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Zhang Guoli seems to have fully understood the spirit of Xu Zhenming’s speech and made a summary report at the meeting, “Colleagues, according to Xu Dong’s instructions, our Dolphin I chip actually only has two styles. One is a self-use mobile phone CPU with integrated multi-function modules. The chip is a standardized CPU without integrated modules."

While making the summary report, Zhang Guoli is also arranging tasks for all the chip R&D technical teams participating in the conference.

The Xiao Liu team responsible for the research and development of touch screen chips must immediately implement an overtime shift system. It is best to bring sleeping bags to the office and strive to digest the touch screen chip technology brought back from the United States by the end of this month.

Zhang's team must continue to work hard to integrate the handwriting technology developed by Yiming Group with Graffiti input method technology, and strive to complete the handwriting calligraphy sending chip by the end of the month.

The same is true for several other functional module chip development teams. All functional module development nodes are scheduled to complete their tasks before July 31.

This is a dead order, otherwise it will delay the overall design and release date of the Kaiyuan second-generation mobile phone standard version.

Speaking of the release date of the Kaiyuan second-generation mobile phone, Xu Zhenming remembered the pricing of the standard version of this mobile phone.If the tape-out cost of the Dolphin I chip is around US$400, the retail price of the Kaiyuan II standard version of the mobile phone will still reach around 10,000 yuan.Foreign users don't feel it, what about domestic users?

"It's incomparable, who told you Kaiyuan mobile phones to be an internationally famous brand. Xu Dong, you won't lower your status and engage in low-price sales?" Rebs understood Xu Zhenming's concerns and smiled and joked with Xu Zhenming.

The Chaoming manufacturing company he is in charge of is actually the publisher of Kaiyuan's second-generation mobile phone. How can we not care about the pricing of this mobile phone.

Xu Zhenming glanced at him, "What are you and us? Are you not related to our Yiming Group Company?"

"Xu Dong is right! Hey... Colleagues, the meeting is over, you go back quickly, get nervous immediately according to the task arrangement, and start acting immediately." At this time, Zhang Guoli also came to help Xu Zhenming.

He announced the adjournment of the meeting and let his technicians start work, striving to start the tapeout procedure for the Dolphin I chip within five days.

After making these arrangements, Zhang Guoli and Rebs did not leave. He sat next to Xu Zhenming and gave his boss an idea. “Xu Dong, the only way to reduce the cost of Dolphin I tape-out is to improve the process level. As long as the chip yield rate is If it is increased, the cost will naturally decrease."

Zhang Guoli is not worried about major problems in the project he is responsible for.Even if there are two models of the Dolphin I chip to be developed at the same time, he thinks that they are all right.

"This is a technical problem of doing addition and doing subtraction. We use the Dolphin I chip for our own use to do addition, which is a bit difficult. But now we want to reduce the modules, which is actually much simpler, as long as we solve the logical relationship and the data between the modules. The relationship of flow exchange is fine."

Zhang Guoli patted his chest to promise Xu Zhenming that he would give Xu Zhenming an answer within five days and took out two Dolphin I chips.For the time being, these two CPUs are divided into two models, one is Dolphin I-1, the other is Dolphin I-2.

There is no problem on his side, and the problem must be solved by Mingxin Manufacturing Company.If Zhang Nyijing's team can improve the Foundry process and reduce the cost of the Dolphin I-1 chip to about $100.Thinking of this, Xu Zhenming acted immediately and picked up his mobile phone to call Zhang Neojing.

"Okay, I will come to your meeting room right away. Xu Dong, you'd better let Director Hu also come to meet, we are going to discuss the new generation of process technology."

After the call was connected, Zhang Neojing responded to Xu Zhenming in this way.He told Xu Zhenming during the call that the Mingxin Manufacturing Company's team has actually made breakthroughs in FinFET process technology, but he just doesn't know whether it should start application and experiment immediately.

Upon receiving this news, Xu Zhenming immediately called Hu Mingzhen and asked Hu Mingzhen to come to this conference room for a meeting.After hanging up the phone, he raised an eyebrow at Rebs, "Would you like to listen to their technical discussion?"

"No. The technology you discussed is too professional, I can't mix it up." Rebs curled his mouth, his big mouth crooked.He could understand what Xu Zhenming meant to send off the tea, so he had to find himself a step down.

Within Yiming Group, Foundry's process technology is the core and the most critical key.Anyone who comes into contact with this technology must sign a confidentiality agreement with the highest level of restriction.What's more, Rebs is not yet an executive of Yiming Group, so he can only leave early.

Not long after Rebs left, Hu Mingzhen arrived.

"Xu Dong, there is such a thing. When you led the financial professional team to kill mad at Xiangjiang, our group was not idle. We have improved the FinFET process technology to a higher level. But this process technology It's not perfect yet, it hasn't broken through 100 nanometers."

Hu Mingzhen shook his head regretfully, confirming the news Zhang Neojing had provided to Xu Zhenming.He is also distressed now, still a little self-doubt, thinks the theory of FinFET process technology is problematic.

According to Hu Mingzhen’s vision, the FinFET process technology can be infinitely improved, and the physical circuit diagram etched on the silicon wafer can be infinitely improved and superimposed, and finally reach the molecular level.

"The molecular layer is the limit of silicon chips. As long as we can achieve this level of lithography, the third generation of lithography machines can be used, and there is no need to make a fuss about the light source of the laser." Hu Mingzhen said.

His theory is understandable, but the current technical means cannot reach it.

Therefore, Hu Mingzhen is no longer confident and begins to doubt the theory of FinFET process technology.The crystal structure characteristics of silicon wafers do not seem to be suitable for the FinFET process, which cannot reach the limit.

"It doesn't matter if we can't reach the limit. We can now make four layers of etching. With more effort, as long as we can achieve eight layers of etching, it is enough to deal with various situations."

At this time, Zhang Neojing, who had just arrived, opened his mouth wide and said with a big smile.

He is very optimistic and believes that the FinFET process technology that has only recently achieved a breakthrough is worth celebrating, and he wants to ask Xu Zhenming to give him a name.

Because it costs more to do process technology trials, their team members are discussing plans to modify the procedures that were wrong in the last trial process, and they did not report this immature technology as a project.

Xu Zhenming didn't care about what Zhang Nyijing explained, and waved his hand casually, "Zhang, Director Hu, and Director Zhang, the question we are going to discuss now is that the FinFET process technology has been improved and has the cost decreased?

As usual, Xu Zhenming named the new generation FinFET process technology "FinFET+1" Foundry process technology.He hopes that this technology can continue to be upgraded until it reaches the level of n+1, reaching the molecular level mentioned by Hu Mingzhen.

But at present, after this technology is improved, has the original FinFET process technology improved?This is what Xu Zhenming cares about.