Chapter 276 Walking the Path Others Have Traveled

“Yuan Guang, here are the specific materials. We invited you here this time because we hope you can teach us a lesson.

Assess the impact of this incident in detail.”

Before the birth of topological semimetals, the White House was actually not too worried about the chip problem.

They are not too worried that Todai will be able to break through the technological blockade.

Even if Huawei has produced a chip like the mate60 that uses an equivalent 7nm process.

Because before topological semimetals, the technology route of domestic chip development deviated from the mainstream international technology route.

The technology and product routes they have taken are high-cost, low-performance and lacking in ecosystem.

Such a technical route can help Dongda solve current problems, that is, to achieve the beautification of chip technology and even the possibility of localization.

This can solve the current problem. In the long run, it also means that after technological iterations, it will become increasingly disconnected from the international chip industry supply chain.

Just like Huawei's products, the performance is lower than that of products of the same price, and the power consumption and heat generation will be higher.

Even AI chips like Ascend face the problem of not having mainstream processes and global advanced component support. The performance lags behind Nvidia, and the most important thing is the lack of versatility in usage scenarios. To change an application scenario, Huawei has to send a technical team to help customers re-adjust for half a year or even longer before they can use it.

Not only is the efficiency extremely low and the cost extremely high, but it also comes with a huge time cost.

So Xida is actually not too worried.

Even if Dongda has found a way out in its own market, you are using the high-energy consumption, low-yield multiple exposure technology route that has been eliminated internationally.

It can temporarily solve the problem, but it is essentially drinking poison to quench thirst.

Because companies invest too many resources in outdated technologies, they are inevitably constrained from investing in new technologies.

And if you do this, you will move further and further away from the mainstream technology route, or the technology route built by European and American countries.

This has achieved the purpose of Xida.

Places like Xida, Europe, Neon, and Korea are a big market. Everyone has their own way of playing in this market, and Dongda has another way of playing.

Don’t even think about selling chips from Dongda University to us.

Therefore, Xi’an University was only concerned verbally about Huawei’s technological breakthrough, but was not actually worried about it.

It seems that Xi’an University is very worried in public opinion, but it can be seen from the fact that the actual restrictive measures have not been upgraded that Xi’an University is not in a hurry.

This is what is meant by: battle reports can deceive people, but the battle lines cannot.

"Mister, can I speak freely or should I speak more slowly?" Chen Yuanguang first asked the big man next to him in a low voice.

"Speak freely." The other party said directly.

Chen Yuanguang tapped the microphone in front of him, adjusted the speaker effect, and then said:

“All of you here actually jointly build the economic brain of the entire University of Tokyo.

I think there is no absolute answer to this question. It depends on what purpose we want to achieve.

Simply put, the question is how much willingness does the University of Tokyo have to build a domestically produced chip system.

From a higher level, as Southeast University becomes stronger, has a broader sphere of influence, and its aging population becomes more serious, Western developed countries, led by Western University, are aggressively recruiting engineers from Southeast University through low-threshold immigration policies.

Faced with so many unfavorable factors, should we still keep both upstream and downstream industries in the country?

If so, then this problem is easy to solve. Without compromise, we can leverage our advantages in topological semimetals and slowly cultivate local companies upstream and downstream of the topological semimetal chip supply chain.

Todai has strong domestic demand and a large number of talents in science and engineering, so we can do it.

If not, then we have to think about which countries are absolutely trustworthy to the University of Tokyo, and even if they may be turbulent, we have enough strength to put them on the right track we want. "

It is understandable that Todai is transferring its industries to ASEAN. After all, these places are close enough. Even if they are not within Todai’s radiation range for the time being, they will sooner or later become within Todai’s radiation range.

It is really incomprehensible that a place like Ahsan is going to transfer industries. In the long run, the relationship between Ahsan and Dongda in the future will be the same as the current relationship between Dongda and Xida.

Even if the East University follows the tributary system rather than the West University's global blood-sucking system, this is unavoidable because India is too close.

“I think we need to think about whether we should start doing what the United States did in the past and distribute some technology industries to companies in various countries.

It is not just to get more countries involved and carry out division of labor in the industrial chain.

It is also to gain their market.

Taking chips as an example, if we choose to give a small part of the entire supply chain to Vietnam and allow local Vietnamese capital to participate, then in the future, when the chips are finally assembled in Dongda, Vietnam will definitely not refuse them from entering their local market, because Vietnam is also involved in it.

At the same time, our universities can allow Vietnamese engineers to come for further studies to help them cultivate local talents.

To put it bluntly, if we want to adopt a model similar to Xi’an University in the field of high technology, this is a very suitable opportunity.

It also offsets the decline in the number of engineers who are losing talent.

For the entire semiconductor industry chain, we place the core in Dongda, and disperse some less important and asset-intensive parts to various ASEAN countries.

If we allow their local capital to participate, we will gain access to the entire ASEAN market with a population of 10 billion, which will give us the green light in the chip field.

Distribute the financial risks of technology research and development to them and solve the problem of shortage of engineers.

Taking the semiconductor industry as a pilot, other industries in the future can also adopt similar approaches to gradually achieve industrial upgrading by replacing old with new.

Dongda only needs to keep the most core parts, such as chip design, chip production, and raw material manufacturing.

If we keep these in Dongda, they will have abundant profits and provide a large number of jobs.”

The plan proposed by Chen Yuanguang is not just aimed at this attack on Xida.

But for all similar problems.

Should we build a complete technological system? Xida has a billion-dollar market, technical talents, enterprises, etc. formed by developed countries. Of course, their market also includes other Asian, African and Latin American countries.

Does Dongda need to really break up with Xida? You bring your allies, and I bring the allies I can bring.

And ASEAN is building a similar loose industrial alliance with the semiconductor industry as an anchor.

"It's not just ASEAN, it's also Russia."

大毛主要有两家晶圆厂，分别是米克朗和安斯特雷姆。前者提供65~250nm的芯片制造能力，后者提供90~250nm的芯片制造。大毛喊出的口号是要在2027年量产28nm的芯片，2030年实现14nm的芯片生产，比东大还要落后不少。

Because Russia is not seeking to fully localize its supply chain.

After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, everyone was moved.

The talent overflow we are facing now is very obvious, so naturally some people within the company will suggest improving benefits.

However, Tokyo University's inherent resistance to improving welfare means that this voice is not mainstream.

Talents are retained through publicity, but the domestic publicity is quite backward compared with the remote farming technology in Europe and the United States. Even though the University of Tokyo has made many breakthroughs in the field of technology, the image created by the name of lighthouse is still too solid.

Now they are trying to poach people from West China University, and East China University is just all talk and no action.

Everyone was pretending to be dead and there was no better solution. Now Chen Yuanguang's words have pointed out a new path for everyone.

If a black dragon can become a dragon, then those mixed dragons in ASEAN that have some Han blood mixed in with them can also become dragons.

Anyway, we are not introducing immigrants, we are just letting them join the entire industrial cycle.

If Xida can attract our engineering group, why can’t we go further and suck the blood of ASEAN?

After Chen Yuanguang put forward his point of view, everyone began to discuss it in a low voice.

Chen Yuanguang is a very special figure in the political spectrum.

When the wealthy people of the University of Tokyo reach a certain stage, they will inevitably commit original sin.

Even if your history of making a fortune is very clean, when you become successful, countless opportunities will be presented to you. They seem to be a sure-win business. You can earn hundreds of millions, billions or even tens of billions just by nodding your head.

No one can resist such temptation.

Jack Ma is the best example. As long as Ant Financial can go public, it will be a business worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and his wealth will achieve another leap.

As a result, the plane crashed just before the leap.

Chen Yuanguang really followed the route designed by Lin Jia for him and became a deity in the temple, untouched by the fireworks and tributes of pilgrims.

Even the financing of Guangjia Technology or Guangjia Aerospace was carried out in a very public manner.

And today, when hard technology has been given unprecedented importance, Chen Yuanguang's divinity is even more important.

Therefore, the plan he proposed is likely to be passed, and no one will have to bear any moral risk.

"I agree with Dr. Chen's point of view. The difficulty faced by leading technology companies in recruiting people shows that our current predicament is structural and cannot be solved through short-term regulatory measures.

Dr. Chen’s views gave us great inspiration.

We can adopt a similar approach to the economic globalization that Western University has taken in the past, and build a new industrial chain together with our friendly allies.”

The logic behind this is very simple. The ASEAN countries provide part of the funds and part of the labor force, and the University of Southeast Asia does the supply chain integration, and everyone shares the pie together.

ASEAN is interested in this industry, and TU is interested in your labor force and market.

As long as Dongda can maintain this tribute system, there is no possibility of loss.

Of course, for the University of Tokyo, it can postpone the problem for a while and does not have to face such a "complex" issue as improving social welfare.

Such a plan is very easy to pass at Southeast University because it is a very mature way of doing things, and West China University has been teaching Southeast University how to do it over the past few decades.

Todai’s current industries are built on the basis of a redivision of labor in the international industry.

You have a large working population, so you can do the low-end manufacturing. But I didn't expect that you are not willing to do low-end manufacturing, nor are you willing to accept the division of labor in the international labor system.

"Yuan Guang, your suggestion is very good. We will seriously consider your suggestion later."

There is no way that Todai will choose to compromise.

The logic behind this is very simple. If I compromise on this matter this time, what if you use something else to threaten me next time?
Why did people in ancient times emphasize righteousness? Under this set of international rules, why can Western University achieve twice the result with half the effort, while Eastern University can only achieve half the result with twice the effort?

Because the rules of the game are made by others, you can never beat others.

The macro-narrative proposed by Southeast University is to deconstruct the rules of the game of West China University.

The plan proposed by Chen Yuanguang now is what they have been thinking in their hearts, and Chen Yuanguang is just helping them to put this plan on the table.

Those who had this idea before were not qualified to propose it, and those who were qualified to propose it did not want to propose it. It was just right for Chen Yuanguang to propose it.

The boss glanced at Chen Yuanguang and thought, if Chen Yuanguang was just going with the flow, then he was truly a brilliant man, not only did he have top talent in scientific research, he also had such a high level of comprehension in politics.

If the incident had not happened suddenly and Chen Yuanguang had not been prepared in advance, he would even think that someone else told Chen Yuanguang to say this, and the someone behind it was naturally Lin Jia.

After everyone had discussed it, he concluded:
“I think Yuanguang’s proposal is very good, and we have reached the stage where we need to go further.

The "going out" here does not mean distributing benefits to other countries for no reason, but calling on more countries to follow the lead of the University of Tokyo through such a narrative, so as to at least maintain a neutral attitude.

In the past decade, we have exported railways, ports, power facilities, etc. to many countries, proving that Todai has the ability to help them meet their basic needs.

In the next ten years, we need to prove to other countries that Southeast University has the ability to make them rich, from having enough to eat to eating well.

These proofing templates will make more third world countries choose to support us and hope to cooperate with us to enjoy this wave of industrial transfer, and we will also gain a broader market. "

The ways of doing things by Dongda University and Xida University are essentially the same. Xida University reaps profits from the financial industry, while Dongda University reaps profits from the manufacturing industry.

The purpose of West China University of Technology’s industrial division and reorganization is to maximize profits, while the purpose of East China University of Technology’s industrial division and reorganization is to gain market share.

"Yuan Guang, your point of view is very unique."

At noon, Chen Yuanguang was invited to stay for lunch, which was a reserved part of the event.

Every time he comes here, he always sees some big guys, and they all want to talk to him.

"I simply think that we cannot compromise. Even if we really export room-temperature superconductors to other countries, we cannot export them for reasons like this."

“We didn’t intend to agree to it at first. They said it would be used in the field of quantum computers, but who knows what field they will use it in?
If it is used to build a room-temperature superconducting electromagnetic launch device, what if it launches missiles instead of rockets?
Even if we export, we will export quantum computers, not raw materials.

I called you here this time just to hear the expert's opinion.

Compared with many experts, you are more capable, younger, and have more flexible ideas. We all want to hear your opinions. "

(End of this chapter)