Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1296 Business

"Of course that's good." Zhou Zhi is also happy to learn about the current development status of this industry. Although Clover Company's self-definition of the future is still based on the research and development of the underlying instruction set and operating system, in these two types of research and development, it can When "spillover effects" occur, of course we are still happy to see them happen.

Standing on the foothold of Clover, there are three spillover directions. Upward is the application level, such as the now successful programming languages ​​VC and VUC; or downward, that is the current audio decoding chip and digital-to-analog conversion rendering. chip.

Of course, it can also be developed at a flat level, that is, the expansion of instruction sets, vulnerability scanning, anti-virus software development, new digital protocols, network protocols, etc.

Only children can do multiple-choice questions, but Zhou Zhi, as an adult, wants it all.

"But I have to go back to the hotel every night, so Uncle Hu won't make any arrangements for me to have dinner in the evening."

"Fudan?" Hu Changfeng pondered for a moment: "AXA Fund and Clover Company have no cooperation projects with Fudan University, right?"

Suddenly, Zhou Zhi's other identity came to mind: "Do you have a classmate at Fudan University?"

Then another, bigger possibility came to mind: "Female classmate?"

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "Uncle Hu, there's no need to ask about these, right?"

Hu Changfeng laughed loudly: "Let's go, let's go to the staff cafeteria to eat and experience our IC cards. Let Zhang Wen take you to rest at noon, and we will continue chatting in the afternoon."

"Will it affect the work of you and Mr. Xiao?" Zhou Zhi felt a little embarrassed.

"No, discussing our development plan with the bosses of the employer is my official job." Hu Changfeng joked: "Who told you to represent AXA and Clover?"

The food in Huahong's cafeteria is much better than that in Fudan University. The Human Resources Department will transfer employees' meal expenses and bus fares directly to employee cards every month. Employees can swipe their cards in the cafeteria, group supermarkets, and group commuter buses. Very convenient.

It is also very good as attendance management and access control management.

During the meal, Hu Changfeng and Xiao Qianwei were still introducing the semiconductor landscape in Shanghai. After an in-depth understanding, Zhou Zhi was not as worried as before.

Although the 908 project failed and was delayed for a year or two, the unfavorable situation has now been reversed, and China's semiconductor industry has not yet been humiliatingly imposed the "N-2 principle" like Zhou Zhi did in his time.

After the 1990s, the country's demand for semiconductor products has increased. Every year, it spends huge sums of money to import semiconductor products, so it wants to develop its own semiconductor industry.

But the semiconductor industry is a high-tech industry, and the West never wants China to control it. In their eyes, China will always be a foundry for low-cost products, and it will always be a sweatshop. It is in their interests.

So in 1996, thirty-three countries, led by the United States, jointly signed the Wassenaar Agreement. The full name of this agreement is called the Agreement on Export Controls of Conventional Arms, Products and Technologies.

This agreement prohibits the export of military equipment to China and other countries and requires strict approval of high-tech products.

This is a blatantly repressive provision. All high-tech equipment exported to China will be approved based on the N-2 principle.

The so-called "N-2", N is the most advanced technology now, and -2 is two generations later than the most advanced.

In other words, any high-tech equipment in China will be at least two generations behind Western countries.

This is the notorious "technology export control" imposed by the United States on China.

Not only that, the countries within the system have spared no effort to strangle the rise of the great eastern powers, using various means to set up barriers and suppress development, and they have done almost everything possible. The current ecology is not that cruel yet, and the technology is not lagging behind by more than two generations. There are several six-inch chip production lines in China, and there are also SRAM and DRAM production lines.

However, the cost of domestic production of these two items is still very high, and the yield rate is far lower than that of foreign countries. Zhou Zhi was unsuccessful in seeking to localize the digital walkman, so in the end he could only use Toshiba's NAND flash memory. Stick as data storage.

Although the digital walkman is small, it affects the whole body. In addition to the basic chip, there are also LCD screens, batteries, memory storage and other modules.

In addition, there must be non-memory storage as a data flow cache module.

Fortunately, these problems have almost been solved now.

If it is said that digital chips are difficult to start from scratch, when everyone talked about the IC card project in the afternoon, it was relaxed and happy.

The Chinese people are sometimes very smart. For example, the VCD player created by combining optical discs with the MPEG1 protocol is a successful case.

Now, of course, there is another one, which is the contactless IC card created by combining IC cards with radio frequency modules.

This immediately opens up the application space for IC cards, and the more populous countries are, the more effective they are in promoting this.

Zhangjiang Electronics Base is strongly supported by the government and is extremely efficient. In the afternoon, Hu Changfeng received several calls, received several waves of guests, and finalized promotion agreements with several systems such as electricity, banking, transportation, and education.

Among them, 100,000 low-end radio frequency encryption cards have been promoted by universities and middle schools in the city, 1 million high-end radio frequency CPU cards have been launched by the five major banks, and 50,000 sets of ATM and counter terminal card reading modules have been launched.

There are also SIM cards for mobile phones. The first batch is 100,000. If Zhou Zhi had not heard it with his own ears, Zhou Zhi would not have believed that there were so many people queuing up in Shanghai to wait for Big Brother.

Now the Big Brother is worth 15,000 yuan! People in Shanghai are so rich!

The most exaggerated thing is the power and transportation departments. What they need is mid-range radio frequency storage IC cards. The amount is very large. There are millions of mobile people in the city who need to travel to the bus and subway every day. Even if one fifth of them are willing to hold on, There are millions of IC transportation cards.

The same is true for the power system. With the implementation of the "one household, one meter" policy transformation, Shanghai will become the first city to replace new card-readable meters, which is a need for 4.5 million households.

In the pilot project in Shanghai alone, tens of millions of cards and the need for related equipment modifications were sorted out.

In the next few days, Zhou Zhi would follow people from Huahong Group around during the day. Not to mention Huahong, who is mainly engaged in design, he also visited the wafer factory owned by Huahong; it mainly does EEPROM, electric meter measurement, and also has Belling Group, which has the production capacity of 4-6 inch integrated circuit chips; also visited Radio Factory 808 and Factory , which were victims of the original project and were forced to reorganize and transform themselves after the design was finalized.

These two factories have now received investment from AXA and Huahong Holdings, and have been renamed Hongan Digital Group.

"Shu Yi, give you a gift." After swiping his new Fudan student card in the cafeteria and having lunch, Zhou Zhi took Jiang Shuyi out of the campus.

Zhou Zhi has been having dinner with Jiang Shuyi at school these past few nights. After dinner, they have evening self-study together. There are plenty of books for him to read in the Fudan library.

But there was an exception today, Thursday. Jiang Shuyi only had elective classes in the afternoon. Under Zhou Zhi's shameless instigation, Jiang Shuyi followed him and skipped class for the first time.

(End of this chapter)