I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 533: 371-372: New way to play with chips! (4000 words)
Afterwards, Xi’an University’s offensive had not yet ended, and it immediately launched a second round of self-sanctions against Hillhouse, restricting Hillhouse’s device suppliers from supplying any products involving American technology!
That is to say, at the beginning, Hillhouse was unable to obtain most of the supply of parts from the West.

Well, now, Hillhouse cannot import any parts related to Xida’s technology!
bully!
What a bully!
I have never seen such bullying before!
At this time, Hillhouse has just started to self-cut, and the 90-day delay period has been extended, plus Hillhouse's chip backup plan, so there is not much impact on Hillhouse's mobile phone business at this time.

Now, Hillhouse's consumer business is still growing.

As for Hillhouse Vehicles and Hillhouse Derivatives, their foreign parts have been replaced because of the original domestic Plan B. Therefore, although there is a certain impact now, it is not as deep as originally imagined.

At this point, the people at Hillhouse who had come to their senses were filled with admiration for Gao Huaijun!

It turns out that I was puzzled by Gao Huaijun's insistence on localizing domestic parts and supporting some domestic suppliers.

If you need an AB manufacturer solution, there are also many excellent related manufacturers abroad. It is indeed unnecessary to use domestic third-rate manufacturers.

These domestic manufacturers, let alone the high-end Hillhouse, even some second-rate electronic technology or automobile industry companies may not be able to look up to them.

Hillhouse also specially dispatched engineers to these B manufacturers to provide professional technical guidance and improve their yield rate.

Moreover, even though this has been achieved to this extent, the prices and yields of these companies' products have not increased.

Many people can’t understand why it’s unnecessary?

In this era of large-scale social logistics, is there anything that cannot be bought?
But now this suicide storm has made everyone suddenly realize.

That's it!

You can’t buy it now just because you want to. You can’t buy it!

"Hillhouse Technology's high-end chips for mobile phones are sufficient for now, but they will only last for eight months at most!"

"Time is very tight. If we lose the high-end Qinglong chip, we will have to suspend sales of our Mate and P series phones."

Ning Yuan and Gao Huaijun talked as they walked.

Hearing this, Gao Huaijun paused, then stood still, took a deep breath and said, "For the Mate series and P series mobile phones, all entry-level products will be stopped from production, and only the top-end products will be produced!"

"If we delay it, we can sell it for a few more months."

Ning Yuan nodded silently.

This decision is very difficult to make.

In other words, only Gao Huaijun can make such a decision.

Now Hillhouse Technology is Hillhouse’s biggest profit cow!

Although the sales volume of Hillhouse Technology as a whole is not as high as that of Hillhouse Vehicles, Hillhouse Technology is mainly asset-light, and all production, including part of the sales, are done by third parties.

In other words, Hillhouse Technology only needs to be responsible for the R&D and sales ends within the smile curve.

It was definitely a good meal.

As for Hillhouse Vehicles, there are a lot of heavy asset investments, various factories and bases, as well as various material preparation costs, so although it also makes money, it is much less than that of Hillhouse Technology.

Now it is suddenly going to lose a leg, and it is the thickest thigh. For Hillhouse, it is really more painful than cutting off flesh!

After walking in silence for five minutes, the two of them arrived at the site of the Hillhouse chip factory.

In order to keep a low profile and maintain confidentiality, this factory has never been open to the public.

However, even so, there are a total of four factories near Hillhouse's Shanghai R&D center, including three 4-inch wafer fabs and one 3-inch wafer fab.

When Hillhouse first acquired this land, it was very desolate and there were basically no people living there. The indigenous residents nearby were what the people of Shanghai called Xiangwuning.

However, after nearly ten years of operation, it has become a small town centered around Hillhouse Magic City Science Park.

There are more than 20,000 employees in the four factories alone.

These employees are not ordinary workers in ordinary factories. They are engineers with bachelor's degrees or even master's degrees in related majors.

Up to now, the engineers recruited in this factory are basically people with a master's degree or above!

It is no exaggeration to say that Hillhouse has built a new city in Qingpu!

"Hello, Mr. Liang, nice to meet you!" Gao Huaijun smiled and looked at the serious-looking middle-aged man in front of him, the new R&D director of Hillhouse Chip Factory - Liang Mengsong!

"Hello, Mr. Gao, I'm sorry I'm busy right now. Please forgive me for disturbing you." Liang Mengsong just raised his head slightly, nodded and said lightly.

Ning Yuan, who was standing by, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

How fresh this is!
Not to mention at Hillhouse, even outside, Gao Huaijun is basically a VIP wherever he is.

VIP level person.

It can be said that there is no place in China that he cannot go.

However, Gao Huaijun was not annoyed when Liang Mengsong, a straight science and engineering man, spoke like this. It seems that he still loves Xian.

Now the leaders of Hillhouse Chip Factory are being adjusted and replaced. It can be basically said that although Liang Mengsong is the head of R&D, he basically has the final say.

Liang Mengsong's wife is Korean. He was almost promoted to vice president in Taijidian, but due to internal strife, he could not become the successor of Taijidian. He lost his office in Taijidian and had to go to Sansang.

Liang Mengsong is a domineering and extremely conceited person, a typical technology fanatic.

Liang left Taiwan and Dian because he felt he was not recognized. Leaving Taiwan and Dian to Sansang was considered a rebellion. People on the island have a very low opinion of Liang and believe he is morally flawed.

After Liang Mengsong joined Sansang, his deep background and contributions in the field of semiconductor technology helped Sansang make significant progress in chip manufacturing, especially promoting the rapid development of 14nm process.

However, Taijidian sued Liang Mengsong and Sansang for violating the non-competition agreement and infringing on trade secrets. In the end, the court ruled in favor of Taijidian, which led to Liang Mengsong leaving Sansang for some time.

Gao Huaijun asked Li Yinxin to act as a lobbyist to convince Liang Mengsong and gave him the greatest control and voice in the factory, which allowed this great man to come here to work.

"Mr. Liang, I won't be polite with you when I come here."

"To make a long story short, Hillhouse Technology is facing a big problem in chip manufacturing right now, and I think you should know that."

"Now we need the Mate and P series to maintain sales, so we need high-process chips..."

Before Gao Huaijun could finish his words, Liang Mengsong interrupted him, "Mr. Gao, there is something I have to say in advance. I can seriously make high-process chips, but I can't make them in the short term!"

“This thing is not like drinking a glass of vodka and drinking as much as you want.”

“We have to consider stability and yield, the sustainability of the machine and the matching of personnel levels.”

"There are too many things to consider!" "The most advanced 7nm technology now requires me to make it within a year."

"I'm sorry, I can't do that!"

Liang Mengsong refused directly.

joke.

In just one year, the manufacturing process has rocketed from 20 nanometers to 7 nanometers. Even a god can’t do it!

If Gao Huaijun forced him to do so, he would just resign.

He is a person who makes a living by his skills and has worked in Sansang.

His net worth has already exceeded 100 million.

Wealth has long been free!
Why did he agree to work as a lobbyist at Hillhouse?
Liang Mengsong's lifelong ideal is to build a foundry that surpasses Taiwan Electronics. What Liang pursues is to put Taiwan Electronics under his feet and to be on par with or even surpass Taiwan Electronics within 10 years.

Only Gao Huaijun of Gao Ling could agree to this!

Although Sansang Electronics is still very powerful now, it withdrew from the Chinese market early on.

what does this mean?
This means that the company’s potential has actually reached its peak.

Now in China, Hillhouse Technology and Zhongwei are engaged in a big showdown.

Since China Telecom does not have its own process plant like Taiwan Telecom and Taiwan Semiconductor, the only one that meets the requirements is Hillhouse Capital!

Now, Hillhouse not only has electronic technology, but also the automotive industry. Both are major chip consumers. Relying solely on their own demand, they can complete the internal circulation and realize the dream of catching up with Taiwan and Electronics in advanced processes!
What’s worse, Taiwan Electronics is now unable to provide Hillhouse Technology with advanced process chips.

This means that in the future, Hillhouse will have to supply chips on its own.

If Hillhouse Capital's mobile phone industry sweeps the world in the future, does it mean that it can trample its enemy Taiwan and Dian under its feet?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel his blood boiling!

However, now that Hillhouse has been forced to lay off its own shares, it is simply impossible for it to blindly speed up the research and development progress.

Even if he wanted to work overtime 24 hours a day, he still couldn't meet the requirements.

Gao Huaijun couldn't help but touch his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable.

In Hillhouse, oh no, in this world, no one dared to talk to him like this for a long time.

One could even say that in this world, all he saw were smiling faces!
"In the absence of support from equipment manufacturers, we hope that Hillhouse Chip Factory can build the N+1 line as soon as possible. Although this requires the efforts of thousands of engineers, this is one of our minimum requirements." Li Zonglin of Hillhouse Chip couldn't help but interrupt.

Now that Hillhouse Capital has committed suicide, he is the most panicked one!

Under his founding, Hillhouse Chip achieved a transformation from 0 to 1.

But now, Hillhouse Chip is at risk of massive layoffs, with the entire high-end chipset being cut.

This is unacceptable to him!

So now he is preparing to urgently launch Plan B and start the development of what Gao Huaijun called stacked chips, and he has already made some preliminary progress.

But this requires the support of Liang Mengsong.

He knew the pressure Gao Huaijun would be under if the superimposed chip was not available within a year.

The entire Hillhouse Chip is now a behemoth that devours a large amount of funds, hundreds of billions of funds a year.

It is very normal that Gao Huaijun can't bear it.

He himself felt that this was not easy to bear!

"Stacked chips? Do you want 14-nanometer process chips?" Liang Mengsong asked on the side.

Li Zonglin nodded quickly.

He was busy explaining how this so-called stacked chip worked.

Let’s talk about power consumption first. The original power consumption of 14nm chips is much greater than that of 7nm chips, not to mention there are two of them. There is only one way to make the power consumption of these two stacked 14nm chips reach the level of 7nm: frequency reduction. But to what extent should the frequency be reduced for normal use?

This requires Liang Mengsong to work with them to water a batch of data before we can know to what extent the frequency should be reduced.

The second is performance. At the same power consumption, the performance of 14nm is less than half of that of 7nm. If you want to make the 14nm chip reach the level of 7nm, the power consumption must be doubled, and the chip area must be further expanded to fit more transistors (this has deviated from the law of chip development).

According to previous tests, the power consumption of 7nm chips is about 7W. To reach the 7nm level of 14nm, the power consumption must be increased to 14W. The stacking of two chips is 28W. Not to mention whether it is hot or not, Liang Mengsong himself is worried that this power consumption will directly melt the motherboard.

Therefore, the prerequisite for developing this technology is to solve the heat dissipation problem of stacked chips, which is ultimately a technological innovation issue.

Are you sure you want to do this?
However, Liang Mengsong's eyes gradually lit up. The dual-core stacking solution is more like a decoupling solution for dual-core CPUs.

But this thing is very challenging to make!
There is also the possibility of overtaking on a curve!
"You can try it. This technology is nothing new. Advanced video memory is a three-dimensional package of several DDR and GPU. It cooperates with the GPU to do large-scale parallel computing, with large bandwidth and high performance. The dual-core stacking you mentioned is probably trying to use this technology, but the 14nm stack exceeds the 7nm."

“But power dissipation is a big problem!”

“This is not something that can be solved by the process sector.”

"You need to think carefully about how to prevent the phone from heating up or even exploding after hours of intense gaming. Do you understand what I mean?"

Liang Mengsong raised his eyebrows as he spoke.

Everyone present couldn't help but laugh at this moment.

The explosion in Sansang during that period has always been Liang Mengsong’s dark history.

This thing mainly has design problems, which causes the battery to short-circuit and the high temperature to cause combustion.

Lithium batteries have a high energy density and can reach several hundred degrees when released in a short period of time.

However, this is more or less related to the fact that the chip design is too high-frequency, causing the battery to be in high-temperature conditions for a long time.

This is actually a very important reason why Liang Mengsong left Sansang.

Sansang is a bug, and his work is very average, but when it comes to shirking responsibility and finding someone to take the blame, they are experts!
The Shuda Gang, the Yonsei Gang, the Gaoda Gang, they were having a lot of fun. As a foreigner, how could Liang Mengsong beat these people?

"The 14nm stacked chip is a very important chip technology for Qinglong chips. We will design it well, please rest assured, Mr. Liang." Li Zonglin hurriedly went up to Liang Mengsong.

When fellow villagers meet, he won't stab them!

(End of this chapter)