Fang Chen can be sure that Qingtian will definitely not be ranked in the top 500 list. On the contrary, if nothing unexpected happens, it will advance a few more places, or even dozens of places.

It is now June, and Qingtian's sales for the past five months have also appeared in front of him.

Not unexpectedly, with the continuous development of new products such as DVD players, pagers, 04 machines and 2.5G networks, Xiaobawang and Qingtian Communications basically have a revenue increase of about 70% compared to the same period last year.

increase.

As for last year, in Russia, which was relatively decadent, as the equipment of Qingtian Petroleum Company was gradually updated and its productivity continued to increase, it was basically able to produce more than 300,000 barrels of oil every day.

This means that even if Qingtian Petroleum Company's mining capacity is no longer improved but remains at its current level, it will still be able to produce 100 million barrels of oil a year, increasing Qingtian's revenue equivalent to US$2 billion.

Thinking of this, Fang Chen suddenly felt helpless. International oil prices have been relatively low in recent years, hovering around twenty dollars a barrel most of the time. In addition, the cost of oil extraction in Russia has always been relatively high, so extracting a barrel of oil,

His profit was only about four dollars.

Calculated in this way, the profit from 100 million barrels of oil was only US$400 million. The profits from last year and this year were added together, and he could barely earn back the cost of equipment modification and update he had invested previously.

Suddenly, Fang Chen felt like he had earned his own loneliness.

If in his previous life, he could mine 100 million barrels of oil a year when the price of oil per barrel was US$140, then he would have been worried about insufficient funds for chip research and would have defeated Intel long ago.

But no matter what, although Qingtian Petroleum's profits are a little lower, the two billion US dollars in revenue it brings is solid, and the standard by which Fortune magazine judges the world's top 500 companies is, after all, revenue.

.

So adding both sides together, Qingtian's revenue this year, even if it cannot double, will increase by 70%, 80% or something. It should not be a big problem, and it can easily offset the ranking caused by the depreciation of the Huaxia currency exchange rate.

decline.

The media who took the opportunity to badmouth him hope that the expressions on their faces will not be too exciting when the time comes.

This is the reason why he dares to be so generous, investing tens or hundreds of billions in chips.

Having said that, although the scientific research funds he plans to invest in Qingtian Chip every year are only about a quarter of Intel's, don't forget that wages in China are low.

Especially the income of scientific research and technical personnel. Compared with the income of scientific research and technical personnel at Intel, it is really a world away.

Not to mention, the Chinese people are the most industrious nation in the world, and their tolerance and acceptance of overtime are much higher than those in European and American countries.

In other words, the money Intel spends on hiring a white scientific research technician is almost enough to hire a hundred Chinese scientific research technicians.

From this perspective, the effect he can achieve by investing two billion in Qingtian Chip is not much weaker than Intel's investment of one billion U.S. dollars and more than eight billion Huaxia coins. It is even better.

However, this is also the secret why Huawei in its previous life was able to grow from an unknown small company that relied on OEM services to become the world's number one communications equipment company.

Although China's scientific and technological level is low and scientific research funding is insufficient, the wages of our scientific research and technical personnel are lower, which can create effective competition for foreign companies.

Of course, Fang Chen’s so-called low wages for scientific research and technical personnel are only compared to Intel, which is still a well-known leader in China.

This can be seen from the fact that many Shuimu and Yan University students voluntarily gave up their golden jobs and came to work at Qingtian after graduating from college.

Although Shuimu and Yan University are often ridiculed for their preparatory courses in the United States, in this era, most students from Shuimu and Yan University come from rural areas.

After they graduate from college, should they go to Qingtian to earn a salary equivalent to their parents’ five-year income in one month? Or should they continue to go to Europe and the United States to study for higher academic qualifications and master more knowledge?

It is self-evident what they will probably choose.

They will definitely choose Qingtian.

After all, you have to know that many of them are able to go to college because their families are selling everything they can, and even the whole village supports them.

They have lived through too many hard times, and they have seen what kind of hard life their parents live, and they have long been afraid of it.

So there is such a person who can now earn a generous income to repay his parents and improve his own life. How could they choose to go to a foreign country thousands of miles away to continue studying for so-called academic qualifications?

In this era, being able to abandon everything and concentrate on studying is actually a very luxurious thing.

This is also the reason why many people in this era are Phoenix men and Phoenix women.

Furthermore, after these people came to Qingtian, they were still exposed to the most cutting-edge technology and equipment in the world, and they were taught by the highest-level experts and scholars in the country.

In fact, in terms of technological advancement, it may be faster than studying abroad.

Of course, the scientific research and technical personnel who join Qingtian are not just Yanda and Shuimu, but also talents who graduated from some key domestic universities such as Huake, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and NPU.

Moreover, if they are willing to study for a master's degree or a higher degree such as a doctorate at home or even abroad, Qingtian can also support them.

As long as they are willing to sign a training contract with Qingtian and promise to come back after graduation, Qingtian will not only bear all the tuition and living expenses during school, but also pay normal wages according to a certain proportion.

However, Fang Chen is not a boy who spends money. He always has to be on guard. He uses Qingtian's money to go to a foreign country to complete his postgraduate studies, and then stays with the white-eyed wolves in the local area who will not come.

Any Qingtian employees who study abroad will sign a training contract with liquidated damages in the millions of dollars.

Moreover, Fang Chen also clearly informed the employees that if there was a breach of contract, no matter whether the other party was in the United States or the United Kingdom, he would definitely find a lawyer and fight the lawsuit to the end.

If anyone is confident that under such a contract, he can win the case with his team of lawyers in the United States or the United Kingdom, then that's fine.

Therefore, although he cannot guarantee that he will be able to defeat Intel in the future, he can protect himself so that China's chip design and manufacturing capabilities will not be gapped by Intel and other European and American countries, allowing Qingtian Chip to form a positive cycle and be self-sufficient without having to

He keeps losing money and is still very confident.

However, Ni Guangnan on the side was now much more confident than Fang Chen.

But it is true that he dares to work on CPU chips without even a billion-level investment, not to mention that Fang Chen has directly given him 10 billion in start-up capital, and also has 2 billion in scientific research funding every year.

Coupled with the various conditions that Fang Chen had prepared for him before, he really felt that if he could not carve out a career for China Chip and catch up with the footsteps of top European and American chip companies such as Intel, AMD and Texas Instruments, then he would really

What a waste.

So, at this moment, with the R&D expenses of 2 billion per year, he really feels that catching up with Intel is no longer a dream.

"Mr. Fang, no matter what, the money you invested is really too much." Ni Guangnan said with a sigh.

Today, for the first time in his life, he felt that the funding for scientific research was too much and he could not spend it.

"General Manager Ni, let me say it again, I really don't think that two billion in scientific research funding every year is really too much. If Qingtian's operations are good in the future and more money can be invested in chips, I will definitely

More scientific research funding will be added, even an increase of one billion, two billion, or three billion." Fang Chen said seriously.

But Ni Guangnan was still a little confused.

Fang Chen looked into the distance and said quietly: "Mr. Ni, what I want to do is not just that China has the most advanced chip design capabilities and manufacturing capabilities. I want Qingtian to own the entire chip-related equipment and all the industry's leading capabilities."

Independent intellectual property, core technology!”

"Not only do I want to build Qingtian's own wafer plant, I also want to build a polysilicon plant to solve a series of domestic problems of refining high-purity polysilicon that have not yet been solved, so that the raw materials for the production of Huaxia chips are in the hands of China, and

I also want Qingtian to have its own, world-class chip design software."

"In addition, I want Qingtian to be able to produce Qingtian's own photolithography machines, etching machines, ion implanters, wafer dicing machines, magnetron sputtering tables, etc. As for packaging and testing, etc.

, is even more essential!”

After hearing what Fang Chen said, Ni Guangnan was dumbfounded and looked up at Fang Chen.

Fang Chen's heart is really too big, so big that even the Pacific Ocean may not be able to accommodate it.

In this world, even the supreme king of CPU chips like Intel has only mastered the two very important aspects of chip design and manufacturing.

As for AMD and Texas Instruments, they have already said that they will abandon the dirty work of production and manufacturing, and then only master the design aspect, and then they can eat up more than 90% of the profits.

But Fang Chen not only needs to master the raw materials of the chip, the design software of the chip, but also the equipment to produce the chip, as well as packaging and testing.

To be honest, if he hadn't already understood Fang Chen, my first feeling would be that Fang Chen was crazy!

If he wasn't crazy, how could he have such an incredible and impossible idea?

"This is so difficult, so difficult that there is no possibility of achieving it." Ni Guangnan shook his head and murmured.

Perhaps, twenty or thirty years ago, there was such a company, but with the rapid development, segmentation, and specialization of chips in the past two or three decades, no company can do it, or even do it.

One third is already impossible.

"But this is what we have to do, isn't it? Mr. Ni?"

Fang Chen looked at Ni Guangnan and said with a smile.

Ni Guangnan was stunned for a moment and looked at Fang Chen blankly.

"If possible, or in other words, according to what the West promotes, society has its own division of labor. If other countries have developed and produced certain technologies and components, then don't waste money on researching the theory yourself.

Qingtian does not need to master the complete supporting production capabilities and core technologies of the chip industry."

"After all, the scientific research funds needed to do your own research far exceed the cost of buying other people's products."

"But we are different, China is different..."

Speaking of this, Fang Chen suddenly showed a self-deprecating smile.

"They will raise the big stick of sanctions at any time to ban us from importing chips. In other words, they will not ban anything we have. Instead, they will dump it on a large scale, making it impossible for us to make a profit or even survive."

"And if we don't have something, he will grit his teeth and not even a penny can flow into our hands. So for China, we must master the complete supporting production capabilities and core technologies of the chip industry, no matter what we lack

In the same way, your neck will be stuck hard and you won't be able to breathe."

Speaking of this, Fang Chen couldn't help but let out a long breath, looking a little helpless.

China is a big country. It has been the largest country in terms of population since ancient times. It is also a big country whose ideology is incompatible with or even completely opposite to that of Western developed countries.

According to China's population, once it rises and its per capita income is the same as that of Western developed countries, it means that it will be equivalent to the United States, the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even Japan, South Korea and other developed countries put together.

A behemoth appeared, even more powerful than them combined.

After all, the population of China is greater than the population of all their countries combined.
To be continued...