Chapter 231 Help domestic semiconductor companies to open plug-ins!
Gao Yuan personally revealed that he had acquired Xinhuazhang, and the live broadcast room was in an uproar.
Although the vast majority of the people who are obsessed with melons do not know what the difference is between Xinhuazhang and Xinhua News Agency, insiders in the semiconductor industry are still very excited.
After all, Xinhuazhang is the strongest emulator supplier in China, and emulators are the most important part of the EDA software series to verify the rationality of semiconductor design.
What is the energy efficiency ratio of the chip you designed, whether it is severely heated, how is the overclocking performance, how is the storage efficiency, and whether there is a bug in the bus distribution. If you want to know the answers to these questions, you don’t need to go online to stream the chip, just use the emulator to run it.
A good emulator can fully simulate real chip performance, reduce risks for enterprises and save a lot of money.
It is no exaggeration to say that emulators are the core of the EDA software series. It seems that Kunlun Group acquires Xinhuazhang in order to make a fuss based on the Xinhuazhang Lingxiu.
This is undoubtedly a smart choice. After all, it is too difficult to start from scratch without any foundation. Even if it is as powerful as Kunlun Group, it will take several years to do basic research.
"It's indeed a strong alliance! What kind of sparks will the domestic awesome scientific research groups and the strongest domestic simulator suppliers collide with? I'm really looking forward to it!"
"Don't make the point wrong, okay? The key point is that the national team actually agreed to let Kunlun Group acquire Xinhuazhang!"
"It is true. The national team has devoted a lot of effort to Xinhuazhang. Now they have sold Xinhuazhang to Kunlun Group? This shows that Boss Gao has a good position in the national team's mind, and he has a considerable degree of expectation and trust in him."
"Is this strange? Just because of what Boss Gao has done over the years, it would be strange if the national team did not stand on the side of Kunlun Group, right?"
People familiar with the inside story in the technology circle cheered for this decision and used barrage to popularize science to the general public about emulators and Xinhuazhang.
"I'm so laughing. Xinhuazhang is just agility. I thought Boss Gao really had any big killing weapon."
"That's right, I have no ability and have acquired a small workshop that makes simulators, and I dare to subvert the EDA industry with shameless words? The Chinese people's face is indeed as thick as their Great Wall."
"Xinhuazhang? That's it. The scale is about a fraction of the three giants, and it has no industry status. It's not like to have a live broadcast for this."
"Small enterprises like Xinhuazhang, which are not as good as North America, have become popular in China. This is the gap."
In major live broadcast rooms in the West, sarcastic barrage flocked to the scene, believing that Kunlun Group's acquisition of Xinhuazhang was not worth mentioning at all. It was just a small business and it was no big deal.
Gao Yuan smiled and said, "As we all know, Xinhuazhang's fist EDA product is called Lingdong. Now we have acquired Xinhuazhang and integrated their Lingdong and our artificial intelligence Zero, so the intelligent EDA product, Zero Agility."
"The biggest difference between Zero's Agility and other EDA products is its strong error correction capabilities, auxiliary design capabilities, and collaborative testing capabilities."
"Simply put, other companies' products do not provide AI, but we have implanted super artificial intelligence zero. Many tedious and complicated tasks in the past can be handed over to Zero in the future to improve work efficiency."
"Zero can help semiconductor developers build more accurate parameter models, optimize parameter analysis processes, improve prediction accuracy such as DRC, winding, congestion, etc., and at the same time explore physical design space to improve VLSI and QoR performance."
Speaking of this, the vast majority of viewers could not understand at all, but Gao Yuan was still the same. He called backstage staff to release complex tables and algorithm formulas on the big screen.
"This is the layout and wiring tool we provide for chip developers, called Innovus. Through its built-in AI algorithm, it can improve the efficiency and quality of Floorplan."
"The second tool is called Project Virtus, which can solve the mutual influence between EM-IR and Timing through machine learning."
"The No. 3 tool Machine Learning OPC, this tool is amazing. It can improve the prediction accuracy of optical proximity effect correction output to the nanoscale, and reduce the execution time by 3 times..."
Gaoyuan has started the lecture mode and carefully introduced the amazing number of intelligent toolkits provided by the Zero Edge Series EDA software. This course that most people are destined to not understand has been criticized by countless barrages.
At the same time, the practice of Gaoyuan bringing EDA software into the era of artificial intelligence has made countless semiconductor practitioners cheer.
“Fourteen AI tools are here!”
"There are nineteenth models!"
"Twenty-five models! Oh my God, Boss Gao is going to subvert the pace of the semiconductor design industry!"
"You can even use AI to assist the register logic allocation bus? Isn't it so happy? It feels like you're dreaming."
"Awesome! EDA is fully intelligent, and its efficiency is at least five times higher!"
"What's more important is accuracy. Our chip design level is undoubtedly backward than that of the West. After the introduction of AI, it has been very open to plug-ins and added a super employee who does not receive a salary! It will greatly shorten the gap between us and the West, and even achieve a rebound!"
"So that's it! Boss Gao has good intentions and Kunlun Group is awesome!"
The content of the barrage comes from insiders in the semiconductor industry and college students who are still studying. They realize the great value of Zero Agility, cannot suppress their inner excitement and carnival.
With the release of a large number of AI-assisted EDA tools, insiders gradually saw the trick. It seems that Gao Yuan planned to introduce distributed research and development of the Eye of Galaxy into the field of semiconductor design.
The reason for doing this is very simple.
Semiconductor design work is really too difficult, and with the advancement of technology, this work is becoming increasingly difficult.
How difficult is it?
Taking mobile phone SOC as an example, at present, there are only six companies on Earth, including Huawei HiSilicon, Unigroup Spreadtrum, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Apple.
The rest, such as the famous Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Nokia, Siemens, have long been eliminated.
Is Nvidia, the king of graphics cards, awesome?
The old yellow sword technique is superb. He has been criticized by players around the world for many years. He can't buy a graphics card even if he gets money. His conscience is very bad.
However, in the field of mobile phone SOC, the awesome Lao Huang was directly abused and looked for his teeth. He tried his best to enter the field of mobile phones. As a result, Nvidia SOC became synonymous with Fire Dragon. If anyone had Nvidia chips installed in a mobile phone, it would be boiled directly if it was hot.
So, Nvidia only released one generation of mobile phone SOCs and withdrew from the market in shame and ran back to design the graphics card.
And those companies that still stay in the industry are not much better. Qualcomm's famous FF-10 810 series is also a failure.
MediaTek, the Light of the Island, has been in a row and has almost gone bankrupt. In the past two years, it has only relied on Huawei's sanctions to barely regain some share with the Dimensity series.
Samsung is also benefiting from the difficult situation of Huawei, which saved the broken island and Korean companies. This is really a great irony.
The Plateau firmly opposes competition on other people's tracks. It is necessary to launch Chinese academic papers and carry out comprehensive localization of technology. This is a lesson from Huawei.
In short, it is really difficult to design semiconductors. This is why Huawei HiSilicon is the only one in China, which can rank among the top ten in the world.
In an industry where even Nvidia can be beaten, only with strong willpower and persistent high investment can we achieve final results.
In the field of semiconductors, the strong are always strong, while the latecomers are difficult to catch up with giants due to lack of technical accumulation.
But now, Zero's Agility launch has reduced the difficulty of the game and adjusted the semiconductor design industry from a nightmare mode to a normal mode or even a simple mode. The beneficiaries will be all related companies in China.
Like Unigroup Spreadtrum, their company actually also makes mobile phone SOCs, but most consumers only know that Huawei has the Kirin series and Qualcomm has the Fifthlon series. As for what Unigroup Spreadtrum has, no one knows.
The reason is very simple. Spreadtrum technology is not good, so it can only be used for ultra-low-end models, such as those with three cards and three for sale price of no more than 500 yuan, which will be used for Spreadtrum SOC. The main purchaser is African black uncles, which Chinese consumers cannot access at all.
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With Zero Agility, even the mediocre level of Show News can design products comparable to Qualcomm Foxconn and Huawei Kirin. This is the biggest ambition of Plateau!
He wants to use smart EDA to help domestic semiconductor companies open plug-ins!
Chapter completed!