Chapter 96: Dilemma (additional update)

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They are all veteran drivers who have been in the shopping mall for many years. It is rare that what they think on the surface and what they think in their hearts are synchronized.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Gao Shan wiped the fog from his glasses and felt a little bit of blood.

The three parties also gradually learned something about the situation during the conversation.

At this time, Yu Chengdong winked at Gu Qing.

Gu Qing received the prompt, swallowed the crab meat in his mouth, and took up the topic.

“Advanced processes are showing a trend of increasing financial and technical barriers, and the industry structure is gradually being clarified.

In terms of manufacturing, the industry has extremely high barriers to capital, talent and technology. Not only has there been no new competitive player in more than a decade, but with the emergence of a process watershed, more and more players have been eliminated from advanced processes. ".

Among second-tier manufacturers, GlobalFoundries is reported to have announced that it will abandon 7nm research and development in 2018, and UMC has also announced that it will abandon investment in advanced processes below 12nm (i.e. 7nm and below) in 2018.

Therefore, the only players that maintain advanced process research and development are industry leaders TSMC, Korean Star, Intel, and your company, Xiaxin Technology, which is working hard to catch up. "

Gao Shan took a sip of tea and nodded.

This was well known in the industry and he was not surprised.

"Since the beginning of 2017, the price of semiconductor raw material silicon wafers has continued to rise. The average contract price increase in the global silicon wafer market in the first quarter was about 10%. In the second quarter, silicon wafer prices continued to rise, with a cumulative increase of more than 20%. In the third quarter, the price of silicon wafers has continued to rise. The quarterly contract price has been increased by about 10%, and the price increase trend is rapidly spreading from 12-inch silicon wafers to 8-inch and 6-inch silicon wafers.

Neon's silicon wafer giant Sumco predicts that the price of 12-inch silicon wafers is expected to further increase by about 20% in 2018, and will continue to grow in 2019.

The three giants, Korean Star Electronics, Micron Technology and SK Hynix, will directly occupy more than 90% of the chip market share next year.

Moreover, you should have your own channels to know about the fire at Hanxing Memory Factory.

The 10nm DRAM production line of Longcheng Chip Factory has been destroyed. I have to admire Korean stars' dominance in Korea for being able to hide it for so long. "

After the words fell, the box fell silent.

Gao Shan and Yu Chengdong looked at Gu Qing, this young man.

Behind Han Xing's series of operations was the destruction of its top-notch technology production line. Although it mainly made memory chips, many of the technologies and equipment used could be used to make mobile phone chips.

It hasn't been long since these giants and bosses knew the news. How did the young man in front of him know about it?

Gu Qing smiled pretending to be profound and winked at An Hetang.

"Uncle Gao, I have a technical document here. You have been working in this industry for so long, can you help me check it?"

Gao Shan wiped his hands before taking the document handed over by Anhetang.

"The technology for manufacturing wafers?"

However, like opening Pandora's box, Vice President Gao became more and more obsessed with it, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

A few minutes later, he looked at Gu Qing with somewhat surprised eyes.

"Mr. Gu, where did you get this technical document?"

Gu Qing smiled modestly, "It's a small, immature technology in our company's research laboratory."

As soon as these words came out, Gao Shan's pupils seemed to be shaken.

Immature little technology?

And the company’s research lab?

As a company that sells small home appliances and engages in system optimization, what foundation does it have to engage in such a level of wafer manufacturing technology?

But what Gu Qing said next made his heart change a thousand times.

"Our company is going through the review process of jun-party confidentiality qualification unit. I believe that we will have more in-depth exchanges and cooperation with your company in the future."

After all, bionic mechanical prostheses and other smart home appliances will need chips in the future.

But these words awakened Gao Shan.

The confidentiality qualification unit in that place is more powerful than the state-owned enterprises and central enterprises.

So this technology was developed by those national treasure-level scientists?

Thinking about the great feats of Daxia officials back then, Gao Shan felt enlightened.

This Jiuzhou Technology Company should also be a glove, otherwise how could two high-end technologies in unrelated industries be taken out from the hands of an unknown boy.

And the bodyguard next to this kid, who stood there for such a long time, standing tall and straight without even moving, must be the special forces over there.

So, this is help from above?

Thinking of this, the stone in Gao Shan's heart suddenly fell to the ground.

"Mr. Gu took out this document. He should have something to say. I am all ears."

This sudden change in painting style made Gu Qing feel a little uncomfortable.

Why did this big boss suddenly become so easy to talk to?

And why did Yu Chengdong's expression suddenly change?

He had forgotten that Mr. Ren was also from the military.

However, since Vice President Gao of Xia Xin Technology said so, Gu Qing no longer planned to hide it.

"Our Jiuzhou Technology Company has broken ground to build a wafer manufacturing plant. If all goes well, the production workshop will be completed within two months, stable output will be available within three months, and the monthly output of 400,000 wafers will be guaranteed to be completed within one year. Metrics for inch wafers.”



Gao Shan's first reaction was to sneeze at the young boy in front of him. How could he build a production workshop in two months and stabilize output in three months?

But then I thought about it, those people had indeed accomplished such a feat back then.

Even the monthly output is 400,000 pieces...

"Is Mr. Gu so confident? Is he relying on something?"

Gao Shan asked solemnly. After all, he felt a little weak in his heart. It was really a question of how much help they could provide.

Gu Qing pursed his lips and said: "Iron will is my greatest confidence, and it relies on cutting-edge technology."

Isn’t it the will of steel that will never stop the production of intelligent machines? Isn’t the Dimensional Empire’s technological knowledge cutting-edge enough for a small broken ball?

At this moment when the storm was about to come, Gu Qing's words gave Gao Shan great courage.

But he still shook his head, "The output of TSMC, Korean Star, and Intel cannot be underestimated, and if it is revealed that we can mass-produce 12-inch wafers, they will either immediately expand production, lower prices, and use The price war will wipe out our investment, or we may use the method of banning the sale of key equipment, or even directly ban the sale of chips, in order to curb our development."

"Once high-end mobile phone chips start to be out of stock on a large scale, then mobile phone manufacturers like you, Xia Wei, and wafer foundries like us, Xia Xin, will immediately fall into the quagmire of a technological war. By then, what we will face is not an ordinary situation. The commercial competition is a life-and-death battle between the high-tech technologies of Daxia and Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea."

Gu Qing understands the difficulties faced by leading technology companies such as Xiaxin Technology. While working hard, he must also consider the acceptance of his opponents.

The development of industrial types in Daxia is comprehensive, but it is only comprehensive. Many industries are not actually high-end. It is easy to upgrade individual industries, but it is too difficult to upgrade the entire industry.