Chapter 495: Jingyuan Foundry
"Mr. Chen, congratulations."
"President Ren?"
"Why, is it strange that I called you?"
At noon, Chen Yu received a call from Ren Zhengfei.
"That's not true. It's mainly because I dug up two generals, President Ren, before. I feel bad about it."
"Mr. Chen is humble. Gao Ji and He Hongbo are both talents. I hope you treat them well."
"President Ren, don't worry, it's natural."
"I also believe in President Chen. By the way, when are you free to meet?"
"Mr. Ren, is something wrong?"
"I want to talk to you about the mobile phone business."
"let me see……"
Chen Yu considered the future schedule.
Of course, he didn't understand Ren Zhengfei's idea for a while, so he didn't agree so quickly.
Ren Zhengfei probably saw Chen Yu's hesitation, and said, "Don't think about it, we'll talk when you're free."
"I'll call President Ren then."
hang up the phone.
Chen Yu was a little strange.
Ren Zhengfei wants to talk to him about the mobile phone business?
Will not find their own Pk.
Thinking that Huawei's mobile phone didn't even have a brand name, Chen Yu felt a little sense of accomplishment.
However, Ren Zhengfei is not so boring.
This boss-level character is extremely powerful in his heart.
Not to mention that he has beaten their mobile phone business now, even if it hits their core business, he can fight you to the end.
Just like Huawei now.
They are not as good as Motorola in the communication business,
Not as good as Nokia, not as good as Ericsson, not as good as Samsung. But they relied on incomparable fighting spirit, and finally surpassed a series of foreign giants.
"Forget it, don't think about them."
For the time being, Chen Yu couldn't figure it out and didn't think about it any more.
Do your own thing first.
Tianyu Mobile's seizure of the ultra-low-end market is just the first step for Huanyu Technology to enter the mobile phone field.
Chen Yu doesn't want to just do the low-end market.
In the future, Chen Yu will also enter the mid-end, mid-to-high-end, high-end, top, and even the top-level cutting-edge market.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu called Wu Kai and Liang Bo over.
"Liang Bo, how is your situation here?"
"Mr. Chen, we have started data research and preliminary design for mid-range mobile phones."
"What about the technical part?"
"We have made breakthroughs in dual-card dual-standby technology, including resistive screen technology. We have applied for patents for both technologies."
"it is good."
Chen Yu nodded: "Wu Kai, you let the research team conquer the next field, capacitive screen."
"Yes."
Wu Kai nodded.
Although he is not particularly clear about the development of resistive screens and capacitive screens.
But Wu Kai never doubted Chen Yu's vision.
Then, Chen Yu went to the chip open source department.
"Manager He, get used to it."
"It's good. President Chen, just call me Tingbo."
He Tingbo is a technical maniac, and he took up his post as soon as he joined Universal Technology.
To this end, Chen Yu assigned He Tingbo to the chip open source department to familiarize himself with the entire chip open source plan.
"Mr. Chen, I didn't expect our chip open source foundation to be so huge."
"It's not too big, we're starting from scratch, and everything has to be considered clearly."
"It seems that it is correct for me to join Huanyu Technology."
"Did you just confirm it now?"
Chen Yu smiled and said, "Isn't it because I was fooled by me before?"
"No, but it became clearer after joining the company about our goals."
"Well, we can't rely entirely on the Open Source Foundation, though."
As he said that, Chen Yu said to Li Biqing on the side, "Dean, how are you talking with Center International?"
"all the best."
"Mr. Chen, Center International, do we want to process the chips ourselves?"
He Hongbo was extremely surprised: "It's not necessary for the time being."
Although Ho Hongbo has always wanted to come up with a purely domestic Chinese core.
But what He Hongbo studies is also the chip architecture. As for chip processing, there are naturally other companies to do it.
such as Center International.
Center International is the wafer foundry.
The so-called wafer refers to a semiconductor transistor or an integrated circuit substrate.
To manufacture a chip, it is not only the chip structure, but also the wafer processing.
But wafer processing is a very complex technology that ordinary companies cannot master.
There are only a dozen companies in the world that can master wafer processing.
Center International is one of them.
However, before this, the general enterprise will not do chip processing.
Generally, if a company wants to make its own chip, he only needs to come up with the chip structure first, and then throw it to the wafer foundry. It's like making a mobile phone. You only need to prepare the design drawings and electronic components, and I can assemble it for you. Of course, Jingyuan foundry is much more technical than mobile phone assembly.
Ho Hongbo thinks the same.
All walks of life are becoming more and more refined, and there is no need to do everything.
There are some things that can be handed over to other companies to do.
Also, they do it more efficiently.
It's just that Chen Yu didn't think so: "I think it's necessary."
Facing He Hongbo, Chen Yu asked, "Hongbo, let me ask you a question first, why do you want to make chips?"
"My major is semiconductors, and of course I want to make our own chips. Of course, a more important reason is that we don't have our own chips in China."
"No, not for this reason, because foreign chip giants will choke us."
It's actually quite understandable.
If everyone in the world is fair, everyone can naturally do their own thing.
Even if we don't have it on our side, but other countries have it, we can also cooperate with them.
But the world is not like that.
The chip is not something you want to cooperate with, and others will cooperate with you.
That's why we make our own chips.
"Similarly, why the Central International was established, that is, we have our own wafer foundry. If not, even if we have come up with an extremely powerful chip architecture, other wafer foundries will not give us the foundry? "
At present, the most advanced wafer foundry company in the world is called TSMC.
This is a Taiwanese wafer foundry.
Of course, if it's just a Taiwanese company, that's all, Chen Yu can't have such a crisis.
But the key point is that 80% of TSMC's shareholders are foreign capital.
In the event of an accident, whether TSMC can still help you with the foundry is a question.
In the past life, the United States actually had such a plan to escalate the ban.
Just because it's so involved, they haven't implemented it so quickly for a while.
But everyone knows that whether it is chip architecture or chip processing, the neck is pinched by foreign countries.
To avoid being strangled by them.
The first is to have its own chip architecture.
For the second part, you must have your own wafer foundry.
The third part is to build a chip ecosystem.
Of course, in fact, the technology of Center International is very general.
This company, founded in 2000, is several generations away from TSMC's technology.
Even in the previous life of 2020, the technologies of Center International and TSMC are still two generations apart.
However, for Chen Yu now, Center International is just right.
Chen Yu didn't want to make high-end chips, he just wanted to make low-end chips now.
"Understood."
Although Chen Yu didn't say much, He Hongbo understood it instantly.
Seeing Ho Hongbo wake up, Chen Yu continued: "Our chip foundation was established not long ago. Although it is developing well now, the entire architecture has not yet been completed. While we are completing the chip architecture, we are also using arm. The company's technology to make our low-end chips."
Of course, making low-end chips is not the purpose, the purpose is that the entire chip process must be done all over again.
Whether it's architecture or processing... Huanyu Technology has to be fully involved.