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Chapter 1075: Changing the Heaven and the Sun
Dongxin Hanxi Chip Factory is a chip factory built by Dongxin Semiconductor. It cost 420 million US dollars to build an eight-inch chip factory.

With this chip factory, Doxin Semiconductor will be able to start producing its own chips in the future.

In the short term, due to production capacity and process issues, Dongxin's chip production capacity may still need to be outsourced to other chip factories. But with this chip factory, Dongxin has a way out. In the future, it does not have to worry about being controlled by others and having the same problem as the previous life's Chrysanthemum Factory having no chips available!
In its previous life, the Chrysanthemum Factory had made all the necessary preparations and even established a chip design company as a backup.

However, people still underestimated the bottom line of Angsa. Even the chip foundry route was blocked by the Juhua Factory, which abruptly cut off the overseas export path of Juhua Factory's mobile phones.

Dongling Hi-Tech must never repeat the mistakes of the Chrysanthemum Factory in its previous life. No matter what the chip factory's technology and production capacity are, Dongling Hi-Tech must have them!

"It is expected that by the end of next year, the Dongxin Hanxi chip factory will be able to start trial production!"

Lin Qijian, who built this chip production plant and will lead the mass production of the Dongxin Hanxi chip factory in the future, spoke up.

Li Dongling nodded. When Doxin Semiconductor's own chip factory starts operation, the chip industry will probably start to take off.

But regardless of whether it is competitive or not, the chip cost of Dongxin Semiconductor is estimated to decrease slowly. Once this shortcoming is made up, Dongling Hi-Tech will have a greater cost advantage in the future and will not be controlled by others.

After entering Doxin Semiconductor, Li Dongling saw that the scale of Doxin Semiconductor had actually grown a bit.

In fact, some clues can be seen from the changes around Dongxin Semiconductor Company.

Back then, when Doxin Semiconductor settled in the provincial capital of Hanxi, there was a large piece of wasteland here. It would be an exaggeration to say that there was no one there, but it was also a place where there was no village in sight and no shop behind. However, it was large in area.

Now, as Dongxin Semiconductor, Oriental Optoelectronics, Shenzhou Memory, and Dongxin Hanxi chip production will gradually settle in this area.

Not only did Doxin Semiconductor settle down, but all the chip industry chain companies supported by Doxin Semiconductor were also brought here.

This turned a large area of ​​wasteland into an industrial park, asphalt roads were built, and the first phase of the employee residential community built nearby by Dongfang Jiayuan for Dongxin Semiconductor employees was completed.

Various living facilities, including post offices, bank savings points, breakfast shops, restaurants, barber shops, small supermarkets, clinics, etc., have begun to appear one after another.

The prices of surrounding land also began to rise, because Doxin Semiconductor paid its employees high enough salaries, there was demand, and there was no shortage of money, so a market would naturally emerge!

"Dongxin Semiconductor has received a lot of outsourcing orders this year?"

When passing by the parking lot, Li Dongling saw license plates from all over the country and asked Wu Xinyi.

It is true that Doxin Semiconductor is the exclusive chip supplier of Dongling Hi-Tech, but it has also always been accepting external orders.

Even Doxin can be said to be one of the largest chip shippers in China!

Starting with the "Sirius" chip of that year, Dongxin took away the title of the world's largest landline chip manufacturer from Toshiba.

Now the mainland is the world's largest landline telephone manufacturer, and it is natural for Doxin to become the world's largest landline chip manufacturer!
Not only landline phones, but also electronic dictionary chips and repeater chips, Dongxin is the largest shipper in China and even in these industries.

But to be honest, the profits of these chips are not very high, and are much lower than those of mobile phone chips and computer chips.

However, the Tianji computer chip developed by Dongxin itself has not been opened up in the market due to the suppression of Intel, and can only be supplied to Shenzhou Computer for its own use for the time being.

“After the launch of Feiyan MP3, many manufacturers have come to Dongxin to place orders for MP3 chips!
In the first half of this year, Dongxin's revenue is expected to exceed US$400 million, with a net profit of US$92 million!

If MP3 chip orders can meet expectations in the second half of the year, then Dongxin’s revenue this year may see an explosion! ”

Wu Xinyi took a breath and said that although Dongxin could not get the most lucrative chip orders for computers, servers, etc.

They can only survive by picking up some scraps that Intel and others look down upon, such as orders for landline phone chips, electronic dictionary chips, MP3 chips, etc. Although they cannot have as many big fish and meat as Intel, they can still survive.

Compared with chip giants such as Intel, NEC, Motorola, and Texas Instruments, Dongxin's revenue is certainly not enough.

Intel's revenue this year reached a staggering $263 billion, and its net profit exceeded $ billion, taking almost half of the profits in the global chip industry.

At this time, Intel was indeed at its peak, and it was completely different from the Intel whose market value was surpassed by a toothpaste factory.

But to be honest, the fact that Donxin can survive under Intel's suppression and is not in the same camp as Intel is already quite impressive.

It is too much to ask Dongxin, which is still in the scrap-picking stage, to challenge Intel and defeat its opponent...

From being heavily in debt to being profitable, Dongxin can support itself, which is unique in the domestic chip industry. Other domestic chip manufacturers are having a much worse time than Dongxin.

Anyone who enters the office building of Doxin Semiconductor will see the Doxin slogan at first sight.

This slogan was also proposed by Mr. Li himself to Dongxin. It is the highest-level slogan in the entire Dongling Hi-Tech system, which is enough to show how much Li Dongling values ​​Dongxin.

Li Dongling not only hopes that the chips developed by Doxin can be installed in electronic products, but also hopes that it can be installed in various high-end products such as cars and satellites in the future, so that the money invested by the great philanthropist Li will not be in vain.

"Academician Ni!"

"Professor Huang!"

"General Manager Zhou!"

After Li Dongling arrived at the conference room of Doxin Semiconductor, he greeted Ni Guangnan, Huang Lingyi, Zhou Shi and others in the conference room for a while.

Different people have different opinions on what is the most valuable thing about Doxin Semiconductor now, but in the eyes of Mr. Li, the most valuable things are Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi who lead the chip research and development team, and the team led by Zhou Shi who develops lithography machines.

Doxin Semiconductor was built from scratch, but it was these people who laid the foundation.

The R&D team led by Ni Guangnan and his team was also built and trained by Dongling Hi-Tech at great expense.

Even if Dongling Hi-Tech were asked to build a few more teams like this now, it might not be possible!

After everyone sat down in the conference room, Wu Xinyi, the head of Dongxin Semiconductor, spoke first, "At present, Dongxin Semiconductor's main products are Sirius series of landline chips, Tianji chip computer chips, and chips for electronic dictionaries and MP3s.

MP3 chip is expected to become the next flagship product of Dongxin..."

Li Dongling looked at the documents of Dongxin Semiconductor in his hand. After flipping through them for a few times, Li Dongling put them aside.

These documents are basically the same as those sent by Doxin Semiconductor to Dongling Hi-Tech's headquarters. Li Dongling didn't come here today to listen to these old-fashioned things.

"What is the current status of Dongxin's chip and lithography machine projects?"

After Wu Xinyi stopped, Li Dongling asked directly.

"At present, the Tianji 450 nanometer chip has been developed!"

Ni Guangnan adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose. He was obviously thinner now, and it was obvious that he had put all his energy into researching and developing chips.

If Ni Guangnan's words were to get out, it would probably cause quite a stir in the domestic chip industry.

The first generation of Tianji chips still used the 600-nanometer process, but now the Tianji chips have overcome the 450-nanometer process, which is definitely a rapid progress.

However, Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi beside him did not show much joy on their faces. Ni Guangnan said with a tired voice, "But the 350-nanometer chip that you requested for the second-generation Shenzhou computer has not been developed yet!"

Now, the outside world, the computer industry and the chip industry are all estimating the performance of the second-generation Shenzhou computer, and some friendly competitors are gearing up to snipe the second-generation Shenzhou computer.

Li Dongling was preparing to make a surprise move. Many people believed that the second-generation Shenzhou computer would be equipped with the Tianji 450-nanometer chip, but Li Dongling was planning to equip the second-generation Shenzhou computer with the Tianji 350-nanometer chip!
It’s not that Li Dongling wanted to deliberately make things difficult for Doxin’s chip research and development team, but the 450-nanometer chip is really too outdated this year!

Intel has pushed its high-end chip technology to 250 nanometers, and this year's mid-range computer chips are 350 nanometers.

Last year, the first generation of Shenzhou was equipped with a 600-nanometer chip and was able to compete with computer brands such as Lenovo. It was not because Tianji was so powerful, but rather that the two sides were simply rookies fighting each other.

Previously, Intel used the domestic chip market as a place to clear inventory, often bringing inventory from a few years ago to sell domestically, and they were all considered advanced chips.

But this year is different. Intel has obviously noticed the existence of Donxin. Even if it does not supply Lenovo with the highest-end 250nm chips this year, it will definitely supply it with the mid-range 350nm Pentium chips!
If the second generation of Shenzhou computers really carry 450 nanometer chips as planned, they will probably be beaten by Intel and Lenovo, and the market share that Shenzhou computers have worked so hard to gain in China will be snatched away completely.

Therefore, the second-generation Shenzhou computers must be equipped with 350-nanometer chips no matter what. This is not a question of willingness, but a matter of life and death!
“The development of 350-nanometer chips will take time, and I’m afraid the launch of the second-generation Shenzhou will also need to be postponed. I’m afraid we won’t see the results until the middle of the year.

Another point is that the Tianji 350 nanometer chip is not mature enough after all. Even if it is developed, its power consumption and performance are estimated to be slightly behind Pentium! "Huang Lingyi also said to Li Dongling.

(End of this chapter)