Soon, three more people came to the office.
After a simple greeting, Li Zetian asked, "Do you still remember Game-Watch?"
Everyone nodded, thoughtful.
"Of course I remember, it was a game product designed by you, Mr. Li, which once swept the world!"
Li Zetian nodded and said: "This time I redesigned a product based on Game-Watch. Everyone knows that Game-Watch can only play one game per machine, and it has many defects. New products have been made. Improve!"
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Dongfang Yuqin and motioned her to take out the product design information.
Dongfang Yuqin took out the documents from the bag, then walked to the printer on the side to make a few copies, and finally sent everyone a copy of the document.
"Gameboy?" Nolan Bushnell said.
Li Zetian smiled, that's right, it was the core product Gameboy relied on in Nintendo's previous life. Once this product came out, it made the whole world go crazy! In the previous life, the product was developed by Yokoi Junpei, but Yokoi Junpei himself later admitted that because of objective conditions and market demand, Gameboy lowered his requirements in many places, which was not his ideal work.
Li Zetian calmly looked at Junping Yokoi, thinking, let you develop this time and see what kind of perfect works you can develop!
After 10 minutes, Li Zetian asked, "Isn't everyone seeing a lot of births? Is there any problem?"
Everyone shook their heads, all shocked by Li Zetian's design, what else could be wrong.
Nolan Bushnell said: "The design of the meboy is great, especially the design of the interchangeable game cards, which is absolutely loved by players!"
"Yeah, the game card can be replaced, which means that one console can play multiple games! And the Game-Watch can only play one game, players will feel that it is not worthwhile."
"It's just that in Mr. Li's design, the Gameboy is very thin and light. This is probably a huge problem that we will face in the development process!"
"… "
The crowd analyzed.
Li Zetian nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, but in order to realize the game function, the game machine itself must be beautiful and easy to carry. The lighter and thinner the machine is, the more popular it will be!"
Having said that, Li Zetian looked at Yokoi Junping, "You will be in charge of the Gameboy hardware development project..."
"Okay, Mr. Li."
Yokoi Junping was excited and quickly agreed.
Li Zetian smiled at him. Yokoi Junping has always been the main person in charge of the hardware department of Flamingo Company. The first and second generations of Flamingo were developed under his leadership. Although he is an RB person, But who said RB people can't take it for their own use
Yokoi Junpei has now applied for American citizenship and has become a Japanese-American.
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Christmas is approaching in a blink of an eye, and the company has also started its annual holiday. Many people plan to travel abroad during Christmas, and the Li Zetian family is no exception.
Li Zetian intends to go back to China, he has not been back for many years.
In addition, the investment process in mainland China has been greatly improved, and Chinese Real Estate has already entered the mainland market with great results.
Li Zetian and Yu Jingqiu first came to Hong Kong with their two children, joined their parents and Zhou Qiqi, and then went to mainland China together.
After coming to Hong Kong, Li Zetian also took time to visit the Science and Technology Park, and also chatted with Zhang Zhongmou about Intel's "wafer foundry" factory.
At present, this fab is a 4-inch fab with a process of 0.55 microns, which is already a very advanced fab.
The semiconductor industry often hears people say how many inches of fabs and how many processes. These are actually two concepts.
As we all know, wafers are silicon, and the material is usually sand. It takes two stages of purification to turn sand into silicon. The first step is metallurgical purification to obtain high-purity polysilicon required for semiconductor manufacturing, with a purity of 99.999%. . The second step is to pull the crystal. First, the high-purity polycrystalline silicon obtained above is melted to form liquid silicon, and then the single-crystal silicon seed is brought into contact with the liquid surface, slowly pulling up while rotating, and finally forming a neatly arranged single-crystal circular silicon column. That is why the fab is called a fab.
4 inches is the diameter of a single crystal silicon pillar. The larger the size, the higher the speed and temperature requirements for crystal pulling. It is difficult to make wafers larger than 4 inches with current technology. Of course, 5-inch and 6-inch are not impossible to make, but the price is too high and not cost-effective, while 4-inch is currently more mature and can be commercialized.
A wafer can be cut into multiple chips. Therefore, the larger the size, the larger the wafer area, and the more chips are produced per unit time. The wafer area of an 8-inch fab is the same as that of a 4-inch fab. Four times the area of the wafer can greatly reduce the production cost, so the larger fab can completely crush the lower fab in price.
As for the "process", it has a lot to do with the lithography machine. To put it simply, a lithography machine is to draw integrated circuits on a chip. The smaller the process, the more things can be depicted on the chip on the same area, and the performance of the chip will be stronger, which is also the basis of Moore's Law.
Li Zetian, who is involved in the semiconductor industry, naturally has a little understanding of these.
The size and process of the fab are closely related to the production equipment, and Applied Materials and Esmol are responsible for solving these problems.
With Zhang Zhongmou in the fab, Li Zetian was not worried about any problems.
On the morning of December 26, the whole family set off for mainland China.
Coincidentally, not long after Li Zetian's family got off the plane, it began to snow in Hangzhou. The snow flying all over the sky soon covered the whole Hangzhou with a layer of white clothes. Hangzhou is like a painting, so beautiful. People are intoxicated.
This is the second time that Li Zetian came to mainland China after crossing the border.
The reason for the lack of attendance is mainly due to political issues.
Li Zetian's identity is too sensitive. He often comes to China and has a bad influence. It is easy to be misunderstood by the United States and the Western world. In addition, in the past few years, the reform of mainland China has just begun, and many people have low political awareness and have a hostile attitude towards Li Zetian, a big capital. Now that it is almost 1985, China's economy is booming, people have great confidence in reform and opening up, and their rejection of capitalists has also decreased. On the contrary, they have even begun to worship foreigners... Not only ordinary people, but also officials. See Foreigners, who feel short by three points, have to please them.
Li Zetian felt deeply about these things in this life, and the leaders in Hangzhou could not wait to confess him. This time, when they learned that he was coming to Hangzhou to visit relatives, the airport was full of leaders, as if they were coming to greet foreign presidents. Like, very solemn.