Taking over the electronics factory, you actually created an industrial empire

Chapter 131 The treatment of this chip is also a bit high!
A group of chip company executives present were stunned when they heard Sheng Huainan's words.

This salary is too high!
Zhu Shangzu's heart couldn't help but twitch.

This President Sheng's words are too exaggerated, he shouldn't draw cakes like this.

In China, in 07, although the country paid more attention to chips, due to the low degree of industrialization of the chip industry in China, to put it bluntly, it did not make money, and the chip industry basically lost money. Either he came from that island, or he returned from the beautiful country, but he couldn't find a local talent.

No one was dug up.

From this we can see the lack of local chip talents.

For the four major positions in the field of digital chip design (front-end design/verification/DFT/back-end), for 9+17 microelectronics demonstration colleges, some 985, sea turtle graduates who graduated this year, the average annual salary of graduates given by relevant companies in Huaguo It should be less than 5 yuan, and some are even only around 3 yuan.

To put it bluntly, you can find an integrated circuit talent who graduated from 3 for 985 yuan, which is simply a shame within the industry.

It is completely different from later generations, especially after 17 years, when the popularity of the semiconductor industry has gradually increased. Those majoring in materials and physics have switched to semiconductors, and some new IC design companies have pushed up the salary of the entire industry. Most of them study chip-related majors. Most of the students will basically transfer directly after graduation, and almost none of them do chip research and development.

Now Zheku Chip has been recruiting in the past year, and only by giving the same treatment as the Shanghai R&D Center, a considerable proportion of newcomers can be found. They are actually students from the four schools of Qingbei and Fujiao. In later generations, there will not be 40 W's starting salary, don't even think about it, and people won't even consider you, a start-up company in the southwest region.

Therefore, the current Zheku chip is short of people, technology, and time, which is a difficult word!
"We have already made SoC system-level chips, but according to our research and development strength, we can only make 110nm grades. Well, in fact, from the perspective of main frequency, it may be worse than 11nm. Now Taped out 5 times, but only succeeded 3 times, which is not considered a complete success..." Zhu Shangzu is the kind of professional management talent who is more focused on technology. The name of this 11nm-level chip: Lingxiao 501 is roughly described.

"The 110nm-level SoC is already the product with the lowest threshold for SoC-level chips. How come it has been developed for more than half a year and has not yet been fully taped out?" Sheng Huainan frowned.

He knows that the research and development of high-end chips is difficult, the tunneling effect, and the high tape-out cost greatly increase the difficulty of chip research and development. Why is it so difficult to make the simplest 110nm chip now?
"Because our company's chip R&D team has just been established, a lot of work can only be done from scratch, and it takes time to solve the problem. Although it is only a 110nm chip, a highly integrated SOC is extremely complex. We are now using The ARM public version CPU is only a part of it, and there are many modules and subsystems such as bus, DDR, display, image processing module, video codec module, MODEM, etc. These modules and subsystems, as long as some small nodes have bugs, they will Tape-out failed, so we are very close to success..." A bus manager on the side roughly added.

Sheng Huainan roughly understood the general reason after listening.

In SoC design, simulation and verification are the most complex and time-consuming links in the SoC design process, accounting for about 50% to 80% of the entire chip development cycle. Adopting advanced design and simulation verification methods is the key to the success of SoC design.

This is like building a house. The location, angle, and distance of each brick on the house will be strictly restricted, and even the amount of cement applied to the brick will be accurately planned and planned at the centimeter level. Adjustment, and the high-spec chips of later generations, that is, building a house on a hair strand, is even more difficult!
After Sheng Huainan nodded, this SoC chip, Ling Xiao, did not take the detours of the previous life. Under his guidance, it went directly to the ARM public version. He asked Li Jingshu to call Shi Yongxin and the core team of mobile phone research and development. , said, "Now that the tape-out is close to success, in order to use this SoC chip as soon as possible, then we have to start the next step!"

After hearing Sheng Huainan's words, all the members of the mobile phone team couldn't help being a little shocked when they were called over for a chip special meeting.

In fact, they are not particularly willing to use this kind of chip without market experience, even if it is something developed by their own subsidiary.

But Zhu Shangzu's joy comes from the heart, but the thoughts in their hearts are completely different.

They have always believed that this system-level chip will not be used immediately, but will be iterated again. It will be used in Shangsha Technology's products when it reaches the 65nm level. They did not expect it to be used so soon. So, where will the Lingxiao 501 chip be used by Sheng Huainan?
The executives of Zheku Chip looked at Sheng Huainan with fiery eyes!
Although, they admitted that they came to Shangsha Technology because of money, but who wouldn't want to realize the value of life here by the way?

In Huaguo, no company dares to develop its own chips, and no company dares to use its own self-developed SOC-level large-scale chips. Before they came, they were skeptical, and they were willing to come here because they saw the strong product manufacturing capabilities of Shenghuainan, a technology company in Shanghai. Give it a try and see if you can make some achievements.

Now not only does the Lingxiao 501 chip have tailor-made products, but it is already on the iterative positive feedback, which shows that, at the very least, the Zheku chip is useful for Shangsha Technology!
No boss will endure the long-term loss of the business below him, even if it is a strategic product line!
Now that there are so few job opportunities for chip talents, even fewer are willing to give big money. They don't want to see Sheng Huainan directly cut off all this business line because Zheku Chip has not been able to mass-produce core chips after the enthusiasm retreats.

Therefore, everyone in the current Zheku chip also attaches great importance to this meeting.

Sheng Huainan said: "Shangsha Technology's future plan should not just be positioned as a so-called assembly plant. The SOC chip is from Texas Instruments or Qualcomm, and the screen is from Sun Country Sharp. This is not good! More importantly, we have to develop To develop my core competitiveness, I need to build Shangsha Technology into an enterprise with its own solid moat!"

PS: Also, the other two chapters are coming later!

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