Of course, civil standards are not as harsh as military standards, at least in terms of durability and confidentiality, so the simplified version of data link communication system based on data link is used in network components.
As for the communication between UAV platforms, the UV communication system with strong anti-interference ability has been replaced by the laser communication system with slightly poor performance.
Although the overall performance is several grades lower than that of the military version, Tengfei group does not reduce the performance of the civilian version, on the contrary, it is more advanced than that of the military version in some aspects.
For example, integrated circuits are required to be strong and durable for military use. They can be used in water, sand, plateau and mountain areas. Therefore, the selection of integrated circuits is mainly made to be durable, so that the slightly backward transistors are used in some key parts of integrated circuits.
Just because this kind of product is strong and stable enough.
But these problems are not involved in the civil, because the civil products only pursue the ultimate performance, because the choice of large-scale integrated circuits naturally focuses on the most cutting-edge products.
This is just like the demand for chips of smart phones decades later, all kinds of high-end flagship computers is called the acme. Those made of 1nm will never be eliminated by 3nm, and the outstanding thing is performance.
The civil bee colony UAV system of Tengfei group is the same.
So the integrated circuits of the bee colony control system on the five ZB Maxpro helicopters sent out by Xiangzhou factory all use the 248 nanometer high-end chips produced by Toshiba company of Japan.
Its equipment is produced by Nikon's latest DUV lithography machine. Thanks to Japan's dominant position in the semiconductor industry in the 1990s, the civil version of Tengfei group's bee colony UAV system has been greatly improved.
The most significant thing is that the volume of the whole control module is reduced by 50% compared with that of the military. Although it is still difficult to assemble the small and medium-sized UAV such as "habi", it is no longer a problem to apply it to the medium-sized UAV platform such as ty-2.
As for the target 5 cruise missile, the target missile and other quasi military unmanned flying machines can also be integrated, but it is difficult to define the attributes of target 5 at that time, because target 5, which integrates all the cruise navigation functions and strike capabilities of bee colony UAV system, has extremely strong independent judgment and saturated strike capabilities.
However, compared with the pure military cruise missile in terms of secure communication and network stability, it has poor adaptability to the complex battlefield environment, so its real combat effectiveness is not necessarily better than that of the traditional cruise missile. Therefore, Tengfei group does not call target 5, which is the civilian version of bee colony UAV system, cruise missile, a more appropriate name .
That is to say, the low-cost, autonomous and controllable cruise attack ammunition.
As a result, as soon as this kind of temporarily assembled cruise missile was launched, it was favored by the military, especially the airborne soldiers of the air force and the Marine Corps of the Navy. They were very interested in this kind of multi mission cruise missile, and purchased a batch of them from Tengfei group for training and new tactics research.
It is with the military's strong investment and support that Tengfei group's bee colony UAV system will quickly mature. However, there is still a long way to go to grab excess profits, earn small money and drive the development of the industry. After all, the amount of military support for procurement is limited. In the long run, it is necessary to have a broad civil market.
Of course, in addition to the temptation of profit, Zhuang Jianye is determined to promote the civilian market, the pull of industry is another important reason.
As for what industry, it is of course the most crucial semiconductor manufacturing industry in the future.
In this regard, Zhuang Jianye's idea is very simple. Since the future UAV, manned aircraft and spacecraft in outer space all need the support of modern semiconductor industry in order to give full play to their potential, of course, it's better to control them in their own hands.
In this way, you don't have to look at other people's faces or bear high prices. At the critical moment, if someone plays coloratura and gets stuck, you can deal with it calmly.
Of course, the most important thing is to reduce the cost of their own products.
You should know that target 5 with bee colony UAV system is about 800000 yuan more expensive than the original ordinary version. The main reason is that the price of Toshiba's 248 nm chip is a little too high.
But there is no way. In 1994, the semiconductor industry in the world was still dominated by Japanese. As for Samsung and TSMC, they are not even brothers. Intel and Texas Instruments in the United States are just struggling to support and are trying to stab the Japanese.
In this case, Tengfei group has few choices. To achieve the ultimate performance, it can only purchase from Japan with high price.
But in this way, the road of civil popularization of Tengfei group will be blocked. After all, the price of civil products can be high, but it can not be as high as luxury goods. Otherwise, how to popularize and earn a lot of money.
Therefore, on the one hand, Zhuang Jianye decentralized the source of chips. In addition to the most high-end flagship chips purchased from Japan, other products of Samsung or TSMC are used as much as possible, and some of them even use Intel's semiconductor integrated circuits.To a certain extent, it reduces the cost, but this is not the ultimate goal of Zhuang Jianye. Only by grasping the whole industrial chain in his own hands, can Zhuang Jianye feel at ease, otherwise he will not feel secure in his sleep.
Because of this, while purchasing chips from abroad, under the leadership of Zhuang Jianye, he established a venture capital fund jointly with Chenggong factory, No.2 Aerospace factory, China Merchants Bank and China Development Bank, and injected 650 million yuan into Luan Heping's Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd. to support its business in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Luan Heping started to set up an electronic equipment factory in the late 1980s to carry out the electronic processing trade of "three to one compensation". As the business grew bigger and bigger, he also invested in the low-end semiconductor technology. He was very clear about his situation in the whole industry. Naturally, he knew that it would not be long for him to earn money by relying on low labor, high density and overload.
What's more, the profit of this kind of hard-earned money is too thin. If you want to make a long-term profit, you have to aim at the high-tech parts at the top of the industrial chain.
So Luan Heping has long been like an arch in the upstream industrial chain of electronic equipment. The problem is that he wants to do it, but the conditions are not allowed.
First, he has no technology and second, he has no talent. Of course, the most important thing is that he does not have so much capital to invest in. We should know that every industry in the upper and middle reaches of semiconductor industry is smashed with real money. The amount of investment is not ordinary millions or tens of millions, but hundreds of millions or tens of billions. Only after five to ten years can we see underwriting.
There's no way to put Moore's law of semiconductors there. Every 18 months, the technology of semiconductors will turn over the manufacturing process. In other words, as soon as your plant and equipment have been completed, the whole line has become a backward product because of Moore's law, so you can only continue to spend money until it is consistent with Moore's law.
Think about this process. What's the use of a million dollars?
As a result, in this stall, Ning Xiaodong, who was in partnership with him, suddenly withdrew the funds to engage in a bird hair air transportation company. Luan Heping has no ability to upgrade the industry, so he can only continue to make up for it in silence and earn hard-earned money.
It was not until the 650 million yuan invested by Zhuang Jianye that Luan Heping regained the confidence to complete the industrial upgrading, and his confidence soon brought him gains. Not long after Luan Heping announced that his electronic equipment factory was ready to enter the upstream semiconductor integrated circuits, the vice president of Asia Pacific region of asmel company in the Netherlands came to him and told him eagerly As long as he is willing, asmel will provide him with the latest model pas5500 DUV lithography machine which can produce 198 nanometers at the price of 30 million yuan.