Chapter 51: Throwing Money

Lu Zheng also formulated several product goals for the company's electronics research institute: lithography machines, photoresists, chips, operating systems, tactile sensors, mobile phone RF devices, high-end capacitors and resistors, etc.

Lu Zheng decided to let Allen put the four projects of lithography machine, photoresist, chip, and operating system in Silicon Valley, which is a world-famous high-tech industrial area. It is conducive to the introduction of talents, and there are world-famous universities as a background, so it's a big deal to spend money!

The lithography machine Lu Zheng decided to start with semi-automatic, why not do it manually? That kind of low technical content, Lu Zheng felt that this was not in line with his future plan for the company.

Why does Lu Zheng want to engage in lithography machines? Because it is the soul of chip manufacturing, and if you want to produce chips yourself, you must be inseparable from lithography machines.

The process of lithography on the lithography machine is similar to the miniature printing in our photocopying materials, where the text and image are reduced from the original document and copied onto white paper.

Lithography is the use of ultraviolet light source to carry the pre-designed integrated circuit diagram through the mask, and the ultraviolet light source passes through the mask carrying the circuit diagram, and finally transmits the circuit diagram on the photoresist. The pattern on the mask shrinks and is transmitted on the surface of the wafer, eventually forming a chip.

Photoresist can be simply understood as the developer used in the processing of photos.

Only when Lu Zheng completes the technological breakthrough of the lithography machine can he have hope for the mass production of his chips, which is rumored to require highly specialized optical technology and an electronic industry foundation as support, as well as a heinously precise manufacturing process.

So Lu Zheng decided to put it directly in Silicon Valley, investing 200 million US dollars in the early stage, not enough to add it, and first set up a flag that would not hit the south wall and not look back.

As for why I want to produce chips by myself? I Lu Zheng has lithography machine technology, or I don't have to produce it myself, and when the time comes, I will authorize a certain enterprise to produce, the premise is that I must use my own lithography machine, how domineering this is!

There are not many companies in the world that have lithography machines now, right?

In fact, he doesn't know if there are any other companies in this thing now, and they have set up a technical fortress waiting for him, just waiting for him to jump into the pit by himself!

Although it costs money, after the personnel are in place, they still need to learn from these experts!

Lu Zheng thinks that he has money to smash, but it is also the hard-earned money he earned, and he has to use it on the blade, and he can't waste it senselessly, it's shameful to waste!

In terms of chips, Lu Zheng decided to engage in two kinds, computer chips and mobile phone chips, he felt that this technology could not be done for Leo in Lapland, where the climate was relatively harsh, and he was afraid that the research and development progress would be delayed due to the climate.

There is another reason, he doesn't know how many technology fortresses will be waiting for him in the development of these, since he wants to develop them himself, it is indispensable to poach people in these companies.

For R&D engineers, working in the R&D department of Intel and ADM and coming to work on their own side are generally in Silicon Valley, and the impact on their lives is not too great.

At the same time, he also stuck a thorn in the throat of Intel and ADM, making them uncomfortable!

Hehe, I'm happy if you're uncomfortable, everyone competes with strength, you bite me?

Of course, Lu Zheng will still make it clear to his R&D engineers that they will bypass the technical fortresses of the two companies as much as possible, and I will invest more money to redevelop an architecture and algorithm.

My favorite thing to do right now is to throw money at it!

Lu Zheng is also ready to engage in computer operating systems and mobile phone operating systems, and in terms of computers, I have the convenience of patent sharing of fruit companies, and I can also use my identity as a major shareholder to force fruit companies to work on operating systems with me.

Lu Zheng decided not to do that, I only have 30% of the shares, and when the time comes, you give me a breach of contract, where can I reason with it?

So Lu Zheng decided to go it alone, and then sell his operating system to the fruit company, as for your fruit company wants to develop the operating system by itself, I'm sorry, I'm a major shareholder, I can disagree!

By the way, there is also a soft base company here in Silicon Valley, which is also dedicated to operating system development, and has successfully developed WDS1.0, D.S and XX systems, and is now firmly ranked first in the industry.

WDS1.0 is the first attempt to make a graphical user interface for the PC operating platform, in the sense of the word, it is not an operating system, it is just an application software based on the D.S system.

Lu Zheng glanced at the computer on his desk, don't you say, the WDS 3.0 system has been released, compared with the D.S system, it undoubtedly simplifies the start of the program and greatly enhances the human-computer interaction function. They had already taken a big step forward, and their side had to speed up and catch up as fast as they could, and use the corner overtaking to throw them behind.

Of course, it is to poach people, dig your person in charge, poach your senior engineer, and the most important thing is to go to the surrounding colleges and universities to poach people, and even the whole of Europe.

Lu Zheng plans to directly engage in a human-computer interactive operating system, as for the patent fortress in front, then spend time and manpower to bypass everything, there will always be many geniuses in this world!

Lu Zheng decided to learn how to hack and use both black and white armies. The White Army is responsible for programming, the Black Army is responsible for finding loopholes, and the staffing is set at 30 to 1 in black to white, and the preliminary estimate is that the Black Army is equipped with 9,000 to 12,000 men. After all, this is a super huge project, there is no way, start with 100 million, and then continue to add according to the situation!

Lu Zheng preliminarily estimated that it would take one year or two years to complete the programming of the computer operating system.

In terms of mobile phone system, Lu Zheng decided to recruit a team of 3,000 to 5,000 people in the initial stage, anyway, everyone hasn't started yet, so let's take a step ahead and wait for you.

Tactile sensor, which is a sensor that mimics the tactile function of the human body. For example, the electronic boyfriend and girlfriend we use can transmit your love for her to the central chip through such a sensor, so as to make various sounds.

This thing is an ultra-precision instrument, didn't Lu Zheng have a mobile phone company and a razor company?

In the future, this tactile sensor will be able to come in handy, and it will be possible to design all kinds of games through skin-to-skin contact, instead of the manual one we used in 0202.

When used in a razor, the beard can be intelligently identified and shaved by adsorption, so as to avoid damaging the skin.

It can also be used in medicine, as well as in robots and automobiles. In short, it's more useful!

Mobile phone RF device is Lu Zheng's long-term layout for the development of smart phones in the future, which is the core device of the terminal, which directly affects the transmission and reception of smart phone communication, mainly including baseband chips, RF front-end devices and terminal antennas.

Seeing this, you may say that in 0202, any mobile phone has this thing, isn't it unusual? But in 0202, no company in China has its patent.

Therefore, Lu Zheng decided to run in front by himself, the big deal is to throw money, it's very simple!

High-end capacitors and resistors are the golden supporting role of the electronics industry. The most important thing is to make the same batch of electronic products as consistent as possible, so this is a very important thing.

For example, a batch of electronic components for mobile phones can produce millions of pieces, and consistency is extremely important for quality control. For example, if a capacitor is not up to standard, it may make the phone charge slower, so this high-end capacitor resistor needs to be used.

Lu Zheng decided to unify the tactile sensors, mobile phone RF devices, and high-end capacitors and resistors in Lapland, and work together with the research and development of mobile phones to facilitate testing and experience.