Great Power Technology

The wave of resignations at Synopsys soon caused a more serious chain reaction. By this time, the decline of various Western manufacturers' Chinese branches had completely surfaced, not only in terms of personnel, but also in terms of supply chain. Something went wrong.

The office building suppliers requested advance payment on the grounds that they were in danger of bankruptcy and had to receive payment in advance.

The office equipment provider no longer responds quickly to their requests, the printer has been broken for 5 days and still no one has come to fix it.

The China representative of Synopsys personally called the other party's company, but the other party's reply made him unable to answer the call at all.

"Sir, we understand your request, but as you know, our company's business has been very busy recently, so we can only postpone the processing of some less important customers."

".Are we less important customers? This is not how you treated us before!"

"Before was before, now is now. Sir, with all due respect, there is not much time left for you to stay in China. What's more, I heard that you don't have a contract at all. So what does it matter whether the printer is repaired or not?"

"I want to file a complaint against you!"

the representative cursed angrily.

"This is your right. However, our maintenance SLA is 15 days. That is to say, as long as we come to repair within 15 days, it is not a breach of contract. I have a question. Your company still has Can you last until the 15th day?"

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The representative hung up the phone angrily and walked around. The originally full office was already nearly half empty, and the remaining people were already ready to move.

This is the reality he has to face.

This company really cannot survive.

At least, their business in China has completely collapsed, and there is no longer any possibility of reversal.

On the other hand, Ye Zhou has been nervously writing his thinking program framework on his computer for several days, but he is not using computer language, but natural language.

After all, thinking programming does not need to be compiled. You only need to describe the logic clearly and then operate it in the sea of ​​subconscious strings.

This saved him a lot of time, but it also brought new troubles.

There is no way to verify the program framework written in natural language.

Only when the simulation actually enters can the program be corrected based on the results of the simulation.

This will be a long job, but fortunately, he still has time.

After a busy morning, Ye Zhou finally put down the keyboard and prepared to make something for lunch. Unexpectedly, Chen Hao arranged a surprise for him.

In other words, fright would be more appropriate.

It was an interview with official media.

"You can just say a few words. After all, you have done such a big thing, and you have to wrap up and summarize it. Originally, out of protection for you, your superiors did not allow you to show your face, but after thinking about it, the deal is done. , the threat to you from abroad has been greatly reduced."

"So, I applied to the superiors and asked you to make this speech! Young people, don't be timid. Since we all said it is possible, then go ahead and do it boldly!"

In desperation, Ye Zhou had no choice but to prepare for the show for a few minutes before sitting in front of the camera to be interviewed.

The person interviewing him was a beautiful woman who had recently become popular among state media reporters. Every time he saw her on TV, Ye Zhou felt that his heart was frozen.

After a few simple greetings, Bingbing brought the topic to the main topic in a well-trained manner and began the formal interview.

She must have communicated with Chen Hao in advance, so the question did not involve technical sources or confidential information, which made Ye Zhou relieved.

"Hello, Ye Gong. My name is Bingbing. I am very honored to meet you for the first time today. To be honest, I am still a little uncomfortable calling you Ye Gong, because if it were an interview of this kind before, the person sitting opposite me would I always want to call you 'Lao X'."

Ye Zhou smiled and replied:

"Then you can call me Ye Xiao, or Xiaoye."

"Haha, you are indeed a young man. You are very humorous. But I'll still call you Ye Gong. Addressing a person's profession is also a sign of respect."

"No problem, then I'll call you Reporter Wang."

"You can call me Bingbing, they all call me that. This is what you young people call you. But speaking of young people, you are indeed the best group of young people I have seen in my career as a reporter. University How does it feel to lead a national strategic project as a leader at a young age just after graduation?"

Ye Zhou pondered for a moment and replied:

"It feels quite tiring, but it's worth it."

"Of course it's very tiring, I can understand it. Before coming here, we visited the Spark Factory in Miyagi Prefecture. The conditions there were very simple. You just persisted in working under such conditions for more than a month. Is it difficult? "

Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"It's not difficult. The physical difficulties are the least important. In fact, most of the real difficulties occurred before the factory was completed. Moreover, I should be the relatively easy one among everyone."

"Why do you think so? Can you give me one or two examples? As far as I know, the colleagues who have worked with you have different ideas from yours - in their eyes, you are the most important person. The busy one. When you were at Spark Factory, I heard that you sometimes even worked 18 hours a day."

Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment.

What Bingbing said is indeed true, because he is the only person who can comprehensively inspect the installation process of the lithography machine, so all installation reports and test reports need to be reviewed by him, plus the already extremely intensive work of others , if the feedback comes to him, he will increase the amount again.

But, on the other hand, it's true that he didn't feel how difficult it was.

After thinking for a moment, he replied:

"I was really busy at that time, but I didn't find it difficult. There are two reasons. The first is that when I was working, others were also working, and no one had it easier than anyone else."

"The second is that I don't bear the pressure that other staff members bear. They don't know whether they will succeed from beginning to end. There are even some peripheral staff who don't know what they are doing. But together After the order was given, they still rushed forward."

"It's already difficult to go all out when faced with a task for which you don't know the outcome; if you don't even know what the task is, that's the real difficulty."

Bingbing on the opposite side sighed with emotion, and then continued to ask:

"What about you? Why do you know we will succeed this time?"

"I don't know, I just don't care."

"Don't know and don't care?"

"Chip manufacturing is a complex system engineering, which not only involves photolithography machines, but also involves many upstream and downstream links. Even if we have sufficient theoretical preparations, there is still an element of luck in actually being able to successfully achieve the function in one go. But , I don’t care at all whether we can succeed this time, what I care about is that sooner or later, we will be able to do it. Can you understand this? "

"It's understandable. You have strong self-confidence. This self-confidence is not for you personally, but for the whole of China, right?"

"That's right."

"Then can I ask, where does such self-confidence come from?"

Bingbing looked at Ye Zhou expectantly. In her expectation, Ye Zhou should answer something like "five thousand years of cultural heritage", "strong people", "wise leadership", no matter which one, This is the highlight of this interview.

But she didn't expect that Ye Zhou's answer was completely unexpected.

"Because they don't deserve it."

"them?"

Bingbing asked in surprise.

"You know, it's a bit wrong to say this, but I still hope it can be broadcast. Those Westerners, they don't deserve it."

"Their character has never been noble, not even for a minute. The so-called illusion of high quality is actually just based on the right to speak built on a rich material foundation."

"They preach concepts like freedom and human rights, but they never really pay attention to the lives of the people at the bottom."

"They go around meddling in other people's family affairs, but they can't even take care of a bunch of bad things in their own home."

"Not to mention some countries controlled by plutocrats."

"Because they are not worthy, they are confident that these strategic technologies, these technologies that will completely change the destiny of mankind in the future, should not and cannot be in their hands."

"We may be a little slower, but eventually, the right to speak will come back to us."

"This is the source of my confidence. When you look at the world and find that everyone else is not worthy, you should know that you are the only one who is worthy."

silence.

Not only Bingbing, but also the staff who were discussing quietly in the periphery fell silent.

Everyone is thinking about Ye Zhou's argument.

Because others don’t deserve it, only we deserve it.

This idea is deviant, but it is impossible to refute it.

After a long time, Bingbing continued to speak:

"This point of view is very impactful. Then, following your words, I have another question. You said that we are the ones who should master these strategic technologies. Have you ever thought about it, after we really master it, we should use What does it do?"

Ye Zhou took a breath and then asked:

“Do you know how much the cheapest smartphone on the market today that can log in to WeChat and use video calls smoothly costs?”

"Uh a thousand?"

"Wrong. Three hundred at most. But, you know? In our vast rural areas, most families cannot afford or are reluctant to pay just this three hundred yuan."

"Most of these people who cannot afford smartphones are left-behind elderly people in rural areas, or elderly people living alone. Their children either cannot afford it financially, or they are really reluctant to part with the three hundred yuan. In short, they will not give it to them. purchase."

"At most, they will use an elderly machine."

"They will never have the opportunity to be exposed to the latest technology in their lifetime - they have survived the most difficult days for decades and still cannot enjoy the benefits of technology."

"You are a good reporter and have done many people's livelihood programs, but I bet you have never seen the envious eyes of rural elderly people when they watch other young people using their smartphones to make video calls with others."

"Because these elderly people have long learned to hide their emotions well."

"For a RMB 300 smartphone, the price of the chip is about RMB 20-30. But if the chip industry is completely localized, the price can even be reduced to less than RMB 5."

"Then, the price of a 300-yuan mobile phone drops to 280. This 20-yuan difference can allow thousands of children to switch to buying a mobile phone that can video Smartphones for making calls, this is the law of the market.”

"This is just a simple example. Similarly, if the price of screens, cameras, and batteries decreases, then more elderly people will be able to watch a movie through the Internet on a lonely night. Look at the faces of your children.”

"Someone is working on other aspects. What I am doing is just chips. I am just doing my part in a certain aspect."

"So you ask me, what do I want to do if I master these strategic-level technologies."

"I will not answer you to strive for hegemony or dominate the destiny of mankind. Our organization was not established for this purpose."

"What we want to do is to make our people's lives better, within a possibly extremely small range."

I originally wanted to save this chapter to post tomorrow, but after I finished it, I felt that I had to post it, otherwise I would feel uncomfortable.

So, I posted it today.

This chapter is a formal ending to the chip plot, similar to the end of a copy, but it does not mean that there will be no chip plot later, because the process of navigating the world revolves around the chip.

Including this chapter, there are a total of 16,000 updates today, which is quite interesting.

After that, it will be updated normally, 10,000 per day, otherwise I will die suddenly.