Chapter 390 Industrial Upgrading (II)
"Do you have materials for export? Sea transportation is not possible without air transportation, and land transportation is also poor! With the current 12-inch technology, you can benefit the surrounding enterprises. You dare to use 18 inches? Do you have so much money?
Aren't you afraid of the wind blowing your tongue!" said the senior leader of Yanjing Youyan on the phone.
The person on the other end of the line was the CEO of Anqing Jinghe. Mr. Kong was not angry when he heard the bandit-like tone on the phone. Instead, he smiled and said, "Old Li, what you said is wrong. Our Anqing is a delta region after all, close to the river and the sea, and the transportation is not backward. Moreover, we are all enterprises in Daxia. When we run an enterprise, we should think about becoming bigger and stronger. The technology of Jiuzhou Technology is there for us to learn. If we don't learn, won't the people under us poke our spines?!
Besides, after Jinghe obtained the technology of Jiuzhou Technology, it did not stagnate. In March this year, the installed capacity reached 70,000 pieces. Moreover, since 2018, our LCD driver chips have been sold far and wide at home and abroad, and the wafer manufacturing must keep up.
Anyway, I'll tell you the bottom line. Our company originally planned to build four 12-inch wafer factories, and the investment in the first phase exceeded 10 billion yuan. Now Jiuzhou Technology has 18-inch technology, so I will follow it. "
"Yes, yes, you are always a man who doesn't see the rabbit before he releases the eagle. You should know that although the 18-inch wafer is a good thing, it needs the whole production system to follow up and improve. It may take four or five years before the chip foundry can accept the 18-inch wafer.
You have invested so much money, and you still have to wait for four or five years to see the profitable orders. You will lose a lot of money.
Since you are willing to give shares to Jiuzhou Technology, then go ahead. Do you think that I want to stop you from getting rich? I am also thinking about your future."
"If you don't keep up with the pace of industrial progress, there is still a fart future. Don't try to find a way from me. Your Yanjing Yuyan is amazing, but the global market is so big. Sharing a bite of our food will not make you lose two pounds of meat?"
The stories behind the major companies are varied, but the unchanging one is the desire for technological progress.
Of course, not everyone is willing to give up their shares, and the previous 12-inch production construction has already spent a lot of money, and the company also has to consider the problem of capital chain, so it declined.
The next day, July 2, representatives of the five major semiconductor wafer manufacturers in Daxia and representatives of three other wafer manufacturing companies entered the conference room of Jiuzhou Technology together.
Once they entered, the good times and good scenery were gone. A group of elites looked at the technology and equipment, either holding their hearts and forcing themselves to be calm, or their faces flushed with excitement.
And this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Xiaxin Technology is also preparing the cutting and chip manufacturing technology of 18-inch wafers.
This swept away the previous concerns of a group of manufacturers.
After all, if the lithography machine, etching machine, and furnace tube cannot support 18 inches simultaneously, then such a large wafer is useless.
Of course, it is not really useless. The boss of Yanjing Youyan was also deceiving Anqing Jinghe before.
Just like these domestic manufacturers did not have so much export demand for 12-inch wafers before, why did they follow up?
Because many 12-inch wafers are not for conquering inches, but for expanding production capacity and reducing costs for eight inches.
If the leader of Anqing Jinghe was just a person who was good at dancing but had no technical skills, he would not be able to see through this fog.
This is actually a simple arithmetic problem, and there is a deep logical problem behind it.
The superficial arithmetic problem is: for example, a chip size is 2mm*2mm, how many chips can be cut out on a 12-inch wafer slice? What if it is changed to 18 inches?
The deep knowledge behind it is: 12 inches is the most advanced technology in the world today, but there will still be some parts in the production that cause the surface distribution to be very ugly, which can only be compensated by other processes, but there will be no such problem when it comes to 18 inches. And the overall cleanliness of 18-inch wafers is definitely higher than that of 12 inches, so the same product will be transferred from 12 inches to 18 inches, and the yield rate will be further improved. If there is a problem, it can also be rectified to reduce losses.
The senior executives of Yanjing Youyan shook Dong Qi's hand with gratitude and said with emotion: "Jiuzhou Technology not only helped us improve our technology by investing in technology, but also provided equipment and helped Daxia Semiconductor to make a leap in the overall process. Our manufacturing industry has changed from large quantity to strong quality. What we need is companies like you who dare to take responsibility and are willing to invest in research and development.
I am ashamed to say that our company has such good resources, but it can't compare with your research and development progress in the field of wafer manufacturing. Alas, it is really shameful."
How could such words be accepted casually.
Dong Qi shook his head and said: "Everyone is working hard for Daxia Semiconductor. We are just lucky. General Manager Gu and colleagues in the R&D department have almost never taken a vacation. They get up early and stay up late every day just to make a little progress.
A mediocre person like me can only help him manage finances and handle some miscellaneous matters."
No one believed this.
Jiuzhou Technology has expanded from a small company of dozens of people to a large company of tens of thousands of people in just a few years. At the same time, there has never been a problem with the internal management of the company, and there has never been a big mess in finance.
Everyone present was a smart person and knew that this was just the other party's self-deprecating statement.
However, they all recognized the research and development strength of Gu Qing and Jiuzhou Technology's R&D department, which was really incomparable to their own company.
Wafers are purified silicon elements. After photolithography, grinding, polishing, slicing and other procedures, polysilicon is melted and pulled out into single-crystal silicon rods, and then cut into wafers.
This sounds simple, but it is simply hellish to do. A decimal point of progress is the accumulation of countless efforts.
If Jiuzhou Technology had not continuously provided technology and provided equipment and trained talents, more than half of the world's semiconductor silicon material production capacity three years ago would have been concentrated in countries such as Japan and Korea. In a sense, these forces almost monopolized the market for high-quality wafers. It is no wonder that Hanxing Semiconductor wanted to make a big profit through the wafer card.
Unfortunately, but fortunately, Gu Qing brought Jiuzhou Technology to help them. The new technology and new equipment almost beat foreign wafer manufacturing companies to the ground.
And this time, the industrial innovation brought by the 18-inch will probably make Hanxing Semiconductor, which has just invested heavily in research and development, completely crippled.
Moreover, from wafers to chips, some companies may have to hold back their faces.
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