Chapter 507: Fruitful

After bankruptcy reorganization, Qimonda's Saxony factory in Germany took the lead in recovering and fully producing GDDR5 video memory to seize the market.

Now Qimonda's GDDR5 is the world's best performance video memory, although other memory surpluses are serious, but the market space in GDDR5 is still very good, before Qimonda only SS company, a competitor, has the ability to compete.

SS companies, which are usually half a step behind in this field, rely on cost to suppress Qimonda's superior products, squeeze Qimonda's profit margins, and try to drag down its opponents.

On that plane, they had apparently done it.

But this time their tactics were clearly a bit out of order.

In the face of this high-end memory market, which is still very rare and has high profits, Qimonda after the change of ownership is completely full firepower, not only the Saxony factory is fully producing, but also a part of it is handed over to the dragon factory in Xiangjiang!

In this way, Qimonda can ensure that GDDR5 can be delivered to his customers in sufficient quantities, and the previous Saxony factory is in full production, but the increase in production capacity is not an easy thing, even if Qimonda's senior management sees that the market is very good, they have to helplessly watch the market share being filled by competitors.

In order to occupy more share in this market, Qimonda has also lowered some prices after the production capacity came up to level the price difference with SS company!

As soon as this bloodletting trick came out, the GDDR5 profit margin of SS company was instantly greatly blocked, and the GDDR5 production capacity was more and more concentrated towards Qimonda after the price was leveled, after all, the price was about the same, who didn't want to use better, especially after the more advanced process technology of the dragon factory, everyone found that there was more room for overclocking, and they were more willing to choose the top products produced by FAB dragon.

If SS tries to cut prices and widen the gap to regain market share, then there will no longer be a large profit margin.

In this bloody war with no end in sight, Qimonda has been resurrected with full blood, and is not afraid of any challenger to shed blood.

After the acquisition, Liu Ruoyi provided Qimonda with a reliable capital chain guarantee, including capital injection, bond issuance, loans and other financing channels were all opened, and Yongxiang Bank provided sufficient funds.

With such a backing, whether it is the R&D center in Munich or the factory in Saxony to recover quickly, it is actually a matter of people's hearts.

As for the big boss's request to draw some elites to build the Xiangjiang Advanced Mobile Storage Technology R&D Center, the engineers who were withdrawn accepted the assignment without complaint.

As the main R&D center of Qimonda NAND memory in the future, Heung Kong R&D Center shoulders the battle to enter the field of mobile storage.

In addition, Qimonda's R&D center in the mainland should also be strengthened, undertaking the R&D of PC memory in the past, and now it is mainly DDR2 and DDR3 memory.

The R&D center at the Munich headquarters will go all out on GDDR5 and ultra-low-power LPDDR, so that they can charge towards the top of the memory.

The first generation of LPDDR for mobile applications has been developed, and even tape-out samples are available, and are in the process of intensive testing, and now the R&D team is continuing to improve and optimize the LPDDR generation on the one hand, and on the other hand, the special project team is following the formulation of LPDDR2 technical standards and specifications, and has launched large-scale research and development of the second generation of LPDDR2 basic technology.

If nothing else, after testing and verifying the complex links and matching with the factory process adjustment, the first-generation LPDDR can be mass-produced in 3 months at the latest, but obviously this is not a mature product, and there is still a lot of room for follow-up research and development.

Due to the different processes, the 50nm process of the Saxony factory and the 45nm process of the Dragon factory need to send professional engineers to coordinate and improve the process in advance.

After the memory came in, the increasing business volume gradually began to saturate the production capacity of the Xiangjianglong factory. On the one hand, it allows investors to see the hope of making money.

But for the R&D engineers who are developing the 32nm process process, this is indeed a painful and happy thing.

After they broke through the tape-out in this process, they couldn't find the direction to improve the ultra-low yield of trial production, and now it is the most painful moment for them.

Obviously, I feel that I am about to grasp the threshold of breakthrough, but I just can't find the specific direction of the breakthrough.

It's a crazy feeling.

Fortunately, at this critical moment, Zhang Rujin returned with a mysterious guest.

Liang Jisong. One of the top masters and leaders of TMS process technology, known as technical freaks.

Due to the problem of promotion, the failed Liang Jisong has been secretly persuaded by the SS company and is ready to fly away.

However, due to Lao Zhang's solid internal intelligence skills, after the news came out in advance, he immediately applied for permission for Liu Ruoyi.

secretly returned to the island for a while, and Liang Jisong, who was still a little psychologically opposed to defecting to Goryeo, decisively changed horses.

The Xiangjiang Dragon factory is now well-known in the industry, and Zhang Rujin's opening of the position of vice president of technology is undesirable for him.

So the two sides hit it off.

Of course, the current Liang Jisong is still a big tree. It is impossible to directly join the Dragon Factory, Zhongxin International's relationship with friends and businessmen has been so bad that it is not good, and a huge intellectual property lawsuit is still in full swing - if there is no intervention of Liu Ruoyi, Zhongxin International will not be able to hold on to the original time and space.

The final result is to pay compensation for the land, and to be defeated by the commander to admit defeat, from the complete loss of the ability to compete with friends and merchants.

In this time and space, Liu Ruoyi insisted on fighting strongly, as long as there is money in this kind of lawsuit, there are too many cases where there is no result for ten or eight years, and it is really hard to say what the situation will be after ten or eight years.

This kind of off-the-field fight, which is also equal to bloodshed on both sides at the same time, ultimately depends on whether the financial resources of both sides can keep up with the speed of bloodletting.

Regarding this problem, Liu Ruoyi can almost tell the other party without hesitation, and accompany him to the end!

However, on the scene, Zhang Rujin still had to have reservations and not look too ugly, so the first stop of arranging Liang Jisong was to go to Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology for a strategic transfer, and become a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering under Zhang Rujin's operation.

Of course, as a professor's scientific research project, Liang Jisong's research field is still a "scientific research project" of process technology, and the real "scientific research" equipment is naturally the equipment of the dragon factory in Xiangjiang.

This kind of equipment with a technology of millions of dollars or tens of millions of dollars, even if the University of Science and Technology has money, it is impossible to build a set, and almost no professors or scholars who study this field let the university buy it by themselves.

This is true all over the world.

So this wonderful arrangement, even if the boss of the friend business is angry, he is helpless.

You have abandoned me, and you still can't let me go to teach and educate people? There is no such reason in the world, and if you dare to speak out against it, you will be criticized and criticized by the academic community every minute, and the public will be angry.

Of course, Liang Jisong has a serious course with him, as for what scientific research projects I do outside the course, who can manage it, anyway, engaging in scientific research is one of the natural responsibilities of professors, no matter what, there is no gossip to talk about.

The master is really different, and it has been the root cause of the 32nm yield problem that has plagued the dragon factory for a long time.

After Liang Jisong made a move, Liang Jisong quickly found the root cause process, after all, he encountered more scenes in this area, and finding problems was much stronger than these second-rate masters under Zhang Rujin.

In fact, in the original time and space, the problem that plagued SS in advancing from 28nm process technology to 14nm process technology was also solved by this person, and the process technology of SS company was quickly leveled.

After finding the problem, although it will take more experiments to solve it and slowly find reasonable configuration parameters to solve it, it is a big step forward compared to not knowing before, and the direction is clear.

Zhang Rujin saw it in his eyes, he was greatly relieved, this person was too worthwhile.

However, this is also the blessing of Tuo Liu Ruoyi, if it weren't for such good conditions as the Xiangjiang Dragon Factory, and the extremely generous option pool, he would not be able to persuade such a general to come over with three more mouths.

If he is still only living on the backward production line of Jinhai, a talent like Liang Jisong may not be able to convince him to give him a president.

After all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Liang Jisong just has the ability to do nothing, but the equipment cannot be bought and there is no use.

Liu Ruoyi didn't know that this person left Goryeo because of this in his previous time and space, and brought out advanced process technology comparable to TMS for SS Company. Snatched a lot of large orders from TMS, and the losses were calculated in billions of dollars.

I don't know if the TMS senior management regretted forcing away such a fierce general in semiconductor process technology at that time!

Maybe it's more hate.

Now, however, the opponent's turn to have a headache quickly becomes the Dragon Factory.

Under the tutelage of Liang Jisong, the yield of the 45nm process technology quickly broke through to a new high of more than 95 percent!

The processing cost of the Dragon factory is getting lower and lower, the production efficiency is getting higher and higher, and the monthly output of 300mm wafers in the 45nm process has begun to approach the level of 20,000 pieces, so it will only be a matter of time before the monthly revenue exceeds 100 million US dollars.

If the two production lines are fully operational, the production capacity will reach 50,000 pieces per month, and of course, all kinds of R&D tests will no longer exist. The production line will continue to run without waiting for testing and validation.

At present, if the business is full, the first 45nm production line can enter full design capacity operation, with a monthly production capacity of 25,000 wafers.

If the 32nm process yield finds a solution, it can also be immediately transferred to production, and after 3-6 months of yield improvement and capacity ramp-up, it can also enter full load of 32nm process production.

Obviously, Qimonda's LPDDR and the latest LPDDR will be the first customers of Dragon Factory's 32nm. At the same time, according to the agreement, the factory in Saxony will also be upgraded to 32nm after the 32nm maturity of the Dragon factory, and the equipment of the old 50nm process will be transferred to Zhongxin International's memory production base in Suzhou.

In the future, the old batch of GDDR5 and high-capacity DDR3 will be taken over by this production line.

This technology transfer path is acceptable to all parties.

The German side does not have to bear the pressure of technology out of control, after all, the Dragon factory has broken through more advanced process technology, and the Saxony factory also needs to keep up with the times, so the old equipment with the generation gap can be transferred.

What's more, Zhongxin International is also an international enterprise with international capital.

For the mainland, this is also a great thing, which greatly enhances the production capacity of the mainland in memory, and it is said that it is an eliminated device, in fact, it is the latest model here, compared with the previous stronger, it is not a little bit stronger, it is definitely a manifestation of enhanced strength.

Although this is specially tuned to produce memory particles, it is not impossible to change some process settings to produce CPUs when necessary, as long as the technology of this production line is thoroughly understood, then it is really not up to others to decide what to produce in the future.

However, Liu Ruoyi obviously thought differently from everyone else, after hearing that the production capacity began to be tight, the production capacity requirements for the mature 45nm process technology were more than doubled, and the monthly output should reach at least 50,000 pieces, which should be equal to or exceed those of competitors.

Moreover, if the 32nm process technology enters mass production, the multiplication plan will be launched immediately, and the construction of the second phase of the dragon factory has already been completed, and in the future, Liu Ruoyi plans to have a super factory with a monthly output of more than 200,000 pieces. Basically, we maintain the latest mass production process technology and pre-research process technology production line.

If the pre-developed production line successfully enters mass production, the first generation of production line will begin to be updated and phased out to the mainland, so as to ensure that the scale of the dragon factory in the future is controlled at the production capacity of 200,000 to 300,000 pieces of advanced process.

This will be enough to complete the foundry production of the most lucrative latest chips.

This figure is not taken blindly by Liu Ruoyi, but the industry's annual demand for 300mm wafers is more than 20 million pieces, close to 1.7 million pieces per month, of which one-third of the latest models of chips have more than 500,000 pieces of production capacity demand.

At present, more than sixty percent of this business is held by sworn enemies

In order to seize the market share of the latest model of chip foundry, how can it be industry-leading without the support of more than 200,000 of the most advanced generation process capacity?

Therefore, maintaining at least 40% to 50% of the industry's state-of-the-art process capacity is the top priority of Liu Ruoyi's leading strategy.

After the frantic expansion of memory manufacturing capacity and the harvesting of a wave of bankrupt production lines on the island, the monthly production capacity of about 300,000 pieces has been formed, which is very close to the total production capacity of SS Company.

With this, Liu Ruoyi dared to say that he would give SS a free hand in the memory OEM market. However, this is the ordinary production capacity of bulk processing, and according to the current price of ordinary memory particles, it is a loss of a piece, which is a strategic investment to consume the opponent.

But not a profitable deal right now. It's not even a big deal to make a lot of money in the future. The real good deal is to produce the latest models of flagship products of the OEM.

Not a large amount, the price is also very good, once the card position is successful, just like printing money, the original time and space competitors can get hundreds of billions of dollars of market value market recognition, isn't it relying on high-end models to grab profits, low-end share run opponents developed way?