mesbooks Chapter 230 New Year's Gift: Two Cores Launched Simultaneously
Chapter 230 New Year's Gift: Two Cores Launched Simultaneously
Two weeks later, at 8 PM on December 31st, Transsion Technology simultaneously posted a message on its official website and Weibo account:
"The Taishan 910 quad-core processor has been successfully taped out."
The world's first quad-core mobile phone chip using a 28nm process, achieving a score of 28000 on the Ambilight benchmark. This is Transsion's New Year's gift for 2012.
The Weibo server nearly crashed the moment the message was sent.
At the same time, NVIDIA's official Weibo account also released a new announcement: "NVIDIA Tegra 3 has been successfully taped out, becoming one of the world's first quad-core processors."
The Entertainment Rabbit benchmark score is 23500.
The potato server, which had been holding on, completely crashed...
Ten minutes later, when the server was repaired, the top trending topic had already changed to the Taishan 910 benchmark score of 28000, and the second trending topic was the successful tape-out of the Tegra 3.
Meanwhile, the news released by Transsion in China also topped the trending list, and Qualcomm also inexplicably became a trending topic.
That's right, Qualcomm's stock price has already fallen by 4% in intraday trading.
Qualcomm headquarters.
When CEO Paul Jacobs saw these two Weibo posts, he immediately felt like his "living father" had arrived.
Transsion's chips are only used by the company itself, and at most, they are distributed to Huawei.
Nvidia is different... It's a global food delivery company, and it will impact Qualcomm's core business.
"Has it been confirmed? To be honest, it's true..."
The technical lead nodded: "It's been confirmed. Nvidia's chips were delivered to various manufacturers a week ago."
Furthermore, this generation of Tegra 3 chips was entirely developed under the leadership of Li Jiahui, as their two research centers have been merged.
Nvidia advertises a 23000 GHz clock speed, but it can actually reach 24000 GHz.
The enhanced version can reach around 26000, but of course it costs more.
"It's 28nm process again. This time they're releasing dual chips simultaneously. Where did they get the production lines?"
"I don't know, but they do have their own production line."
Moreover, as early as two years ago, China established a so-called semiconductor fund, which everyone thought was a waste of money at the time.
Jacob suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.
When China announced the establishment of the National Semiconductor Fund to tackle the lithography machine challenge, the whole world laughed at them.
Qualcomm is one of them.
After all, it's a pipe dream to conquer the lithography machine on one's own.
But now...
"Notify the board of directors to convene a strategic meeting ahead of schedule."
The direction of the discussion... was how to deal with Nvidia, as well as China's Transsion and HiSilicon...
"What about the transmission over there...?"
Jacob felt a wave of helplessness wash over him, and his lips twitched instantly.
Damn it... the competitor is a shareholder, and a major shareholder with 10% ownership at that. They even have to make people vote in meetings. What kind of secrecy is that?
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Meanwhile, in South Korea, at the headquarters of Samson Semiconductor.
Kwon Oh-hyun looked at the report, which contained only one sentence, and remained silent.
泰山910、英伟达Tegra3，跑分全都突破2万分。三桑最强的猎户座4210只有5000分。
The difference is not small, it's five times.
Have you found out Transsion's production capacity?
"No. Their secrecy is very high. Our estimated capacity is 5000 wafers per month, but the actual capacity is kept highly confidential, and we can't find out anything about it."
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Three days later, Morris Chang's secretary called Transsion's business department: "Mr. Chang would like to meet with Mr. Shen, and the time is set after the Spring Festival."
When the news reached Shen Fei's office, he was looking at Transsion Semiconductor's production schedule.
After all, this 28nm production line is extremely busy.
老款的k3v2、泰山900、泰山600，新款的泰山910、Tegra3全都需要这一条产线。
Looking at these orders, Shen Fei silently said to the system in his mind, "When will I give him another discounted production line? After all, he still has more than 3 exchange points that he hasn't used yet?"
"Mr. Shen, Morris Chang wants to meet with you."
Shen Fei put down the documents in his hand. If he remembered correctly, TSMC did indeed solve the 28-nanometer process at the end of 2011.
However, after Liang Mengsong's non-compete agreement expired in July of this year, he officially joined the semiconductor industry, which is undergoing transformation. The relationship between the two companies is not bad, but it is not good either.
Why is this old geezer coming at this time? What is he planning?
Tell them they are welcome anytime.
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As the year drew to a close, everyone thought that Transsion would quiet down for a few days after dropping this bombshell, since they had already driven Qualcomm to the brink of collapse.
All the semiconductor development engineers are cursing this "living father" (a derogatory term implying a powerful, influential figure), because it has also doubled the performance metrics for all their other projects...
As a result... things did quiet down for a while.
On January 18th, which was the 1th day of the twelfth lunar month, Transsion sent an internal email to all employees.
Sender: Shen Fei.
Title: Notice Regarding the Distribution of 2011 Year-End Bonuses
The message contained only three sentences: "Thank you to all the employees of Transsion Technology for your hard work in 2011."
The year-end bonus scheme is as follows.
根据考核标準，研发体系6~12个月工资，生产体系4~8个月工资，市场体系3~6个月工资，职能体系3~5个月工资。
Thank you all for your hard work throughout the year.
Battery R&D Department:
A technician who was looking up information quickly exclaimed in surprise.
"Boss, the year-end bonus standards are out, and our department is getting the maximum."
People who had finished their work immediately gathered around, and the entire laboratory became lively.
An engineer with an annual salary of 30 yuan can receive a year-end bonus of 30 yuan...
Yes, after all, to work in this lab, the minimum annual salary is at least 15, which means...
There are more than 5 such people in Transsion's R&D system...
Soon, Transsion's internal communication platform:
"Holy crap! 12 months? Really?"
"Our department lasted 8 months, hahaha, not bad."
"Our department doesn't have a guaranteed minimum wage, which is pretty good."
The delighted employees quickly spread the news. That afternoon, someone posted pictures on Weibo: "Transsion's year-end bonus is up to 12 months' salary, with R&D staff averaging at least 8 months' salary. What kind of amazing company is this?"
Immediately post pictures in the comments section.
After a year of hard work, Transsion employees finally got to enjoy their own entertainment time...
"I was going to argue that any Tom, Dick, or Harry could become a god-like company. But upon closer inspection, it turns out it's just a communication method, so there's nothing wrong with that."
"Is Transmitter still hiring? Even a floor cleaner is fine..."
"We're both in the mobile phone business, so why did our company only give out two boxes of apples? Real apples, the kind you eat..."
This is a comment posted by an employee of a newly established mobile phone company in Kyoto.
That's right, this company is the new company established by that "top second generation". After investing hundreds of millions, they only found out that there were problems after the company was established. It's not that simple.
They can't even afford the spare parts for hundreds of millions...
Meanwhile, someone tagged Yu Dazui, but he didn't reply.
However, internal communications within Huawei have also become quite lively.