Xiao Ming put away the phone and looked at the time, it was eleven o'clock, it was still early. You can go to the factory and have a meal instead of crowding the school cafeteria.

In the parking lot of the school, a Passat was parked there, which was the car Xiao Ming had chosen. If you drive too well, it will cause unnecessary trouble.

In Xiao Ming's concept, as long as four wheels can run, as long as it is not Oriental, it doesn't matter what brand or model.

The car is equipped with a driver and two security personnel, all of whom are on call 24 hours a day, and many people work in shifts to ensure Xiao Ming's travel and personal safety.

"Go to the Prajna Industrial Park. ”

The driver got off to a steady start, and the black Passa envoy drove out of the campus to the industrial park of Hannya.

After calling to invite Xiao Ming, Lin Li had been waiting at the door.

"Let's go! Lin Li said.

"Have you eaten?" Xiao Ming's stomach was a little hungry.

"Not yet, and you haven't eaten either?"

Xiao Ming said: "Eat first, eat first, eat and then work, my stomach is hungry." ”

"Let's go!"

From the research and development of the Pangu system to the present, Lin Li is Xiao Ming's old partner, and the two of them are not formal, and a light meal in the factory can solve the lunch problem.

After lunch, the two came to the factory production workshop.

Inside, the silicon carbide chip, codenamed Pranya P1, is being produced according to the steps.

Although there are still workers in the factory, the number of them is much smaller than when T Semiconductor was here.

Lin Li said: "We have developed professional design, production and manufacturing procedures based on Pangu chips, and everything has been handed over to Xiaochu to realize the preliminary artificial intelligence of the production line. ”

This is where Lin Li is smart, when T Semiconductor left a mess, many workers also stayed in the factory.

Lin Li waited for the expiration of these workers' contracts and slowly laid off employees, which was reasonable and legal, and reduced the burden on the factory.

Xiao Ming nodded and said: "I think that after the quantum chip comes out, the manufacturing industry may be fully mechanized, and there will be fewer and fewer workers on the assembly line, but I don't know if the workers who are still struggling on the assembly line are aware of the severity of the problem." ”

Lin Li was more open than Xiao Ming thought about it, and said: "Now that the labor cost of Xia Guo is so high, even if artificial intelligence and robots in the manufacturing industry do not replace manual labor in the future, a large amount of manufacturing will also flow out to Southeast Asia, Africa and other places where labor prices are cheap, which is the trend." ”

Xiao Ming smiled and didn't speak.

Walking into the central control room of the factory, there are dozens of large screens to monitor the various workshops of the factory at any time, and linked to the quality early warning system, as long as a certain link in chip manufacturing is checked out of error, an alarm will be issued immediately.

"At present, the yield rate of our production is 100%, so this early warning system has not sounded. ”

"Our production is 1,000 pieces per day, and we just started today, and we have only produced 300 pieces so far. ”

Lin Li was waiting for Xiao Ming's answer.

Although the name of the factory is called Hanruo Industrial Park, it is actually prepared for the production and manufacturing of quantum chips in the future. The current silicon carbide chip is only a transitional product in the middle, and it is up to Xiao Ming to decide whether to mass produce or go on the market.

Xiao Ming didn't answer Lin Li's question directly, but asked: "What is the index and performance of the P1 chip, after the last experiment, we discussed reducing the performance of the products in the experiment, after all, the performance is too high, the market will not accept it, and the supporting hardware such as motherboards, memory, and graphics cards will not be available for a while." ”

Products should not only consider performance but also consider the market, everything must be done step by step.

The performance is too high for the market to accept. Just like in the late Qing Dynasty, the Sun Never Sets Empire sold soap with strong decontamination ability to the Xia Kingdom, and the Xia people did not accept it at all.

Lin Li replied: "The performance has been reduced, and after analyzing the market, we use Intel's commercial high-end chip i9-9900K as the benchmark product." We sealed the P1 chip, blocking its actual performance, and the current performance is twice that of the i9-9900k. ”

Lin Li said: "But the size of our chip is only a quarter of the size of a fingernail, and our cost is also well controlled, the cost of a chip is about 700 yuan, which is much lower than the cost of Intel i9 chip, and it will be reduced after expanding production capacity in the future." The price has not yet been determined. ”

Lin Li reminded: "In the mainstream chip market, the price of 2,000 to 3,000 yuan is more recognized by consumers, and it is considered a mid-to-high-end chip." Consumers who are a little higher can't afford it, fewer people buy it, and we don't have much profit if it's a little lower. ”

Of course Xiao Ming understands this truth.

The two chatted while visiting the factory.

Xiao Ming said: "The chip must be mass-produced! The price you first come up with a preliminary plan, and then hold a meeting at the time to discuss it." ”

Xiao Ming played with the chip in his hand and said: "I have a preliminary idea of the company's chip plan. ”

"You say. Lin Li and Xiao Ming sat down in a rest place in the factory at random, and Lin Li's assistant immediately served two cups of tea, some fruits and snacks to the two.

Xiao Ming said: "In the field of chips, we can't achieve it overnight, we have to let the market accept our chips little by little, and we must slowly improve the performance of the chips in the market." ”

"I understand!" Lin Li said: "If the quantum chip is directly put on the market, the entire market and industrial chain will be chaotic." ”

Xiao Ming nodded and said, "So, that's what I'm going to do." ”

Xiao Ming elaborated on his plan, "In the future, after the quantum chip comes out, it will only be used within the company for the time being, for the company's laboratory and some industrial factories and the company's own complete set of products, and the quantum chip will not be pushed to the market as individual hardware alone." ”

"Silicon carbide chips, high-end chips are sold to relevant departments of the state, such as military, scientific research, education, etc., and handed over to the dependence of Intel products in key areas of the country. Low-end chips are introduced to the market and are used by major manufacturers to assemble and produce electronic products such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc., and can also be sold to retail investors to assemble their own computers. ”

Xiao Ming said: "Every once in a while, we upgrade our products to let the most advanced technology and voice in the global chip field be in our hands. ”

Lin Li said excitedly: "If we do this, it will also drag down Intel, when the performance of each generation of products is completely out of Intel, the cost is lower than theirs, and the yield rate is higher than theirs, what will they think?"

Xiao Ming made an estimate for the future: "The chip market can only accommodate two companies, one is high-end to take away more than 70% of the market's profits and dominate the industry, and the other is low-end to earn hard money, Intel will be very uncomfortable even if it is alive." ”

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