Chapter 1704 The Meaning of Success
This success is revolutionary and has brought great benefits to all participants.
Clover has gained the ability to independently develop EDA and ASIC, which are two chip design software. With them, China has chip design capabilities under the premise of independent intellectual property rights, and others cannot control it. Neck.
The improved mask design file based on this allows domestic wafers to participate in the high-end memory chip manufacturing industry. The amplification of production capacity solves two bottlenecks - one is to solve the problem of domestic wafers. The second is to solve the problem of tight supply of two major types of memory chips.
Compared with these two issues, changing the supply outcome of memory chips, structurally reducing the production cost of memory chips, and making more people affordable for high-volume storage devices have even become secondary issues.
The chip industry is truly a high-value-added industry that turns stone into gold. The explosion of production allowed Huahong and Clover to surpass Panasonic and become the third and fourth memory chip suppliers in the world.
Clover has a ready-made production line and immediately converted the chips into memory sticks, and provided storage functions for many electronic products.
The first to benefit are audio and imaging electronic products such as electronic music players, video recorders, and cameras. The relatively cheap storage space makes it possible to digitize these devices.
The second is the information processing industry and the electronic game industry. Compared with optical discs, the data on the memory stick can be modified and saved, which has great advantages in the electronic game industry.
At the same time, large-capacity memory and cache can also greatly improve the interactivity of data processing and the smoothness of the game. As a Sony company that has in-depth cooperation with Clover, it can immediately I have installed 3D character and environment rendering files for many of my games without changing the core of the game. Just using the old core plus three-dimensional character modeling and moving light and shadow effects has made the sales of the game boom again.
Another ironic thing that happened in this revolution was the refinement and simplification of the AV industry.
All gods try their best to make their company’s videos short and concise, so that they can stuff a movie into a 500-megabit data card, which can be conveniently plugged into a computer or taken with a computer through a USB interface. View on the player interface with USB data processing function.
Listening to the two old Japanese and Korean perverts vividly discussing the benefits that the price reduction of memory cards would bring to perverts, Zhou Zhi felt that this world was really ridiculous and going crazy.
But on second thought, it’s not a big problem, because as long as any new technology comes out, the first thing people think of is to put it into military use, and the second thing is to use it to enhance sensory stimulation. , with almost no exceptions.
So it’s not the high-capacity storage devices that make the perverts physically weak, but their bad nature that makes their bodies weak, and the equipment is at best an accomplice.
In fact, the success of the Zhangjiang Memory Chip Industrial Base is a real victory in the industrial sense, because it has solved one of the biggest problems in the domestic chip industry - the market.
For an industry without a market, no matter how much you talk about it, it is all in vain.
People in later generations often lamented that the country missed industrial opportunities, which led to others pinching their necks in the later period. They lamented that many entrepreneurs were short-sighted and reduced their companies to assembly plants and OEMs, but they rarely thought about one problem. That is, under the current industrial background, can China's own chip industry find a market sufficient to support itself?
Without a market, there will be no profit, and there will be no opportunity to strengthen oneself. Just like Zhangjiang’s previous vigorous 809 project, after billions were burned, nothing was left.
At present, China is not absolutely lagging behind in terms of scientific research talents, industrial tilt, and technical conditions, but it cannot find a corresponding market at all. Where is the market for information technology chips? Not with ordinary consumers, but with information technology equipment manufacturers.
Information technology equipment manufacturers do not use your chips. There is no difference between the chips you produce and their original state - sand.
And where is the market for information technology equipment manufacturers? Still not with ordinary consumers, but with software engineering manufacturers, operating systems first and application software second.
So the market itself is a big layer cake of protocols-chips-devices-operating systems-application software nested layer by layer. To develop in China, a relatively independent market, just developing chips is not enough. Useless.
It must be developed in an all-round way from bottom to top. Only then can each level find industry support and market outlets for themselves, and ensure that they do not starve to death.
And as long as any one of the links requires a large amount of imports, the entire system will not be able to get rid of import dependence. The end result is that when others try to choke you, you will still be choked.
To give a simple example, take the operating system. If you don’t have your own operating system, you can only use someone else’s operating system, and other people’s operating systems have a series of low-level instructions. It is responsible for the information interaction between application software and information processing equipment.
Therefore, the information processing equipment must be able to understand and calculate the information sent by the operating system. The chip used must be functionally designed based on this instruction set. Therefore, the chip production itself is for the operating system instruction set. For services, even if you have the ability to independently produce chips, you still have to rely on the protocol framework discussed and designed by others, and provide reliable support for the storage operation of the operating system. As long as you want to eat within this system After eating, I am still a monkey, unable to jump out of the Tathagata's five-finger mountain.
In addition to submitting to this system, is there any way to go?
The answer is yes, Zhou Zhi is now leading the Clover Company step by step.
Although it started late, it is not without advantages that can be taken advantage of, because there are still many loopholes that can be picked up in the large package of information technology intellectual property rights in this world.
These so-called "big leaks" are open source protocols and open source software.
These open source protocols and open source software are generally very primitive and useless in terms of functionality, but they are complete in terms of architecture and sometimes even redundant.
The most important thing is that there are no intellectual property barriers to these protocols and software, and they can be used for further research and development. This is far better than developing such protocols and software entirely by one's own efforts. At first, it saved a lot of effort.
With this set of things, we have a basic platform that connects the previous and the following, and we can develop the application software above the platform and the support chip below the platform.
Of course, this is only theoretically feasible. The real operating system is huge and complex. Even Clover currently lacks such capabilities.