The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 16: Employing people without doubt [Please collect and read]

Tian Hongtao came over and stood behind Zhang Zhipeng to watch him make the list.

The list is quite long, with one to two hundred items.

The list is very detailed, including the various equipment and components needed to rub the chips manually.

Zhang Zhipeng wrote down on a list all the materials, tools, equipment, and components that he could think of that might be used in hand-rolling chips.

The things he wrote are basically what can be found on the market.

As long as he can buy these back, Zhang Zhipeng can start thinking about slowly getting better.

His goal is to go through the entire process of manufacturing chips by hand.

By improving your skills in the process of rubbing chips by hand, you will eventually be able to set standards for all processes in the chip production chain and build production equipment. This may be able to completely solve the old problem of chips.

Zhang Zhipeng wrote several pages and finally finished the list.

Then he checked it again.

Only then did he carefully hand the list to Tian Hongtao.

"Dr. Tian, ​​I'm sorry, I want a lot of things. It will probably cost a lot of money."

Tian Hongtao looked through it and his scalp felt a little numb.

"You actually need so many items?"

"Do you need a separate laboratory of no less than 50 square meters?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and scratched his head and said, "The main area of ​​my small office is too small."

"There are a lot of instruments and equipment that I want to build myself, but I'm afraid I won't be able to put them here."

"So, a larger laboratory is needed."

"If you really can't find it, that's okay. I can make do in my office."

Zhang Zhipeng's current small office is only more than ten square meters.

There was really no room for the experimental equipment he wanted.

Tian Hongtao read the list made by Zhang Zhipeng and said, "There are many in the list you made that should be in the laboratories of other departments in our school."

"I guess I can borrow it through the school."

"I said, Zhipeng, you have fixed so many things, what do you want to do?"

Zhang Zhipeng said honestly: "I just want to make higher-end chips by myself."

Tian Hongtao smiled and shook his head and said, "I'll give your list to the teacher to see if he will approve it."

"Our funds are quite tight."

Zhang Zhipeng quickly thanked him: "Thank you, Dr. Tian."

"Please tell the teacher carefully. Everything on my list is necessary."

"As long as this requirement of mine can be met, I am confident that we will have a high-end self-developed CPU within at least a month, which can be directly used in our avionics system."

Tian Hongtao went to Zheng Jingzhi with the list written by Zhang Zhipeng.

Zheng Jingzhi is also busy in the laboratory at the moment.

Tian Hongtao handed the list to Zheng Jingzhi to read.

After Zheng Jingzhi finished reading it, he said, "Buy it as soon as possible according to the order."

Tian Hongtao was a little surprised: The teacher didn't even question it at all?

"Teacher, don't you think this list is a bit too much?"

"This will cost a lot of money."

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and said: "Don't doubt the people you employ, and don't use them if you doubt them!"

"Since I have chosen to use Zhipeng as a breakthrough point, I will satisfy whatever requirements he has!"

"What I want is to fix the avionics system of the third-generation aircraft as soon as possible! So that our fighters can achieve beyond visual range combat capabilities as soon as possible!"

As he spoke, he approved the words "Buy according to this order with guaranteed quality and quantity" on the list, and also signed his name.

Tian Hongtao took the approved order and went to the Department of Equipment Department.

This list needs to be estimated by the equipment department first, and then the finance department can get the money.

The people in the equipment department spent two or three hours just estimating the items on the list. Finally, the total price was estimated to be around 11!
  Tian Hongtao was startled.

So much money?

Nowadays, the country's funds are tight, and even for national-level projects, funding is not sufficient.

For the avionics system integration project of the third-generation aircraft that Zheng Jingzhi is currently working on, the total funding has only been approved to be 10 million.

Don't look at it, ten million seems like a lot.

However, this big project is a gold-swallowing beast, requiring additional equipment and importing expensive instruments.

It’s simply not enough!
  Tian Hongtao took the equipment department's estimate to show it to Zheng Jingzhi.

Zheng Jingzhi said with a smile: "Let's start a big fight! Every penny of our money must be used where it matters most..."

Zheng Jingzhi pondered for a moment.

Tian Hongtao said: "Teacher, how about I have a good chat with Zhang Zhipeng. If he spends so much money and can't achieve anything, then it's better not to spend it at all!"

Zheng Jingzhi shook his head gently, and he finally made up his mind: "Zhipeng is right! Chips are the most basic technology of the avionics system!"

"If we can develop a completely independent high-end process chip, it will be of great help to the integration of our third-generation aircraft avionics system!"

"Although 11 is a bit much, we can still afford it!"

"Go and buy according to the list!"

Zheng Jingzhi does think that 11 is a bit much.

However, he believed that he had just promised Zhang Zhipeng that he would support him at all costs in developing chips and developing independent CPUs!

I can’t break my promise!
  Zhang Zhipeng has proven before that he is quite reliable in doing things!

Then take a gamble!
  Tian Hongtao smiled and shook his head and said, "Teacher has too much trust in Junior Brother Zhang."

"It makes me a little jealous."

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and scolded: "Besides trusting him, do I have any other choice? Our project has reached a dead end now. We can only let him try it! What if it succeeds?!"

In the next two days, the equipment department and Tian Hongtao rushed here and there together, just to complete the purchase list listed by Zhang Zhipeng.

At the same time, the department also set aside a laboratory of more than 70 square meters for Zhang Zhipeng, and arranged several experimental tables according to his requirements.

The purchased materials were sent to the laboratory.

Zhang Zhipeng was not idle either. He began to list his entire plan for rubbing the CPU chip.

In order to make his plan proceed smoothly and quickly, Zhang Zhipeng also hired several assistants.

Moreover, these assistants are all Zheng Jingzhi’s doctoral students.

After all the items on the list were purchased, Zhang Zhipeng directed Tian Hongtao and several others to start setting up the laboratory.

It took more than a day to set up the laboratory, and then the intense process of rubbing the chips began.

Zhang Zhipeng will start by manufacturing silicon ingots, then use a photolithography machine and etching machine to manufacture the ×86 CPU chip he designed, and finally conduct packaging testing. He had to go through the whole process again and again.

He is in charge of the entire laboratory work.

For every test, he directed everyone to do it together.

Of course, he must get started.

On the first day, Tian Hongtao and a junior disciple mainly started to purify single crystal silicon from quartz stone using the crucible refining method and smelted it into silicon ingots.

Poor Tian Hongtao has never done such an experiment before.

He was so busy that he made many mistakes.

Zhang Zhipeng was standing by giving instructions and demonstrating in person.

Tian Hongtao was ashamed. He never expected that Zhang Zhipeng was so proficient in smelting and purifying single crystal silicon in a crucible.

How did this guy learn this?
  What Tian Hongtao doesn't know is: Zhang Zhipeng actually learns and sells now.

When Zhang Zhipeng was observing and guiding Tian Hongtao and the others in refining monocrystalline silicon, his experience bar was skyrocketing.

Moreover, when his experience reaches a certain level, a mutation will occur, allowing him to develop more scientific, reasonable, convenient and cost-saving skills in purifying single crystal silicon and manufacturing silicon wafers.

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