Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 196

Xu Shenxue naturally knew the difficulties in the semiconductor field...if it wasn't difficult, he wouldn't have done it.

It's something that can be made easily and there's no sense of accomplishment, so there's no need for him to do it.

"As for other equipment and materials needed in the chip production field, you should contact Fairy Mountain Holdings more often. After all, you are the user, so you should raise your requirements for the equipment, and you can also give them more feedback and help them grow!"

"We have to make this chip production line ourselves. Now, not only almost all the equipment, but also many consumables such as photoresist and special gases have to be imported. If there is a little storm, the factory will have to stop production!"

"We who work in the semiconductor industry must be aware of the risks and prepare backup plans in advance. We can't just rush into it after external risks come!"

Ding Chengjun said: "Don't worry, Mr. Xu, I know all this. We have been promoting the independence of equipment and materials. We have a special department here to maintain contact with Fairy Mountain and conduct joint research and development of equipment and materials!"

"In fact, when Haiwan Technology was developing the KRF lithography machine, we sent a technical team of more than 100 people to provide assistance, which also played a significant role!"

"It is unrealistic to complete the localization of high-process technology in a short period of time. Our idea is to gradually achieve localization on the company's more than 100-nanometer production line, but even that is very difficult!"

"We have conducted a thorough investigation of various types of equipment, raw materials and consumables in China, and found that the domestic production rate of the entire industrial chain is very low!"

"We have contacted various domestic manufacturers of key equipment and consumables in a targeted manner, helping them upgrade their technology through order support and some strategic investment!"

"But... there is still a long way to go!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Of course there are difficulties, and they are very great, but everything depends on human efforts!"

While the two were chatting about the semiconductor industry chain, Professor Wu Deyi and his technical team were closely watching the tape-out test of the S200 chip.

After a long time, when the first wafer completed the key process, the technicians began to carry out the subsequent process, but did not carry out the entire chip process... After all, this was just a test, and what they wanted to see was the technical level of the key process, rather than directly making a finished chip.

Therefore, after some key processes are completed, many inspections begin.

Not long after, Xu Shenxue, who was chatting with Ding Chengjun, heard a burst of joyful cheers coming from the technical team.

He immediately stood up and walked over: "Looks like everything is going well?"

Wu Deyi said excitedly: "It's not just wrong, it's very good, it almost perfectly meets our design specifications, and the yield rate is very good!"

"I couldn't say for sure before, but now, Mr. Xu, I can be 100% sure that our 45-nanometer process can be used for commercial purposes and can manufacture high-performance chips for the group. In addition, our manpower and other costs are also greatly advantageous. All in all, our chip manufacturing costs are even lower than UMC's!"

Xu Shenxue smiled at this time: "Good, very good!"

"You have completed a great self-challenge, breaking the technology monopoly of external manufacturers and creating a new process technology path for our company!"

"On behalf of the company, I would like to thank you all for your hard work!"

"Also, the most important thing is that the bonus will be sent later. I will personally instruct the human resources department to give extra rewards to the colleagues who participated in the research and development of this process technology!"

“Trust me, this will be a very generous bonus!”
As soon as Xu Shenxue said this, everyone, including Professor Wu Deyi, started applauding, with smiles all over their faces, and even looked expectant.

Even though Professor Wu Deyi's income level is already very high, who would complain about having too much money?

A group of ordinary R&D personnel were even more delighted. They had heard about the generosity of their boss a long time ago. They had heard before that once the 45-nanometer process was developed, they, the core technical backbone of the R&D team, would receive bonuses.

Now that they heard Xu Shenxue say it himself, they naturally became more excited... Even the richest man Xu said that this would be a very generous bonus, so it must not be a small number.

Maybe, one house per person?

To be honest, the reason why these people work so hard on research and development, in addition to their regular work and patriotism, is also related to the generous bonuses promised by the company.

The bonus starts at hundreds of thousands, who wouldn’t want it!
Those of them who engage in scientific research want to get high salaries and generous bonuses so that their families can live better, their children can receive better education, and they can afford treatment if they get seriously ill... That's not right, right?

The reason why Zhiyun Microelectronics can gather so many top talents is not only due to the broad career development prospects brought by Zhiyun Group, but also to the generous treatment offered by Zhiyun Microelectronics.

Zhiyun Microelectronics also inherits the consistent tradition of its parent company: high salaries!

Zhiyun was already known for its generous treatment in 09, and this is even more so now.

There are many domestic smartphone manufacturers, but the average salary of Zhiyun’s mobile phone R&D team is 1.5 times that of R&D personnel in other domestic smartphone manufacturers.

In Zhiyun's mobile phone R&D team, a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan is basically just a starting salary, and newly recruited master's degree graduates can often get this figure.

The starting salary for technical backbones is basically tens of thousands.

In addition to the mobile phone business, the average salary of R&D personnel in other businesses is generally higher than that of domestic peers. The average salary of Zhiyun Microelectronics is 1.7 times that of SMIC next door. This high salary seems to bring higher labor costs, but in fact Zhiyun does not hire everyone... It pays a lot, but the requirements for R&D employees are also high.

When recruiting on campus, they usually only recruit graduates from 211 universities, and they pick the best of the best... they only recruit outstanding graduates who rank at the top of the list in the major of the famous university.

Ordinary people can’t enter Zhiyun Group!
In the spring campus recruitment of 11, Zhiyun Technology's main campus recruitment was conducted in 985 universities. Although there were also campus recruitments in 211 universities, the scale was smaller.

In this year's spring campus recruitment alone, Zhiyun Group's parent company and its subsidiaries recruited more than 211 people through campus recruitment, most of whom were from 985 and universities.

Among the more than 10,000 people recruited through campus recruitment, over 80% are R&D personnel.

It is also worth noting that 60% of them have a master's degree or above, and only 40% are undergraduates.

Zhiyun Technology is the company that has the greatest demand for high-quality talents among all domestic companies, and also offers the most generous treatment.

It is also an enterprise where many high-quality talents are eager to work.

Every day, the human resources department of the group headquarters receives a huge amount of resumes of all kinds. For some positions that are not so strict about academic qualifications, there are often thousands or even tens of thousands of resumes submitted, and in the end only a few of them compete for the position.

At present, Zhiyun Technology's appeal to high-quality talents is much stronger than that of those large Internet companies and large state-owned enterprises.

Because this not only has generous treatment, but also a world-class stage. As long as you have the ability, you can completely jump out of the small domestic pond and compete with top talents from other countries in a large number of international giant companies on the stage provided by Zhiyun.

All these conditions combined make Zhiyun Technology very attractive to talents.

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Soon after Zhiyun Microelectronics' 45-nanometer process successfully passed the tape-out test, Zhiyun Semiconductor officially placed an order.

It is the S100 chip in the S103 series, with a single-core main frequency of 1.5GHZ and a powerful chip integrated with a communication baseband. This chip is mainly supplied to mid-range models of Weiku Electronics, and is also supplied to some domestic manufacturers.

The reason why an order was given for one sub-model chip instead of more is not that Zhiyun Semiconductor does not give more orders, but that Zhiyun Microelectronics' 45-nanometer process production line has just started and its production capacity is not that large.

The order for the S103 chip brought by Zhiyun Semiconductor alone is enough to allow the newly started Zhiyun Microelectronics' -nanometer process to operate at full power for more than half a year.

As for other S series orders, don't count on them because the production capacity is simply not enough.

Zhiyun Semiconductor's S series chips have a very large output. The S100 series chips needed by Wecoo Electronics alone are more than million each year.

At the same time, some other domestic mobile phone manufacturers also purchased a large number of Zhiyun Semiconductor's S100 series single-core chips.

The single-core S100 series chips are designed for mid- and low-end mobile phones, which have much larger sales volumes than high-end phones.

Low- and mid-end mobile phones are the main sales force in the current smartphone market, which has also brought about huge sales of various low- and mid-end spare parts.

These mid- and low-end chips may seem cheap, but they are available in large quantities!
The chip production of Zhiyun Semiconductor's S100 series alone cannot be met by Zhiyun Microelectronics' current fledgling production capacity... The annual production capacity of more than million pieces cannot be achieved now.

In order to fully meet the group's own 45-nanometer chip production needs, Zhiyun Microelectronics will have to continue to expand production on a large scale, and at least wait for several 12-inch wafer fabs to be successfully completed.

Therefore, at this stage, it is enough to just work on S103, and the other orders are still given to UMC and TSMC for foundry.

Xu Shenxue is counting on Zhiyun Microelectronics to complete its basic capacity expansion by next year and further advance the process technology to 32-nanometer technology.

Because Zhiyun Semiconductor is currently developing the next-generation flagship chip S300, which is expected to adopt a -nanometer process.

Xu Shenxue hopes that next year, he can produce this chip in his own Zhiyun Microelectronics!

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