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In the future, there will be a large number of domestic companies that can develop and manufacture chips.That is to say, for the most high-end mobile phone SOC-level chips, the equipment and technology related to the process technology are stuck.

For example, Yangtze Memory later solved the problem of domestic production of solid-state flash memory particles.The memory also has Changxin storage.

Well, even for CPUs, there are a bunch of domestic ARM architecture chip R&D manufacturers, and even risc-v open source architecture chips are being developed by a bunch of companies.Also, although Zhongke Loongson’s CPU architecture is niche and not ecologically sound, at least it solves the problem.

Chip design and chip manufacturing that were considered impossible in China in 04 can now basically be done.

Later, the bottlenecks were mainly in the top lithography machines, but only in a few fields.

Including, CPU, memory and solid state, etc. At first, I couldn’t even think about it. Can domestic companies design this?Later, I discovered that design is just that.

If you have the equipment, making chips is just that...

In the end, most of the semiconductor equipment used to make chips is just that.

Only the most high-end part is left, which is a stuck area.

But it is only the most high-end chips that are stuck. 90% of the chips that are often used in all walks of life cannot be stuck in the neck later.

In 04, not to mention chips, they were just a screw, a baffle, a chassis, and the capacitors and resistors on the motherboard in the server. Did people doubt that China could make them?

It was made in 04, and the supply chain dare not use it, even as a capacitor or resistor.

Later, the technology war forced domestic substitution. Many domestic manufacturers that had no chance to prove themselves finally had the opportunity to prove themselves in the market.After it was used by the market, it was found that it was not unusable.

Originally, the domestic industrial chain was stupid, and I absolutely believed in the international division of labor. I would always be able to buy it, and the supply after signing the contract would not be interrupted.

As a result... I found that I was the only one who believed in international division of labor and free trade.The countries that originally advocated free trade continue to tear up free trade agreements and undermine free trade.

Because Zhao Han has a vision for the future, he will give priority to domestic manufacturers if he can place orders.

"Absolutely!" Chen Jingjing said, "Choose one of the two, I think Shuguang is better."

"Then let's go to Shuguang!" Zhao Han didn't care.

When buying servers now, the proportion of localized hardware is too low.Even Sugon is unable to use much domestic hardware.

In this era, in the computer field, the concept of domestic substitution is not popular... Probably, only Zhao Han is willing to buy more products with a higher localization rate.

In fact, if we really want to promote domestic substitution, it is a question of whether we dare to think about it.

First replace the low-tech components such as capacitors and resistors, and then replace the components in the motherboard that do not require high process technology.

If the hard drive is not mechanically manufactured well, we might as well replace it with a domestic solid-state one.Memory sticks, in fact... are not irreplaceable, as long as you dare to think and try.

Even the X86 CPU, which was considered absolutely irreplaceable, later appeared with the emergence of ARM and found that it was not irreplaceable.

Why does the server have to use X86?

After ARM, major cloud service companies thought, why do they have to buy other people’s chips?If you design your own chips according to your needs and use them yourself, you can cover the R&D costs. Why not design and manufacture them yourself?

Not to mention companies like Huawei that are famous for their R&D investment.Alibaba, Tencent, and even Baidu all design chips, produce and sell them themselves, and use them to provide computing power in their own cloud computing servers.

In later generations, domestic manufacturers no longer have any psychological barriers to chip design.

There are many manufacturers that develop self-developed chips, which naturally drives orders from the OEM chip manufacturing industry.The chip foundry industry chain and the domestic industry chain are developed, which can naturally bring orders to manufacturers of semiconductor raw materials, equipment, etc.

And these raw material and equipment manufacturers have obtained a large number of orders that they did not have before, entering a virtuous cycle, and the technical level has gradually improved. It is only a matter of time that the technology that was originally unconquerable will be broken through as time goes by.

What Zhao Han was thinking was...what if we could break through earlier?

For example, EUV lithography machines, the core EUV light source system, high-precision curved mirror system, and ultra-high-precision vacuum dual workpiece stage, these three stuck technologies, in fact, just look at these technologies themselves, as of 23 , different domestic scientific research institutions have made breakthroughs respectively.

What remains is mainly when these technologies can be integrated together to create an EUV lithography machine.

In a sense, Zhao Han still hopes that one day, he can promote the breakthrough of neck-stuck technology earlier, even a year in advance.

For example, if the three major technological breakthroughs of EUV can be achieved in 2022 or even 2021.It is also a year or two faster than the original progress.

EUV core technology cannot be integrated into EUV lithography machines for the time being.

Then, if the workpiece with EUV precision level is placed under the table and used by the DUV lithography machine, will the accuracy be higher?

The EUV-level high-precision arc mirror system is also delegated to DUV lithography machines to reduce dimensionality and improve the accuracy of DUV lithography machines.

Thinking of this, Zhao Han couldn't help but feel like he was drifting...

If you still want to buy a low-end server now, I think of the EUV lithography machine behind it.

In a sense, the threshold of EUV lithography machines is more than one level higher than that of Internet companies.

For those developing chips, the technical threshold exceeds that of the Internet.

The threshold for manufacturing chips may be higher than that for developing chips.

As for manufacturing semiconductor equipment, especially EUV lithography machines, the difficulty is an order of magnitude higher than that of chip foundries.

Internationally, the manufacturing of EUV lithography machines is generally the most complex equipment among human industrial products produced by the entire industrial chain of developed countries, all integrated and divided into dozens of countries.

Even if EUV lithography machines can finally be built in China at some time in the future, it will be a matter of mobilizing the strength of the entire country, rather than something that can be solved by a few companies and scientific research institutes.

Chapter 1 Purchasing Server

After selecting the server brand he wanted to purchase, Zhao Han asked Chen Jingjing to contact the Shuguang dealer in the provincial capital.

The Internet era is so convenient. It is easy to search the official website and find the dealer’s contact information.

"Yes, yes! We are the general distributor in the province, and we have Sugon's server products. Whether they are mid- to low-end or customer-customized high-end servers, we can have them all." The young man on the other side of the phone looked particularly special. Excitedly, "Your company address, okay, I know it! It's in Jiangcheng County, not too far away. Okay, I'll make a trip tomorrow... Let me talk about your needs first, so I can bring the products there."

"The address is Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company, No. XX Road, Jiangcheng County. We need to build a novel website server with mainly text and a small amount of picture content." Chen Jingjing said.Then, report some server parameters.

"Oh, that's it. Judging from this demand, Sugon's Tiankuo series can meet it. These are mass-produced models and are in stock. You can bring them over directly and try them on the spot. If you are satisfied, they will be delivered." said the Sugon dealer over there.

"What about the price range?" Chen Jingjing asked.

"Don't worry, the price is very kind. The basic configuration can be purchased for 1 yuan. Adding some configurations, such as installing more hard drives and adding more memory modules, will be a little more expensive. But how to add configurations, this model will not exceed 2 yuan. Budget. Our prices are transparent, with the same configuration, foreign competitors are 50% more expensive than us. Domestic competitors are also slightly more expensive than us!"

"Okay! Got it! We are waiting for the server, always waiting!"

"Okay, I'll come tomorrow. I'll call you when I get there."

These days, those who sell servers have actually been beaten into pieces.

Domestic server manufacturers, good value for money and after-sales service.Major international manufacturers are also looking for sales everywhere, and they sell when they see an opportunity.

But it is mainly sold to government units or large enterprises that are not short of money.In particular, large companies such as telecommunications, finance, and energy will be well-fed if they form one company.

However, various manufacturers are also selling low-end cost-effective servers.

After all, many Internet companies that could only afford servers worth tens of thousands of yuan at the beginning gradually have the financial resources to purchase servers worth millions or more as the company develops.

But in general, servers are not as large as PCs.In the domestic market, only one million servers are sold a year.

Most of them are from major international brands, while domestic manufacturers have a lower server share.

A brand like Sugon can probably sell several thousand servers across the country every month. In a province, or an inland province, the sales volume is even less. If a province can sell hundreds of servers in a month, it is considered a high-end product.

So...even though it looks like a provincial general distributor, the actual sales volume may not be as good as that of a computer store selling desktops and laptops.

……

noon the next day.

Sugon's general dealer in the province, Mr. Wang Xiaoming, drove over personally and brought a technician with him.

The provincial capital and Jiangcheng are very close.

In the future, Jiangcheng will also be a county under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital. You will know that the distance to Jiangcheng County will not be much farther than the distance between different districts of the provincial capital.

"Welcome, welcome!" Zhao Han and others waited in the company after receiving the computers.

Then, everyone took a short break and chatted about some products and needs in the company.

"The several models I carry are actually similar, they are all low-end entry-level models. Among them, I recommend the Sugon Tiankuo R120A, mainly because of its strong compatibility.

It supports the most operating systems, supporting existing 32-bit operating systems Windows 2000, Linux, 64-bit operating systems SuSELinux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 for AMD64, and 64-bit Windows for AMD64, Redhat Advanced Server 3.0 and other operating systems..."

Wang Xiaoming said very confidently, "Among products of the same price range, our configurations are not inferior to others. There are also domestic counterparts whose prices are slightly lower than ours. However, our after-sales service is the best, with 5 years of after-sales service!"

Zhao Han casually flipped through some information and asked, not knowing much, "Why does the hardware of a server configured for 1 yuan seem...not as good as a PC costing 3000 yuan?"

"Haha, Mr. Zhao, you are not a technical person, are you?" Wang Xiaoming and a technician suppressed laughter.

"The main thing about servers is not the hardware configuration, but the stability requirements. Chips that can be used as server hardware are carefully selected. Some defective products that do not meet the requirements may flow into the PC market." Over there Sugon's technician interrupted and said, "Just take an ordinary computer and keep it on for 24 hours a day. It's probably not going to work, right? The design of stability and service life are not the same thing..."

Zhao Han smiled and said: "Don't I understand? It's just a rumor that Ma Huateng used PC as a server in his early years."

"It may be true, but it won't last long." Wang Xiaoming said with a smile, "Otherwise, why doesn't Tencent always use PCs as servers in the future? PC hardware is much cheaper than server hardware."

Zhao Han thought about it. Judging from the data on paper, the main frequency of the CPU, the capacity of the memory module, and the graphics card, are they more than just beating the server?

That's the paper data of PC hardware stepping on the server and massaging it!

But... some entrepreneurs were poor and came up with a whimsical idea to use PCs as servers, which took a while in the early stages.

Conditions are met, no one will continue to use PC as a server.

The design and application scenarios of the two are not the same thing.

Personal computers can tolerate crashes, blue screens and the like.If the server were to behave like that, the website would probably go down very quickly.

Afterwards, the group of people got into the delivery vehicle of Shuguang Company and went straight to the computer room of the telecommunications company.

then……

The brand new server has been unpacked. At least, it looks like a first-hand product in person. As for whether it is or not, it doesn't really matter.

After all, five years of door-to-door after-sales service.

After a lot of fuss from Chen Jingjing, Shuguang's technicians, and the technicians from the telecommunications computer room, the server was installed.

The website code is also installed.

Everyone enters the IP address to access the website, and it’s normal!

Then, Zhao Han felt that the 512 memory configuration was not good enough and he had to... install additional memory!

Don't use the 512 memory stick in the initial configuration. Replace it with a 1G memory stick and plug in six sticks to fill the memory slot.

Of course, the maximum capacity of this server is 12G of memory, which is 2G of memory. However, 2G of memory is temporarily out of stock.

Let’s start with 6G memory.

A standard hard drive is 36G?Replace it with an 80G hard drive. The two add up to 160G. They are both enterprise-class hard drives.

After all this was done, the budget actually didn’t increase much.

It was originally 1.2 yuan. After inserting all the memory modules and hard disks, the budget was increased by 1.5 yuan.

Of course... regardless of stability, looking only at hardware parameters, Zhao Han even thinks that a PC with a budget of 4000 can beat this server.

Of course, this is just a novice’s opinion. If PCs were really that powerful, there would be no need for the server market to exist.

After that, the two parties formally signed a contract for server purchase and after-sales service.Leave Suguang Company’s after-sales contact card.

Sending away the dealer of Sugon Server...

The first website under Zhao Han's company is considered an internal test!

Because I haven’t even bought the domain name yet…

But soon!

Zhao Han was going back to the company and went to buy a domain name.

Chapter 1 Quiet Reading Network

Domain name registration in later generations is basically a one-stop service provided by some cloud service providers.

Various clouds can provide one-stop services from domain name registration, to purchasing cloud servers, and filing.

Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Huawei Cloud are all cloud service providers of this type.

To register a domain name in 2004, you still needed to find a specialized website, such as China Wanwang.

Zhao Han’s impression of Wanwang comes from Zhang Xiangdong, one of the founders of China Wanwang.

In a 2006 entrepreneurial program selling PPT to guests, Zhang Xiangdong said in front of Guo Fansheng of Huicong.com, one of the guests on the program, that B2B websites including Huicong.com could not compete with Alibaba.

These words made Guo Fansheng fall out on the spot and said that he would not invest in Wanwang.

Later, Wanwang was sold to Alibaba and became part of Alibaba Cloud's business.

Today, Wanwang has not yet sold itself to Alibaba, but it is also the top domain name registrar in the country.