Technological Hegemony

Chen Haonan, the leader of the Hongxing Society, once said that walking in the rivers and lakes depends on three things, being ruthless, being loyal, and having many brothers.

It sounds simple, but it is by no means an easy task to truly be friends with everyone in the world. When Huawei was sanctioned by the West, it won the crazy support of the people all over the country, and the sales volume skyrocketed. It directly takes half of the industry, overwhelming all colleagues.

At the same time, Baidu's boss Li, who is also a bigwig in the industry, was poured over his head with mineral water at the AI ​​conference. The boss is as embarrassed as a rat crossing the street.

Behind this huge disparity lies the aspiration of the people. After all, in this world, everyone is responsible for what they do. They may look gentle and elegant, but in reality, a guy with a bad stomach and a mind full of men who steal women and prostitutes may be able to deceive for a while. , but can't be fooled forever.

Eating alone will not last long, and cooperation can be a win-win situation. Luo Jia, who upholds this belief, likes to recruit aggressively and treats all partners well, gathering strength together to form the Huaxia Army in international competition.

From April to May, Star Technology Group was busy writing textbooks, not for themselves, but for all partners, as well as students and teachers in the education field, so that everyone can understand and use this textbook as soon as possible Brand new platform.

The time came to mid-May, and the world's major media, partners, and related companies finally received a formal invitation letter. Next Saturday, May 21, Star Technology will hold the Semiconductor and Chip Future Developers Conference for the first time. .

The so-called developer conference can be simply understood as an enterprise-level gathering. Ordinary consumers will not be invited. Those who go to the scene are companies such as Unigroup, Huawei, related media, academic experts, etc.

The reason why Stellar Technology holds a developer conference instead of a product launch is very simple. Take Intel as an example. Although they produce the most powerful CPU in the world, a single CPU is actually useless.

"Son, in order to reward you for your good grades in the final exam, dad will give you a CPU."

If you say that, your son will definitely roll his eyes at you. What can a CPU do? It needs to be matched with other hardware such as a motherboard, memory, hard disk, monitor, etc., operating system, office software, and the VPN used to log in to the H website. complete computer.

According to the plan, passive components made by Xingchen Technology will be used to produce various boards, Xingchen photolithography machines and photoresists will be used for chip foundry, Xingchen series CPUs will be used to build various computers systems, mobile phone systems, and even very large servers.

all in all,

Stellar Technology is only responsible for core components, and still needs a huge number of supporting companies for the peripheral and peripheral parts.

How many companies are needed to cooperate in order to support this brand new semiconductor architecture?

To be honest, even Luo Jia doesn't know about this issue. He only knows that semiconductors are the longest industrial chain in the history of world industry. So far, no country has ever owned the entire industrial chain.

Huaxia people often proudly declare that we are the only country in the world with a complete industrial system. According to the United Nations ISIC standard, industries are divided into 39 major categories, 121 medium categories, and 525 small categories. China is the only country that has mastered all classifications. It’s just that we haven’t achieved global leadership in some categories.

However, if this problem is changed to the semiconductor industry, no country in the world dares to promise, because the industrial chain is too long and too complicated.

Not long ago, Neon and South Korea had a bad relationship, and Neon unilaterally announced that it would not sell fluoropolyimide and hydrogen fluoride for sticks in the future. This news seems unimportant to ordinary people, and no one has heard of the two. It’s just an old chemical product. If you don’t sell it, don’t sell it. At worst, you can find someone else to buy it.

However, when the Korean side got the news, it went crazy!

Without hydrogen fluoride and fluoropolyimide, all their OLED panel production lines would have to lie down. In the long industrial chain of semiconductors, it has long been a pattern that no one can do without the other. It is even more difficult to count the types and quantities of products. Even if it is as powerful as North America, it cannot guarantee that it can create a whole semiconductor industry.

"I hope everyone can make the right choice." After the 14,637 invitation letters were issued, An Ran raised her eyebrows and said, "But we can't force it, we are now offending North America to the death. , Anyone who comes to our meeting will run the risk of being targeted, and may be targeted in future international trade."

Li Moran said very optimistically: "Of course there are risks, but I think the result should not be bad. Excluding those overseas companies and media, there are about 10,000 domestic supporting companies. A large part of them have already become our cooperation in the past. Partners, the rest should take care of the overall situation, after all, we have never cheated on our partners, and everyone knows this very well."

Luo Jia didn't say anything, he didn't feel pessimistic, it's just that the size of the semiconductor industry cluster is too large, it's a little troublesome to set up, although Xingchen Technology has hundreds of R\u0026D bases, and large and small subsidiaries, hundreds of There are tens of thousands of employees, but there is still no way to support such a long front alone.

Back then, when Apple was in full swing, it would publish a list of the top 500 suppliers every year. Samsung, TSMC, Foxconn, these giants were all among them. There are even more companies that are not on the top 500 supplier list, at least four to five thousand.

The semiconductor industry is hundreds of times larger than Apple. Even if Stellar Technology has just started, it needs more than 10,000 companies to support its upstream and downstream supply chains. As the business develops, the number of companies and talents needed will increase.

After the news spread, Huaxia boiled, and the whole world was shocked.

The media, domestic enterprises, overseas enterprises, higher authorities, all double first-class universities in the country, hundreds of scientific research institutes, all add up, more than 14,000 enterprises and institutions, and the number of participants is expected to be at least 50,000!

Such an astonishing generosity quickly attracted serious attention from all over the world!

"This time it's going to explode! That's the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai. Many big shots are going there. If you're not sure, how can Xingchen Technology dare to engage in such a big battle!?"

"Really? Who will go? Is Mr. Liu who you want to go?"

"Which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, does someone still have the face to go? Don't even think about it!"

"It doesn't matter what those grandchildren do, to be serious, it is said that Xingchen Technology has created a general-purpose CPU, not X86, but based on the open source RISC-V architecture."

"Domestic CPU? Xingchen Technology is awesome!"

"By the way, who can give some popular science, what is this RISC-V architecture? Can it really be better than Intel Core?"

"Bullshit! Xingchen technology, whether it works or not, just buy it without thinking!"

"Although the words above are a bit harsh, the reasoning is the same. Under similar circumstances, it is best to support domestic semiconductors. Otherwise, not only our generation will depend on the face of the West, but also our sons, our sons' sons, generations to come They are all going to be colonized by the Western economy.”

"You don't have to be too pessimistic, but Xingchen Technology has never failed. I heard that Xingchen Technology has prepared more than just CPUs. SMIC uses graphene as the substrate, and the process is less than one nanometer. The ultra-ultraviolet hybrid laser technology has also been officially mass-produced!"

"real or fake!?"

"Awesome! How did they solve the hardware and software compatibility problem?"

"Hehehe, have you forgotten that Xingchen Technology has always had a desktop system, but it has not been fully promoted. As for Huawei, there is also an artifact called Ark Compiler."

There is a lot of discussion among the Chinese people, but even the most optimistic Chinese people have not been able to guess the true intention of Star Technology. Everyone is confused by the news of the RISC-V architecture.

But it’s no wonder that the performance of Xingchen Technology is realistic. There is really a team in Shenzhen that is developing the RISC-V architecture, and it is busy every day.

It seems that everything is going well and is developing according to the rhythm that Luo Jia demonstrated in advance.

However, no one expected that on June 17th, when there were only four days left before the press conference, the situation would suddenly take a turn for the worse.

The North American side publicly declared that Star Technology was suspected of stealing intellectual property rights. The RISC-V architecture was a project of MIT from the very beginning, and the project leader David Patterson was also a true North American.

As for the fact that the RISC-V architecture is an open source project, don’t forget that Android was still open source at the beginning. Didn’t Google still put Huawei together at a critical moment?

It is naive and cute to think that foreign open source things will definitely work, so there is no need to develop them yourself.

Immediately afterwards, on June 18, three days before the press conference, the North American Ministry of Commerce will hold a press conference to officially announce that Star Technology will be included in the entity list and order Star Technology to accept the North American investigation unconditionally.

According to the notorious Long Arm Jurisdiction Act, companies related to Star Technology must cooperate with the North American authorities. The relevant banks must immediately report the financial data of Star Technology to the North American Department of Commerce. As for business privacy, they don't care.

As a private company that is not listed on the market, what is the foundation of Xingchen Technology, what kind of blows can it withstand, and how to make Xingchen Technology go bankrupt? These are the things that the North American authorities are most concerned about. After all, Sun Tzu said the art of war well. A hundred battles are never imperiled.

Only one day later, on June 19th, only two days before Star Technology's semiconductor plan was officially implemented, the third set of combined punches in North America finally cleansed up the whole world.

The North American Ministry of Commerce claims that, according to the preliminary investigation of Star Technology, they have already obtained evidence that Star Technology has stolen North American technology. The upcoming semiconductor summit in Shanghai is a shameless technology sale. Anyone who dares to cooperate with Star Technology , companies that use technology stolen from North America will be included in the Entity List.

As soon as the news came out, Huaxia exploded! The whole world is completely blown up!

To put it simply, North America will severely sanction whoever attends the press conference of Star Technology!

Any company that dares to cooperate with Xingchen Technology will be kicked out of the North American market and will be surrounded and suppressed by many allies in North America.

The friend of Star Technology is the enemy of North America. The viciousness and viciousness of this move has exceeded the expectations of the whole world. You must know that most of the markets in the world are controlled by the West, and North America is the enemy. Not only will the future North American market Can't get in, Australia, Neon, Denmark, and even the small Luxembourg market, all have to get out!

Even for a giant company like Huawei, after being listed on the entity list, life is still extremely difficult. For other Chinese companies with weaker resistance to attack, it is almost a disaster.

June 21st, plum rain, even God is not beautiful, Shanghai has not seen the sun for a whole week, the rain has been falling, thick dark clouds are pressing over the big city, people on the street are holding umbrellas, walking In a hurry, the atmosphere is as depressing as the rainy season.

The press conference was scheduled for the afternoon, but since the morning, An Ran has been guarding outside the stadium, anxiously checking the electrical forecast over and over again.

All signs indicated that the rain would not stop. With the bad weather and the sanction list, An Ran couldn't imagine how bleak the press conference in the afternoon would be. This is the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai.

Shua~

Just when An Ran was feeling extremely frustrated, the sound of vehicles braking in the rain suddenly came from a distance.