Rebirth of Hong Kong Island, leading the technology war

Chapter 203 Hu Jiangshan’s “weird” behavior

"What? Brother Hu, are you serious? Can we really free up production capacity now?"

"Oh my god, how did you do that? Brother Hu, it's not that I don't believe you, this is not an easy task!"

"Ah? What? Really? Another production line? Okay, Brother Hu, tell me how much production capacity can be freed up recently?"

"You are awesome! Brother Hu, you are awesome, okay? That's great! I feel relieved when you say that. I will definitely treat you to a meal later so that we can have a good chat. You did a great job!"

"Brother Hu, I have a meeting here. Let's talk about it later. Let's talk about it in detail later!"

Wang Chengdong hung up the phone with a strange expression on his face, rubbing his hands continuously.

Wang Chengdong's face was red and his lips were trembling. He seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't say anything and felt uncomfortable.

Sun Yafang asked curiously, "What's wrong? What did your brother Hu say? What made you so excited?"

Wang Chengdong chuckled and said, "Boss Sun, I'll keep you in suspense. Just guess whether it's a good thing or not."

"Looking at you, it must be a good thing, but I don't know how good it is. Tell me how good it is."

"Hehe, Mr. Sun, you would never guess that Brother Hu is so amazing. He solved the problem in one go."

Sun Yafang was stunned: "What's the problem? What problem did you solve? Lao Wang, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your words are so incoherent that they drive me crazy!"

Wang Chengdong was actually too excited. He quickly calmed down and said, "Boss Sun, Brother Hu has already increased the chip production capacity, and the increase is huge."

Sun Yafang was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked: "How big is the improvement? How big is a big improvement?"

He didn't say anything specific, but Brother Hu guaranteed that the production capacity can meet our requirements, and even part of the production capacity can be provided to produce Ascend 910.

Sun Yafang was surprised: "What? Such a big increase in production capacity? How is it possible? This is about making chips, not socks and shoes. Did Hu Jiangshan express it wrongly? Lao Wang, do you have a misunderstanding?"

Logically speaking, Wang Chengdong is very cautious and would not make such a mistake, but the news is indeed very shocking and it is almost an impossible task.

As mentioned earlier, chip manufacturing is a very sophisticated industry.

It can be said that this is the most sophisticated and complex manufacturing process of mankind, so if we want to significantly increase production capacity in a short period of time, it cannot be said to be extremely difficult, but it is almost impossible.

If we only improve the process technology yield, production capacity will not be able to increase much.

The yield rate increases slowly, one or two percentage points is considered high. At the same time, if the production capacity can be increased by four or five percentage points, it would be quite remarkable and an incredible achievement.

If you want to significantly increase production capacity, you need to add additional production lines, but this cannot be accomplished overnight.

Semiconductor production lines are very complex, and dozens of machines are considered a small number.

If it is an advanced semiconductor production line, hundreds of machines must work in coordination. The length of the process would make laymen feel dizzy and nervous.

Not to mention how expensive the machinery and equipment are, and how long the production and delivery cycle is. Even if all the machinery and equipment are successfully gathered together, and they are all top-of-the-line, it will still take a long time to debug the new semiconductor production line to get it up and running and put it into commercial mass production.

From setting up a semiconductor production line to successfully putting it into production, success within two or three years would be considered very good.

Moreover, this success does not mean that the production yield has been optimized. It is just usable. Continuous upgrades and debugging are needed in the future to achieve ideal production conditions.

This is why TSMC is developing so rapidly and its status is rising.

Because TSMC's manufacturing scale is large enough and it has enough production lines, other competitors will not be able to catch up in the short or even medium term.

Sun Yafang asked: "If this is true, it is really incredible. Did Hu Jiangshan build another semiconductor production line? When did he start it? It can't be that he has just started it recently? It would be too late."

Wang Chengdong chuckled: "Boss Sun, no matter when Brother Hu did it, it's done now. Brother Hu said that the new production line has been put into trial production, and the initial yield rate is not bad, reaching more than 70%.

Upon hearing this, Sun Yafang smiled happily: "Oh, a yield rate of more than 70%, very good, that's basically enough. By the way, Lao Wang, is the yield rate of Hu Jiangshan's new production line calculated based on the 7-nanometer process?"

Wang Chengdong said: “He didn’t say this, but the chip for trial production is Kirin 990+.”

Sun Yafang was also excited when she heard this.

If it is Kirin 990+, a yield rate of more than % is very good. Although it has not reached %, it also meets the conditions for commercial mass production.

Wang Chengdong said, "Boss Sun, how is it? Can you confidently defend Yin Shiyuan this time?"

Sun Yafang waved her hand and said, "Old Wang, leave this matter to me. Go and send those two away quickly."

"Okay! Mr. Sun, I'll be back soon!"

Wang Chengdong quickly left the small meeting room, as if he were a dozen years younger.

Sun Yafang smiled slightly and murmured, "Is this the silver lining? I never thought there would be such a good thing now."

Afterwards, Sun Yafang fell into deep thought again.

Who is Hu Jiangshan?
Although Hu Jiangshan is confirmed to be the grandson of Hong Kong Island's Hu Ying-xiang, the problem is that this Hu Jiangshan is very abnormal.

Sun Yafang is a well-informed person. She cannot say that she has a 100% understanding of the major families in Hong Kong Island, but she has basically grasped some of the things happening in these families.

The Hu Jiangshan family is not one of the top families in Hong Kong Island, but rather one of the second-tier ones.

Even so, because Hu Yingxiang is a highly respected and extremely famous master, the mainland is also very concerned about the Hu family.

Sun Yafang remembered that Hu Yingxiang's grandson was a very naughty person.

According to people in the Hu family, to describe Hu Jiangshan as a dandy boy is an understatement.

Hu Jiangshan is actually an uneducated and prodigal son. Although he is young, he has done a lot of ridiculous things.

It is said that in one month, Hu Jiangshan was imprisoned more than ten times, and each time he caused more serious trouble than the last. In the end, it was Hu Yingxiang who stepped in to resolve the situation, otherwise Hu Jiangshan would not have been able to get out for several years.

How did such a ridiculous person like Hu Jiangshan build a semiconductor production line?
According to Hu Jiangshan, the semiconductor production line was built by his friend and Hu Jiangshan was just one of the partners.

Although this statement has many doubts, for example, why would such a capable friend not show up himself, but instead let Hu Jiangshan contact clients outside?

Even at various industry meetings, Hu Jiangshan attended alone and never met his so-called partner.

Well, let’s just believe what Hu Jiangshan said.

Maybe that partner is introverted, even autistic, or is a serious technology fanatic who doesn't like to be disturbed by trivial matters in the outside world and just wants to devote himself to the research of chip manufacturing.

But Hu Jiangshan's performance outside is also very outstanding, and he has made many amazing moves.

What Hu Jiangshan did is simply not comparable to that of a playboy.

Not to mention that Hu Jiangshan is known as the number one prodigal son in Hong Kong. How could one possibly match up with such a Hu Jiangshan?
These two don't match at all!

Who is Sun Yafang? She is not just a shrewd woman, but a heroine with a great sense of the overall situation and great wisdom. She can even be said to be a business genius.

Sun Yafang is recognized as one of the top businesswomen in China. Her ability is stronger than many male bosses.

Sun Yafang can discover many suspicious points that are difficult to find.

For example, if something is not coordinated well, Sun Yafang can also sensitively perceive it.

This is why Sun Yafang has participated in many major negotiations, and he has never failed, and he can always bring very favorable conditions to Huayao.

At this time, Sun Yafang felt that Hu Jiangshan was very weird, definitely not just ordinary weird.

Many things about Hu Jiangshan are not in line with common sense.

To put it more bluntly, it is impossible for someone like Hu Jiangshan to accomplish such a great career.

It is even more impossible that he cares so much about Huayao and has never even mentioned the issue of chip price increase.

So far, the chip fees that Hu Jiangshan has paid to Huayao for foundry services have all been at the same price, consistent with TSMC's original quotation, and even a lot of logistics costs have been saved.

This alone made Sun Yafang feel incredible.

What time is it now? Huayao is deeply trapped in the chip supply trap and urgently needs chips to save the situation.

To be honest, let alone one or two times the price, even if Hu Jiangshan asked for four or five times the price, Huayao would have to give it and would not even consider bargaining.

Especially in the past period of time, Huayao had completely lost all bargaining chips and was in a very passive situation.

If Sun Yafang were Hu Jiangshan, even if he didn't take advantage of the situation, there would definitely be some premium.

After all, it is not easy to build a semiconductor production line. The initial investment is huge, tens or hundreds of billions of dollars may not even make a splash.

Hu Jiangshan, on the other hand, seems to not care about money at all.

Could it be that Hu Jiangshan really turned from a super prodigal son into a super philanthropist all of a sudden?
No, he is not just a kind-hearted person, he really supports Huayao and China's technology with all his heart.

Not simple, this young man Hu Jiangshan is definitely not simple.

But at least Hu Jiangshan did not show any malice towards Huayao, which made people feel at ease.

Sun Yafang really wanted to sit down and have a good chat with Hu Jiangshan to find out whether he had any complicated thoughts or was extremely simple?
At the same time, Xie Dapeng and Luo Ailin were whispering.

Li Long was sitting opposite them, but apart from saying a few words in the first few minutes, he had no intention of chatting with the two of them afterwards. Instead, he lowered his head to look at his phone and took a sip of mineral water from time to time.

Luo Ailin whispered, "Do you think the people from Huayao will agree to this plan?"

"You mean the second option?"

"Yes, do you still want them to agree to the first plan? Their attitude is very clear. That's impossible."

Although Xie Dapeng was very unwilling, he had to admit that Wang Chengdong and Li Long, two Huayao executives, were indeed very tough.

Just now, these two people argued with reason and refused to give in, even their refusal was very straightforward.

Although Xie Dapeng felt that they had no right to be picky, they couldn't just snatch it away.

If the other party would rather let the IC design of the legendary Ascend chip become scrap than hand it over, Eagle Dimension can do nothing about it.

In fact, this time, Ying Weida came to Huayao for negotiations with full confidence.

Why did they go to such great lengths? Because they learned from some source that the Ascend 910 chip designed by Huayao was very powerful.

This is a chip developed purely for artificial intelligence computing, and it is very likely to threaten NVIDIA's GPU sales.

You know, although Eagle NVIDIA started out by developing gaming graphics cards, the profit from this main business is not very high and the money earned is really limited.

So although NVIDIA is the No. 1 gaming graphics card company in the entire Blue Planet, it still cannot be compared with the traditional giants in the technology circle.

However, in the past two years, the mining machine computing power card business has accounted for almost two-thirds of Eagle Nvidia's profits, and the money has been counted until the hands are tired.

However, the top management of Eagle Weida knew very well that the mining machine business could not continue to be popular.

In as long as three years or as short as one or two years, the business volume related to mining machines will definitely shrink sharply.

So how to support the future development of Eagle Weida?

Of course it is the artificial intelligence computing chip.

Eagle NVIDIA's GPU is very powerful as a computing chip, and now occupies more than 80 percent of the global market share.

Of course, the current market size is relatively small and does not count for much, but the market size will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, so it is important to seize the opportunity.

Therefore, Eagle AMD turned its attention to Huayao's Ascend 910 chip. Since Huayao was unable to mass-produce it and it would be a pity to leave it to waste, it would be better to hand it over to Eagle AMD.

I believe Huayao doesn’t have many choices in this situation.

Besides, Yingwei Da is not getting it for free. It must pay a large sum of money to Huayao, which can be regarded as a timely help to Huayao when it is in trouble.

But now the negotiations have reached a deadlock. Xie Dapeng and Luo Ailin have tried their best, but the other party has not given in.

Fortunately, Ying Weida still has some connections in the mainland, and he mobilized bigwigs like Yin Shiyuan to act as lobbyists.

Why did Wang Chengdong suddenly go out?

There is no doubt that Wang Chengdong's superior received a call from Yin Shiyuan and wanted to agree to Ying Weida's plan.

Xie Dapeng thought that he should let Huayao agree to the first plan, as the second plan was too cheap for Huayao.

Is Huayao worthy of this now? It's just wishful thinking!
Just then, the door to the conference room opened.

Wang Chengdong walked in.

Xie Dapeng said calmly: "Mr. Wang, you are very busy."

"Fortunately."

"Then let's discuss the first plan now."

Li Long was stunned: "The first plan? Didn't we already pass it?"

Xie Dapeng smiled slightly: "No, I think..."

"I said!"

Wang Chengdong interrupted Xie Dapeng and said, "I'm sorry, you two, we have something else to do later, so we won't talk about it anymore."

(End of this chapter)