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The commissioning ceremony of the Nanshan Semiconductor Imperial City Factory was so grand that it was undoubtedly featured on China Channel's news broadcast that night.

Although this matter did not reach the top of Weibo's hot searches, it definitely occupied the position of the most popular news on professional media such as Zhongguancun Online.

The entire Chinese semiconductor industry circle is also discussing the significance of the commissioning of this factory.

"Mr. Wang, Nanshan Semiconductor has been at the forefront of the global semiconductor industry this time."

"I think the company can consider contacting Nanshan Semiconductor to see if they are willing to sell us related equipment that can produce 14-nanometer process chips."

"Only in this way can we break through the technical threshold as quickly as possible and catch up with the mainstream."

As the COO of SMIC, Yang Bingning has been under great pressure in the past two years.

SMIC was once the leader of China's semiconductor industry, but now it has been easily surpassed by Nanshan Semiconductor.

This is definitely hard to accept.

But the situation is stronger than the people. Nanshan Semiconductor is better than SMIC in terms of equipment control and talent layout.

It is simply impossible for Yang Bingning to overtake Nanshan Semiconductor.

However, although it is impossible to overtake, we cannot fall too far behind.

If SMIC starts investing in a 14nm process chip factory now, it should be able to enter mass production in the next year at the latest.

This speed is basically relatively fast in the global semiconductor industry.

As long as this rhythm is maintained, SMIC's influence can continue to increase and even replace TSMC as the world's largest chip foundry.

"At this time, even if we are willing to buy lithography machines from Nanshan Equipment, they may not be willing to sell them, right?"

Wang Anguo's thoughts obviously began to change.

Simply being angry will not solve the problem.

Since Nanshan Equipment's products can be sold externally, it doesn't seem too much for SMIC, as a Chinese enterprise, to purchase the most advanced equipment directly, right?

Anyway, according to Cao Yang’s speech at the commissioning ceremony of the Nanshan Semiconductor Imperial Capital Factory, they are already studying chip technology with a 7-nanometer process.

By then, 14nm technology will be even less sensitive.

"It's hard to talk about this, but I think it's okay to give it a try."

“Don’t the relevant departments praise Nanshan equipment so highly now?”

“If they are unwilling to sell chip production equipment to domestic manufacturers, then that’s unreasonable, right?”

When Yang Bingning said this, Wang Anguo also felt that it made sense.

We are all Chinese companies. If Nanshan Equipment is open for business, there is no reason not to do SMIC’s business.

After thinking about this clearly, he quickly agreed to Yang Bingning's proposal and asked him to communicate with Nanshan Equipment in person.

Yang Bingning also acted quickly and called Pan Jinxing that afternoon.

However, Pan Jinxing would not directly answer whether it was possible or not for this kind of matter. He just invited the other party to come over for inspection, and then he immediately took Zhang Jing with him to report to Cao Yang.

“SMIC wants to directly build a 14nm process chip factory?”

"They haven't even put into production 28nm process chips yet, right?"

Cao Yang didn't expect that SMIC actually wanted to skip 28 nanometers and challenge 14 nanometers. It seems that this time it was really stimulated.

Since the establishment of SMIC, they have been treated like thousands of favors in China, and various policies are supporting their development.

Although their development speed cannot be said to be unsatisfactory, after all, their starting point is not very high. It is very difficult to catch up with their international counterparts quickly.

After all, not every company has people like Cao Yang.

But in recent years, SMIC's development speed has indeed not been very fast.

Especially for a 28nm process chip, there has been no breakthrough for several years.

According to Cao Yang's understanding, it may take another two or three years for SMIC to put 28nm process chips into mass production.

"Yes, according to the information I know, they originally only officially started building the 28nm process chip factory in the first half of next year, and planned to complete and put it into production between the second half of 2015 and the first half of 2016."

"Now they probably want to directly convert this factory into a 14-nanometer process factory."

SMIC, as a domestic

After all, you never know when the second child will start threatening the boss.

"If we don't even master the 28nm process technology, even if we sell equipment to them, we probably won't be able to increase the yield rate to a more appropriate level in a short time, right?"

Cao Yang quickly weighed the pros and cons of this matter in his mind.

Selling equipment is definitely a good thing for Nanshan Equipment, and Pan Jinxing will not have any obstacles.

However, this will have an impact on the development of Nanshan Semiconductor, and it is necessary to evaluate how high the impact is.

"Even if they can confirm the equipment order in the past month, we will definitely have to start production and deliver the equipment in the second half of next year."

"The factory construction and equipment installation will basically not be put into production until the first half of 2015."

"It basically takes about half a year for our own factory to reach a satisfactory yield rate."

"SMIC has no experience, so being able to achieve a good yield rate within one year is considered very impressive."

"In this way, SMIC's 2016nm chip factory will not pose any threat to us before 14."

Pan Jinxing expressed his views on the side.

He is definitely inclined to support selling the most advanced photolithography machines and other equipment to SMIC.

If the most advanced equipment of Nanshan Equipment is only sold to Nanshan Semiconductor, it will definitely affect many businesses.

It is also easy to be taken advantage of by competitors such as ASML.

"We have now started building the Chang'an factory. Basically, your Chang'an factory will be able to enter large-scale mass production in 2015."

"In the future, our chip technology for the 7-nanometer process should be almost developed, and the new factory can consider the 7-nanometer process."

"From this perspective, it doesn't matter much if we sell the equipment to SMIC."

"Anyway, our customer groups are still different. They mainly do OEM work for some foreign-funded enterprises."

"Our factory is mainly for self-use, supplemented by OEM for customers such as Huawei and HiSilicon."

Zhang Jing is not stupid, so he can naturally feel what Pan Jinxing and Cao Yang are thinking.

So he simply became a good person and supported selling the most advanced equipment to Zhang Jing, a competitor.

This is because he currently does not feel that SMIC has the strength to threaten Nanshan Semiconductor's position.

Once a technical advantage is formed, it is not easy for other manufacturers to break through.

“Since everyone thinks it can be sold, let’s sell it.”