"Zhou Minran"?Hearing this name, Xiao Zheng's heart skipped a beat. Liu Shisen also noticed it, and the two exchanged glances. 。Since there were so many people around, the two of them didn't speak and just waited for Zhou Minran to arrive. 。Only Xiao Hua had already called, "Min Ran, please come to the meeting room. There are some leaders and friends here today, could you help introduce them?" 。After about three or four minutes, a woman in a short-sleeved white coat came in. 。She was at least one meter seventy-five tall, with short hair and a sharp shoulder line. She wasn't wearing any extra jewelry and didn't greet anyone like someone who was good at socializing. Instead, she sat down beside Xiao Huahua and asked, "Xiao Jie, is there anything you need me to say?"
This Zhou Minran was clearly Xiao Huahua's research staff member, but instead of calling her "Xiao Dong," she called her "Xiao Jie." 。Xiao Hua smiled and said, "Minran, you are mainly responsible for chip research. Tell us about the purpose of our chip development and the required investment." 。Zhou Minran simply replied: “Okay.” 。"Xiao Hua then smiled at everyone and said, "Zhou Minran is the director of our company's chip center. Please let her introduce herself to everyone." 。At this point, both Xiao Zheng and Liu Shisen were wondering in their hearts if this Zhou Minran was the same one who resigned from the National Engineering Academy and claimed to be the "first female hacker," Zhou Minran? 。"Zhou Minran said, "Xiaojie, no, since I'm formally introducing myself to everyone, I should still call you 'Ms. Xiao'," 。Mr. Xiao's company, at the beginning, only made smartphones. 。As everyone knows, the smartphone industry is just booming right now. Every phone produced sells instantly, and production can't keep up. 。'Deepstar Technology's' phones have their own designs, all you need to do is find someone to manufacture them. A single phone has over 1500 parts, most of which are imported from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The higher the precision, the more reliant we are on foreign countries, especially for the highest-precision components – the chips! In chip development, China's technology lags far behind the international level; we currently can't produce them at all. Right now, our cooperation with other countries is still quite good. After all, smartphones are only just emerging, and semiconductor companies in the US, Europe, Japan, South Korea, etc., are all vying to sell us chips. Cooperation is relatively smooth so far. 。In fact, all we have to do is take their chips and assemble them with other parts, and a phone is ready. Each phone earns hundreds to thousands of dollars, it's easy now!
But Mr. Xiao insists on doing something that's hard and thankless. 。She said she would develop and produce her own chips. 。So, all the money she made selling phones is now going into chip research and development, and it's still not nearly enough. 。<<>>。In this year, only government and enterprise personnel just began using comfortable touchscreen smartphones. As for the chips used in smartphones, most people didn't even have a concept of them. 。Liu Shisen, Fang Ya, and Xiao Zheng are government leaders, so they naturally know some things, but they don't understand them very well. 。As for Teng Bin, the secretary of the Guangdong Political and Legal Affairs Commission, he was still serving as the mayor of Shenzhen two or three years ago. He knows more about the smartphone industry, so naturally understands that when smartphones first emerged, Shenzhen's mobile phone companies mainly relied on "taking what is available," assembling components produced by others and selling them for a profit, making a lot of money without much effort. 。Are there any other companies that would painstakingly develop sophisticated chips? And this kind of high-tech technology and products aren't something you can just develop if you want to!
Therefore, Teng Bin was not optimistic about "Deep Star Technology" being able to achieve anything in chip research and production! At this moment, only Mayor Xiao Zheng from Xihe Head asked: "Director Zhou, I would like to ask, you just said that our chip technology has a big gap with the United States, Japan, South Korea, etc., mainly in what aspects?"
Zhou Minran glanced at Xiao Zheng, knowing that he was an outsider to this industry and technology, so she tried to explain it as simply as possible: "Let me put it this way, chip production has three crucial stages: the design stage, where you determine the function, appearance, and needs of a chip; the manufacturing stage, where the physical chip is created; and the packaging stage, where the finished chip is protected and connected to external circuits. >>>。This area could have easily caught up with international advanced levels, but chip design requires using specialized design software. 。And most design software is produced in the US, and we have almost a blank slate in this area. 。Without these advanced design software, our design work would be impossible. 。To achieve the autonomy of a design software is quite difficult. 。Second is the production stage, with chip lithography machines. 。Currently, the most advanced lithography machines are produced in the Netherlands. 。We have long been engaged in fierce competition on crude machines, but there hasn't been much breakthrough on precise instruments and machines. 。Currently, we can't produce a single one of these high-precision lithography machines. 。
Thirdly, it's about ensuring product quality during mass production. How do we guarantee the pass rate in the inspection stage? This is also very important. 。Of course, we haven't broken through the first two yet, so we don't need to consider the third stage at all. 。Zhou Minran is indeed an expert in this field, but she doesn't seem to be confined to her profession. She can explain complex issues in a way that everyone can understand! Liu Shisen asked again: "Xiao Dong, I heard Xiao Zheng say that your company now needs financing. Where do you plan to use it? How much do you want to raise? Today, our Teng Bin secretary is also here. He was the mayor of Shenzhen and knows many people from the big four banks and investment banks." 。Xiao Hua cast a glance at Teng Bin. She hadn't met him before. 。Because Xiao Hua chose to develop her company in Shenzhen, she was drawn to the city's thriving atmosphere, its abundance of tech talent and its concentrated workforce. She wasn't particularly interested in socializing with officials. 。。Next, we will invest in introducing automated production lines to assemble phones. This will shorten the assembly time from half an hour to less than ten minutes, significantly increasing our phone output and earning potential. On one hand, this allows us to expand our scale, and on the other, it enables us to improve employee benefits. The remaining funds will be invested in chip research and development. 。Secondly, direct financing is channeled into chip research and development. 。On this point, Minran has already introduced to everyone just now. 。Currently, we don't know when we'll successfully develop precision chips or how much funding it will require. However, this is something we absolutely have to do. 。Although we can currently import chips smoothly from other countries, what if one day our mobile phone industry develops and expands to the whole world, causing a huge impact on the mobile phone industries of countries like the US, South Korea, and Japan? Will they still be willing to sell us chips as they do now? What if they cut us off and refuse to supply us in the future? This is something we absolutely have to do!
As for how much funding we want, I think the more the better. At a minimum, we need 500 million. 。Upon hearing this, everyone agreed that Xiao Huahua made a lot of sense and had a farsighted perspective. 。It's just that doing this, I'm afraid the future is really uncertain. 。Borrowing 500 million, or attracting 500 million in investment, wasn't a huge amount. But the success of their chip research was anyone's guess!
At this moment, Xiongqi's secretary Yang Jie had already secretly checked his phone many times. 。It was past five o'clock in the afternoon by now. He had just received a text message from Secretary Xiong saying that he was already at customs and would be able to meet Xiao Zheng and the others on time around six thirty. 。Now, Provincial Party Committee Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs Teng Bin is still with them. Will Teng Bin be accompanying them later? Or should we find an excuse for him to leave? What kind of excuse should we use? For a moment, Yang Jie hasn't found the best way. 。"Teng Secretary, 'Deep Star Technology' is just like this! See, could you help coordinate with local banks or investment institutions to support 'Deep Star Technology'? " Teng Bin said, "I'll make a phone call and ask some friends in the financial world?" Liu Shisen said, "Please do, we're waiting for you" 。Then Teng Bin picked up his phone and went out, the secretary following behind him. 。
During this waiting time, Xiao Zheng couldn't help but ask Zhou Minran: "Director Zhou, were you from the National Engineering Academy before?" Zhou Minran was slightly surprised and asked, "How do you know?" Xiao Zheng looked at Liu Shisen, who smiled and said, "It really answers your words, 'After all one's efforts are in vain, once found, no effort is needed.'" 。"I looked everywhere for you, couldn't find you, and ended up finding you at Sister Cat's company!"
Xiao Huahua nervously said, "What do you want with Minran? Don't even think about poaching her, Minran is our company's technical trump card!"
"How could we possibly do that?" Liu Shisen comforted Xiao Huahua, "We just wanted Minran to help us with something" 。"Whose people are you to dig up? I'll get into a fight with whoever dares!" With Liu Shisen saying this, Xiao Hua was relieved and asked, "What can Min Ran help you with?"Before Liu Shisen and Xiao Zheng could answer, the Secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs, Teng Bin, and his secretary, pushed open the door and came in. He said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Secretary Liu, Minister Fang, I just called the general managers of the four major banks in Shenzhen, the general manager of the largest investment bank in Shenzhen, and several bosses of technology investment companies..." 。They indicated that they would invest or lend money if “Shenxing Technology” only focused on smartphone production and didn’t engage in chip development. 。The manufacturing and sales of cell phones is still a highly profitable industry with quick returns and high profits! However, they are not optimistic about chip development. 。They all think that chip R&D is a bottomless pit, and domestic companies can't develop chips comparable to those of US, Korean, and Japanese companies! So, they all suggest that it's better to honestly make money from assembling and selling phones! Mr. Xiao, what do you think?"
Xiao Huahua shook his head resolutely: "I cannot agree to this request." 。As I said before, chip R&D is our top priority! We would rather not accept anyone's investment or loans than give up on chip R&D!
"Then you're out of luck" 。"Teng Bin said, "Liu Secretary, Fang Minister, all I can do is this." 。I just received a task. A leader from Hua Jing will be visiting tonight, and I need to go there to receive them. 。"Well then, I'll be taking my leave. You guys should explore Shen City more, see more of it!"
Liu Shisen stood up and shook Teng Bin's hand. "It wasn't easy for you, Secretary Teng. Our little personal matter is nothing to worry about. Go ahead and get back to work." 。Yang Jie let out a sigh of relief. With Teng Bin gone, the fact that Xiong Secretary, Liu Shisen, Fang Ya, and Xiao Zheng had met could be kept secret from the public! Next Chapter

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