industrial maniac

Berlin, Germany.

Ironhide headquarters.

The solemn and solemn Gothic building has completed the construction of the bottom eight floors.

Although the climbing frame is still slowly rising, with the help of Kirov, it is enough to supply building materials from the air without affecting the use of the floors below.

The office area originally set up in the podium was moved upwards, and the vacated three-story podium was used to display all the products of the Iron Sheet Company.

Including toys, semiconductors, XLEDs, new materials, and processing and manufacturing machinery.

And hundreds of individual equipment, mechanical exoskeleton, motorized exoskeleton, pneumatic war robot, mini Kirov-little shark, terrorist robot-little spider, remote control tank-little weasel, mini V series rocket car-running to the sky monkey.

January 3th, coincides with the weekend.

The headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company, named 'Federation Building', is open to the public.

The citizens who came to visit lined up like a long queue, blocking the entire William Street.

Today's eight states in northern Germany, under the influence of the "Iron Prime Minister" Foreman under various propaganda, have undergone a huge change in ideology.

The people admired peace, but were proud of the Armament of the Ironhide Company.

People advocate freedom, but flock to the 'Iron Crusade call-up order'.

People advocate equality, but look down on Dunan more and more.

In particular, the products of the Iron Sheet Company were resold to various parts of the European region, and the quality of life of the German people who made money has been greatly improved, and the food, use, clothing, and housing... all-round improvement.

Coupled with the backing of the Iron Crusade, and Iron Prime Minister Forman's "Germany First" concept...

People in the eight states of northern Germany will even reprimand them loudly when they see Dunan people, and then walk, talk and do things with their heads held high.

So it is with the masses, with the police, with the army, and with the Berlin Parliament.

The Dunan people who have been excluded have finally realized what it means to be 'inferior'.

Rich people moved to Berlin, poor people applied for welfare housing, and companies followed suit due to favorable tax rates.

The economy of Berlin and the whole of North Germany has taken off by leaps and bounds, and the world has witnessed what is called the "Foreman era".

But people living in Foreman's era are happy, proud, proud, and cannot be humiliated.

When people stand on the street, through the XLED prompt screen at the bus station,
Or stand on the square, through the XLED outdoor screen,
Or standing in the exhibition hall, through the large monitor, you can see the scene of "Washima boycotting the products of Iron Sheet Company" staged scenes of smashing, smashing and looting.

The citizens of Berlin were suddenly angry.

Opposition, protest, march.

The incident quickly swept through eight states in northern Germany.

Sitting in the Capitol, Foreman looked down at what was happening outside the window, and signaled his cronies to take more pictures, videotape and publicize more.

Then he picked up the protest copy that had been prepared a long time ago, looked up to the sky and sighed, "It's difficult for the public opinion!"

Immediately ordered to impose the same sanctions on Wajima.

First seize the Japanese companies in the eight states of northern Germany, and then include a series of products in the high-tech field on the list of prohibited supplies.

Including linear motors, optical materials, helium, medical equipment, armament technology...

In the eyes of many, Germany and Wajima have divided up the equipment supply market in the global processing and manufacturing field.

But in fact, Wajima focuses on semiconductors and microcontrollers.

The processing and manufacturing equipment it produces is mainly exported to the East, and it competes with Siemens by taking advantage of its cost performance.

In this process, affected by the arrangement mechanism, Wajima cannot export high-end products, but only low-end ones.

Germany, on the other hand, is responsible for the supply of high-tech equipment for NATO, the European region, and even the world.

In other words, North America is worried about Wajima, preventing the other party from mastering the manufacturing base of "high-precision processing and manufacturing equipment".

If Wajima exceeds the 'restricted range' in some places, dimensionality reduction strikes will be carried out, such as the semiconductor agreement signed in 86.

Therefore, if Wajima wants to manufacture semiconductor equipment or high-precision industrial equipment, it needs to import advanced motors and drills from Germany and North America.

Then, Wajima loses the supply from Germany in the manufacturing process, and related industries will stagnate.

Including high-tech equipment, semiconductors, microelectronics, and biotechnology.

Therefore, when Foreman's resolution came out, the world was in an uproar.

The tycoons of Wall Street, in the face of all this, know that the 'Rainnipe Fly' is on their way.

Xu's stock trading method is no secret.

This time Wadao Industry was hit hard, and related stocks will definitely plummet, including Japanese stocks, Wadao money market, and Wadao foreign exchange market, which will also fall accordingly.

However, Wajima's high-tech industries are restricted, and similar companies from American companies are about to receive a large number of orders.

However, due to the high cost of products produced by American companies, it will soon lead to an increase in the price of memory, graphics cards, chips, and computer electronics...

As the prices of all technology products increase, the market value of companies listed on Nasdaq will definitely rise, and the Nasdaq index will also skyrocket accordingly.

Therefore, Wall Street tycoons, in order to snipe the 'Renipfei', entered the market in advance, shorted the Japanese island financial market, and longed Nasdaq.

the other side.

Romney was secretly relieved to see Wall Street making moves.

No matter how awesome Renipfei Studio is, it is impossible to blatantly confront Wall Street. It can only throw three big cakes to attract the other party's attention, and then take advantage of their surprise to steal the small cakes.

That is, shorting SoftBank.

…………

Daze power.

The Iron Sheet Company workshop office.

Xu Fei and the major shareholder of the 3dfx graphics company sat side by side in the camellia room, enjoying the microscopic cartoons played every day from 6:7 to [-]:[-] pm.

3dfx is the top graphics card manufacturer of the mother star, and it is also the only company that can threaten Nvidia's status.

As for AMD and ati, they were both small factories during this period.

3dfx's main products include Voodoo series graphics cards, 3D chips, and Glide application interfaces.

The masterpieces it supports include Tomb Raider, Need for Speed, and Thor's Hammer.

It is a pity that due to an inexplicable lawsuit last year, it lost to Nvidia, and was fully acquired by the other party at a price of 7000 million US dollars and 100 million shares.

Of course, the big shareholder came to the door, so naturally the deal was not reached.

The reason why the other party came to the door is also very simple. The United Defense under TEP needs a high-end military-grade graphics card and thinks 3dfx is very suitable.

James personally led the TEP emergency rescue team, rushed into the Nvidia headquarters, killed more than a dozen thugs, and found the imprisoned 3dfx major shareholder and many small shareholders.

Business war? It's that simple.

Otherwise, with a market value of 3 billion, how could 50dfx be acquired for 7000 million dollars.

However, in order to save money, United Defense did not acquire 3dfx. Instead, it issued a license for a downstream partner of a defense supplier to the other party and held a 30% stake.

In this way, it is equivalent to United Defense helping 3dfx to watch the scene, and the latter pays 30% of the proceeds.

Xu Fei picked up the teacup, took a sip of clear fire tea, and said leisurely.

"You may not know that the relationship between the Ironhide Company and TEP is very complicated. At least my chairman, Foreman, is deeply saddened by Strauss and almost killed him."

"But I have worked with James, and the relationship has always been very good. I recommended him to Foreman, and he helped me a lot later."

"Now James asks you to come to talk about foundry, especially the world's most advanced 3dfx-Voodoo5 series, it is very difficult for me."

The major shareholder of 3dfx spread out the folder, "Director Xu, don't worry, 3dfx is a mature graphics card manufacturer, we can provide a full set of technical support, and we can also arrange personnel to stay in TEP Vocational and Technical College to train a group of supporting talents for research and development. Subsequent series. We only need production volume now, enough production volume, including Voodoo 2nd and 3rd generation.”

"Win by quantity?"

"This is a helpless move. We must use enough market holdings to retain the partners of the Glide application interface, otherwise they will turn to Nvidia, and we will soon lose the market completely."

Xu Fei doesn't understand graphics cards. The hardware devices and drivers of his own display devices are all designed by researchers from Kodak's LED department.

According to his vision, the graphics card is nothing more than a "cache pattern", which is convenient for "densely packed lamp beads" to read quickly, which is called buffering.

The larger the cache, the faster the buffer, the faster the reading speed, and the smoother the frame-by-frame display, which means the better the performance of the graphics card.

This is directly related to cache particles.

In other words, Xu Fei believes that the more advanced the video memory particles, the better the graphics card.

However, the researchers of Kodak LED told him that there are other technologies such as API, SLI, and dual-card crossfire in the graphics card.

And 3D effects such as hardware fogging, specular highlighting, chroma key transparency processing, alpha transparency blending processing, dithering processing, perspective correction, anti-aliasing, etc.

Like the "industrial microcomputer" being designed, it only shows 10% of the effect of XLED. If the 3dfx solution is adopted, it will play 200% of the effect of XLED.

Like the power bank launched before, if the Voodoo mobile graphics card is used, the picture quality will be improved by 300%.

Therefore, United Defense grabbed 3dfx.

Well, from now on, we will never use money to solve things that can be solved with money.

But their own actions seem to be a step slower, because Nvidia has just launched DirectX 5.0, and 3dfx is no longer the dominant level.

Xu Fei hesitated for a long time again pretending, and finally agreed to 3dfx's OEM.

This is directly related to shorting SoftBank.

Shorting Softbank, for the Academy of Social Sciences, it was Director Xu who helped revenge.

For Romney, it's Renipfer who is making money again.

For Iron Sheet Company, it is to fight back against Wajima by first anti-monopoly and then boycotting its own products.

But for their own camp, the high-tech fields of Wajima have been impacted, the rapid rise of American companies, and the overall appreciation of the North American semiconductor industry have created greater market competition.

Just like General Motors went to the East to find OEMs, General Electric went to the East to find OEMs, and even Wajima Enterprises also stepped up the construction of Foxconn...

It means that it has become a trend for many semiconductor companies to come to the east to build factories, or to find foundry companies.

3dfx is the first person to eat crabs.

'For the rise of flower growers, I racked my brains and devoted myself to death. '

Xu Fei summoned the chief secretary, and also found Kodak LED controller professionals, and signed a contract with 3dfx for the OEM business of many graphics cards.

包括目前最先进的Voodoo5系列，曾经奠定3dfx霸主地位的Voodoo2系列，代表3dfx崛起的Voodoo3系列。

Then I went to the underground branch of TEP Computer Service Company in person to exchange related production lines.

And by exchanging different electronic components, Xu Fei finally understood the principle of 'advanced graphics card'.

It is nothing more than a built-in processor that prioritizes the stored patterns in advance and then passes them to the display.

The approximate process is: hard disk→CPU→graphics processor GPU→frame buffer memory→video controller→display.

In other words, compared with our original production line, only one more GPU has played such a big role.

And GPU, similar to CPU, cannot be made by itself.

Because what we use is a PLC collaborative controller based on ARM embedded technology.

Xu Fei thought of General Electric, which had just exchanged markets with himself and was in charge of high-end manufacturing.

"Crooked? Brother Welch, business is here."

"please say."

"The German Iron Sheet Company commissioned your company to produce a 128nm process photolithography machine."

"..."

"Why, no?"

"We are an electrical industry, not a semiconductor company."

"No way, you General Electric are so awesome that you can't make a lithography machine?"

"You can let us manufacture 'Peace-level missiles', but we really can't make lithography machines."

"Okay, you can help me manufacture 10 peace-level missiles equivalent to little boys, money is not a problem."

"Beep beep..."

Xu Fei looked at the phone that was hung up, feeling very upset, "Wait, for the large-scale particle collider project, you chose the first self-developed plan, and I will continue to produce a large number of new materials later, making you cry Beg me to change to the second plan, and I will hang up the phone when the time comes!"

"But the question is, where to get a lithography machine."

After pondering for a long time, Xu Fei found an old senior from the Academy of Social Sciences.

The other party informed that the most advanced lithography machine in our camp is currently 300nm, which does not conform to 3dfx's 128nm process.

Moreover, there are many types of lithography machines. Our company uses i-line photoresist, 300nm~365nm, for 6-inch~8-inch wafers.

At present, the world's cutting-edge CPU manufacturing process uses deep ultraviolet DUV photoresist with a process of 100~193nm for 12-inch wafers.

The difference between the two parties is three generations, about 15 years.

Fortunately, the old seniors kindly reminded that although the lithography machine business of German Zeiss has been robbed by Nikon, ASML, etc., Zeiss Optics can also manufacture lithography machines.

Xu Fei immediately contacted Foreman.

I never thought that Zeiss belongs to the eight states of southern Germany and is headquartered in Munich. Like Siemens, it is the backbone of opposition to Forman.

Then Foreman asked back.

"Why don't Kodak make photolithography machines?"

"Kodak will make a lithography machine?"

"You don't understand lithography machines?"

"don't know."

"The lithography machine, to put it bluntly, is exposure. In terms of the global exposure process, who has Kodak's superiority?"

"???"

"It's like you cut a piece of paper, then use light to imprint its shadow on another piece of paper through exposure, and then keep imprinting. These mass-produced things are wafers, and then cutting and packaging. Make a piece of CPU.

In order to improve the exposure and printing technology, Kodak even used the reactor, and the exposure technology it possesses is unique.

And our family is good at finishing. We have a nano-scale carving knife, so it is no problem to cut a 'mask', and add many electronic components to form a photolithography machine... No, we don't have an optical laboratory, so we can't make it. Optical element. "

Xu Fei's blood boiled when he heard it, but it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him.

Foreman continued: "However, Zeiss Optical approached me and planned to purchase a polishing robot to make the precision of lens elements reach the atomic level. We can do this."

"What do you mean?"

"While putting pressure on Zeiss, I talked about cooperation with the other party, and then supported Zeiss in making lithography machines. We OEM some of the components in the lithography machine. When the other party makes a lithography machine, we just take one away. ?”

"It makes sense, use the OEM method to kill all the friends who can manufacture lithography machine parts one by one, and wait until we can manufacture all the parts of the lithography machine. If our camp is sanctioned by others, we will make it impossible for the world to manufacture Get out the lithography machine."

After Xu Fei finished speaking, "But we still don't have a lithography machine."

"You arranged for Kodak personnel to come to Germany. I am now planning to cooperate with Zeiss Optics. With Kodak's exposure technology and our precision manufacturing, Zeiss's lithography machine can leap to the forefront of the world, and I will definitely agree to use it. Headquarters moved to Berlin.

When we have a design plan for the lithography machine, as long as we build it quickly, we can make the first prototype before May, and then hand it over to Daze to manufacture 5dfx graphics cards. "

Xu Fei thought about it, and felt that he could only do this, "Medium!"

"However, foundry semiconductors can't be mixed with Daze Power, can they?"

"Don't worry, I've prepared for it a long time ago. I will build a new factory on the west side of the expressway, called the West Factory. From now on, Daze Power will call it the East Factory."

"So, I'm Jin Yiwei?"

"???"

Xu Fei was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, only to find that the phone was hung up again.