Black technology starts from the steel suit

Chapter 111 Chapter 111 The Era of Giants

"In the cooperation with the enterprises on the front line of global competition, I feel very deeply about this large-scale shift in R&D trends. The era of small enterprises has completely passed. I don’t know how many companies have died in the past 10 years. I believe you have given more or less guidance. Basically, only a few companies with core competitiveness can stay, and they are all dominated by giants."

"Even if local enterprises have support, blood transfusion can only ensure that the enterprise will not die, but it will not survive. Why?"

"The reason is simple, because in this world, just being alive is not enough. Running a business is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Not only must you be alive, you must also be active, but every move of a business requires money , the most important thing is research and development, which is the most expensive activity, especially for technology companies.”

"Several millions or even tens of millions can't make anything decent. You have to spend hundreds of millions and tens of billions to hear a little movement. For example, the semiconductor industry we are most familiar with is like this."

"We won't talk about other design work, design tools, team leaders, etc., let's just talk about material costs."

"After the chip is designed, we have to make it? Some time ago, the industrial robot control system solution we designed has made a great breakthrough, so we commissioned HiSilicon to design a dedicated chip. After the design, we want to find SMIC will do a tape-out."

"Then what we didn't expect was that we needed to send an extra sum of money to HiSilicon, or SMIC. I was quite curious at the time, because we had quite enough money for HiSilicon, why did we have to call again? money?"

"Then they told us that the cost of tape-out this time is 12 billion RMB, which is still the cost of optical tape-out. After a full set of tests, there are several such figures. Do you think a small company can afford a tape-out failure? ?”

"No, even if a state-owned enterprise giant like us loses billions or billions at a time, it is definitely not a small number!" Manager An thought for a while and replied cautiously. Although state-owned enterprises do not have bankruptcies or closures, However, such a large loss will definitely affect their careers, and it is not impossible for some serious ones to retire directly or even pursue accountability.

"You see, this is it, so it is absolutely impossible to make such a result without a large investment. The supporter behind us, Huaneng Battery, is barely a giant, and the Lithium Battery Research Institute with CSC capacitors, It can barely be regarded as a giant in the laboratory, but it is still far from a laboratory like Bell."

"In addition to semiconductors, it is also a good example in the field of power systems that we are familiar with, and this is an example where we have a comparative advantage." Wang Feng said, after hitting the confidence of Manager An and others, he still wanted to give The other party has a little hope that can be seen.

"Is it UHV power transmission technology?" Manager An could guess at a glance, there was nothing he was more familiar with than them.

"That's right, our ultra-high voltage power transmission technology is leading in the world, and even foreigners must use our power transmission technology, otherwise their power system will be like Texas's, which is rotten and unusable!"

"Why do we let the whole world speak English, but only speak Chinese in the field of electric power? It is because we have established an absolute technological advantage, which has nothing to do with the tens of thousands of patents we apply for every year. Big, only the core technology of the power system is relevant.”

"Although I don't know how much you spent on this project, I believe that you must have invested a huge amount of money, not even less than what we spent on the high-speed rail."

"What does this mean? It means that we must have an area where we have an absolute advantage, and this absolute advantage can never be achieved with a small amount of money, nor can it be achieved by a small company. It must be a giant enterprise that bets on its own enterprise." Only with your own destiny can you make it happen!”

"This is not a problem of too many people, but a problem of the field. Just like you in the field of UHV power transmission, we also have to invest huge sums of money in the field of energy storage materials to achieve technological leadership and comprehensive advantages. Our investment is not just in the air.”

Wang Feng's words spoke to their hearts. Although State Grid's reputation is not obvious, they really invested huge sums of money in the research field, although it was only to solve their own problems at that time.

But when it comes to high-speed rail technology, they are also convinced. After all, CRRC's high-speed rail is the only one that has been better than the world's output power technology in recent years.

"Our high-speed rail has grown from scratch, and from what has become strong, what has happened in the middle? Why can CRRC become the strongest player in the world?"

"The reason will be clear when you look at the financial statements. CRRC's revenue this year will reach 230 billion euros. The No. 2 is Germany's Siemens Rail Division with 78 billion euros. The third is France's Alstom Rail. 76 billion euros, fourth is Canada’s Bombardier with 70 billion euros, fifth is Neon Hitachi Orbital with 38 billion euros, and sixth is Neon Kawasaki with only one billion euros.”

"This is the power of scale. CRRC's revenue scale has reached the sum of No. 4, No. [-] and No. [-]!"

"And with the rapid rise of CRRC, from Siemens to Alstom, their performance is declining every year, and their market share is constantly being eroded by CRRC."

"Some trolls on the Internet always say that my country's high-speed rail uses foreign technology."

"This kind of ignorance is really terrible. When we didn't have it at the beginning, of course we had to import technology from abroad, but the current situation is that after CRRC grows bigger, its research and development investment exceeds the sum of other players in the world, and it has embarked on the road of independent research and development. .”

"As the scale of CRRC becomes larger and the investment in research and development becomes higher and higher, other competitors will feel more and more difficult, and they will not be able to catch up."

"So everyone can see that money is really a good thing. Only with money can there be R&D, only with R&D can progress be made, and only with progress can there be a market."

"The neon Kawasaki track I just mentioned, they delivered 2018 eight locomotives to the Washington Metro in May 5, all of which were exposed to serious quality problems."

"why?"

"Isn't it because Kawasaki has no money, cut corners and materials to make more money, and they even want to quit the market competition and sell the factory to their old rival Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Rail can swallow Kawasaki?"

"I don't think so, because Hitachi can't beat CRRC at all, and it's about to lose its pants."

"It can be seen that the so-called high quality of neon manufacturing is a complete joke. It is just because they once dominated the market and had the ability to invest heavily in research and development. If our country's companies can also achieve market dominance, the things they create will be absolutely No worse than them."

"In this world, there are only two countries whose R&D investment accounts for more than [-]% of their GDP. One is Israel and the other is South Korea."

"And their international competitiveness is obvious to all, especially Israel, which has a population of only 870 million, and if you walk a few steps from Israel to the surrounding area, you will directly enter the war zone. The environment is as bad as it is."

"But even in such a harsh environment, Israel has emerged with a large number of high-tech companies with the highest proportion of R&D investment in the world, and has always occupied a place in global competition."

Everyone nodded one after another. If it is said that Israel is far away and not well understood, then South Korea is a blunt example.

Many people probably don't know that there are reasons for South Korea's rise. Their research and development investment ratio is the second highest in the world, and [-]% of their annual GDP is used for research and development.

Sweden ranks third, with R&D investment accounting for [-]% of GDP. Although it is a full percentage point behind South Korea, it has a solid accumulation and a much stronger foundation than South Korea.

Israel is indeed relatively low, but Sweden and South Korea are living examples. Even the United States has to rely on part of Sweden's high-tech. This is no joke; as for South Korea, a Samsung will abuse domestic manufacturers.
"We still have a long way to go to realize the strategy of strengthening our country through science and technology, and this road can be achieved by no means relying on the efforts of a few scientists and a few technological breakthroughs. What is needed is our This is the cornerstone of changes in the entire scientific research environment."

"One is research and development. The only solution to this problem is to continue to invest heavily. There is no other way to go."

"The other one is the treatment and social status, which must be improved. You can't let a person who engages in atomic bombs be inferior to a person who sells tea eggs, so what's the point of that?"

"We all understand these principles, but, Professor Wang, you have to know that we also have difficulties." Manager An said helplessly.

"Don't always mention difficulties. Why don't you mention your conditions? What is a monopolistic state-owned enterprise? Can you show your courage?"

"For such a large company, it only pays 30 yuan a year to recruit a doctoral student. I'm ashamed to say that you, the research institute does not provide accommodation, and you are still in a big city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. What if you just find a foreign company and it still doesn't have 20 yuan The income in dollars, and you don’t have to work overtime!”

"Science and technology work is not a dinner party, nor is it a sophistication of the world. If you have this ability, you have this ability. If you are yes, you are yes, and if you are no, you are no. There is no allowable deviation at all. You should know this."

"Our country invests very little in the field of scientific research. If it doesn't reach the cutting edge, the consequences are predictable." Wang Feng said that his temper came up: "As for those people who eat vegetarian food, let them die!"

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