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Academician Chen, who was originally scheduled to lead the team, was specifically retained.

Administratively, Shen Demin leads the team.

The research and development team is led by Professor Zhang.

A total of 19 people flew from Luzhou to Yangcheng and then to Taipei, Taiwan.

This is a plan that has been decided a long time ago, and it is also the plan with the lowest overall time cost.

The entire plan is highly confidential, and few people know the specific contents.

At the very least, he did not disclose the true purpose of his trip to the Luzhou authorities.

When it comes to business trip planning, I write about technical communication.

Even if you don't know how to communicate with the local area, at least you can't release some kind of hopeful signal at an obviously uncertain time.

Although Professor Zhang was not fully prepared at the beginning of the meeting, the subsequent content of the report was still very clear, and Fang Nian naturally would not stop the scheduled plan because of a small matter.

Besides, it is within the understandable range.

After all, under normal circumstances, such matters should be summarized and reported by the product manager, so it is difficult to make any omissions.

However, Frontier has not yet set up this position in each laboratory.

Part of the responsibilities of this position have been assigned to the partial affairs leaders of each laboratory's R&D team.

For example, Professor Huang from Nuwa Laboratory and Professor Zhang from Baize Laboratory.

This is mainly due to the special nature of the frontier.

Both laboratories are reinventing the wheel, and Fang Nian personally determines the more cutting-edge development plans in the general direction.

certainly……

While watching Shen Demin, Professor Zhang and his entourage leave, Fang Nian was thinking about this matter in his mind.

No need to think too hard, just one idea:

'Let professional people be responsible for professional matters wholeheartedly.'

"..."

After seeing off Professor Zhang and his party, it was almost time for lunch.

Lu Weiyu and Guan Qiuhe hosted a banquet for some personnel from Baize Laboratory.

There are low-level employees who perform well, as well as administrative management, etc.

We specially found a big hotel to accommodate it, with a total of five large tables.

Fang Nian did not attend, but hosted a separate banquet for Academician Chen——

After Academician Chen announced that he would join Baize after meeting Fang Nian through Professor Zhang, Academician Chen became the most powerful person in the professional and technical field of Baize's chip laboratory.

After all, it is a very professional technical field, and there is no way to describe it exactly how awesome it is.

I only know that after Academician Chen joined, Professor Zhang and other professors took the initiative to step down and make way for others.

I only know that most of the new doctoral students in related majors added to Baize's chip laboratory are because of Academician Chen's reputation, and a small number of them are former students of Academician Chen.

The last handful are the face of Qianqianyuan.

"..."

After chatting and eating, Fang Nian was not in a hurry to get to the point.

When we were almost done eating, Academician Chen took the initiative to bring up the topic: "Mr. Fang specially kept me here and entertained me alone. Did he have any orders?"

"Indeed." Fang Nian said frankly without being vague, "There are some things I want to talk to the academician about."

After a pause, Fang Nian looked at Academician Chen and said with a smile: "Academician, please forgive me, I have always had a doubt in my heart;

What did the academician mean when he said before joining the Baize Laboratory, ‘I have wasted half my life just to realize my youthful ideals.’”

Facing Fang Nian's smiling eyes, Academician Chen looked slightly amused: "I didn't expect that Mr. Fang actually remembered every word of his emotional words."

Then he revealed his memories and narrated: "About thirty years ago, our country established a large-scale integrated circuit leading group, formulated an IC development plan, and introduced integrated circuit technology from abroad for the first time...

At that time, I was still an ignorant teenager and plunged into the field of integrated circuits;

Since then, I have been in the integrated circuit industry for decades, and when I am over fifty, I vaguely remember the ideals I had when I was young. When I met Mr. Fang, I occasionally felt something about it."

At this point, Academician Chen paused briefly and said kindly and calmly: "Thirty years ago, my ideal was very simple. To make an excellent general-purpose chip that belongs to our country. Thirty years later, my ideal is still just an ideal."

After hearing what Academician Chen said, Fang Nian frowned slightly and said in confusion: "I see, then why would Academician choose Frontier Baize?

You also said at the previous meeting that no commercial company will make repeated investments. Taking advantage of globalization and integrating the technologies of various solution providers has become a common approach around the world."

Academician Chen showed a warm smile: "That's what I say, but compared to Frontier Bai Ze, he has a stronger willingness to invest in chip design, not just in a small way;

In the past five or six months, Frontier Baize has invested as much as 5.1 billion yuan in the design of the first chip in the laboratory alone. This reason is enough..."

"As a professional, I understand how high the knowledge barriers are in Europe and the United States in this extremely sophisticated field. It is almost impossible to create a completely independent general-purpose chip;

Specific to mobile phone SoC, it is even more difficult. Just talking about the CPU, micro-architecture, instruction set, etc. on the SoC, which one is easy to make autonomously and universally?"

Speaking of this, Academician Chen had a smile on his face and no regrets: "It would be good to continue to promote the development of my country's integrated circuit industry towards self-ownership in my lifetime."

Finally, Academician Chen emphasized with a smile: "After all, Baize is the most promising laboratory I have encountered in these years."

Hearing Academician Chen talk about his stories and thoughts calmly and calmly, Fang Nian felt a little admired.

China's breakthroughs in various fields are not achieved overnight. Behind them are thousands of people like Academician Chen who are working hard to promote them.

Continuously accumulate knowledge reserves.

In the end, it was accumulated gradually.

Fang Nian's thoughts swirled in his mind for a moment, and he finally said frankly: "Actually, I hope you, academician, can use your connections to continue to recruit talents for Baize Laboratory. The current Baize Laboratory is too small."

"In the chip industry, I personally feel that it's more valuable than more expensive." Academician Chen looked puzzled.

Fang Nian pondered for a moment and said frankly: "I have more ideas about Bai Ze Laboratory. The current professional researchers can indeed be called elite, but the number is far from enough."

After a pause, Fang Nian said seriously: "Academician, with all due respect, what I am about to say cannot be spread out of this room for the time being, because it will involve some unspeakable factors. Please understand."

Academician Chen nodded solemnly.

Fang Nian cleared his throat and said slightly vaguely: "I have a bold plan in my mind;

I know that academicians may have doubts as to why Bai Ze has made unnecessary investments in certain aspects, with billions of dollars."

Academician Chen nodded.

Fang Nian said calmly: "It's actually very simple. I hope that Baize will become a chip design unit that is as independent as possible."

Academician Chen: "..."

Was what I just said was in vain?

Fang Nian did not hesitate and continued: "Mobile phone SoC is divided into several modules, including core chip units such as CPU and GPU, as well as some less important chip units;

I have two paths here. The first is to first automate less important modules such as multimedia, ISP, and DSP;

Of course, I don't like this path.

The second way is to give priority to the two core chip units of CPU and GPU, and simultaneously allocate part of the energy to autonomous other units."

"..."

Academician Chen was silent for a moment, frowned and said: "The first way is still possible, but the second way is too tortuous;

Excellent general-purpose CPU architecture and instruction set are a huge threshold, there is no hope in a short time, and the investment in this area is not comparable to what it is now."

Fang Young smiled lightly and asked, "Didn't RISC-V only appear last year?"

"Academician, you should take the time to sort out all the technical information of Baize Laboratory. There may be some inconspicuous things that you have missed;

In addition, you should have heard of Frontier Academic, a company that has funded many research projects in various domestic universities, including in-depth research based on the RISC-V instruction set, and some purely independent instruction set research;

Of course, it also includes processor architecture research projects;

In addition, more than half of the cross-research centers that have been or are under construction at the University of Science and Technology of China and Frontier Institute will serve related technologies."

At the end, Fang Nian said calmly: "In a broad sense, the purpose of Frontier is to reinvent the wheel;

Of course, I am a businessman and business interests will come first."

After Fang Nian finished speaking, Academician Chen was silent for a long time, his brows furrowed.

Fell into deep thinking.

Fang Nian did not urge him.

After a long time, Academician Chen slowly spoke: "Is this why Mr. Fang specially asked me to stay?"

Seeing Fang Nian nodding, Academician Chen said again: "But why?"

“The pure autonomy of an excellent general-purpose mobile phone SoC may cost more money than imagined, and it may even be a waste of money;
To be continued...