After ending the call with Su Zifeng, Fang Nian contacted Academician Chen Jianye again.

It is said that since Su Zifeng took office as CEO of Luzhou Frontier, Fang Nian has not had a separate phone call with Luzhou Frontier.

It can be regarded as a clear support for Su Zifeng.

The call was quickly connected, and Chen Jianye's smiling voice came out: "Mr. Fang, I finally got your call."

Fang Nian smiled: "Academicians can contact me at any time, why do you say this?"

"I heard that I went to Baywan to stream a movie yesterday?"

Hearing this, Chen Jianye replied: "The tape-out has ended. Shenlong 2 is basically a success, but it is not an ideal situation."

Then Academician Chen talked eloquently and briefly described the comparison between Shenlong 2 and Shenlong 1.

"..."

After listening to Chen Jianye's words, Fang Nian thought for a moment: "In this case, my suggestion is to conduct further research and development on this basis;

There just happen to be samples that have been successfully taped out to provide more physical verification, which should be more direct than simulation verification."

Chen Jianye confirmed: "Yes, more experiments can be conducted on physical samples."

Upon hearing this, Fang Nian said: "Bailong has launched the second-generation independent architecture design. I wonder if Shenlong should also work hard;

Let the CPU, the processing core unit, use its own architecture first, and take the lead in widening the gap in the processing core unit;

This will make Shenlong's new generation of chips more absolutely competitive when other types of core units are similar."

After a pause, Fang Nianyou said: "For example, optimizing the architecture performance to achieve the best performance under the same power consumption and the lowest power consumption under the same performance;

This includes developing an independent security management core unit, optimizing the multimedia core unit, self-developing the graphics processing core unit by absorbing external technical data, etc.”

After hearing what Fang Nian said, Chen Jianye said enthusiastically: "We think so too."

"On the one hand, we now have the technology authorization for powerVR."

"on the other hand……"

At this point, Chen Jianye paused for a moment and said with a sigh: "The progress of the research and development of instruction sets suitable for mobile phone CPUs is far more bumpy than expected;

Since the launch of the project in April, it can be said that 80% of the research and development results have been used for wedding dresses in the White Dragon series, even after August;

The core issue is power consumption;

It may be simpler to focus on architectural design first, and then research a more suitable low-power instruction set."

Then Chen Jianye added: "The main reason is that the instruction set involves a complete transformation of the ecological bottom layer, and MindOS already has a large number of users. We dare not act rashly until it is at the most appropriate stage."

"It is indeed difficult to cultivate an ecology. Personally, I hope to be in the same line as Bzloong to some extent."

Fang Nian smiled and said a few words.

"It's not advisable to be too forward-thinking. Sometimes you have to be reckless."

"..."

Finally, Academician Chen smiled and hung up the phone.

How to put it, mobile phone SoC is a highly integrated chip, which usually highlights the processing core unit, that is, the CPU;

Of course, if the baseband, graphics processing core unit, multimedia core unit, etc. have a greater advantage, they will be mentioned separately.

Nowadays, the global trend is to highlight the CPU and GPU performance of mobile phone SoCs.

Because other aspects are basically implemented in the same way, that is, directly by purchasing IP hard cores.

The core units on this series of mobile phone SoCs are generally referred to as peripheral IP cores.

No one manufacturer in the world can do it all. Even arm licenses only the CPU and GPU.

Qualcomm also needs to purchase quite a few peripheral IP cores to implement a complete mobile phone SoC.

Of course, in very core units, companies such as ARM, Qualcomm, and Apple all have their own intellectual property rights.

For example, arm acquired Mali to improve the graphics processing core IP.

Qualcomm initially cooperated with ATI and eventually launched the Adreno graphics processing core unit.

Apple still directly uses the powerVR graphics processing chip, and has not thought about developing its own graphics processing chip.

Baize...

Of course, relevant plans were launched immediately after Shenlong 1 was launched.

For example, several billions were specially allocated for Guan Qiuhe to lead the overseas technology acquisition plan in China.

This part includes purchasing the technology license of powerVR.

After all, the Shenlong 1 uses the powerVR series graphics processing core, which has long been related.

The process is not very complicated, because powerVR technology has been licensed to STMicroelectronics, Apple, Intel and other companies.

Although not complicated, the entire process from the initial contact to the final decision to purchase the technology license lasted for nearly half a year, and the delivery was not completed until the evening of the 4th Beijing time a few days ago.

The five-year mobile graphics processing chip and desktop display chip technology (including patents) licensing contract signed, as well as the supplementary expiration priority renewal contract, is equivalent to RMB 1.17 billion.

It is the largest single technology licensing purchase since the founding of Frontier.

Imagination, the parent company of powerVR, was so lenient in receiving the money that it probably would have been very happy.

After all, Imagination is now booming because it has shifted to the mobile graphics processing chip market and has Apple as a major customer;

This is far from the dismal situation in 2017 when Apple's stock price fell by more than 70% because of its self-developed graphics processing chips, and was eventually acquired by a Chinese private equity firm for 550 million pounds that year.

How to say...

On the surface, cutting-edge science has been waiting hard for driver support from display chip manufacturers such as AMD and NVIDIA.

Privately, we have already reached a deal with Imagination, a company that although its market share is not very impressive, it has equally deep accumulation of related technologies.

Comprehensive solution to the technical knowledge barriers of mobile and desktop graphics processing chips.

This wave...

This wave is called Mingxiu Plank Road and secretly destroying Chencang.

"..."

…………

On the last day of the National Day holiday, the weather conditions in Shanghai were acceptable.

But time flies by so fast.

It was already dark before the child Fang Xin could react.

Comrade Fang Zhengguo will stay one more night and return to Tongfeng tomorrow morning - he never has to bother with airport transfers.

In the words of Ms. Lin Feng, where diligence and frugality should be done, frugality is the way to go.

A grown man doesn't need to be so particular. First class is available on civil aviation every day.

Fang Nian is not forced.

Besides, the plane is not yours.

Guan Qiuhe wanted to send some favors but couldn't.

"..."

The next day arrived in the blink of an eye.

On the 8th, Saturday, I will go to work and have classes as usual.

But there are no classes for the whole year.

Just be Secretary Fang again.

Considering that Zheng Jinrong has been promoted, the reception standards at Frontier Science have also increased slightly.

Lu Weiyu came forward in person.

Fang Nian attended the discussion as Mr. Lu’s intern secretary.

A large group of people came from Samsung Electronics.

Zheng Jinrong is still the highest representative.

But this time he was not the first to speak, but another executive.

The first thing he opened his mouth was to complain.

"..."

"We come here with full sincerity for cooperation and hope that your company will give it more consideration."

It can be said that Samsung Electronics specially launched it to make a fool of itself.

To be honest, the pricing of the first domestic market system licensing contract between Frontier Science and Samsung Electronics is indeed very high.

A ratio of 7% and 20 million copies is a bit too much for Samsung Electronics.

But Samsung Electronics had no choice at the time.
To be continued...