Chapter 109: Choice
Mr. Ren made eye contact with Yang Zibi and He Lifei.
"By the way, the foundry cost I mentioned includes packaging and testing." Huang Haojie added again.
After thinking for a long time, Mr. Ren opened his mouth first:
"Huawei needs a lot of chips every year, at least 3 billion to start, and your production line may not be able to meet it, of course, it is okay to order some chips to you first."
"Mr. Ren rest assured, as long as you are willing to place orders, we can expand the production line at any time." Zhang Rujing's eyes lit up when he heard the order.
If there are orders, chip foundry companies will have the motivation to expand, otherwise there will be no order, and if you build a woolen production line, will you build a production line to accumulate dust.
"How much production can you provide next year?" Mr. Ren is very concerned about this issue.
After all, Taijidian's foundry is based on the size of the order, to arrange the production order, in general, the priority is to produce orders for Qualcomm and Sydney, and the flower is ranked behind.
In the past, it was a last resort, but now there is a better choice, and of course Mr. Ren has to think about it.
"At the limit of expansion, we can build five production lines per month, and by the end of 2018, we can expand the annual output of 1.2 billion chips." Zhang Rujing thought for a while and replied.
In fact, if 60 production lines are really completed, the production volume will definitely be more than this number, because the semiconductor research institute is constantly improving the production line.
For example, the first production line has an annual output of about 23 million pieces at the beginning, and now it has increased to about 26 million pieces.
As the process becomes more and more mature, the productivity of Galaxy Semiconductor is soaring rapidly, and it can be said that it is increasing day by day.
"If Hua Wei is willing to pay for patents, I don't know how much Galaxy Semiconductor's foundry costs can be reduced?" Mr. Ren asked after thinking for a while.
"180 Chinese yuan a piece, no less." Huang Haojie said with some pain.
“180?” For this price is acceptable, but Mr. Ren prefers to buy the production line directly:
"Brother Huang, honestly, can this production line be sold to Hua Wei?"
Yang Zibi and He Lifei also immediately pricked up their ears.
After pondering for a while, Huang Haojie gave the answer:
"Originally, in order to avoid technology leakage, I was not allowed to sell the production line in principle."
Hearing this, the three of them immediately knew that there was a play.
"Brother Huang, if you have any conditions, just say it directly."
"yes!"
"Let's think about it."
"Then I will say it directly, first, it must be a joint venture with Galaxy Group, and you will pay the money, but Galaxy Group must account for 30% of the shares." Huang Haojie finished talking about the first condition.
The three of them don't have any opinions, even if they give shares to Galaxy Technology for nothing, they also want to get the chip production line.
"Second, the production line cannot be purchased directly, we take the way of leasing, a rent of 100 million yuan a year, after eight years, the production line belongs to you, and the production line is supervised and used by Galaxy Group during the lease period, if you use it in violation of regulations, we have the right to take it back directly."
"Third, the production line does not include an atomic stamping machine, and the factory must be built in Shanmei."
Listening to Huang Haojie's conditions, the three of them immediately thought about the pros and cons of this matter.
The eight-year lease is equivalent to 800 million yuan for a production line, and there is no atomic stamping machine, which means that Galaxy Group controls the core of chip production.
But this is a production line that can produce 5-nanometer chips, something that money can't buy.
Looking at ASML's top lithography machine with 150 million US dollars, Dongtang's domestic enterprises can't buy it with money.
Mr. Ren thought about it and gritted his teeth and said, "I agree, Huawei is a joint venture with Galaxy Group, and there is no problem with other conditions." ”
He Lifei and Yang Zibi also knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and agreed to Huang Haojie's conditions.
After the tour.
Huang Haojie and Wang Bosi had dinner with Mr. Ren at the Miramar Hotel.
The five then held closed-door talks to discuss the details of the joint venture.
Huawei invested 30 billion yuan to establish HiSilicon Chip, set up a chip manufacturing plant in Haicheng County, Shanmei, and leased 50 production lines from Galaxy Group.
Tsinghua Unigroup invested 30 billion yuan to establish Tsinghua Unigroup Chip Company, set up a chip manufacturing plant in Shanmei Lucheng, and leased 50 production lines from Galaxy Group.
Huada Semiconductor invested 40 billion Huayuan to establish Huada Chip Company, set up a chip manufacturing plant in Shanmei Lucheng, and leased 70 production lines like Galaxy Group.
Obviously, they can't wait, once these factories are completed, it means that Dongtang has four of the world's top chip manufacturing companies in China at once.
These are just the first phase of their plans, especially Huada Semiconductor, which is a state-owned enterprise, is really wealthy.
If it weren't for the slow supply of Galaxy Group's production lines, they would have wanted to lease 200 production lines directly.
The reason why Huang Haojie introduced them was mainly to distract his attention.
As for the consequences of their acquisition of these production lines eight years later, Huang Haojie is not worried, because the core technology is still in the hands of Galaxy Technology.
Even if they crack the secret of C31, Huang Haojie is sure to complete the innovation, and the secret of C31 cannot be kept secret forever.
However, Huang Haojie's cooperation with them is all secret, at least until their factory is completed, the production line is arranged, and the production capacity begins to explode, before these cooperation are publicly announced.
Of course, Huawei, Unisplendour, and Huada Semiconductor still gave some chip orders to Galaxy Semiconductor.
In exchange for low-cost foundry, Hua paid a part of the chip patents for the three companies to use Galaxy Semiconductor.
Having received Sanxin, Huawei, Unisplendour, and Huada Semiconductor, plus the patents purchased and developed by Xingtu itself, Xingtu's current chip design speed has become faster and faster.
Du Wei and others can be said to be in pain and happy, constantly bursting their livers, their first target is the battery electronic control chip.
This electronic control chip is also the most used chip in Galaxy Technology at present, whether it is a mobile phone battery, a power battery, or a storage battery, these need to be used.
Mobile phone batteries alone need to consume hundreds of millions of mobile phone battery electronic control chips a year, which shows that even if Galaxy Technology does not produce mobile phones and computers, the number of chips consumed is not a few.
In the past, it was necessary to avoid infringing on other people's patents as much as possible in the design, which seemed a bit constrained.
Now after obtaining the right to use part of the patents of Sanxin, Huawei, Unisplendour, and Huada Semiconductor, Xingtu Company can finally let go of its hands and feet.
In addition, Huang Haojie asked Xingtu Company to continuously tape out directly in Galaxy Semiconductor, and Xingtu's design ability can be said to be increasing day by day, and it is constantly growing every day.
In fact, the quality of the electronic control chip designed by Xingtu is already extraordinary, after all, the chip they designed is 5 nanometer level.
If you let others know that they are designing 5nm-level electronic control chips, they will definitely think that Galaxy Technology is crazy.
Because under normal circumstances, electronic control chips are 22 nanometers, and even 32 nanometers, who would be so painful as to use the 5 nanometer process to produce electronic control chips, which is really a lot of money burning.
But Galaxy Technology really did it, because for Galaxy Technology, the production of 5nm chips is the most cost-effective.
The complexity of the circuit transistors required for the electronic control chip is simply too simple compared to the CPU.
As a result, Galaxy Semiconductor's production line can produce very small pieces of electronic control chips, which are divided into three levels, corresponding to mobile phone batteries, power batteries, and storage batteries.
To put it simply, in the case of smaller chips, a 5-nanometer chip production line can produce more than ten or twenty times more electronic control chips under the premise that the overall cost remains unchanged.
This is the reason why Huang Haojie feels very cost-effective.