1991 Starting from the core

After hanging up the phone, Su Yuanshan smiled happily.

The international long distance just cost him a hundred yuan, but if this long distance is the key to letting Chen Haoming develop a browser, then this long distance is a great deal.

The Internet in the 1990s! Of course, Su Yuanshan would not miss such an opportunity to make money.

It's just that he didn't consider letting Yuanxin or Xinghai do it themselves - he only needed direct angel investment from Qin Si, and then it would be cashed out before the millennium Internet winter.

You know, the winter of the Internet is also the winter of semiconductors. Ten years later, from 2001 to 2003, it was the lowest year-on-year growth in the 60-year history of semiconductors - nearly negative 30%.

That was the only time Samsung, which has been good at countercyclical acquisitions since the 1980s, did not take action.

Su Yuanshan doesn't know if Samsung is still interested in it, but this time it includes countercyclical investment in the future, so it's Yuanxin's turn to play.

But Su Yuanshan didn't want to get involved in the Internet personally in the 1990s, which doesn't mean that someone under his command found a direction and didn't pursue it. Besides, the browser is the foundation of the Internet, and it can't be frozen no matter how cold the winter is.

If nothing else, if Chen Haoming comes up with the browser, Yuanxin will be equivalent to having an extra Netscape.

Anyone with a little Internet memory knows how crazy the stock price was at the beginning of the public offering of Netscape, which was only founded in 1993.

At the beginning, capital and market enthusiasm made Netscape so inflated that it tried to use the market and influence of the browser to challenge the operating system.

Perhaps in the eyes of Netscape, a newborn calf, Windows 3.1 is just mediocre.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has never been a vegetarian. After realizing Netscape's ambitions, Microsoft directly cooperated with Spyglass. After obtaining the authorization and source code, it directly created Internet Explorer, which is the famous IE. A browser war started with Netscape.

When the version reaches IE4.0, it is completely bundled with Windows and becomes the default browser in pre-installed form.

At this time, Netscape, which had already failed, launched the free banner and launched the Mozilla non-profit project in an attempt to kill the fish and defeat the net. But after all, it still can't stop Microsoft's wheels from rolling.

The war ended with Microsoft's victory.

——As soon as Win98 comes out, the world will be at peace.

Later, Netscape sold itself to AOL (America Online), and Microsoft was also investigated for antitrust and abuse of market position. It scared Microsoft to death.

After Microsoft dodged the antitrust stick, America Online angrily launched a compensation lawsuit against Microsoft. In order to settle the matter, Microsoft took a step back... it paid US$750 million in compensation and set a seven-year period.

Later, AOL, which was in the cold winter of the Internet and had too much time to take care of itself, disbanded the Netscape team, but it did not forget to keep the fire for Mozilla, leaving a little fox to disgust Microsoft.

Compared to Netscape, if Xinghai comes to develop this browser, the outcome will definitely be different.

In this life, Su Yuanshan's goal has always been clear-Microsoft is not his enemy.

He has only one enemy, the big stick in the future.

…

After calling Claude and asking for the decryption method, the two parties briefly communicated and Su Yuanshan began to decrypt the document.

Based on the principle of "brothers settling accounts openly," Xinghai obviously will not "dedicate" all data related to patents and trade secrets. These need to be replaced by Yuanxin slowly with IP.

In fact, most of the documents provided by Claude this time are descriptions of the results they have achieved and thoughts on the CPU architecture. It is no exaggeration to think of it as a detailed development requirement.

The documents also carry mutual considerations between the two parties - Su Yuanshan needs to use the documents to judge the technical strength of Claude's team, and Claude also needs to judge whether Su Yuanshan's side is really as sharp as he said.

…

Ten days later, Gao Xiaodi came to Su Yuanshan's office.

Looking at Gao Xiaodi's red eyes and tired expression, Su Yuanshan felt happy in his heart: "Have you finished reading?"

"finish watching."

"Do you understand?"

"Almost." Gao Xiaodi scratched his greasy hair and said with a wry smile: "I can understand, but my mind is empty. I always feel that I can start it, but I can't find a clue at all - the X86 architecture is so complicated? "

Su Yuanshan smiled and comforted: "Because it wasn't us who did it from the beginning, so it seems a little more complicated. You asked Senior Brother Qin to come, and he was also confused."

Hearing that Qin Weimin was like him, Gao Xiaodi was slightly relieved and immediately asked: "What about you? Do you have a clue?"

"I'm going to do architectural design."

"..." Gao Xiaodi glared at him for a few times, and then said for a long time: "I won't tell you anymore! I'm going to take a leave, rest my head, and arrange work for me tomorrow."

Here, Zhou Xiaohui watched Gao Xiaodi staggering out the door, and said with a dumb smile: "With Gao Gong's appearance, I would have thought he had done something if he didn't know."

Su Yuanshan continued to stare at the monitor: "Yeah, like a cowherd being squeezed dry."

Zhou Xiaohui made a sound, picked up the phone at the right time, and then covered the phone and said to Su Yuanshan: "Gong Zheng from the Institute of Optics and Mechanics is going to visit. When will you be free?"

Su Yuanshan raised his head: "Just say it will be available at any time."

After Zhou Xiaohui replied, she hung up the phone with a smile: "He said he would come in the afternoon."

"Well, I guess the lithography machine has passed the inspection." Su Yuanshan made some mental calculations, stretched out and said with a smile: "Sister Xiaohui, why don't we make a bet? I bet that Lao Zheng came here to discuss taking over the project with me. The subject content comes down.”

Zhou Xiaohui pursed her lips and smiled: "I won't gamble."

Everyone in the company knows that Su Yuanshan is always ready to say something, why don't you take a gamble?

But in fact he doesn't even play poker.

…

After lunch, Su Yuanshan did not take a nap as usual, but started writing and drawing in his notebook.

Since he could guess that Zheng Zhenchuan came to him to discuss the topic, he had to make preparations in advance.

In my memory, the next lithography machine project of Chengguang Institute was completed in 1997, and the 0.8~1 micron node was conquered.

Logically speaking, it took four years to complete it under the conditions of blockade, which is not bad. But at that time, the mainstream international lithography machine light sources had entered the field of DUV deep ultraviolet light sources, and the process had also entered the 0.25 micron node, and was conquering the 0.18 micron process node based on the ARF193 nanometer light source.

At the same time, the EUV Extreme Ultraviolet Alliance has also been established in the west, with a long-term goal of 10 nanometers.

In contrast, domestic lithography machines that still use mercury lamp g-line light sources are hopelessly backward in terms of technology and prospects, so much so that in the next fifteen years, lithography machines were never mentioned in China.

But Su Yuanshan knew that ARF193+ infiltration type could be used until 2020!

The current lithography machine that has been completed is a 1.5 micron node, which is three to four generations behind the most advanced ones. If we continue to follow the original pace, it will take more than ten years to catch up.

So Su Yuanshan decided to urge Zheng Zhenchuan to abandon visible light no matter what.

And if you want to build a light source, you have to recruit Chengguang Institute, Changguang Institute.

(The nodes I wrote from memory are probably correct... I’ll check again and I’ll correct them if there are any problems)