Chen Yao really misses you but dare not think about it.

He dares to do 18-inch wafers?

Even the world's most powerful chip foundry companies dare not do it, Samsung, Intel and others are just 12-inch.

Technology is not the main reason, and international giants basically have the strength to develop.

The biggest problem is funding.

Investing in the 18-inch production line requires a huge amount of money.

A 12-inch wafer production line is about 3 billion, but an 18-inch wafer production line costs 10 billion US dollars!

When the cost increases significantly, international manufacturers dare not do it.

Once, Tesla Motors CEO Musk said that if it were not for cost reasons, humans could already immigrate to Mars.

This is true.

Immigration to Mars technology is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is cost.

Some technologies look tall and handsome, but you also have to consider costs and benefits.

A male reporter asked: "No company in the world dares to make 18-inch wafers. Have you ever considered the cost issue?"

Chen Yao nodded: "Cost is the biggest obstacle, but costs can also be solved through technology. Next, in the 18-inch exploration, solving the problem of excessive production equipment costs will be the key task of the company's technical team."

That’s all, the interview ends.

Afterwards, Xu Weidong and his team evacuated and left in a car.

As the new team moved in, Chen Yao dispatched a large number of elite talents who worked in semiconductors.

This group of talents comes from the Microscopic Jinglong army and has developed lithography machines. It is the top presence in the semiconductor industry.

The company's president is Guan Xinyan.

She once worked as an executive in a famous foreign chip company and was very familiar with the chip industry. She was the most suitable for her as president.

Don’t think that making chips is a patent for men, and women also have very awesome people in the chip industry.

Hua is the president of Haisi Qilin, and is a woman, known as the chip queen.

Of course, Hua Wei only does design but does not do production. She is strangled by the United States, and she is just in production.

Chen Yaoxin acquired the wafer factory to solve the chip production problem.

Although the company has successfully developed the world's most advanced lithography machine, if you want to produce the world's best chips, it is not just a lithography machine, but also a production process.

Just like Intel, it can get the best EUV lithography machine in ASML in the Netherlands, but its production process is not good and it still cannot make the best mobile phone chips.

Among so many foundries, chip foundry is definitely the most powerful person.

Currently, 80% of the factories are technicians.

After Guan Xinyan became the president of this factory, Legend Company will arrange another interim president to take office.

At night, the president's office.

Chen Yao, Sun Zhennan and Guan Xinyan sat together for supper.

"Brother Yao, is the name of this factory going to be changed?" Sun Zhennan put a big radish into his mouth.

"It must be changed." Chen Yao said firmly.

It’s so awkward to give a Chinese chip factory a foreign name, what is Maxwell?

Now that it has been acquired in full, the factory name has the right to change it.

Guan Xinyan drank chicken soup one by one: "What do you think is better?"

Sun Zhennan suggested: "It's better to call it Zhongjing International or Huaxin International."

"No." Guan Xinyan decisively rejected it.

Many domestic bosses like to add the characters Chinese or Chinese when changing the name of the company, regardless of whether this is equivalent to patriotism or not.

But such a name is outdated.

It’s like the older generation changing the name of the child, such as Jianguo, Guohua, Jianhua, etc., there are a lot of people with the same name in a school.

How many modern parents will change such names to their children?

Chen Yao has always had a principle when naming a name, which is simple, easy to remember, and has connotation.

"I've thought of the name."

Chen Yao picked up a red ballpoint pen and wrote a line of large characters on white paper.

One-stop semiconductor company!

"One-stop?" Guan Xinyan and Sun Zhennan looked at the white paper and were confused.

Chen Yao put down his ballpoint pen: "The company's name is Yilong."

"Is there any connotation?" Guan Xinyan could roughly guess that the name is not as simple as it seems.

Chen Yao smiled: "The employee meeting will be held later, and I will tell you when the time comes."

Sun Zhennan nodded slightly and changed his tone:

"Just just heard the press conference of the reporters, you said that in addition to making 12-inch and 18-inch wafers, 8-inch ones will continue to be made. Why? I feel that 8-inch ones are almost eliminated."

"Not yet," Chen Yao said: "Fingerprint recognition, power management, etc. These chips are cost-sensitive and have low requirements for process technology. They are suitable for 8-inch wafer fab production."

Of course, 8-inch is not the mainstream. Nowadays, international manufacturers are all making 12-inches. If you want to bring the wafer fabs back to life, you must rely on 12-inches.

Wafers are not the biggest problem. The biggest reason for the chip production in China is the chip production process.

The development trend of wafers, the bigger the better.

The chip is the opposite, the smaller the better.

The most powerful chip foundry in China can only achieve 14nm, while the most advanced Kuaiji Electric has achieved 5nm and 3nm is almost going to be mass-produced.

At 7 p.m., a meeting of all staff was held.

All the technicians from the fab attended the event and they sat down one by one.

Chen Yao stood on the stage and said with a smile: "Good evening for all classmates!"

A simple opening resonated with everyone immediately, and applause rang out.

No matter how old you are or how experienced you are, you are a student in the chip industry. Only by constantly learning and exploring can you make breakthroughs.

This is also what Chen Yao has always emphasized, the company’s classmates’ culture.

Chen Yao quickly typed his fingers on the keyboard a few times, and then the text was projected onto the big screen behind him through the projector.

One-stop semiconductor technology company.

Chen Yao smiled and said, "When I was having dinner just now, my senior sister and Sun Zhennan were asking why I called this name?"

"Actually, the answer is very simple, and everyone may have guessed it."

Chen Yao raised his voice: "The industrial chain involved in chips is very long, and our company is not just about chip production.

We have to do everything ourselves from the chip architecture, design, production, packaging, and testing.”

His meaning is very obvious, it is to do it from beginning to end!

Huawei is very strong in chip design, but he does not have the ability to produce high-end chips.

The production capacity of the up-stacked battery chip is very strong, but it cannot design high-end chips in its own way.

There are only two companies in the world, Samsung and Intel can complete the design and production of mobile phone chips.

One-stop semiconductors are to challenge Samsung and Intel’s dominance in the semiconductor field!
Chapter completed!