And if Xia Ke Academy is really willing to let a few Daxia academicians join in the research and development of lithography machines, then Lin Chen may be able to use his status as a sponsor to ask them to help solve the research and development problems of mobile phone screens and mobile phone lenses.
Of course, even if they are unwilling to help, Sugon Technology can still obtain many tangible and intangible technology patent accumulations in solving the problem of lithography machines.
Because the lithography machine is called the crown jewel of the semiconductor industry, it is the pinnacle of technology in various industries. The manufacture of a lithography machine requires tens of thousands of precision components.
If the lithography machine is really solved, the technology patents created to solve the problem may be applied to other things.
For example, if you want to solve the problem of photolithography machine lenses, you need to require glass to have ultra-clear light transmission, high temperature resistance, and anti-deformation properties.
Moreover, the production of qualified glass does not mean that it is finished. After that, the glass needs to be roughly processed, then ultra-precision polished to form a concave and convex shape that meets the design requirements, and finally, the glass is coated with film, etc.
In the process of solving the problem of photolithography machine lenses, Sugon Technology naturally acquired high-definition glass and also acquired the technology of ultra-precision processing and polishing of glass!
Therefore, even if they are unwilling to help Sugon Technology with things other than lithography machines, Sugon Technology will still accumulate many technical patents during this research and development process.
So the lithography machine is a big project. If Sugon Technology really solves the lithography machine problem.
Then the accompanying material technology, precision processing technology and even other technologies will also achieve huge breakthroughs and accumulation.
However, the future will only be known in the future. Next, Lin Chen took a plane back to Tianjin.
After all, the cooperation with Xia Ke Academy to develop lithography machines will not be implemented in a short time.
Under this situation, Lin Chen's task was naturally placed on the research and development of mobile phone screens and mobile phone lenses.
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Time flies by like this.
In the following time, as time passed, the news about rice phones gradually calmed down, and the news about the global mobile phone industry also calmed down.
However, a few days later, on January 11, 2004, Noah held a joint press conference with M Company.
In this press conference, Norma and .M Company publicly announced that Nominea had invested US$400 million in .M Company and officially became one of the major shareholders of .M Company.
Among them, representatives of Company M publicly announced at the press conference that the US$400 million will be mainly used for research and development to accelerate the next generation ARMv7 architecture and strive to release the ARMv7 architecture in the first half of 2004.
In addition, representatives of Company M also announced that the US$400 million will be used to develop the corresponding processor core as soon as possible after the development of the next-generation ARMv7 architecture is completed.
Among them, the representative of Company M roughly inferred the performance of the ARMv7 architecture.
It is publicly claimed that mobile phone processors using the ARMv7 architecture can easily adjust the frequency between 600MHz and 1GHz.
In addition, the ARMv7 architecture also uses super NEON technology, which can increase DSP and media processing capabilities by nearly 4 times!
Therefore, the processor core performance using RMv7 architecture will be the undisputed number one in the world!
In this regard, people at the press conference naturally did not know what the ARMv7 architecture meant, nor what the ARMv7 architecture represented in previous lives.
This ARMv7 architecture was officially released in October 2004 and is the most classic generation instruction set architecture in history.
It can be said that it was from this generation of architecture that .M Company officially began its glorious era.
From then on, .M Company officially began its professional and detailed offensive in various fields, including cortex-A in the mobile field, cortex-M in the embedded field, and cortex-R in the real-time field.
Among them, the most famous smartphone processor cortex-A8 core is the world's first mobile phone processor core using ARMv7 architecture.
This cortex-A8 core is quite classic. According to the history of previous generations, it was officially released on October 4, 2005.
It can be said that in the early days of smartphones, those smartphones all used the cortex-A8 core!
Therefore, smartphones from mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Coolpad, Meizu, and Lianxiang all used this cortex-A8 core.
This shows how terrifying the ARMv7 architecture and cortex-A8 mobile phone processor core are!
It can be said that this joint press conference does not seem to have any impact, but it actually has a considerable impact on the future.
At this time, Company M has invested US$400 million in financing from Noma, which will accelerate the advancement of the ARMv7 architecture several times.
Moreover, the launch time of the public version of the cortex-A8 core developed based on the ARMv7 architecture will definitely be accelerated, and the release time may exceed that of the previous generation.
In the previous generation, the cortex-A8 core was officially released on October 4, 2005. At this time, with the financial stimulation of US$400 million, the development time will definitely be accelerated a lot.
As for process matching, the cortex-A8 core itself uses 90nm process technology and 65nm process technology.
It can be said that both the current 90nm process technology and the future 65nm process technology are quite suitable!
So Sugon Technology is in danger!
In the short term, there is the .M1136J-S core based on ARMv6 architecture, which was released at the end of 2003 last year. In the long term, there is the cortex-A8 core based on ARMv7 architecture.
In this case, relying solely on the Phoenix S1 instruction set architecture can only compete with the ARMv6 architecture. If you want to defeat the stronger ARMv7 architecture, you can only rely on updating and enhancing the Phoenix S2 instruction set architecture.
But sadly, it is useless to simply update the Phoenix S2 instruction set architecture, because without solving the 90-nanometer process technology and being unable to produce 90-nanometer chips, it will not solve the problem at all.
Therefore, the current Sugon Technology has encountered huge challenges in both instruction set architecture and chip production. It can be said that it is burning money everywhere and asking for money everywhere.
Under such circumstances, the profits that can be earned by relying solely on mid- to low-end mobile phones are already stretched thin, and there is another problem with boss-level talents...
However, the outside world ignored Sugon Technology's plight. After the press conference was released, global media reported and discussed the matter in the following time.
People overseas are marveling at the power of the ARMv7 architecture, looking forward to the birth of mobile phone cores based on the ARMv7 architecture in the future, and discussing what mobile phones can do when their performance is so powerful.
In this regard, netizens on the domestic Internet are naturally anxious.
Foreign company M claims to release a super powerful ARMv7 architecture in the first half of this year, and then develop a stronger mobile phone processor core based on the ARMv7 architecture.
I don’t know if there is any news from Sugon Technology. I wonder if there is any research and development plan for the Phoenix S2 instruction set architecture?
At this time, domestic netizens are really not in a hurry, but the eunuchs are in a hurry. Tianya Forum, Yinghaiwei, Shuimu Qinghua, and even various penguin groups in recent emerging trends are discussing this matter.
They are very eager to know the relevant news and whether Sugon Technology has any plans to fight against the ARMv7 architecture.
Don't let the tragic scene of the Phoenix mobile phone processor that the Chinese people are proud of be severely beaten by Western mobile phone processors.
(End of chapter)
