The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 241

Regarding the future of smart phones, when the Mphone application store is launched, more and more people realize that smart phones will become the mainstream of future mobile phone forms, at least one of the mainstream.

Compared with the iPhone launched by Nokia, there are far fewer applications. With the help of the Nokia brand, a large audience is still obtained, including the smartphone launched by Motorola in the middle of the year. More and more traditional mobile phone brands are targeting the smartphone market.

Samsung has launched a touch-screen smart phone with a pen. This resistive touch screen has a particularly poor texture when touched by hand. It can only be controlled by a stylus with a conductive soft rubber tip.

Compared with Nokia and Motorola, Samsung's touch-screen mobile phone has been welcomed by more users.

But two years later, Mphone still maintains an advantage over other mobile phones in one area, that is, mobile phone chips, and A1E is still the most powerful CPU in the current mobile phone market.

It's not that other chip manufacturers can't produce chips with better performance than A1E. After all, this is just a mobile phone chip using a 0.13-micron process, and the most advanced process has reached 90nm.

It's because it's only the beginning of the millennium now, and the research and development of mobile chips is far less vigorous than later generations. From Qualcomm to MediaTek to Samsung and HiSilicon Kirin, major manufacturers are working hard to achieve a balance between performance and battery life.

Manufacturers like Samsung can design mobile chips with better performance than A1E, but they cannot be commercialized. They are facing problems such as high cost and fast power consumption on the road to commercialization.

Zhou Xin is not the only one who knows the importance of app stores and opening up the development platform to the majority of developers, allowing developers to participate in the creation of the smartphone ecosystem. Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia are all aware of it.

But once they do this, the chip does not support it. Samsung tried to use the most advanced mobile chip, and found that too many applications will lead to excessive power consumption, and the original one-day battery life will be shortened to 4 hours.

Whether it is mobile phone manufacturers or consumers, they can tolerate a battery life of one day at most, and it is unacceptable if it is shorter.

Therefore, after more and more smart phones appeared, Silicon Valley technology magazines rated the performance of these phones, and Mphone still firmly occupied the top position with the A1E chip.

Zhou Xin said: "I don't know if Mr. Li understands my model of building a fab in Huaguo. I should have a general understanding, right? Because if I remember correctly, Temasek invested in the chip foundry business of Xinxin Technology."

Zhou Xin is very clear that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan will accept this kind of cooperation because they need him.

NewPay is about to start the next round of financing. With the increasing importance of electronic payment and mobile payment, NewPay also needs to further distribute the benefits so as to continue to ensure its monopoly position.

NewPay is undoubtedly the most watched unicorn among the unlisted companies in the current capital market. Both Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase want to have more investment shares.

Because of this, they are willing to accept unreasonable investment plans to invest in fabs in Huaguo.

We must know that there are great risks in the fab whose control is firmly in Zhou Xin's hands.The risk here does not mean that they doubt Zhou Xin's management ability.

Venture capital institutions have no doubt that Zhou Xin, who holds Matrix, Xinxin Technology and Xinyun, can make the chip business flourish. The Bluetooth chip alone is enough to support these fabs.

Instead, he was worried about no dividends or little dividends. Zhou Xin had the control to distribute more of the money he earned to engineers, invest in research and development and build new factories, and then let the money lie on the books without dividends.

In this case, the money they invest will always be paper assets.

For a country, there is no such concern.

As long as Zhou Xin builds a fab in the Lion City, the tax revenue, job opportunities, and the leading role of upstream and downstream enterprises brought to the Lion City, all of which are enough to pay back the cost.

The price of office buildings in Huaguo in later generations is much lower than that of residential buildings, which is entirely based on the same logic.Only when there are enterprises and jobs can the surrounding residential land be sold at a higher price.

Li Xianlong naturally knew this truth, and he nodded after listening: "I know that when Temasek invested in Xinxin Technology, it spoke highly of you, thinking that Xinxin Technology has the top scientific research team and first-class engineers.

Including after Temasek invested in Xinxin, they sent people to investigate the fab jointly established by Xinxin and Huahong. They believed that although it was established not long ago, it could already rank among the fabs of TSMC and UMC. "

Zhou Xin said: "That's right, I plan to adopt the same cooperation method as in China, I only want to control the company, and Lion City needs to bear most of the investment share.

Due to some restrictions, it is impossible to build a fab with the most advanced manufacturing process in China, but there is no such restriction in Lion City.

My company, Matrix, has a large demand for advanced process chips, and this demand exists for a long time. As long as Matrix has enough market in the smartphone market, then this demand will exist.

In the past, the most core chips in Matrix needed to be produced in Texas Instruments and Samsung's fabs. I hope that more chips will be produced in Xinxin Technology's own fabs in the future.

This requires Xinxin to be able to cooperate smoothly with Lion City. "

Zhou Xin received a very high courtesy in the Lion City, because the Lion City needs him, and there is a lot of room for cooperation between the two parties.

Lee Hsien Loong also knows that this is a rare opportunity, because of the lack of natural resources, high labor costs, and the serious bias in the chip industry. These factors together lead to the fact that there will be no next Xinxin willing to put the most advanced chip foundry business in the Lion City.

In the past, whether it was Texas Instruments or IBM, the chip foundries established in Lion City were all engaged in low-end businesses, or businesses like packaging and testing without much technical content.

TSMC, Samsung, and UMC, the top three of the current chip foundry industry, are even more unlikely to come to the Lion City to build factories.

Even if they have the idea of ​​reducing costs and diversifying investment, going to Huaguo to build factories is far more fragrant than coming to Lion City.

"Xinxin will choose Lion City because I have few choices and Huaguo is subject to too many constraints."

Koryo and Wanwan, home to TSMC and Samsung, have no such constraints.

There are not many opportunities like this, and I don’t know when it will be until the next time. For a place like the Lion City, high-end manufacturing is the most precious, because the labor in the Lion City is very expensive, and the treatment given by the service industry and the financial industry means that only the high-end manufacturing industry can retain people.

"Xinxin Technology will build a factory in Lion City, and the total investment is expected to be US$28 billion"

"Xinxin Technology continues to increase its R&D center in Lion City"

"NewPay's Southeast Asian headquarters landed in Lion City, and NewPay in Lion City will face the whole Southeast Asian region"

"Xinyun will invest one billion US dollars in the Lion City to build the largest data center in the Asia-Pacific region"

This time Zhou Xin went to the Lion City, which benefited a lot for both parties. In this package of cooperation plan, Zhou Xin himself did not have to spend much money, and most of it was paid by the Sovereign Fund of the Lion City.

Lion City hopes to invest in NewPay, at least in the branch established by NewPay in Southeast Asia. As a price, they need to invest in New Cloud together.

Asset-heavy businesses like Xinyun are still losing money. This is to package good assets and not-so-good assets together and let Lion City buy them together.

Considering the investment in Xinyun, the establishment of Xinyun's data center in Lion City is also good for Lion City, so Lion City agreed to this plan.

The outside world naturally does not know that this series of cooperation is the lion city's big money. They think that Zhou Xin is betting heavily on the lion city in order to spread the risk.

The Lion City media reported on this series of cooperation at length, focusing on Zhou Xin's unfailing record in the past and the great benefits of these cooperation in the Lion City.

Huaguo is very concerned about the development of the Lion City, and a large number of Huaguo cities are benchmarked against the Lion City.Coupled with the recent Hanxin turmoil, the Huaguo media also reported Zhou Xin's investment in Lion City.

It's just that their focus was on the Hanxin incident that angered Zhou Xin, causing Zhou Xin to transfer a lot of investment that should have been in Huaguo to Lion City.

"Affected by the Hanxin incident, Zhou Xin questioned Huaguo's scientific research environment and business environment, which led to the transfer of some investment projects that should have been placed in Huaguo to Lion City. The Hanxin incident will become a landmark event in the history of Huaguo's integrated circuit development."

A large number of media began to re-report Hanxin. This time, the target was not only Chen Jin, but also the bosses behind Chen Jin.

Because Chen Jin did not get a lot of benefits from Hanxin like the later generations, so he could leave the field calmly. Now Chen Jin lost his job and was notorious.

And a month ago, Chen Jin was a guest of Jiaotong University and even Shen Hai, and the Jiaotong University held a press conference for him with the strength of the whole school. Chen Jin couldn't accept the difference of falling from heaven to hell in an instant, and he couldn't accept that he didn't get anything and spent the rest of his life in it.

If you go back to American, you can't go back. Once you go back to American, you will have to face Motorola's lawsuit. In China, you can pay a few thousand dollars to settle the matter. If you go to American, you can pay to death.

Chen Jin is currently the hottest news personality. His news value is extremely high. A large number of media are willing to give him money to allow him to be interviewed. Originally, there is no shortage of money and he has already made enough benefits from Hanxin.

Instigated by the media, Chen Jin began to accept interviews:
"Jiaotong University claimed to have given me 5000 million yuan in research and development funds. In fact, we actually entered Hanxin's R&D team with only 2000 million yuan on the books. Where did the other 3000 million yuan go? I don't know. I only found out that I was given 5000 million yuan in research and development funds after reading the Jiaotong University announcement."

"I did buy a dsp8 chip from Motorola in August, and then I removed the logo and replaced it with Hanxin's logo.

This is because the School of Microelectronics has been urging me, saying that we should hurry up to produce results. The problem is how can the scientific research results be the same as others and can be urged?
The leaders of the School of Microelectronics have been asking me about my progress since Xinxin Technology held a press conference in Silicon Valley in July and released the latest Bluetooth chip, asking me whether I can complete the research and development within this year.

It is against this background that I bought chips from Motorola. I made two-handed preparations. If Hanxin can develop the best, we will use our own chips. If Hanxin cannot develop it, we will use Motorola’s chips first. "

"As for my falsified resume, I did work for both IBM and Motorola, otherwise I could get Motorola's source code?"

"Who said that those who do chip testing can't do chip design? In fact, there is no obvious barrier between these two fields."

"Have the appraisal experts discovered that Hanxin is fake? Yan Xiaolang and Xu Juyan must have found out, because the appraisal will last for a week, and they hinted at me at night that they want to stuff their students into Hanxin's R&D team and take some shares of Hanxin.

Of course, they made these requests on the premise of repeatedly confirming whether I can finally get Motorola's dsp chip technology.

I don't know whether Zou Shichang knew or not, he never came to me directly.

Think about it, Yan Xiaolang is the person in charge of the integrated circuit special group, how could he fail to see the problem of Hanxin. "

Chen Jin's interview was full of hot spots, and he couldn't hold back anymore.

In particular, only 5000 million of the 2000 million was spent on research and development. Experts want to benefit from these already sensitive enough content. Linking it with the Hanxin incident directly turned the original academic problem into another problem.

What was even more amazing about Chen Jin was that when Yan Xiaolang came out to refute: "Chen Jin is a mad dog, after he was kicked out with sticks, he came to us to bite people.

It is true that I am the person in charge of the integrated circuit special group, but this does not mean that I know all the chips. I just judged from the test results of Hanxin-[-] that it is indeed an advanced DSP chip. It is impossible for me to compare all the DSP chips on the market with Hanxin to see if it is fake.

It can only be said that my work is not rigorous enough, and Chen Jin is biting me without any basis. "

Xu Juyan also stood up to refute, and scolded Chen Jin.

It's just that the academics are not rigorous, and they are criticized at most. If it is true what Chen Jin said, things will not be suppressed.

Chen Jin broke the news to the paparazzi of later generations that he knew nothing by himself, and directly took out two audio clips:

"You can listen to this. This is the audio I recorded in the office. The first part is the conversation between Yan Xiaolang and me, and the second part is the conversation between Yan Xiaolang and Xu Juyan who came to the office to find me."

Chen Jin is also a talent. In later generations, he relied on recordings to force the bosses to protect him and let him land smoothly.

Now under Zhou Xin's pressure, Chen Jin knew that even if he gave the recordings to the bosses, they would not be able to protect himself, so he might as well exchange these two recordings for some real benefits.

For these two recordings alone, the media is willing to pay him 50 yuan.

After the recording came out, the experts of the identification committee began to play dead.

　I was really tired after working overtime yesterday, this is to make up for yesterday

　　
　
(End of this chapter)