Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 269 The chip craze sweeping the world

After the global GDP ranking list came out in 1995, Country M panicked.

China's economic scale is getting closer and closer to that of country M, and it is very likely that it will surpass country M within two or three years. How embarrassing is this for country M, which claims to be the most powerful country in the world?
However, now, for country M, the biggest trouble is that China has seized the development of the Internet, computer, communication, and semiconductor industries, and companies in country M cannot compete!

The market shares of Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel, Oracle and other enterprises are far lower than that of Wujiang Group.

Even if it used disgraceful means, it still couldn't stop the rapid development of Wujiang Group.

On the contrary, it further led to the backwardness of M country's scientific and technological circles.

Therefore, for now, country M is trying to regain its advantages in the field of science and technology.

Recently, Country M has voted through the Congress to allocate 250 billion US dollars to provide large-scale and vigorous support to technology companies in Country M. Among them, the chip industry is particularly important.

Chips are related to the development of many technological products. Advanced chips can ensure the excellent performance of products and make them have strong competitiveness.

It is precisely because country M lost to Wujiang Group in chips that many technology products in country M, such as computers, game consoles, mobile phones, MP3, network equipment, etc., are uncompetitive.

In addition, Wujiang Group has not been fighting alone. Instead, it has supported a large number of domestic companies to develop together, forming a trend of encirclement and suppression of M-country companies.

Finally, there is China's huge demographic dividend, which is not comparable to that of country M's technology companies.

Even China now enjoys a huge demographic dividend.

The fact that China's economy is so good has also caused capital from all over the world to stop favoring country M, and instead go to China one after another.Developing in China obviously has greater growth potential and higher profits!

In the 11 years since the establishment of Wujiang Group, at least 5000 billion US dollars of international capital has poured into China. Especially in recent years, the scale of international capital investing in China has become very large.

Country M can only catch up in the field of science and technology. After all, country M has a very solid foundation. In addition, country M wears the same trousers as Western countries, so it can use or import advanced technology or equipment from other countries.However, China is unable to import advanced technology and equipment from abroad because it is restricted by various agreements.

However, once country M's high-tech industry still cannot catch up with China in a short time.

Then, it is very likely that the GDP of country M will plummet.

As we all know, the GDP of country M can be summarized as high consumption, high labor and high expectations.

In country M's GDP, the service industry of the tertiary industry accounts for 80%, which plays a vital role in country M's economic system.However, agriculture in country M accounts for less than 1% of the economy, and industry in country M accounts for about 19% of GDP.

Country M's huge GDP is supported by high income and high consumption.

However, once country M's technology fails, can it still afford high income?

Without high income, can we still have high consumption?

Country M's GDP may plummet like a cliff!
China's economic structure is obviously more reasonable. Although the proportion of the tertiary industry is also high, China is the only country in the world with a complete industrial system, and it is also a big manufacturing country. It is transforming into a manufacturing power. Among them, the manufacturing industry is in China. proportion is very large.

The future must belong to a manufacturing power with innovative capabilities.

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At this time, many technology companies in country M received government support and obtained low-interest or even interest-free loans.

However, if you want to make chips, you must first build a lithography machine!

More than ten years have passed, but there has been no breakthrough in lithography machine technology.It can be said that it is still spinning in place.

If the country's chip industry wants to surpass China, it can only increase investment in the field of photolithography machines.

Today, there are only three giants of lithography machines on the market: ASML, Nikon, and Canon.

However, ASML is obviously better controlled by the capital of country M than Japan's Nikon and Canon.

rB is too fierce and hard to handle.

Recently, the stock price of ASML has started to skyrocket, and major technology companies or investment institutions in country M are buying ASML's stock both openly and secretly.

Country M’s intention to support Asmai is already very obvious.

In addition, many companies in the semiconductor industry chain have received investment.

However, these companies are only developing dry lithography machines and related chip production equipment.

Of course, Canon and Nikon in Japan are not far behind. Since January 1996, the United States and Japan have fallen into a competition for dry lithography machines!
Just when the dry lithography machines in the United States and Japan are in use every day, Wujiang Microelectronics has already produced a large number of chips with immersion lithography machines. Many products of Wujiang Group have directly entered the mass production stage, including Pangu Super Computer, Nuwa server, Shenzhou computer, ibook notebook, PHS, iPhone (supports cdma and GSM, dual card dual standby), ipod, super VCD, Tomahawk game console, Gameboy, Zeiss medical equipment, Zeiss camera, router, Switches, base station RF chips, sensors, automotive chips, aerospace chips, industrial chips, digital video processing chips, etc.

Zhao Ye is going to make a big move. With so many products using advanced chips being launched on the market, he is afraid that his competitors will be stunned and caught off guard!
Time passed day by day. From January to the end of March 1996, the investment in the entire global semiconductor industry increased by 1% compared with last year.

Zhao Ye smiled and said nothing, and asked people to quietly sell ASML's stock, cashing out at a high price.

He also had people quietly plan to short competitors' stocks.

April 4st, April Fool's Day in the Western world.

Many products of Wujiang Group are listed on the market.

Not surprisingly, the whole world can't help but be shocked! ! !

The biggest feature of these products is the use of more advanced chips, such as the "Kirin Pentium 4" CPU, which has a main frequency of up to 3.06GHz and a core composed of 3400 million transistors. At the same time, Intel's most advanced chips used 0.35 Micron process technology, the core is composed of only 330 million transistors.

There is a 10-fold gap in the number of transistors, how can this compete?

In the previous life, in 2004, TSMC and ASML jointly developed the world's first immersion lithography machine, "Kirin Pentium 4", which was eight or nine years ahead of Intel.

Moreover, "Kirin Pentium 4" has also developed many new technologies to make its functions more powerful, especially Zhao Ye invented the Hyper-Threading (HT) technology, which can quickly run multiple computing applications at the same time, or provide multi-threaded Single software program offers more performance!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"

"How can Wujiang Group's chips be so powerful?!!!"

"It's fake, it must be fake. It's so unreasonable. With the current photolithography machine technology, it's impossible to produce such advanced chips!!!"

On April 4st, Wujiang Group's competitors were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't believe it.

This is not in line with Moore's Law.

The atmosphere in the entire Intel company was extremely depressing, and the management's face was full of anxiety.

If the news announced by Wujiang Group is true, then Intel will fall into the abyss!
10 times data crushing!
Intel's most advanced chips may face a crisis of slow sales.Not long after, the senior management went to the conference room for a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

On the same day, country M's technology stocks fluctuated, and the stock price plummeted, which in turn caused global technology stocks to plummet.

Wujiang Group made huge profits from short selling, at least 30 to [-] billion U.S. dollars.

Among the technology stocks, only the Wujiang portal website rose against the wind, its stock price soared, and its market value exceeded 1500 billion US dollars, which greatly stimulated the hearts of all Internet practitioners!

Many people think that Wujiang Group is so powerful that the Wujiang portal website of its subsidiary will definitely take off!
In this way, it is strange that the stock price does not rise.

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In the morning, as soon as the news came out, people immediately poured into the Wujiang flagship store and Wujiang supermarket, and then they all exclaimed when they saw the physical product with their own eyes.

It turned out that Wujiang Group did not tell lies, everything was true.

"Oh, God, that turned out to be true. Wujiang Group's chips are really too powerful. Compared with other brand chips, their company's chips are simply out of the same era!!"

"I'm really blown away by the Wujiang Group's chip. Its performance is incredible, more than ten times that of other chips! I use the latest Shenzhou computer to play large-scale games without any lag at all, it's extremely smooth! Moreover, I can run many software at the same time. It’s not stuck at all, it’s so powerful!”

"My God, so many products of Wujiang Group use advanced chips, so I'm afraid they are going to dominate the entire market, right?"

"My dear, the Pangu supercomputer is the most amazing! The most advanced Cray supercomputer in country M has less than one-hundredth of the computing power of the Pangu supercomputer!!!"

"Fuck, Wujiang Group is awesome!!! Show off our country's prestige! Foreigners must be dumbfounded now. I didn't expect Wujiang Group's chips to be so powerful, even with products that make other products far ahead of Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea!"

"As expected, many products of Wujiang Group will sweep the world!!!"

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At this moment, Wujiang Group's competitors are no longer lucky, and the company is full of grief and grief, and they can't help but feel deeply powerless and hopeless.

Since April 1996, countless media have expressed that "the world has entered an era without borders"! !

Most of Wujiang Group's products are popular all over the world and are being snapped up by consumers.

Fortunately, each product is fully stocked, otherwise it is very likely to be sold out in a short time.

In April alone, Wujiang Group created an unprecedented revenue record - 4 billion US dollars!
Some popular consumer products, such as Shenzhou computer, ibook, ipod, PHS, iPhone, Tomahawk game console, Gameboy, electronic pet, Zeiss camera, super VCD and other products not only sell well, but also drive Wujiang flagship store, Wujiang supermarket, Ali Baba, Amazon and Taobao sales.

Whether it is an offline physical store or an online e-commerce website, as long as consumers come, they generally will not just buy one product.

The revenue of Wujiang Group is so high, and the retail of department stores also accounts for a large proportion.

This time, due to the huge number of people queuing up for offline shopping, more and more consumers are shopping online, especially in China. Under the layout of Wujiang Group, the logistics speed is very fast. Under normal circumstances, it takes about a week. Received express delivery, coupled with people's trust in Wujiang Group, so many users choose to shop online, and China's e-commerce industry has developed rapidly.People are increasingly recognizing e-commerce and Wujiang Group. These two points are very important.

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Thinking of "Crazy April", Zhao Ye still sighs with emotion.

The Wujiang Group made a lot of money and stunned the whole world, and the prestige of the Wujiang Group became even louder.

By May, although Wujiang Group's product sales had declined, it was still shocking, because competitors had no way to come up with products that could compete with it in a short period of time.

M country.

Executive representatives or founders of Nikon, Canon, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM, TSMC, Motorola, Broadcom, Micron, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments, ASML and other companies gathered together to study countermeasures.

At this time, Kojiro Kono, the representative of Nikon, took the lead to say: "Everyone, the situation is already obvious. We have all been deceived. Wujiang Microelectronics must have been secretly developing lithography machine technology, and made a breakthrough last year. , so we can manufacture more advanced chips! As long as our dry lithography machine technology can also get a breakthrough, we will be able to compete with Wujiang Group!"

Canon representative Jun Ando immediately echoed: "Kojiro Kono is right. The top priority right now is to invest in the development of dry lithography machines. I believe that Canon will be the first company to achieve technological breakthroughs!!!"

The new CEO of ASML, Kyle Robb, not to be outdone, immediately said that ASML also has great accomplishments in dry lithography machines, which is not inferior to Nikon and Canon at all. You can pay more attention to ASML .

Following the speeches of the representatives of the three lithography machine companies, others expressed their support.

At present, no company thinks of immersion lithography machines, and thinks that Wujiang Microelectronics has made a breakthrough in dry lithography machine technology.

Wujiang Microelectronics chose to make a fortune in silence, but did not stand up and announce to the outside world that it had developed an immersion lithography machine.

Let the competitors continue on the wrong path.

In the previous life, they had been researching until 2004, but they didn't see much results.

Of course, even if they now know that Wujiang Microelectronics uses an immersion lithography machine, so what, can they catch up in a short time?
Shuguang Lithography Machine Company, a subsidiary of Wujiang Microelectronics Company, began to develop immersion lithography machines in 1989, and it was not successful until 1995.It took six or seven years.Even if Nikon, Canon and ASML want to catch up, it will take time!

All companies, including Intel, are actually very clear that it is almost impossible for lithography machine technology to surpass Wujiang Microelectronics in a short period of time.

Therefore, while fighting against the Wujiang Group, they also cooperated with the Wujiang Group.

Zhang Rujing, CEO of Wujiang Microelectronics, was very busy at this time.

Numerous chip companies have sought cooperation from Wujiang Microelectronics.In the chip foundry market, Wujiang Microelectronics took away the users of TSMC and Intel in a short period of time. Up to now, it has occupied more than 75% of the market share.

In fact, there are many companies in Europe and the United States who do not want to spend money on chip research and development, and feel that "making is worse than buying", so they are more inclined to cooperate with Godson Design Company.

Towards evening, large expanses of fire clouds appeared in the sky, like a picture scroll of a sea of ​​fire.

Zhao Ye admired the beautiful scenery for a while, then turned to chat with Zhang Rujing.

Zhang Rujing introduced: "According to the information we have received, ASML, Nikon, and Canon are still investing a lot of research and development funds in dry lithography machines. It seems that they will not die until the Yellow River!"

Zhao Ye can understand the approach of these three lithography machine companies. After all, they have invested a lot of money in dry lithography machines. At this time, if they want to turn around and develop immersion lithography machines, they will not I agreed, otherwise, all the previous investment would have been in vain.

"Let's make a fortune in silence!" Zhao Ye smiled and gloated, "To be honest, seeing them burn money like crazy on the wrong path makes me feel a little bit dark inside, and I don't want to wake them up at all. .”

Zhang Rujing nodded with a smile, and then said: "Mr. Zhao, I find it troublesome if we are too advanced in technology. In the past two days, news has spread that Europe, the United States and other countries may conduct anti-monopoly investigations on the chips we produce, which may allow us to Disclose the technology of immersion lithography machine..."

Zhao Ye frowned when he heard this, and said in a bad tone: "These damned guys can't beat us in the market, and they are about to start playing tricks!"

“Don’t even think about letting us disclose the technology of immersion lithography machines!”

Zhao Ye's face was sombre, soldiers came to block him, water came to cover him, no matter what tricks they played, Wujiang Group would not give in.

(End of this chapter)