Rebirth 2002: Nano Life

The emergence of graphene electronic paper and graphene lithium battery technology, I don't know whether it scared foreign companies or encouraged foreign companies. In short, the international research investment on graphene materials is more than the previous life. Chen Yizhe, the only person in the world who can mass-produce graphene materials, has even raised the price of graphene abroad to a terrifying price, which is close to 1,500 yuan per gram. However, even so, foreign purchases of graphene are still rushing.

Moreover, due to the birth of domestic related technologies, the ban on sales of the latest liquid crystal and plasma technologies, which were originally blocked in China, has also loosened a lot. In the second half of the year, two domestic companies bought the fifth-generation display. The production line, even the sixth generation has been discussed, and the price is much cheaper than the price that BOE bought more than a year ago.

Liu Chunmei even joked, "Xiameng Electronics is pulling the world's top display technology directly from Genting, and BOE's previous acquisitions suffered a big loss."

BOE’s acquisition of the fifth-generation tft-lcd production line of Hyundai Display in South Korea does seem to be a bit of a loss now, but fortunately Chen Yizhe authorized the first-generation graphene electronic paper to the other party, and according to the agreement, the second-generation production line will also be launched next year. BOE will give priority to negotiation and authorization, and it is likely to continue to license the second-generation technology to the other party.

If it is said that the current electronic paper technology does not have too high technical advantages in display compared with liquid crystal plasma, or is even at a disadvantage, then graphene lithium batteries are more advantageous than lithium batteries in all aspects.

Although the graphene lithium battery does not seem to have attracted the attention of the public, its appearance has already caused an uproar in the industry, and there are too many domestic and foreign companies wanting to cooperate with ATL. Apple has placed a large number of orders from ATL for the battery life of iPod products, and more companies like Tesla want to obtain technical authorization. However, in a short period of time, Chen Yizhe will not license the technology to foreign manufacturers. .

Although I know that even if the technology is licensed to the other party, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the other party to produce in large quantities due to the graphene material, but once such a move is made, once it is known by the domestic public, it will definitely have a negative impact on the enterprise.

Moreover, don’t foreign countries like to restrict domestic use in high-tech? Now Chen Yizhe feels that it is fair for him to do this. If he is willing to transfer technology to the other party, it is more likely that newer technologies will appear.

For example, if Chen Yizhe transfers all graphene lithium battery technology to foreign countries, it is very likely that he will soon join the "super graphene battery" project.

Most of the projects of Chen Yizhe's company are progressing relatively smoothly, but except for one, it is the 3D printing project. Chen Yizhe was too optimistic before. The entire project was successfully completed by nearly one-tenth. However, for the next half a year, it was still in place. The most important thing is that the requirements for 3D printing computer chips are too high, unless It was Chen Yizhe who made the move, otherwise he could only redesign one, and he was stuck at this step for more than half a year.

Chen Yizhe is not prepared to intervene too much, and more hope that the technical staff under him can play creative thinking and solve problems from reality. After all, 3D printers will eventually be mass-produced. Chen Yizhe can indeed get a chip at will, but does that make sense?

It was originally estimated that the first graphene chip 3D printer could be made as soon as 2006, but now Chen Yizhe has pushed this time back two years.

However, Chen Yizhe is not completely uninvolved. As early as the end of July, Chen Yizhe contacted ARM through Xia Meng Electronics and wanted to obtain ARM's architecture license. Unfortunately, as Chen Yizhe expected, ARM rejected this proposal. .

At present, it is still relatively difficult for Chinese companies to obtain international chip technology. If ARM was still in a difficult position in the early years, there might be a chance, but at this time ARM has quietly followed the rise of Nokia. And the rise, at this time, it is very difficult to obtain the license of its architecture.

As for the X86 architecture, don't even think about it.

Helpless, Chen Yizhe had to choose another path, open source architecture, which is the path of RISC-V in later generations. Chen Yizhe spent a few weeks analyzing ARM, MIPS, SPARC, X86 and other instruction sets, and found that these instruction sets not only increase in complexity, but also have intellectual property risks, and the types of processor architectures and processing capabilities are not directly association.

Therefore, in response to the above problems, Chen Yizhe designed a set of free and open instruction set architecture RISC-C based on the BSD protocol license, which is different from V, which represents the fifth generation of later generations, where C refers to Chinese, which means Chinese. RISC structure.

The performance of the RISC-C instruction set is extremely superior, which contains a design principle of Chen Yizhe: simplicity is beauty. Its design philosophy is "simple to simplify", trying to make hardware implementation simple enough through the definition of architecture.

Moreover, the RISC-C instruction set is not only "avenue to simplicity", but also its different parts can be organized together in a modular manner, thereby trying to meet a variety of different applications through a unified architecture.

Simply put, the RISC-C instruction set is compact and efficient, both rigorous and flexible.

The design goal of RISC-C is to meet the needs of processors of all levels of complexity, from microcontrollers to supercomputers, supporting a variety of implementations from field programmable gate arrays, application-specific integrated circuits, and even future devices, while being efficient It can realize various microstructures, support a large number of customization and acceleration functions~www.wuxiahere.com~, and can be perfectly adapted to the kernel and programming language independently developed by Chen Yizhe.

After the instruction set comes out, how to implement the CPU is another matter. After all, a good instruction set architecture can only be reflected by a good design. It involves a series of technologies such as RTL coding, layout, semiconductor process, packaging, etc. This is a system engineering . It's like building a building. To build this building, you have to solve one of the most important problems "no construction drawings". There must also be a whole bunch of engineers to design structures, materials, plumbing, elevators and stairs, smart building systems, monitoring systems, and more.

For Chen Yizhe, the architecture design of this cpu is simpler, not to mention the overclocking state, even under normal circumstances, only need to let Apocalypse perform data optimization calculations, you can simply design a set of RISC-C instructions. Set the cpu architecture out. Of course, if you want to expand to achieve a variety of functions, it is not difficult, because Apocalypse has been slowly approaching the state of singularity in technology.

The so-called technological singularity actually refers to the emergence of machine intelligence or other forms of superintelligence that surpasses today's human beings and can self-evolve.

It is like apocalypse, an intelligent electronic life that is far beyond human beings, so the development of technology will completely exceed the comprehension ability of all human beings, and it is impossible to even warn of its occurrence. The reason why it is called a singularity is that it is like the physical properties of a black hole produced when gravity is close to infinity in physics, which is beyond the range that can be predicted by ordinary normal models.

This point will be explained in detail later. Now let’s talk about the CPU architecture of the RISC-C instruction set. In Chen Yizhe’s plan, the chip architecture of this instruction set is not only the computing chip architecture that realizes the 3D printer, but it is also printed in the future. The architecture of the graphene chip.