Rebirth of Hong Kong Island, leading the technology war

Chapter 240 Incredible, the test results of the Shengteng chip
As mentioned earlier, Brother Huang Ren is also a man with good vision and a high level of professionalism.

In fact, most of EagleVision's early GPU chips were designed with the participation of Huang Renxiong, and he was one of the core designers.

The pin density of the chip in front of him clearly exceeded Huang Ren's expectations.

The denser the pins, the more transistors are implanted in the chip.

For such a small chip, if it were 14 nanometers, it would be impossible to have so many pins. It would appear very sparse and the number would be very small.

With such dense stitches, it definitely looks like they are at the seven-nanometer level.

Others also showed surprised expressions, including Dong Shaoyang.

They are all veteran employees of the Eagle NVIDIA testing department. They deal with various GPU chips almost every day and are familiar with the chip design structure.

Especially Dong Shaoyang, his major is semiconductor design, and he has designed chips himself.

"Is this really a Huayao chip? It has a specification of seven nanometers."

Brother Huang Ren also looked confused.

They just discussed that if Huayao wants to manufacture their so-called artificial intelligence computing chips, it can only turn to their country's Huaxin International for help.

It is simply impossible for several other large semiconductor manufacturers to have any cooperative relationship with Huayao because they dare not make that money.

Although this semiconductor manufacturing company has made some breakthroughs in its manufacturing process, it can only reach a level of 14 nanometers at most.

There is a huge difference between 14 nanometers and 7 nanometers; they are not even on the same level.

But this chip at least looks to be at the seven-nanometer level.

Others were also talking, whispering, and obviously confused.

"How is this possible? Huayao can produce seven-nanometer chips? I don't believe this is true!"

"I don't believe it either, but this chip does look very high-end."

"Don't jump to conclusions yet. I feel like there's something fishy going on. Could it be fake?"

Huang Renxiong asked Dong Shaoyang: "What do you think is going on? Is it possible that there is some fraud involved?"

Dong Shaoyang thought for a moment and replied, "It's not that they are faking it. With all their efforts, Huaxin International should be able to produce a few seven-nanometer chips by repeated etching, but they can't mass-produce them because the yield rate is too low."

Huang Renxiong shook his head: "But Huayao has already started small-scale mass production. It is obviously not something made temporarily."

Dong Shaoyang was silent. Only then did he realize that he had just heard from Rick Zhang that Huayao had already started small-scale mass production of this chip.

If this is true, then these chip samples should be finalized, otherwise they would not be sent to partners for testing.

Therefore, Dong Shaoyang’s inference just now was too hasty and indeed untenable.

But the question is, how did Huayao do it?
Huayao has actually made a seven-nanometer chip and has carried out small-scale mass production. It may even be possible to carry out large-scale commercial mass production in the future.

Dong Shaoyang would never believe that such a thing could happen.

At least within the next ten years, it will be impossible for China to mass-produce seven-nanometer chips. No, it will not be possible within twenty years.

Currently, companies in mainland China simply cannot buy the most advanced lithography machines, and will never be able to buy them in the future.

What? China chooses its own lithography machine?

That's really hilarious.

The photolithography machine is the most shining jewel in the crown of human civilization. Even if China is given a hundred years, it will take it a hundred years to build a photolithography machine that can produce advanced process chips.

Without the right tools, it is impossible to make high-end chips.

As the saying goes, a wise woman cannot make a meal without rice.

Dong Shaoyang suddenly thought of something and said, "Mr. Huang, I have a guess. Maybe some of these stitches are fake."

Huang Ren was stunned: "...The pins are fake? You mean that some of the pins are just for show and are not actually connected to transistors?"

"Yes, to be exact, there are not that many available transistors to connect, so this is essentially still a 14-nanometer chip, but it looks like a more advanced 7-nanometer chip."

Huang Renxiong said: "If it is true as you said, then the performance of this chip will be very poor."

Using a 14-nanometer process to cut such a small chip, there will of course be very few transistors.

The fewer transistors, the lower the computing power.

Brother Huang Ren fell into deep thought. If it was true as he guessed, it couldn't be said that this chip was unusable. It was just that compared with Eagle AMD's products, it was really poor. It was estimated that the performance was not even one-tenth of Eagle AMD's latest products.

Of course, Huayao's Haixi Semiconductor Department is very good at chip design and may use a new architecture, but no matter how hard it tries, it cannot make up for the gap in process technology.

Having said that, if China cannot buy Eagle Nvidia chips in the future, it can only use low-end chips like Huayao.

As the saying goes, among the tigers in the mountains, the monkey is king!
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is indeed not an insignificant matter and it should still be taken seriously.

Even if this chip is indeed outdated, if more people use it, there will be continuous opportunities for iteration, and Huayao can continue to improve the chip design and process.

In this way, even if Huayao cannot catch up with EagleVision's GPU chips, it may be able to produce products close to the level of EagleVision in the future.

This is not to invisibly cultivate a great competitor.

In the long run, we cannot rule out the possibility that Huayao can produce similar products to those of Eagle Weida.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Huayao will not collapse in the next few years.

Logically speaking, the possibility of Huayao surviving in the next five years is a low-probability event.

But who can say for sure? If this company gets lucky, or if China's national will is to help Huayao, it should not be a problem to keep the company.

Dong Shaoyang said: "Mr. Huang, I think this is very likely. The test results can explain everything."

Huang Ren nodded: "Okay, do the test quickly."

At this point, Huang Renxiong seemed to have thought of something: "Don't go through the whole process first, go through the simple test process first."

"Simplified process?"

"Yes, I really want to know the computing power of this chip. What level is it at? How bad can it be?"

Dong Shaoyang nodded: "I understand, Mr. Huang, let's complete the simple test as soon as possible."

Brother Huang Ren patted Dong Shaoyang on the shoulder, asked them to work hard, and then left the testing department.

Dong Shaoyang immediately began to arrange the work and asked all his employees to get started, and everything was in order.

At the same time, Brother Huang Ren returned to the office, but felt restless and uneasy.

Brother Huang Ren drank a cup of coffee, but it didn't help him feel better.

This feeling is not very good and makes it difficult to concentrate on work.

Brother Huang Ren was very eager to know the level of Huayao's computing chip.

If it is really supported by 14 nanometers, the level must be very poor.

Then there is nothing to be afraid of, and Brother Huang Ren can focus on other things.

But the other party is Huayao, not an ordinary company.

This company has more than just strong R&D capabilities. As far as Huang Ren knows, Huayao is also very resilient.

Huayao, in particular, has managed to turn the situation around more than once despite being in difficult situations.

This is also the reason why the Lighthouse Congress took such ruthless measures.

To be honest, the fact that Huayao appeared in China was incredible to Huang Ren. In short, Huayao was very scary. If they could really mass-produce 7-nanometer chips, it would be terrifying.

The most direct result is that Eagle Weida will face a very powerful challenger.

Brother Huang Ren didn't even dare to think about this possibility too deeply.

Of course, Huang Renxiong does not think that the first product launched by Huayao can be compared with Eagle NVIDIA's GPU.

Even if the other party designs a dedicated artificial intelligence computing chip, it cannot surpass Eagle NVIDIA's excellent GPU products.

After all, NVIDIA has been operating in this industry for decades, and no one can match it, not even its old rival AMD.

Brother Huang Ren kept thinking this, trying his best to calm himself.

But I still can’t do it!

Fortunately, the assistant came in and brought a pile of documents for Huang Renxiong to sign, temporarily diverting his attention.

Brother Huang Ren was busy until the afternoon and finally had some free time.

He was drinking coffee and checking his emails.

Brother Huang Ren stopped. Hua Yao's damn chip kept lingering in his mind.

The chip is now running a simple process. Judging from the time, the results should be out soon.

Brother Huang Ren thought about it and wondered whether he should go to the testing department to take a look at the situation.
Just then, the assistant came in again and said that a meeting would start in a while, which was arranged in advance.

Brother Huang Ren then remembered that there was indeed such a meeting.

There’s no other way. I have to go to the meeting first and talk about other things after the meeting.

However, Brother Huang Ren still made a special call to Rick Zhang and asked him to go to the testing department to take a look first.

If there is a result, send a text message to Brother Huang Ren to inform him.

A moment later, Rick Zhang came to the testing department.

At this time, all the employees in the testing department were very busy and the atmosphere was tense.

To be honest, the working atmosphere at Eagle Country is more tense than that of other technology companies in the Lighthouse Country.

Especially in recent years, the office atmosphere of most technology giants in the Beacon Country is very relaxed and comfortable, even cozy.

This is what is called humanization.

There are even many employees who don’t need to work in the office and can just work from home.

For example, at the top technology giant Google, working from home has become particularly popular in the past two years.

At present, one-third of the employees only need to come to the company two or three times a month to make reports.

In two or three years, more than half of Google's employees will be working from home.

Later, Google also wanted to make changes and wanted its employees to return to work on a regular basis, but it was no longer possible to mobilize them.

How can employees who are used to working from home tolerate working from nine to five?
This is worse than killing them.

So it is quite good that Yingweida has maintained such a tense working atmosphere.

Among all the departments of Eagle Weida, the testing department is one of the busiest ones.

For example, nowadays, employees are so busy that they don’t have time to drink coffee or chat.

Everyone was staring at the computers and instruments, recording the various test data.

In fact, Rick Zhang doesn't like this kind of atmosphere very much.

Rick Zhang visited several high-tech companies in mainland China a few years ago and found that they were almost all in this state. Every employee was extremely busy and even the company's top management had endless meetings every day.

I heard that many technology companies are still working overtime at night.

To Rick Zhang, this is simply incomprehensible.

But then again, the fact that China's technology industry is catching up so quickly seems to be somewhat related to this working condition.

But so what?

As long as the Lighthouse Country flexes its muscles a little and uses a little bit of its magic power, those technology companies in China will immediately collapse. Huayao is one example. They have no power to resist at all.

Anyway, no matter how hard those Chinese companies try, it’s all in vain. The Lighthouse Country is the chosen country, the country on the top of the mountain, the beacon that guides the future direction of mankind.

Rick Zhang walked to Dong Shaoyang and saw densely packed data displayed on his screen.

These are constantly generating test data.

Rick Zhang was dazzled and couldn't understand it at all.

"How is it? Are the results out?"

Dong Shaoyang looked back and said, "It's almost time. It should be coming out soon."

Rick Zhang nodded: "Boss Huang is waiting anxiously."

"understood."

Dong Shaoyang stared at the screen, his eyes quickly following the various data streams.

Suddenly, Dong Shaoyang frowned.

"What's wrong? Is something wrong?"

"…This data is wrong. How could this happen?"

Rick Zhang was a little anxious: "Manager Dong, what's going on? Speak, what did you see? Explain it to me."

Dong Shaoyang stared at the screen for a few seconds before coming back to his senses.

"The computing speed of this chip is so fast. It's too fast. This is not normal. It's really not normal."

“How fast is the computation?”

"Let's put it this way. It's about 60 percent faster than our latest GPU chip data processing speed."

"W-what!? Impossible! Is there something wrong with this test data?"

Dong Shaoyang quickly explained: "This is not the final result. This is just a simple first round. This is a simple test. It may...may be biased and not very accurate."

Rick Zhang was relieved. "Oh my God, please don't talk nonsense. You have to measure more accurately. You can't get a vague result."

"Yes……"

Dong Shaoyang was speechless for a moment.

Because this is the result of a simple test. Although it was only run once, it is indeed not very accurate, but even if there is a deviation, it is unlikely to be too large.

For example, the calculation results show that it is 60% higher than the latest GPU model of Eagle NVIDIA. This result is indeed incredible and there should be deviations.

But even if we run two more rounds, the correction value will probably be within 20%, which will still be stronger than the computing power of Eagle Dimension's products!

How do you explain this?

There's no way to explain it.

(End of this chapter)