Looking at Zhang Rujing, who had a gloomy expression and was making calculations all the time, Fang Chen couldn't help but reveal a faint smile on his face.

The reason why he is so anxious to find Zhang Rujing now is not only because he values ​​Zhang Rujing's talent, but also because of the Texas Instruments factory in Singapore.

There is no way, why China does not have talents in this field, and it cannot wait for the wave of chip talents to return to China in the millennium, so it can only take the idea of ​​Texas Instruments and borrow a chicken to lay an egg.

As for whether the idea was shady or not, he had no control over it.

Besides, the reason why he sent people there was not to steal Texas Instruments' information or technology, let alone patents, but just to cultivate a group of talents who could be used and put to use immediately.

And to be honest, as far as China's situation is concerned, even if he gets the most advanced patented technology from Texas Instruments, he actually won't be able to use it.

There is no other reason. There is at least a ten-year gap between China's chip environment and the United States, and this gap is not just in the manufacturing field, but also in design, packaging, testing, and even the purity of monocrystalline silicon.

There is a big gap between them and world-class standards.

It can be said that if you want to make a qualified chip, from the upstream IC chip design, to the midstream chip manufacturing, and then to the downstream packaging and testing, you have to go through hundreds of layers of fine polishing before the chip can be made.

Finished product.

Properly turning sand into gold.

And such a huge gap cannot be bridged by relying on hundreds of talents.

And Fatty doesn’t just eat it all in one go. If he starts making chips, he will probably start with relatively simple, mature foreign technologies, and also take the road of technology introduction.

But the problem is that mature technology is a phrase with two sides. Often mature technology actually represents backward technology.

He even plans to start from the 6502 and other chips that Xiaobawang currently owns.

When is this chip made?

It is a chip used in a generation of Apple computers in the 1970s.

At that time, the 6502 chip could naturally be called outstanding, but nearly twenty years later, its technology was really worthless. There were too many chip factories around the world that could produce it, and even China

There are quite a few of them.

The only thing to consider is cost.

This is also the main reason why Xiaobawang chose Ricoh Group in Dongwa.

There is no way, the scale of China's chip companies is too small.

In the 1970s, academician Wang Shouwu, the father of China's semiconductors, held a symposium for scientific and educational workers in the Great Hall in Taizong, where 30 representatives of the scientific and technological circles held a symposium and pointed out: "There are more than 600 semiconductor production plants in the country, and one year

The total amount of integrated circuits produced is only one-tenth of the monthly output of a factory with 2,000 people in Dongwo."

Sounds like it? It really saddens the listener and makes the listener cry.

The majestic China, with a land of 9.6 million square kilometers and hundreds of millions of people? In such an important field as chips? Gathering the power of the whole country? The output in one year is less than one-tenth of the monthly output of an ordinary chip factory in Eastern Japan.

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However, although this tragic situation has been positively changed so far, it has not yet produced qualitative changes.

For a 6502 chip, Ricoh Group quoted him US$11, while the domestic price quoted to him was one hundred and ninety-three Chinese dollars, almost four times the price quoted by Ricoh Group, and the output could not meet the needs of Xiaobawang.

In this case, he really can't choose a domestic chip factory.

But domestic chip factories are also very helpless. They have tried their best to quote a lower price to Xiaobawang, and even this price is close to their cost price.

This highlights a huge characteristic of the chip industry.

It’s what I’ve been calling Moore’s Law.

Moore's Law states that the number of circuits integrated on an integrated circuit chip doubles every 18 to 24 months.

This means that the performance of the chip doubles every 18 to 24 months, or the price drops by half.

What it means more is that even if two years are used as a generation, the price of a chip ten years later will be only one-thirty-second of its original price, which is 2 to the fifth power.

With China's chip industry lagging behind the Western chip industry for ten years, the cost for domestic chip companies to produce a 6502 is 32 times higher than that of Ricoh Group.

This is why the price quoted to him in China is 193 yuan, which is four times the price of Ricoh Group in Japan. Domestic chip companies have no profit, but Ricoh Group can eat a lot and have a mouth full of oil.

Of course, chips like the 6502 are so old that they are no longer used in the latest Xiaobawang game consoles. Instead, they were replaced with a new generation CPU chip called SPC700 with a main frequency of 2.48MHz.

Therefore, when there is such a big gap between China and European and American Western countries in the chip field, even if he asks Texas Instruments to train him three to four hundred talents, it will not directly change the current situation of China's chip field.

To put it bluntly, by the time they need to use the technologies they learned at Texas Instruments, these technologies may already be two or three generations behind.

By then, he should find a way to buy the rights to use these patented technologies from Texas Instruments.

Anyway, at SMIC, it is impossible for him to make the same mistakes that Zhang Rujing made again.

But it doesn't mean that these three to four hundred people are useless. Not only can these three to four hundred people help his new chip company get on the right track faster, but more importantly, these three to four hundred people are the sparks that start a prairie fire!

Sower of knowledge and experience!

These three to four hundred people will teach what they learned at Texas Instruments to more corporate employees, allowing more corporate employees to master chip design and production technology, allowing Qingtian and China's chip industry to

To grow, to take off.

It can be said that compared to 1 to 100, 0 to 1, this first step, the first pot of gold is the hardest to earn.

The only question now is whether Zhang Rujing is willing to do this for him.

Although he does not doubt Zhang Rujing's love for China and his strong expectations for China's chip industry, helping him and arranging people to steal technology from Texas Instruments is always a bad thing. If Zhang Rujing does not agree,

He didn't find it strange.

After a long time, Zhang Rujing took a long breath, and then said to Fang Chen with a complicated expression: "Your idea is really too high, but it is not that easy to find someone who is willing to lurk in the Texas Instruments factory.

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Immediately afterwards, Zhang Rujing told Fang Chen his three concerns, or requirements for lurking personnel.

Hearing what Zhang Rujing said, Fang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then immediately felt a slight soreness in his nose.

He really didn't expect that Zhang Rujing had been thinking there for a long time, thinking about how to become a qualified lurking agent.

Fang Chen did not directly answer Zhang Rujing's question. Instead, he looked at Zhang Rujing and asked in a solemn tone: "Mr. Zhang, haven't you thought about yourself? How will you deal with yourself once these things are exposed? How will you behave in Texas?"

Will the instrument stay?"

After Zhang Rujing thought for a few seconds, he said with a calm face: "If you are exposed, you are exposed. It is nothing more than retiring early and going home. At the worst, it is just a few years in prison. Anyway, don't say this enough."

Without the death penalty, even a ten-year prison sentence is not enough."

At this point, Zhang Rujing changed her voice and smiled at Fang Chen and said: "Besides, I believe Mr. Fang that you will not ignore me. When I come out, you will give me a bowl of rice no matter what. And I

I believe that even at that time, my old bones will not be too outdated and can still be of some use."

Fang Chen fell silent immediately and looked at Zhang Rujing with respect.

Zhang Rujing's words were relaxed and casual, but they all revealed his **** spirit and patriotism, sacrificing his life to fight for the country, seeing death as if he were returning home, caring about the country's life and death.

Now he suddenly understood why Zhang Rujing insisted on returning to China to start a business, why he continued to devote himself to the chip industry at the age of 70, and worked tirelessly to fill the weak links in China's chip industry chain.

It is this sincere patriotism.

Taking a deep breath, Fang Chen said solemnly: "Mr. Zhang will not let me down, Fang Chen. Naturally, I, Fang Chen, will not let Mr. Zhang down. I can guarantee that even if it comes to this, I will not let you, Mr. Zhang."

I'll be in jail for a day, and I'm still looking forward to being the president of Qingtian Chip Company."

Zhang Rujing was moved, but did not speak.

Fang Chen has already felt his feelings, but in fact, if the matter is exposed, it will be too difficult to prevent him from going to jail.

In the United States, it is very taboo for Chinese people to steal American technology patents. Basically, as long as it goes to court, the court will definitely rule.

Even in reality, not only employees who steal patented technology will be sentenced, but even profitable companies have to pay huge compensation.

Usually such compensation is calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Considering his position and the importance of the patented technology he has access to, he will be sentenced to at least five or six years.

Of course, that doesn't mean that this really can't be changed.

In the United States, in some cases where everyone knows who the murderer is, the murderer can still be acquitted, let alone such a trivial matter.

But it's not that he looks down on Fang Chen. Even though Fang Chen has a good relationship with the President of the United States, it still can't keep him from going to jail.

After all, in the United States, there are some things that the President of the United States cannot decide, not to mention that what he has done is poaching the United States, which is an even more unforgivable crime.

It was clear at a glance what Zhang Rujing was thinking. Fang Chen smiled and said nothing.

Indeed, according to his current strength in the United States, he is indeed unable to cover the sky with one hand and easily let Zhang Rujing off the hook, but this does not mean that he will not be able to do so in the future.

On the contrary, he believed that after Qingtian's branch in the United States was established, he would weave a large Qingtian network little by little, similar to what he had done in Russia, which would allow him to cover the sky with one hand.

After all, capital is like a dog. If you give it money, it will not only follow you, but also bite people for you.

In a world like the United States, which is controlled by capital, it seems self-evident what it means to have a large amount of capital. It is not difficult to exonerate Zhang Rujing if nothing else can be done.

Not knowing what suddenly occurred to them, Fang Chen and Zhang Rujing suddenly fell silent.

After a long while, Fang Chen slowly said: "Although it is difficult to select suitable talents to send to Texas Instruments, Mr. Zhang, you don't have to worry about it. Why is Qingtian now also a company with more than 100 employees?"

A large enterprise with fifty thousand people, and if you add in the latest Qingtian Petroleum Company, the number will be as high as 130,000 people. Among so many people, it is not too difficult to select people who can be sent to the Texas Instruments Singapore chip factory, and

The most important thing is..."

Having said this, Fang Chen paused and showed a smile that showed he had a winning chance.
To be continued...