This sentence is not contradictory, because you only need to taste it carefully.
I strictly prohibit the export of photolithography machines, but there is no problem with the company I sell to you. If you want to use it, fine, you can just build a factory in our country. Besides, it's not like you don't have a factory here? Just one more one will do!
Although they did not have the most advanced chip factories before, but now they can have it!
You build the factory here, and I don't care if you export the chips you produce. You can sell them as you like, but not the lithography machines!
Well, anyway Jiang Yan Hai doesn't know about this plan. It was discussed by people from the Ministry of Commerce. This is a normal thing.
As for foreign products, you can continue to ban our imports. Anyway, if you ban yours, I will ban mine.
Therefore, now that there is no shortage of lithography machines in China, tape-out is naturally not a big problem. For example, Zhongxin Technology, which Huawei often cooperates with, has built several fabs with production lines, and currently their production schedule is full.
But there is no problem with tape-out from partners. These companies also know that they do not lack orders at the beginning, but when the number of lithography machines increases in the future, it will still depend on the number of orders.
Old customers must get discounts.
The speed at which Jiang Yan Hai entered working mode was terrifying. Director Yu and President Ren had to leave after staying in the laboratory for an hour. The main reason was that they were in the way and could not speak at all and could not understand anything.
But it can be seen from the expressions of these engineers in our company how strong Academician Jiang Ling is.
The only ones left in the laboratory are Ye Cunxin and Silver Fox, who are responsible for the safety here.
Everyone else has left.
Jiang Yan Hai didn't stay here long. In just one day, in the evening, they completed the finalization of their latest generation of chips. They also found 22 design flaws and optimized 17.
These design flaws are not fatal, but the overall correction improved their chip performance by about 13.8%.
Don't underestimate this number. If we calculate it using the tens of billions of transistors in today's chips, more than ten percent is equivalent to billions of extra transistors.
This is the importance of a good design!
Within a day, the expressions of these Warwick engineers looking at Jiang Yan Hai were full of admiration. There was no way, he was too strong! The two parties are simply not on the same level as them.
Especially since they don't know what the other person is thinking. Sometimes the other party can point out some design flaws directly after just reading the design drawings, and the point is still well-founded.
Although there are some aspects of performance that they cannot simulate through supercomputing, they have designed so many chips, especially Kirin Series, for so many years. They are aware of them. These defects are definitely real, and the effect after correction is obviously very significant.
However, even after Jiang Yan Hai's design optimization, there is still about an 8% overall performance gap between their chip and the chip from Li Ruo Bai's research institute.
In addition, in terms of the number of transistors, they are a bit more, but not by much, about 300 million more transistors.
When the number of transistors increases, the overall comprehensive performance is 8% lower. From this aspect, the design gap can be seen.
But this is the overall performance. If you want to simply compare the computing power, some extreme computing capabilities are even exceeded by Warwick.
But a chip really doesn't look at its ultimate computing performance. Let's put it this way, although that thing is a main parameter... it's just not the most important.
"The basic design is like this. You can tape it out. About one day is enough. I will stay here for a day. After the tape-out results come out tomorrow, I can conduct performance tests." Jiang Yan Hai is standing with President Ren and Director Yu at the moment.
"Academician Jiang Ling, to be honest, it really opened our eyes. You alone can rival a scientific research team of our company." President Ren said with great emotion.
"They're okay, they're not bad." Jiang Yan Hai is not modest. Too modest is unnecessary.
"However, Academician Jiang Ling, I have a merciless request." Director Yu over there hesitated and said.
"Director Yu, please speak." Jiang Yan Hai said with a smile.
"That's it... our new product press conference is expected to be held soon. After the chip passes the relevant design, our press conference will definitely introduce the performance of the chip, so... we will probably focus on the number of transistors and the number of operations... Academician Jiang Ling, please can you remain silent."
Director Yu was a little embarrassed when he said this.
Jiang Yan Hai laughed immediately. Of course he knew why. To put it bluntly, the reason for such publicity was to give users who didn't understand it, to make them feel superior.
Because ordinary people have no idea what the advantages and disadvantages of a chip are. They can only judge based on the intuitive number of transistors and the computing speed. They will think that the more transistors and the faster the computing speed, the better.
They don't know much about the data in comprehensive performance evaluation, because this is too professional.
But this can be regarded as an unspoken rule in the industry. Even if some rival companies sometimes mention these, the weak ones have not exposed them.
The reason is very simple. There is a tacit understanding. Today, your chip is higher than mine and you promote it like this. If mine is higher than yours another day, I will promote it in the same way.
There may be some people who are trying to make trouble, but in fact, if you talk about professional data in a garish way, ordinary people still can't understand it.
They will still subconsciously use explicit data to compare.
To use a very simple analogy, the one who is causing trouble is often the party with weak data. Most people will think that you are saying this because you are weak. This is human nature.
Just like, ask an ordinary person, if you have 100 million now, would you be willing to donate 90 million?
He would certainly answer, yes.
You ask him again, now that you have 10,000 yuan, would you be willing to donate 5,000 yuan?
He would answer, no.
Because he really has ten thousand yuan.
This is a naked gap. This is human nature and you can't change it.
In this world, there are too few people who can look at problems rationally.
We had dinner together with Director Yu and the others in Warwick. During the meal, President Ren directly told Jiang Yan Hai about his remuneration, which was twice as much as CEO Lei's, 200 million!
To be honest, this number made Silver Fox and Ye Cunxin, who also heard the conversation in the room, a little speechless, although their faces were expressionless.