Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Is this a chip design?"

After carefully reading all the drawings, Song Zhipei took out a few drawings and looked at Xu Huasheng in surprise.

"Yes, teacher, this is a design drawing of a video decoding chip. I designed it myself, and the principle is..."

Xu Huasheng began to tell Song Zhipei about this decoding chip. Song Zhipei also studied chip design, and after Xu Huasheng explained it briefly, Song Zhipei immediately understood what was going on.

"Teacher, these drawings are for the DVD projector I designed. This is a home DVD projector that can be directly connected to your home TV. With this, you only need a TV to turn your home into a home theater. We can watch movies and TV series at home at will..."

Accompanied by Xu Huasheng's explanation, Song Zhipei had a certain understanding of DVD players.

"This thing is indeed a market vacancy..."

Song Zhipei nodded, this thing sounds really good.

"Teacher, some things cannot be solved by adding one more scientist. What China lacks now is not one or two chip scientists, but related industries. Only by building the industry can we promote the development of related foundations. The integration of production, learning and research, production is the most important..."

Xu Huasheng looked at Song Zhipei. He knew his teacher's feelings. But he knew more that compared with a few chip experts, the development of the semiconductor industry was the most important.

"Let's go, follow me to the laboratory..."

Song Zhipei directly picked up the drawings and took Song Zhipei to the school's top laboratory.

As the top university in China, Yenching University is also the largest institution in China that develops semiconductor majors. The equipment in Yenching University's laboratory is still very advanced.

Song Zhipei brought Xu Huasheng to the laboratory, and then Song Zhipei called on several of his students to start rubbing the chip by hand according to Xu Huasheng's design drawings.

Yes, it's rubbing by hand. With the help of the school's equipment, Song Zhipei and his students can rub the chip by hand.

The decoder chip designed by Xu Huasheng uses a relatively excellent design, so the process is not high, so they can still rub it by hand in the laboratory of Yenching University.

The chip designed by Xu Huasheng fully considers the current capabilities of China's semiconductor industry.

At present, China already has a 5-micron wafer factory. In fact, the development of China's semiconductor industry is not late. The Wuxi 742 Factory of the Fourth Machinery Industry, which began construction in 1980, received an investment of 280 million yuan from the State Council. The factory introduced a full set of three-inch semiconductor wafer factories (5-micron technology) from Toshiba, Japan in 1980, and started production in 1982. It is considered to be China's first large-scale semiconductor wafer factory.

The main products of Wuxi 742 Factory are integrated circuits used in the Shaanxi color TV production line.

Starting in 1984, local governments, state-owned enterprises and universities also began to introduce semiconductor wafer factories from abroad. From 1984 to 1990, China successively introduced and built 33 semiconductor wafer factories. However, due to the limitations of the times and many other reasons, most semiconductor wafer factories at that time did not have the ability to form large-scale production and commercial operation.

In the early stage, China's semiconductor industry was not too far behind, including photolithography machines.

Although the chip designed by Xu Huasheng cannot be produced in China at present, with the technical information in Xu Huasheng's mind, Xu Huasheng believes that it can be produced in China as long as it is given some time and money.

After a busy period, Song Zhipei and his team got the things on Xu Huasheng's drawings, and then after some assembly, the world's first DVD player was born.

Song Zhipei led his team to work again and burned a movie disc, which was the classic movie "A Better Tomorrow", and then Song Zhipei took the DVD player and Xu Huasheng back to his home.

When the movie really started playing on the TV at home, Song Zhipei's little heart was pounding.

He didn't expect that this epoch-making thing was really in front of him.

The world's first VCD home DVD player, with the launch of this product in the future, this thing may leave a mark in history.

"Huasheng, maybe you are right."

Song Zhipei looked at Xu Huasheng with pride on his face.

"Teacher, I firmly believe that the future belongs to China. We will have what Europe and America have, and we will also have what Europe and America don't have."

Xu Huasheng's words made Song Zhipei laugh.

"Take this sample back. Take this CD back too."

Song Zhipei said with a smile, and Xu Huasheng nodded.

"Teacher, I want to trouble you with one more thing. I haven't registered the patent for VCD yet. I know you have acquaintances overseas..."

Xu Huasheng's words made Song Zhipei laugh.He laughed.

"Leave this to me, you sort out the patent technology. I have a classmate who is now a lawyer in the United States..."

Song Zhipei nodded. Song Zhipei also attaches great importance to patents. Although China does not pay much attention to this thing now, Song Zhipei knows that patent rights are taken very seriously abroad.

The DVD player must be sold abroad. If there is no patent at that time, it will be very troublesome.

"Okay, teacher, I will go back and sort it out..."

Xu Huasheng trusts Song Zhipei very much. Xu Huasheng knows Song Zhipei's character very well. He has been upright all his life. For such a person, Xu Huasheng is not worried that he will make trouble.

"Son, are you really not going to study abroad?"

Five days later, in Shenzhen, Xu Dabao was holding a black leather bag under his armpit, wearing a pair of black sunglasses, a belt outside the waist, a cigarette in his mouth, half leaning against a black Santana, looking like a nouveau riche.

Seeing Xu Huasheng coming out of the station with his bag, Xu Dabao quickly put out his cigarette and threw it aside, and greeted him with a smile.

"Well, I won't go..."

Looking at his father's dress, Xu Huasheng couldn't help shaking his head.

"Well, it's better not to go. The United States is so far away, it's so inconvenient to go back and forth. I heard that everyone in the United States has guns, it's so chaotic. If you go there and something happens, your mother will eat me. It's good to come back, come back and work with dad. Although our place is not big, it is not a problem to make 100,000 or 80,000 yuan a year. You just enjoy your life in the future. Why do you have to go to school? Your dad and I didn't even graduate from elementary school, but we can make a lot of money..."

Xu Dabao spoke loudly and took Xu Huasheng to the car directly.

In this era, people who can earn 100,000 or 80,000 yuan a year are definitely not ordinary people. You have to know that in this era, the housing price in Shenzhen is only 2,000 yuan per square meter.

100,000 yuan can buy a small house.

If you don't spend all the money you earn recklessly and buy a house, you can live a carefree life as a landlord in twenty years.

"You should smoke less in the future, it's not good for your lungs..."

Xu Huasheng couldn't help nagging at his father who was smoking while driving. Thinking of his father, Xu Huasheng admired him very much. His father is definitely a strange man, no, he is the favorite of God.

His father's hometown is in Henan Province, and it is not an exaggeration to say that his family is so poor that they can't even afford to eat.

My father is the eldest in the family. Because the family is too poor, he dropped out of school early. At the age of twelve, he ran away from home to mix in society.

He has traveled south and north. In his own words, he has done all kinds of work, suffered all kinds of crimes, and was detained several times for speculation.

When he was 22 years old, he met his mother. I don't know how my mother was fooled by him. A delicate and beautiful woman was just wasted by him.

Later, the couple came to Shenzhen and became the first to benefit from the reform.

His family was poor before. Xu Huasheng remembers that when he was a child, his family lived in a small rented house. He really didn't miss those days.

It was only in these few years that the small factory run by his father received a lot of orders and made some money, which made the family rich.