my gilded age

Chapter 676 Bai Shiqiu wants to make a chip!Picking up rags to make glass shards

Chips, or things like CPUs, Bai Shiqiu is a literary and artistic worker, or simply a liberal arts student, or according to Xiaodai's Taiwanese term, you are a literary worker, what are you doing!

Yes, what are you doing? Bai Shiqiu really shouldn't do this. He really doesn't understand.

However, he still has to get involved in this industry, otherwise, the future will be difficult.

TT made a mobile phone, and Bai Shiqiu also invested in robots for unmanned logistics, and also invested in DJI.

The development of these industries is very good, very outstanding, and enviable by everyone.

But these all require chips and CPUs, and they are still necessary.

It is true that you can still purchase it now, and you can even continue to purchase it, but what if you can't purchase it?
In fact, from the perspective of economics, the current economic activities of all human beings in the world, both self- and non-self-operated, are called free market economies.

Well, one should add a capitalist, capitalist free market economy.

Economics itself is not a formula. Economics itself actually studies the laws of human behavior. In the West, economics is not separate from philosophy and sociology, or they are basically the same. For example, the two mentors Marx and Engels , they have always been called economists.

That is to say, the free market economy itself is a behavioral model, a behavioral model that naturally appears in the operation of human society. Its characteristic is resource allocation. Resource allocation follows the market. The law is that the big will always be big, the strong will always be strong, and the resources will be distributed. Will converge towards the high ground.

Yes, this is contrary to the Taoist theory that the way of heaven makes up for what is lacking and damages more than it is capable of.

But from another perspective, that is, capital is always looking for the lowest-cost thing. Precisely because capital will converge to higher ground, capital needs cheaper production costs.

Given the current situation, purchasing chips from abroad, especially from large companies led by the United States, is reasonable and the lowest-cost production method.

The United States' approach is also very smart. In fact, they are also dividing labor. At this point, Bai Shiqiu and Zhang Xiaodai had a discussion. During this period, Bai Shiqiu was pinched countless times.

This all revolves around the company TSMC.

Zhang Xiaodai has a great sense of honor. As an islander, she feels that TSMC is very powerful, very strong and awesome.

Bai Shiqiu agreed, because that is the fact. After all, it is the largest wafer factory and EE company in the world.

But the question is, what is the point of this awesomeness?

Bai Shiqiu's explanation to Zhang Xiaodai was that this enterprise was actually allocated to Taiwan by the United States during the division of labor.

In fact, this company is not a Taiwanese company. Just look at the list of major shareholders of this company and you will know that from a capital perspective, it has little to do with Taiwan.

But this company is in Taiwan, really in Taiwan. Isn't this very... disturbing?

Bai Shiqiu listed a lot of data. TSMC has indeed contributed a lot to Taiwan's GDP, but how many resources does this company consume?

A large amount of electricity in Taiwan is used by this company, because the production of wafers is a particularly power-consuming industry. Zhang Zhongmou once said that TSMC must not cut off power. Even if it is cut off for one second, it will cause tens of billions of losses.

But you know, Taiwan is complaining about power shortage every day.

The reality is that without TSMC, Taiwan would not be short of electricity at all.

You must know that Taiwan does not have many resources for power generation. Some crude oil and coal must be imported, so nuclear power must be developed. However, this island is also prone to earthquakes, which is really dangerous.

But in fact, this is not a big deal, the key is people.

TSMC has absorbed the best talents from the entire island of Taiwan.

Because the benefits are good, the remuneration is good, and the quality is good, it naturally attracts talents.

There is no need to say anything else. Just these two things, what results actually resulted?

In fact, TSMC is just a leech, lying on the island of Taiwan and desperately sucking blood, but Taiwanese people still don't understand, and they still think it is such a glorious thing to have this company.

It's very simple. Although TSMC employees can receive high benefits and high salaries, they are not comparable to the costs paid by Taiwan as a whole.

The key is that the major shareholder of this company is the United States, and this company consumes so many resources. The so-called benefits and benefits are like the bones in a whole piece of ribs, and they have only this value.

If these talents come out and start some businesses on their own, they may not be any worse than they are at TSMC.

The GDP contributed cannot be enjoyed by the people on the island, and it all falls into the pockets of the Americans.

The saddest thing is that the people on the island still think that this is a super good company and their own glory... It can even be said to be terrible, very terrible.

When Bai Shiqiu said this, Zhang Xiaodai really didn't want to accept it, but she knew it was all true, so... the postpartum depression became even more severe. She pinched her when there was nothing wrong. It was so frustrating. Oh, it was so painful. Old Bai.

As for this chip thing... the United States is going to rely on this stuff for a lifetime. The so-called industrial upgrading and industrial division of labor. Handing over this wafer foundry to Taiwan is to fix the technical order. .

Yes, this is the technical order.

There are many orders in this world, social order, class order, and this kind of technical order.

Bai Shiqiu, as a literary group in the mouth of Xiaodai, all he wants to do is to break this order!
To put it simply, we produce our own chips.

In fact, it is not difficult to explain this thing. According to the history of computer development, diodes were used at first, which are like light bulbs. Later, integrated circuits were used, and chips are the miniaturization of integrated circuits.

Special miniature...

It sounds simple, but if you really want to do it, it's really not that easy. The difficulty is very, very, very difficult.

Even if you have money, you may not be able to do it.

So, as a writer, Baek Shi-qiu, who doesn’t understand this aspect and knows how difficult it is, what should he do?

Find Rebus.

Rebus thought before that he was looking for Bai Shiqiu, but when Bai Shiqiu expressed his thoughts, he suddenly understood.

It turned out that Bai Shiqiu was looking for him.

Why Rebus?
Because Rebus can indeed make some powerful and strange connections.There is a plan called 863, and one of the plans in this plan is always ignored or unexpected, which is to create an online game.

At the beginning, because domestic online games were developing very rapidly, some people within the system wanted to try it.

The online game Swordsman Love is actually part of the 863 project, and Rebus is the person in charge.

This is why Bai Shiqiu was so confident when he competed with his opponents in online games. Not only because he knew that the future of online games could not be defined as 'mental illness', but he also knew that the country was actually developing a Face this thing with a positive attitude.

Instructor Ma En told us that we need to divide it into two points, that is, don’t make one thing too rigid, try both good and bad, and you may have unexpected gains.

The online game Rebus is doing pretty well, so if you have money, you can start working on Xiaomi.

That's basically what happened, but these are all secrets that most people don't know.

How did Bai Shiqiu know?

Of course he knew.

But how did Rebus think Bai Shiqiu knew?

There is someone above this person!

Rebus had heard various rumors about Bai Shiqiu before, and there was someone above him. It was definitely the most abundant and satisfactory one among the rumors. Now that he saw and talked about it, it was definitely like this.

O is not OK?

Of course that’s OK!
"What does Mr. Bai want to do? You know, chip packaging, testing, and design are actually all possible, but the photolithography machine, which is the real production thing, is too difficult to do. ." Rebus is not an amateur, he understands this.

In fact, this is a temptation.

Bai Shiqiu smiled and replied: "That's right, but we can't limit it to a treaty and not engage in it at all. What kind of treaty is it? Since I, Bai Shiqiu, haven't signed it, it's just a piece of waste paper."

treaty?

By the way, this is called the Wassenaar Agreement.

To put it simply, this agreement is to protect us. Of course, in reality, it is to protect Russia. However, we have been assigned to Russia by Europe and the United States, that is, many high-tech weapons or other things are theirs. If you think it is high-tech, then impose an embargo or various restrictions on us.

As soon as Bai Shiqiu talked about this agreement, Rebus took a high look at it.

know the business!

It was just that there was someone on top before, but this Bai Shiqiu actually knows how to put things in this regard, this is simply incredible.

Moreover, Bai Shiqiu has his own way.

"There is a technical difficulty at the moment. I believe Mr. Lei knows about it, right?"

"This... EUV?"

"Yes, that's it. This technology has not yet been conquered. Moreover, I know that many people are having headaches with the many technical problems involved, but I think there should be a chance of success."

EUV is a new type of photolithography machine, suitable for extremely small ones...it's more difficult anyway.

It is now the beginning of 2012. At this time, EUV has not really been developed yet.

Bai Shiqiu is not a professional, but after he investigated the information in this area, he found that this is an opportunity now!

When the needs become smaller and smaller and the NM becomes less and less, new technologies are needed. EUV is now developing public relations. What does this mean?
There will definitely be many losers, and there will definitely be a winner.

So, what should we do now that we have nothing on hand?
Bai Shiqiu’s solution is...

"Let's buy those loser laboratories..."

When Rebus heard this, he immediately gave a thumbs up, "Smart!"

Failure, yes, it is indeed a failure, it is all over, but we don’t have it now, or in other words, the gap between our Chinese enterprises in this area is too big, so the things that failed are also useful to us, just those experiments Parameters, as well as various failure information, can at least save us a lot of detours.

You know, these things will be disposed of as garbage when the laboratory closes.Of course, there will also be confidential work. For example, some confidential documents can't just be put into the shredder. They have to be melted under the witness of a dedicated person and watched with their own eyes as they enter the paper mill.

However, we spend money to buy it, is that okay?
Of course, we have to hide our identities.

Set up a company in the Middle East, and then all the employees there are European, and let the company acquire these 'junks'.

After the real breakthrough of EUV, all those failed laboratories will be finished. At this time, someone will pay to buy their failed laboratories. This seems... Of course, it will definitely not be small money. Bai Shiqiu is prepared to pay one billion US dollars. Do this.

And Rebus thinks it is completely feasible, then, as for other things... a billion dollars is actually nothing in this industry, and it is completely impossible to achieve without national-level support.

This is just to collect the waste materials from the photolithography machine. There are a lot of other things. It takes a lot of effort just to get electricity. This is not electricity for domestic life.

Project 863 can still be used.

The two hit it off immediately and even gave the plan a name.

Picking up rags and making glass project.

The name came from... a strong Northeastern style, which made Rebus couldn't help but say that he should learn a Northeastern accent.

This made Bai Shiqiu... almost burst the other ribs.

Imagine Rebus at a presentation.

ARE-YOU-OK?

It also contains the flavor of Northeast China's big dirt...it's so damn exciting!
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