#17 - Section: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Huaxing has very strong chip design capabilities, and it covers high-end, mid-range, and low-end chips. Zhang Yu knows this, but he can't understand the decision to move into chip manufacturing now.

"But, doesn't chip manufacturing require lithography machines? We can't buy them at all," Zhang Yu said.

The only reason why Daxia Country cannot develop chip foundries is the lack of lithography machines. Lithography machines are the only equipment for manufacturing chips. Without them, no one can manufacture chips. The manufacturing of lithography machines is extremely difficult. The world's largest lithography machine company is the Dutch ASML, which has the most advanced lithography machine manufacturing technology.

Because of the monopoly, the profits are extremely high. A lithography machine costs more than 100 million US dollars. The price is non-negotiable. More importantly, due to the joint targeting by the other side of the ocean, according to the Wassenaar Arrangement, they do not sell the latest lithography machines to Daxia Country, which makes it difficult for Daxia Country's chip industry to develop and can only be continuously exploited by foreign countries.

"Have the business department contact ASML to see if they sell lithography machines. If they don't, I will entrust foreign research institutions to help us build lithography machines."

Zhang Yu was speechless. Lu Haifeng's words made perfect sense. To manufacture chips, what to do if you can't buy lithography machines! Make your own. But is making your own so easy? If it were that easy, Daxia Country would have spent so much money on research and development, wouldn't it have been made long ago and caught up with international standards?

This is like a person who has no money to buy things. What to do if you have no money? Print it yourself.

Lu Haifeng said, "Okay, you don't need to think too much about the research and development. Just focus on recruiting talents."

"The chip factory next door will also start construction immediately. It must be built within a year. You keep an eye on it. Later, go to the finance department and ask them to prepare 5 billion in cash, so I can transfer it to overseas research institutions and ask them to help us build lithography machines."

In fact, Lu Haifeng took more than 1 billion to buy Bitcoin. Now is the right time to slowly buy in May. He didn't dare to tell Zhang Yu that he took the money to buy Bitcoin, so he had to use this reason.

"Okay, President Lu, then I'll go take care of it," Zhang Yu said and went out to get busy.

Under high commissions, headhunting companies were dispatched again. Semiconductor talents from all over Daxia Country were within their scope of recruitment.

This is also why Huaxing Technology doesn't want foreigners. Otherwise, with the salary level offered by Huaxing, a large number of foreigners would definitely come. However, under the favorable conditions and high treatment of Huaxing Technology, a large number of semiconductor talents still came to report.

No one is optimistic about Huaxing Technology's large-scale entry into the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The chip manufacturing industry requires huge investment, and many large companies have been defeated. What's more, it is a company that has only recently emerged, with no foundation, no technical reserves, and even the talents are recruited now. If this can succeed, then even Africa can make chips.

The voices of the outside world not being optimistic about Huaxing Technology are constant. A Daxia Country company cannot buy lithography machines, so naturally, it cannot manufacture chips.

In their opinion, Huaxing Technology is completely seeking its own death. A promising emerging company is about to collapse. Even some practitioners feel sorry for it.

Historically, many companies have been too ambitious, resulting in losses or even bankruptcy. Huaxing Technology has great potential, but the president is too young. Young people are prone to acting arbitrarily when they suddenly achieve success.

Ignoring the rumors from the outside world, the Huaxing chip factory also started construction on June 15. The workers worked day and night shifts and are expected to be completed in half a year.

Lu Haifeng, on the other hand, began to communicate with Lu Hong about the company's development, planning, and transformation. The newly formed semiconductor team is led by Lu Hong, a chip expert.

He hopes that the company will go further this year, and of course, it will be even busier. It seems that Lei Jun established the Dami company and released a new phone in April of this year, and cooperated with several major operators.

The Dami mobile phone released in April cooperates with Unicom and can be linked to Unicom's communication frequency band. Dami will also slowly open up the frequency bands of Mobile and Telecom. It won't be long before contract phones for Mobile and Telecom will be launched.

After all, full Netcom mobile phone manufacturers have not yet become popular, and even the four major manufacturers, China Coolpad Lenovo ZTE, rely on operators to occupy a certain share of the market.

As the boss of Huaxing, he also needs to maintain good relations with major operators. After all, the status of mobile phone manufacturers is not high now, far from the four major families of Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo in later generations. There are only thirty or forty mainstream mobile phone manufacturers in Daxia Country, and only fifty or sixty non-mainstream Shanzhai mobile phone manufacturers. All in all, there are only about a hundred.

When the operator reforms this year and China Coolpad Lenovo ZTE gradually lose their position, the Hundred Phones War will become the most spectacular in the mobile phone market. At that time, those who make air conditioners, the Internet, and real estate will rush in.

In later generations, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo also took advantage of this competition to eliminate many mobile phone manufacturers and gain huge market share, thereby having the right to speak.

Now it is June 2013, and the arrival of the 4G era is only a few months away. The mobile phone operator is about to undergo a transformation, and the mobile phone manufacturers' Hundred Phones War is imminent.

Now is the year when domestic mobile phone manufacturers are developing systems and transforming, and it is also the most confused year for many manufacturers. Now is the mobile phone market is chaotic, the old and new overlords are alternating, and no one can control the right to speak in the domestic mobile phone market.

Huaxing is also about to release a new phone to seize market share. Nearly 10 million units of the Huaxing Hongmeng S1 have been sold since its release.

This time, the design direction of the whole machine is adjusted to a low-cost, high-performance, extreme cost-effective preference. The Hundred Phones War is imminent, and choosing low cost is because domestic mobile phone manufacturers will enter the market. According to the urine nature of domestic mobile phone manufacturers, a price war is inevitable. The low-end machine market occupies the largest market share of users.

Of course, Lu Haifeng cannot give up this group. In addition, the most important thing is that Huaxing needs to use a large number of cost-effective mobile phones to increase Huaxing's occupancy rate.

Low price, but with high performance, will make Huaxing's products more competitive.

Looking at the design plan in the research institute, Lu Haifeng frowned slightly. Overall, this design plan does follow his mid-to-low-end "cost-effective requirements."

But apart from a Golden Crow chip, there is nothing else to highlight. Although the performance of the Golden Crow chip is very strong, this set of configuration is enough to beat many similar opponents.

But Lu Haifeng still felt that something was missing. He crossed out the back panel material of the Star Q1 from polycarbonate and changed it to a glass body.