Reading Notes Chapter 7 - China Semiconductors

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China's "core" starts again,

First, the book introduces some of the geographical distribution of China's semiconductor industry

They are mainly distributed in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and Taiwan Province, most of which are distributed in economically developed areas. The book about the distribution of Taiwan's semiconductor industry introduces the entrepreneurial history of TSMC's founder Morris Chang .

Morris Chang was born in Ningbo, China in 1931. His father was the director of the Finance Bureau of Yin County, Ningbo, and his mother was the descendant of Xu Shidong, a famous book collector in Ningbo during the Qing Dynasty. His family is a typical scholarly family. At the age of 18, he went to Harvard University in the United States to study abroad. He first studied mechanical engineering and obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1954. From this, I feel that it is incredible that he studied mechanical engineering for both his undergraduate and master's degrees, so how did he end up working on chips? After graduating with a master's degree, Morris Chang, 24, worked in a semiconductor company and later joined TI. After that, he was promoted step by step and got the opportunity to study for a doctorate at Stanford. After returning from his doctorate, he worked as the vice president of the company. It was really amazing. I saw that even if you didn't study chips for your undergraduate and master's degrees, you could still go to a chip company. The threshold at that time might not have been very high. Now I feel that chips are so popular. The rule I have realized is to get on the bus as soon as possible when the economy is developing rapidly, and to open the book when it is developing slowly. However, I don't know where the next industry trend will be. Personally, I still like to work on hardware, especially some low-level applications. I feel that these triode MOS tubes, transmission lines and the like are quite interesting. Moreover, unlike software, which has a new version every year, the physical laws will not change, and you can use them for hundreds of years after you learn them well.

Secondly, the book introduces some self-developed chips of some mobile phone manufacturers

Among them are Huawei HiSilicon, OPPO Zheku, Xiaomi Xuanjie, and some Internet companies that make chips, such as Baidu Kunlun, Alibaba Pingtou Ge, Tencent, and ByteDance. The chip industry has been quite popular recently. It seems that everyone is investing in chips. In terms of development, it is still slowly following the pace of foreign countries. It also introduces some of the history of Huawei HiSilicon. I can't help but sigh that Huawei is still quite courageous. At the beginning, it dared to put its own chips on its flagship phone. Even if it faces everyone's scolding, it doesn't matter if it loses some money. I think it's amazing to dare to fight and take risks. For example, decision-making in state-owned enterprises is more stable, and those who engage in technology have little say. Only with the accumulation of mistakes can there be future glory. After that, Huawei's Kirin 980 chip was very good, so good that the United States felt the crisis. It is really admirable that Huawei has made such a chip in more than ten years.

秦天qintian0303

Huawei is developing in multiple industries, mainly making money from other industries. You see, OPPO Zheku doesn't dare to be so tough.

Eric1234567

Huawei HiSilicon is willing to invest

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Kilby of TI was the first person to invent the chip. He was a colleague of Morris Chang at the time. When the chip was first born, no one was optimistic about it. Morris Chang was also not optimistic and felt that this thing had no value.