No regrets ninety-two

Chapter 930 Pentium Era
On March 3, the First Session of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was held in the capital, which marked the beginning of a landmark two sessions in the history of New China.

The reason why the NPC and CPPCC are said to be a milestone is because the market economy was written into the constitution during the NPC and CPPCC, which marked China's complete bid farewell to the era of planned economy.

During the two sessions, there were some particularly influential events, such as the official withdrawal of food stamps from the stage of history, and the central government’s emphasis on strengthening reform and opening up.

But for Wu Xiaozheng, his focus is not on the two sessions, but on another matter.

On March 3, Intel officially released the Pentium processor, which means that the computer is about to enter the Pentium era, which also means the rapid progress of chip research and development.

Because his own R&D center has started to be built, Wu Xiaozheng is now paying special attention to the technical parameters of the Pentium processor.

The first parameter gave Wu Xiaozheng a desire to buy.

The clock frequency is 60MHZ and 66MHZ.

It is said that the computing performance of the 66MHZ Pentium processor is more than three times higher than Wu Xiaozheng's existing 33MHZ 80486.

In contrast, the 1 computer that Wu Xiaozheng bought for more than 486 yuan was terribly slow.

But Wu Xiaozheng is more concerned about the second parameter.

The fabrication process is 800nm.

Wu Xiaozheng remembers that when he jumped off the building in his previous life, the manufacturing process of mobile phone chips had broken through the 20nm mark. The manufacturing process of the Kirin chip in the Huawei mobile phone he used seemed to be 16nm.

In just over 20 years, the chip manufacturing process has undergone earth-shaking changes. Wu Xiaozheng can imagine how fast the development of chip technology will accelerate in the future.

Ni Guangnan also realized this.

He was preparing for the R&D center in Shenzhen. After seeing the news about the Pentium processor, he immediately called Wu Xiaozheng.

"Boss, we have to speed up, otherwise we will be pulled further and further away."

Obviously, Ni Guangnan was more anxious than Wu Xiaozheng.

But Wu Xiaozheng knows that it is useless to be anxious, only if you keep your feet on the ground and catch up from the beginning, can you catch up slowly.

In the previous life, China's chip companies spent more than 20 years, and there is still a considerable distance from the international advanced level.

Wu Xiaozheng doesn't want to overtake quickly, he only hopes that the time for catching up can be shortened by a few years compared with the previous life, and it is best not to be stuck by other countries in the future.

"The details are up to you and Professor Hu, and I won't interfere." Wu Xiaozheng replied with a smile.

He felt that he could not put too much pressure on Ni Guangnan in the matter of chip development, otherwise it would be easy to lose his mentality and take detours.

Immediately afterwards, he asked again: "How is the preparation of the R&D center going?"

Ni Guangnan sighed.

"Professor Hu's side is fine. After he returned to the United States, he first followed your instructions to meet with Dr. Chu Geyao of Wang An Computer. Wang An Computer happened to be laying off staff, and he poached a lot of people at once. Silicon Valley is planning to build a research and development center, and it will be available soon.”

Ni Guangnan first told Wu Xiaozheng a very good news.

It can be said that Wu Xiaozheng's overseas R&D center has indeed met a good time. Wang An Computer, which is under bankruptcy protection, is determined to cut off the outdated hardware production part in order to make the company turn around. A large number of hardware R&D personnel therefore towards unemployment.

And now the United States, including the computer industry, is still in a period of depression, including IBM and other big companies, and they can't digest those people laid off by Wang An Computer.

The appearance of Hu Zhengming is equivalent to giving those outstanding R&D talents a new way of life.

This is definitely great news.

With a large number of technical talents joining, although it is not realistic to catch up with the world's advanced level, at least we can have a good start.

It's a bit troublesome on the domestic side.

Ni Guangnan added: "Alas, there are too few talents in this field in China, including in Hong Kong, there are not many talents with rich experience in this field."

It seems that Lao Ni has encountered trouble in the preparation of the R&D center!
At least the progress in the search for chip talents was not satisfactory, so he called to complain.

Wu Xiaozheng comforted: "Don't worry, take your time, if it doesn't work, you can choose some young people with potential to send to Professor Hu for training, or bring some experienced people over there."

Ni Guangnan sighed again: "This is a way. I'm afraid that once the sender goes out, they won't want to come back."

This is exactly what makes Ni Guangnan depressed.

In order to prepare for the establishment of the R&D center, especially in order to lay a good talent foundation for chip R&D, Ni Guangnan has been running around during this period of time, digging talents everywhere, but the results are not ideal.

He also tried to send invitation letters to some people who had studied abroad in the early years and gained certain experience abroad, but unfortunately very few responded, which made him a little anxious.

Wu Xiaozheng understands his eagerness, but as a reborn person, he knows the direction of history.

He knows that in the next two to three years, due to the gratifying development of China's economy, there will be a wave of entrepreneurship in China. At that time, many overseas students who went abroad in the early years but could not integrate into the mainstream society abroad will choose to return to China to start businesses or work for the country. Zhang Chaoyang and others came back at that time.

"Don't worry, as long as the R&D center's shelf is set up and the R&D direction does not take detours, there will be talents."

Wu Xiaozheng spoke again to comfort Ni Guangnan.

He wasn't in too much of a hurry.

In the area of ​​chip research and development, he just invested in sowing a seed. Once this seed germinates, it will be an unexpected harvest. Even if it does not germinate, he will not have much regret.

From the perspective of making money, Wu Xiaozheng has too many ways to make money in such a golden age.

For example, the Internet.

Only he knows that in the next 30 to [-] years, in the computer field, the fastest growing and most promising is not the chip, nor the computer production, nor the software industry, but the Internet.

The emergence of countless IT upstarts is in the field of the Internet.

"Old Ni, tell Professor Hu that if you come across Internet talents, let him help me find them and find a place for them to play in New York."

"Let them play?"

Ni Guangnan was very puzzled by Wu Xiaozheng's request.

"That's right, the field of the Internet is just for fun now, maybe in two or three years, there will be a little bit of results."

Wu Xiaozheng remembered that even Jerry Yang's Yahoo would take two or three years to appear, and then Jerry Yang and his partners made their first pot of gold.

The reason why Wu Xiaozheng made this request was because he was preparing for his trip abroad.

In the application of the Internet, he is going to personally control it, so he asked to leave the talents of the Internet in New York.

(End of this chapter)