After the launch of Mphone in China, the number of reservations on the official website exceeded 200,000 in just half a month. This number of users determines the basic number of users for both WeChat and Weibo.
When Mphone was conquering the city in China, Jiaotong University held a press conference for Hanxin No. 1 in China.
Without Zhou Xin's butterfly effect, Hanxin No. 1 would have been developed by the end of 2002, and then a press conference would be held on February 26, 2003. The press conference would be personally hosted by the relevant departments of Shenhai City.
Because of Zhou Xin's participation, the press conference was moved forward. In September 2002, the same people in Shenhai planned to advance the show.
"I am very happy to introduce to you the successful development of Hanxin No. 1, China's first 0.18 micron multimedia chip with independent intellectual property rights and reaching the international advanced level, designed by the Chip and System Research Center of Jiaotong University." Chen Jin appeared on the stage. Full of ambition.
"Hanxin One also has a 32-bit computing core, which can reach more than 200 million instructions per second. It has the characteristics of high speed and low power consumption, and can be widely used in information appliances, audio processing and other fields."
After Chen Jin briefly introduced Hanxin No. 1, the spokesperson of the relevant department made additional remarks:
"DSP and CPU are both world-recognized core technologies in the chip industry. The R&D team of Jiaotong University, led by Professor Chen Jin, spent two years of arduous research and development. Hanxin No. 1 completed the research and development and successfully passed the test led by Academician Zou Shichang and Academician Xu Juyan. , the review was conducted by an expert group composed of top experts in the domestic chip industry such as Professor Yan Xiaolang.
The expert group made a unanimous conclusion: Hanxin No. 1 and related design and application development platforms have reached the international advanced level. In the future, Jiaotong University will do a good job in the transformation of industry, academia and research, and try its best to tap the commercial value of Hanxin. "
The audience was filled with media who had been brought to the platform by the government. They rarely asked any sharp questions. The questions were all focused on the breakthrough significance of Hanxin No. 1.
The launch of Hanxin No. 1 was undoubtedly a success. Xinxin Technology is very strong and has technically achieved a 0.13 micron CPU design. However, this is not China’s original technology, and the participation of Chinese R&D personnel is very low.
In the process of cooperation between Xinxin Technology and Shenhai University, a large amount of cooperation is concentrated at the student level, and there is very little cooperation with professors in the Department of Microelectronics.
In fact, both when Guan Jianying was managing Xinxin Technology and later when Hu Zhengming was managing Xinxin Technology, he thought about cooperating with Shenhai University on some scientific research topics, but found that they could not meet the requirements, so he gave up.
As a scientist who has been communicating with academic circles in the field of integrated circuits in China since 1985, Hu Zhengming is very clear about the current stage of China's integrated circuit field. Scientific research results lack practical value and are difficult to transform into results with commercial value.
This has something to do with China's backwardness in the chip field in the past. Therefore, Hu Zhengming's idea is to focus on cultivating newly graduated college students and graduate students from China. If you want to cooperate, you must find people with overseas study experience who have just graduated and are young and strong. cooperation with young researchers.
It is for these reasons that although Xinxin Technology has been established in China for a long time, Xinxin Technology is not well received by Shenhai and even the Chinese academic community.
From the perspective of its own interests, the interests of Hanxin No. 1 are much greater than that of New Core Technology. No matter how large the revenue, profits, and scale of New Core Technology are, they have nothing to do with them.
However, the more successful Xinxin Technology is and the more outstanding its results are, the less meaningful Hanxin One will be. This is why Hanxin One has to hold this press conference about half a year in advance.
Anyway, the chips are bought from Motorola and the logo is changed. There is no difference whether it is released half a year earlier or later half a year. The only difference is that the expert team is trained and asked to act according to the script.
Zhou Xin was already in Silicon Valley at this time. Only when he received the email did he learn that Hanxin No. 1 had been released half a year in advance. He was a little stunned. After making an appointment with Hu Zhengming, he made a phone call:
"Professor, did you attend the Hanxin-1 press conference?"
Hu Zhengming said: "Shenhai sent an invitation letter to Xinxin. I don't think we have talked about Chen Jin before and the R&D projects they are working on at Jiaotong University. We are relatively weak in the DSP area. , so I didn’t ask other executives to go on my behalf, I went to see it myself.
Judging from my personal experience, Chen Jin does not have this ability. If he had this ability, he would not have been a test engineer at Motorola. I later asked my friend who worked at Motorola to help me investigate Chen Jin's resume. It was indeed as you said. He was not in the chip design group at Motorola, but mainly did chip testing.
It is not impossible to switch from testing to chip design, but it is rare to start with DSP chips directly. Of course, if the research team of Jiaotong University is strong enough, Chen Jin will bring back the advanced experience of Motorola chip design and project management. Under the leadership of R&D personnel, it is possible to achieve this result.
The problem is that I later asked Jiaotong University and said that I wanted to further cooperate with them around Hanxin and hoped that they would give us a few samples to test. They refused very simply, saying that it was not mature enough and it was a laboratory product.
What I mean is that it doesn’t matter what the lab products are. It just so happens that we can jointly develop and implement Hanxin. It just so happens that we lack production lines for DSP chips, so we have a natural basis for cooperation with Hanxin.
You must know that Jiaotong University was very active in cooperating with Xinxin before, but this time it pushed back and forth, which made me suspicious. "
When Zhou Xin returned to China before, he had a sideways chat with Hu Zhengming about the domestic academic phenomenon in the field of chips. Then he mentioned that Chen Jin also said that when he was at the CAAS gathering in Silicon Valley, he heard that a Chinese engineer who had worked at Motorola returned to China to work as a Professor, still a professor in the field of chip design.
Zhou Xin mentioned the names of Chen Jin and Chen Jin’s projects to Hu Zhengming in a casual chat. This led to Hu Zhengming, who felt something was wrong after attending the event, to email Zhou about the Hanxin No. 1 press conference. new.
At this time, a week has passed since Hanxin’s press conference.
After listening to this, Zhou Xin said helplessly: "I feel there is still something wrong. Let me communicate with the Chinese side to see if they can get a sample of Hanxin No. 1. Then we will test the sample and see what happens. Something happened."
Naturally, the person to find someone was Cao Yongluo. The Hanxin press conference was attended by people from the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Information Industry. Cao Yongluo's family has been in business since the Ministry of Machinery Industry, the predecessor of the Ministry of Information Industry. It was not enough for him to get a sample.
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