Rebirth 2008: I Can Make Money Reading

Chapter 465 Mu Yang, are you playing with me? !

"certainly!"

Mu Yang definitely replied that he knew too well what this CPU frequency represented, it was absolutely number one in the world.

Even in 2022, the Kirin 9000E chip used in the Huawei Mate 40 mobile phone, which costs 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, will not have such a high CPU frequency. (9000E: 7nm process technology, 3.13Ghz A77*1+2.54GHz A77*3+2.05GHz A55*4)

Or, the four-star GALAXY Note 10+ mobile phone that costs seven or eight thousand, uses the Snapdragon 855 chip, and the CPU frequency is also not so high (the process is 7nm, 2.84GHz A76*1, 2.41GHz A76*3, 1.78GHz A55*4)

In other words, this Xingchen 01 chip, even if it is used in 2022, will not lag behind, and it will still be a top-notch chip.

Switching to the current use is to hang all mobile phone chips, which is almost equivalent to black technology and does not follow common sense.

That's why Mr. Ren was so surprised and asked: Are you really planning to release such a perverted chip? Mr. Mu is playing for real?

"This kind of chip is too high-end. It can be used in mobile phones, and other configurations can't keep up." Mr. Ren was pleasantly surprised, but also troubled. The product is so good, how much should the mobile phone be priced to meet it?

If it is set too high, mobile phone sales will definitely be low.

Of course, this thing is completely a king bomb in the hand.

"Hehe, I don't have to worry about this. I only make mobile phone chips. If I want to make other mobile phone accessories, I might as well produce a mobile phone." Mu Yang smiled gently, and he understood Mr. Ren's mood.

Things are too good, too advanced, it seems that it is not a good thing.

But the problem is that their cost of producing 7nm chips is not much higher than the cost of producing 28nm chips.

Of course, costs can also be reduced.

It is also possible to reduce the area of ​​the chip, reduce the amount of drawing, and reduce the performance of the CPU.

Hayes Kirin 925 CPU of MATE7, CPU frequency is 1.8Ghz*4+1.3Ghz*4.

It is also an eight-core, but the performance parameters are much worse.

Compared with Hayes Kirin 925, Xingchen 01 seems to be only doubled in terms of CPU frequency data, but the actual performance is not doubled.

Moreover, different chips have different chip architectures, so you can’t compare them only by CPU frequency. Star 01 has lower energy consumption and faster operating efficiency. Even with the same CPU frequency, its operating efficiency is much faster than other chips.

For example, Hayes Kirin 925 calculates from 1 to 100, which is to add one by one, and it takes a hundred steps to calculate, while Xingchen 01 directly applies the formula and completes it in a few steps, which is equivalent to walking in a straight line. Of course, the latter is much faster, which is unfair. The benefits of chip architecture.

Mu Yang believes that Xingchen's chip architecture is much better than that of Core Duo. From the architecture alone, the performance has been improved by about 15%, and the energy consumption is only half.

"We can manufacture a compressed mobile phone chip called 'Starlight 01', which can be applied to your MATE7. However, even if it is a castrated version, it is much more advanced than your Hayes Kirin 925. Our The chip architecture is much better than Core Duo.

Starlight 01 still uses 7nm process technology, and the CPU frequency design is 2.25Ghz*2+1.85GHz*2+1.5GHz*4. The specific performance will not be known until the samples are released.

In terms of price, it may be higher than Hayes Kirin 925, and the price is about 500 yuan. We will not know until the samples are released;

If we OEM your Hayes Kirin 925, we will charge you as much as Taijidian charges you for the OEM.

However, we do not make money by producing 28nm process chips. I hope you will transition to Hayes Kirin 925 as soon as possible. After half a year, we will no longer produce 28nm process chips. "Mu Yang said that the cost of producing Starlight 01 is not much different from the cost of producing Hayes Kirin 925, but the performance is quite different.

The production of Xingchen 01 and Xingguang 01 both use 7nm process technology, but the latter uses much less time for lithography machines, and at the same time uses less wafer area, less scrap rate, and much lower cost.

However, regardless of producing Xingguang 01 or Xingchen 01, the production cost of Xinghai Group is not high. Xingguang 01 sells for 500 yuan, and the production cost may be only about 20 yuan, or even lower. This thing is expensive, mainly because the research and development costs are too high .

As for Xingchen 01, Muyang is priced at 1,200 yuan, and the production cost is higher than Xingguang 01, but it is not much higher, definitely not more than fifty yuan.

When Xinghai Group calculates the comprehensive cost, it can set the research and development cost higher to make the cost more "reasonable".

The price of Xingchen 01 is too high, and the price of the mobile phone is not more than 6,000 to 7,000 yuan, so it is difficult for mobile phone manufacturers to make money.

Therefore, at present, Huawei Company may not necessarily need Xingchen 01.

But even if the chip Starlight 01 is used, the price of the mobile phone is suitable to be priced at 3500 yuan to 5500 yuan, which can already be used as a flagship mobile phone.

Xinghai Group does not make mobile phones, but it sells mobile phone chips to global mobile phone manufacturers.

However, both Pingguo and Four Star have mobile phone chips designed by themselves, and most of them will not use Xinghai Group's mobile phone chips.

However, other mobile phone manufacturers use Xingchen 01 and Xingguang 01, which can be used as flagship mobile phones to beat Pingguo and four-star flagship mobile phones.

When Mr. Ren heard Mu Yang's quotation, he felt that it was not expensive. He clasped his hands together, and his face was full of gratitude: "Mr. Mu, it is not a problem even if the OEM price is increased, and we can accept it. Times help us.

That being the case, I still hope that Xinghai Group can help us produce some Hayes Kirin 925 as a buffer;

At the same time, we will design new mobile phones as soon as possible, using Xingchen 01 and Xingguang 01 chips. "

MATE7 was launched in August this year. The sales price of 2G+16G is 3,000 yuan. The cost of the chip is about 360 yuan, accounting for 12% of the selling price. This is the chip designed by Huawei Company, and the cost is much less. The cost is still the foundry fee. If you buy a Core chip with the same performance, it will cost about four to five hundred yuan.

Mr. Ren does not intend to give up his own chip design for the time being, and save as much cost as possible. If 10 million chips are needed every year, then about one billion yuan will be saved every year.

Starlight 01 is also stronger than Hayes Kirin 925. Mu Yang didn't say the specific performance parameters, but what he said is probably true.

At this time, Mr. Ren was a little worried. They used to independently develop mobile phone chips because they were afraid that foreigners would get stuck, and they could reduce costs.

Now, the chips designed by Xinghai Group are very powerful. No matter how they design chips, they can't compare with Xinghai Group's. He is not willing to let them give up the mobile phone chip design department.

This kind of thing is really worrying and pleasantly surprising. What is pleasantly surprising is that such a powerful company can appear in China.

Mr. Ren is also a loyal person, and he is grateful to the Xinghai Group for helping Huawei in their crisis.

He also knew that as long as Mu Yang was willing, Huawei's mobile phone company wouldn't survive for two years.

It's just that Mu Yang didn't want to make mobile phones, he didn't deliberately suppress Huawei Company, and he didn't open his mouth when they were in crisis.

"Mr. Mu, how about your wafer production capacity and chip production capacity?"

Mu Yang thought for a while, calculated, and then replied: "The wafer production capacity is currently 50,000 pieces, and it is not a big problem to increase this production capacity;

Chip production capacity, as you can see, we currently only have two lithography machine prototypes, and the rest of the prototypes are being assembled, and we can assemble four sets a month. Our lithography machines are not slow.

Each 12-inch wafer can produce about 700 pieces of Hayes Kirin 925. Our scrap rate is not high. It is not a problem to produce 30 million chips per month. We can meet Huawei’s needs before New Year’s Day, and we can also give you priority in supplying them. .

Next year, we can expand to produce 150,000 wafers per month. "

Before there was no mask chip, the price of each 12-inch wafer was about 10,000 yuan, and the average price for each mobile phone chip was only a dozen yuan.

After the mask is formed into a chip, how much the price has increased depends mainly on the content of the chip.

The cost of this mask is mainly in the equipment cost of the lithography machine. The efficiency of the lithography machine is high, and the cost is lower.

Control an EUV lithography machine to produce 24 hours a day. It can process about 2,400 12-inch wafers a day, at least a thousand. That is to say, under ideal conditions, a lithography machine can manufacture 150 wafers a day. Thousands of mobile phone chips.

In fact, 1.5 million pieces is ideal, but in fact it is almost the same to complete one million pieces.

According to the calculation of one billion yuan for an EUV lithography machine, as long as the quantity is sufficient, the mask cost of each chip is not high after apportionment, only two or three yuan.

Therefore, Mu Yang said that to produce a Starlight 01, as long as the quantity is sufficient, the production cost for each piece is less than 20 yuan.

But it can be sold for four or five hundred yuan!

Of course, if the quantity is small, the payback cycle will be very long.

Xinghai Group charges 360 yuan for Huawei's OEM Hayes Kirin 925. If the EBL lithography machine is priced at 1 billion yuan, it will need to produce 3.5 million chips to pay back the cost.

If the EBL lithography machine is priced at 2 billion, it will take 7 million mobile phone chips to pay back the cost.

In the next few years, Huawei can produce more than 200 million mobile phones a year, and the demand for mobile phone chips is very large.

In addition to mobile phone chips, there are other types of chips. Moss Semiconductors produces 5 billion chips a year.

Xinghai Group plans to only produce high-end chips. Next year, it can produce one billion chips annually, and it can become a new gold-sucking monster for Xinghai Group.

"With this kind of production capacity, we don't have to worry about it. Mr. Mu is well-prepared and efficient, which is why Xinghai Group can develop so fast. We have a lot to learn from you."

Mu Yang took Mr. Ren to look at the performance test of the Xingchen 01. There were testers on site who used several mobile phones, disassembled the original chip, and replaced it with the Xingchen 01 chip for comparison.

If the running score of the high-end version of MATE7 is about 40,000 points, then after replacing it with Star 01, the running score can reach 100,000 points.

In the evening, Mu Yang accompanied Ren Gonggong to dinner, and chatted with him a lot about the situation of mobile phones in China.

The next day, Mr. Ren continued to discuss the details of the cooperation with Mu Yang, and Zhou Chenlai was finally in charge.

At nine o'clock that night, Mu Yang posted a message on Weibo:

[Xinghai Group's first self-developed EDA chip design software has been successfully developed, Huawei Company will use Xinghai Group's EDA software for chip design. 】

Many fans of Muyang don’t know what EDA is. However, there will naturally be explanations from the Emperor Gang, saying that “EDA is the most difficult engineering software to develop” and “EDA is almost equivalent to half a lithography machine”.

Without EDA, there is no platform for chip design.

After figuring out the situation, the fans congratulated Mu Yang one after another.

"congratulate!"

"Congratulations to Mushen, and congratulations to Xinghai Group for reaching another level."

"Congratulations from Gui Province: Congratulations to Xinghai Group for independently developing EDA and breaking the monopoly of developed countries."

"Jiangnan Province came to congratulate: Congratulations to Xinghai Group for making history and breaking the zero record."

"As soon as Huawei Company was restricted from using EDA by Cadence, Xinghai Group gave it to them in a timely manner. Cadence is equivalent to letting go of a fart."

"Cadence: Mu Yang, are you playing with me?! It won't be announced sooner or later, but it's just at this time!"

Mu Yang's Weibo was quickly reprinted by domestic and foreign media.

Foreigners frantically reprinted this announcement, mainly because Ugly Country just announced restrictions on Huawei Company.

The series of export bans imposed by the Uganda on Huawei are aimed at preventing Huawei from obtaining a series of key Uganda technologies, weakening its ability to manufacture advanced products from smartphones to servers, and weakening Huawei’s continued development of chips. power, weakening Huawei's threat to the Ugly country's communications.

As a result, just two days later, Mu Yang announced that Xinghai Group's EDA was successfully developed and authorized to Huawei Company.

Less than three days after the restriction, Mu Yang came back after being slapped in the face.

One or two months later is also fine, but in less than three days, Ugly Country will not be able to step down.

After doing this, Ugly Country knew about it, and the relevant department personnel were very angry.

"FU*K, damn Mu Yang, damn Xinghai Group!"

"What does Mu Yang want to do, do it to us like this! He will definitely not give him good fruit to eat."

"Shooting the top bird, we must teach Xinghai Group and Muyang a lesson, otherwise, we will become a global joke!"

"Then what can we sanction the Xinghai Group? Shut down the Hummer Company?"

"That can't be closed. A lot of shares are controlled by our country's consortium. If the Hummer company is closed, those around will suffer serious losses, and they will definitely trouble us."

"Since this is the case, let's restrict Xinghai Group together so that Xinghai Group and Huawei Company cannot buy a chip from our ugly country. Xinghai Group's cars, numerical control systems, and robots all purchase chips from our ugly country."

"Other than that, there is no better way. Most of Xinghai Group's products are self-developed, so restricting others is irrelevant to them."

"That's okay, let's announce it immediately. In the words of the Chinese people, an eye for an eye must be met! Unless Mu Yang admits his mistake, they will not be able to buy a chip from our country."

"Maybe Hummer shares will be affected a bit."

"That must be done, Xinghai Group must pay a certain price."

Hua country time, eleven o'clock in the evening, corresponds to eleven o'clock in the morning in Ugly country.

Relevant departments of Ugland issued a notice to Xinghai Group: "In view of Xinghai Group's violation of Uganda's commercial laws, starting from September 20, 2014, related chip manufacturers in Ugland are not allowed to sell chips and related technologies to Xinghai Group within one year. "

This public announcement has aroused great public opinion around the world.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is Ugly Country's counterattack against the Xinghai Group, attacking the "disobedience" of the Xinghai Group.

Many Huaguo media conducted follow-up reports to analyze the impact of this round of restrictions on the Xinghai Group, such as no longer being able to buy car chips.

In particular, Ugly Hummer Company is estimated to have the greatest impact. After listing in the afternoon, it is estimated that there will be a wave of decline.