Chapter 271: Far Ahead

The first batch of Kirin 959 only has more than 2,000 pieces, so the unit price is also very high, but it is mainly used for testing, so the cost of mass production will only increase a little.

Compared with the previous generation flagship matate10, the power consumption is slightly higher, but it is acceptable.

The system based on the optimized skin of XOS3.2 is named HarmonOS and can be used.

There are already four assembled prototypes in the laboratory. There is nothing to say about the appearance. Yu Chendong picked up one and entered the desktop smoothly.

XOS is perfect but not bloated. Compared with the current Android7, it is smoother. Of course, this is also related to the powerful processing power given by Kirin 959. Now Huaxin believes that the 28nm ternary integrated circuit should correspond to the 14nm mainstream process, while 950 uses TSMC's 16nm.

Although Kirin 959 is mostly a direct translation of the design of the 950 chip, according to the guidance provided by Yellow River Semiconductor, HiSilicon designed a small AI module, trying to use the characteristics of ternary to support AI computing on hardware for the first time.

They named it NPU (neuron processing unit), and planned to use it to support intelligent voice assistant and camera algorithm tuning.

After comprehensive evaluation, the laboratory believes that Kirin 959 has surpassed Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 by about 6% in performance, and it should be the first now.

The amazing "Qiongqi" dialogue artificial intelligence on the Great Wall G1X laptop equipped with X32115 at the previous muscle-showing delivery ceremony gave a great shock to domestic digital manufacturers. Xiaomi, OPPO, LeTV and other manufacturers have announced that they will develop corresponding dialogue artificial intelligence.

Huawei is no exception. They have had the idea of ​​voice assistant before, and it is not easy to upgrade it to artificial intelligence. The laboratory believes that it will take at least one year of data to make the mobile phone reach the level of "Qiongqi", and then specially tune the NPU for it. It is expected to be available in 2018.

The mate10, which is expected to be released in January, does not have this function for the time being, but it should be available after subsequent upgrades.

What needs to be solved now is the application.

In 2016, the common software ecosystem of mobile phones has not expanded so rapidly.

Huanghe Semiconductor has teamed up with domestic manufacturers to approach QQ, WeChat, Weibo, Baidu, Douyin and other commonly used community software, and will directly translate them instead of developing them from scratch. These apps do not require high performance, so they will be upgraded first and then specially developed and optimized later.

The rest are games. King of Glory has been online for nearly a year. It is too large to translate directly. Penguin has taken over the recoding work and plans to complete it in 4 to 6 months.

Lin Ju knew that after 2017, with the ultra-high market share of 4G, the number of software will explode, so Wang Minjiang has been vigorously promoting the teaching of X language and basic design of ternary circuits during this period, and reserve talents in various universities in advance.

The manufacturers who unite across software and hardware outputs with Huanghe Semiconductor as the center are also actively promoting the establishment of a new ternary semiconductor alliance under the active promotion of the Science and Technology Commission, preparing to support downstream software vendors.

Yu Chendong recorded some of the key work in the future on the memo of the test prototype. The operating logic of Hongmeng OS is similar to that of ordinary Android, and there is almost no difference.

It is enough for common use, but in the earliest four months, those mainstream game developers will complete the adaptation to the XOS environment, and they need to fully utilize the potential of SOC as much as possible, so there will be no shortage of optimization patches.

"I will run I will climb I will soar..."

Yu Chendong's personal mobile phone rang, it was the Science and Technology Commission.

"Hey, leader...ah? 500 units? No problem, no problem, there must be office software, documents are supported, and Kingsoft has also joined. Okay, I'll prepare it right away."

The research director of the laboratory has a good relationship with Lao Yu, and asked: "What's the matter, someone wants to purchase 500 mobile phones?"

Yu Chendong: "The Science and Technology Commission suddenly needs to customize a batch of confidential mate10s. It should be that ZTE and Ziguang are not as fast as us, so they found us. They have to be installed and taken over in mid-December."

"Tsk, the ternary system is indeed confidential enough. We have to use special conversion chips to surf the Internet and make phone calls ourselves, and outsiders can't use any means."

Yu Chendong: "Not necessarily, the teaching materials of X language and basic ternary integrated circuit design have been published in colleges and universities It has been forced to promote it, and it is basically semi-public. Don't underestimate foreigners. "

"So what? We are already at the forefront. Even if we are still in the state of being able to use the ternary system but not proficient in it, we are far ahead of our peers, both in hardware and software."

Yu Chendong: "There can't be Yellow River Semiconductor among our peers. They are said to be launching three series of consumer desktop processors and two server chips at once. They are the inventors of ternary computers, and the whole world doesn't understand them.

Hey, we also need to do servers and big data. The future is the world of AI. Without these, it won't work. Mobile phones are just one of many businesses."

After saying that, he raised the mate10 prototype in his hand. The heavy weight made people feel very at ease.

"But computers are another matter. I will also hold it like this when I hold the press conference at the end of December. Anyway, in the field of mobile phones, this is a real and far-leading product!"

……

Santa Clara, California.

This is Intel's global headquarters. At this time, in Intel's product testing laboratory, a group of executives and more than a dozen Chinese/American engineers gathered together to study three books on the table:

"X Language Program Basic Design (Editor: Wang Minjiang)"

"Integrated Circuits: Ternary"

"The Third State and Artificial Intelligence"

After the Semiconductor Summit, the Science and Technology Commission organized enterprises and colleges in the industry to tackle technical problems without forgetting to cultivate the basic foundation. Three basic textbooks were compiled at the fastest speed and distributed to some colleges and universities for teaching in computer and microelectronics departments.

The textbook writing is not complicated and the content is also simple. Although the class has started in the new semester, the lecturer has to go to the nearby technical battle to participate in corporate learning and then hand it over to the students.

Therefore, the textbook content is only for entry, and more textbooks are being written.

However, because the textbooks are all written by practitioners (mainly Huanghe Semiconductor), this ternary hardware and software basic textbook will be a rare good teaching resource in the domestic education system that can connect with the forefront of the industry, and there will be no situation where the textbook lags far behind the actual application.

The foreign giants who were defeated at the summit were not idle either. They got the three textbooks as soon as possible:

The president of the China region directly bribed the cleaning staff of the university, stole the three books during the break, and then airlifted them to Aramco overnight.

Although X language supports both Chinese and English, the grammar is still quite different, and it is written by all local practitioners, which makes foreigners look very difficult.

Pat Gelsinger organized the Chinese engineers at the headquarters to study hard for more than a month, and finally they were able to test the performance of the ternary chip in their own way.

They turned a 32116 chip removed from Xin'an Automobile into a computer through various complicated methods, and then used the simple system they initially wrote to complete various performance tests.

Gordon Moore: "How is it? What level has 32116 reached?"

Chinese Engineer: "We have deciphered a small part of the peripheral environment of Xinan car computers and tried to get as close to their performance release as possible. If we make an analogy, 32116 can roughly reach the computing power of E5 2689 V4, but it is more inclined to the working mode of graphics processors, and has both rendering and AI deep learning capabilities.

The latter in particular has extremely high potential. The third state of the symmetrical ternary system gives AI more flexible thinking ability and lower computing latency. In general, it combines the functions of mainstream professional processors and computing cards, and places special emphasis on the AI ​​part."