From a university student to a chief academician

Chapter 219 The Predicament of Xia Guo's Core
Jinling, around twelve noon!

Ye Fei parked his car at the door of his noodle shop, then walked into the noodle shop and sat down.

It's time to eat at this moment, and the neighbors are coming and going, which is very lively.

Seeing Ye Fei, many people greeted Ye Fei.

"Academician Ye, hello!"

"Academician Ye, rare guest, are you resting today?"

"Xiao Fei, my grandson is not good at math, can you tell him how to learn math?"

"Xiao Fei, why did you remember this place today?"

"..."

Ye Fei is a celebrity in this area, and everyone knows that there is a Wenqu star in the old Ye family.

They didn't have a clear idea of ​​Ye Fei's status, but to become the youngest academician in the world, his status must be very high.

Ye Fei smiled and talked to them.

"Son, why are you here?" Mother Ye came out of the kitchen with noodles, and was very surprised when she saw Ye Fei.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "I want to eat the noodles made by our family."

Mother Ye called out to the kitchen: "Lao Ye, put more beef in a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles."

Mother Ye knows Ye Fei's taste, he likes hot and sour beef noodles the most.

"understood."

Soon, a half bowl of beef noodles was served.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked in from the outside.

"Academician Ye, you can make it easier for me to find you!" The middle-aged man cried out when he saw Ye Fei.

Ye Fei turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man in confusion.

The middle-aged man Ye Fei didn't know him.

The middle-aged man walked up to Ye Fei, stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "I am the chairman of Xiaxin International, Qu Guangfu."

Ye Fei didn't know Qu Guangfu well, but he knew about Xiaxin International.

Xiaxin International is the most well-known and largest chip manufacturer in Xiaguo, and it is also the leading chip manufacturer in Xiaguo.

Ye Fei hissed the noodles near his mouth, sucked them into his mouth, then stood up, shook hands with Qu Guangfu, and said with a smile, "Hi, Director Qu, please sit down!"

The uncle sitting opposite Ye Fei quickly stood up with the bowl in his hand, and said, "Hey, sit down, sit down."

Qu Guangfu smiled and said, "Thank you!"

Ye Fei said, "Has Director Qu eaten?"

Qu Guangfu rubbed his stomach, smiled wryly and said, "Not yet, I came from Shanghai early in the morning, and when I arrived at the Yuan Blockchain Research Institute, I found no one, saying you came here, so I rushed here .”

Ye Fei laughed and said, "Sorry, I've been doing research recently, and I forgot Director Qu's visit."

The assistant told Ye Fei about this yesterday, and the chairman of Xiaxin International is going to visit him.

It's just that Ye Fei has been doing mathematics research recently, so he forgot about it.

Ye Fei is currently proving the Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups.

The Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups is very helpful for the proof of Riemann's conjecture.

If the proof is successful, it will go one step further to prove the Riemann Hypothesis.

At the same time, the Snevily conjecture of odd-order Abelian groups is also one of the world's difficult problems.

It is much more difficult than all the problems that Ye Fei proved before.

If it proves successful, Ye Fei reckons, it could win some world-renowned awards.

Such as the Ostroski Award, the Balzahn Award, the Berwick Award, the Third World Academy of Sciences Award, the Feisal International Award, the Royal Medal, the Kyoto Award...

Qu Guangfu smiled and said, "It's nothing, I took the liberty to disturb you."

Ye Fei said: "Have a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles, the hot and sour beef noodles here are delicious."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded.

Ye Fei looked at Mother Ye who came out of the kitchen, and said, "Mom, have another bowl of hot and sour beef noodles for this gentleman."

Mother Ye looked at Qu Guangfu, Qu Guangfu stood up and said with a smile, "Hello!"

Mother Ye smiled and said, "Hello!"

After Mother Ye entered the kitchen, Qu Guangfu sat down and asked in surprise, "This shop belongs to you?"

"Yes!" Ye Fei nodded and said, "My parents opened it."

Qu Guangfu looked around, all the seats around were full of people.

The shop covers an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, surrounded by tables against the wall, and there are nine tables in the middle, with a total of more than 60 seats.

Before, the area was only more than 50 square meters, but after knowing that Ye Fei was rich, Ye Fei's parents stopped saving money.

It happened that the shop next door was going to be rented out, so Ye Fei's parents waved their hands and bought the shop next door.

Ye Fei's parents bought the original shop many years ago.

The two shops have been opened up, with an area of ​​more than 100 square meters.

Qu Guangfu said with emotion: "Business is very good!"

"It's okay!" Ye Fei smiled.

After a while, Mother Ye came out with her face upright, Qu Guangfu quickly stood up and said, "I'll come, I'll come, please."

Mother Ye smiled and said, "Eat slowly."

Qu Guangfu picked up the chopsticks, took a bite of the noodles, and said brightly, "Huh? You're very good!"

Ye Fei smiled and said, "As long as you like it."

"Academician Ye, I won't play tricks anymore." Qu Guangfu said, "I want to invite you to our company to develop chip technology."

Ye Fei frowned slightly and said, "Chip technology?"

"Can you tell me about the current international status of Xia Guo's chips?"

What Ye Fei knew about Xia Guo's chip situation was what he heard from a group of half-experts.

He doesn't know much about the real details.

Qu Guangfu said: "Yes!"

"A chip basically needs to be designed, packaged and manufactured."

"Our country's chip design level is basically the same as that of the world, the level of packaging technology is four to five years behind, and the gap in manufacturing technology is about three and a half years."

"However, this speaks to the international average."

"As the world's largest consumer of semiconductors, our country accounts for half of the world's chip consumption demand. In recent years, the import value of chips has surpassed that of oil, reaching 2300 billion US dollars, becoming Xia's largest imported commodity category."

"Don't talk about the distance, let's talk about your Yuan Blockchain Research Institute."

"You Yuan Blockchain Research Institute, if you want to develop Web3.0, you must use chips!"

Ye Fei nodded, indeed.

If there is no chip, Web3.0 will not even try to develop.

"The global semiconductor market is as high as 3400 billion U.S. dollars. Xia Guo manufactures 12 billion mobile phones, 3.7 million computers, and 1.5 million color TVs a year, firmly ranking first in the world, consuming 59% of the world's chips every year."

"Among them, Xia Guo's chip market share exceeds 10%, which means that more than 90% of Xia Guo's chips rely on imports."

Ye Fei's expression was very serious. He didn't expect the situation to be so serious.

Chips are used in many fields, such as mobile phones, automobiles, computers, home appliances, medical equipment, industrial automation, security systems, and aerospace.

Xia Guo has such a large demand for chips, which is the largest category of imported commodities.

If someone gets stuck a little bit, the development of many fields will be restricted.

"Among them, the highest-end chip that my country can manufacture is 14nm, and currently the smallest chip that countries around the world can manufacture is 5nm."

Ye Fei nodded.

The chip is not the smaller the better, but the best fit.

5nm and 7nm chips are mainly used in mobile phones, and the market demand is not very large.

The 14nm chip is the most widely used and most demanded among all chips.

Such as high-end consumer electronics products, high-speed computing, low-order power amplifiers, baseband, AI, new energy vehicles and computers.

Therefore, Xia Guo cannot manufacture 5nm and 7nm chips, and except for mobile phones, other fields will not be affected.

"Of course, although our country can manufacture 14nm chips, our goal is to develop such processes as chips to 7nm or even 5nm."

"The quality and yield of the manufactured chips are not very good."

"It can even be said that compared with international 14nm chips, the quality is poor."

"So, if you want high-quality chips, you can only import lithography machines from the Netherlands."

"The output is far from meeting domestic demand, and a large number of chips need to be imported from abroad."

"So, our country is not only technically ineffective, but also in terms of production."

"And, since much of the technology is on loan from abroad."

"If they don't lend us a certain technology, our chips won't be produced."

"We are short in core technology, and we have a big gap in talent. In terms of market competition, international competition is fierce, and the quality of our chips is not good."

Qu Guangfu shook his head again and again, and said tiredly: "Difficult, difficult, difficult, too difficult."

"Xia Guo still has a long way to go if he wants to break through the chips."

Ye Fei pondered for a moment, then asked: "How can Xia Guo break the game from the chip?"

Qu Guangfu said: "If you want to break the game, you have to start with 14nm chips."

"It is necessary to develop a lithography machine that can manufacture high-quality 14nm chips."

"And it can achieve mass production, which can meet at least 25% of domestic chip demand."

"If 70% of the demand can be met, then our country will have no worries about chips."

Ye Feidao: "What are the main technical difficulties?"

Qu Guangfu said: "In terms of design, we lack architecture and EDA software."

"No company in Xiaguo has a structure, and all of them use foreign structure technology."

"The EDA software is basically imported from abroad, and the domestic EDA software is still far behind."

"In the field of manufacturing, we only have ion etching machines that are more powerful, and other lithography machines are very backward."

Manufacturing chips requires not only photolithography machines, but also ion etching machines, ion implanters, reactive ion etching machines, and wafer dicing machines.

"And some raw materials are even more backward, such as photoresist and high-purity silicon."

"As for the packaging field, the threshold is not very high."

"We can barely satisfy in all aspects."

"Our country now only has some technology, talents and ion etching machines in the chip field."

"What our country lacks are chip architecture, EDA software, raw materials and lithography machines and other equipment."

"If foreign countries do not authorize our chip architecture, EDA chips will not be usable, raw materials will be restricted, and equipment such as lithography machines will not be able to be imported."

"Then we won't be able to manufacture chips, and many industries will be restricted."

Ye Fei frowned, and said a little irritably, "There must be too much shortage!"

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded helplessly and said, "Actually, the lack of so many skills is not what worries us the most."

"After all, it is now a global integration, and no country can handle all the upstream and downstream industries of chips."

"Even Beili, Dongying and Korea cannot do it."

Ye Fei nodded, yes, chips are a very complex and highly technical industry.

No country can handle all the upstream and downstream of chips.

Even if the chip can be completely independently manufactured, the quality of the manufactured chip is definitely not very good.

In the case of global cooperation in the manufacture of chips, one's own country is not the best in some aspects of chip technology, and can cooperate with other countries that have the best technology.

The chip quality produced in this way is the best.

"What worries me most is that our country is not the best in any field of chips, and it can block others."

"Only others stuck with us."

Ye Fei asked: "How strong is the chip technology of Beili Country?"

As far as Ye Fei knows, North America's chip technology is very strong, and all countries in the world rely on North America for chips.

Qu Guangfu said: "Beili's chip technology is very strong, half of the world's chip market is controlled by Beili, and 90% of the high-end chip market is controlled by Beili."

"Also, Beili has a monopoly on chip manufacturing equipment, materials, EDA, etc."

"In terms of chip technology, Beili is at least 30 years ahead of my country."

Ye Fei was terrified when he heard this. He knew that the chip technology of Beili Country was very strong, but he didn't expect it to be so strong.

"Even if North America stops making progress now, it will take at least 15 years for our country to catch up."

Ye Fei shook his head and sighed, "It's really too strong."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu had a complicated face.

Ye Feidao: "But our current situation is not to catch up with Beili, but to be the best in a certain field of chips, and even if possible, to be able to beat others."

"Yes!" Qu Guangfu nodded.

Ye Feidao: "Actually, we don't need to compete with Beili in the field of chips."

Qu Guangfu looked at Ye Fei suspiciously.

Ye Fei smiled and said: "You forgot, we have carbon nanotubes and high-purity graphene, we don't need to develop on silicon-based chips, we can change to carbon-based chips for development."

"There shouldn't be any country that can manufacture carbon-based chips!"

Qu Guangfu's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "Yes."

Ye Feidao: "They can't mass-produce carbon nanotubes, but we can."

"Then, we can make carbon-based chips."

"A field without any competitors, but with a very large market prospect."

"We have made carbon-based chips that can achieve a monopoly position."

"Even if foreign energy produces carbon nanotubes in the future, we can use this gap to continuously advance carbon-based chip technology."

"In this way, we can maintain a monopoly position in the field of carbon-based chips."

"Moreover, carbon-based chips can make all existing chips, and can also make micro-nano chips."

"Micro and nanochips can be used in mobile phones and computers."

"It is one of the core technologies of the next generation of supercomputers."

"Without it, there would be no supercomputer."

Qu Guangfu was very excited when he heard it, and said with a smile, "You're right, my vision is limited, and I've been staring at silicon-based chips."

"Our country has carbon nanotubes, so there is no need to focus on silicon-based chips, and we should change to carbon-based chips."

"This way we can change lanes and overtake."

Ye Fei smiled and said, "That's right."

"However, according to what you said, we still need to develop a photolithography machine suitable for carbon-based chips."

"If there is no lithography machine, even if we want to make carbon-based chips, we cannot make carbon-based chips."

"At the same time, in order to avoid getting stuck with us technically, we have to develop chip architecture and EDA software."

"En!" Qu Guangfu nodded, and said, "You are right, we cannot lack any of the lithography machine, chip architecture and EDA software."

"Those three, if one is missing."

"Even if we make carbon-based chips, foreign countries can get stuck with us from these three technologies."

"That's right." Ye Fei said: "Especially in Beili country, they are a bit shameless. They absolutely don't want to see us have carbon-based chips. We don't know what will happen then."

"So, we must plan ahead."

"Yes." Qu Guangfu said: "Academician Ye, it seems that it is right to come to you today. I hope you can cooperate with us and lead us to develop chips and help our country become a world chip power."

Ye Feidao: "Do you know that the country builds a scientific research institute for me?"

"I heard." Qu Guang replied.

Ye Feidao: "If you want to cooperate with me, you have to sign a contract with the Academy of Sciences, and all the benefits generated afterwards will also belong to the Academy of Sciences."

"can!"

As long as Ye Fei could help them, Qu Guangfu didn't care who he signed the contract with.

Of course, the price of signing a contract with the Academy of Sciences must be higher.

But Qu Guangfu doesn't care, it's normal for a talent like Ye Fei to have a higher price.

Ye Feidao: "The scientific research institute has not been completed yet, but I will find professional people to connect with your company."

"it is good!"

In fact, having the Academy of Sciences saved Ye Fei a lot of effort.

In this way, if any research institution wants to rent him in the future, it can take the route of the scientific research institute.

And he can find professionals to connect with these research institutions.

He doesn't need to take care of anything.

Moreover, except for the operating costs of the scientific research institute's income, all other income belongs to Ye Fei.

The state doesn't get a penny from it.

After all, the National Academy of Construction Sciences was given to Ye Fei.

Let Ye Fei gain benefits and increase Ye Fei's status and reputation in the academic world.

Ye Fei saw that more than half of the bowl of noodles was cold, and the two of them talked here for nearly an hour, and the noodles barely moved a few chopsticks.

Ye Fei smiled and said, "Your noodles are cold too, give them to me, and I'll warm them up for you."

"No more trouble." Qu Guangfu said with a smile.

He is so excited that he is not hungry anymore, he just wants to go back immediately and ask someone to connect with Ye Fei's scientific research institute.

Ye Fei picked up the noodle bowls for the two of them, and then went into the kitchen to ask Father Ye to warm them up.

Father Ye said: "What's hot? You let the big boss eat leftovers. I'll make two servings for you again, and I'll bring you some cold dishes."

Ye Fei said, "Don't bother."

"You child." Father Ye gave Ye Fei a blank look: "At least he is the boss of a big company. I heard he is Xiaxin or something. I heard that he is a big company in Xiaguo."

Ye Fei said: "Xiaxin International!"

"Yes, yes, Xiaxin International." Father Ye said: "Son, I heard that he came to you and asked you to help with research. How much will he give you?"

"I don't know!" Ye Fei shook his head and said, "I won't know until we talk about it later."

Soon, Father Ye gave them hot and sour noodles with half a bowl of beef for two nights, and then gave them a plate of braised beef, a plate of braised mutton, a plate of stir-fried lotus root slices, and a serving of dry-pot cabbage.

Ye Fei said: "Director Qu, come and try, these are the specialties of our noodle shop."

"Row!"

(End of this chapter)