Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1382 Can't Wait
Compared with the editor-in-chief Cruise, these professors in the same company seem a little tired. After all, they have been on a plane for more than 20 hours, and the jet lag has not yet reversed.

In view of this situation, Duan Yun wanted them to rest for a day before visiting the factory, but these professors couldn't wait to say that they would visit Tianyin Group immediately.

Obviously, the successful development of NAND flash memory chips is a very sensational event for the entire microelectronics industry. This product is enough to change the current development of the entire world chip industry, and this chip comes from a Chinese chip factory. This is even more incredible, so they can't wait to witness this historic event.

Seeing the urgent mood of these experts, Duan Yun immediately changed his plan, so he directly invited them to visit his chip factory.

After more than 10 minutes, Duan Yun's car entered the industrial zone. After nearly 10 years of development, Shangpu Industrial Zone and Badaling Industrial Zone are now a thriving scene. The freight vehicle could not be seen at a glance, and the scene made several American experts on the vehicle extremely shocked.

Among them, Robbins, a professor at the Department of Microelectronics Engineering at Princeton University, is the one who feels the most. This is not the first time Robbins has come to China. The American academic group visited China, and he went to BJ at that time, and the situation there gave him the feeling: red, closed and backward, and orderly.

But the current scene in Shenzhen makes him a little unbelievable. He never imagined that a small Chinese fishing village thousands of miles away from the capital BJ has such a high degree of industrialization, which completely overturned his previous understanding of China.

And when these people came to Tianyin Group's chip factory, what they saw surprised them even more.

I saw a large-scale modern factory building standing in a garden-like factory area. The signboard at the door was written in Chinese, Japanese and English. The workers who occasionally passed by were uniformly and neatly dressed, obviously having received general professional training.

"Is this your factory?" After getting out of the car, Crews, deputy editor-in-chief of "Scientific American", asked Duan Yun in surprise when he saw the scene in front of him.

"This is our group's chip factory, a joint venture with Japan's Toshiba." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and continued: "Including the internal production line, as well as the flash memory chips we mainly produce now, are all imported from Japan's Toshiba technology .”

"So that's how it is." Hearing what Duan Yun said, everyone present was suddenly stunned.

Toshiba Group is undoubtedly a world-renowned electronics manufacturer. Its chip industry can be ranked among the top three in Japan. It is also a multinational company capable of competing with the US microelectronics industry. Its technical strength is beyond doubt.

Originally, these American experts did not believe that Chinese manufacturers were capable of developing NAND flash memory chips. However, they immediately changed their views after learning that Tianyin Chip Factory is a joint venture with Japan's Toshiba.

"Then the NAND flash memory chip you developed is also the technology provided by Toshiba?" Cruise asked again.

"Toshiba previously authorized us to produce flash memory chips, but our newly developed NAND flash memory chips have nothing to do with Japan's Toshiba, and are completely developed by our own company's R&D team." Duan Yun smiled slightly and continued: " At present, the members of our R&D team are mainly from our Chinese Academy of Sciences and some other key national project research institutes, and they are basically the top microelectronics technical talents in our country."

"I see." Everyone nodded upon hearing this.

Then, Duan Yun began to lead them to visit the R&D center first, and introduced to these experts some of the current key development projects of his company's R&D center, as well as the staffing situation of each department.

For Duan Yun, the visit of "Scientific American" to Tianyin Group is a good opportunity to promote the company. "Magazine's publicity has attracted the attention of more foreign multinational companies and aroused their interest in cooperation.

In fact, with the current research and development scale of Tianyin Group, there is still a big gap compared with those multinational giants in the United States. However, in the eyes of these American experts, they are all very surprised. China, a communist country, unexpectedly has such a large-scale private enterprise, and with the current staffing of Tianyin Group's research and development team, it is not inferior to ordinary medium-sized American companies, and it can even be said that it is above average in the United States. The presence.

Later, Duan Yun led them to visit the production workshop of Tianyin Chip Factory.

Although we already know that this is a joint venture with Toshiba, these experts are still a little shocked when they see the advanced production equipment in the clean room.

For a long time, developed countries such as the United States, Europe, and Japan have imposed strict technical blockades on the Soviet Union and China, especially the lithography equipment used in chip production, which is even more strictly blocked in the list, but even so, a private enterprise in China Still being able to obtain so many advanced equipment made them feel a little bit emotional.

But the thinking of scientists and politicians is completely different. What they care about this time is not how much advanced technology China has obtained, but whether the products produced by this company can bring them some surprises.

"This is the first batch of NAND flash memory chips produced by our factory. It uses the three-micron process technology of Toshiba's production line. From the performance point of view, this should be the storage chip with the best performance in the world..." Duan Yun led several people When I came to a product experiment, I took out a chip from the cabinet, handed it to the experts and said.

"Mr. Duan, I have a request..." Cruise said suddenly.

"Just tell me what you want." Duan Yun said with a smile.

"That's right. At present, we have not been able to verify the performance of this chip. Can you give us a few? Let us take it back to the United States and test it." Truss said, looking directly at Duan Yun.

"Of course there is no problem. After this visit is over, I will give you dozens of chips for you to test." Duan Yun nodded simply.

Duan Yun is not worried that these Americans will copy his technology, because he has registered the design of these chips for patents in advance. The United States is a country with very strict patent protection. Any company's infringement will pay a very huge price. It may even cause the company to go bankrupt and the boss to go to jail...

(End of this chapter)