Warm sunlight shines through the windows into the buildings on West Chang'an Street.

Bright and comfortable.

It complements the mist of tea in the minister's office.

The rich smell of spring breeze hits your face.

As a guest, Fang Nian could only watch helplessly as Miao Wei got up to dial the phone, but hesitated several times due to politeness.

He feels...

Miao Wei must have misunderstood Fang Xiaonian.

For his ideal career, and even for the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, Fang Xiaonian is willing to contribute every ounce of his strength.

As long as you have some money in your pocket, you will not hesitate to invest in this ideal career.

"I...Fang Nian..."

The more he thought about it, the more determined Fang Nian looked. Just as he was about to slap his thigh and stand up to speak, Miao Wei's light voice came to his ears: "Okay, the finance department will allocate 1 billion before noon."

Fang Nian couldn't help blinking his eyes, and then he was full of righteousness and said firmly and forcefully: "Miao Bu, you are looking down on me, Fang Nian."

"As early as last month, I personally invested 3 billion in Frontier with all my money. Frontier...is not short of money!"

"I……"

Seeing this, Miao Wei smiled half-heartedly and said, "It is said that it was you who lent 3 billion to Frontier?"

Fang Nian said seriously: "It's all money, you can borrow it or not!"

Miao Wei waved his hand and interrupted calmly: "Okay, okay, it seems that the 1 billion that was already planned is not enough to allow you to come to the capital in person. You say it, and I listen."

Fang Nian: "I..."

What's going on in this world?

What happened to this person now?

Changed!

Everything has changed!

Fang Nian is really a little uncomfortable with Miao Wei's current calm appearance.

It's not that Fang Nian thinks Miao Wei can't see through his tricks, but that Miao Wei hasn't been so direct in the past.

If he had known about this kind of treatment, Fang Nian wouldn't have given a movie-level performance.

Seeing Miao Wei looking at him calmly, Fang Nian tidied up a little and said calmly: "The progress of the big CPU project is not going very smoothly. The processor that has been successfully taped out now can only be regarded as a multi-core version of the desktop CPU. Far from high performance;

Currently, there are a few actual tests in two cutting-edge data centers;

Preliminary estimates suggest that it will take another year to integrate a qualified high-performance multi-core CPU;

and……

The application ecosystem also needs to be readjusted, and this requires close cooperation from relevant units."

After a pause, Fang Nian added: "In the second half of last year, Intel further opened up the sales scope of high-performance CPUs to the domestic market, which affected many people's choices."

"..."

Of course Miao Wei could understand the meaning of Fang Nian's words.

First of all, Fang Nian had no intention of 'peeping' into what kind of industries the ministry would apply large CPUs to.

Next, Fang Nian showed the difficulties of the frontier.

In order to successfully develop a qualified CPU with higher performance, it is not only a matter of hardware design, but also needs to start the actual adaptation work from now on.

This adaptation work includes the server version of the operating system, as well as some more professional software, such as the Oracle database, which is recognized in the industry as super powerful and essential for servers...

At least, there is storage operating system adaptation that cannot be escaped no matter what...

After all, storage is a common facility that is necessary for small and medium-sized computer rooms. To put it simply, storage is a collection of a host + countless hard drives.

The last set of high-standard storage can cover the server hard disk needs of a computer room.

Let’s take an example to understand the necessity of this thing:

Traditionally, adding hard disk space to a server requires stopping services and shutting down, identifying the hard disk, re-dividing the raid, and so on.

As for storage, can we add hard disks online at any time, divide the raid online, cover a large number of servers in one operation, and partition hard disks as large as 10G? Or can we take them as needed, and expand and reduce them online.

The simplest understanding is that a large online cloud disk with extremely high-speed access must start with a 10G network, or a 4Gb or 8Gb speed optical fiber.

From this perspective, we can see that this thing is a perfect match for virtualized cloud computing!

Let's put it this way, there is an unspoken rule in the system operation and maintenance industry: if you want to get rich, get storage; if you want to get rich, get storage + virtualization.

The two most powerful storage manufacturers in the industry are EMC and NetApp. If you choose one, you will be rich.

Virtualization is generally VMware.

Entering the 21st century, hardware prices in the computer industry have entered an era of transparency.

Transparency can be equated with not making money, and you can't even make friends.

Software...

Three words: Customize.

Anyway: emc+VMware, two apartments in Imperial City in one year.

"..."

Therefore, the large CPU designed by Luzhou Frontier, which has become the sole main project of the nuclear high-end large CPU project, must be adapted to storage and other aspects.

There is a dedicated operating system for storage, which is generally based on Unix, Linux kernel secondary tailoring, or professional development.

The various systems used by Luzhou Frontier, a large CPU project, are undoubtedly developed based on the modified nwK kernel that Frontier contributed to several major research institutes.

These must be coordinated by the ministry to start the adaptation work.

after all……

Not to mention whether it is confidential or not, the first thing is that it is clearly cutting-edge and does not involve the development of server series operating systems.

There is no plan to enter storage. At most, Bi Fang has this idea, which has nothing to do with cutting-edge!

As for why there is a need for secondary adaptation, the reason is very simple. Most of the current server industry also adopts the X86 instruction architecture.

Large CPUs use the CB12 instruction architecture.

In addition, Miao Wei could also hear another meaning expressed by Fang Nian.

Luzhou Frontier is capable of designing excellent CPUs, but it’s hard to say whether the industry will support it.

Miao Wei even knew that this could be understood as Fang Nian commanding his army.

It sounds slow, but in fact, Miaowei understood all these twists and turns in an instant. He thought about it for a moment before speaking: "I will coordinate it myself."

"As for Intel..."

Hearing this, Fang Nian continued: "Market competition is bound to exist."

"..."

After saying this, Miao Wei completely understood that what Fang Nian wanted was a definite answer, a more guaranteed promise than the previous domestic operating system application ecological group.

Although Luzhou's cutting-edge research and development of large CPUs currently uses financial allocations, this amount of money is definitely not enough.

Miao Wei is not the kind of person who doesn't listen to what's going on outside the window. If he wants to know something, someone will naturally summarize it and report it.

Referring to foreign investment in R&D for processors of the same level, RMB 2.5 billion is at best a starting capital.

Whether the Luzhou Frontier will be abandoned halfway depends on whether the coordination work of the ministry is in place.

Facing Fang Nian's calm and unstressed gaze, Miao Wei pursed his lips and said, "I will personally supervise the relevant work after it starts."

"Thank you Miao Bu." Fang Nian said seriously.

"..."

Then Fang Nian changed the topic without hesitation: "The photolithography machine project is progressing quite smoothly. Luzhou Frontier reported that the trial production of 65nm process chips will be in the near future."

"It is expected that 28nm process chips will be trial-produced this year, which will progress much faster than expected, but there will be a big bottleneck at 28nm and below;

If major units work hard and make breakthroughs in materials, they can continue to make breakthroughs in one or two years.

In cutting-edge planning, EUV lithography can be used to make breakthroughs in the future, all the way to the physical limit of 1 nanometer."

At the end of the sentence, Fang Nian added with a very ugly face: "But... the actual progress of EUV is a bit eye-catching."

"After all, we started research more than ten years later than Europe and the United States. I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." Miao Wei comforted him.

"..."

In fact, many people, including Miao Wei, don't understand why Fang Nian insists on EUV so much.

After all, theoretically DUV can support 7nm lithography.

The most advanced manufacturing process in the world right now is Intel, which has only achieved 22nm.
To be continued...