Chapter 126: Chips
Si Mingyu showed several people the chip production plan of Guoxing Group Co., Ltd.
Yes, it's not R&D, it's production.
Since foreseeing that chips will become strategic materials in the information age, many domestic companies have devoted themselves to R&D, including Tsinghua Unigroup, SMIC, JCET, HiSilicon, etc., all of which have achieved great results in different fields.
This is because chips are just a general term, and they are roughly divided into types:
Computing chips, such as CPUs, etc., are used for computational analysis.
Memory chips, such as DRAM, etc., are mainly used for data storage.
Perception chips, such as MEMS, microphones, cameras, etc., are mainly used to perceive the outside world.
Communication chips, such as Bluetooth, wifi, network interface, drive control, etc., are used for data transmission and mechanical control.
Energy chips, power chips, etc., are used for energy supply.
There is at least one company in China for each chip, and several companies are engaged in R&D and production, and Guoxing Group is naturally involved.
In 2001, the Longxin Research Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was established, and in the same year, the Guoxin Research Group under Guoxing Group was also established. Now multiple models of Longxin have served all walks of life, and Guoxin has also entered the production stage.
The reason why it has lagged behind for such a long time is that Guoxin has opened up all production channels including design software, building instruction set system, chip design, manufacturing equipment, wafer production, packaging and testing, etc.
To put it simply, the entire industrial chain is controlled by ourselves, from digging ore from the ground to producing finished chips.
The so-called control does not do everything by itself, and Guoxing Group does not have the ability and technology or strength. But a certain link, if Huaxia's enterprises can do it, then it will be included in the production process, if no one can do Guoxing Group, it will carry out its own research and development, so as to achieve national production.
Of course, a small number of cutting-edge and necessary equipment such as lithography machines cannot be developed in a short period of time, which is a matter of no choice but to use imported equipment.
The good news is that the wafer enterprises under Guoxing Group can already mass-produce five-nanometer wafers, that is, they can manufacture five-nanometer chips.
Some companies are ready-made, some products are produced by the group, and some technologies are mastered by the group itself, but to integrate them together requires an additional investment.
The official will not invest this money, because the products of chip companies, including Longxin, have solved the problem of having and not, and the official has domestic chips that can be used, so it is not particularly anxious.
Si Mingyu can certainly borrow from the bank, but he doesn't want to do it, the borrowed money will be repaid with interest after all. The first thing he wanted to do when he found these people was to hope that they would pay to set up a new company with Guoxing Group to start chip production.
Some people will have doubts, it is true that the loan has interest, but the shareholders still have to share the profits.
Yes, but don't forget, Rebus has already announced that he will start building cars, and if he creates a lot of chips needed to produce cars, it is normal to give priority to the products of chip companies in which he has a stake under the same performance, right?
Even if the car is not successful, many of Rice's electronic products, especially mobile phones, require high-end chips.
Looking at Brother Xiaoma, Mr. Chen and Zhang Yiming, although these three people are engaged in the Internet, they all have their own data centers, and it costs a lot of money just to update the processing chips used in the server every year, and this money Si Mingyu also wants to make money.
In addition, the transfer of shares certainly gives up some benefits, but in exchange for the sharing of risks, contacts and other resources. It is no exaggeration to say that penguins, currency stations, characters, Jinsan, plus Si Mingyu's own advertising media company, can occupy half of the private media, right?
Si Mingyu is weak in terms of media publicity, which is why he wanted to take down the media company under the Xu Group. Although Hongming Industrial in Xiangjiang has invested in several newspapers, it only has some influence in the two places of Xiangjiang and Haojingao, and Guoxing Group is even more low-key and does not set foot in the media industry at all.
Of course, if a few of you are not interested in Si Mingyu's proposal, it doesn't matter, then do it yourself, and if the products produced are of good quality and low price, they still have to buy them.
"How much does it cost?" Rebus asked the key question, which is not written on the source.
"100 billion can start a project, if you want efficiency, you need 150 billion."
Making chips has never been a cheap thing, and you can understand it when you think about TSMC's market value of more than 3 trillion Chinese dollars. The newly established company is only a chip production, packaging and testing enterprise, and what it does is only the last step, which can be simply understood as assembling various "accessories" into a chip.
Because Guoxing Group has solved all the problems of "accessories", it is just the last step.
"How many shares are you going to give us?" Mr. Chen asked.
"Forty percent at most." Si Mingyu replied.
After all, Guoxing Group has worked hard for nearly 20 years, and it is impossible to give up the dominance. However, this proportion of shares fully shows Si Mingyu's sincerity and he really wants to cooperate with them.
"You're really a little hard for us." Rebus smiled bitterly after reading the information.
"Indeed." Mr. Chen also agreed.
"We are all listed companies, and the funds required for investment and equity participation will definitely not be less, and we must agree with the board of directors. Can this be revealed to them? Little Brother Ma asked.
"It's really troublesome." Si Mingyu is used to his own words, but he forgets that others are not like this.
Even if Brother Pony, as the founder, has unparalleled prestige within Penguin, he must at least explain such a huge investment cooperation to the board of directors, right? In this way, we have to take into account the opinions of other shareholders, and it is impossible to force it.
Everyone else is pretty much the same, except for Zhang Yiming.
"I'm okay with cooperative investment, but the exact amount of investment depends on Brother Xiaoma and them."
What Zhang Yiming meant by this was to wait for others to express their opinions on whether they would participate in the cooperation, and then everyone would discuss the proportion of their respective contributions.
As long as the data in the data is not deceiving, the five-nanometer chips produced will not be sold at all with the same performance and price. Don't forget what they do, and no one here is afraid of advertising and publicity.
Taking a step back, if the price is higher under the premise of the same performance, some people will buy it, and many related units and equipment need to use domestic chips, even if they only do this piece, the annual profit is guaranteed.
The cake of the domestic chip market is too big, even if the manufacturers mentioned before share it together, they still can't eat it.