Chapter 234: Enlightenment

said that it was too late, and Zhou Shuo felt a black shadow in front of him, falling from the sky like a tiger! Before he could react, Shinsuke Sato killed in front of him!

Hearing only a pop, the entire fab office building suddenly fell into a deathly silence. A person, no one expected, just lay on the ground like this. was a person who was still alive before, but he was silent in an instant, which was too unexpected for Liu Gang and Yao Dao.

Only Zhou Shuo, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looked at his feet coldly.

Shinsuke Sato, in the standard orz position, knelt in front of him.

"Zhou Sang, please stop the test of the single crystal furnace produced by Fanhan Group, please!" Shinsuke Sato bowed down sincerely.

Zhou Shuo clasped his hands to his chest, looked at Shinsuke Sato at his feet playfully, and waved his hand to stop the security guard who wanted to be rough. He stared at Shinsuke Sato's already visibly balding hair, and it looked like he shouldn't have had a good time in the past six months. If the level of worry is comparable to the level of hair loss, he will probably be the kind who has a restless sleep.

"Why? I've invested $10 million or 20 million in capital, so you can't say anything, right? ”

"Hey!" Shinsuke Sato grabbed the ground with his head and shouted excitedly: "If the monocrystalline silicon ingots of the Panhan Group enter the market, Toshiba ceramics will encounter a big crisis in the industry!" If the technology of Toshiba ceramics is caused by the impact on the market, the result will definitely be sanctioned by the industry! For the sake of the happy cooperation between the two sides, I hope and no, I implore Zhou Sang not to continue the trial production. ”

Zhou Shuo sighed, he had just gotten the news of the successful trial production, and Shinsuke Sato killed him. Whether it is leaked by Ono Oura or not. He must have a high-level internal response within the fab. In terms of the resources that Japanese companies can use, they are really unable to guard against it.

That's the reason. Sato-san, do you think I'll agree? Zhou Shuo shook his head with a smile, sighed and said, "If you can't produce." What's the point of me investing so much capital? ”

Nobusuke Sato's saliva squirted three feet away, and said excitedly: "Toshiba ceramics can compensate you!" 100 monocrystalline furnaces, we can buy them all. ”

"Acquisition?" Zhou Shuo was stunned, he really didn't expect Toshiba ceramics to have such a big brain. He was a manufacturer of monocrystalline furnaces and came to acquire the production equipment of monocrystalline silicon manufacturers......

"It's not impossible." Zhou Shuo touched his chin, felt a little bad in his heart, and said teasingly: "It depends on what price Toshiba Ceramics can come up with." ”

Shinsuke Sato was overjoyed when he heard this, and consciously controlled Zhou Shuo's train of thought. If he hadn't been sure to improve the yield rate of monocrystalline silicon ingots, how could he have relented so easily? Immediately exhale deeply. I put my mind at ease and said with a smile: "120,000 US dollars per unit, we will buy as much as there is in the Fanhan Group!" ”

"$120,000?" Zhou Shuo really has a little bit of motivation, and 120,000 US dollars is converted into more than 1 million yuan. It's twice the cost of his own production, and it's a full 100% profit! However, with the same quality, Toshiba ceramics can be sold for at least $300,000 per sale, but it may not be a loss. After all, if all of them are assembled with Japanese products and Japanese manuals, the cost of a single unit will be about 100,000 US dollars.

If Toshiba Ceramics' move is successful, it will not only resolve its own industry reputation crisis. It is also equivalent to an assembly plant for nothing. The Japanese abacus can not be described as imfine.

However, although the business of monocrystalline furnace assembly is profitable, it may not be able to do it steadily.

Zhou Shuo is aware of the history of the Dao, presumably supported by Toshiba's intelligence system. It is not difficult to predict the timetable for a breakthrough in domestic technology. At most, by next year, China will be able to form its own 200mm monocrystalline furnace capacity, and then I want to count on Toshiba ceramics to do such a business with 100% profits. It's unrealistic to think about.

In other words, Toshiba Ceramics actually only needs to acquire the output of Fanhan Group for one year, and this crisis will be passed safely. $120,000 for a unit. A year's output of $1 to $20 million is sufficient.

With Toshiba's strength, it is not difficult to get this money out. What's more, it's not a loss-making transaction. Maybe if you change hands, you can make another profit.

Zhou Shuo couldn't help but feel deep admiration for the person who thought of this solution.

"I think it's better to buy all my monocrystalline silicon ingots than you buy all my monocrystalline furnaces." Zhou Shuo touched his chin and said thoughtfully.

If you sell a single crystal furnace, the annual profit is about 10 million. If 100 monocrystalline furnaces are started, according to international prices, the monthly turnover is 15 million US dollars, and the profit is about 5 million. In just one year, the Fanhan fab can generate a profit of 60 million US dollars.

So, it's as if the locomotive builder never made the money from running the train. And those who build monocrystalline furnaces will never have a wafer factory to make money.

"A hundred monocrystalline furnaces?" Shinsuke Sato calculated how big a deal this was.

A monocrystalline silicon ingot weighs 120 kilograms, and each monocrystalline furnace produces 25 furnaces a month, which is a conservative figure. The monthly output of the Panhan wafer factory is 300 tons, if calculated according to international prices......

Zhou Shuo didn't wait for him to calculate the results, shook his head and continued: "It's not a hundred monocrystalline furnaces, by this time next year, the Fanhan wafer fab will be more than doubled, and at least 10 monocrystalline furnaces will continue to be added every month." ”

I rub and still bring the additive? Shinsuke Sato, who was not good at mathematics in the first place, calculated a little and was completely confused. He shook his head and gave up trying to calculate.

"If Toshiba Ceramics can continue to provide wire cutting equipment, I can consider bartering." Zhou Shuo added.

"Internal cutter?" Shinsuke Sato asked tentatively.

"What do you think?" Zhou Shuo laughed angrily, the principle of the inner circle cutting machine is like a machine for cutting mutton slices, which uses a blade to cut the silicon wafer from the monocrystalline silicon ingot. This is a relatively primary wafer cutting equipment, and the domestic technology has achieved a breakthrough earlier.

"It's a multi-wire cutting machine." Zhou Shuo said affirmatively.

The first step in turning a monocrystalline silicon ingot into a wafer is to cut a thin wafer from a cylindrical ingot. This wafer is then used as a base to form an integrated circuit through etching and ion implantation.

Cutting wafers off monocrystalline ingots is certainly not a simple task. Monocrystalline silicon ingots below 200mm can be cut by internal cutting machine. However, once the diameter of the monocrystalline silicon ingot reaches 300mm, a multi-wire cutting machine is necessary.

As the name suggests, multi-wire cutters do not use blades to cut wafers. Rather, it is like a wire saw, which "saws" the wafer off the monocrystalline silicon ingot.

Compared with internal cutting, multi-wire cutting has the advantages of small bending and warpage, good parallelism, small tolerance and roughness, in short, it can completely replace the technology of upgrading internal cutting machine.

If you want to cover up the leakage of one technique, it depends on whether Toshiba Ceramics is willing to make up for it with another technique. If Toshiba ceramics can't reduce part of the acquisition cost with a multi-wire cutting machine, the amount of nearly $200 million a year will be very hehe.

Even if Toshiba can find its next home and eat this batch of monocrystalline silicon ingots, it will occupy such a large amount of money and enough for it to drink a pot.

"I need to contact the headquarters to make sure, this is beyond my authority." Shinsuke Sato swallowed his saliva and said worriedly.

"Go ahead." Zhou Shuo nodded and said with a smile: "I'm waiting for your news." ”

Shinsuke Sato got up from the ground, bowed deeply to Zhou Shuo, then turned around and jumped into the car and walked away.

The conversation between the two was in Japanese, and when Shinsuke Sato was far away, Zhou Shuo repeated the content of the conversation to Liu Gang and Yao Dao.

Liu Gang asked a little uncertainly: "Why did you promise to sell our products to them?" It's not safe to let the Japanese grasp our shipping channels, right? ”

Zhou Shuo shook his head helplessly and said: "I have no way, I can eat our production capacity, and now there are only Japanese." ”

He waved his finger and explained to Liu Gang: "At present, there are only two countries and one region in the global semiconductor industry that can digest 200mm monocrystalline silicon ingots. They are the United States, Japan, and Bend. Most of the wafer fabs in the United States invest in the production of monocrystalline silicon ingots themselves, or they participate in upstream companies. In order to ensure a stable supply, these companies will easily not change suppliers. ”

Zhou Shuo snapped his second finger and continued: "Although Japan's wafer factories are relatively chaotic, on the surface, the four major consortia are inseparable. But by nature, the Japanese market is very closed. It is difficult for foreign companies to gain a foothold in the Japanese semiconductor industry, let alone mainland companies that have been tightly sealed. ”

"As for the bends, not to mention, the situation over there is too sensitive, there are too many political factors, and it is not a place for us to go." He sighed and said: "So to sum up, if our monocrystalline silicon can't be approved with a layer of Japanese skin, it is simply priceless." People don't worry about selling when they have a price, but no one buys them when we have a price! ”

Click.

As soon as Zhou Shuo finished speaking, there was a sound of the door opening in the corridor next to him. Liu Kan lowered his head and walked out quietly from behind the door.

"Mr. Liu, why are you here?" Zhou Shuo looked at him in surprise.

Liu Kan slowly raised his head and said in a firm tone: "I have decided to help you win control of the 908 Project." President Zhou, can you assure me that you will lead Huajing to achieve industrial upgrading? ”

"Huajing's current design has lagged far behind the international mainstream level." Zhou Shuo said as a matter of course: "Even if you don't say it, I still want Huajing to achieve industrial upgrading." However, Mr. Liu, why did you suddenly figure it out? ”

Liu Kan clenched his fists in his hands and said hatefully: "Because our country can no longer produce good things like this, but I can't use them at all!" (To be continued......)