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In the package investment agreement reached between the Oriental Group and the Austin City Government, Oriental Semiconductor will build a new ultra-large fab in Austin with an 8-inch wafer process and a 1-micron process. The total investment of this fab is as high as 150 million US dollars. It will be completed and put into production at the end of next year. After it is put into use, it is mainly responsible for the production of new erm3 series processors.

In addition, Fanlin Semiconductor Equipment Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Dongfang Group, will also build a large factory and a technology research and development center in Austin. Dongfang Application Software Company, Dongfang System Software Company, Dongfang Research Institute and Aikang Company will also set up new R&D centers in Austin.

In the next three years, the Eastern Group will create at least 3,000 jobs for the city of Austin. Austin will also become the Orient Group's second largest production and R&D base in the United States, after Silicon Valley.

With a pleasant climate and reasonable urban planning, Austin is one of the most livable and workable cities in the United States. An important reason for the rise of Silicon Valley is the intellectual support provided by Stanford University, and Austin also has a very good university, the University of Texas at Austin.

There are no public universities at the federal level in the United States, only public university systems established by individual states. State financial appropriations account for a large proportion of the funding sources of these public universities. That is to say, the funding of public universities in each state is actually closely related to the tax status of the state.

California is the most economically developed state in the United States with 10≦, w△ww. Therefore, the University of California system is very well funded and has some of the best public universities in the United States. The most famous of them are the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego are also among the top 50 universities in the United States.

In contrast, Texas has the second largest economy in the United States. The overall level of the University of Texas system is much worse than the University of California system. But Austin, as the flagship university in the entire University of Texas system, has the capital to compete with Berkeley and Los Angeles.

In the ranking of the top 100 universities in the world published by The Times, the Austin campus can be squeezed into the top 15. Its computer, electrical engineering and other majors can be squeezed into the top ten universities in the United States. And another feature of the Austin campus, that is, high quality and large quantity.

The total number of students at Austin exceeds 50,000, making it the fifth-largest school in the United States. By comparison. MIT has only 10,000 students, and Stanford and Harvard have 16,000 and 18,000 students respectively. Berkeley, which is also a public university, has a larger number of students than private universities. But there are only 35,000 people.

The scale of a university at Austin is equivalent to that of Berkeley and Stanford combined. Moreover, in recent years, the Austin campus is also gradually expanding the enrollment scale of computer, electrical and electronic engineering, microelectronics and other majors, and is fully capable of providing sufficient intellectual support for the development of high-tech in Austin.

The above conditions are for the Eastern Group. enough attraction. Not to mention the city of Austin compared to Silicon Valley. It also has its own unique advantages. As an emerging high-tech industrial center, the cost in all aspects is much lower than that of Silicon Valley.

For example, the land cost of Austin is much lower than that of Silicon Valley. Eastern Semiconductor Corporation can save at least $10 million by building a new fab here than in Silicon Valley. The median household income and price level in Austin are also much lower than those in Silicon Valley.

For example, the median income for a family of four in Austin is one-third lower than in Silicon Valley. That is to say, if high-tech companies recruit employees here, they can save one-third of the labor cost compared to Silicon Valley.

So for the Eastern Group, part of the production and R&D center was transferred to Austin, Texas. It is absolutely possible to effectively control costs. Therefore, after Bush took the initiative to intervene, the Oriental Group quickly reached an investment agreement with the Austin city government.

And for the city of Austin. The occupancy of a well-known high-tech enterprise such as the Oriental Group can not only immediately increase employment opportunities and improve the level of local economic development, but also play a demonstration effect, attracting other high-tech enterprises to pay attention to Austin.

Therefore, the investment agreement between the Oriental Group and the Austin City Government is a win-win choice for both parties. And Bush Jr., the coordinator of the cooperation between the two sides, although apparently did not gain any benefits from it, in fact, he also gained a lot.

Austin is the administrative capital of Texas, where the state government and the state legislature are located, making it the political center of the entire state. At this moment, Bush Jr. has attracted large-scale investment for the city of Austin, which will undoubtedly add points to the Republican Party's election in the raging election.

Although the governor of Texas will not be re-elected this year, it includes the mayor of Austin, the senator and all congressional seats in Austin's congressional district, and multiple state senator seats and all state House of Representatives in Austin's state congressional district. Membership seats are subject to re-election.

The Oriental Group's announcement of large-scale investment at such a critical moment is undoubtedly a highlight of the Republican Party's local governance, and it can be used to make a big fuss. There are already a number of Republican candidates who, in their campaign platforms, have promised voters to increase jobs, and the cases they cited all chose the Eastern Bloc without exception.

For example, the mayor of Austin, who is preparing to run for re-election, said that he single-handedly facilitated the super fab project of Oriental Semiconductor. After the project is put into operation, it will not only provide hundreds of jobs for the region, but also generate a lot of tax revenue. In fact, Li Xuan had never met the Austin mayor before.

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Li Xuan and Bush talked about the election situation, the door of the box was pushed open again, and Lin Jieping, CEO of Fanlin Semiconductor Equipment Technology Co., walked in.

"Sorry, I'm late!" Lin Jieping smiled apologetically.

Fanlin is the second largest subsidiary in Austin after Oriental Semiconductor in this investment agreement. Therefore, Lin Jieping also flew to Texas from San Francisco on purpose. He has been personally coordinating various matters of the factory construction these days. Naturally, it is impossible to be as leisurely as Li Xuan, the big boss.

"David, I heard that your company has just received another big order in China!" Bush nodded to Lin Jieping and said that David was his English name.

"The fab that Deepsea Microelectronics put into production three years ago uses 3-inch wafers and 5-micron process technology, which is only equivalent to the technology level of the United States fifteen years ago. Therefore, China strongly hopes to upgrade the fab's technology. Equipment, we have just passed the review of the Batumi Committee, and we will build two new production lines for deep-sea microelectronics with 5-inch wafers and 3-micron process wafers!" Lin Jieping introduced in detail.

After Shenhai Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was put into production, China has successively invested in the construction of two other fabs with the same technical level in Shanghai and Beijing. By virtue of its good cooperative relationship with China, Fanlin has successfully won the equipment supply contracts for these two fabs.

This is of great significance to Fanlin Company. It must be known that the process technology of 3-inch wafer and 5-micron level has been eliminated in the global semiconductor equipment market. The reason why Fanlin Company conducts research and development is mainly to practice and increase its own development experience.

The order from China not only allowed Fanlin to reverse the financial situation of making ends meet in the early stage, but also allowed the company's equipment to go through the test of the market for the first time. This is very helpful for the company's reputation accumulation, knowing that semiconductor process equipment can easily cost tens of millions of dollars. If your sales volume is always at zero, how can semiconductor companies dare to recognize the quality of the equipment you provide.

The 5-inch wafer and 3-micron process technology is actually a technology developed by Fanlin two years ago, which is also an outdated and backward technology. Fanlin recently developed a 6-inch wafer and 1.5-micron process technology, and the terminal rod has reached the mainstream technology level.

In order to gain market trust and recognition for Fanlin's new equipment, Dongfang Semiconductor, which originally planned to no longer build a fab with 6-inch wafers and a 1.5-micron process, deliberately built the last one at the beginning of the year. 5-micron fab.

With the leadership of Dongfang Semiconductor, a giant in the industry, I believe that Fanlin's new equipment will soon be able to enter the mainstream market to get a share of the pie. And Lin Jieping still attaches great importance to China, the earliest market developed by Fanlin Company~www.readwn.com~.

This time, the Deep Sea Microelectronics Company proposed to upgrade the process, and Fanlin Company immediately started to open up various links in the US government. It's just that the U.S. government will never agree to export mainstream technology-level semiconductor equipment to China, so from the beginning, Fanlin has focused its research on outdated technologies that are easier to get approval.

Now China and the United States are in the honeymoon period, and the United States has relatively loose restrictions on technology exports to China. Therefore, the 5-inch wafer and 3-micron process technology of Fanlin Company successfully obtained the export license. The equipment upgrade project of Deepsea Microelectronics can bring at least tens of millions of dollars in profits to Fanlin Company, and Lin Jieping is naturally very satisfied with this.

The Chinese side is also very happy, regardless of the 5-inch wafer, 3-micron process technology, which is already an outdated and backward technology in the United States, but it has at least touched the tail of the mainstream semiconductor technology. You must know that six or seven years ago, Dongfang Group used this process when it produced the first batch of erm1 processors.

However, the fabs responsible for the production of erm series processors have already been upgraded to the process level of 6-inch wafers and 1.5-micron process. And Dongfang Semiconductor is going to build a new fab in Austin, which will use more advanced 8-inch wafer and 1-micron process technology. (To be continued.)

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