Chapter 1403 Interest Considerations
“After analysis, we found that the reason why domestic wafers cannot meet your needs is due to the manufacturing preparation stage, that is, after the design team completes the physical design, it will produce the required The mask and other related documents are transferred to the manufacturing factory, and then the factory develops the process stage of the tape-out step based on the mask and related documents."
"Then we asked the second why, why according to your side. masks and related files, in Your wafers can be produced smoothly, but our domestic wafers will reduce the completion rate?”
“In the end, we found that the reason is actually very simple, because your design is based on The parameters of your self-produced wafers are strictly controlled. The precision design lacks the consideration of compatibility and redundancy, which leads to the incompatibility with our domestic wafers.”
“Then the last step is how to solve the incompatibility between you and us. Question? ”
"So has the plan come out?" Quan Wuxuan asked.
"It's out." Zhou Zhi looked at Quan Wuxuan and nodded seriously: "That is to make adaptive fine-tuning of your masks and related documents suitable for our domestic wafer tape-out."
"Hahahaha..." Kwon Oh-hyun and Shen Jongjun couldn't help laughing, but Kwon Oh-hyun didn't He spoke directly to Zhou Zhi, but turned to Cui Zhicheng and smiled: "President, Mr. Zhou wants to adjust our world-leading DRAM mask scheme, do you think it is possible?"
Unexpectedly, Cui Zhicheng still insisted. With a cold look on his face, he still looked like a stone Buddha amidst Han Fang’s low laughter, even He turned to look at his team and let the laughter quickly disappear in the conference room: "This is a serious topic. I don't think there is anything ridiculous in the precious ideas put forward by Mr. Zhou. We can't blame our DRAM design for Already leading the world, we think there is no room for improvement. "
"The group's integrated IDM model really makes us rarely consider the direction of compatibility. Mr. Zhou has brought it up to us now, I think..." At this point, Cui Zhicheng pointed at Zhou Zhiweiwei. Nodding: "We should first express our gratitude."
As soon as Cui Zhicheng spoke, the laughter in the conference room stopped abruptly.
At this time, Zhou Zhi only had one thought in his mind, that is, successful people must be successful.
Cui Zhicheng turned back, looked at Zhou Zhi and said seriously: "Mr. Zhou, there are still problems with this. For Samsung, the fixed mask solution is the optimal solution we obtained after thousands of experiments. , is also the key to our production quality. To modify it, we have to pay too much, and the benefits may not be able to offset our efforts.”
“Because compatibility is always a matter of consideration for the group, and the IDM model is inherently. You are the key to our quality control. Even if your ideas are appreciated, it is difficult to convince our board of directors. "
"So we have not considered letting Samsung take charge of this matter independently." Zhou Zhi put forward his own suggestion: "As long as President Cui can convince the board of directors to authorize Samsung's EDA and ASIC software to us, we, Clover, can do this compatibility improvement work."
As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of discussion in the conference room.
Zhou Zhi continued: "As far as I know, President Quan led the team to conquer the 64KDRM manufacturing process, and it only took six months from design to finished product. I believe that with the help and guidance of Samsung colleagues, , we can completely become familiar with the software within a month, and at most three months, we can get it out A transformation plan suitable for domestic wafers! ”
“We don’t need Samsung to invest money, nor do we need Samsung to invest too much manpower. It’s up to us. Samsung’s contribution to this matter is only The use of the two tool software is authorized, and the gain is a huge increase in the cost of the 64M memory chip. Reduced. "
"If this transformation can be successful, the storage components of Hong'an Digital's expanded WinClover production capacity can completely use products from Samsung's Jinhai factory. Based on these conditions, we can also On, set the current storage capacity of WinClover, Expanding from 64M to 128M, or even 256M in the future, without increasing the appearance size, will bring a better user experience to our users. "Although WinClover's storage is now 64M, the chip particles on the Toshiba memory stick are still there. But it's not one pill, but two 36M pills.
If Samsung's latest products are used, this capacity can be doubled. If the cost of the chip is not considered, it can even be increased four times.
Because the chip itself is very thin, there is enough design redundancy space in the player to accommodate it. The current bottleneck is stuck in the chip cost. If DRAM can be fully domestically produced, even if it is achieved in a joint venture factory, the completion rate will still be reduced a lot. However, with domestic low labor and huge production capacity, it will still be The cost of DRAM chips can be reduced to a terrifying level.
Just like what happened in later generations, any so-called industrial pearl captured by China can be immediately sold at a bargain price.
Actually, agricultural pearls are similar. As long as any "fruit aristocrat" starts to be promoted in China, within a few years it will become a popular commodity selling for ten yuan or three kilograms.
There is no doubt that this is a win-win solution if only short-term benefits are considered.
It’s not that Samsung itself didn’t know what the problem was before. They just hoped that the Chinese wouldn’t discover this and were forced to use high-priced South Korean wafers, thereby increasing their dependence on South Korea in the entire DRAM industry.
Had it not been for the emergence of WinClover, it is hard to say that this policy would not have been successful.
But now the situation has changed. WinClover has caused explosive growth in demand for high-end DRAM in China, but Clover has not used Samsung's memory, which makes Samsung very sad.
But even if it is sad, Samsung does not intend to make too many concessions to Chinese companies. This itself is also related to their pride in their own products and designs.
Until now, they didn’t know that there was a company in China that could analyze them and get rid of them.
This is actually a demonstration of its strength, indicating that Clover's team has a complete insight into the tricks of the entire manufacturing process. In other words, Clover has the ability to analyze and crack Samsung's mask scheme and processing technology!
In other words, whether Samsung provides its own EDA and ASIC software for Clover to use, it will not affect Clover's technical capabilities.
If it is not provided, it will definitely be much more difficult for Clover to complete the entire process on its own, and the time to be able to produce its own DRAM chips will definitely be delayed by a few years.
But everything has advantages and disadvantages. If Clover introduces EDA and ASIC software from other channels, then they can organize their own R&D team with independent intellectual property rights to produce DRAM with their own IP core. .
By that time, Clover will definitely become a formidable opponent for memory chip manufacturers around the world.
(End of this chapter)