"Mr. Tong, how many pieces of equipment are there in the whole factory now?"

"Now the number of main equipment on the production line is: 6 sets of high temperature/oxidation/annealing equipment, 7 sets of CVD, 4 sets of gluing/degumming equipment, 3 sets of lithography machines, 6 sets of etching equipment, 3 sets of ion implantation equipment, 3 sets of physical vapor deposition equipment, 2 sets of grinding and polishing equipment, 3 sets of cleaning equipment, 16 sets of testing equipment, and 3 sets of other equipment. Sixty or seventy pieces of equipment, large and small!"

"The scale is still a bit small, of course, the scale is large, it may not be this price. Mr. Tong, you give me a suggestion, how much is the right price for this factory at this scale?"

"Well, in fact, to be honest, Cai Dong is not bad to me, there are some things, at this juncture, I don't want to say much, but Boss Yu was introduced by Xue'an, so I'll just say a few words. In view of the current industrial development environment in Hong Kong, I suggest that we should reconsider. At present, the rent of this factory has doubled compared with a few years ago, and the wages of workers have also doubled.

Tong Ruoyu looked at the factory, and then said: "As for the price, the 3.5 million US dollars you just mentioned is still worth it as far as the factory itself is concerned! From 85 years to the present, she has been in normal production for 5 years, and has a large number of skilled workers...... Among them, there are twenty or thirty high-achieving students from various universities in Xiangjiang who are majoring in electronics like me, and even two years ago, Cai Dong managed to recruit a doctor who came back from studying abroad and set up our own scientific research team, although there are no very important results for the time being, but it has played a key role in enriching our product type, and at the same time ......"

Tong Ruoyu hesitated for a moment, but still said: "The yield of the 3-micron process that Dr. Cai organized for technical research may make a breakthrough in the near future, and it is hoped that the yield will be increased from the current 59% to more than 70...... And the 2-micron process, which is currently organizing PR, has made significant progress. If we make breakthroughs in both of these two items and successfully purchase equipment and apply it to the production line, we hope to reduce the cost of bare chips by more than 50%, and we hope to double the shipment of bare chips!"

Yu Zixian was still very shocked in his heart, especially when he heard that this small wafer factory had a doctor of his own, a doctor of microelectronics in this era, it made people's mouths water when he thought about it! Coupled with the improvement of the yield rate he heard, the most important thing is that they are actually developing a 2-micron process by themselves, and they have made a breakthrough!

This is a joy to be happier!

Although he was very puzzled, how did Boss Cai recruit a doctor from Yuben to serve him.

By the way, Tong Ruoyu said just now that his surname was Cai, right?

"You said that this doctor's surname is Cai, it can't be Boss Cai, right?"

Seeing Yu Zixian ask this, Tong Ruoyu said embarrassedly: "Eh, Boss Yu, did you guess? Yes, Dr. Cai's nephew of Boss Cai! It is said that this production line was the second-hand equipment introduced by Dr. Cai during his graduate studies, and after Dr. Cai finished his studies, he returned to his uncle's wafer factory because he didn't like the foreign laboratory tubes that were too dead and too restrictive. In addition, at that time, Boss Cai promised Dr. Cai a series of conditions, including how much R&D funds per year, funds for purchasing equipment, etc., and Dr. Cai finally agreed to stay......"

"I have a bad feeling of premonition......"

"You Boss Cai won't want to sell the factory because you Dr. Cao is tossed and can't make ends meet, right?" Yu Zixian suddenly wanted to laugh, and turned around to ask Tong Ruoyu.

Just such a wafer factory, raising a doctorate-level technology master, if you go to a higher level of technology development, no matter how you look at it, it will be a death! Unless you know the technology development path and some key node technologies like Yu Zixian, how much money will not be enough to build!

"Well, it's not that exaggerated, it's only $1 million a year for scientific research...... In addition, during his Ph.D., Dr. Cai had already been exposed to more advanced 0.13 micron process technology in his laboratory, and although he did not know much about the technology, he knew some of it. Tong Ruoyu said very embarrassed!

This wafer factory, a year is hundreds of thousands of less than a million dollars of profits, but all by Dr. Cao, a technical man, to do research and development, although this money is a drop in the bucket for the integrated circuit, the gold-swallowing monster, but for Cai's wafer factory, it is the profit of the whole year, it has been made for two consecutive years, but it has not come up with a technical contribution that can improve efficiency, no wonder Boss Cai doesn't want it!

Hearing this, Yu Zixian finally traced the clues of why the introduction price of the previous wafer factory production line was so cheap, and at the same time, he also understood the specific reason why Boss Cai was determined to make a move this time.

The reason is definitely not only because of my own physical reasons, but also because of the raising of a technical man, coupled with the rising cost of the factory, marketing and profits are beyond our means, so I am in a hurry to sell!

Thinking of this, Yu Zixian is very much looking forward to meeting this Dr. Cai, who has never met but feels very cute!

When Yu Zixian proposed to take a look at Dr. Cai, Tong Ruoyu hesitated slightly: "Boss Yu, why don't you do it next time, this time there is no preparation, and Dr. Cai doesn't like people to disturb his research!"

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll just take a look, and I won't disturb his work!"

"Okay!"

Finally, Yu Zixian and the three of them met Dr. Cai in the laboratory of the factory!

Through the glass of the laboratory and through the clean clothes, Yu Zixian couldn't see Dr. Cai's specific appearance clearly, but his serious and persistent work was still very fascinating!

Half an hour after getting off work, Yu Zixian saw Dr. Cai's true face.

The hair is cut very short - hairy inches, it looks very capable, and with a pair of bright eyes, Yu Zixian feels that he does not feel like a person who often stays in the laboratory!

With bright eyes, he looked at Yu Zixian and his party, but Yu Zixian said unexpectedly: "Ruoyu, why did you bring someone over again, didn't you tell you, the laboratory is a heavy place, it needs to be clean and tidy, try not to bring idle people to come over in the future! Next time, don't blame me for not giving you face!"

"Got it, Brother Cai!"

After finishing speaking, looking at Dr. Cai, who was walking away, Tong Ruoyu smiled helplessly at Yu Zixian.

Yu Zixian also smiled: "Hahaha, idle people, etc., Dr. Cai is also a temperamental!"

No wonder Dr. Cai doesn't want to be restrained, his personality is simply a technical otaku and a scientific research geek, and in an ordinary place, it is really not suitable to be treated!

Hao Meng on the side was also surprised and said: "Are all scientists like this?

When he went back, Yu Zixian asked Tong Ruoyu for a brief index of the technology Dr. Cai was developing, and he needed these indicators to make his own judgment!

He also knew Dr. Cai's name - Cai Junjie.

Monster Dr. Cai, do you want to stay!?