This is also true. At this time, Zhongxin International was rated as the fourth largest chip foundry in the world by technology media.
It is the fourth largest chip foundry after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., United Microelectronics Corporation of Taiwan, and Singapore Chartered Semiconductor.
But this refers to the scale and production capacity of their chip foundry. At this time, Zhongxin International's chip foundry production capacity cannot be filled at all, and there are a large number of production lines that are idle and have nothing to do.
According to history, they can achieve a turnover of 360 million U.S. dollars this year, the majority of which comes from the sale of 8-inch wafers.
According to the history of the previous life, their chip foundry business will have to wait until next year for a huge improvement, because next year it will rely on the boom of the chip foundry business.
Their turnover in 2004 successfully reached nearly 1 billion US dollars, which was considered an official start and truly became the fourth largest chip foundry in the world.
Of course, the operating income of TSMC stores during the same period soared from US$5.85 billion in 2003 to US$8 billion!
The TSMC store is still an unreachable peak in the global chip foundry industry, and it stands out from the crowd.
And the most terrifying thing is that the growth rate of TSMC stores in the next few years is even more terrifying. At its peak, the market share was as high as 60%.
According to history, they will win half of the world's chip foundry orders in 2004 alone, which means that half of the world's chips are produced by TSMC stores!
Therefore, TSMC is quite terrifying in the chip foundry industry. It is an unparalleled super peak that global chip manufacturers can only look up to.
Although Sugon Technology has the system BUFF blessing that makes its chips super strong, it is not easy to defeat TSMC stores or even compete with TSMC stores.
And the old ones are coming after the small ones. What is more terrifying than the TSMC store is the Wassenatra protocol!
After really defeating TSMC, Sugon Technology will be greeted by even more severe suppression, even more cruel than the previous life of Huawei Technology!
Faced with this situation, Sugon Technology actually has no chance of luck and must invest a lot of money to develop its own core high-end chip production equipment.
You cannot put your own life above the kindness of others, and the enemy is not kind but cruel. There is no chance of luck in Suguang Technology!
Of course, these are all things in the future. This is the most prosperous moment since Sugon Technology entered the chip foundry industry.
With an estimated US$1.124 billion in chip foundry orders in the next year, Sugon Technology surpassed Zhongxin International and became the first domestic chip foundry and the fourth largest chip foundry in the world.
Although it is still far away from the TSMC store with a turnover of US$5.85 billion this year, let alone compete with the TSMC store, it cannot even compare with Singapore Chartered Semiconductor, which is the third in the world.
However, after Sugon Technology received this OEM order worth US$1.124 billion in the next year, the world also saw the potential of Sugon Technology in the chip foundry industry.
Under such circumstances, Sugon Technology also took advantage of the situation to seize the opportunity.
Sugon Technology is currently negotiating loans with the four major banks in Daxia, and plans to use the Sugon chip factory as a mortgage loan to build a new chip factory.
The new chip factory planned to be built is divided into two 8-inch wafer fabs and a 12-inch wafer fab and supporting chip production lines.
Among them, the 8-inch wafer fab is easy to find, but it is a little difficult to purchase the production equipment of the 12-inch wafer fab.
After all, the production equipment of the 12-inch wafer fab is quite advanced in this era. In order to purchase the production equipment of the 12-inch wafer fab, Zhang Rujing used his old connections for many years and made various promises.
For example, the advanced equipment of the 12-inch wafer fab was purchased only under such conditions as absolutely not producing military-owned chips, and absolutely not being involved with the Daxia military.
At this time, it is not easy for Sugon Technology to purchase 12-inch wafer fab equipment. It also requires Sugon Technology to spend a lot of effort, and the probability of failure is very high.
However, it all depends on human effort. Although we know that the chance of success is low, we still have to try to fight for it and cannot retreat in the face of difficulties. Sugon Technology will try its best to have a 12-inch wafer fab.
Of course, if it still fails, Sugon Technology will abandon the 12-inch wafer fab and purchase an 8-inch wafer fab.
So Sugon Technology will have three new 8-inch wafer fabs and one old wafer fab, for a total of four 8-inch wafer fabs.
As for the process technology, Sugon Technology's new chip factory will directly abandon the 350nm process technology.
At that time, the minimum process technology will be 180 nanometers, and then 150 nanometer and 130 nanometer process technologies will be adopted on a large scale.
As for the world's most advanced 90-nanometer process technology, why is it not available? Sugon Technology really wants it. Even Sugon Technology is not the only one who wants a chip production line with 90 nanometer process technology.
Zhongxin International also wants to purchase a chip production line with 90 nanometer process technology, but what can you do if they don't sell it?
And to be honest, it is actually a bit difficult for Sugon Technology to purchase a chip production line with a 130nm process technology, and it also requires a lot of effort.
And this is also the tragedy of not being able to produce advanced semiconductor production equipment on its own, but these are things in the future.
Sugon Technology is currently doomed to not have the strength to solve the problem of developing self-produced semiconductor production equipment.
Therefore, Sugon Technology's current task is to develop itself well and spend money to invest in research and development while ensuring survival.
However, Sugon Technology's task in the short term is to negotiate with banks first to see how much it can borrow. At best, it can borrow more than 30 billion.
If Lin Chen's three wafer fabs are followed, there are multiple huge new factory plans supporting 180 nanometer, 150 nanometer, and 130 nanometer production lines.
If everything needs to be completed, Sugon Technology may need more than 30 billion to be safe.
Fortunately, the construction of a new chip factory does not have to be so large in one step. It can be built step by step and divided into three phases.
Therefore, if a loan of 10 billion can be obtained, it will be enough for the construction of the new factory in the first phase. As for the second wafer fab in the second phase and the third wafer fab in the third phase, it can be slowly and gradually expanded.
Of course, the best thing is to do it in one step, which can save a lot of things and make money.
In the current situation, Sugon Technology is reluctant to accept chip foundry orders, and eventually had to stop taking chip foundry orders due to the upper limit of production capacity.
If it can be done in one step, Sugon Technology will start construction of a total of four wafer fabs and multiple production lines such as 350 nanometer, 180 nanometer, 150 nanometer, and 130 nanometer.
The money Sugon Technology can earn from the chip foundry field alone may be several times the money it can earn from the mobile phone field.
Only in this way can we really spend a lot of money to develop our own semiconductor production equipment, and develop advanced production equipment for semiconductor chip production such as photolithography machines, etching machines, and chemical deposition equipment. (End of chapter)
