Our Rise Era

Chapter 269 Dead end

The chip principle is very simple.

It is nothing more than extracting high-purity silicon crystals from the most common sand, cutting them into wafers, then coating and etching them, and finally integrating tens of billions of transistors on an area the size of a finger and cutting them into single chips.

However, a chip the size of a thumb has to carry tens of billions of transistors...

what do you need?
An incredibly sophisticated design solution is required...

What needs to be considered in design?
Consider these tens of billions of transistors...

The increase in integration and functionality means that a large number of logic components and circuits are contained within the chip. Therefore, the testing process to ensure the normal operation of all these components and circuits has stumped more than 99% of the world's companies...

The so-called chip design...

It’s just the first step.

The most important, yet least important step...

……

This night.

Ge Guoxing, who is over fifty years old, stood on the rooftop, letting the night wind blow until early morning.

Looking back on half of my life…

From the perspective of the [Little Magic] mobile phone...

That year!
The overbearing [Novia] mobile phone is just a little brother.

That year, Samsung stumbled into China...

That year, the leader in China's communications field was Shengxing. They looked down on everything and they were alone in their pursuit of victory.

That year, the ambitious him realized the importance of "technology" and resolutely plunged into the semiconductor field when it was at its peak.

……

This night.

There are no stars in the sky.

A feeling of despair surged through his body...

In the distant sky, the bottomless darkness seemed to swallow up everything he had.

Taking one step forward means liberation.

but……

But in the end he didn't jump.

The sky was also gray in the early morning and a light rain was falling.

He returned to the office silently.

Just at this moment, there was a series of knocks on the office door.

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"Mr. Ge."

"boss Zhang."

There is a sound of rain outside the window.

Zhang Yang opened the door and sat opposite Ge Guoxing.

After not seeing him for three months, Ge Guoxing's hair had turned completely white.

Sitting on the chair, although he had a smile on his face and tried to cheer himself up, he still couldn't hide his fatigue.

Under the light, his skin was visibly haggard and old. Indistinctly, he looked like an emaciated old man sitting there.

Walking on the street, no one would notice that this old man was once the overlord of the "Little Supernatural Power" era.

It can be seen that he has worked hard for the so-called chip in the past three months.

"How far has it progressed?"

"The chip design is stuck. For three months, apart from barely making the clean room meet market standards, there has been no progress... We burned through most of our money during the preparation stage..."

Ge Guoxing's voice was a little hoarse, and he handed Zhang Yang a piece of information about Shengxing Dust-Free Laboratory.

He has been busy with this for a long time...

The cleanliness level of a dust-free laboratory is usually required to meet Class 14644 to Class 1 of the ISO 1-5 standard. These levels specifically define the number of particles allowed per cubic meter of air. Class 1 represents the highest cleanliness, that is, the number of particles with a diameter greater than 0.1 microns per cubic meter of air does not exceed 10...

In order to achieve this requirement.

Basically, there are extremely high requirements for people, protective clothing, and the specifications of the equipment itself.

Zhang Yang fell silent after reading it.

The situation was much worse than he had imagined.

"I have spread my wings too wide. I want to design chips and process them at the same time..."

"I'm even thinking about the lithography system..."

"But, a very hopeless thing is that even if we were given the most advanced chip blueprints, we would not be able to produce the chips..."

"We just bought a lithography machine, which cost us 18 billion yuan, but we still need the help of foreigners to debug the machine. We paid them a lot of money, but we can't control every link... We simulated and deduced it, but in the end we could only make some basic integrated circuits..."

“I have sought help from some colleges and universities…”

"The universities also took this very seriously and sent people to work with us for about three years."

“However, we have met the theoretical requirements, but solving nearly 2000 projects has become an unprecedented challenge.”

"Chips are high-tech products that integrate the wisdom of all mankind...No country can make truly top-notch chips..."

"..."

The most desperate thing in this world.

I clearly know some theories.

But you can’t do it…

The technology of a single lithography machine has nearly 45 parts, and each part is supplied by the world's top suppliers.

Without technology, talent, or even tools, they just burned money madly based on their passion, but in the end, it was all in vain.

Everything is controlled by the West...

To put it in one sentence, [all we can do is put labels on and make cartons, and the rest is just watching]...

This is a desperate war.

After saying this, Ge Guoxing closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair silently.

"Boss Ge, let's disassemble the project. Shenglan Technology, a subsidiary of Xiaomai Technology, will work with you to complete the chip design. Our requirements are not high now. Invest money in upgrading the chips in low-end mobile phones first..." Zhang Yang nodded, without despair flashing across his face, staring at Ge Guoxing. "Spending three or four billion just to supply the core of a low-end mobile phone, is it worth it?"

"value!"

After Zhang Yang said this, he was silent for a long time, and then he made a phone call.

About ten minutes later, there was a knock on the office door.

Immediately afterwards, the financial director of Shengxing Technology hurried in and whispered something into Ge Guoxing's ear.

Ge Guoxing was stunned.

Then he looked at Zhang Yang and stood up.

"Boss Ge, research and development cannot be interrupted. I have transferred 2 billion to you. You can use it first..."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll run away with the money?"

"As long as I want, I can earn back the two billion anytime. If I want to, I can just run away."

Zhang Yang laughed, and a moment later, Lawyer Shen Lang came to Ge Guoxing with a series of cooperation documents.

Ge Guoxing looked at these documents...

Then he looked at Zhang Yang again.

He was silent for a moment, and finally nodded solemnly without being pretentious.

"I can't guarantee the results, but I won't waste any money I spend."

"Ah."

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The weather in mid-September is still hot and humid.

Department of Commerce.

There was a knock on Song Guifang's office door.

When he opened the door, he saw Zhang Yang walked in.

"Mr. Zhang, long time no see."

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

After seeing Zhang Yang, Song Guifang was very happy. She invited Zhang Yang to sit down and poured him a cup of tea.

This year……

The lawsuits between the European and American Ministries of Commerce and China Solar have always been in a tense situation.

No matter how sincere China's commerce departments are, Europe and the United States have always been convinced that China's photovoltaic industry has always hurt the European and American markets.

In the end, the EU ruled in this lawsuit that Huaxia Photovoltaic did indeed have problems with dumping and market disruption.

From June 6, the other party will implement a temporary tax rate of 6%.

然后，8月6日后税涨至47.6%，其间平均税率为37.2%涨至67.9%……

After September...

The stranglehold from the other side doubled again, completely severing China Photovoltaic's last fantasy of advancing from its home country to Europe and the United States.

……

No one expected that China's photovoltaic industry, which once flourished in Europe and the United States, would fail so quickly under the bill.

No one expected...

The technological breakthrough of [polysilicon] did not usher in a brilliant international ending, but instead became the fuse of this war...

……

However, the demise of the old photovoltaic industry has not affected the emerging photovoltaic industry...

The new force of China's photovoltaic industry, led by Zhang Yang, has taken root in the northwest at this moment and has also opened up part of the market in Africa. Although it no longer has the glory of Europe and the United States, the spark has been preserved, lying dormant waiting for the right opportunity, and finally soaring into the sky.

"Mr. Zhang, the reason you are here this time is..."

"I came here for the chip..."

"chip?"

Zhang Yang, who was once full of vigor and vitality, now began to become very calm in Song Guifang's eyes.

But every word he said was very serious.

“I don’t know what our [Ministry of Commerce] thinks of ‘chips’…”

"Semiconductors are a big topic, and we naturally attach great importance to it. Strictly speaking, the field of monocrystalline silicon is also an important part of semiconductors..."

Zhang Yang nodded, and then under Song Guifang's gaze, he silently took out several mobile phones.

Among them are iPhone series phones, Android phones, and [Novia phones]...

He looked at the computer again and saw at a glance that the operating system on the computer was Windows 8.

"Leader... In 1986, China already had its own local operating system. However, in the 1990s, Microsoft's Windows graphical operating system gradually became popular, eroding the market for the Chinese versions of DOS and COSIX. On that day, the domestic system encountered the stranglehold of the mature Western system and was eventually sealed in history..."

"..."

"In 1995, Mr. Wang Donglai, who graduated from the Department of Radio Electronics at Peking University and worked at Peking University Founder, developed the first practical Chinese environment system in China, BCWin2.0, after more than a year of closed-door development... When it was about to be recognized by the market, [Microsoft] launched the classic Windows 95 operating system, and with overwhelming publicity and promotion, the domestic 2.0 system was strangled in its cradle overnight..."

"..."

"Millennium..."

"..."

Song Guifang listened to Zhang Yang silently telling him one case after another.

As soon as the domestic systems emerged, they were ruthlessly and specifically strangled in the dark...

Song Guifang was slightly touched, and then stared at Zhang Yang: "What do you want to say?"

"On the PC side, we have already lost, or rather, we only have some power left to protect ourselves..."

"but……"

"The 4G era is about to begin, and the mobile phone system world is also undergoing a brutal battle..."

"Mobile phones, as communication software..."

"The system, in a sense, is more important than the PC side!"

"If one day, we completely fall out with the Americans and they start a technological war with us, we will..."

"What can we do to deal with it?"

(End of this chapter)