City: Become a principal from junior college!

In recent years, the importance of chips has been mentioned by the media.

Various companies in China have also announced that they will develop their own chips to catch up with Europe and the United States.

But the end result is usually a mess.

Netizens have been disappointed too many times.

Nowadays, when netizens hear that a company is going to develop chips, their first reaction is not anticipation, but suspicion that the other party is trying to defraud subsidies.

But now that Star College has opened a chip major, no one would have such an idea.

No one would doubt whether Xingchen Academy is a fraud.

After all, Star Academy has made great breakthroughs in many high-tech fields.

It has become a top giant in the world that can lift heavy objects with ease.

If Star Academy doesn’t really want to make chips, then it will be like this.

There is no need to wade into the murky waters of chips.

Therefore, Xingchen Academy must have made the decision to open the chip major because of the previous sales ban.

That means that Star Academy is determined to win the chip industry.

We absolutely do not want the development of artificial intelligence to be hindered.

Most netizens are also looking forward to Star Academy's real success and becoming one of the leaders in the global chip industry.

Let China no longer have to endure the humiliation of being banned from sale and blocked.

But while they are looking forward to it, many netizens are also somewhat worried.

After all, the chip industry covers too many areas.

Even though the Star Academy, which has created countless miracles, has entered this industry, many netizens still lack confidence.

What if even Star Academy can’t be dealt with?

Doesn’t that mean that there is really no hope for the domestic chip industry?
So for a while, domestic online public opinion was mixed.

At the same time, netizens still have doubts.

That is, chips are a long industrial chain.

It involves many aspects such as lithography machine technology, chip design, architecture design, chip manufacturing, etc.

These are the shortcomings of the country.

Can Xingchen Academy really overcome this difficulty with just one major?

But when I saw the number of students enrolled in the chip major at Star College.

Netizens were all shocked.

My first reaction was that I was too excited and my eyes were blurry, and I thought I saw an extra zero.

But when they looked more carefully, they found that their eyes were not blurry.

The chip major at Xingchen Academy will enroll 10,000 students in the first session alone.

There are sub-specialties classified into different categories below.

For example, optics, electronic information, materials science, mechanics, chip design, circuits and so on.

Looking at these various sub-majors, netizens were really shocked.

Because these sub-disciplines are too broad.

It covers almost all the major node requirements for chip manufacturing.

For example, to make a photolithography machine, you need talents in optics, electronic information, materials science, and mechanics.

With a lithography machine, you also need a framework.

For example, the existing mainstream architectures are x86 and ARM.

This is the basis of the chip.

After the architecture is established, the chip needs to be designed.

Excellent design can make great progress in many aspects such as architecture performance and energy consumption.

And look at the majors of Xingchen College.

It is obvious that the intention is to take down the entire chip industry in one fell swoop.

We do everything from manufacturing lithography machines at the source to the final design and production of chips.

This ambition is too big!
This step is too big.

Is this really something a college can do?

Many Chinese people have doubts.

But more people choose to believe in Star Academy unconditionally because of the miracles that Star Academy has created before.

They are looking forward to seeing what changes the first batch of graduates from the Star Chip major will bring to their own chip industry.

It can be said that the influence of Star Academy is too great.

Now the news of opening a chip major has been confirmed.

The stock prices of domestic chip-related companies are all rising.

Chip concept stocks are also rising.

Huayao Technology, whose mobile communications business was severely damaged by the sanctions, is now being expected by the market again.

I think that when Xingchen Academy develops the domestic chip industry.

Huayao Company will certainly be able to take advantage of this favorable situation and regain its former position in the mobile phone market.

But the commotion caused by Xingchen Academy did not just cause shock waves in the country.

The news spread abroad immediately, causing an uproar.

Ordinary people abroad do not feel any sense of crisis or threat when they see the news.

Many people are naturally averse to big capital, or are born rebellious.

They even began to mock their own technology companies.

"I told you not to let Xingchen Academy develop artificial intelligence. Look, they are now making their own chips. In a few years, they won't need yours anymore."

"If it was any other Chinese technology company, I think it would be fine, but it's a bit scary if Star Academy did it. They have never failed. I suggest that we immediately stop the chip blockade on all Chinese companies and allow them to buy high-end chips. This might make Star Academy give up the idea of ​​manufacturing chips."

"Did Huang Weida make a lot of money from selling graphics cards recently? Now that Xingchen Academy is attacking, he will definitely have to pay it back in a while. I suggest you lower the price quickly to seize the market."

"Tsk tsk, it's a good thing that Xingchen Academy is entering the chip industry. Maybe it can force Intel to not dare to squeeze toothpaste in the future."

"..."

Foreign netizens made all kinds of jokes.

They have no objection to Star Academy. After all, Star Academy has a very good reputation.

So now they are making fun of their own company, and they are making fun of it particularly enthusiastically.

However, the giants of the major chip industries did not attach as much importance to the news about the Star Chip major as netizens imagined.

As the saying goes, the layman sees the excitement, while the expert sees the details.

Only they can truly understand how complex the technology in the chip industry is.

Even ASML, the giant in lithography machines, cannot produce chips on its own.

ASML's shareholders are chip-related giants from almost all over the world.

It is because they each use numerous high-tech technologies to manufacture various high-precision components and cooperate with each other that ASML has become a giant in lithography machines and produced top-level lithography machines.

No single giant can produce a top-level lithography machine.

The difficulty of building a top-level lithography machine can be imagined.

And this is just the difficulty of making lithography machines.

Designing and manufacturing chips is equally difficult.

For example, the mobile chip giant Qualcomm.

Several chips have also been designed with explosive energy consumption, becoming fire dragons that get terribly hot when used casually. Manufacturing is also not that simple.

For example, Samsung is also one of the world's top chip giants.

But when manufacturing the latest chips designed for its own mobile phones, the yield rate is 0.
The loss was hundreds of billions at once.

In the end, only high-tube chips can be used.

Even giants like this can fail, and the losses can be hundreds of billions or even trillions.

And what about Star Academy?

It is no exaggeration to say that it is just a foolish dream to dream of cultivating talents for the entire industrial chain.

After all, these top giants will fail if they delve into a certain field of the chip industry.

A certain generation of chips would overheat severely.

There are problems with the design of a certain generation of manufacturing process, resulting in low yield rate.

Under such circumstances, it is simply a pipe dream for Star Academy to successfully enter the chip industry.

Twenty years later, if Star Academy can produce chips at the same level as they do now, it would be considered awesome.

So there is no need to worry at all.

And because they all knew that Xingchen Academy decided to open its own chip major and train talents because of the previous sales ban.

But Star Academy is too arrogant.

There is no respect for technology.

Therefore, many top CEOs could not help but sarcastically say: "I suggest that Xingchen Academy open an engraving major, then buy our chips, erase the logo, and then put the Xingchen Academy logo on them. This is the fastest way to succeed."

"Is Xingchen Academy planning to fight against the global chip industry on its own? It's really a heroic act, but it's a pity that it's destined to be a tragic hero."

"I suggest that the money that Xingchen Academy would use to open the chip major be used to purchase our AI processor chips. We are currently offering a discount..."

"I am already fifty-five years old this year. I hope that before I die, I can use the high-end chips produced by the Star Academy..."

"One lithography machine requires the products of hundreds of giants in various fields around the world. Now a college wants to do it on its own. I can only say that this dream is great, just like Ma's idea of ​​moving to Mars, which is exciting."

The ridicule of these CEOs has sparked quite a bit of discussion on the Internet.

But the public's reaction was mostly agreement.

After all, it was a huge move for Xingchen College to open a chip major that could accommodate 10,000 people at once, and it seemed like it was going to connect the entire chip industry.

But such an approach really underestimates the difficulty of chip technology.

The stock markets of various countries did not experience any turmoil due to the news that Star Academy was going to open a chip major.

Even because of the actions of Star Academy, they helped them attract more investors.

The stock prices of these chip giants have actually risen a lot.

……

Domestic netizens are naturally extremely dissatisfied with this.

However, many domestic experts have also stepped forward to explain the situation of the chip industry in detail to netizens.

"It's not that easy for Xingchen Academy to break through in the chip industry."

"In the past, Xingchen Academy was doing very well because it was unique. There were basically no competitors in the same industry. It was all a dimensionality reduction attack."

"Naturally, no one is a match for the Star Academy."

"But the chip industry this time is different. There are already a group of giants entrenched in the chip industry."

“These giants may seem to be competing with each other, but in fact, there is a chain of cooperation behind them, and sometimes they can even be seen as a whole.”

"And today's chip development has already reached the limit of Moore's Law."

"Xingchen Academy was built from scratch, not to mention how many years it will take to catch up with the other party's decades of accumulation."

"Even if Xingchen Academy really creates a miracle, it will catch up soon."

"What if the other party is dumping? What if they want to kill you regardless of the cost?"

"This is a common tactic used by foreign companies against new competitors."

“When you don’t have it, they sell it to you at a high price. Once you make it, they immediately sell it to you at a low price, which makes it impossible for you to recover your investment and you die immediately…”

"Countless companies have been killed in this way."

"And chips are an even more cost-intensive industry."

"An assembly line may cost tens of billions or even tens of billions, and a factory may cost hundreds of billions."

“Even if Xingchen Academy develops the technology, it will cost an astronomical amount to put it into production, not to mention that Xingchen Academy wants to develop a full industrial chain, which will be an unimaginable figure.”

"With such a huge production cost, if Xingchen Academy had just been built, the other party would no longer impose sanctions and directly dump the products."

"The other party has the first-mover advantage, technology advantage, and brand advantage. Now they are also engaging in a price war. What will Xingchen Academy use to fight against them?"

"One assembly line costs 10 billion yuan, and the other party has already made back the money through the assembly line. Even if one chip costs 10 yuan, the other party can still break even."

"But what about Xingchen Academy? It has just been established. If we join the price war, we won't be able to recover our investment and will go bankrupt directly."

"If we don't follow, then the other party will sell cheaper and have higher technology. Why wouldn't customers buy the competitor's products? The capital market can't rely on sentiment, right?"

"And this is still a situation where Star Academy can keep up with the opponent's technology."

"If the technology of Star Academy lags far behind the opponent, it will be easier for the opponent to suppress Star Academy."

"But Xingchen Academy has to take its time. It's impossible for them to make 5nm or 3nm chips all at once, right?"

"If they can really do that, then Star Academy is a god."

"So, what Xingchen Academy is facing now is basically a dead end."

"I am not optimistic about the future of Star Academy in the chip industry."

"Xingchen Academy has taken too big a step. If Xingchen Academy can stop at the brink and temporarily specialize in one area, it may be able to develop slowly..."

“For example, we focus on cultivating optical technology talents and developing our own lithography machines.”

"Once the photolithography machine technology is improved, we will open other majors."

“That’s the only way to have a chance of success.”

What the experts say makes sense.

The netizens who had been looking forward to Star Academy were all silent.

Indeed, it is difficult for Star Academy to be accomplished overnight.

But if it cannot be achieved overnight, it will inevitably lead to suppression in the future.

Foreign capital is very familiar with suppression.

Xingchen Academy's development in the entire chip industry chain is equivalent to suffering suppression from the entire industry.

This difficulty is too high.

Not to mention that the premise of everything is that Xingchen Academy can truly cultivate outstanding talents.

In summary.

The chances of Star Academy succeeding in the chip industry seem very slim.

Most netizens have become rational.

The chip market, which was briefly hot because Xingchen College opened a chip major, has now returned to a cooling-off period.

The rising stock prices of various companies fell back again.

Chip concept stocks have returned to their previous lows, and have even fallen a lot more than before.

After all, if even the Star Academy, which has created countless miracles, joins the game, it will be difficult to boost China's chip industry.

Wouldn't it be really difficult for China's chip industry to break through the blockade and compete with foreign countries?
As a result, most citizens have increasingly low confidence in China's chip industry.

Without confidence, stock prices will naturally fall.

And countless college entrance examination graduates who had originally seen that Xingchen College offered a chip major were eager to apply.

At this moment, I hesitated because of public opinion... (End of this chapter)