Chapter 138: Digging Someone Else's Corner "Asking for a Monthly Pass"
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", or search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] INTEL attaches great importance to the arrival of Fan Wuxian and his party.
Especially in this sensitive period when the INTEL company has a problem and everyone is shouting about it, it is very effective to have such a powerful multinational company that wants to cooperate with it to build a factory.
The president of the company personally went out and brought more than a dozen executives to greet Fan Wuxian and others at the airport, but when they saw Fan Wuxian's attaché lineup, they also felt a little surprised.
Of course, using retired SEALs as bodyguards, this thing can only be done by Fan Wuxi, and if you change ordinary people, I am afraid that you will not have this eloquence, especially if it costs a lot of money.
AT FIRST, FAN WUXIAN DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS CHIP PACKAGING FACTORY, JUST THOUGHT IT WAS AN ORDINARY PACKAGING FACTORY, OUTSOURCED INTEL'S PRODUCTS, AND THEN SOLD THEM, BUT IT WAS ONLY AFTER HE VISITED A PACKAGING FACTORY ACCOMPANIED BY INTEL EXECUTIVES THAT HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS VERY WRONG.
In fact, like Fan Wuxi, the outside world's impression of the chip packaging factory has always stayed on the CPU package, and many people think that the packaging and packaging are similar and there is not much technical content.
However, after visiting the chip factory, Fan Wuxian found that the truth is just the opposite, the packaging and testing of the CPU is definitely not the whole CPU manufacturing is divided into the front process and the back process as many people imagine, the front end is mainly wafer manufacturing, that is, through very complex silicon technology and lithography technology such as silicon pulling to create wafer wafers, each wafer is covered with hundreds of chips.
The chip factories responsible for wafer manufacturing are almost all concentrated in the United States, as well as Israel and Ireland.
The chip factories in Costa Rica, the Philippines and Malaysia are mainly responsible for the back-end packaging and testing process procedures, which are manufactured through a series of complex process technologies such as wafer reflow, filming, cutting, mounting, welding, packaging, curing, aging testing, electrical performance testing, laser marking and intermediate multi-channel detection, and finally obtain a complete CPU chip production product.
INTEL'S CHIP PACKAGING FACTORY IN SHANGHAI IS ALSO DOING THE SAME.
In the workshop of the chip factory, all the machines are closed. Some even run in a vacuum, and Fan Wuxian and his party can only wear sealed overalls like astronauts, and see the wafers spinning around the machine through the transparent window.
\\In the CPU packaging workshop, there are hardly a few workers in sight, and the whole workshop seems very quiet.
There was only a faint beep from the electronic instruments. In the wafer cutting area, Fan Wuxian saw the machine take out a finished wafer from a stack of wafers next to it, and first automatically scan the entire disc.
The results of the scan were immediately displayed when a worker wearing a special anti-static safety suit and special safety glasses walked over to take a closer look at the surface image of the wafer on the display terminal.
The INTEL staff who accompanied Fan Wuxian and others to visit explained to them,
"This is by visually inspecting the wafer that is about to be cut for hidden dangers." Once inspected, the wafer is fed into a sealed operating chamber for cutting.
When this wafer comes out of the operation compartment, it has become a separate chip. Next, the chip undergoes a carrier mounting, soldering, and packaging process, and the machine automatically attaches the chip to the carrier.
After soldering, it is encapsulated and packed into a sealed carrier, which is the CPU shell that ordinary people see. At this point, a CPU is basically beginning to take shape.
"It turns out that the CPU is made this way-" In fact, except for Fan Wuxi, no one has ever seen this kind of thing.
Although they are all using personal computers, what exactly is inside? How it works, I really don't know anything about it.
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"If we can build such a factory. Even if it's just an occasional visit, it's a lot of fun. Fan Wuxian said to everyone with a smile.
CPU test is another highlight of the whole back-end process, through a variety of special testing machines to check whether the performance of all aspects of the CPU meets the requirements, whether the surface of the pin leads are normal, whether there is a bend phenomenon.
This is checked with a special electronic device. In the aging test area, Fan Wuxian saw that the machine automatically put the basically formed CPU into a special aging test chamber for high-temperature baking to check whether the CPU would be abnormal under such harsh conditions.
"This step is directly related to how long the CPU can be used after leaving the factory." The escort introduced to everyone.
"Will a high-temperature roast burn out a good CPU?" An executive next to Fan Wuxian asked.
The escort immediately explained,
"All the test procedures in the test workshop are formulated according to the normal standards that the CPU can bear, and each test item is carefully calculated in advance, and there will never be excessive test intensity that causes damage to the CPU product. \\\\\ take this burn-in test as an example, the temperature and humidity in the test chamber are tightly controlled and do not exceed the range that the CPU can tolerate. AFTER THIS VISIT, FAN WUXIAN WAS IMMEDIATELY IN AWE OF THE WORK OF INTEL, IT IS NOT EASY TO BE THE LEADER IN THE INDUSTRY, IF SOMEONE THINKS THAT THEY CAN EASILY COPY THIS TECHNOLOGY, AND SURPASS INTEL, IT WILL BE LAUGHED OFF.
Of course, after reading this, Fan Wuxian can also understand why Loongson has not succeeded in doing it for so many years, and the so-called Hanxin is a chip polished with sandpaper is cheating.
The breakthrough does not rely on simple chip design technology or huge funds, but also needs a lot of underlying technology to support, which is exactly what is lacking in China.
In the Hanxin incident that year, Chen Jin, an engineer who was doing testing at Motorola, hired someone else to polish off the original logo of a MOTO-freescale 56800 chip bought from the United States.
Then he added his own Hanxin logo, turned into the so-called Hanxin No. 1 with independent intellectual property rights, applied for a number of patents, and became the dean of the first microelectronics college, doctoral supervisor and Changjiang scholar.
With the help of Hanxin No. 1, Chen Jin has applied for dozens of scientific research projects. Defrauded up to hundreds of millions of yuan in scientific research funds.
After an insider found out about the matter, some media with a keen sense of smell quickly intervened and carried out difficult recourse and verification.
With the joint efforts of whistleblowers and the media. The investigation team of the incident concluded that the fraud of Hanxin No. 1 was basically true.
Due to the gap in the field of chip manufacturing and the domestic expectations for the chip industry, there is a great need for a breakthrough in the field of high-tech in China.
Independent research and development of high-performance chips has always been a big dream of the domestic science and technology community. Chen Jin took advantage of the expectation of the Chinese people to defraud countless funds and honors, so that Hanxin No. 1, which should have brought pride to the Chinese people.
It has become a major scientific research fraud incident. Thinking of this, Fan Wuxian couldn't help but shake his head. The Hanxin incident caused a lot of uproar back then, and in the end, it was just over.
No one has even been sentenced for this, it seems. I don't know if the state is too lenient for counterfeiters, or if the counterfeiting forces behind the scenes are too huge.
Basically. Fan Wuxian felt that the atmosphere in the academic world at that time had been completely broken, and people who could do practical things would never be as good as people who could fake, and the government probably couldn't afford to lose this face and was unwilling to expose its shortcomings.
AFTER VISITING THE FACTORY, FAN WUXIAN AND HIS ENTOURAGE RETURNED TO INTEL HEADQUARTERS AND STARTED THE FIRST MEETING ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CHIP PACKAGING FACTORY.
"Mr. Fan, to be honest, our previous negotiations with the Shanghai side have reached a critical juncture, if it were not for the sudden appearance of the floating point arithmetic problem, or the contract has already been signed." The president of NTEL said to Fan Wuxian,
"As far as we know, now Chinese mainland has expressed great distrust of our INTEL processors, I wonder why Mr. Fan insists on cooperating with us?" Fan Wuxi also pretended to say,
"I have always believed that a noble person is not flawless, and that there is no shame in having some shortcomings. And a noble enterprise cannot be spurned by the public because of the slightest flaw! Anyone who knows anything about the chip industry should see the great contributions made to the entire chip industry in the past! ”
"Mr. Fan, you are very good at talking." The president laughed,
"Our senior management believes that cooperating with a powerful company like yours is beneficial to our development in Chinese mainland. After all, there are not many company leaders like you who are sharp-eyed, decisive and financial, and we shouldn't pass up this opportunity, should we? ”
"THANK YOU, I CAN GUARANTEE THAT INTEL WILL DEFINITELY NOT FEEL ANY REGRETS BECAUSE OF THIS COOPERATION." Fan Wuxian knows that the other party now only has this choice of his own, and if he wants to enter the Chinese mainland market, he must find a reliable ally, and in some cases, the other party's government is unreliable.
It's as if Fan Wuxian has never had anything to do with the U.S. government. The two sides talked here for three days, and finally reached a consensus on most of the issues, and Fan Wuzhi also decided to return to China, but left some staff here to discuss the details of the problem when sending Fan Wuzhi on the plane, the president of INTEL said to him with a smile,
"MR. FAN, IN ADDITION TO CONGRATULATING YOU ON YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH INTEL, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TELL YOU THE EXCITING NEWS THAT THE TOP MANAGEMENT OF OUR COMPANY HAS DECIDED TO RECALL ALL DEFECTIVE CPUS." FAN WUXIAN SMILED, HE ALREADY KNEW THAT THIS WAS THE RESULT, OTHERWISE INTEL WOULD NOT BE INTEL, BUT HE SAID SOLEMNLY IN HIS MOUTH,
"It is an honor for Fan's Investment Group to be able to work with!" The two of them looked at each other and smiled, Fan Wuxian said in his heart, this time he finally succeeded in digging other people's corners.
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