In April, Wujiang Microelectronics' CPU chip design team established an independent subsidiary named Loongson Design Company.
The first chip brand is: [Kirin].
Inside a spacious and brightly lit laboratory, members of Loongson Design Company are testing and analyzing data from the Kirin 1 and Z80 chips.
Their first CPU, the Kirin 1, was designed to compete with the Z80 chip.
"The Z80 has 9,000 transistors and supports as many as 158 assembly instructions, while the Kirin 1 has 12,000 transistors and supports as many as 256 assembly instructions, making its performance significantly stronger than the Z80!"
Just as one researcher finished speaking, a man carefully carried a cardboard box into the room, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
"Zhou Qing, what are you holding in your hands? You're being so careful, as if you're afraid of dropping it!" someone asked.
Zhou Qing placed the box on the table and replied, "This is the ARM-1, a 32-bit chip recently released by the British computer company Acorn. Like our Kirin chip, this chip is also designed based on Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)!"
It's also a Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) chip!!!
Upon hearing this, everyone was startled and came over.
Because Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) was developed earlier than Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC), most chips on the market are CISC chips, such as Intel chips.
When people heard that other companies were also developing chips using reduced instruction sets, they couldn't help but feel that they were not alone in this endeavor.
"Zhou Qing, quickly open the box, let's see what a 32-bit LDPC chip looks like!"
They had only designed an 8-bit RISC chip, so they were very curious about 32-bit RISC chips.
Zhou Qing slowly opened the cardboard box. A square chip, smaller than a matchbox, lay quietly inside. It was encapsulated, so its specific structure was not visible.
Everyone eagerly picked up the ARM1 chip and placed it on the machine in the laboratory to test it.
Soon, the data for ARM1 came out.
The ARM1 has one transistor, uses a 3µm process, runs at 6MHz, and is packaged in an 84mm package with a width of 30mm. The ARM1 motherboard has yellow ceramic disc capacitors.
A close examination of the ARM1 chip reveals its functional blocks, such as a 100-byte register and a basic 32-bit ALU.
After seeing these figures, everyone was amazed.
Zhao Ye walked in at that moment.
Seeing everyone discussing the ARM1 chip with envy, Zhao Ye merely glanced at it and then said, "This ARM1 chip is indeed excellent, but our next Kirin 2 won't be any worse. The Kirin 2 will skip 16-bit chips and go straight to developing a 32-bit chip!"
If it weren't for training these people, Zhao Ye could design a 32-bit chip himself, but that would be too much work.
Designing even more advanced CPUs in the future will require more than one person; it will require a top-notch chip design team.
Therefore, cultivating talent is quite necessary.
The Kirin 1 was a practice project they made under Zhao Ye's guidance.
The chip that can truly be used in PCs is the 32-bit Kirin 2.
However, the Kirin 1's performance is also quite powerful, surpassing the Z80, and is sufficient for application in many fields.
Next up was Zhao Ye's class.
He had studied this ARM1 chip extremely thoroughly in his previous life.
Zhao Ye walked to the blackboard in the laboratory and began to explain the design principles and methods of ARM1 in detail.
Everyone listened with rapt attention, and when Zhao Ye mentioned some key points, they quickly took notes.
Seeing how eager everyone was to learn, Zhao Ye couldn't help but nod in approval.
People born in the 1980s and 90s grew up enduring hardship, were diligent and eager to learn, and cherished their educational opportunities. University graduates from this generation generally possessed genuine skills and knowledge. In the 21st century, with the expansion of university enrollment, many people attend university simply to coast through life. Graduation often equates to unemployment.
Zhao Ye is extremely satisfied with the Loongson design team.
They progressed very quickly, voluntarily working and studying overtime almost every day until late at night.
In my previous life, this would have been virtually impossible; very few people would have been willing to work overtime voluntarily, especially without overtime pay.
The improvement work on the BG-101 stepper lithography machine is also progressing very smoothly; after all, many hands make light work.
The Kirin 1 chip was produced on a small scale in the laboratory using an improved BG-101 stepper lithography machine, with a yield rate exceeding 87%. Academicians Huang Kun and others are currently developing production processes based on their laboratory research, and will then conduct trial production in a wafer fab.
The changes in China's semiconductor industry over the past few months can only be described as booming.
Ultimately, however, China's foundation is still better.
In the early 1980s, China's semiconductor technology was among the world's best.
Previously, the lack of funds, equipment, and materials meant that no matter how hard researchers tried, they were like a skilled cook without rice.
The wisdom and diligence of the Chinese people are ingrained in their very being.
Over the past few months, Zhao Ye was deeply impressed by the hard work and dedication of the researchers, especially the older generation of scientists, such as Academician Huang Kun, the founder of China's semiconductor technology, who is already 76 years old and still spends his days in the laboratory with a group of young people doing research.
If Zhao Ye hadn't been worried about his health and forced him to rest, he might have moved his bed into the lab and lived there.
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