Chapter 38 Gu Zhe's Life Planning
Of course, Gu Zhe is not the kind of guy who just wants to make money.
As early as the summer vacation, after he had eased the mortgage crisis at home, he had already begun to prepare for his long-term industry, education and research career, and just waited for the first phase of start-up funds to be in place.
As mentioned earlier, Gu Zhe's last job before his rebirth was to be responsible for patent layout at Dongxin International between 2022 and 2026.
The reason why he was able to be placed in it was because he had previously run a patent firm and worked in the State Administration of Technology, focusing on the legal work of "additive technology and related new materials", especially the specific sub-technical field of "characterized two-dimensional materials chemical deposition additive process", and also had outstanding performance.
Some people may find it strange - when chip foundry giants are looking for the person in charge of patent layout, shouldn't they find a legal expert who is the most proficient in lithography and etching machines, laser/microelectronics? Why do you find someone who works in chemical deposition?
To clarify this, it involves a disruptive technology that first appeared in the laboratory in April 2020:
At that time, for the first time, humans had a technical route to use the new graphene-like material "two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide" in a chemical laboratory, and combined with the chemical deposition method to additively manufacture chips.
Of course, every step of this most sophisticated thing, from "laboratory operation" to "factory mass production", was very difficult. Later, it took at least five or six years to invest hundreds of billions of dollars.
It was only on the eve of Gu Zhe's rebirth that the company was barely able to test production. On this new track that completely started, Samsung and X-Central was gradually pushed to the corner. (Of course, Samsung and X-Centralral were stronger, after all, it was the old track and could not catch up.)
In layman's terms, traditional lithography chips are typical subtractive manufacturing processes. First, get a silicon wafer, cut, lithography, etch, and get rid of the unnecessary parts, just like using a machine tool to process mechanical parts.
The chemical deposition method makes chips from scratch, starting from a deposition mask, and "brushing" (adsorbing) two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide with a single layer of molecular thickness is like 3D printing to build a wall, and finally "built" a chip.
As for why two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide can make chips, how to make them, why graphene with similar characteristics cannot be made...
The technical details here are just a long story, and even thousands of words can't be explained clearly. This has nothing to do with Gu Zhe's next plan, so I won't say it for now.
If Gu Che still has the opportunity to climb to the top of the global hard technology circle in his life, he can mobilize enough resources to think about major events at this level, and it will not be too late to talk about the grievances and grievances in this article in detail.
Fortunately, Gu Zhe is good at not only the additive process technology route of "chemical deposition method". Even if he only looks at "chemical deposition method", he knows more than just making chips.
The years of immersion before his rebirth made him quite familiar with the evolution of surrounding technologies.
Therefore, Gu Zhe's entrepreneurial idea is to use other additive process technology that he knew in his previous life, with a threshold of one or even several orders of magnitude lower, to gradually build his own industry, education and research empire.
For example, if you want to use the chemical deposition method of molybdenum disulfide to make chips, you need 100 billion US dollars, which you can't get out for the time being.
Then think about the "powder metallurgy titanium alloy 3D printing" with a research and development cost of only a few billion US dollars. This is also an additive process that Gu Zhe had learned deeply in his early years in his previous life. The market prospects are also good. He can build many high-precision machinery and industrial master machines, and print Bugatti Veyron's titanium alloy brakes.
If you can't even get billions of dollars, you can still take the lead. You can also make the "additive technology" field, but the funding for starting R&D may only be tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars in "injection molding method" -
Don’t look down on glass, and don’t think that the traditional firing/grinding and reducing process is cheap enough to make glass, and think that this track has no future.
The cost advantage of making ordinary glass by additive and subtractive processes is indeed not big. However, if you are creating the most precise optical lens glass, the injection molded additive manufacturing glass technology born in Germany on April 9, 2021 will have a huge advantage.
Of course, if you can't even get tens of millions of dollars in laboratory construction funds and cannot get additive optical glass, you have to step back to another order of magnitude, starting with the aspherical injection molded resin lenses that have been popularized in the 2010s.
The cost of additive research and development of resin lenses is one order of magnitude easier than additive research and development of optical glass lenses.
After all, Gu Zhe is now reborn and is only 2002. Many technologies that have become major goods ten years later have not yet been developed.
(Note: The cost of glasses in later generations was at least one order of magnitude lower than in the 2000s, and it relied on the advancement of injection molding technology and material technology. However, the price of glasses has not decreased significantly, mainly because the gross profit margin of glasses brands is becoming increasingly profitable, and various new stacking concepts maintain high prices)
If you spend millions of dollars in scientific research funds to build a laboratory and organize R&D forces, Gu Zhe will be sure to make certain breakthroughs in this direction, and then you can use the results to nurture scientific research and increase your strength to an order of magnitude.
Of course, for Gu Zhe, millions of dollars are still too huge now. So even the new generation of additive injection molded resin lenses, Gu Zhe still can't handle it...
Fortunately, he still has a spare tire industry with a lower R&D starting point to choose from.
That is contact lenses that are both in the field of optical lenses, but are one order of magnitude lower in scientific research than frame glasses resin lenses and are more humble.
With his current capital, if he does not pursue "self-built laboratories" but is willing to "leas a laboratory", he seems to be able to start research and development.
In 2002, contact lenses on the market still need to be manufactured with certain subtractive materials.
That is, when the small disc is first made, the difference in surface arc and thickness does not meet the optical degree requirements, and it must be polished optically to achieve the required degree.
Therefore, contact lenses are relatively expensive today, and few brands sell "daily sells". Most contact lenses are still regarded as durable products rather than consumables, and consumers cannot afford to throw them away.
Once Gu Zhe enters this track, use silicon hydrogel or some polymer hydration polymers, combined with the corresponding additive process, whether it is centrifugal or mold casting, to create contact lenses that can be worn directly without optical grinding... At that time, the imagination space will still be very huge.
All of the above is just a simplest way to struggle that Gu Zhe started to solve the mortgage crisis at home after he solved the simplest way to build a plan. He also secretly wrote a lot of information and planning routes for this -
Of course, he knew that this route would never go smoothly like "Life Spoilers". Every step he took really expanded his strength by an order of magnitude.
There will definitely be twists and turns, and there will be branch deployments. This can only be regarded as a most ideal review application model that Gu Zhe has learned about his previous life and experienced.
Once Gu Zhe starts to review, the world he knew before rebirth will become more and more chaotic with the butterfly effect, and the opponent will also have corresponding reactions. In the end, Gu Zhe can use the foresight, which will definitely be greatly reduced.
Fortunately, he is not in a hurry anyway. He can spend many years slowly developing and providing overall technical solutions in the field of additive technology, gradually strengthening himself, and finally moving slowly towards that ultimate goal.
Of course, a person's intelligence and knowledge always have limits, and he is not a supernatural person with a database in his brain.
Scientific research in modern society pays great attention to the division of labor. In the future layout of industry, academia and research, Gu Zhe can develop it himself, but only a very small part of it.
Most of them still need to provide outsourcing, or they personally point out a general direction and become a resource dispatcher. The specific R&D work requires organizing a large number of engineers and scientists to complete.
Now, the first step is to develop a "polymer hydrated polymer" that he has read in his previous life to use for the production of new contact lenses at a low cost and simplified manner.
He felt that it would be possible to build an experimental team with hundreds of thousands of start-up funds and rent a laboratory in the name of the company.
He previously helped people promote the opening of securities companies during the summer vacation and earned 200,000 yuan.
But this time, another lawsuit was settled with Supper. In the next one or two months, at least a small batch of new kitchen utensil patents with innovative structures will be sold. At that time, the profit will definitely be several times more than the bits and pieces during the summer vacation.
Gu Zhe never fought an unprepared battle. He was willing to spend so much energy on this lawsuit. Naturally, he had to make a long-term profit.
If it weren't for providing sufficient funds for the research and development of new materials for additive process contact lenses, Gu Zhe would not have done anything like this.
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Of course, Gu Zhe could not tell his prospective girlfriend about the above long-term plans. After all, some things are just his medium- and long-term fantasy review, and he has not even had a single horoscope. He can only know what he knows.
However, facing his prospective girlfriend who was "worrying that he would go astray in the lawsuit", she described the cake she wanted to draw in the first stage and let the other party share his joy, which was completely fine, and the risks were absolutely controllable.
After leading Lu Youyou in his office for a while, Gu Zhe took out some copies of the patent documents that were already being applied for and explained to the other party:
"These are all small kitchenware inventions with only structural innovation. I was actually applying for layout long before I sued Supper.
These inspiration sources are also chemical experimental instruments, and several of them are definitely of actual mass production value. I even plan to apply for PCT International, so it can be sold more expensively.
In the past two months, I have done this and will at least double or three times more than what I earned during the summer vacation. Then, I plan to ask the company to rent a school laboratory and do some material research and development - I can't say what specific research and development is the main reason why I am not sure about it. But my source of thinking is the inspiration I was when I followed Professor Zheng to take organic classes before."
Gu Zhe casually found a fig leaf for his inspiration. Anyway, this was just a private statement and had no legal effect.
As long as the procedures for renting a laboratory are complete, no one can rob his achievements, and the teachers and professors in the school have no choice. If it is not safe enough, Gu Zhe can also rent a commercial laboratory in the outside world.
Seeing that his life was so planned, Lu Youyou was completely relieved by him: "I really didn't expect that in just a few months, I feel that your knowledge in all aspects has made great progress, and I will learn from it. If you do it this time, I want to ask you as a consultant and give my business a hint."
There is nothing wrong with Lu Youyou saying this. After all, her business has a net worth of tens of millions and a valuation of over 100 million.
Gu Che's plan at best was to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on renting a laboratory to carry out projects. It was much smaller than the Lu family's career.
It would be normal for Lu Youyou to see that he did small things well and achieved achievements first, and then dared to ask big things for consultation.
"That's up to mine." Gu Zhe confidently collected the copy of the application documents, and then processed some chores, so he pulled Lu Youyousuo to the door downstairs and had supper first.
In fact, the reason why he remembered so clearly the "kitchenware patent application documents" that Gu Zhe just showed to the other party was not only because these things were more or less inspired by chemical experimental instruments, but because Gu Zhe bought these things at his family in his previous life and actually used them, he was impressed.
When he bought these kitchen utensils in his previous life, he bought German brands - these things made by domestic brands were not sold because Chinese people had relatively better cooking skills and "small stationery for top students."
Germans like to cook rigorously and rigidly, and they have "a lot of poor students" and their cooking skills are very complete and sophisticated.
What are the wire pulling planes with cucumber shredding funnels, mushroom slicers, simple filter juicers that are easy to clean and unplug...
Many kitchenware invented by Germans between 2005 and 2020, but Gu Zhe bought it in his previous life and studied it from the perspective of a chemical student, are now being hurt by him. He can directly draw a structural analysis drawing and a manual to apply for it. There is no difficulty in structure.
By then, every item will be invented, starting at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per item. If you have the prospects, you will sell it for more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. The scientific research start-up capital will be enough.
Chapter completed!