Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 130 The Ambition of Foundry

A week later, there were as many as 95 domestic companies wanting to get involved in the game industry.

Zhao Ye was almost speechless, money is touching.

In fact, some companies still have some technical strength. It is not good to develop domestic game software, and they have to make game consoles themselves.

In this era, it is not difficult to develop game software. Nintendo's "Super Mario" was developed by only a dozen people. Could it be that these domestic companies can't gather a dozen developers?
Forget it, don't hit the south wall and don't look back, and when they can't do it anymore, I will go to raise something myself. Before that, let Wujiang Group sell some electronic components and make a little money...

With the help of the "Qongqi Game Console" platform, domestic games can actually achieve a lot.

Wujiang Group currently does not intend to continue to develop new 8-bit games.

Because the game hardware department is already developing 16-bit home game consoles, the game software development department is also developing 16-bit games, but basically they are sequels. On the one hand, because these games are popular, sequels are naturally possible. Big sales; on the other hand, it is also to create a super IP.Only by continuously launching sequels can this IP continue to explode.

For example, the sequel of "Pokemon", the full name is "Pokemon 2: The Classic of Mountains and Seas", Xiaozhi and his party entered a mysterious island by chance, and they never thought that everyone came to the ancient times of China. Many exotic beasts appear, such as Kunpeng, Unicorn, Chaos, Feilian, Kui Niu, Ghost Car, Chongming Bird, Dangkang, Transforming Snake, Huodou, Chongzhu, Jiaojiao, Xuxu, Pixiu, and Negative , Chi kiss, Ba Xia, Bi An, Pu Lao, Suan Ni, Fei...

The plot of the game will be more exciting, showing the world the long-standing culture of ancient China in an all-round way.

If "Pokemon 1" still has a hint of Japanese culture, then "Pokemon 2: The Classic of Mountains and Seas" will hardly see Japanese culture.

In addition, "Pokemon 1" also has an official name "Pokemon 1: Kyushu League Hegemony", which is used to distinguish it from the sequel.

Zhao Ye believes that with the fan base of the first part, players will still accept and like it even if the second part of "Pokemon 2: The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is rich in Chinese culture.

In addition, there is a big difference between the second home game console developed by Wujiang Group and the first home game console, that is, CD is used as the storage medium, and this situation will last for a long time.

Therefore, Zhao Ye plans to use a brand new brand name - "Tomahawk"! ! !
"Qongqi" still feels less domineering than "Tomahawk", and many foreigners don't understand what "Qongqi" is, which is not conducive to brand promotion.

When Nintendo launches a new game console, it changes the name from time to time.

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On the morning of January 1987, 1, Wujiang Microelectronics Company.

"The time for wafer foundry is ripe. I plan to invest an additional 50 billion yuan in Wujiang Microelectronics to build the largest wafer foundry in Asia!"

Zhao Ye sat at the head of the conference room and said in a deep voice.

On his left sat the top executives of Wujiang Microelectronics, Huang Kun, Qin Guogang, Wang Shouwu, Wang Wei, Ni Guangnan and others.

To his right sat representatives of government departments.

Today's important meeting was called by Zhao Ye.

In 1987, TSMC was about to be established.

Wujiang Microelectronics naturally wants to get ahead of TSMC and build the largest wafer foundry in Asia.

At the beginning of its establishment, TSMC faced many difficulties and challenges, including capital, talents, and technology.

However, Wujiang Microelectronics basically does not have these difficulties. Right now, there are already eight wafer production lines.

However, this is barely enough to meet the current "core" needs.

Wujiang Group still has many big moves in the future, such as handheld game consoles and electronic pet machines. The sales volume of these two products is calculated in billions.Think about how many chips this takes.

Wujiang Microelectronics also had to expand its production line.

If you want to be a foundry, you need to build a huge fab.

Last year, the photoresist supply of Wujiang Microelectronics was cut off by Japanese manufacturers, which led to a sharp rise in the price of photoresist, and many chip companies were implicated and suffered heavy losses.

Now, Wujiang Microelectronics is doing wafer foundry, and the timing is just right.

It is popular in China that "making is worse than buying", but Zhao Ye wants to blow this wind to the world.

Let the global chip companies know that it is expensive to produce chips by yourself, it is better to let Wujiang Microelectronics produce for you.

Wujiang Microelectronics has mature technology, large scale, and low labor costs. This has led to the fact that the production cost of chips manufactured by Wujiang Microelectronics is much lower than that of chip manufacturers in Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea.

Zhao Ye told everyone about his analysis at this time, and then proposed to be a wafer foundry.

At present, there is no company in the world that does wafer foundry, and everyone present is a little hesitant.

"Boss Zhao, the foundry model is unheard of. Is this business model really feasible?" a government official asked.

Zhao Ye smiled and replied firmly: "Of course it is possible. This is a huge business opportunity! If Wujiang Microelectronics can seize this opportunity, it will definitely become a global chip giant. A great opportunity for the high-tech industry!"

After a pause, he added, "There are many chip design companies in the world, but all of them are based on a business model, namely: self-design, production, testing and packaging. Smaller companies have huge costs. Therefore, 'making is worse than buying' , they can completely hand over the chips to us for production!"

"Last year, Japanese manufacturers deliberately raised the price of photoresist, which caused outrage and resentment, and many chip companies hated them. And Wujiang Photoresist Company established a g-line photoresist production line just at this time, breaking the Japanese manufacturers in one fell swoop. At the same time, we have also received a large number of orders and favors from chip companies! As long as we send people to communicate with these chip companies and explain the cost advantages of Wujiang Microelectronics foundry, then we will be able to win many client!"

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't help but nodded.

"The boss is right. Wafer foundry is indeed a huge business opportunity. We must seize the opportunity. Maybe with the help of wafer foundry, we will soon become the world's largest chip company!"

"The benefits of wafer foundry are more than that. The most important role is to promote the development of the domestic semiconductor industry chain! Establishing a wafer foundry naturally requires a large amount of production equipment and raw materials, so that the entire semiconductor industry chain enterprise They can get a steady stream of orders, and then they have enough funds to carry out industrial upgrading research and development! With such a conscience cycle, the production process and technical level of our fab can also be greatly improved, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of chip manufacturing!"

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Everyone talked about it in an endless stream, and they were all optimistic about the prospect of wafer foundry.

At this time, Zhao Ye reiterated that he plans to inject capital into Wujiang Microelectronics Company and invest an additional 50 billion yuan, which will be mainly used to build the world's largest wafer foundry.

If this money is invested in Wujiang Microelectronics, the government's shareholding ratio will be diluted again.

However, a huge business opportunity has emerged, and additional investment is very necessary.

After the meeting, the Shanghai government used 300 hectares of land as an investment to prevent the shares from being diluted too much.

However, even so, Wujiang Group's stake in Wujiang Microelectronics has risen to 82.5%.

(End of this chapter)