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Master Yao and Director Zhao asked this question well, if the group wants to embark on the road of formal development, it is necessary to reduce the subjective will of the leaders as much as possible, but to give full play to the power of the system and formulate a reasonable development plan. Our Panhan Group now has greatly increased its strength, and we no longer need to concentrate on one point like before, and have the confidence for peaceful development. ”

Zhou Shuo was not angry at the two of them, but calmly agreed with their ideas. Not only that, but from the perspective of group development, the nature of things has been raised to a higher level. This made the two who were a little worried before, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"I'm going to talk about that."

Zhou Shuo turned his head and saw that it was Tu Anbei who was going to speak, so he hurriedly smiled and said, "If Tu Lao has any lofty opinions, you can say it." ”

"Ahem, in fact, it is not that the research institute does not pay attention to the technology of the two units, we have actually been studying the monocrystalline silicon smelting technology. But the problem is that this research has never been able to develop further upstream in the industrial chain. Taking monocrystalline silicon smelting as an example, not to mention the technology of quartz crucibles, in order to produce 300mm monocrystalline silicon ingots, more advanced polysilicon or pure silicon powder purification technology is required. ”

Tu Anbei spread his hands and said helplessly: "We have searched all over the country, but none of the units can provide this level of raw materials. In fact, we still have to import more than half of our 200mm monocrystalline silicon ingots from the Americans. Quartz technology is also facing the same problem, the upstream is in the hands of Corning in the United States, and we want to develop the next generation of technology, which is difficult for a clever woman to cook......"

"That's right. Corning is also a major supplier of raw materials for lithography lenses. We use a 0.18 micron lithography machine with polymer laser technology, and we are indispensable to deal with this company. ”

Ma Yougong is the general manager of Panhan Optical Manufacturing. At present, the world's most advanced lithography machine production technology is in his hands. Panhan Optics not only supplies lithography equipment for Intel's new production line. Similarly, the country's 909 project, that is, the wafer factory with Huahong as the main body, also needs Panhan Optics to provide core equipment.

In this world, the country has invested more in the 909 project, based on eight-inch wafers and 0.18 micron technology, and invested 20 billion yuan to build Huahong, which can ensure the world-class level in at least two or three years. The progress made by Pan Han Group in chip manufacturing is also the foundation for the country to dare to increase investment so much.

Coupled with the needs of Huajing Group and Fanhan Group, Fanhan Optical Manufacturing Company is now working at full capacity and producing 24 hours a day. Even so. It's still a bit stretched.

It can be seen from this that if there is a crisis in the supply of high-purity raw materials for the production of lenses, it will cause what kind of danger it will pose to the Pan Han Group.

Zhou Shuo smacked his lips, who would have thought that the seemingly powerful Fanhan Group would have such a fragile foundation? Now that I have come back after making rapid progress, I really have to lay a solid foundation.

"What if we develop these technologies ourselves? In terms of materials science, does the Pan Han Institute have a foundation? ”

Zhou Shuo is also a little accustomed to such a situation, along the way, which field is easy to explore? The domestic base is poor. It is not always the norm to chase and intercept outside the country. If you don't have a technology, the first thing that comes to mind is to develop it yourself and make breakthroughs on your own.

However, to his disappointment, Tu Anbei shook his head. With a wry smile: "Raw material purification and material development, this is too long to say that electronic technology is too long." The gap between us and foreign countries is systematic, and if we want to make up for it all. Then just upgrade the industrial system of the republic. Even Corning is not without upstream industries. Shall we go further? For example, ore mining and smelting. The extraction and ratio of trace elements involves many chemical and physical technologies. Can we all shoulder it on the shoulders of our Panhan Research Institute? ”

"Uh, that's ...... too"

Zhou Shuo's face was a little ugly, and he sighed slightly. The smooth sailing has made him a little inflated, forgetting that the domestic industrial base is not the same thing as more than a decade later. At that time, the whole industry was very strong, and even if there was no technology, as long as there was a demand, someone would invest in development.

For example, polysilicon and pure silicon powder, the raw materials of monocrystalline silicon, the domestic solar energy industry capacity exploded, and soon after this demand, the solar-grade monocrystalline silicon furnace was domestically produced, and the corresponding raw materials began to be supplied in China. However, due to the lack of domestic chip technology, the demand for electronic-grade monocrystalline silicon has not risen for a long time, so there is no power for raw materials and the upstream of raw materials......

But this was 1997, and the whole of China was facing the problem of hunger for money. Even if he has this demand in his hands, can a monocrystalline silicon factory and a quartz factory provoke the rise of an industry?

"We have to do the material aspect, and the current level of demand needs to be raised to another level. At that time, it will not be a big problem for us to invest in our own research and development, or to attract social investment. But how to digest this increased production capacity? ”

Zhou Shuo's question made everyone look at each other, this is nothing else, but to expand production capacity from the source of the industrial chain. Just like a laser, if you move a slight angle from the emitting point, you may move a thousand times the distance when you put it on the landing point of the laser.

The size of monocrystalline silicon wafers is upgraded almost once every ten years. Every time it is upgraded, the chip manufacturing process may have been upgraded four or five times. You should know that the circle area is the square of pi multiplied by the radius, and the usable area of a 200mm wafer is more than doubled when upgraded to a 300mm wafer! This change has doubled the chip production capacity and reduced the cost.

At present, the entire system of Pan Han Group is based on the output of final products, and what should I do if I suddenly increase the supply and cannot use it? What kind of impact will the flow of these semi-finished products have on the market? When it comes to industrial upgrading, even a country with such a large fault tolerance rate has to tremble, let alone Panhan Group.

All of the people present were the senior executives of the Panhan Group, and when they heard Zhou Shuo's question, everyone couldn't help but think about it.

"How about we expand or build a new wafer factory to increase the proportion of Huajing's foundry business?"

It was Liu Gang who spoke, who was responsible for the operation of Fanhan Electronics Factory, but in fact, he had already complained about Huajing's geographical location. After all, there is none. Tin is located in the south, and the location is simply too far away. The monocrystalline silicon ingots produced by monocrystalline silicon factories have to be transported thousands of miles to no. Tin, and then produced into wafers, and then transported back to Xiucheng thousands of miles away, isn't this "made"?

"It's a way." Zhou Shuo nodded slightly and agreed: "The current focus of the Panhan Group is in the imperial capital and Bohai Province. Tin is inevitably a little beyond the reach of the whip. However, our country's current IC design capacity has not kept up, and rashly expanding the proportion of foundry business is afraid that it will impact the benefits of Huahong of the 909 project......"

Zhou Shuo didn't finish his words, but everyone understood what he meant. Hua Hong is the son of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, who wants to rob other people's jobs, who can't weigh it?

"In this way, we still have to dig deep into our potential and digest ourselves." Zhou Shuo sighed, for the time being, there are still many wafer factories in the world that produce and sell themselves, but the future trend is indeed foundry. The most important thing is to pull up the domestic IC design capabilities. With excellent IC design, there will be great development of the foundry market.

"But now there is a shortage of domestic IC design talents!" Tu Anbei patted his thigh, and said with a sad brow: "When Menghai Microelectronics was established, it had already scraped a layer of ground in China. Now Huahong also has to do IC design, and it has to scrape a layer of ground, and there are so many talents who can do IC design in China, and it may not be realistic to expand the scale immediately. ”

"What are the tasks currently on hand at Menghai Microelectronics?"

Menghai Microelectronics is a special existence in the Panhan Research Institute, one is that the Imperial Capital Research Institute of the Panhan Research Institute is developed on the basis of it, and the other is that although the Panhan Group has an absolute controlling stake in its hands, after all, there are still some shares in the hands of the state, which is quite independent. Zhou Shuo's internal control of zhì also has to be realized through guò Tu Anbei.

"OTN system chips, next-generation switch and router chips, next-generation MP3 decoding chips, WIFI baseband chips, WIFI decoding chips, and SPACE architecture chips are coming to an end, but the SoC chips of PDA and electronic dictionaries have just begun to ......"

Tu Anbei complained: "The biggest problem that Menghai Microelectronics is facing now is the shortage of manpower! Even if we vigorously recruit talents in the society, most of the people who come here are young people, and they have a few years of low-level work experience. But what is most lacking in China is the leader of IC design. ”

"The top circle is so big that you can count it with both hands and feet. We have 13 engineers who can do projects independently, which is already one of the best in China! If you want to add new work, no one can take over! ”

Tu Anbei has also devoted himself to Menghai Microelectronics, and he is very interested in the projects he is investing. There are not only projects of Panhan Group, but also many chip development tasks entrusted by the society. Thirteen project teams, each person in charge is busy hitting the back of the head with his foot, and there is really no more energy to spare.

Each of their tasks is not simple, and each task is no less important than the others. Even if Zhou Shuo has a lot of good ideas in his mind, he can't stand it, and there are only so many people in total. Even if he was to go into battle shirtless, it would be just a drop in the bucket.

What to do?

There was a sudden silence in the living room, and everyone looked down in contemplation and grimacing.

In a trance, a name suddenly flashed through Zhou Shuo's mind like lightning, and he couldn't help but shout: "Yes, it's him!" (To be continued......)