Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 759: Number one in the world, does Nanshan Semiconductor bring surprise or shock to everyone?

Ordinary consumers basically don’t care much about charging pile industry standards.

Mainly relevant people in the automotive industry are paying attention.

However, in addition to agreeing and protesting, a new voice suddenly appeared on the Internet.

That is, the battery swap mode is the optimal charging solution for electric vehicles.

Qiantu Motor, whose first car has not yet been officially launched, took advantage of the good opportunity of its sister company Bitauto.com, the second largest professional media platform in the Chinese automobile industry, to promote this topic with full force during this period.

They even launched some design drawings of battery swap stations and gave some specific implementation time plans.

"Mr. Lu, our first car is expected to be put into production in the second half of next year. By then, the battery replacement station will also need to be built simultaneously."

"I think we can first select a few sites in several first-tier cities as demonstration projects and start construction now."

"In this way, our promotion of the power replacement program will be more convincing."

In the opinion of some people, as long as the size of the battery pack is designed to be a fixed standard, the battery replacement program can be promoted.

"At the same time, we can also start drafting industry standards for battery swapping in electric vehicles and submit them to the automobile industry association. We hope to make this the final industry standard."

But I don’t think it’s feasible.

At the same time, he also asked Bitauto to help contact some advertising companies to help promote the advantages of battery swapping, making this topic more popular.

But this assumption itself is not valid.

"But in fact, it is not feasible. It is impossible for all car companies to produce batteries of the same specifications."

"You can start the site selection work first. The popularity on the Internet is still not enough right now. I think we need to further increase publicity."

Lu Bing agreed without any hesitation.

"Even for batteries of the same size, products produced by different companies have different performance in terms of voltage, current, etc."

"So in the end, apart from solving the problem of battery replacement for a single one or two models, there is no possibility of unified promotion in the industry."

Cao Yang was not surprised at all by what Zeng Tingting and Lin Cheng said.

As the person in charge of Nanshan Battery, Lin Cheng is naturally very aware of the situation of the battery pack.

It's not like he hasn't considered the idea of ​​replacing batteries.

In fact, this is not the case at all. The plan behind it is complicated.

He actually knew that the standards proposed by Qiantu Motor in the short term would never be accepted by the industry.

This situation has also attracted the attention of Future Automobile and Nanshan Battery.

Zeng Tingting is now in charge of the main business of Future Auto. Today, she came with Lin Cheng from Nanshan Battery to report to Cao Yang on the recent situation.

So from this perspective alone, the standard for battery replacement will not be passed so quickly.

Qin Lihong is also very clear that the introduction of industry standards for the power swap mode is not qualified at this stage, but if the atmosphere is heightened first, there will definitely be no problem.

Qin Lihong has been working almost all year round in the past year.

Many capitals are also watching the development of Qiantu Auto. Once their model is successful, more capital will immediately enter the new energy vehicle industry.

"However, some people on the Internet are unreasonable. After being criticized, they feel that we should push for the introduction of battery replacement standards as soon as possible."

The other is to promote the development of plug-in hybrids as one of the development directions of new energy vehicles.

"As a brand new new energy vehicle company, Qiantu Motor is following the development path of Internet companies."

Qiantu Motor's sister company is Bitauto. If we don't take advantage of this advantage, it will definitely be a waste of resources.

In the future, cars will mainly be purely electric, while Xingchen Motors and Jaguar Land Rover will mainly be plug-in hybrids, forming a differentiated development route.

“Only by building momentum now can we really set industry standards later.”

"If we want to go public and raise funds, we must let investors see something different coming out, and we must make the pie bigger."

Several mainstream new energy vehicle companies have not taken the battery swap route.

"The battery swapping solution is theoretically a good solution for the development of electric vehicles. It can not only reduce the price of electric vehicles by leasing batteries, but also greatly alleviate the problem of charging difficulties."

"They hope to promote further development of the company through listing and financing."

In this case, the power replacement solution is feasible.

"Yes, of course we can see this thing clearly."

It is better to increase the energy density of the battery and increase the cruising range. This is the most important thing.

"Mr. Cao, after our preliminary investigation, the topic of battery replacement should have been brought up by Qiantu Motor."

Unless there is only one battery company in the country, let this battery company produce battery packs according to several models for all OEMs.

"Not to mention there are several technical directions such as lithium iron phosphate and ternary lithium. Even if one is used uniformly, there is no way to solve this problem."

"Well, this is also a way. Anyway, it doesn't require much money to cooperate with those scholars, but the results are good."

Qiantu Motor has received several investments and is currently progressing in an orderly manner.

Lu Bing is a very thoughtful person and knows exactly what opportunities should be seized.

“We can also do some joint research projects with professors from some universities, and use these projects to promote the development of the battery swap model.”

"I also specifically used the standards of charging piles as an example to try to gain some attention."

Zeng Tingting said a little speechlessly.

In her opinion, Qiantu Motor does not look like a company that makes cars well.

She thought that Cao Yang was better at doing gimmicks before, and Xingchen Automobile relied on its core strength and various publicity.

But now compared with Qiantu Motor, I find that it is still not as courageous as others.

The car hasn't even come out yet, but Qiantu Motor will brag about how powerful their new model is every now and then.

It's as if they, a company that has never produced a car, are stronger than all the car giants.

"Let them make trouble and don't worry about it."

"Before their product is officially launched, everything they say is false."

Although Qiantu Motor will definitely be able to achieve certain development in the current environment.

But Cao Yang didn't think the other party would bring any threat to Nanshan Automobile Group.

So I am too lazy to talk to others for the time being.

However, just because Nanshan Automobile Group is ignoring them does not mean that they will stop.

……

"Editor Fang, the popularity of Bitauto.com has been a bit high these days, and they are constantly hyping the topic of battery swapping solutions for new energy vehicles. This situation is a bit interesting."

As a senior media person, Lin Jiayan can naturally see through a lot of things.

For example, Bitauto fully supports the battery swap solution. She knows the reason behind it is that the founder of Bitauto is the founder of Qiantu Motor.

Qiantu Motor is a manufacturer that strongly promotes battery replacement solutions, and has even won the favor of some investment institutions based on this solution.

It can be said that promoting the battery swap solution is serving the financing of Qiantu Motor.

"Bitauto strongly promotes the battery swap solution, and Autohome constantly criticizes the battery swap solution. Ordinary netizens may find these things very exciting, but in fact there are interests behind them."

If Lin Jiayan can see the problem clearly, Fang Dawen can naturally see it too.

However, this time he was a little confused about which side NetEase Auto should be on.

Logically speaking, he is inclined to support Autohome's point of view.

The power replacement solution sounds beautiful, but there is no hope of large-scale implementation.

However, Bitauto.com has been in constant contact with them during this period, and Qiantu Auto has also promised to place advertisements on NetEase Auto in the future, in order to get NetEase Auto to also side with Bitauto.

On the contrary, there are no additional actions on the Autohome side.

"Traditional fuel vehicles, after developing to their current scale, have indeed entered a bottleneck stage."

"It will be very difficult to sustain rapid development in the future, but various car companies are adding production capacity very quickly."

“Within a few years, it is estimated that the capacity utilization rate of the automobile industry will drop to 60% to 70%.

"The competition among various companies will definitely become more intense by then."

Lin Jiayan participates in the groundbreaking ceremony of a new factory or the commissioning ceremony of a new factory of some automobile companies almost every month.

Behind every ceremony is expanding production capacity.

This situation must be unsustainable.

In fact, various car companies are not unaware of this problem.

But no one thinks that they will be the company with vacant production capacity.

"I heard that a lot of capital seems to be interested in further entering the new energy vehicle industry."

"Especially this year, Tesla's stock price has soared, and the sales of Model S are also very good."

“This situation has allowed many people to see the opportunity for their wealth to skyrocket.”

As the editor-in-chief of NetEase Auto, Fang Dawen naturally has rich sources of information.

Originally, it would take a few more years for Internet capital and other types of capital to enter the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry on a large scale.

But because China's electric vehicle development pace is now several years faster than the same period in history, the entire new energy vehicle industry has become clearer.

Those capitals are very sensitive.

Everyone feels that the new energy vehicle industry is coming, and naturally they have begun to pay more attention to this aspect.

Companies that want to enter this industry are slowly feeling this change.

"This change is not a bad thing for us."

“The more players there are in the automotive industry, the more important advocacy becomes.”

"At that time, everyone will spend more money on advertising and activities."

Lin Jiayan was not nervous at all.

Despite the development of the Internet industry, traditional newspapers and periodical media are having a hard time.

But NetEase Auto Channel itself is a member of the Internet industry.

Now is the period of rapid development of the Internet, and life is comfortable.

Lin Jiayan's monthly carriage fees are more than her own salary, not to mention other things.

"You're right, the more noisy they are, the better."

"This time around the topic of power replacement, none of us supports it."

"We will reprint both articles." After hearing Lin Jiayan's words, Fang Dawen suddenly became enlightened.

These changes are not a bad thing for NetEase Auto, and they don’t need to worry about it so much.

……

"Xiaopeng, I have contacted people from IDG. They are very optimistic about new energy vehicle companies born in the Internet industry."

"If we establish Xiaopeng Automobile next year, it is expected that we will be able to obtain relevant financing soon as soon as the team is established."

“And the amount of financing will not be small.”

During this period, Qiantu Motor made quite a splash on the Internet.

To a certain extent, they are also warming up for the official launch of new cars in the future.

People with Internet background are very good at promoting online.

The news about Qiantu Motor has also attracted the attention of many interested people.

He Xiaopeng is one of them.

As the founder of UC Browser, he is definitely a dividend winner from the rapid development of China's Internet industry.

This year, UC was acquired by Alibaba, and he also joined Alibaba to work.

However, he was far from satisfied with this new job.

Having achieved financial freedom, his ideas have naturally begun to change significantly.

He thought about starting a second business, creating a famous automobile company like Toyota, Honda and Ford, and naming it after himself.

He is already taking action on this plan.

"Lao Xia, you can first contact some R&D personnel in the industry to see who is interested in starting a business with us."

“In the early stages of a company’s development, the most important thing to build is the R&D team.”

"Other personnel in sales, purchasing, production and other fields can be recruited slowly later."

Although He Xiaopeng doesn't know much about the automobile industry, he has done a lot of homework in the past year because he had this idea.

Now, although he cannot be regarded as an expert in the automobile industry, his understanding of the automobile industry is definitely deeper than most people.

"I have already been in contact with some personnel from Yangcheng Automobile Research Institute, Nanshan Automobile Group, BYD and other companies. There should be some clearer information after the New Year."

"However, you must be mentally prepared before formally establishing a new company."

"Building cars is different from working on the Internet. There is no way to come up with products immediately within a few years."

"In the past few years, there has been basically only input and no output."

As the first partner He Xiaopeng brought over, Xia Yan felt it was necessary to confirm this.

After all, although the main funds will come from financing, the initial start-up funds will still mainly rely on He Xiaopeng's own funds.

In other words, at the beginning, the real money was all my own money.

If you don't think this through clearly, you will be in trouble if you burn money and feel distressed.

"I understand this. If we start from scratch and can build a new car within the next three years, it will be considered very good."

"And the R&D personnel recruited in the early stage must be paid relatively high. Otherwise, if they do well in the original company, they will definitely not switch jobs to our company."

When He Xiaopeng said this, Xia Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Start-ups are afraid that the boss’s will is not strong enough.

If you think about it today and think about it tomorrow, it will be very troublesome.

"Then I'll start to move."

"I have also entrusted an intermediary company to start the relevant registration procedures."

"We will choose to place the company in Yangcheng when the time comes. Is this confirmed?"

Xia Yan confirmed it again.

"It's in Yangcheng. After choosing, I think Yangcheng is the most suitable place."

With this dialogue between He Xiaopeng and Xia Yan, the domestic new energy vehicle industry has welcomed a new player.

The development of the entire industry has begun to enter a new stage.

However, as the biggest promoter of new energy vehicle development, Cao Yang was directly confirming a series of final data with Nanshan Equipment and Nanshan Semiconductor at the factory site.

"Mr. Cao, currently all equipment is running relatively normally. In theory, it has the ability to process and produce 14nm chips."

After confirming the last data in his hand, Pan Jinxing took a long breath and gave a rather positive reply.

"If these equipments start to be transferred to Nanshan Semiconductor's factory immediately, will it be possible to launch 14nm process chips within next year?"

Cao Yang couldn't conceal his excitement.

After working in semiconductors for so many years, Nanshan Semiconductor can finally take the lead.

Nowadays, the best that mainstream semiconductor companies are doing is the 20-nanometer process.

If Nanshan Semiconductor can launch 14-nanometer chip technology next year, it will immediately become the number one in the world.

Although this number one position is unlikely to last for long, it will be overtaken by chip companies such as Intel.

But this is already a historic breakthrough.

A few years ago, who would have dared to imagine that China's semiconductor companies could become the world's number one?
I would never dare to think like that in my wildest dreams.

"The time is a little tight, but if the production line is built before the end of next year, there will be no problem in producing the first batch of samples."

"After the yield rate is improved, the sales volume will probably have to wait until the year after next."

Pan Jinxing didn't dare to pat his chest casually.

For the 14-nanometer process, the entire industry has no successful experience to refer to.

He was a little unsure of what would happen by then.

China's chip production equipment accidentally led the world. This is something that he still feels a little confused about.

When he first started working on a photolithography machine, he had very little confidence.

Fortunately, it was finally done.

Unexpectedly, we have now gone one step further and developed 14-nanometer chip processing equipment.

"We have reserved open space and part of the spare factory buildings in the Magic City, and now we can start thinking about equipment relocation."

"At the same time, the new factory in the Magic City will be constructed at an accelerated pace."

"At that time, relevant technical personnel will also be allowed to understand the changing points of different processes in advance to improve the yield rate as soon as possible."

Zhang Jing is also in a very excited mood now.

The most advanced technology currently used by Nanshan Semiconductor in mass production and construction is 28 nanometers.

Now it has directly skipped the 22-nanometer and 20-nanometer process technologies used by some companies and evolved to the 14-nanometer level.

This is definitely a historic breakthrough.

Given Nanshan Semiconductor’s level of human and material investment, once it leads the world, Zhang Jing doesn’t think it will fall behind its opponents in the future.

In the future, both Honor mobile phones and future cars will be able to use high-end chips produced with the latest process technology.

This is of great significance for Honor Technology to become a world-leading enterprise.

Otherwise, even though you can handle general chips by then, it will be disgusting if you cannot handle high-end chips.

The high-end attributes of Honor mobile phones may not be preserved.

"Let's do this. The Magic City Factory will directly transfer all the personnel of the earliest factory to the 14-nanometer chip factory, and then transfer manpower from other factories to support the production of the first factory."

“This way we can ensure that the personnel are the most experienced in the company, and avoid human-induced defects to the greatest extent.”

"At the same time, we must also step up the production of related equipment."

"In the Imperial Factory, we should no longer use the 28-nanometer process technology and go directly to 14-nanometer in one step."

"In the next three to five years, I think the high-low configuration of 28nm and 14nm will basically be able to meet the main domestic needs."

Cao Yang felt that he could be bolder at this time.

Directly build two 14nm chips at the same time.

"I also think that in the future, the company will focus on 28 nanometer and 14 nanometer production capacity expansion, leaving the lagging production capacity to other semiconductor companies for development."

"It is enough for us to occupy the majority of the domestic mid-to-high-end chip market."

"It is estimated that if we want to achieve a breakthrough in the next 7-nanometer process, it will take a lot of time."

"Almost all equipment, including photolithography machines, needs to be redesigned, and the investment should be relatively large."

虽然从28纳米到14纳米，好像一次性进化了14纳米；而从14纳米进化到7纳米，只是进化了7纳米。

But Pan Jinxing, Cao Yang, and Zhang Jing all know that it is much more difficult to evolve from 14 nanometers to 7 nanometers.

With the development of chip technology now, it has begun to enter the bottleneck stage to a certain extent.

It is definitely not that easy to continue to develop rapidly.

Cao Yang was also mentally prepared for this.

From the perspective of meeting market demand, 7-nanometer chips are not so urgent.

It will be enough if it can be done within the next five years.

"To build two 14-nanometer chip factories at the same time, the investment will exceed 200 billion yuan."

"It's probably difficult to hide this action from competitors."

Zhang Jing, like many old-school scientific researchers, habitually feels that the latest technology he has developed cannot be promoted so quickly and must be hidden.

However, in the semiconductor industry, the situation is obviously different.

"There is nothing to hide. Taking this opportunity is just the right time to let everyone know that Nanshan Semiconductor is now a world-class semiconductor company."

"We have now taken the lead in mastering 14-nanometer technology. It depends on other semiconductor manufacturers whether they want to buy equipment from us."

Cao Yang made the decision to officially announce the results of this research and development without any hesitation.

Nanshan Semiconductor wants to do business with the outside world. Without good publicity, how can it do good business?
Anyway, now the United States has regarded Nanshan Equipment and Nanshan Semiconductor as a thorn in its side.

Now add a pinch of salt and it's no big deal.

I just don’t know whether this number one in the world will surprise or shock everyone.

(End of this chapter)