The next day, the leader informed Zhao Ye that the matter of buying land had passed a vote and that 50 hectares of land around Lujiazui would be sold to Wujiang Group.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he was overjoyed, thanked the leaders for his kindness, and expressed that he would make persistent efforts to earn foreign exchange for the country.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Ye signed a land sale agreement with the government.

Fortunately, the land around Lujiazui is relatively barren, and the relocation work is relatively simple.

At this time, there is no nail household, the leader wants you to move, you dare not move, you do not move, it is an obstacle to national construction.

The government's execution is super strong at this time!

Of course, the local residents are also more conscious, and the relocation conditions are also good.

"The leaders asked us to move, of course we are willing to move, and it is incumbent on us to support the construction of the country! What's more, Wujiang Group not only compensated us with some of the funds, but also promised to build us beautiful modern buildings, and also gave us priority to join the work in the Wujiang factory. I don't know how envious people in other parts of Pudong are when they hear the news!! A middle-aged man who was relocated said to the people in the relocation management department with a smile on his face.

"Mmmmmmmm It's also your luck to catch up with the good time. ”

"Yes, Pudong is very barren, if only I could move to Puxi!"

"You want to be beautiful, the new residential building is also in Pudong, called "Huimin Community", which is convenient for you to go to work in the Wujiang factory. In addition, there is also a shopping supermarket in the "Huimin Community"! Shopping supermarket do you know? It's a huge department store, you can buy almost everything in it, you can go to the supermarket to buy groceries and snacks, and the things there are cheaper than the goods sold in the outside store! ”

The middle-aged man grinned: "Supermarket or something, I've heard people talk about it, but I haven't seen it." ”

……

In Zhao Ye's office, Liu Yinyin walked over and said softly: "Boss, 10 construction companies have been put in place and construction has begun!" ”

"Okay, I'll take a look at the construction site when I have time." Zhao Ye replied.

In order to develop this newly bought land as soon as possible, Zhao Ye contacted ten powerful construction companies in China and asked them to come over to build factories together.

It only took about a week for countless construction equipment to be transferred to the area around Lujiazui, and thousands of construction workers began to get busy.

At this time, the scorching sun was like fire, and the area around Lujiazui became a large construction site, and the workers in short clothes and short sleeves were sweating one by one, but they were still working very hard.

The faster the progress of the project, the more bonuses there are.

Such a good thing can not be seen in ordinary times, and it is only when you encounter a rich and generous private enterprise like Wujiang Group that it is so good

Affair.

Zhao Ye really needs them to build the factory as soon as possible, and the expansion of the Wujiang factory is imminent.

Now, Wujiang Factory has implemented the "three shifts" system, people rest, machines do not stop.

The production capacity of "Qiqi Home Game Console" exploded, with a monthly output of 2.25 million units.

However, in the face of the global market, this capacity is still insufficient.

Twenty or thirty million game consoles are sold a year, no problem.

FC has sold 70 or 80 million consoles in just a few years.

The performance of the "Poor Strange Home Game Console" is much stronger than FC, the game cartridge also has a picture enhancement chip MMC, and the games developed are also very classic, plus there is also the linkage effect of cartoons and comics, so it is not a problem for the "Poor Strange Home Game Console" to catch up with FC.

Once the number of "poor home game consoles" continued to increase, Nintendo's third-party game developers switched to it. At that time, the offensive and defensive forces were different!

The stimulus effect of large infrastructure construction on the economy is very large.

Wujiang Group has made outstanding contributions to Shanghai, which will not be expressed for the time being.

……

However, it is said that at this time, the memory chip design project of Loongson Design Company has made great progress.

There are two main aspects of memory chip design and development, one is the development of memory, and the other is the development of flash memory.

The main differences between memory and flash memory are:

Flash memory is a form of electronic purgeable programmatic read-only memory that allows multiple erases or writes during operation, and is mainly used for general data storage, such as memory cards and USB flash drives. Wujiang Group's Hanka, typewriter, game cassette and other products also use EPROM in large quantities.

Memory is one of the most important components of a computer, it is the bridge between the external memory and the CPU. It is used to temporarily store computing data in the CPU and exchange data with external memory such as hard disks. As long as the computer is running, the CPU will transfer the data that needs to be calculated to the memory for calculation, and when the operation is completed, the CPU will send the result out, and the operation of the memory also determines the stable operation of the computer.

This progress is mainly due to the independent research and development of EPROM chips, because Wujiang Group currently has a relatively large demand for EPROM, which is always imported from abroad, wasting a lot of foreign exchange and being expensive.

A small EPROM chip is sold for dozens of dollars.

The actual production cost is less than 10 yuan.

How could Zhao Ye endure being exploited by foreign chip companies all the time, so when researching memory chips, he mainly developed flash memory, and the EPROM technology was relatively low, so he developed this first.

In the laboratory, everyone cheered.

Zhao Ye said with a smile: "Test it immediately, and then go to the wafer factory to do tape-out, and strive to achieve mass production of EPROM chips as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison.

Zhao Ye returned to the office, he was not carried away by joy, EPROM was just the foundation. At the moment, his mind was thinking about what to do next.

It suddenly occurred to Toshiba that Toshiba was the first to propose the concept of flash memory, but did not attach importance to it. Toshiba itself has bet on DRAM, the mainstream semiconductor memory of the moment – after all, it is a business that at its peak could make Toshiba 200 million yen a day.

In 1984, Fujio Makuoka's team presented a paper on NOR flash memory at the IEEE International Electronic Components Conference (IEDM). The new invention immediately caught Intel's attention. They quickly contacted Toshiba and Masaoka for this, and in 1988 they preemptively mass-produced NOR flash memory chips.

The concept of flash memory was first born in Toshiba, but the pioneer of the flash memory industry was Intel across the ocean.

This really made Fujio Makuoka breathe a sigh of relief, and after that, he was determined to go all the way to the black on the flash memory.

The neglect of NOR flash memory did not make Masaoka abandon his R&D direction. In 1986, the unwilling Fujio Masaoka once again stepped ahead of his peers, inventing cheaper NAND flash memory, the kind that everyone used in mobile phones in his previous life.

"It's a rare opportunity, since Toshiba doesn't value flash technology, it seems that I can now take the opportunity to buy the team at Fuji Masaoka and NAND flash technology!!

The more Zhao Ye thought about it, the more excited he became, and this was a once-in-a-lifetime technology.

If you miss NAND flash technology, you're losing a lot.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ye immediately picked up the phone in his hand and called Rex Aiden, an expert in negotiation and acquisition, in the phone, Zhao Ye chatted with him for a long time, saying that he attached great importance to the Fuji team and NAND flash memory technology, and asked him to buy the entire team and NADN technology.

Toshiba didn't pay much attention to NAND flash memory technology at all, and Fuji Masaoka was the inventor, and Toshiba only rewarded him with a few hundred dollars.

At this time, Japan.

Toshiba Corporation.

Fujio Masaoka touched a few hundred dollars, and his face was very ugly.

He went to great lengths to lead the team to develop NAND flash technology, but the company rewarded him with only a few hundred dollars. And it was ridiculed by the company's executives.

"Fujio Masaoka, these few hundred dollars should be regarded as a reward for your hard work in the past few years. Frankly, the NADN flash memory developed by your team is simply useless. Although the NAND structure can achieve higher storage density and faster erase and write speed, the transmission speed is only 1/1000 of that of NOR flash memory. A Toshiba executive shook his head, disappointed in Fuji Makuoka.

"In addition, Toshiba's main focus is on the development of semiconductor memory DRAM, and it is not only not interested in NOR flash memory, but also in the NADN flash memory developed by your team.

The company will not give your team R&D funds in the future, so you will give up the development of NAND and go to the development of DRAM chips! ”

"NAND is promising, and I hope that leaders will understand that as long as we are given time to improve, we will be able to develop NAND flash memory technology with commercial value!! ”

The leader shook his head and waved his hand to drive Fujio Masaoka out.

Fushio Masaoka hung his head and left the leader's office with a dejected face.

Reske Aiden put down the phone at this time, stood up, and said loudly to the assistant not far away: "Rowling, you immediately collect the information of Toshiba's NAND R&D team, and the boss issued an order, asking us to acquire the NAND development team and NAND technology!" ”

"Okay, Mr. Aiden, I'm going to collect the information!" A blonde, wavy white beauty in a black OL outfit immediately said to Reske Aiden, then turned and walked out of the office.

……

All things are foreseen, and those who are not prepared are wasted.

Rex Aiden will definitely do a detailed investigation before making a move.

So the preparation work in the early stage will be a little longer.

Shanghai, Wujiang Microelectronics Company.

With the completion of the development of EPROM chips and the next acquisition of NAND flash memory technology, the production tasks of Wujiang Microelectronics will be further increased.

In addition, the expansion of the production of "Qiqi Game Console" also requires more chips.

Zhao Ye specially came to Wujiang Microelectronics Company to inspect and understand the situation, accompanied by Zhang Rujing, and took Zhao Ye to see several wafer production lines.

Zhang Rujing walked to Zhao Ye's side and introduced: "At present, Wujiang Microelectronics Company has four wafer production lines that have been successfully put into production! In addition, four more production lines are under construction! ”

Wujiang Group is so powerful, its products sell so well, and the demand for chips is increasing day by day. In order to meet the "core" needs of Wujiang Group, Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. can only expand production frantically and increase wafer production lines!

At this time, the domestic semiconductor industry chain has obtained orders for various production equipment and raw materials because of the crazy expansion of Wujiang Microelectronics Company, and these companies have made money, not only have not declined, but also have spare money for research and development.

Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has invested heavily in the development of more advanced lithography machines and the establishment of 8-inch wafer factories, which has also communicated with their supporting companies in the production chain, and has been in close contact with them to collaborate on research and development.

It can be said that many domestic semiconductor companies are forced to move forward by Wujiang Microelectronics Company.

The money earned cannot be spent on alcohol and wine, but is used for research and development, which is simply painful and happy.

After Zhao Ye visited the wafer factory, he then came to the lithography machine laboratory.

Huang Kun brought Qin Guogang, Wang Shouwu, Wang Wei and several other technical bigwigs to greet him.

"Hello academicians, are you still happy to work here?" Zhao Ye asked with a concerned expression, how sincere and sincere his tone was.

These academicians and bigwigs are simply his sweethearts.

Whether domestic lithography machine technology can make a rapid breakthrough depends on them.

Academician Huang Kun said with a smile: "Of course, there is no better place in the country than here, don't worry about anything, everything is served by special personnel, we just need to research and develop!" ”

Zhao Ye nodded: "It's good that you work well, by the way, Academician Huang, to what extent is the development progress of the new generation of lithography machines?" ”

Academician Huang Kun smiled and replied: "The progress is not bad, and it is expected that a new generation of lithography machines may be developed next year, catching up with the lithography machines of Canon and Nikon in Japan." ”

After a pause, Academician Huang Kun talked eloquently and carefully introduced to Zhao Ye: "We now use the 193nm ArF laser light source, which has realized the synchronous movement of the mask and the silicon wafer in the lithography process, and uses a reduced projection lens with a reduction ratio of 5:1, which effectively improves the use efficiency and exposure accuracy of the mask, thereby improving the manufacturing process and production efficiency of the chip to a higher level!" ”

Zhao Ye also has a good understanding of the current lithography machine and chip production process, and after listening to Academician Huang Kun's words at this moment, he can't help but be overjoyed.

When the dry lithography machine reaches 193nm, it is almost the end, and it is extremely difficult to break through again. In the previous life, lithography machine technology has hardly made any progress in 20 years, and it is trapped here, and optical lithography technology seems to have reached the "limit" of resolution. Later, it was not until Lin Benjian proposed the subversive technology of "immersion lithography" that the lithography machine technology broke through 193nm.

As long as Wujiang Microelectronics develops a 193nm lithography machine, it will not be much different from the lithography machine technology of Canon and Nikon, anyway, in the next 20 years, the other party will not be able to make any progress.

On the contrary, it is Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. that develops immersion lithography technology to achieve corner overtaking!

Zhao Ye encouraged everyone and left happily.

……

Japan.

Rex Aiden was fully prepared for the investigation and then went into action.

Before formally approaching Toshiba, he quietly asked Fujio Masaoka, the inventor of NAND flash memory.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Fujio Masaoka arrived at the appointment on time.

Rex Aiden looked at each other with a smile and said, "Hello Mr. Fujio Masaoka, let me introduce myself first, my name is Reske Aiden, and I am currently working for China Borderless Group. I asked you to meet this time to find out if you have any plans to change jobs. Wujiang Group is very optimistic about the NAND flash memory technology you have developed. If you can come to Wujiang Group, we will invest a lot of money to support you to continue to develop NAND flash technology! ”

Hearing this, Fujio Masaoka was stunned, thinking of Toshiba's unfair treatment of him, he had long wanted to leave Toshiba and change to a company that could support him in developing NAND flash memory technology.

Wujiang Group has recently become popular in Japan, and its games are popular in Japan, and the company is very strong.

Fujio Masaoka was immediately moved.

Rex Aiden had long known that Fujio Masaoka was not going well at Toshiba, so he had this private meeting.

"What kind of treatment can Wujiang Group give me?"

"If you can help Wujiang acquire NAND flash technology and convince the entire development team to join Wujiang Group, we can reward you with $200,000. In terms of salary, you can rest assured, we will give you twice as much, and in addition, if you improve NAND flash memory until it can be commercialized, then the company will never skimp on rewards, certainly not a few hundred dollars. ”

When Fujio Masaoka heard a few hundred dollars, he immediately resented Toshiba again.

"Okay, no problem, I'll help you win the NAND technology and the entire development team!!" Fujio Masaoka gritted his teeth.

"Hehe, with the help of Mr. Fujio Masaoka, this mission will definitely be successful! Come, cheers, and have a great time working together! ”

Fujio Masaoka nodded, picked up his glass and touched it with Rex Aiden.

Later, the two talked about more detailed things and agreed on a plan.

The next day, Rex Aiden and his team formally visited Toshiba and offered to acquire NAND technology.

Toshiba doesn't value NADN technology, but it's not going to sell it easily.

But listen to the other party's offer first, if the other party gives more, it's not that you can't sell.

Rex Aiden said: "The $3 million acquisition of Toshiba's NAND flash memory technology will give Borderless an additional $100,000, or $3.1 million, if the development team is transferred together. ”

"Mr. Rex Eden, your offer is so insincere, do you want to buy NAND flash technology for $3 million?" A Toshiba executive shook his head.

Rex Aiden said: "NAND flash technology has huge defects, but the transmission speed is only 1/1000 of NOR flash memory, which is difficult to commercialize, and our company needs to take a lot of risk to buy it." ”

It was not until 1989 that Toshiba perfected its NAND structure.

NAND flash memory is a semi-finished product, and it is far from commercialized.

As can be seen from Toshiba's lack of attention to it, NAND flash memory is now too flawed.

In the future, what kind of NAND flash memory technology will develop, the world, probably only Zhao Ye knows.

NOR flash exists at present, which seems to be more promising, and can replace EPROM and EEPROM chips.

However, the NOR flash memory market is not large, and Toshiba is still more optimistic about DRAM, that is, the memory market.

Toshiba doesn't even look down on NOR flash memory, so it looks down on NAND flash memory even more, and it is conceivable that the NAND team led by Fujio Masaoka is extremely unpopular at Toshiba.

However, in the past life, market research firm Omdia predicted that the NAND flash memory market is expected to reach $84.378 billion by 2025, surpassing the DRAM market ($83.397 billion) for the first time.

In the first round of negotiations, the two sides simply contacted and understood each other to test each other's attitude.

Rex Aiden also doesn't expect the first negotiation to be successful.

The operation behind the negotiations is also important.

Toshiba executives in charge of negotiations called Fujio Masaoka to find out if NAND had any prospects, even though they already thought NAND was not going to have a big deal......

Fujio Masaoka has been bought by Rex Aiden, and in the face of the leader's questioning, he only talks about the shortcomings of NAND, and the future is confused.

The leader nodded, thinking to himself, this is the same as what he knows, NAND really has no future, and Toshiba is still focusing on developing DRAM.

If Fujio Masaoka says more good things about NAND at this moment, it may make it more difficult for Wujiang Group to acquire NAND flash memory technology, and even cause Toshiba to be reluctant to sell NAND technology.

It's a pity that Fujio Masaoka has been disappointed in Toshiba, and when he thinks of his hard work for several years and only getting a reward of a few hundred dollars, Fushio Masaoka feels that this is a great humiliation for him.

Makuoka Fuji's ambitions are cold, how can he continue to help Toshiba?

He now wishes Toshiba would sell NAND flash memory technology to Borderless, and then he will switch to Borderless and continue to work on NAND.

The next day, Rex Aiden came to Toshiba again.

The two sides began negotiations.

Toshiba also made an official offer to Borderless: "Toshiba is willing to sell NAND technology for $12 million!" ”

Rex Aiden shook his head violently and bluntly said that it was too expensive.

Crazy bargaining with Toshiba.

"$4 million or not?"

"Mr. Rex Aiden, you've cut too much. Otherwise, everyone takes a step back and $10 million! Toshiba's negotiator shook his head.

Rex Aiden smiled and quipped, "It's not like taking a step back, you only take a step back and only reduce it by $2 million, I have to take three steps back and increase it by $6 million!" If you want to be fair, I think the purchase price is $8 million, and both sides will give $4 million each! ”

Toshiba negotiators looked at each other and seemed to think the price was okay.

At this time, Fujio Masaoka also appeared in the Toshiba negotiation delegation, after all, he knows NAND technology best.

The person in charge of Toshiba's negotiations looked at Fujio Makuoka and asked in a low voice, "Fujio Makuoka, what do you think of this price?" ”

Fujio Masaoka replied, "NAND receives less than $500,000 a year in R&D funding, and so far, Toshiba has only spent $1 or two million on it, and it is good to be able to sell it for $8 million." Besides, the company is not ready to invest in NAND research and development, it is better to sell the technology sooner. ”

When the person in charge heard this, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed in front of Fujio Makuoka, Toshiba basically did not give the NAND development team R&D funds, and that funds were deducted from his R&D project funds by a leader of Fujio Makuoka.

With the ghost of Fujio Masaoka, Toshiba's negotiating team deliberated and decided to sell it to Wujiang for $8 million, and at the same time package and transfer the NAND development team to Wujiang Group.

The number of people in the development team is actually not large, seven or eight people, but these people are all technical experts in the NAND field, which is very important to Loongson Design Company.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wujiang Group signed an agreement with Toshiba to acquire Toshiba's NAND flash memory technology and development team.

A few years later, Toshiba regretted this decision......

Zhao Ye received the news as soon as possible.

He was immediately ecstatic, and then rejoiced for several days, telling Rex Aiden to bring the NAND flash technology and development team back to China as soon as possible!

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