Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1195 Chip Foundry
In a blink of an eye, it has entered September.

As Duan Yun had expected, SZ Municipal Engineering Company successfully won the bid with a price of 1750 million yuan, and that night, He Yaohua invited Duan Yun to a meal to celebrate the successful bid.

At the wine table, He Yaohua has been actively and enthusiastically toasting Duan Yun, and told Duan Yun that he will set aside half of the land that won the bid according to the contract signed by the two before, and give Duan Yun a special " Tianyin Garden".

And this also means that after half a year, Duan Yun will have his own residential complex in Shenzhen with 300 sets of commercial houses in hand, and he can also be called a real estate boss in SZ City.

However, Duan Yun does not intend to make money from these houses. To put it bluntly, these houses are used to support "people". The current team led by Huang Lingyi must stay in his company for a long time and stably.

Nowadays, Huang Lingyi's R&D team is really dedicated, and it has become normal to take the initiative to work overtime, and the atmosphere inside the entire chip R&D center is also very good. These experts from BJ have obviously adapted to work and life in Shenzhen.

In fact, Toshiba agreed to set up a joint venture with Duan Yun. The main purpose is to allow the eliminated equipment and production capacity to continue to be used in China. They just want to turn Duan Yun's company into a chip foundry in mainland China. IC design in the upstream of the industry is firmly in the hands of Toshiba. Once it leaves Toshiba's patents and technology authorization, then Duan Yun's chip factory is just an empty shelf.

Of course, Duan Yun knew that it was powerful, and it was precisely because of this that he invited Huang Lingyi from BJ to form a chip research and development team, and asked them to develop more advanced chips based on the data obtained from Japan. NAND flash memory.

In fact, Toshiba first proposed the concept of fast flash memory in 1984, and in 1988, Intel introduced the first 1KB flash memory chip, which is called NOR.

In 1989, Hitachi developed the first NAND flash memory. Soon, NAND flash memory replaced NOR chips. Japan defeated American companies in the field of memory chips and became the overlord of the world's storage chips.

Seeing Japan's dominance in the field of storage chips in the world, Moore, the president of Intel, decisively gave up the production of storage chips and identified the microprocessor as a new strategic focus. 80% of the world's PC.

Duan Yun intends to focus his chip research on storage chips. As a Ph.D. major in electronics, although he has never participated in chip development, he still understands the technical principles of NAND flash memory chips. s help.

Because Hitachi was the first to develop NAND, and no matter whether it is Toshiba, the United States, or other companies in Japan, it will be impossible to license Duan Yun's chip patent technology, so he must rush before 1989, earlier than Hitachi. The company developed NAND storage chips based on three-micron process technology to seize the market ahead of schedule.

In addition, in addition to self-developed chips, it strives to overtake foreign chip giants in corners. Duan Yun, who now has a chip production line, can also use the foundry method to achieve profitability.

Speaking of chip foundry in later generations, the most famous one is Taiwan's chip factory, especially TSMC founded by Zhang Zhongmou.

TSMC itself does not have chip patent technology, but relying on the world's leading chip production and process technology, it has become a chip foundry for international giants such as Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Sony, etc., with annual profits of hundreds of billions.

At the beginning of the birth of semiconductors, a few American companies such as Intel and IBM took over the design and production of chips (the so-called IDM integrated design and manufacturing), and start-ups could not get involved in the semiconductor industry because the chips designed by these companies could not be produced. Because there is no related chip process technology and equipment.

In the late 80s, the unification situation was ended by Mr. Zhang Zhongmou of TSMC. In 1987, Zhang Zhongmou founded the world's first professional foundry company in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and Rapidly developed into a leader in Taiwan's semiconductor industry.He pioneered the definition of the Foundry (chip foundry) industry, separated design and production, and opened up a living space for start-ups.

Nowadays, semiconductor companies in Taiwan have a layout in all areas from upstream IC design, midstream wafer production, downstream packaging and testing, as well as equipment and materials, but the main source of profit is foundry for major manufacturers around the world.

Duan Yun can also adopt Zhang Zhongmou's idea. After the chip factory is officially put into production, in addition to producing Flash memory chips authorized by Toshiba, Japan, it can also cooperate with other manufacturers at home and abroad to allocate part of the production capacity to help them produce some flash memory chips. chip.

With the current technical strength of Duan Yun's chip factory, it is far from being able to compete with foreign chip giants, so Duan Yun intends to find some domestic partners, develop chips with them, and help them do the manufacturing.

In later generations, Huawei rose strongly, but was banned by the United States because of its breakthrough in 5G technology, so that it successfully developed Kirin chip technology based on five-nanometer process technology, but because of the blockade, no foundry with five-nanometer technology could be found. manufacturers, so that the Kirin chip has become out of print. This is a typical example of R&D technology but no mass production capacity.

In fact, China’s chip research and development level in the 80s was not low, at least at the same level as South Korea and Taiwan. If there is enough capital and resources invested, it is possible to develop chips based on the most advanced one-micron level. , but cannot be produced.

Now that Duan Yun has the most advanced three-micron process chip production line in China, he can completely occupy the domestic chip foundry market with this technology.

However, the current domestic production uses low-end chips for TVs, washing machines and refrigerators. This part of the chip market has been occupied by BJ Shanghai and Wuxi's 742 factories, with low technical content and relatively meager profits. Duan Yun's three-micron It is obviously a huge waste for the chip production line to produce such low-end chips, the profit is meager, and there is no way to compete with those state-owned chip factories.

Therefore, Duan Yun must find a chip with high demand and high profit in China for OEM. Only in this way can the profit of the chip factory be preserved...

(End of this chapter)