After the inauguration ceremony of the new venture semiconductor company, Lin Qi, under the leadership of the staff, inspected the newly put into production XRM32 chip production line.

Although, Lin Qi is no stranger to XRM32 terminal equipment, including smart TVs, consoles and arcades made with XRM32 chips as the core, he can experience it earlier than the market.

Even if the product line of the new venture electronics company is already very large, it is impossible for Lin Qi to know all the company's products. However, for some forward-looking and strategic products, Lin Qi himself has been serving as the "chief experience officer".

Lin Qi's experience feedback has played a vital role in many products of Xinchuang Electronics.

But this is only a terminal product for ordinary consumers, as for hard technology products like XRM32, it is difficult for Lin Qi to even understand and understand, let alone make any suggestions.

He can only emphasize the direction, for example, the instruction set must be reduced, the next-generation hardware platform must be compatible with the application on the previous generation platform as much as possible, the process must shorten the gap with competitors, and adhere to independent research and development......

To put it simply, Lin Qi's emphasis is just to firm the direction of technology research and development. At the same time, the group company will feed a large amount of profits back to the research and development projects, but also greatly enhance the company's technical strength.

Of course, because of the domestic development of high-precision and cutting-edge products such as semiconductors, it is indeed much more difficult than those clothing, hardware, small household appliances and other products. For those low-end products, there is no difficulty in introducing technology and equipment at all, anyway, they are all production lines eliminated by developed countries, and the use of low domestic labor costs can create benefits.

However, semiconductor products are not only a matter of labor costs, but also the accumulation of technology. If it's just a few years of difference in technical level, there is still a fight. However, if there is a difference of ten years in the technical level, even if the product is cheap, it will completely lose its competitiveness. Because, the things produced by the technological level with a difference of ten years are given away in the international market and no one wants them for free!

"Mr. Lin, although the production line of X32 processors is barely usable at present, the mass production efficiency is far from being comparable to that of X8 and X16 chips. "The X16 production line can produce thousands of CPUs per day, and multiple production lines are fully operational, with a maximum of 1.5 million units a month, plus the production capacity of other authorized manufacturers, the monthly production capacity of XRM16 chips is estimated to reach more than 5 million." Due to the low requirements for the process level, even at least more than a dozen domestic companies have the ability to produce it, and this kind of chip is even more or less. As for the XRM32 chip, the accuracy has indeed reached 2 microns, but the equipment is a little bit improved from the laboratory equipment, and it cannot be regarded as a real mass production equipment, a single lithography machine processes 20 wafers a day, and the daily production capacity of the chip is about 50 pieces! Although we have purchased 10 such lithography machines, the daily production capacity is only more than 500, and the monthly production capacity is 15,000 ...... Even though we are constantly introducing more lithography machines, the power of these lithography machines is too low, so we ......"

"The production capacity problem must be solved!" Lin Qi said, "If you can spend money to increase production capacity, you can spend it! Even if you rely on the number of low-capacity lithography machines, you still need to increase production capacity." Of course, in the production process, the mass production capacity of the lithography machine will be gradually improved, and now the monthly production capacity will be 1000~2000, and after a year, can a lithography machine process and produce 3000 chips per month?"

"That's no problem!," the technician affirmed, "Actually, in the beginning, we used all the lab equipment to produce less than 100 capsules a month. Later, in the production process, problems were constantly found and improved, and it took more than half a year for the lithography machine to be produced after the production was more advanced than before. Moreover, the production capacity of this lithography machine was one in half a year, but now it is two a month. Moreover, it is not simply produced according to fixed indicators, but almost every once in a while, the lithography machine produced is improved on the basis of the previous one. It is estimated that by next year, the daily processing efficiency of each lithography machine can reach more than 50 pieces, and it is not too difficult to produce 3,000 chips per month!"

In fact, as the core of the wafer processing process, lithography equipment is not only required to have precision, but also to have more power. Only with more power can there be higher production efficiency. Otherwise, the low-power lithography machine, even if the accuracy is improved, can only be used as equipment in the laboratory, and cannot be put into industrial production.

A truly mature production line can process 500 wafers per day with a lithography machine, and each wafer can be conservatively estimated to be cut into 4 CPU chips. In other words, the mature production line has only one set of equipment, with a daily production capacity of 2,000 CPUs, and a monthly production capacity of at least 60,000 CPUs.

A large semiconductor factory cannot have only one wafer processing production line, but a large number of wafer processing and production workshops. Therefore, a large CPU factory can have a monthly production capacity of millions of CPUs. Moreover, industry giants often start to invest in new factories and production lines while they are still in production.

At the peak of Intel's later generation, it had just put into production a large chip factory, and soon it was constantly investing in the next factory with more advanced technology. Compared with other semiconductor competitors, Intel's biggest advantage is probably the scale advantage. The huge scale advantage brings cost advantages, and at the same time, it also gives Intel the advantage of quickly improving the production process without affecting production capacity.

Although Intel's technology level has been leading for a long time, it has still lost to the ARM camp. Because, the X86 architecture chip, no matter how optimized, is a complex instruction set, and the power consumption and efficiency cannot be optimized to the extent of a reduced instruction set.

The ARM chip surpasses the X86 architecture chip in the market, and in essence, proves that the reduced instruction set can represent the future. Don't be fooled by the fact that complex instruction sets are now dominant.

The later technological level of the ARM camp is far behind Intel. The reason why the market performance can surpass Intel is that the chip design of the reduced instruction set is far more scientific than the complex instruction set. At the same time, reduced instruction set chips are far less expensive than complex instruction set chips due to their simpler design and lower processing requirements.

The route taken by the XRM chip is different from that of later generations of ARM. However, Lin Qi firmly believes that as long as he sticks to this line of development and defeats the complex command set camp, it will be a matter of time!

Moreover, although Intel has withdrawn from the 386 chip, because the 386 chip has not been widely recognized by the market, it is currently the weakest time for Intel.

In the early 80s, the U.S. semiconductor industry suffered from cheap dumping by the Japanese semiconductor industry. Originally, the backbone of the semiconductor industry in the United States was the memory business, including Intel for a long time, which was memory-based.

However, at present, the Japanese semiconductor industry has seized 80% of the market share of the memory business by relying on cheap dumping. A large number of U.S. semiconductor companies, in this era of bankruptcy, bankruptcy, transformational transformation.

Intel completely cut the memory business in '85 and focused on making CPUs. However, IBM was expected to accept 386, but it was found that IBM had other plans.

Because, IBM regretted outsourcing the CPU and operating system, and as a result, it fattened a bunch of PC-compatible machine manufacturers. Seeing that most of the PC market share was taken away by compatible machine manufacturers, IBM decided to make its own CPU and system, and reformulate PC technology standards, thus sweeping compatible machine manufacturers out of the house.

It was IBM's decision that caused Microsoft and Intel to further turn to PC compatible machine manufacturers.

In the 386 era, a large number of compatible machine manufacturers launched 386 computers one after another, while IBM produced more expensive and lower performance, and even the compatibility was not as good as other PC compatible machines.

Later, PC users found that as long as there is a Microsoft system and an Intel chip, it is the same regardless of the brand of PC compatible machine used. This created the myth of IBM, shattered in the PC camp.

At the same time, it has also been determined that Intel and Microsoft are the most important core companies in the PC camp.

Later, although IBM succumbed to the market and accepted the 386 chip, since then, IBM's position in the PC market is only about the same as that of other compatible machine manufacturers.

It is precisely because of the struggle between IBM and PC compatible machine manufacturers that it has given the new venture a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you don't take advantage of this time to develop the Pangu console from a game console to a general-purpose production and office tool, then it will be difficult to have such a good opportunity when the PC camp infighting is over......