"Xiaopang, I am very pleased that you want to make integrated circuits, but according to the current development of the integrated circuit industry in our country, I am afraid that the little money you earn can only be heard if you throw it away."

Xu Baiqing persuaded earnestly.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "Old man, you may be thinking badly, I am not going to set up a factory for the time being, I am going to do the design first!" ”

"Design?"

Xu Baiqing was slightly stunned.

In his impression, engaging in integrated circuits is to build a wafer factory, what is it to do design alone?

Pang Xuelin seemed to see Xu Baiqing's doubts, and said with a smile: "President Xu, the current integrated circuit industry is not as concentrated as before. Since the birth of the integrated circuit industry, the development of the entire integrated circuit industry has gone through the process of changing from the traditional system-on-board to the system-on-chip. In this historical process, the world's IC industry has undergone three changes in its industrial structure in order to adapt to the development of technology and the needs of the market. ”

"The first change: the initial stage of the development of the IC industry led by processing and manufacturing. In the 70s, the mainstream products of integrated circuits were microprocessors, memories, and standard general-purpose logic circuits. During this period, IC manufacturers (IDMs) played a major role in the IC market, and IC design existed only as an ancillary segment. At this time, IC design and semiconductor processes are closely related. IC design is mainly manual, and CAD systems are only used for data processing and graphic programming. The IC industry is only in its infancy as a production-oriented company. ”

"The second revolution is the rise of Foundry and IC design companies. In the 80s, the mainstream products of integrated circuits were microprocessors, microcontrollers and application-specific ICs (ASICs). At this time, the combination of IC design companies without production lines and standard process processing lines began to become a new model for the development of the integrated circuit industry. With the wide application and popularization of microprocessors and PCs, especially in the fields of communications, industrial control, consumer electronics, etc., the IC industry has begun to enter the customer-oriented stage. ”

"There are two main reasons for this. On the one hand, it is difficult for ICs with standardized functions to meet the requirements of customers for system cost and reliability, while customers for the whole machine require increasing the integration of ICs, improving confidentiality, reducing the chip area, reducing the volume of the system, reducing costs, and improving the performance-to-price ratio of products, so as to enhance the competitiveness of products and obtain more market share and more profits; On the other hand, due to the progress of IC microfabrication technology, the hardwareization of software has become possible, in order to improve the speed of the system and simplify the program, ASICs with various hardware structures such as gate arrays, programmable logic devices (including FPGA), standard units, and fully customized circuits have come into being, and their proportion has accounted for 12% of the entire IC sales in 1982; Third, with the development of EDA tools (electronic design automation tools), PCB design methods are introduced into IC design, such as the concept of library, process simulation parameters and simulation concepts, etc., and the design has begun to enter the abstraction stage, so that the design process can exist independently of the production process. ”

"At this stage, far-sighted machine manufacturers and entrepreneurs, including venture capital funds, saw the market and development prospects of ASIC, and began to set up professional design companies and IC design departments, and a kind of integrated circuit design company or design department without production line has been established and developed rapidly. At the same time, it also led to the rise of the standard process processing line (Foundry). The world's first foundry factory was TSMC, which was established in 1987, and its founder Zhang Zhongmou is also known as the father of chip processing. ”

"And now, the integrated circuit industry is undergoing the third transformation."

"The third change, how do you say?"

Listening to Pang Xuelin's narration of the development process of the integrated circuit industry, the expression on Xu Baiqing's face gradually became solemn, and he said with a straight face.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly: "The third change: it refers to the separation of design, manufacturing, packaging, and testing!" Old man, you've probably heard of the Internet, right? ”

Xu Baiqing nodded.

Pang Xuelin said: "In recent years, with the rise of the Internet, the IC industry has entered a competition-oriented advanced stage, and international competition will shift from the original resource competition and price competition to talent knowledge competition and intensive capital competition. Competing ways to expand equipment investment centered on DRAM are a thing of the past. For example, in 1990, the United States, represented by Intel, took the initiative to abandon the DRAM market in order to resist the threat of Japan jumping to the top of the world's semiconductor list, engaged in CPU, and made a major structural adjustment to the semiconductor industry. ”

"Therefore, I personally believe that the increasingly large integrated circuit industry system is not conducive to the development of the entire IC industry. In the future, the transformation of the IC industry structure to a high degree of specialization will become a trend, and a situation of independent operation of the design industry, manufacturing industry, packaging industry, and testing industry has begun to be formed......"

……

Time passed minute by minute, Xu Baiqing did not interject, Pang Xuelin said for nearly half an hour, and only then could he tell Xu Baiqing about the development process of integrated circuits for the next 20 years.

Xu Baiqing pondered for a moment and said, "Xiao Pang, if you have time in the past two days, write out these things you just told me." ”

"What are you going to do when you write it?"

Pang Xuelin was surprised.

Xu Baiqing smiled: "Although I am not engaged in the semiconductor industry, I think what you said is very valuable and very instructive for the development of our country's semiconductor industry." Old man, I still have a bit of a thin face in the academic world, and your report can be submitted as a reference for high-level decision-making. ”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help crying and laughing, he didn't expect Xu Baiqing to have such an idea.

I have to say that Xu Baiqing is indeed very sensitive.

What Pang Xuelin said stems from a summary of the entire development process of integrated circuits by later generations.

In this era, basically no one in China is aware of the next development trend of the integrated circuit industry.

This is also the reason why Project 908 and Project 909 failed one after another.

At the beginning of the 20000 years, Hanxin ** gave a fatal blow to China's integrated circuit industry, which directly led to the delay of the development of China's integrated circuit for ten years.

It was not until the gradual development of companies such as Warwick HiSilicon, SMIC, and UNISOC that people saw a glimmer of hope for catching up with and surpassing the United States.

After pondering for a moment, Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll go back and think about it, and I'll send it to you in two days." ”

Xu Baiqing nodded with a smile and said: "Okay, if you have nothing to do, you can go back first, as for the talents you want in the field of microelectronics, I will sort out a copy for you at that time, of course, whether you can invite someone depends on yourself." ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Of course. ”

……

Coming out of the principal's office, Pang Xuelin went to find Chen Wenyuan again.

As a result, as soon as he arrived at Chen Wenyuan's office, Pang Xuelin found that not only Chen Wenyuan was there, but Mu Qingqing was also there.

Seeing Pang Xuelin, Mu Qingqing's beautiful face suddenly showed an expression of surprise.

"Brother Pang, are you back?"

Pang Xuelin nodded at Mu Qingqing with a smile, and said a little strangely: "Qingqing, why are you here?" ”

At this time, Chen Wenyuan on the side said proudly: "Why can't Qingqing be here, she is now my apprentice, but you kid, what did you say at the beginning?" As a result, you didn't see anyone when school started, and if you hadn't done a good job outside, the principal would have fired you a long time ago. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled awkwardly and said, "Master, I haven't been expelled from school for so long, doesn't it mean that what I do is more important than studying?" ”

"You're going to play with your crookedness!"

Chen Wenyuan glared at Pang Xuelin, looked at the time, and said, "When did you come back?" Have you ever been home? ”

Pang Xuelin pointed to his backpack and said, "Didn't you just get off the plane and say hello?" ”

Chen Wenyuan rolled his eyes and said, "It's strange to believe you." Qingqing, it's almost time, let's stop here today. ”

"Okay, master!"

Mu Qingqing closed the exercise book.

Chen Wenyuan got up and said: "Let's go, go to your third uncle and third aunt to eat noodles, you kid, after walking for so long, although they don't say it, they have always remembered you in their hearts......"

Pang Xuelin touched his nose a little surprised.

Counting up, Pang Xuelin hasn't been back for nearly four or five months.

In this era, communication is inconvenient, although the family is equipped with telephones, but the third uncle and three aunts think that the telephone bill is too expensive, and they only dare to call for two minutes each time, and they are willing to hang up the phone until one minute and fifty-nine seconds.

When he comes back this time, he plans to accompany the third uncle and three aunts at home.

followed Mu Qingqing and Chen Wenyuan to the store, and saw Pang Xuelin, the three uncles and three aunts, and they were pleasantly surprised.

At present, the third uncle and the third aunt and the water baby have moved into the three-bedroom house bought by Pang Xuelin, compared to the difficult living conditions in Xiaoxinfang, the life in Lancheng is like paradise for the third uncle and three aunts.

In the next few days, in addition to giving two lectures to the students of Lanzhou University, Pang Xuelin spent most of his time writing on the development of the integrated circuit industry.

However, as it was written, Pang Xuelin injected more things into it.

Gradually, his report began to analyze the entire ICT industry not only in the integrated circuit industry, but also in an all-round way.

For example, Pang Xuelin directly predicted that with the development of the Internet, personal computers will be popularized to thousands of households, and the Internet will be formed through the information superhighway between each other.

We can use digital large-capacity fiber optic communication networks to build computer networks between government agencies, universities, research institutes, enterprises, and even ordinary homes. The completion of the Internet will change the way people live, work and communicate with each other, speed up scientific and technological exchanges, improve the quality and efficiency of work, enjoy film and television entertainment, remote control medical care, implement distance education, hold video conferences, realize online shopping, enjoy interactive television, etc.

In addition, the popularization of computers will also promote factory automation, office automation and home automation, forming the so-called triple A revolution.

The convergence of computer and communication technologies has led to the internationalization of the economy.

The global financial information network formed by the financial community has enabled funds to overcome time differences and greatly increase in value through global circulation throughout the day and night.

Transnational corporations control a large part of production and international trade.

At the same time, the system expands access to education and allows more people to engage in more creative work. The development of the Internet industry will have a very far-reaching impact on the global political and economic structure.

In addition, Pang Xuelin also described in the report how computers are rapidly popularized in various industries, which companies will become the setters of future computer industry standards, the important position of the software industry in the future computer industry, how many computer engineers China needs, the development and profit model of the Internet in the future, and the application of supercomputers in all aspects of production and life.

Even, Pang Xuelin also added some content of the mobile Internet and the future all-digital society.

Therefore, a week later, when Pang Xuelin slapped this nearly 20,000-word report in front of Xu Baiqing, Xu Baiqing watched it for more than two hours before he couldn't help but take off his reading glasses and look at the young man in front of him incredulously.

In the past, although Pang Xuelin had a very high status in Xu Baiqing's heart, Xu Baiqing still regarded him as a young man with excellent talent and his own personality, and he had great potential for development in the future.

However, Pang Xuelin's report on the ICT industry broke Xu Baiqing's perception of this young man.

Through this report, Xu Baiqing even faintly felt that Pang Xuelin's eyes penetrated the thick fog of history and saw the distant future.

Based on the analysis of current technological development, Xu Baiqing can't even deny the seemingly whimsical ideas put forward by Pang Xuelin in this report.

"Xiao Pang, are you thinking about all of this independently?"

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Principal Xu, I think too much about what I write, this report is okay, right?" ”

Xu Baiqing hurriedly shook his head and said: "There is no problem, our ministry will have a meeting in two days, and I just submitted this report. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and didn't say much.

……

In the following days, Pang Xuelin began to stay at home with peace of mind.

Xu Baiqing went to Beijing with the report, but no news came back.

However, CCTV's Oriental Son column officially broadcast an interview with Pang Xuelin.

The name Pang Xuelin officially spread throughout the country through CCTV.

Almost everyone knows that this genius boy, who was only 18 years old, invented a DVD player called a Chinese audio-visual CD, which was marketed in Xiangjiang and created a fortune of 80 million.

In essence, at this time, the total sales of Transwarp CVD in Xiangjiang officially exceeded 100,000 units, and the total sales exceeded 600 million.

Among them, the net profit belonging to Transwarp Technology reached 350 million.

And this money, under the remote command of Pang Xuelin, was invested in the stock market of Xiangjiang.

By the end of December, Pang Xuelin's wealth had exceeded one billion Hong Kong dollars.