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Magic City.

Nanshan Semiconductor's newest factory is very lively today.

As the world's first chip factory using 2-nanometer process technology, it officially started mass production today.

After more than ten years of development, Nanshan Semiconductor has completely become the most advanced semiconductor company in the world. Each time it launches advanced chip processing technology, it is more than one year faster than its peers.

Don't underestimate this year. For top chip manufacturers, this gap is very fatal.

This means that in terms of the supply of various mobile phones, computers and autonomous driving related chips, Nanshan Semiconductor and even related companies in China are one step ahead of their peers.

"Mr. Cao, after our new factory in Magic City is put into production this time, the new factories in Changan and Yangcheng will also be put into mass production in the next year."

"At that time, we can fully meet the various needs of Honor Technology and Nanshan Automobile Group, and we can also start to provide chip foundry services to other customers, making Nanshan Semiconductor the world's largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor company."

Zhang Jing is still very satisfied with Nanshan Semiconductor's current performance.

To be frank, the emergence of Nanshan Semiconductor has completely changed the pattern of China's chip industry, and even the pattern of the world's chip industry.

In the past, China spent hundreds of billions of dollars a year importing chips at its peak, but last year's import amount of chips has plummeted to less than 10 billion US dollars.

This is also the first time in the past ten years that China's chip import amount has fallen below 10 billion US dollars.

The remaining chips are basically used by foreign-funded enterprises in China's factories, or domestic manufacturers have received overseas orders, and customers specify that they want to use certain chips.

So it is impossible to make the import amount of chips completely zero.

Compared with the import amount of chips, the export amount of chips has increased significantly.

Last year, the export amount of chips by Nanshan Semiconductor alone exceeded 30 billion US dollars, and the growth rate is still increasing rapidly.

It can be said that China's chip industry is now a thriving pattern, which has solved a large number of high-end employment problems for China.

Not to mention other things, the number of employees under Nanshan Semiconductor alone exceeds 300,000.

Among them, more than 100,000 employees are professional and technical personnel related to R\u0026D. These people generally have a master's degree and a lot of them have a doctorate.

Even for ordinary workers, Nanshan Semiconductor requires undergraduate graduation. After all, these workers are actually technical workers, not simply screwing screws on the production line.

Of course, these workers are also treated very well, with an average annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan.

The average annual salary of R\u0026D personnel is more than 500,000 yuan, and even some old employees have an annual salary of one million yuan.

In addition to other companies in the industrial chain surrounding Nanshan Semiconductor, it can be said that Nanshan Semiconductor has driven more than 1 million high-end employment talents in China.

Behind this are 1 million families.

It is no wonder that the prestige of Academician Zhang Jing in China is getting higher and higher.

Lingnan University of Technology, which invited a bunch of senior experts from Nanshan Semiconductor to be value professors in advance, has now become the top existence in China in their semiconductor college.

The college entrance examination admission score of the entire Lingnan University of Technology is second only to Huaqing University and Kyoto University.

Specifically for some majors, the score line of Lingnan University of Technology is already the highest in China.

"After the chip manufacturing process enters the 2-nanometer stage, it becomes very difficult to further improve."

"I estimate that it will be very ideal to be able to further enter the 1-nanometer stage within the next three years."

"In this case, the chip yield rate and production cost control become very critical factors."

"We must work hard in this regard if Nanshan Semiconductor wants to firmly stand in the world's first position."

The success of Nanshan Semiconductor is not a one-day effort today, but the result of many days and nights of hard work.

So although today is a very important day, Cao Yang's emotions are well controlled.

In times of peace, we should be more aware of the crisis of Nanshan Semiconductor.

In the past few years, we have maintained a technological advantage over Samsung, TSMC and other companies. It may become more difficult to continue to maintain it in the future.

After all, when everyone has mastered the 2-nanometer process, there will be no absolute advantage in technology.

At this time, the performance in terms of cost and quality becomes very important.

Similarly, if your cost for a 2-nanometer mobile phone chip is 1,000 yuan, while others only need 500 yuan, the impact will definitely be huge.

So how to control the cost is very important.

At the same time, this is also an important means to significantly increase the profit margin of Nanshan Semiconductor.

My cost has been reduced, but it does not mean that my selling price has been reduced.

For such a high-end chip, if you don’t make a 100% profit margin, or even a profit margin of several hundred percent, how can you justify the huge investment in the past?

Especially before the same type of products from other chip manufacturers are available, they should be sold at a high price, which can be regarded as amortizing the R\u0026D expenses and equipment investment in advance.

Later, when dealing with various situations, it will be much more flexible.

"No problem. We fully cooperate with Nanshan Equipment in terms of equipment to ensure that most processes can improve quality and production efficiency through the equipment."

"In terms of materials, we are also working together with Nanshan Chemical to maximize the purity of various raw materials, so that our chip quality will be better and the yield rate will be higher."

"At the same time, we have also made full preparations in terms of training for factory technical personnel..."

Zhang Jing is also a veteran in the semiconductor industry, so he has naturally made preparations for the things Jiang Hui is worried about.

Therefore, although the yield rate of 2nm process chips is not particularly high at the beginning, it can be improved quickly.

"If we hold a production launch ceremony on such a large scale, it will definitely bring great stimulation to other chip manufacturers."

"At that time, we should also be careful that they find various ways to poach people maliciously, and even steal technical information."

Jiang Hui and Zhang Jing had a detailed exchange about Nanshan Semiconductor. At the same time, at a high-level meeting at Samsung Electronics headquarters, the atmosphere was very depressing.

"President, according to the information we have heard so far, Nanshan Semiconductor's new factory does already have the technology to produce the 2-nanometer process."

“Honor Technology’s new flagship mobile phones and computers launched in the second half of this year are expected to use 2-nanometer process technology, and even some new models of Nanshan Automobile Group will use this technology in autonomous driving chips and smart cockpit chips. "

Although these words were unpleasant, Li Zailin did not dare not to report them.

Samsung Electronics has always been committed to becoming the world's largest and most technologically advanced semiconductor company.

Once upon a time, this goal was very close to them.

But now it is getting further and further away.

The rise of Nanshan Semiconductor and Honor Technology has had a huge impact on Samsung Electronics.

“When is it expected that we will achieve a breakthrough in our own 2-nanometer process?”

Li Zairong asked in a very bad mood.

Under his leadership, Samsung Electronics is now deteriorating.

Whether it is the semiconductor industry or mobile phone and other industries, they are now surpassed by Chinese companies.

This caused his reputation within the Samsung Group to drop significantly.

"Currently, there is a relatively big bottleneck in terms of equipment. Mass production will not be achieved until the year after next at the earliest, and the yield rate at that time is still relatively low."

The people in charge of R\u0026D wanted to put their heads under the table.

However, I still have to answer honestly at this time.

"In other words, in the next two years, we will fall behind in terms of 2-nanometer process chips?"

Faced with Li Zairong's question, no one dared to say anything.

In recent years, Goryeo's economy has not been so prosperous, and all walks of life have been surpassed by their Chinese counterparts.

Samsung Electronics is just one of the typical representatives. In other fields, such as shipbuilding and automobiles, the situation is not much better.

"President, I think the company may need to further invest some funds in research and development, and arrange professional technicians to go to equipment manufacturers to assist in the development of new equipment. Only in this way can it be possible to speed up the progress of research and development."

After being silent for a while, Li Zailin made a suggestion.

This was considered a hopeless solution, and in the end Li Zairong had no choice but to agree.

The same situation is also happening at other semiconductor manufacturers such as TSMC.

The global semiconductor industry has become anxious because Nanshan Semiconductor's 2-nanometer chip factory has started production.

That night, China Channel specially arranged a five-minute report on Nanshan Semiconductor during the news broadcast.

This situation is relatively rare.

Of course, Nanshan Semiconductor is very impressive, and no one would have any objection to this kind of report.

Even Nanshan Semiconductor has become the pride of Chinese enterprises to a certain extent. (End of chapter)