Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker

Every business of Zhongxun International can grow into a giant in the future. A Zhongxun LCD panel covers four technical directions.

There are also Zhongxun batteries, Zhongxun PCB processing plants, and Zhongxun precision processing.

Of course, SMIC's semiconductor foundry, SMIC, also has great growth potential.

None of these businesses have received good valuations. Even when Goldman Sachs, the major shareholder of CITIC, packaged these assets, the valuations given were not high.

Zhongxun's high value is only reflected in WCDMA communication technology, and in their opinion, the rest of the business is not leading because they can easily find alternative products, or even better products.

Seeing these businesses being underestimated, Zhao Guoqing feels distressed! Even SMIC's valuation does not exceed US$2 billion. The reason is simple. Intel has developed a 320-nanometer process, while SMIC is still a 500-nanometer process.

As for the R\u0026D and production centers that CITIC intends to establish for mechanical hard drives, CD drives, etc., these businesses will be established as independent R\u0026D and production companies.

Zhongxun Company, which cleared all its sub-businesses, only has the WCDMA communication technology department and three large mobile phone manufacturing workshops left.

This is what Zhao Guoqing is willing to take out and ring the bell first.

Zhao Guoqing said to John: "The business of these subsidiaries is not only for Zhongxun, but also for the whole world!"

Such as LCD panels, such as batteries.

Of course, SMIC is now the most successful.

John nodded. For Goldman Sachs, making more money is definitely a good thing.

The combined valuation of all these sub-businesses is less than 10% of the total valuation. If it can grow... it will definitely make a lot of money, although in John's opinion, it is difficult to grow!

"Mr. Zhao, do as you say! Goldman Sachs will definitely vote in favor of it on the board of directors!"

Zhao Guoqing nodded, and the matter was settled. Of course, even if Goldman Sachs disagreed, he could pass the agenda with absolute control!

Both parties are very satisfied with the communication with Goldman Sachs. After all, there are many points of convergence of interests between the two parties.

BlackRock Investment Group and JPMorgan Chase are not easy to talk to. These two investment banks have invested heavily in high-tech fields.

John said: “BlackRock Investments and JPMorgan Chase are lobbying Congress to pass the latest restriction bill on CITIC!”

Zhao Guoqing frowned slightly and said, "What good idea did they come up with!"

"They believe that CITIC's access to your Chinese state funds is unfair competition for American high-tech enterprises..."

"..." Zhao Guoqing was speechless, thinking that tariffs would be added again, or there would be fines.

As for product bans, that shouldn’t be possible!

"Mr. Zhao, the group must be split up quickly. Before Congress introduces specific measures, of course Goldman Sachs also has its own lobbying team. We may not fail..."

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The development of things is becoming more and more confusing, but the overall trend is still good.

ARM product share continues to rise, and the market share of Linux operating systems has exceeded 70%!

In the previous life, the Linux Alliance had no leader, the open source alliance could not command the heroes, and the software development for each hardware was lagging behind. Coupled with the high technical threshold, Linux has always been a relatively niche operating system.

Now, the Linux Open Source Alliance has sufficient funds, strong technical reserves and a team of technical personnel, and its core development iterations far exceed those of Windows.

The operating system is open source and free, but the applications are not free. Linux has developed a new model, integrating a software mall into the system and charging some fees to support the operating system.

A break-even has been formed, and the game mall in the software mall has been considered the trump card of Linux and the most profitable content.

But Zhao Guoqing is not satisfied yet. The 45-nanometer process has already appeared and cannot be wasted.

He came to the Linux R\u0026D Center on Hong Kong Island and proposed new tasks.

"Mr. Zhao, do we want to develop a 64-bit operating system?"

Zhao Guoqing nodded and said: "A 64-bit operating system for multi-processors and multi-tasking!"

In fact, the 64-bit operating system is not much different from the 32-bit operating system. The biggest difference is the addressing space. The maximum memory addressing space of the 32-bit operating system is only 3.6G, while the 64-bit operating system can reach tens of thousands of terabytes.

Nicole Sanborn asked: "Mr. Zhao, is it necessary to develop a 64-bit operating system now?"

Zhao Guoqing said: "Yes, Linux operation is not only used in the field of personal computers, but also in the field of large, medium and mobile computers. 64-bit operating system is imperative!"

Wison International invested US$300 million in the research and development of the 64-bit Linux operating system, of which multi-processor application algorithms were handed over to the Russian Computer Research and Development Center.

At the ARM Asia R\u0026D Center, the ARMv7 64-bit server processor project has also begun, with an investment of US$200 million.

Zhao Guoqing put forward the demand: "The application fields of ARMv7 64-bit processor are large, medium and small computers, workstations, network hub data calculation, database and other applications..."

As for technical indicators, Zhao Guoqing suggested multi-core, super pipeline, hyper-threading, core sharing of first and second level cache, and adding third level cache technology.

Zhao Guoqing is very busy with operating systems and processors, with major companies assigning research and development tasks.

Since Motorola's DRAM memory R\u0026D center was acquired by CITIC, it has now moved to Hong Kong Island and established an independent memory company. The company's top-secret R\u0026D department has also assigned research and development tasks. The development of 64M single DRAM memory particles based on the 45nm process is on the agenda.

The 64-bit PCI bus technology based on ARMv7 processor is also on the agenda.

As for the fastest progress, it is the Voodoo computing card based on the 45nm process.

The new chief engineer Guo Le admires Mr. Zhao very much. Two years ago, the concept of GPU did not exist in the world, and the first generation voodoo graphics card defined what a graphics processor is.

I haven’t figured out the 500nm graphics processor yet, so now I’m going directly to the 45nm process graphics processor.

Problems arose immediately.

You must know that the functions of graphics processors are too simple compared to CPUs. In theory, the performance of a single core reaches its peak in the 130-nanometer process. Whether it is adding fixed-point units or pipelines, there is not much improvement in performance.

At this time, Mr. Zhao proposed the concept of stream processor design.

"A stream processor contains a vertex processing unit, a texture unit, and a pipeline processing unit. These stream processors are concentrated into one core, and the pipeline algorithm is used to mobilize each stream processor to process tasks..."

This brand-new concept shocked the technicians present.

The multi-stream processor core is very suitable for simple computing devices such as graphics cards.

Of course, it also applies to... large vector computers...

And large vector computers mean productivity.

After the task was assigned, Zhao Guoqing said to Director Pang: "Director Pang, do you want a computer with a speed of one billion times per second..."