Chapter 220: Who is the developer of the chip?
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Just when several bosses were praising the new fighting game launched by Taiyu Technology and were happy that they were going to make a fortune, the technician who was drawing the circuit of the motherboard on the other side suddenly exclaimed.
"What's going on? Taiyu Technology has also changed the processor! ”
"What?"
Hearing this exclamation, everyone's hearts trembled, and then they couldn't care about this side, and they all ran over.
They understand that they are still fooled!
Taiyu Technology really still has a backhand, they must know that all pirate manufacturers are staring at their purchase lists, so they have deceived everyone by repairing the plank road openly and Chen Cang in the dark. They don't buy new processors in large quantities, but they actually buy them through other channels.
When the real thing came out, everyone found that after the processor was replaced, it was too late, and no matter how to organize the supply, it would not be able to catch up with the first bowl of soup!
The boss of Xinyuan was also a little panicked, and this revision was an excellent opportunity for a new factory like him to seize the runway. In order to prepare, he invested a lot of money. If this investment fails, just repaying the bank loan will be enough to knock him back to his original shape.
He forced himself to suppress his violently beating heart and asked in a deep voice, "They changed that processor?" Intel? z80? Or is it from some other manufacturer? ”
Next to the original arcade machine that was dismantled, several technicians were all pale, just looking at the rectangular integrated circuit on the exposed motherboard, with dull expressions.
"What do I ask you? What processor did they use? It's all dumb! A boss was shocked and angry, and couldn't wait for them to answer, so he simply pushed away several technicians in front of him, knelt on the edge of the motherboard, and checked it in person, "Actuarial type 1 ......, what kind of model is this, how has it never been ......, etc., how is it Chinese?" ”
His last voice was sharp and high-pitched, like a female voice.
"Chinese?"
The other bosses who were waiting anxiously around couldn't wait any longer, so they pushed all the people in the way away, squatted down one by one, pouted their butts and leaned their heads over, and soon saw the small processor chip. This processor is very different from the traditional double-row pin package, with pins in all four directions, forming a dense circle of bright silver dots around the processor, no wonder the previous technicians didn't notice until they started to fully map the motherboard circuitry.
The 3-centimeter-long, 2.5-centimeter-wide rectangular processor is packaged in black ceramic, and it's easy to overlook the boxy soldering on the circuit board. On the surface of the ceramic package above the processor, there are indeed several lines of Chinese inscribed: Actuarial Type 1 Reform, Semiconductor Research Institute, Integrated Circuit Preparation Technology Center, 1980.
This is followed by a row of product numbers: T>
This, indeed, is a new processor that has never been heard of.
Several bosses raised their heads and looked at a technician next to him who was holding a thick integrated circuit manual and desperately rummaging through the inquiry, but the other party only shook his head with a panicked and dazed look.
"It's Japanese, isn't it?"
Boss Wang said weakly in a dry voice: "The Japanese also use Chinese characters. It's just that I don't know if it's Mitsubishi or Hitachi, or Toshiba's, most of them developed it, or they signed a secret R&D contract with Taiyu Technology to develop it specifically for them. ”
In order to facilitate export and reduce the number of Western customers who naturally harbored fear and resistance to the communist countries, the actuarial model used in the arcade was changed without the scythe and hammer logo. TWC is the pinyin abbreviation of general-purpose microprocessor. At the first glance of the processor, everyone immediately set their sights on the Japanese semiconductor company, subconsciously ignoring the possibility that this is a domestic chip.
No one answered his words.
If it is a Japanese company, even if it is developed secretly, it will put a company mark on the processor. To be selected by Taiyu Technology, this is a big advertisement, no company will put such a good opportunity without taking advantage of it, will never be in front of this in addition to these two lines of Chinese small print, one line of product code, only the surface packaging of the light board is left.
However, it is not possible to find out which company owns this semiconductor research institute in the manual.
"it! It is also said that it is the latest integrated circuit information, and I don't even know that there is a new processor, so what's the use of buying it! Boss Qi saw that the technician was still rummaging in vain, and he was angry, grabbed the manual, and threw it out angrily.
The technician who had been robbed of the manual turned his head stupidly, looked at the manual that had been thrown to the other end of the workshop, and stood motionless.
Without processors, they're pirated!
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The scene that happened in Xinyuan Electronics also appeared sooner or later among some other electronics manufacturers who grabbed the first batch of arcade samples off the assembly line.
Hundreds of pirates, regardless of whether they are Chinese or foreign, have roared in different languages: "What is the latest version of the integrated circuit manual, which is not even marked with a processor, what is the use of bullshit!" Can anyone tell me where this damn semiconductor research institute and integrated circuit preparation technology center is? ”
In addition to being angry, most of them turned their attention to Japan, speculating that it was most likely a product developed by a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer.
Everyone knows that the morale of the Japanese has been greatly boosted after they have won one after another in memory, driven out European and American manufacturers, and achieved a monopoly position in the market. There is now a strong sense of mission and pride throughout Japan, which is a sign of the country's return to being an advanced country after the end of World War II.
They are ambitious, have been working on processors, and want to be as successful in this field as memory, completely replacing the United States as a leading technology power.
I can't figure out that this actuarial type 1 is a product that a Japanese semiconductor company quietly launched and entered the market to test the water through the springboard of Taiyu Technology.
There are also suspicions that this processor was developed in Taiwan.
As Japan's economy began to take off at the earliest, four countries and regions in East Asia began to follow his example and embark on the road of economic revitalization.
Taiwan has been preparing for semiconductor research since the 70s, starting with OEM for Texas Instruments and Philips, gradually introducing a full set of technologies, and finally having its own semiconductor industry.
By October '77, the first three-inch wafer fab was completed; In December, the integrated circuit factory was put into operation, and after June, the first self-produced integrated circuit rolled off the assembly line, with a yield rate of 70 percent, which was better than the yield rate of the imported technology, thus taking the most important step in Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
After another four years of development, it was not an incredible thing for them to design a processor, and the use of Chinese labeling proved it.
There are also people who suspect that it is made in Korea.
South Korea started almost at the same time as Taiwan, but unlike Taiwan, which completely learned from Japan and first invested in the government and achieved results, and then transferred to private enterprises, South Korea's semiconductor industry was developed by introducing foreign capital. In '69, South Korea established an electronics industrial park, and then with low manpower, land, and plant costs, a large number of American semiconductor companies such as Fairchild were attracted to set up factories, and by 74 years, South Korea had nine semiconductor factories wholly owned by American companies.
In order to do outsourcing for these foreign companies, they gradually introduced technology and slowly walked out of their own way.
They didn't have to be ambitious, but they worked their memory for ten years. At present, it already has the production capacity to produce 60 kilobytes of memory, and the cost is cheaper than that of Japanese-made memory, thus posing a certain threat to Japan's monopoly position in memory chips.
To say that they launched a processor, in terms of technical capabilities, it is also not a problem.
Moreover, South Korea is also a member of the Han cultural circle, and Chinese characters are popular in China, and important archives and records are made of Chinese characters. Identifying the processor with Chinese characters is in line with their approach.
Then there is Hong Kong, which is much slower than the above two countries and regions.
It was not until 77 years later that the Hong Kong government began to regard Hong Kong as a painstaking local operation, and tried to transform from a labor-intensive industry to a capital-intensive industry. It wasn't until Guan Fei pushed hard by grabbing the dominance with the Hong Kong government that he finally strengthened the Hong Kong government's determination to develop the electronics industry and set up several industrial parks in the New Territories and other places.
However, Hong Kong has the advantage of being a latecomer, and several large semiconductor companies in Japan and the United States have set up packaging and testing factories and integrated circuit factories that have been put into operation. Although there is no upstream wafer factory, which is a bit restricted, most of these factories use the latest technology.
As long as the design problem is solved, too advanced chips may not be able to do it, but processors equivalent to the level of two or three years ago should be fine.
It was not until the end of the 70s that they saved enough development funds and began to upgrade their industries, which was a beat slower than the other three countries and regions, becoming the slowest among the four tigers.
Of course, if Guan Fei had not intervened, in fact, Hong Kong would have been the one who pulled the back.
Historically, the British government decided to treat Hong Kong as a local operation after much consideration, and in the 70s it had saved up enough money for development. Following the breakdown of Sino-British negotiations in '82, the British completely lost the idea of supporting Hong Kong's industry, and began to raise it as a fat pig, ready to kill pigs and eat meat before leaving, and finally fell out of the goose-shaped formation of the Four Little Dragons, and was finally eliminated from the competition.
Today's Hong Kong, although it does not have wafer manufacturing capacity and is lame, it already has a certain semiconductor manufacturing capacity. In the past two years, the demand for talents in various electronics factories has increased significantly, and the wages of technical personnel in the electronics industry have been rising, which has also made the electronics industry one of the hottest employment industries.
Nearly 10 new and to-be-built electronic technology schools and tertiary institutions in Hong Kong have initially educated a large number of workers, technicians and engineers in the electronics industry.
This has laid the general trend for future development.
The expansion of interests has made it difficult for the Hong Kong government to change its future development direction, even if it uses administrative means.
The three Asian tigers, plus a leading Japan, have as many as four countries and regions with the ability to produce processors. With no one publicly announcing that they developed the processor, it's hard to guess who developed the actuarial model.
From the day the Block Warrior went on sale, Hong Kong's phone lines quickly became busy.
The number of local calls and international calls has increased sharply, and the target of local calls is concentrated in a few major semiconductor manufacturers in Japan, Europe and the United States with processor production capacity; International long-distance focuses on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and asks whether they develop and manufacture actuarial type 1 by asking internal customers, inquiring with close-knit relatives and friends, and then asking companies about the past.
Electronics manufacturers around the world are looking up to the sky and shouting: who is developing this processor!
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