In China, it is really difficult to recruit electronic hardware R&D personnel. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info China, those most advanced technologies are not visible, and communication engineering, electronic information science and technology, computer hardware and other majors are also developing to the software side, because whether it is programming, or professional software management, software application or something, the job is easy to find, there are many such companies on the market. Whether it's computer science and technology, or computer hardware development, it doesn't make much sense among Chinese students, and there are simply not a few top companies in China? Association? An assembled computer to sell. Asus? MediaTek? Taipower? In China, only the management and sales will be recruited, and the real R&D people will not come here to recruit, they are all from Taiwan. The real backbone is the kind of universities that have cooperation with universities, in-depth cooperation, technology sharing, and co-innovation, similar to Stanford, Harvard, or whatever. In China, every university will have a laboratory, and it will cooperate with Intel and Texas Instruments, but it is basically useless to play with a single-chip microcomputer or something.

Seeing the list of a few people, Liu Si thought of the shortcomings of the electronic hardware industry, and he had a breath of anger in his heart. He decided that in addition to the CPU, electronic hardware products do not require that there will be results in two or three years at once, but Liu Si is determined to integrate semiconductors and related products, memory modules, graphics cards, hard disks, monitors, and motherboards within two or three years...... LCD/LED LCD screens, 3D technology, home appliances, mobile phones and other fields have made certain achievements. To do this, he is prepared to pay $50 billion for related research.

Liu Si understands the backwardness of the country's electronic hardware, after all, the private enterprise company can invest so much in research and development, and 50 billion US dollars is not even the country's bearability.

$50 billion is a lot, and Liu Si doesn't have so much money now. But it wasn't for nothing, and he was able to pull out $50 billion in January 1998. Of course, he didn't come up with so much money all at once.

However, on July 2, 1997, the Thai baht depreciated as a basis point, and in January 1998, when the Asian financial crisis deepened at its worst, Liu Si estimated that he was only in Thai baht and peso...... Asian foreign exchange futures can earn more than $100 billion in profits.

At present, there are more than 140 accounts in the hands of Liu Si in Singapore, with a total of Thai baht and Indonesian rupiah...... In 1998, the position of 168 billion US dollars in forward contracts in other currencies will depreciate by 54% according to the Thai baht, 78% of the Indonesian rupiah, 41% of the ringgit, and 52% of the Philippine peso, so that the current forward contract position of 168 billion US dollars will probably bring more than 90 billion US dollars of income to Liu Dashao.

Combined with the $1 billion invested this time to amplify the leverage by 50 times, it will be able to absorb $50 billion of the KRW forward contract position. The won depreciated by more than 50% from 880~900 won to 1 dollar before October '97 to 1600~1800 won to $1 in January '98. In this way, on the $50 billion won forward contract position, Liu Si was able to earn more than $25 billion by January 1998.

In addition, in January 98, the rapid prosecution established a reversal long, and it was probably possible to establish Thai baht, ringgit, and Korean won...... and other contracts totaling $60 billion. Perhaps it is not enough compared to the position and profit in the short direction. However, there is also a yield of 15%~25%, which is estimated to be about $18 billion.

In this way, he earned more than $130 billion in revenue during the Asian financial crisis alone. And that's not even counting the gains from some of the operations that Liu Si plans to make in the Hong Kong stock market in the future, as well as the profits from the second depreciation of the rupiah.

The '90s were truly a golden age, with financial crises abounding and speculative opportunities every year.

"Alright! The talents on this list, Mr. Wei, please bother. The current situation in China is like this, so let's not say much, I will think of other ways for Meizu Electronics. Liu Si is very disappointed that he has not found hardware R&D talents in China, which is a failure of a country and a nation. China is bigger, and even small countries such as South Korea and Japan can't compare.

His eyes were about to be red, his hands were clenched, and he had come up with a serious way to develop and produce electronic hardware, so he used Zhou Chang's Dazheng security forces to kidnap talents. For this reason, he also decided that when the harvest came in January 98, he would inject another $1 billion into Zhou Chang to develop intelligence work and the armed forces of Dazheng Security.

"Mr. Liu, please rest assured, CIIC will do its best to share your worries in this matter!" Wei Jun said very seriously.

"So tired." In fact, Liu Si knows that there are actually some experts in hardware research in China, such as the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has hundreds of relevant researchers.

CIIC can dig into the corner of the Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, but it does not dare to dig into the corner of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, especially the closely related role of the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

"This is what we should do!" Wei Jun is very polite, Liu Si is currently the largest customer of CIIC, and if he does a good job, he may soon be promoted.

"Although it is a business, I still sincerely thank Mr. Wei for his hard work." Wei Jun is an old man, he is not interested, so as soon as the matter is over, he is ready to say goodbye in a few words, "Mr. Wei, if there is nothing to do, I won't bother you." ”

"Whatever Mr. Liu says, I will always welcome Mr. Liu here." Wei Jun's observation was not bad, and he knew that Liu Dashao might want to leave, "Mr. Liu has something to do, so I'll send you off!" ”

Liu Si quickly entered his room when he arrived at the hotel, and then took out the only gold finger he relied on and began to quickly search for all the information that could be found about CPU, graphics card, LED and other technologies, including news newspapers, media news, papers, technical pictures, etc.

Electronic hardware including CPUs, graphics cards, sound cards, memory modules, LEDs and other technologies are involved in one point, that is, the semiconductor industry.

The development of semiconductors is not easy, not to mention the research and development of other derivative products, semiconductor equipment alone is an obstacle to Liu Si's development of the electronic hardware industry chain. A CPU production line is worth more than $10 billion, and more than 200 nearly 300 equipment manufacturing enterprises are designed. The subdivision includes plasma etching equipment, ion implanters, thin film deposition equipment, mask manufacturing equipment, testing equipment, testing equipment, surface treatment equipment, lithography machines, etching equipment, single wafer deposition equipment, wafer cleaning equipment, gluing machine/developer machine, annealing equipment, testing equipment, testing equipment, oxidation equipment, high-end lithography machine, epitaxial reactor, vertical diffusion furnace and other equipment.

These devices are very expensive, think about the price of a micron-level lithography machine is tens of millions of dollars, let alone a nano-scale lithography machine. The most important thing is this kind of equipment, Liu Dashao can't buy it if he wants to, and the foreign embargo on China is a big threshold.

However, fortunately, according to the information searched, the current technology abroad is not too advanced. According to the information obtained, February 1998: Intel released the 333MHz Pentium-II processor, codenamed Deschutes, and for the first time used a 0-25 micron manufacturing process to provide faster speeds than previous products with low calorific value.

Liu Si thinks that Intel's current semiconductor manufacturing process is about 0.18 microns, and at most it has only broken through the 0.18 micron manufacturing process, but it will not exceed the 0.15 micron manufacturing process.

There are three key equipment for semiconductor equipment: lithography machine, etching machine, and chemical precipitation equipment.

Lithography machine aka: mask alignment exposure machine, exposure system, lithography system, etc. The general photolithography process needs to go through the processes of silicon wafer surface cleaning and drying, priming, spin coating photoresist, soft drying, alignment exposure, post-drying, development, hard drying, etching. (Lithography) refers to the process of using light to make a pattern (process), homogenizing the surface of the silicon wafer, and then transferring the pattern on the reticle to the photoresist, and temporarily "copying" the device or circuit structure onto the silicon wafer.

There are two difficulties in the lithography machine, seeing the two difficulties, Liu Si felt a little painful, and after thinking about it, he had to come up with the idea of digging the corner, and even digging the corner regardless of the results: kidnapping, blackmailing or something, as long as the other party does not know the current affairs, he must be good-looking.

The two difficulties are in the alignment system: the manufacture of high-precision alignment system requires a near-perfect precision mechanical process, which is also one of the technical difficulties of domestic lithography machines, and many American and German brand lithography machines have special patented mechanical process design. Another technical challenge with the alignment system is aligning the microscope. In order to enhance the field of view of the microscope, many high-end lithography machines use LED illumination.

There are three major powers in the world's semiconductor equipment manufacturing: the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands. Of course, Germany itself is an expert in high-precision manufacturing equipment, and it is not bad in terms of high-end lithography machines. Therefore, in terms of lithography machine technology, in addition to other technologies and theoretical gold finger search results, Liu Si plans to dig into the corners of the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, and Germany in the matter of high-precision alignment systems.

According to the history of lithography machine, the domestic development is not bad, but it is lagging behind step by step, and Liu Si can't wait to develop the semiconductor industry. You must know that in 2012, our country spent more than 120 billion US dollars on chip imports alone, which can be described as a huge market.

The alignment system of the lithography machine mainly has three core technologies, the lithography machine worktable, the lithography machine objective lens adjustment table, and the lithography machine light source system.

In April 2012, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China successfully developed a 100nm high-end lithography machine for the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" major science and technology project. In the next three years, the country still pays a lot in the nano high-end lithography machine, and of course the harvest is not bad. In just three years, it has broken through a technical step of lithography machine technology at 90 nanometers, and quickly entered the next 65 nanometer technology level; Then, in 2015, the 45nm and 65nm lithography machines were quickly industrialized.

China's breakthrough has made the technical threshold of foreign countries non-existent, and the literature on 100 nanometers, 90 nanometers, and 65 nanometers has finally been made public. Liu Si is very excited about this, knowing that in this way, it will be easier for him to find advanced literature and materials, and use this to attract some real scientific researchers to join Meizu Electronics.