Wuxi, an ordinary state-owned factory, hangs a sign of Huajing. If you only look at the appearance, many people will not know that this is the first integrated circuit production plant in China.

Originally, the name of this place was Wuxi Jiangnan Radio Equipment Factory. However, its real identity is Fab 742, the main production center of the National Microwafer Program.

It is also the largest integrated circuit production plant in terms of production capacity so far, with an annual output of more than 50 million pieces, basically reaching half of the domestic output value.

After the merger of 89 and 24suo, the name Huajing was born. It is also the first factory to use domestic projection lithography machines for production.

Yes, back in the early 90s, we already had three generations of domestic lithography machines. At that time, the international mainstream lithography machine was only in the third generation.

The fourth generation of step-by-step projection lithography machines is still a decade away. In the lithography machine, we can basically say that there is no gap.

But why did the domestic lithography machine disappear later? That's what you have to start with

"Trade, industry and technology ideology" said. In which materialistic era, quick success is written on everyone's face.

Like Lao Ren, there are not many people who are willing to settle down to do technology. At that time, there was a popular trend of trade, industry and technology that it was better to buy than to buy and to rent.

Including Lenovo at that time, it was a supporter of this trend of thought. Instead of spending a lot of money to build it, it is better to spend a small amount of money to buy and rent.

Spending less can pay off quickly. Especially after 1994, BT lifted the ban on sales that had been restricted for more than 50 years, and began to dump the third generation lithography machine and other equipment that we could independently develop.

I'll ban it when you don't have it, and I'll lower it when you have it. Used to completely suppress your industry.

It is in this context that manufacturers around the country have canceled the original domestic orders and turned to foreign cooperation.

After all, in which era, the imported ones are the best, and it is especially face-saving to be able to cooperate with them.

As for the development and future of domestic production, it has nothing to do with them. No orders mean no income, and in the context of capital investment and construction funds, which have been converted from appropriations to loans.

There is very little financing space for the research and development of domestic lithography machines, and the survival space has basically been lost. Without a source of funding, there will naturally be no impetus for development.

From then on, it will fall sharply, and it will be inevitable. There is a famous Moore's law in the chip industry, that is, the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double every 18-24 months, and the iteration speed of the chip industry is still like this.

R&D that has stalled in three generations, and then five generations 20 years later, has opened up a huge gap.

Today, two people came to Huajing's general manager's office.

"Come on! Mr. Duan and Editor-in-Chief Liu sit. General Manager Wang greeted the two warmly.

"It's a bit presumptuous, mainly because backgammon really needs help now." Duan Yongping is still very modest to this old man in his sixties.

"Where, the development of BBK in the past two years has been very good, and VCD has indeed grown a face for the Chinese people."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, we're here for VCD this time."

"The old leader also gave me a rough idea on the phone, but we really haven't been involved in the VCD video decoding chip, and we are a little lacking in confidence." Now that BBK is facing a chip ban, the best way is to transfer the industry.

Since the United States has already made a move, although under the money offensive, it will not take long to lift the ban.

But after all, the handle is in the hands of others, and when they want to sanction you, they will cut off your supply to you whenever they want. This kind of thing that is controlled by others, Chu Qing doesn't want to experience it a second time.

"Huajing is a domestic template, I believe it will be possible. Moreover, BBK will provide a full set of design ideas. ”

"In addition, it's not VCD, it's a DVD decoding chip." Chu Qing has never been a passive recipient.

He's even less accustomed to being led by the nose, and by VCD standards, it's limited to 1.15MB/s of videobitrate per second, so despite all his efforts, the picture quality can't improve much.

Compared to the ceiling, DVDs are undoubtedly high. Whether it's surround sound or next-gen Blu-ray Discs.

can have more possibilities than VCD. Even if this time in the competition for standards, Chu Qing gave up a part of the profits.

But as long as he can get the right to speak on DVD, then he can completely use his own foresight to throw other competitors off the ship in the future.

With the reminder of this incident, Chu Qing also saw his shortcomings clearly. Taking precautions in time can be regarded as making a contribution to the country's wafer industry.

Just when Duan Yongping went to Wuxi to seek cooperation. Chu Qing received another person in his office.

"Lao Ren heard that Huawei has been a little tight recently." After making a pot of tea, Chu Qing asked casually.

"The fact that I borrowed loan sharks is no longer news." Lao Ren is not surprised, in order to develop the SD509 chip last year, Huawei's loan shark was exposed.

Fortunately, the digital program-controlled switch finally succeeded.

"I admire you a lot, when others are introducing OEM, only you are willing to spend money to engage in self-development."

"It's the same with your backgammon, I heard that backgammon also has a research laboratory in North America. Or you young people are looking far ahead. ”

"It's almost unbearable, and it's timidity to do things on someone else's territory."

"What? Is it true that the backgammon chip is out of supply? "How could Sony let backgammon easily untie it.

Not long after the incident, some domestic media began to report the news of the ban on the sale of BBK chips.

A large amount of unfavorable news about backgammon hit again like a raging storm. What product standards are unqualified and banned from being sold in the United States by the Ministry of Commerce of the United States.

There are also MPEG chips produced by the United States foundry, which violates a certain international rule, so the production is restricted.

BBK's MP3 is mired in patent disputes, and it is restricted from export, which is endless. Chu Qing, who has already dealt with Sony once, is no stranger to these methods.

The distortion and smearing of public opinion is always the simplest and most effective. Fortunately, now BBK does not rely entirely on its own VCD player to make a profit.

Even MP3 has not been listed on a large scale in China, and its influence is not great. And BBK is not a listed company, these negative news, at most, hit the short-term sales of BBK.

The substantial damage to backgammon is not great. With the experience of the last time, this time there is no need for Chu Qing to go down in person, Ye Maozhong's propaganda department has already made some public opinion guidance.

"So the wolf ambitions of the US imperialists have been clearly revealed. Development has to be its own. ”

Indeed, only if you have it, can you do everything without asking for help. So......" Lao Ren looked at Chu Qing with a smile.

Although the two of them have not been identified until now, Lao Ren has already guessed the purpose of Chu Qing looking for him today.

"I want to invest in your ASIC design center."