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Former Huawei engineer: Domestic chips are an unsuccessful joke (appalling)

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As the core of system control, the electronic control system controls the operation of small household appliances, as large as automobiles, airplanes and communications, and is the core of all industrial products. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Although it seems that there are many large high-tech enterprises in China, such as Haier, ZTE, Huawei, etc., they also export a lot of electronic products every year. However, as the core of the electronic control system, more than 80% of high-tech products need to be imported.

Of course, the chips are also divided into three, six, nine, and so on. There are auxiliary chips for some simple tasks, which cost a few cents each. These domestically produced chips can account for 50% of the market. These chips are highly replaceable. There are also core chips for complex or core work (such as computer CPUs), ranging from 1 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, almost all of them are imported, and they are essential in the system.

Even if the low-end chips with high domestic production rate, a large part of them are still bought from foreign crystal gardens, and then come back to cut them, install a shell and test them, and then the finished products are finished. It is equivalent to buying an imported product and packaging it yourself to make it MADE IN CHINA. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

There are also very few chips that are really so-called 100% domestically produced. In fact, they take some low-end chips from abroad, disassemble them, take pictures under a microscope, and then copy them completely, and they don’t look like copies. The performance is better than The original version is poor, and the price can only be matched with the original version. If the chip design can still be changed a little bit, it is already a mess, and it is estimated that the National Science and Technology Progress Award can be declared. High-end and complex chips from abroad can’t be copied in China; even if they give you the drawings and materials, they can’t be produced in China.

The status quo of the electronics industry is that the best chips are in the United States, followed by Japan, Europe, South Korea, and Taiwan. Mainland China? This place also produces chips? Just kidding, at least I haven’t used MADE IN CHINA chips in 10 years. What China Resources, SMIC and the like, they help foreign low-end chips do the OEM. Of course, in the wholesale market, those cheap toys or remote controls that go bad in a few months contain domestic chips.

Affected by the financial crisis in 2008, the output of foreign chip factories has been compressed. As a result, since 2009, domestic chips have been out of stock and prices have risen, and individual varieties that are in short supply have doubled. It has a great impact on the domestic controller production, and the production has to be postponed again and again. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

To take a small example, China is the largest producer of electric bicycles, and all the chips of electric vehicle controllers are imported. Among them, the MOS tube chips are the best ones from a foreign brand. As a result, starting in May every year, when the production and sales of electric vehicles enter the peak season, the price of MOS transistor chips of that brand will increase, generally by 30-50%. In 2006, the most outrageous, from 2 yuan to 8 yuan, an electric vehicle controller To use 6-12 such mos tubes, it basically accounts for more than 60% of the cost of a controller. When others increase the price, it will go up, and if you kill it, you will kill it, whether you like it or not. Only a few manufacturers with strong technical strength try other foreign chips. Although the quality has dropped a little, after all, the cost is saved, and the overall is still cost-effective. Domestic mos chips are never used, and the core wafers of these chips are also foreign, but a shell is installed in China. Even so, no one will use them even if they are given away for free. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Therefore, some people say that regardless of how much China exports, it actually earns some labor fees. More than 80% of the profits are actually earned by the upstream large foreign companies.

One day, if the United States pulls Japan and Europe to embargo China’s chips, then China’s electronics industry will be completely abolished. All China’s electronic control systems, including household appliances, automobiles, aircraft, and power grid control. Speaking of this, why does it feel the same as saying that in 1949, it’s really poor and white.

Why is China still like this after 30 years of so-called rapid development? My experience is the answer.

In the past 10 years, the money I made as an engineer was only a fraction of the real estate appreciation, and it was harder than investing in stocks. Now I have begun to gradually give up work in R&D and go into the business field with higher income and more fun. Although it is a pity that I have 10 years of technical experience, China does not actually need any experienced engineers. China is just a factory and only needs workers. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

10 years ago, I just graduated, and China is like this; it is still the same today, even backwards (a major state-owned chip factory recently announced that it would stop developing chips and focus on the foundry business); 10 years later…

This is the status quo of my electronics industry. If you have the status quo of this industry, you can also talk about it.

I remember a mechanical engineer once said that if you leave the German mother machine, China’s machinery industry will be completely finished.

If the world leaves China, the cost of living or production will be slightly higher, but only by a few percentage points, because China actually occupies the link with the lowest profit and the smallest output value in the entire industrial chain, and it also helps foreigners assemble A few labor costs were saved at this stage. The tragedy of the country is that there is no hope of progress, and the gap with foreign countries is getting wider and wider. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

More than 10 years ago, when I was in college, our leisure activity was to overclock the computer to see who can run more and more steadily; some of us like to study the theory of relativity in the library, and like to show off things like entropy in front of us; We also like to soak in the laboratory, build some music boxes, alarms and other small things with leftovers; some people find the loopholes in win95 for fun.

After graduation, many of us choose to do technology, because we worship Gates and Erickson, and think technology is sublime and great. After work, because the unit copied the Japanese control system, the young engineers of the unit like to deviate from the Japanese set of ideas to create a system, and then show it off in front of colleagues. Although none of them have been proved to be stable, they still enjoy the other. , who can say that these young people will not become a generation of masters in 20 years. At that time, girls liked great people. If they could play two more guitars and sing two poems, they would be fascinated by people.

Is there still such a thing among college students now? They all went to take the civil service exam. Do the current engineers have this? They are all trying to find ways to transfer sales or management closer to the money.

Why is this? Because when we just graduated, we didn’t have to worry about work. The key undergraduate degree is generally around 2,000. High-paying companies such as Huawei can give more than 5,000 plus shares. At that time, the housing price in the outer ring of Shanghai was only more than 3,000, and the housing price in Beijing was not high. When it reaches 5000, the housing price in the second-tier coastal city where I live is only in the early 1000s, and second-hand houses are available for 600 and 800, and the units generally provide room and board, so it is not necessary to have a house to find a wife. At that time, the civil servants were not very popular. The same degree of education was not as good as entering the enterprise, and the people at that time felt that they could not learn much skills in the organization, and everyone was willing to enter the enterprise, especially in the enterprise to engage in technology. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Without the pressure of survival, people can naturally work for their ideals and interests. Now, young people who are not born at the right time have to abandon their ideals and interests in order to survive, and even bear the risk of being abandoned by society in the future because they do not have a skill to accompany them.

In addition, talking about the “cooperative research and development” between enterprises and universities, and hearing about the whereabouts of the scientific research funds of universities, it is simply distressing.

If a project has 10 million yuan, the school will first take 5 million yuan as management fee, and then the school will buy a car and issue a bonus; then the department will take 3 million yuan and pay a bonus for buying a car; then several tutors will take 1 million yuan and issue a bonus , eat and drink; then there are less than 1 million left, and a few developers add some equipment and get some wages, and finally find that they are nervous to buy raw materials.

This is what the graduate students of the partner universities complained about, and it may be an exaggeration. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Let me say that “shanzhai” or imitation is a shortcut for latecomers.

Our unit used to imitate Japan’s electronic control system. It has been imitated for more than 20 years, and it is still imitating. Why, because the performance of the things we developed is unstable, no one dares to use it. As a private enterprise, it has a sense of innovation and wants to surpass Japan in performance and lower prices than Japan through its own products, so that it can become bigger and stronger. This is a good idea.

At the beginning of innovation, it requires a lot of investment of capital and personnel, and it takes a long time to accumulate, and no output can be seen. At this time, even a very far-sighted and wise boss can persist, even if he is willing to do it at a loss, he must make own stuff. However, every year because you are innovating, you will not be exempted from taxes and fees. You have no benefits, so what do you pay taxes with. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Although an engineer engaged in R&D is not profitable, his contribution is greater than imitation, and he needs a higher income, but the company is not profitable, so what to give engineers high salaries, without high salaries, they can’t afford a house, and no women are willing to marry you.

In Japan, it was the government that invested and raised these companies, and Japan is today. Will China do this? What kind of people have the Chinese government’s money raised? Excellent engineer too.

【Netizen thread】

Netizen one:

A very good company has released a security product that claims to have completely independent intellectual property rights. As a result, all the computer rooms of Jiangsu Power Grid were kidnapped, and all the computer rooms from the provincial to the local adjustment had to use their own things. Only Jiangsu, only the smart grid, only the communication channel of the smart grid, only this part of the EPON in the communication channel. That’s tens of billions.

It controls the encryption and decryption of the data transmission process. That is to say, if your computer room does not interfere with it. Can’t get into the network. But my brother dismantled this thing himself. The chips inside are Motorola and Toshiba. Didn’t even change the name. This is known as having independent intellectual property rights. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

All it has is a shell. Then it claims to have independent intellectual property rights. Then all the purchasing catalogs can only have the name of its home. Use your own shell. Loaded with foreign products. That’s what we’re proud of. Ha ha.

Netizen 2: That’s great!

I am also an engineer. I have lived in the south for 2 years. We are the agent of foreign products in China. The parts inside are all foreign. If the parts are not imported from abroad, the whole factory will not be able to operate at all.

To be honest, I used to read a book about Bill Gates when I was in school, and I admired him because of his technology. At that time, I thought that if I learned the technology well, I might be able to develop in China, but I was wrong. I just learned that China is not like the United States. China does not have Silicon Valley. Domestically, it pays attention to money and ignores technology.

Netizen three:

Do you want me to tell you about the situation of the machinery industry, I have seen it through long ago; all the initial products are manufactured by machinery and equipment, and our manufacturing equipment is basically imported (Japanese and German), and their lubricants must also be imported. Wait for the small parts, don’t use their oil machine for a month before it breaks, see what our oil giants do, isn’t there enough money to scrape the common people? There are so many jokes in our machinery manufacturing industry that I am too lazy to say it. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Netizen four:

Brother is also engaged in the development of integrated circuits, that is, chip development, but basically doing the reverse (the reverse is that the films that have been developed by others are generally taken abroad for dissection, and then professional high-resolution ones are used. Take a photo with a microscope, so that you can see the circuit structure of the entire chip, and you can copy it), because the reverse requires less capital, low risk, and short cycle, but we copied all the old foreign products 3 or 4 years ago. , or longer, or even something that has already been phased out.

Some people will ask, why don’t we reverse the new things abroad? Because even if we draw the circuit of other people’s new things, there is no domestic craftsmanship to make this thing. Foreigners have already reached the nano era, but we are still at the level of μm, and the gap is not a little bit. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

Another landlord mentioned the so-called “cooperative R&D”. As far as I know, very few domestic universities are really dedicated to R&D. They are all cheating the country’s money and putting it in their own pockets. For example, a certain The project (not to mention the specific details) is given 1600W by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. How is this 1600W used, such as: site cost, equipment cost, travel cost, 2000K per month for graduate students participating in the project, 4000K per month for doctoral students, etc. Wait. First of all, the venue and equipment are basically ready-made (do you have to build a building for you when you take a project?), the graduate students participating in the project are 2000K per month, this is the most annoying, as far as I know, I will give 3 , 400, still do not give a good hair. Doing projects like this, procrastinating until the end, shirk responsibility, and finally let it go~

Netizen 5: I was also an engineer a few years ago, and I also have some understanding of the domestic electronics industry.​​

I also worked in a domestic chip research and development company for a while. With domestic technology, the development of some ordinary chips can still be technically produced.

But there is one most important reason for the domestic development companies to hold back – market competition. China Manufacturer of metal shaft

In 2000, we received an order for the development of a main chip for a water heater in Shunde. The first order was for 200,000 chips. At that time, Taiwanese chip companies also joined the competition for orders.

The research and development of this chip is not difficult, but the difficulty is in the production process. Even if we develop a chip, we have to process it for Taiwanese because there is no such processing equipment in China.

If the processing fee cannot be lowered, the Taiwanese company will no longer be able to compete. In the end, the Taiwanese get this order at a lower price than ours.

Although the electronics industry is not as far behind as the machinery industry is, the creative work in the entire industry is rarely done by the Chinese. The R&D department of a Chinese enterprise is simply theft. Once something is stolen, it will immediately apply for a national patent.

Real R&D requires high investment, long cycle and considerable risk, or stealing comes quickly. And there is no sign of significant change in a short period of time (10 years, let’s say). China Manufacturer of metal shaft

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