What Meow Core is researching is mainly 28nm and 14nm technology.

The 28nm lithography machine has been built, but there is still a big gap with ASML's contemporaries in terms of performance and yield.

It belongs to the type of improvisation.

At present, the focus of Meow Core is to narrow this gap and build a 28nm second-generation lithography machine with better performance as soon as possible.

In order to increase the competitiveness of domestic 28nm process chips.

As for the 14nm chip technology, although there has been a big breakthrough, it is obviously not the current research focus of Meow Chip.

It can only be said that the research of the best efforts and the digestion of 28nm process technology promote each other.

At the end of 2014, Samsung announced the mass production of the world's first 14nm FinFET3D transistor, marking the entry of semiconductor transistors into the 3D era.

In the second half of 2015, the company mass-produced the 16nm FinFET process.

Compared with Samsung and Intel, although their node names are different, Samsung and Intel are 14nm, and TSMC is 16nm, but they are in the same generation in terms of practical process technology.

Meowcore's 14nm process is not something that can't wait.

28nm is enough for it to stand firmly in the mid-range market, and it is a very large market.

In the mid-to-high-end field, the mainstream process nodes in the market are 22nm, 1614nm, 10nm, 7nm, and in the future, 5nm and 3nm, which are called master nodes.

From the current point of view, 3nm is the limit.

As for why the top level given by the system is 2nm, Boss Lin doesn't understand it at all, and it is in vain to ask.

And 28nm, 20nm, 12nm, 8nm, etc., are called half-nodes, and these nodes have strong transition properties.

So, overall, they have a lower market share than those masternodes.

But 28nm is relatively special.

28nm is very widely used and mature because of its excellent cost performance.

After the 28nm process was put into mass production in 2011, the proportion of revenue climbed from 2% to 22% in only one year, and the rapid expansion of advanced production capacity has helped Bay Semiconductor to seize customer resources, expand the first-mover advantage in each advanced process node, and make its production capacity structure significantly better than that of competitors, bringing higher gross profit margin with higher product added value.

How profitable is 28nm?

For example, UMC, which focuses on the development of special processes, has 28nm as its key business segment, and for this reason, the company has also abandoned the research and development of advanced processes below 14nm.

That is, I don't go any further, there's no point.

When the size of the transistor is reduced to a certain level (less than 10nm in the industry), the quantum effect will occur, and the characteristics of the transistor will be difficult to control, and the difficulty of chip production will increase exponentially.

If you focus too much on higher-end technology, chances are that your company will go bankrupt before you can figure it out.

Therefore, under Sun Moyu's planning, the investment in 14nm technology is not the focus.

Let's make the second-generation 28nm lithography machine first.

At least in the second half of the year, there will be a real 14nm lithography machine.

However, the boss came up with 10nm technology (Note 1, forget it, it's not Note 1, it's a mistake in the previous chapter, this is 10nm).

It's so sad!

What the hell do you want to make your family?

Zhuang Shen, the general manager of Meow Sou, has already closed his mouth, and this matter has nothing to do with him.

Whether it's holding Big Ivan's arrow, brandishing a 10nm chip to shut up the nursery system, or the painful and happy happiness of starting 10nm before 14nm is digested, it has nothing to do with him.

This is Sun Moyu's business.

Wang Kuo, who was sitting next to Sun Moyu, bent down to pick up the chopsticks that Mr. Sun had dropped on the ground unconsciously, with a sympathetic face.

Isn't it a surprise, isn't it a surprise.

"Next words......" Lin Dong originally wanted to name Li Changwei, but looking at Sun Moyu's state, it was better to solve this one quickly.

"Meow Xin, Mr. Sun, report on the situation over there."

Sun Moyu heard the boss shouting his name, and only then did he recover a little reason from his confusion.

"We ...... We are studying, studying ...... all day long" When he said this, Sun Moyu felt aggrieved.

We've worked hard.

Why is there a feeling that you are a waste of firewood.

"If the research task is very heavy, then continue to increase the weight, how much money did you invest in R&D last year, and how many engineers are there?" Lin Dong asked.

His understanding of chip foundry is limited to the fact that Wanji is very good.

"Bay Semiconductor spent 15 billion yuan on R&D last year, and the number of R&D engineers increased from 5,123 in 15 years to 5,690, an annual increase of 11%." Sun Moyu opened his mouth and came.

These are the basic skills that you should have in this industry.

"What about us?" Lin Dong asked again.

"Let's put aside the investment in production capacity, the total investment in R&D is 1.8 billion, and the R&D personnel are mainly the personnel of the chip alliance, with a total of 1,643 people, and a total of 512 R&D personnel in Meow Core." Sun Moyu replied.

"It's a bit of a big gap." Lin Dong was about to drool with envy.

The R&D cost is 15 billion.

We only have 1.8 billion.

Nearly a tenfold gap.

"The market value of Bay Semiconductor has surpassed Intel to become the world's No. 1 semiconductor company, and it has been established for 30 years." Sun Moyu is very innocent.

Can this be compared?

Can it be compared like this?

We have just been established for a year, how to compare it with the accumulation of 30 years.

Moreover, the development of chips in our mainland has been beaten, not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of talent.

The existing more than 500 R&D engineers are all painstakingly dug up.

Some are the technical core of other companies in the chip alliance, and they dare not speak out when they are dug up, and there is compensation to make no big trouble.

Some are R&D personnel in universities or research institutes, and Sun Moyu runs around to persuade them to throw away their iron jobs and work in a private company.

Some are Chinese people around the world who are engaged in the chip industry, and it is more difficult to convince such people.

Not to mention that high-end talents are exhausted, but they have really done their best.

"There are more than 6,000 of them, can't we dig some up?" Lin Dong was not convinced.

"Well, that's harder." Sun Moyu had to patiently give the boss a science about the grievances between Wanji and Huaxin International.

The founder of Huaxin International used to work for Wanji Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

Later, he resigned angrily for some reasons, and took some old departments to found Huaxin International.

With the support of Guo Jia, Huaxin International has developed rapidly, with a production capacity of 60,000 pieces per month in 2003 and a cumulative sales revenue of 3 billion yuan, and soon jumped to the top three chip foundries in the world, with a scale that directly points to the Bay Semiconductor Company.

Gulf Semiconductor Company couldn't sit still, and in 2003, a "cross-sea" "science and technology war" broke out.

They have filed lawsuits with the Northern District Court of California, the Superior Court of Alameda County, Oakland, California, and the International Trade Commission, seeking to convict Huaxin International and its three companies in the mainland of China for patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, unfair competition, and interference with business relationships, and demand that they pay US$1 billion in liquidated damages.

In 2009, the Mego Alameda County High Court ruled that Huaxin International had stolen the trade secrets of Wanji.

Subsequently, the two settled in consideration for Huaxin International's payment of $200 million in cash and 10% of the shares to Gulf Semiconductor Company.

In addition, the founder of Huaxin International has also left, and his departure is considered a precondition for the parties to reach a final settlement agreement.

According to media reports, after losing the lawsuit, the founder talked on the phone with the lawyer of Huaxin International and cried loudly.

After all, the company won the victory.

It's not so easy to dig up the people in their house.

"It sounds very powerful, Mr. Sun, we can't get used to them, it's all wrong to get used to it." Boss Lin looked at Pei Qianlong: "Mr. Pei, are you right?" ”

"I think what Mr. Lin said is right, anyway, we don't have any branches in Migo, and we don't have any in Wanwan." Pei Qianlong smiled.

As long as we are shameless enough, we are invincible.

As for the impact, who cares.