Ni Guangnan, 79, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He created the association function of Chinese character input in the 1980s and was the first chief engineer of the Lenovo Group.
The "ZTE Incident" triggered widespread concern by the "China Core". Liang Ning, who was an assistant to Ni Guangnan, recently issued a long-form article "A Recall of Domestic Chips and Operating Systems." This article describes Ni Guangnan's insistence on the development of 'Ark'. The chip encountered a "full rout" attempt.
Liang Ning wrote in the article that as an assistant to Ni Guangnan, she participated in the work of Ark CPU, Evermore Office, NC thin client and Linux operating system. Li Delei (founder of Ark Technology) found Ni Guangnan, who has always had no autonomy for China. The intellectual property operating system and chip and Ni Guangnan who was very happy with the chip took a look at Li Delei's technical team. In April 2001, China's first self-designed embedded chip 'Ark No. 1' was born. After the chip was made, there was no Independently designed the ability of the core circuit board, there is no supporting software available, the domestic software encounter format incompatibility and low user experience, described by Liang Ning as 'revolutionary'.
A media report in 2006 described the demise of the ark as follows: Ark took over the '863' (China High-Tech Research and Development Program) project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, shelved it, and the Ark Building raised the alarm caused by the Ministry of Science and Technology. She called Li Delei’s mistake. Ni Guangnan's 'Responsible for Crimes' to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Ni Guangnan’s reply to the 'Ark incident' stated that one cannot think that a failure of a company is equal to the failure of a team or a technology. It must be viewed from a different perspective.
After the ark is gone, Li Delei runs away. Ni Guangnan said, 'This is certainly a failure, but for all those involved in the ark, it is a ladder of development. Teams and technologies have grown through this process. Lee is determined to Batch, but can't hurt these teams. Without the Ark CPU, Jun Zheng CPU may be gone.
According to statistics, Liu Qiang, Ph.D. graduated from the computer science department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997, joined Li Delei's company and became the vice president in charge of R&D. In 2005, he left the Ark to establish Jun Zheng. The Ark company closed, and the Ark technicians continued the domestic CPU technology. • Junzheng, a company with its own R&D route, was listed on the 2010 IPO. The chips produced were used in 360 cameras, millet watches and other products.
Ni Guangnan said, Ark did not succeed, but Liu Qiang succeeded.
Ni Guangnan stated that domestically produced chips have gone from being 'unavailable' to 'available'. A new product comes out. Some places can be used in places where they are not available. Unusable ones are unsuccessful, and some aspects can be successful.
'What we can do is try to win as much as possible under certain conditions. Software 1.0 is often not very good, so 1.0 will not be done? 1.0 is not necessarily a failure, 1.0 is just a process. There is no 1.0 and there is 2.0? Say a version can be successful. Chips are also coming out with some bugs. The first version is not easy to succeed, but try to be solid. Ni Guangnan said.
In addition, for the much-watched 'Zhongxing Incident', Ni Guangnan believes that it is inaccurate to say that China can't make chips. The situation in different fields is not the same. 'In the supercomputer field, our chips are not worse than others; the chips for desktop products do It's also worse than developed countries. The gap is not that big. There are three or five years. The chips on mobile phones are roughly the same as those in foreign countries, but some chips do have a big gap with foreign countries. There are many chips used in ZTE in the communications field that we don't have. It's not because of the past. Did not pay attention to '.
Ni Guangnan pointed out that the chip industry is divided into two parts: design and manufacturing. China's largest short board is manufacturing, and the level of design is still relatively good. 'Manufacturing is obviously far behind. Manufacturing is closer to traditional industries and requires a lot of equipment, materials, and processes. There is a lot of investment, and we don't invest enough. Compared with the United States, the gap is still relatively long. There must be ten years and eight years. '
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