410: Chapter 410 Intelligent Voice Simplification

This feature was essentially a very simple artificial intelligence. For Chu Qianlan, who possessed the Nuwa System, implementing this feature was extremely simple, provided the hardware could keep up.

Chu Qianlan tapped his fingers lightly on the desk, his eyes brightening. "Adding an intelligent voice assistant to the Qiming Generation 4 will be a major selling point for the new device."

A flash of surprise crossed Lin Yu's eyes. "An intelligent voice assistant? Is it a basic feature like 'voice-controlled calling and messaging'?"

"It's more than just that simple." Chu Qianlan stood up and walked to the whiteboard, casually sketching out the functional architecture diagram. "It needs to be based on the dynamic scheduling capabilities of the Xingxiang Instruction Set, integrating speech recognition and semantic understanding. It won't just execute basic operations; it needs to be able to link with the core functions of the Tiandao OS, such as setting alarms by voice, checking the weather, opening applications, and even recommending features based on user habits."

Lin Yu quickly took out his notebook to record, the sound of his pen scratching across the paper particularly rapid. "This will require optimizing the accuracy of speech recognition and the semantic understanding model, and we'll also need to open up the underlying interfaces of the Tiandao OS. However, relying on the scheduling advantages of the Xingxiang Instruction Set, it is technically feasible; we just need to coordinate the algorithm team and the system team to tackle it together."

Chu Qianlan nodded slightly. "You don't need to worry about the intelligent voice assistant program; just let the Nuwa System generate it. You only need to handle the connection between the program and the hardware."

Lin Yu's hand holding the pen paused abruptly, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes. "The Nuwa System will generate it directly? This... this efficiency is simply astonishing!"

But thinking about how all the functions of the intelligent voice assistant were derived from the Nuwa System, he felt relieved.

Chu Qianlan tapped his fingers on the desk, his tone carrying a note of certainty. "The Nuwa System's algorithm library already covers core modules like speech recognition and semantic understanding. The generated program will not only be highly stable but will also automatically adapt to the hardware resources of the integrated Chip, saving you from having to develop it from scratch."

He paused for a moment and added, "After the program is generated, you should focus on testing the voice wake-up rate, recognition accuracy in noisy environments, and the fluidity of the linkage with the Tiandao OS. You must complete the adaptation and debugging before the engineering units are assembled."

Lin Yu nodded heavily, his excitement undisguised. "Understood! With the program provided by the Nuwa System, we can save at least a month of development time and will definitely be able to complete the testing before the engineering units are assembled."

After discussing the intelligent voice assistant for the Qiming Generation 4, Chu Qianlan turned his attention to Chen Wenzhou. "Engineer Chen, although the 45nm integrated Chip has finished development, the research and development for the 45nm process Chip must continue."

"The first direction is to continue improving the performance of the integrated Chip. Although the 28nm Chip is nearing completion of development, next year's new Qiming model will still use the 45nm Chip."

"As for the more advanced 28nm Chip, it will be reserved for the company's future flagship devices."

"The second direction is, while keeping the main performance of the Chip unchanged, to streamline the Chip's functions and reduce costs."

"Although Starry Sky Technology does not intend to enter the low-end mobile phone market in the short term, regardless of whether it's for the Tiandao OS or to establish a foothold in the semiconductor industry, we cannot completely abandon this market."

According to Chu Qianlan's plan, next year they would launch their own mid-to-high-end models and then partner with a mobile phone company to release a low-end phone, thereby maintaining their influence in the mobile phone industry.

Chen Wenzhou quickly marked the core directions in his notebook, the sound of his pen scratching across the paper particularly clear. "Understood! I will immediately split the R&D tasks and form two new specialized teams."

"The performance improvement team will focus on architectural optimization and mining the potential of the manufacturing process, planning to increase the CPU frequency of the integrated Chip by 15% by enhancing cache bandwidth and optimizing the instruction scheduling logic."

"The simplification team will target non-core functional modules for trimming, focusing on retaining basic capabilities such as communication and computation, with the goal of reducing the Chip area by 20% and costs by 18%."

He paused and added, "Both teams will share the underlying optimization results of the Xingxiang Instruction Set to avoid redundant R&D. The performance-enhanced version is expected to complete development within 6 to 9 months, while the simplified version only involves functional deletion and integration, so we can have samples ready in at most 3 months."

Chu Qianlan tapped his fingers on the desk, his gaze sweeping over both of their faces. "The progress milestones are very clear; proceed according to this plan."

"The performance-enhanced version must reserve sufficient testing cycles; after all, increasing the frequency might trigger power consumption and heat dissipation issues, so we must repeatedly verify its stability."

"Although the simplified version has a shorter cycle, the functional trimming must be precise. It cannot affect the basic experience, such as the signal strength of the communication module or the response speed of the computing core; these bottom lines must never be crossed."

After sending the two off, Chu Qianlan immediately issued an order, having the Nuwa System integrate the intelligent voice assistant software package and send it to Lin Yu.

Just as he finished, Qu Feng walked into the office, his face wearing a look of seriousness. "CEO Chu, the first round of negotiations with TSMC has temporarily reached a stalemate. They have agreed to a third-party assessment of the patent value, but they are unlikely to easily let go of the licensing for core patents."

Chu Qianlan tapped his fingers on the desk, his eyes calm and waveless. "This is to be expected. If our positions were swapped, we wouldn't be willing to hand over core technologies either."

"However, if they want cross-licensing, they must bring valuable technology to the table."

Qu Feng nodded and placed the negotiation records on the desk. "TSMC's bottom line is very clear: they absolutely will not let go of their undisclosed process R&D patents, and at most, we can only choose alternative solutions from their publicly available patents. However, the technical value of those publicly available patents likely won't reach our required 90% threshold."

Chu Qianlan, however, was unconcerned. "They have their bottom line, but we have ours. If the patent value offered by TSMC is lower than our 90%, this cross-licensing agreement cannot be reached."

"We won't suffer any losses for the time being by not having TSMC's patents, but if TSMC is judged by the US court to be unable to use our patents, their losses will definitely be a significant figure."

He paused and continued, "This negotiation may seem to only involve TSMC, but it likely involves the calculations of several other semiconductor giants as well."

Among the alliance formed by those six semiconductor giants, TSMC is the weakest one. The fact that it suddenly contacted Xingyuan Exploration must have been with the tacit approval of its other allies.

Qu Feng nodded silently. "It seems this negotiation is just a probe by the six companies; whether it succeeds or not remains an unknown!"

Chu Qianlan chuckled. "If they want to fight, we'll oblige. In any case, we have the advantage in the US court litigation. The longer it drags on, the more favorable it is for us!"