Nie Chuan's team at Tianxing Society is actually just using Tianxing Society as a platform to attract talent, and the team is an independent studio that has passed formal registration, so it can take on the company's outsourcing projects and follow the normal software industry production process. In other words, the team is actually a company established by college students, and USTC does not actually have the power to investigate the studio's projects. Strictly speaking, Tianxing Society can actually resist USTC's censorship.
However, considering the relationship with the school, the influence of this matter, and the sustainable development of Tianxing Society that wants to use HKUST as a platform, Cheng Ran did not stop the school from reviewing Tianxing Society's independent studio.
In fact, there is no need to keep those contracts confidential. They are all outsourced practices sent by CQ, Lianzhong, and the agency Lushu Fulun. Party A is actually Cheng Ran, so of course the studio will not be held responsible.
It was just that Nie Chuan mentioned the third brother on the phone. The eight people at the beginning of the Tianxing Society independent studio were all codenamed according to the order in which they joined.
The third person to join the team is Zheng Xing. Zheng Xing is a graduate student at USTC, but his major is not chip design. It can be said that he knew nothing at the beginning. However, the establishment of Tianxing Society is not to look for talents in related professional fields. For something like this, wouldn’t it be more accurate and faster to post a recruitment advertisement
Achievements in related fields do not mean that you have a natural advantage just because you are in this major. The chip field is not like this. There are naturally too many contents that need to be updated and explored. This is not a field where you can make a name for yourself by just sticking to the basic knowledge taught in school.
The same thing is two completely different concepts in front of talented and untalented people. An untalented person who has studied a major for several years may not be able to get as much inspiration as a talented person who has read books for three months. The latter's thinking is more unconstrained and more active. This is a field that tests thinking and algorithms, and requires a hound with natural sensitivity and a sense of smell.
The core team of Tianxing Society aims to find talents who can learn quickly and use the knowledge even if they do not have relevant knowledge.
Looking at the IT field, there is a truly outstanding God who can make a hundred mediocre people ride an interstellar rocket. These people are one of the God singularities that drive the world to change.
For example, Dennis Ritchie, the father of C language, was originally a graduate student in applied mathematics at Harvard University. He became fascinated by computers and then developed C language. That was not enough. He also developed the Unix operating system with another great man, Ken Thompson. Because they missed the business opportunity, they could only license Unix to enterprises in the 1980s and received more than 400 million US dollars. Then Ritchie also participated in the development of the successor software of Unix and C language: Plan9 and Inferno operating system and Limbo language. C language has become the starting point of the modern programming language revolution and a milestone in the history of programming language development. It occupies a firm dominant position in the fields of system programming and embedded programming.
Similarly, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old Finnish college student, wrote an operating system kernel, Linux, in his student dormitory and released it to the public, attracting thousands of programmers to add to, modify and spread it. How can we afford to offend such behavior of using personal time and equipment to create one of the most popular operating system kernels in the world today, turning free software from an industrial thought movement into a market commercial movement, and changing the face of the software industry and even the IT industry
In addition, there is Steve Wozniak, who single-handedly forced IBM to change its PC strategy. Alan Kay, the father of the Windows graphical user interface... These great people have single-handedly pushed the world's singularity.
Cheng Ran knew that Nie Chuan and Nie Yun were also such singularities, and the third brother Zheng Xing also showed this kind of talent.
He knew nothing about chip design, but had an amazing learning ability. He read Gray's original English book "Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Ciruits" day and night. In addition, Cheng Ran had greeted the Fuluo Nanzhou Office, so Zheng Xing was able to visit and learn from the hardware engineers about the circuit system design principles, the various peripheral characteristics of the chip to be made, the working principles of thick-film circuits, etc. One and a half months after joining Tianxing Society, he had already started to do the improved design and simulation of thick-film circuits sent by the user circuit system department of the Fuluo Nanzhou Office.
Of course, in this process, the independent studio has mobilized a large number of resources, including the latest textbooks that are in line with those of foreign countries, the latest articles published in IEEE journals, and ARM information. In the independent studio, you can access them immediately as long as you need them, even if they are journal documents that are not available in China. Unless they are sensitive items, they can be delivered to USTC through Fulong channels. Fulong’s overseas department can coordinate with the domestic department to deliver them within five days.
This is actually an important reason why independent studios can attract some individuals.
Working for Cheng Ran not only earns money, but also provides customized literature resources and practice platforms, directly connecting with social and commercial needs.
Of course, these information about independent studios that HKUST does not have will obviously be seen by Chen Yue during this review.
Chen Yue would understand what they were doing or preparing to do.
"Is there any further progress on the third brother's side?" Cheng Ran asked.
Nie Chuan walked to an empty corner and lowered his voice, "We may need to have a face-to-face meeting."
Next to the plastic playground of HKUST, Nie Chuan and Cheng Ran sat in the sparse stands and talked face to face.
Nie Chuan said, "According to the third brother, Zhang Xinyu told him privately that our Tianxing Society violated school rules and regulations, and it was very serious. It would also affect the final evaluation of the participating students. However... Chen Yue thinks highly of him. In short, it is revealed that if the third brother wants to save himself, he can only take the initiative to find Chen Yue and seek refuge. He may be forgiven." Nie Chuan said.
Cheng Ran smiled, "It finally came, intimidating, and then transformed into thunder around us."
Nie Chuan turned his head, and the genius with countless algorithms in his brain said, "It's not just the Third Brother who was interviewed. There were others as well. However, the ones who disclosed the situation to me all had different statements. Some of them evaded the point, and some of them just talked about irrelevant things..."
Chen Yue didn't know the third brother Zheng Xing, so he didn't know about his journey from applied mathematics to chip design. With so many professionals in his lab, how could they possibly look down upon Zheng Xing's level as a rookie, even if he had potential for growth? So it was most likely that he was besieging the city with three sides leaving one side open, and after seeing some information from their Tianxing Society that could "inspire" him, he wanted to infiltrate their society and get to know the real situation inside their society.
In my previous life, Chen Yue was exposed for falsifying DSP embedded chips, but that happened two or three years in the future. Moreover, Chen Yue, who was at HKUST at the time, did not necessarily intend to falsify the information from the beginning. He might have been forced to falsify the information after many other options failed.
Now that the National Chip Project has been launched, Chen Yue may be exploring how to proceed with the embedded chip project, and he will definitely try many methods internally. And now, Cheng Ran, the butterfly's wings, have come closer.
There are many types of embedded chips and different architectures. Although Chen Yue is promoting embedded DSP chips, if there is a ready-made shortcut that can be used, changing the rhetoric is not a problem at all.
For example, if the National Core No. 1 can be a DSP chip, then the National Core No. 2 can be a MIPS architecture chip independently innovated after mastering the technology, and the National Core No. 3 can be a general-purpose CPU chip. As long as there are results, the failure of early scientific research and the wasted research funds are not a problem at all. This is exactly the thing that Chen Yue needs to solve when he is desperate.
Even if he can find a direction and a shortcut, he still has a chance to succeed in making chips. For this possibility, it is not impossible to swallow up the person who found the shortcut and turn it into his own achievement. Then it is not a problem to promote any chip.
"DSP chips may not work, they are outdated, and will not be developed for the time being", but "we have succeeded in other types of chips", which will quickly fill the previous hole, and he can get something real, this time it is something tangible and obtainable.
This is probably the reason why Chen Yue is paying attention to Tianxing Society now.
Cheng Ran also thinks that this is the best way to handle the Guoxin incident at present, and it is a prerequisite for being able to smoothly resolve the crisis from a high level.
That is, we cannot allow Chen Yue to continue to blow up the embedded DSP chip, because the bigger the blow, the harder it will fall, and the greater the effect of the avalanche. Because his balloon is not difficult to puncture, Chen Yue probably had no choice but to blow down the embedded DSP, which led to the practice of buying chips, hiring migrant workers, and grinding characters.
Because it was so unbelievable and bizarre, one can imagine the shocking impact of this incident. All national support for chip projects was halted and all projects were discontinued.
It is not difficult to expose the fraud. The difficult part is how to smoothly support the impact of this avalanche to the ground.
To land on the ground, we have to move the DSP hole and cannot continue to move higher.
Let him see the existence of Tianxing Society and what it is doing. Then, he can't go on the original path and can only swallow this fruit and announce a change of position.
Then it is not a problem of an avalanche of fraud, but a problem of competition for academic encroachment projects.
The definition is also different.
Drag him to your position.
Then beat him to death.
Cheng Ran said to Nie Chuan, "Tell the third brother... to start the Wall-Facing Plan."