Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1340 Actively cooperate
"This matter can be considered!" Hu Qi replied very simply.

Although he didn't say it to death, it at least showed an attitude, that is, the mechanical and electronic department can consider selling some equipment to private companies.

In fact, based on the current situation of the domestic integrated circuit production equipment research institute, the sales are not optimistic, and it can even be said to be very bleak.

Including the BJ878 factory and Wuxi 742 factory, they have been importing a large number of foreign production lines in recent years. Only some less important equipment will purchase domestic equipment, which has led to a very bleak sales of domestic chip production equipment research and development units. , the equipment produced by research and development is often facing the point where no one cares about it. Under the long-term vicious circle, domestic chip production equipment has no money to engage in new product research and development under the condition of a serious lack of funds and profits. The gap is also getting bigger and bigger.

Duan Yun is willing to spend money to purchase domestic equipment. In fact, he is making a "nomination certificate" with the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry. This is also an act of supporting domestic integrated circuit research in disguise. After all, he cannot connect with enterprises and convert products into benefits. Research projects are like weeds without roots, and they cannot survive for a long time only with poor funding from the state.

"I think that since Tianyin Group has the most advanced chip production line equipment in China, we should use this enterprise as a base to establish the most advanced integrated circuit research cluster in China." Seeing that the time has come, Mayor Li Hao also interjected at this time : "At present, we are going to restart the science and technology park here in Shenzhen, and will provide preferential policies and support for scientific research units and enterprises that settle in. I think the ministry can seriously consider this matter. This is our goal to catch up with the international advanced integrated circuit production. Big opportunity in technology!"

When Li Hao went to BJ before, he also talked about this matter with Zou Jiahua, the minister of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry. The clear answer is only to send people to Tianyin Electronics for a field visit before making a decision.

After all, this matter is of great importance, and Minister Zou has to proceed with caution, because it is related to the layout of the entire Chinese chip industry in the future, so relevant resources cannot be mobilized at will. Only after the investigation results come out can we hold a meeting to discuss and make a final decision. Decide.

Now that the research results have been preliminarily obtained, experts from the Ministry of Industry have confirmed that Tianyin Electronics does have the advanced technology to produce one-micron process chips, so Li Hao also seized the opportunity and hoped that the Ministry would provide support and restart the Shenzhen Science and Technology Park. And take integrated circuit technology as a key development project, and introduce relevant research institutes and talents.

"Lao Li, I can't make a decision on this matter yet. I have to go back to BJ and report to our Minister Zou. The specific next steps need to be discussed in a meeting before we can decide." Hu Qi smiled. Li Hao said.

"Understood, thank the Ministry for supporting us in Shenzhen." Li Hao replied with a smile on his face.

Although it is not yet known whether the ministry will provide resources to support the restart of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Park, experts from the ministry who came to Shenzhen this time have confirmed that Tianyin Group does have a one-micron chip process technology, which is also the most advanced in China. Chip manufacturers, so in any case, the Ministry of Electronics Industry will not be indifferent, and will definitely make some reactions.

In fact, if Tianyin Electronics is a state-owned enterprise, this matter will definitely be settled, but whether the state will provide technical support to a private enterprise, there is still a lot of uncertainty.

All in all, the result of the matter will have to wait until these experts and leaders return to BJ before they can have a clear answer. At present, whether it is Duan Yun or Li Hao, they can only wait for the time being.

After the visit to the chip factory, Hu Qi and his party left the clean room.

"Xiao Duan, do you have any plans for the future development of your company?" Hu Qi asked Duan Yun on the way to the factory.

"At present, our chip factory mainly provides core chips for the repeaters and learning machines developed and produced by our group company. In addition, we also established a cooperative relationship with South Korea's Jinxing Society some time ago, and the first batch of exported 10 pieces authorized by Toshiba Corporation. The flash chip, this business alone, we created 450 million US dollars..." Duan Yun said.

"So many?" Hu Qi heard that, a look of surprise flashed across his face.

You know, many large and medium-sized enterprises in China, including some provinces and cities with large exports and foreign exchange earners, can earn millions of dollars in foreign exchange a year, which is already a very good achievement. It really made him feel a little weird.

"It is mainly because South Korean companies have adopted the patent rights of the repeater products developed by our factory. At present, they also want to produce and sell similar equipment in China, so I did not charge them patent fees, but only required them to use our factory's chips." Duan Yun paused, and then continued: "Actually, chips with a three-micron process are currently low-end products in the international market, but after Toshiba developed this flash chip, it did not discover the commercial potential of this product. Let me take this opportunity..."

"So that's the case. It's really unexpected that the Japanese also miscalculated." Hu Qi said with a smile.

"Actually, Toshiba is not at a disadvantage. When I introduced this three-micron production line, I spent a total of more than 5600 million U.S. dollars including equipment and factory buildings. In addition, I signed a three-year contract with Zhongzhi Company. It’s $5000 million, if I can’t pay Toshiba a dividend of $5000 million within three days, they can take back the product license and stop all technical support, so I’m under a lot of pressure right now.” Duan Yunxiao said.

"It's not easy..." Hu Qi nodded, and then said: "So, for the time being, your chip factory can only rely on Japan to provide product authorization and technology?"

"Our Tianyin Group now has a chip design and R&D team, including an upstream software R&D team. They are all excellent domestic talents, but they only have chip design capabilities. As for chip production equipment, such as lithography machines, etching machines, etc. Wait, there is no production and design capability for these products for the time being, especially the high-resolution optical lenses used in the world's top lithography machines, which cannot be produced in the country at present. The lenses need to be manually polished, and the precision requirements are very high. The strength of a single company simply cannot support the development of domestic integrated circuits..." Duan Yun pondered for a while, and then said: "If the country is willing to vigorously develop the integrated circuit industry, Tianyin Group will fully cooperate with the country's scientific research work .”

(End of this chapter)