From university academician to chief academician

Jinling, around 12 noon!

Ye Fei drove to the door of his noodle shop, then walked into the noodle shop and sat down.

It's dinner time now, and the nearby neighbors are very lively with people coming and going.

Seeing Ye Fei, many people greeted Ye Fei.

"Academician Ye, hello!"

"Academician Ye, you are a rare visitor. Do you have a day off today?"

"Xiao Fei, my grandson is not good at math. Can you tell him how to learn math?"

"Xiao Fei, why do you want to come here today?"

"..."

Ye Fei is a celebrity in this area. Everyone knows that there is a literary star in the old Ye family.

They don't have a clear idea of ​​how high Ye Fei's status is, but to be the youngest academician in the world, his status must be very high.

Ye Fei smiled and talked to them.

"Son, why are you here?" Mother Ye came out of the kitchen carrying noodles and was very surprised to see Ye Fei.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "I want to eat the noodles made by our family."

Mother Ye called to the kitchen: "Old Ye, a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles, put more beef in it."

Ye Mu knows Ye Fei's taste. He likes hot and sour beef noodles the most.

"knew."

Soon, a bowl of noodles with half a bowl of beef was served.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked in from outside.

"Academician Ye, you are so easy for me to find!" the middle-aged man yelled when he saw Ye Fei.

Ye Fei turned around and looked at the middle-aged man in confusion.

The middle-aged man Ye Fei did not know him.

The middle-aged man walked up to Ye Fei, stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "I am the chairman of Xia Xin International, Qu Guangfu."

Ye Fei didn't know much about Qu Guangfu, but he knew about Xia Xin International.

Xiaxin International is the most well-known and largest chip manufacturing company in Xia Guo, and it is also the leading company in Xia Guo's chip manufacturing.

Ye Fei hissed the noodles on his lips, sucked them into his mouth, then stood up, shook hands with Qu Guangfu, and said with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Qu, please sit down!"

The uncle sitting opposite Ye Fei quickly stood up with the bowl in hand and said, "Hey, you sit down, you sit down."

Qu Guangfu smiled and said: "Thank you!"

Ye Feidao: "Has Mr. Qu eaten?"

Qu Guangfu touched his stomach and said with a wry smile: "Not yet. I came from Shanghai early in the morning and went to the Yuan Blockchain Research Institute. I found no one there. I said you are here, so I rushed here. .”

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Sorry, I was doing research recently and forgot about Director Qu's visit."

The assistant told Ye Fei yesterday that the chairman of Xia Xin International was coming to visit him.

It's just that Ye Fei was doing mathematics research recently and forgot about it.

Ye Fei is recently proving the Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups.

The Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups is very helpful for proving the Riemann hypothesis.

If the proof is successful, it will go a step further in proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

At the same time, the Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups is also one of the world's difficult problems.

It is much more difficult than all the problems Ye Fei has proven before.

If it proves successful, Ye Fei estimates that he could win some world-renowned awards.

For example, the Ostrowski Prize, the Balzaan Prize, the Berwick Prize, the Third World Academy of Sciences Prize, the Faisal International Prize, the Royal Medal, the Kyoto Prize...

Qu Guangfu smiled and said: "It's okay, I took the liberty of disturbing you."

Ye Feidao: "Let's have a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles. The hot and sour beef noodles here are delicious."

"Okay!" Qu Guangfu nodded.

Ye Fei looked at Ye Mu coming out of the kitchen and said, "Mom, here's another bowl of hot and sour beef noodles for this gentleman."

Ye Mu looked at Qu Guangfu, who stood up and said with a smile, "Hello!"

Mother Ye smiled and said: "Hello!"

After Ye Mu entered the kitchen, Qu Guangfu sat down and asked in surprise: "Does this shop belong to you?"

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded and said, "My parents drove it."

Qu Guangfu looked around and saw that all the seats around him were full of people.

The store covers an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, with tables surrounding the wall. There are nine tables in the middle, with a total of more than 60 seats.

Before, the area was only more than fifty square meters. Later, after learning that Ye Fei was rich, Ye Fei's parents stopped saving money.

It happened that the store next door was for rent, so Ye Fei's parents bought the store next door with a wave of their hands.

Ye Fei’s parents bought the original store many years ago.

The two shops are connected, covering an area of ​​more than 100 square meters.

Qu Guangfu sighed: "Business is very good!"

"It's not bad!" Ye Fei smiled.

After a while, Ye's mother came out with her face held high, and Qu Guangfu quickly stood up and said, "I'm coming, I'm coming, please."

Mother Ye smiled and said, "Eat slowly."

Qu Guangfu picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of noodles, and his eyes lit up as he said, "Huh? That's very nice of you!"

Ye Fei smiled and said, "As long as you like it."

"Academician Ye, I won't beat around the bush anymore." Qu Guangfu said, "I would like to invite you to our company to develop chip technology."

Ye Fei frowned slightly and said, "Chip technology?"

"Can you tell me about the current international status of Xia Guo's chips?"

What Ye Fei knew about Xia Guo's chip situation was from a group of semi-experts.

He didn't know much about the actual details.

Qu Guangfu said: "Okay!"

"A chip generally requires design, packaging and manufacturing."

"my country's chip design level is basically the same as that of the international level. There is a gap of four to five years in packaging technology level, and the gap in manufacturing technology is about three and a half years."

"But this is an international average."

"As the world's largest consumer of semiconductors, my country accounts for half of the world's chip consumption demand. In recent years, chip imports have surpassed oil, reaching 230 billion U.S. dollars, becoming Xia's largest imported commodity category."

"If you don't want to talk about far away, let's talk about your Meta Blockchain Research Institute."

"If you, Yuan Blockchain Research Institute, want to develop Web3.0, you must use chips!"

Ye Fei nodded, it was true.

Without chips, Web3.0 would not be able to develop.

"The global semiconductor market is as high as 340 billion U.S. dollars. Xia Guo manufactures 1.2 billion mobile phones, 370 million computers, and 150 million color TVs a year, firmly ranking first in the world, and consuming 59% of the world's chips every year."

"Among them, Xiaguo's chip market share exceeds 10%, which means that more than 90% of Xiaguo's chips rely on imports."

Ye Fei's expression was very serious. He didn't expect the situation to be so serious.

Chips are used in many fields, including mobile phones, automobiles, computers, home appliances, medical equipment, industrial automation, security systems, aerospace and other fields.

Xia State has such a large demand for chips, which is the largest imported commodity category.

If you are slightly stuck by others, development in many fields will be restricted.

"The highest-end chip that our country can manufacture is 14nm, and the smallest chip that countries around the world can currently manufacture is 5nm."

Ye Fei nodded.

The smaller the chip is not the better, but the fit is the best.

5nm and 7nm chips are mainly used in mobile phones, and the market demand is not very large.

The 14nm chip has the widest application and the greatest demand among all chips.

For example, high-end consumer electronics, high-speed computing, low-end power amplifiers, baseband, AI, new energy vehicles and computers, etc.

Therefore, Xia Guo cannot produce 5nm and 7nm chips. Except for mobile phones, other fields will not be affected.

"Of course, although our country can produce 14nm chips, our goal is to develop the chip technology to 7nm or even 5nm."

"The quality and yield of the chips produced are not very good."

"It can even be said that compared with international 14nm chips, the quality is very poor."

"So, if you want high-quality chips, you can only import photolithography machines from the Netherlands."

"The output is far from meeting domestic demand, and a large number of chips need to be imported from abroad."

"So, our country is not only incompetent in technology, but also in terms of production."

"And, because a lot of the technology is on loan from abroad."

"If they don't lease it to us on a certain technology, our chips can't be produced."

"We are short of core technologies, and we have a big gap in talent. In terms of market competition, international competition is fierce, and the quality of our country's chips is not good."

Qu Guangfu shook his head repeatedly and said tiredly: "It's difficult, it's difficult, it's difficult, it's too difficult."

"Xia Guo still has a long way to go if he wants to break through the chip."

Ye Fei pondered for a moment and asked: "How can Xia Guo break the situation from the chip?"

Qu Guangfu said: "If you want to break the situation, you have to start with 14nm chips."

"It is necessary to develop a photolithography machine that can manufacture high-quality 14nm chips."

"And it can achieve mass production, which can meet at least 25% of domestic chip demand."

"If 70% of the demand can be met, then our country will have no worries about chips."

Ye Feidao: "What are the main technical difficulties?"

Qu Guangfu said: “In terms of design, we lack architecture and EDA software.”

"No company in Xia Guo has a structure, and all companies use foreign structure technology."

"EDA software is basically imported from abroad, and domestic EDA software is still far behind."

"In the manufacturing field, we only have ion etching machines that are powerful, and other photolithography machines are lagging behind."

Manufacturing chips not only requires photolithography machines, but also requires equipment such as ion etching machines, ion implanters, reactive ion etching machines, and wafer dicing machines.

"And some raw materials are even more backward, such as photoresist and high-purity silicon."

"As for the packaging field, the threshold is not very high."

"We are basically satisfied in all aspects."

"Our country now only has some technology, talents and ion etching machines in the chip field."

"What our country lacks is equipment such as chip architecture, EDA software, raw materials, and photolithography machines."

"If foreign countries do not authorize our chip architecture, EDA chips cannot be used, raw materials are restricted, and equipment such as photolithography machines cannot be imported."

"Then we won't be able to manufacture chips, and many industries will be restricted in their development."

Ye Fei frowned and said a little irritably: "There are too many missing!"

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded helplessly: "Actually, the lack of so many technologies is not what worries us the most."

"After all, today is a global integration, and no one country can handle all the upstream and downstream industries of the chip."

"Even the North Ryeo Kingdom, the Japanese Kingdom, and the Koryo Kingdom can't do it."

Ye Fei nodded, yes, chips are a very complex and highly technical industry.

No one country can handle all the upstream and downstream aspects of chips.

Even if the chip can be manufactured completely independently, the quality of the chip produced will definitely not be very good.

As for global cooperation in manufacturing chips, if your own country's technology in certain aspects of chips is not the best, you can cooperate with other countries that have the best technology.

The quality of the chips produced in this way is the best.

"What worries me most is that our country is not the best in any field in terms of chips and can beat others."

"Only others are blocking us."

Ye Fei asked: "How strong is Beili Country's chip technology?"

As far as Ye Fei knows, Beili Country's chip technology is very strong, and all countries in the world rely on Beili Country for chips.

Qu Guangfu said: "Beili's chip technology is very strong. Half of the global chip market is controlled by Beili, and 90% of the high-end chip market is controlled by Beili."

"Furthermore, Beili has a monopoly on chip manufacturing equipment, materials, EDA, etc."

"In terms of chip technology, Beili has led my country for at least 30 years."

Ye Fei was horrified when he heard this. He knew that Beili Country's chip technology was very strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong.

"Even if Beili Country stops its progress now, it will take at least fifteen years for our country to catch up."

Ye Fei shook his head and sighed: "It is indeed too strong."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu's face was complicated.

Ye Feidao: "But our current situation is not to catch up with Beili, but to be the best in a certain field of chips, and even if possible, be able to beat others."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded.

Ye Feidao: "Actually, we don't need to compete with Beili in the chip field."

Qu Guangfu looked at Ye Fei doubtfully.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "You have forgotten that we have carbon nanotubes and high-purity graphene. We don't need to develop on silicon-based chips. We can change the direction to develop on carbon-based chips."

"There should be no country that can produce carbon-based chips yet!"

Qu Guangfu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Yes."

Ye Feidao: "They can't mass-produce carbon nanotubes, but we can."

"Then we can create carbon-based chips."

"A field without any competitors but with huge market potential."

"We create carbon-based chips that can achieve a monopoly."

"Even if foreign energy produces carbon nanotubes in the future, we can use this gap period to continuously advance carbon-based chip technology."

"This way we can maintain a monopoly in the field of carbon-based chips."

"Moreover, carbon-based chips can make all existing chips, and can also make micro- and nanochips."

"Micro and nanochips can be used in mobile phones and computers."

"It is one of the core technologies of the next generation of supercomputers."

"Without it, supercomputers wouldn't exist."

Qu Guangfu was very excited when he heard it and said with a smile: "You are right, my vision is limited and I have always been focusing on silicon-based chips."

"Our country has carbon nanotubes. There is no need to focus on silicon-based chips. We should change our direction and follow the path of carbon-based chips."

"This way we can change lanes and overtake."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "That's right."

"However, according to what you said, we still need to develop a photolithography machine suitable for carbon-based chips first."

"Without a photolithography machine, even if we want to make carbon-based chips, we can't make carbon-based chips."

"At the same time, in order to avoid being stuck in technology, we have to develop chip architecture and EDA software."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded and said, "You are right, we cannot lack the lithography machine, chip architecture and EDA software."

"If one of these three is missing."

"Even if we create carbon-based chips, foreign countries can still block us from these three technologies."

"That's right." Ye Feidao: "Especially Beili Country, some are shameless and shameless. They definitely don't want to see us have carbon-based chips. We don't know what will happen by then."

"So, we must prepare for a rainy day."

"Yes." Qu Guangfu said: "Academician Ye, it seems that I am right to come to you today. I hope you can cooperate with us and lead us to develop chips to help our country become a world chip power."

Ye Feidao: "Do you know that the country is building a scientific research institute for me?"

"I heard about it," Qu Guangfu said.

Ye Feidao: "If you want to cooperate with me, you must sign a contract with the Scientific Research Institute, and all subsequent benefits will belong to the Scientific Research Institute."

"Can!"

As long as Ye Fei can help them, Qu Guangfu doesn't care who he signs a contract with.

Of course, if you sign a contract with a scientific research institute, the price will definitely be higher.

But Qu Guangfu didn't care. It was normal for a talent like Ye Fei to be priced higher.

Ye Feidao: "The scientific research institute has not yet been established, but I will find professional people to connect with your company."

"good!"

In fact, having the Scientific Research Institute saved Ye Fei a lot of effort.

In this way, if any research institution wants to rent him out in the future, it can take the scientific research institute route.

And he can find professionals to connect with these research institutions.

He doesn't have to worry about anything.

Moreover, except for operating costs, all the income from the scientific research institute belongs to Ye Fei.

The state didn't get a penny from this.

After all, the National Institute of Construction Sciences was given to Ye Fei.

Let Ye Fei gain benefits and increase Ye Fei's status and reputation in academia.

Ye Fei saw that half of the bowl of noodles was still cold. The two of them talked here for nearly an hour, and the noodles barely touched their chopsticks.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Is your noodles too cold? Give them to me and I'll heat them up for you."

"No trouble." Qu Guangfu said with a smile.

He was so excited that he was no longer hungry. He just wanted to go back immediately and have someone come and connect with Ye Fei's scientific research institute.

Ye Fei picked up the noodle bowls for the two of them, then entered the kitchen and asked Father Ye to heat them up.

Father Ye said: "What's hot? You let the big boss eat the leftovers. I'll make you two new portions and give you some cold dishes."

Ye Feidao: "No need to go to such trouble."

"You kid." Ye's father rolled his eyes at Ye Fei: "After all, he is the boss of a big company. I heard that he is Xia Xin or something. I heard that he is a big company in Xia State."

Ye Feidao: "Xia Xin International!"

"Yes, yes, Xia Xin International." Father Ye said: "Son, I heard that he came to you and asked you to help with research. How much did he give you?"

"I don't know!" Ye Fei shook his head and said, "We won't know until we talk about it later."

Soon, Father Ye gave them hot and sour noodles with more than half a bowl of beef for two nights. He also gave them a plate of braised beef, a plate of braised mutton, a plate of stir-fried lotus root slices and a portion of dry-pot cabbage.

Ye Feidao: "Dong Qu, come and try some. These are the specialties of our noodle shop."

"OK!"