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Nanshan Semiconductor's newest factory is very busy today.

As the world's first chip factory using 2-nanometer process technology, it officially started mass production today.

After more than ten years of development, Nanshan Semiconductor has completely become the most advanced semiconductor company in the world. Each time it launches advanced chip processing technology, it is more than a year faster than its peers.

Don’t underestimate this year. For top chip manufacturers, this gap is fatal.

This means that in terms of the supply of various mobile phones, computers and autonomous driving related chips, Nanshan Semiconductor and even related companies in China as a whole are one step ahead of their peers.

"Boss Cao, after our new factory in Shanghai goes into production, the new factories in Changan and Yangcheng will also start mass production in the next year."

"By then, we can fully meet the various needs of Honor Technology and Nanshan Automobile Group, and also start to provide chip foundry services to other customers, making Nanshan Semiconductor the world's largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor company."

Zhang Jing is still very satisfied with Nanshan Semiconductor's current performance.

To put it bluntly, the emergence of Nanshan Semiconductor has completely changed the landscape of China's chip industry, and even changed the landscape of the world's chip industry.

In the past, at its peak, China spent hundreds of billions of dollars each year importing chips, but last year the amount of imported chips plummeted to less than $100 billion.

This is also the first time in the past decade that China's chip imports have fallen below US$100 billion.

The remaining chips are basically used in foreign-funded enterprises' factories in China, or domestic manufacturers have received overseas orders and the customers specify that they want to use certain chips.

Therefore, it is impossible to reduce the import amount of chips to zero completely.

However, compared with the import amount of chips, the export amount of chips has increased significantly.

Last year, Nanshan Semiconductor alone exported chips worth more than 300 billion U.S. dollars, and the growth rate is still increasing rapidly.

It can be said that China's chip industry is now thriving and has solved a large number of high-end employment problems for China.

Not to mention other things, the number of employees under Nanshan Semiconductor alone exceeds 30.

Among them, more than 10 employees are professional and technical personnel related to research and development. Most of these people have a graduate degree or above, and a large number of them have doctorates.

Even for ordinary workers, Nanshan Semiconductor requires them to have a bachelor's degree. After all, these workers are actually technical workers, and they are not simply screwing screws on the production line.

Of course, these workers are also well treated, with an average annual salary of over 30 yuan.

The average annual salary of R&D personnel exceeds 50 yuan, and some old employees even earn annual salaries of one million yuan.

Together with other companies in the industrial chain surrounding Nanshan Semiconductor, it can be said that Nanshan Semiconductor has created more than 100 million high-end employment talents in China.

Behind this are 100 million families.

It is no wonder that Academician Zhang Jing’s prestige in the country is getting higher and higher.

Lingnan University of Technology invited a group of senior experts from Nanshan Semiconductor to serve as value professors in advance, and now their Semiconductor College has become the top one in China.

The college entrance examination admission score of Lingnan University of Technology is second only to Huaqing University and Kyoto University.

Specifically for some majors, the admission score of Lingnan University of Technology is already the highest in the country.

"After the chip manufacturing process enters the 2-nanometer stage, it becomes very difficult to further improve it."

"I estimate that it would be ideal if we can further advance to the 1-nanometer stage within the next three years."

"In this case, the chip yield and production cost control become very critical factors."

"We at Nanshan Semiconductor must firmly maintain our number one position in the world and we must work hard in this area."

The success of Nanshan Semiconductor is not achieved in one day, but the result of hard work over many days and nights.

So even though today is a very important day, Cao Yang is able to control his emotions very well.

It is always time to be prepared for danger. Especially at this time, we should be more aware of the crisis of Nanshan Semiconductor.

In the past few years, Taiwan has maintained a technological lead over companies such as Samsung and TSMC, but it may become more difficult to maintain this in the future.

After all, once everyone has mastered the 2nm process technology, there will be no absolute advantage in technology.

At this time, cost and quality performance become very important.

Similarly, if your cost for a 2-nanometer mobile phone chip is 1000 yuan, while others only need 500 yuan, the impact will definitely be huge.

Therefore, it is very important to control costs.

At the same time, this is also an important means to significantly increase the profit margin of Nanshan Semiconductor. My cost reduction does not mean that my selling price will also be reduced.

For such a high-end chip, if you don’t get a 100% profit margin, or even a profit margin of several hundred percent, how can you justify the huge investment made previously?
Especially before similar products from other chip manufacturers are released, they should be sold at a high price, which can be regarded as amortizing the R&D costs and equipment investment in advance.

Later on, you will have to be much more flexible to deal with various situations.

"No problem. We have fully cooperated with Nanshan Equipment in terms of equipment to ensure that most processes can achieve improvements in quality and production efficiency through the equipment."

"In terms of materials, we are also working closely with Nanshan Chemical to maximize the purity of various raw materials, so that our chip quality will be better and the yield rate will be higher."

"At the same time, we have also made full preparations for the training of factory technicians..."

Zhang Jing is also considered a veteran in the semiconductor industry. Naturally, he had already made preparations for the things that Jiang Hui was worried about.

Therefore, although the yield rate of 2nm process chips is not particularly high at the beginning, it can be improved quickly.

"Our large-scale launch ceremony will definitely provide a great stimulus to other chip manufacturers."

"We should also be aware that they may try to poach people maliciously or even steal technical information."

Jiang Hui discussed with Zhang Jing in detail about Nanshan Semiconductor. At the same time, at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics, the atmosphere at a high-level meeting was very depressing.

"President, according to the information we have heard so far, Nanshan Semiconductor's new factory does have the technology to produce 2-nanometer processes."

"Honor Technology's flagship phones and computers to be launched in the second half of this year are expected to use 2-nanometer process technology. Even some new models under Nanshan Automobile Group will use this technology in autonomous driving chips and smart cockpit chips."

Although these words were unpleasant to hear, Li Zairin dared not not report them.

Samsung Electronics has been committed to becoming the world's largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor company.

Once upon a time, this goal was very close to them.

But now it is getting farther and farther away.

The rise of Nanshan Semiconductor and Honor Technology has had a huge impact on Samsung Electronics.

"When do we expect to achieve a breakthrough in our own 2-nanometer process?"

Li Zairong asked in a very bad mood.

Under his leadership, Samsung Electronics now seems to be going from bad to worse.

Whether it is the semiconductor industry or the mobile phone industry, they have now been surpassed by Chinese companies.

This caused his reputation within the Samsung Group to plummet significantly.

"There is still a big bottleneck in equipment. Mass production will not be possible until the year after next at the earliest, and the yield rate will be relatively low at that time."

The people in charge of research and development wanted to lower their heads under the table.

But at this time I still have to answer honestly.

"Does that mean that in the next two years, we will fall behind in terms of 2-nanometer chips?"

Faced with Li Zairong's questioning, no one dared to say a word.

In recent years, Goryeo's economy has not been so prosperous, and all walks of life have been surpassed by their Chinese counterparts.

Samsung Electronics is just a typical example. The situation in other fields such as shipbuilding and automobiles is not much better.

"President, I think the company may need to further invest some funds in research and development, and arrange professional technicians to go to equipment manufacturers to assist in the development of new equipment. Only in this way can the progress of research and development be accelerated."

After a long silence, Li Zairin made a suggestion.

This was a last resort, and Li Zairong had no choice but to agree.

The same situation is also happening at other semiconductor manufacturers such as TSMC.

The global semiconductor industry has become anxious because of the production of Nanshan Semiconductor's 2nm process chip factory.

That evening, China TV specially allocated five minutes to report on Nanshan Semiconductor during the news broadcast.

This situation is quite rare.

Of course, Nanshan Semiconductor is doing very well and no one will have any objection to such reports.

Even Nanshan Semiconductor has become the pride of Chinese enterprises to a certain extent. (End of this chapter)