Riding the wind of rebirth

With the painful lessons of 808, this time the country attached great importance to it. Minister Hu, who Zhou Zhi had dealt with several times, personally became the chairman of Huahong Group.

As early as when he took office at the Ministry of Electronics Industry, Lao Hu conducted many rigorous investigations and research, and finally came to a sad conclusion, that is, without the support of the downstream electronic machine market, it will be difficult for the chip semiconductor industry to develop. .

In today's national conditions, there is only a large demand for mid- to low-end chips. For high-end chips, there are three deficiencies: lack of design capabilities, lack of production capabilities, and lack of competitive advantages.

Considering that Hanwen's large character library was a more reliable sign in his hand, Minister Hu called Zhou Zhi to ask for the opinion of the "ghost" in his mind.

Originally it was just a matter of making a fool of myself, but I didn't expect Zhou Zhi to actually give me a solution.

In fact, for Zhou Zhi, Lao Hu just brought him a pillow when he was dozing off.

Of course, language is an art, and you want to master the art of speaking.

So he started to PUA all over Lao Hu.

Huahong's future path is to serve the market. Since there is demand for mid- to low-end chips, we will first solve the problems of mid- and low-end chips.

Since we have adopted the banner of marketization, we will truly follow the laws of the market.

Before you have formed your own competitive strength, found your market positioning, and have profit expectations, you cannot blindly pursue excellence.

We cannot be like "808" and turn crossing the river by feeling for stones into diving from a high platform.

Therefore, it is enough for Huahong to find products that can satisfy the Chinese consumer market, but are also slightly advanced in technology and have long-term development capabilities in the future.

Lao Hu couldn't understand. If there is such a product, why don't foreigners tear it up and stuff it into pieces? Why is it just one step away, one step away, one step at a time, I can’t catch you!
Zhou Zhi said why not? Isn't it an IC card?

I... IC card? Can this be called a product of the large-scale integrated circuit industry? Lao Hu just wanted to curse.

Zhou Zhi quickly explained that of course the IC card does not count, but it can provide Huahong with a steady stream of blood!

Lao Hu, what you are going to do is a money-burning business. Whose money are you going to burn?

If you burn the country's money, the country can't afford to pay it back now; if you burn the foreigners' money, the foreigners will tighten their throats. Whether it is loose or tight depends on how happy they are in the future.

As the great man once said, if you have food in your hands and don't panic in your heart, what's the use of drawing pancakes? We must have food first!

Moreover, this production line is relatively simple. We even built it before the construction of the chip and semiconductor production line.

Next... Next up are social security cards, bus cards, all-in-one cards, campus cards, bank savings cards, credit cards, and various access cards. If you, Lao Hu, are still not satisfied with these, we can even promote the second-generation resident ID card. Ideas...

Old Hu was almost frightened by such a huge and vast market, and instinctively said: Shut up!
Unexpectedly, the Zhou family's motto has always been to convince people with reason. As long as the truth is in hand, the king and I are not afraid. Zhou Zhi does not regard Lao Hu as a cadre at all: Why should I shut up? Aren't these great projects that benefit the country and the people?
Lao Hu's thoughts changed. Oh, yes, why should I be afraid of this market? No matter how big it is, that's not the reason why I'm afraid of him, right? !
Lao Hu, who is at the top of the ministries and commissions, has been accustomed to the "allocation system" for decades. Now that the country requires "allocation and transfer", he really has not turned around for a while.

IC card, the full name is Integrated Circuit Card, which means integrated circuit card. Of course, in daily life, it is also called a smart card, smart card, microcircuit card, or microchip card.

It is a small device that embeds a microelectronic chip into a card base that complies with the ISO 7816 standard and is used to store part of the information and then read it out to the card reader.

The concept of IC card appeared very early, as early as the early 20s, it had been proposed. The French company Bure even first created an IC card product in 70.

Why did Zhou Zhi focus on this technology? The reason is very simple, that is, the intellectual property protection period of this thing has expired.

Do you think it is a chip? Is it microelectronics? it is also.

Do you think the technology it contains is high? That's really not high.

It has evolved to this day. It is nothing more than the addition of a radio frequency module, which can swipe the card in a non-contact manner, and the integrated circuit memory with storage function in the card is divided into data memory, working memory, program memory, etc.

What Zhou Zhi is interested in is the latest IC card - smart card.

Smart cards are a technology that has emerged in recent years. As soon as they were launched, they were captured by the technical intelligence team of AXA Fund and added to the investable sequence library.

Zhou Zhi directly upgraded it to the ready-to-use level and invested in the purchase of a full set of patents.

Compared with the previous ordinary IC cards, the biggest difference between smart cards is that the chip contains a microprocessor, memory and input/output interfaces, so the smart card chip has storage functions and information processing functions.

What does this amount to? In addition to having all the functions and characteristics of an ordinary IC card, it is also a microcomputer. It has CPU or MPU, EEP-ROM, EPROM, RAM, ROM, etc. that ordinary smart devices should have.

Its storage capacity can range from 64K to 512 KB, which can accommodate a lot of information, so its application scope has been greatly broadened.

In addition, it has many advantages.

Its memory can be divided into several application areas, making it easy to use one card for multiple purposes and for easy storage;
It has high reliability and can be anti-magnetic and anti-static. It has strong anti-interference ability and is many times more reliable than magnetic cards that are frequently degaussed;
It has an extremely long service life and information can be read and written hundreds of thousands of times;
It has strong confidentiality and high security. The IC card itself has hardware security settings that can control the reading and writing characteristics of certain areas in the IC card. If you try to decrypt, these areas will "self-lock", that is, no reading or writing operations can be performed.

The information in the IC card cannot be copied after being encrypted. If the password is checked incorrectly, the card itself will self-destruct, so the data in the IC card is safe and reliable;
Because it has its own memory and real-time storage function, IC cards also have another advantage that is considered to be a huge advantage today - low network requirements.

Its security, reliability and storage function allow it to be used in applications that greatly reduce the real-time and sensitivity requirements of the computer network, and can be used as usual in environments with low network quality, or even when offline;

The most important thing is that for such a good gadget, whether it is contact or non-contact, its reading and writing mechanism is purely electronic.

Compared with the most commonly used magnetic stripe card today, which uses electromagnetic conversion read-write slots for data interaction, the IC card interaction method is of course simpler and more reliable, cheaper to build, and easier to promote and maintain.

And the application prospects are huge, just like the big cake Zhou Zhi drew for Lao Hu, it is not ordinary big. It is not an exaggeration to even describe it as using small cards to change the world.