Chapter 57: To Gamble or Not to Gamble

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Su Liangyu grinned bitterly when he heard Liang Yuan finish speaking, and said, "That matter is a long story and full of twists and turns, and there is a more important thing for you to decide now." ”

The electronic industry of the Republic originated from the Beiping 718 Electronics Factory, which was built with the assistance of the GDR in 1952, that is, the North China Radio United Equipment Factory, which belonged to the 156 national backbone key projects in the "First Five-Year Plan".

The 718 project was led by the then Vice Chancellor of the GDR, and gathered the strength of the entire GDR electronics industry to build the skeleton of the entire modern electronics industry for the nascent republic.

Soon after the 718 project was put into operation, the relationship between the Republic and the Soviet Union as the Warsaw Pact bloc broke down, and the East German experts who aided China also withdrew to China along with the Soviet experts.

With the 718 project taking root in China, after technical digestion, the country has planned three larger electronic industry clusters, the north is dominated by the three cities of Beiping, Jinmen and Shengjing, and the south is centered on Wusong, the largest economic city in China, and one is located in the depths of the mountains and mountains of Guizhou in the third line.

In the early 80s, when the strategic situation of the reopened republic took a turn for the better, and the scientific and technological circles resumed exchanges with Western countries, their eyes were opened, and in the face of the reality of strict backwardness,286 they put forward the guiding ideology that "without scientific modernization, there will be no modernization of industry, agriculture, and national defense."

In order to implement the strategic instructions of 286, the central government has set up a "leading group for electronic computers and large-scale integrated circuits" headed by the vice premier. "It is planned to carry out technological transformation of the Republic's electronics industry during the Sixth Five-Year Plan period, and the Huajing Factory, which is now manufacturing chips for the Nanhu Science and Technology Park, is part of the results of the Sixth Five-Year Plan.

It is fair to say that during the Sixth Five-Year Plan period of the Republic, the technological upgrading of the electronics industry was still quite effective, at least the chip manufacturing process was shortened from 1o microns to six microns, and the chip equivalent to the 8O86 level was independently designed, and the process technology of the five micron level was partially mastered.

In the face of a series of achievements during the Sixth Five-Year Plan period, the Republic ambitiously proposed that the electronics industry should popularize 6-micron technology during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period (86-9O). Open 3 micron technology, and carry out pre-research scientific and technological research on 1 micron technology.

In terms of future prospects, the Republic has a very good picture for the electronics industry, and the United States only began to use mature 1-micron process technology in 88 years, when the gap between the domestic and international mainstream electronics industry is very good. Far from the distance described in astronomical units as in later generations.

In the eighties. There is a significant feature of the integrated circuit industry, the research and development of microprocessors and the processor process technology are complementary to each other, and the two are closely related, like IBM. Intel itself has its own strong process equipment research capabilities, which are far from being comparable to the IT migrant workers of TSMC in later generations.

The trend of the integrated circuit industry is that the wafer size is getting bigger and bigger, the number of process technology is getting smaller and smaller, and the investment in research expenses is getting higher and higher, from 10 microns to 6 microns The investment level is calculated in tens of millions of dollars. From five microns to one micron investment grade, it is calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars, and in the future nano era, the investment in process technology will rise to tens of billions of dollars.

When formulating the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the Republic did not take into account at all the level at which the integrated circuit industry would develop, and it had no idea about the geometric growth of the integrated circuit industry.

Therefore, for the electronic industry enterprises that really implement the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the situation is indeed very bad, with the current domestic electronic industry enterprises, the annual maximum of several hundred thousand yuan of scientific research investment, to complete the planning goals of the national Seventh Five-Year Plan is tantamount to a dream.

There is no hope of applying for additional research funding. Not to mention that in the 80s, even in the new century, it is impossible for the state to spend billions of dollars to research and develop only the process technology of processors.

During the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, the state further clarified the development strategy of "establishing two bases and one point in the north and south" for integrated circuits. Among them, Shengjing is the key planning city of the northern base.

However, before the revitalization of the old industrial base was proposed in the new century, Shengjing City was not the focus of the Republic's attention at all, and after the state expressed its intention to attach great importance to the Shengjing electronics industry in the text. There is no other action, and the real scientific research expenses are less than one million. It's a drop in the bucket relative to the real need for funds.

The Nanhu Science and Technology Park established by Su Liangyu was established in the context of Shengjing Electronics' extreme lack of money.

From the first day of the official operation of Nanhu Science and Technology Park, Su Liangyu began the design of the next generation of microprocessors.

Although Liang Yuan's funding for Su Liangyu is beyond the reach of other integrated circuit manufacturers and research institutes in China, it is still very tight compared to the huge expenses.

In order to save costs, Su Liangyu has chosen domestically produced alternative products as much as possible on the non-critical equipment in the chip room, and the electronics companies in Shengjing City just occupy the home advantage of the geographical advantage.

As the eldest son of the republic's industry, the whole Shengjing is by no means in vain, as early as the 50s, the first ion implanter, the core equipment of the integrated circuit process of the republic, was born in Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory.

The most widely used in integrated circuit process equipment is vacuum technology, Shengjing Vacuum Technology Research Institute is the only national vacuum technology research center in the future Republic, Liang Yuan's alma mater, Dongda, also has the best vacuum room in China. Shengjing Automation Research Institute is also the top automation and industrial robotics research base in China.

It can be said that the processing technology involved in the manufacturing of integrated circuit process equipment can be found in Shengjing, and if Liang Yuan sets up a medium-scale (MSI) integrated circuit production line with a fifteen-micron process, he does not need to leave Shengjing at all, and all the equipment can be purchased in the city.

In the face of such a strong industrial foundation, Su Liangyu will certainly not let go in vain, the diffusion furnace used for production in the pilot test and small test equipment in the real yàn room, the probe station used for detection, various pressure gauges, solenoid valves, vacuum gauges and other equipment with low difficulty are all customized locally in Shengjing.

In order to match the core equipment of foreign countries, Su Liangyu put a lot of money on the price of equipment, but put forward a lot of requirements in terms of equipment accuracy and service life.

In the face of Su Liangyu's waving tens of millions of yuan, it took only half a year for the morale of the relevant enterprises that received the bids to boost their morale, overcome countless problems, and come up with products that satisfied Su Liangyu.

While the related enterprises made a lot of money, Su Liangyu also reduced the overall investment in small-scale and pilot-scale equipment from 60 million to less than 50 million.

After this incident. Su Liangyu and Nanhu Science and Technology Park were an instant hit in Shengjing's electronics industry and were regarded as large land owners by countless related enterprises.

As the Nanhu Science and Technology Park gradually takes root in Shengjing, some of the park's information has gradually spread, and there are more and more interactions between the technicians of the Science and Technology Park and the process equipment suppliers during the installation and commissioning of equipment. Many people in the industry know the fact that the annual research fund of the chip room is as high as 60 million yuan.

Whether it is Liang Yuan or Su Liangyu. I didn't expect the impact of this incident on Shengjing's electronics industry, since the founding of New China, to the end of the first five-year plan of the new century, in the 50-year history of the Republic. The cumulative investment in integrated circuit projects is about US$2.4 billion, and if the funds spent on the entire production line are excluded (Note 1), the actual cost of research and development is only US$600 million.

Half a century, six hundred million dollars, is there a more number on the planet? Even if the IQ of domestic technicians is more than 1ooo, they must be helpless in the face of this situation.

Because the introduction of integrated circuit production lines in the Republic is a full set of introduction, even the daily maintenance and repair has nothing to do with the relevant domestic enterprises, unlike ordinary state-owned enterprises in the late eighties began to lose money, in the mid-to-late nineties into the countdown to bankruptcy, domestic process equipment manufacturers in the late eighties have been struggling to support.

The reason why it is not as well-known as laid-off workers is also because the employees have a high degree of education and a strong ability to change production, and they casually take on some private jobs that are not doing their jobs. Anyway, you can still deal with it and survive.

Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory, which received fifty percent of the orders from Nanhu Shiyàn room, was the most well-known and largest supplier of integrated circuit process equipment in China, and since the reopening in 79 years, the country has firmly embarked on the road of introducing integrated circuit production lines, and Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory has been getting worse. If there is no episode of Su Liangyu, according to the trajectory of history, Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory will be a manufacturer of integrated circuit process equipment in the new century. It has become a scientific research enterprise that produces automatic fertilization equipment for agricultural greenhouses.

It can be said that Su Liangyu's order temporarily pulled countless Shengjing integrated circuit process equipment manufacturers who were about to fall into the abyss.

The so-called poor in the downtown no one asks. Rich have distant relatives in the mountains, this sentence is not only for individuals, but also for enterprises.

In the 80s and 90s, the number of scientific research projects that were cut down in the Republic was incalculable, and the poverty of domestic technicians was unimaginable to the outside world.

In the face of the sudden emergence of the vibrant Nanhu Science and Technology Park, many enterprises seem to have encountered fat meat, and the users who have purchased integrated circuit process equipment in China have not seen it for many years.

When someone dug out the science and technology park to produce millions of chips in Huajing and other enterprises, finally some companies couldn't sit still.

Nanhu Science and Technology Park paid Huajing an OEM fee of 3ooo million per year, even so Huajing is still very reluctant, this kind of thing is not a difficult news for the narrow integrated circuit circle, so Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory as part of the enterprise, the idea to the 3ooo million foundry cost.

In the early eighties, due to the explosion of the domestic home appliance market and the industrial technology upgrading of the foreign integrated circuit industry, more than 20 second-hand five-micron production lines eliminated abroad were continuously introduced throughout the country, but unfortunately only a few were successfully operated due to various reasons, and the rest were abandoned for various reasons.

Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory, which has a great understanding of the domestic integrated circuit industry, plans to buy back the semi-abandoned production lines in various places at a low price, and sell them to Nanhu Science and Technology Park after refurbishment, so that not only the integrated circuit process manufacturers can make a lot of money, but the science and technology park does not need to look at Huajing's face again.

However, the premise of success is that the park provides upfront capital for the purchase of abandoned production lines and the cost of research for renovation.

After delivering the contract for the Science and Technology Park and preparing materials for a period of time, Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory went straight to Su Liangyu and began to sell a patchwork refurbishment plan for second-hand wafer equipment.

Since Liang Yuan and Su Liangyu mentioned that they plan to conquer the production process of thyristors (GTO), if Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory can really repair the three-inch production line using the 5-micron process, it can still be considered for the Science and Technology Park.

Before Liang Yuan came back, Su Liangyu talked with Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory for a week, and reconfirmed the whole plan, Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory did a lot of work, and found 21 three-inch wafer production lines in an abandoned state in China.

However, what gave Su Liangyu the most headache was that Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory did not know how many production lines could be restored.

Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory and Science and Technology Park agreed that each successful renovation of a production line charges 3oo yuan, for Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory, this is a risky deal, they have not paid a penny, even if a line has not been successfully renovated, it is just a loss of time.

For Su Liangyu, it is different, according to the estimation of Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory, it will take at least 40 million to complete the patchwork and renovation of more than 20 wafer production lines.

At present, the three-inch wafer production line eliminated in the world, with a selling price of nearly 10 million US dollars, means that the successful refurbishment of a wafer production line is only to protect the capital, and more than two science and technology parks must be renovated to make a profit, but it is more likely that one has not been renovated, and finally ended up empty-handed in the face of a bunch of rags.

Involving large-scale capital mobilization and unpredictable risks, Su Liangyu can only wait for Liang Yuan to come back before making a decision.

Su Liangyu told Liang Yuan in detail about the refurbishment of the wafer production line, and said, "Xiaoyuan, you still have to make a decision on this matter." ”

Liang Yuan couldn't help but have a big head when he heard Su Liangyu say it, and the cooperation with Shengjing Scientific Instrument Factory seemed to be buying lottery tickets in later generations, before the lottery, no one knew what the final result would be.

Gambling on an unpredictable future with 70 or 80 million is not something that normal people should do.