Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker.

Chapter 254 Another hot product

Zhongxun's income must currently be invested in research and development. This is the bottom line.

Maririado Liliensru, a shareholder representative of Goldman Sachs, approached Zhao Guoqing for questioning. Mr. Zhao’s answer was that CITIC needs to accumulate enough technology to maintain the lead in the industry.

"Goldman Sachs is also a shareholder of IBM and Intel. In 1986, IBM invested % of its profits in research and development, and just last year, Intel invested nearly % of its profits in the research and development of new processes..."

Maririado Lilensru said: "Their normal R&D investment is about 20% of profits. Mr. Zhao, the 80% you mentioned is only in special years, and CITIC has not paid dividends to shareholders for three consecutive years. This It’s very abnormal!”

"Yes, Mr. Maririado, we are just making the plate bigger now!"

Zhongxun's R&D department has made great achievements, mainly focusing on LCD panels, while research on baseband was transferred to the 102 Institute intentionally or unintentionally by Zhao Guoqing.

Based on South Korea's 10.4-inch LCD screen technology, Zhongxun successfully developed a 14-inch LCD color LCD screen with an astonishing 800X600 resolution.

However, Zhongxun did not meet the direction of LCD liquid crystal technology and made simultaneous efforts in LED LCD screens. The commercial production of 10-inch LED LCD screens only took a few months.

The TN twisted nematic soft panel, which is very cheap, can already be made up to 17 inches.

In addition to the above three types, there are also IPS hard screens, VA soft screens and OLED screens. Zhongxun has covered all future development directions. What we need is to seize the strategic commanding heights and apply for the patents that can be applied for first. In 1992, 362 patents were applied for for LCD panels, and 162 patents are still being applied for...

Such massive research would definitely not be possible without sufficient financial resources, and they did it.

Zhongxun has proved with facts that it is difficult to go from zero to one, but it is much easier to go from one to three.

Of course, there are times when the R&D team is confused, but as long as Zhao Guoqing calmly thinks about it, he can always find out what he wants from the myriad of information in his mind. He only needs to specify the direction...

And when Mr. Zhao received the news that Xiaoshitian was all-in, going straight to the plasma display screen, he increased investment in the research and development of LCD screens, and cheap TN screen panels entered the commercialization process.

Shencheng Hi-Tech Computer Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of 102 Institute, launched the ARMv3 NUC ​​series of microcomputer hosts with high profile. The main product, ARMv3 Pro nuc, is equipped with an ARMv3 200mhz processor, with performance slightly higher than that of a 486 computer. It integrates 4M memory on the motherboard, integrates a voodoo110 display chip, and is equipped with an 80M NAND 16-layer solid-state drive. The guide price is US$299.

The ARMv3 nuc is equipped with ARMv3 150mhz, and its performance is equivalent to that of the 486. The motherboard also integrates 2M memory, integrates a voodoo110 display chip, and is equipped with a 24M NAND 16-layer solid-state drive. The recommended price is US$199.

The cost of the two computers is higher than the design. The main reason is that the cost of NAND solid-state drives is difficult to control. The 16-layer 3D structure requires 7 processes to complete each layer. It is like building a house, layer by layer. Contribute.

A total of sixteen layers require 99.9 processes. Even if SMIC has a yield rate of 50% on the -nanometer process, after so many processes, the yield rate of NAND memory chips is only %.

The average cost per M of capacity is about US$1.2.

The architecture of ARMv3 is really too backward, but with advanced manufacturing processes, the frequency has gone up, and with the addition of double-speed DRAM particles, the performance has also gone up.

The original target is 386, but in fact, it can beat 486 to the ground.

Shencheng Hi-Tech advertised on the main page of Silicon Valley Daily, and the photos immediately attracted the attention of computer practitioners and enthusiasts around the world.

"It's so exquisite!"

"It doesn't look like a computer at all!"

The size of the computer is very small. The bottom is 19cmX19cm and the height is 10cm, which is about the same size as a candy box. The edges are frosted and the external corners are all processed into arcs.

The slogan of Shencheng Hi-Tech is: "This is a microcomputer that can be installed with a Windows operating system!"

"God! My 486 computer can't even run Windows smoothly."

(End of this chapter)