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○ “The office lights stay on until a certain hour, and the spark of innovation lasts until a certain time.”
○ This is the daily work portrayal of Song Hairui, a 90s young engineer from Nanjing Incheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. It is also a vivid interpretation of his passionate and persistent belief in lighting up the “Chinese Chip” dream.
○ Behind him, there is a young team with an average age of around 30.
○ Their daily routine is like a race against time, and at the finish line, there is a scorching goal: to create a truly independently controllable “heart” – the chip core for China.
It is essential to design your own chip core.
○ Integrated circuits, or chips for short, are the cornerstone of the information technology industry. However, this most core area has long been dominated by foreign technologies. When they saw many Chinese brands and technologies being blocked and placed on restricted lists, Song Hairui and his colleagues had only one thought in their minds: We must design our own chip core.
○ “Colleagues often joke that when walking together, we can only see my back as we go further and further.” Song Hairui said with a smile. This sentence is very much like the epitome of their team – always chasing, always moving forward.
○ From design, wafer manufacturing to packaging and testing, a chip the size of a fingernail has brought together countless intellectual achievements.
○ And their nights of hard work eventually led to the realization of their goals: Today, Inspen Microelectronics has shipped over 100 million self-developed RISC-V core chips each year, which are widely used in industries such as industry, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence.
○ “When seeing our chips lighting up and being applied in more places, the sense of achievement is beyond words,” said Song Hairui. “This is the meaning of our persistence.”
“Devoting oneself to the country through ‘the core’ and not wasting one’s youth”
○ For Song Hairui, youth means the bold spirit of taking the lead and the perseverance of honing one’s skills over a decade.
This steadfast dedication is not only poured into the front lines of the industry but also extends to the educational podium. In his spare time, he serves as a university mentor, bringing the most cutting-edge industry trends and practical cases into the classroom, translating complex knowledge about chips into language that students can understand.
“I hope students can truly understand this industry, and I also hope more young people will join in, striving for the rise of China’s chips.” In his view, every lecture is sowing seeds for the future of the industry.
Looking ahead to the next five years, he hopes that the team can achieve a major breakthrough in the domestication and replacement of chips. However, in his mind, there is a much broader vision – not just technological iteration, but also the continuation of talents and the establishment of an ecosystem.
“Devoting ourselves to the country through ‘chips’, and not wasting our youth. As long as this generation of us remains steadfast and the next generation continues to move forward, Chinese chips will eventually shine their own light on the world stage.”
The constantly lit lamp in the office not only illuminates the circuits and codes, but also the path taken by a group of young scientific and technological workers, using their wisdom and sweat, to lay a solid foundation for China’s information industry. This path, they are firmly walking down.
