Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 908 The dawn of 7 nanometers, the strange order from Nanshan Semiconductor

Nanshan Semiconductor has been relatively low-key in recent months.

The company's main focus is on improving the yield rate of chips produced using the 14nm process.

However, the 915 electronic reconnaissance ship has achieved such a great success since its launch, and naturally it has presented gallium nitride power components in front of everyone.

As a result, the pressure on Northrop Grumman, the main U.S. military ship manufacturer, has increased.

"Kevlar, if you can have enough gallium nitride power components, how long will it take for your new generation of electronic reconnaissance ships to be produced?"

John specially made an appointment with Kevlar, the vice president of Northrop Grumman.

He felt that there were some ways to deal with this matter.

If Northrop Grumman cannot purchase enough gallium nitride power components in the United States, he thinks it can consider helping.

The white glove company under his control can import and purchase DJI drones from China, and then resell them to relevant departments in the United States for use.

That's the benefit of having a background.

Electronic technology is developing so fast that ships from more than ten years ago would definitely not be competitive enough today.

As long as he takes a bite from it, John feels that his life this year will be very nourishing.

Anyway, there is no problem if you transfer more hands and the cost increases appropriately, just to make this matter appear normal.

"There is no problem with the budget. I will try my best to find a way, but the time will be compressed as much as possible."

Therefore, Kevlar has received countless calls in the past few days, all of which are discussing and urging the new generation of electronic reconnaissance ships.

“If you can’t purchase the relevant components, you can ask me for help with coordination.”

For example, the polar bear side is currently considering a response plan for this matter.

Of course, you definitely don’t buy it directly from Nanshan Semiconductor, but you need to do some digging.

John has said so, Kevlar will definitely not be polite.

Even if some people want to trace it, they can't trace it for a while.

He is not worried that this matter will eventually cause any big trouble.

"I think it would be best if you could provide some other options."

……

Although he knew that there must be some interests behind this matter, he didn't mind letting John make some money from it.

"In terms of gallium nitride power components, we have communicated with semiconductor companies such as Texas Instruments and Intel. Although they can produce some, neither the output nor the price are so satisfactory."

"Even if the budget is large enough, then there is no problem in transforming a new electronic reconnaissance ship within two years."

But even if you add a zero to the ex-factory price of Nanshan Semiconductor, it is now much cheaper than the purchase cost here in the United States.

He was even prepared to let the white-glove company cooperate with a not-so-large semiconductor company to handle this matter.

After spending so many years in the Pentagon, John's energy is not easy to ignore.

As a result, the profit margin contained in it is very huge.

Kevlar knew that the relevant departments in the United States were anxious this time.

There is no absolute secret in the world. Some things that happened during the United States exercises in the southern waters of China were gradually known by some well-informed people.

After all, John has the right to say whether his products can be sold at a relatively high price.

"If the modification is directly based on the existing hull, the time can be controlled within three years."

Although they have more than 20 electronic reconnaissance ships, these ships were generally built several years ago, or even more than ten years ago.

Then he thinks there is a way to buy the gallium nitride power components produced by Nanshan Semiconductor.

With this background, he naturally had to find ways to compress his schedule to the greatest extent.

It is certainly no problem to bully those countries that do not have electronic reconnaissance ships, but compared with China's latest electronic reconnaissance ships, it is completely inadequate.

"Graba, the relevant departments are now considering the idea of ​​importing electronic reconnaissance ships from China. I think this may be a waste of time."

There are a lot of various gallium nitride power components that need to be used on an electronic reconnaissance ship, and the procurement budget given by the relevant departments has soared to more than 10 billion US dollars.

With Kevlar's words, John naturally knew what to do next.

Otherwise, according to the normal construction speed, he felt that the new generation of electronic reconnaissance ships would not be delivered to relevant departments for use in less than five years.

Even if you are not in your current position in the future, you can still be a rich man.

Of course, even if something goes wrong, he is confident that he can handle it.

Under his promotion, formal orders from relevant U.S. departments were quickly placed to Northrop Grumman.

There will definitely be a big gap between the final price and Nanshan Semiconductor's ex-factory price.

At the same time, he also asked people to find ways to purchase gallium nitride power components from China.

This way the possibility of being exposed later is even lower.

This obviously cannot satisfy the relevant departments in the United States.

"Then I'll thank you first."

"On the one hand, it is unlikely that China will sell us the most advanced electronic reconnaissance ships now."

"On the other hand, even if it is sold, the price will definitely be very expensive. I feel that the relevant departments do not have such a high budget to purchase it."

As the technical director of Polar Bear Import and Export Company, Prius has a very busy day's work.

For example, he doesn't want to do some work that is obviously of no special significance and is just tentative.

Because for them, whether it is tentative work or formal negotiations, the workload is actually the same.

The relevant departments of Polar Bear want to mess with it, and Prius is obviously not happy.

"I heard that China's 915 electronic reconnaissance ship paralyzed all American electronic reconnaissance ships."

"The United States has just announced new information, punishing several personnel responsible for intelligence collection and electronic reconnaissance work."

"This shows that those rumors are probably true."

Graba didn't directly answer the Prius question, but referred to other information.

Naturally, he also knew that the relevant departments would most likely not import expensive electronic reconnaissance ships from China.

But he also knew that the relevant departments wanted to take this opportunity to get a feel for the development of China's electronic reconnaissance ship technology.

Although our relationship is relatively good, the feeling of "afraid that my brother will be poor and afraid that my brother will drive a Land Rover" is always there.

With this background, Polar Bear Import and Export Corporation must cooperate with the work.

Otherwise, the relevant departments may file a complaint against them.

"I know that China's electronic technology has developed very fast in recent years, especially semiconductor-related technology, which is already at the forefront of the world."

"The fact that Nanshan Semiconductor can become the world's first mass-producer of 14-nanometer chips speaks volumes."

"The semiconductor components such as gallium nitride power components we previously imported from Nanshan Semiconductor are also evidence."

"But in the face of this change, apart from passively accepting it, what we can do is actually very limited."

"Even if we get the relevant information, we still have no way to produce the same type of electronic reconnaissance ship or semiconductor components."

These were all internal discussions within the company, and Prius spoke very straightforwardly, without beating around the bush.

Otherwise, if Graba arranged a lot of work for him, it would be difficult to refuse.

"Both China and the United States have proven the important role of electronic reconnaissance ships. We also have ships of the same type, but their performance has not kept pace."

"As long as we understand the situation in China, even if we do not directly import electronic reconnaissance ships, we can still purchase some related equipment to upgrade our existing reconnaissance ships."

"Work in this area is still relatively feasible."

Graba has said so, so naturally it’s hard to object to the Prius.

Anyway, they are just a middleman and the final decision is not in their hands.

……

"Mr. Cao, the yield rate of our 14nm chips has reached the requirements, and we can now enter mass production."

Zhang Jing has been busy with this matter during this period, and now that it has finally come to fruition, he naturally came over to report to Cao Yang as soon as possible.

Because of the 915 electronic reconnaissance ship incident, Nanshan Semiconductor has been relatively popular recently.

However, Zhang Jing was not dazzled by the honor.

The technology iteration of the chip industry is very fast. Nanshan Semiconductor took the lead in mastering the 14nm process technology, and the technology of other manufacturers is not far behind.

According to the news he heard, Intel and Samsung's 14nm process factories can be built this year.

They have rich experience in improving the yield rate, and it is possible that they will be able to directly enter mass production by the end of this year.

So Zhang Jing's sense of crisis is actually quite strong.

Before there is a complete technological leadership, all pride is undesirable.

If you waste a little bit of time for a year or two, you will fall behind.

"So, Honor Technology can hold a normal new product launch conference in June?"

Although the 14nm process chip was initially used on the future S9's smart cockpit chip NS8155.

However, since the yield rate is not particularly high, there was not much production capacity left for Honor Technology before.

Now that the yield rate has improved, Honor Technology’s new mobile phones, new computers, and new PADs can all consider using the latest chips.

This is also very important for the development of Honor technology.

After all, the consumer electronics market values ​​changes in chip technology the most.

Why do many computers have the Intel label affixed to the upper right corner of the keyboard? It’s because Intel’s computer chip technology leads the industry.

In the future, if Honor Technology's products can use the industry's most advanced chip technology, it will be very meaningful to stimulate more consumers to spend money to buy new products. Even putting the label of Nanshan Semiconductor in a prominent position on the computer is something that can be considered.

"Yes, we are now starting to increase production. After the Honor Technology new product launch conference is held, the first batch of various products should be quickly distributed to various stores."

"At the same time, we are also speeding up the construction of the Chang'an factory and expect to start production next year."

As the latest mass production technology of Nanshan Semiconductor at this stage, Zhang Jing definitely hopes to have more production capacity to produce the most advanced chips.

This way you can make more profits.

At the same time, you can also better expand your influence.

"How is the research progress of our 7-nanometer chip process technology?"

"Although it is important to expand chip factories for the 14nm process, technology research for the 7nm process cannot fall behind."

Cao Yang is worried that Zhang Jing will focus too much on 14 nanometers, which will affect the research of new technologies.

According to what he has learned, companies such as Intel, Samsung and TSMC are actually conducting research on 7-nanometer process technology simultaneously.

When the time comes, he will be overtaken by others again. This is definitely not a situation Cao Yang wants to see.

To be ahead, it is best to be able to stay ahead. Only in this way can the influence of Nanshan Semiconductor be maximized.

"We have been advancing research and development in this area, and the current progress is pretty good."

"It is expected that next year or the year after that it will be basically finalized and then put into production in the new factory."

Chip iteration technology is very fast.

Normally, chip technology has been upgraded within one to one and a half years.

But now that we have entered the 14nm process, it is much more difficult to continuously improve quickly.

So Zhang Jing didn't dare to say it all at once.

Otherwise, it will be a bit embarrassing if the bullshit is blown out and it turns out to be impossible in the end.

After all, the 7nm process chip means that the size of the transistors on the chip is much smaller than that of 14nm.

Accommodating more transistors per unit area improves the chip's computing performance and energy efficiency ratio.

This change will also bring lower power consumption and higher integration, thus providing the possibility for high-performance, low-power chip design.

But it is not that easy to achieve these goals.

On the one hand, this process has higher requirements for photolithography machines, and the corresponding photolithography machines need to be redesigned.

On the other hand, the improvement of this kind of technology has also increased the requirements for related materials, which requires the cooperation of various enterprises in the industry chain.

Then there is the 7-nanometer process that needs to solve various problems such as quantum tunneling effects.

Because when the size of the transistor is reduced to a certain extent, the quantum tunneling effect will become very obvious.

This will lead to increased leakage current, affecting the performance and reliability of the chip.

To solve these problems, innovative structural design and selection of appropriate materials are necessary to suppress the quantum tunneling effect.

Cao Yang is relatively clear about these problems, so he doesn't think that Nanshan Semiconductor is getting angry just because it hasn't been solved yet.

"If there are any cooperation issues between Nanshan Equipment and Nanshan Chemical, you can tell me directly."

"You determine the overall big schedule, and then use this schedule to work backwards when each link needs to be completed."

"For example, whether Nanshan Equipment's photolithography machine will be produced within this year, and when Nanshan Chemical's new photoresist and other materials will be developed are also listed."

"The chip technology of the 7-nanometer process is very important and is not a simple technological breakthrough."

"In the future, I think the 7-nanometer process chip technology will become the mainstream technology used in most chips."

"In other words, the chip technology of the 7-nanometer process can already meet 90% of the market demand."

"We will build at least four new factories with 7nm process by then."

When Cao Yang said this, Zhang Jing raised the importance of research on 7-nanometer process chip technology to another level.

I originally thought it was just a routine technology upgrade, but I didn't expect that Cao Yang actually viewed it this way.

If this is really the case, it will be equivalent to the 7-nanometer process technology, which will be widely used in Nanshan Semiconductor's main products in the future.

That is indeed worth investing more manpower and material resources.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jing said: "Mr. Cao, I will go back and make arrangements myself, and strive to develop the 7-nanometer chip technology within next year."

There is little point in explaining the difficulty now.

Zhang Jing knew that what Cao Yang wanted to see was the final result.

As long as the results are good, everything is fine.

On the other hand, if the result is not good, no matter how much explanation you give, it will just be a cover-up.

……

Yingang Trading is an important partner of Nanshan Semiconductor.

All their current businesses are closely related to enterprises in the Nanshan Group.

Now many chips and other semiconductor components have been sold to polar bears, Southeast Asia and other places.

Although gallium nitride power components are relatively special, Yingang Trading is also involved.

"Cousin, our performance this month is going to be explosive. We just received a huge order of more than 3000 million US dollars yesterday."

Hu Yingang came to Yangcheng Huaqiang Group with great interest and asked Guo Shuyin to report on the situation of Yingang's trade.

In the past year, due to the sharp shrinkage of the Huaqiangbei copycat market, Yingang Trading's domestic business has declined.

Therefore, Hu Yingang has focused more on foreign markets, and the results so far are good.

"I remember that the previous monthly turnover was usually no more than 1000 million US dollars, right?"

"Isn't it a bit strange that such a big order suddenly came in?"

Although large orders are something worth celebrating, Guo Shuyin is still relatively sensitive when it comes to overseas markets.

Maybe there is some pit outside waiting for you to jump into.

Similar things have happened to many Chinese companies in recent years.

If the components are delivered but the payment is not received, then the entire year will be in vain.

"It's a bit strange to say it's strange, but you don't have to worry about the other party being deceitful."

"Because when the contract was signed, the other party's down payment had already been transferred to our account, and there was no problem with the follow-up payment rhythm."

Hu Yingang thought about it and didn't think there was anything wrong with this big order.

However, Guo Shuyin still asked a few more questions and said, "What is strange about what you just said is strange? Let me tell you specifically."

For this kind of pie falling from the sky, Guo Shuyin felt that no amount of caution could be exaggerated.

Otherwise, you will suffer a big loss, but there is no regret medicine to take.

"The purchasing manufacturer of these orders is an American company. Although it is only a trader and not an end user, it is still relatively rare for American companies to purchase our products."

"After all, everyone in the industry knows that almost all the components operated by Yingang Trading are produced by Nanshan Semiconductor."

"And the United States does not allow related companies to have any business dealings with Nanshan Semiconductor."

When Hu Yingang said this, Guo Shuyin immediately became more cautious and said: "The other party knew that this might violate the regulations of the relevant American departments, but they still came to us to buy components. What components did they buy?"

For ordinary chips, Guo Shuyin feels that companies in the United States do not need to go around and find Nanshan Semiconductor to buy them.

Even if it is a chip of NS8155 level, it doesn't have to be so troublesome.

But it's a bit strange that people chose the very troublesome method of going around in circles.

"GaN power components, this is all they purchase."

When Hu Yingang said this, he also realized that something was wrong, "This thing is a component used in active phased array radar, and can also be used in many other places."

"Could the United States want to use these components to produce radar?"

"That's not right. There are actually companies in the United States that can produce gallium nitride power components, but the cost is higher and the yield rate is lower."

"Used in the military, there is still a solution after all."

"They don't need to take any special risks to buy from us."

Hu Yingang, who was a little confused about the situation, couldn't help but talk to himself.

The logic behind this matter seems a bit unclear.

"Since this thing can be used in military industry, it is still relatively sensitive."

"I think that on the one hand, we can investigate who these customers are buying them for, and on the other hand, we should report to Nanshan Semiconductor to see if they have any ideas."

Guo Shuyin's approach is considered to be relatively mature and prudent.

If the pre-confirmation work is not done well, and good intentions are used to do bad things, and it brings huge threats to the relevant parties for the sake of tens of millions of dollars in turnover, it will be completely worth the loss.

It may affect the cooperative relationship between Yingang Trading and Nanshan Semiconductor.

"Well, then I will go and communicate with Nanshan Semiconductor later."

Hu Yingang thought about it and felt that Guo Shuyin's reminder was quite reasonable.

There is no need to take risks on this matter.

Even if the profits are huge, you still have to identify the risks that you have not thought about.

Otherwise, there would be many very lucrative things in the Criminal Code.

But there is nothing Hu Yingang will do.

(End of this chapter)