Technological Hegemony

Just as Luo Jia hung up Wang Liguo's video call, An Ran walked into his office with a smile and said to Luo Jia, "You were in contact with Lao Wang just now?"

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

"What's the situation? Should the piranhas in Lake Constance be cleaned up?"

Luo Jia thought for a while, "The trend of the spread of piranhas has been brought under control. As for the complete cleanup, it remains to be seen. After all, the lake is huge, and no one can guarantee that there will be no fish that slip through the net."

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

An Ran stretched her waist and said: "You guessed it right, our passive component project has officially ended the laboratory stage. If you also think there is no problem, start the engineering stage."

Luo Jia was slightly taken aback, and excitedly said, "The passive components have come out? This is a great thing, let's go, let's go and have a look."

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

It is now June, and the sun is getting hotter and hotter. As the temperature rises, the country's electricity consumption is also increasing rapidly.

"It is said on the Internet that electricity prices will drop by another 10 cents after July 1st. Is this true?" An Ran set up a pergola, glanced at the big sun in the sky, and asked Luo Jia.

Luo Jia said, "It seems that the national team intends to do so, but you also know that after a power generation array is built, for safety reasons, it will take several months to half a year of operation before the power department will officially accept it."

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

An Ran lived by the sea for several months for the new energy project. He is very familiar with the process and follows rules in everything. He is not in favor of connecting the new power generation array to the grid in advance. Anyway, the world's lowest electricity price will be realized sooner or later, so it is better to be in a hurry. , Some people in the authorities are too eager to claim credit.

In any case, a sharp drop in electricity prices is always a good thing that the common people like to see, and it has an extremely far-reaching role in promoting the economy.

In fact, the power generation project of the national team is not profitable, and it would be good to be able to achieve a breakeven. However, the low electricity price makes everyone feel happy. At the same time, the development of industry and commerce has increased taxes. .

Soon after, Luo Jia saw many small things of various shapes in the electrical laboratory. They were placed on trays with test numbers written on them.

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

All electronic components that do not consume electric energy themselves, can convert electric energy into different forms of energy, only need input signals, and can work normally without external power supply, all belong to the category of passive components.

In the entire field of technology, passive components are widely used. If you have disassembled 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 densely packed on the circuit board. , those are passive components.

Luo Jia took the tweezers, picked up one of the trays, and watched it carefully under the light, then put the small thing down, and took out her own Huawei foldable phone, shook it in front of An Ran's eyes and said, "You know what's inside this phone? , How many pills did you use?"

An Ran shook her head.

Luo Jia said, "Mr. Yu told me that 739 neon lights from Murata Company were used in it. You know, this is just a mobile phone, and more are used in computers. Don't look at this thing as small. That’s $22 billion in annual sales.”

An Ran scratched her hair helplessly. The domestic consumption of passive components is huge, and the output is also huge, but there are still a few important categories that have been unable to reach the international first-class level.

For example, what Luo Jia just said is the big shortcoming in the field of passive components in my country.

Its Chinese name is chip multilayer ceramic capacitors, ceramic capacitors and aluminum capacitors, which are currently monopolized by Japan and South Korea. Neon Murata and South Korea’s Samsung account for 52% of the global market share, ranking third Yageo in Wanwan Province has a market share of 13%, followed by Neon Taiyo Yuden, TDK and other manufacturers.

An Ran complained, "If it's not that there is no way, we really don't want to engage in passive components. This is not because of the complexity, but because there are too many categories, and the upstream raw materials are scarce. We have to do everything by ourselves, without even a helper. .”

Luo Jia didn't say anything. Semiconductors are different from all fields involved in Star Technology. Take electric vehicles as an example. Although Huaxia is not too strong, it is also a big player in electric vehicles. What is lacking is a few key points. For technology, Xingchen Technology helps to make up for the technical shortcomings, so that this industry can become competitive and grow rapidly.

And semiconductors are different, definitely different!

The problem facing Star Technology now is that this industry has to do everything by itself from the beginning to the end. Not only do they have no production machines, but they don't even have such small things as passive components.

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

An Ran added: "Star Chemical also needs to come in. Resistive plasma, conductive paste, ruthenium paste and other upstream raw materials need several lines from Star Chemical."

Luo Jia was speechless for a moment. Not to mention An Ran, he almost forgot. So far, the upstream materials of high-end passive components are also monopolized by giants, and Xingchen Technology needs to do it by itself. Fortunately, Luo Jia has a super subsidiary company , Star Chemistry.

After continuous mergers and reorganizations, Xingchen Chemical has tens of thousands of employees, second only to chemical giants such as BASF in Germany, DuPont in North America, and Neon Shin-Etsu.

In other words, the subsidiary of Star Technology also has the combat effectiveness of the world's top 500.

"Then let Xingchen Chemical join in." Luo Jia made a final decision, "How big is the final scale we have determined?"

An Ran smiled bitterly and said, "Upstream we need at least six kinds of raw materials, and downstream there are more than 1,000 types of passive components. There are 460 types of passive components alone, and the country does not have the ability to manufacture them, so all of them need products from Xingchen Electric. While opening the production line, this is not counting the processing machinery for passive components."

"What a bloody trouble," muttered Rodya.

"That's right." An Ran said, "The smaller the thing, the more troublesome it is, and passive components are not even considered the core area of ​​the semiconductor field, but only peripheral accessories."

"Semiconductors are really troublesome. Seniors Zhang Yuechuan and Lu Chengfeng have been engaged in research on lithography machines for several years. Recently, a generation of super talented Wen Chengling joined them. There is still no end in sight."

"There is also material science. Ji Ming's group, known as the first basic science team of Xingchen Technology, have gone crazy since they knew that you want to make vinyl materials as the next-generation semiconductor substrate. The biggest pressure is mine. The junior brother Cao Yuan, after all, his major is graphene, and it is quite difficult to go to Anbang. The superconducting material he is in charge of is the key technology of the bottom channel of the next generation computing system."

Luo Jia listened to An Ran's words, although the hardware department hadn't produced any results for a long time, but the interior was extremely busy.

When it came to the semiconductor field, Luo Jia’s long-standing strategy was no longer working. The problem he was facing now was that he couldn’t find a reliable partner like Huawei, and he had to do almost everything by himself.

A large reason why Star Technology has developed so fast is that Star Technology does not manufacture most products by itself, but takes out technology and asks partners to make it. If the technology level is not enough, it helps them upgrade their technology.

Hey~

Luo Jia sighed and said: "This little thing of passive components is too much trouble, we try not to make it ourselves, we should find a few partners, otherwise it will involve too much energy, there are currently four major passive component factories in China, namely Yuyang, Fenghua Hi-Tech, Three Rings, Torch."

"Although the output and technical level of the four of them are very low, we have no better choice at present. I will ask Hong Tao's business department to contact them when I go back."

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

The matter was decided in this way. After Luo Jia went back, he called Hong Tao and asked him to arrange cooperation in the field of passive components.

"That's no problem." Hong Tao said, "We are the toughest group in the technology industry. It is definitely a dream for a factory like Yuyang to have the opportunity to cooperate with us, but once the news gets out, it will be considered an official announcement."

The whole world has guessed that Stellar Technology is going to engage in semiconductors next, but guesses are guesses. Stellar Technology itself has not officially announced it. All projects are still in the laboratory for pre-research, and some complex projects are even in the planning stage.

"It doesn't matter, whoever wants to know will know." Luo Jia said lightly, "You go and find the heads of the four families first, and I want to talk to them personally."

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