Chapter 496: Hit with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches
It is impossible to only engage in technology research and development without integrating it with the market. Lao Maozi's Caspian Sea Monster did not develop in the end. A big reason is that there is no market demand. By the time it develops flower-tailed pigeons and carries anti-ship missiles, the country has no money. .
Now, small ground-effect aircraft can be put into commercial operation after test flights. Compared with seaplanes, its biggest features are fuel efficiency, long range, and large cargo capacity. Compared with ships, its speed is It’s fast, so if you find the right market, you can sell it.
At present, it has reached the test flight stage, and it needs to be built and tested for flight.
Qin Tao helped contact Factory 320. After all, he had a good relationship with Factory 320. When he got in touch, he was even more excited: the replica of the T-45 trainer aircraft had been built and was undergoing test flights. , after completing the test flight subjects, they can be sent to the Wasteland Village base for the naval aviation training there.
Those pilots have simulated flying hundreds of times on the ground, and they are just short of the final actual flight. After this trainer aircraft comes up, it will definitely come in handy. You can't just talk on paper. Practice on the simulator. It’s time to get practical.
Good news comes one after another.
In mid-October, SMIC was completed!
On this day, early in the morning, Qin Tao excitedly arrived at the factory site of SMIC: a high-tech park.
SMIC and Loongson are almost next to each other. Because Loongson is engaged in design, the project progresses faster and has already started working. However, SMIC took a year. Infrastructure projects completed.
Pudong New Area is undergoing earth-shaking changes, with various high-rise buildings rising from the ground. However, in this high-tech park, only two building complexes have been built at present.
As the car drove to the door, Qin Tao saw the string of firecrackers hanging at the door with suspicion on his face.
“Why, after our large factory is completed and put into operation, we only have a string of 1,000-gun firecrackers?”
At this time, there were already a lot of people waiting at the door. Qin Tao got out of the car while talking. Of course, his complaints were heard by others.
Zhang Rujin's face was slightly embarrassed: "Mr. Qin, money must be spent wisely!"
In this era, even if a barber shop opens, tens of thousands of firecrackers must be set off, but SMIC does not. Although Zhang Rujin holds a huge amount of US$500 million in his hands, he is like Grandet. , very stingy.
He only flew economy class when he was on business trips. Once, a TV station asked him to record a program, and he took the subway there alone!
Now that the project was completed and put into production, he was reluctant to spend money. He just spent ten yuan to buy a thousand firecrackers as a celebration.
These are all vain, he wants to spend the money on useful things!
“Zhengyang, go buy another 50,000 firecrackers with my salary.” Qin Tao said to Xu Zhengyang who was driving.
Xu Zhengyang nodded and drove away. Zhang Rujin's expression calmed down: "Thank you, Mr. Qin."
"There is no need to save money. If it is not enough, our group will continue to invest. Even if it is a waste of money, we will give full support." Qin Tao said.
Zhang Rujin nodded.
A person next to me spoke up: "Many people are optimistic about our company. As long as we go public in the future, there will be no problem in financing."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Qin Tao: "We are not going public. This is a restricted area for SMIC's commercial operations."
The man's words were boring and he blushed so much that he didn't dare to say anything anymore.
There is no need to hang the fifty thousand firecrackers on the gate, they can be laid directly on the ground in front of the gate. At this time, all the leaders of Huating City came, including Xu Di, the big leader, and Jiang Zhou, who was in charge of economy and industry.
“Leader Xu, please give us a speech.” Qin Tao said with a smile.
Leader Xu shook his head: "Mr. Qin, it's up to you to do the talking."
“You are welcome to do as you please. I am a guest here. Leader Xu, it’s up to you to come.”
Leader Xu declined three times before walking to the microphone with excitement on his face.
"We in Huating City used to have shipbuilding industry, aircraft industry and automobile industry. Now, these industries are developing very well. However, these are old industries after all. Now, we will have an emerging microelectronics industry! I believe , our SMIC will definitely develop into a large global company, go out of Asia and go global!"
There was a burst of applause below.
"Please rest assured that the city will be your strong backing. The conditions offered by the city will not change. No taxes will be collected from SMIC within five years. Supporting schools, hospitals, etc. will be established." !”
After saying this, Xu Di looked at Qin Tao with a smile: "Okay, I'm done, it's your turn."
SMIC is backed by the Mingzhou Group. Will it cause problems for the development of the company? Qin Tao is not sure about this, but it is impossible to clear up the relationship. From the beginning of the negotiation with Sanhang Company, it is impossible for Mingzhou Group to hide it, so now, it is open and honest.
"Microelectronics technology is developing rapidly, and our motherland has fallen far behind the world's advanced level." Qin Tao's tone was a little low: "In the past few years, in order to catch up with the world's advanced level, our country has carried out the 531 Project and the 908 Project. However, For some reasons, these projects have failed, and even if they are introduced, they are still falling behind. Therefore, our Mingzhou Group has stood up, given full play to the advantages of our private enterprises, invested in the establishment of SMIC, and we hope that our motherland The chip industry can develop rapidly! SMIC places our infinite hopes on the chip industry!"
"Some of you are energetic college students, and some are overseas Chinese who have returned to China. Please rest assured that Mingzhou Group is your strong backing and will solve all your worries. Your mission is to put this production line into operation as soon as possible to produce related electronic products. product!"
Over the past year, Zhang Rujin has been running back and forth, not only to oversee the construction of the factory, but also to recruit talents. Relying on his personal charm, he summoned more than a hundred Chinese Americans and became the backbone of SMIC.
These people gave up their generous treatment in the United States and resolutely returned to China. Of course, Qin Tao cannot let them suffer any injustice. These are the most precious scientific and technological talents!
"Employees and relatives, with the support of the city and the support of the group, what else can we say? From today on, we will work hard to build SMIC into the world's largest chip foundry!" The final round When Zhang Rujin spoke, he was very excited. His ideal was finally coming true!
The sound of crackling firecrackers sounded.
The smell of gunpowder smoke spread throughout the factory, and the sound of firecrackers echoed over SMIC, over Pudong, over Huating, and over the entire motherland!
The world's famous chip foundry started from this moment. As soon as it was established, it brought the chip technology in the East to the same level as the world!
A group of people walked into the factory.
If you want to enter the workshop, you need to wear special full-body protective clothing and undergo special dust-free treatment. Therefore, Qin Tao did not intend to go in. He couldn't understand it anyway. He just walked along the road outside the factory with everyone. Walk on the road.
On both sides of the road, there are trees that have just been planted not long ago, that is, in Huating. If they were in the north, transplantation would not be successful at this season.
A slightly cold wind blew from the sea, but everyone's heart was warm.
“Mr. Zhang, I will leave this place to you from now on. I hope it can become a world-class chip foundry.” Qin Tao said.
Zhang Rujin nodded: "Of course there is no problem, we will work hard."
“At present, there will be quite a lot of domestic orders, but we still need to work hard to open up overseas markets. Only by becoming a world-class foundry can we be considered a real success.”
Although when the production line was first introduced, Sanhang Group was talking about producing 64 MB memory modules. However, after the entire production line is established, it can produce not only memory modules but also other products.
For example, now that we have entered the 2G era, Qin Tao has already abandoned his big brother and replaced it with a compact Ericsson. Although mobile phones cannot be produced in China yet, the demand for mobile phone cards is still quite large.
Domestic telecom giants can’t wait to place orders with SMIC.
There are other orders coming in like snow flakes. It can be said that in the first year or two since its establishment, SMIC did not have to worry about orders at all.
Zhang Rujin continued to nod: "Yes, of course we must work hard to expand overseas markets. I am already mobilizing my old relationships to strive to establish a relationship with Qualcomm and provide OEM services for Qualcomm."
Qin Tao glanced at Zhang Rujin with satisfaction: "Yes, we are going to dig orders from TSMC and squeeze TSMC out of business. I will give you three days of celebration wine!"
Walking around the factory, Qin Tao finished what he needed to say. Anyway, Qin Tao himself didn’t understand those specific technologies.
The leaders of Huating City also walked with them. Now, when they walked to the door again, Qin Tao said with a smile: "We at SMIC can work hard without any worries, thanks to the support of all the leaders."
"That's right." Xu Di said: "We originally had a radio component factory in Huating, but now they have been eliminated. Compared with the factories in front of us, they are like handicraft workshops. We are lagging behind. Factories can be eliminated, but the industry must continue. Our city has no problem and firmly supports it!"
Jiang Zhou didn’t say anything. He was very excited. He had been looking at this project. As a top student in the Department of Electronics at Tsinghua University, he even had an idea: leave the government and come here to do a career!
Jiang Zhou was stunned, Mr. Qin is simply a capable person! How can you understand what you are thinking?
Xu Di smiled: "Mr. Qin, you are too powerful. You actually want to recruit people from our government! Lao Jiang can't leave now. He has to continue to protect you SMIC. In a few years, when you are Core International has grown and grown, and if he wants to go, we won’t stay and will hold a lively farewell party to send him here.”
Amid laughter, everyone got on the bus.
“Xiangyang, since we are here, let’s go to Godson Company to have a look.”
Having not been to Loongson Company for a long time, and not knowing how the R&D projects there were going, Qin Tao felt a little hopeful.
SMIC is a foundry. This is its positioning. It is responsible for manufacturing. As for design, it is other companies.
Loongson Corporation develops the most critical processor chips, which is also the Mount Everest of the chip industry.
How are Mr. Ni and the others doing?
Loongson Company is also very busy.
When entering the company building, Qin Tao saw a big thing placed in the front hall. It was placed inside a transparent glass cover, and one could see integrated circuits one after another, densely packed with lines like spider silk. Qin Tao's scalp felt numb.
"Mr. Qin, you are here." Mr. Ni hurried out from inside, followed by a young man.
“Well, let me see, what is this?” Qin Tao asked, pointing to something like a totem.
“This is my graduation project.” People around Mr. Ni said: “It is a fully hand-soldered circuit built with more than 400 74LS series chips to realize the most basic processor functions.”
Looking at Qin Tao's puzzled eyes, Mr. Ni smiled: "He is the assistant I hired. He resigned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His name is Hu Wu. He has contributed a lot to our chip design. Our The chip architecture was also created by him and his people."
Hu Wu?
Born in 1968, he is still less than thirty years old, and he is at an age where he can work hard. He went to the Department of Electronics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986, and later entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After learning that Mr. Ni wanted to design chips, he came out. Followed by starting a business.
This road is not easy to follow, but they have no hesitation. As long as they are truly ideal, they will never use ism and shout slogans about technology without borders. They only want to make money.
There are many young people like Hu Wu in Loongson Company, but Hu Wu can stand out from them and become Mr. Ni’s assistant because he has a few brushes of his own.
“You have developed a special chip architecture?” Although Qin Tao is not in this major, he still knows something.
"That's right." Mr. Ni said: "Mr. Qin, since you support us in developing Loongson and delegate power to us, we cannot let you down. After research, we decided to adopt a new structure for our Loongson. And the instruction set!”
Speaking of this, Mr. Ni smiled: "Originally, we planned to call it Gou Sheng Architecture, but then I thought it sounded a bit unpleasant, so we changed the name to Dragon Architecture and Dragon Instruction Set. We are the descendants of Dragon, and we want to make Dragon Core To be the strongest in the world!”
“How did you make up your mind?” Qin Tao asked curiously.
In Qin Tao’s original time and space, Loongson was unable to use the X86 instruction set because it was not authorized, so they used the RISC instruction set, which is called the MIPS instruction system in American textbooks.
However, the development of Loongson was full of twists and turns. At that time, the inside story of Hanxin’s fraud was revealed, which also affected Loongson.
Loongson is independently developed. Although it has similarities with MIPSR1000 in design ideas, it is not a copy of the latter, nor does it plagiarize the design ideas of any other chip products. It is completely different from Hanxin where migrant workers grind chip numbers to cheat money.
However, there are overwhelming voices of doubt: "foreign core Chinese shell", "Loongson and Hanxin are the same thing", "Loongson and Hanxin have cooled China's heart" and other doubts are overwhelming.
Later, even though MIPS announced that single-function products in the structure of MIPS32 and MIPS64 were licensed to Loongson, and the two parties carried out long-term strategic cooperation with restrictive terms (no modification, no sublicensing of IP, etc.), the yelling started again, " The voices of "cheating funds" and "pseudo-independence" are endless. (You can probably guess who is leading this voice.)
Later, Loongson got through this period and slowly got on the right track. In the United States, MIPS has long been marginalized and is only used for teaching. Loongson has achieved ecological dominance in this system.
At this time, foreigners began to find excuses to make various excuses, such as why you didn’t pay enough and I have to audit you, this is against the rules, you are out of scope, and so on.
If you use other people's things, you will always be controlled by others. As a result, Loongson began to develop its own structure so that others could not find any faults.
Now, Godson has been using its own architecture since its inception! This requires a lot of determination.
"Since I accepted this task, I have been thinking about how Loongson should develop. No matter what instruction set or architecture we use, it will be controlled by others. Maybe no one cares about us at first, but in the future, it will impact the interests of those big manufacturers. , they should surround us." Mr. Ni said: "I thought about it for about a week. One day, when I was on the mainland at work, I suddenly thought of the war after the founding of the People's Republic of China and what my superior said. "
When he said this, Mr. Ni paused for a moment, and then said in a solemn tone: "Punch away with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches."
Although this road is difficult to walk now, it is necessary. Only by punching one now can one avoid being hit by hundreds of punches in the future!
Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, there is ambition! We have to show this kind of courage. Hu Gong, you are all the elites of the country!"
At this time, Qin Tao had already walked into the studio and saw countless busy people inside. Among them, the figure of an old man was particularly dazzling.
She is a female, she looks to be almost sixty years old, with white hair, but she is still busy in front of the computer.
“She is my other deputy, Lao Huang.” Mr. Ni introduced.
At this time, Mr. Huang was looking at the computer screen and carefully watching the complex circuits on it. It was obvious that he had entered the detailed design stage.
“Huang Lao? Did you invite her here too?”
Hearing everyone's conversation, Huang Lao turned around. After seeing Qin Tao, he just nodded and smiled, and continued to work.
“Mr. Huang, you are not young anymore. Here, you can just look after the young people. You don’t have to do this kind of work yourself.” Qin Tao said, the person in front of him is a veteran of the domestic electronics industry!
Mr. Huang turned to look at Qin Tao again, and then said: "My biggest wish in this life is to kneel on the ground and wipe away the shame of the motherland. Now, I have to do these things, and I enjoy it. I can do a good job for our country." Our computer business is our greatest pride."
While speaking, Mr. Huang clicked on the penguin icon in the lower right corner of the screen and quickly entered a paragraph. Standing behind, Qin Tao could see that what was written was a problem with a certain circuit.
"You have already used instant messaging tools?" Qin Tao was even more surprised.
"Yes, this ICQ software is very good." Mr. Ni said: "Currently, all of our technical exchanges are conducted through this chat tool. Of course, in order to avoid leaks, we use the internal LAN , Goose Factory specially built a LAN server for us."
Qin Tao pushed it forward at the time, but stopped paying attention to it later. Now that he sees the progress, he is very emotional: "They have succeeded."
"Yes, this ICQ chat software has achieved great success and has become popular all over the world." Mr. Ni said: "Goose Factory has been listed in the United States. It is said that the stock price soared dozens of times that day, and , our recent R&D funds are all the source of profits from the Goose Factory."
Qin Tao’s original idea was to make money by riding on the Internet craze, and then use the profits to invest in hardware research and development. Now it seems that this path has been successful.
"The Goose Factory has promised that as long as our Loongson is built, they will transplant this ICQ software to our Loongson platform, and they will also optimize it according to Loongson's instructions to make it run more smoothly. Create an ecosystem for us." Speaking of this, Mr. Ni's face was filled with excitement.
Loongson has entered the detailed design stage and can be manufactured through SMIC in the future, but what about the future?
ˆ With a new architecture and new instructions, there is no ecological cooperation at all, and the performance is not as good as Intel. How can it occupy the market?
"We plan to use open source Linux as the system, cooperate with the domestic Kingsoft company on office software, and add chat software to build this basic platform." Mr. Ni said: "Although our hardware performance is not as good as that of our peers, But as long as the software is optimized well, there is still hope.”
Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, it's not too late now. After all, computers are not yet popular in our country. Our prices must be appropriate so that more people can afford computers and use our Loongson computers. In this way, the ecosystem will be built." .”
It’s not too late. For ordinary people, computers are still very high-end things. Owning a personal computer is a dream. When they first came into contact with computers, they used Linux systems and Kingsoft Office software. In this way, they will You'll get used to it.
Even if they don’t export at first and only use the domestic market, it will be enough for Loongson to develop!
“Goose Factory still needs to work harder.” Qin Tao already has a more perfect plan.
To say what is the most useful thing about computers for ordinary people, apart from office work, it is games!
It is not enough for Goose Factory to invent only one ICQ. More software is needed, especially game software!
Anything like Red Alert, Westward Journey, etc. can be developed, and you have to do some tricks behind the scenes. For example, it runs most smoothly on Loongson. Even if Intel's processor frequency is far higher than ours, the screen will jump. In a blink of an eye, those gamers will move to the Loongson platform and call Intel trash!
(Some readers left a message saying that we should not go all-out and only develop warships. Our current general direction is still to focus on warships and develop other projects, whether it is carrier-based aircraft or chips, all for warships, such as Loongson. It will soon become the processor of our air defense destroyers. We can’t use American processors on our own warships, right?)
(End of this chapter)