The semiconductor industry is very complex, with too many upstream and downstream industry chains.
Fortunately, apart from lithography machines, other industry chains do not have such high technical barriers, and domestic enterprises can break through them.
The real bottleneck is the lithography machine!
In 2011, the global mainstream lithography machine was still the fifth-generation lithography machine, ArFi (immersion lithography machine).
Mainstream chips were still 32nm and 45nm.
The unreleased Xiaomi Mi 1 used Qualcomm's 45nm, which led to severe overheating.
Meanwhile, domestic development was focused on the fourth-generation ArF lithography machine.
In fact, Modu Weidianzi produced a prototype of a fourth-generation lithography machine in 2007.
However, some components were blocked and embargoed by the West, preventing mass production, and domestic production was also unable to achieve it.
It wasn't until nine years later, in 2016, when domestic components achieved a full breakthrough, that mass production of the fourth-generation lithography machine was realized!
This was also the year ASML mass-produced its sixth-generation lithography machine—the EUV lithography machine.
If the government had vigorously developed the upstream and downstream industry chains for lithography machines in 2011, the fourth-generation lithography machine might have achieved mass production a few years earlier.
The fifth-generation lithography machine also had a chance to come out many years earlier!
The fifth-generation lithography machine, pushed to its limits, could produce 7nm chips, which would be sufficient to meet demand for the next decade or more.
If mass production were truly achieved, coupled with SMIC's chip manufacturing process,
Wang Yi, making phones, would be able to develop and design a chip a few years later when his strength grew, and then have SMIC manufacture it.
There would be no need to worry about being stifled like Huawei.
Wang Yi made up his mind to make Meiyou bigger and stronger, increase his influence, and lobby the presidents and academicians of prestigious universities like Beihang and Zhongke to jointly propose the initiative!
If Meiyou's revenue of 100 million isn't enough, then 1 billion in revenue!
If 1 billion in revenue isn't enough, then 10 billion in revenue!
Wang Yi also knew that this path would be difficult, but someone always had to put in the effort and try!
Otherwise, on the day of blockade and restriction, no one would be innocent.
If it succeeded, Wang Yi would also invest some capital and make some contributions.
Of course, he wouldn't put all his money into lithography machines.
He could, however, offer many valuable suggestions.
As a reborn person, Wang Yi didn't know much about lithography machine technology itself, but he had read a lot of news.
He knew that the development direction of the next-generation lithography machine was the EUV lithography machine!
He knew that ASML's EUV lithography machine would succeed in five years!
He knew that Modu Weidianzi, Zhongke Optoelectronics Institute, and Jichun Guangji Institute were key to solving the domestic fourth and fifth-generation lithography machines!
This information could help avoid many detours in the R&D of domestic lithography machines!
He also knew that Europe and America fully supported ASML to become the lithography machine hegemon in order to suppress Japan's semiconductor industry.
And Japan's semiconductor industry was suppressed into a comprehensive decline, eventually completely abandoning the high-end market.
In this situation, if sufficient benefits were offered, Japanese lithography giants Nikon and Canon might not necessarily refuse to reveal some key core technologies.
After all, they were on the verge of being crushed; it would be better to exchange their technology for money, and also annoy Europe, America, and ASML!
Of course, if they didn't agree, it wouldn't matter.
There's no impregnable fortress; one could always throw money to buy off experts from Nikon, Canon, and even ASML, to obtain some core technologies!
Traitors exist everywhere!
As long as one's mind is active enough, there are always more solutions than problems.
Of course, Wang Yi couldn't personally handle this; he needed to find a white glove.
Lithography machines and semiconductors require the strength of the entire nation and should primarily be left to the government.
Wang Yi just needs to make some contributions.
As for mobile phones, Wang Yi plans to personally enter the fray in a few months!
Reborn in 2011, the internet boom had already been carved up.
What Wang Yi could grasp was only the nascent mobile internet!
And the foundation of mobile internet was smartphones! To be precise, affordable domestic smartphones.
Currently, there are too few smartphone users.
Wang Yi's current e-commerce ventures and subsequent mobile game development would be limited by the number of smartphone users.
In other words, the current number of smartphone users limits the upper bound of Wang Yi's industry development!
To break through this, Wang Yi can only personally enter the market and make smartphones!
The sooner he expands the smartphone user base, the better his Meiyou e-commerce, subsequent mobile games, etc., can develop.
Moreover, in the phone industry, the early birds get the meat, later ones get the soup, and even later ones only get to smell it.
Like Xiaomi, it entered early and rapidly grew.
Later entrants like 360, Smartisan, LeTV, etc., were a few years late, all suffered heavy losses, and ended miserably...
However, making phones requires at least hundreds of millions in startup capital, and Wang Yi doesn't have that much money right now.
But with the upcoming expansion of Meiyou physical stores, the endorser becoming popular, and Meiyou growing, earning several hundred million within half a year should not be a problem.
As for Wang Yi not understanding phones, that's also not an issue.
In 2011, domestic smartphones were just starting out.
Except for Meizu with its M8 and M9 experience, other brands didn't understand smartphones!
And Wang Yi, as a reborn person and a tech enthusiast, understood phones far better than anyone in the current era.
From which processor would fail, which screen would have problems, to the entire evolutionary history of smartphones, Wang Yi knew it all clearly.
In simple terms, for Xiaomi and OV, making phones was like a closed-book exam, feeling their way across the river.
For Wang Yi, making phones was an open-book exam!
This was Wang Yi's biggest asset.
Of course, for the first few generations of phones, Wang Yi would also be like other domestic phone brands:
Using Qualcomm and Samsung chips, Samsung, Sharp, and JDI screens, Sony batteries, Android system...
Starting as a "comprador", earning money while simultaneously engaging in R&D, planning, and investing in his own industry chain.
If he were to try to develop and produce everything himself from the start, that would be unrealistic, completely unrealistic.
After a few years, when his own strength grew and his own industry chain matured, he would gradually replace imports, transforming from a "comprador" into a self-reliant developer and producer!
By then, Wang Yi could develop his own system.
Screens and batteries would come from domestic suppliers he invested in or acquired.
Processors could be designed and developed by himself.
As for mass production, he would need to find SMIC for OEM, and that would depend on whether the government's lithography machine had made breakthroughs!
Wang Yi had no plans to build his own wafer fab and produce his own chips; that was too difficult!
It would be better to invest and support the two giants, Modu Weidianzi and SMIC, when he had more funds later!
Furthermore, patents also needed to be accumulated.
Fortunately, if sold domestically, patent issues would not be a big problem.
After all, domestic phones a few years ago sold like crazy, and which company paid patent fees?
Of course, if Wang Yi were to make phones, it wouldn't be pure assembly!
He would also invest funds in targeted scientific research!
Recruiting high-end talents and investing heavily to pre-research the technologies and patents Wang Yi needed, building his own patent barrier!
More importantly, Wang Yi also had Meiyou's many female users as a foundation!
For female users, Wang Yi's phone would focus on photography, creating the world's first beauty camera!
For male users, Wang Yi would focus on system tuning, ensuring smooth operation, low heat, and no lag when playing games!
Wang Yi, coming from a software background, had his greatest advantage in algorithms.
With the same Android 4.0 system, Wang Yi could optimize it to be smoother, more fluid, consume less power, and perform better!
With the same camera module, Wang Yi could tune it to take more beautiful photos, even rivaling the iPhone!
The camera quality of domestic phones at that time was far inferior to the iPhone!
Even years later, they couldn't compare.
Android's 20-megapixel cameras were inferior to iPhone's ancestral 8-megapixel cameras.
It wasn't until many years later that Android photography truly rose, even surpassing it...
The current Android system was also like this, far inferior to iOS.
And as an elite programmer who had worked for a major company, Wang Yi was quite accomplished in algorithms.
With the triple core advantages of the smoothest Android system + best photo quality + beauty algorithms, Wang Yi's phone would surely crush other Android phones!
At once, Wang Yi sorted out his future development strategy.
For lithography machines and semiconductors, he would ask the government to take the lead, and Wang Yi would just play a supporting role, making some investments and contributions.
Phones were the priority; he would plan ahead, slowly recruit people, accumulate funds, and start mass production next year.
For now, he would focus on quickly establishing Meiyou physical stores, waiting for the endorser to become popular, the brand to become popular, and reaping profits both online and offline.
With sufficient funds, he could then advance into the phone sector.
Using algorithms from a later era, he would focus on the best photography, beauty algorithms, and the smoothest system optimization!
However, in the next few months, besides e-commerce + apparel, he also needed to develop a new track, adding more money-making projects.
For example, the mobile game sector!
Phone performance was very poor at that time, making large-scale games difficult.
Instead, it was the golden age for casual games!
Wang Yi remembered that the most popular mobile games next year, besides Kupao and Plants vs. Zombies 2, included a new game called "Defend the Radish"!
This casual game was simple in the early stages, addictive in the middle, and required spending money to pass in the later stages...
It had over 100 million users and over 10 million daily active users.
Adding "Defend the Radish 2" the following year, total users exceeded 300 million!
The profits were even more terrifying!
The mobile game platform alone had monthly revenues exceeding 10 million!
Adding all channels together, earning several hundred million a year was not a problem.
Such a casual game would be very simple for Wang Yi to make, and he could even make it better!
Coupled with Meiyou's nearly two million users, promotion would be much simpler; it might even start with millions of daily active users!
It would also be another stable source of income.
Coincidentally, a while ago, Wang Yi had also asked Song Sining to register the game company.
And many trademarks were also registered.
Even trademarks like "pure desire style" and "stepmother dress" were registered by Wang Yi!
Returning home, Wang Yi immediately went into seclusion to develop "Defend the Radish".
The most core framework would still be completed independently.
Only later would it be distributed to his employees, who would then quickly develop and launch it in a short time.
He didn't want the news to leak before launch and have someone copy it.
As long as "Defend the Radish" launched and was immediately promoted, becoming big on both Android and iOS, then it would be completely stable.
Others who wanted to copy it wouldn't have time.
In the evening, Wang Yi received a call from Sun Rui.
During this period, Sun Rui and his team were still selling clearance clothing.
Dongrui and Miansen had many clearance items, which Sun Rui and his team were selling.
Besides Sun Rui's initial few members, the team had now grown to over twenty people.
Three or four people were responsible for one stall, resulting in higher efficiency and even higher revenue.
Sun Rui regularly transferred money to Wang Yi, and the income was quite stable.
At its lowest, it was around 200,000 to 220,000; at its highest, it could reach 250,000 to 260,000, business was booming.
However, Sun Rui and his team had to work hard, constantly moving around.
If sales stalled in one township, they would go to the next.
If sales stalled in one county, they would go to the next county...
Of course, some people followed suit, also trying to snatch market share.
But it was meaningless.
Firstly, their sources of goods were not as cheap as Wang Yi's.
For these clearance items without packaging, Wang Yi bought them by the kilogram!
Secondly, by the time they thought of following suit, Wang Yi had already made all the money in that area!
When they tried to sell there, they couldn't sell anything.
And when they went to other areas, those areas had also already been covered by Sun Rui and his team...
Next, Sun Rui and his team were preparing to sell clearance items in other cities!
There was no other way; they had already covered the entire city, and there were very few unvisited areas left.
On the phone, Sun Rui's tone was filled with excitement:
"Yi-ge, you're amazing! You secretly founded Meiyou Technology!"
"You know too?"
Wang Yi laughed, it seems it really couldn't be kept a secret anymore!
"Of course! It was on the news last night, and in the newspaper today, on the front page no less. Everyone's talking about you, it's hard not to know!"
Sun Rui shook his head, full of disbelief:
"I thought your venture was just selling clearance shoes and clothes. Turns out those were just small-time stuff."
"Meiyou Technology, Meiyou Mall, pure desire style, those are your real big moves! Amazing, truly amazing."
"Quickly check the group chat, it's blown up!"
Wang Yi opened the class group chat, which he hadn't checked in a long time, and saw that it had indeed blown up:
Sun Yifeng: "Wang Yi hid it too well. I only found out after my dad mentioned that Boss Wang of Meiyou is Wang Yi!"
Song Yu: "I just found out too! The pure desire style dress I bought is from my classmate's family, hahaha!"
Zhao Xiaodan: "Boss Wang, why no discount for classmates! 599 a piece, I bought two, emptying three years of my allowance!"
Li Xin: "We're all classmates, Wang Yi is too incredible!"
Liu Qing: "That's Meiyou Technology, the kind that makes headlines and appears on TV! Wang Yi, how did you do it?"
Lin Feifei: "Boss Wang, do you still need a secretary? Please give me a chance!"
...
Xu Yan also saw these group messages and was completely shocked:
"What? The boss of Meiyou Technology is Wang Yi? He's already so powerful?"
At once, Xu Yan's eyes completely dimmed.
As a top student, she had always been defiant of everyone.
Even when she was admitted to Shiyi University and Wang Yi to Beihang, Xu Yan still felt it was just Wang Yi's good luck and remained unconvinced.
Even when Wang Yi started a business during the summer vacation, earning tens of thousands a day, she was still unconvinced!
She always felt that one day, she too could earn that much money and do better than Wang Yi.
But now, she was desperate.
Truly desperate!
Meiyou Technology, pure desire style dresses, such an amazing company, was actually founded by Wang Yi!
And it only took one summer vacation!
How could she compare now?
Compare what the heck!
Xu Yan was completely desperate:
"You created Meiyou in one summer vacation, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up in a lifetime! Sigh!"
With a faint sigh, Xu Yan, who had always been strong and never showed weakness, was utterly desperate at this moment.
Couldn't compare, really couldn't compare!
"This Wang Yi guy, he's not normal!"
"How can a normal person be so outrageous?"
"If I compare myself to Wang Yi again, I, Xu Yan, am a puppy!"
"Sigh!"
For a moment, only the sound of sighs remained in the room.
On the other side.
Lin Ziyi also looked pale reading these messages.
"Meiyou Technology, Boss Wang, Wang Yi..."
"No wonder you said we weren't from the same world. Turns out the gap is so huge!"
"But before, where did I get the courage to even want you to bow your head and hold me in the palm of your hand?"
"Heh, I'm so funny!"
Lin Ziyi looked at the Meiyou pure desire style dress she was wearing and gave a wry smile.
Seeing this, Lin's mother sighed:
"Ziyi, you and Wang Yi have been friends for many years, childhood sweethearts. How about I visit the Wang family?"
"No, absolutely not."
Lin Ziyi quickly interrupted:
"Mom, Wang Yi is so excellent, how can we be worthy? Why bother bringing trouble upon ourselves?"
"Sigh!"
Lin's mother sighed, finding nothing more to say.
She was just so regretful that her intestines turned green.
If only her daughter hadn't been so willful, how could... she just didn't have that fortune.
Lin Ziyi looked out the window: "Having missed such an excellent person like you, I'm unwilling to find an ordinary person! But, what can I do if I'm unwilling?"
Wu family.
Wu Kai had just returned from the commercial street, full of high spirits.
During this time, he was busy decorating his bar.
With his father's 300,000 investment, his bar was progressing smoothly, and it would be ready for a soft opening in about ten days.
"So many students on the commercial street near the university town, my bar will definitely make money! Big money!"
"By then, what will Wang Yi have to compare with me?"
"He's just a shoe salesman, can he compare to me, a boss?"
"What a joke!"
The more Wu Kai thought, the more smug he became, a slight smirk appearing at the corner of his mouth.
On the table, the nanny had prepared a large and lavish spread of dishes.
Wu Jianqiang poured a glass of Wuliangye and laughed:
"Come, son, quickly wash your hands, time to eat!"
"Okay, Dad."
Wu Kai washed his hands:
"Dad, this evening is so extravagant, are we celebrating my bar's upcoming opening and impending big profits?"
Wu Jianqiang's heart skipped a beat, then he nodded:
"Yes, celebrating my son's successful venture and triumphant start! It's best if you have a bright future like your classmate Wang Yi!"
"???"
Wu Kai's mouth twitched.
He was pleased with the first few sentences, but what was that last part?
"Wang Yi? Why bring him up? What future can a shoe salesman have?"
Wu Kai was disdainful:
"Your son is someone who's going to do big business. Once this bar is successful, I'm going to open a chain. If I were like Wang Yi, wouldn't that be the end of it?"
Wu Jianqiang frowned:
"Son, do you have some grudge with classmate Wang Yi?"
"Yes!"
Wu Kai was very direct:
"The girl I like has always liked Wang Yi!"
Wu Jianqiang: "..."
"Even if Wang Yi doesn't like her, she still likes Wang Yi!"
Wu Jianqiang: "..."
"Because Wang Yi stopped paying attention to her, now she doesn't pay attention to me either."
Wu Jianqiang: "..."
"Dad, should I hate Wang Yi? If it weren't for him, Lin Ziyi would have been with me long ago!"
Wu Jianqiang: "..."
For a moment, Wu Jianqiang fell silent, almost dumbfounded by his son.
He immediately picked up his glass, downed it in one gulp, and only then suppressed the anger in his heart:
"Son, if Lin Ziyi ignores you, shouldn't you hate Lin Ziyi? Why hate Wang Yi?"
"???"
Wu Kai was bewildered:
"Dad, what kind of logic is that? I like Lin Ziyi, why would I hate her? I love her too much to hate her!"
"Damn it! You..."
Wu Jianqiang was so angry his liver hurt.
He raised his hand, almost losing control.
But remembering Wu Kai's deceased mother, he held back.
Who could blame this child for lacking maternal love since he was young?
Otherwise, why would he be such a simp?
Wu Jianqiang drained another glass of Wuliangye, only then suppressing the anger in his heart again:
"Son, today I need to have a serious talk with you!"
"You're not a small child anymore; you should be more sensible!"
(End of this chapter)
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