If other machinery and equipment may still be replaced by products from other companies, then there are three products that cannot be replaced by other companies for the time being, at least not in the short term.
That is the large-scale shield machine. This type of machine is mainly used for tunnel boring. It has previously played an important role in domestic highway construction and Hong Kong's subway construction.
Moreover, Tianshu Machinery Company's large-scale shield machine is one of their main export products. It not only has a high technical level, but also has much higher efficiency than its international counterparts. Of course, the unit price is also very high, and the profit margin is also very considerable.
In China, a large-scale shield machine can be sold for 20 million yuan. In foreign countries, the price of this kind of machine is even higher, reaching 30 million yuan. It is a veritable high-tech complex.
Previously, 100 units of this machine were sold in China, mainly used for tunnel boring during highway construction, while 200 units were sold in foreign markets.
Although the number is not very large, the turnover it brings is indeed very considerable, reaching 50 billion yuan. This is just the beginning. With the start of domestic large-scale infrastructure construction, the domestic demand for large-scale shield machines is about 500.
The second product is the aerial building machine. This product has been actually tested in the construction process of the Hong Kong Housing Company's new town. It is fully automated and has greatly increased the speed of building construction. At the same time, it has also reduced the construction difficulty of high-rise buildings. .
The scale of buildings in this urbanization construction is very large. If it is built using traditional methods, both efficiency and cost will be very high. This is when this kind of machine plays an advantageous role.
Therefore, after receiving the relevant construction contracts, both mainland state-owned enterprises and Hong Kong construction companies have asked Tianshu Machinery Company to purchase such machines in order to complete the contract objectives on schedule.
In fact, the aerial building machine is just a machine prepared by Tianshu Machinery Company for building buildings. There are hundreds of other related machine types, covering almost all aspects of the construction field.
Many of these machines had actually been developed a long time ago, but at that time China had not yet carried out large-scale infrastructure and urbanization, so sales were somewhat unsatisfactory.
However, Zhao Yi has long wanted to participate in urbanization construction, so he has always asked Tianshu Machinery Company to strive for excellence and constantly improve equipment in this area, regardless of the sales volume at that time.
This time the urbanization construction project starts, the main projects for Tianshu Machinery Company to expand production are in these areas, because the market size in these areas is currently the largest, and of course priority is given to ensuring output.
The third type is the track laying machine, which is a machine used for laying high-speed rail transit, that is, for laying rails. Although they have not officially launched it on the market yet, according to their report, the research and development work is nearing completion. .
Since the high-speed rail technology provided by Zhao Yi to China Rail Vehicle Group reaches a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, in order to achieve this speed, in addition to strong traction power and stabilization technology, it must also have higher requirements for the track.
The purpose of Tianshu Machinery Company's development of high-end track-laying machines is to solve this problem. Otherwise, if the original track-laying technology is used, it will be difficult to meet the quality requirements regardless of efficiency issues.
In fact, these are some examples to illustrate how well Tianshu Machinery Company has prepared for the upcoming major infrastructure plan, and also laid the foundation for their upcoming major development.
According to the report of Tianshu Machinery Company, they have prepared a full set of engineering machinery and equipment for domestic infrastructure construction. No equipment needs to be imported, providing a strong foundation for my country's upcoming infrastructure development.
In addition to Tianshu Machinery Company being prepared for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, other companies under Zhao Yi are not idle either, especially Star Power Company and Precision Instrument Company.
These two companies provide key equipment to China Rail Vehicle Group, one provides power equipment, and the other provides various precision instruments and equipment.
Of course, the various high-end materials provided by Cornerstone Materials are also indispensable, but compared to the two of them, Cornerstone Materials' share of the entire vehicle is much smaller.
The main reason is that except for a few key high-end materials, most of the commonly used materials are licensed by Cornerstone Materials to major domestic steel companies to be responsible for production and supply. Cornerstone Materials only charges patent licensing fees.
According to their reports and the vehicle technical information he gave to China Rail Vehicle Company, these two companies accounted for 50% of the total vehicle value.
Of the remaining 50%, another 20% is occupied by Polaris' electronic equipment. In other words, only about 30% is left for other companies.
Without the participation of these companies, even if Zhao Yi gave the complete vehicle technology to China Rail Vehicle Company, it would be difficult to build the entire vehicle, let alone reach 500 kilometers per hour, it would reach 350 kilometers per hour like in the previous life. All very difficult.
If you want to create a cross-era industrial product, you need to meet certain technical conditions in other aspects, otherwise no matter how good the idea is, it will be in vain.
The reason why Zhao Yi proposed to build a 500 kilometers per hour high-speed railway is because the technical strength of his enterprises can fully meet the conditions.
Of course, even if the conditions cannot be met, according to Zhao Yi's personality, he will probably secretly transfer technology to these companies, otherwise he would not be willing to wait until the conditions are met under natural circumstances.
Since the entire high-speed rail technology is under research and development at the Ministry of Railways, their main job during the period after the large-scale infrastructure construction is planned is to electrify and speed up the existing railways.
These transformations require the use of communication products from Hengtong Communications Company, electrification equipment provided by Xinhui Energy Company, and other precision equipment provided by Precision Instrument Company.
In fact, Zhao Yi thinks that the existing low-speed railways in China will be mainly used to transport materials in the future, while the newly built high-speed railways will be mainly used to transport people.
Because our country's land is so vast, and the coastal areas are limited after all, if the cost of goods circulation cannot be reduced well, the economic development rate of the inland will definitely be much slower than that of the coastal areas.
Although Zhao Yihe and his country are also consciously balancing the differences in economic development between regions, they are moving more industries suitable for inland development from coastal areas to the inland.
However, if this kind of planning wants to continue to operate smoothly, logistics costs must be further reduced. Otherwise, even if the state and Zhao Yi do this, other companies will not follow suit, because this is against the laws of market economy.
Therefore, while China Rail Vehicles is studying high-speed rail vehicles, it is also conducting research on my country's heavy-duty rail vehicle project, striving to achieve a cargo transport weight of 10,000 tons in the future, which is more than three times higher than the previous standard.
In addition to the high requirements for load-bearing materials and low friction coefficient materials, there are also more stringent requirements for the power system, and this task falls to Star Power.
As the most advanced and largest power system provider in China and even internationally, after Star Power Systems received this task, they not only wanted to meet the requirements, they also wanted to reduce energy consumption through their own efforts.
This idea adheres to their long-standing tradition. For example, the power systems they provided to Shenlong Automobile Company and Star Express Company have very good energy-saving effects, which improves their product competitiveness.
This time they took on this task and wanted to achieve this goal, which can further reduce logistics costs and help the country's economic development.
After these transportation plans are completed, people will travel by plane, car and high-speed rail, and logistics transportation will include heavy-duty trains, trucks and ships. As for cargo aircraft, they can only transport some express delivery or high-value products.
Since there were too many operating reports sent to Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi just looked at them with interest. Zhao Yi didn't even bother to open the reports that were not very important, such as Tianxing Semiconductor's carbon-based chips based on graphene technology. The research has made some breakthroughs.
They have used carbon nanotubes made of graphene to produce a simple calculator chip that is 10 times faster than traditional silicon-based chips. The effect is quite amazing.
This only proves that carbon-based chips have a lot of room for development in the future. There is still a long way to go before we can expect carbon-based chips now.
And as a leading company in this area, even if they develop a usable carbon-based chip, they will not immediately launch it on the market. Isn't this a problem for their own financial future
According to the plan, they will not use carbon-based chip technology until silicon-based chip technology comes to an end, so as to maximize benefits.
Because foreign journals previously rejected graphene papers, this paper with a major discovery could only be published in China. At present, the foreign scientific community does not pay enough attention to domestic journals.
This has caused foreign research on graphene materials to lag far behind domestic research because it has not received enough attention from them. According to a report from Tianwen Publishing House, few foreign scientific research institutions subscribe to Chinese journals.
Zhao Yi is very open-minded about this. Although he also hopes to show the world our country's current scientific research strength, he does not insist on it. Anyway, it is they who will suffer in the end.
For example, the research on graphene materials is not only being researched by his related companies, but other domestic research institutions and universities have also included the research on graphene materials as a key focus.
When Zhao Yi previously developed graphene super batteries, he provided a set of technologies for large-scale preparation of graphene materials, which eliminated technical bottlenecks in the preparation of domestic graphene materials.
This has laid a solid foundation for domestic research in graphene-related application fields. It is believed that on this basis, Tianxing Semiconductor's research on carbon-based chips will speed up a lot.
If the research on carbon-based chips really makes rapid progress, then the development speed of silicon-based chips can be increased. This will not only make the global semiconductor development faster, but also drag down a large number of competitors.
Currently, Tianxing Semiconductor is two positions ahead of the world's mainstream chip manufacturers in terms of silicon-based chip support, and its top chip production capacity is basically consumed by its brother companies.
For example, Polaris' game console products and Byte Data's high-end flash memory products use Tianxing Semiconductor's most advanced process technology.
This is also one of the great competitive advantages that other companies under Zhao Yi have in the market competition. Even Qingtian Semiconductor Company's treatment is worse.
Since Tianxing Semiconductor Company does not sell the most advanced process chips, the chip manufacturing process of Qingtian Semiconductor Company is the same as the chip manufacturing process of Tianxing Semiconductor Company.
The reason given by Tianxing Semiconductor to the outside world is that it has been contracted because of limited production, while the reason given by Qingtian Semiconductor to the outside world is that the company's development is still short and it is working hard to tackle the most advanced manufacturing processes.
Even so, Qingtian Semiconductor Company still takes almost all chip foundry orders in the world, because even if it is one generation behind Tianxing Semiconductor Company, it is at least much more advanced than other companies in the world.
Not all semiconductor chips need to use the highest manufacturing process. In fact, most chips do not have particularly high requirements for this, and are considered more based on cost performance.
This is also the reason why Tianxing Semiconductor does not sell the highest technology chips to the outside world, and it has not caused much backlash, because the highest process chips and the highest design technology are all in Tianxing Semiconductor Company.
This means that except for Tianxing Semiconductor Company and its brother companies, which have the highest requirements for chip manufacturing processes, other companies do not have a particularly large demand for this.
Let’s take Polaris game console products as an example. To create such an epoch-making game console, it’s not just about chips. It also requires major breakthroughs in other aspects.
In other words, even if other companies get the latest chips, they may not be able to develop game consoles as good as Polaris.
Moreover, the highest-tech chips provided by Tianxing Semiconductor Company to its brother companies are mainly used in their unique products, such as game consoles and tablet computers.
For desktop personal computers and laptops, there is no difference between the chips obtained by Polaris and the chips obtained by other manufacturers. They are all the same.
This technological difference occurs without Tianxing Semiconductor Company significantly increasing its speed. If they make a major breakthrough in carbon-based chips, they will definitely increase this speed further.
In this case, let alone Moore's Law, this law has long been completely destroyed by Tianxing Semiconductor Company, and this law now has no authority in the field of chip manufacturing.
It is the chip manufacturing industry that has achieved great development due to the existence of Tianxing Semiconductor Company. It will further improve, and other chip manufacturing companies will find it even more difficult.
It is conceivable that when Tianxing Semiconductor Company does this, other chip manufacturing companies will definitely go bankrupt or lose this business and focus more on chip design.
By then, all the chip manufacturing industries in the world will be controlled by our country, and Qingtian Semiconductor Company, which is following Tianxing Semiconductor Company to eat soup, will also be able to eat meat, and it will be big meat.
It's just that there is a big difference between carbon-based chip laboratory products and mass production, and all of Tianxing Semiconductor's chip manufacturing equipment is provided by Tiangong Precision Instruments.
In other words, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company now needs to conduct research on the production equipment of carbon-based chips. Without their cooperation, Tianxing Semiconductor Company would not even be qualified to conduct research on the manufacturing process of carbon-based chips.
Different from the research situation of silicon-based chips, Zhao Yi does not plan to participate in the research and development of carbon-based chips. This requires them to explore from beginning to end to find the best path, which is actually very difficult. height of.
Although carbon-based chips have many advantages over silicon-based chips and are an important research and development direction for next-generation chips, computers based on carbon-based chips still do not break away from the category of electronic computers.
Carbon-based chips have better electron mobility than silicon-based chips, making them much faster in calculation speed than silicon-based chips, but there is no huge difference.
As mentioned before, carbon-based chips are about 10 times faster than silicon-based chips at the same level of integration. In fact, they cannot be regarded as epoch-making products.
So Zhao Yi thought of optical brains. In his previous life, Zhao Yi had always read science fiction in this area, and he was also very fascinated by it. He always wished that he could have such a computer.
Let’s talk about the advantages of optical brain:
The first one is parallel transmission.
The electronic computers we currently use process data in a serial mode, which directly results in the actual working time taking up only a small part of the total time, and most of the performance is wasted.
This characteristic is due to the fact that photons do not interfere with each other. They can go hand in hand. A good example is optical fiber. In the same optical fiber, many light beams can exist at the same time. This is also the reason why light transmission speed is fast and quantitative. Big reason.
The second is ultra-high-speed computing.
This is due both to the parallel processing capabilities of photonic computers and to the fact that photons travel much faster than electrons.
The propagation speed of electrons is 593 kilometers per second, while the propagation speed of photons reaches 300,000 kilometers per second. The speed difference between the two is very obvious.
Moreover, as the equipment density of electronic computers continues to increase, the electromagnetic interaction between conductors will continue to increase, and the heat emitted will also continue to increase, thus restricting the operating speed.
The third is ultra-large-scale information storage capacity.
This is due to the fact that photons are not transmitted through wires. At the same time, when photons intersect, they will not have any interaction with each other.
This means that the photon computer transmits information in parallel, and its information density is actually infinite. A mirror the size of a nickel can carry information many times as much as the existing telephone cable channels around the world.
The fourth is that the energy consumption is small and the heat emitted is low.
Although optical brains have many advantages over traditional electronic computers, it is not necessary to think about creating a photonic computer the size of current electronic computers in a short time.
This requires not only high performance and long life for optical components, but also miniaturization. The difficulty is not ordinary, and it is impossible to achieve such a big breakthrough in a short time.
Therefore, Zhao Yi set his sights on building a prototype machine. It doesn't matter how big or small it is. He should first solve the problems and consolidate the theoretical foundation of photonic computers.
Then we need to constantly optimize the performance and lifespan of optical devices, so that even if miniaturization is not possible, we can still create practical supercomputers.
After this step meets the requirements, it will not be too late to consider miniaturization, so Zhao Yi's photonic computer is regarded as the development direction after the carbon-based chip electronic computer.
As for more powerful quantum computers, although Zhao Yi is more looking forward to it, it will take a longer way to reach practical level, and there are many difficulties to be solved.
And according to Tianxing Semiconductor's speed-up plan, photonic computers may have already been used before quantum computers have entered the miniaturization stage.
Moreover, his subsidiary companies are also researching quantum computers, but they have not asked Tianxing Semiconductor Company to study them. Even photon computers, Zhao Yi is not going to ask Tianxing Semiconductor Company to study them, but is going to ask Tiangong Precision Instruments Company to study them.
Because Tiangong Precision Instrument Company itself has a very solid foundation in the research and development of optical devices, and there is a huge difference in the architecture of photonic computers and electronic computers, Tianxing Semiconductor Company has no advantage.
However, this matter is not particularly urgent. Even if Tianxing Semiconductor Company speeds up silicon-based chip manufacturing, it will take more than ten or even twenty years to exhaust its potential.
Then it will be the turn of carbon-based chips to replace silicon-based chips. The time period for carbon-based chips should also be twenty or thirty years before the potential of carbon-based chips is exhausted.
Finally, it will be the turn of photonic computers to appear, but if breakthroughs are made in photonic computers earlier, they can be applied to supercomputers on a large scale.
Putting aside everything else, at least all major data centers around the world will purchase photon supercomputers, because not only are they faster in calculations, but they also consume much less power, and their operating costs will be greatly reduced.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yi wrote an email to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, asking them to organize some people to conduct experimental research on photonic computers and to cultivate talents in this area.
Since he was not particularly anxious, Zhao Yi did not provide relevant information and let Tiangong Precision Instrument Company explore first, so that their ideas would not be constrained and the technology might be more promising than the one he provided.
Scientific research is like this. While trial and error continue, there will also be many unexpected discoveries. Perhaps these unexpected discoveries will become the technical foundation for the next generation of technological revolution.
In fact, Zhao Yi himself wanted to conduct research on things he was interested in personally, but his new home had not yet been built. After the new home was built, it would be easier for him to research many things. (End of chapter)