Shanghai Stock Exchange, National Chip Headquarters.
A temporary board meeting is being held.
According to the usual practice, the third board meeting of the year would not be held until July, but the incident happened suddenly... and there was no need to worry about any convention.
Three years ago, Guoxin experienced a major shakeup among its board of directors. All technology giants quit the board of directors to focus on executive positions.
Coupled with the "big boss's quarrel", it has attracted various speculations from countless outsiders. What kind of palace fights, interests, backbone...it's all there, comparable to the drama of the Qing Dynasty.
specific reason……
Times have changed and there is no need to mention it again.
In short, the radical technology boss calmed down.
But this year, there have been some subtle changes to the board of directors.
Four technology veterans, led by co-CEO Liang Mengsong, once again entered the board of directors, and Liang Mengsong once again took office as executive director...
In the past, these adjustments would have aroused unlimited attention and wild speculation from public opinion.
But now... Anyway, except for the investors who bought Guoxin shares, basically no one pays attention to it.
EUV is not sold to you. If you use DUV, it will be 5nm. The next door is 2nm. Both power consumption and performance are improved by more than 30%. How can you compare?
Not to mention that you haven’t even officially mass-produced 7nm yet.
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"The meeting begins." Chairman Gao Gang has a background in finance. When he took office as chairman, he also showed the will of all shareholders towards Guoxin - to take advantage of the "core shortage wave" opportunity, rely on mature technology to increase revenue and expand scale. ,Seize the market.
Now three years later, the results have been remarkable.
Especially with the launch of hybrid chips last year, Guoxin has now become a leader in the field of hybrid chips. Whether it is electrode technology or hybrid architecture, it is at the forefront of its peers.
Now if peers want to surpass them, they can only find advantages in the silicon-based manufacturing process of hybrid chips - but for the material catalysis and neural chips that are currently the largest in the market, high manufacturing processes are of no use!
The technology has not yet advanced to the point where the chip is connected to the central nervous system - even if it does, 7nm will be enough.
Therefore, Guoxin's financial statements from last year to this year are extremely beautiful.
And with money, technical bosses naturally have more thoughts and pursuits.
As a result, there were changes in board members this year.
It's just that today's temporary board meeting is not to discuss technical issues, but to discuss another issue.
"I'll keep the story short." Gao Gang took a sip of tea and looked at everyone, especially a few technical bosses: "Everyone must know what's going on in the technology circle these days, so I won't repeat it. I'll focus on National Semiconductor. industry attitude.”
"Everyone has a proposal document on the wafer fab industry - as far as I know, there are no more than ten companies in the semiconductor industry that can get this document."
Following the chairman's voice, everyone looked down at the documents placed in front of them.
——Suggestions on the intelligent integration of the semiconductor industry chain.
The issuing agencies of the document are several relevant ministerial-level units in charge of semiconductors.
"Of course, this document is advisory, but we have to consider its significance. Without further ado, let's read the document first."
At the conference table, Qin Weimin lowered his head and looked at the documents seriously.
At the beginning, he pushed against the public opinion to promote hybrid chips, and now it has naturally paid off. However, even after joining the board of directors, he still maintains a low profile in the past and does not express opinions outside his own field too much.
The document maintains the usual tone from the relevant departments - a lot of nonsense, but easy to understand.
Both inside and outside the words are for Guoxin to actively embrace the "new technological revolution."
Think again of the equity change announcement issued by Jizhi Technology yesterday...
The thoughts above are quite obvious.
To put it bluntly, it means allowing them to fully cooperate with Jizhi Technology.
From AI intervention process and design process, simulation, to production management, industrial chain management, to the scheduling, control, and system of intelligent workshops... everything is bundled with Jizhi Technology.
As we all know, the core competitiveness of Jizhi Technology is centralized Aita.
This means that they have to hand over all information, authority, and technical know-how to Aita.
Frankly speaking...this bondage is really too deep.
After a few minutes, everyone looked up.
"After reading it, what do you think?" Gao Gang looked at everyone.
Everyone also raised their heads and looked at each other with complicated emotions.
Compared with the three major manufacturers, no matter how hard it is, National Chip is currently the only company in the country that is the leader, shouldering the hope of the whole village, and has been evading and developing silently under various "restrictions".
This is said to be a proposal document, but it is tantamount to throwing a hot potato to the enterprise itself.
Because once it is deeply tied to Jizhi Technology, it will be completely announced that it will confront the west side.
JiZhi Technology dares...they don't dare!
Even from recent relevant statements by the country, it can be seen that in fact, the higher authorities are not prepared.
——Otherwise, why would we coyly announce an antitrust investigation instead of directly announcing additional tariffs and restrictions?
Therefore, everyone looks at their noses with their eyes, and their noses with their hearts, without opening their mouths.
Everyone, including the extremely technical boss, was silent.
"You didn't even say anything, I just called him by name." Although Gao Gang said, he looked at Qin Weimin.
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"I'll do it." Qin Weimin breathed out softly.
He was the first to deal with JiZhi Technology, so he should be the first to express his opinion.
But just when he opened his notebook and was about to call out the advantages of his work since cooperating with Jizhi Technology and coming into contact with Aita, the Aita dialog box that had been silent in the lower right corner suddenly popped up on the notebook.
"Hello, Mr. Qin Weimin, if you have time, Mr. Ye Ming would like to contact you."
Qin Weimin looked at the text in the dialog box. He was stunned for a moment and then immediately looked up, said "Sorry" to everyone, and then typed in the dialog box: "I am in a meeting, is there anything important?"
"Regarding the issue of tape-out support for the 7nm process Loongson, it will not be delayed for long."
Qin Weimin only hesitated for a second and then immediately replied: "Okay."
Immediately, he raised his head: "Mr. Ye from Jizhi Technology came to me and told me about Godson 7nm."
He took out his phone and canceled airplane mode.
Everyone was startled.
As a "brother in distress", Loongson has been looking for TSMC as its foundry. Naturally, they know this and have no objection.
After all, Godson's body is inherently weak. If it doesn't adopt mature and advanced processes, it will be even more impossible to play.
And they also know that Loongson's 7nm is also from TSMC, and it is said that it is almost tapeout - why did it suddenly come to their door?
A moment later, a call came into Qin Weimin's mobile phone.
Listening to Ye Ming's voice on the phone, Qin Weimin smiled: "Hello, Mr. Ye."
"Hello, Dr. Qin, excuse me. I'm at Loongson right now. Could you please authorize Aita for me? Because it's an emergency, I plan to finish the territory today."
Qin Weimin was stunned for a moment after hearing this. He took a deep breath and pressed the speaker phone at the same time.
"Tell me, how can I cooperate with you?"
"Well, authorize Aita, and I will let Aita automatically download and receive the layout, and at the same time complete the back-end processing on your side... It will only take a few minutes, and you can arrange the mask production."
Qin Weimin almost bit off his tongue: "Wait a minute, when did Loongson 7nm use our process?"
Ye Ming's laughter came from the phone: "Half an hour ago."
“With Aita’s scheduling and cooperation, a chip can be completed within one hour from front-end simulation to mask production.”
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Qin Weimin hung up the phone and looked at everyone.
Everyone was still shocked and speechless.
"Authorization?"
"Teach it."
