Chapter 1298 Business
"Of course that's good." Zhou Zhi is also happy to learn about the current development status of this industry, although Clover Company's self-definition of the future is still based on the underlying instruction set and operating system R&D, but when these two types of R&D can form "spillover effects", of course we are still happy to see the results.
Standing on the four-leaf clover's footing, there are three spillover directions. Up is the application level, such as the now successful programming languages VC and VUC; it can also be down, which is the current audio decoding. Chips and digital-to-analog conversion and rendering chips.
Of course, we can also develop on a flat level, that is, the expansion of instruction sets, vulnerability scanning, anti-virus software development, new digital protocols, network protocols, etc.
Only children can do multiple choice questions, Zhou Zhi, as an adult, wants it all.
"But I have to go back to the hotel every night, so Uncle Hu won't arrange the evening entertainment for me."
"Fudan?" Hu Changfeng pondered for a while: "AXA Fund and Clover Company, and Fudan University Don’t you have any cooperation projects?”
Suddenly, Zhou Zhi came to mind. Another current identity: "Do you have a classmate at Fudan University?"
Then he thought of another greater possibility: "Female classmate?"
Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: " Uncle Hu doesn’t need to ask about these, right?”
Hu Changfeng laughed loudly: "Let's go to the staff cafeteria to eat first and try out our IC cards. Let Zhang Wen take you to rest at noon. We will continue chatting in the afternoon."
"Will it affect you and Xiao? General work?" Zhou Zhi felt a little embarrassed.
"No, discussing our development plan with the bosses of the employer is my official job." Hu Changfeng joked: "Who asked you to represent AXA and Clover?"
The food in Huahong’s cafeteria is much better than that in Fudan. The Human Resources Department directly transfers employees’ meal expenses and bus fares to their employee cards every month. Employees can eat in the cafeteria, group supermarkets, and group commuter buses. It is very convenient to swipe your card in the car.
It is also very good as attendance management and access control management.
During the meal, Hu Changfeng and Xiao Qianwei were still introducing the semiconductor landscape in Shanghai. After an in-depth understanding, Zhou Zhi was not as worried as before.
Although the 908 project failed and was delayed for a year or two, the unfavorable situation has now been reversed, and China's semiconductor industry has not been humiliatingly imposed on "N" like Zhou Zhi did in the time he traveled back in time. -2 principle”.
After the 1990s, the country's demand for semiconductor products has increased. Every year, it spends huge sums of money to import semiconductor products, so it wants to develop its own semiconductor industry.
But the semiconductor industry is a high-tech industry, and the West never wants China to control it. In their eyes, China will always be a foundry for low-cost products, and it will always be a sweatshop. It is in their interests.
So in 1996, thirty-three countries, led by the United States, jointly signed the "Wassenaar Agreement". The full name of this agreement is called "Agreement on Export Controls of Conventional Arms, Products and Technologies" .
This agreement stipulates that the export of military equipment to China and other countries is prohibited, and strict approval of high-tech products is required.
This is a blatantly repressive clause. All high-tech equipment exported to China will be approved based on the N-2 principle.
The so-called "N-2", N is the most advanced technology now, and -2 is two generations later than the most advanced.
In other words, any high-tech equipment in China will be at least two generations behind Western countries.
This is the notorious "technology export control" imposed by the United States on China.
Not only that, the countries within the system have spared no effort to strangle the rise of the great eastern powers, using various means to set up barriers and suppress development, and they have done almost everything possible. The current ecology is not that cruel yet, and the technology is not lagging behind by more than two generations. There are several six-inch chip production lines in China, and there are also SRAM and DRAM production lines.
However, the cost of domestic production of these two items is still very high, and the yield is far inferior to that of foreign countries. Zhou Zhi was unsuccessful in seeking to localize the digital walkman. Therefore, in the end, Toshiba's NANDflash memory stick can only be used as data storage.
Although the digital walkman is small, it affects the whole body. In addition to the basic chips, there are also LCD screens, batteries, memory storage and other modules.
In addition, there must be non-memory storage as a data flow cache module.
Fortunately, these problems have almost been solved now.
If it can be said that digital chips are difficult to start from scratch, when everyone talked about the IC card project in the afternoon, it was relaxed and happy.
Chinese people are sometimes very smart. For example, the VCD player created by combining optical discs with the MPEG1 protocol is a successful case.
Now, of course, there is another one, which is the contactless IC card created by combining IC cards with radio frequency modules.
The application space of IC cards is suddenly opened up, and the more populous countries are, the more powerful they are in promoting this.
Zhangjiang Electronics Base is strongly supported by the government and is extremely efficient. In the afternoon, Hu Changfeng received several calls, received several waves of guests, and finalized promotion agreements with several systems such as electricity, banking, transportation, and education.
Among them, 100,000 low-end radio frequency encryption cards are promoted by universities and middle schools in the city, one million high-end radio frequency CPU cards are launched by the five major banks, and there are also 50,000 sets of ATM and counter terminal card reading modules.
There are also SIM cards for mobile phones. The first batch is one hundred thousand. If Zhou Zhi had not heard it with his own ears, Zhou Zhi would not have believed that there were so many people queuing up in Shanghai to wait for Big Brother.
Now the big brother is worth 15,000 yuan! People in Shanghai are so rich!
The most exaggerated thing is the power and transportation departments. What they need is mid-range radio frequency storage IC cards. This amount is very large. There are millions of mobile people in the entire city who need to reach the bus and subway every day, even if only five of them There are millions of people willing to hold IC transportation cards.
The same is true for the power system. With the implementation of the "one household, one meter" policy transformation, Shanghai will become the first city to replace new card-readable meters, which is a need for 4.5 million households.
In the pilot project in one city in Shanghai alone, tens of millions of cards and the need for related equipment modifications were sorted out.
In the next few days, Zhou Zhi will follow people from Huahong Group around during the day. Not to mention Huahong, who is mainly responsible for design, he also visited Huahong’s wafer fab; it mainly produces EEPROM , electric meter measurement, and also has the production capacity of 4-6 inch integrated circuit chips; the Belling Group also visited the original 808 project victim who was responsible for the foundry of the digital walkman after the design was finalized, and was forced to reorganize and transform Radio 16 Factory and Factory 18.
These two factories have now received capital injection from AXA and Huahong Holdings, and have been renamed Hongan Digital Group.
"Shu Yi, give you a gift." After swiping his new Fudan student card in the cafeteria and having lunch, Zhou Zhi took Jiang Shuyi out of the campus.
Zhou Zhi has been having dinner with Jiang Shuyi at school these past few nights. After dinner, they have evening self-study together. There are plenty of books for him to read in the Fudan library.
However, there was an exception today, Thursday. Jiang Shuyi could only take electives in the afternoon. Under Zhou Zhi’s shameless instigation, Jiang Shuyi followed him and skipped class for the first time.
(End of this chapter)