Chapter 217: Prelude to the Semiconductor Counteroffensive!
If the chip is the brightest pearl in the industrial crown, then EDA software is the most important tool to polish the pearl.
Without EDA, the pearl cannot shine.
There is something unbelievable about such an important thing, and that is the market......
As the most upstream and high-end industry of IC design, the total value of the overall EDA software market is less than one-fiftieth of that of semiconductors compared to the semiconductor market size calculated in hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
At the moment, there are only billions of dollars in the world.
Of course, a small market does not mean low value, and without EDA, all companies involved in chip design in the world will be shut down, which shows the importance of this software.
This is also one of the reasons why Neutron Star Technology was suddenly cut off from EDA software support when it first announced its investment in IC design, and those media thought that their tens of billions were lost.
It is also the reason why a small number of domestic people who are involved in IC design and try the EDA provided by Neutron Star Technology have chosen to come to the door.
If nothing else, it's just that this software provided by Neutron Star is really strong.
Some time ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology directly issued a purchase order after personally sending people to test, and it didn't take long for the Loongson design of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to be replaced by the EDA of Neutron Star Technology.
In order to show sincerity, Huawei Yu Chengdong took the lead in throwing out orders.
"Senior Brother Zhong is not kind, there is this kind of EDA and he doesn't even contact Ziguang Group first......" is slightly mellow, with glasses, Mr. Zhao narrowed the relationship with a word.
Tsinghua Unigroup was established in the 90s by Tsinghua University, and is currently the largest comprehensive integrated circuit enterprise in China.
The scope of business is similar to that of Huawei Group, and its main business includes mobile communication system base station equipment, switching equipment and digital integrated system equipment, wireless mobile communication integrated circuits, baseband, radio frequency, multimedia chips and related digital chips.
With the two major enterprises of Huawei and Unisplendour Group taking the lead, representatives of several other semiconductor design centers, such as Microelectronics, Goodix, BOE, and Xi'an Microelectronics Research Institute, have spoken.
If the domestic and foreign products are similar, most domestic companies will choose to cooperate with their own people, which comes from the general sense of crisis in the hearts of the country, and the sudden ban of Neutron Star Technology Group is the best example.
What's more, the EDA function provided by the neutron star is unprecedented.
This EDA cooperation was established as a logical order.
"And the Gemini Architecture......" He Tingbo never forgot to forget.
"Yes, I wonder if Neutron Star Technology's Gemini architecture is authorized?" Yu Chengdong asked.
Does this still need to be considered, Zhong Zixing did not hesitate, and immediately nodded: "Of course authorized, do you all plan to ask for this technology?" ”
The more allies there are, and the more people who use them, the easier it is to enter the ranks of standards, and the more feedback you can receive, and the better the design can be.
As for abroad, since Andromeda was banned, he didn't plan to go out at all, and the foreign attack on the city was left to the allies.
"We BOE have no plans to enter the processor at present, focusing on the display ......" BOE boss Wang Dongsheng thought about it and refused.
He was a paranoid man, who took over the bankrupt Beijing Electron Tube Factory in the era when the debt ratio of the electron tube factory was at its highest, and together with his employees, he contributed money to establish BOE.
Among the people who do business, the person Zhong Zixing admires the most is Mr. Wang of BOE, in addition to Mr. Ren of Huawei Huawei.
He once had a deafening sentence that has been passed down to the present: we are one of the few professionals in China's electronics industry, if we don't want to do industry, who will do industry?
To do industry, you have to invest money, endless investment, Mr. Wang has been defeated and fought repeatedly, and he has not given up until now.
How many times have you been squeezed by the chicken and the stick? I can't count them......
In addition, there is another thing that is worth remembering for everyone, Zhong Zixing looked at Mr. Wang's hand.
Some time ago, when he was negotiating the supply with the representative of the foot basin chicken, he was crushed by the popularity of the foot basin chicken and smashed the glass in his hand, which was full of blood, and finally he had several stitches.
But there is no way, many irreplaceable links in the supply of the screen are in the hands of the footbasin chicken, especially the chemicals "fluoropolyimide", "photoresist" and "high-purity hydrogen fluoride".
Even more than half of the photoresist used by Neutron Star Technology Group now comes from footbasin chickens.
Zhong Zixing and Mr. Wang's tempers are somewhat similar, that is, they can't stand being angry, and the more angry they are, the more they want to prove themselves.
So when Samsung came to the door arrogantly to ask for a reduction in the licensing fee to calm their people's anger, they directly turned their faces.
"Only by focusing on one field can we achieve the ultimate, Mr. Wang's choice is right!" Zhong Zixing understood what Mr. Wang was thinking, so he didn't care, after thinking about it, he continued.
"Soon, we neutron star technology will build our own wafer factory to produce semiconductors, in order not to be controlled by others in some links, we must enter the field of chemistry, if the product is qualified, I hope Wang can give some support!"
Semiconductors are inseparable from chemicals such as "fluoropolyimide", "high-purity hydrogen fluoride", and "photoresist", and research in biochemistry and energy chemistry are also indispensable projects of the "Interstellar Exploration Program", so the establishment of the Department of Elemental Evolution must be put on the agenda.
"To meet the standard, no one wants to look at other people's faces and use foreign things!" Mr. Wang smiled bitterly and raised his hand and solemnly gave a promise.
"What about everyone? Apart from Warwick, which other company needs a Gemini architecture? ”
"Hahaha, you can't let Huawei specialize in the front, and Unigroup also wants to authorize it!" Mr. Zhao smiled heartily.
"It's not easy for a company to stand out from the encirclement, and there is no reason why your own people don't support your own people."
"At most, the design is not for the foundry that signed the agreement, Neutron Star wants to build its own wafer factory, don't refuse our order when the time comes!"
"I think this is the first stop of the domestic semiconductor counteroffensive, count me as the center of microelectronics!"
"After chasing for so many years, it's time to blow this horn!"
In addition to mobile phone manufacturers and BOE, which came to purchase EDA software, the other dozen or so integrated circuit design companies all chose to get the Gemini architecture.
But anyone who dares to enter the domestic semiconductor field has no one's blood cold, and they all have one ambition.
At the strategic level of national righteousness, there are few people who will not support domestic enterprises, except, of course, XX.
"Well, I've thanked you all in advance!" Zhong Zixing hid his sensibility in his heart and asked Andromeda to call up the drawings from the technology library.
"The Gemini architecture won't let you down, you probably don't know...... This kind of architecture is indeed beyond the current two eras! ”
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