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

Chapter 406: 114-115: Gao Huaijun is too bold! (4000 words)
Curved screen, high-intensity camera, wireless headphones, wireless charging technology.

Any one of these four technologies can become the highlight of a Mate series mobile phone, and it will not be a problem to make a generation of flagship products separately.

Moreover, sales are likely to be good!
That's it. . .

It’s not enough for you to tell me!
Boss Gao, are you planning to break out of the world and head for the universe?
The requirements for Hillhouse Technologies are really too high.

"Hillhouse's low-end products have now replaced foreign chips."

“But the flagship products still use Sansang and Qualcomm products.”

"Basically, they make almost all the profits from every mobile phone model. It can even be said that they make more than me!"

"Therefore, I hope to use our latest Hillhouse Qinglong chip on this mobile phone with greatly enhanced product power."

Gao Huaijun slowly uttered a shocking piece of information.

No wonder!
Gao Huaijun is going to specialize in developing such a major iteration of the flagship mobile phone product.

As Hillhouse vehicles start to be distributed, it is very important for Hillhouse Technology to maintain a certain level of profit. It is the key to maintaining Hillhouse's higher profits for research and development.

Under such conditions, it is conceivable that companies would hope to increase product profit margins by using self-produced chips.

However, Gao Huaijun dared to use it directly on the Mate series of mobile phones. He is indeed very brave!
You should know that Hillhouse's Mate series of mobile phones provide a considerable portion of Hillhouse's profits.

Everyone present, including Min Weiguo, said "Fuck" in their hearts at the same time.

This is really awesome!
在这个时代，虽然目前我们可以看到高通处理器统治者绝大多数品牌旗舰机型，在目前的处理器工艺制程方面，旗舰机型仍然是一系列的28纳米，20纳米只在三桑GALAXY Note4韩版（Exynos5433-ARMv8）和美族MX4 Pro（三桑Exynos5430-ARMv7）等个别机型上可以见到。

现在高通必然要抓紧布局20纳米工艺芯片，也就是骁龙808、810之级别。而虽然骁龙805还没有大范围普及，旗舰机型更愿意选择跳过805，而直接步入骁龙808甚至810阶段（ARMv8）。

However, this is only the trend in the first half of this year.

The Snapdragon 815, which has not yet been revealed (it may enter the 16nm era or the 14nm era), may be one of the protagonists in the second half of this year.

In other words, the problem with Hillhouse chips now is whether the Mate 20 should use 20-nanometer chips or 16-nanometer chips.

If Hillhouse continues to use Qualcomm's chips, the Snapdragon 815 chip, its usage ranking will not be high, but there is still a high probability that it will be used.

If Qualcomm's chips are not used, then the 16-nanometer chips will definitely not work. Gao Huaijun himself estimates that the Mate 10 can only use 20-nanometer chips.

This still requires Hillhouse Chip to work hard to improve!
"Mr. Li Zongli, Hillhouse Chip has been conducting pre-research on the Qinglong 801 chip for a long time. There should be no problem using it on the Mate 10 at the end of the year, right?" Gao Huaijun seemed to have made up his mind and asked Li Zongli, the person in charge of Hillhouse Chip, who was standing next to him.

It is impossible for Hillhouse Technology to always use chips from foreign chip manufacturers in its flagship products.

This is not only unsafe, but also causes Hillhouse Chip to continue to suffer losses.

Currently, Hillhouse's highest-end chips basically cannot be used in flagship phones and can only be downgraded and used in low-end mobile phones.

Not only is the unit price low, but the profit is also not high.

Li Zongli has met with Gao Huaijun several times. If Hillhouse Chip wants to achieve profitability and self-circulation, it must use its own chips in high-end flagship mobile phones.

No matter what Qualcomm says or how they try to stop us, we have to overcome this hurdle!

“There are still certain difficulties.”

"The current 20-nanometer chip seems a bit far from the tunneling effect."

"But in fact, when we use STM to test the tunneling current spectrum, we find that electrons in semiconductors will experience large-scale quantum tunneling effects below 10nm."

“And now it has had some impact.”

"This impact now seems to have affected our research and development progress."

After many discussions, Li Zongli briefly talked about the difficulties in developing 20nm chips.

Although it may be 5nm in the future, it looks like a low-end chip that is everywhere now.

But in fact, even for a 20nm chip, in 2024, there are only a few companies in China that can even design it!
The core reason is that as chips become smaller, research and development costs are also increasing exponentially.

After the chip foundry industry entered the 20nm process, cost pressure has become increasingly high.

The development cost of the 28nm chip is 0.43 million US dollars;

The development cost of 20nm chips has exceeded 0.85 million US dollars;

The development cost of a 10nm chip exceeds 1.7 million US dollars.

不用说其他的，单单一个流片，65 nm工艺工程批流片费用在400万华元左右、40nm工艺工程批流片费用在800万华元元左右、20nm工艺工程批流片需要300万美丽元左右。

Take the Future Zheku as an example. In less than four years, it burned through about 10 billion yuan, and it is said that one wafer taping cost 100 million yuan.

Although Hillhouse Capital did not spend that much on chips, it still amounted to tens of billions.

With such R&D funding support, the number of R&D personnel has increased exponentially.

However, there are not so many R&D personnel with relevant experience. The increasing tunneling effect has also caused this group of people without relevant R&D experience to encounter many difficulties.

And in the back-end design stage, when Hillhouse chips begin physical design, including layout, routing, and layout verification, computing power requirements reach their peak.

At this time, Hillhouse Chip's local HPC cluster was running almost around the clock, but it still could not meet the growing computing needs.

The extension of the simulation cycle will directly affect the product's time to market, which is undoubtedly fatal to the fiercely competitive chip market.

Even a chip company like Hillhouse Capital, which has full support, is facing computing power issues.

It is conceivable how difficult it is to engage in chip research and development.

“This time, we must achieve a breakthrough in 20nm chips no matter what!”

"If we don't dare to use 20nm chips in actual models, it is really unacceptable. As the volume of Hillhouse Mate and P series grows, there is no way to achieve equal replacement."

"This is an opportunity for Hillhouse Technology, and also an opportunity for Hillhouse Chip. Mr. Li, do you understand what I mean?"

At the end of his speech, Gao Huaijun looked at Li Zongli next to him meaningfully.

The Hillhouse team will not retreat due to difficulties.

If you seize the opportunity and complete the task assigned by Gao Huaijun, you will definitely have a blast and be rewarded handsomely.

But if you fail to complete it at the critical point.

I'm sorry, Gao Huaijun must be replaced. Hillhouse has invested so much in chips, and now it is the most critical flagship replacement, so failure is not allowed!

"Okay! Mr. Gao!"

"I promise to complete the research and development of Qinglong 10 before Hillhouse Mate 801 goes public!"

Li Zongli said, patting his chest.

At this moment, you have to do it even if you can't.

Gao Huaijun just wants to push them. If not, it is unknown when the 20nm chip will come out, not to mention the even more distant 10nm chip.

Without the catalysis of Hillhouse's flagship phone, Hillhouse's high-end chips have no usage scenarios at all.

There are only 2019 years left until 4.

In fact, this time may be even shorter.

Hillhouse Capital is a Fortune 500 company and is definitely within the target range.

As long as all their employees use their brains to think of solutions, success will definitely be not far away.

After leaving the meeting room, Gao Huaijun was in his office, feeling suddenly a little heavy-hearted.

If you don't become a householder, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

Hillhouse has developed to this stage. Although Hillhouse Technology has been listed, Hillhouse Vehicle business is large enough, and Hillhouse derivatives have good profits, the four sectors of Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence, Hillhouse Battery, Hillhouse Chip, and Hillhouse Chip Factory are still like four black holes, firmly devouring Hillhouse's profits.

Don’t be fooled by Hillhouse’s current prosperity. Just like Yongyuan Real Estate in the future, its capital chain may explode at any time.

Hillhouse Battery is doing better now due to the production of Hillhouse Song PLUS, but it has only shortened its losses. To make a profit, it has to wait until the Han, Qin, Tang, Dolphin and other models have been launched as pure electric models before it can barely break even.

However, since the production platforms of extended-range vehicles and pure electric vehicles are not the same, modifications are difficult and require redesign.

Hillhouse's artificial intelligence is still a black hole and there is no possibility of filling it in the short term.

Although Hillhouse Tang and Hillhouse mobile phones already have some usage scenarios, they cannot withstand the huge investment of Hillhouse AI in unmanned driving systems and large-scale artificial intelligence models.

Gao Huaijun didn't want to do so much, but the shop had already been set up, and he couldn't just stop playing if he didn't want to.

The annual financial deficit of tens of billions is enough to give him a headache.

There are only two ways to make up for this deficit now.

One is to wait until the operation of the unmanned driving system is put into use, and the second is the mass production of high-end AI chips!
And these two...

It cannot be accomplished in two or three years.

As for the last Hillhouse chip, this one is just as difficult in comparison.

The cost of developing a 20nm chip is so high, how much is the cost of developing a 10nm? 5nm?
There is also performance testing after the chip is developed, which are all big problems.

Therefore, it is not that Gao Huaijun does not want mature foreign chips. It is true that without flagship mobile phones to support them, Hillhouse chips will continue to lose money until Hillhouse itself feels that it can no longer afford the losses!

"Oh! The Hillhouse chip factory is about to go into production. This is another big pit. Let's produce low-end chips first. I guess the quantity won't be enough." Gao Huaijun lay helplessly in his boss chair, rubbed his eyes casually with his hands, and muttered to himself helplessly.

The amount of chips required by Hillhouse Auto is very small, and there is basically no large demand. The only requirement is for Hillhouse Honor Magic and Honor Nova series.

However, after these two chips went into production, there was no way to feed the Hillhouse chip factory.

The capacity utilization rate is at most 50%.

That's it. . .

Hillhouse’s high-end chips are not available for the time being!
Although these basic companies have brought Hillhouse enough glory, the pitfalls they left behind are enough to give Gao Huaijun a headache.

After all, settling the accounts of these companies and reaching the heights of Hayes in later generations is not something that can be accomplished on a whim!
"Mr. Gao, are you still thinking about Hillhouse chips?" Li Yinxin, who was standing aside, looked at him with a smile and said.

"Oh? It's Xiao Li!" Gao Huaijun smiled and looked at her.

At the same time, he waved and asked her to come in.

After Li Yinxin put down the cup in her hand, she made a cup of Mingqian Longjing tea for Gao Huaijun.

Gao Huaijun likes to drink tea, but not Japanese or Western-style coffee.

However, he doesn't have too many particularities when it comes to drinking tea. He just drinks Longjing tea from before the Qingming Festival and Dahongpao from Wuyi Mountain.

I don’t drink fermented tea very often because I’m not used to the taste.

The water for each cup of tea needs to be collected from the meltwater in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains every morning, transported to the nearest Golmud Airport, and then transferred from Golmud Airport to Xicheng.

In addition, the fruits, vegetables, etc. that he eats are basically fresh foods airlifted from overseas.

At first he thought it was a luxury.

But think about it, can you spend all the money you earn?
Later he felt relieved. He believed that the real consumption of rich people does not involve spending huge sums of money on rare luxury goods. Instead, they spend money in their daily lives as simply and freely as breathing. They never consider the cost of their lives, but only comfort and convenience.

For example, the meltwater from the Nyainqentanglha Mountains.

Disposable clothing that cannot be washed, machine washed, or dry cleaned.

There are also various fresh ingredients airlifted from overseas.

He thinks this is how rich people should spend their money!
In this way, wealth can flow to ordinary people, instead of spending millions or tens of millions on watches, cars, paintings and a bunch of impractical things!

Gao Huaijun did not drink the tea directly. Instead, he stood up and paced a few steps and said, "Although Hillhouse Chip is just a branch established by chance, this organization carries Hillhouse's future expectations!"

"In this era, the future will be an era of computing power, and computing power, in the final analysis, needs to be attributed to chips."

"And the chip will be the brain of a company!"

Gao Huaijun did not put it too bluntly.

Perhaps as Li Yinxin is the daughter of the head of the Sansang clan, she has some secrets that, not only Li Yinxin, but even girls like Shang Yayan would not reveal a word.

Now in the chip field, there are only a few players who can enter the final round.

Qualcomm is one, Samsung is one, Taiwan Electronics is one, and Zhongwei will also be one of them based on this trend. As for whether Hillhouse's Hillhouse chip can become one of them, Gao Huaijun himself actually has doubts.

This thing is really too expensive!
(End of this chapter)