Luo Jia had just hung up Wang Liguo's video call, and An Ran walked into his office with a smile and said to Luo Jia, "Are you in contact with Old Wang just now?"

"Yes, ask him about the situation in Europe."

"How is the situation? The piranha in Lake Constance should have been cleaned up, right?"

Luo Jia thought for a while, "The spread of piranhas has been controlled. As for the complete cleaning, it remains to be seen. After all, the lake is very large and no one can guarantee that there will be no fish that misses the net."

"Seeing how happy you look today, are there any new progress?"

An Ran stretched and said, "You guessed that our passive components project has officially ended the laboratory stage. If you feel there is no problem, start the engineering stage."

Luo Jia was slightly stunned and said excitedly, "Has the passive components come out? This is a great thing. Let's go and have a look."

The two left the main building and went to the laboratory.

It is June now, and the sun is getting hotter and hotter. As the temperature rises, the national electricity consumption is also growing rapidly.

"It is said online that by July 1st, the electricity price will be reduced by another cent. Is this true?" An Ran put on a pergola in his hand, glanced at the sun in the sky, and asked Luo Jia.

Luo Jia said, "It seems that the national team is planning this way, but you also know that after a power generation array is built, it will take several months to six months for safety reasons before the power department will officially accept it."

"Considering that the peak period for residents' electricity consumption has arrived, if the electricity price can be lowered before the summer, the people will definitely welcome it. However, if that is the case, the trial operation time must be shortened and the power generation device will be accepted in advance, which will be some risks."

Anran lived by the beach for several months for the new energy project. He was very familiar with the process and had rules in everything. He did not agree with connecting the newly built power generation array in advance. Anyway, the world's lowest electricity price will be realized sooner or later, which is quite urgent. Some of the authorities are too anxious to take credit.

In any case, the sharp drop in electricity prices is always a good thing that the people like, and its role in promoting the economy is extremely far-reaching.

In fact, the national team's power generation projects are not profitable, and it is good to be able to break even. However, the low electricity price makes everyone feel happy. At the same time, the development of industry and commerce has increased taxes, which is a bit like the East is not bright in the West.

Not long after, Luo Jia saw many small things of different shapes in the electrical laboratory, which were placed on a tray with test numbers written on it.

Simply put, passive components are the general term for products such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, filters, couplers, and harmonics.

Any electronic components that do not consume electricity and can convert electricity into different forms of energy, only need to input signals and work normally without adding external power, belong to the category of passive components.

In the entire field of technology, passive components are widely used. If you disassemble electronic products such as mobile phones or computers, you will find that in addition to chips and caches, there are many small things like ants on the circuit board, which are passive components.

Luo Jia took tweezers, picked up an mlcc in the tray, looked carefully under the light, then put down the little thing, took out his Huawei folding phone, shook it in front of An Ran and said, "Do you know how many mlcc are used in this phone?"

An Ran shook her head.

Luo Jia said, "Mr. Yu told me that I used 739 mlcc of Neon Murata Company. You know, this is just a mobile phone, and it is more used in the computer. Don't look at this thing as small, it has a sales of 22 billion US dollars a year."

An Ran grabbed her hair helplessly. Passive components consumed huge domestically and produced huge amounts, but there were always several important categories that were unable to reach the world's first-class level for a long time.

For example, the mlcc that Luo Jia just mentioned is a major shortcoming in the field of passive components in my country.

The Chinese name of mlcc is called chip multi-layer ceramic capacitors, ceramic capacitors and aluminum capacitors. They are currently in a monopoly state by Japan and South Korea. Neon Murata and South Korea Samsung account for 52% of the global market share. The third place is Wanwan Province Guoju, with a market share of 13%, followed by Neon Sunlight, TDK and other manufacturers.

An Ran complained, "If it's not that there is no way, we really don't want to make passive components. This is not the reason for the complexity, but there are too many categories and there is a shortage of upstream raw materials. We have to do everything ourselves, and we don't even have a helper."

Luo Jia didn't say anything. Semiconductors and all the fields involved in Star Technology before were different. Take electric vehicles for example. Although China is not too strong, it is also a big player in electric vehicles. What they lack is just a few key technologies. Star Technology takes action to help make up for technical shortcomings, and this industry will be competitive and grow rapidly.

But semiconductors are different, they are definitely different!

The problem facing Xingchen Technology now is that from beginning to end, it has to do everything itself, not only does it have production machines, but also small things like passive components.

"Come on a little bit." Luo Jia said to An Ran: "Since the laboratory stage is over, let Xingchen Electric send someone to start the engineering and trial production stages immediately."

Anran added: "Star Chemistry also needs to come in. Upstream raw materials such as resistive slurry, conductive slurry, and ruthenium slurry, and require several lines of Star Chemistry."

Luo Jia was speechless. An Ran almost forgot that until now, the upstream materials of high-end passive components have been monopolized by giants, and Xingchen Technology also needs to do it by itself. Fortunately, Luo Jia has a super subsidiary, Xingchen Chemical.

After continuous mergers and reorganizations, Xingchen Chemical already has tens of thousands of employees, second only to chemical giants such as BASF, North America DuPont, and Neon Xinyue.

In other words, Star Technology's subsidiary also has the combat power of the Fortune 500 level in the world.

"Then let Xingchen Chemistry add it too." Luo Jia decided: "How big is the scale we have finally determined?"

An Ran said with a wry smile, "We need at least six raw materials upstream and more than 1,000 passive component models downstream. There are 460 types of mlcc alone. However, China does not have the ability to manufacture mlcc, so all need Xingchen Electric to open a production line. This is not a calculation for processing machinery for making passive components."

"What a fucking trouble." Luo Jia muttered.

"That's not true." An Ran said, "The smaller the thing, the more troublesome it is. Moreover, the passive components are not even the core area of ​​the semiconductor field, but just peripheral auxiliary materials."

"Semiconductors are really troublesome. Zhang Yuechuan and Lu Chengfeng have been doing lithography machine research for several years. Recently, there is a generation of super-award Wen Chengling who has joined, but there is still no end to see it."

"There are materials science. Ji Ming and his group are known as the first basic science team of Xingchen Technology. Since they knew that you want to develop olefin materials as the next generation semiconductor substrate, they have gone crazy. The biggest pressure is my junior brother Cao Yuan. After all, his major is graphene, and Chao'anbang is also very difficult. The superconducting materials he is responsible for are the key technology of the underlying channel of the next generation of computing systems."

Luo Jia listened to An Ran's words, although the hardware department had not achieved any results for a long time, she was in an extremely busy state.

When he entered the semiconductor field, Luo Jia's strategy has always been unsatisfied. The problem he is facing now is that he can't find a partner as reliable as Huawei, and he has to do almost everything himself.

One of the big reasons why Xingchen Technology has developed so quickly is that most of the products, Xingchen Technology does not make them by themselves, but uses technology to let their partners build them. If their technical level is not enough, they will help them upgrade their technology.

Alas ~

Luo Jia sighed and said, "This little thing about passive components is really troublesome. We try not to make it ourselves. We should find a few partners, otherwise it will be too energy-intensive. There are currently four passive component factories in China, namely Yuyang, Fenghua Hi-Tech, Sanhuan, and Torch."

"Although the output and technical grades of the four of them are very low, we have no better choice at the moment. When I go back, I will ask Hong Tao's Ministry of Commerce to contact them."

An Ran nodded, "That's fine, at worst we can help them upgrade their technology."

The matter was decided so. After Luo Jia returned, he found Hong Tao and asked him to arrange cooperation in the field of passive components.

"This is no problem." Hong Tao said, "We are the strongest group of people in the technology industry. If factories like Yuyang have the opportunity to cooperate with us, they will definitely be unsuccessful. However, once the news is out, it will be officially announced."

The whole world guessed that Xingchen Technology will develop semiconductors next, but the guess is that Xingchen Technology itself has not officially announced that all projects are still pre-researched in the laboratory, and some complex projects are even in the planning stage.
Chapter completed!