The richest man Yang Fei

Hu Zhibiao came in to report on his work, and said to Yang Fei, "Boss, a geek came from Shencheng to apply for the job. He took your business card and said he was introduced by you."

Yang Fei smiled and said: "I introduced him. You can keep him and use it according to your ability."

Hu Zhibiao said: "He has a serious tone, and he said that he would develop a chip as soon as he came."

"Oh? Really? What else did he say?"

"He said that the semiconductor industry will be the mainstream in the future, and its value is higher than that of oil. If we don't seize the opportunity now, we will definitely rely too much on imported chips in the future. In the future, we will be choked up and unable to turn around."

"Oh? He really said that?"

"Why don't I say that this person is weird! What he said is so unconstrained and unconstrained, it makes people find it funny."

Yang Fei pondered and said, "Mr. Hu, what do you think of this matter?"

Hu Zhibiao said with a smile: "Of course the semiconductor industry is very important, but it is obviously an exaggeration to say that it is more important than oil. How important oil is!"

Yang Fei said: "Mr. Hu, I think this person is very far-sighted. The semiconductor industry may really become our shortcoming in the future, not only our group, but also our country's shortcoming. Although it is easy to use it, once others cut it off What about the route? Where do we go to get it? You see, our current mobile phone factory sounds like a brand factory, but in fact it is an assembly factory, and almost all parts are imported. .If people stop selling us parts, we won’t be able to make phones.”

Hu Zhibiao said: "Isn't it advocating a global village now? The world has become a village, and business can't be globalized? To be honest, many industries are now global cooperation. Among many countries, you produce one part, and I produce one." Parts are then sourced globally and assembled.”

Yang Fei said: "We can hand over to others to do OEM work, but we must master the core technology. Willing to do it or not, and not being able to do it, are two different things."

Hu Zhibiao smiled and said, "Is there any difference?"

Yang Fei said: "It's like nuclear weapons. We can use them, but we can't!"

This metaphor is very simple and easy to understand.

With nuclear weapons, you can deter others, and others dare not bully you casually.

If you don't have it, others will take advantage of you.

This is the same as learning self-defense.

You don't have to fight if you learn it, but if you don't learn it, once you encounter danger, you have no room to fight back.

Hu Zhibiao nodded thoughtfully: "Yes. However, the semiconductor industry, especially chip research, requires a lot of capital investment. And it needs to form an industrial chain. Can we succeed with the efforts of our company alone?"

Yang Fei said: "If you don't work hard, it will never be possible. If you work hard, it will be possible. I have already talked with Li Yi, who is in charge of the electronics industry, and he is willing to support us. Our layout of the optoelectronics factory in Shanghai is just the beginning."

Hu Zhibiao said: "Boss, if you really want to do this, then talent is the most important thing. When Qian Xuesen returned to China, the US said that he could reach one division. To enter the semiconductor industry, we must find the right talents.”

Yang Fei said: "Let's unify our understanding first, and then hold a meeting to study."

Hu Zhibiao said: "The boss is playing a big game of chess! I am a rough man, and I have not read as many books as you. I don't understand the profound knowledge, but I understand the righteousness of the nation. You are right, semiconductor relations When it comes to the most basic industrial lifeline of a country, we cannot allow others to strangle it. Boss, you have made a decision anyway, and I will follow you! I will be your pawn!"

Yang Fei said: "Well, let's hold a meeting first to discuss specific matters. Chen Mo, you go and inform the bosses that the meeting will start in 10 minutes."

Chen Mo looked at the time and said, "It's almost time for lunch."

"There is still half an hour, enough. Two and 10 minutes of meeting time, enough to solve the problem."

Ten minutes later, the first important meeting of Meili Group in 10 was held as scheduled.

All the bosses in the company, all attended the meeting.

Yang Fei said: "Don't waste everyone's time, let me make a long story short."

It took him 3 minutes to explain the company's decision to vigorously develop the semiconductor business.

Yang Fei said again: "Everyone here, there may be some people who don't know much about the word semiconductor, so I'll spend a little more time explaining it."

"Semiconductor refers to a material whose conductivity at room temperature is between that of a conductor and an insulator."

"Semiconductors are used in integrated circuits, consumer electronics, communication systems, photovoltaic power generation, lighting, high-power power conversion and other fields. For example, diodes are devices made of semiconductors."

"No matter from the perspective of technology or economic development, the importance of semiconductors is huge. The core units of most electronic products, such as computers, mobile phones or digital recorders, are closely related to semiconductors It can be said that all new electrical appliances are inseparable from semiconductors."

Everyone listened and nodded to show that they understood.

Yang Feidao: "Common semiconductor materials include silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, etc. Silicon is the most influential one in the application of various semiconductor materials. What is silicon? It is extracted from sand and gravel. What we usually use Most of the rocks, the sand, the silicon is very rich."

Wei Xinyuan said with a smile: "I am very clear about this refining process. First, crude silicon with low purity is produced from quartz sand and coke in an electric arc furnace, and then the crude silicon is converted into volatile and easy-to-purify tetrachloride Silicon or trichlorosilane. Purify sic4 or sihc3 by rectification, and reduce it with hydrogen in an electric furnace to obtain silicon with higher purity. Finally, we use regional melting method to further purify and make high-purity single crystal silicon. Chemical equation , I won’t write about it. Of course, there is also natural silicon in nature.”

Yang Fei said: "As expected of Mr. Wei! You can do it easily and clearly."

Wei Xinyuan said: "Boss, our main business is daily chemicals, and now we want to get involved in semiconductors, which is a completely different field. I'm afraid this kind of cross-border business is not easy to do as expected. Semiconductors are an industry with a lot of investment. "

Yang Fei knew a long time ago that someone would definitely raise objections, and the first one to raise it must be Wei Xinyuan, as expected!

Chapter 2306 Technology from aliens!

Wei Xinyuan glanced at Yang Fei and continued: "Cross-border development is not bad. The mobile phone factory we built before is very good. For ordinary companies, low-end production and assembly are enough. Yes. Now what we are going to do is a brand new industry field, and it is a high-tech industry. How can we do it? Please forgive me, semiconductor research and development requires a lot of financial and human resources. This is not a private company. Businesses can afford it."

Han Yiyi smiled and said: "Mr. Wei, you are a little pessimistic when you say that, isn't it? No matter how difficult it is to make semiconductors, is it different for other countries and companies? Nuclear weapons are so difficult, and we have independently researched them. "

Yang Fei let them argue. There are some things that cannot be understood without arguing.

Therefore, he sat upright with a smile and did not interrupt.

Wei Xinyuan said: "Nuclear weapons are difficult to make, but there is something even more difficult than nuclear weapons. It's like the optoelectronics factory we are currently laying out. Do you know what kind of machine this is going to produce? Photolithography machine!"

Everyone looked at him blankly.

Wei Xinyuan chuckled: "It seems that everyone knows nothing about lithography machines?"

Han Yiyi said: "Mr. Wei, just spread it for us."

Wei Xinyuan said: "We just talked about nuclear weapons, so let's use nuclear weapons as a metaphor. A lithography machine is like a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in weapons! Our country can't even build an aircraft carrier, let alone a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier! We have to Building a lithography machine is as difficult as it is for a country to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier."

Han Yiyi asked Yang Fei, "Boss, is what Mr. Wei said correct?"

Yang Fei said: "Not very accurate."

Han Yiyi smiled and said, "Let me just say, it's just a lithography machine, how can it be so difficult?"

Yang Fei said: "I mean, it's not accurate to compare a lithography machine to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. At least, the United States can build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier alone, but they can't build a more advanced lithography machine. .”

what?

Everyone was stunned!

Is it more difficult than building a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier?

Is it that hard?

Yang Feidao: "The top lithography machine in the world requires the cooperation of the top high-tech companies in many countries to develop it. The research and development funds are as high as tens or even tens of billions of dollars. A machine can sell for more than 1 million dollars. A company can only produce dozens of units a year. Because this machine needs [-] parts, these [-] parts come from many high-tech companies around the world, covering many modern technologies such as optics, electricity, physics, and chemistry. In the field of science and technology. It can be said that this is a product of modern technology, and some people even describe it as technology from aliens!"