The rise of nanometers

Texas.

Phoenix store in Lingcheng District.

It is the semiconductor base planned by Long Totem Company in Texas. It is different from the semiconductor base in Haifeng County, Shanmei. The business direction of the Texas Semiconductor Base is to produce and develop professional chips.

The Shanmei Semiconductor Base specializes in the production and development of CPUs, GPUs, and storage glass optical discs.

The Texas Semiconductor Base focuses on automotive chips, electrical chips, and customized chips for precision instruments.

In order to distinguish and facilitate management, the Shanmei Semiconductor Base is managed by Shanmei Chip Company, a subsidiary of Long Totem, while the Texas Semiconductor Base is managed by the subsidiary Dezhou Chip Company.

The first phase of the Fenghuangdian Semiconductor Base started planning and construction in June this year, and the construction of infrastructure, factories and supporting facilities was completed in mid-September.

The first phase of planning is for 12 large comprehensive factories.

When Huang Xiuyuan came here, Long Totem's president Zhang Weixin and technical executive Zhang Jingjian had also been working here for more than half a month.

Inside one of the factory buildings.

Ten nanowire chip production lines are being deployed, three of which have been debugged and are currently in the trial production stage.

Huang Xiuyuan picked up an unpackaged chip. This was a chip with nanowire transistors preliminarily solidified. It was a square with a side length of 400 mm, and it was densely covered with chips that had not yet been cut.

Because in the process of weaving transistors, all the chips are on a "nanowire cloth". After the transistors are initially cured, laser cutting is used to turn them into large pieces.

The large wafers are sent to the packaging workshop, where they will be further divided and packaged. Finally, they are sent to the sealing and inspection workshop to complete the quality inspection before leaving the factory.

The semi-finished chip in Huang Xiuyuan's hand is translucent, and some very dense silver-white lines can be seen on it, which are phosphorus nanowires, aluminum nanowires and the like.

Zhang Weixin, who accompanied him on the inspection, introduced these production lines to him: "Mr. Huang, these are charging/USB controller chips, power management chips, and audio chips that we independently designed."

"How was the test going?" Huang Xiuyuan put down the movie collection in his hand.

Zhang Weixin was slightly excited: "It's very good. Because we use a 40-nanometer process, the performance is better than high-end products on the market."

"What about patents?" Huang Xiuyuan asked next.

Zhang Weixin clenched his fists and replied: "The core technology patents are all independently developed by us. For other related patents, we have tried our best to use expired patents for secondary development to ensure that they will not be blocked by Western patents."

The last patent battle between the Suiren Department and Tetra Pak and industrial software companies has not yet yielded a result, and the legal departments of both parties have refused to give in.

Fortunately, Suiren's semiconductor design is based on nanowires and textile methods, which leaves a lot of room for maneuver. Unlike other domestic semiconductor companies, they have to compete with each other under the patent system established by Western companies.

Avoiding photolithography has completely destroyed the home field advantage of Western companies.

"Where is the progress in Shantou and Meizhou?"

"Mr. Lu has been forgetting sleep and food for more than half a year, and I am a little worried." Zhang Weixin said with some help: "Currently, the preliminary design plan of the Fuxi chip has completed the design of the architecture and instruction set, and the design of the chip itself is about 24% complete. .”

Before Huang Xiuyuan went north, Lu Xuedong discussed issues related to chip design with him. In order to avoid patent issues, the Fuxi chip's architecture and instruction set used the Fuxi architecture designed by Suiren Company itself, rather than the now popular ARM architecture.

Only by fundamentally bypassing the other party can we avoid some troubles.

Huawei's Kirin chips will run into big trouble in the future. Due to ban restrictions, they are unable to use the ARM architecture. Even with permanent authorization, TSMC, MediaTek and SMIC will not be able to OEM Kirin chips.

Naturally, Huang Xiuyuan will not use the ARM architecture. This is just a standard and some instruction set settings. There is no core technology that cannot be circumvented.

Huawei Kirin is stuck because the whole world is using the ARM architecture. If you follow the path that others have taken, you will have to pay a price.

Therefore, Suiren Company would rather start from scratch than follow the old path of Western companies. By overcoming all obstacles on its own, the other party will have no way of blocking Suiren Company's neck in terms of patents and core technologies.

Of course, this is bound to be a difficult road.

Because before forming its own ecology, it is very likely that Suiren itself will be the one to resist the world.

While developing an independent chip architecture, Time Information's mobile operating system and computer operating system are also being simultaneously improved.

After seeing these chip production lines, Huang Xiuyuan and Zhang Weixin felt both excited and heavy.

He took a deep breath and said unswervingly: "It doesn't matter if we are the enemy of the whole world. The pioneers are destined to be lonely and helpless. Our ancestors can create atomic bombs with nothing but nothing. We must also have the fighting spirit to fight against the world." .”

Bang bang bang...

A group of researchers and technicians also applauded high-spiritedly.

Now Suiren Company has independent property rights in software and hardware, and its technology is also very advanced. The only thing they need to do is to continue unswervingly and build their own semiconductor ecosystem.

If it is a company in a small country and does not have a huge internal market, then trying to realize its own independent chip and software ecosystem is tantamount to talking nonsense.

Suiren Company is in China, which is about to become the world's largest electronics and Internet consumer market. As long as it captures the domestic market, Suiren's semiconductor industry can basically guarantee that it will not starve to death.

In his own development plan, Huang Xiuyuan plans to first seize the domestic market in electrical chips.

After all, electrical appliance manufacturers such as Joyoung, Midea, and Gree are members of the Cloud Inspection Quality Association. When Snail takes the lead in upgrading the industry and launching smart appliances, major electrical appliance manufacturers will surely follow suit.

The prepared Dragon Totem Company took the opportunity to launch related electrical chips on the market and cultivate its own semiconductor ecosystem.

These chips are designed in advance, and the interface for the Internet of Things is reserved in advance, which can realize the concept of smart home.

Huang Xiuyuan had already made a plan. In a short period of time, Suiren Company could only fight alone and face enemies all over the world. Even domestic manufacturers would become enemies of Suiren Company in developing semiconductors.

After encouraging a group of researchers, technicians, and engineers, he announced that the scale of equity incentives will be increased at the end of this year.

It is expected that 5% of the equity of Blue Age, 5% of Snail Industry, 8% of Dragon Totem, 3% of Fengmin Agriculture, and 8% of Time Information will be used as an option pool for equity incentives.

The reason why Huang Xiuyuan increased the scale of option incentives this year is, on the one hand, to stabilize the morale of the military, and on the other hand, to prevent scientific researchers from being poached.

Although there are non-compete agreements and confidentiality regulations, Suiren Company has too many core technologies. If they are leaked by technicians, the consequences will be very serious.

Fortunately, the Suiren Department has a military background, and many confidentiality regulations carry very serious penalties. For the time being, no core researchers, engineers, or technicians have been poached.

However, it is still necessary to prepare before things happen, so he increased the scale of option incentives this year.

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