The current TSMC is far from the TSMC after establishing a strategic cooperative relationship with AMD in an all-round way, although the scale of the current TSMC is not small, and the speed of development is also very fast, but compared with the behemoth in later generations, TSMC is only three 5-inch wafer production lines, five 6-inch wafer production lines and two 8-inch wafer production lines under construction, the main force of which is naturally the five 6-inch wafer production lines.

If Lin Zheng can really wrap up the production capacity, it is of course a great thing for TSMC, which means that these three production lines will become TSMC's money printing machine, as long as it is produced, it will not be able to sell, for any company, the products produced are not sold, then there is no reason not to make money.

But the question is, does Lianchuang Technology have this ability? After a deep sigh, Zhang Zhongmou slowly opened his mouth and asked Lin Zheng, "Mr. Lin, let's not talk about whether we can provide you with three production lines now, do you know what your request means?" ”

"Mr. Zhang, please speak." Lin Zheng nodded.

"The 'Pentium' CPU produced by Inter now uses a 0.13 micron process, 8-inch wafers, and a wafer can produce about 179 processor cores, although the production capacity you want to contract is 6-inch wafers, but the processor cores you want to produce are much smaller than the 'Pentium' CPU, and a wafer can roughly produce 200 to 300 chips of various types, and if it is not very high-tech, it can even produce more than 400 chips...... Zhang Zhongmou looked at Lin Zheng with blazing eyes.

The implication is that the production capacity of the three production lines is 60,000 pieces per month and 720,000 pieces per year. This means that 150 million to 200 million pieces of various chips per year, even if your company is now OEM for Compaq, Dell and several computer companies in the mainland, but such a large production capacity, can your company digest it?

From the moment he received the fax of cooperation intention from Lianchuang Technology, Zhang Zhongmou asked people to immediately and comprehensively investigate all kinds of information of Lianchuang Technology.

"Mr. Zhang is kind, the kid thanked him first." Lin Zheng said sincerely, no matter what Zhang Zhongmou's considerations were, people were kindly reminding themselves. This is a favor, this is the attitude that business should have, after a little hesitation, Lin Zheng also spoke. "Old man. If you give me a number, I'll give you a number. ”

"Oh?" Well? Zhang Zhongmou was slightly stunned, and couldn't help laughing: Quite an interesting young man, such an interesting young man, I haven't met him for many years. Nodding his head, "Then I'll listen to you." ”

"You have a lot of good friends at Texas Instruments, then you may know that we are working with Texas Instruments to develop the main control decoding chip used in VCD player products."

"That's right. I know. Zhang Zhongmou nodded, he really knew about this. I have some knowledge of this industry, and I have also read the information of Dr. Jiang Wanmeng of Wanyan Company, the inventor of VCD, who once predicted that by 97 years, VCD products will form a huge market with annual sales of 2 million units. ”

"I personally think that Dr. Jiang Wanmeng's figure is too conservative, Dr. Jiang Wanmeng's figure to this conclusion is based on the general ownership of video players in developed countries, he ignores the fact that before the advent of VCD players, the entire continent of song hall entertainment audio-visual products did not exceed 2 million, compared to the mainland's population of 1.2 billion, this is only equivalent to a drop of water in the sea, almost equal to a completely blank market."

"I believe that Mr. Zhang is well aware of the development and growth rate of the mainland economy, and as people have more and more money in their pockets, the demand for home entertainment audio-visual products will inevitably become more and more vigorous, which is an inevitable process. Last year, the shipment of VCD products in the mainland was about 200,000 units, according to the current growth rate, this year's shipments can reach about 600,000 units, and the VCD DVD player project is currently launched in various places, next year will be the time when VCD products flock to the market in large quantities, I personally predict that the sales of VCD products in the mainland will reach 5 million to 6 million units next year, and this number may be able to reach an unprecedented 10 million units in 97 years...... Of course, with the increase in production, the reduction of costs has become inevitable, and the reduction of costs and selling prices will inevitably further expand the scale of this market. ”

"10 million pieces of ......" Mr. Zhang Zhongmou grew his mouth in surprise.

Instinctively, he wanted to say impossible! How many people is there in the whole Bay Island? More than 20 million! But now, Lin Zheng has a big mouth, and the sales of VCD players in the mainland can reach half of the population of Bay Island in a year? But when he thinks about it, if he links this staggering number to a population of 1.2 billion, he finds that it is not so staggering.

"Although I am cautiously skeptical about this number, it should be credible that by '97, annual sales of 5 million units will be credible." After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Zhongmou finally opened his mouth slowly.

Lin Zheng smiled slightly, and didn't argue with him, the old man's words were actually equivalent to agreeing with his conclusion in disguise, and continued: "This is a huge business opportunity, everyone knows that this project makes money, and the whole country is flocking to prepare for the VCD project is the best proof, but it takes time from the start of the project to the final production of products with stable quality, and some businessmen are completely forced out of the VCD production factory, if we also launch the OEM business of VCD players, To reduce costs and improve quality with scale effect, I personally cautiously believe that as long as the measures are appropriate, it is not a problem to occupy 20% of the VCD production market. If you are engaged in semiconductor chip foundry, you should know that there are about 20 chips with different functions that are needed on a VCD player, which is about 50 million chips of various types. ”

"Our company also has an OEM business for personal computer products and a walkman product business...... These are all big users of chips, old man, do you still think I want more than the full production capacity of three 6-inch lines? In the end, Lin Zheng asked with a smile.

He doesn't really have one of the most important markets he hasn't talked about: the mobile phone market. Compared with VCDs and personal computers, mobile phones have no shortage of semiconductor chips.

If Zhang Zhongmou didn't care much about Lin Zheng's words at the beginning, then when it comes to the back, he can't ignore Lin Zheng's words, with his more than 60 years of experience, he can know that Lin Zheng's words are somewhat untrue, but what does it matter? When we meet for the first time, who is willing to open all their hole cards?

The old man has also cooperated with mainland enterprises, but he has never seen a young man with such a long-term vision, not to mention young people, even those famous young people, in terms of vision comparable to the little guy in front of him, he has never seen a few.

"3 6-inch lines, I can't coordinate them for a while, TSMC also has its own customers," after a long silence, the old man finally spoke, "But at the end of this year, it is no problem to coordinate one, as for the next step of cooperation, how do we see the situation?" ”

"The first cooperation, step by step is the way it should be," Lin Zheng certainly did not have any opinion on Zhang Zhongmou's words, nodded and said, "But I hope that Lianchuang Technology can reach a future-oriented cooperation agreement with TSMC." ”

"Huh?" I didn't expect Lin Zheng to come up with such a sentence, the old man was a little surprised, but it doesn't matter," the mother said. ”

"I hope to set a timetable, when the cooperation between our two sides reaches that level, how far will the cooperation deepen, I don't know what the old man thinks?" Lin Zheng said tentatively.

"Of course that's fine." Zhang Zhongmou hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded, but then said, "But Mr. Lin, I can honestly say that at least by this time next year, it is impossible to hand over three 6-inch lines to you, and TSMC's production plan is very full." ”

The old man is very cunning, Lin Zheng sighed in his heart, I'm afraid it's not that he doesn't want to make money, but he is obviously afraid of being swayed by himself, and he refuses to put too much profit on himself, right? But the old man has been like this, and Lin Zheng is not too concerned about himself, and nodded with a smile.

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"How's it going?" As soon as he got off the plane, Lang Xuan asked Lin Zheng with concern.

"It's not good, it's not bad, it's what we expected," Lin Zheng sighed, "It's too inconvenient not to have your own chip manufacturer." ”

"What? Stimulated? Lang Xuan pursed his lips and chuckled.

"Let's go on the pole to give money to others, and it depends on whether people are willing to accept it," Speaking of this, Lin Zheng is as depressed as he wants, "The 6-inch line is not much advanced technology, but we don't have it, so we have to go on the pole and beg others to sell it to us." ”

Lang Xuan immediately understood in his heart that Lin Zheng's trip to Bay Island might not be lightly stimulated, and asked softly, "What?" Do you want to go to the fab? ”

"I want to, but the 4-inch one is not interesting, there are already two in China, and we can't afford to play more than 5 inches, even if it's second-hand, we can't afford it," Lin Zheng's smile was as bitter as it was, "What's the point of having only one production line, if you want to go on, at least you have to go on the wafer and the later packaging and testing together, we have no money, no technology, no talent, and we can't help it." ”

Hearing Lin Zheng's words, Lang Xuan couldn't help but be silent, chip manufacturing technology is the most stringent technology that European and American countries have blocked us, not to mention the current most advanced 8-inch wafer manufacturing technology, even if it is a 5-inch wafer technology, they are unwilling to transfer it to China, and they can't buy it if they want to spend a lot of money.

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PS: Slowly find a little feeling.,I still owe you two more today.,I can only write it now.,Tomorrow it's scheduled to be released.,Alas,I'm really sorry for everyone.,Please forgive me, brothers.。 (To be continued......)