The information age is the age of the chip.

Source：Updated：2018-04-26 08:20:23

On April 17, the Commerce Department abruptly announced that it would ban American companies from selling parts, goods, software and technology to zte for seven years. It also means that zte will be blocked by the United States in this period, technology seal and chip stop.

Obviously, this sudden announcement may push the zte to the edge of the cliff, and depends on so many American companies to provide important parts and technical support of zte, a drop from the clouds, the world's fourth largest, China's second largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, is also facing unprecedented crisis.

This time, the us blocked zte during the sino-us trade war, apparently because it was not just zte itself. Just thinking a little bit, you can see that the United States is not just trying to deal with zte.

America's ban on sales is weak.
China communication industry after more than 30 years of development, from the original pursuit of other people's footprint, everywhere, to now 5 g to participate in the development of standards, China has made great progress. And zte is accomplished on 5 g research and development, in the mobile world congress in February, zte has launched the world's first 5 g handset, which is China's second home in 5 g for a major breakthrough in the field of enterprise.

But it is worth noting that although zte can produce 5 g, is something worth celebrating, but one of the key technology and core parts especially chips, are entirely made by the United States.

It involves a huge industry, chip industry, because the chip technology in China have been slow to keep up with, so the most mobile phone manufacturers to ensure the competitiveness of their mobile phone, have to use chip made in America, therefore need to spend billions each year to purchase.

No core technology is more powerful than a lamb.
And it wasn't until this time that our entrepreneurs realized that money really wasn't everything. Without the core technology in hand, even if it can achieve the manufacturing, Internet and financial world first, what is the point? Without the core technology, the industry is no more powerful, and is only a big fat to slaughter the lamb.

What's more, the industry's profits completely grabbed by master the core technology of countries, for example, according to related statistics, at present, the electronic control system of the core chip, need to import more than more than 80%, and in 2017 the global semiconductor companies in the top 20, U.S. companies accounted for 13, its sales in China total about $66.7 billion.

More than half of the market's sales, such as qualcomm, broadcom and micron, have been achieved in China. Such a large market, and finally the most profit is all strangers to make, so a lot of people also get doubts, now that the chip is so important, the market is so large, why we don't own research and development, always to purchase others?

A complex environment creates the present situation.
In fact, there are two important reasons for this situation. One is that we can buy the goods we need from all the open regions of the world, influenced by today's globalization. And chip research and development is the need to spend a lot of time and money, but the cost of production is very low, even if the government gives a lot of benefits, but compared with foreign mature commodity, still has a large gap.

From a commercial point of view, the quality of foreign chips is good and the price is low, so the Chinese enterprises are more willing to choose these products. Plus, many people argue that it is better to buy than to buy, so there is basically no market for chips at home.

And chip research and development, in addition to need a lot of manpower material resources, also need to be iterative update, after market test is not able to accommodate domestic chip market, this also leads to the chip industry progress is slow.

Second, talent is scarce in basic research in China, only a couple of "985" in top colleges and universities is capable of cultivating talents in the development of the chip, and because many schools teaching content is still stay in a few decades ago, technology lags behind, the more don't expect to produce high-end talent.

This at present, the first is to strengthen education investment, another is must carry on the education reform, let each into school students can learn the current cutting-edge technology, change with publications as the requirements of the assessment index, let each scholars do the research can be focused to do research and development.

The information age is the age of chips.
The so-called information age is the chip age, and the information war is the chip war. A technology company without chips is a virtual reality, without a chip's defence.

It is a good thing that zte has been banned, and he can alert us to how important it is to really master our core technologies. The so-called crisis is the danger and the opportunity, the opportunity of these difficulties can arouse the power of our country to sleep.

In 2015, the Commerce Department banned Intel's "to strong" chips from four of China's national supercomputers. However, the ban did not affect our country's supercomputing to continue to be the first, even after the development of the national chip "shenwei taihu light" supercomputer. Therefore, these bans are not necessarily a bad thing.

summary
Rome was not built in a day, the chip is not a day can make good, we can give all to give, just want to be able to make their own things, can not be muzzled by the foreign technology, to be able to walk tall in the face of all the science and technology, can no longer return to the dark days of one hundred.

Basic research is the cornerstone of the entire technology industry, and there are no basic industries but just castles in the air. But at the same time, developing its own core technology is also a difficult route, which requires not only the enterprise's endeavor, the government's support, but also the understanding of ordinary consumers.

This road is destined to be difficult, but it must be passed. The day will be great, and so will the man, who must first suffer his heart, his bones, his body, his body, his body, and his actions, so that he will not be able to do what he has done.