As soon as Luo Jia hung up Wang Liguo's video call, An Ran walked into his office with a smile and said to Luo Jia, "You were in contact with Lao Wang just now?" ”

"yes, ask him about the situation in Europe."

"How's it going? Lake Constance's piranhas should have been cleaned up, right? ”

Luo Jia thought for a while, "The trend of piranha spreading has been controlled, as for the complete cleanup, it remains to be seen, after all, the lake is very large, and no one can guarantee that there will be no fish that have slipped through the net." ”

"Look at how happy you are today, is there any new progress?"

An Ran stretched his waist and said: "You guessed it, our passive component project has officially ended the laboratory stage, if you also think there is no problem, start the engineering stage." ”

Luo Jia was slightly stunned and said excitedly, "The passive components are out?" That's a great thing, let's go and see. ”

The two men left the main building and headed to the lab.

It's June, the sun is getting hotter, and as the temperature rises, the country's electricity consumption is also growing rapidly.

"It is said on the Internet that when the first day of July, the price of electricity will be reduced by another dime, is this true?" An Ran put his hand on the pergola, glanced at the big sun in the sky, and asked Luo Jia.

Luo Jia said, "It seems that the national team plans to do so, but you also know that after a power generation array is built, for safety reasons, it will take several months to six months of operation before the power department will officially accept it." ”

"Considering that the peak period of residential electricity consumption has arrived, if you can reduce the electricity price before the summer, the people will definitely welcome it, but in that case, it is necessary to shorten the trial operation time and accept the power generation device in advance, there are some risks."

Enron lived by the sea for several months for the new energy project, he was very familiar with the process, and he talked about the rules in everything, he was not in favor of connecting the new power generation array to the grid in advance, anyway, the world's lowest electricity price will be achieved sooner or later, but it is more than a hurry, and some people in the authorities are too anxious to invite credit.

In any case, the sharp drop in electricity prices is always a good thing for the people to see, and it has a profound effect on the economy.

In fact, the national team's power generation project is not profitable, and it is very good to be able to break even, but the low electricity price makes everyone happy, and at the same time, the development of industry and commerce has increased taxes, which is a bit of a meaning that the East is not bright and the West is bright.

Soon after, Luo Jia saw many small objects of different shapes in the electrical laboratory, which were placed on a tray with test numbers written on them.

To put it simply, passive components are a general term for resistors, capacitors, inductors, filters, couplers, harmonics, and other products.

All electronic components that do not consume electrical energy by themselves, can convert electrical energy into different forms of energy, only need input signals, and can work normally without external power supply, all belong to the category of passive components.

In the whole field of science and technology, passive components are widely used, if you have dismantled electronic products such as mobile phones or computers, you will find that on the circuit board, in addition to chips and caches, there are many dense ants like small things, those are passive components.

Luo Jia took tweezers, picked up an MLCC in the tray, looked at it carefully under the light, then put the small thing down, took out his Huawei brand folding mobile phone, shook it in front of An Ran's eyes and said: "Do you know how many MLCCs are used in this mobile phone?" ”

An Ran shook his head.

Luo Jia said, "Mr. Yu told me that 739 neon Murata MLCCs are used in it, you know, this is just a mobile phone, and more is used in the computer, don't look at this thing is small, but it is 22 billion US dollars in sales a year." ”

An Ran grabbed his hair helplessly, the domestic consumption of passive components is huge, and the output is also huge, but there are always a few important categories, which have not been able to reach the international first-class level.

For example, the MLCC that Luo Jia just mentioned is a big shortcoming in the field of passive components in China.

The Chinese name of MLCC, called chip multilayer ceramic capacitors, ceramic capacitors and aluminum capacitors, are currently in a situation of monopoly by Japan and South Korea, neon Murata plus South Korea's Samsung, accounting for 52% of the global market share, ranking third is Wanwan Province Guoju, market share 13%, followed by neon sun induced electricity, TDK and other manufacturers.

Enron complained, "If it weren't for the lack of a way, we really didn't want to engage in passive components, this is not a complicated reason, but there are too many categories, and there is a lack of upstream raw materials, so we have to get everything ourselves, and we don't even have a helper." ”

Luo Jia didn't say anything, semiconductors are different from all the fields involved in Xingchen Technology before, take electric vehicles as an example, although Huaxia is not too strong, but it is also a big player in making electric vehicles, what is missing is so many key technologies, Xingchen Technology took a shot to help make up for the technical shortcomings, and the industry can be competitive and develop rapidly.

Semiconductors are different, they are definitely different!

The problem facing Xingchen Technology now is that this industry has to do everything by itself from beginning to end, not only the production machines, but also the small things such as passive components.

"Come on a little bit." Luo Jia said to An Ran: "Since the laboratory stage is over, let Xingchen Electric send someone over immediately to start the engineering and trial production stage." ”

An Ran added: "Xingchen Chemical also needs to come in, and upstream raw materials such as resistance paste, conductive paste, and ruthenium paste need several lines of Xingchen Chemical. ”

Luo Jia was speechless for a moment, An Ran didn't say that he almost forgot, so far, the upstream materials of high-end passive components are also monopolized by giants, and they also need Xingchen Technology to do it themselves, but fortunately, Luo Jia has a super subsidiary, Xingchen Chemical.

After continuous mergers and acquisitions, Xingchen Chemical has tens of thousands of employees, second only to chemical giants such as BASF in Germany, DuPont in North America, and Neon Shin-Etsu.

In other words, the subsidiary of Xingchen Technology also has the combat effectiveness of the world's top 500 companies.

"Then let Star Chemistry join in." Luo Jia clapped his hands and said: "In the end, how big is the scale we decide?" ”

An Ran said with a wry smile, "We need at least six kinds of raw materials in the upstream, more than 1,000 passive component models in the downstream, and there are 460 kinds of MLCCs alone, and China does not have the ability to manufacture MLCCs, so all of them need Xingchen Electric to open a production line, which is not counting the processing machinery for making passive components." ”

"What a fucking trouble." Luo Jia muttered.

"Not really." Enron said, "The smaller the thing, the more troublesome it is, and the passive component is not even the core area of the semiconductor field, but only the peripheral accessories." ”

"Semiconductors are too troublesome, Zhang Yuechuan and Lu Chengfeng's predecessors have been engaged in lithography machine research for several years, and Wen Chengling, a generation of super cattle recently, has joined, but there is still no end in sight."

"There is also materials science, Ji Ming's gang, known as the first basic science team of Xingchen Technology, since they knew that you were going to engage in olene materials as the next generation of semiconductor substrates, they went crazy directly, and the biggest pressure was my little junior brother Cao Yuan, after all, his major is graphene, and Chao Anbang is also very difficult, and the superconducting materials he is responsible for are the underlying channel key technologies of the next-generation computing system."

Luo Jia listened to An Ran's words, don't look at the hardware department, which has not produced any results for a long time, but it is in an extremely busy state internally.

When it comes to the semiconductor field, Luo Jia's strategy has always failed, and the problem he is facing now is that he can't find a reliable partner like Huawei, so he has to do almost everything himself.

A big reason why Xingchen Technology is developing so fast is that most of the products are not made by themselves, but take out the technology and let the partners make it, and if the technical level is not enough, they will help them upgrade their technology.

Ay~

Luo Jia sighed and said: "The little thing of passive components is too troublesome, let's try not to make it ourselves, or find a few partners, otherwise it will be too energy-involved, there are currently four major passive component factories in China, namely Yuyang, Fenghua Hi-Tech, Sanhuan, and Torch." ”

"Although the output and technical level of the four of them are very low, we have no better choice at present, so I will let Hongtao's Ministry of Commerce contact them when I go back."

An Ran nodded, "That's okay, it's a big deal, let's help them do technical upgrades." ”

The matter was so decided, after Luo Jia went back, he found Hong Tao and asked him to arrange cooperation in the field of passive components.

"That's fine." Hong Tao said, "We are the toughest guys in the technology industry, and factories like Yuyang will definitely not be able to ask for the opportunity to cooperate with us, but once the news goes out, it will be officially announced." ”

The whole world has guessed that Xingchen Technology is going to engage in semiconductors next, but speculation is speculation, Xingchen Technology itself has not officially announced, all projects are still in the laboratory pre-research, some complex projects, and even in the planning stage.

"It doesn't matter, whoever loves to know knows." Luo Jia said lightly, "You go and find the heads of the four families first, and I will talk to them personally." ”