"Professor Lawrence, during the visit two days ago, I wonder what Professor Lu Dao thinks of our factory?"

Two days ago, the two sides only reached a preliminary intention, and it was also a bait thrown by Yao Fei, first coaxing the other party over, and then Yao Fei would take the most difficult test for Lawrence.

"Your company's factory is really an eye-opener for me, I have only seen the size of a laboratory in a 1000-level dust-free workshop before, and it is the first time I have seen such a large-scale innovation as Feiyue Technology.

In addition, a variety of strict means to maintain the cleanliness of the production workshop, so that the impurity content in the product is minimized, I think this is currently incomparable with other companies, outstanding product quality and considerable technical advantages, created a big sale of your company's products, I think this is also a reasonable thing. ”

Professor Lawrence shared his insights to Yao Dong.

I didn't say it, this is a real professor, and there is no moisture in the brick family.

"Professor Lawrence, I wonder what your school thinks about our Leap Technology company's proposal to cooperate with professors?"

Since the other party really has the material, of course Yao Fei will also follow the material.

"Mr. Yao Dong doesn't need to be in a hurry, today I also mean on behalf of the university, about the establishment of the Manhattan College Computer Research Institute, we very much agree.

The school is willing to demarcate an area within the school, build a new computer school building, and then open a computer school, and the computer research institute will be temporarily filled by me and several other professors who love computer science and a small number of students, and we want to recruit the follow-up personnel directly from the students who graduated from the computer school.

However, the construction of the college building and the subsequent research funds need to be borne by your company, but your company will enjoy the privilege of recommending the best employment unit by our computer department in the future. ”

Professor Lawrence doesn't know what to do, and his meaning is so clean and clear that it's clear.

Not to mention, even for the privilege of recommending the best employment unit, Yao Fei decided to invest, not to mention that after the computer science department of Manhattan College became his reserve talent pool, it would be better to have some other impacts.

"It's a pleasure to work together, Professor Lawrence, and on behalf of Feiyue Technology, I agree to your request, and we will allocate the first batch of funds within three months, please rest assured."

For himself after three months, 2 million is definitely a small amount for Yao Fei, spending a small amount to do big things, no matter how you calculate it, it is worth it.

"Xie Luxie, Mr. Yao......"

Just when Yao Fei and Professor Lawrence reached a friendly cooperation agreement, the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Far away in Silicon Valley in San Francisco, northern California, on the west coast of the United States, the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute.

"Mr. Bob, see if you can add another research fund to us, our monocrystalline silicon purity has exceeded 98.97%, and I believe that it will not be long before we can improve the purity of monocrystalline silicon to 3N grade and meet the market sales standard."

Materials research is a money-burning job, and this time Bob doesn't know how many times Brady has been called to the institute to ask for research funds.

"Mr. Brady, our Warburg Pincus investment group has invested more than 150 million US dollars in your research institute, but until now, the results of your research are only these old goods that cannot be put on the table, and the head office is very disappointed with you now!"

Bob said angrily, originally he came to this institute with the intention of sending out to gild his body and go back to appreciate, but according to the current situation, it seems that it is already a good thing not to be demoted.

Even if Warburg Pincus has money, it can't withstand such consumption of only input but not output.

It is important to know that although the demand for monocrystalline silicon in the market is very strong, the price is fixed, and the purity only needs to reach 99.9%.

Conversely, if your monocrystalline silicon is less than 99.9% pure, the price curve will drop very much, and others will not want to buy it.

For example, if you use very low-purity silicon wafers to make semiconductor devices, it will be catastrophic in terms of service life and functional stability, and it is easy to be damaged, and then the entire semiconductor device will be scrapped.

If you are a little more unlucky, the entire machine parts will also suffer, so because of this, many manufacturers are absolutely respectful of monocrystalline silicon that does not meet the purity required by the market, and only black-hearted factories will use these things to fool people.

In this era, the manufacture of monocrystalline silicon is mainly divided into six steps:

Crystallization: The polysilicon installed in the quartz crucible is melted by resistance heating, and the temperature is slightly higher than the melting point of the silicon, the seed crystal is immersed in the melt, and then the seed crystal is lifted at a certain speed and the crystal is rotated at the same time;

Necking: Grow a certain length of a narrow, elongated neck of crystals to prevent dislocations in the seed crystals from extending into the crystals;

Shoulder-lifting: control the crystal to the desired diameter;

Equal diameter growth: according to the melt and single crystal furnace conditions, control the equal diameter growth of crystals to the required length;

Finishing: the diameter gradually decreases and leaves the melt;

Cooling: Lower the bottom temperature, take out the crystals, and wait for subsequent processing.

Brady's problem comes in the first step of preparation.

Because Brady's production data on the maximum speed of crystal growth, the longitudinal temperature gradient in the crystal, the thermal conductivity of the crystal, and the crystal density are not very perfect, and the time control is not good, the purity of the monocrystalline silicon currently produced is not high.

"Mr. Bob, you and the head office should know that material research has always required continuous investment, and success is also based on failure again and again, when we fail, it also means that we have taken a step towards success!"

Brady didn't care about that, as long as he was given funds so that he could continue his scientific research, as for profit, it was a businessman's pursuit, and it had nothing to do with him.

"Hell, failure is taken for granted, how much money you have spent this month, which monocrystalline silicon growth furnace does not cost tens of thousands of dollars, I can tell you for sure now that there is no funding, if you can get additional research funds from the head office, I have no opinion."

Seeing that he burned money again and again, but in exchange for failure again and again, Bob had a great sense of retreat.

God knows how long this money-burning thing will last, and when the head office blames it, someone must be unlucky, and this person who carries the black pot must be himself.

So as soon as Brady left on the front foot, Bob called the head office and asked the head office to remove him from his position as director of the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute and transfer him to another place to continue working.

At the same time, Bradis couldn't do anything about it, he couldn't continue experimental research without money, and in order to continue his scientific research, he also called Warburg Pincus to ask for an increase in his research funding.

The research project of high-purity monocrystalline silicon has always been a key project of Warburg Pincus, and the two most important figures of the Brady Institute report to the head office one after the other, one applying for external transfer and the other asking for increased research funding.

For the monocrystalline silicon project, Warburg Pincus has actually made a lot of great determination, and it is because it saw the market potential in this area that it invested heavily in the establishment of this monocrystalline silicon research institute.

Bob, the senior administrator, was dispatched to coordinate the day-to-day affairs of the institute, so that Professor Brady and his group could conduct scientific research with peace of mind. Until now, although the product has not yet reached the market standard, it can be regarded as a slight achievement.

However, for the requirements of these two core figures of the monocrystalline silicon research institute, Warburg Pincus conducted a detailed investigation and research, and then re-evaluated the project.

In the end, they decided that although the monocrystalline silicon market was hugely profitable for them, they continued to burn money compared to the current hopeless and hopeless continued to burn money, so Bob's opinion was relatively more secure for the company's operation, and this opinion also had more supporters in the head office.

Later, the board of directors resolved to suspend the payment of research funds to the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute, seal its technical data machinery and equipment, and then issue a notice to the public to find a home for it.

The sale of Brady's monocrystalline silicon research institute is sensational news, not only in Silicon Valley and California, but also in Asia and Europe.

As soon as the news of the sale spread, there was a storm in Silicon Valley, and companies, families and even individuals who were not bad for money in these years had hundreds of millions of dollars in banknotes that these people could afford to play.

"Miss Terry, help me inform the heads of the various departments of the company that I need to convene an interim meeting of the company's top management in an hour on time, and the people outside will inform them to participate in the conference call.

Ask the relevant people to attend on time, otherwise tell them that they will do so at their own risk, and you should go ahead and prepare now! ”

At IBM's headquarters, Thomas Watson instructed his secretary, Miss Terry, with a serious face, to make relevant preparations.

"Moore, this is a good opportunity, and I think we should do it now, because monocrystalline silicon rods are the basic materials that we need to make electronic components of integrated circuits such as motherboard chips and CPUs.

If we can mass produce it ourselves, it will not only make up for our shortcomings in key materials, but also greatly reduce our production costs.

Maybe it will bring us more surprises, and only those idiots of Warburg Pincus will choose to sell this monocrystalline silicon research institute......"

In the office of Intel's president and CEO, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, the three founders, gathered to discuss each other, and there was no doubt that Noyce's proposal was the voice of the other two.

"Oda-kun, Jing Fuka-kun, do you know about Warburg Pincus' sale of Brady's monocrystalline silicon research institute? I hope that in this multi-party competition, our big Japanese companies will join forces and win this research institute together! ”

Koharu Kobayashi, chairman of NEC Co., Ltd., when he received the news from California Electronic Array Co., Ltd., which he had just acquired last year, did not think that he would leave for San Francisco immediately.

Instead, he immediately held a tripartite chairman-level conference call with Jiro Oda, chairman of Canon, and Dai Ibuka, chairman of Sony, hoping to gather the strength of the three parties to stand out in the next competition and beat the others.

The same drama is playing out around the world, with large companies or consortia that think they have the ability and financial resources to act alone, and those who lack the confidence but do not want to give up easily choose to join forces.

The news that Yao Fei received came from Gao Gang, who was currently stealing from AMD, and then Yao Fei immediately left all the daily affairs of the company and hurried to San Francisco, California, Silicon Valley, with Andorra and two accompanying lawyers.

At the same time, let Gao Gang and the three of them try every means to contact the project leader of the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute, even if they can't gain an advantage in the purchase of the institute, they have to contact the relationship first to make a face familiar with the next private contact.

Then wait for Yao Fei to come, and then quietly poach all the relevant technical personnel of the institute before others notice.

Yao Fei was in a hurry, but apparently some other companies were moving faster than him, and by the time Yao Fei arrived at his destination, representatives of local companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and others such as Siemens AG and NEC Corporation had already arrived before him.

However, it is clear that Warburg Pincus has long expected this situation, and all the researchers in the institute have long been evacuated, leaving only the daily cleaning staff, and the security personnel have been strengthened several times......

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