Qingtian Chip.

As for the computer science departments that existed in these famous universities, Qingtian has also signed cooperation agreements with them, which can guarantee their employment, so that they will not have to go abroad and go to Silicon Valley to find well-paying jobs.

And this can be regarded as effectively preventing the outflow of Chinese talents.

"Okay, let's not talk about these digressions. The new generation of processors will not be released until next year at the earliest. And even if it cannot be released in July next year, it will be released by the end of the year. After all, as long as it can be released, it will prove that we are on par with foreign advanced

The technological gap continues to narrow, which is gratifying."

Now that Fang Chen has said this, what else can Zhang Rujing say, he can only sit down honestly.

"Returning to the previous topic, since the performance improvement and heating problems of the Optimus processor cannot be solved in a short period of time, and Intel cannot relax their stranglehold on the Optimus processor, it is doomed that we must

We must find a way to save ourselves. Only in this way can our investment not be wasted and China's semiconductor industry have the possibility to become world-class." Fang Chen said.

Duan Yongping nodded, but his heart was filled with helplessness.

Fang Chen's words are of course absolutely reasonable, but the question is how to save yourself?

You can't force consumers to buy Qingtian computers based on their heads, right?
To be continued...