Chapter 1705 The ability to eat whole eels
But even so, there is still no way out. For example, in terms of operating systems, MINICOS, a streamlined and small operating system, is developed, combined with C or C++, Program development is ready.
It is not expected that the MINICOS platform can support computers and servers, but it can fully support "quasi-information" equipment such as digital players and digital cameras.
For example, chips, complex computing chips are out of reach, so start with simpler memory chips, and develop EDA and ASIC together to make technical reserves.
The most important thing is to find the ultimate market. After all, consumers need to pay for everything.
Whether it is memory or flash memory, the market for memory chips is undoubtedly a huge and excellent market. It lacks interference from political forces. Consumers do not recognize the brand but only value for money. The profit margin of the product is huge at present. The scenarios that can be applied are as follows: The scope, including the prospects, is infinite.
The most important thing is that this market is still in its infancy and has not formed any monopoly. Huahong and Clover can flex their muscles around the world.
Zhouzhi even has his own flagship terminal product - the Winclover player that is now popular around the world.
In other words, at least in terms of digesting memory chips, Zhouzhi has a set of independent intellectual property rights packages in the entire industry chain of protocols-chips-equipment-systems-software, to use a proverb in Sichuan. In other words, it means having the ability to "eat a whole eel".
This is the right way, and any other way may seem like a shortcut, but in fact, to use another sentence, it is "fate has secretly marked the price", and sooner or later you will pay more.
Now that this first step has been successful, the crazy dividends of the chip industry can truly and firmly be embraced by Clover and Huahong. The industry has officially entered a virtuous cycle, setting the stage for the next step of rolling development. A solid foundation was laid.
Last year, Huawei's annual revenue was 800 million, Lenovo's was more than 4.7 billion, and Huahong only had 200 million. This year, based on production capacity projections, the Ministry of Electronics Industry predicts that Huawei's revenue will reach 1.5 billion. , Lenovo grew to 6.7 billion.
And Huahong will soar to 5 billion, reaching Lenovo’s revenue level last year.
Note that this is only a comparison of revenue figures. Operating income is the income obtained from the main business or other businesses and cannot be equated to net profit.
At least the main expenses must be reduced.
This can be inferred to another situation, which is profitability.
Lenovo is a large assembly and OEM factory. Its revenue is the largest reflection of its business scale, but its profitability is the lowest among the three companies. The reason is very simple, that is, it requires a lot of expenditure to purchase various products. computer components.
Of course there is a small amount of scientific research funding, but overall it is negligible.
Generally speaking, the more you sell, the more you buy. A business of 6 to 7 billion may be produced with a cost of 4 to 5 billion, and the real profit may be only a billion.
Huawei is much better. Although its revenue is only 1.5 billion, it relies on information technology equipment such as switch program-controlled computers with independent intellectual property rights. Its cost expenditures are much smaller than Lenovo, and its profitability is not weak. Huahong last year can only be said to be average, or even "making ends meet" because the investment in the commissioning, transformation, and expansion of several production lines for three consecutive years was not generally huge.
It can be said that Hu Changfeng persevered almost through gritted teeth, and with Zhou Zhi's full support, he invested most of his profits in the construction of the Zhangjiang base. Otherwise, even if Hu Changfeng has extraordinary ability, he will not be able to survive the situation. The financial pressure is enough for the country to seriously delay their decision.
Now that this hurdle has finally passed, the Chinese have relied on their own capabilities to change the world pattern of memory chips. Although this pattern has not yet been truly reflected, the transformation from silicon crystals to memory chips can be called " Turn sand into gold."
Out of the five billion this year, the net profit will be as high as four billion!
Huahong and Clover have given China the third largest memory chip manufacturer in the world, and have also become the most profitable information technology group in the country.
In addition to Zhou Zhi and Hu Changfeng, this huge achievement, from a technical perspective, is inseparable from the contributions of two people.
Jie Gang Fujio, Li Guangnan.
Zhou Zhi didn’t know that Lenovo didn’t regret giving up Li Guangnan, but Panasonic was beginning to regret letting go of Fujio Takaoka.
Fujio Takaoka is the well-deserved father of flash memory. In order to let him unleash his full capabilities, Zhou Zhi spent huge sums of money to buy all the scientific research results, equipment, and even the scientific research team of Fujio Takaoka. Come down, pack and send to Zhangjiang.
Fujio Sugaoka lived up to expectations. After receiving the floating address temporary allocation algorithm developed by Zhou Zhi's team, he quickly designed a new type of flash memory that can realize dynamic encoding of addresses in the memory, allowing data to be written The input is more balanced, and the data block combination is more balanced, because the data space coding loss caused by bad pixels will be smaller, and the service life of the storage block will be longer.
Under laboratory conditions, the life of the new flash memory has been doubled compared to the past. The avoidance of dead pixels brought by the dynamic algorithm allows the flash memory space to be reduced to 80% of the production capacity, and it can still be used normally. And this The performance brings extended flash memory life, which is three times higher than the original.
This algorithm also brings a huge improvement, which is the data recovery function, which can minimize data damage, thus greatly protecting the recovery of the remaining safe data.
If Shugang is a genius in design, then Li Guangnan is an old scalper in production and transformation.
Li Guangnan proposed to engage in chip research and development when he was at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although Zhou Zhi only gave him a promise of memory chip research and development, the scale and output value far exceeded Li Guangnan's expectations.
After several long talks, Li Guangnan’s thinking was reversed by Zhou Zhi. Instead of producing high-precision computing chips to catch up with the United States and the United States, they finally found no application place and shelved them, or could only provide a few models. When it comes to providing "customized services" for supercomputing, we might as well lower our requirements to produce memory chips, and then increase production capacity to make money all over the world. At the same time, we can exercise our own strength, and then invest the money earned in further research and development. This is The academic-industry-research approach you proposed back then was the right path!
Li Guangnan's change of thinking is very scary. In addition, he did not encounter a period of "academic shelving" like his previous life. He turned around and devoted himself to the research and development of domestic EDA and ASIC with full enthusiasm and energy. High-compatibility masks During the development of design documents, as well as the concrete implementation of scientific research results, "foreign production lines" were able to consume "domestic raw materials" and made great contributions.
For the two of them, this huge achievement was not only a huge contribution in science and technology, but also an elated victory that would make their former employer’s face swell.