I have a little black hole

After strolling in the robot lab for a while, Lei Tiantang smiled and asked Kong Yu, who was standing next to him, "Manager Kong, I just heard Chen Zijun say that the CPU chip for this home robot is currently developed by our company. produced?"

"Yes boss, in fact, Director Chen said a little bit. This robot is not only developed and manufactured by our chip laboratory, but also its GPU chip and other chips are also developed and manufactured by them!

There are several types of chips used in a robot, so our chip laboratory is currently developed according to the overall design SOC!

It is also because our company's most profitable product is the home robot, and our home robot chip has been cut off due to mutual sanctions with Lao Mei.

Although our reserves can still be used in February next year, the chips behind can only be produced by ourselves, so the key focus of the chip laboratory is the intelligent chip of the robot!Kong Yu smiled and replied.

Lei Tiantang also knows about chip R&D and design. The company’s robots are all intelligent robots, which have high requirements on the AI ​​of the chip. The CPU is only a central processor, it is only a processing element, and there is no way to support it with a single CPU. The company's robots are working.

So now there are almost no purely CPU design, all are directly designed SOC, there must be GPU in SOC, so there is no need to hand over the AI ​​computing task to CPU, GPU to deal with this kind of problem to be more skilled and fast, more suitable Perform this repetitive calculation.

"Okay! To be honest, although our company has money, the money to purchase these chips really hurts us a bit! We now have the R&D and manufacturing capabilities of chips, which is very important for the company's future!

go!Let's take a look at the chip lab together!I want to understand the current situation."Lei Tiantang said happily.

The two chatted and drove in the direction of the chip laboratory where the battery car was located. Due to the high environmental requirements for the development and production of the chip, the chip laboratory is an independent building that has been renovated separately. The building was built. After Lei Tiantang got the experimental equipment, the building was put under the name of the chip laboratory.

After carrying out the dust removal operation and changing the dustproof clothing, Lei Tiantang also entered the chip laboratory for the first time. To be honest, he did not expect them to make the progress of the experiment so fast.

It didn't take half a year to hand over the experimental equipment and production equipment to him. He thought that at least he would wait until next year before any chips could be developed, so he hadn't paid attention to this time since the equipment was handed over to them.

"Boss, welcome to the Chip Lab! You finally think of our Chip Lab!" Wu Guisheng, the director of the Chip Lab said with a smile.

"Haha, Lao Wu, what you said! My fault, I really don't have much concern for you, but you should tell me if you have a breakthrough. If you said this thing at the last meeting, I Come and have a look!

I really did not expect that you can design all kinds of chips used in robots in such a short time. Now the difficulty of chip design is reduced?"Lei Tiantang also smiled back.

He did not care about Wu Guisheng. Everyone is young and familiar with each other. Lei Tiantang and he had many technical exchanges, that is, Lei Tiantang’s technology completely surpassed the supercomputer department. Only a little less contact later.

This guy is a real genius. He was originally a top artificial intelligence expert in the supercomputer department. After he knew that the company was going to develop his own chip, he found Lei Tiantang and asked him to take charge of the project.

At that time, Lei Tiantang was shocked by him. You know that many of these masters were recruited by him personally, not to mention Wu Guisheng was the first hacker who passed the screening and was recruited by him.

When recruiting him, Lei Tiantang valued his advanced awareness in the field of artificial intelligence, but did not expect him to be a top-level hardware expert. After chatting with him for an afternoon, Lei Tiantang immediately agreed to let him To take charge of the company's chip R&D projects.

"How could the design difficulty be reduced! Boss, this problem is sad again. Everyone has worked hard for so long to complete the research and development of the chips needed on the robot!

The reason why so many kinds of chips can be developed so quickly, in addition to the equipment provided by the boss is very powerful, the advantage of latecomer is also a key factor!

We are not developing chips from scratch now. Everyone knows all the chip technologies on the market very well. From experience, we have taken a lot of detours.

The most important thing is that our company's artificial intelligence'origin' is too great for our chip design!We only need to design the structure of the chip in detail, and then input all the design data into the supercomputer, and "origin" will simulate the design of our design.

For example, whether the layout is reasonable, whether the various indicators of the chip meet the requirements, whether there are conflicts in the design of the multi-thread, and so on, the "origin" can be found out by simulation calculation in the first place.

In this way, our design work has reduced a lot of trial and error links, real-time modification, real-time simulation calculations, it is almost the same as opening, with such an artifact, how can our research and development speed not be fast!Wu Guisheng replied proudly.

"Okay! That's good! But people's "origin" is so powerful, what step have you done to design the server chip for it?" Lei Tiantang asked with a smile.

"Of course we will not pay less attention to such an important thing. The more computing power we add to'Origin', the more it will help us, so the plan to add servers to it is also carried out simultaneously.

However, because the company currently needs the most robot-related chips, the server chip development work is a bit behind. Now the entire project has entered the mid-term, and it is estimated that it can be completed in a few months!

The main reason is that the chip requirements for servers are much higher than those used in robots, so in terms of research and development difficulty, it is a step higher than the chips used in robots.

Fortunately, the chips used in our robots have been developed. Except for a variety of tests, there is not much work in this area, so now everyone’s energy has been invested here!We guarantee that "Origin" will use the server developed by our company in the shortest time!Wu Guisheng said confidently.