Chen Xia treated us to a meal and booked a conference room at the Capital Hotel.
More than 50 semiconductor experts from major universities and research institutions across the country gathered together.
Since the cancellation of the 983 Project, these top Chinese semiconductor engineers have rarely gathered together, and everyone is filled with emotion.
Unexpectedly, the one who summoned them was not the relevant department, but a foreign-funded enterprise.
If the boss of Four Seasons Group was not Chen Xia, this first-class hero of that year still has a very high reputation. If it were any other foreign company, many of the professors and experts here would not have come to attend this meeting at all.
They never want to work for foreign companies, but rather want to keep the semiconductor and integrated circuit technologies they master in the country.
Although some of them have not yet realized it, the technology they possess is already lagging behind the world's mainstream semiconductor industry.
Chen Xia visited the capital in an official capacity this time. As the vice chairman of Four Seasons Group, he had to show due respect. Otherwise, you couldn't just book the conference hall of the Capital Hotel.
When he appeared in the conference room, the experts present all expressed their feelings.
"Young, really young, looks like he's in his twenties. How can someone so young really support such a big project?"
Chen Xia didn't take it seriously. He greeted everyone warmly and pulled old lady Xie Xiwang to sit in the first seat.
As the middleman, Zhang Lianchang enthusiastically reiterated to everyone that Four Seasons Group had decided to develop its own chip industry and had already ordered five wafer production lines.
This made all the experts who came to the meeting for the first time open their mouths in shock.
Over $2 billion, just thrown away like that? This kind of boldness must be unprecedented in China, right? Is this pharmaceutical company so profitable?
After Zhang Lianchang introduced the basic situation, Chen Xia said with a smile:
"I know that the teachers and professors here must have felt bad in the past few years. We had a clear chance to catch up with the US and Japan, but we fell short at the last moment. Now even South Korea and Taiwan have surpassed us.
I think everyone must be very unwilling to accept this. Why? Our little brothers have now become chip exporters and tech giants, while we have become a pure chip importer?
When these words were spoken, even old lady Xie Xiwang's face changed a little.
Although the old lady usually seems carefree, the fact that she cannot develop her own chip industry has always been a pain in her heart. Countless times at night, the old lady wanted to tear some traitors to pieces with her bare hands.
How could she, who is so proud and arrogant, be willing to accept this?
Most of the experts and professors present here are also unwilling to accept this. They studied semiconductors in the past just to have their own chip industry in their country. You should know that many of them have studied abroad.
Without passion and ambition, why would they return to their own country? Wouldn't it be nice to stay abroad?
Later, due to various problems, not only did semiconductor research stop, but many people even lost their jobs.
There are only one or two universities in China that offer courses on semiconductors and integrated circuits, and only a few teachers are needed. The rest have all transferred to other disciplines.
Now that Chen Xia said this, everyone's morale was lifted.
Chen Xia looked at everyone's expressions and said earnestly:
"To be honest, you're not willing to give up, and neither am I. Our Four Seasons Group has invented many medical instruments, such as the laparoscope. In the future, we can perform surgeries without incisions. We can just make a few holes. It's very advanced.
We applied for all the patents for such advanced equipment, but when we really wanted to build it on a large scale, we found that there were no chips. This thing needed to be imported because our country could not make it.
We could import, but the chip manufacturers were dissatisfied with our small purchase volume and ignored us, ultimately charging us thousands of dollars per chip. Do you think I'd accept that? I'm equally unhappy.
Then I thought, what about making my own chips? Well, I discovered that all the core technologies for wafer production lines were also in the hands of foreign companies. Professor Zhang Lianchang saw this firsthand. When we excitedly ran to the Frankfurt Industrial Fair and asked to buy them, they said they didn't sell them!
Ah, I was so angry at that time, and I made up my mind right then and there: I want to make my own chips, I want to have my own complete wafer production line, so that I don’t have to be controlled by others anymore, and I won’t be strangled by others anymore!
After Chen Xia finished speaking, he looked at the people in the venue. Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, he prepared to play the main melody. After all, the Chinese people are most receptive to this.
"I want to make my own chips, not just for our Four Seasons Group, but more for our country, because the chip industry is related to our country's national defense security.
Everyone witnessed the Gulf War. Today, wars are fought with electronic warfare. For example, those Scud and Patriot missiles are flying everywhere, but without chips, can they fly? Can they be accurately guided?
Some people say that chips are not important, and it is too expensive to research them by ourselves. But when asked to buy equipment, they say they have no money. They think that we can just buy them from abroad and let others act as our foundry. Then we can buy all the chips we want without spending a penny.
But these pigs didn't think about another problem. The imperialists such as the United States and Japan have never given up their desire to destroy us. They are now deliberately selling chips to us at low prices, and then finding a few traitors to incite them. They are just waiting for the day when our chip research will be completely stopped.
Then suddenly one day, they said they would not sell anymore. Hehe, you can sell it if you want, but they will sign a series of unequal treaties and raise the price. They will decide how much to sell and what grade of chips to sell.
Imagine what will happen to our country, our technology, and our industry? It's 1993, and we don't trust electronics that much. But what about 20 or 30 years from now?
The general trend in the future is that we will be beaten without chips. Everyone here, including Professor Xie, is an expert in chips. Now we may be 5 or 10 years behind others, but if we work hard, we may catch up, and one day we may even surpass them.
But when we really fall behind by 20 or 30 years, it will be too late. We may not be able to catch up even if we want to. No matter how much we spend, we will not be able to break through other people's technological barriers and can only passively take the beating.
By then, all patents and all the most advanced lithography will be in their hands. They could form a new "CoCom" to impose an embargo on us. Tell me, are you afraid of this scenario? Are you worried?"
Wow~~~~Everyone in the audience changed color.
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