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Chapter 423 Digital Core Strategic Plan
Xu Qingshan's voice was not loud, but his determination was strong.

Zhou Qifeng's voice on the other end of the phone quieted down. He was silent for a long time and then sighed deeply.

"Since you insist, I will report it. This matter is not suitable to be discussed in the academician meeting. I should arrange a separate meeting for you in private. You can prepare your ideas and materials first."

Since you can't persuade him, then do your best to help.

This is Zhou Qifeng’s attitude.

At the same time, he also had a glimmer of hope in his heart, maybe Xu Qingshan really did it?

You have to know that Xu Qingshan now is more successful, more influential, and has more potential than Chen Jin back then. If it were him, and if the higher-ups could give him full support, maybe he could really succeed.

"Thank you for your hard work, Principal Zhou."

Xu Qingshan replied respectfully.

Zhou Qifeng has done his best both in public and in private. At least in Xu Qingshan's opinion, Zhou Qifeng is already an extremely competent principal.

Xu Qingshan waited patiently for the follow-up of this matter.

As expected, Zhou Qifeng did not let him wait too long. In less than a week, someone contacted Xu Qingshan. Zhou Qifeng was not brought along, but the interview was more secretive.

Xu Qingshan arrived at the Talent Exchange Center at the agreed time.

Although the location of this secret meeting was arranged at Beijing University, Zhou Qifeng did not participate in the meeting. There were only five participants in the meeting. Xu Qingshan was the core of the meeting, and the other four were from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

When Xu Qingshan entered the room, he saw four middle-aged men who were not very conspicuously dressed standing together and discussing something. When he knocked on the door and entered, they came to greet him.

"Hello, Professor Xu. Please take a seat."

One of them was a handsome old man with slightly gray temples and a high hairline, holding Xu Qingshan's arm and enthusiastically inviting him to take a seat. After he sat down and listened to their self-introductions, Xu Qingshan only then knew the purpose and participants of this meeting.

The two leaders from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are from the Electronic Information Department and the Information Technology Development Department respectively. Both of them are surnamed Zhang. This time they are mainly here to do a supporting job. The old handsome guy is the newly appointed leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology. His surname is Long. The square-faced man behind him is the leader from the First Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

"President Zhou has already communicated the general situation to us. Minister Wan's intention is to hold a small project report meeting led by the Ministry of Science and Technology and coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to gain a deeper understanding of Professor Xu's ideas and paths. If you can pass the feasibility assessment of the evaluation center, we will provide comprehensive support in many aspects as much as possible."

Long Teng smiled and introduced the general situation to Xu Qingshan.

Xu Qingshan understood.

As expected, his reputation is very big now, and he can directly register on the platform. Whenever he applies for requests, he will get a positive response to his ideas. However, the Hanxin No. 1 incident mentioned by Zhou Qifeng will indeed have an impact. After listening to Long Teng's introduction to the evaluation process, Xu Qingshan roughly understood the changes within the official.

After that incident a few years ago, the authorities reorganized the project evaluation process, making it more rigorous and complicated.

Xu Qingshan's application did touch some people's nerves, but fortunately Xu Qingshan's reputation is much better and he is a native Chinese, which makes people feel much more at ease.

"My personal situation should not be a secret in your eyes, and I have never concealed it."

Xu Qingshan set the tone as soon as he opened his mouth, and the main point was honesty.

"I personally attach great importance to the chip industry in the next few years. I also know that we have been working hard in China, but we have not been able to achieve a key breakthrough."

"If the Internet is the carrier of the new world in the future, then chips are the cornerstone of the new world. This critical technology, which is like a lifeline, should be firmly grasped in our own hands."

"When I came across the Liangxi Suntech case last year, I had already started to think about this. The recent breakthroughs in mathematics and computers may also be applied to the field of chip manufacturing."

"From the research projects and team building I started at Peking University, the founding of Xiaomi, and the semiconductor industry I integrated on Ludao Island, it is not difficult to see that my goal is to modularize and split the entire manufacturing industry, lower the vigilance of Europe and the United States, and then gradually transplant the technology to crack and redevelop the underlying architecture."

Xu Qingshan was not like the other experts in the past who always talked about self-research.

Long Teng and the others seemed a little surprised and asked curiously.

"Does Professor Xu want to go the pure replica production route? If that's the case, if foreign countries pursue patents against us and block new technologies, we may be in big trouble. This doesn't seem to be a good idea for Chinese chip manufacturing."

He said with some embarrassment.

If Xu Qingshan was just thinking of doing research but actually wanted to serve his own mobile phone group, Long Teng felt that such a proposal would most likely not pass the evaluation center's assessment.

After all, most people at the beginning were pursuing personal gain under the banner of serving the country.

Even though Xu Qingshan had a high national status at this time, they, as government employees, would not let him off the hook.

Xu Qingshan shook his head.

"For us in China, the most important thing now is to make it first. We must first realize the nationalization of the chip manufacturing process and complete the initial technology replication. Only then can we use the principle of uniformity to complete the localization transformation of the entire process."

Xu Qingshan talked about his insights on chip production.

"The advancement of science and technology is not a process of creating something from nothing. If we can complete localization transplantation on the basis of following up, we can better understand the underlying logic and core principles, and then open up our own path. If we want to catch up and surpass in a short period of time, our route needs to be like this."

Xu Qingshan was able to foresee the future development of chips.

"At present, the chip market is still in a state of chaos, so we still have the possibility to take advantage of this opportunity to rise. When the consumer market stabilizes in the future, Europe and the United States will form a complete monopoly. At that time, if we want to seek breakthroughs and let the market adapt, it will cost hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars."

Xu Qingshan was not lying.

In the future, Huawei will have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in research and development every year in order to quickly narrow the performance gap with international mainstream chips.

The earlier you start and the more accurate your direction, the more money you can save in the future.

"This is the strategic plan I compiled based on the situation in the chip industry. Please take a look."

Xu Qingshan took out two printed and bound copies of the plan from his briefcase and handed them to Long Teng and the others. He had only prepared two copies. The four of them put their heads together and slowly read Xu Qingshan's plan.

Since they were sent to have initial contact with Xu Qingshan, it means that the department also recognizes the level of Long Teng and others. Not to say that they understand technological research and development, but at least they have no obstacles in reading.

You can also have a rough assessment of this plan in your mind.

After a long time, Xu Qingshan dozed off on the chair. The four guys didn't ask him a single question, they just kept watching. It was not until Long Teng called him softly that he slowly woke up.

"Sorry, I've been busy with work lately and I'm a little sleepy since spring is here."

Xu Qingshan rubbed his eyes and looked at the four of them.

Long Teng held two plans in his hands and said to Xu Qingshan solemnly, "Professor Xu, we have finished reading the plans and we plan to take them back to the department for further study. We hope you can keep the plans confidential for the time being. We will inform you of the final results of the discussion in half a month."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work today."

Xu Qingshan was not too surprised.

Xu Qingshan felt that it was unrealistic if such an important matter could be decided in a small meeting.

But he is confident that he can get recognition from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

In the plan, Xu Qingshan proposed some of his more feasible ideas for some technologies after careful consideration. It is entirely possible to set up a laboratory in China as a special project, but he did not hesitate to organize his ideas and preliminary plans.

Any expert group that evaluates the proposal will be able to see the potential value of the proposal.

Even if the plan is not successful in the end, this plan with the ultimate goal of "self-production and self-research to achieve global leading level" still has a chance to be implemented in a buffer manner, and at least it can alleviate the current situation of all-round shortage of talents and technology in the domestic chip industry.

as predicted.

As soon as April arrived, Xu Qingshan received an invitation from the Ministry of Science and Technology to attend a meeting that was not open to the public.

The meeting was attended not only by high-level officials, but also by people from the Institute of Computing Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Idea Technology Standardization Institute, and Loongson Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Before attending the meeting, participants signed a confidentiality agreement.

After the meeting, Xu Qingshan's expression did not seem relaxed, but rather became more solemn. When he walked out of the venue, he let out a long breath and looked up at the sky.

The authorities attach great importance to their plan this time.

This plan, named the "Digital Core Strategic Plan", has initially completed the application process for the core high-tech projects.

Core, high and basic, which is the abbreviation of "core electronic devices, high-end general-purpose chips and basic software products", is one of the 2006 major scientific and technological projects listed alongside manned space flight and lunar exploration projects in the "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020)" officially released in 16.

This major scientific and technological project, with an estimated investment of hundreds of billions of yuan, carries the country's confidence and expectations for the electronics industry.

At the same time, the "Digital Core Strategic Plan" has also been included in the inspection list of the 863 Plan. Only by initially completing the plan foundation can it receive continuous and overall support from the 863 Plan.

These two project plans are extremely important for Xu Qingshan's future plans.

One of China's core advantages over other countries is its highly integrated social system, which is able to plan a project and concentrate the strength of the entire society to promote its rapid development.

Over the past forty years, China's rapid industrial development has benefited from such advantages.

If Xu Qingshan had to fight alone, he felt that even if he had more money, he might not be able to complete the plan.

But if there is overall coordination and support from the country, he will have 30% more confidence.

But this matter is still not that simple.

The Digital Core strategy is not simply chip production and design, but includes deep integration and development combined with artificial intelligence, aiming to build a closed intelligent ecological loop for China in the field of mature processes.

Use AI technology to reconstruct the chip design paradigm, apply deep learning algorithms to design space optimization, verification efficiency improvement, and analog design acceleration. The AI ​​model built after reinforcement learning can more accurately predict the verification path, explore the optimal layout, and reduce a large number of repetitive steps and unnecessary losses.

In addition, in the chip manufacturing process, more appropriate optimizations are made for AI computing power.

It can also establish a new matrix of open source instruction sets for AI chips to reduce the cost of ecological design.

in short.

What Xu Qingshan has to do is to use the mathematics and computer technology in his hands to greatly reduce losses and cut costs.

speak English.

Use the least money to do the most.

Of course, this is easier said than done.

However, with official policy support and personnel support, Xu Qingshan can take action.

During this period of preparation, Xu Qingshan had already selected some candidates. Those he planned to give priority to were all young experts from China who had a strong desire to return to their country.

Among them, Sun Nan, who just joined the University of Texas at Austin this year, is one of the talents that Xu Qingshan is quite optimistic about.

This young scholar, who entered Huaqing University in 02, received a bachelor's degree in 06, and a doctorate from Harvard University last year, has very unique and avant-garde insights in the field of high-performance integrated circuit chip design. He is very interested in the power consumption of intelligent control chips. Based on this point, Xu Qingshan wrote a short paper, mentioned his idea of ​​an AI-driven chip verification system, and invited him to Beijing University for a short visit and exchange.

In addition, Dr. He Jun, who has in-depth knowledge in packaging and testing and is currently studying materials science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is also one of Xu Qingshan's targets.

But after a brief contact, Xu Qingshan learned that Intel is also pursuing this young doctor.

but.

What gave Xu Qingshan the most headache was Su Zifeng, Su's mother, who was on the other side of the ocean.

As the world's most famous chip expert in the semiconductor field, Su Zifeng is currently in a period of rapid development.

After graduating with a Ph.D. in 94, she joined Texas Instruments, and the following year she joined IBM as R&D director. In 07, she became the chief technology officer of Freescale Semiconductor.

It can be said that her understanding and mastery of the semiconductor industry alone is enough to compete with China.

But the problem is that, to some extent, she doesn't quite think China has room for chip development.

Su Zifeng, who will join AMD next year and help AMD turn losses into profits and become the fastest-growing semiconductor company in the world, is also eyeing semiconductor-related talents in the market.

Although Xu Qingshan had never talked to her directly.

But when he took the initiative to contact many scholars of marginal technologies, he heard the name of Su Zifeng from them.

This made Xu Qingshan's plan of kidnapping people even more difficult.

But of course he couldn't give up so easily.

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