North America, Lockheed Martin.

"BOSS, news from the other side of the Pacific Ocean that on the third day after announcing the sanctions ban on Tianqing Technology, the company officially announced that it has signed long-term supplier partnerships with 15 local chip manufacturers in China, including HiSilicon Semiconductor, which does not seem to have much substantive effect on the company's ban on chips."

Marilyn, the then head of Loma, couldn't help but fall into deep thought when she heard the assistant's report: "In other words, Tianqing's exoskeleton will all use local chips from China?" ”

She was really skeptical about it.

North America's rogue sanctions ban on Tianqing Technology, Loma Company has made a lot of efforts behind it, of course, there are also Boeing, General Motors and other North American military enterprises have participated, and they are surprisingly united in dealing with this matter, after all, Tianqing Technology is not a North American company.

Whether it is Loma, Boeing or General Motors, these North American military enterprises, there are more or less Wall Street capital and North American consortiums behind them. However, Tianqing Technology is a complete Huaguo company, and it does not even have any foreign capital.

However, Marilyn is really skeptical about this, it is true that HiSilicon Semiconductor has a good strength in the ICT field around the world, and it is gradually recognized, after all, with tens of billions of annual revenues and more than 30% revenue growth, HiSilicon Semiconductor is already the world's fifth largest chip manufacturer in the industry.

However, there is more than one type of chip demand for Tianqing exoskeleton, and it is not difficult to guess through the contract orders of North American chip manufacturers purchased by Tianqing Technology that there are more than ten kinds of chips with different functions integrated inside this high-tech exoskeleton product, and all of them are indispensable.

Huaguo is not so strong in the field of chips, and can completely supply chip parts for Tianqing Technology, even if it is, it is very backward, in other words, the ironclad performance of Tianqing Technology's products has been greatly reduced.

Marilyn Hewson finished thinking and shifted the subject elsewhere, "Did you get any results from the contact with Sater?" ”

The assistant nodded in response: "Just as I was about to report this to you, the Arabs have agreed to provide us with some complete samples as soon as they get the exoskeleton equipment." ”

This news made her quite satisfied, in fact, she didn't have much hope for the technical blockade and embargo of Tianqing Technology, and the more the technology blockade of Huaguo locked the other party, the more powerful it became, so even if Tianqing Technology really solved the supply crisis of chip components, she was not surprised.

However, the suppression is correct.

In contrast, the head of Loma is more looking forward to cracking the Tianqing exoskeleton, especially the superconducting battery energy storage device in it, and she is more willing to pin her hopes on Vera Lopez, a young genius known as the star of science in North America.

No one knows better than the Americans themselves that mastering the core technology is more important than any move.

……

MEAS Headquarters, Hampton, Virginia.

In the office of the CEO of MEAS, a rather greasy-looking middle-aged white man picked up the landline phone and knocked on the number and said, "Cork, book me a plane ticket immediately, California." ”

"Yes sir, I'll do it immediately."

After hanging up the phone, he scolded and said: "These damn greedy arms dealers are not satisfied with the fact that their profits have risen by hundreds of percent in the past few years." ”

In fact, this paper ban not only makes a large group of ICT industry affiliated companies in China restless, but also the semiconductor manufacturers in North America are also very unhappy, which will make the North American semiconductor manufacturers collectively lose a lot of profits, but in the face of the North American authorities' decree if it takes effect, it will have to be followed, and no longer supply any chips to Tianqing Technology.

MEAS or Honeywell, these sensor chip manufacturers are very unhappy with it, it stands to reason that this should not be a big list, before Tianqing Technology plans to purchase 2 million pieces from MEAS, the amount of this order is less than 100 million, if it is converted into US dollars, it will be about 14 million orders, for the market value of more than 40 billion US dollars MEAS companies are not unable to afford to lose.

As the cutting-edge technology of modern science and technology, sensors are considered to be one of the three pillars of modern information technology, and they are also recognized as the most promising technology industry in the world.

Moreover, Tianqing Technology has come up with a procurement plan of more than 2 billion yuan this time, including sensor chips, control chips, processor chips and so on.

This paper ban is not only cut off the financial path of MEAS a semiconductor manufacturer, but more than a dozen, if it is nothing, then Tianqing Technology Co., Ltd., as the first company to open the exoskeleton market commercialization so far, when the pattern is placed in a trillion-dollar super emerging market, the entire North American Semiconductor Industry Association can not be calm.

Exoskeleton is the most terminal industry, and its future prospect is that there is an infinite space for phenomena, such as industry, travel, logistics load-bearing, medical rehabilitation, military, police and a series of application scenarios.

A medical rehabilitation field alone is a huge market of 100 billion US dollars, each set of exoskeletons requires more than 10 chips, just imagine when the factory of the future, workers have a set of exoskeletons, logistics and police, etc., and even robots completely replace workers, what a huge market it will be?

When it was decided to impose sanctions on Tianqing Technology, the North American Semiconductor Industry Association was almost surprisingly unanimous in its opposition, but its arms could not reach its thighs, and it was strange to say that as long as someone said to the old American congressional lords, how could China on the other side of the Pacific be ahead of the United States, and how could it be that the United States was already threatened, and then the congressional lords who were slamming the door would quickly agree.

So much so that Eagle Sauce was short of money and military spending, so he moved the rabbit out, and then the congressional masters willingly passed the budget and passed various bills.

This sanction against Tianqing Technology is this familiar routine, the original formula.

However, for North American semiconductor manufacturers, it is not without the opportunity to move back to the situation, of course, it is still the same routine, but they will change their posture and let the people on K Street persuade the White House.

After all, if the ban can't have a practical effect, and even help the other party take off, then it will also ban a baseball, not to mention the loss of a large amount of profits for local semiconductor companies, and it will also stimulate the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry.

……

At the same time, on the side of Tianqing Technology, Gu Cheng did not work three hours per working day as usual in the next time, and worked diligently for five hours per working day during this period of frequent overtime.

Leading the development team of Tianqing Technology to further optimize and upgrade the exoskeleton control system, and selecting domestic semiconductor manufacturers to supply, it can be said that only HiSilicon Semiconductor has not lagged behind, although it is not comparable to the most advanced chips in North America, but at least HiSilicon has no generation difference with American chips.

In the short term, Gu Cheng doesn't expect them to be able to catch up with the British and the United States in the short term, but he won't be bad enough to help them climb technology in the chip field.

As an ICT product, there are two ways to improve performance: one is to continuously upgrade the hardware level, to put it bluntly, chip integration to improve the level of logic computing efficiency; The other way is to upgrade the software level and optimize the algorithm upgrade.

In fact, the software is the development of weak hardware, because the chip industry has a "Moore's law", the performance of the chip will come to a qualitative leap every two years or so, and now an ordinary smart phone, its computing power level can completely explode the Apollo moon landing spacecraft in the last century.

On the contrary, the software is a salted fish, and there is not much motivation for the development of high-quality algorithms, just waiting for the computing power of the next generation of chips to take off, and then just take off.

If both hardware and software were to leap forward in sync every two years, perhaps today's smartphones could be comparable to a supercomputer.

The hardware industrial module is expected to be achieved overnight, but in the software industrial module is different, for other developers, its development difficulty is no less than hardware development, but for Gu Cheng, it is as simple as a few one, two, three, as if it is directly copied from the knowledge inheritance of Tianqing's core.

If the advantages of software are further exerted, then even if domestic semiconductor chips lag behind high-end chips in North America, they can still meet the performance requirements of mechanical exoskeletons.

……

At the beginning of December, when Gu Cheng was busy leading the development team to optimize and upgrade the software module, the prince of Sait, Ben Salman, led the team to Huaguo earlier, and stayed in the capital for a few days before coming to Shangdu.

The destination is Tianqing Technology Company.

Gu Cheng had already received a call from He Su the day before yesterday to inform him that at about 14:40 this afternoon, a luxurious convoy drove into Tianqing Industry.

Ben Salemman, dressed in a turban and a white robe, got out of the car, and after a while, more than a dozen people came down one after another, He Su was also among them, and there were many strange Chinese faces, all of whom were people in the system.

Gu Cheng had already been outside to greet him, and Ben Saleman inadvertently quickened his pace after seeing him.

"Allah is above, we have met friends again."

"Your Royal Highness."

Gu Cheng responded with a smile, and immediately came to the meeting etiquette of an Arab, glanced at He Su and the others in the team, thinking that there must be many agents of the Ministry of State Security around, and he didn't pay much attention to it, and immediately invited Shate, the crown prince, into Tianqing Industry.

"My friend, I don't want to hear you tell me that the sanctions imposed by the Americans will affect the purchase orders we place." In the workshop, Ben Salman, who was in his early thirties, said worriedly.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, we have been prepared for a long time, and to tell you the truth, we have already started mass production during the exhibition, otherwise it would not be possible to meet your demanding requirements." Gu Cheng replied.

Prince Saat nodded in satisfaction when he heard this, and asked no more questions.

After a while, the group came to the storage warehouse of Tianqing Industry, and under the eyes of everyone, Gu Cheng personally carried out a series of identity verification, including voice, fingerprints, and pupils.

Tianqing Industry is no longer the scale of half a year ago, and this storage warehouse is more than ten times larger than the warehouse where He Su came to visit the test model.

The identity verification passed, only to hear the "bang" of the door valve sounded, and the door opened horizontally at both ends.

In the storeroom, the lights were turned on in a layered manner, and the scene inside suddenly came into the eyes of the group, and Ben Zareman looked at the scene in front of him, and his strong visual impact shocked him.

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