Chapter 464 The Shocked Mr. Ren

Chapter 464 The Shocked Mr. Ren

The Xinghai Group’s investment presentation meeting cannot be discussed as a success or a failure. It raised more than 100 billion yuan that day. In the next few days, investment institutions and investors will come to sign contracts. The closing time of the financing is during the National Day, and it should be completed by then 400 billion financing task.

In early September, the 2014 Huaguo IT Business Development Forum was held in BJ.

A media reporter saw that Mr. Liu, who was thinking about it, also came to participate, and interviewed him:

"Mr. Liu, I remember what Mr. Mu said at the business summit last year. It has been nearly two years now, and the Xinghai Group has not successfully developed a chip. I wonder how Mr. Liu feels now?"

Mr. Liu smiled and said: "I admire Mu Yang, but there is no such thing as a domestic chip that is so easy to succeed, otherwise, our company would have successfully developed it long ago.

That is to say, we have suffered a lot before giving up. For us, it is not only the research and development of chips that can be considered to be engaged in technology. There are many technical problems in PC. "

Two years ago, Mu Yang accused him of inaction, and the consumers stimulated by the national sentiment immediately escalated their accusations against their company, and with the product sales getting worse year by year, Mr. Liu really wanted to pour his temper on Mu Yang .

If it wasn't for Mu Yang's great reputation and people all over the country defending him, Mr. Liu would have wanted to clean him up long ago.

The reporter asked again: "Oh, that makes sense, Mr. Liu, what do you think of smart cities?"

"Mobile phone chips can't keep up, and it's impossible to realize a smart city.

There is still a long way to go for our domestic chips. Therefore, to realize a smart city, we still have to rely on imported mobile phone chips. In the final analysis, we have to rely on ugly countries. We have to face this reality. "If Mr. Liu pointed out something, he didn't point to the Xinghai Group, but he actually meant the same thing.

The reporter's interview made Mr. Liu feel more comfortable. It is rare to have a reporter who has a common understanding with him.

This IT forum, Mr. Liu, as an invited guest, also talked about the issue of domestic chips, expressing that he is not optimistic, and there is still a gap of at least 15 years with developed countries, especially lithography machines, which may not be produced within 30 years come out.

Mu Yang learned about Mr. Liu's interview from the public relations department, and smiled speechlessly: This guy, after a while, he will probably be slapped in the face.

Just a few days later, Huawei received a very bad news:

EDA software is restricted to use! ! !

Huawei entered the field of mobile phone chip design relatively early.

In 2006, HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Warwick, began to develop its own mobile phone chip solutions.

Three years later, in 2009, HiSilicon launched its first mobile application processor, named K3V1.

K3V1 uses a 110nm process, while the mainstream chips at that time have already adopted 65nm or even 45nm, which has a performance gap of more than one generation.

The operating system is also a partial Windows Mobile.

Such a strategic mistake has led to the fact that there are no engineering machines using K3V1, let alone the distribution of goods on the market.

In June 2014, Huawei integrated the application processor and the self-developed baseband processor Balong 720 on one chip to form a system-on-chip SoC, which was first applied to the Honor 6 mobile phone.

After overcoming mountains and mountains, Huawei named this chip Kirin 920, which also helped Huawei mobile phones completely realize Nirvana.

Three months after the release of Honor 6, Huawei released Mate 7 equipped with an upgraded version of Kirin 925. Both Kirin 920 and 925 adopt advanced 28nm process and ARMBig. Little architecture.

The success of a product is sometimes thanks to the success of the opponent.

Although Pingguo 6 was released at the same time as Mate7, it will take a long time for the Bank of China to arrive.

At that time, the four-star Note4, which was in full swing, actually used a plastic case and slide to unlock. Compared with Mate7, it was simply a copycat.

In this way, the Mate7, which has the best time, location, and people, began to sell well, and it was even hard to find a machine.

In the end, Mate7 created the history of domestically produced flagship mobile phones above 3,000 yuan, with global sales exceeding 7.5 million units.

However, what Mu Yang didn't expect was that the trajectory of history had changed!

Warwick was actually restricted from using EDA, two or three years earlier.

Fortunately, Kirin 920 and 925 have been successfully developed.

However, being limited by EDA, subsequent chip development has become a problem, and there is no embarrassing situation where there is no software available.

At present, EDA has three giants, namely Synopsys (ugly country), Cadence (ugly country), and Siemens EDA (delicate country).

Cadence took the lead in entering the Huaguo market as early as 1992, and Huawei also uses this software.

It's embarrassing for Warwick to do this now.

In fact, Warwick's HiSilicon prepared software in 2012, but it has not yet been produced.

Mr. Ren (Ren) was notified by Cadence and couldn't help cursing in the office, but he was very helpless. Cadence stopped technology authorization, and Warwick wanted to obtain technology authorization from Synopsys and Siemens EDA, but did not obtain authorization.

It is aimed at Huawei.

Just two days later, Warwick entrusted Taijidian to manufacture chips, which were also told to be restricted. When the contract order is completed, Taijidian will not be able to continue to manufacture chips for Huawei.

Taijidian is restricted by the ugly country. If they don't listen to the other side, they will not be able to buy subsequent lithography machines.

All of a sudden, Warwick's chip design and chip manufacturing were both restricted, making the situation worse.

At the high-level meeting, Mr. Ren had a sad face: "The situation is very bad. This is the first time our company has suffered the biggest crisis. It didn't take long for the Mate7 to sell well. I didn't expect the competitor to come up with such a vicious move and directly draw the salary from the bottom of the pot. Let us have no chips. Available."

The other high-ranking officials were also confused at this time, and some people even churned with anger in their chests, wishing to blow up those foreigners to death.

If the company has no chips available, its performance will definitely be greatly affected.

All the people in the conference room felt very depressed all of a sudden, and the other high-level executives didn't know how to comfort Mr. Ren. There was no way to solve this problem. They could only protest against Tai Jidian and ask the higher-ups to see if they could ease the relationship between the two parties.

Suddenly, the door of the meeting room was pushed open, and Mr. Ren's female secretary walked in, reminding him by his side:

"Chairman, I have your call."

"Didn't you see I was in a meeting!"

"It's Mr. Mu Yangmu's call."

"No matter who calls, we have to wait until the meeting is over." Mr. Ren was shocked after speaking, "Wait, you said Mu Yang just now?"

"Yes."

"Why did he call? Did he say anything?"

"I didn't say, I asked you to pick it up in person. I said that you should be interested in Mr. Ren."

"I'll answer the phone first." Mr. Ren stood up without explaining to the people in the meeting, and left directly back to his office, and quickly answered the phone, "Mr. Mu, hello, are you there?"

Mu Yang on the other end of the phone, after hearing the voice, said calmly:

"I heard that the EDA you use is restricted, and the chip foundry is also restricted. Is this news true or false? Or is it reported by the media?"

"Hey, it's true. I just had a meeting and was trying to solve this problem. It's such a headache."

"Oh, this is not a problem. If you are interested, you can use our EDA for chip design. It is not a problem for your chips to be produced by us. The price is easy to negotiate."

"..."

Mr. Ren digested it for a while, "Mr. Mu, does your company have EDA software? Can you independently produce mobile phone chips? Can you buy a lithography machine?"

"Originally, this news will be announced sooner or later, so it's okay to tell you in advance.

Our self-developed mobile phone chip Xingchen 01 adopts 7nm technology, and its performance should reach the first place in the world. The EDA software used is independently developed by us. Wafer production and chip manufacturing are all produced by us independently, using EBL light. The engraving machine is also independently developed, not an EUV lithography machine. "

"My God, this is so surprising." Mr. Ren felt unbelievable, and at the same time surprised him, "Awesome! Mr. Mu, your satellite is really big enough!"

"Hehe, are you interested? If you are interested, come to Xinghai Group to have a chat."

"Of course I'm interested. I'm very interested. I'll book a plane ticket there right away. I'd like to thank Mr. Mu for his help. I really don't know how to thank you. The Xinghai Group is so powerful that they have developed their own lithography machine. Mr. Mu, You guys are being too low-key, haha."

"Okay, call when you arrive, and I'll send someone to pick you up. Let's do this for now."

Mr. Ren saw that Mu Yang had hung up the phone, so he put down the phone too.

Finally, there is a way to solve chip design and chip manufacturing. Xinghai Group is really helping them!

Mr. Ren couldn't hide the joy in his heart, stood up, and confessed to the secretary: "Book me a ticket to City H immediately."

Go back to the meeting room just now, and say to the high-level executives who are waiting to continue the meeting, "This meeting will not be held, wait until I come back."

"Chairman, what about the chip manufacturing problem?"

"Maybe it's not a problem, don't worry, when I come back, the meeting will be over!" Mr. Ren hasn't seen the real thing yet, so he can't explain too much to his subordinates.

But Mu Yang said he did it, so he definitely didn't fool him, and he was almost inseparable.

In the ugly country of dog R, I don’t care about your EDA anymore, and there is also moss. If you don’t produce it, you don’t produce it. I don’t care about it anymore.

Leaving the meeting room and walking on the road, I feel that the sky is about to change.

Back in the office, the secretary called him back: "Mr. Ren, the latest flight is two hours later, and the later one is three hours later."

Mr. Ren thought for a while, and it was already half past nine in the morning. If he rushed there, he would see Mr. Mu in the afternoon.

"Book a plane ticket in two hours, and arrange a car immediately."

"Okay, I'm running out of time. It takes dozens of minutes to get from the company to the airport. Mr. Ren prepares his ID card."

Mr. Ren nodded, and by the way, he searched for his business trip documents in his office, found a random set of clothes and stuffed them into the suitcase. He can just go out this time by himself.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Ren hurriedly got off the plane from City H Airport, quickly got into the car of Xinghai Group, and then drove to the headquarters base of Xinghai Group.

Mu Yang sent a Future 01 to pick up Mr. Ren. It was also the first time for Mr. Ren to ride in Future 01. He was reluctant to spend money on this car.

"It's a great car, stable and quiet."

"Yes, thanks to Mr. Ren, this is also the first time for me to take this car." The personnel officer who came to pick Mr. Ren asked, "Mr. Ren, should we go to the hotel first?"

"Can I see Mr. Mu later?"

"I'll call and ask."

The personnel specialist answered the phone, asked about the situation, then hung up the phone and said, "Our chairman said it's ok. He's waiting for you at the company."

"OK, thanks."

About an hour later, Mr. Ren met Mu Yang in the chairman's office.

"Mr. Mu, long time no see." Mr. Ren took Mu Yang's hand with both hands, very respectful.

Mu Yang smiled, shook hands with him and said, "You're welcome, let's go, I know you're impatient, I'll take you to see our equipment."

"Haha, there's no way, this foreigner has pushed us into a hurry." Mr. Ren smiled wryly.

The two sat in Future 01, and after a while, Mu Yang brought Mr. Ren to the optical laboratory building, put on dustproof clothes, and entered the third floor.

This floor is the actual room of the lithography machine.

Mu Yang said while talking: "We are currently assembling the third lithography machine. After the assembled two lithography machines are stable, we will move to the fab and start mass production."

A few days ago, the prototype of the EBL lithography machine came out and successfully trial-produced chips. Mu Yang was ecstatic when he got the news, and now he is still excited.

The technology was purchased on New Year's Day, and the prototype was released within nine months, which is very efficient.

The main contributors to such a high efficiency are the metal 3D additive equipment and the five-axis linkage CNC machining center. After Mu Yang issued the drawings, all the structural frames were processed within a week or two.

He buys technical drawings, avoiding experience problems.

The prototype was successfully developed, and the researchers of the entire project team were very excited.

After a while, Mu Yang stood in front of a lithography machine that had been assembled. The lithography machine in front of him covered an area of ​​about fifteen square meters.

"Chairman, you are here." The scientific researchers who tested the machine saw the chairman and greeted happily.

"Yeah." Mu Yang smiled and nodded.

Following Mr. Ren, he had seen a lithography machine before, and when he saw the equipment in front of him, he glanced at Mu Yang: "Mr. Mu, can I see it?"

"Of course, why don't I bring you here?"

With Mu Yang's consent, Mr. Ren approached the equipment, and observed the lithography machine in working condition through the window.

The equipment model is called "XH-EBL01", technical parameters:

1. Minimum line width: less than 1nm

2. Acceleration voltage: 5-500kV

3. Electron beam diameter: less than 0.5nm

4. Overlay accuracy: 1nm(mean+0.2σ)

5. Stitching accuracy: 1nm (mean+0.2σ)

6. Processing wafer size: 4-18 inches

7. Scanning electron microscope resolution: less than 0.2nm

This equipment can manufacture chips below 1nm, but the cost of mass production will be relatively high.

At present, mass production of 7nm is not a problem, nor is mass production of 3nm and 5nm.

However, considering the market situation, Xinghai Group will mainly produce 7nm and 1nm chips, 7nm chips are used for high-end mobile phone chips, and 1nm chips are used for computer servers for their own use.

In addition, it can also produce the current mainstream 28nm, and the efficiency is very fast.

As for the 28nm and above, it is unnecessary, the cannon beats the flies, and it is overqualified.

In fact, the cost of producing 7nm is not much different from the cost of producing 28nm.

There are wafers and processed 7nm chips on site, which are Xingchen 01 chips.

Mr. Ren observed for a long time, his heart was always shocked.

"The country's most important weapon is made by the Xinghai Group. This sentence is really true. The Xinghai Group has created a world number one. Mr. Mu, you are going to shock the world again. You will catch foreigners by surprise." Mr. Ren didn't know what words to use. Come to praise, and said with a thumbs up.

"It's really laborious to build this equipment, it takes a lot of brain cells." Mu Yang nodded.

"Uh, if this big guy can be made by burning brain cells, I think many people would be happy, and I would be happy too." Mr. Ren exclaimed, "Your star 01 is also going to be used in mobile phones? How about the performance parameters?"

"Yes, we don't plan to produce mobile phones to sell mobile phones, but we are interested in producing mobile phone chips." Mu Yang waved to an employee and asked him to bring paper and pen. He wrote down the performance parameters of Xingchen 01 on the paper, and then Pass it to Mr. Ren.

Star 01:

Process: 7nm

The CPU uses 2 large cores + 2 medium cores + 4 small cores, 8 cores!

CPU frequency: 3.15Ghz*2+2.60GHz*2+2.05GHz*4!

Mr. Ren couldn't believe it after reading the CPU frequency: "Mr. Mu, are you serious?"