Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 400: Digging a hole, a super large wafer factory!

Now, the Xingyi LiDAR department has only been established for two months, but it already has a R&D team of more than 300 people.

By transferring some administrative personnel from Xingyi Technology to assist, the entire department structure will be complete.

Of course, we will have to continue recruiting people in the future.

If you want to make a quick breakthrough in the field of LiDAR, you have to invest a lot of manpower, material resources and funds!

Use manpower to shorten the time!
Hesai Technology initially had a team of 560 people, but two years later the team had grown to over a thousand people.

In the past, Huawei’s LiDAR R&D center in Optics Valley directly invested 10,000 people!

Not surprisingly, Huawei's lidar is progressing rapidly.

Similarly, if Xingyi LiDAR wants to develop rapidly, it must also implement a rapid military expansion strategy!
We also have to invest the money earned in other fields into research and development in cutting-edge fields.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of people like Huawei, but at least 1500 people are needed.

Wang Yi looked at Tonya Dawan and said, "If you need anything, just ask."

"Chairman, we don't have any other needs, but in the long run, we need a professional R&D center and all kinds of cutting-edge equipment."

Wang Yi nodded. "That's easy. The second phase of Xingyi Technology Park has been completed. It's the same as the first phase here, also 200 acres. There are still a few office buildings vacant. Go and see if there are any you like. You can use it as a LiDAR research center. If one building is not enough, you can build two! List out what equipment you need and submit it to the company for purchase!"

"Thank you, Chairman!" Tonya Dawan was filled with joy. She had never expected that Wang Yi would take it so seriously.

There is no way, the research and development of lidar is a long-term project.

16 lines, 32 lines, 64 lines, 128 lines... performance is constantly iterating.

If it breaks through the 64 line or the 128 line, it would be fine, but the problem is that the breakthrough is just the beginning, and the cost must be continuously reduced!
The 64-line products costing 80 yuan and the 128-line products costing yuan are all garbage and cannot be used commercially at all.

Only when it reaches about 10,000 can it be used commercially on a large scale.

This can only be achieved by increasing R&D efforts and increasing R&D investment.

"Also, regarding the specific R&D goals, what arrangements does the chairman have?" Tonya Dawan asked. This matter all depends on the sponsor!
Wang Yi had considered this long ago: "I am planning to make a household sweeping robot. I need a laser radar that is not high-end, but reliable and low-cost. It would be best if the mass production cost is less than 300 yuan."

The functions of the sweeping robots these days are very simple. They do not have the automatic dust collection, automatic water supply, automatic mop washing and other functions that are available many years later. The cleaning effect is also average, but the price is very expensive.

Even a sweeping robot without laser radar costs four or five thousand yuan.

Any laser-guided machine with decent functionality will cost more than 8000 yuan, or even more than yuan.

With this price, you can hire a nanny for four or five months. After all, the price of a nanny in 2012 was only over two thousand yuan a month.

The reason is that laser radar is too expensive. Even the low-end laser radar used in sweeping robots costs more than 1000 yuan each. If you use two or three of them, the cost will be three or four thousand yuan.

Add to that other components such as batteries, and the material cost is close to 5,000 yuan. Add in taxes and other costs, and it is reasonable to sell it for 8,000 or 10,000 yuan.

However, with such a price, the sweeping robot is destined to be a niche product. It will not sell well and the general public cannot afford it.

The solution is to lower the price of lidar!

"The laser radar for a household sweeping robot costs about 300 yuan..." Tonya Dawan fell into deep thought:
"The technology is not difficult. If the cost is a thousand yuan, it can be easily done. But if the cost is to be reduced, we have to do more research. So, I will arrange a few smart assistants to lead 300 people and try to come up with a plan in two or three months. If it is mass-produced at the level, the cost will be kept around !"

"Great!" Wang Yi was delighted. Sure enough, this low-level laser radar was a piece of cake for a big shot like Tonya Dawan. The key was how to reduce the cost.
"The remaining 300 people will all develop high-end automotive radars, and they will also pursue performance while reducing costs!"

Tonya Dhawan nodded and said, "Chairman, since we are going to make automotive radar, I suggest that we give up the 16-line and 32-line LiDAR and go directly to the 64-line LiDAR!"

"Yes, the detection distance of 32-line laser radar is too short and it cannot be used on cars. Let's just use 64 lines." Wang Yi said.

Although everyone knows that 128 lines are better, the problem is that the technology is difficult and the cost is high.

These days, a 64-line laser radar costs 50, not to mention a 128-line one, and it can’t be made in the short term…

The development of science and technology has never been a leapfrog development.

If it weren't for Tonya Dawan, the Xingyi LiDAR might have to start its research and development from the 16th line.

It is only with the leadership of big names that we can abandon the low-end 16-line and 32-line and go directly to 64-line!
I can only say that it is worth digging up this big shot, even his annual salary of 7 million RMB is worth it!

There is no other way. Tonya Dawan's annual salary abroad is only 700,000 or 800,000 US dollars. If we want to dig him back, we can only offer him an annual salary of one million US dollars.

But great value for money.

As long as we can make a 300-yuan laser radar for a sweeping robot, we can make our investment back.

After all, the material cost of a competitor's laser radar sweeping robot is only 8000 yuan, but it is sold for yuan or yuan.

The material cost of Wang Yi's laser radar sweeping robot is less than two thousand yuan, and it is still selling like hot cakes at a price of 4999 yuan.

As for the low-priced car radars, they are all free money.

This kind of field is a typical case of high input and high output!

“Similarly, automotive LiDAR prioritizes cost savings while ensuring performance!”

Wang Yi changed the subject: "A 64-line laser radar costs 50 yuan, which is too expensive. I can't afford it. After all, a car only costs a few hundred thousand yuan."

Tonya Dhawan nodded: "Yes, we must adopt a new solution to reduce the cost to hundreds of thousands!"

"No, hundreds of thousands are too expensive." Wang Yi waved his hand: "Lower it to ten thousand, or even less than ten thousand!"

"What? Reduced to ten thousand! This is impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Tonya Dawan was shocked. "Mr. Wang, a 64-line laser radar sells for 50 yuan, and the cost is or yuan. Even if I were a god, I couldn't reduce the cost of a laser radar that costs or yuan to yuan. It's unrealistic."

Wang Yi smiled: "It's not unrealistic. The reason why it can't be done now is that the cost of mechanical radar is too high. We can use semi-solid radar to greatly reduce the cost..."

"Semi-solid radar?" Tonya Dawan was confused. Such a thing didn't exist back then.

They are all mechanical laser radars that scan in circles.

"You come with me."

Wang Yi took Tonya Dawan back to his office, opened the materials prepared in his notebook, and introduced them to Tonya Dawan in detail:

"This is the design of a semi-solid-state lidar..."

Wang Yi only remembered what the semi-solid radar looked like in his previous life, but he didn’t know how it was specifically developed. That would have to be solved by Tonya Dawan.

It is equivalent to Wang Yi giving the final answer to the problem, allowing Tonya Dawan to reverse the problem-solving process, which is much easier than starting from scratch, and at least there is the correct ultimate direction.

"Semi-solid radar..." Tonya Dawan looked at the information provided by Wang Yi, his eyes lit up, and he instantly understood what Wang Yi meant:
"Director Wang, you are truly a genius, a great genius!"

"This idea is completely feasible. It can reduce the size of the LiDAR by many times, greatly reducing the cost and the size of the radar! It's perfect!"

The two then talked about some other technical things. Tonya Dawan was deeply moved and felt that he benefited a lot.

The originally confused research and development direction suddenly became clear after Wang Yi’s suggestion!

Professional people do professional things.

Wang Yi knew what a semi-solid radar looked like, but he didn't know how to make it.

Tonya Dhawan knew how to do it, but she didn't know how to do it in order to succeed.

Now, after a conversation between the two, everything was solved.

"Chairman, thank you for your advice. I really came to the right place, haha."

"This semi-solid-state laser radar is a brand-new solution for laser radars. It is a whole generation more advanced than the solutions of those giants!"

Wang Yi nodded: "That's right, and semi-solid-state laser radar is a brand new field. We are the first to develop it, and we will not infringe on Velodyne's mechanical laser radar patents. We can take the opportunity to obtain a large number of semi-solid-state laser radar patents and build our own patent barriers."

Tonya Dawan was extremely excited: "Yes, during our subsequent research and development, we registered all the patents that can be registered. In the future, the lidar giant Velodyne will not only be unable to sue us, but may even be sued by us, haha!"

"Don't worry, I will start research and development with my team right away, and try to produce a 64-line laser radar within one year, and reduce the cost to within two years!"

"Good!" Wang Yi was in a good mood.

30 people are working on low-end lidar for sweeping robots.

300 people are engaged in semi-solid state research and development.

We will recruit another 300 people later to carry out all-solid-state research and development!
Push forward in all three directions.

Wang Yi knows very well that the mature solution in ten years will be semi-solid + full-solid literacy!
After all, although all-solid-state technology is advanced, it also has great disadvantages, and it is difficult to stand out on its own.

However, the space in Xingyi Technology Park seems to be a bit stretched.

The 200 acres of vacant land in the second phase of Xingyi Science and Technology Park have been built. Together with the first phase, the total science and technology park is 400 acres, all of which are low-rise stand-alone office buildings.

Nowadays, most office buildings are used by various business units.

If we set aside one or two more to serve as lidar R&D centers, the remaining vacant office buildings will be even less sufficient.

However, in addition to the laser radar R&D center, there is also the R&D of three-electric systems, which seems to be stretched no matter how you look at it.

It would be better to build a new science and technology park!
Ordinary business units can be placed in Jeju, where many office buildings in the Mayu Technology Park have been completed and will soon be put into use.

However, it is better to place such cutting-edge fields in first-tier cities to attract talent.

At present, the imperial capital has Xingyi Technology Headquarters, Xingyi Semiconductor, Xingyi Games, and Xingyi Media...

Jeju is home to the Xingyi mobile phones, Xingyi tablets, Mayu Technology, and Wujie Technology headquarters.

The island city also has Xingyi Smart Home and Xingyi TV.

Even the Shenzhen City has a borderless TV industrial park.

On the other hand, in Shanghai, there is only one Little I robot, which was rented by Little I Company...

In this case, it is indeed a bit biased.

It would be better to move the Xingyi Automobile headquarters and its R&D center to Shanghai!
As for the laser radar research and development center, it is still located in the imperial capital.

The capital has universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Beihang University, so it is easier to recruit people.

However, if Xingyi Automobile is placed in Shanghai, it can directly seize Tesla’s territory!

Of course, it can also be placed in the imperial capital, it all depends on which side offers the best discount. To put it bluntly, Wang Yi cares about the qualifications for making cars.

If Shanghai cannot get the qualifications to manufacture cars, then Xingyi Automobile will be located in the imperial capital.

Similarly, if the emperor can't solve it, then we can also consider the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Guangzhou Stock Exchange...

In short, Wang Yi will invest in whoever can provide the qualifications for car manufacturing and whoever offers good policies!
Even one on each side will do.

Companies like Tesla and BYD have multiple super factories.

Similarly, a factory of 2000 acres is not enough for Xingyi Automobile, even acres is not enough.

One super factory each in the capital and Shanghai is not enough.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi called Song Si Ning and said, "Si Ning, take some time to go to Shanghai and tell them that we want to build the Xingyi Automobile Industrial Park and talk to them about their attitude. Especially the license plate issue."

"Okay, Chairman." Song Si Ning immediately understood what Wang Yi meant. "If Magic City can provide us with a license to manufacture cars, we can invest in building a factory in Magic City. How big will it be?"

"Yes, 1500 acres!" said Wang Yi.

Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory is Tesla's third Gigafactory, covering an area of ​​about 1300 acres.

Xiaomi Auto’s capital factory covers an area of ​​approximately 1080 acres.

Xingyi Technology takes action, directly acquiring 1500 acres!
Land prices are cheap now, the price is easy to negotiate, and local governments are also willing to give away land.

A few years later, the land price in Shanghai became expensive, and it became difficult to negotiate the price, and the conditions were much more stringent.

Wang Yi made up his mind to take advantage of the current low land prices to enclose more land and build more industrial parks.

The Magic City has built a 1500-acre automobile industrial park, and the Imperial Capital has built another one!
NIO, Xpeng, and Ideal will start focusing on new energy next year or the year after.

"Okay, I'll arrange Meiyu's affairs and go there the day after tomorrow. It just so happens that Shanghai has always wanted us to invest there." Song Sining said with a smile.

Originally, investments of this magnitude had to be made by Wang Yi in person.

It is not necessary now. Song Sining is enough for her to go. When the negotiation is almost done, Wang Yi will make the final decision and sign the contract.

"Okay. Of course, the approval of a 1500-acre industrial park and license plate depends on our car-making technology and capabilities. Now that we have just started making cars, I guess this matter may be difficult to negotiate. We can sign a bet agreement." Wang Yi said.

"Okay, I'll go talk to you first."

"Yeah." Wang Yi nodded.

If Shanghai can solve the problem of car manufacturing licenses, then there won’t be any big problems.

At present, Beijing has BAIC, but Shanghai has nothing, and it is in urgent need of developing a new energy vehicle!

For this reason, the previous Shanghai signed Nezha Auto in 2014 and WM Motor in 2015, but both failed to perform well, and finally had to introduce Tesla!

However, in comparison, Xingyi Automobile is obviously more promising, and Wang Yi is not tempted by it.

"By the way, Si Ning, go and negotiate the price for the office building of Little i Robot. If you can buy it, just buy it!"

Wang Yi thought of this and said, "We are short of office buildings in Shanghai. We should buy a few high-quality office buildings and make preparations in advance."

"Okay, Chairman!" Song Sining understood that Wang Yi's strategy of establishing R&D centers across the country began to accelerate!

BAT and Huawei have established R&D centers across the country and even the world.

The biggest advantage is that the industry is decentralized, able to attract talent from all over the country and enjoy preferential policies in various places.

The car issue was left to Song Sining to handle, while Wang Yi called Wu Shuang and went straight to the Management Committee.

Wang Yi has established science and technology parks and industrial parks in Jeju and Shanghai, and acquired a large amount of residential land. Wang Yi has been in the imperial capital for so long, it is time to take action.

After all, the current Xingyi Technology Park is not enough!

Seeing Wang Yi coming, Director Qin was in a good mood: "Come on, Director Wang, take a seat. You haven't been here for a while."

Director Qin now likes Wang Yi more and more: "No one comes to visit you for no reason. Tell me, what support do you want this time?"

Wang Yi smiled. Both of them were familiar with each other's temper.

In Director Qin's opinion, Wang Yi must have come to ask for something.

In Wang Yi's opinion, as long as it is a reasonable demand and there are reasonable gambling constraints, Director Qin will do his best to support it.

"To be honest, Xingyi Technology has developed too fast, but Xingyi Technology Park is almost saturated."

Director Qin nodded, "It's small. You invested heavily in building Meiyou Technology Park and Wujie Technology Park in Jeju. You also invested in building Xingyi Technology Island City R&D Center and Xingyi Smart Home Industrial Park in the island city. You should also invest in a bigger technology park in the imperial capital! Of course, the preferential policies that the local governments can give, we in the imperial capital can also give, but we have to explain what business we want to do."

Wang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed Director Qin had been prepared.

"Xingyi Technology Group is headquartered in the imperial capital. The headquarters of high-end industries such as semiconductors, mobile phone R&D, and tablet R&D are all in the imperial capital. The same will be true for other high-end industry R&D centers in the future."

"For example, we have recruited more than 300 LiDAR R&D experts to develop LiDAR, but we don't have enough R&D centers."

"LiDAR? This industry is good. It is considered a high-end technology and the government has policy support."

Director Qin's eyes lit up and he became interested: "How about this, we will give you a 500-acre commercial land and you can develop it yourself."

"Okay." Wang Yi responded: "Director Qin, we still have Xingyi Real Estate!"

Crazy hint!

"Hahaha, I knew you would say that!" Director Qin laughed, "The 1000 acres of residential land nearby will also be sold to you at % off the market price."

"80% off, OK!"

After all, it is the imperial capital, where every inch of land is valuable. Naturally, it is impossible to offer super low discounts of 40% or 60% like Jeju.

But even at a 20% discount, there is still enough room for future appreciation, after all, it is land near Zhongguancun.

By then, the 500-acre science and technology park will be completed and a large number of employees will move in, generating income for Wang Yi and allowing the employees to make money.

After the employees make money, Xingyi Real Estate will build luxury houses on the surrounding 1,000 acres of residential land and sell them to the employees!
Once the house was sold, not only did the employees earn back their money, but they also had to take out millions of yuan in loans. They had to work overtime and work harder to make money, and they didn’t even dare to resign…

Wang Yi was silent: "Who the hell designed this system? It's simply invincible!"

Seeing Wang Yi thinking about something, Director Qin smiled and said, "Of course, the 500 acres of commercial land is not given for free. There are tax requirements, which will be written into the contract when the time comes."

"No problem." Wang Yi felt no pressure at all.

When talking about gambling, Director Qin always has a complicated expression.

The original Didu mobile phone factory, worth 10 billion, was given to Wang Yi for free, requiring him to achieve mobile phone revenue of 100 billion within a year, otherwise he would pay 12 billion.

As a result, after a year-long bet, Wang Yi completed it in about a month!
Director Qin has a very bad temper.

Later, Xingyi Wafer Factory made a bet that it would mass-produce 2014-nanometer technology before the end of 40. If mass production was successful, Wang Yi would be given another wafer factory.

If mass production fails, Wang Yi will have to spend a lot of money to buy the entire wafer factory!

At present, it seems that there is hope of achieving it, after all, there are still two years.

But the difficulties are also not small. After all, the semiconductor field is difficult, very difficult.

SMIC has been working on 40 nanometers for a long time.

Thinking of this, Director Qin couldn't help but ask, "Director Wang, your first small factory building for the wafer factory has been delivered for three months, right? The second large factory building is also about to be delivered, right?"

"Well, the first small factory has become a research and development factory. Currently, all the equipment has been put in place and verification tests of the 40-nanometer process are being carried out."

"That's good. We still have a bet. I hope you can handle 40 nanometers next year, otherwise you will bleed a lot!"

"Haha, it won't take until the year after next, maybe by the end of this year, Director Qin, you will have to prepare a second wafer factory for me!" Wang Yi said with a smile.

"By the end of this year? Can you handle the 40-nanometer process?" Director Qin was stunned, then waved his hand: "Director Wang, I really don't mean to discourage you, this is unrealistic. It can't be that fast."

"Not to mention the end of this year, even by the end of next year, you will have a hard time getting it done. It will be good if you can get 40 nanometers into mass production the year after next."

"SMIC has a deeper foundation, more technical reserves, and more R&D personnel, but they have been working on it for several years and still haven't achieved 40 nanometers!"

"You can accomplish this in a few months. It's unrealistic. It's totally unrealistic!"

Wang Yi laughed. Unrealistic?
If it weren’t for Mr. Hu leading the team, we really wouldn’t be able to do it.

But with Mr. Hu leading the team, everything is possible.

However, Wang Yi was too lazy to explain and simply said, "Director Qin, if we can master the 40-nanometer process and achieve mass production by the end of next year, can you make the second wafer fab you provide a little bigger?"

"Okay, if you can master the 40-nanometer process by the end of next year, my second wafer fab will have a monthly production capacity of wafers for you, twice that of the first wafer fab!"

"What if it can be done before the middle of next year?" Wang Yi continued to dig a hole.

The current monthly production capacity of the three factories of Xingyi Wafer Factory combined is only 2.5 pieces, which is too small and totally insufficient.

Now that there is an opportunity to make the imperial capital bleed heavily, Wang Yi has to seize it.

There are not many opportunities to take advantage of the big guys.

"Mid-next year? Okay, if you can do it, I'll give you a monthly production capacity of 7.5 pieces!"

"What if we can achieve mass production before the end of this year?" Wang Yi continued to dig a hole.

"By the end of this year? Impossible!" Director Qin laughed: "If you can mass produce 40 nanometers by the end of this year, I can achieve a monthly production capacity of 10 pieces for your second wafer fab!"

With a monthly production capacity of 10 pieces, it would be a first-class large-scale wafer factory!

After deducting scraps and taking into account the yield rate, a monthly output of 6500 wafers can produce 7.8 million chips, which means million chips a year!

As for Xingyi Technology not being able to use so many chips?

That doesn’t matter. As long as we have mastered the technology and have sufficient production capacity, we can outsource the production to our friendly competitors!

Wang Yi was overjoyed and quickly took out the agreement from his bag: "Director Qin, words alone are not enough, let's write it down in black and white!"

Director Qin's mouth twitched: "..."

This guy has been prepared for a long time? Just waiting for me to fall into his trap?!
(End of this chapter)