Chapter 1593: Automotive Chips

After the Little New Year, the family packed up and prepared to go back to their hometown for the New Year.

After almost everything was done, Yang Dongxu felt very relaxed and felt that he should have a good New Year this time when he went home. As a result, a message instantly swept all his good mood into the garbage dump.

"The lithography machine technology cannot be analyzed for the time being, and many core components are not sure to be disassembled and reinstalled. At the same time, the confidentiality of some key technical nodes is very high.

At the same time, the US Department of Commerce seems to have no rest and keeps an eye on this matter 24 hours a day. For the time being, there is no way to obtain the key technology of the lithography machine through backtracking."

Zhang Yue reported to Yang Dongxu.

"I knew that things were not that simple." Although it was expected to be like this.

He valued the lithography machine so much, and the US side was not a fool. Even with William as an intermediary, everyone understood the matter and they would not let go easily.

But when things really developed to this point and it was confirmed that they could not succeed, the mood was still worse than expected.

"Let's put this matter aside for now and talk about it after the New Year." Yang Dongxu said after sorting out his mood.

This battle brought out a lot of technology. Although he got the lithography machine he wanted, he didn't get the technology.

More importantly, the lithography machine can only be used abroad. If the encryption of many key parts cannot be resolved, then this technology cannot be brought into China.

Because the lithography machine is abroad, the industrial chain of chip manufacturing can only be placed abroad, so if there is any disturbance in the chip in the future, it will still be strangled by others.

Who let your child be in the hands of others, so once something happens, it will be a matter of minutes for others to control you.

Therefore, he can be said to have suffered a loss in this wave of exchanges.

However, compared with the previous lithography machine, you can't even see it, let alone use it. Now at least you have the opportunity to get close to the lithography machine.

As for whether it can be successfully imitated in the end, you can only hope with those technicians. It's useless for him to worry about this matter.

"From the news sent back by William, there is no possibility that the United States will block this road, and it seems that there is still a desire to talk about it." Zhang Yue said.

"I think he wants to eat shit, don't pay attention to them. Let's put this matter aside for now, don't rush to take action, otherwise the other party will really think how eager we are." Yang Dongxu snorted coldly.

Is the United States really willing to talk, or does William want to use this matter to gain more smartphone technology or voice?

Yang Dongxu is not sure about this for now, but there is no need to figure it out.

Because he has determined that he will not release any smartphone technology in the next year. Honor mobile phones must maintain their leading position in all aspects.

Anyway, the main battlefield of commercial competition is still on traditional energy, and for the high-tech field, the battlefield is mainly concentrated in aerospace.

Smartphones have certainly amazed the world and become a unicorn that has taken off. But the United States is not blind. Apple's pace is still very fast. In the first half of next year, it is preparing to release its iPhone 4 globally.

So it seems that the United States has great ambitions to dominate the smartphone market, but in fact, the other side is mainly testing.

In other words, if there is a date or not, you will make money if you hit it, and forget it if you can't hit it. At present, the main focus will not be on this.

Therefore, there is no hidden danger of the chip being stuck in the neck for at least five years. Moreover, the lithography machine is now in the UK, and it is not that once the United States is stuck in the neck, there is no room for struggle.

So before the face is completely torn, many things can be roundabout. In such an environment, as long as the brain is fine, no more smartphone-related technologies will be released.

Of course, although this matter is not urgent for the time being, it is a core issue that must be solved.

It's just that the other party has opened its bloody mouth now, and it is temporarily impossible to put meat in the other party's mouth. Otherwise, just like now, you pay in full, and the other party delivers half of the goods, and there is also a safe on it.

So you can't be too impatient, this matter can't be rushed and needs to be operated slowly.

"You let Han Jun communicate with William. The chip production line will focus on the research and development of automotive chips in the future."

"Automobile chips, not smartphone chips?" Zhang Yue was surprised.

"I want to do it, but how can a newly assembled production line produce the most advanced smartphone chips?

In order to ensure the leading edge of Honor mobile phones, the mobile phone chip market must be handed over to chip manufacturers such as Samsung and TSMC with top technology and mature manufacturing processes.

At the same time, the chip production line that we spent a lot of money on cannot be idle, right? So let's practice with automotive chips first. At present, automotive chips only have one central console and do not have too many calculations. It is easier to produce and is just suitable for practice."

"The process of automotive chips and mobile phone chips is not small. If you start with automotive chips, it will cost a lot to modify them back to mobile phone chips.

And at that time, a large number of technicians will be needed to spend time and energy to familiarize themselves with mobile phone chip manufacturing. This will cost a lot of money and delay time." Zhang Yue couldn't help but speak.

He understood what his boss meant, and he also knew that if Honor mobile phones wanted to stay ahead, everything could only be high-tech.

As the core chip of the mobile phone, it must not be inferior.

But in his opinion, even if the chip production line set up in the UK, the chips produced temporarily cannot meet the requirements of Honor mobile phones.

But it should not be a big problem to meet the requirements of other smartphone manufacturers. Those mobile phone manufacturers need to occupy the low-end market and do not have such high requirements for mobile phone chips.

Therefore, the chips produced in the UK will be supplied to these mobile phone manufacturers first, making money while innovating their own technology. Slowly, the chips produced in the UK will always meet the chip needs of Honor mobile phones.

Now instead of making mobile phone chips, they are making some car chips. Isn’t this putting the cart before the horse and going in the wrong direction?

"I know what you said, but it's not possible to do it for the time being. You are going to seize the low-end and mid-range smartphone chip market now.

What do the old chip manufacturers Samsung, TSMC, and the technology companies on the Benben side think of you?

Will they join forces to deal with you, or simply stop producing high-precision chips for you? What will you do?

At the same time, the United States has already paid attention to Honor mobile phones. You are building a smartphone chip production line and the technology is constantly innovating. Do you think he won't find a way to strangle you?

Now the production line is in the UK, not in China, so it's very convenient for us to do anything. Although William is our partner.

But if the relationship is really torn, he will definitely choose to stand on the side of the United States, because the interests involved between him and the United States are greater.

So the method you said is feasible, but it is only feasible to manufacture low-end and mid-range chips. Once you have mastered the ability to manufacture high-precision smartphone chips, you will find that you are surrounded by enemies everywhere, and they are a group of enemies who can eat you at any time."

"Then why do we spend so much money to buy lithography machines?" Zhang Yue looked at his boss with a puzzled look.

"Buying optical technology is not the goal, but obtaining the technology of photolithography machines is the ultimate goal. Now we are being guarded like thieves and cannot start.

So we can only produce and analyze the technology at the same time. And automotive chips are undoubtedly a good choice. The United States has basically given up resistance in the automotive field.

The domestic market has been occupied by Benben and German cars. What they like to do most now is to directly participate in the shares and stand behind the scenes to share the money.

Instead of being the king and the first like before, he would beat anyone who dares to challenge him.

Therefore, the development of automotive chips will not cause too much vigilance on the part of the United States. At worst, they will have to... If they get involved, they can get a share.

In short, so much money has been invested, not for lithography machines, nor for smartphone chips, but for technology. The technology for manufacturing chips and lithography machines.

As long as this technology is mastered, the lithography machines can be thrown away in the UK.

Besides, who told you that automotive chips have no future?

Although cars are large items, they cannot be owned by everyone like mobile phones. But if this is done well, it will not make less money than mobile phones. After all, the number cannot be compared with smartphones, but the profit margin of each one is large enough. "

"The automotive market is indeed quite large." Zhang Yue couldn't help but say.

As Yang Dongxu's assistant, he can say that he has done research on all the companies under Yang Dongxu.

Not to say that he knows everything, but the general information and market are still clear.

For example, the automotive market has been hailed as one of the three hottest industries in China in recent years. The other two hot industries are real estate and the Internet. This shows how bright the future of the automotive industry is.

However, compared to the core of the car is the engine, not the chip. The core of the mobile phone is the chip. So after investing so much, he always felt a bit of a loss when he didn't make mobile phone chips in the end, but car chips.

"Okay, let's notify them, let Han Jun organize technicians to go there, and work with our chip R&D team to understand what the lithography machine and chip manufacturing technology are all about."

"Prince William may have some opinions." Zhang Yue said.

William was so active in getting the lithography machine this time that he even offended the US consortium and put in a lot of connections.

It was all for a share of the smartphone pie.

In this way, Yang Dongxu was in charge of smartphone production technology, and he mastered smartphone chip technology. The two of them could sit on an equal footing at the negotiation table again and talk about how to divide the smartphone pie.

Now Yang Dongxu suddenly said that the chip production line would no longer make smartphone chips, but car chips.

The British auto industry is more thorough than the US, okay?

What the hell is his car chip?

"Summarize the reasons I just gave and tell him. It's not that I don't want to develop smartphone chips, but the United States and the current major chip manufacturers disagree.

If Honor Mobile is jointly banned by the current top chip manufacturers because of its own chip development.

Next year, Apple will release its own smartphones worldwide. In addition to it, there are a number of smartphone manufacturers following behind.

Although most of them are now targeting the mid-to-low-end market, as long as everyone has enough brains, they know that their ultimate goal is definitely to be the first.

So in order to maintain the advantage that Honor Mobile has finally established, it can only give in on this point.

At the same time, if he really doesn't want to give up, he can set up his own R&D team to do research. Anyway, the lithography machine is in his hands, so he can do whatever he wants.

And our team, in order to avoid suspicion and to make the Americans feel that we are honest, specializes in automotive chips, and mobile phone chips will be discussed later. "

William is definitely unhappy, because this is equivalent to a trick on him.

But in the end he will definitely compromise, because without the support of Yang Dongxu's technical team, developing chips from scratch is really a waste of money.

More importantly, the United States does not want him to do this, and hopes that he will follow Yang Dongxu to develop automotive chips.

So it seems that Yang Dongxu agreed to let him set up his own smartphone chip research and development team, but in fact he has only one way. That is to follow the development of automotive chips, not mobile phone chips.

As for William, he is very unhappy about this matter.

He Yang Dongxu cannot roll up his sleeves to develop smartphone chips, and he is still unhappy.

Besides, William is not a good man. This time Yang Dongxu took out a lot of technology to exchange for the lithography machine, and this guy has a lot of private goods in it.

So since you are not a good man, don't engage in those hypocritical mutual consultations and mutual comforts.

It's better to sleep than to waste time grinding your teeth.