Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1870 Project 908
In addition to lithography machines, the entire C area basically uses domestic equipment, including etching machines, oxidation diffusion machines, thin film deposition equipment, glue development machines, etching machines, ion implanters, CMP polishing equipment, testing equipment, etc. etc., have basically achieved localization.

If Duan Yuncai invests in the development of the chip industry 10 years later, it is almost impossible to promote the international advanced level. In addition to the difficulty of technology, there is another decisive factor, that is, the profit of the market and enterprises.

No enterprise can enter the positive cycle of an industry until it enters the market and earns enough profits. In later generations, the country has invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources to develop the chip industry, but it has never been able to catch up with the world's top level. , There is even no way for related companies to survive. One of the big reasons is that they can't find a market entry point.

In other words, in future generations, if you want to develop a chip company, the difficulty is like finding the right time to jump on a passing train. Like falling into a bottomless pit.

In the previous life, when it was just the beginning of the 90s, China's semiconductor industry was already faltering,

What I brought back at that time was the four-character exclamation of "shocking".In this context, in August 1990, the "8" project was officially launched.

Unexpectedly, this project became one of the most failed projects in Chinese history.The reason for the failure was that the approval process was too cumbersome, and the approval cycle was much longer than the product life cycle. It took more than 7 years from project approval to production. The product had no commercial value, and the monthly production capacity was only 800 pieces, which was far from the goal.

In the year it was put into operation, Wuxi Huajing suffered a huge loss of 2.4 million yuan. In the second year, it had to rent the equipment to Taiwanese to reduce the loss. In 2002, China Resources Group acquired Huajing, which is now China Resources Microelectronics Corporation.

Fortunately for Duan Yun, because he invested in the chip industry in a relatively timely manner, just in time for the country's shortage of funds, but when the microelectronics industry had not widened a huge distance from the world, he quickly entered the market, and through various The channel introduced advanced international equipment. First, it obtained flash memory chip technology and equipment from Toshiba, and then obtained the most advanced lithography machine in the world through the smuggling channel in Hong Kong. Excellent chip software development talents and a series of measures have helped China retain an important fire for the development of the chip industry.

And the most critical point is that Duan Yun's chip industry has achieved great success in the domestic market. In the early years, he produced low-end chips for his own learning machine repeater and other products, making his chip factory a huge profit. , After a series of layouts, Duan Yun successfully cooperated with technology giants such as IBM and sold the chips to the United States. There are more and more domestic orders for chips.

So much so that now Duan Yun does not need to rely on the international market, relying on domestic chip orders alone is enough to maintain the full-load operation of all production series, and the profits brought in a year are as high as billions. The profit and production scale are the current Samsung and TSMC. Feel a little out of reach.

And this is a breakthrough in the 0.8-micron chip manufacturing process technology, and it has indeed surpassed South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's TSMC in technology, second only to the United States, and keeps pace with Japan's most advanced chip production technology. This in itself is a very remarkable thing. .

"Currently, the good product rate of this kind of chip is only 55%, which shows that our technology level is not mature enough, and a certain degree of optimization and improvement is needed..." At this time, Liang Mengsong walked beside Duan Yun, and then said: "But this time The cooperation with domestic technicians, especially Mr. Huang and Mr. Jiang of our Tianyin team, really shocked me. Electronic experts, in terms of their technical level, are on par with those top experts I have worked with in the United States. They are all very good people. Mr. Duan, you can have such an excellent team. lucky..."

Liang Mengsong's words are definitely from the bottom of his heart. He lived in Taiwan since he was a child, and later went to the United States to study and work. Over the years, the impression of mainland China is a very poor and backward place. With the level of science and technology in the mainland, how can it be possible to create a decent chip industry.

Although later, under the recommendation of his mentor, he met Duan Yun and joined Tianyin Group, which gave him a new understanding of the microelectronics industry in the Mainland, but even so, he still felt that there was a huge gap between American researchers and Chinese researchers. Especially in the field of microelectronic chips, there is an insurmountable gap.

However, after he returned to Shenzhen this time and worked with Huang Lingyi, Jiang Mingwei and others for a period of time, he suddenly discovered that his previous understanding was completely wrong. The leaders of these inland teams all have high technical attainments and strong creativity. He is no less inferior than those colleagues he met in the United States before, and even better in many aspects.

Especially in terms of professional dedication and work attitude, almost all team members including Huang Lingyi and Jiang Mingwei have almost reached the state of forgetting to eat and sleep. The R&D center has never stipulated overtime work, but many people work until 10 o'clock every day In the future, there will even be some people who simply eat and live in the laboratory, sleep on the floor when they are sleepy, and go to the cafeteria to have a quick meal when they are hungry. This kind of crazy working state is almost unimaginable in the United States. of.

"Excellent people are always attracted to each other, and this is a natural law." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "Since you have such an outstanding colleague, then I would like to ask, when will our chips be able to reach mass production capacity?" Yield rate of production?"

"Based on the current situation, it will take about three months to half a year. Some equipment needs to be upgraded and improved, and the improvement of the process will also take some time..." Liang Mengsong said after a while.

"That's hard work for you." Duan Yun patted Liang Mengsong on the shoulder, and then said: "The chip industry is one of the two pillar industries of Tianyin Group. It is an important feat in the history of development, and at the same time, I will assure you that every penny of your efforts today will be rewarded handsomely, and I hope that you can give me more surprises at the beginning of next year!"

(End of this chapter)