I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 140 Chapter 159-160: Chip!chip!chip! (first sum)
Hillhouse Technology Headquarters Building, President's Office.

Gao Huaijun rubbed his temples with a headache.

"It seems that it is impossible to complete the layout of the electronic technology industry in a short period of time." He murmured to himself, looking at the already somewhat bleak background outside the glass.

Originally, Hillhouse Technology had enough going on.

Although he now leaves about 70% of minor matters to Ning Yuan, he still has to make many core decisions.

His work habits include handling some important processes in the morning and asking the relevant person in charge to hold a special meeting in the afternoon for special discussions on some uncertain tasks.

One characteristic of his meetings is that he doesn't like long speeches. In a special meeting, he must talk about the essentials, and he must finish it within half an hour!

This requires the following executives to prepare a lot of work in advance to complete such a special meeting.

At the same time, he doesn't like to stay overnight for work matters.

Otherwise, if a simple matter is put off for several days, the progress of the work will fall off one by one!
Now, as the influence of the Mate series of mobile phones is expanding, many medium and large mobile phone manufacturers have seen the advantages of this touch-screen mobile phone, so they are also rapidly developing high imitations.

His influence on the world is gradually increasing, which has led to his information gap advantage being rapidly reduced.

And, most importantly,

Therefore, he must seize the time to speed up Hillhouse Technology's layout of the core track!

After thinking for a while, he picked up the red landline next to him and dialed '001', Shang Yayan's exclusive phone number. Gao Huaijun gave his order concisely and concisely.

"Inform Ning Yuan, Lin Yunshen, Min Weiguo and other core executives that we will have a meeting in the small conference room at 2 o'clock this afternoon!"

"Okay boss! I've already said hello to them. Don't leave Xicheng unless there is something urgent in the past two days!" Shang Yayan replied in a sweet voice.

"Yeah!" Gao Huaijun nodded lightly.

Next door to the CEO's office, the phone was hung up. Shang Yayan wrote another small note on the desk covered with sticky notes, making some detailed adjustments to Gao Huaijun's work today.

Putting down the phone, Gao Huaijun shook his head.

This little secretary is getting smarter and smarter now, and her ability to think ahead is very strong!

This is actually a very scarce skill in modern enterprises.

If a person like this is a small boss, he will definitely find a treasure and continue to cultivate her.

Being a boss lady or a deputy are both very good results.

However, she is the secretary to the boss of Hillhouse Technology!

Who is Gao Huaijun?
The super-rich generation who started from scratch in an electric fan factory are no less decisive than anyone else.

This suddenly reminded Gao Huaijun of a very famous figure from the Three Kingdoms period - Yang Xiu!
He is also a very smart person with very strong forward thinking!

"Let's take a look at Shang Yayan's performance first! It saves me a lot of energy. I really can't bear to let her go!" Gao Huaijun thought as he sat in front of the table with his hands together.

He suppressed the thoughts in his heart, and Gao Huaijun casually took out a notebook from the office drawer and read it casually.

This thing is his biggest secret since his rebirth!
In order to prevent him from forgetting many memories of his previous life, he recorded many useful or useless techniques he remembered in this notebook to provide direction for his future development.

He would not tell this thing even to his closest relatives!
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That afternoon, all the executives gathered in the conference room.

But unlike usual, Li Zonglin and several core members of the chip team also came to participate in this meeting.

It is completely different from the usual casual attire for meetings. Today, this group of people are all neatly dressed in suits and labeled as leaders.

Because this meeting was personally hosted by Gao Huaijun, the boss of Hillhouse Technology!

As Hillhouse Technology's business grows bigger and bigger, and with the addition of a sub-brand like Lingxiao Technology, Gao Huaijun basically no longer manages basic operation and maintenance matters, but decentralizes his power to a certain extent.

Therefore, he has fewer and fewer opportunities to host meetings, let alone have lower-level managers on the team attend meetings.

The emergence of mate1 and mate2 mobile phones has shocked many users with different ideas of electronic products.

However, Hillhouse Technology is not without its weaknesses. They clearly know that one of Hillhouse Technology’s core weaknesses now is chips, and Gao Huaijun has high hopes for the research and development of chips.

Before the advent of HiSilicon chips in the later generations, foreign chips were basically dominated in the world. Mainstream chips such as Texas Instruments and Qualcomm basically occupied the highest ecological niche of electronic technology, and also occupied the most lucrative profit of electronic technology. .

Among the later generations of Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi’s average gross profit for every ordinary Redmi mobile phone sold is 140 yuan, which is really not as profitable as the Internet.

It can even be said that what you earn is hard-earned money!

Even a flagship phone priced at more than 5000 Chinese yuan is only a few hundred dollars larger, with a profit of less than 1000 Chinese yuan.

And how much is Qualcomm?

Because a flagship chip costs 800 Chinese yuan+, and an ordinary mobile phone costs 400 Chinese yuan+. If you buy too much and cannot sell it, you will lose money.

Xiaomi earns one or two hundred yuan from an ordinary mobile phone, and Qualcomm earns 600 yuan.

This is purely working for Qualcomm!
And how much money can the fruit machine, the king of mobile phones in future generations, earn?
After deducting the cost of 3000 Chinese yuan from the profit of a mobile phone, Pingguo makes a net profit of 2000-5000 Chinese yuan!

This is the core reason why Pingguo has accumulated so much cash!

Mobile phones don’t change much every year. They just change the screen and add something with a very small gimmick, such as wireless earphones, rose gold, and rich gold color. In addition, the chip is self-developed, so it is directly provided to Taiwan and Taiwan. Manufacturing, Qualcomm retained all the profits that it wanted to retain.

Do you think it feels good?You said Gao Huaijun is greedy!
However, chips are completely different from consumer-grade products. Chips, especially large-scale integrated chips and core SOCs, take a very long time to develop and require a very long period of stable testing to meet the conditions for mass production. Now Hillhouse Chip is established It took a certain period of time before the first SoC made breakthrough progress!
From the perspective of other companies, this is simply rapid progress!
However, in the past year or so, Hillhouse Technology, which has invested nearly [-] million yuan sporadically, seems to be relatively slow.

After all, Hillhouse Technology, which has released one more electronic technology products in half a year, is a well-known leader in the electronic technology industry.

【Chapter X】

Gao Huaijun had a serious expression after entering the conference room. The six people present straightened their backs unconsciously as they listened, staring at Gao Huaijun and the whiteboard behind him, waiting for him to get to the point.

"I often say that Hillhouse Technology is a 1+X development model, 1 is the mobile phone, and X is the core product group. However, today the Hillhouse Chip team is here. What I want to emphasize is that Hillhouse Technology is no longer It’s the 1+X development model again! Now it’s 1+1+X, and the first 1 is Hillhouse Chip!”

"Hillhouse chip, in the future planning of Hillhouse Technology, is the core of the core and the focus of the focus. In my eyes, your status is no worse than that of the Hillhouse R&D center!" He touched it habitually Touching the sapphire cufflinks on the side of his shirt, he said coldly.

Everyone present was staring with disbelief.

Hillhouse Technology's No. 1 is mobile phones, with large shipments, high output value, and high profits. This is a creed that everyone takes for granted.

But now tell them that Hillhouse Chip has become the first 1!

Is it the future plan of Hillhouse Technology, the core of the core, the focus of the focus?

Just kidding? !

Now after Li Zonglin came over, it has been more than a year, and more than 1 million have been burned one after another. There are nearly 300 R&D teams, and now they have not made a fart. It is a project with a net loss for the company.

You told me, this is Hillhouse Technology’s first 1?

If the group of people hadn't seen the serious look on Gao Huaijun's face, they would have thought that Gao Huaijun was joking with them!
You know, the price of buying chips from outside is actually not expensive now. Qualcomm's first-generation S1 chip uses a 65nm process, ARM v7 architecture, single-core design, and is equipped with a 320MHz Hexagon QDSP5. The price is only more than 1000 yuan. Level, not expensive!
Even better, TI's OMAP 1 creates an Open Mobile Application Processor Interface (OMAPI), and its price is only 1-300 yuan more expensive than Qualcomm S500!

This is much better than Hillhouse Technology's own whims and self-operated chips!
That’s fine, but Boss Gao ranks Hillhouse chip as the first one. Doesn’t he treat Hillhouse Technology as a child’s play?

However, Gao Huaijun is the god of Hillhouse Technology and the heaven of Hillhouse Technology. Everyone suppressed many doubts in their hearts and did not dare to ask more questions.

Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, Gao Huaijun smiled and did not explain.

Even in 2017, even people in the mobile phone manufacturing industry do not think that chip technology is the same as before mobile phones, let alone the technologically backward era of 1!
In this era of rapid development of informatization and globalization, how can it be impossible to buy something that is globally competitive like chips?

How could anyone use it as a weapon?
Are you making unfounded worries?

Many things, before they happen, really no one thinks it will happen, but on the contrary, it really happens!
"Mr. Li Zonglin, come and report the specific situation to me!" It was Gao Huaijun who broke the silence and said.

However, at this time, Li Zonglin's heart couldn't help but twitch.

Boss Gao's words are too exaggerated. You shouldn't even paint a cake like this.

Originally, other executives had objections to the fact that Hillhouse Chip had burned more than RMB [-] million in a row and had no benefits.

He also wanted to pretend to be low-key.

This guy!

Boss Gao thinks they are not enough, so he will add more fire to roast them, right?
Hillhouse chip is inherently difficult.

The core reason for the current delay in progress is still the lack of talent!

This is not because Hillhouse Technology does not give enough money, but because there are very few people in the market who can speak Chinese and have a certain understanding of chip design and manufacturing!
In China, in 07, although the country had attached great importance to chips, due to the low degree of industrialization of the chip industry in China, to put it bluntly, it did not make money. The chip industry was basically a money-losing product. Most of the executives present wanted to Either they are from that island, or they are foreign employees who have returned from the beautiful country, or even foreign employees poached from the country of Smecta. It is hard to find a single local talent.

No one was dug up.

Compared with foreign levels, China's chip industry has a very, very big gap!

From this we can see the lack of local chip talents.

In the four major positions in the field of digital chip design (front-end design/verification/DFT/back-end), for 9+17 microelectronics demonstration colleges, some 985, turtle master's graduates, the average annual salary of graduates given by relevant companies in China It should be less than 5 Chinese yuan, and some are even only around 3 yuan.

To put it bluntly, you can find an integrated circuit design talent who graduated from 3 for only 985 yuan. This is simply a shame within the industry!

With just this little money, can the industry develop?

it's out of the question!

This trend continued until 17.

Except for working for HiSilicon and a small number of state-owned enterprises in China, most students studying chip-related majors will basically transfer directly after graduation, and almost no one will do chip research and development.

Now Hillhouse Chip has been recruiting in the past year, and just by giving them the same treatment as the Hillhouse R&D Center, a considerable proportion of the new people they can find are actually students from the four levels of schools in Qingbei and Fujiao. This will not happen in future generations. Don't even think about the starting salary of 40 W, and they won't even consider you as a start-up company in a small place like Xicheng.

Therefore, the current Hillhouse chip is short of people, technology, and time. It is a difficult word!
"Our current large-scale SOC system-level chip has been initially designed. However, due to tight time and heavy tasks, coupled with the current lack of chip R&D talents, we can only reduce the frequency to make 90nm chips."

"Now I have tape-out 5 times, but I have only succeeded 3 times. It is not considered a complete tape-out success..."

Li Zonglin is the kind of purely technical manager, and they are very down-to-earth in what they say. He roughly gave an overview of the research and development results of this 90nm chip and Qinglong 101.

Gao Huaijun likes the book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" very much. The operating system he is currently using is called Zhuque, and the chip is called Qinglong, which are more or less influenced by this book!
"Qinglong 101 has cost more than [-] million! This amount of money is a huge number for any electronic technology company in China. How come it has been developed for more than a year and has not yet been successfully taped out?" At the packaging and testing stage?" Gao Huaijun frowned and asked.

In his impression, 28nm is a threshold, and the later costs will increase. But now it is just a 90nm-level chip.

The threshold for design and manufacturing is actually not high.

In later generations, even the first generation of smart cars did not use this level of chips!

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