The rise of nanometers

It was right next to the hinterland of the United States, just over two thousand kilometers away from California, and it was so easy to come and go with such swagger.

This situation is like a sword of Damocles hanging above your head and may fall down at any time.

When your fist is stronger, it means that you will benefit more and others will be more tolerant of you.

, the atmosphere of the National Day Golden Week became more lively, with more and more people, and the spirit of the citizens of a powerful country became more and more obvious.

It's the second day of the National Day Golden Week.

Huawei held a new product launch conference in Pengcheng, launching Honor mobile phones, Huawei mobile phones, and a tablet computer.

It seems that everyone has agreed. ZTE released two high-low matching mobile phones and a desktop computer on the 3rd; on the same day, Great Wall Computer launched the Great Wall C-1 desktop computer.

Tongfang, Shenzhou, and Leishen (Haier) followed closely behind and also launched their own notebook computers.

Plus new servers from Inspur and Sugon.

Even Xiaomi, which has not yet completed the integration of its mobile phone business, has officially announced a concept phone of Xiaomi mobile phone, which will be launched on the market before the end of this year.

In an instant, the domestic mobile phone computers and servers in the country showed a blowout. Although mobile computers all use Fuxi CPU, joint GPU and micron screen, each company is still trying to reflect its own unique style as much as possible.

Faced with the onslaught of domestic mobile phones and computers, coupled with the procurement of units and state-owned enterprises, Dell, HP, Sony, Apple, Liangxiang and Asus have been eliminated, and the basic market has been won by domestic computers.

Google’s Android mobile phone camp is currently used by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Liangxiang.

The newly-started Meizu and OV manufacturers have chosen the Fuxi series very wisely. After all, they still want to compete in the domestic market. If they cannot capture the patriotism of the people and support the Android series, that is the way to die.

Even Transsion, which has been focusing on the African market, has begun preparing Fuxi system mobile phones. The trend of localization is basically unstoppable.

This forced Apple to use price cuts to cope with the onslaught of domestic mobile phones.

However, Apple's recent troubles are not only facing the fierce pursuit of domestic mobile phones. Steve Jobs passed away due to cancer on October 5, and Cook took over as Apple's president.

At this critical moment, Apple's soul founder passed away, casting a shadow over Apple's interior. The pressure of internal and external difficulties made Cook feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Huang Xiuyuan, who had just returned to Shanmei, was not surprised to hear that Steve Jobs had passed away.

Instead, they continued to mobilize their troops and began to prepare for all-out efforts, without giving Western Semiconductors a chance to breathe. In addition to the just-launched tablet computer, another new product of Dragon Totem Company is already ready for launch.

Huang Xiuyuan, Lu Xuedong and Zhang Weixin came to Gongxin Town in Shanmei together.

Inside the semiconductor base.

Miao Guozhong's team, who was previously responsible for the development of Glass Dragon optical discs, has been trying to improve the unit storage capacity of glass optical discs and solve the fatal shortcoming of glass optical discs - rewriteability.

As long as the problem of copying glass optical disks is solved, tape disks, hard disks and USB flash drives will receive a fatal blow and be completely swept into the garbage heap.

In July this year, when Huang Xiuyuan just visited the north, Miao Guozhong's team successfully increased the unit storage capacity of glass optical discs by about 1.2 times.

Huang Xiuyuan stopped stressing on technology and mentioned several key technical nodes, which allowed Miao Guozhong's team to make rapid progress in research on rewritable glass optical discs.

As soon as he returned to Shanmei from the north, Lu Xuedong came to his door and said that the glass optical disc had achieved a breakthrough.

in a high-purity semiconductor laboratory.

Miao Guozhong took out a piece of crystal clear glass from the workbench: "Chairman, fortunately you have fulfilled your mission. This is the Lilong-3 storage device we just developed."

After taking the piece of glass, Huang Xiuyuan observed it casually for a while and asked, "How fast is it for repeated erasing?"

Miao Guozhong replied without hesitation: "It's very fast. The writing speed of a single head per second is 37-44MB per second. Erasing data depends on how to erase it. If it is formatted erasure, hundreds of gigabytes of data can only be erased." It takes more than ten seconds. If it is a fine erasure, the speed is about 4 to 6G per second."

Putting down the glass piece in his hand, Huang Xiuyuan asked a question: "How much does the burner and reader cost currently?"

Only Zhang Weixin, who was in charge of Dragon Totem, understood this aspect of the problem. He stood up and replied:

"Chairman, due to large-scale mass production, the prices of laser recorders and readers have dropped a lot. The cost of a laser recorder is about 6,700 to 8,300 yuan; a single-head reader is 85 yuan. "

“What about miniaturization?”

"The reader can already be the size of a button, and the recorder can only compress it so much for the time being..." After Zhang Weixin finished speaking, he found the latest research and development schedule on the tablet.

Huang Xiuyuan took a look. The minimum size of the recorder is currently only 24×12×5, and the unit is centimeters, just like a brick.

"It will take some time for the recorder on the mobile phone." Lu Xuedong said at the side, raising his glasses.

Zhang Weixin nodded: "Yes, it can only be used on desktop computers at present, and the cost is very high. It is estimated that it can only be equipped on high-end computers."

Huang Xiuyuan didn't make it too difficult for them. The previous recorder was as big as a desktop computer case, but now it is compressed to the size of a brick, which shows that the researchers have worked very hard.

"Then prepare to launch the desktop version of Lilong-3!"

"I will arrange it as soon as possible." After Zhang Weixin finished speaking, he called up a research report on the tablet: "Chairman, this is an improved version of Lilong-1."

Huang Xiuyuan looked at it carefully for a while, then touched his chin and started thinking.

The so-called improved version of Lilong-1 is actually a compromise. Because the storage density of glass optical discs is very high, the technology and processes required for readers, writers, and recorders have also been improved.

If the storage density is reduced, the process requirements of the reader and recorder can be reduced a lot. Not only will the cost be much cheaper, but the size can also be further reduced.

In this way, the size of the recorder can be reduced to a level suitable for mobile phones, notebooks, and tablets.

Huang Xiuyuan raised his head and asked: "Guozhong, how much do you think it is appropriate to reduce the storage density?"

"..." Miao Guozhong thought carefully for a while and replied: "Chairman, I think it is more appropriate to reduce the storage density per square centimeter to 8G."

Huang Xiuyuan hesitated: "8G? Is it too little? You must know that the current memory can reach 32G."

Regarding this problem, Miao Guozhong thought for a while before coming up with an idea: "In fact, it can be solved through another method."

"what way?"

Miao Guozhong replied directly: "The storage capacity can be increased by increasing the area of ​​the glass disc."