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"Although the government has also seen the importance of chip manufacturing, no one is willing to stand up and take this responsibility." As soon as Fan Wuxian opened his mouth, he unceremoniously pointed out this problem, "There are many reasons for this, and the most important reasons are nothing more than two, the first is that the investment is too large, and the second is the fear of taking the responsibility for failure." ”

At this stage, the construction of the country can be summed up in four words, and everyone chooses the most simple and easy aspects that have no technical difficulties but are easy to establish political achievements for development.

As the saying goes, one look at the tree, two look at the road, three look at the square, and four look at the residence. Greening, road construction, square construction and real estate development are the four major projects that are most likely to improve the appearance of the city and stimulate GDP development, so the leaders of various provinces and cities in China are basically developing from these four directions.

For the chip industry, such a new thing with high investment and uncertain prospects, everyone is naturally respectful, not only hoping that there will be enterprises in their territory to attract funds under this banner, but also worried that it will affect their political performance due to the success of the tiger and snake, and the so-called two ends of the first rat are difficult to decide.

"But without the development of the chip industry, our national self-reliance is an empty word!" Mr. Ni continued Fan Wuxi's words and said, "CPU is the core of computer systems and all kinds of modern electronic equipment, its design and manufacturing level is a symbol of a country's information technology strength, it and computer operating systems are the most gene of the information industry for the lack of independent CPU design and implementation technology, China's information industry and many core technologies and products related to CPU are still mainly dependent on imports, not only the value-added space of products is small, but also economically controlled by people, The security of information systems and even national security across the country are also facing serious threats. ”

There are many kinds of CPUs ranging from supercomputers. to ordinary household appliances will be available. CPUs are usually divided into two types: general-purpose CP and embedded CPU. The general-purpose CPU is powerful and high-performance, can run complex operating systems such as indos and Unix, and can support large applications. Systems that use embedded CPUs are generally not computers, but network communications or other electronic devices such as routers, switches, game consoles, mobile phones, set-top boxes, etc. With the further improvement of integration, in embedded applications, the CPU, memory and some peripheral circuits tend to be integrated into a chip to form a system-on-chip SoC, and the CPU on the SoC is called the CPU core.

For a long time, the CPU architecture has been facing four challenges, namely, improving processor performance, reducing processor power consumption, simplifying hardware design, and maintaining binary compatibility with the internationally accepted mainstream CPU architecture. [Wu Ai Literature Network]

Before the eighties, the United States, Japan. The government has formulated a national strategy to support the chip industry and invested a lot of resources to make it rapidly rise to become the hegemon of the global chip industry. Immediately afterwards, South Korea's Taiwan region focused on the development of dynamic memory and chip foundry industries, and achieved great success. Although China is the third largest chip market in the world, almost all of the protagonists are foreign companies, and the development of the chip industry is not a national strategy.

In order to support the chip industry, many countries and regions have introduced special tax policies. In terms of income tax, Singapore has tax exemption for chip companies for ten years, and South Korea has tax exemption for seven years and halved for three years. In terms of VAT, both Singapore and South Korea set standards that are much lower than those in Chinese mainland.

"The government is not investing enough!" Fan Wuxian sighed and said.

"The government doesn't see what's important here. I can't decide, or I don't know where to start, but we can, invest about 300 million a year, and I believe that within five years, we will be able to achieve finished products. Mr. Ni said.

300 million a year for five years, that's 15. 100 million, even if you make your own product, who can guarantee that there is still a market and sales for this product? After all, now everyone can see very clearly that the upgrading of the chip industry is too fast, and no one can say how big the gap will be in five years.

After hearing this, Fan Wuxian frowned and said, "I know. What are you thinking, and you know that everyone is worried that there is no return on investment, although I personally have more money, but it is impossible to throw money into the bottomless pit. Therefore, my opinion is that the company can set up a R&D department, but only do development, not production. Inside, they were all a little surprised by Fan Wuxi's opinion, and there were many discussions.

What does it mean to only do development, not production? Where does the return on a technology come from if it is developed but not made into a product? How to make a profit? If there is no profit, where will the subsequent development funds come from? What's the point of such R&D?

"YOU MAY ALSO KNOW SOMETHING, I HAVE RECENTLY BEEN COOPERATING WITH INTEL TO BUILD A CPU PACKAGING FACTORY, AND I AM ALSO COOPERATING WITH TAIWANESE TO PRODUCE MEMORY CHIPS AND MOBILE PHONE PLATFORMS, WHICH ARE ALL IN THE SCOPE OF THE CHIP INDUSTRY." Fan Wuxian said to everyone, "Some things are not fast enough, we can enter the chip industry now, but the high R&D costs and investment in upgrading will greatly affect the normal development of the enterprise." ”

"Even if we smash the pot and sell iron, we also want to build up this chip industry, just like if we didn't engage in two bombs and one satellite, China would not be able to really stand up." Mr. Ni was very worried about Fan Wuxian and did not support his idea.

"Actually, I'm thinking about a question." "I plan to build my own intellectual property development industry. ”

Intellectual property development industry? What's that? Everyone was a little confused, not knowing what Fan Wuxian wanted to do?

Regarding this issue, Fan Wuxian gave an example, "There is an ARM company in the United Kingdom, which is engaged in intellectual property development. ”

ARM was founded in 1990, and there is a shadow of ARM in electronic products such as navigation.

Later, ARM once occupied about 75% of the global market for digital cameras, MP3, Bluetooth, game consoles, printers and other product chips.

Almost every consumer electronics product needs a chip to achieve functions, such as MP3, mobile phones, remote controls for TVs, etc., and consumer electronics have high requirements, fast updates, and fierce competition, so the chip market is getting bigger and bigger.

However, ARM does not produce chips itself, but only develops intellectual property rights, and then licenses intellectual property rights to chip designers. This model is very different from Intel's, Intel's X86 personal computer chips, from intellectual property development to design and manufacturing, are all done by themselves, and the intellectual property rights of Intel chips are also monopolized.

ARM, on the other hand, licenses its technology to many of the world's leading semiconductor, software and OEM manufacturers, each of whom receives ARM-related technology and services. Later, almost all major semiconductor companies signed hardware technology licensing agreements with ARM, including such large as Intel, IBM, LG Semiconductor, NEC, SONY and Philips

These companies produce chips to downstream manufacturers to form terminal products to sell, in the chip industry chain, ARM only shares the most upstream intellectual property rights of this part of the profits, in fact, they have also tried, want to learn from INTEL, and do intellectual property rights and products, but in the end can not compete with it. If you do OEM production, you need a lot of investment, and they don't have such a big investment, and more back-end system assembly companies such as Nokia need a good brand, which is not ARM's strength.

In other words, ARM's success is because they focus on one point and then persevere, which is also very inspiring for Fan Wuxi.

Because of the production process, it is irrational for China to want to compete directly with mature semiconductor companies like INTEL, but giving up the right to compete will worsen the situation and the gap will become wider and wider.

"There's no shortage of design talent, there's no doubt about that." Fan Wuxian waved his hand and said to everyone, "Now our PCFANS have come to a fork in the road of development, whether to continue to make products and make money by relying on the profits brought by the monopoly market, or continue to adhere to our entrepreneurship and walk out of a route that others cannot replace, it is time to decide!" ”

Fan Wuxi's main idea, or decided to take the road of deep technology development, from the upstream industrial chain to find their own position, he fully believes that the wisdom of the Chinese can do this, as long as the technology is maintained advanced, one day will rely on this technology to lead, find their own position in the international semiconductor industry As for the domestic production base is not good, that is not a problem, one day, this problem will be solved, and this day will not be very far away, ten years, or not ten years, You can achieve this goal on your own.

Mr. Ni is very happy about Fan Wuxi's decision, he is most concerned about the nationalization of chip technology now, as for what way Fan Wuxian will achieve it, it is not the goal he cares about, as long as he can give him funds and personnel, let him go on this road, he is very satisfied.

As soon as the company's executives heard Fan Wuxian say that he only did technology development and not production, they felt that such capital investment was quite limited, and the cost of production and manufacturing could be transferred to the patent buyer to bear, which had little impact on the company's funds, and naturally there was not much opposition.

For Fan Wuxie, he can be regarded as having found a candidate to concentrate on his work, and he needs a person like Mr. Ni who is persevering in scientific research to achieve technological take-off.

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