1991 Starting from the core

"By the way, Lao Li." Su Yuanshan felt that it was necessary to remind Li Mingliu: "Although today's meeting is only attended by corporate cadres affiliated with Yuanxin, the content of the meeting will still be sent to relevant units such as Deyuan and Zhongxin. We Just saying nice things doesn't mean that you really don't care at all. There are many employees on Deyuan Island, so you should pay more attention there."

"Yes, I understand." Li Mingliu nodded: "Actually, last month, Dr. Zhang Rujin and I discussed setting up a hometown association to organize caring activities and so on."

Su Yuanshan pondered for a while and then nodded: "Yes, the island also has the customs of southern Fujian, so I still care about this."

The hometown association is a bit of a double-edged sword. To put it bluntly, it is an unofficial organization where fellow villagers living in different places form a group to keep warm and solve problems together. If done well, everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. If done poorly, or if the "guiding ideology" is wrong, it can easily become a "gang" that bullies others.

However, Deyuan is full of engineers and technicians. If the scope is only determined within the wafer factory or technology company industry, then the personnel situation will be relatively less complicated and there will be no problems. The benefits are obvious - at least it can stabilize the mood of the island's employees.

After all, there are rumors everywhere that there is going to be a "war."

At this time, Xi Xiaoding touched Su Yuanshan again: "How long do you think this confrontation will last?"

"That depends on how the lighthouse side reacts." Su Yuanshan licked his lips and sighed: "This kind of thing, to be honest, is still an issue with the lighthouse side - forget it, let's not talk about it."

"But it will always affect us." Tian Yaoming sighed: "I'm afraid it will take a lot more trouble to introduce technology in the future."

"Well, fortunately, we completed many projects last year, and our relationship with Niguo is also good. Semiconductors are not only available in the United States. Ten years ago, not only the semiconductor industry, but also the manufacturing industry was dominated by Niguo people. ——Can you believe that the Lighthouse Country is also boycotting domestic products?”

"The best thing for us now is to keep a low profile and make a fortune in silence. Not to mention other fields, in the chip field, we must maintain the advantages in design and architecture. Especially NAND flash memory, Lao Li, have you seen USB-related fields? Invented. It should be clear that when this thing comes out, it will definitely revolutionize the life of floppy disks - given time, when the capacity and price of flash drives reach a reasonable level, it will definitely revolutionize the life of optical disks."

"Well! We promise to complete the particle tape-out before the end of this year, and then Jiang Tao's control chip should be a step faster. It seems that the tape-out started last month, using a 0.8 micron process." Li Mingliu said in a deep voice: "Then we will just wait. Microsoft’s new Windows operating system is on the market.”

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "Then I feel relieved, but please be careful. The concept of USB flash drive is groundbreaking. It will not only be a groundbreaking product, but also a brand new market field. Therefore, progress is not the most critical Of course, stability and ease of use are the first elements.”

"Xiaoshan, you are so partial..." Tian Yaoming smiled and patted Li Mingliu on the shoulder: "If you urge us, it's like urging us to die. If it were Lao Li, you would just tell me to take your time..."

Li Mingliu just smiled: "Brother Tian, ​​I am not like your mobile phone chip. You have people screaming and waiting for the rice to be cooked. We are giving the market a surprise - can this be the same?"

Everyone also laughed - Li Mingliu was right, but he was also a little wrong.

As early as the year before last, Jiang Tao, the boss of Yuanzhong Microelectronics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhongxin, who was also Gao Xiaodi’s roommate, and Li Mingliu’s team, under the arrangement of Su Yuanshan, were fully involved in U disk control chips and NAND flash memory. field. Now Jiang Tao's control chip uses 0.8 micron, and the manufacturing process and technology are relatively mature, so he took the first step.

Moreover, Jiang Tao was very clever. Soon after Su Yuanshan proposed the idea, he organized people to directly create a USB flash drive, which was a design patent commonly known as "USB flash drive" in the previous life.

At that time, Li Mingliu was very angry because he was also designing. Later, when Su Yuanshan heard about this, he just laughed and comforted Li Mingliu, saying that it should be regarded as a benefit to the "nephew company".

Li Mingliu was also generous - he didn't realize that this benefit was worth at least hundreds of millions.

When Jiang Tao's control chip is successfully taped out, Yuanzhong will use the existing NOR flash memory particles to produce the USB flash drive first. In Su Yuanshan's words, the standards will be set first.

As for what kind of particles will be used in U disks in the future, there is no need to talk nonsense. It will definitely be NAND particles, and they must be produced remotely.

Of course, the applications flashed on the USB flash drive are just one of them.

In fact, it is not only Su Yuanshan who is staring at Li Mingliu's team, but also Yuanxin's strategic partner Sony - precisely because of expectations for NAND flash memory particles, Sony has been going all out to shift to digital products, especially digital cameras. .

Digital cameras, personal computers, printers. With this set, you can build a basic family photo album system. Therefore, when Zhou Xiaohui and Unisplendour contacted Sony and said they planned to get involved in printers, copiers, scanners and other household and office products, the two parties hit it off immediately and soon A collaborative team was formed.

As the go-between for both parties, Zhou Xiaohui was responsible for this kind of full negotiation and decision-making project for the first time. Therefore, she was very cautious and did not even come back to attend this meeting.

——She doesn't need to come back anyway. After all, her status is too special and she is Su Yuanshan's absolute confidant.

After retracting his thoughts, Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "The main thing is to expand the market. Although we are close to Niguo's companies, we can't learn from Niguo and make a product. From the raw materials, we want to open a factory by ourselves, for fear that others will take the money." Profit - we are different, we are involved in many fields and industries, but in each industry and each field, we only focus on the core links that we are good at. The other profits will be given to our partners..."

“Like vertical purchasing?”

"Well, vertical procurement is one kind." Su Yuanshan smiled, then thought for a while and said: "To be precise, in the field of science and technology, we want to become a beacon country in the country."

The other four people were startled at the same time, and they all understood the meaning of Su Yuanshan's words.

Then, Xi Xiaoding was the first to wake up - after all, he had stayed in the Lighthouse Country, and the time was long enough.

"What you mean is that we are only involved in high-end, leading technologies and rely on technology monopoly and leadership to capture most of the market profits?" Xi Xiaoding looked at Su Yuanshan and asked.

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded.

“Leave the hard and dirty work to other companies.”