"That's right, I personally have an idea to start the CPU project."

“CPU？” As soon as Lin Hongfei's words came out, Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu were suddenly shocked, and then they were really ecstatic: Lin Hongfei decided to get on the CPU? But after a short period of excitement, Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu only had a bitter smile, the two looked at each other, Wu Wenqing said, "President Lin, don't hide from you, those of us who are engaged in computers, dream of making our own Chinese central processing unit, but it's difficult!" You can't imagine the blockade of our country by the West in terms of computer technology and crystal preparation technology. ”

"Yes, some time ago, our country now wants to import a set of 5-inch wafer preparation equipment from the United States or Europe, but Europeans and Americans don't sell it to us at all." Fang Xinzhu nodded with a wry smile.

Wafers are necessary to make CPUs, and the development of CPUs has always been the deepest pain of the Republic in the semiconductor industry, even after 20 years, no much progress has been made, such as the famous Loongson, at that time Lin Hongfei was still very proud of Loongson's breakthrough, but after checking the information, Loongson was still OEM by STMicroelectronics, and he couldn't produce it himself.

In the previous life, in addition to being an angry young man and scolding a few words, Lin Hongfei had no other way, CPU was a technology that was strictly blocked by the West against China, and the production and manufacturing technology of CPU, the production and manufacturing technology of Chip, the production and manufacturing technology of Chip, the Republic could not get it at all, but in this life, Lin Hongfei wanted to try: Even if he can't make a breakthrough in the commercial and civilian fields, can he also try to make breakthroughs in other fields?

"The two of you may have misunderstood, what I want to do is not IBMpower and Inter386, 486 and other commercial and civilian CPUs. It is industrial control chips and various special CPUs, such as CPUs on airborne and bomb-borne computers, CNC CPUs on CNC machining equipment and chips for automotive EFI electronic control systems, etc., "Lin Hongfei waved his hand, "I know that this kind of technology you are talking about, it is difficult to introduce, but the central processing unit used in these equipment, such as missile-loaded, airborne computers, CNC machining equipment, and single spray systems, has low requirements for performance and processing speed, but has higher requirements for reliability and fault tolerance......

Speaking of this, Lin Hongfei turned his head to look at Wu Wenqing and said. "Director Wu, we have been engaged in computer technology for so many years, do you think this kind of dedicated computer central processing unit has a head? If I unite the two of you, I will find a way to apply for state support in terms of policies and funds. Can you do it well? ”

"Let me give you a thorough understanding here, our company has a scientific research institution engaged in the research and development of electronic control and EFI in the United States. Now their EFI control system will be available for testing next month. If we can produce this kind of chip ourselves, our company's cars will all use our own ...... in the future It is estimated that in 10 years, our company alone will have an annual demand for millions of chips in EFI systems. ”

In fact, Lin Hongfei still said less, he was afraid of scaring Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu: it is not only passenger cars represented by cars that need to use chips, but also trucks and construction vehicles are also big consumers of chips, especially construction vehicles. As long as there is no problem with the quality of the chips, Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and affiliated enterprises alone can digest as many as tens of millions of chips a year.

Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. alone can digest millions of chips? Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu, who were still amused by Lin Hongfei's whimsical idea just now. The eyes suddenly lit up: industrial control chips and automotive ECU chips are different from ordinary civilian-grade computer chips, the processing speed is not the same, and the speed of replacement is very slow......

The two glanced at each other, hesitated for a long time, and then said, "If we can get the support of the state, we may be able to have some hope, but it will take a long time, I think it will take at least 10 years to really achieve commercialization, mainly in terms of semiconductor technology and equipment, European and American countries are very blocked by us, and we can't even buy a slightly better lithography machine......

The worries of the two are not unreasonable, but Lin Hongfei smiled, "The worries of the two are naturally reasonable, but we actually have other channels to solve the equipment problem." ”

"Huh?" Listening to Lin Hongfei's confident words, Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu were both stunned, and then they refused to believe it with a face full of disbelief: Is the equipment easy to introduce? Not to mention the best extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine, even the deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machine we can't buy with money, we can only buy the most backward ultraviolet (UV) lithography machine with the lowest technical content. Then you can get us two deep ultraviolet lithography machines for us first.

Of course, the meaning in Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu's eyes did not hide from Lin Hongfei, and Lin Hongfei did not care, he was really a person of this era, because of the limitations of information, if he didn't deliberately collect it, he didn't know a lot of things at all, and said, "Actually, we can think of ways from the republics of the former Soviet Union." ”

"You mean to poach people in the republics of the former Soviet Union?" Wu Wenqing, as a master in the domestic computer field, is still very clear about the situation in the former Soviet Union and the current Russia, and immediately shook his head and said, "No, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Pentroski of Erbrus of the Soviet semiconductor component department went to the United States, he took more than 300 people with him, and almost brought all the essence of the entire Soviet Union's research direction to the United States. ”

"I didn't say people, I'm talking about the equipment that the Soviet Union got from the West in the 80s," Lin Hongfei said, "Now there is a saying in China that the collapse of the Soviet Union was because it did not keep up with the semiconductor technology revolution and took a fork in the road, resulting in the Soviet Union being left behind by the United States in semiconductor technology for 30 years, don't you two think so?" ”

"This is all layman's statement, and there are some political ......," Fang Xinzhu shook his head with a smile. Who would say that from a real insider? Judging from the technical strength of the Soviet Union when it did not collapse, it is not as backward as many people think, although it is a lot behind compared with the United States, but this is compared with the United States, if it is compared with other countries, it is not much better, in the entire 80s, the two levels of the semiconductor industry in the world refer to the United States and the Soviet Union, and other countries such as Japan and Europe are not qualified, of course, the gap between the two levels is also very huge. The United States is going to be far ahead. ”

"Indeed, there are a lot of malicious elements in the perception of the Soviet semiconductor industry now," Wu Wenqing added, "contrary to what most people think, the Soviet Union was not only an extremely backward country in terms of semiconductors and microchips before its collapse." On the contrary, it is a country with a very complete overall system, and its overall technical strength is second only to that of the United States. The well-known Soviet scientific research institute of semiconductor component manufacturing, the Belarusian Minsk Institute of Semiconductors, Erbrus and other units. The annual production quantity is in the tens of thousands. ”

"Not only the Soviet Union, but also the Warsaw Pact computer technology is very good, for example, Dresden in East Germany is known as the Silicon Valley of the East because of companies such as Robortron. Speaking of which, even now after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dresden's technical strength is still very strong, such as Infineon's headquarters there, as well as AMD's European R&D center. ”

"But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became miserable. First of all, the eastern Silicon Valley of the Warsaw Pact was assigned to NATO, Ukraine was also divided, Belarus was also divided, and the Soviet-era semiconductor and chip giant was left with one Erbrus struggling to support. This is not over, just after the end of the Cold War, one of Erbrus's former five-member team went to the United States with hundreds of good seedlings, well, it is Mr. Lin, you just said that Pentroski took more than 300 semiconductor elites from the former Soviet Union to Inter. Therefore, the collapse of the Soviet Union will be devastating for the semiconductor industry inherited from the former Soviet Union, and the semiconductor industry of the Soviet Union, which is second only to the United States, will return to the Stone Age overnight in the Russian era. ”

Speaking of the collapse of the extremely powerful Soviet Red Empire, Wu Wenqing, Fang Xinzhu, and Lin Hongfei were all embarrassed: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were only a group of demons in Britain and Japan.

Japan's so-called "technology and technology" is a slogan that was put forward in the past few years, when the Soviet Union was still strong, Japan was a country that sold real estate, when the Japanese arrogantly shouted that "the price of land around Tokyo can buy the whole United States", at that time Japan was mainly a capitalist world factory, doing OEM, cheap chips were contracted to it for production, a certain Ishihara said: without Japanese chips, the accuracy of the tomahawk is 10 times worse. However, there are basically no high-tech things, such as what lithography technology, what CPU architecture, these are the things that are played by real powers, only the United States is first-class, the Soviet Union is second-rate, and other countries are not in the stream, and Japan at that time couldn't even touch Mao.

Of course, everyone has seen the result of the arrogance of the Japanese, and the Americans used the Plaza Accord to slap the Japanese in the face.

That is, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Japanese have begun to be awesome in these particularly sophisticated fields, and Canon, NEC, Toshiba, and nikon have begun to run rampant.

"Speaking of which, the Soviet Union in the ultra-precision machining technology and the United States in fact, the gap is not big, in fact, in the field of precision, ultra-precision machining and special processing, the former Soviet Union has advantages in many aspects, ultra-precision machining technology and technology and the level of basic research in physics has a lot to do with it, in this aspect is just the strength of the Soviet Union, the strength of the Soviet Union in basic research in mathematics and physics is still very strong, so that they have their own unique advantages in special processing, ultra-precision machining,"

Lin Hongfei is no exception, Lin Hongfei stood in the perspective of a businessman and technical staff and said some words, these words have never been said before, so that Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu feel refreshing, carefully tasted, but feel very reasonable...... "So, strictly speaking, the Soviet semiconductor industry lagged behind the United States, in addition to the mistakes of the decision-making level and the backwardness of semiconductor equipment, One of the most important main reasons was that the Soviet Union's semiconductor equipment could not be commercialized for a long time, and it could not leave the door of the laboratory, resulting in a disproportionate input and output, and it was not until the mid-80s that there was a breakthrough, but unfortunately, the Soviet Union collapsed within a few years. ”

"But even so, in the disintegration of the money, the former Soviet Union in the semiconductor and chip industry in the technical level of Europe at least not worse than Germany, although they do not have such a large enterprise as Infineon, but there are a large number of small and medium-sized IC enterprises with very technical characteristics, lithography machine can be produced by the former Soviet Union itself, but compared with the Dutch ASML is too bad, with their own production is not cost-effective, the West in the lithography machine is open to the Soviets, the whole eighties to the present, As long as the hairy bear is rich, the people of Hulan will even sell them extreme ultraviolet lithography machines! The conditions are much better than in China. ”

To use a more appropriate phrase in later generations, that is: The Soviet Union was also an existence against the sky back then, but it was a pity that it was fooled and lame by the US imperialists.

"What? Where did the Soviets have an EUV lithography machine from ASML? Wu Wenqing stood up suddenly!

"Yes." Lin Hongfei nodded with a smile.

"Then ......" Wu Wenqing suddenly looked at Lin Hongfei with a look of hope, but then, the light in his eyes dimmed again, "What's the use of this......

"It's still somewhat useful," Boss Lin replied with a smile, "Director Wu doesn't know, but Mr. Fang should know a little, over the years, our company has worked hard in Russia and the former Soviet Union republics, not only to collect a lot of information and production equipment in the field of materials in the former Soviet Union, but also to collect some information and production equipment in other industries......"

"Got a semiconductor industry?" At this moment, Wu Wenqing and Fang Xinzhu couldn't help it, stood up suddenly, and looked at Lin Hongfei with a look of ecstasy: This is really ...... Could it be that pie really fell from the sky?

"Yes, there are not only a few ASML extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, but also some 6-inch wafer production equipment and research materials on semiconductors and chips in the Soviet Union. (To be continued......)