Los Angeles.

The International Conference on Integrated Circuit Design and Technology was held as scheduled.

As the top meeting of icee's ic design field, this is not only an academic conference for academics in the industry, but also a stage for the major chip manufacturers to show off their skills.

Like this industry involving specific application areas, the boundaries between academia and industry are not very obvious.

Many scholars are engineers who are employed in enterprises. Many senior engineers are themselves reviewers of journals. Even some of them are technical directors, and they are also named editors in a journal of ieee. These are not. What a rare thing.

Professor Michael Mayberry standing on the stage is one of them.

While serving as Dean of the Intel Semiconductor Research Institute, he also held the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intel.

At this moment, standing on the stage, he is presenting all the scholars, engineers and business representatives present at the show, showing a series of technologies such as Intel's latest consumer processor chips and next-generation core graphics cards.

Among the dazzling results, the most notable one is undoubtedly its new micro-architecture "Silver Light" based on the 7nm process technology.

Almost as soon as this content was presented on the ppt, the parameters and concept maps listed by Luo were immediately the focus of attention!

According to Intel's description, this set of "Silver Light" architecture, which will be launched this year, in the second half of 2022, will be based on the "sunny-cove" architecture that Intel introduced in 19 years. Improve a level! The new chips that are matched with them will be greatly different in terms of integration and process.

Standing on the stage, Michael Mayberry emphasized with excitement and affirmative tone that this is a leap in technological innovation, and Intel will redefine the future of chip technology... although every time everyone is so bragging, Mayberry The speech did make a lot of people's faces full of surprises, even strange expressions.

As we all know, the 7nm process is almost close to the process limits of major manufacturers. Although it is not impossible to achieve 5nm, it is not so cost-effective considering cost.

When it comes to 5nm and then down, it is the bottleneck of the theoretical level, including the limitations of the material itself and the more and more negligible quantum mechanical effects. It is very difficult to improve the performance of the chip in the chip process.

It is precisely because of this, in addition to looking for alternative materials, now all major chip manufacturers are working hard outside the process to squeeze the potential of silicon-based chips as much as possible.

The "sunny-cove" architecture that Intel released in the second half of 19 years and has caused a lot of problems in the industry is undoubtedly one of them.

Based on the "sunny-cove" architecture of 10nm process technology, the performance of Intel's Core and Xeon series chips is directly improved by 66%!

No one is surprised that Intel can make the process 7nm, but it can make such a major breakthrough in the "sunny-cove" architecture. In the eyes of many people in the industry, it is no different from the "black technology" level.

Obviously, this academic conference has become a showcase for Intel's corporate technology.

Sitting under the stage, Qualcomm's chief engineer Derek Wacker cocked his legs and looked at the cto crazy skills of the friends on the stage. His face could not help but show a look of envy.

"Intel's black technology... Last time I listened to Mayberry, they were preparing a big news, to subvert the traditional architecture design, I thought it was bragging, I didn't expect them to really get it out."

Sitting next to him, Kochi, the vice president of Qualcomm, who was also sent to participate in this academic conference, looked at the man on the stage and also envied his eyes.

"...Tomorrow's stock of Intel is afraid to fly to heaven."

Although the relationship between Qualcomm and Intel is not so good, if he can make money, he does not mind to increase his holdings in advance in his own name.

At the same time, Mayberry on the stage had already spoken dryly, and took the cup from the staff to drink the saliva.

For half an hour, he spent twenty minutes talking to Intel's partners, or potential partners, about "showing off" the new architecture, named Silverlight, and being accompanied by the architecture. Launched the chip.

Even though this is full of boring bragging and rhetoric, there is still no one in the entire venue.

Everyone knows the nature of Mr. Mayberry.

He may brag, but he will not speak.

The thirty minutes of the moment was finally over. In a round of applause, Michael Mayberion stepped off the stage.

The academic event of the chip industry continues, but it is obvious that the focus of the audience has been completely taken away by Intel.

Returning to Mebri, who was sitting under the stage, listening to the whispering discussion and sighing voice, the face could not help but write a few unsuccessful smug.

He enjoyed this feeling very much.

So I will come to this report myself.

Otherwise, this kind of report will be thrown to the people below to do it is not impossible.

The reporters on the stage have changed a few rounds. Whether it is Qualcomm or Samsung or Apple, the results of this conference are bleak in front of their "Silver Light".

In particular, the Qualcomm technician who came to power, when he talked about Qualcomm's expression of the arm-v9 instruction set, he was even more stunned.

As the reporter from Qualcomm stepped down, a Chinese man with glasses went to the stage.

The thin and tall appearance, coupled with a decent suit that doesn’t show much air, makes people look less like a professor or a senior engineer, but rather an intern or student. Roles such as assistants.

Meberri, who was preparing to look at the jokes of the friends and merchants, looked at the reporter who came to power, and couldn’t help but blink a contempt.

Whether it is the logo of Warwick, or the expression of the reporter's face, it is impossible for him to produce a trace of the next speech worthy of his time to listen.

What's more, send an intern to come to this place to do the report, what can you say?

It is nothing more than not wanting to throw this person up.

At this time, Intel Ceo Robert Swan, who was sitting next to him and had no openings, suddenly said

"I heard that they have recently begun to be dissatisfied with ic design and are working with China's policies to upgrade their industries."

This, they naturally refer to the reporter from Warwick Hays on the stage.

There was no change in the contempt in the eyes of Mayberry, and the eyebrows were gently lifted.

“Oh? Just rely on the “high-tech” companies of the Chinese people?”

Robert Swan said in a deep voice: "You still don't despise them better. After all, like nuclear fusion, we only touched a little bit. They have already repaired the cross-regional power grid to our factory in Southeast Asia. ""

Can nuclear fusion and chips be a little while?

Mayberry did not agree to pouting, apparently did not put Swan's words in mind.

At the moment, the suspected interns who stood on the stage finally spoke up.

Perhaps because of the first appearance on such an occasion, his expression was a bit cautious, and he took a few deep breaths to calm down, and then made a simple opening statement with a smooth speech rate.

Several of the big men sitting in the front row invariably cast a goodwill and encouragement on the young man, including Robert Swan and Mayberry.

For harmless opponents, their attitudes are often sympathetic and tolerant, even if they can't hide the contempt behind them, at least on the surface he is a modest scholar.

The style of adults is like this.

No matter how annoying the bear child is, he will generally hide his boredom in his heart and replace it with a caring look.

“This project is our...the cooperation project between our Warwick and the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies. It lasted for almost two years. In fact, it should have been reported by their research team, but because of the concerns of the reporting site and other aspects, they Give this opportunity to us."

That is not a very full voice, so many people in the audience are all interested in lack of interest.

Although the name of the Jinling Institute of Advanced Studies has attracted the attention of many people, it is only an intern who wants to report to the stage. Almost everyone has the same disapproval on his face.

It seems to have noticed this too.

Looking at the front row of several big sisters have turned their attention to other places, and even began to whisper, the reporter standing on the stage suddenly worried, so speed up the speed of speech, directly into the topic .

"The specific details will be detailed in the ppt."

“This project is about the carbon-based chips we are working on...”

This sentence has just been said to be half.

Suddenly, the reporter standing on the stage was surprised to find that there were still some restless venues in the past, and I don’t know when it started to be like a dead silence.

Moreover, the silence is a little scary...