1991 Starting from the core

"Let me mention it first. In principle, it's 50-50."

Duan Yongping distributed the documents to everyone and looked at Su Yuanshan: "Mr. Shan knows the specific situation of each unit clearly, so he will be in charge."

Su Yuanshan took the words: "Okay, let me tell you briefly."

"Fifty-fifty refers to the comparison of the number of domestic and foreign units - it is true that this is an Asian technology alliance, but everyone has selfish motives. Of course we hope that domestic units can take this opportunity to complete a scientific research advancement leap."

"I'm afraid there aren't many domestic units to choose from, right?" It was Li Mingliu who said this. He shook the list, frowned slightly and said: "Yuanxin, Deyuan, Jingguang, Hongxin, these are the four companies - if it is If there are ten companies, then there is only one quota in the country. In optics, you can't escape from T University, right? Can you escape from Changguang Institute? Then Huajing will definitely want to come in, and Capital Precision is also one of the few capable ones in the country. It’s unreasonable to leave them alone with the sophisticated mechanical units they can produce..."

"That's why we need to discuss it." Duan Yongping chuckled: "The initial plan is indeed about ten."

"It's a bit difficult..." Li Mingliu shook his head: "On the American side, the main forces are actually the three major national laboratories. Except for the Changguang Institute, none of ours are national laboratories. Of course, our technology is indeed He also walked a little abnormally..."

Li Mingliu's words fell on everyone's ears, and everyone's expression was different, but in the end, everyone showed a knowing smile.

Indeed, domestic technology... is a bit "deformed".

——In the United States, whether it is a university or a national laboratory, they all have a foundation that has been accumulated for decades or even longer. In the west, top universities and laboratories put forward theories, and then companies realize the technology. This has formed a complete model.

The birth of Silicon Valley is the development process of this model.

And domestically... Frankly speaking, since the reform and opening up in the early 1990s, both theory and technical implementation have been largely completed by enterprises.

In other words, the highest “civilian” scientific research strength in the country is actually within the enterprise.

——Yuanxin is the most outstanding representative among these enterprises.

And those present here, whether it is Deyuan's wafer factory technology, Multi-core's packaging technology, or simply lithium battery technology, or Yuan-Xin's chip design, communication technology... these represent the strongest in the industry The strength and the deepest development direction are all led by enterprises.

But everyone understands that for a country, it is obviously not feasible for enterprises to dominate the entire scientific research field.

Putting aside the profit-seeking nature of enterprises, in terms of "technological future" alone, there is no way for enterprises to compare with universities and full-time scientific research units - enterprises need the provision of these units whose mission is to break through the upper limit of human science and technology. New directions.

The problem now is that Yuanxin hopes to take this opportunity to "draw" domestic scientific research units, but domestic scientific research units are not very able to keep up.

"Well, what Lao Li said is indeed the main problem at present. So I am inclined to build six companies in the country no matter what, and first bring in Changguang Institute and T University... Forget it here in the Department of Electrical Engineering, as there are specialties in the surgery industry, E-Tech's EUV project is not that material, and it will only add to the joke."

Su Yuanshan's words made everyone couldn't help but laugh - for him to say this, he obviously did a good job for Principal Su Xinghe. Otherwise, according to the current "ambition" of the Electrical Engineering Department, I am afraid that they will want to get in anyway.

"As for overseas, the list is a bit difficult to choose." Su Yuanshan said with a wry smile: "Italy, NEC, Toshiba, Gigaphoton, Nanyang University, Tokyo University, Hong Kong University, Nikon, SK... these are all those we hope to enter. "

"There is also Samsung Electronics." Zhou Xiaohui, who had been sitting silently behind Su Yuanshan, added with a smile: "Samsung Electronics, like us, seeks to enter the EUV alliance, but has been rejected... From this point of view, the United States is really He never hides his stinginess. In the entire EUV alliance, apart from local companies and units, there are only two companies, Yiheng and ASML."

"Yiheng is going to change its name to Infineon." Su Yuanshan looked back at Zhou Xiaohui and said with a smile: "This also shows that the United States really does not take people of color except white people seriously."

There was a sudden cough in the crowd.

Su Yuanshan looked at Carter, shrugged, and said "sorry" several times in succession. The latter waved his hand magnanimously, with a look of helplessness on his face - although Su Yuanshan's words were obviously an accusation of racial discrimination, he really couldn't refute it.

"Think about it, everyone, this is not a matter of money - the EUV Alliance is said to have invested US$200 million in the early stage, but in the end it was increased to US$400 million. Now accounting for inflation, we have to prepare at least US$1 billion to barely follow up. Like this. It’s not a lot of money, but it’s definitely not a small amount either.”

"Therefore, everyone needs to think more about this matter - especially from the perspective of the country - although the advice from above is to let us organize it ourselves, the specific partners and plans for cooperation still need to be taken a look at. "

"Is the upper management so wide?" Li Mingliu asked curiously.

"The higher authorities are simply trying to cross the river with the United States - since the EUV alliance of the United States and the United States was started by their Ministry of Energy, even if the country cannot follow the copy due to various reasons, they must at least ask, otherwise how will various policies be provided in the future? ?right?"

"Let me say something..."

At this time, Xi Xiaoding coughed and took over the words.

"We first determine what we can determine, and then the heads of the respective units will recommend and select. I think this method is more realistic than a group of us sitting here and deciding on the members."

Xi Xiaoding looked at Su Yuanshan and said sternly: "From the perspective of promoting technology, I think we should consider whether we can complete the mission of EUV lithography machine - on the premise of this mission, let's consider other things. .”

Su Yuanshan was slightly startled, and suddenly felt shocked in his heart.

After a moment, he nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll listen to Mr. Xi - I'll listen to the professionals."

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After the meeting, Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding walked to the end.

Su Yuanshan stood still, looked at Xi Xiaoding and said seriously: "Senior brother, thank you for reminding me just now."

Xi Xiaoding smiled generously, patted Su Yuanshan on the shoulder, and walked forward slowly: "I know you have thought a lot from the perspective of your country and Yuanxin. But we who work in technology, sometimes we still pay attention to one thing. Purely...Xiaoshan, you have always maintained the habit of reading papers every day. In addition to keeping your technology sharp, isn't it also for this?"

"Yeah..." Su Yuanshan took a long breath.

Xi Xiaoding's words just now made him suddenly realize that he had become a bit "duplicitous" - he had thought too much about obtaining the maximum additional benefits from this EUV alliance, so much so that he had forgotten to establish EUV. What is the main mission of the alliance?

You know, EUVLLC has published hundreds of papers and has almost determined the route of the future "ASML" EUV lithography machine - now others may still find it difficult to build a prototype.

But Su Yuanshan knows that historically, ASML was able to build a prototype in 2006!

The only good thing now is that today's ASML lacks the cash cow of the previous life, the immersion lithography machine. Even if it can bite the bullet and build a prototype, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain the research and development of subsequent mass-produced models - even in the previous life, ASML could not afford to burn that money, and in the end it had to beg Intel and Samsung to invest in itself.

But no matter what, as long as FarCore cannot handle EUV for a moment, it will always be at the mercy of others in terms of top-notch technology and manufacturing processes.

Xi Xiaoding turned his head and looked at Su Yuanshan: "Besides, sometimes, we just need to take the lead. There is no need to think too perfectly."

"Yes, I do think too much sometimes..."

"Well, by the way, I just heard Lao Wang say that the car is almost ready? You worked hard on it. How is the progress? I really want to see it."

"oh……"

Speaking of cars, Su Yuanshan immediately became energetic and smiled as he walked: "It will probably be unveiled by the end of the year at the latest. But the one I drew can only be used as a concept car... The real mass-produced model still depends on the subsequent design. "

"Oh? What does the production model look like?"

"There are currently two main models, one is a coupe, and the other is... a quasi-off-road form, or you can also understand it as urban off-road."

"Urban off-road vehicles?" Xi Xiaoding stopped, surprised by the name: "What off-road vehicles do cities need?"

"Uh... Suburban Utility Vehicle, a suburban multi-purpose vehicle." Su Yuanshan explained to Xi Xiaoding: "In fact, this concept already exists abroad, but no car companies have fully promoted it - this also shows that traditional car companies have different models of one model. How conservative it is to launch it.”

"In our vision, an SUV is a little taller than a car, but a little shorter than an off-road vehicle. It cannot cope with particularly complex road conditions, but it is more versatile than a car... In short, in view of the gap between off-road vehicles and cars car. Well... let’s go to my office and I’ll show you the design.”

"good!"

Xi Xiaoding followed Su Yuanshan to the office. When he saw Su Yuanshan taking out the document bag from the safe, he knew that this thing was still confidential.

Having worked with Su Yuanshan for so long, he knew that whatever Su Yuanshan was hiding must have a sensational effect - at least, in Su Yuanshan's judgment.

Therefore, his curiosity was immediately aroused.

"That's about it."

Su Yuanshan handed the document bag to Xi Xiaoding, and watched with a smile as Xi Xiaoding opened the document bag, took out the renderings, and was stunned for a moment.

——Yuanxin's SUV naturally benefited from Su Yuanshan's intervention and aesthetics. He almost copied the later Mercedes-Benz EQA in one step.

From here, it can also be seen that Yuanxin's cars have actually established a design style - smooth and soft.

Su Yuanshan did not want Yuanxin Automobile to have to follow foreign countries in appearance design without the interference of a "cheating person" like himself, and at the same time, it would have to bear the reputation of plagiarism.

There is indeed a gap in the overall ability of domestic designers compared to foreign countries, but that is only in terms of imagination - that requires environment. But domestic designers have never lacked the ability to draw inferences from one example.

For example, some people are really suitable to be writers, while some people are more suitable to be editors who revise manuscripts.

Now that Su Yuanshan is in one step, Yuanxin's designers from now on can just follow his design and carry out "secondary creation" extensions.

"How is it? Isn't it beautiful?" Su Yuanshan asked with a smile.

"Not bad, very good. This is the first time I've seen it!" Xi Xiaoding nodded one after another, flipping through the documents and looking at the different angles of the SUV in the design drawings: "It's really a brand new model!"

"I dare not say that this is a brand new model, but I bet it is the first time that it is so beautiful."

"And I also bet that our design concept will definitely surpass our peers for more than ten years!"

"Well, I believe this! Cars have gone from a tough style with square heads and square heads to soft and smooth lines. This is an irreversible trend..." Xi Xiaoding touched the design drawing and said with emotion: "I just don't know where to start. Is there any difficulty in manufacturing?”

Su Yuanshan blinked: "Difficult design is always the best spur to improve manufacturing levels."

"Haha! Do you dare to say this to your senior brother Jiang?"

"Hey, senior brother...you are so narrow-minded. These words were said by senior brother Qingchuan himself."

Xi Xiaoding: "..."

"But speaking of Senior Brother Qingchuan, Senior Brother, I'm going to the Special Administrative Region soon. Do you want to get a mobile phone back for you?"

"The mass production model of Yidoo4?"

"Yes. It will be released in May, with 500,000 units in stock."

"So many stocks?" Xi Xiaoding was really shocked.

Because of his work, he does not have much demand for mobile phones. For example, he still uses the first version of Yidoo three years ago. In his words, it is enough for making calls.

But Yidoo4, although he doesn't pay much attention to this, also knows that Yidoo4 will be equipped with many "black technology" technologies and components.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is an epoch-making product.

But even so, half a million units... and it was released in May...

——You know, Yuanxin holds two press conferences every year, one in May to release the Vidoo mass production machine series, and the other in October to release the Yidoo high-end concept machine series.

The release of Yidoo4 in May means that it will succeed the mass-produced model of the Vidoo series.

But even in the best situation of the telecore market, Vidoo's inventory did not exceed 300,000 units.

Now... five hundred thousand directly?

What if...it can't be sold?

You know, once the press conference fails and cannot be sold...then the production line will face the danger of stopping instantly. It is an unacceptable failure for both Yuanxin and Hongyuan - even if Jiang Qingchuan is Su Yuanshan's senior brother, Hong Yuan, is Yuan Xin's "biological son", so it's not okay to do this.

"Well, half a million." Su Yuanshan squinted his eyes slightly and took a deep breath.

"We have been building the brand for so many years, working hard and thinking about it, and it just depends on this day."

"As long as it works, no God can stop us from grabbing the largest share of the mobile communications equipment market."