The rise of nanometers

The door of the French restaurant in Dezhou City was closed, with a seal still attached to it, and the interior seemed deserted.

A Toyota Camry with a Daocheng license plate from Shandong province passed by the road in front of the door in a hurry. The co-pilot of the car, a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses, glanced at the French restaurant with his peripheral vision.

Neither of them said a word in the car. The car circled around Decheng District and then headed towards Beiping.

Thousands of kilometers away in the Strait of Malacca in the South Ocean.

Lion City.

near the city's East Coast Park.

There is an inconspicuous office building with the company's name on it - Yamei Information Consulting Co., Ltd.

At this time in the company's top-level president's office.

A middle-aged white woman in smart clothes was looking through a document with a serious face. After reading the last page, she calmed down:

"George, this is what you achieved this year?"

A bespectacled man with an East Asian appearance raised his glasses with a hint of helplessness in his tone:

"Ms. Gina, I'm very sorry. I have tried my best. Mainly due to the prism incident in April, our power loss in the Asia-Pacific was too great. More than 50% of the lines were broken."

Gina lifted one side of her short hair and sighed: "The funds I applied for are already in place. Please cooperate with Bruce to restore the Asia-Pacific network as soon as possible. If this continues, we will lose the entire Asia-Pacific."

George, the man with glasses, had a headache. After all, many of their lines were connected by a single line. As long as one link in the middle was broken, it would be difficult to recover.

Just as George was about to say something, a middle-aged man smelling of curry walked in.

"Bruce, you came just in time. How is the situation at the Tianzhu branch?"

Curry Man Bruce spread his hands: "It's very bad. The bottom is completely messed up. Only about 64% of the lines can still be used. The other parts have been destroyed."

Gina had never been so miserable. She had been in charge of the Asia-Pacific division for more than six years. She was just about to show off her talents, but she was hit in the head by the Prism incident and was completely trapped.

She wasn't too worried about the affairs at the Tianzhu branch. As long as the funds were sufficient, she would recover soon.

What Gina is most worried about now is the business in China. In the words of Chinese people, it means that the house leaks and it rains all night.

Originally, their Asia-Pacific branch had made many plans at the beginning of this year specifically for the Suiren system, but now they have all been scrapped.

"George, the headquarters hopes that we will get the details of the high-energy materials as soon as possible, as well as the whereabouts of that person."

George, the man with glasses, grabbed his hair and replied very distressedly: "Ms. Gina, the scientific research team of Jinling Institute of Technology, we have collected some materials. They are indeed developing high-energy materials, which are also pure nitrogen compounds as guessed by the headquarters, but it seems have some problem."

"What's the problem?" Gina raised her head and asked.

"Their total nitrogen anion has not been successful, at least according to the information I have, they have not been successful yet." George, the man with glasses, explained.

Bruce, the curry man on the side, interjected: "Is it possible that the other party deliberately spread the false news, or maybe it was developed by another scientific research team?"

George, the bespectacled man, complained: "If it hadn't been for the Prism incident, I wouldn't be so passive now, and there would be no way to start a lot of business."

"Where is that person's location?"

George pulled out an investigation report: "From the 12th to the 14th of this month, he participated in the Integrated Circuit Industry Conference in Peiping, and then disappeared in Peiping. He has several stand-ins. Unless he is a close confidant of the other party, it is difficult to pinpoint the specific location."

"Headquarters asked us to find an opportunity to cause an accident." Gina handed a document to George.

"It's too difficult. The other party is very cautious and has basically no chance to make a move."

Gina was a little angry: "George, if you don't have a chance, you have to create one. This person is too much of a threat."

Faced with this difficult problem, George fell into hard thinking, while Bruce on the side was secretly gloating.

Suddenly, George accidentally saw a document that Bruce had just brought in. He picked it up and browsed it.

"George, why are you reading what I have here?"

George raised his glasses: "I found something interesting, which may be helpful to my mission."

"Do you have a plan?" Gina looked forward to it.

"I have a clue. Give me a few days. I need to do a simulation experiment to see what the success rate is."

"OK!"

…

Look back to Texas.

About 14 kilometers to the southwest from Long Totem’s Texas Phoenix store base is Huawei’s chip industrial park in Texas.

The first batch of external-sale Yiyi-1 jointly manufactured by Long Totem and Snail Industry has been successively distributed to various semiconductor companies since June.

Huawei's chip industrial park currently has three production lines in place, one of which was debugged a few days ago.

Factory interior.

Mr. Ren and Huang Xiuyuan stood next to the production line. More than a dozen technicians were operating various equipment on the production line at various workstations.

This production line can process nanowire chips with a precision of 40 to 60 nanometers, and the output is considerable.

"Is this a radio frequency chip?"

"Yes." Boss Ren nodded.

Looking at the rows of chips that were quickly woven in the vacuum barrier cabin, when the first large piece of chips was cut off, the technician immediately used a laser to cut off the chips one by one.

Then sent to the packaging and sealing inspection workshop.

More than half an hour later, the person in charge of the workshop took a test report and reported to Mr. Ren:

"Mr. Ren, the chip performance and yield rate are in line with expectations."

Boss Ren took it, turned it over, and handed it to Huang Xiuyuan.

Although this is the first time that Huawei's RF chips have been manufactured on its own production line, they have already performed many tape-outs on Long Totem's production line. The design of the chip has been optimized and improved many times and is relatively mature.

Huang Xiuyuan glanced at it and knew the specific performance of this chip: "Not bad, we have won another small piece of the puzzle."

"I heard that Ziguang's storage chip has encountered problems?" Boss Ren asked with concern.

Huang Xiuyuan nodded: "They are too radical. They want to produce high-end products that surpass Samsung and Micron all at once. It is expected that the production will be difficult, but the progress of Yangtze Memory is going very smoothly."

“Has Yangtze Memory been tape-out?”

Returning the test report to Mr. Ren: "The tape-out was just last week. Although there are many minor problems, there are no major problems."

Boss Ren suddenly smiled and asked: "Where are your own chips?"

Huang Xiuyuan was not secretive about this: "Fuxi CPU has completed 82% of the design work, and it will be ready for tape-out testing in September or October."

Regarding this speed, Mr. Ren also had some guesses. After all, the Suiren system was rushing towards domestically produced CPUs from the very beginning. It took more than a year of research and development to come up with a preliminary design plan, which shows that the Suiren system has invested a lot of money.

The two then discussed other things, including the supply schedule of the chip production line and the related chip progress of each partner company.

At noon, Huang Xiuyuan and Mr. Ren went to Dragon Totem's base for dinner.

At the dinner table, CEO Ren was seven to eight cents full and suddenly asked: "Xiuyuan, what does your company think about the next generation of communications?"

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