As an IC design engineer, it is impossible for Hu Yiting not to understand the process, the more advanced the IC design industry, the closer it is combined with the fab process, otherwise there will be a problem of designing but not building.

For example, TSMC's 40/28nm (nano) two generations of processes were initially very immature, and the production capacity was also delayed, which dragged down the entire industry, and the GlobalFoundries 32nm process did not reach AMD's expected level, and the first generation FX/ The frequency and voltage of the APU processor are much worse than the design, the 28nm process has been blown for a long time, and the flowers have just been put on the road, which forced AMD to give up a whole generation of low-power APUs for a time, and had to redesign and then go to TSMC, as a result, the market was robbed by Intel, and AMD almost lost a heart attack.

The reason why Hu Yiting has been deliberately building his genius aura before is to use his dazzling genius identity to play sloppy and cover up the essence of his senior IC engineer.

In these days, there are all kinds of people, and the qigong master says that he will do his work in the northern capital at half past eight, and as long as the people of the whole country stand outside at half past eight o'clock and face the direction of the northern capital to receive qi, their skills will be greatly increased; the religious liar says that his Dharma is boundless, and if he uses his strength to slap the affected area on your body a few times, he can cure all diseases, and the cancer cells and tumors are weakly exploded, and the master will take action and help you die in minutes; the commercial swindler says that he has a close relationship with the central government, and plans to use a hydrogen bomb to blow up a hole in the Himalayas to introduce the warm and humid air flow of the Indian Ocean, and turn the desert in the northwest into ten thousand hectares of fertile land, as long as the government invests in him and gives him preferential policiesThe scientific research liar claims to have discovered that the secret of DNA lies in deoxyribonucleic acid, although DNA is a substance found in any animal and plant cell, but once you name it according to the name of deoxyribonucleic acid, the propaganda effect will be very different, although this ordinary oral liquid containing cell membrane components cannot drink dead people, but it has the audacity to claim that longevity and longevity are cured and diseases are not prevented, but in fact the effect is not as good as if you directly drink a sip of rice soup; there are many similar innovative deceptions everywhere, such as turning water into oilIn recent years, almost all of these other inventions have succeeded in swindling a lot of money from the ignorant Chinese people, and those eloquence masters with unlimited scenery have finally become big entrepreneurs who have caused a sensation throughout the country.

Later generations thought that these things were ridiculous and absurd when they thought of these people in this era, but at that time, countless people believed them! Under the propaganda of various media templates such as readers, bosom friends, kneeling and licking, and you can see other people's foreign bodies, not only ordinary people were deceived, but also countless high-ranking party and government officials, state cadres, scientific research personnel, and high-level intellectuals.

So when Hu Yiting hid under his halo of genius, even Zhou Guangzhao, the dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, did not doubt him. Didn't a well-spoken teacher in later generations say that miracles always have to be believed, and what if they happen? This teacher undoubtedly studied educational psychology.

It is this kind of psychology that people are called people, so as long as they are human, they will be deceived, which is the case in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Minister Hu's words interrupted Hu Yiting's musings.

"Xiaohu, as long as you come out, I'll rest assured, and you can see if you can solve the manufacturing process of your optical drive control chip together?

I don't know if it's your design problem, the last time the Institute of Microelectronics helped you tape out, the yield rate was low and scary, at the beginning 3%, then 9%, until now, it is still hovering at 15%, the yield rate just can't go up, otherwise this is another big contract.

At present, the optical drive control chip is the world of Philips, the price of each double-speed model is 100 US dollars, which is still in short supply, if you can solve the localization problem of this chip, the domestic optical drive project can immediately use the Chinese core! At present, all kinds of CD players, LP DVD players, VCD players, and computer optical drives are all selling well, you see, even my office computers have begun to use optical drives, and it is estimated that 5-inch floppy disks and 3.5-inch floppy disks will be eliminated in the future, which is a big market!

Hu Yiting said: "There is no problem with my design, otherwise it would not have been possible for Taiwan Union Power to complete the tape-out so quickly! We took the design in mid-October, and before we went to the United States in November, Taiwan Union Electric had already informed us that the tape-out was successful! Wang Lili has now contacted several optical drive manufacturers in Japan and Taiwan, and the things have also been taken to them for testing. ”

Minister Hu was very anxious when he heard this, and said: "Then we need your help even more, we must successfully transplant this product to the domestic assembly line, so that the Huajing factory will become a big gold mine with nine out of ten stability! These product contracts add up, and they are enough to eat in a few years! This is also a great encouragement and promotion for the 909 project that we are currently planning to set up!"

Hu Yiting picked up the teacup, thought about it, and felt that it was time to make a request.

"Minister Hu, I said that we are helping the country for a long time, and I think the country should also help us to do a little bit of help. ”

Minister Hu's eyes widened slightly: "What you said makes sense, it's mutually beneficial, what do you want to help?"

"This time, we have had an in-depth exchange with Mr. Adam Cohen, the chairman of Cyrix, in the United States, and we hope to establish an eight-inch wafer factory in China in a joint venture with Cyrix, which is dedicated to the production of flash memory chips in 0.35 micron process. ”

When Minister Hu heard this, he immediately became excited and asked, "How much to invest?"

"It's about 10 billion yuan, but that's only the worst scenario, in fact, I estimate that a total investment of 7 or 8 billion yuan should be enough. ”

"You're so rich?"

Hu Yiting scratched his head: "It's because I don't have enough money that I came to the state for help." ”

Minister Hu frowned slightly: "How much worse?"

Hu Yiting didn't answer directly, but began to calculate the accounts: "First of all, the land has to be given to me by the state, and I will save this money, and the construction of the plant will be contracted by qualified domestic design units and construction groups, and the construction funds and building materials will be costed by the state. ”

Before Hu Yiting finished speaking, Minister Hu had already twisted his face into a bitter melon: "What you think is too beautiful, you are planning to let the country send you half a wafer factory! Recently, the ministry is making a plan for the 909 project, and the investment amount is about the same as you said, and it will cost 10 billion, so I will use the 909 project to calculate this account with you."

First of all, you must be in a big city with developed manufacturing industry and abundant talents on the coast, right? The land must be three or four hundred acres, to say the least. Take Puhai as an example, the price of industrial land in Pudong is now generally 300,000 yuan a mu, 400 mu is 120 million, and the construction of high-standard dust-free factories is even more expensive.

Hu Yiting said: "Yes, what's wrong? What is this money? If China does not immediately invest in flash memory chips, three years later, my country will not be able to spend 200 million yuan a year to buy flash memory chips." ”

Minister Hu shook his head and persuaded: "Don't fool me, flash memory is not used in much in my country, and there is no risk of embargo, high-end equipment needs to be used, just find someone to buy a little and bring it back, you don't have to make it yourself." ”

Hu Yiting shook his head: "What you said is wrong! And it is a big mistake! You have a wrong grasp of the future development direction of the IC industry!"

Minister Hu smiled bitterly: "Then you say, you teach me a lesson, how can a flash memory chip become important?"

Hu Yiting thought about it, but he still didn't dare to tell Minister Hu about his development plan for U disk and MP3, after all, although the concept of these products is advanced, it is easy to realize under today's technology. God knows if Minister Hu will show off what he hears from him as knowledge on some occasions?

So Hu Yiting had to say: "At present, computer sales are getting bigger and bigger, but judging from the news I got, the production capacity of flash memory chips has been very stable, and everyone rarely invests in this area, so in the face of growing market demand in the future, there will be a supply bottleneck, which will directly lead to a surge in prices. ”

Minister Hu frowned and said, "What if your estimate is not accurate?"

Hu Yiting shrugged: "That doesn't have any impact! Anyway, the current price of the flash memory market has been rising steadily, and after it is put into production, it will honestly earn a penny by penny, and after eight or nine years, you can always recover the capital." After all, flash memory and processors and memory are different, this thing will not be eliminated no matter how low-end, industrial automation equipment is always used, even if you only need to store dozens of bytes of data on various circuit boards, it is indispensable to install one, not to mention what waste is not wasted, this thing is a necessary equipment, you want to save money without installation, so what is there to worry about sales?"

When Minister Hu heard this, he nodded slowly, feeling that according to what Hu Yiting said, this flash memory chip is still a stable industrial product.

"In this way, this flash memory is a solid business, it will not be eliminated, and it will not lose the market due to technological progress, and it is a necessary industrial product. Well, that's not bad...... But this investment is too big, isn't it? The total investment of 10 billion yuan has caught up with the budget of the 909 project!"