"It's our job to contribute to the country, of course. Hu Yiting agreed to Minister Hu's request, and then asked: "But I heard that the country is about to embark on the 909 project, is this true?"

"Who did you listen to?" said Minister Hu, who was a little surprised.

That's what everybody says. Hu Yiting was sloppy.

Minister Hu thought about it with a calm face, thinking that the plan report of the 909 project had been revealed in the draft.

After all, the relationship between the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the Institute of Microelectronics and the Institute of Computing is too close, and the 909 project under planning will be publicly reviewed in the ****** by the end of the year.

Minister Hu said helplessly: "As long as the localization problem of China's core is not solved for a day, projects like 908 and 909 will continue to be carried out." After all, the chip manufacturing process is changing with each passing day, and the 908 project has fallen behind before it has been completed, which is really annoying. If China's electronics industry wants to catch up with the world's advanced, it can only continue to give full play to the national system and launch new projects with huge amounts of money from the state. ”

Hu Yiting remembered that the 909 project, which began to be planned in 95, invested 10 billion yuan, and learned the lesson of the difficult birth of the 908 project, and the 909 project was no longer fully funded by the state, and the Chinese side only accounted for 71.4% of the shares, and Japan's NEC accounted for the remaining shares, but this time the Chinese side went to the other extreme and handed over all business management to the Japanese side.

The reason why this is so is because the Chinese side hopes that the Japanese side can help China develop the international market, but the Japanese side put it together, and with a little trickery, it will incorporate Huahong NEC into its own industrial chain and let Huahong work for itself.

In order to ensure that its technology does not leak out and that it can catch the bait, NEC's strategy is to cut off the industrial chain. The A chips produced by Hua Hong were sent to Malaysia for packaging, and the B chips produced in Malaysia were sent to Hua Hong for packaging.

In short, it is necessary to guard against China like a thief. First, it does not allow you to master the core technology, and second, it does not allow you to form a complete industrial chain of a certain type of chip. For NEC, Huahong is just a processing department in Chinese mainland, an insignificant link in the industrial chain.

As the main wafer fab, the Huahong NEC project started in July 97. Completed in February '99. It is designed to produce 20,000 pieces of 8-inch 0.35 to 0.5 micron process silicon wafers per month.

After Huahong NEC was put into production, it achieved a profit of 500 million yuan in 2000, but in 2001, Huahong NEC suffered a huge loss of 1.38 billion!

The reason for this. On the one hand, because of the avalanche of the price of 0.35 to 0.5 micron process chips in the international market, the price of memory particles has jumped from $20 to $2!

On the other hand, because of the seven IC design companies supporting the 909 project, they are Shenzhen Guowei Electronics Co., Ltd., Panda Electronics Group Electronic Design Company, Beijing Huada Integrated Circuit Design Company, Shenzhen Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Aerospace Science and Technology Integrated Circuit Design (Shenzhen) Company, Huawei Electronics Co., Ltd. (TCL and Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology), Shanghai Metallurgical Institute Microelectronics Design Company, but, in addition to one of them, 2, the rest of the companies simply cannot reach the level of commercial chip design of 0.35 to 0.5 micron process, and cannot come up with internationally competitive product design, which leads to the design capacity of Huahong NEC is simply not enough, and finally can only rely on the production price of 0.35 micron process DRAM memory particles to make a living.

Later, over time, the technology proliferated. Domestic IC design companies have gradually mastered the 0.35 micron design capability, and Huahong NEC has orders other than memory particles, coupled with the policy support and financial subsidies of the Puhai government, it has finally survived all the way.

Hu Yiting asked: "The supporting IC design enterprise of the 909 project, is there our Chongguang company?"

Minister Hu: "Of course, your Chongguang company is currently the most popular IC design company in China, I not only want you to support the 909 project, but also hope that you can give a class to the domestic IC design unit, open a training, and talk about the chip design difficulties of the 0.8 micron process." ”

Hu Yiting smiled bitterly and felt that his head began to swell.

Minister Hu continued: "At present, only the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has mastered the manufacturing technology of 0.8 micron CMOS integrated circuits in China. The Institute of Microelectronics has not yet done technical training for domestic enterprises, but you Huachuang has already developed a 0.8 micron chip design, and has played an international influence, Hu Yiting. The fame of your prodigy has now spread all over the Ministry of Electronics Industry! Tell me, do you have any unique design tools? Can you share them with domestic enterprises? Appropriate fees are also acceptable. ”

Hu Yiting shook his head and said: "I can't talk about any tricks, IC design is the work of exploring and drawing under inspiration, and then verifying and realizing it through guò real yàn."

IC manufacturing technology has developed to this day, and its cutting-edge scientific and technological attributes are becoming more and more prominent. And it has been closely connected with IC design technology.

At present, there are some high-end chips in the West, we have found in China, can not just copy and restore the simple copy, the result of copying can only be similar, but can not achieve the god-like, in many cases the copy fails, or after copying, it is found that the original performance parameters cannot be reached at all.

After all, some special circuits can not be simply copied by copying, which requires the design of a special device structure in the real yàn, and even through guò ion implantation, to change the ion doping concentration and type of the silicon device structure, so as to achieve the design goal, these works are real, there is no shortcut, there is no trick to share.

The future of IC design must be closely linked to IC manufacturing, any IC design company must have its own real room and even wafer factory, fabless IC design companies will gradually withdraw from the most cutting-edge chip design field in the future. Only those companies that closely integrate design and manufacturing can continue to lead the development of integrated circuit technology.

As for every chip designed by our Chongguang company before, all the IP design patents are priced, and the units you want can buy them. ”

Minister Hu saw that Hu Yiting did not let go, but said so much at length, he couldn't help but slander, and said in his heart, Isn't your Chongguang just a small company of a few people, the blind cat ran into a dead mouse and made two best-selling chips, you yourself are not the same as no wafer factory, and there is no real room, it is estimated that most of the technology on your chips is realized with the help of computing and microelectronics, otherwise how can a small company like you have such strong technical strength!

When Minister Hu thought of this, he didn't say much, but said: "The ministry will fully support your Chongguang company, and hope that you can play a Chinese brand in the field of IC design." ”

Hu Yiting made a request: "Minister Hu, since Chongguang helped the 908 project solve the problem of no rice to cook, can the ministry also do us a favor?"

Minister Hu's eyes shook when he heard this: "You said, as long as the ministry can do it, I will definitely help you do it." After that, he made a joke: "Who told us all surnamed Hu?" ”

Hu Yiting also smiled when he heard this: "I don't have high requirements, and I hope to cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to start an equipment system project of 0.18 micron to 0.25 micron integrated circuit manufacturing technology, and strive to establish a basic domestic 0.18 to 0.25 micron wafer factory before the arrival of the 21st century." ”

Minister Hu was stunned, he had never heard of a more shameless mention of this, the 0.18 micron production line was built in '99? This is more advanced than the 909 project being planned by the Ministry of Electronics Industry? )

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