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"Also, the number of employees in our Reda Technology Company has long exceeded 40,000. It is just a R&D department with more than 20,000 employees. The number of employees was 10,000, which was already a year and a half ago. Next, the male reporter wearing a white sweater in the fifth row.”

A chubby male reporter stood up, took the microphone from the staff, and asked: "I am Xiao Jianye, a reporter from Science and Technology Daily. Mr. Qiao, I heard that your Reda Technology Company intends to enter the car manufacturing industry. Is this true? ?"

Qiao Ruida smiled and nodded, and said: "Your news is a bit out of date. Our Reda Technology does not intend to enter the car manufacturing industry, but has already entered the car manufacturing industry. As early as the beginning of the year, our Reda Technology established a car manufacturing company The research and development team began to develop new energy vehicles. In order to master the automobile production process, we spent huge sums of money to acquire a number of automobile-related companies during the summer vacation. Now, after more than half a year of research and development, we have developed two new energy vehicles. The car will be officially launched soon, so stay tuned.”

The next person who got the right to ask questions was a blond foreign reporter. She picked up the microphone and asked in somewhat stiff Chinese: "Mr. Qiao once said during the press conference that the M1 chip is made using a 7NM process. I just said I called and consulted a professional. He told me that it is already very difficult to process 14nm chips using the most advanced DUV lithography machine. It is simply a fantasy to process 7nm chips. Excuse me, Mr. Qiao, you made a mistake. Did you tell me the wrong number or was you lying?”

"I can only say that the friend you consulted is not professional enough. It is indeed difficult to process 14nm chips using the most advanced immersion DUV lithography machine, but there are already several wafer factories around the world that can do it. They only produce The cost is too high, the yield rate is too low, and it is not yet popular. The use of DUV lithography machines to process 7nm chips is theoretically feasible. It only needs to be exposed four times, but the existing immersion DUV can be achieved. The lithography machine is still lacking in movement accuracy and certain technical parameters, and it is currently unable to achieve such precise repeated exposure." Faced with the provocation from foreign reporters, Qiao Ruida still replied calmly.

"So, your Reda Technology, or that Rockchip wafer factory that I have never heard of, has mastered the ability to use DUV lithography machines to produce and process 7NM chips. Otherwise, how did your M1 chip come from What?" The foreign reporter didn't seem to want to give up and continued to ask.

"I didn't say that. It's too difficult to use DUV lithography machines to process 7nm chips. Neither Ruida Technology nor Rockchip Fab currently has mastered this technology. I don't know if you have heard about EUV lithography machines. Yes, this is an advanced equipment that uses extreme ultraviolet laser to process chips. Using EUV lithography machine can easily realize the manufacturing of 7nm, 5nm, and even 3nm chips, and our partner Rockchip Wafer Factory happened to get it. Only a few EUV lithography machines can help us produce 7nm M1 chips. As for the origin of the EUV lithography machines, it involves commercial secrets. Please forgive me for not commenting. "

Ruida Technology's EUV lithography machine was a photo that Qiao Ruida found on the Internet ten years later and copied it using a golden finger. Its source was not visible at all, so Qiao Ruida had no choice but to use commercial confidentiality as an excuse. During this summer vacation, Qiao Ruida submitted a detailed EUV lithography machine technical information to the Chinese Academy of Sciences through Academician Wang. She does not know how their research is going and when the domestic EUV lithography machine will be available for interviews.

The next person who got the opportunity to ask a question was a young man wearing glasses. He pushed up his glasses, pondered for a while, and said: "Hello, Mr. Qiao, I am an electronic product review blogger, and I would like to ask. "Since Ruida Technology has mastered the design and production technology of 7NM chips, why is it not used in mobile phones? Is it because the cost is too high, the yield rate is too low, or for other reasons?"

"You raised this question well. In terms of chip design, the mainstream EDA software on the market currently only supports the design of 28NM chips. In order to develop higher-process chips, we at Reda Technology can only end up on our own and organize software and hardware experts. We developed our own EDA software. It was not until the software development was completed two months ago that we completed the design of the 7nmM1 chip. Our partner Rockchip also just mastered it in the past few months. The production process of 7NM chips is still in the stage of ramping up production capacity, and the yield rate is relatively slow. Due to various constraints, we can only produce M1 processors, which is of course a mobile phone processor using 7NM technology. The project has been approved and is in the design stage. The mobile phone will be available probably by next spring, so everyone can look forward to it.”

In fact, this M1 chip was a design drawing directly taken out by Qiao Ruida and handed over to Rockchip Fab for tape-out and mass production. The R&D department's participation was extremely low. This is not because Qiao Ruida is too self-conscious and reluctant to open up the technology to those researchers for study and research. It is true that the 7NM chip design process is too complicated, and the technical span from 28nm to 7nm is too large, which is simply not something that Jamel Xiao and others can master in a short time. Nowadays, the research and development tasks of 7nm mobile phone chips have been issued. A simplified solution is adopted based on the M1 chip, and the design is imitated. This is the best way to learn. I hope that Jamel Xiao and a group of chip developers can master the design technology of 7nm and below chips as soon as possible. There are still a large number of advanced chip research and development tasks waiting for them.

The last person who got the right to ask questions was a middle-aged uncle wearing a black trench coat. He took the microphone and asked: "I am Xu Chuan, a reporter from Southern Finance. Mr. Qiao, your Reda Technology Company has been established for more than two years. , the business situation has been good, have you ever thought about IPO?”

Qiao Ruida shook her head decisively and said: "As you said, our Ruida Technology's operating conditions have always been very good. There is no shortage of funds at all, so there is no need to go public for financing. I am a person who has a strong desire for control and is used to it. Invest in some projects with uncertain futures. In the future, the business departments and branches of our Reda Technology, such as the mobile phone business department, Reda Electronics Factory, Reda Automobile Factory, etc., may be split and listed. As for our Reda Technology It is absolutely impossible for a technology company to go public. Okay, that’s it for the Q&A session. This ends today’s press conference. We at Reda Technology have prepared a small gift for all the reporters and media friends present. Please go to the door to collect it when you leave." (End of this chapter)