After hearing Liang Yuan say this, Su Liangyu grinned and said, "That thing is a long story and extremely tortuous thing. There is something more important to you have to decide on yourself."

The electronics industry in the Republic originated from the Beiping 718 Electronics Factory, the North China Radio Combined Equipment Factory, which was built by Democratic Germany in 1952. It belongs to 156 national backbone key projects in the "First Five-Year Plan".

The 718 Project was led by the Democratic German Vice Premier at that time, and gathered the power of the entire Democratic German electronics industry to build the skeleton of the entire modern electronics industry for the newborn Republic. It can be said that before the reform and opening up, every electronic component produced by the Republic was 100% East German descent.

Shortly after the 718 project was put into production, the relationship between the Republic and the Warsaw Pact Group headed by the Soviet Union was completely broken. East German experts who aided China also withdrew from the Soviet experts. Faced with the international situation where the East was not bright and the West was not bright, the Republic, which was forced to embark on the road of independent research and development.

With the 718 project taking root in China, after technical digestion, the country has planned three larger electronics industry clusters, mainly Beiping, Tianjin and Shengjing in the north, Wusong, the largest economic city in the country, as its core, and one is located in the depths of the steep mountains and ridges of the third-line Guizhou.

In the early 1980s, the strategic trend of the restructuring and opening up of the Republic improved. After the scientific and technological community resumed exchanges with Western countries, the horizons widened. Faced with the reality of serious backwardness, 286 proposed at the right time: "Without scientific modernization, there would be no modernization of industry, agriculture and national defense."

In order to implement the strategic instructions of 286, the Central Committee established the "Electronic Computer and Large-scale Integrated Circuit Leading Group with the Vice Premier as the group leader." It plans to carry out technological transformation of the Republic's electronic industry during the June 5th Five-Year Plan. Now the Huajing Factory, which manufactures chips for Nanhu Science and Technology Park, is part of the results of the Sixth Five-Year Plan.

To be fair, the Republic was quite effective in the technological upgrading of the electronics industry during the Sixth Five-Year Plan period. At least the chip manufacturing process was shortened from 10 microns to 6 microns, and chips equivalent to 8086 levels were independently designed, and some mastered process technology at the five micron level.

Faced with a series of achievements during the June 5th Five-Year Plan period, the Republic ambitiously proposed that the electronics industry should popularize and promote the 6-micron technology during the July 5th (86-90) period, develop 3-micron technology, and carry out pre-research and technological research on 1-micron technology.

From the perspective of future prospects, the prospects that the Republic has drawn for the electronics industry are very wonderful. The United States only began to use the mature 1 micron process technology in 1988. At this time, the gap between the domestic and international mainstream electronics industry is far from the distance described in astronomical units in later generations.

In the 1980s, the integrated circuit industry had a significant feature. The research and development of microprocessors and the processor process technology were complementary. The two were closely related. For example, ibm. Intel itself had its own powerful research and development capabilities in process equipment, which was far from what TSMC migrant workers could compare in later generations.

The trend of the integrated circuit industry is that wafer sizes are getting bigger and bigger, process technology numbers are getting smaller, and R&D expenses are getting higher and higher. The investment level from tens of microns to six microns is calculated in tens of millions of dollars. From five microns to one microns is calculated in hundreds of millions of dollars. In the future nano-era era, investment in process technology will rise even more terriblely to tens of billions of dollars.

When formulating the 7th Five-Year Plan, the Republic did not consider at all what kind of ultra-high speed the integrated circuit industry is developing, and there is no concept of R&D funds for the geometric growth of the integrated circuit industry.

Therefore, for electronics industrial enterprises that truly implement the 7th Five-Year Plan, the situation is really bad. With the current domestic electronics industrial enterprises with a maximum annual scientific research investment of hundreds of thousands of yuan, it is tantamount to dreaming to complete the planning goals of the 7th Five-Year Plan.

There is no hope for applying for additional R&D funds. Not to mention in the 1980s, even in the new century, the country would not be able to spend billions of funds to only develop processor process technology.

During the July 5th period, the country further clarified the development strategy of integrated circuits to "establish two bases in the north and south and one point". Among them, Shengjing is the key planned city of the northern base.

However, before the new century proposed to revitalize the old industrial base, Shengjing City was not the focus of the Republic at all. After the country expressed its intention to attach great importance to Shengjing's electronic industrial industry in the document, there was no other action, and the real scientific research expenses were allocated less than one million. Compared with the real capital demand, it was like a drop in the bucket.

The Nanhu Science and Technology Park established by Su Liangyu was established against the background of Shengjing Electronics Enterprise's extreme shortage of money.

From the first day of the official operation of Nanhu Science and Technology Park, Su Liangyu began the design of the next generation of microprocessors.

Although Liang Yuan’s funds to Su Liangyu are beyond the reach of other domestic integrated circuit manufacturers and research institutes, it is still very tight compared to the huge expenses.

In order to save costs, Su Liangyu has used domestically produced alternative products as much as possible in non-critical equipment in the chip laboratory, and electronic companies in Shengjing City just occupy the home advantage of the land.

As the eldest son of the Republic's industrial industry, the entire Shengjing is by no means a false reputation. As early as the 1950s, the first integrated circuit process core equipment ion implanter in the Republic was born in Shengjing Science Instrument Factory.

The most widely used in integrated circuit process equipment is vacuum technology. Shengjing Vacuum Technology Research Institute is the only national vacuum technology research center in the Republic of China. Liang Yuan’s alma mater, Dongda University, also has the best vacuum laboratory in China. Shengjing Automation Research Institute is also the top automation and industrial robot research base in China.

It can be said that the processing technology involved in the manufacturing of integrated circuit process equipment can be found in Shengjing. If Liang Yuan set up a medium-scale (MSI) integrated circuit production line with a 15-micron process, he would not have to leave Shengjing at all, and all equipment could be purchased in this city.

Faced with such a strong industrial foundation, Su Liangyu certainly would not let it go in vain. The diffusion furnaces used for production in laboratory tests and small test equipment, probe tables used for testing, various pressure gauges, solenoid valves, vacuum gauges and other equipment that are not difficult are all customized locally in Shengjing.

In order to match foreign core equipment, Su Liangyu has put a wide range of equipment prices, but has put forward many requirements in terms of equipment accuracy and service life. It has to be said that if domestic technology is willing to invest, it will still achieve results soon.

Faced with the tens of millions of RMB waving by Su Liangyu, it took only half a year for the relevant companies that received the tender to boost their morale, overcome countless problems, and came up with products that satisfy Su Liangyu.

While the related companies were making a fortune, Su Liangyu also reduced the overall investment in the equipment for the small and pilots from 60 million to less than 50 million.

After this incident, Su Liangyu and Nanhu Science and Technology Park were launched in Shengjing's electronic industry and were regarded as large local rich people by countless related companies.

As Nanhu Science and Technology Park gradually took root in Shengjing, some situations in the park have gradually spread. When equipment installation and debugging, more and more interactions between technicians in the Science and Technology Park and process equipment suppliers have been heard. Many industry insiders know the fact that the annual R&D funding of chip laboratories is as high as 60 million yuan.

Neither Liang Yuan nor Su Liangyu expected that this incident would bring an impact to Shengjing's electronics industry. Since the founding of New China, as of the end of the first five-year plan in the new century, the cumulative investment in integrated circuit projects was about US$2.4 billion in the 50-year history of the Republic. If the funds spent on the overall introduction of production lines were excluded (Note 1), the actual cost for scientific research should not exceed US$600 million.

Half a century, 600 million US dollars, is there any more nonsense data on this planet? Even if the IQ of domestic technicians exceeds 1,000, they will definitely be helpless in the face of this situation.

Since the Republic introduced a full set of integrated circuit production lines, even daily maintenance and maintenance have nothing to do with domestic related companies. Unlike ordinary state-owned enterprises that started to lose money in the late 1980s, and entered the countdown to bankruptcy in the mid-to-late 1990s, domestic process equipment manufacturers were already struggling to support them in the late 1980s.

The reason why people don’t make trouble for laid-off workers is that the practitioners have a high education and strong ability to convert production, and they can take on some private jobs that are not doing their jobs at least. They can still deal with it.

Shengjing Science Instrument Factory, which took over 50% of the orders of Nanhu Laboratory, was once the most well-known and largest supplier of integrated circuit process equipment in China. Since the reform and opening in 1979 and the country has firmly embarked on the road to introducing integrated circuit production lines, Shengjing Science Instrument Factory has been deteriorating. The annual orders in 1986 were less than 2 million yuan. If it were not for Su Liangyu's episode, according to the historical trajectory, Shengjing Science Instrument Factory will become a scientific research enterprise that produces automatic fertilization equipment in agricultural greenhouses in the new century.

It can be said that Su Liangyu's order temporarily held up countless Shengjing integrated circuit process equipment manufacturers who were about to fall into the abyss.

The so-called poverty is in the downtown area and no one asks about it. The wealth is in the deep mountains and has distant relatives. This sentence is not only applicable to individuals, but also to enterprises.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the number of scientific research projects that were cut off in the Republic was uncountable, and the poverty of domestic technicians was unimaginable to the outside world.

Many companies are facing the sudden emergence of Nanhu Science and Technology Park, which seems to be a vicious wolf, and users who purchase integrated circuit process equipment in China have not seen it for many years.

When someone dug out that the Science and Technology Park produced millions of chips in companies such as Huajing, some companies finally couldn't sit still.

Nanhu Science and Technology Park paid Huajing more than 30 million yuan a year. Even so, Huajing was still very reluctant. This kind of thing is not difficult to find out for the narrow integrated circuit circle. So some companies led by Shengjing Science Instrument Factory set their minds on the 30 million yuan in OEM costs.

In the early 1980s, due to the explosion of the domestic home appliance market and the upgrading of the industrial technology of the foreign integrated circuit industry, more than 20 second-hand five-micron production lines were introduced nationwide in succession. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, only a few of them were successfully operated, and the rest were abandoned for various reasons.

Shengjing Science Instrument Factory, which has a very good understanding of the domestic integrated circuit industry, plans to buy back semi-discarded production lines in various places at a low price, and then piece them together and renovate them to Nanhu Science and Technology Park. This not only can the integrated circuit process manufacturers make a lot of money, but the science and technology park no longer needs to look at Huajing's face.

However, the premise for success is that the Science and Technology Park provides in advance with the start-up capital for purchasing the abandoned production line and the scientific research expenses incurred during renovation.

After delivering the contract of the Science and Technology Park, Shengjing Science Instrument Factory prepared the information for a period of time, he went straight to Su Liangyu and began to promote the patchwork and renovation plan of second-hand wafer equipment.

Since Liang Yuan and Su Liangyu mentioned that they planned to overcome the production process of thyristors (gto), if Shengjing Science Instrument Factory can really repair the three-inch production line using a 5-micron process, it can still be considered for the Science and Technology Park.

Before Liang Yuan came back, Su Liangyu and Shengjing Science Instrument Factory discussed for a week and reconfirmed the entire plan. Shengjing Science Instrument Factory did a lot of work and found 21 abandoned three-inch wafer production lines in China. The instrument factory attacked multiple times. After more than half a month of negotiation, it is expected to buy the abandoned production lines at a price of one million to two million yuan per piece. This alone requires 30 million yuan of funds.

However, what made Su Liangyu the most headache was that Shengjing Science Instrument Factory didn’t know how many production lines could be restored.

Shengjing Science Instrument Factory and Science Park agreed that each successful renovation of a production line charges 3 million yuan. For Shengjing Science Instrument Factory, this is a risk-free transaction. If you don’t pay a penny, even if you don’t have a successful renovation, it will only cost you some time.

It’s different for Su Liangyu. According to the estimates of Shengjing Science Instrument Factory, it will cost at least 40 million yuan to complete the patchwork and renovation of more than 20 wafer production lines.

Taking the three-inch wafer production line that has been eliminated internationally, with a price of nearly 10 million US dollars, it means that a successful renovation of a wafer production line is just a guaranteed capital. More than two science and technology parks must be renovated to make a profit. However, the bigger possibility is that none of them is renovated and end up facing a pile of rags empty-handed.

When it comes to large-scale capital use and unpredictable risks, Su Liangyu can only wait for Liang Yuan to come back before making a decision.

Su Liangyu told Liang Yuan in detail about the renovation of the wafer production line and said, "Xiaoyuan, you should make the decision on this matter."

Liang Yuan couldn't help but feel overwhelmed after hearing Su Liangyu's words. The cooperation with Shengjing Science Instrument Factory seemed to be a lottery ticket in later generations. Before the lottery was drawn, no one knew what the final result would be.
Chapter completed!