"Philips in Europe!" Yu said. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Philips?" Lin Qi thought for a moment and asked, "Is the connection ready?"

According to an old colleague, Philips has made an offer for a complete set of equipment with a 1-micron accuracy - $1.7 million. Not only lithography equipment, but also post-packaging. Yu Youcheng explained, "Of course, this is laboratory equipment for small-batch production, large-scale industrial production equipment, even if you have money, you can't buy it." ”

At present, the 1 micron process of those major semiconductor manufacturers in the world is already a large-scale production process, and the process level of their laboratories has long entered the level of 0.3 microns or even higher.

According to the practice of international profiteers, at least the production line that is exported to China is three generations behind. Even in the name of Hong Kong-funded enterprises, it is impossible to buy the latest equipment internationally.

For example, in the 80s, China successively introduced more than 100 television production lines from Japan, from black and white to color TVs, all of which were rags that needed to be eliminated in Japan. After selling out the production line, Japan continued to make money by selling picture tubes. In addition, Japan has begun to engage in more advanced TFT liquid crystal and plasma display technology, which far exceeds the display technology of CRT.

The same is true for semiconductor equipment, most of the equipment introduced in China is 10 years behind the dilapidated equipment in Europe, the United States and Japan.

Buying lab-grade lithography equipment can only be used to verify the performance of chip designs, and there is no profit from industrialized mass production.

As long as the performance of the chip is verified, Yu Youcheng guarantees that it will take two years at most, and there will definitely be a way to independently build a large-scale production line with 1 micron accuracy.

Lin Qi nodded and said, "Then buy it!" wait...... I'm going to Europe with us!"

"What are you doing in Europe?" Yu Youcheng said, "Afraid that I will embezzle your money?"

"Not really. Lin Qi said with a smile, "Philips has developed a very valuable technology CD, and I am ready to license the patent of this technology and get it!"

"CD?" Yu Youcheng was inexplicable, of course he had heard of CDs, but it seemed to be something in the music industry.

"Small laser discs. Lin Qi could only roll his eyes, "This is a new storage medium, and at present, Philips and Sony have applied this technology to develop music records." It is foreseeable that this kind of record will be able to replace traditional tapes in the future!"

"Are you going to enter the music market?" Yu Youcheng said with a frown, the difference between the record industry and the computer industry in this era is 108,000 miles.

This emerging technology is not a semiconductor, so he personally feels that Lin Qi wants to intervene in everything, and it is inevitable that he will make the mistake of Fairchild at the beginning.

Fairchild was not developing a capability rifle at the beginning, but its resources and energy were too scattered. It's not as focused as Intel, so it will fall into everything, and everything will be sparse.

"No, music is just an application of CDs!" Lin Qi affirmed, "Actually, I am more optimistic about the commercial prospects of CDs as a new storage medium." Today's floppy disks with a capacity of 1.44MB cost $30 a piece, and floppy disk drives cost hundreds of dollars. I don't think it's a good idea to invest in research and development in this area!"

"Where's the CD?" asked Yu Youcheng curiously.

"With the current level of technology on CDs, each piece can store 650MB of content!" Lin Qi said, "and the cost is cheaper, after industrial production, the price of each CD disc is only a few cents!"

The cost of a few cents per piece, Yu Youcheng doesn't care very much.

But the storage capacity of 650MB makes it a little unbearable!

This figure, in the early 80s, was simply astronomical!

But it's true, there's no moisture at all!

CD-ROM can easily reach more than 600 MB, and upgrading to DVD-ROM, let alone hundreds of MB, even a few GB, dozens of GB is also possible!

And the floppy drive, such a backward thing, was the mainstream configuration of the computer industry throughout the 80s. It was not until the mid-90s that it was gradually replaced by optical drives.

It can only be said that those oligarchs who monopolize technical standards are constantly suppressing advanced technology for the sake of profit. It wasn't until the profits of the floppy drive were completely squeezed clean that they began to make optical drive discs!

"Impossible!" Yu Youcheng's eyes widened, "Who did you listen to!"

"A friend of mine, I can't betray him for the time being!" Lin Qi's eyes widened, and he pushed the black pot on his illusory friend, "He told me that as long as we get the technical patent authorization of CD, it will not be difficult to upgrade to CD-ROM at all! After this technology is out, the floppy drive floppy disk can be retired, and the optical drive disc with a hundred times the capacity will replace the floppy drive." It's the same with game consoles, which don't use expensive game cartridges, but cheaper discs. And it's not just music -- it's movies! Yes, it's just as good as a VCR videotape, but it's far less expensive than a VCR and a videotape!"

At this moment, Yu Youcheng's expression was very exciting: "Your friend is so good to you! Such a friend, if you are willing to introduce it to me, I am very happy to make friends with him!"

Of course, Lin Qi resolutely did not say anything.

CDs can store data, which should be fine, and a thin disc stores CD records, Sony already has products for sale.

It's just that it's hard to say how much data can be stored, but under Lin Qi's sworn tone, Yu Youcheng believes that CD-ROM is really so godly!

You don't need 650MB, but you can do 65MB, and in this era, it also has market prospects!

Floppy disk storage is only 1.44MB now, and although there are 2.88MB floppy disks, a floppy disk sells for $100, and ordinary people can't afford to use it at all.

Just as tape has eliminated paper tape, floppy disks have eliminated tape.

Due to the larger storage capacity and cheaper storage capacity of optical discs, optical drives and optical disks can be eliminated sooner or later......

Even if the computer industry stubbornly does not use CD-ROM, Lin Qi will use CD-ROM on his own game consoles!

After all, the hardware cost of game cartridges is expensive, at least more than 20 yuan to produce. Later, Nintendo used its strength to reduce the cost of the cassette, but found that it could not do it at all, and in the end, it had to give up the cassette storage it had used for more than ten years.

Using CDs to store games not only has a larger program capacity, but also costs only a few cents per disc. The price advantage of storage media is enough to make the home console game that Xinchuang Electronics is preparing to launch have a huge cost advantage.

Games shipped in large quantities use disc storage, which is directly more than 10 yuan lower than cartridge storage, and under the same pricing, a game can earn 10 yuan more!

When tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of game discs are sold every year, the cost savings can be converted into hundreds of millions or even billions of profits!