Ten billion!

Even though Ni Guangnan, who is usually relatively calm and prides himself on being indifferent to money, could not help but feel his heart tightening suddenly when he heard this number, as if his heart was being tightly grasped in the palm of his hand, his face flushed, and there was an instant redness on his forehead.

A thin layer of sweat broke out.

In his vision, Lenovo's chip business can be done if the initial investment can reach 300 million and the full-term investment can reach 1 billion.

Of course, this does not mean that with these billions, China Chip will be able to catch up with European and American countries.

It just means that with these one billion, Huaxia chips can be used, and it can be guaranteed that the chips designed and produced will be useful and that companies or institutions will be willing to use them.

It sounds a little pitiful, even sad.

But this is the actual situation now. The chips produced with China's existing technology have fallen behind to the point where they have no market at all and cannot be sold at all.

No, the chip used by the first generation of Overlord is already the CPU chip used by the first generation of Apple computers in the United States in the 1970s. It is extremely outdated, but the Chipover can still only use products from Towa Ricoh Company and cannot purchase them.

China’s own chips.

Of course, this does not mean that China's chip technology level is really that bad. It cannot even produce chips produced in the United States in the 1970s. It is just that the cost of production is too high.

It is so high that even if it is sold at cost price, the selling price will be two or three times that of Ricoh.

No way, according to Moore's Law, the number of circuits integrated on an integrated circuit chip doubles every 18 months.

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

What it means more is that even if the difference is three generations, which is half to the third power, Ricoh's cost will only be one-eighth of the cost of China's chip production.

In other words, this billion is to ensure that Huaxia's chips are usable, marketable, and can be sold.

Furthermore, the fact that China's chip design and production capabilities have reached this level also ensures that, in extreme circumstances, even if European and American countries do not sell chips to China, China will still have certain chip design and production capabilities, which can ensure social and economic development.

Basic operation without falling into complete paralysis.

Moreover, you can’t become fat by eating one bite, you can’t reach a thousand miles without accumulating small steps, and you can’t become a river or sea without accumulating small streams.

If no one is making chips now, when will China narrow the gap with developed countries in Europe and the United States?

Isn’t this gap getting bigger and bigger?

But ten billion, one hundred billion!

Is it possible that Fang Chen plans to catch up with the level of developed countries in Europe and the United States and improve Qingtian's chip production and design level to the same level as Intel?

If he really had that much money, he felt it was still possible.

But the problem is that the money is too big, too much, so much that even the country cannot afford it.

For example, it is world-famous that Mr. Sun, the founding father of the previous dynasty, wanted to build the Three Gorges Project.

After the founding of this dynasty, generations of leaders, water conservancy scientists, and social scientists have never forgotten it.

What I want to do is to build a giant dam so that the water of the Yangtze River can benefit the people.

In 1919, Mr. Sun proposed for the first time the idea of ​​improving the Three Gorges waterway and developing the water energy resources of the Three Gorges in his article "The Founding Strategy of the People's Republic of China - Industrial Plan": "Weir the water with sluices and weirs so that boats can travel upstream.

, and can use its water power."

Counting from that year to the official start of construction of the Three Gorges Project this year, seventy-five years have passed. It can be said that it has gone through three generations and hundreds of millions of Chinese people.

After completion, the Three Gorges Project will not only be the largest engineering project ever constructed in China, but also the largest hydropower station in the world.

But the estimated cost of such a project is only 130 billion yuan, including 50.09 billion yuan for the hub project, 32.274 billion yuan for the power transmission and transformation project, and 52.902 billion yuan for immigration funds. Fang Chen plans to invest 1,000 yuan in the chip.

Almost a billion.

It is almost equivalent to the fact that Fang Chen alone and Qingtian Company can complete such a great project after seventy-five years of determination with the efforts of the whole country.

Even if the difficulty of making a chip is only a fraction of that of the Three Gorges Project, it is still completely impossible.

But seeing Fang Chen's firm gaze and the fiery light radiating from his eyes, Ni Guangnan didn't know what to say for a moment.

He felt that whatever he said, no matter how specific or exaggerated the difficulties and obstacles of making chips were, he described it as a natural chasm, and Fang Chen was determined to turn it into a thoroughfare.

After all, Fang Chen has done this kind of thing before.

When developing and producing the 04 machine, Fang Chen spent 15 billion to subsidize the 04 machine. And the subsidy has not ended yet, and the subsidy amount is also continuing to increase. It is estimated that even 20 billion will not be available in the end.

live.

Seeing Ni Guangnan's appearance, Fang Chen chuckled and continued to talk to himself: "In addition to the 100 billion I am preparing to spend, I have obtained a permanent license for the X86 instruction set from Intel, but it is a bit regretful.

Yes, the authorization is limited to the technology included in the Intel X86 instruction set before this year, and we still need to study the technology after this year, but I believe this is not a problem."

After saying this, Fang Chen looked at Ni Guangnan with a smile.

"It's not a problem, it's really not a problem! It's great, we can have the authorization for the X86 instruction set, it's really great."

Ni Guangnan couldn't help but stood up, his face full of excitement, and he spoke incoherently.

As soon as Fang Chen said these words, he felt that his heart had been hit hard again, and this blow was more serious and bigger than when Fang Chen spent 10 billion or 100 billion to make chips.

X86 instruction set!

That's the X86 instruction set!

He could no longer express his feelings in words at this time, he was so excited and excited.

This is something that Intel takes care of, something that even if you have money, you can’t sell it!

"And last year, I met with Professor Zhang Rujing, the senior vice president of Texas Instruments. He expressed his willingness to return to China to work at Qingtian next year to build our own CPU chip company in China. I believe Zhang Rujing

Professor, you should know." Fang Chen smiled and winked at Ni Guangnan.

Ni Guangnan stroked his chest vigorously up and down, allowing himself to breathe again. He really didn't expect that Fang Chen would have such a surprise waiting for him.

Zhang Rujing, a well-known factory builder in the computer industry, how could he not know this?

More than ten years ago, Zhang Rujing began to build chip factories for Texas Instruments, and now there are probably more than a dozen.

These chip factories are located in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and other places.

And the most commendable thing is that Zhang Rujing built the factory very quickly. It could be completed within two or three years, and it would be profitable the same year it was completed.

It can be said that this level of factory construction is unique in the world.

He really couldn't imagine that such a person would be willing to retire from Texas Instruments and join Qingtian.

"In addition to these, I also asked Dean Zhu for help to select a group of semiconductor professional talents from Qingtian, as well as major universities and major semiconductor state-owned enterprises in China. There are almost more than 200 people, and let them remain anonymous.

, disguised themselves and entered the Texas Instruments factory in Singapore to work and learn the most advanced chip technology. After next year, when Qingtian starts to officially build the chip factory, they will come back and join Qingtian."

Fang Chen looked to the west, his gaze seemed to penetrate through the window, reaching Singapore slowly.

There is no doubt that these people are heroes of China. They are silently dedicating everything to China. They have to endure huge psychological pressure and hide their identities and backgrounds while also working hard to learn various design and production methods.

Knowledge of various chip positions.

After a while of silence, Ni Guangnan smiled bitterly and said: "Director Fang, what else have you done? Tell me all in one breath."

To be honest, after hearing what Fang Chen said just now, his heart was very excited and heavy, even ashamed.

He really didn't expect that Fang Chen and so many semiconductor professionals had silently done so much for China and China's chip industry, and endured so much.

But it has to be said that with this group of talents trained by Texas Instruments, the development of Huaxia Chip will be even more powerful and given wings to take off.

What's more, these more than 200 people represent the future of Huaxia Chip, and they laid the foundation of Huaxia's chip industry.

Even at this time, he suddenly remembered that one of his very young students suddenly called him last year and said that he was going to participate in a national project related to chips. He would not be able to contact him for about two years.

At that time, he specifically inquired about what the project was, but he did not find out.

Looking at it now, I am afraid that I was selected to go to the Singapore factory of Texas Instruments.

"Actually, there is nothing left to do. I am now planning to acquire Huajing Factory. As the foundation of Qingtian Chip, I believe you can see that the '908 Project' undertaken by Huajing Factory cannot be completed.

Yes, even the entire factory has to be built in." Fang Chen said.

After being silent for a while, Ni Guangnan smiled bitterly and said: "As an expert on the '908 Project' project team, I do know about the Huajing Factory and the '908 Project'..."

Speaking of this, Ni Guangnan sighed and said with some resentment: "I can understand the strict approval of such a major project as the '908 Project' to prevent state-owned assets from being wasted, but the '908 Project' is really delayed.

It’s been too long.”

Huajing Factory can be said to be the flagpole of China's chip production, and Jingui City, where it is located, is known as the "Chinese Silicon Lake."

Huajing Factory was originally a small local state-owned factory that produced diodes. After several transfers and mergers, it assumed the research and production tasks of new semiconductor process equipment and was affiliated to the Fourth Machinery Department.

In the early 1980s, Huajing Factory cooperated with Toshiba Corporation, which was the first time that China introduced integrated circuit technology from abroad.

In just a few years, Huajing Factory's chip output reached 30 million pieces. Huajing Factory became China's first integrated circuit manufacturer with the largest production capacity, the most complete processes, and the characteristics of modern industrial mass production at that time.

In 1986, the Fourth Ministry of Machinery proposed the "531" development strategy for my country's integrated circuit technology during the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" period, which is to popularize and promote 5-micron technology based on Huajing Factory, while simultaneously developing 3-micron technology and tackling 1-micron technology.

For a time, relevant companies in the chip industry chain across the country sent inspection teams to Jingui City.

Since then, Huajing Factory has also been known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of China's chip industry. After leaving Huajing Factory, they have served as main leaders in other chip companies. According to statistics, the number of key people is no less than 500.

Then, the "908 Project", which had unlimited expectations and was expected to narrow the gap between China and the world in integrated circuit manufacturing levels, naturally fell on Huajing Factory.

But from 1990 to now, a full four years have passed before the "908 Project" was officially established, approved, and construction began.

He predicts that when the new factory is completed and put into production three years later, Huajing's technical level will be 4-5 generations behind the international mainstream technology.
To be continued...