[Reborn in 1995 + semiconductors + business warfare + strengthening the nation]
Chen Yuanzhou woke up to find himself back in 1995, on the day the national 908 chip project was announced to be suspended.
That year, the powers that be decided that “buying is better than building,” to save time on research and development.
That year, Japan’s semiconductor industry was at its peak, and the United States had yet to target chips.
That year, China entered the fast lane of development, but its semiconductor industry failed to keep up.
Only Chen Yuanzhou knew what was coming.
Twenty years later, ZTE would be brought down with a single blow, while Huawei’s chips would be choked off at the source.
In the AI era thirty years later, others would train large models on three-nanometer chips, while China would still be struggling to get acceptable yields from fourteen-nanometer ones.
So that very day, he resolutely quit the research institute, used his first pot of gold to take over Wuxi Huajing’s obsolete production line, which was about to be scrapped, and founded Huaxin.
No one believed in him. What chance did one engineer who’d quit his job and an outdated three-inch production line have against the United States, Japan, and South Korea?
But he started with IC card chips, moved into the memory market, built the country’s first independently controlled twelve-inch wafer fab, snatched up TSMC’s orders, brought TSMC under his wing, and, with the nation’s support, built the Huaxin Empire, integrating chip design, packaging, and manufacturing.
Some called him crazy. Others said he was lucky, that he’d caught the wave of the times.
Only he knew the truth: he had simply lived one lifetime more than everyone else, and endured thirty more years of frustration.
This division of labor idea of "space-based mainly focuses on land-based, air-based mainly focuses on submarine shooting" is more refined in tactical logic than simply stacking laser spacecraft. But the key to "dozens of aircraft blocking the Pacific Ocean" is not the number of aircraft, but the delay in the early warning link and the boost phase window of the submarine-launched missile. Let's first look at the time window: how short is the boost phase of a submarine-launched missile? In order to survive, submarine-launched ballistic missiles are generally designed to shorten the flight time of the boost phase. The boost phase of land-based intercontinental missiles is about 3-6 minutes, while that of submarine-launched missiles may only be 2-3 minutes, or even shorter. The combat sequence analysis of the airborne laser system shows that detection, capture, tracking and targeting, and destruction must be completed within more than 40 seconds. If the warning link delay exceeds this value, the boost segment window will be missed directly. Can your "dozens of aircraft blockade the Pacific Ocean" be established? The conclusion is: it is feasible under certain conditions, but it is not as simple as "a line". Actual coverage of space-based lasers: Assuming an optimized range of 500-800 kilometers, a single aircraft covers a circle with a radius of approximately 600 kilometers. The Pacific spans about 19,000 kilometers from east to west and about 16,000 kilometers from north to south. If only the "enemy direction" is blocked - for example, the submarine's preset launch area between the first island chain and the second island chain, assuming that the linear area that needs to be covered is about 5,000 kilometers long, then: · Each aircraft covers a diameter of 1,200 kilometers · In theory, about 5 aircraft need to be connected end to end in a line But this is the ideal situation. Practical considerations: · The aircraft cannot hover stationary: the patrol route is a round-trip flight, and the coverage area is dynamic · Response time: The aircraft needs to sprint and climb to 30km, and this process itself takes time · Multiple targets: A salvo may be multiple missiles, and a single aircraft cannot intercept them at the same time Therefore, "more than a dozen" may be barely enough in terms of theoretical geometric coverage, but in actual combat redundancy and rotation are required, and the actual number of deployments will be even greater. The delay of the early warning link is the real bottleneck Response time of space-based infrared early warning satellites: · The U. S. "Defense Support Program" satellite can detect missile flames 5-60 seconds after launch · The space-based infrared system can transmit early warning information to the ground-based system within 10-20 seconds · The goal of the new generation system is early warning within 10 seconds, and the laser communication link delay is ≤50ms From satellite detection → command center processing → delivery to the aircraft → aircraft climb → capture and tracking → laser irradiation, the cumulative delay of the entire link may reach 20-40 seconds. The boost phase window of submarine-launched missiles may only be 2-3 minutes. This means that the time left for the aircraft from receiving the warning to completing the interception may only be 1-2 minutes. If the aircraft is not in the optimal position, or if the climb takes longer, the window is missed. Why is it more difficult to "fight space-based and submarine-launched" than to "fight land-based and space-based"? Space-based versus land-based: Land-based missile launch locations are relatively fixed, and space-based constellations can cover the scheduled launch area in advance. The boost phase has a 3-6 minute window, and the space-based laser has enough time to respond. Air-based submarine launch: The submarine launch location is uncertain and may be at any point in the vast ocean. If your "line" is not wide enough, your opponent can launch from outside the line. Moreover, the boost phase of submarine-launched missiles is shorter and the response window is narrower. Conclusion Your division of labor logic holds true, but the feasibility of "dozens of aircraft to block the Pacific Ocean" depends on two premises: 1. The early warning link delay must be reduced to less than 10-20 seconds, otherwise the aircraft will not have time to enter the shooting position. 2. The blockade must be dense and wide enough, otherwise the opponent can launch from the gap or outside If these two points can be met, "space-based and land-based + space-based and submarine-launched" is indeed a more economical structure than a pure space-based solution. However, "more than a dozen" may be the lower limit of ideal geometric calculations. Actual deployment needs to consider rotation, redundancy, and multi-target response, and the number will increase significantly. The real bottleneck is not the laser range, but the end-to-end delay from warning to firing. If the link delay exceeds 30 seconds, no matter how many aircraft there are, they will only be "visible but unreachable."
It's well written and has a sense of reality that many similar novels don't have.
Okay, okay, keep up the good work, you have great potential, keep writing at a good pace
The AI is very strong and not very human. But I quite like technical books, and logically they are okay.
It's well written, I think it's okay, I recommend it.
Author, Awesome Claes. The writing is so awesome, you can tell it is someone who has experienced the wave of state-owned enterprise reform.
A very good science and technology novel, with clear logic and a clear main line. It is a novel that I am looking forward to. I give it a five-star rating 👍👍👍👍
It's very interesting. It's not an AI article. Come on, there are too few chip articles that don't use the system.
It's a pretty good plot, I hope you can continue to work hard and have good luck and success 👍👍👍
Has the author celebrated the National Day? Why hasn't he updated yet?