Our Rise Era

Chapter 275 Stupid Things

Chapter 275 Stupid Things
April Equinox.

Thousands of flowers are blooming.

The park is full of fragrance.

……

"All those people at the Huaxia [Novia] headquarters were poached by him."

"According to conservative estimates, the cost this time is no less than 10 billion..."

"The Dutch ENS lithography machine factory received an order for two lithography machines, also from their [Wheat Technology]..."

"It seems they are determined to go this route."

"but……"

"They don't even know that these lithography machines are obsolete old items..."

"The price we sold it to them was also doubled."

"..."

The spring sun shines on Joe Tech's desk.

Qiao Taike quietly looked at the sunlight outside the window and silently listened to his secretary's account of Zhang Yang's recent movements.

During this time...

[Novia] collapsed overnight, and the news of global layoffs caused a sensation in the technology circle.

Naturally...

The news that Zhang Yang hired nearly a thousand technical personnel from Novia back to the company also went viral on the Internet.

This should be an open secret.

On the Internet, many experts are mocking Zhang Yang's behavior.

Claiming that Zhang Yang was using the most stupid thing to do the thing that was least likely to succeed...

[Making a chip is a hundred times harder than making an atomic bomb. Even if I really gave you the blueprints and the lithography machine, with your current technology, you still can't make the chip that was made three years ago.]

[R&D is not something that can be accomplished by investing money or effort. [Shengxing] started working on semiconductors in 06, and the entire company was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2013. It took 6 years and cost tens of billions of dollars, but the result was only the results of the [R&D Department] in 08. In the 4G era, the things produced are useless at all...]

[Zhang Yang has walked into a dead end. He has plenty of resources to use and can make a lot of money, but he insists on being stubborn and forming his own faction, breaking away from the international system and doing things on his own. Isn't this a joke?]

【…】

Look at these sarcastic words.

Qiao Taike did not agree with all of it, but he also felt that Zhang Yang had chosen a path that was doomed to fail.

【Chip】, seemingly a small and thin thing.

From lithography technology, to chip design, to chip foundry, to chip testing and operation, and even chip design software...

There is no technology in China that can keep up with the times...

This kind of wisdom that integrates all mankind is equivalent to the crystallization of the wisdom of all mankind...

A blind investment of money...

They were just scouting for talent like crazy, casting a wide net, and never conducting any systematic screening...

How could it be possible?

Moreover, can you recruit truly high-end top talents with just a few dollars?

"This is the end of China. I want to go back."

After flipping through Zhang Yang's information, Qiao Taik took another look at Android's sales.

Finally, he said this thoughtfully.

The Chinese [Android] system is now the trend.

His mission has been completed.

……

The spring of 2014.

For Android phones in China, it is a spring that has come like a whirlwind.

On April 4, Samsung released the Samsung Galaxy S13, a mobile phone equipped with a 5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 2.5 processor and Android 801 system. The phone, priced at 4.0 yuan, was equipped with the most advanced fingerprint unlocking function on the market. It caused an unprecedented craze in the Chinese market, and even made many mobile phone brands widen their eyes.

In just 25 days, the global sales of this phone exceeded 500 million units, and in China it exploded, exceeding an astonishing 20 million units, with an average daily sales of units...

In an era when Android phones are booming and iPhone phones are in full swing, it is already a miracle that it can still achieve such high sales.

Countless people think that this mobile phone is Samsung's counterattack after a brief period of sluggishness in its high-end models and being defeated by the iPhone!
……

February 4.
Sony also released its own new phone, the Sony X2. This phone uses a 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8974AB quad-core processor, which is slightly lower than the Samsung S5, but it is very smooth in playing games and operating in all aspects. It is priced at RMB 3600 and is aimed at the mid-range Android models. Like a beast, it rushed into the market fiercely and achieved sales of 20 million units in just 130 days...

On the next day, April 4, after a short period of dormancy, the Chinese local brand [VIK] mobile phone suddenly hit the market, bringing the brand new [VIK.16] mobile phone, equipped with [R&D]'s latest processor [Teana 3] using the third-generation [Taiji Electric] 2.5nm process technology, the CPU contains 17 Cortex-X4 super cores and 4 A4 large cores, becoming an amazing feat for Chinese local mobile phones...

……

Some people are mourning the collapse of [Novia].

However, the trend of the times will not wait for people to regret, but will usher in a new era under the rolling torrent.

Brands sprang up one after another, and eventually devoured the market of [Novia] step by step...

And with the rise of one Android brand after another...

The entire market has been completely frozen in a situation where [Android] and [IOS] are competing for supremacy.

Qiao Taike, under the gaze of all members of the Android Open Developer Alliance, waved his hand, left the Chinese market, walked into the Google headquarters, and amid rounds of applause, handed in an answer sheet that surprised all the leaders, and finally sat in the position of Vice President of Android Systems...

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The most desperate thing in this world.

It’s not that you can’t improve.

Instead, while you are unable to make progress, your opponents are updating and iterating.

And you...

Holding on to a hopeless ending, in a dark laboratory, watching piles of money being burned and seeing one failure after another.

In May 2014, as Intel announced the progress of 5NM chip technology, mobile phones around the world have already used 14NM and above... Ding Ziqiang looked at the group of people in the laboratory bitterly...

The reports of failure have piled up like a mountain.

And facing these reports...

They were helpless.

……

5 month 1 day.

Labor Day.

late at night.

"come back……"

When the test fails again.

The [Wheat 2.5 System] had already been operating to its limit, but it still failed due to the [chip] problem.

Ding Ziqiang returned to the office silently.

[Shengxing] We purchased two 22NM chip process lithography machines from the Netherlands.

This is the level of lithography machines in 2011. Although it has not been eliminated globally, it is already a product of an outdated era.

However, even though it is a product of this backward era, the chips made by the people at Shengxing still have a very low yield rate and cannot be put into production at all.

Looking at the market...

After the chip designed by [R&D Department] has exceeded 17NM in mass production, Ding Ziqiang only feels endless darkness.

11 o'clock in the evening.

He walked out of the office exhausted.

Then, I received a phone call unexpectedly.

The call was from Guo Shanming from the Research and Development Department.

As far as he could remember, Guo Shanming seldom called him, and even when he resigned, Guo Shanming's attitude towards him was extremely cold.

But this time, it was really unexpected...

"We can no longer do things like trying to stop a rock with an egg..."

"Keep doing it..."

"There is only one way to die."

"Even if you [Shengxing] rely on the Dutch lithography machine and so much money to come up with a 22NM chip design process, even if you make the processor to the extreme, its performance is no more than 21NM computing... 21NM, what is your selling point? The market is already in the Android era. If you don't want to get nothing, stop it in time."

Guo Shanming no longer has the high and mighty status he once had.

His words were full of friendliness, like those of an old friend whom he hadn't seen for many years.

Ding Ziqiang was silent for a long time: "Mr. Guo, you called me for no reason. You didn't call me to tell me that I can't succeed, right?"

Guo Shanming paused for a moment on the other end of the phone, as if he didn't expect Ding Ziqiang to be so straightforward. After a moment, he laughed: "We want to do something in the Android era..."

"whats the matter?"

"We want to build our own system, but we lack excellent adapters..."

"In the Android era, do you want to create your own system?" Ding Ziqiang suddenly burst into laughter.

"This market originally belonged to our MTK system, but we have taken a detour over the years... We have borrowed the Android framework and have created our own brand new MTK system, but now we need people to adapt it to various software and to meet the performance limits..."

"..."

Ding Ziqiang listened to Guo Shanming talking about his ambitions.

The failure of the [R&D Department] in the [MTK] system caused it to fall into internal chaos and integration for a short time, but it did not cause any substantial damage to the [R&D Department].

They joined the Android Open Source Alliance and became chip designers. Over the years, they have made a lot of money from patented chip designs...

At this moment, Guo Shanming felt that the time was ripe and planned to restart the MTK project.

The system and the chip are no longer a problem. Now, what is most lacking is multifunctional talents who can adapt software and provide system solutions...

Although there are still many talented people within the company, some of them are doing well.

But I always feel that it’s a little bit off…

After seeing that [Xiaomi A] can adapt to some games in the 4G era with such backward hardware...

Guo Shanming finally realized what a great talent he had missed.

Seeing Zhang Yang's predicament...

Guo Shanming felt that his chance had come.

……

If in the past...

He might be bewitched by these words and return to the [R&D Department] camp.

but now……

do not know why……

He held his breath.