As for Sugon Technology, it still maintains full sales of mid-range mobile phones.
If nothing unexpected happens, the total sales of a total of 6 mid-range mobile phones can add up to 35 million mid-range mobile phones sold in a year, which averages to 2.91 million sales per month.
And time passed like this day by day, and it came to more than ten days later in the blink of an eye.
On this day, October 12, 2003.
Sugon Technology and Jingdongfang jointly held a press conference to announce that the two parties will cooperate in the research and development of domestic mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screens.
As soon as this news came out, it naturally caused a sensation across the country and caused a nationwide discussion.
Under this situation, people are looking forward to Sugon Technology and Jingdongfang really developing domestic mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screens.
After all, if Sugon Technology and Jingdongfang really do it, then the shortage of cores and screens in Daxia will be greatly alleviated.
As soon as this news came out, it caused a big stir on the Internet both at home and abroad.
It has also successfully attracted the attention of domestic and foreign netizens to this matter and looks forward to subsequent related news.
But it is a pity that after the two parties held a press conference, no follow-up big news about Sugon Technology and Eastern Jingdong was released.
However, the composition of the cooperation teams between the two parties was interviewed by reporters. In this cooperation, although Jingdongfang also had scientific researchers.
But in fact, the main scientific researchers dispatched by Jingdongfang are not Daxia researchers, but the original scientific researchers of the TFT-LCD business of Hailitu Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Hanguo Modern.
Because Jingdongfang is really equivalent to an apprentice in terms of TFT-LCD color LCD screens, but it does not have the strength to develop world-class mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screens.
As for Sugon Technology, there is an even greater shortage of scientific researchers. Sugon Technology dispatches all newly recruited domestic LCD screen R&D talents.
However, Lin Chen's name is at the forefront, and it is obvious whether he can break through the foreign blockade.
To develop Daxia's own mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screen, it would ultimately depend on Lin Chen and the original R&D personnel from Han State.
Netizens naturally paid a lot of attention to this, and were curious about whether Lin Chen could achieve great results again.
If Lin Chen really did it, then Lin Chen would really be a super genius!
After all, Lin Chen has designed and developed many of the world's best-selling mobile phones, personally developed a domestic mobile phone operating system, and is also very good at chip production.
Finally, he worked with Ni Guangnan to develop the Phoenix mobile phone chip and Phoenix S1 instruction set with completely independent intellectual property rights.
At this time, if Lin Chen can really lead the development of a domestic mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screen, he can break the patent barriers of foreign TFT-LCD color LCD screens.
Then Lin Chen is a super genius, no one can deny Lin Chen's talent!
Therefore, many people, whether at home or abroad, pay considerable attention to this matter and look forward to the subsequent development.
However, no matter how lively the news is, it will eventually calm down. The news that Sugon Technology and Jingdongfang cooperated to develop domestic mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screens gradually calmed down as time went by.
And time continued to pass forward like this, while Lin Chen and related R&D personnel were silently developing domestic mid-to-high-end TFT color LCD screens.
Time passed quietly for a month, and it came to November 8, 2003.
On this day, Sugon Technology officially summoned reporters from many mainstream media at home and abroad, because a piece of news was about to be officially made public.
The news is that Sugon Technology will hold a grand press conference with the four major banks.
Then it was officially announced that Sugon Technology had successfully obtained a loan of 30 billion Xia Yuan from the four major banks using the chip factory and many chip production technology patents and other technology patents as collateral!
These 30 billion Xia Yuan will be used to build a new chip factory, and the new chip factory will be located in Tianjin!
The construction plan of this new chip factory is to build three 8-inch wafer fabs and multiple supporting chip production lines.
In other words, once the construction of Sugon Technology's new chip factory is completed, Sugon Technology will have four 8-inch wafer fabs. The number of these 8-inch wafer fabs will directly surpass Zhongxin International.
As for process technology, Sugon Technology will have one 350-nanometer production line, one 180-nanometer production line, two 150-nanometer production lines, and four 130-nanometer production lines.
Once the construction of this new chip factory is completed, its total production capacity will directly surpass Zhongxin International and directly become the world's fourth largest chip foundry, and its strength will catch up with the world's third-largest Singapore Chartered Semiconductor!
Lin Chen was not proud of this, because Lin Chen was actually a little regretful.
Sugon Technology originally planned to build a 12-inch wafer fab, but unfortunately it took nearly a month and still could not win the 12-inch wafer fab.
Therefore, Sugon Technology could only settle for the next best thing, abandoning the 12-inch wafer fab and choosing an 8-inch wafer fab, which ultimately led to the current situation.
It is worth mentioning that the construction period of this chip factory was originally expected to take two years. However, because Sugon Technology was willing to increase money to speed up the progress, it only took a little more than a year to be put into production.
In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, Sugon Technology's chip factory will be officially put into production in November or December of 2004.
By then Sugon Technology will have four 8-inch wafer fabs, one 350-nanometer production line, one 180-nanometer production line, two 150-nanometer production lines, and four 130-nanometer production lines.
If Sugon Technology can develop the corresponding equipment for its own 90-nanometer chip production line by then, it will be considered as following the development of the times.
After all, according to history, 2004 to 2006 was the era of large-scale explosion of 90-nanometer chips.
If Sugon Technology can develop its own 90-nanometer chip production equipment before 2006 and overcome the yield rate of the 90-nanometer process, it will just keep up with the trend of the times.
Returning to the press conference, nearly 500 domestic and foreign reporters heard that Lin Chen stood with representatives from the four major banks and officially announced that Sugon Technology had loaned 30 billion to build a super new chip factory.
The reporters’ mouths were so wide open that it would be no exaggeration to say that they could have dropped an egg directly into their mouths.
A few minutes later, Lin Chen formally introduced the details of Sugon Technology's 30 billion loan from the four major banks and the general plan on how the 30 billion would be spent.
The reporters at the scene finally came to their senses. At this moment, a reporter from Hanguo Dahan Daily with furrowed eyebrows spoke and asked:
"Mr. Lin Chen, is it a bit reckless for you to directly loan 30 billion yuan to build such a super chip factory? Do you really need such a large chip production capacity?
It is not easy to survive in this chip foundry industry. "
(End of chapter)
