June 1997, 7:30 pm.

For most Chinese people at this time, this is a good time to go to the toilet to drain the water after just watching "Xinwen Lianbo" and then taking advantage of the TV station to play commercials.

After all, the following "Weather Forecast" and "Focus Interview" are not to be missed.

Furthermore, although the advertisements during this time period are not boring to watch, they are definitely known to everyone and are heard all over the world.

There is no way, it has been almost three years. In the past three years, the advertisements between "News Network" and "Weather Forecast" have all been Qingtian's advertisements. Although Qingtian's product line is very rich, the products in the advertisements also change frequently.

But the problem is, whether it is a video player, a game console, a learning machine, a mobile phone, a pager, etc., they already know all of these Qingtian products.

After all, most people always have one or two Qingtian products in their homes.

Even now, in China, it is difficult to find a family that does not have a single Qingtian product in their home.

But today, something seems different. Qingtian’s advertisement actually shows a computer?

Right?

Does Qingtian produce computers?

It shouldn't be produced. When they went to Qingtian Home recently, they didn't see any computers in Qingtian Home.

For many people, when they go for a walk in the evening, they walk around Qingtian House, blowing on the air conditioner in the summer, and leaning against the radiator to warm up in the winter.

Let the brat go and play the game console. In exchange for an hour or two, you can sit in such a comfortable environment, watch a movie, drink some tea, and feel what it means to have half a day of leisure in a floating life. It's already every day.

An essential part of life.

Of course, if you take a look at what new products Qingtian has recently launched, it is exactly what the question should mean.

Even if you don't buy it now, it would be great to take a look and try it out.

But the advertisement played on the TV showed that it was indeed a computer, and underneath it was clearly written, "China's first domestic computer will be launched soon, so stay tuned!"

This advertisement instantly exploded like thunder across China, creating a huge sensation.

Not only the computer industry, the semiconductor industry and the majority of media reporters, but also many ordinary people were shocked by this advertisement!

They never expected that Qingtian would actually make a computer, and it was the first domestic computer in China!

Although for most people, they don't know how big the gap is between Chinese computers and foreign computers, and how many years and investments it will take to catch up.

But one thing they still know is that computers are the most high-tech objects known to them.

Those that can be compared to it seem to be nuclear bombs, satellites and the like.

At this moment, for many people, they regard the news that Qingtian has developed China's first domestic computer with the same attitude as the announcement of the successful explosion of China's first nuclear bomb in 1964.

However, for the semiconductor industry, the computer industry, and even the entire academic world, they know more and are naturally more shocked.

They have known about Qingtian's large-scale investment in semiconductors and computers for a long time. Many scholars and professors in related fields have even applied for projects from Qingtian Chip.

To put it bluntly, since the establishment of Qingtian Chip, Chinese semiconductor and computer scholars and experts who have been in drought for a long time have finally received the nectar that they have been waiting for for a long time and even dared not to dream of.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that there is really too much nectar, so much that it is almost overflowing into a flood.

There is no way, who made the life of Huaxia Semiconductor and the computer industry too tight before.

Take the "908" project as an example.

Like the "908" project, when it was first established, it was determined to "close the gap between China and the world in integrated circuit manufacturing levels." It can be called China's largest investment in semiconductors since its establishment. In fact, the amount of investment is also

It’s just over one billion Chinese coins.

And for this one billion Chinese dollars, the approval alone took two years, which directly caused the tragedy of the "908" project falling behind before it even started production.

In addition, we must also know that this billion is the total amount of money spent on the "908" project in the seven years from its official establishment to completion, and a considerable part of the cost is the cost of introducing obsolete foreign equipment.

But what about Qingtian Chip?

The annual investment is 20 billion, which is more than ten times the total investment of the "908" project. If calculated in years, it is fifty or sixty times.

And that’s not to mention the lack of money provided by the “908” project. To put it bluntly, without the “908” project, there would not even be 200 million in scientific research funds allocated to semiconductors every year.

The annual investment gap with Qingtian Chip cannot be overcome by a hundred times.

The investment increased by hundreds of times at once. If this is not a flood, what is it?

In the past few years, the value of experts and scholars in the domestic semiconductor and computer industries has really risen, and they are completely superior to experts and scholars in other scientific research projects.

And now all the hard work, all the sweat, has finally come to fruition.

But everyone still has some hidden worries.

It is difficult to produce China's first domestically produced computer, but it is even harder to sell China's first domestically produced computer, sell it well, and earn back the investment money!

"Qingtian Computer? The first domestic computer? What a joke!"

Looking at the enthusiastic reports in the media and newspapers, Liu Chuanzhi snorted and threw the newspaper in his hand on the desk with disdain.

Having suffered so many losses at the hands of Fang Chen, he finally established the Taishan Society, which he thought would allow him to become a godfather-like presence in the domestic business community. However, as a result, the Taishan Society was torn apart by Fang Chen and completely became a

joke.

In name, there are still many members of the Taishan Club, but in fact, when I called to say they were coming for a meeting, not many people came, and they all said they had something to do.

I had a disagreement with Ni Guangnan over the issue of trade, industry, and trade, or the route of trade, industry, and technology. The two became enemies and became extremely jealous when they met.

And Fang Chen helped invite Ni Guangnan away to prevent Ni Guangnan from making trouble with him anymore. It should be a good thing, but Fang Chen suddenly took away more than 200 of his technical backbones. What's going on?

Although he cut off most of Lenovo's R&D investment, it does not mean that these technical backbones are really useless, even if he keeps them for decoration, it is still good!

Now that Fang Chen has tricked him, he has no confidence that Lenovo is a high-tech company.

Therefore, after going through all the above, he has never underestimated Fang Chen, and he even has a tendency to stay away from Fang Chen.

But produce computers and sell computers!

He was a little dissatisfied with Fang Chen!

"I admit that Qingtian is doing well in other electronic products, communication products, and even in investment, finance, oil, and trade. But selling computers, especially producing computers by itself, Qingtian is probably not that interesting."

Liu Chuanzhi couldn't help but have a mocking smile at the corner of his mouth.

In his opinion, Qingtian's decision to build his own computer is simply asking for death.

Don't think that he came to this conclusion because of his deep personal grudge with Fang Chen, but because of his public conscience, his understanding of the computer industry, his actual scientific research work in computers for the past ten years, and this.

It comes from more than ten years of experience in computer sales and production!

Now Lenovo is China's number one computer brand in terms of market share, even surpassing foreign brands like Dell and HP. He is definitely qualified to evaluate a computer company based on the computers it produces.

And he is also confident that his judgment is correct!

Besides, what is a computer?

It is absolutely the crystallization of human wisdom!

It represents the highest collection of human wisdom and is the main symbol of the third industrial revolution!

In addition, the computer industry, especially the chip sector, also has two very special characteristics: capital intensive and intellectual intensive.

To put it simply, if you want to make good chips, you must not only be rich, very rich, but also have a very good mind.

Moreover, it’s not enough for one or two people to have good brains and know how to do it. Tens of thousands of scientific researchers must participate together.

And does China have these?

No!

Of course, Qingtian Chip has indeed spent a lot of money on the semiconductor industry in recent years.

But the problem is that Qingtian Chip's stall is really too big, from the source of monocrystalline silicon and polycrystalline silicon to the manufacturing of wafers, the R&D and manufacturing of chip production equipment, chip photolithography and etching, packaging and testing.

Packages, even the industrial software for designing chips, Qingtian has to do it himself!

Such a pie-spreading development will indeed be of great benefit to China's overall semiconductor industry.

He felt that it was a bit too incredible to catch up with the nearly twenty-year gap between foreign countries and China and produce a good computer.

After all, we need to know that, not to mention the tens of billions of dollars spent on chips before, let’s talk about the latest Pentium chip. Intel’s investment in this chip alone has reached as high as 5 billion U.S. dollars, more than 40 billion U.S. dollars.

Chinese coins.

Moreover, the more than 40 billion Intel has invested in Pentium chips is only to solve problems that may be encountered in design and manufacturing, and other projects are completely ignored.

Not to mention the purity of single crystal silicon, as well as chip production equipment such as photolithography machines and etching machines.

But even so, more than 40 billion have been spent.

So what’s the huge gap between China and Europe and the United States in terms of chips?

And what’s the difference between Optimus Chip needing to go hand in hand on so many projects, while Intel only needs to invest in chip design and manufacturing?

In addition, computers are not just as simple as chips, but also involve memory, motherboards, hard drives, power supplies, etc. Which of these does not require heavy investment?

Therefore, he has every reason to judge that Qingtian Computer is just a farce.

"It is estimated that Qingtian Computer has made some breakthroughs in the aspects of memory, motherboard, and hard disk, and then it dares to claim that it is China's first domestic computer. I think it is more likely to be the memory module. I went to

When I first chatted with Professor Qi, he mentioned to me that Optimus Chip has made a breakthrough in DDR memory and has now mass-produced DDR200 64MB memory sticks."

Liu Chuanzhi sighed lightly and said with a somewhat complicated mood.
To be continued...