Han State.
Samsin's headquarters.
"How is this possible?"
After receiving the news, Samsin's CEO, Li Jianrong, widened his eyes. He thought he was hallucinating.
Conquering the 7-nanometer in eight months?
The 10-nanometer technology in the middle of the international market had directly advanced from the 14-nanometer to the 7-nanometer …
"Is this a myth?"
Li Jianrong's face was filled with disbelief.
Then, he shook his head violently. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"At most, they have advanced to 12-nanometer or 10-nanometer. However, they have announced to the public that it is 7-nanometer. They are engaging in false publicity. In reality, it is not even as good as Samsin's 12-nanometer!"
This was a strategy that Samsin had left behind. Back when Samsin entered the chip manufacturing industry, they often announced that they were the first to conquer the 12-nanometer and 10-nanometer chips. However, the performance of the chips produced were not even as good as those 16-nanometer and 14-nanometer chips. Thus, they were called "fake manufacturing processes."
Even so, this tactic was very effective and brought Samsin a large number of orders.
However, no one would do the same thing a second time. After the CPU manufacturing process was pushed to the 7-nanometer, AMD, Fruit, Huayao, and other companies had all chosen Mossy Electrics' 7-nanometer OEM. As for Samsin's 7-nanometer manufacturing process, the industry generally believed that it had not reached this level. In reality, it was only 9-nanometer or 8-nanometer.
It was only in the past two years that Samsin had completely mastered the 7-nanometer technology.
However, Mossy Electrics was about to mass-produce the 5-nanometer.
Therefore, if Zhongxin International were to catch up from behind, there would be a huge change in the chip OEM industry. It would form a brand new situation where Mossy Electrics would be the first while Samsin and Zhongxin International would be tied for second place.
However, Samsin could not accept such a situation. It was impossible for them to accept it!
"Fake, it must be fake! They are liars! "
However, when Li Jianrong saw the picture of the engineering machine with a deviation of 450,000 points, a shadow shrouded his heart.
He thought to himself, So what if you guys have conquered the 7-nanometer chip? With a yield of less than 20%, how are you going to compete with Samsin? Our yield is four times higher than yours. "
However, the yield could be continuously improved … as long as you had enough research and development funds.
Once Zhongxin International's yield increased to a considerable level, coupled with the Z country's relatively lower labor costs, two years later …
Thinking of this, Li Jianrong shivered and immediately said to his assistant, "Quick, announce the news. From today onwards, we will reduce the OEM fees for chips by 10%! We must not let the Z's snatch away our OEM orders! "
"Yes, President!"
The assistant left the office.
Li Jianrong suddenly felt a headache.
Memory chips, which could bring in more than 60 billion US dollars in revenue every year, were reduced by half.
The price of NAND storage had been reduced several times in a year, and the price per gigabyte of storage was less than 0.1 USD.
The screen panels were engaged in a price war with Z country and had started to suffer losses last year.
The Z's had even achieved a breakthrough in chip OEM.
Attack on all fronts.
A word popped up in his mind.
Under this kind of attack, although the Samsin Empire in his hands was still as strong as ever, its foundation had been shaken.
Moreover, with the Z nation's government backing them up, even if Samsin resorted to the Law of Reverse Cycles for the fourth time, Purple Ray's RAM would not collapse. Even if its market share was zero, the Z nation's government would not allow this company to collapse.
Needless to say, Xing Hai Technologies had many products. Mobile phones equipped with the Star Cloud system were enough to support companies like Purple Ray Memory, Da Jiang Storage, and Zhong Xin International.
Therefore …
A few days ago, Li Jianrong was confident that he could "slay the dragon", but now he felt extremely gloomy.
He could only clench his fists and shout, "Ah! Ha! "
He vented the frustration in his heart.
…
Treasure Island.
In a certain private villa.
After hearing Liu Deming's report.
The eyes of the founder of Mossy Electrics, Zhang Zhongmou, also widened.
"They really did it, in such a short time."
The old man's face was full of disbelief.
"Old man, I don't think it's the 7-nanometer."
Liu Deming shook his head and said, "At most, it's the 10-nanometer, 9-nanometer … It took us five years to conquer the 7-nanometer. Their technological accumulation is much weaker. How can they use less time than us?"
"Fabrication process fraud! They must have learned from Samsin and used it to push up their stock price. "
"Even so, this is still a very impressive achievement."
The old man shook his head and looked up at the mainland. "We should be happy for their achievements."
"But we also have another competitor."
Liu Deming frowned. "Samsin, which is crazily suppressing prices and snatching orders, is already a headache. Now there's Zhong Xin … Old man, how should we deal with it?"
"I don't care about the company anymore. You guys decide how to deal with it. It has nothing to do with me."
The old man suddenly sighed. "It's not easy. We always feel proud of our achievements. We always look down on them here and there, thinking that they will always be behind us and will never be able to catch up to us."
"But look at what kind of research and development environment we have, and what kind of research and development environment they have."
"We know how to build all kinds of sophisticated equipment. We can buy from Merica, Japan, or Europe. There are no restrictions. We have the advanced and powerful industrial system of Europe, Merica, and Japan behind us, not this small island."
"What about them? They can only start from scratch. They have to rely on themselves in every aspect! In terms of core technology, Europe and Merica have never relaxed their lockdown on mainland China for decades. Their lockdown on any country is not as strong as the lockdown on mainland China … They don't even want to sell a high-grade screw to mainland China. "
"But even under such circumstances, they still achieved admirable achievements."
"Anyone can mock mainland for being backward, but we don't have the right to do so!"
"Although we, Mossy Electrics, are number one in the world, mainland has a hundred world leaders!"
"Even their OEM chip manufacturing is slowly catching up. If some of the people on the island still have an arrogant attitude and look down on the other side, I estimate that in ten years at most, they will surpass us in the last area that we can be proud of … This is a very sad thing, even though I will be dead by then."
"This island will completely fall."
The 91-year-old old man said.
Hearing this.
Liu Deming suddenly shook his head.
"No! The old man won't! "
"They won't surpass us. Even if we give them another ten or twenty years, they won't be able to surpass us!"
"We are number one. We will always be the pride of Taiwan!"
Won't surpass?
The old man laughed self-deprecatingly. "We have used countless methods to barely overcome the transistor leakage caused by quantum effects in the chip manufacturing process to advance to 5 nanometers. But if we want to advance to 3 nanometers, we may not succeed in ten years. What is blocking in front of us is the end of the alley, but there are still pursuers chasing us."
"With the speed of mainland catching up, ten years later …"
The old man shook his head.
Liu Deming's heart sank.
…
He left the villa.
On the way back, Liu Deming made a decision: Convince the board of directors to reduce the chip manufacturing fee of Mossy Electrics by 15%!
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