Chapter 372 chip

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Northwest of Zhennan City.

After this holiday, every company in Dream Valley delivered various regular reports to the parent company.

Zhennan Xindong and Lizhi Technology are among the more unusual subsidiaries. The two co-authored a report. This is probably also because it was originally a team of a company, and now it’s working hours, it’s still mixed together. Although the direction of the work is quite different, but there are more people and more ideas, and you can save a fortune in rent. Why not do it.

Zhang Han and Lu Wei are the leaders of the two companies. They are still college classmates. After graduation, they worked as researchers in the school’s research institute for several years. The work is mainly related to integrated circuits.

Zhang Han searched his forehead. Various blueprints and discarded test boards were piled up in a mess on the workbench.

“Old Lu, you said that I am making an fpga mining machine. I am right or wrong in my thinking. When I start to get it, I am too old to think about all kinds of cost issues. It is not safe to think about it.”

Although Lu Wei has already arrived at Litchi Technology as a manager, he can’t be perfunctory when his classmates ask questions.

He said, “Actually, if you look at all the great gods in this community, the basic ideas are all the same. What is missing is the right board, and then spend some time on the development around the board.”

After Lu Wei finished speaking, he didn’t stop, “But I’ll say it straight. Whoever comes out with this kind of machine will make a fortune secretly. It’s just a matter of digging for a while and then selling it in the market.”

After hearing this, Zhang Han nodded again and again, “Well, I just want to make sure. Otherwise, I will not feel safe.”

Lu Wei smiled and said, “You can pull it down, big brother. But I still want to say, this thing wants me to say, people in a small area will definitely want to sell it, and it will not worry about selling it. But we can also see that this sha256 algorithm , I really want to make an asic integrated circuit chip, I would say that the possibility is still very large. And it will take a year or two. ”

Zhang Han pondered, and the last time Mengguyun came to buy it, he really regarded the idea of ​​this mining machine as the last straw. Lu Wei, an old classmate, is quite honest. The big boss gave him the opportunity to do a more awesome job, and he directly agreed to the separation.

It’s just that different people have different choices. Anyway, the starting points of the two companies are similar. As for Litchi Technology, it should choose to start directly in ASIC research in a short period of time, FPGA, Lu Wei does not mean to touch it for the time being. There is no way, the company is poor, and this chip maker is not good at recruiting, so he can only make do with it first.

Zhang Han asked, “How’s your AI integrated circuit going?”

Lu Wei smiled awkwardly, “Ha, 1%? It doesn’t seem like there can be more.”

He went on to say, “This is incomparable to Bitcoin. We have to adapt to the various upper-level things provided by Seven Stars from the beginning of the design. Not surprisingly, there is also a whole series of toolchains. to make it happen.”

Zhang Han patted Lu Wei on the shoulder, “I think this is the case. Objectively speaking, the hardware required by Mengguyun is not a breakthrough. In the past, there were general-purpose CPUs, this AI acceleration chip. What it can do is more specific, but it is simpler than this CPU structure. As you said, the difficulty is in other places.

Let us consider it this way. The AI ​​on the lychee side can also start with fpga. After each function is determined, the mask will be made according to the circuit board. It is equivalent to directly use FPGA for verification first, after confirming that the way is easy to go, and then use ASIC to do it for mass production. ”

When Lu Wei heard it, he nodded again and again, “Yeah! It sounds okay, the initial cost is not too big, and it can save a lot of time.”

Zhang Han said, “But this is really the experimental stage. Right now, the two companies don’t have enough money. If the product has been verified, I’m afraid I still have to find money.”

Lu Wei said, “Let’s take a look at litchi. According to the needs of Mengguyun, it is certain to invest in product transformation.”

Zhang Han didn’t speak after hearing this, but Lu Wei saw that Zhang Han had other ideas too. Lu Wei also knew the temperament of his old classmate, but he didn’t say much. After all, this family belongs to people who don’t know how to do it. If you really want to talk about things sometimes, you can really talk about chickens and ducks. Seeing that Qixing has also found some colleges and universities to cooperate in the chip research project, it is clear that the other party does not really want to put treasure on the two.

Seeing that the topic suddenly ended while talking, Lu Wei found a topic at random and started again.

“Old Zhang, I’ve been to Seven Stars quite a few times recently. I just saw something interesting.”

Zhang Han put down the development board in his hand again, “Oh? You say it, I’ll listen.”

Lu Wei said, “It’s so simple. What Litchi does is called ai chip, you know that.”

Zhang Han nodded and replied, “Well, custom hardware for machine learning and deep learning algorithm acceleration.”

Lu Weidao, “Do you know what is one of their most important studies in this area?”

Zhang Han directly shook his head~www.readmtl.com~ This kind of selling is not a waste of time.

Lu Wei said with a smile, “A project for a robot to play Go is called Beta Dog. At present, Seven Star Labs is still using NVIDIA GPUs for various training. However, it is obvious that the other party has had enough of hardware limitations. Inside, this is one of the things that Litchi wants to support.”

Hearing this, Zhang Han smiled awkwardly, “Huh?! Then these guys really have money and no place to work. I’m afraid that they will challenge some Guli players in the future? That’s really boring.”

Lu Wei snorted, “Well, we can’t look at it that way. In fact, it’s all about statistics and decision-making. There wasn’t an IBM deep blue who beat chess before, I’m afraid most people know it.

I see, this Dream Valley conspiracy is really not small. I don’t know about Go either, but I think it was more difficult, so it was put into the research project. ”

Zhang Han was still lacking interest after hearing this, “Then you, Mr. Lu, are really impressed haha. To be honest, at present, I don’t think this AI is worth investing so much in.”

Lu Wei shook his head for a while, then patted Zhang Han on the shoulder, “I’m afraid you don’t know the status of the parent company.”

This old classmate should be in the state of Cao Ying and Han, Lu Wei thought.

Zhang Han said, “Let’s not talk nonsense, let’s do it according to our ability. I can see the goal very clearly. I just want to get this machine and make a profit. It’s really hard for me to be in the chip business for all these years. The child is not too young, and the parents are also sick. I just want to make money, and that’s what it is anyway.”

Lu Wei smiled directly after hearing this, Zhang Han is still a real person.

“Okay. It’s okay to have cooperation. Don’t make a few words and get overwhelmed. Life is still good with positive energy.”

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