Chapter 138: Flash Technology

Ye Kai asked Curry to sit down again, and then began to announce his vision for the company to Curry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"First of all, according to what you said, the wafer fab will be independent and set up a wafer fab that meets its own needs and assists the foundry." Ye Kai said. "All the production lines that generate CPU chips will be withdrawn from Meiguo, and overseas wafer factories will be reorganized, and Meiguo's wafer factories will only retain the production lines for other chips and the corresponding packaging and testing plants. Set up a lithography machine R&D team to improve the lithography machine and more advanced technology currently in use. The team is drawn from the existing plant on a voluntary basis. ”

"Okay, boss." At this time, Curry turned into a secretary, took out a notebook, quickly recorded Ye Kai's request, and then asked. "And who is in charge of the fab?"

"Who was in charge before? What about the ability? ”

"It had been in charge of Manager Kerr." Curry replied without even thinking about it. "The ability is still good, in the case of tight funds, none of his low-handed employees make trouble, and the pass rate of the products produced is very high, there is no bad intentions, in general, he is a trustworthy person."

"Well, he'll be in charge of this new company for the time being." Ye Kai thought about it and decided to continue with the old man before, first of all, there is no problem with the other party's ability to work, and secondly, he has just changed the owner, and blindly replacing the leader, I am afraid that it will cause other people to be uneasy. "Where is he now?"

"He just went overseas to inspect the factory." Curry replied, in order to avoid Ye Kai's misunderstanding, he also deliberately added. "He's been gone for almost a month. Need to call him back? ”

"No, let him wait where he is, wait for us to straighten out the company's affairs, and then fly over to find him, and take a look at those factories by the way." Ye Kai waved his hand at Curry. "I still have some ideas that I need to discuss with him in person."

"The CCD team drew some points and joined my other company." Ye Kai continued. "The intelligent team is divided into two parts, one part will be brought to Germany, and the other part will be assigned to the fab."

"It's the same with the CPU team, part of it will be merged into my chip company, and part of it will be brought to Germany." Ye Kaidao. "That's probably what I thought, I'm sure you know it, and when the time comes, you'll contact the team to take over."

The fab is flying, the CCD team is gone, the CPU team is being dismantled and merged, what is left of Fairchild? Curry's mind is a question mark. What about letting me be responsible? Nima is now left with only a half-dead memory business, how to do it? No matter how you do it, you can't win the Inter, right?

Ye Kai looked at Curry with a gray face amusedly, couldn't help laughing, stood up and walked over, patted Curry on the shoulder and asked, "Do you think that the assets of Fairchild Company have shrunk a lot all of a sudden?" ”

Curry nodded dejectedly.

"Although the wafer factory is independent, you are still in charge of the general person, because the Fairchild company you are now in charge of, the business is only the memory business, and your work pressure is less.

Hearing this, Curry's face suddenly looked a lot better.

"Don't underestimate the memory business, although its business volume is very small now, but don't forget, I also have game companies and computer companies, their demand for memory is not small, in the future, our company's storage will be purchased from Fairchild."

"The type of storage they need, they'll need you to help design and produce, and I'll have new R&D tasks for you."

"What task?" Curry suddenly came to his senses.

"I had a rough idea of a memory technology that combined EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) and EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). With this technology, it can completely replace the current floppy disk and become a new generation of data storage devices, which can still save data or stored data after a power failure, unlike the memory used as computer memory. ”

"Moreover, the computer company that I was independent from Acrylic before, a technology independently developed by them is the basis of my idea, you can communicate at that time, I call my idea fast flash storage technology."

Ye Kai said that the independent technology of the computer company, in fact, is to compete with the fruit company's apple personal computer and developed, they are developing 8-bit computers, the technology is integrated in the system of this series of computers, so this is called SIO (Serial I/O) system, almost the prototype of the 20th century USB system in the previous life.

The flash memory technology proposed by Ye Kai was in the 84th year of the previous life, and Toshiba Corporation first proposed the concept of fast flash memory (referred to as flash memory here).

And Intel was the first company in the world to produce flash memory and put it on the market, and in 88 years of its previous life, it launched a 256Kbit flash memory chip. It is the size of a shoebox and is embedded in a tape recorder. Later, this type of flash memory invented by Intel was collectively referred to as NOR flash memory and had a SRAM interface.

The other type of flash memory was developed by Hitachi in '89 and is considered an ideal alternative to NOR flash memory. This type of NAND flash memory has a write cycle that is ten times shorter than NOR flash memory, and it is relatively fast to save and delete.

NAND's memory unit is only half that of NOVA, and NAND achieves better performance in a smaller storage space. Due to the excellent performance of NAND, it is often used on memory cards such as CompactFlash, SmartMedia, SD, MMC, xD, andPCcards, USBsticks, etc.

The flash memory market is dominated by four major manufacturers: Samsung, Hitachi, Spansion, and Intel.

Ye Kai remembers that when he was in 04, he accidentally saw a report that said that the global flash memory revenue in 04 will reach 16.6 billion US dollars, an increase of 46% from 2003 (11.64 billion US dollars), and consumer demand for digital cameras, USBsticks and compressed MP3 player memory will greatly promote flash sales.

The report also predicts that flash memory sales will reach $17.5 billion in 2005. However, the article estimates that flash memory profit growth will slow from 2005 to 2008 and reach a maximum of $22.4 billion.

Thinking of this, Ye Kai was dazzled by the dollar in hundreds of millions, what a huge market with such a profit, and it is only the income of the chip, then, the memory card, U disk, MP3, MP4, solid hard disk, etc. that use this chip, wouldn't the profit have to be doubled several times?

Ye Kai seemed to see countless CPs falling like snowflakes drowning him, and he was wantonly swaying in the CPs piled up like a mountain。。。。。。