Global monopoly of technology

Luo Sheng did not stay in Shencheng for too long, and returned to Sucheng after only about half a day.

When I came back, I didn't rest, but went straight to Lens Semiconductor to meet Xu Zhijun.

"Great, so to speak, the first generation of Honor phones can hold a press conference in the second half of the year." Xu Zhijun heard Luo Sheng briefly explained the situation of Xixiongxin Electronics, and the annual supply can easily exceed 100 million pieces. The scale immediately lifted the spirits.

It can be said that after more than a year of preparation for the Honor brand, everything is basically ready.

Xu Zhijun couldn't help but laughed and said, "Lao Yu would be very happy if he knew this news. This guy has been asking me to complain and complain, saying that people are dying, and now he can only post on Weibo to interact with friends. Now, it was a bit interesting to interact at the beginning, but after a long time it doesn’t have much energy."

Luo Sheng smiled at each other.

Lao Yu must have lost his energy, and he was speechless when he said "your product".

Bickering is still secondary. The key is to see that Xiao Mi and other friends' products are selling more and more prosperously, but Honor has to wait for Xiongxin Electronics to exert its strength, and Yu Dazui is too anxious.

As stipulated in the agreement, the terminal brand that decided to become an independent terminal brand was because of Xiongxin Electronics. It is not an exaggeration to say that Xiongxin Electronics has the honor brand.

However, Mr. Yu is still very confident about Honor's competitiveness. As long as he does not benchmark against Azure products, he is very confident in other mid- and low-end brands in the Mainland, even overseas brands such as Samsung, HTC, and LG.

Because Honor’s technology is actually a secondary technology inherited from Azure mobile phones, which currently represents the benchmark of the global smartphone industry. Even if it is two generations behind, its competitiveness in the low-end and mid-range markets is leveraged.

"Old Xu, I have one more thing to come here today." Luo Sheng changed the subject after a while.

Xu Zhijun stared at the other party with a faint smile, and put on a posture of listening respectfully: "Please speak."

Luo Sheng is also welcome: "It's still a matter of talents. Hua has to transfer some scientists over for the head office, especially mathematicians, preferably mathematicians from Russia and chemists."

In the early years, the two parties reached a long-term strategic cooperative relationship. One of the key agreements was to break through the barriers to talents.

Xu Zhijun didn't think about it, nodded and said, "No problem."

He knows that Huawei's senior management knows that Luo Sheng wants to build a purely domestic semiconductor industry chain. Huawei itself is one of the core participants. As a company with earlier qualifications in the ICT field than the Blue Coast, Huawei is also very Know how difficult this road is.

In fact, Old Xu admired Luo Sheng's courage very much in his heart. The difficulty of this road cannot be summarized in a few words.

Over the years, Luo Sheng has laid out in the entire semiconductor industry chain until now. There are still many links that are missing, or even blank, and they still cannot turn after leaving the global semiconductor industry chain.

Fortunately, Lens Semiconductor now has its own substantial core voice, that is, the current top chip manufacturing technology has adopted the FinFET technology, and it is recognized as the mainstream in the industry at the 28nm and 22nm process nodes.

The chip manufacturing process is like building a house with Lego. First, the wafer is used as the foundation. In terms of wafer purification, the Japanese Shin-Etsu Chemical monopolizes this process.

Through the wafer, after the chip manufacturing process that is often stacked on top of each other, the necessary IC chips can be produced.

However, there is no design drawing, no matter how strong the manufacturing capability is, there is no use. Therefore, the role of "architect" is very important, and Lens Semiconductor is mainly engaged in the field of IC design.

In the IC production process, IC design companies carry out planning and design. Manufacturers such as Lens Semiconductor, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Intel, etc. can design their own IC chips and provide chips with different specifications and performances for downstream manufacturers to choose .

Therefore, IC design relies heavily on the skills of engineers, and the quality of engineers affects the value of an enterprise.

But before IC design, EDA industrial software is needed. Luo Sheng has already laid out this area early. It has invested in more than a dozen start-ups or joint ventures specializing in EDA software, such as Jingchuang Technology and BGI. For the sake of obtaining unprecedented capital support.

There are also multiple steps when making ICs.

Metal sputtering: Sprinkle the metal material to be used evenly on the wafer to form a thin film;

Coating photoresist: Put the photoresist material on the wafer, hit the light beam on the unnecessary part through the mask, destroy the structure of the photoresist material, and then use the chemical agent to wash off the damaged material;

Etching: Use ion beam to etch silicon wafers that are not protected by photoresist;

Photoresist removal: Use the photoresist removing liquid to dissolve the remaining photoresist, so that a process can be completed.

Finally, a lot of IC chips will be completed on a whole wafer. The following is the square IC chip to be cut and then sent to the packaging factory for packaging.

After a long manufacturing process, from design to manufacturing, a pile of sand has finally turned into an IC chip.However, a chip of the goose is quite small and thin. If it is not protected, it will be easily scratched and damaged.In addition, because of the small size of the chip, it is difficult to manually install it on the circuit board without a larger-sized housing.

After the packaging is completed, it is necessary to enter the testing phase. At this stage, it is necessary to confirm whether the packaged IC can operate normally. After confirmation, it can be shipped to the assembly factory and made into common electronic products for consumers. So far, the semiconductor industry Completed the entire production task.

The main task of Xiongxin Electronics is manufacturing and packaging and testing.

It’s simple to say, but in fact it involves more than 1,000 or even more than 2,000 complex processes. There is not even a single country in the world that can build a complete semiconductor industry chain, not even the Americans, let alone Speaking of a group company.

And Luo Sheng is doing such a thing.

It must also be connected, even if it takes time and effort, in order to be able to independently turn a pile of sand into a chip, not just to use it on a smart phone.

Unmanned driving, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, aerospace, smart machinery, and so on, do not leave the "Industrial Party" obsessed with a square inch chip.

This victory in this square inch is the basis for his future layout of a series of black technology and the foundation of high-end industrial manufacturing. The chip is the jewel in the crown of this industry.

Luo Sheng stayed at Lens Semiconductor for more than half an hour before leaving and went straight home.

Two days later, a phone call came to him, and Director Zhong of the State-owned Assets Administration Office made a private call.

Looking at the TV show, Luo Sheng guessed it without asking. He only went to see Xiongxin Electronics' super factory three days ago and also gave Liu Yixuan some instructions.

At this moment, Luo Sheng was surrounded by a bath towel handed to him by Qing Xuemei. He picked up the phone on the table, sat down on a chair and connected.

"Director Zhong, what brings you here." Luo Sheng said with a smile.

"About Huaxin International." Zhong Yuanhong didn't mean anything. He explained his intentions as soon as he got on the phone. He knew that Luo Sheng was a shrewd young man. Even if you didn't talk about many things, he would be like Ming Jing. It is better to speak frankly.

At this time, Qingxue Meizhi brought him a cup of afternoon tea, and Luo Sheng sipped his mouth and said: "Director Zhong, it’s not that I don’t want to accept Huaxin International, but that I don’t want to mix in some troubles and build a full semiconductor industry. The chain is as difficult as climbing, and dealing with foreign enemies is already quite difficult. If you are tossing about it internally, this job will be difficult."

Obviously, Liu Yixuan must have talked with the people of Huaxin International, and Luo Sheng knows the result without asking. Zhong Yuanhong now makes a call and has explained that there is still no agreement.

Luo Sheng noticed that the other end of the call was silent for a long time. He thought for a moment and couldn't help but say: "In this way, I will take a step back. The last step is to merge Huaxin International and Xiongxin Electronics to cross shareholding, but all shareholders must sign with me. The parties acting in concert agree that the time limit is thirty years."

To sign this agreement simply means that when Xiongxin Electronics’ board of directors makes a decision, the other party’s vote was unanimously voted according to the agreement. Luo Sheng voted against it, followed by a negative vote, and vice versa.

It will last for thirty years.

Luo Sheng knows that the leaders there also need achievements, and the capital office of the local government is also optimistic about Xiongxin Electronics, which Luo Sheng is in charge, and the future financial income is also considerable.

Luo Sheng understands this very well and is happy to share it, but the premise is that it cannot affect his strategic layout progress bar. He does not care about sharing the benefits, and must be divided. The more the wealth is, the more it is divided.

The fear is that the leader loves to manage things, and the layman is the most tossing.

Luo Sheng: "Director Zhong?"

Director Zhong, who has been silent until now, sent a response: "Thirty years..."

Luo Sheng replied very affirmatively: "Yes, at least 30 years...If it doesn't work, then I won't play here in Shencheng. I moved Xiongxin Electronics to the Pearl River Delta of Pengcheng, a camp in this economic belt. The business environment and the scale of industrial clusters are not worse than the Yangtze River Delta."

Zhong Yuanhong: "..."

He was silent for a while, and he couldn’t tell that Luo Sheng’s words were the result of consideration. It was still young people’s impulsiveness. After all, his aura of achievement was outstanding and could not conceal the fact of youth. Young people are generally soft and hard. Eat better, eat soft rather than hard, and Zhong Yuanhong’s judgment that Luo Sheng is the latter is far more likely than the former.

After all, the young entrepreneur said that even those who have been in shopping malls for decades secretly lament the inferiority.

Zhong Yuanhong finished silently and replied: "Okay, I know, I will match it up and give you an answer as soon as possible."

If Pengcheng's leaders heard it, they would not be happy and blossomed.

In any case, it must be impossible for Shencheng to let Xiongxin Electronics "run" this time. Bluestar Technology's relocation has almost made the intestines regretful. Look at the company's market value and revenue scale.

Heartache!

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