Chapter 1073 Supplementary Agreement

When thinking of wafer foundry, Chen Changliu thought of Huacheng International and Mr. Zhang.

After more than a year of investment, Huacheng International, under the guidance of Mr. Zhang, has gradually built a research and development team of more than a thousand people, and is starting from two aspects.

One is how to improve the foundry process technology, and the other is to develop photolithography machines.

Yes, it is to develop photolithography machines.

After rebirth, Chen Changliu certainly knows that it is definitely not enough to just develop and improve the foundry process, because then others will not sell you photolithography machines and you will have to grope in the dark.

Can my country develop photolithography machines?

Of course, it can, but it takes time to accumulate.

In the previous life, including a certain Wei, they all underestimated the lower limit of Western countries, so they did not pay much attention to the research and development of photolithography machines.

Before Chen Changliu was reborn, Modu Microelectronics Company should be the best company in China to produce photolithography machines, which can mass-produce 90-nanometer photolithography machines and is working on 28-nanometer photolithography machines.

But in fact, few people pay attention to the fact that in the past 10 years, the manpower and material resources invested by Magic City Microelectronics in the research and development of lithography machines were pitifully small.

Let's put it this way. With a team of only a few hundred people, the research and development funds invested in 10 years were only 600 million yuan.

Yes, you read it right, it is 600 million yuan, which is equivalent to 60 million yuan of research and development funds per year. With this little money, Magic City Microelectronics can produce a 90-nanometer lithography machine.

As for Huacheng International, with Chen Changliu's unconditional satisfaction, the investment in just over a year has reached 600 million, and the team's R&D personnel are still increasing.

This is why Chen Changliu has no private money in his hands. He has received a lot of dividends from the flower-growing family in the past two years, and all of them have been invested in Huacheng International.

Therefore, the earlier project was established and the R&D funds invested were more than 10 times. Chen Changliu dared to say that Huacheng International would definitely catch up with the top foreign lithography machines in 10 years, because the domestic production chain and talents gave him this confidence.

But now it seems that there may not be 10 years for Huacheng International.

Huacheng International must have a 28-nanometer process technology around 2015 or 2016. Although this is slightly worse than the mainstream wafer, the difference is not big, so that the flower grower can avoid being stuck.

So there are still 6 years left, plus the project has been established for more than a year, the total R&D cycle is as long as 7-8 years.

With a R&D budget 10 times that of Magic City Microelectronics, it shortened the time to develop a process lithography machine that is more advanced than Magic City Microelectronics by two years.

Although the lithography machine cannot be developed by throwing money, it needs to be developed step by step, but Chen Changliu thinks it is not an impossible task.

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The trip to New York made Chen Changliu feel a sense of crisis, and he flew back to California the next morning.

When Zhao Yanan and Wang Xiaojing were still worried that the bosses of the two companies would fight each other again when they had a second meeting with Qualcomm, the negotiation scene was beyond their expectations.

Although both sides refused to give in, there was no gunpowder smell as in the first meeting. Paul Jacobs did not insist on tearing up the order contract, and Chen Changliu did not continue to flip the table.

After three days of negotiations, the order was not torn up, but a supplementary agreement was added, that is, the annual order quantity of Zhonghuajia increased from 35 million mobile phone wafers to 50 million mobile phone wafers.

Such an annual order quantity is difficult for Zhonghuajia, which means that the annual sales of mid-to-high-end mobile phones must exceed 50 million to digest these mobile phone wafers.

Last year, the annual sales of Meizu Honor series, Zhonghuajia Blue Bird and Suzaku series totaled only 30 million units.

At the work meeting at the beginning of this year, Zhonghuajia planned to increase sales by 25% in the annual shipment plan of mid-to-high-end mobile phones, which means that the annual shipment volume should reach 37.5 million units, but it is far from 50 million.

In the end, Chen Changliu agreed to the supplementary agreement, which should be the best result.

Although Qualcomm did not dare to tear up the order contract, in fact, the flower-growing family was also afraid that Qualcomm would suddenly go crazy and tear up the order contract regardless of everything.

So this supplementary agreement is the best result. Although it is still a compromise for the flower-growing family, there is no way. Who told you that you don’t have chips?

However, Chen Changliu agreed to this supplementary agreement after careful consideration. If he really couldn’t complete the shipment volume that year, the worst thing would be to transfer the chips to a lower-end model in the second year.

For example, the high-end chips that were originally supposed to be used in the Blue Bird and the Vermillion Bird, it is not impossible to use the inventory in the mid-range Honor in the second year. Anyway, the chip price is more than 20% lower than the market price, and the profit will not be affected by the chip transfer.

Or it is also a good solution to create a model with a price lower than the Vermillion Bird and the Blue Bird, but higher than the Honor, under the Meizu sub-brand, and then transfer the high-end chips to it.

Anyway, Chen Changliu remembered that when the original time and space was at its peak, 990 crystals were transferred to a mid-range mobile phone, starting at 1999, which can be said to be extremely brutal.

In fact, there is another concern, that is, if the flower-growing family develops too fast and is strangled by others, these mid-to-high-end crystals in stock can still support one year.

It is also because of these considerations that Chen Changliu finally agreed to the supplementary agreement.

Chen Changliu started to return to China on the 9th day after he arrived in the United States. Looking at the buildings that were getting smaller and smaller in his sight, Zhao Yanan said a little unhappy:

"Boss, I don't like the United States. This should be the first time that our Flower Growing Family compromised after being threatened.

Humph, one day we won't be in such a situation where we are strangled, right?"

Looking at Zhao Yanan's unhappy look, Chen Changliu smiled, because Zhao Yanan's mentality is the common psychological state of the Flower Growing Family, and this psychological state is what he likes the most.

PS: The typos will be updated first and corrected later.