Chapter 29: The New Situation
However, in view of the fact that the time is only three months, and the scrapped workpieces account for 5% of the total number of workpieces, in order to prevent delays in delivery and unnecessary losses, Gao Wenhezhuang and Li Erlao decided to take action first to do the research and development of three-axis and four-axis machine tools. When Wang Ce returns, he will join in again.
Therefore, on the basis of the research materials left by Wang Ce, the three parties carried out a division of labor and cooperation.
The Automation Research Institute led by Mr. Li is responsible for the research and development of a new generation of PLC that can be used for DYI multi-axis machine tools, the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory led by Mr. Zhuang is responsible for the mechanical transformation on the basis of the original milling machine, and Gao Wen is responsible for providing the C80-DHJ chip developed under laboratory conditions for the transformation of the old PLC and the research and development of a new generation of PLC. After helping the first machine tool factory to overcome the current difficulties, the new generation of PLC will be responsible for the mass production of C80-DHJ chips when it enters the commercial stage.
Although when Gao Wen established Ruilong IC Design Center, he had already put on the idea of gallium nitride materials. However, limited to the field of chip design that Ruilong Integrated Circuit Design Center specializes in, it can only be made into C80-DHJ chips in small quantities under laboratory conditions based on the architecture of C80 processors and gallium nitride as semiconductor materials.
It's just that the C80-DHJ chip made under laboratory conditions is not to mention the high cost, and the output is still very scarce, with a production capacity of nearly 1,000 pieces a year, it will burn high incense.
Therefore, the chips made under the current conditions can only be used for emergency purposes, and if you want to reflect the commercial value of the C80-DHJ chip, you have to let it achieve mass production. It's just that in this way, Gawain had to set foot in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and tailor related semiconductor manufacturing equipment for gallium nitride chips.
If it is placed in the future generation, when the domestic semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry chain has only been fragmented, he wants to get involved in the field of gallium nitride semiconductor manufacturing equipment, it will be extremely difficult, and it will cost a huge price to open up the situation.
Although the domestic semiconductor manufacturing equipment technology is generally backward, it is still possible to achieve mass production of gallium nitride chips after technological transformation.
In addition, the general environment of the country's lack of foreign exchange is placed here, and he believes that as long as he has enough dollars in his pocket, then as long as he beckons, the country that is in urgent need of foreign exchange will definitely be willing to stuff relevant talents, technology and means of production into his own hands. And it just so happened that he had plenty of dollars in his pocket. At present, he has nearly $80 million lying in his overseas account, a huge amount of money that is almost equal to the country's foreign exchange reserves this year.
Therefore, in such a favorable environment, Gawain is still full of confidence in his future energy production of gallium nitride chips.
In the case of the supply of C80-DHJ chips in the future, what Gao Wen has to do now is to hurry up and fight the current battle, so as to make a name for the new generation of PLC in China.
However, due to the tight schedule, they did not expect to be able to assemble a three-axis machining center or a four-axis machining center with a PLC immediately. Not to mention that it takes time to do that, it is not realistic for them who have not mastered the machining center tool magazine technology and the first DYI CNC machine tool.
So what they did was to make some modifications on the basis of the old ones, and replace the old machine tools with PLCs with gallium nitride chips as the core, so that these machine tools could improve the processing efficiency while maintaining the stability of the old machine tools, instead of the previous PLC problems in the machine tool control cabinet, resulting in 5% of the workpieces being scrapped at once.
Of course, these measures are only for the 95% of the workpieces that are not scrapped, and for the 5% of the scrapped workpieces, they can only buy materials from abroad according to the drawings and reprocess them.
For this reason, they have to do a job, that is, to use a new generation of PLC to transform the domestically produced three-coordinate and four-coordinate milling machines that cannot be multi-axis linkage into CNC milling machines that can be multi-axis linkage.
Although such a CNC milling machine has no cover, no nesting machine, and no vital tool magazine compared with the machining center, at least the core functions of the machining center such as three-axis linkage machining are there. Basically, the machining center can do the work, and the CNC milling machine can also do it, but it is relatively troublesome than the machining center when programming and changing tools, and the professionalism of the machine tool operator is higher.
But who made the time only three months, and they can only make do with it like this. Key equipment such as the tool magazine that the machining center lacks, as well as auxiliary equipment such as the scrap chip conveyor, can only be made up for later.
After assigning their respective division of labor, the Automation Research Institute and the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory each organized a team composed of elite soldiers and strong generals to return to the Special Economic Zone with Gao Wen. It is planned to take advantage of the proximity of the Special Economic Zone to Xiangjiang and obtain more technical resources, and develop a multi-axis linkage CNC milling machine as soon as possible.
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Just when Gawain was busy exploring new fields, a piece of news from a competitor - Sakamura officially launched his free and open source TRON computer operating system, he couldn't help but quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
During this period of time, don't look at the two versions of games and offices, Tenglong FC has been attacking the city all the way in the game entertainment console and personal PC market, winning one order after another.
But Gawain's heart has always been hanging, like walking a tightrope, for fear of attracting the attention of the American computer giants and invoking the sword of trade sanctions such as anti-dumping investigations against him.
He doesn't think that the old foxes in American politics and business are vegetarians, and they will watch his company, a potential rival from the East, rise to the semiconductor industry, which they see as a key link in the third industrial revolution.
Well, now the thunder bearer has appeared. With Sakamura's TRON plan in front, he can finally hide behind and develop a wave of obscenity.
Later, as he expected, when the TRON computer operating system, which originated from the same source as the Chilong operating system and had no less excellent performance than the Chilong operating system, was launched, relying on Fusang's abundant software talent resources, in addition to games and office application software, there were more rich design software than Gawain's Chilong operating system.
In addition, the TRON operating system is still holding high the banner of free and open source, and for a while, whether it is the Red Dragon operating system, Microsoft's DOS operating system, or Apple's own unique operating system, they are all collapsed in front of the TRON operating system.
The free operating system, such as the Red Dragon operating system, is not as open as the TRON operating system, and the design software is not as rich as the TRON operating system. The charging ones, such as the DOS operating system, are not as good as the TRON operating system, the price is still expensive, the security is not high, and the richness of the application software is higher than the TRON operating system. Over time, however, this advantage will be lost.
Less than half a year after the release of the TRON operating system, the market share of the personal PC operating system soared to 20%. And according to the estimates of many computer experts, the market share of the TRON operating system is expected to soar to 60% in the next year.
This is still the result that is expected to be achieved when the application ecology of the TRON operating system is not as good as that of the DOS operating system. In the future, as more and more software developers invest in the application ecological development of TRON operating system, this market share is expected to increase again, occupying a monopoly position in the field of personal PC operating system.
For a time, news reports about the TRON operating system replaced reports about the sales of Tamron FC in major mainstream media in the United States, and became the biggest hit in the eyes of reporters responsible for reporting computer industry news, and appeared on the front pages of American newspapers. They are shouting that the wolf is coming, as if the media that does not shout so is not the media that loves the great United States.
Although in the future, the TRON operating system will inevitably be forced to death by the American government step by step because of this excessive attention. But these are all things in the future, and no matter how the great American government is concerned, it will have to go through at least four or five years of fermentation and brewing before it can have the final fatal blow.
For Gawain and his Kowloon Group, the impact is real. The most direct manifestation is that the orders for the office-type Tenglong FC will fall off a cliff.
So in the face of this new situation, Gawain also had to plan early.