Chapter 1086: Indeed There Is Progress
Occupy the Godson. concept. Fan Wubing probably had some impressions in his mind.
In May of this year, with the support of the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Loongson research group was officially established. In August. The Loongson-1 design and verification system successfully launched the operating system and passed the appraisal organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in October.
The Loongson-1 core is a 32-bit processor core that takes into account both general-purpose and embedded features, and adopts a 444-like instruction set. It has a seven-stage pipeline, a thirty-two-bit integer unit, and a sixty-four-bit floating point unit. Loongson-1 core has highly flexible configurability and various standard interfaces for easy integration.
Users can choose and configure according to their own needs, thereby customizing the processor structure that best suits the user's application. The main configurable modules include floating point components, multimedia components, memory management, ratio, co-processor interface, etc.
The floating-point component is a fully integrated floating-point instruction set. The floating-point component and its related system software are fully compliant with the Sibi Gong binary floating-point arithmetic standard. Floating-point components mainly include floating-point components and floating-point multiplication and division components. Users can choose whether to add them according to their actual applications. Media components multiplex floating point instructions. Boron North Domain, and reuses the floating-point register file, the media instruction set basically corresponds to the various operations of the "media instruction set."
The memory management component has three working modes, namely standard mode, direct mapping mode and no mapping mode. The coprocessor interface provides an efficient interface to external coprocessors. Loongson-1's four-port core provides a set of configurable processor bus interfaces: synchronous interface and Harvard structure interface.
Fan Wubing is not very optimistic about the development of Loongson, mainly because Fan's design technology is already far ahead. At this time, through several years of efforts by scientific research and technical personnel, Fan's can already produce higher-performance products. Universal steel chip.
At present, the mainstream operating frequency of Fan's new machine is 16 billion times per second for double-precision floating point operations, and 320 billion times per second for single-precision floating point operations. billion times. The chip is produced using a 65-nanometer process and has more than 400 million transistors. The chip is packaged in a tire package and consumes less than 15 watts.
In this processor chip, four sixty-four-bit scalar processor cores, a large secondary ratio, two bile memory controllers, two high-performance controllers, and a quadruple analog controller are integrated. Take, four, four, rain buckle o and other low four, o controller.
It can be said that Fan's general-purpose processor chips are currently used in servers, high-performance computers, low-energy data centers, personal high-performance computers, high-end desktop applications, high-throughput computing applications, industrial control, digital signal processing, high-end embedded applications, etc. The products all have very broad market application prospects.
However, there is also a problem now. The cost of early-stage research and development is indeed relatively high, and currently, although the profits and sales of low-end embedded chips are very satisfactory,
However, the price of high-end chips is still relatively high. There are still some problems in promotion.
This is also because of an important reason. Most high-end users in China do not trust domestic chips very much, especially personal computer users, who prefer to use mainstream chips like this to provide core power.
As we all know, China has become the so-called factory of the world. Anyone who has been to the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, especially those who have worked in factories in these two places, should have personal experience. Many foreign-funded enterprises have transferred the low-end parts of the production process, mainly processing and assembly links, to China. These low-end links are labor-intensive and labor-intensive, but have low added value.
The Logitech mouse, which is well-known in the computer industry, has a production plant in Suzhou. It ships 20 million mice with a Made in China label to the United States every year. Each mouse sells for about $40 in the United States. at this price. Logitech gets eight dollars, distributors and retailers get fifteen dollars, and another fourteen dollars goes into the pockets of component suppliers. China only gets three dollars from each mouse, and workers’ wages, electricity, transportation and other All expenses are included in these three dollars
From the perspective of an electronics enthusiast, how difficult is it to manufacture a mouse? The difficulty lies in Luo's ability to make the small mouse industry such a big one. The key lies in its intellectual property and brand.
To put it extremely small, a small steel chip can easily cost hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. Its main materials are nothing more than a little metal and silicon that can be extracted from sand. However, without mastering the steel design technology and chip manufacturing technology, how can
For the comparison industry. For most companies, profits are also quite low. The main reason is that domestic companies have to buy other people's chips for assembly. In fact, they are just a set-up factory for foreign manufacturers. and. In the overt and covert battle between international leaders and Intel, Chinese import manufacturers cannot hide the embarrassing situation of looking at other people's faces. They have to coax Intel, which has a share advantage, but dare not offend Intel, which has a price advantage. All of this is due to There is no one in China who can take the lead.
The reason for this situation is actually that since the reform and opening up, the country's industrial adjustment has had some problems. For example, it has fallen behind in some previously dominant industries. You must know that the domestic computer level was not bad at the beginning. However, with the prevalence of comprador thinking, China's computer industry has declined. As for the computer industry, it has not occupied the commanding heights of technology for a long time.
The price of imported steel chips for a server is tens of thousands of yuan, accounting for more than 70% of the server cost. According to statistics, large foreign companies can earn more than 10 billion US dollars from China every year just by importing chips. If domestically produced high-end chips can be used instead in servers, the market prospects will be limitless.
In order to promote the application of domestic chips in complete machine manufacturing enterprises and system design enterprises as soon as possible, so that they can smoothly enter the industrial chain and promote industrialization, Fan's Investment Group and several embedded software laboratories with cooperative relationships are working for Fan The company's domestic related software support packages enable it to support Microsoft's old software. ...create this industry's mainstream embedded operating system.
Of course, low prices alone are not enough. : Gang's industrial chain is very long. It does not mean that once a product is made, it will immediately form an industry and be sold in large quantities. It requires the cooperation of operating system, application software, and hardware design. The main means of industrialization is to establish industrial alliances. Currently, Fanshi Investment Group has production bases in Shanghai, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places.
The application of Fan's Gang is not limited to personal computers. Its high-end cores have extremely broad development prospects for the national defense industry, network servers, routers, game consoles, especially in China's vast consumer market. Qu and other international chip giants compete to capture this part of the currency market profits. On the other hand, it is to make computers affordable for everyone. Therefore, Fan has always focused on breakthroughs in low cost.
Although computer prices are getting lower and lower. But it is still too expensive for the vast Chinese market, especially the rural and western markets. The launch of personal computers based on Fan's Gang will also provide the possibility to bridge the digital divide.
The most unique advantage of Fan's Gang chips is not performance or price. But its safety. Information technology equipment used by the military, government, state-owned enterprises, scientific research institutions and other departments is directly related to the security of national information networks.
Adopting the methods developed by Fan will obviously help to eliminate domestic security confusion in e-government, national defense and other aspects, and change the passive situation in the field of information security.
The lack of independent core technologies in various electronic systems has directly or indirectly led to the reliance on imports for many technologies and products in many of our industries. If we do not master core technologies, our weapons and core equipment, our national security will also be seriously threatened.
At present, an ordinary chip is generally composed of three to four million transistors, so it is difficult to find out and explain the specific role of each transistor and its actual function, so there may be backdoors in the chip. Before the chips of some large foreign companies are exported, they will leave a special password to the country's Ministry of National Defense. In this way, when the two countries are at war, one password may paralyze the enemy's relevant systems.
Therefore, in recent times, the military has paid great attention to the chip development work of Fan's Investment Group, and has also given strong support and arranged for some relatively powerful technical personnel to enter Fan's research laboratory for project cooperation. The main purpose is to improve Fan's competitiveness in general-purpose steel technology as soon as possible, and to provide domestically produced key information equipment as soon as possible.
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Southeast Heavy Industry Group, as a pilot project for Fan Wubing to get involved in military production, will obviously receive the strongest support in this regard. Fan Wubing has already considered networking the extremely large laboratories. Business cooperation is carried out in a unified environment.