Chapter 258 Self-developed Chip

  Qualcomm, a company that all mobile phone manufacturers cannot avoid.

  Relying on 3G and 4G patents, you can easily extract the "Qualcomm tax" of all smartphones in the world with a wave of your hand, and collect it according to the price of the whole machine.

   It can be said that even if Qualcomm does nothing while lying down, there will be a steady stream of renters, and it will be a real charter career.

  In addition to the 'Qualcomm tax', Qualcomm also has unique achievements in the chip field. Relying on the architecture authorized by ARM, it has officially launched the 'Snapdragon' series chips.

  In fact, many people have rarely heard of Qualcomm chips before, and Intel is the most famous in the chip field.

  The fact is also true. Intel's X86 has an overwhelming advantage in personal computers and servers. The computing power of a single chip can exceed dozens of times that of an ARM architecture chip.

  But because of this, the power consumption and heat generation of the X86 chip are astonishing. To put it bluntly, the power consumption and heat dissipation are exaggerated, which is definitely a fatal problem for the mobile terminal.

  Think about the size of a PC CPU cooler. Even a laptop cooler is big enough to brick a phone.

   And this can just be made up for by the ARM architecture.

  In addition, Intel itself had a problem with its strategic direction, which led to the direct loss of the market in the field of smartphone chips.

  Qualcomm also seized this opportunity and began to step into it. It can be regarded as a representative of a company that has tasted the sweetness of the smartphone era.

   In the previous generation of Qualcomm's first quad-core processor, the 28nm process APQ8064 processor has a pure running performance, even surpassing the processor on the Fruit 5.

Last year, Qualcomm also officially launched the Snapdragon series processors, but it was stabilized by the 64-bit A7 dual-core processor developed by Guoguo. Although the Snapdragon 800 series has quad-cores, it needs to be fully powered to be comparable to Guoguo's A7 dual-core processors. processor.

After learning from the pain, Qualcomm, which has not yet developed its own 64-bit architecture, also began to rely on the ARM public version of the 64-bit architecture to enter it radically. Although it uses a more advanced 20nm process, the things it makes have "fire dragons". The title of Snapdragon 810.

  The processor has a high demand for temperature. If the temperature is too high, it will affect the performance of the processor itself. For example, the extreme test environment for Intel processor performance even chooses to pour liquid helium!

  Many materials can become superconducting under liquid helium...

  Because of the extremely bad heat generation of the Snapdragon 810, the actual performance at high temperatures is not even as good as its previous generation processor, and it is even beaten by the upcoming fruit 6 self-developed A8 processor.

  Actually, the processor used by Umbrella’s mobile phone is Qualcomm’s last year’s Snapdragon 801, which is similar to Hanwei’s Kirin 930 in terms of performance.

  For the temporary procurement of processors, only Qualcomm is easier to start with.

However, Qualcomm has just announced with great enthusiasm the release of the first 64-bit quad-core chip, the Snapdragon 810. You can also see the new Snapdragon 810 machine.

   For Umbrella's order, I really look down on it.

   There are all good cooperative partners in front of us, and the output of the fab is only so much, not much!

  Although Umbrella said hello to Four Star and can help with OEM, Qualcomm is not a marionette and has its own ideas.

   "Heh, I'm still staring at the previous generation of chips. This Umbrella is really stingy. The price is comparable to that of fruit."

   After a salesman hung up the call from Umbrella, he couldn't help talking to his colleagues with a little teasing.

   "However, other performance aspects of their mobile phones are very good."

   "So what if other aspects are good? This is a mobile phone after all, and the processor is the heart, and they also have to pay us patent fees."

   "That's true, no mobile phone manufacturer can bypass us..."

   Not only are Qualcomm's salespeople chatting about this stunned young man who has just entered the mobile phone field, but Qualcomm's high-level offices are also discussing it.

   "Don't go to sue?"

  The CEO looked at some reports casually. For the new mobile phone manufacturers, they were fat in their eyes.

  However, it is quite a headache for Qualcomm to wait until they file a lawsuit similar to fruit.

   "No, they handed it in, and the information has actually been sent to you by email."

   "Well, their financial statements are not public? Who knows if they are missing? Inform them and treat them equally with other manufacturers."

   "They're not listed, it's Umbrella."

   "What happened to Umbrella? They have to be reasonable, they..."

  But in the end, Qualcomm CEO still slowed down and said

   "Have a better attitude and remind me tactfully."

   "They also want to buy chips."

   "Sell, our production capacity of Snapdragon 810 is quite large."

   "What they want is 801, and the production capacity that came out of the previous four-star side is actually connected by them."

   "What? What do they mean?"

   Isn’t this your flagship phone? What does old buy 801 mean? This is our previous generation chip, isn't this too picky?

   Now let us use the newly added capacity to produce additional chips of the previous generation?

  Although they themselves know that the 810 has problems with heat dissipation and power consumption, it is the first 64-bit quad-core model after all, and it still uses a 20nm process. Heat dissipation is a problem that mobile phone manufacturers need to solve. What do we care about?

   "We don't have much 801 in stock, and many other mid-range mobile phone manufacturers have ordered a lot."

"Then tell them that the 801 is gone. Do you want the 810? After all, Four Star has freed up production capacity. It must be the 810. They are not satisfied with taking it back and designing it themselves. Heh~, Four Star has freed up production capacity to give them face. , but also to make money, it is impossible to keep empty."

   "Besides us, let's see where else they can buy it!"

  Qualcomm does have this kind of arrogance in the field of mobile phones.

  Even they themselves haven’t come up with a 64-bit architecture, and they still use the ARM public version. Now there are only a few companies in the world that can complete chip design!

   Do you want love!

   And Umbrella also received this kind of feedback.

   You can even hear Qualcomm’s rumors in the industry that the supply of 801 is tight. If you keep staring at 801, you will have to wait for a long time, and it may be difficult to deliver...

  …

  Wang Yi, who was taking Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke to play rafting, was speechless when he heard the information from Lin Shiqin.

   "Didn't you help them coordinate some of the four-star production capacity? Four-star has put down the burden?"

   This is Wang Yi's guess. After all, the field that Umbrella's mobile phone entered has a great impact on the four-star.

  "No, the four-star team relies a lot on us. They are arrogant when they should be arrogant, but they are quite honest when they should be honest. It was Qualcomm who adjusted that part to 810."

  Hearing what Lin Shiqin said, Wang Yi was also a little speechless.

   To be honest, Umbrella is eye-catching enough now, he is not prepared to directly enter the chip field so soon.

   Fortunately, the outbreak of infection in Seoul some time ago made Umbrella say "I really have it" and the lingering power is still there, so it's not impossible to get some first.

   was forced out, there is no way.

It's just a pity that things like "I really have" are the last cards. Obviously, it is impossible to show up frequently. Not to mention it will cause fear, and if you talk too much, it will reduce the deterrent effect, and you can't just do it to them. Otherwise, it is equivalent to breaking up with the whole world.

   Some conventional hole cards need to be strengthened quickly, but the order has already been placed. With such a large tonnage ship, even if you add money to jump in the queue, I am afraid it will take at least a year.

  Especially for the three million-ton platforms, each of the three parties of the Audio-Technology Triangle will build one, and if they can come out in a year, they will have to work overtime to catch up.

   Originally said that after getting two new immunoglobulins for Umbrella, he would go to the whole yacht to catch whales.

   Now it seems that the chip problem has to be fixed first.

   "Is it okay to design your side?"

   "No problem, the ARM public version is 64-bit, but the ARM company authorization does not allow core modification. If you want to modify it, you have to pay a lot of money. If you get the modification authorization, you can improve it."

   "No need, let's just design the public version architecture. How much can the craftsmanship achieve now?"

There are some obsolete equipment from the four-star fab, coupled with some domestic support and the DUV lithography machine that has already come out, and after a little integration, the 20nm-level process can still be achieved quickly, and it will be stepped into next year. 14nm is not a big problem.

  However, the equipment brought back from Four Star still needs debugging time, and there is no way to produce it immediately. We can only send it to Four Star to make some quickly with the production capacity vacated.

   UMC’s technological breakthrough has been bottlenecked, but the current technology is sufficient for manufacturing, and it is waiting for the rice to be cooked, and some can be sent to OEM.

  Chip design ability, is it normal?

Originally, if it is a normal chip, it will take at least three to six months of "trial production" stage. This stage can also be called tape-out. Whether the requirements are met.

  If the test is passed, mass production can begin.

   If there is a problem, some modifications are required.

  The structure of the chip itself is too complex and dense, and it is quite normal for problems to occur.

  However, this chip was designed by Lin Shiqin. It can be said that as long as the four-star technology is passable, there will be no problem of failing after passing Lin Shiqin's simulation.

  This can greatly reduce the process and time directly to mass production!

  Chip name, Baihou V1.0!

  The performance of replacing the 'White Queen' chip has undoubtedly improved, so just define this batch as a plus version, and the price should be the same as the standard fruit.

  The performance cannot be improved and the price remains the same. This is unfair to customers who bought in advance.

   Well, the output of the plus may be higher than that of the normal version in the future!

  …

   "Self-developed chip? Let me go, Umbrella is really awesome, and he threw out a big move without making a sound."

   "It's amazing, even this is the official announcement of plus, and didn't say anything in particular, this is the confidence."

   "What are you doing plus! Please let me buy the normal version first, my friends have started to use the red version and then hang "Star World"."

   "Shouldn't this be considered cheating?"

   "Does it count? Hang on physics, click on the sprite, who told you not to."

   "It's painful, I have to change the fruit."

   "It seems that the other ones have also updated the links of the red queen one after another. Although they are not as good as others, they can still be used when the new version comes out."

   "Umbrella is so stupid, he trains competitors like this."

   "Hehe, Umbrella is 5% tax for ordinary smartphones and 10% for high-end smartphones. Why do you have to work hard if you can make money lying down?"

   "And the screen and camera are also theirs, don't forget the battery too! If their chip function is really as described, then the chip can also tear a hole."

   "That is to say, other mobile phones only sell a brand?"

   "Are you really just lying down and making money?"

   "Good guy, I'm convinced."

   "However, Umbrella's related research and development capabilities are really strong. The performance of the 'White Queen' produced so far is even better than that of the same model of fruit."

   "Otherwise, why do you think it's called 'Umbrella'?"

   "Damn it, go to the external network to see it, it's a fortress, and the Red Queen's mobile phone!"

"what happened again?"

  However, now that there is simultaneous translation, understanding has become quite simple. When I went out to take a look, the hottest thing at this time was a little brother on TT talking excitedly about his experience on the hospital bed.

   "Brothers, I was saved by the 'Red Queen'!"

   As he finished speaking, he also took out his mobile phone, only to see that the red queen mobile phone, which could not be broken in the first place, was covered with cracks and even deformed.

   But looking at the cracks and deformation, no one thinks that the quality of the Red Queen mobile phone is not good!

  Because, there is a warhead embedded in the mobile phone, a blood-stained warhead!

  The warhead is firmly stuck in the phone.

  The penetrated battery did not explode at this time.

   Afterwards, the little brother on the hospital bed said to the screen

   "Man, the sad news is that I broke two ribs, so now I need to be hospitalized, but luckily, I survived!"

   "Thank you Umbrella, thank you Red Queen, thank you for my phone!"

   “I will treasure it forever and pass it on because it saved my life!”

  ——

   Second update~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)