Although the Sugon S1 mobile phone is not as good as the Sugon S2 smartphone, it can still gain a lot of sales by modifying and upgrading it.
After all, many people like flip phones in this era. As long as the price is a little cheaper than the Sugon S2 smartphone, the final sales volume will not be too low.
"Okay, let's get back to the topic, which is about how much money to invest in research and development of semiconductor production equipment and the acquisition of domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies."
Hearing what Lin Chen said, the senior executives of Sugon Technology at the scene naturally had no objections.
At this time, as the head of Sugon R&D Center, Ni Guangnan really hoped to spend US$25 billion to develop semiconductor chip production equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies.
But he can't be so selfish. He can't seriously hinder the overall development speed of Sugon Technology because of the research and development of semiconductor production equipment and the acquisition of domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies. So Ni Guangnan slowly said:
"We are in need of money everywhere now. It is not impossible to spend 25 billion US dollars a year to develop semiconductor equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies. We can support this by relying on the current profit of 70 million units of high-end mobile phones a year.
But when everything needs to be developed, if most of the profits are used to develop semiconductor production equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies, then other things will be unable to develop due to lack of money.
In this case, I think the funds can be reduced slightly. As for the specific reduction, it is up to Lin Chen to decide. "
At this time, Ni Guangnan breathed a sigh of relief after finishing speaking.
Although he has a dream of becoming a chip powerhouse, he always dreams of letting Daxia chips rise and let Daxia computer CPUs defeat Intel's CPUs.
But you can't be so selfish. You can't use most of Sugon Technology's profits to develop semiconductor production equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies. After all, the development of other things requires money.
Therefore, Ni Guangnan finally suggested reducing R&D funds, which is worthy of his conscience and his dream.
When people heard what Ni Guangnan said, they all focused their attention on Lin Chen, wanting to see what Lin Chen said.
In this regard, Lin Chen did not directly say whether to reduce R&D funds after people paid attention to it, but said seriously:
“First of all, we must attach great importance to the development of mobile phone chips, because the performance of this mobile phone chip can be said to determine whether Sugon Technology will continue to win or fail in the future.
Our Sugon S2 smartphone is very powerful in terms of screen, lens and other aspects. The technology of some mobile phone spare parts is at least 3 years ahead of the West.
But mobile phone processors are our biggest weakness. Our Sugon Technology can only produce 130-nanometer mobile phone chips. There is a gap of three times the number of transistors between 130-nanometer and 90-nanometer.
In other words, the same size and area of a Pentium 4 computer CPU can have 50 million transistors using a 130-nanometer process technology, but it can have 150 million transistors using a 90-nanometer process technology!
The gap caused by three times the number of transistors is too terrifying. If we cannot quickly solve the problem of the 90nm process technology.
The final result must be that other people's mobile phone processors are powerful in performance, respond super fast no matter what they do, have richer game content and graphics, and can support large-scale 3D games and so on.
Under this huge performance gap, the sales of our Sugon S2 smartphone will definitely suffer a huge setback.
At that time, let alone further improvement in sales, it would be difficult to maintain the current annual sales level of 70 million. "
Having said this, Lin Chen continued to say in the silence of the people:
“Of course you can also say that since we can’t produce 90-nanometer mobile phone chips, why not find chip foundries such as TSMC, Sanxing, Tailiandian, and Texas Instruments to produce 90-nanometer mobile phone chips for us.
But I want to say that we can’t take Western companies too well. Looking at the history of the rise of Western technology companies, you will find that they will not honestly compete with you in a formal way.
They are also very good at engaging in various side-effects, such as the last incident of restricted sales of mid- to high-end mobile phone spare parts initiated by the four major mobile phone giants.
Moreover, it is an indisputable fact that we are competitors with TSMC, Tailian Store, Texas Instruments, Sanxing Electronics and even other chip foundries.
If we really let them manufacture 90-nanometer mobile phone chips for us, we will have no way of finding out if they plant mines in our mobile phone chips.
As for the consequences of their mine-laying, I will give you a rough outline. The method of planting mines is nothing more than leaving hardware bugs or "God's command" trapdoors in our mobile phone processors.
Fortunately, the hardware BUG can be fixed through the system software level.
Once they bury a "God's command" secret door into our mobile phone processors, then this "God's command" secret door can bring us to the brink of bankruptcy!
Because such a "God's command" secret door really exists, then the commercial departments of the United States and other countries can refuse our mobile phones to be sold on the grounds of safety risks, and also order us to return them for refunds.
Of course, even if the United States and other countries do not do this, our problematic mobile phones will definitely have to be recalled and replaced with new mobile phone processors, unless we do not want to continue selling our mobile phones in those countries.
You can imagine how much labor it will cost to replace mobile phone processors in the future if this happens, and what is the use of recycled mobile phone processors?
In the end, don’t those recycled mobile phone processors have to be destroyed? And what a blow this will have to our brand image..."
Hearing Lin Chen point out all the insidious and dirty things in chip foundry, all the senior executives present felt a chill in their backs.
At this time, they were shocked to realize that the chip foundry could still deceive people like this. Although this was a bit unethical, it would also make the chip foundry notorious.
But as long as there are enough interests, it is really possible for chip foundries such as TSMC to do such a thing.
So in the end, if there are enough short-term and long-term benefits as a guarantee, then why not TSMC directly cheat Sugon Technology? !
At this time, Lin Chen continued to say while there was a chill behind the senior executives at the scene:
“As for using US$25 billion to develop semiconductor production equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies, don’t worry about the delay in the company’s development.
Because of this US$25 billion, I am not prepared to spend so much money from the current profit income on semiconductor equipment research and development and acquisition of domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies.
After all, let’s not talk about anything else, we still owe a bank loan of 30 billion yuan, so we should pay off this loan first before planning other things. "
Hearing Lin Chen's words, people at the scene looked at Lin Chen in shock.
Their focus is not on paying off the total loan amount of 30 billion. (End of chapter)
