Text: The Secret History of Fusu
Editor/The Secret History of Fusu
In recent years, Huawei's development momentum has become more and more fierce, and even caused dissatisfaction with the United States on the other side of the ocean. [Ultraman]
It's clear that you don't want to see us well, but in the face of the layers of blockade by the United States, we are not so easy to admit defeat to the United States.
In the past two years, Huawei has also been recruiting talents, trying to break through the blockade of the United States, we are not unable to make high-performance chips, chip experts account for many Chinese.
Compared with the impact of chip supply outages, many chip experts go to the United States to work for the United States, which is the most frightening, such as the well-known American chip company Nvidia, whose founder Huang Jenxun is a yellow-skinned Chinese.
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It's no surprise that Huang was able to embark on the chip path. Because Huang's father was a chemical engineer and his mother was an elementary school teacher, growing up in such an academic family, Huang's vision was different from that of children from other families.
While other children were still chasing and fighting, Huang had already shown a strong interest in technology under the influence of his father, and his father had great expectations for Huang and wanted to train him to become a talent.
At that time, the situation in Taiwan was turbulent, and because of Huang's father's special status, staying in Taiwan was afraid that it would be detrimental to the growth of his children, so in order to create a good living environment for Huang, his father took it upon himself to immigrate to Thailand with his family.
Unexpectedly, the situation in Southeast Asia is also relatively chaotic, all kinds of armed conflicts often occur, and it is not a long-term solution to hide like this.
As a superpower, the United States naturally has no impact of war, and the United States has gathered top talents from all over the world, which can play a great role in the learning and growth of his son.
Everyone has heard the story of Mengzi's mother's three moves, and Mengzi's mother kept moving in order to allow Mencius to study well, and finally found a suitable place for Mencius to study. And Huang's father also took great pains in order to make Huang Jenxun a talent.
In this way, 9-year-old Huang was arranged by his parents to get on a plane to the United States, where Huang's uncle immigrated to the United States at an early age and has been working hard in the United States, basically not meeting Huang's family.
When he heard that his nephew was coming to the United States to join him, he was very happy to be an uncle, and although his own life in the United States was very poor, he arranged a school for Huang in the United States according to his ability, which was a boarding school in a remote area.
Huang, who first arrived in the United States, was at a loss at first, saying that it sounds like a school, but it is actually a shelter for delinquent juveniles in the United States, and every student around him has some bad habits.
One by one, they show off their might, and they have dragons and tigers tattooed on their bodies, and those who don't know think that they have come to the territory of Hong Kong's Crazy Boys, don't look at the students in it are not very old, but there are a lot of bad things to do.
In Huang's previous academic career, he had never seen so many troubled students, and his former classmates were so focused on their studies that they didn't think about anything else, let alone have bad habits such as working against teachers.
But here, everything is completely different, and if you want to study hard, you will be considered a "freak" and will be targeted by everyone. Huang is a smart man who understands that if he wants to survive here, he must follow the "rules" here. Only if you become like that group of people will you be accepted by these people.
Soon the clever Huang mingled with the group and had his own "umbrella" at school.
A 9-year-old child, alone in a foreign country without the protection of his parents, only an unfamiliar uncle, and facing the problem of language barriers, if it were an ordinary child, he might have cried and wanted to go home, but Huang Jenxun handled interpersonal relationships very well.
This shows that Huang is very adaptable, and no matter how cruel the environment he throws him into, he has no complaints, and will only try to adapt himself. It was this excellent quality that allowed Huang to win in the fierce chip battle that followed.
Although Huang did not help academically during this period of closed school, it taught him how to survive in the United States and gave him a more comprehensive understanding of American society, which was an indispensable experience on his way to success.
Two years later, Huang's parents were finally able to leave and come to the United States, and the family was very excited to be reunited after a long absence, and Huang told his father all about the experience of the past two years in the face of the most familiar relatives.
Originally, he sent his son to the United States to receive higher education in the United States, but he accidentally let his son stay in an ordinary boarding school for two years, and he also mixed with a group of troubled teenagers. In order not to delay his son's studies, his father immediately withdrew Huang from school and transferred him to a regular school.
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With his brilliant mind, Huang quickly filled in all the courses he had missed in his new school, where Huang finally didn't have to pretend, he could devote himself to his studies, and his intelligence and eagerness to learn seemed to be the unique gene of the Chinese nation.
After graduating from high school, Huang was able to continue his education on the campus of the university, where he chose the electrical engineering major that interests him most.
Huang chose to major in electronics because he has developed a strong interest in computers since he came to the United States, and he didn't expect that a small screen could project many beautiful images.
Not only does it have powerful algorithms that can help people solve difficult math problems, but it can also get a lot of information from them, and Huang wondered how computers work when he lamented the magic of technology.
After some understanding, he learned that the most amazing thing about the computer is the chip inserted in the host, which is equivalent to the human heart, the more "healthy" the chip, the faster the computer will run, and the more efficient it will be to process files.
Originally, all the knowledge points contained in all the books in the entire library can be solved with just a small chip, which is indeed a technological innovation for human beings.
Instead of rummaging through boxes and cabinets to look up books, people can get the information they want to know with a few clicks on the computer with a mouse and keyboard, and since then, Huang has had a dream in his heart: to open his own chip company and sit at the top of the world.
At the time, this dream may have been a fantasy for others, and no one could have imagined that this young man from China would actually succeed, including AMD, Nvidia's current nemesis and the first company Huang worked for after graduation.
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After graduating from Stanford, Huang came to work for the chip giant AMD at the time, where he served as a chip designer, and this "undercover" experience also taught him a lot.
Later, he realized that it was not enough to just design chips, but also to have a keen judgment of the market and understand the needs of users, so Huang shifted his position from back-end design to front-end sales.
As it turned out, gold shines everywhere, and Huang's sales skills quickly led to a dramatic increase in the company's sales.
At this time, Huang knew everything about the requirements of a chip company, and he was not only able to participate in the design and development of chips, but also to negotiate and manage all aspects at his fingertips.
Seeing that the time was ripe, in 1993 Huang opened his own chip company, NVIDIA, which was his 30th birthday present.
While Huang thinks he's prepared, Nvidia didn't have a good start at the time when the internet was just emerging, and everyone wanted a piece of the new industry.
Originally, Nvidia was already trying to survive in the cracks, but I didn't expect Huang Jenxun to follow the routine, and the whole company worked day and night to develop the pickaxe, and finally developed the company's first chip, NV1, but no one cared about it.
At this time, Huang and Nvidia were facing difficulties, and the company's future was bleak, so Huang had to ruthlessly lay off employees in order to survive, and at this time there was little investment money left.
In order to be able to find a way out, Huang Jenxun took the chips developed by the company, and began to visit one by one to seek cooperation, and finally a Japanese Sega game company saw the potential of NVIDIA, although this NV1 chip does not cater to the market, but it is a very good game chip.
Relying on Sega's charcoal in the snow, Nvidia came back to life again, Sega not only invested a lot of money, but also transferred many chip talents for Nvidia to deploy.
This time, Lao Huang was full of confidence and must make a chip that everyone admired, and it didn't take long for the RIVA128 chip to be developed by them, and with its excellent performance advantages, this chip ushered in a big sale.
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This time, Nvidia became famous in one fell swoop, and then Nvidia struck while the iron was hot, and soon launched the GeForce 256 graphics card, which directly threw off the opponents at the time, and this graphics card also gave Nvidia a new definition of GPU, and then all chip manufacturers began to pay attention to the development of GPU.
Nowadays, with the continuous popularization of AI artificial intelligence, NVIDIA's market value has also risen with the general trend, and AMD and Intel can still wrestle with NVIDIA, but now it is difficult to hide the decline in the face of NVIDIA, and NVIDIA has finally grown into a well-deserved giant in the chip industry.
Now, in the face of the US blockade of China, a number of high-end chips of NVIDIA have been banned, and exports to the mainland are strictly prohibited, and the scope of the chip ban is still expanding.
The most urgent task facing the mainland is to seize the time to develop our own chips, keep the talent and experts in the field of chips in the country, and break the US blockade against us at an early date.
Although we started late in the field of chips, it does not mean that we cannot break through the blockade of the United States, after all, there is now a precedent of Nvidia, which proves that Chinese can make chips the world's leading.
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