Reborn 80s

Chapter 468 Mass production is not easy
With Iraq accepting the ceasefire agreement in April, the war that took place thousands of miles away from China finally came to an end.

From August last year to April this year, although it seems like more than half a year.

But in fact, the real climax is only 42 days.

It was these 42 days that made the idea of ​​mechanized warfare formed during World War II so vulnerable.

Chen Huaiqing immediately threw aside the news that Icra had accepted the ceasefire agreement.

This war caused Icra a direct economic loss of about 2000 billion U.S. dollars, the oil industry and a large number of roads were destroyed, and post-war reconstruction became very difficult.

Icra's per capita GDP was close to 4000 US dollars before the war, but now it is estimated that it will not even reach half of it, and it is also facing UN sanctions.

It will not be easy for Icra in the coming days.

Of course, all of this has nothing to do with Chen Huaiqing, and Meta Investment has no interest in Iraq.

At this time, Chen Huaiqing is working in Mota Microelectronics Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Mota Microelectronics is a lithography machine research and development enterprise, and it is also the only lithography machine research and development enterprise in Huaguo. It can produce front-end lithography machines and back-end lithography machines.

It has been less than five years since its establishment in 1986, but in less than five years, the annual R&D investment exceeds one billion.

Last year, the research and development expenditure of Mota Microelectronics exceeded [-] billion!

A total of 140 billion has been invested in research and development.

Of course, so much research and development funds are not only invested by Mota Microelectronics, but also include a series of subordinate enterprises.

The most important thing for a lithography machine is the light source and the lens.

Mota Microelectronics can now obtain semiconductor equipment from abroad, and some key components can also be purchased.

But Chen Huaiqing knew that this situation would not last long, as long as Mota Microelectronics threatened Europe and the United States in terms of technology, the suppression would follow.

Chen Huaiqing has never felt that it is better to buy than to make.

If you want to rely on buying, you cannot buy advanced technology.

So the strategy he has always set is to master the core technology by himself.

Therefore, the 143 billion research and development funds are all investment in the entire lithography machine manufacturing industry chain in the past five years.

This is still directly invested in research and development.

There is still some money, which is not counted.

It's like an accommodation complex for R&D personnel.

The dormitory complex is built by the Mota Group, and there are hospitals and schools in addition.

Of course, with such a large investment in research and development, it is obvious that Mota Microelectronics does not have such a large hematopoietic ability.

Mota Microelectronics currently has two largest customers: Mota Semiconductor and Jingfang Company.

Needless to say, Mota Semiconductor, the largest chip foundry company in China, can do everything from manufacturing, packaging to testing.

As for Jingfang Company, the largest manufacturer of desktop computer screens in China.

In addition to these two, Mota Microelectronics' lithography machines have also entered the international market.

It's not the most advanced lithography machine, the one that is a generation behind.

For export lithography machines, use domestic parts as much as possible to support domestic lithography machine parts manufacturers.

What cannot be made domestically is imported from abroad.

Of course, self-research is also actively carried out.

As for the core components, there should not be too much gap with the international technical level, and we must guard against it. Once it is not available from the international market, Mota Microelectronics' lithography machine manufacturing capacity will not degrade too much.

The lithography machines for domestic parts are at most three generations behind.

The domestically produced lithography machines that are three generations behind are not selling very well. After all, the semiconductor industry is developing rapidly and the production equipment is being eliminated quickly.

Now three generations behind, not many manufacturers want it anymore.

In fact, Mota Microelectronics' lithography machine, which is a generation behind, is not sold very well in the international market.

At this time, the world's best lithography machine companies are concentrated in Neon.

People don't believe that Huaguo enterprises can manufacture such advanced lithography machines.

Not even given a chance to introduce the product.

As for those companies that have purchased Mota Microelectronics lithography machines, they will not take the initiative to go out for publicity.

The lithography machine of Mota Microelectronics is cheap, and the price is 30.00% lower than that of similar lithography machines from other international manufacturers.

This 30.00% price can save a lot of cost.

If I can save costs, if other manufacturers do not save costs, then I can make more money?
Mota Microelectronics did not talk too much about publicity. The simple reason is that Mota Microelectronics cannot produce dozens of units a year in terms of its own production capacity.

The lithography machine is not like other industrial products. It is a precision industrial product, and its production is inherently slow.

This time Chen Huaiqing came here because Mota Microelectronics developed a lithography machine with a maximum processing accuracy of 0.6 microns.

There are three core components of a lithography machine: light source, optical lens, and workpiece table.

Among them, Mota Microelectronics has been able to handle the light source and workpiece table by itself, but the optical lens has to be imported.

Chen Huaiqing: "When will mass production be possible?"

The lithography machine with 0.6 micron processing precision is also the most advanced in the world.

However, it is still only a prototype!

There is still a long way to go before it can be truly applied to commercial production.

"Boss, I really can't give you an accurate time. After all, it is only a prototype now. No one knows how many problems there will be in the future. We are already manufacturing the second one. In June this year, It is to be able to supply one to the Mota Semiconductor Factory, and we will work with Mota Semiconductor to improve it.”

To a certain extent, users understand product performance and problems better than manufacturers.

Manufacturers will indeed conduct various tests on their products, but users are the ones who use them every day, and they will find many problems that manufacturers have not noticed or are unaware of.

Even, suggestions for improvement will be given to the manufacturer.

This point is undoubtedly a very important thing.

The research and development department of Mota Group has always been required to collect user feedback on products, and really take user needs into heart.

The needs of users are the needs of the market.

Chen Huaiqing also knew that there was no need to rush this matter, it wasn't that he was in a hurry, so he could get it done right away.

Now the mainstream of large-scale commercial chip manufacturing process is still 0.8 micron.

The 0.8 micron process technology is already quite mature.

On the Mota Semiconductor side, the most mature one is the 1-micron process technology. On the 0.8-micron process technology, the yield rate is only about 80.00%.

Although the yield rate is more than ten percentage points lower than that of other chip production factories, Mota Semiconductor can still be competitive in the market.

Because the other costs of Mota Semiconductor are low, it still has advantages in combination.

Even if it makes little or no money, Motta Semiconductor will accept OEM orders for 0.8-micron chips.

As long as Mota Semiconductor continues to improve the yield rate, Mota Semiconductor's profits will continue to grow.

In terms of improving the yield rate, Mota Semiconductor is quite fast.

(End of this chapter)