Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 872 An ordinary old lady

June is approaching in the Special Administrative Region, and the sun is already blazing.

In just half a year, the Special Economic Zone has taken on a new look and is developing vigorously.

Li Jiankun should have been happy to see this originally, but now that he had a document in his hand, he was somewhat gritting his teeth.

This is something that is put on the table.

Some guys have to be bitches and build memorials.

The content is high-sounding, saying that Huadian Company violated this and that, but it does not mention the reason that both parties know well——

Huadian Corporation is building a chip industrial park in the special zone.

This hurt the interests of some guys, so they were blacklisted.

Even in the port city, Huadian Company cannot import chip technology, equipment and materials.

Lin Xinjia scratched his head: "But, materials?"

Therefore, even if there is a price war with Motorola, Li Jiankun is not afraid.

It integrates many sophisticated instruments, and the overall cost is also very expensive, not much cheaper than a photolithography machine.

Batumi does not restrict the import of finished chips from Huadian and mainland China. They cannot restrict this either. The capital bosses above them will not agree.

Its function is to inject atoms to be doped into the silicon wafer so that the chip can obtain specific electrical properties. Otherwise, even if the chip is made, it will not work properly.

Lin Xinjia smiled coquettishly and turned around: "Well, the factory doesn't need so many masters. I will arrange the extra people to other newly acquired companies."

2.EDA.

Let me tell you, the SAR leadership team has helped a lot in this regard.

On the wooden sofa against the wall, Lin Xinjia spread his hands and said.

To this end, we often invite technical experts in related fields to help.

At this time, a test machine is needed.

If you want to manufacture chips, raw materials are an unavoidable hurdle.

Fortunately, Li Jiankun now has these devices at hand.

In order to create a talent reserve for the Huadian Industrial Park in the Special Administrative Region, he deliberately recruited suitable new employees from both the mainland and the Hong Kong city. Like the mainland, he spent a lot of money to send them to the Hong Kong city for training.

The topic comes back again.

The life cycle of a chip begins with the analysis of market demand, followed by product definition, design, and manufacturing. After packaging is completed, it is delivered to the end consumer and needs to undergo multiple tests throughout the entire process.

The chip factory he was referring to was the chip factory of the former Hong Kong City Baotong Company. After taking over this chip factory, the chips for Huadian BB machines were all produced there.

It's not just a lithography machine, it's just the core equipment. In fact, there are many key equipment in the chip field, such as:
Test machine.

People who know how to make chips are hard to find these days.

Naturally, it saves old nose money.

After all, half of the Huadian Company in the Special Administrative Region is owned by the state.

At present, the global semiconductor testing machine market is mainly controlled by Teradyne, a company in the United States, and Advant, a small company in China.

"Now you see what to do, the chip factory can't start work."

This is just a word. Li Jiankun nodded: "Let's see how many people are willing to come and work in the special zone. The treatment will be favorable."

It is also the issue that is currently troubling Li Jiankun and Huadian Company.

Ion implantation is the core process of doping in wafer manufacturing, and its technical barriers are second only to photolithography, etching, and thin film deposition.

The etching machine is also a very important piece of equipment.

Coincidentally, the global etching equipment market is mainly controlled by Tokyo Electronics and Applied Materials.

There are four major difficulties in manufacturing chips:
1. Equipment.

There is at least one of these devices, and now the Huadian Research Institute in the Special Administrative Region is being cloned by five horses. Researchers are studying day and night, hoping to imitate it and talk about improving it in the future.

The market for this kind of equipment is mainly monopolized by companies from the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands.

Li Jiankun looked at him with caring eyes: "I train employees on a large scale, and you still want to fire them?"

Every employee is a treasure.

As for the chips needed for Huadian BB machines, go back to the past and order them from other companies.

"Aren't you going to lay off some employees?" Lin Xinjia asked. The chip factory cannot be put into production and has no income. To support so many employees now, it costs a lot of money every month.

The chip factory in the special zone is basically ready.

There are also ion implanters.

In the past, Baotong Company, since it could produce chips independently, had everything to do. When Batumi relaxed the embargo on lithography machine technology from mainland China, he specially sent Liu Jingyan to lead a team to the beautiful country. I also got some high and low.

"Then do training, use the remaining materials to practice, and train the newly recruited employees to the level of the old employees."

There are many more.

Regarding equipment, Li Jiankun's headache is not the problem of running out of things, but the manufacturing.

The industry calls photolithography machines "the heart of modern semiconductor manufacturing" and EDA the "mother of chip design."

EDA, the abbreviation of Electronic Design Automation, to put it bluntly, is circuit board development.

The first step in chip manufacturing, in addition to understanding the market, is design.

Obviously, Li Jiankun solved this problem.

Although the current business capabilities of Huadian IC Design Center are still far behind top EDA companies such as Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens.

But the basics are in place.

This is why he took great pains to win the Baotong IC Design Center.

3. Talent.

In this regard, Huadian Company is still lacking.

Otherwise, Li Jiankun would not have personally trained and trained the workers on the assembly line.

At a higher level, talent is extremely scarce.

In the Huadian Research Institute of the Special Economic Zone, it seems that there are quite a few scientific researchers.

However, few of them have actually been engaged in the chip industry. For example, Yu Fenghua, the head of the optics department, has never studied the lenses on the lithography machine before, so he started to study again based on the basics.

There are almost no such experts who have worked in the chip field for many years.

In other words, there are three "Bodhisattvas" in the Hong Kong City Huadian IC Design Center who have paid huge sums of money.

Ding Lun's team is busy stealing lessons...

4. Materials.

If we talk about talents, Huadian Company currently does not have that kind of industry giants who are particularly awesome, but at least on a regular level, there are still people available.

So in terms of raw materials, it is really a duck egg.

Some materials are planned for production, however, have not yet started.

Even if you want to make some materials, you can't make them yet...

Make bricks without straw.

Without raw materials, it is equivalent to building a house without sand and gravel.

Otherwise, Li Jiankun cannot sit back and watch the Hong Kong chip factory stop production and close down operations.

If he wants to become a Huadian company and build a whole chip industry chain, the first thing he has to solve now is the problem of raw materials.

Jingle Bell!
Li Jiankun paused his chat with Lin Xinjia and picked up the landline microphone on his desk.

"Hey?"

As he listened, a joyful light appeared on his cheeks.

"Okay, okay! Director Zhou, thank you very much... Arrive tomorrow?...Okay, I understand..."

Lin Xinjia looked curious, and almost lost his breath when someone choked his neck. How could he be so happy at this time? Snapped!
After hanging up the phone, Li Jiankun jumped up from the boss' chair:
"Xinjia, have Da Ben wash it and make it clean inside and out."

"What are you doing?"

"I'll pick you up at Yangcheng Airport tomorrow."

"Oh, let Zhang Gui go, or... should I go?"

"I go."

Lin Xinjia: "?"

He is familiar with his boss and does not interact much with people in the political world. Even if he does, he is neither humble nor arrogant. As for people in society, there is no one worthy of him traveling hundreds of kilometers away to greet him personally.

Who can have such a huge array?

……

……

The next day, Yangcheng Baiyun Airport.

A black Mercedes Benz and two Crown cars of the same color were parked next to the curb on one side of the airport square, which was particularly eye-catching.

So much so that there are obviously more people nearby than elsewhere.

Since all three cars were locked and there was no one on board, there were many brave young people who stepped forward to touch them. Just like that, they were extremely excited.

At this time, if someone has a camera on him.

I can make some money.

As for the people in the original car, they are now waiting in front of the pick-up gate in the terminal.

Headed by Li Jiankun, followed by Lin Xinjia, the Fugui brothers, and several technical staff with senior professional titles from the Huadian Research Institute of the Special Zone.

"Mr. Lin, who are you picking up?" Zhang Gui asked in a low voice.

"He is said to be a pillar of character."

After hearing this, Zhang Gui adjusted his clothes subconsciously.

The Air China flight from the capital arrived a quarter of an hour ago, and people were coming out of the station one after another.

Li Jiankun opened his eyes wide and paid careful attention.

Groups of people passed by, none of them looked alike.

Yes, he has never seen this big boss before. He only heard his name but didn't know who he was.

"Mr. Chen, haven't you come out yet?" he asked behind him.

"No."

Only Chen Gong present knew this big boss. Chen Gong’s teacher was an informal student of this big boss.

His teacher is the current deputy director of the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The big boss was able to come this time because of Chen Gong's suggestion. The Special Economic Zone Huadian Company encountered technical difficulties in a project it planned to start.

Then, Li Jiankun realized that if he could get this help, it would be like a divine help, so he hurriedly contacted the capital. The things he had done in the capital earlier were finally not in vain. Director Zhou of the Association for Science and Technology was a big help, so he invited him Motivate this big boss to come out.

It's not that this boss is arrogant, but that he is too old.

Nearly seventy years old.

Li Jiankun proposed to go to the capital to pick him up, but was rejected by the boss.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Chen Gong said suddenly.

Li Jiankun opened his eyes and looked...

"where?"

Lin Xinjia and the others also looked at Lonely, and they couldn't tell which of the people coming out of the station looked like a big boss.

"There." Chen Gong pointed.

Li Jiankun: "?"

Lin Xinjia and others: "??"

Following Chen Gong's hand, they saw a round-faced old lady wearing a green cloth gown and clam shell shoes. There was a braided girl supporting her next to her, and she was holding a rattan box in her other hand.

The old man and the young man came slowly.

Like a grandma and granddaughter visiting relatives.

Okay, regardless of whether the aura is right or not, Chen Gong said yes, it must be right... Li Jiankun hurriedly greeted him.

"Commissioner Lin."

Chen Gong was the first to shout.

The round-faced old lady smiled and waved her hand: "I'm retired, so don't call me that."

"……Yes."

Li Jiankun bowed and said, "Hello, Mr. Lin."

The round-faced old lady looked him up and down. The girl next to him didn't dare to be so unscrupulous and took a few furtive glances. There was quite a bit of curiosity on her pretty face.

"You are a famous person. I have seen you twice in the newspaper recently." The old lady loved to smile and had a kind face.

If she didn't reveal her identity, who wouldn't know it?

It is such an extremely ordinary old lady who is one of the pioneers of my country's semiconductor industry.

The mother of China’s semiconductor materials, Ms. Lin Lanying.

Her life experience is enough to write a novel with twists and turns.

For example, in the 1950s, she gave up the annual salary of 10,000 US dollars offered to her by a foreign company, took two small bottles, accepted the 207 yuan salary that the country could offer her, and resolutely returned to China.

Before boarding the plane, customs discovered two small bottles and $6,800.

She suddenly realized that the small bottle contained medicine for her mother. The reason why she applied for the opportunity to return to China with great difficulty was because her mother was seriously ill.

In fact, it's not a lie.

When the customs officer shouted, "This is money earned in the United States and cannot be taken out of the country," she simply gave up the money.

Holding two small bottles, I finally managed to escape.

The contents in the bottle were naturally not medicine. They were monocrystalline silicon and monocrystalline germanium that she had developed in the laboratory, only six hundred grams.

The market value at that time was more than 200,000 US dollars.

However, its significance to the country is far beyond what can be measured by money.

Many people who came later did not know that we had also been brilliant in the field of semiconductors.

In 1958, Ms. Lin Lanying led a team to successfully pull the first silicon single crystal, and my country became the third country in the world to produce silicon single crystal.

Later, she embarked on research on gallium arsenide, making my country the first country in the world to produce a semiconductor material - gallium arsenide single crystal in space.

Unfortunately, many leads were not able to be maintained due to many reasons.

Li Jiankun believed that this old woman was unwilling to give up.

As a reborn person, he happened to understand how valuable her research was.

What a treasure woman she is.

Inviting her here this time, Li Jiankun's idea was not just to provide guidance.

Even though grandma is old.

His behavior may be a bit unfilial.

However, "mother" is really in trouble.

He also believed that those who could make that choice back then would not be able to extinguish the flame in their hearts so easily.

(End of this chapter)