It was not until they attended Qingtian Communications' "2.5G Network Acceptance Ceremony and Celebration Conference" that Ren Zhengfei and Wu Jiangxing learned that Fang Chen did not attend the conference and had even left Luozhou.

This immediately caused the two of them to feel a huge sense of frustration, and they once again clearly felt that they and Fang Chen were no longer on the same level.

In their view, 2.5G network technology, which is difficult to achieve, is just a project result of the subsidiary company to Fang Chen. If you want to attend, you can attend. If you don't want to attend, no one can say anything.

However, in fact, the reason why Fang Chen did not attend this conference was because he had more important things to do.

Yanjing, Wangfu Hotel.

Fang Chen took a look at the decorations around the Wangfu Hotel and couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic.

Since moving to the Rose Garden Villa, he has not been to the Wangfu Hotel again. Now when he took a sudden look, he actually had a different kind of thought in it.

And the reason why he appeared at the Wangfu Hotel this time was because of a man.

This man is sitting opposite him now, Zhang Rujing, the father of Chinese chips.

"Dr. Zhang, how do you feel about setting up a factory in Star City?" Fang Chen said with a smile.

"It's still pretty good. The cultural quality is better than other countries in Southeast Asia. The obedience and attitude towards work, and the enthusiasm are much better than those in European and American countries, especially those in Italy."

Zhang Rujing thought for a while and said seriously.

Setting up a factory in Singapore this time will probably continue his reputation as a "maniac in building factories". He will build a very outstanding wafer foundry for Texas Instruments.

Of course, the premise is that his and Fang Chen's plan is not exposed.

If something goes wrong, not only will his reputation be completely ruined, but he may even be thrown into jail.

At that time, all he can ask for is probably that Fang Chen can be more helpful and rescue him from prison.

"Now, the first batch of one hundred employees should have entered the Star City Factory." Fang Chen said with a somewhat complicated expression.

He wants to carve out a path for China's chip industry so that China will no longer face the situation of being short of cores and souls, and whose lifeblood is in the hands of other countries.

So sending these more than 200 employees to Texas Instruments' Star City factory to learn and learn every aspect is undoubtedly an extremely important part.

After all, it is impossible for Zhang Rujing to build a modern chip company out of thin air by himself.

For Zhang Rujing, this is too demanding, too harsh and unrealistic.

Unfortunately, China is currently unable to provide any help to Zhang Rujing.

There is no way, who caused the technical level difference between domestic and European and American chips to be more than three generations.

Europe and the United States have begun to use 0.8 micron to produce chips, but the latest technology in China is still 3 micron. This is undoubtedly a huge gap.

Then, based on the speed of progress in chip technology between China and Europe and the United States, the gap between these three generations is simply like a chasm that cannot be bridged.

So if there is no way, just find a way by yourself. If there is no way out, just find a way out by yourself.

Fang Chen could only use the trick of sending people from China to the Star City Factory to steal experience.

"These people started preparing half a year ago. They kept their names anonymous and did not even spend the Chinese New Year at home. They are absolutely well-deserved heroes for China's chip industry and China."

"Their experiences, after they are declassified a few years later, will be remembered by the world after China successfully reaches the top and becomes the country with the most powerful chip technology in the world."

"Even the reason why China has been able to survive from ancient times to this day is because China has always had such heroes when it needed it." Fang Chen said firmly.

But at this moment.

Star City.

Zhang Minggui, no, Zhang Yiming, was sitting at the cafeteria table of Texas Instruments' Star City wafer foundry. Looking back on his experiences in the past six months, he felt like he was in a dream.

Sometimes, he himself is a little confused, whether he is Zhang Minggui, an employee of Qingtian, or Zhang Yiming, an employee of Texas Instruments Star City Factory.

There was no grand ceremony and no leadership speeches.

Everything was so quiet, and even now he doesn't know how many people came to Star City like him.

As a top student who graduated from China University of Technology, after just one month of language training in China, he learned English and the way of speaking and tone of people in Xingcheng, and then he was sent to Xingcheng and became Zhang Yiming.

According to his information in Star City, he graduated from the Computer Science Department of Star City National University.

Two years after graduation, I have been working in a computer company in Star City, and then I recently switched jobs to a new computer company.

As for the background information, his parents lived in Xingcheng, but their parents rented a large farm in Australia, so they were not in Star City. He lived alone at home, and his parents also transferred the ownership of the house to him.

However, what amazed Zhang Minggui was that he specifically checked the house where he was staying and found that it was indeed registered under his name.

Moreover, he even has a student status at Star City National University, and even his student card, meal card, etc. are all genuine.

To the outside world, he seemed to be just a top student who was born and raised in Star City and graduated from Star City National University.

After working silently for four months at the second computer company, he followed the company's instructions and came to the Texas Instruments Star City Plant and successfully applied for a job as a technical R&D engineer.

Can directly contact the chip design work of Texas Instruments.

Moreover, in addition to himself, he also discovered five or six former colleagues who also worked at Qingtian Communications.

It's just that everyone followed the rules they learned before going abroad and kept no contact, making them look like independent individuals.

Other than that, it seems to be no different from normal work. It’s just normal commuting and working overtime.

This made him subconsciously think that he was just sent to work at the Star City Factory by Qingtian.

Anyway, lurking this time was easier than he thought.

Some of the company's leaders, including his master, are of Chinese descent.

It just seems that except for some leaders of the company, they know about the existence of these people and are colluding with them.

But low- and middle-level cadres like his master knew nothing about them and basically regarded them as natives of Star City.

Sometimes, I would express some contempt for them in my words, thinking that the Chinese in Star City are not as good as the Chinese who were born and raised in the United States.

Sometimes, when he looks at these ABCs, the banana man feels ridiculous.

They look like Chinese people, but in their words they express disapproval and even disgust towards Chinese people and China.

He was thinking that if there was a skin-changing technology in the world that could replace their yellow skin and faces with white skin and faces, I'm afraid these people would have to change their skin even if they were trying to sell their skin.

Sometimes, he was curious and asked his master why there were so few white people in the factory.

As a result, the master said contemptuously that the technology here was too backward, at least one generation behind the latest technology of Texas Instruments.

In addition, Star City is too far away, and those white people don't want to come, so those who come here are bitter Chinese people like them.

Moreover, the head office even boasts about its name, saying that they are all of Chinese descent and it is easy for everyone to communicate with each other.

It's so easy to communicate.

Although Texas Instruments has mastered the latest 0.8 micron chip production technology, not all products require the most advanced chip production technology.

Otherwise, Texas Instruments would not be willing to build wafer foundries in other countries.

But I have to say that although my personality is somewhat insulted here, it is a sea of ​​technology.

All kinds of novel technologies that are simply unavailable in China are open here for him to learn, and all kinds of cutting-edge design tools are available for him to use.

He suddenly felt that he was not here to work, but to study as a graduate student.

Therefore, he is quite satisfied with his life in Star City, but sometimes he misses home a lot.

However, when he thought about what a great undertaking he was undertaking now, he felt a sense of excitement in his heart.

Furthermore, according to the plan, he will stay here for another year and a half, and after 1995, he can return to China.

At that time, he can design China's own chips for China.

…

Hearing what Fang Chen said, Zhang Rujing suddenly fell silent.

After a long time, he sighed and said quietly: "They are indeed the heroes of this country and this nation."

"Yet you are also a hero of this country and this nation, and even your achievements surpass all of us."

Zhang Rujing suddenly said seriously to Fang Chen.

Fang Chen glanced at Zhang Rujing in surprise, and then said with a bit of laughter and laughter: "Dr. Zhang, has anyone told you that flattering an honest person is the most powerful, and it will give people the illusion of believing it to be true."

"But what I said is all the truth. To be honest, I want to go back to China to build a chip factory. I have thought about it for many years, but I never thought that I could get the authorization for the X86 instruction set. Just for this reason, if

If China's chip can be completed one day, your contribution will definitely be ranked first."

"Not to mention, you have spent so much money and have been working so hard to produce and design chips that belong to China."

Looking at Zhang Rujing's sincere face, Fang Chen was speechless and had nothing to say.

He felt like he couldn't resist Zhang Rujing's flattery.

Is it just flattering? Not entirely.

Zhang Rujing really didn't expect that Fang Chen could actually get the X86 instruction set.

The importance of the X86 instruction set is absolutely unquestionable, even if it is only licensed with existing technology.

It can be said that only by obtaining the X86 instruction set can China's chips stand on the top of the world.

This can be seen from the fact that Intel went all out and fought AMD for eight years without even losing face.

If the X86 instruction set is not important, why did Intel fight for eight years in the lawsuit? It was not until the previous period that it lost the lawsuit and paid AMD hundreds of millions of dollars that it finally gave up.
To be continued...