Our Rise Era

Chapter 276 Despair
What is the stupidest thing in the world?
It is to cast a wide net and recruit people blindly...

To put it nicely...

We recruit talents without any restrictions.

To put it bluntly.

It's just a matter of luck and spending a lot of money.

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"Boss Zhang, sometimes I really don't know how we can win this battle..."

"There are many low-end Android phones..."

"Although they don't have after-sales service, they are just like the knockoff phones before, and they will become stuck after a while..."

"But they sell it for 499, and for a 499 phone, the profit is at least 200 yuan..."

"CPU is our old rival. It is the G1 dual-core processor from the [R&D Department]. The purchase cost is about 55 yuan..."

"1.2GB of memory costs 15 yuan, 64GB of storage costs 20 yuan..."

"Their final cost was only 299..."

"us……"

"..."

these years……

Xu Yunlong has grown from a young man with thick hair to a middle-aged man with a slightly bald head.

He was a resilient person, but after going through one market research after another, he felt more and more desperate.

The arrival of the [Android era] is really crazy.

From high-end, mid-end, to the lowest end...

Several levels of mobile phones, with almost no blind spots in all aspects, carried out an unprecedented bloody massacre in the market.

After witnessing this massacre and analyzing almost every mobile phone processor and buyer, Xu Yunlong felt a deep sense of suffocation from the inside out.

The sky is grey.

Xu Yunlong, who was sitting in the car, handed a data report to Zhang Yang.

This is the basic spare parts purchased for low-end Android phones...

The spare parts are basically led by the [R&D Department], and the core things used are basically cheap imported products.

After Zhang Yang silently read the quotation, Xu Yunlong handed the purchase order for [Wheat 2A] to Zhang Yang.

[Xiaomi 2A], the core processor is under development, the chip is under development, the screen uses the latest capacitive screen of its own company [Lingchuan Intelligent Manufacturing], [Xiaomi 2.5 system] is being debugged, camera, memory, battery...

All spare parts of [Wheat 2A] are domestically produced.

However, using domestic products does not mean cheap...

On the contrary, because each partner has invested a lot of R&D funds in new fields, these R&D funds have to be used in procurement...

Even though they knew that Zhang Yang was doing something groundbreaking, and they were supporting him, they were still at a competitive disadvantage compared to those spare parts that had already matured and had a very large market...

Others can make 499 yuan by selling it for 200.

But Zhang Yang could only make 499 yuan at most by selling it for 20 yuan.

The gap is about ten times...

Of course, if the sales volume can reach 2000 million or more, the purchase and profit can be doubled accordingly...

but……

At most 40 yuan.

Moreover, in an era when the Android system dominates the entire China, can you create a myth again with all domestic parts and components?

The car sped along the road ahead [Shengxing].

Zhang Yang pushed up his glasses and also looked at the window.

Xu Yunlong sat next to Zhang Yang, his body trembling slightly.

When he was most nervous and depressed, his body would tremble uncontrollably, even though he had experienced many big scenes with Zhang Yang...

But his mentality problem has always been like this.

In the midst of despair, I continue to work hard...

"We will have to take this path sooner or later..."

After a long silence, Zhang Yang smiled and comforted Xu Yunlong.

"At this stage, we actually have a better way to go. Qualcomm, Intel, and even R&D Technology are all willing to cooperate with our brand, Xiaomai... All you need is a nod..." Xu Yunlong looked at Zhang Yang: "The price they offer us is still good..."

I wanted to see some emotion on Zhang Yang’s calm face.

However, Zhang Yang remained calm throughout and did not even show the slightest emotion.

At this moment, Xu Yunlong completely understood that Zhang Yang was determined to go all the way to the end.

……

The car stopped in front of Shengxing Company.

The night is dark.

There was no moonlight and the sky was eerily gloomy.

But all the lights in Shengxing Company were on.

Zhang Yang walked silently towards the steps of Shengxing.

And Xu Yunlong followed behind...

"Boss Xu, I'll leave the matters concerning the purchasing market to you."

"no problem."

Xu Yunlong nodded.

Then he encouraged himself and walked silently towards the purchasing department of Shengxing.

Zhang Yang, on the other hand, walked alone to the R&D area of ​​Shengxing.

……

After [Novia] fell...

Many people joined Shengxing at the first opportunity, signed a confidentiality agreement, and entered the field of chip design.

However, this time the research and development was more painful than they had imagined.

It is definitely not an exaggeration to describe it as "desperate".

……

In today's digital age, chip manufacturing is one of the core drivers of the technology industry.

Chips are everywhere, from smartphones to computers, from artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, and they are considered the key to the digital revolution...

And chip design... is the top priority.

The essence of chip design lies in driving performance leaps in electronic products.

By meticulously crafting the chip structure and circuit design, we can achieve higher operating frequencies, lower power consumption, and faster response speeds...

In other words, it is possible to pack more transistors into the same size, thereby increasing computing speed and performance.

but……

The same size area...

Those big companies have almost reached the limit in the field of chip design.

What they have to do is to push this [limit] to the next level.

This is the limit of limits...

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"It's hard..."

early morning.

Lei Fu walked out of the laboratory silently.

months ago……

Lei Fu once played for Intel.

During this period, mentors from Huaqing University kept in touch with him.

The instructor spoke sincerely, saying that there was a company in China that was planning to do independent research and development, but had encountered a bottleneck.

They have invested tens of billions, and will invest another tens of billions in the future, hoping to achieve a breakthrough in technology...

In the meantime…

Ge Guoxing of Shengxing had visited him personally 13 times...

During the several exchanges, Ge Guoxing spoke humbly and sincerely, and he waited for him until late at night many times. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as "three visits to the thatched cottage".

The conditions proposed are quite generous...

Almost whatever Lei Fu said was what happened, which was once described by the idiom "following everyone's lead".

……

Lei Fu was persuaded by his mentor and wanted to return to China. He was finally moved by their sincerity and took advantage of his vacation time to come to Shengxing to help guide the group of people there.

but……

The situation was much worse than he had imagined.

They cast a wide net to recruit talents, but except for three people, the rest were unable to participate in chip design at all.

The whole team seems to be very busy and spending a lot of money, but...

It is still extremely difficult to break through the Western blockade.

"Mr. Lei, what else do we need?"

“There are so many things missing.”

Lei Fu looked at Zhang Yang next to Ge Guoxing.

Lei Fu admired this young man very much.

In the photovoltaic field, Lei Fu had heard about Zhang Yang, who single-handedly supported China's photovoltaic industry.

And this time...

When Shengxing was about to collapse due to research and development, this young man once again lent a helping hand...

In fact, this time when I returned to China, I was also moved by Zhang Yang’s “fight to the death”.

however……

"What exactly is missing?"

"Mr. Zhang, are you really going to use all your [Wheat A2] from China?"

"I want to give it a try..."

"We have enough photolithography machines, but the purity of the silicon material in [monocrystalline silicon] is still not enough. If you want to make a breakthrough in [chips], the purity of your [Shenglan Technology] silicon material must be higher... The current silicon material still has a lot of impurities. The presence of impurity atoms will interfere with the structure of the silicon crystal and affect the flow of electrons, thereby reducing the performance and life of the chip. High-purity silicon can ensure the conductivity and stability of electronic devices..."

Lei Furen is not considered tall.

He is about 1.65 meters tall, but his eyes are bright and sharp.

He looked at Zhang Yang.

“How high does the purity have to be?”

“Usually it needs to reach 99.9999999% (that is, a purity of nine nines), which means that only one impurity atom of a different type can be added in one million silicon atoms…” Lei Fu stared at Zhang Yang.

After hearing this data, Zhang Yang fell silent.

"Because the conditions do not allow, we cannot improve the chip NM. The lithography machine can only use the 22NM chip process. If we want to make a breakthrough in operating new energy, first of all, in the design field that I am responsible for, we must break through the limits of all previous chip designs on the market... Second, it is a problem of raw materials. Raw materials that meet my requirements can further expand the performance to the extreme... The purity of silicon materials in the photovoltaic industry is not that high, so after the breakthrough, it can meet the requirements, but chips are different. I have learned that your [Shenglan Technology] also talked with President Diao a few days ago... They still need to make further breakthroughs..."

"In addition, there is also the performance combination of domestic spare parts. Actually... I personally do not recommend using domestic spare parts, because we are very backward, and backwardness will greatly waste chip performance... Sometimes our research on the improvement of 1NM is not as good as replacing a component..."

"Also...we are short of people, short of more people..."

Zhang Yang listened to Lei Fu's detailed explanation of these words.

He nodded immediately.

Although his expression didn't say anything.

But an indescribable feeling of heaviness surged into my heart.

After coming to this world...

For the first time, he felt powerless.

"I understand. I'll find a way to solve it." Under the gazes of several people, Zhang Yang finally nodded.

Lei Fu looked at Zhang Yang's expression...

But he didn't say anything discouraging like other people.

Instead, he smiled and said, "Boss Zhang, I will find a way to help you solve the problem. I have a group of classmates in the United States. Although I cannot poach them, it is no problem for me to let them come back to take a vacation. I will try my best to help you organize the system within a month..."

"Well, thank you, Teacher Lei." Zhang Yang was shocked.

"No, I should say thank you." Lei Fu looked at Zhang Yang: "In the early years, China's scientific research environment was not very good... So, many of us left, and there has never been someone like you who stood up... Of course, there are many passionate people, like Mr. Ge, but because of the huge research funds and technological blockade, they all died in the middle of research and development, died at dawn..."

"..."

"However, if you can create a miracle this time, then this miracle will inspire more people..."

"..."

"We actually want to go home, and we also want to find a place to put our talents to good use."

Lei Fu looked at the gray sky outside the window, feeling a little dazed.

(End of this chapter)