Chapter 108: Visiting the Chip Factory
Even though it was already evening.
But Mr. Ren and Yang Zibi of Unisplendour and He Lifei of Huada Semiconductor are still full of interest.
"Mr. Huang! Galaxy Semiconductor's production line, is it convenient for us to have a tour?" Yang Zibi asked suddenly.
Huang Haojie thought about it, nodded and replied:
"No problem with visiting! But we have to follow our rules. ”
"No problem!" Mr. Ren nodded, after all, Galaxy Semiconductor's atomic manipulation technology is really quite sensitive, and he also understands Huang Haojie's approach.
Soon the group came to the side of Galaxy Semiconductor's chip factory.
He Lifei looked at the security guards patrolling with guns and the huge fence that was more than 20 meters high.
The three of them couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, this is a factory, and some people believe that it is a military base.
"Please!" Huang Haojie took the three of them inside, and as for their assistants or assistants, they could only stay outside obediently.
Soon in the examination room, nothing could be brought in, and even the clothes were changed into specially provided.
"I said Brother Huang! You're too strict, aren't you? Yang Zibi smiled bitterly and changed his clothes.
"Bear with me! There are so many secrets in it that it is a last resort. Huang Haojie has just changed his clothes.
And Zhang Rujing was already at the door of the examination room, waiting for Huang Haojie and others.
"Dr. Zhang! Hello! "Obviously, Mr. Ren and Yang Zibi know Zhang Rujing.
After greeting them, Zhang Rujing led the group into the production line area.
"This is the core area of chip manufacturing, the original film printing area!" Zhang Rujing pointed to the thick glass window and said.
I saw a strange instrument in the middle of the studio.
Three skilled workers are operating the instrument.
"Original Printing Area? You made this instrument yourself! Mr. Ren looked at the instrument inside and asked.
Huang Haojie nodded: "That's right, this instrument is called an atomic imprinting machine, or a chip mother machine." ”
"Chip mother? Do you need to use it in all chip production?" He Lifei asked with interest.
"Let's put it this way! Our process is different from the traditional chip manufacturing process, the original film must be made through the atomic imprinting mechanism, and then the production line will produce the original film. Huang Haojie explained.
Zhang Rujing took out some of the waste films on the side and showed them to Mr. Ren and others.
"These are the original chips made by the atomic stamping machine, and of course these are the scraps that failed."
The three of them took a look at it, and these waste products were exactly the same as ordinary silicon wafers, and there were no traces, which was also a very normal situation, after all, the 5-nanometer circuit grooves could only be seen clearly by using an electron microscope.
"If your chip needs to be foundry, the first step is to imprint the circuit on the design diagram on the original film, how many layers of circuits, how many original pieces of the original film will be printed, and the original film can be produced after it is made." Zhang Rujing gave the three of them a look at the chip production of Galaxy Semiconductor.
"This 5nm chip, our company has never designed it! Maybe they have a design for this. He Lifei smiled bitterly, after all, Huada Semiconductor has no plans to design 5-nanometer chips.
The same goes for violet.
Mr. Ren also said helplessly: "We are designing 7nm chips, and 5nm is too advanced." ”
"It doesn't matter! In fact, our production line, whether it is 5nm, or 7nm, or 10nm, can be produced. Huang Haojie smiled and said.
"7nm and 10nm can also be produced?" Mr. Ren's eyes lit up.
"Hmmm! Mainly because our process is different from the traditional one, we can produce all processes above 5 nanometers, you see this original film is 5 nanometers, it will be made into a circuit printing head...... "Huang Haojie explained with a piece of waste original film.
After listening to Huang Haojie's explanation, Mr. Ren and the three suddenly realized, and at the same time, they were surprised by the technology of Galaxy Technology.
This kind of production line that directly replaces the circuit printing head and fine-tuned it can produce another kind of chip, which saves Galaxy Semiconductor a lot of production line expenses to a certain extent.
Soon, in the contemplation of the three of them, they unconsciously came to the side of the workshop of the chip production line.
Huang Haojie pointed to the workshop where chips were produced quickly:
"Mr. Ren, Mr. Yang, Mr. He, this is our production line."
A word woke up the person in the dream, and the three of them reacted at this time, and hurriedly looked at the chip production line that was running.
The three of them silently observed the production line as they walked.
Soon Mr. Ren saw something unusual.
It's so fast! The production speed of this production line is too fast!
"Dr. Zhang! How long does it take for your production line to produce a chip?"
Zhang Rujing did not hide it, and replied directly: "The production line goes through, about 12 hours, of course, we are improving the production line, and we will add packaging and testing links in the future." ”
"What?12 hours!" He Lifei was shocked.
This speed is too perverted, isn't it? It is equivalent to about one-twentieth of the time of a traditional chip production line.
The three of them calculated, the more they thought about it, the more they felt the terrible of Galaxy Technology, others produced 1 chip, and 20 chips could already be produced here, thinking about it, you can know how powerful the technology of Galaxy Technology is.
"Brother Huang! The OEM price of your 300 Chinese yuan is a bit high! Many of our chips can't be sold at this price. Yang Zibi said helplessly.
Galaxy technology stuff is good, but sometimes the price is really too high.
Of course, Huang Haojie knows that the foundry cost of Galaxy Technology is a bit inflated, but now is not the time to reduce the price.
"This is also a matter of no way, the cost of this production line alone, as high as 400 million Chinese dollars, plus those atomic imprinting machines, just these equipment, we Galaxy Technology has invested tens of billions of Chinese dollars, if we don't raise the price, when can we recover the cost?"
Zhang Rujing almost fell, Mr. Huang, you opened your eyes and said nonsense, it's really awesome, 50 million is said to be 400 million.
"But if you bosses, you really have sincere cooperation! I have a proposal. Huang Haojie said suddenly.
Mr. Ren thought about it and laughed tentatively: "You kid want our patent, right?"
Obviously, Mr. Ren knew about the transaction between Sanxin Group and Galaxy Technology a few days ago.
"Haha, Mr. Ren is right, if you can take out a part of the chip patent for Galaxy Semiconductor, I can give you three years of foundry at cost price." Huang Haojie said with a smile.
Mr. Ren knew that if Galaxy Semiconductor really obtained the chip patents of Huawei, Unisplendour, and Huada Semiconductor, plus Sanxin's patents, it would be able to go sideways in the semiconductor industry.
Maybe Intel, Qualcomm, Huawei, and Sanxin can work hard with Galaxy Technology, and others will definitely not be able to shake Galaxy Technology.
In addition, Qualcomm and Huawei have no chip manufacturing capabilities, and Sanxin and Intel are threatened by the neutron star silicon wafers of Galaxy Technology, and they have to think about the consequences if they want to get Galaxy Technology.