in2ebook Chapter 45 A blank sheet of paper, overturning 3 years
Chapter 45 A blank sheet of paper, overturning 3 years
Chen Jiefang's gaze was like two hot-tempered carving knives, scrutinizing Lin Yu inch by inch.
He had seen too many geniuses. Arrogant, reserved, and conceited.
But the boy in front of me is different.
He lacked the sharp edge often found in geniuses, possessing only a serene, almost nihilistic calm born from a profound understanding of everything. It was as if the world was merely a game with a pre-written script in his eyes.
"Little one, do you know why I called you here?"
Chen Jiefang spoke first, his voice as steady as a mountain.
"Know."
Lin Yu pulled out a pear wood chair, sat down, and even poured himself a cup of tea. "You're interested in Tencent's server overload model. To be precise, you're interested in the underlying logic of my reverse control of computing power."
Xia Zijin stood beside him, like a silent shadow.
A fleeting look of approval crossed Chen Jiefang's eyes.
Talking to smart people is effortless.
"That's right."
Chen Jiefang walked to the huge map, picked up a baton, and emphasized a small red dot in the southeast corner of the map. "But our appetite is bigger than you can imagine."
He turned around, his expression more serious than ever before.
"Thirty years. Our country's chip industry has been held hostage by the West for a full thirty years."
"From lithography machines to EDA software, and then to the underlying chip architecture, we have walked on thin ice at every step. And the most crucial part of it all is the architecture."
Chen Jiefang's voice carried a hint of iron-blooded sorrow.
"We've spent countless resources trying to catch up with the mainstream Western von Neumann architecture, but the faster we try, the more robust the power consumption wall becomes. Every bit of increase in computing power leads to an exponential increase in power consumption, and the chips get so hot you could fry an egg on them. We're almost at the end of the road."
He stared intently at Lin Yu.
"What you did on the Penguin servers was to reverse-engineer and optimize the hardware's computing power output from the software level using a completely new set of logic. This proves that you have a computing model in your mind that is completely different from the existing system."
"So, I need you."
Chen Jiefang said slowly and deliberately, "I'm not asking you to optimize, I'm asking you to revolutionize. I need you to design a completely new underlying architecture for the Loongson project, one that belongs to us."
The office was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
If Wang Lei heard this, he would probably faint on the spot. This is no longer a business collaboration; it's putting the technological lifeline of a nation on the shoulders of an eighteen-year-old boy.
Lin Yu picked up the teacup, blew on it to cool it down, and didn't change his posture at all.
He didn't even ask about salary, benefits, or reputation.
He merely raised his eyelids and asked a completely unrelated question: "Is this game difficult enough?"
Chen Jiefang was stunned.
game?
The ultimate problem concerning the fate of the nation, which he spoke of, was merely a game in the eyes of this young man.
"High enough."
Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Chen Jiefang squeezed out two words through gritted teeth: "So high that even the top 100 scientists in the country would spend ten years of their efforts and still come up empty-handed."
"it is good."
Lin Yu put down his teacup. "I'm done playing."
There were no passionate pronouncements or grand speeches, no impassioned declarations for the country and its people.
Just one word.
it is good.
It's like seeing a brand new game console on the street and casually deciding to buy it and play it.
Chen Jiefang felt that his decades of understanding had been severely impacted.
He took a deep breath, took a document from the safe, and placed it in front of Lin Yu.
"This is the project team's current technical roadmap and all the simulation data. Take a look and see if you have any thoughts."
The document was hundreds of pages long, densely packed with formulas and charts.
Lin Yu did not answer.
He only glanced at the title on the cover—"A Hyperscale Parallel Computing Architecture Based on an Improved RISC-V Instruction Set."
Then, he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
An eerie silence fell over the office.
Chen Jiefang and his two guards both thought he was thinking.
Only Xia Zijing knew that Lin Yu's appearance meant that his brain's central processing unit had entered an overclocked state, and was conducting a storm-like deduction at a speed that ordinary people could not understand.
One minute.
Two minutes.
Five minutes later.
Lin Yu opened his eyes.
His gaze remained calm, but his words were like a detonated nuclear bomb, instantly shattering the entire room.
"No need to look anymore."
Lin Yu put one hand in his pocket, stood up, and walked to his desk.
Instead of picking up the report that represented the hard work of countless people, he picked up a clean sheet of A4 paper and a pen.
"Your direction is fundamentally wrong."
Lin Yu's tone was indifferent.
"The core bottlenecks of the von Neumann architecture are the memory wall and the power wall. You're trying to circumvent them with parallel computing, like trying to catch up with a high-speed train by adding more horses to a carriage. The idea itself is wrong."
"Little one, don't speak too confidently!"
A stern rebuke suddenly came from outside the door.
The office door was pushed open.
An elderly man with gray hair, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a meticulously dressed white shirt walked in. He was followed by several equally aged researchers.
Li Jianbin. Deputy leader of the project team, a semiconductor expert who returned from studying in the United States, and a leading figure in the domestic RISC-V field.
He had been listening outside the door for a long time and was already seething with anger.
"Mr. Chen, you are just too protective of young people."
Li Jianbin didn't even glance at Lin Yu, walking straight up to Chen Jiefang. His tone was tinged with displeasure. "What right does a brat who hasn't even finished his basic university courses have to criticize our decades of research? Science is about inheritance and established paradigms!"
"I have no interest in talking to you about paradigms."
Lin Yu turned his head and looked at Li Jianbin, his eyes filled with a hint of mockery that suggested he was too lazy to explain. "I only talk about results."
He drew a simple straight line from top to bottom on that blank sheet of paper.
"This is the timeline."
Then, he drew two points at the beginning and end of the line.
"These are the inputs and outputs."
"In your architecture, data has to be retrieved from memory, sent to the CPU, processed, and then sent back. All that time is wasted on the journey."
As Lin Yu spoke, the tip of his pen traced a winding, repetitive path on the white paper.
"And in my architecture..."
His pen suddenly stopped, and then, using the starting point as the center, he folded the entire white A4 paper in half!
The finish line and the starting line coincide perfectly!
There is no road.
Lin Yu tossed the folded paper onto the table, his tone indifferent.
"I simply fold up the space. This allows computation to occur in place of data storage."
Li Jianbin stared at the folded piece of paper for three seconds, then burst out laughing as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.