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"Since the cost is difficult to control, we divide it into two models, or one model with two configurations. The model without autonomous driving function is positioned as entry-level, priced at around 10 yuan, mainly to seize the market. The model with autonomous driving function is positioned in the mid-range, with slight improvements in battery, power, and other auxiliary functions, and is priced at 20 yuan." Shao Heping has been the factory director for two years. He has completed the transformation from his original engineer thinking to the thinking of an enterprise operator, and he knows how to make money for the company.

"This is a good idea. Let's divide it into two different models, at least to make some distinction in the car styling. This way, those who spend 20 to buy a high-end model will have more face when they drive out." Qiao Ruida also helped to come up with ideas. The two models of Ruida family sedans, one high and one low, gradually took shape after the discussion among the three.

Qiao Ruida stayed at the test track until noon, had lunch in the factory cafeteria, and then drove out of the Ruida Automobile Factory. Now that he was out, Qiao Ruida did not plan to go home, but turned the steering wheel and drove towards the Rockchip wafer factory.

Qiao Ruida's arrival was a little abrupt, so only Chief Engineer Lin Mengsong and two department managers came to greet him. After shaking hands and exchanging some ideas, Qiao Ruida learned that the factory director Luo Yuankai was not in the wafer factory at the moment, but had gone to Beijing with two assistants to attend a chip industry seminar organized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Qiao Ruida said that if Luo Yuankai was not there, then he didn't have to be there, because he didn't come to Rockchip Fab to look for him anyway.

"Engineer Lin, take me to the graphene chip production workshop. I heard that you have increased the chip yield rate to more than 50%, reaching the level of commercial mass production. This is a major breakthrough and deserves recognition."

“We can’t claim credit for this. It’s mainly because the graphene factory improved the production process, which greatly improved the quality of graphene chips and reduced defects. After replacing this new batch of graphene chips on our chip production line, we slightly adjusted the production process, and the yield rate directly increased by more than ten points. The improvement is huge and it’s at a lightning speed.” Lin Mengsong did not claim credit for this, but told Qiao Ruida the whole process of the incident in a realistic way.

The graphene factory that Lin Mengsong mentioned is the graphene factory that Qiao Ruida bought when he led a team to Mohe, Northeast China, to conduct winter testing of new cars last winter. Since buying the graphite products factory, Qiao Ruida has sent a new management team to clean up the factory area, renovate the factory building, recruit talents, introduce foreign graphene production lines (according to external statements, Qiao Ruida actually copied it with the gold finger), and switch to graphene products, which has achieved great success. It has successively produced graphene films used in graphene batteries and graphene wafer products used in the production of graphene chips. Relying only on internal procurement within the group, it has turned losses into profits, and the sale of high-end graphene products to the outside world is even more expensive and profitable.

"Mr. Lin, you are too modest. The R&D team you lead has made great contributions to the development of graphene chips from scratch, and the yield rate has increased from single digits to the current 50%. Of course, the contribution of the graphene factory cannot be ignored. How about this, all the R&D personnel of the graphene factory and Rockchip wafer factory will have their bonuses doubled this month, and at the end of the year, everyone will be given a large year-end bonus. I guarantee you will be satisfied."

Qiao Ruida has always been generous in rewarding his subordinates for their contributions. Large bonuses and year-end bonuses are what they should be. As long as your contribution to the company reaches a certain level, it is a routine operation to provide you with a car and a house, or even give them a car and a house for free.

Lin Mengsong waved for an unmanned electric sightseeing car, asked Qiao Ruida and two department managers to get in, and drove towards the graphene chip production workshop.

"This is mainly because President Qiao has laid a very good foundation for us. Without the technical information and a full set of production equipment provided by President Qiao, we would not have been able to develop graphene chips."

Lin Mengsong actually had a question that he wanted to ask Qiao Ruida in person, that is, where did the technical information and production equipment related to these graphene chips come from. According to what Lin Mengsong learned, there are many research institutions and manufacturers developing graphene chips at home and abroad, but the research and development progress is generally limited and the results are few. There is no one who can provide a full set of graphene chip technical information and production equipment. Even if Qiao Ruida himself is extremely talented and has amazing research and development capabilities, he may be able to develop a full set of graphene chip production processes and write those technical information on his own. But how to explain that graphene production line with thousands of equipment? This is definitely not something that can be accomplished by one person.

Lin Mengsong had many opportunities to meet Qiao Ruida. He wanted to ask her questions several times, but he never took action because it might involve Qiao Ruida's personal privacy. Ask those entrepreneurs who started from scratch in a short period of time, built a huge business, and entered the rich list, which one of them does not have some personal privacy that is not convenient to disclose to the public?

The wafer factory has very high requirements for environmental noise and air cleanliness. Motor vehicles are strictly prohibited from passing through the factory area. All transportation of personnel, products, and raw materials is completed by electric vehicles. As the sightseeing car drove through the factory area, Qiao Ruida saw a large number of electric vehicles of various shapes, carrying goods or personnel, traveling through the factory area, and most of them were unmanned.

"These unmanned vehicles were purchased from the Ruida Automobile Factory, right?" Qiao Ruida asked.

"Yes, Mr. Qiao, we have consulted with many domestic automobile factories, and only the Ruida Automobile Factory next door can achieve true unmanned driving. So we ordered a large number of unmanned vehicles from them and deployed them in the factory. Judging from the current operating conditions, the automatic driving function of these electric vehicles is quite reliable. So far, the mission completion rate has been almost 100%, and there has not been a single car accident." One of the managers of the purchasing department replied.

"I was wondering why these vehicles looked so familiar, and their autonomous driving logic was so similar. They were indeed the products of Ruida Automobile Factory."

The sightseeing bus soon arrived at the graphene chip production workshop. Everyone got off the bus, put on heavy dust-free suits, and entered the workshop. Everything was white, including the white self-leveling floor, the white roof, the white walls, and even the paint on the production equipment was mostly white. It was spotless and impeccable. The white walls reflected the light, making the entire space as bright as day. The staff, wearing spotless white dust-free suits, stood in front of their respective workbenches, recording data, testing products, or setting equipment parameters. They were busy but not chaotic, and were well organized.

This is where Lin Mengsong is in charge, so of course he will lead everyone to visit and explain. At the beginning of the production line, Lin Mengsong used a special fixture to pick up a nearly transparent graphene wafer and said, "This is the latest graphene wafer provided by the graphene factory. It uses a sapphire substrate, which makes the entire wafer appear light blue. According to our test data, the latest batch of graphene wafers has an extremely low defect rate. There are often only one or two defects on an eight-inch wafer. Even some very high-quality products do not have a single defect, which is a perfect wafer." Single-layer graphene is colorless and transparent, with a transmittance of 97.7% in the visible and near-infrared bands. However, a single-layer graphene is only one atom thick, which is too thin and very fragile. In industrial production, in order to increase the strength of graphene without destroying its structure, a layer of substrate is often added to graphene. Sapphire, or aluminum oxide, is one of the common substrate materials.

Qiao Ruida carefully took the fixture and graphene wafer from Lin Mengsong's hand, put it in front of his eyes, and observed it carefully. Although a layer of sapphire substrate was added, the thickness of the graphene wafer was still not high. It looked as thin as a cicada's wing, crystal clear, and excellent in appearance.

"What is the purchase price of this chip?" Qiao Ruida asked curiously.

"The purchase price of an 8-inch graphene chip is 6 yuan, and the price of a -inch graphene chip is slightly lower, about yuan. This is still the internal purchase price of the group. If it is sold externally, the unit must directly convert from RMB to US dollars." Lin Mengsong said with emotion.

“Tsk tsk tsk, this stuff is really expensive, even more valuable than gold. Fortunately, the factory that produces the graphene chips is also our own, otherwise I would be heartbroken.” Qiao Ruida put the graphene chip back to its original place and couldn’t help but complain.

The graphene chip production line has a high degree of automation. Many devices can run automatically. Those that cannot run automatically are also equipped with industrial robots, which do not require manual operation by human operators. This can minimize human factors, help troubleshoot problems, and further improve the chip yield rate. Qiao Ruida and his team walked along the production line for more than ten meters before they met the first engineer. His job was not to directly operate the equipment, but to monitor the readings of various instruments and deal with any abnormalities in a timely manner.

The staff member also noticed the arrival of Qiao Ruida and his group, but he was busy with work and could not be distracted. He did not say hello to them or chat with them. He just nodded to them, turned back and continued to work. Qiao Ruida could understand this. Chips can be said to be the pinnacle of human industry, and their processing accuracy has reached the nanometer level. In the production process of chips, any mistake in any step will cause devastating consequences. At the least, the chip yield rate will drop significantly, and at the worst, the entire batch of products will be scrapped. These young engineers work on the graphene chip production line and are under great pressure. They are afraid that their small mistakes will affect the normal production of chips and cause irreparable losses to the company.

The group walked to the middle of the workshop. Qiao Ruida saw the densely packed deposition patterns on the graphene wafer and asked, "What kind of chips are being produced now? Look at the size, it's really big?"

"Oh, this is the M2 processor for laptop computers manufactured for Reda Technology. It is the processor chip that you, Mr. Qiao, designed. Reda Technology plans to use this chip in the next generation of laptop computers that will be released soon. They have ordered 2 M chips from us. We have just completed about one-third of the order. It will take at least another month to complete all the orders."

They walked along the production line, stopping to observe and communicate when passing some key equipment and core links. They walked and stopped like this until an hour later, when they finally reached the end of the workshop, which was also the end of the production line.

Qiao Ruida stood at the end of the conveyor belt and watched with his own eyes rows of semi-finished graphene chips go down the production line and into dust-free packaging boxes. Then dozens of dust-free packaging boxes filled with chips were packed into unmanned freight vehicles, sent out of the workshop through the freight channel, and sent to the chip testing and packaging workshop. The testing and packaging process of graphene chips is basically the same as that of silicon-based chips. After going through the entire process, the finished chips produced at the end are not much different from ordinary silicon-based chips in appearance, and are all small black squares.

After leaving the graphene production workshop, Qiao Ruida and his team inspected the testing and packaging workshops and completed the entire production process of graphene chips.

At the end of the last chip packaging production line, Qiao Ruida picked up a still-warm graphene chip from the sample box and looked at the word "M2" laser-etched on the chip. He said with emotion: "I didn't expect that graphene chips would be available to the public so soon. I wonder what they will think when they see the Ruida second-generation laptop equipped with the M2 chip and try out its powerful computing power comparable to that of a supercomputer?"

"I guess it was shock and surprise. Anyway, I was quite shocked when I used a computer equipped with an M2 processor for the first time. No matter what software I opened, it opened in seconds. Even when using EDA software, I could complete the automatic wiring operation for a super complex circuit diagram in just one second. Such a computer is simply a supreme artifact for us electronic engineers."

"Yes, since our Finance Department has replaced all its computers with graphene processors, everyone's work efficiency has improved a lot. In the past, in order to sort out the accounts and prepare the monthly report of the previous month at the beginning of each month, all employees of the Finance Department often had to work overtime for several years. Since the replacement of new computers, everyone's work efficiency has been greatly improved. Often, the report of the previous month can be prepared in the first two days of each month, and everyone does not have to work overtime."

"I don't know the public's reaction, but the bosses and executives of Intel and AMD will probably be very shocked and terrified. They made a lot of money by monopolizing the X86 architecture and lived a comfortable life for decades. Now a powerful competitor suddenly appears, and it crushes them in both software and hardware. It's no exaggeration to say that they are terrified." (End of this chapter)