The rise of nanometers

On the big screen behind Zhang Weixin, product names appeared one after another, and then numbers appeared behind the product names.

Lilong—Deep UV burner: 480,000/unit

Lilong—Optical reader: 7200/unit

Lilong—CD (8.98T): 72/piece

Lilong—combined CD cabinet (empty): 120,000/set

Lilong—Master control computer (with management system): 120,000/set

According to the highest configuration of the Lilong optical disc library, it is 5 burners (2.4 million), 400 readers (2.88 million), 10,000 optical discs (720,000), 1 set of optical disc cabinets (120,000), 1 set Total control computers (120,000), totaling 6.24 million sets.

With this configuration, the unit price is slightly higher by 40 to 60% than the current tape libraries on the market.

Representatives from IBM, Oracle, Spectrum Logic, and Quantum clearly sensed the crisis.

Because this is the price of the highest configuration.

For many companies, what they need is cold backup and do not require a top-of-the-line hot backup mode.

Take libraries, monitoring cloud storage, and scientific research institutions as examples. If they adopt the most cost-effective solution, they can only equip one recorder and one reader, and then purchase a large number of optical discs. This low-profile version only costs about More than one million are needed.

If you are stingy, you can simply use dozens of CD libraries to share one recorder and reader, and the cost can be reduced to less than one million.

Looking at it this way, it is extremely cost-effective, while the tape library with the same configuration is more than two or three times more expensive.

For Internet companies that are pursuing reading speed and burning speed, the high-end version is also very popular. Many company representatives are even thinking about customizing the CD library to Dragon Totem and using a denser reader to achieve fast reading of data. requirements.

For example, Zheng Shixin of 115 Netdisk, after comparing the cost of a 1T hard drive, he immediately felt that optical disks are very cost-effective.

Perhaps the only regret is that the disc cannot be re-recorded, but a 1T optical disc only costs 8 yuan, and a 1T hard drive costs close to 1,000 yuan. At this price, you can directly buy a 125T optical disc.

The even more frustrating thing about hard drives is that they need to be replaced with new ones every 3 to 5 years.

Enterprises want to make profits, not charities. Many Internet companies have made up their mind to decisively adopt optical disk libraries. The high-end version can replace the hard disk hot backup library, and the low-end version can replace the tape cold backup library. It is simply too good to be true. Fragrant.

"Our company welcomes companies in need to place orders, and we also accept special customization. If you order before the National Day, you will receive a set of master control computers for free."

As soon as Zhang Weixin finished speaking, the venue burst into applause.

It's just that some people are happy and some are sad. Companies that need optical disk libraries are naturally full of joy; while companies that produce tapes and hard disks have already felt full of malice.

"Let's go to the reporter's question session. I will only answer five questions, one for each person." After Zhang Weixin finished speaking, he directly clicked on the national news reporter.

The square-faced young man wearing glasses took the microphone and asked directly without being humble or condescending: "Will your company's glass discs enter the field of personal consumers in the future?"

This question is also what many people want to know.

"Our company adheres to the innovative spirit of the parent company and has currently started the research and development of the next generation of glass optical discs and supporting equipment. The direction is to have larger storage capacity, faster reading and burning speeds, cheaper and more convenient supporting equipment, and at the same time, towards repeatability. Literacy development.”

The hard drive manufacturers and flash memory manufacturers suddenly tightened their anus, and a gust of cold air rushed from the soles of their feet to the sky.

If Long Totem Company really comes up with a repeatable read-write glass disc and cheap read-write supporting equipment, then the market for hard drives and flash memory will probably be the same as that of tapes, and they can just take off.

Zhang Weixin also named a reporter from Science and Technology Daily.

"May I ask what your company's development plans are for the future semiconductor industry?"

"Our company attaches great importance to the semiconductor industry and currently plans to invest 20 billion to establish two semiconductor industrial parks in Shantou, Mei and Dezhou, Shandong Province."

The next reporter named was from Yangcheng TV Station.

"Thank you!" The female reporter stood up: "Mr. Zhang, I heard on the Internet that your company is developing chips. Is this true?"

Zhang Weixin did not hide anything. According to the current research and development progress, Dragon Totem will launch some professional chips before the end of the year. It is not afraid of getting stuck, so there is no need to be secretive:

"We do have a research and development plan. If there are specific results, we will announce it on the official website. We also welcome people with lofty ideals at home and abroad to join Long Totem Company. We also very welcome companies that are interested in cooperating in chip research and development."

There was an uproar at the scene, some were surprised, some were weird, and most were dismissive. For example, Intel, Samsung, and Texas Instruments seemed quite calm and dismissive.

Because they have inextricable relationships with upstream semiconductor equipment suppliers, such as American Applications, ASML, Tokyo Electronics, Shin-Etsu, Siemens, etc.

Long Toteng wants to develop chips. In their opinion, the most they can do is in the field of chip design, not chip manufacturing.

No matter how fancy the chip design is, it is still walking on one leg. As long as the chip OEM is stuck, it will be paralyzed in minutes.

The next reporter named, a middle-aged white man from CNN in the United States, asked a question: "Is your company engaged in chip design? Or chip manufacturing?"

Zhang Weixin only replied: "Both, the next one."

A short-haired female reporter from Deutsche Mirror asked: "I don't know how your company solves the problem of semiconductor equipment. As far as I know, ASML's orders are scheduled until 2014."

Zhang Weixin replied with a half-smile: "We have no plans to purchase ASML's lithography machines, because we don't need them, that's all."

"What Mr. President Wode means is that your company plans to develop its own photolithography machine?" The short-haired female reporter looked at Zhang Weixin in disbelief.

Zhang Weixin asked with cold eyes: "Why not? Does ASML plan to sell us a few photolithography machines?"

The female reporter was immediately speechless.

However, the representatives from Samsung, Intel, and Texas Instruments below had a mocking smile on their faces. After laughing at Dragon Totem's overestimation, they secretly became wary in their hearts.

Regardless of whether Long Totem is really developing chip manufacturing technology, they plan to report it to the headquarters and ask the headquarters to alert upstream equipment manufacturers to avoid being taken advantage of by Long Totem.

After all, there have been Toshiba incidents before. ASML's side is fine, but Japan's Canon and Nikon are really hard to say.

ASML has already occupied the high-end market, and among the mid- to low-end markets they operate in, China is a huge market, which is a huge temptation.

After all, as long as the capitalists' interests are in place, even selling the rope to hang themselves is not a bad idea.

After answering five questions, Zhang Weixin announced that the new product launch conference was successfully concluded. The performance of the business representatives present varied.

Internet companies and hardware companies that need glass optical discs, such as Huawei, Inspur, Google, Alibaba, 115 Netdisk, Penguin, Qiandu, etc., stayed on site and prepared to discuss cooperation with Long Totem.

On the other side, representatives from companies such as Spectrum Logic, IBM and Intel hurried back to prepare to report to the headquarters about the Dragon Totem's glass disc and their ambitions to develop chips.

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