Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1254 Industrial Pain
"Sigh... For Sony, Fuji, and Toshiba, which have deep pockets, it may not be difficult for them to catch up with Kodak." Matsui said: "But for the rest of the many small and medium-sized factories that want to move to the digital field, but lack financial support, ; Or, for large manufacturers that have the funds and strength but did not invest enough due to early strategic mistakes and did not have time to develop their own systems, your plan is equivalent to providing a one-step option?"

"Mr. Matsui, you completely understand what I mean!" Zhou Zhi picked up the wine glass: "He is indeed an elite in the industry!"

"Is this the real purpose of helping Microsoft develop VC?" Jin Chunyi also thinks he already understands: "Get Microsoft's visual control intellectual property authorization, develop a Linux visual control version COS, and exchange it for the core intellectual property, and then use If we reduce it to MiniCOS for mobile devices, we have found a new market!"

"UNIX monopolizes servers and small and medium-sized computers, while Windows, Ios, and Linux compete for personal computers. MiniCOS bypasses them and develops mobile device operating systems." Matsui Zou nodded repeatedly: "Although the market is much smaller, it has avoided technical barriers. At least I have the possibility to eat meat instead of being a hired worker in a big factory every time.”

"It's great that Clover can come up with such a way out of a dead end." Matsui Zuo and Zhou Zhi bumped into each other: "Mr. Zhou is really young and promising."

"Where, we are just a small company in urgent need of development opportunities." Zhou Zhi said: "I am telling you this today just to say... If one day, your state-owned companies need such a platform, tell them that China has such a platform. A great and affordable option.”

"Hasn't Zhou Sang thought about going on a roadshow abroad to look for investment?" Jin Chunyi asked: "If the system is mature, there should be a good chance of going to Nasdaq."

"Yes, now our country's domestic consortium is also looking for a way out of funds." The appreciation of the yen has had a great impact, causing economic problems in Japan. A large amount of capital is actively looking for overseas opportunities. After hearing this, Matsui Zou immediately nodded and said: "If Zhou Sang If you are interested, I can arrange it.”

"We have found an angel fund." Zhou Zhi's words made Matsui feel a little regretful: "I don't know if you have heard of AXA Fund. It invested 500 million US dollars in us. We are now entrusting two companies in the Shanghai stock market to invest." Manufacturers are trial-producing benchmark boards.”

"Are you going to build a large-scale integrated circuit like 80486?"

"How is that possible?!" Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded: "Even Bei Ling and Hua Hong, they don't have that kind of strength!"

The Shanghai Stock Exchange is currently the largest semiconductor industry base in the country, but when it comes to the history of the country's semiconductor industry, it is really "full of nonsense and a handful of bitter tears."

China's semiconductor industry was born during the First Five-Year Plan. The first batch of semiconductor factories, the North China Radio Joint Equipment Factory, was first established in the capital with the assistance of the Soviet Union and East Germany.

In [-], Xie Xide, the mother of China's semiconductor industry, returned from MIT and was transferred to Peking University as deputy director of the Semiconductor Teaching and Research Office, cultivating China's first batch of semiconductor talents.

In [-], Xie Xide served as deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics. In the same year, she established Shanghai Technical Physics Vocational School to cultivate experimental technical talents.

With scientific research and academic talents, factories, and skilled workers, China's semiconductor industry has only now set up a shelf.

Many semiconductor industries in Shanghai account for half of the country, and they are at the forefront of the country in terms of research and development and mass production.

The later Radio Factory [-] was the first to produce PMOS circuits; while the Radio Factory [-] kept pace with the Capital East Optoelectronics Factory and became the "two hegemons" in the north and south of China's IC industry.

The country's overall chip semiconductor technology research and development was not too far behind the international level at that time, and it was even slightly ahead in some aspects!
For example, Intel developed 1970KB DRAM in 1, and my country also developed it in [-], only five years later than Intel.

At this time, Samsung had only entered the semiconductor industry for less than a year, and Taiwan's start was even later than that of the mainland. It had just started. Even in the early days of reform and opening up, the ion implanter developed by the Shanghai Metallurgical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was even exported to island countries to assist their chip manufacturing.

However, there is a huge problem and hidden danger in this industry, that is, although the engineering and technical personnel are quite capable, it is difficult for a skilled woman to make a meal without rice. The production lines and equipment used to manufacture chips are imported. Once they become outdated, what should we do?
Many people are familiar with the subsequent story. When Sino-Japanese relations resumed normalization, my country introduced a complete set of seven semiconductor production lines from the island country. However, after the equipment was installed and debugged, it was discovered that the production line equipment could not function due to unresolved technical issues and software design issues in the manufacturing process.

At this time, the semiconductor industry has developed into a "huge pearl" that relies on the linkage of process technology, software design, and semiconductor production. It is delicate and expensive, and has grown to the point of being "unaffordable."

The shortcomings of the country's uneven and insufficient investment in the chip and semiconductor industry have finally been exposed. Due to insufficient investment at the starting point and lagging behind others, the market gap has widened as Moore's Law evolves.

Once the generation gap is formed, it will really be impossible to catch up. Self-development is not only uneconomical, but also consumes a lot of time and financial resources. When the product is released, it will be several generations behind and the day lily will be cold.

The “908” project is a living example.

The year before last, inspired by Japan and South Korea's success in catching up with the United States in the field of memory chips, the country decided to invest more than 20 billion in Wuxi Huajing, which had the highest market operation level at the time and also had DRAM R&D capabilities, to conduct research and development of large-scale integrated circuit chips. .

However, the approval process was slow and the project construction was delayed. It was not put into production until this year. Moreover, the technology was already four or five generations behind its competitors from the day it was put into production. It was inevitable to lose money.

Fortunately, there is another result, and that is Beiling.

Belling was planned and constructed in [-]. At that time, in order to rectify the "scattered, chaotic and poor" problems of the microelectronics industry as soon as it was released, the country issued the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" for the integrated circuit industry and decided to build two in Shanghai and the capital. Microelectronics base.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange has adopted a joint venture model to facilitate the introduction of technology and to rely on foreign manufacturers to solve sales problems.

To put it bluntly, it is OEM.

The investor was Bell Company, a giant in the communications industry at the time.

Belling's main business when it was founded was to provide Bell with integrated circuits dedicated to communications. In terms of business model, it adopted the vertically integrated development model of IDM, that is, everything from chip design, wafer manufacturing to packaging and testing was done by itself. It was considered a quite powerful factory at the time.

However, the nature of Belling's "OEM" cannot boost the national industry. Therefore, after learning from the experience of the "908 Project", the country has begun to prepare for the "909 Project". This time, it plans to invest 50 billion to build and support the industry. IC design, semiconductor component sales, foreign venture capital and other industries.

There are also many problems that need to be solved, such as introducing advanced technology, learning advanced management experience, protecting intellectual property rights, acquiring markets, ensuring investment returns, etc.

In the end, it was decided to adopt the model of local enterprises plus introduction. Huahong NEC was jointly established by Huahong and the island country NEC to undertake the production project construction of the "909 Project".

(End of this chapter)