Chapter 1580: Spend money, spend money crazy

It is no exaggeration to say that China is now decades behind others in terms of CPU.

It is almost impossible to catch up.

In later generations, many people realized the problem of core shortage.

In many industries, due to lack of cores, foreign companies will be choked and given various restrictions.

To get rid of this, China must have its own chip.

Many aspiring people learned from their mistakes and wanted to do something about this, but after some effort and a lot of manpower and material resources, there was no effect.

The reason is also very simple, that is, the technology blockade in this area abroad is really too powerful.

It can be said to be crazy.

For these technologies, we can only rely on independent research in China, and we cannot even find technical information to learn from.

Even in the 1990s, although China has developed to a very advanced level in all aspects, no company can make technological breakthroughs in CPU.

It is precisely for this reason that the Chinese government has decided to spend a huge amount of money to build the world's fourth-ranked chip foundry company: SMIC.

However, SMIC's technical level is still much worse than the highest level in the international market.

As for the computer's operating system, there is no need to think about it.

Microsoft is the best in the world, without any doubts.

Even Chen Jianghai didn't think that he could defeat Microsoft on the operating system at the moment.

Microsoft now has a successful climate and has a dominant foundation.

No matter how much money Chen Jianghai has, there is no way to catch up with this technological gap.

Once the operating system is accepted, it will naturally become a habit.

Once a habit is formed, it is really difficult to change.

The only thing Chen Jianghai can do is to greatly enhance China's strength in chips.

In fact, the domestic chip industry is not useless now.

To be precise, Huaxia still has certain technology in the chip field.

At least in design, production, manufacturing, packaging and other related technologies, many companies meet certain conditions.

The only thing that is lacking is lithography technology.

As for the gap between other processes, it is actually much smaller than when Chen Jianghai came back from later generations.

Ni Xingyu sighed: "I have a premonition that computers will definitely become a very important part of the future society."

"If our country cannot master this technology, it may lag behind others in many ways."

"What is more important is that CPU can be said to be the highest embodiment of human technology."

"As a researcher, I feel that there are no regrets in my life if I can talk about time in this life."

Ni Xingyu's words made Chen Jianghai admire him very much.

As a researcher, Ni Xingyu is undoubtedly very pure and selfless.

But it is good to have confidence, but you must not underestimate the difficulty of this matter.

In Chen Jianghai's view, designing and producing world-class CPUs is not less difficult than those ultimate weapons.

There is a natural huge gap between military and civilian products.

If the country wants to develop a new military product, it will do anything.

No matter how much it costs, the country doesn't even blink.

The reason is also very simple. An important military product may determine the country's status in the world, and the value and significance it brings are often unmeasurable.

Therefore, the country will take all the costs to keep these technologies firmly in its own hands.

However, this is completely unworkable for civilian products.

Civil goods must consider the benefits.

As an operator, whether the products produced can maintain the development of the enterprise is a criterion for considering whether a product is successful.

If a product consumes a lot of money to develop but cannot generate corresponding economic benefits, then this is a failed product and has no meaning of existence.

There is another very distinctive feature of civilian products, which is the rapid iteration.

Any popular product will inevitably have many people who like it because of the huge benefits it generates, and will usher in very cruel competition.

If you can't produce products that surpass your peers, it means you may be eliminated at any time.

Take CPU for example, it has a very famous law called Moore's Law.

The content of Moore's Law is very simple.

When the price remains unchanged, the number of components that can be accommodated on the integrated circuit will double every eighteen to twenty-four months and the performance will also double.

From this law, we can see that if a CPU company cannot improve CPU within 18 to 24 months, it will face an elimination situation.

If you can't develop it, it does not mean that other companies cannot develop it.

Once a company develops a more powerful CPU, other companies in the same industry will lose a large amount of market share.

So this law is equivalent to the sword of Damocles hanging on the heads of all CPU companies.

If you don’t work hard to develop, it means you will be eliminated by the market.

It is precisely because of this that most of the funds of a CPU company will be invested in research and development.

No matter from any perspective, the Western world's CPU technology is too much ahead of China.

More importantly, in the CPU market, whoever has the most advanced technology means that he can gain most of the market share.

Many of the companies ranked behind can only drink some soup.

What's more, you may not even be able to drink soup, and you will die in a very short time.

This means that even if you invest a lot of money in the CPU industry, you will face huge risks.

In my previous life, many companies threw in tens of billions of funds every year, and may have to pay for several years.

In this way, investing so much money may have just passed the threshold.

If you want to catch up with the company ahead, you have to continue working hard to achieve it.

How to work hard?

Of course, I continue to spend money and spend money crazy.

You should know that building a twelve-inch, 32-nanometer production line requires at least $4 billion in capital.

A twelve-inch, fourteen-nanometer production line has an investment of up to $10 billion.

From these two points, we can see how high the threshold for entering this industry is.

This is just the cost of a production line!

The funds required for installation and daily maintenance are not a small amount.

Thinking of this, you will know how terrible this industry is, and it is not something that ordinary companies can afford.

"Mr. Ni, when we are developing CPUs, we can also prepare in advance in terms of sealing and testing."

Chen Jianghai followed and reminded.

With the arrival of lithography machines, Chen Jianghai believes that Ni Xingyu will definitely make a breakthrough on CPU.

By then, once William makes a new breakthrough in lithography machine technology, Ni Xingyu and the others may be able to surpass Western technology in this regard.
Chapter completed!