ps: I originally wrote two chapters, but after writing the second chapter, I felt something was wrong, so I deleted it again. There is no way, let’s have a chapter for the time being today, please forgive me.

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Just as several bosses praised Taiyu Technology's newly launched fighting game and were happy that they would make a big splash, the technician who was drawing the motherboard circuit suddenly screamed.

"What's going on? Taiyu Technology has also replaced the processor!"

"What?"

When everyone heard this scream, their hearts trembled, and then they could no longer care about this side and rushed over.

They understood that they were still fooled!

Taiyu Technology does have a backup plan. They must have known that all pirated manufacturers are staring at their purchasing list, so they used the method of repairing the plank road openly and secretly plaguing Chen Cang to deceive everyone. On the surface, they did not purchase new processors in large quantities, but in fact they purchased them through other channels.

When the physical product came out, everyone found that it was too late to replace the processor. No matter how much the supply was organized, it would be impossible to catch up with the first bowl of soup!

Boss Xinyuan was also a little panicked. This revision was an excellent opportunity for a new factory like him to seize the runway. In order to be prepared, he invested a lot of money. If this investment failed, just repaying the bank loan would be enough to bring him back to his original form.

He forced himself to suppress his violently beating heart and asked in a deep voice: "Which processor did they change? Intel? Z80? Or from any other manufacturer?"

Next to the original arcade machine that was dismantled from eight pieces, several technicians all looked pale, but they looked at the rectangular integrated circuit on the exposed motherboard, with a dull expression.

"What do you want to ask you? What processor did they use? They are all mute!" A boss was shocked and angry. He couldn't wait for their answer, so he pushed the technicians in front of him away, knelt on the side of the motherboard, and checked in person, "Actualized model is changed..., what model is this? Why has it never been..., wait, how is it Chinese?"

His final voice was sharp and loud, like a female voice.

"Chinese?"

The other bosses who were waiting anxiously could no longer wait. They pushed all the people in the road away, squatted down one by one, sticking their butts and leaning over, and soon saw the small processor chip. This processor is completely different from the traditional dual-row pin package. There are pins in all directions, and a circle of dense bright silver dots formed around the processor. No wonder the technicians before did not notice it until they began to draw the motherboard circuit in full, and they screamed out loud.

This three-cm long and two-5 cm wide rectangular processor uses a black ceramic package, and is easily overlooked by square soldering on the circuit board. The surface of the ceramic package above the processor is indeed engraved with several lines of Chinese: Actuarial One-type modification, Semiconductor Research Institute, Integrated Circuit Preparation Technology Center, 1980.

Then a row of product numbers: twc-0012690.

This is indeed a new processor that has never been heard of.

Several bosses raised their heads and looked at a technician holding a thick integrated circuit manual next to them with inquiry. They tried hard to search for the query. The other party shook his head with panic and confused eyes.

"Is this from Japan?"

Boss Wang said faintly in a dry voice: "The Japanese also use Chinese characters. I just don't know if it is Mitsubishi, Hitachi, or Toshiba. It is mostly developed by them, or they signed a secret R&D contract with Taiyu Technology, which was specially developed for them."

In order to facilitate export and reduce Western customers who are naturally afraid and resistant to communist countries, the actuarial one-type modification used on the arcade is not engraved with the sickle hammer logo. TWC is the pinyin abbreviation of the general microprocessor. When everyone saw the processor, they immediately put their target on Japanese semiconductor companies, subconsciously ignoring the possibility that this is a domestic chip.

No one answered his words.

If it is a Japanese company, even if it is developed secretly, it will mark the company on the processor. It can be selected by Taiyu Technology. This is a big advertisement. No company will have such a good opportunity without using it. It will never be the case that this model in front of you except for these two lines of Chinese small characters and one line of product encoding, and only the surface packaging of the light board is left.

However, the manual cannot find out which company owns this semiconductor research institute.

"Don't lose it! It's also the latest integrated circuit information. I don't even know a new processor. What's the use of buying it?" Boss Qi looked at the technician still searching for it in vain. He started to angrily, snatched the manual and threw it out angrily.

The technician whose manual was snatched turned his head foolishly, looking at the manual that was thrown to the other end of the workshop, standing still motionless.

Without a processor, they are pirated!

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The scene that happened in Xinyuan Electronics also appeared among other electronic manufacturers that had grabbed the first batch of offline arcade samples.

Hundreds of pirated Chinese and foreigners, in different languages, yelled like them: "What the latest version of the integrated circuit manual is not marked with a processor, what's the use of bullshit! Can anyone tell me where this damn semiconductor research institute and integrated circuit preparation technology center are?"

In addition to being angry, most of them turned their attention to Japan, guessing that this was probably a product developed by a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer.

Everyone knows that the Japanese won steadily in memory, drove European and American manufacturers out, and gained a monopoly position in the market, and their morale was greatly boosted. Now the entire Japan has burst into a strong sense of mission and pride, feeling that this is the sign that the country will return to an advanced country after the end of World War II.

They are ambitious and have been engaged in processor research and development, hoping to achieve the same success as memory in this field and completely replace the United States as a leading technology power.

Maybe this actuarial model is a product that a Japanese semiconductor company quietly launched and used Taiyu Technology as a springboard to enter the market to test the waters.

Some people also suspect that this processor was developed in Taiwan.

Four Asian Tigers, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, as Japan's economy first began to take off, four East Asian countries and regions began to take him as an example and embark on the road of economic revitalization.

Taiwan has made preparations for semiconductor research since 1970s. From the start of doing OEM for Texas Instruments and Philips, it gradually introduced a complete set of technologies and finally owned its own semiconductor industry.

By October 1977, the first three-inch crystal factory was completed; in December, the integrated circuit factory was put into production, and the first self-produced integrated circuit was launched in June, with a yield rate of 70%, which was better than the technology introduced, thus taking the most important step in Taiwan's semiconductor industry.

After another four years of development, it is not an incredible thing that they designed a processor, and using Chinese markings is even more proof.

There are also people who suspect it is made from South Korea.

South Korea started almost at the same time as Taiwan, but learned from Taiwan completely, and learned from Japan, first government investment, and then transferred to private enterprises, South Korea's semiconductor industry was developed entirely by introducing foreign capital. In 1969, South Korea established an electronics industrial park, and then relied on low manpower, land, and factory costs to attract a large number of American semiconductor companies such as Fairchild to run factories. By 1974, South Korea had nine semiconductor factories all of which were all wholly owned by American companies.

Only by doing outsourcing for these foreign companies did we gradually introduce technology and slowly walk out of our own path.

They did not have too much ambitions, but worked hard on memory for ten years. They have now achieved the production capacity of producing 60 kilobytes of memory, and the cost is cheaper than that of Japanese memory, which poses a certain threat to Japan's monopoly position on memory chips.

It is also no problem to say that they launch a processor in terms of technical capabilities.

Moreover, South Korea is also a member of the Chinese cultural circle. Chinese characters are popular in China, and important archives and records are all made of Chinese characters. Using Chinese characters as marks on the processor is in line with their practice.

Next is Hong Kong, which is much slower than the two countries and regions mentioned above.

It was not until 1977 that the Hong Kong government began to regard Hong Kong as a local hard work, trying to transform from a labor-intensive industry to a capital-intensive industry. It was still going forward and backward, and it was always full of concerns. It was not until Guan Fei gave a strong push by the Hong Kong government to finally strengthen the Hong Kong government's determination to develop the electronics industry and set up several industrial parks in the New Territories and other places.

However, Hong Kong has the advantage of latecomer. Packaging and testing factories and integrated circuit factories established by several large semiconductor companies in Japan and the United States have been put into production one after another. Although the upstream crystal factory has not been established, it is a bit restricted by others, most of these factories use the latest technology.

As long as the design problem is solved, too advanced chips may not be able to be used, but there should be no problem with processors that are equivalent to those of two or three years ago.

The worst among the four little dragons is Singapore. It was not until the end of the 1970s that they saved enough development funds and began to upgrade their industries. They were a beat slower than the other three countries and regions, becoming the slowest development of the four little dragons.

Of course, without Guan Fei's intervention, in fact, it should be Hong Kong who is pulling his back.

In the original history, after several considerations, the British government decided to regard Hong Kong as a local business and saved enough development funds in the 1970s. As the Sino-British negotiations broke down in 1982, the British completely died of the idea of ​​supporting Hong Kong's industry and began to raise it as a fat pig, preparing to kill pigs and eat meat before leaving. Finally, they fell behind from the four little dragons' goose formation and were eventually eliminated.

Today, although Hong Kong does not have crystal cell manufacturing capabilities, it is considered a lame, it already has a certain semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. In the past two years, the demand for talents in various electronic factories has increased significantly, and the salaries of technical personnel in the electronics industry have been rising steadily, making the electronics industry one of the most popular employment industries.

Nearly ten new electronic technology schools and colleges and universities have been built in Hong Kong, and a large number of electronic industry workers, technicians and engineers have been initially educated.

This has laid the general trend of future development.

The expansion of interests has made it difficult for the Hong Kong government to change its future development direction even if it uses administrative means.

The three Asian dragons, plus the leading Japan, have as many as four countries and regions that have the ability to produce processors. When no one came forward to publicly announce that they had developed this processor by themselves, it is indeed difficult to guess who developed this actuarial model.

From the day the neighborhood warriors were released, Hong Kong's telephone lines quickly became busy.

The number of local phones and long-distance international phones has skyrocketed. The targets of local phones are concentrated in several major semiconductor manufacturers in Japan, Europe and the United States with processor production capabilities; international phones focus on three places: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. By asking inside customers, asking closely-connected relatives and friends, and then asking each company for information, asking whether the actuarial model is developed and manufactured.
Chapter completed!