When there were still four days before the trip to Germany, Sun Hu drove a car with Liu Lang, Xiong Huaizhi, Chen Wei and another engineer Zhang Zhi to the capital first, this time the inspection of West Germany was personally led by Jiang Botao, the scale was very high, and the entourage was naturally quite a lot, a total of 35 people, except for six personnel from the Ministry of Industry, the others were responsible persons and engineers of key national industrial industries.

Hao Shaoming, director and chief engineer Wang Gang of the Capital Smelter, Hou Jianguo, director and chief engineer Zhang Xianyong of the Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant, director and chief engineer of Angang, by the way, Zhou Ming, Xie Xide and Wang Haijun, who had just joined SMIC, also went with them.

Wang Haijun returned to China four months ago, and Liu Lang took him to SMIC with him. Xie Xide originally knew each other, and the three of them knew that this young man was a talent, and the other party had a great credit for the fact that the central technology could manufacture chips in a very short time, because Wang Haijun carefully maintained the wafer production line, and the equipment worth 30 million US dollars was preserved intact, and Wang Haijun studied in the island country for more than two years, and even Liu Lang praised his level, SMIC is in need of this kind of talent.

Wang Haijun was entrusted with an important task as soon as he arrived at the company, and became the deputy chief engineer of the lithography machine project, the lithography machine project is now progressing well, but Wang Haijun found a problem after he came, this lithography machine is a little outdated in his eyes, and the technology of the island countries and South Korea is ahead of the domestic half-generation level.

The level of island countries and South Korea in terms of chips has improved rapidly, especially South Korea is even faster than the island countries, thanks to the strong support of the Americans, the Americans have sold a lot of wafer production lines to the two countries since the early eighties, when the two countries were at the same level, at that time the Americans have recognized the potential of chips, but did not pay too much attention to it, but with the rapid development of computers, especially the sudden rise of SMIC, so that Americans really realize the importance of chips, in recent years, the United States has used a lot of means to suppress China's chips, on the one hand, strictly control the export of related products, and also exert pressure on VIE, It has been investigated many times through despicable means, but nothing has been found, SMIC relied on the wafer production line that the island country sold to China to manufacture the chip, and VIE provided it with a market at best, and people have the ability to manufacture it, you can't help but buy it, no matter how shameless the United States is, it can't be so blatant.

As a result, the United States took its grievances on the island countries, thinking that the island people inadvertently promoted the rise of China's chip industry, and they felt the threat of the island country, the world's second largest economy, so the Americans deliberately gave the most advanced chip technology to South Korea, and South Korea's chip industry has improved a lot in just two or three years.

In Wang Haijun's view, China's chip technology in the world between the second-rate and first-class, the country's chip foundation is not bad, the level of ten years ago compared with the United States is not too big, in recent years, the world's computer industry has developed rapidly and kept up, especially after the establishment of SMIC, the country has invested a lot in this piece, and has to come up with more than one billion yuan every year, which is very good, but there is not enough talent! Stanford University is next to Silicon Valley, where a large number of semiconductor talents have been cultivated, and these talents have been gathered in the shortest possible time at a time when the computer industry is booming, which is unmatched by other countries.

Take the lithography machine as an example, SMIC proposed the project of lithography machine localization two years ago, the design at that time can meet the current level, after two years, many difficulties of this project have been overcome, and it may be put into production in another year, but after two years, this model of lithography machine has been somewhat outdated, of course, obsolete does not mean that it cannot be used, the country has invested hundreds of millions of yuan in the lithography machine project, and naturally cannot give up.

Although Wang Haijun said that he didn't like state-owned enterprises, but once he joined SMIC, then he immediately entered the role, he was the deputy chief engineer of the project, the chief engineer was served by Zhou Ming, as soon as he took office, he proposed the lithography machine 1.0 upgrade project, determined to upgrade again on the existing basis, Zhou Ming is fully supportive of him, such as Zhou Ming, Xie Xide and Huang Kun have the experience of studying abroad, and they are well aware of the gap between China and developed countries, and these people have always understood the development of the world's semiconductor industry in recent years, and have a clear understanding of the rapid computer industry.

Zhou Ming and these people are over sixty, although the body is still very tough, but it is not good to accept the old, the energy can not keep up, Wang Haijun is not yet thirty this year, needless to say in terms of knowledge, if he does not want to return to China, he can stay at the University of Tokyo to continue his doctoral studies, and then he can naturally become a citizen of the island country, and even he once had this idea, only because Liu Lang finally returned to China, this kind of talent will be valued there, and he is very mature, and the students who have just graduated in their early twenties are much more stable.

Zhou Ming simply gave all the power to Wang Haijun, let him do it, and fully support him, of course, Liu Lang also supported him, don't look at Liu Lang now I don't care about SMIC's affairs, but his energy is too great, as long as he wants to, he can stretch out his hand in any direction.

Wang Haijun, a researcher who went to Germany this time, is also among them, Germany's computer industry is average, but the chips are not bad, especially the engineering chips in CNC machine tools are not necessarily worse than those in the United States, which is also the object of SMIC's investigation.

Half a year ago, Liu Lang went to the island country to discuss the future industrial situation of the world with Wang Haijun, Wang Haijun is optimistic about the semiconductor industry, especially the development of computers in the world, this idea comes from the book "Digital Survival", but he also did not read much of this book, after returning to China Liu Lang gave him a Chinese version of "Digital Survival" This book has been released in China, but not many people can understand it, ordinary people read this book as if they are reading a book from heaven, so this book is circulated in colleges and universities, and the State Education Commission regards this book as a textbook for computer and semiconductor majors.

Wang Haijun suddenly understood after reading this book, it turns out that the chip industry has such a big role, the computer industry is only one of the aspects, the chip in mechanical engineering is even more magical, can create countless strange machinery, in addition to engineering chips but also artificial intelligence in the future world, the Chinese version of "Digital Survival" There is a lot more content than the English version, that is, the detailed elaboration of artificial intelligence, this elaboration is based on Liu Lang's deepening of the future era on the basis of the era thirty years later, including automatic driving technology, big data analysis technology and other content that belongs to science fiction in the eyes of people in this era, even Wang Haijun can't understand some of them, but although he doesn't understand, he still believes that this era will eventually come, but the time period given by Liu Lang is thirty years later, which seems to be a bit short.