Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1705 The ability to eat whole eels

But even so, there is still a way out. For example, in the operating system, MINICOS was developed, a streamlined and small operating system that can be combined with C or C++ to develop programs.

We don't expect the MINICOS platform to support computers and servers, but it can definitely support "quasi-information" devices such as digital players and digital cameras.

For example, complex computing chips are out of reach, so we should start with simpler memory chips, and then develop EDA and ASIC to make good technical reserves.

The most important thing is to find the ultimate market. After all, everything needs consumers to pay for it.

Whether it is memory or flash memory, the market for storage chips is undoubtedly a huge and excellent market. There is a lack of interference from political forces. Consumers do not recognize brands but only cost-effectiveness. The profit margin of products is huge at present, and the scenarios and scope of application, including the prospects, are infinitely broad.

The most important thing is that this market is still in its early stages and no monopoly has been formed. Huahong and Clover can make great strides worldwide.

Zhouzhi even has its own flagship terminal product - the Winclover player that is now popular all over the world.

In other words, at least in terms of digesting memory chips, Zhouzhi has an independent intellectual property package for the entire industry chain of protocols-chips-equipment-systems-software. To use a proverb in Shuzhong, it means it has the ability to "eat a whole eel."

This is the right way, and any other way may seem like a shortcut, but in fact, in other words, "fate has secretly marked a price", and sooner or later you will pay a higher price.

Now that the first step has been successful, the crazy dividends of the chip industry can truly and firmly be embraced by Clover and Huahong. The industry has officially entered a virtuous cycle, laying a solid foundation for the next step of rolling development.

Last year, Huawei's annual revenue was 8 million, Lenovo's was more than 47 billion, and Huahong's was only 2 million; this year, based on production capacity estimates, the Ministry of Electronics Industry predicts that Huawei's revenue will reach 15 billion and Lenovo's will grow to 67 billion.

However, Hua Hong’s revenue unexpectedly surged to 5 billion, reaching Lenovo’s revenue level last year.

Please note that this is only a comparison of revenue figures. Operating income is the income obtained from the main business or other businesses, and cannot be equated with net profit.

At least you have to subtract the main expenses.

This can lead to another inference, that is profitability.

Lenovo is a large OEM and assembly factory. Its revenue is the biggest reflection of its business scale, but its profitability is the lowest among the three companies. The reason is very simple, that is, it needs to spend a lot of money to purchase various computer components.

Of course there is a small amount of scientific research funding, but overall it is negligible.

In general, the more you sell, the more you buy. A business worth 6 or 7 billion may be achieved with a cost of 4 or 5 billion, and the actual profit may be only about 1 billion.

Huawei is much better. Although its revenue is only 1.5 billion, it relies on its own intellectual property rights in switchboards and other information technology equipment, and its cost expenditure is much lower than Lenovo's, and its profitability is not weak. Huahong's performance last year was just average, or even "not enough to cover expenses", because it has invested a lot in the commissioning, renovation and expansion of several production lines for three consecutive years.

It can be said that Hu Changfeng persevered almost by gritting his teeth, and with Zhou Zhi's strong support, he invested most of his profits into the construction of the Zhangjiang base. Otherwise, even if Hu Changfeng had outstanding abilities, the financial pressure he encountered would be enough to make the country cautious and slow in their decision.

Now this hurdle has finally been passed. The Chinese have changed the world landscape of memory chips with their own capabilities. Although this landscape has not yet been truly reflected, the transformation from silicon crystals into memory chips can be described as "turning sand into gold."

Of the 5 billion this year, the net profit will be as high as nearly 4 billion!

Hua Hong and Clover have made China the world's third largest memory chip manufacturer, and it has also deservedly become the most profitable information technology group in the country.

In addition to Zhou Zhi and Hu Changfeng, this great achievement, from a technical point of view, is inseparable from the contributions of two people.

Jiegang Fujio, Li Guangnan.

Zhou Zhi didn't know whether Lenovo regretted giving up Li Guangnan, but Panasonic was already beginning to regret letting go of Jiegang Fujio.

Jiegang Fujio is the well-deserved father of flash memory. In order to let him give full play to his abilities, Zhou Zhi spent a huge amount of money to buy all of Jiegang Fujio's scientific research results, scientific research equipment, and even scientific research team, and sent them to Zhangjiang.

And Fujio Masuoka did not disappoint. After obtaining the floating address temporary allocation algorithm developed by Zhouzhi's team, he quickly designed a new flash memory that can realize dynamic address encoding in the memory, making data writing more balanced and data block combination more balanced. Because the data space encoding loss caused by bad points will be smaller, the service life of the storage block will be longer.

Under laboratory conditions, the lifespan of the new flash memory is doubled compared to the past. The dynamic algorithm helps avoid bad pixels, allowing the flash memory to be used normally even when the space is reduced to 80% of the time when it was produced. This performance extends the lifespan of the flash memory by three times.

This algorithm also brings a huge improvement, which is the data recovery function, which can minimize data damage and thus greatly protect the recovery of the remaining safe data.

If Masuoka is a genius in design, then Li Guangnan is the workhorse in production transformation.

When Li Guangnan was at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he proposed to engage in chip research and development. Although Zhou Zhi only promised him to develop storage chips, the scale and output value far exceeded Li Guangnan's expectations.

After several long talks, Zhou Zhi also changed Li Guangnan's thinking. Instead of producing high-precision computing chips to catch up with the UK and the US, but ultimately finding no place to use them and putting them on the shelf, or only being able to provide "custom services" for a few supercomputers, we might as well lower the requirements and make storage chips, and then increase production capacity to make money all over the world, while improving our own strength, and then investing the money earned into further research and development. This is the right path of academic, industrial and research that you proposed back then!

Li Guangnan, who had changed his mindset, was very terrifying. Unlike in his previous life, he did not experience a period of "academic stagnation". Instead, he turned around and devoted himself with full enthusiasm and energy to the research and development of domestic EDA and ASIC, the research and development of highly compatible mask design files, and the implementation of scientific research results, allowing "foreign production lines" to consume "domestic raw materials" and making great contributions.

For both of them, this huge achievement is not only a huge contribution to science and technology, but also a great victory that makes them proud and embarrassed, the kind that makes their former employers look swollen.