Grasping with Both Hands

After clarifying his future development path, Han Yang immediately began working on both fronts simultaneously, attempting to clear the obstacles to his further progress.

In terms of knowledge acquisition, Han Yang no longer planned to rely solely on his current method of searching for information online for self-study while also asking questions to Professor Zhang Dong and others.

He had realized that this learning method was too fragmented and not deep enough, making it impossible to learn systematically. As his research into CPU manufacturing technology deepened, the areas Han Yang needed to cover increased.

Mathematics, physics, and chemistry – none could be omitted.

And mathematics alone was divided into many sub-disciplines, such as algebra, geometry, set theory, category theory, probability theory, discrete mathematics, topology, abstract algebra, group theory, statistics, and so on.

Similarly, chemistry was divided into analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic and organic chemistry, nano-chemistry, synthetic chemistry, computational chemistry, theoretical chemistry, and so on.

Physics, needless to say, involved even more areas.

Chip manufacturing was a comprehensive field of study, and no single discipline could be left out. The problem-solving approach of encountering a problem and then solving it only provided knowledge of what to do, not why.

To go further in chip manufacturing, Han Yang needed to catch up on almost every discipline within the scientific system from scratch.

This required systematic learning, not the fragmented learning he was currently doing.

"Now my income has increased significantly, and I have more cash flow, giving me the capital for systematic learning. It's time to start now."

Han Yang thought to himself, Hmm... build a learning website? Invite teachers, experts, professors, and lecturers of all levels and industries to teach online on this website? With my current computing power, while ensuring the normal operation of the power leveling business, listening to 10 online teachers simultaneously is not a problem.

This was equivalent to building a foundation for Han Yang's complete knowledge system.

Many of the courses he was learning now might not be used for several years. But one day, this knowledge would be of great use.

Hmm, there's no need to completely cut off contact with Professor Zhang Dong. I can definitely walk on two legs. Use the learning website to study other disciplines and build a foundation, and rely on Professor Zhang Dong to solve urgent problems. I need to grasp both. Besides, Professor Zhang Dong and the others can also create courses on the website when they have time.

After thinking about it, Han Yang felt it was increasingly feasible and made up his mind.

A long time ago, Han Yang had the idea of building his own Q&A website. A Q&A website and an online learning website seemed similar.

In the initial stage, I can adopt an invitation system, inviting teachers from different industries to teach online. Courses can also be customized.

Thinking about the future, when his online learning website might have tens of thousands of accounts active, and these tens of thousands of accounts were simultaneously listening to lectures in the classrooms of tens of thousands of different teachers, but all these tens of thousands of accounts were his own alt accounts, Han Yang found it very interesting.

When his computing power was high enough, it was not impossible to receive lectures from tens of thousands of teachers simultaneously.

Having made up his mind, Han Yang immediately contacted Li Hu, asking him to register a new company, planning to launch this online learning website.

As for the website architecture and so on, in the initial stage, since it was not intended to be open to the public at all, simply using a template would suffice.

It wouldn't be too late to slowly upgrade it later when he had more money and higher computing power.

As for the server, he could just use a cloud server for now, without even needing to buy equipment.

After determining the future direction for learning, Han Yang began to think about materials.

Let's start by looking on the market.

There were many online stores selling cables, transistors, and other components. Han Yang began to inquire one by one.

"Hello, do you have cables, transistors, and components of this specification in your store? No? Okay, thank you."

"Hello..."

In one day, Han Yang made over two hundred calls. The responses from the various businesses were also very consistent: "Sorry, we don't have it."

Han Yang finally realized that the things he needed might truly not exist on the market.

Then I can only customize them.

Han Yang gritted his teeth and decided to be a big spender for once, spending more money to customize a batch.

He then began contacting various manufacturers.

But unexpectedly, Han Yang encountered repeated rejections again. When Han Yang raised the price to a thousand times the normal price and was still rejected for the 100th time, Han Yang finally couldn't bear it and began shamelessly asking for the reason.

The business owner was also a bit helpless: "Boss, we really can't produce it. Yes, the price is indeed quite high, but you only need 100,000 transistors. The normal price for this thing is 1,000 yuan at most, and 1,000 times is only 1 million yuan. If we were to produce it, we would have to upgrade the entire production line. Do you know how much that would cost? At least 5 million yuan.

And that doesn't even include the cost of training workers.

Also, after upgrading the production line, although its performance is higher, the output is lower and the energy consumption is higher. If we were to go back and produce ordinary models, it would be completely uncompetitive, almost equivalent to a useless line (useless line - a useless line). The total cost here is not something that 1 million yuan can compensate for."

Alright.

Han Yang hung up the phone dejectedly.

He knew that he didn't need to ask anyone else. The answer would be the same everywhere.

He couldn't buy it directly. He couldn't customize it either.

If worst comes to worst, I'll customize the machines and produce it myself!

Han Yang gritted his teeth and made up his mind, then turned to consult mechanical equipment manufacturers.

In Han Yang's opinion, with his non-assembly line, custom-made production model, and low demand, the requirements didn't need to be so high. He didn't need to pursue automation; anything that could be done manually would be done manually.

He only needed to buy the most crucial four or five machines, which would cost at most 1 million yuan. He would double it to 2 million, or even 3 million if necessary, and he would definitely be able to buy them.

But unexpectedly, Han Yang encountered the same situation as when customizing cables and transistors.

No manufacturer was willing to take the order.

The closest he came to success was when an equipment manufacturer quoted 500,000 yuan to build equipment that fully met Han Yang's needs, but required a minimum order of 100 sets. The other manufacturers directly refused.

100 sets would be 50 million yuan, which Han Yang couldn't afford at this stage even if he was killed.

"Can't you just adjust the parameters? Why is the minimum order 100 sets? I only need one set, is 3 million yuan okay?"

Han Yang was on the verge of tears.

Han Yang was suffering, but the salesperson on the other side was even more capable of complaining than Han Yang: "Boss, it's really not that simple. We have to open molds, prepare materials, research and develop, train workers, all sorts of things, it's very complicated.

But the most complicated part isn't here.

No matter how complicated these things are, with the 3 million yuan you've given, we can barely cover the costs. The most troublesome part is that it involves planning adjustments, worker training, production scheduling, too many people in various aspects, it's too much trouble. Unless the company's senior management steps in, no one can coordinate it. And with such little profit, or even no profit, asking the company's senior management to step in and coordinate? It's not realistic."