Hu Wenhai has invested a lot of resources in display chip projects, but chip design talents are scarcer than giant pandas in China. The only group of talents is mainly concentrated in units such as the Military Industry and the Computing Institute of the Academy of Sciences. Not only do they have little experience with projects, but they are often far from graphics processing, display output, etc.

However, at this time, the previous idle chess played a role, and Zhang Zhongmou, who was cornered, became the manager of the Xiangjiang Wafer Factory, but there were a group of idle chip design talents.

This was originally Zhang Zhongmou's talent resources that Zhang Zhongmou gathered and prepared to use to form his planned chip foundry. However, because he was cheated by Hu Wenhai, he was blacklisted on the treasure island on suspicion of "leaking important military secrets", and the result was that he could only reluctantly carry the life for Mr. Hu in Xiangjiang.

was affected by him, and the previous group of treasure island talents were also snubbed on the island. Not only did the companies dare not hire people who were implicated with Zhang Zhongmou, but even the normal life of these people was under pressure from all sides.

Most of the original TSMC backbone technicians are from the Academy of Sciences in Baodao. In the process of serving here, Zhang Zhongmou naturally made a lot of talents in chip manufacturing and design. The talents who can be looked at by Zhang Zhongmou go without saying, it can be said that Baodao is the essence of this aspect.

Most of these sensitive technical personnel were later transferred out of important jobs. Comrade Jianfeng was furious because of the leak of the Jingguo number, and under the thorough investigation of his words, everyone involved was in danger, and he drew a line with these suspects. In the end, these people not only have no jobs, but also have no living conditions.

In fact, this was not the "special treatment" of Zhang Zhongmou's group, and in the face of the mainland's reform and opening up and investment promotion, Baodao set up a lot of interference measures at that time. Policy propositions such as "no haste, be patient" were not invented by Masao Iwasato on the head, but inherited Comrade Jianfeng's consistent underwater rules.

There are many cases of political interference in investments like Formosa Plastics Wang Yongqing, and there are countless cases of fighting between the two sides.

Fortunately, in 1988, during the chaotic stage on the island when Chiang Ching-kuo died, these talents took the opportunity to leave the treasure island and turned to Xiangjiang to join Zhang Zhongmou.

Of course, Zhang Zhongmou, who was only a manager of the Xiangjiang wafer factory at that time, was unable to arrange these senior technical talents. With his ability, it is unlikely that he will be able to contact and organize so many people to leave the island en masse at a sensitive time.

What are the specific transactions or operations behind this, the vast majority of people are in the fog. is Mr. Hu himself, to be honest, the details of some questions are never asked.

Although these people were panicked when they arrived in Xiangjiang at that time, as an elite class on the island, they were brainwashed by the "party-state" for decades, and it was not so easy for President Hu to use.

In fact, whether it is the desperate Zhang Zhongmou or the founder of SMIC in the original history, Zhang Rujing, who came to join the Communist Party only when they were desperate?

In the words of our President Hu, that is, "I like the way you can't get used to me, but you have to build socialism with Chinese characteristics with me." By the way, you can give them another funny look.

Of course, the people of Treasure Island are unreliable, and this is nothing new. SMIC was conspired by Zhang Zhong back then, and Zhang Rujing ran to the mainland like a lost dog, which can be regarded as a comeback on SMIC.

At that time, the mainland could be said to have done its best to Zhang Rujing, and the support from all quarters required money for money, land for land, people for people, and things for things.

If Zhang Rujing does a good job at SMIC, his achievements may not be inferior to Zhang Zhongmou. With the scale of the domestic electronic chip market, sooner or later it will be another prince. Even such as the BOE LCD panel, such a "counterattack", is not a difficult task.

But what is the result? In the past 10 years, SMIC has not improved at all, and the yield rate has not been low. Zhang Rujing single-mindedly used SMIC to care about TSMC who only cared about Zhang Zhongmou, and his personal grievances overrode official affairs. And the group of treasure island people he brought with him were not only self-cherishing, but also intrigue and power struggles to make the huge company a miasma.

It wasn't until 2010 that Zhang Rujing was swept away, and then SMIC broke out into unprecedented infighting. The executives of Baodao almost completely lost power, and Yang Shining and Ji Kefei took up their positions, and finally completely integrated the strength of SMIC.

In the second year after Zhang's departure, SMIC immediately achieved its first profitable year. And the various technical indicators really made Zhang Zhongmou feel the pressure.

What kind of improvisation is some "Taibazi", Mr. Hu, as a former industry insider, has a very clear heart.

Zhang Zhongmou is a person who uses it, but he must not trust them without discernment. In this GPU design project, not only Zhang Zhongmou and others, but also Mr. Hu simply stuffed a lot of his own people to learn from teachers in the past.

On the one hand, this group of people has nowhere to go, and on the other hand, Hu Wenhai's remuneration is quite generous. Carrots and sticks, although old-fashioned, do work.

After two or three years, I finally came up with a GPU design that was barely usable. Since the beginning of the year, the Modu wafer factory has been preparing for the production of GPU chips. From repeated tape-outs, modifications to finalization and production, there have finally been some achievements.

But for the time being, the graphics card business is not easy to do. In this era, there are neither triple-A game masterpieces, nor 4K ultra-clear video, and even personal computers are rare in China. Commercial applications have not been very smooth, and applications such as 3D animation and movie special effects have not yet been developed.

Many people are not very optimistic about the display chip project promoted by Mr. Hu, it should be said that this time, the hardware is in front of the software and even the demand.

As a magic fab, it may be the main strategic business direction for ten years, twenty years or even more in the future. Lu Yinglong, the general manager of the wafer factory, has invested a lot of energy in GPU chips, so his pressure during this period is really not small.

After Secretary Huang placed an order for 1,000 sets of fighter simulator display systems on behalf of the Air Force, Hu Wenhai, the future old man, could get a good night's sleep.

"1,000 simulators need about 2,000 GPU chips. ”

The fighter simulator system uses a dual-core graphics card, with two GPU chips bridged on a single graphics card. The technical level in 1991 could only be so hard piled up.

Obviously it is a very simple multiplication, Lu Yinglong counted it several times. There is both a sigh of relief and a drop in the bucket.

"It's a pity that the Air Force can only give a reasonably affordable internal price for this batch of chips. If you want to offset the R&D costs, you don't have to think about it, the most you can do is to turn the equipment up and keep the production team in ......"

"Uncle Lu, don't worry, the real big business is behind. ”

Facing Lu Yinglong, who had a sad face, Hu Wenhai couldn't help laughing, waved his hand, and said: "What kind of life has the army been living in the past few years, how can there be a big order? If you really want to make money, it's not with them, this order is just a stone throwing to ask for directions." ”

"Throwing stones and asking for directions?" Lu Yinglong was in high spirits for a while, obviously Hu Wenhai had already made a plan in his heart, otherwise which way was he asking?

"Well, it's almost time. Hu Wenhai looked at the time and greeted: "I have a meeting with the Computing Institute and the Gas Turbine Institute this afternoon, and this is what I want to talk about." If Uncle Lu isn't too busy, why don't you go and have a look?"

"Gas turbine yard?"

Lu Yinglong was a little ignorant, Hu Wenhai, the "father" of AVIC, was known to the whole world, and he didn't know how many domestic research institutes were jealous of the quality wall. The gas turbine institute, that is, the 624 Institute, is the son of the son, and of course he has heard of it.

If you want to say that you have money, the gas turbine institute has really been rich in recent years. Hu Wenhai simply throws money into it every year, and he throws a billion dollars. The scheme of the turbofan-10 has changed again and again, and the parameters are about to be put on the satellite. If it weren't for the support of Mr. Hu, who would dare to boast about this Haikou?

In terms of Hu Wenhai's support for the aero engine and aerospace industry, people have to say "You can really do whatever you want if you have money"!

The Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the Dawning-2 supercomputer last year, with a speed of up to 800 million calculations, which is famous in the world rankings. A considerable part of the 88100 CPU chips in Dawning 2 are produced from the Modu wafer factory authorized by Motorola.

The reason why the Modu wafer fab can only supply a part of the chips is because the orders for Dawning 2 are so large that they exceed its production capacity. Not only aviation, meteorology, and the Academy of Sciences need supercomputers, but also the Ministry of Railways and industries such as transportation and logistics have recently exploded considerable demand for supercomputers.

Hu Shengli's central logistics model in Xiucheng is currently planning to conduct a pilot in the magic capital. If the results are good, the central government is likely to consider deploying in several municipalities and large first- and second-tier cities. And the characteristic of this logistics is the huge demand for network and computing power.

Equipping first- and second-tier cities in China with a computing center, this business alone will be enough to eat up the production capacity of the computing institute and the Modu wafer factory in the next few years.

However, these two units, one is in the field of heavy industrial machinery, and the other is engaged in software and supercomputing in the electronics industry.

"Oh, I don't have anything important in the afternoon. Since Mr. Hu said it, then I'll take a look. ”

Lu Yinglong nodded with a question mark full of heads.