What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 499 What is that? (2400 monthly votes in June)

Tang Wen's inspiration for WIFI applications came from PHS (Personal Handyphone System).

As an emerging technology, it goes without saying that WIFI devices will be very expensive, but he still wants to try to achieve a low-spec, budget-friendly mobile internet before the turn of the millennium.

If we can't rely on 2G or 3G, we might as well learn from PHS (Personal Handyphone System) and deploy WIFI base stations throughout major urban areas to enable real-time internet access on handheld computers. Being able to browse BBS and view color pictures would be a huge victory.

Even if the market response is poor, it paves the way for future smartphones, so it's not a waste.

If they could achieve another breakthrough by transitioning from TFT screens to LCD, and have a 3.5-inch LCD screen, Tang Wen would dare say that this would be a groundbreaking product no less significant than the iPhone.

……

Devil
Su Huisheng and Tang Wen were both wearing full-body dustproof suits, with the latter holding up a packaged chip with one hand:
Dongjiang 550.

550 represents the operating frequency of 550MHz, and it uses a 180-nanometer process to integrate 860 million transistors. It is the core processor of the GS1 game console, with performance comparable to the newly released Pentium II, and the manufacturing process is more advanced.

All of the above are imagined.

Although Ni Zhenhai shamelessly copied Intel, it was impossible to design and manufacture a chip in just a few months. The Dongjiang 550 had only just completed its overall layout design, and there were still many internal components to be filled in and modified.

The samples currently being produced are purely for simulating power consumption and verifying the process; they do not possess any performance characteristics and are far from being practical.

After purchasing all the latest chip equipment in China, Shanghai Semiconductor initially set a very aggressive 0.1-micron process based on the GS1's launch timeline. However, after real-world testing, the technology "cooled down," and the company honestly reduced it to 0.18 microns.

It's not that they can't do it, but the yield rate of 0.1 micrometers is just too low, and they haven't produced advanced process chips much before, so they lack mass production experience.

"This is our second test of the 0.18-micron process verification. We originally planned to cut 1004 wafers, but we only got 361 good wafers. However, the low yield is mostly due to poor equipment debugging and lack of proficiency among our staff. I believe we can eventually improve it to over 85 to 90%."

Su Huisheng made a firm guarantee, and Tang Wen didn't dwell on the issue.

After leaving the cleanroom, he asked:

"I remember that the main business of Factory No. 2 was LCD screens. How far have you progressed in that area now?"

"It depends on your needs."

"A 3.5-inch, or at least 3-inch, color resistive touch LCD screen with low power consumption, accurate color reproduction, and the ability to produce samples as early as possible."

"That's a TFT screen. Are we making a phone? 3.5 inches is a bit big, but we can try 3 inches. Also, we have no experience with touch screens before. It may take about 6 months to produce a mature sample."

In fact, Su Huisheng knew that the conditions of the second factory were still far from being met, but with the support of money, he could simply find other manufacturers to purchase patents or directly acquire them.

……

"Today's delicacy: grilled crocodile foreleg—but without pepper."

As soon as Ryan finished speaking, the others let out a chorus of annoyance.

The squad wasn't short of rations, but if conditions allowed, who wouldn't want to eat some hot, fresh food?

Even without eating hot food, a little warmth can soothe a damp body.

Finding edible fruits and plant roots in the rainforest is not difficult for them, but meat is more troublesome. To prevent pathogens from invading, the only relatively safe meats to eat are snakes, crocodiles, lizards, and so on, all of which are disgusting reptiles.

At first, they could manage to gather some spices, but now they can only use the leaves of wild plants they find to smoke, producing plumes of thick smoke that drift far into the forest.

This wasn't a blunder; Ryan was trying to lure them out. The drones, suspected to be MQ-1s, convinced them that Hans's hideout was nearby. However, they had already searched almost everywhere they could, and since a proactive search wasn't working, they decided to openly display their presence, hoping to stumble upon something unexpected.

The team memorized the map throughout their journey and set traps from time to time, all in an attempt to ambush Hans, who might be hiding somewhere.

However, over time, even the most perceptive Torres no longer believed he was being followed, and gradually everyone lowered their guard and stopped being highly vigilant about the jungle.

Only at Mark's insistence did Hunter agree to allow the ground troops to remain stationed in the rainforest, where they had been waiting for six days and whose clothes were beginning to rip.

After finishing the rather unappetizing crocodile meat, everyone lined up in a circle to take a short rest. Fresh leaves covered the still-burning fire, driving away most of the mosquitoes and bringing a rare moment of peace.

After an unknown amount of time, Ryan, hearing the buzzing sound, lifted his hat and waved it casually, but the buzzing sound was not interrupted at all.

Ryan grabbed his weapon with lightning speed and leaped up, the others almost immediately following behind, rushing to the portable detector hastily manufactured by GA Corporation:

This is actually a suggestion indicator made by adding a set of acoustic sensors to an old-fashioned infrared missile seeker. After simple training, it can help users manually track unidentified flying targets by using noise in the air.

Under Torres's control, he quickly spotted a fleeting low-altitude heat source, which was then swiftly covered by the rainforest.

"It's a drone, it's definitely a drone!"

Torres shouted:

"It's less than a kilometer away from us, and its heading is..."

Ryan hurriedly searched the map and drew a line, and the others exclaimed in astonishment upon seeing the direction:

"From the 76 Swamp? Damn, the swamp water there is almost black, even poisonous!"

They don't understand the concept of miasma, but in some parts of the rainforest, the terrain causes excessively high temperatures and humidity, resulting in year-round fog. In addition, the water has poor flow and few living organisms, making it rich in bacteria and easy for people to get infected or invaded by parasites.

76 The swamp is such a terrible place, and the terrain is even worse, with no good place to put your feet, and it is even difficult for kayaks to pass.

Ryan's team knew they couldn't get through, so the helicopter had searched the area thoroughly several times, but they never found anything unusual.

But they couldn't care less about that now. While reporting, they packed up their equipment, applied all the remaining protective medicines all over their bodies as if they were free, and then put on long sleeves and trousers, which was a rare treat, and tucked them into their boots as they marched toward Site 76.

Upon arriving at the swamp, Ryan took Seton and Torres and paddled out in kayaks, carefully marking the way and occasionally disembarking to move the kayaks to another swamp.

The ground at Site 76 was all soft mud. After falling flat on their faces several times and getting covered in mud, Ryan finally gave the order to evacuate as the sky began to darken, after more than two hours of venturing as far as he could.

By this time, everyone was hot and drenched in sweat, covered in countless tiny insects, and on the way back, they were so numb that they didn't have time to tell jokes anymore.

After walking for about 10 minutes on the way back, Ryan discovered a shortcut: a newly appeared large swamp that could be navigated by boat, which would save a lot of time and trouble.

However, by the time they pushed the kayak back into the water, it was almost dark, and soon it was pitch black.

Ryan, using his flashlight, guided the two rowers to skillfully avoid various obstacles, such as dead trees in the swamp, shallow water ahead, and a fortress that suddenly appeared in front of them...

"Oops!"

Ryan suddenly shouted, which slightly revived the other two, who were exhausted. They looked closely in the beam of the flashlight:
A gray, angular fortress with a metallic sheen at the top.
"My God, what is that?!"

(End of this chapter)