Chapter 495: Epistar foundry
Mr. Chen, congratulations. ”
"Mr. Ren?"
"What, is it strange that I called you?"
At noon, Chen Yu received a call from Ren Zhengfei.
"It's not true, it's mainly because I dug up the two generals before, and I don't want to go. ”
"Mr. Chen is humble, Gao Ji and He Hongbo are both talents, I hope you treat them well. ”
"Mr. Ren rest assured, this is natural. ”
"I also believe in Mr. Chen. By the way, when will we see each other?"
"Mr. Ren, is there something wrong?"
"I want to talk to you about the mobile phone business. ”
"I want to think about ......"
Chen Yu thought about the future schedule.
Of course, he didn't understand what Ren Zhengfei had in mind for a while, but he didn't agree so quickly.
Ren Zhengfei probably saw Chen Yu's hesitation and said, "Don't think about it, when are you free, when will we talk again." ”
"Then I'll call Mr. Ren. ”
Hang up the phone.
Chen Yu was a little strange.
Ren Zhengfei wants to talk to him about the mobile phone business?
I won't find myself Pk.
Thinking that Huawei mobile phones didn't even play the brand, Chen Yu felt a little sense of accomplishment.
However, Ren Zhengfei is not so boring.
This bigwig-level character is incomparably powerful in his heart.
Not to mention that he has defeated their mobile phone business now, even if he launches an attack on their core business, he can fight you to the end.
Just like Huawei now.
They are not as good as Motorula, Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung in the communication business. But they relied on their incomparable fighting spirit to eventually surpass a series of foreign giants.
"Forget it, don't think about them. ”
I couldn't figure it out for the time being, so Chen Yu didn't think about it anymore.
Do your own thing first.
Tianyu mobile phone seized the ultra-low-end market, but it is just the first step for Huanyu Technology to enter the field of mobile phones.
Chen Yu doesn't want to just be in the low-end market.
In the future, Chen Yu will also enter the mid-range, mid-to-high-end, high-end, top-end, and even the top-level cutting-edge market.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu called Wu Kai and Liang Bo over.
"Liang Bo, how is the situation on your side?"
"Mr. Chen, we have started data research and preliminary design of mid-range mobile phones. ”
"Technically, what about this one?"
"We have made breakthroughs in dual-SIM dual-standby technology, including resistive screen technology, and we have applied for patents for both technologies. ”
"Good. ”
Chen Yu nodded: "Wu Kai, you let the research team conquer the next field, capacitive screen." ”
"Yes. ”
Wu Kai nodded.
Although he is not particularly clear about the development of resistive screens and capacitive screens.
But Wu Kai never doubted Chen Yu's vision.
Then, Chen Yu went to the chip open source department.
"Manager He, get used to it. ”
"It's good. Mr. Chen, just call me Tingbo. ”
He Tingbo is a technical maniac, and he immediately took up his post as soon as he joined Huanyu Technology.
To this end, Chen Yu assigned He Tingbo to the chip open source department, and first familiarized himself with the entire chip open source plan.
"Mr. Chen, I didn't expect our chip open source foundation to be so huge. ”
"It's not huge, it's not big, we're starting from scratch, and we have to think everything through. ”
"It seems that I am the right person to join Huanyu Technology. ”
"Are you only now sure?"
Chen Yu smiled: "It won't be fooled by me before, right?"
"No, but it was only after joining the company that we had a clearer idea of what we were aiming for. ”
"Well, though, we can't rely solely on the Open Source Foundation either. ”
As he spoke, Chen Yu said to Li Biqing on the side: "Dean, how are you talking with the Center International?"
"Everything went well. ”
"Mr. Chen, Center International, do we have to process chips by ourselves?"
He Hongbo was extremely surprised: "It's not necessary for the time being." ”
Although He Hongbo has always wanted to make a purely domestic Chinese core.
But what He Hongbo is studying is also the chip architecture, and as for chip processing, there are naturally other companies to do it.
For example, Center International.
Center International is a wafer foundry.
The so-called wafer refers to a semiconductor transistor or integrated circuit substrate.
To make a chip, there is not only the chip architecture, but also the wafer processing.
However, wafer processing is a very complex technology that ordinary enterprises cannot master.
There are only a dozen companies in the world that can master wafer processing.
Center International is one of them.
However, before that, general companies will not do chip processing.
Generally, if a company wants to make its own chips, he only needs to make the chip architecture first, and then throw it to the wafer foundry. It's like making a mobile phone, you just need to get the design drawings and electronic components ready, and I can assemble them for you. Of course, wafer foundry is much more technical than mobile phone assembly.
Ho Hongbo thinks the same way.
All walks of life are getting more and more finely divided, and there is no need to do everything.
There are some things that can be left to other businesses to do.
Moreover, they do it more efficiently.
It's just that Chen Yu doesn't think so: "I think it's very necessary." ”
Facing He Hongbo, Chen Yu asked: "Hongbo, let me ask you a question first, why do you want to make chips?"
"My specialty is semiconductors, and of course I want to make our own chips. Of course, a more important reason is that we don't have our own chips in China. ”
"No, it's not for this reason, it's because foreign chip giants will pinch our necks. ”
Actually, it's very understandable.
If everyone in the world were fair, everyone could do their own thing.
Even if we don't have it on our side, but other countries do, we can work with them.
But that's not the way the world is.
It's not that you want to cooperate, and others will cooperate with you.
That's why we make our own chips.
"In the same way, the reason why Center International was established is that we need to have our own wafer foundry. Otherwise, even if we come up with an extremely powerful chip architecture, what if other wafer foundries don't give us the foundry?"
At present, the world's most advanced wafer foundry is called TSMC.
This is a wafer foundry with a bend.
Of course, if it was just a Taiwan enterprise, Chen Yu would not have such a crisis.
But crucially, 80% of TSMC's shareholders are foreign capital.
Once an accident happens, whether TSMC can still help you OEM is a question.
In the previous life, the United States actually had such a blockade escalation plan.
It's just that it's so big that they haven't implemented it so quickly for a while.
But everyone knows that whether it is chip architecture or chip processing, the neck is choked by foreign countries.
If you don't want to be choked by them.
The first part must have its own chip architecture.
The second part is to have its own wafer foundry.
The third part is to build a chip ecosystem.
Of course, in fact, the technology of the center international is very average.
The company, founded in 2000, is several generations behind TSMC technology.
Even in the previous life of 2020, the technology of Center International and TSMC is still two generations apart.
However, now for Chen Yu, the center international is just right.
Chen Yu didn't want to do any high-end chips, he just wanted to make low-end chips now.
"Understood. ”
Although Chen Yu didn't say much, He Hongbo instantly understood.
Seeing He Hongbo wake up, Chen Yu continued: "Our chip foundation has not been established for a long time, although the development is not bad now, but the entire structure has not yet been completed. While we are completing the chip architecture, we are also using Arm's technology to make our low-end chips. ”
Of course, making low-end chips is not the goal, the purpose is that the entire chip process must be completed.
Whether it's architecture or processing...... Huanyu Technology has to participate in it all.
(End of chapter)