Special troubles of rebirth

Song Qiuyun was a little confused. Didn't he agree to come over to discuss cooperation in chip development? Why did the deal suddenly break down?

Just when she stood up and prepared to leave after Wang Yu, Mr. Ni spoke.

"Are you impulsive when something like this happens?"

Wang Yu stopped and didn't say anything. He just stood there and looked at Mr. Ni.

"I had the same idea as you at the beginning, and I was disheartened when I left Lenovo!"

Mr. Ni was still sitting on the sofa and said slowly and unhurriedly: "Later, Mr. Ren from the south wanted to hire me as a senior consultant to continue helping him with the research and development of program-controlled switches, and the salary was higher than mine now. However, he is a communications monk, and he was not aware of this problem a few years ago. Speaking of which, I have to rely on you to return to this position. It has been 1995 years since I left Taoism in 14 and now I am back. I've been through it for a long time, Mr. Wang, you don't have any patience at all?"

Seeing that Wang Yu was still standing still, Mr. Ni continued: "Sit down and talk. Since you have opened your heart, let's talk thoroughly."

Wang Yu walked down the steps and sat back down again.

"We had a great opportunity, probably in the early '90s."

Wang Yu was generally aware of this opportunity. As early as 1988, Mr. Ni began to conceive of the layout of chips, operating systems, applications and other aspects.

In 1991, the world's IT industry ushered in a huge change. At that time, the world's computer giants either suffered losses or went bankrupt.

Although Lenovo's Chinese character system was in decline at this time, and there was also a mixed situation, Ni Lao led the team to launch a self-developed printer chip at this time, and reached a cooperation agreement with HP based on this.

By 1993, Lenovo became the number one computer company in the country, but it also suffered a lot of impact. Due to the further opening of the domestic market, foreign brands have poured in, and major brands have competed with Lenovo.

It happened that at this time, Mr. Ni had launched many projects, which required a lot of research and development funds.

When the market was in trouble and R&D funds were in urgent need, Mr. Ni led his team to develop a program-controlled switch in 1994, which became a top-notch product at the time and was beyond the reach of others in the industry at the time.

On the eve of 1995, Mr. Ni led the team to develop integrated circuit chips and established a software center and chip design center.

"At that time, Lao Liu was in charge of management and I was in charge of technology. The two of them worked closely together for ten years."

Mr. Ni sighed, then looked at Wang Yu and said: "The two of them parted ways later. There were not only disputes about development routes, but also many other factors. We won't say anything behind others' backs. Let's bring it back to the present. Do you want to Have you ever, why should I tell you this?"

This is definitely not Mr. Ni's memory of past glory. If he can ask this, there must be other meanings in his words.

But Wang Yu couldn't think of it and could only shake his head to express that he didn't know.

"How many more years do you think I can do this?"

Mr. Ni's thinking is still very clear, so he also jumps very quickly. This kind of fragmented logic makes Wang Yu very uncomfortable, so he can only follow his thinking: "I don't know, but it should be possible in ten years, right?"

"That counts as ten years!"

Mr. Ni smiled and asked: "With the gap between us now and the outside world, can we catch up in ten years?"

Wang Yu knew the result, so he shook his head with certainty.

"So. I'm here to open up the mountain, but you young people need to continue walking on the road behind!"

Mr. Ni revealed his true feelings: "Let an old guy like me stand in front and protect young people like you who are still young for another ten years!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Wang Yu was stunned.

It turns out that when Mr. Ni said before that you are just a businessman, he was not looking down on him, but he was telling him: You have taken on a lot of unnecessary things. Now that I am back, I will naturally be there to protect you from the wind and rain. You can be like A normal businessman develops at his own pace without being too radical.

Wanting to understand the meaning of Ni Lao's words, Wang Yu was silent for a while. Is this the sentiment and pattern of the older generation?

"When I have time, I'll make an appointment with Xiao Ren from the south to come to the capital. The three of us can have a chat together. He's not cold-blooded either!"

Well, just because Mr. Ni shouted to Xiao Ren, Wang Yu, who was originally serious, felt inexplicably happy in his heart.

"We will organize a liaison mechanism later to communicate more with each other."

Mr. Ni smiled and pointed at Miao Ronggui beside him: "I am a pretty good student. From now on, he will take the lead here at Lenovo!"

Wang Yu glanced at Tian Guirong, and then said: "My R&D institutions are all in the southwest, and another person is in charge there. Counting her later, plus Song Qiuyun, the deputy director of the board of directors next to me, and one or two R&D The leaders of the group will form a liaison group on my side."

Mr. Ni nodded and said: "That's good. I just came back. I hope to smooth out internal relationships in the shortest possible time. The next step is to formulate future research directions. The existence of our liaison group is to communicate this information in a timely manner. , don’t waste resources. I’m working on some things here, so you can relax a little bit, and if you have some small breakthroughs, I won’t waste money on my side.”

This is excellent advice.

Especially on the lithography machine project, which is extremely troublesome for Wang Yu, even if Mr. Ni gathers the resources he has now, it will be difficult to handle even the low-end ones in a short time, and the measurement unit must be several years.

Once he started thinking about this, many memories from his previous life suddenly flooded into Wang Yu's mind.

Why was Wang Yu so enthusiastic about the Cai family’s investment in the mainland before?

You must know that the biggest headache for him in the southwest layout involves the source of the chip industry chain: photolithography machines!

A photolithography machine has as many as 10 parts, and each part comes from foundries around the world. This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of manufacturing a photolithography machine. In my past memory, ASML executives once asserted that even if Even if you are given a complete set of drawings, you cannot build a photolithography machine. This is enough to show how difficult it is to manufacture a photolithography machine.

However, some information memories from previous lives told Wang Yu that traditional chip technology has begun to develop slowly from the 7nm process. Especially after entering the 5nm process, the pace of chip development in the direction of shrinkage has gradually stalled, and chip technology has encountered a huge bottleneck.

At this time, a certain Wei proposed a new way to bypass foreign patent barriers: quantum chips!

The reason why we came up with this path is not only the helplessness of reality, but also the exploration of another development idea for the future.

You must know that quantum chip technology does not have high requirements for lithography machines and can completely bypass the dependence on high-precision lithography machines. This is one of the most important factors at the moment.

Secondly, the quantum chip architecture consists of a substrate, M sub-chips, a coupling structure and a cavity membrane structure. The M sub-chips are interconnected through the coupling structure, and the cavity membrane frequency of the quantum chip is increased through the cavity membrane suppression structure to improve the chip's performance. The computing speed is more conducive to improving the performance of the computer.

This design architecture bypasses the obstruction of many patents and will lead a Chinese chip path.

This information flashed through Wang Yu's mind like lightning, and then slowly stored in a corner.

Because with the existing technical power, this idea is useless. It is simply a waste of limited resources.

What's more, for the research and development of 14nm chips and corresponding photolithography machines that only meet industrial-level applications, in Wang Yu's view, ten years is enough to complete all localization.

After this step is reached, or when this step is about to be reached, it will not be too late for Wang Yu to come up with this idea.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to place this time around 2015, about five years earlier than in the previous life!

The chat between Wang Yu and Mr. Ni continued, but Tian Guirong was more surprised.

Since returning to Lenovo, I, as a teacher, have cherished every minute and always felt that there was not enough time.

Now I have been sitting in the reception area chatting with this young man named Wang Yu for more than two hours, and it seems that the chat will continue.

"Hahaha, these few drinks are worth it!"

After listening to Wang Yu talk about how he had recently accompanied the Indonesian Cai family to inspect investment locations and got drunk several times, Mr. Ni burst out laughing.

"Although packaging and testing are only two links at the end of the industrial chain, they also contain a lot of technology, especially packaging technology, which involves molecular-level chemical raw materials."

Mr. Ni is familiar with the content of the semiconductor chip industry at his fingertips and is quite familiar with every link: "Get it, regardless of the size of the market, first understand the technology thoroughly, and becoming stronger and bigger is a matter of the future!"

Wang Yu nodded and said: "The Cai family is also guarding against me, they are very sensitive!"

"Block it, if they don't do it well, others will block it with them!"

Mr. Ni smiled disdainfully and said: "You want our market, but you don't have the technology to circulate it. This is a good calculation!"

"But they forgot one thing!"

Wang Yu responded to Mr. Ni with a smile: "Once our huge consumer market is formed, how will we digest their products if they don't sell them to us?"

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Yes, once we realize the localization of all industrial-grade chips, how will those companies that engage in technological blockades deal with themselves?

The two chatted until early 11:30, and Wang Yu and Mr. Ni had a meal in Lenovo's employee canteen before leaving.

"Go to the courtyard house in Houhai."

Wang Yu was in a good mood and asked Dashuang to drive to the courtyard house on the Houhai side.

The sunroom at this moment should be covered with grape vines, and it would be very comfortable to take a rest on the lounge chair.

In Song Qiuyun's eyes, since his boss came back from Southeast Asia, he has never been in a really good mood. Some time ago, he relied on being busy to cover up the slightest anxiety in his heart.

But at this moment, she felt a complete state of relaxation from Wang Yu, from the inside to the outside.

Recalling the conversation in Mr. Ni's office in the morning, Song Qiuyun felt something.

Before today, her boss carried too many things on his shoulders, some of which were even unnecessary in her eyes.

While walking alone, the boss finally found a like-minded person!