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Wang Dongsheng stayed in Deputy Director Xue's office for the remaining half hour.

And it was only then that he knew that Deputy Director Xue had not only made great efforts to understand the LCD panel industry, but even had a very deep understanding of it. He also talked to him about the use of LCD panels in TVs...

This information kept Wang Dongsheng in a state of excitement and gave him an intuitive understanding of Su Yuanshan's influence.

It seems that the rise of the LCD panel industry is promising this time!

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Half an hour later, Su Yuanshan was sent out by his secretary. The two said goodbye to Deputy Director Xue and returned to the car.

"Deputy Director Xue has just been asking me about the status of the LCD panel industry and our situation, and reminded me that if there is a resolution, an inspection of BOE may be carried out."

Wang Dongsheng looked at Su Yuanshan, his bloodshot eyes filled with excitement: "Mr. Shan, does this mean there is something going on?"

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "At least it has been taken seriously, and I have a feeling that the direction of the country is a little different this time..."

"It's different?" Wang Dongsheng was startled: "What's different?"

"Hmm... It's hard to say." Su Yuanshan squinted and shook his head.

Naturally, he couldn't tell Wang Dongsheng that in this life, in terms of the country's development and planning, it was obvious that the country had invested more resources and policy preferences in the semiconductor and electronic industries than in the previous life.

Take the semiconductor industry as an example. None of the two major policies 908 and 909 have been affected, and both have achieved relatively satisfactory results.

Now the two major chip manufacturing bases in Shanghai and Wuxi have basically taken shape.

As for the Shanghai Stock Exchange, it is naturally the high-end chip manufacturing industry centered on Deyuan, as well as the high-end design and manufacturing industry centered on high-end chip design companies such as Yuanxin Technology Park and Yuanzhong Microelectronics.

Wuxi, on the other hand, is based on Huajing's mid-to-low-end chip manufacturing, supplemented by semiconductor raw materials and semiconductor equipment manufacturing companies, thus forming a "core city".

Now with the outbreak of the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, the country has been relatively less affected - yes, the five major domestic banks and provincial state-owned investment companies do have a lot of bad debts, but overall, because they have not been directly affected by the financial crisis, they are now It is still under control.

In this way, the country has become a relatively stable anchorage in this storm.

Coupled with supporting facilities and preferential policies, the country's ability to attract investment from Western society has been greatly enhanced - as evidenced by the proliferation of electronics factories this year.

Under this situation, coupled with the early establishment of the Ministry of Information Industry, the infrastructure construction of network facilities has been vigorously promoted in the past six months...

All these changes made Su Yuanshan realize that the country was taking a step forward towards semiconductors and the electronics industry with the help of the breeze fanned by the butterfly wings of Yuanxin.

This is certainly a good thing.

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Back at the design center, Su Yuanshan chaired a cross-enterprise and departmental federation. Let the mobile phone project team of the design center set up a joint laboratory with BOE to optimize the protocols and technologies of mobile phone panels.

As for the person in charge, after seeking Wang Dongsheng's opinion, he was directly handed over to Tang Zeer Erxiong. According to reviews, this person has both the rigorous and serious qualities of the Ni country people and the rare courage of the Ni country engineers.

Coupled with Su Yuanshan's careful cultivation, Tang Ze Erxiong naturally became the head of the laboratory.

BOE has carried out the next step of technical research - the technology Su Yuanshan specified, capacitive touch screen.

After the meeting, Zhu Yuanxin brought Su Yuanshan to the experimental center.

The experimental center is located on the ninth and tenth floors. Now, several laboratories have been listed, covering several innovative product fields.

Frankly speaking, Zhu Yuanxin still had selfish motives in establishing this experimental center.

As a technology-driven technology enterprise, Yuanxin values ​​technological breakthroughs and implementation capabilities the most.

In other words, those with the highest status are engineers in various fields...

Therefore, although the design center is still a mental work, and it is extremely brain-burning, in the eyes of several other science and technology parks, my group is nothing more than a painter...

Even designers who draw printed circuit boards (PCBs) - these people all have a background in integrated circuit design, and because their design difficulty is lower than that in the chip design field, their status seems a bit "low"...

Although this kind of "discrimination", or a sense of superiority, is strictly prohibited in Yuanxin, the facts are there after all.

Those who work on chips, those who work on protocols, those who work on systems... These people really seem to be more energetic when walking.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanxin took advantage of Yuanxin's comprehensive acceleration of the layout of digital products last year and established several laboratories in one fell swoop.

It's a bit far-fetched to say that these laboratories are used to prove that they are not just "drawing", but Zhu Yuanxin really wants to prove that the mind that can produce innovative products is also a genius mind.

There is no such thing as high or low.

(As an aside, these senses of superiority are real...especially among excellent programmers and chip engineers, who are usually approachable and self-deprecating coders. They are all just pretending. If you have been around them for a long time, you will know that these guys have a overwhelming sense of superiority, MD.)

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Entering the video equipment laboratory, all the technical staff stood up and applauded Su Yuanshan.

"No, no, no, everyone, please tell me what you have to say."

Su Yuanshan waved his hand and looked around with a smile. Looking at the laboratory full of electronic components, his intimacy increased greatly: "You said you would wait for a while the day before yesterday, what about today?"

"Mr. Shan, today is just fine. The main problem is that there was a problem with the driver before."

The answer was Qiu Zhigang, who was in charge of the webcam project. He asked Su Yuanshan and Zhu Yuanxin to sit in front of two computers respectively, and then asked them to open the video communication program.

"Mr. Shan, Mr. Zhu, the program is a bit rough, so you can make do with it." Qiu Zhigang knew that Su Yuanshan started his career by writing code. Seeing Su Yuanshan looking at the program interface with a playful expression, he hurriedly rubbed his hands and explained.

Su Yuanshan chuckled: "It's okay, it's just for testing. Even if you give me a debugging interface, I can accept it."

As he clicked the video call button, a small black screen window of 320*300 popped up on his and Zhu Yuanxin's computer interface at the same time.

As the screen jumped, each other's avatars began to appear on the small window.

"The tested protocol is a local area network, which is much faster and has almost no delay. As for the Internet network, as long as it is under the current ADSL conditions, video communication can basically be carried out relatively smoothly."

Su Yuanshan nodded silently, his eyes falling on the camera above the monitor.

Well... To be precise, this is just an experimental product with a CMOS lens welded on a circuit board, and it cannot even be called an engineering sample.

Su Yuanshan saw that the picture had a lot of noise and was extremely blurry, so he couldn't help but ask: "How many tens of thousands of pixels does this have?"

"50,000."

"No wonder..." Su Yuanshan took a breath, feeling uncomfortable wherever he looked. He frowned, thinking about how to reduce costs and make the image quality slightly better under the current conditions.

After all... 50,000 pixels is still a bit too low. And with so much noise, it’s obviously not optimized enough.

Then the atmosphere in the laboratory became a little strange.

Everyone was very happy at first, but when they suddenly saw Su Yuanshan's expression... they all speculated that Mr. Shan was dissatisfied?

Su Yuanshan was silent, and suddenly found that there was no movement around him. When he looked back at the solemn expressions on everyone's faces, he suddenly realized that his behavior was wrong.

Yes... In his opinion, the quality of the current camera is really terrible. But in the eyes of those around them, this is the first consumer video camera product that they have worked hard on for more than half a year to directly target ordinary consumers!

With it, it can be said that face-to-face communication between ordinary people has become within reach.

Such an initiative is of course too great to be called great, but it will definitely have its historical value and significance.

After a second thought, Su Yuanshan took a deep breath and shook his head: "Well... this thing is really troublesome, and I can't think of a good way for the time being."

As he spoke, he laughed, stood up, and extended his hand to Qiu Zhigang: "Lao Qiu, congratulations! The next step is to optimize while promoting the market as soon as possible, starting with developed countries!"

"When launching the product into the market, pay attention to supporting solutions and consider application scenarios. In this regard, you can contact the Internet Center for cooperation."

Seeing Su Yuanshan's approval one after another, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Feelings just now Shan is always thinking about plans...

Then the applause started again, and the laboratory was filled with happy air again.

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Meanwhile, the lighthouse nation, Silicon Valley.

Mr. Stanley, deputy director of the Lighthouse State Department of Energy, has just returned to the hotel.

Just half an hour ago, he came out of Intel's headquarters and discussed the establishment of EUVLLC with the heads of the three major national laboratories: Intel, AMD, IBM, Motorola, and Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Lawrence Berkeley. related matters.

"Grove is so stupid that he suggested adding Nikon."

Stanley pulled off his tie and complained to his secretary: "Don't they think it's embarrassing to line up in front of Nikon every day?"

Hearing Stanley complaining about Intel's CEO, the secretary just smiled - it was obviously not convenient for him to complain about such a big boss.

But he thinks his boss is right!

Seeing that 193nm is about to become the ultimate light source for lithography machines, if we don’t find another way, we will still follow the old path and have fun with the people of Niguo...

I'm afraid the queue at Nikon's door will be even longer in the future.

What's more, the field of EUV technology is so wide and deep that Chinese companies are definitely not able to participate.

However, EUV is a huge light source technology project, and its birth must be accompanied by photolithography machine companies. It is impossible to complete it just relying on the current semiconductor wafer fabs and laboratories.

Therefore, Stanley also has a headache.

At present, the domestic lithography machine companies in the lighthouse have completely collapsed under the pressure of the Ni people.

To put it harshly, I'm afraid they can't even compare to the bunch of garbage pickers in mainland China...

Thinking of the mainland gave Stanley even more headaches.

The mainland has achieved autonomy in lithography machines. Although it is far behind the Ni country and not as good as the Dutch, it is still usable, and it just makes up for their backward component production.

Sitting on the sofa, Stanley opened the file.

This is an application letter from the Dutch.

——The Dutch think they can.

We can’t let the Dutch join the alliance led by the Ministry of Energy of the lighthouse country, right?

The secretary went out to answer a phone call. When he came back, he looked at him strangely.

"Boss, Vincenti from Texas Instruments, Carly from Xinghai, and... Richard Chang (Zhang Rujin) from Deyuan Semiconductor want to see you."

Stanley raised his head suddenly, his eyes full of surprise: "What are they here for?"

"Who knows?" The secretary shrugged and said humorously: "Maybe I want you to play golf?"

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Half an hour later.

The three people filed into the hotel conference room.

Zhang Rujin followed Carly. Compared to Vincenti and Carly, he had the least hope, so his expression was the most relaxed.

After all...he was mainly here to sign a technical agreement with IBM, and to see if he could poach a few more people to return to the Shanghai stock market. As for the EUV Alliance...

Let's put it this way, under Su Yuanshan's constant nagging, he has long realized that the lighthouse country's blockade of this area is at the level of consciousness, not the level of policy - even if there is no policy, there will be all kinds of obstructions out of nowhere.

To put it bluntly, lighthouse countries must firmly hold on to their advanced technology and equipment advantages.

Therefore, this time he came with his old superior and Carly purely to watch the fun.

"Mr. Stanley, please give me a reason."

After entering the conference room, Carly was very straightforward and asked straight to the point: "Xinghai has acquired Stahl Company and officially entered the field of lithography machine light sources. Moreover, we also have two major chip businesses: CPU and GPU. , among which GPU is the leading company in the industry."

"So, give me a reason why UEV LLC wants to exclude Xinghai."

After Carly finished speaking, she rolled up her sleeves and stared directly at the other person.

Stanley knew that this woman was not easy to mess with - this woman had been in Fortune magazine and Time magazine, and could be regarded as a representative of the rise of women's rights in Beacon Country.

So he smiled twice and did not answer directly, but looked directly at Vincenti and Zhang Rujin.

"Mr. Vincenti, Mr. Ricard. Do you also have this question?"

Vincenti of course.

This year, Deyi was manipulated by Su Yuanshan because of its backward manufacturing process, which made him deeply realize that it was uncomfortable for the manufacturing process to be controlled by others.

But it’s okay to be manipulated by Su Yuanshan. Su Yuanshan is from the mainland. But EUVLLC is led by the Ministry of Energy of the lighthouse country...

So why should Texas Instruments be excluded?

"Mr. Stanley, I just come with expectations and the idea that technology should be born in the world and serve mankind."

Compared with the solemn expressions of the two people before, Zhang Rujin smiled instead: "EUV, as the next generation light source, is very likely to be the ultimate tool for mankind on silicon-based chips. Therefore, we at Deyuan have the responsibility to contribute a little bit to it."

Stanley also laughed when he heard Zhang Rujin's sentimental and politically correct nonsense.

"Technology knows no borders, but technology can be exploited by forces and countries that are hostile to us. So, sorry, Mr. Ricard."

Zhang Rujin smiled and nodded, showing great restraint.

Stanley faced Carly again: "Ms. Carly."

Carly had a sneer on her face: "Mr. Stanley, are you going to expel Xinghai Technology from its nationality?"

"No." Stanley's expression became serious. He looked at Carly and Vincenti and said slowly: "Based on past experience, you may leak and transfer technology."