Chapter 537: Stay Steady, Don’t Lose
To be honest, Lin Sijian is relatively satisfied with the Tianji chip, and even feels that it is much better than he expected.
Before coming to Hanxi, Lin Sijian was actually prepared for the poor basic level of Dongxin Semiconductor. Now let alone the domestic chip industry, the entire Asian region, except Japan, including Bangzi, Singapore The chip industry is not very good either.
Even TSMC has only been established for a few years. Relying on the reputation and connections of TSMC’s founder in semiconductors for so many years, it is still getting orders from everywhere.
TSMC’s foundry model is not yet the mainstream in the chip industry. The ability to attract orders depends entirely on the founder’s wide network and reputation. He is a brother-in-law with chip inventor Jack Keele and Intel founder Robert ·Noyce went to bars together. The proposer of Moore's Law is his old friend for decades. This is also the reason why TSMC was able to secure orders in the early stage.
Dongxin Semiconductor's ability to produce a 600nm process chip like Tianji has greatly exceeded Lin Sijian's expectations. When it comes to overseas, this can only be regarded as a second- or third-rate chip design capability. But in Asia, except for Japanese benzene, Dongxin is already Asia's "advanced" chip company, it's so magical.
Dongxin Semiconductor has the ability to design its own chips, which saves Lin Sijian a lot of work and avoids building Dongxin Semiconductor from scratch.
"In addition to performance, Tianji needs to improve stability, which is even more important than performance!"
Lin Sijian said to Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi, this is his experience, After so many years in this industry, Lin Shujian has never seen any scene, and he has never seen many scenes where he opened the champagne in advance and suffered a big setback in the end.
The chip is not designed and then you can sit back and relax. The most important thing is stability. This is the top priority. Otherwise, the data on paper will be blinding, and the result will be various overturns during use, which will be great fun.
This kind of overturning does not matter whether it is a giant company or a small workshop. Just like in the previous life, decades later, Intel, a veteran in the semiconductor industry, was actually able to thunder on the chip. The latest generation of chips would cause a blue screen when installed on the computer. Lags and crashes completely ruined Intel's reputation, and the last bit of glory was stomped on the ground.
The hemp rope is specially cut at the fine points. When you are unlucky, your teeth will be choked when you drink cold water. This is because Intel missed the battlefield of new chips such as mobile phones, home appliances, automobiles, and artificial intelligence. After the computer chip went wrong, Anyone who bought Intel stock was completely deceived.
The stock price plummeted 26% in a single day. In less than half a year, the stock price evaporated by 60%. The market value once fell below 90 billion US dollars, which is one-fifth of the market value of more than 500 billion US dollars at its peak twenty years ago. With a net worth of one, this is what Intel will be like in a few decades. The longer it lives, the more it goes back. Who can avoid breaking the defense?
When Intel launched the first-generation Pentium chip, based on Intel’s experienced experience, there were constant problems, big and small. How dare you say that Dongxin launched the Tianji computer chip for the first time and it was foolproof?
“The packaging and testing of Tianji chips must be done well. There must be no quality problems with the first generation of Tianji, and the stability must be absolutely guaranteed!”
Li Dongling also said that for the first-generation Tianji chip, we don’t expect it to be very advanced. As long as the performance can meet the original design goals, it is enough. The rest is stability. It doesn’t have to be amazing, but it must not be used on the user’s computer. Pull up a big one.
It is especially foreseeable that as long as Tianji can be successfully put into production, in addition to personal use of Tianji chips, computers in municipal government units, research institutes, state-owned factories, universities, hospitals and other places across the country will also become , the main force in purchasing Tianji chips.
For these units and departments, whether the performance is high or not is not the first priority. The key is stable performance. A computer that does not shut down 8640 hours a year can still run normally!
“The Tianji R&D team will continue to experiment and upgrade Tianji before tape-out to ensure the stability of its operation!”
Ni Guangnan also knows the importance of this. , for Dongxin and Tianji Chip, it seems that there are many opportunities, but in fact, the most important thing is this first time.
If it can succeed, everything is easy to say. Relying on the Tianji chip, Dongxin's domestic brand has been completely erected and has become synonymous with domestic semiconductors. I don't know if there will be a shortage of orders in the future, but Dongxin will have no problem surviving.
If you lose, it’s not that you have no chance at all. It’s just that it’s very difficult, no less difficult than developing Tianji chips all over again. The key is that the country may have completely lost confidence in self-developed chips.
Just like in the previous life, after several chip scams, domestic self-developed chips have been stagnant for 20 to 30 years. Even though Huang Lingyi led the team to develop the Dragon chip, there are still constant doubts. This is the sequelae. .
“On behalf of the Hanxi Provincial Government, I promise that if you have any questions from the Tianji chip project team, you can raise them, and the government office will do our best to help!”
Nothing went wrong! In the dust laboratory, after Zhou Shuyang took off his dustproof clothes, he immediately expressed his stance to Wu Xinyi and other Dongxin Semiconductor executives.
If Tianji can really be successfully sold, then there won't be too many places to make a fuss in Hanxi. Fame, profit, political achievements, and posthumous fame can all be obtained.
"Department Li, I think the Provincial Department of Industry should give strong support to companies like Dongxin Semiconductor, and then issue partial subsidies to Dongxin Semiconductor!"
Li Weimin listened. Finally, he nodded in agreement. Although the Provincial Department of Industry under his control was struggling for funds every year, it still had no problem distributing millions of subsidies to Dongxin.
Does Dongxin Semiconductor really lack the millions of subsidies, or can Tianji be mass-produced with four or five million? We all know it is impossible, but this is just a statement. The Hanxi Provincial Government paid subsidies to Dongxin because of its attitude. Dongxin accepted this subsidy because of its attitude. People carry people in sedan chairs. If it does not provide subsidies and does not provide support in terms of policies and resources, after the day machine chips go on sale, Hanxi Provincial Government will Even the Western Provincial Government cannot claim the credit for supporting Dongxin in publicity.
For Dongxin, the future will be inseparable from the support of the Hanxi Provincial Government. With subsidies and tax concessions, Dongxin will not easily move its headquarters in the future.
In the semiconductor industry, behind every company, there are corresponding supporters, including Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, Infineon and other companies. The local city government where the headquarters is located is all concerned about this. This semiconductor company supported it with all its strength, otherwise it would not have developed at all in the early stage.
Especially after the establishment of a chip production plant, there is a huge demand for water, electricity, raw materials, and transportation, which requires coordination from the city government.
Producing chips requires a large amount of water for cleaning and cooling. One-third of the time required to produce chips requires water to "bathe" the chips.
But the water the chip factory needs is not water in the traditional sense, but extracted ultrapure water. Chips are much more delicate than people, and the water used is a thousand times cleaner than tap water. This thing is fish You can't even survive in there.
If Dongxin Semiconductor establishes a production base in Hanxi Provincial City, the provincial government will need help in coordinating water, electricity, raw materials, etc.
For semiconductor companies, there is a shortage of water, but there is no shortage of water. In the past, there were not a few domestic semiconductor companies in western cities. There were two chip-related companies in Hanxi Provincial City alone. Three hundred companies, including Samsung, Micron, Infineon, etc., all have chip production plants in Hanxi Provincial City.
As a desert with solitary smoke and long rivers with sun setting sun, Tianshui County is Jiang Wei’s hometown and the place in Xiliang Prefecture in the outside world’s impression. In its previous life, it was the second largest chip shipment place in the country. Although it was mainly used for packaging. Mainly, but it also has chip production business. Others include Ordos and other places, which also have chip industries.
Shortage of water also varies from place to place. For example, in domestic Japanese food stores, many of them buy salmon and other seafood from the Western Regions, which is considered a desert in the country. Crabs raised in Tianshui are sold to coastal areas... …
After seeing the Tianji chip, Zhou Shuyang, Li Weimin and others became more expectant. This was an unexpected surprise for them.
Zhou Shuyang and others headed toward the conference room. They were eye-opening when they saw various facilities in the East Core Laboratory along the way.
Coffee machine, unlimited supply of various teas, various snacks, simple meals provided 24 hours a day, the gym is also equipped with rehabilitation therapists, masseurs, to provide services to tired R&D personnel, etc.
In addition, in order to allow R&D personnel to have a good rest, not only has a temporary rest area been set up in the experimental building, but also a house has been specially rented for R&D personnel in an area close to Dongxin, and the entire process is picked up and dropped off by car.
As for the rest, the promise of successful research and development of Tianji, huge bonuses, the construction of Dongfang Jiayuan in the provincial capital to allocate housing to research and development personnel, etc., not to mention these.
In addition to the logistical support provided to Tianji R&D personnel, and after Zhou Shuyang just asked Wu Xinyi about the average salary of Tianji R&D team members, they understood how much Dongxin had spent on Tianji chips. When the money came in, Dongxin Semiconductor and its parent company Dongling Hi-Tech really spent a lot of money for the secret.
As a developer of Tianji Chip, faced with this level of "sugar-coated bullets", I also understand the meaning of a scholar dying for his confidant. If he didn't work hard on research and development, he would feel sorry for the salary he received and the logistical benefits he received. With benefits.
"Mr. Li, I heard that Dongling High-tech has decided to locate the Microsoft game console production base and R&D base in Yangcheng and Yanjing?"
Enter the conference room Later, Guo Fanqin, the director of the provincial capital's investment promotion department, asked Li Dongling "knowingly" with a look of regret on his face.
After Li Dongling finished talking to Wu Yaoguo that day, Wu Yaoguo released the news. Whether it was Hanxi or other investment promotion units, everyone knew about Dongling Hi-Tech's decision.
Guo Fanqin and the provincial and city governments are naturally aware of this, but that does not prevent them from using the excuse to see if they can get some new projects for the provincial and city governments. Their lives are also tight.
"The Microsoft game console project cannot be implemented in a short time. From design to trial production, it will take at least two years, or even longer.
However, there are new projects at Tanglin Hi-Tech. I want to produce it here in the provincial capital!”
(End of this chapter)