Gao Lan received letters of visit from two visitors, one from Su Ma and the other from the fruit company.
This is truly amazing.
Gao Lan accepted their visit, but the time had to be staggered.
One is scheduled for two days later, and the other is scheduled for three days later.
After confirming the time, she asked people to reply directly to the two companies by email.
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"Boss, Ziwei Semiconductor has responded and agreed to our visit, which will be scheduled in two days." The assistant replied to Su's mother with the content of the email.
"Well, I understand. Then help me book a flight to Fengcheng and just remind me when the time comes." Su's mother replied.
"Okay." The assistant responded and went to make arrangements.
After the office door closed, Su Ma sighed slightly.
It seemed like another sigh.
She never expected that the world of semiconductors would change as soon as she woke up.
A Ziwei semiconductor suddenly appeared in the Dragon Kingdom and also mastered 10-nanometer imprinting technology.
This 10-nanometer imprinting technology strictly adheres to Moore's Law, which is different from those who play word games like Sansang.
If this is the case, then Longguo’s semiconductors will take off in the future.
But semiconductor giants like them will be very uncomfortable.
After all, they have powerful semiconductor technology, and Longguo consumers are not fools and will not look for trouble on them.
"It's time to make a change."
So Su Ma held an emergency board meeting, hoping to cooperate with Ziwei Semiconductor on this matter and transfer the chip order originally given to Tai Mechanical and Electrical to Ziwei Semiconductor.
In this way, we may be able to take advantage of price and cost advantages, increase production capacity, and enhance our competitiveness with Invista and Invista.
Not to mention that Su Ma and Lao Huang are already competitors in the field of graphics cards, but in terms of market competitiveness and production capacity, INVISTA is undoubtedly superior.
However, in recent years, Su Ma has broken through the 6-nanometer technology in graphics card chips and has surpassed INVISTA in terms of hardware performance such as bit width, bandwidth, frequency, and core transistors.
However, it is still not as good as INVISTA in terms of game driver software, so the two companies have been trying their best to squeeze toothpaste on graphics cards for several years in order to keep themselves one step ahead.
At the same time, Su Ma and Ying Te are also old enemies, and their CPU performance, especially in games, is stronger than Ying Te's.
However, due to production capacity and Yingtel's huge market, it is still not as good as Yingtel in terms of advantages.
If part of the production capacity of GPU and CPU chips can be handed over to Ziwei Semiconductor, and Eagletel and Invista are excluded, perhaps Su Ma's sales can explode, thus completely destroying Eagletel and Invista from the supply advantage. p>
However, this may offend peers and the semiconductor association, but the benefits are worth the risk.
After all, there are no eternal friends in the world, only eternal interests.
Su's mother also tried her best to persuade the board of directors, and that's why today's move was made. How about contacting Ziwei Semiconductor?
After booking the flight, Su’s mother took a group of technical experts directly to Fengcheng in business class, and was welcomed by Gao Lan.
After visiting the production process and testing of the nanoimprint machine, Su Ma directly expressed her intention:
"Mr. Gao, our company is here to cooperate with your company to produce RX6900, 7900 and R97845 and 7645 chips. I wonder what you mean?"
Gao Lan was stunned.
Is Mother Su so courageous? Aren’t you afraid of offending the semiconductor industry on the other side of the ocean?
"In principle, we can, but if your company cooperates with us, will your superiors agree?"
This means telling her that if she really cooperates with Ziwei Semiconductor, the risks will be very high.
"It doesn't matter, our company is oriented to the whole world, not just to one country, and we absolutely adhere to the principle of fairness and justice to cooperate with your company!"
Su Ma said swornly.
After all, AMD is also a company, so it naturally has to give priority to its own survival interests.
Moreover, these Western giants are not monolithic within themselves, and the level of fighting with each other in many competitive fields is comparable to that of Yulongguo companies.
"In that case, we can talk about it in detail."
Gao Lan smiled again, and then had a secret discussion with Su's mother.
After some harmonious and friendly exchanges, Su Ma finally reached a supply agreement with Ziwei Semiconductor on behalf of the company.
When Su Ma left, she still looked relaxed and happy.
This trip has not been disclosed to the public.
The next day
A representative from the fruit company came to visit, and this time it was CEO Ku Ke.
Similarly, Ku Ke and Gao Lan expressed their intention to cooperate, hoping to help the fruit company bear half of the orders for a17 and m3 processors.
Rumor has it that these two processors use Tai Electromechanical's 3-nanometer process, but its process is not as ideal as the fruit company's presets. Instead, it frequently overturns, and the yield rate is less than 60%.
In addition, Tai Electromechanical said that it would discuss the OEM cost, which made Ku Ke only pay for qualified products and even refused subsequent orders.
Because this cost is too high, fruit mobile phones and computer products will inevitably become high-priced by then.
If it is too high, consumers may not buy it, and even if it is made, the fruit company itself will lose money.
But at this time, Sansang jumped out and announced that it had a 3-nanometer process.
Ku Ke also went to inspect it, but the craftsmanship was not as good as that of Tai Electromechanical.
Sansang did not give up, hoping to win fruit orders.
Just when Ku Ke was hesitating, Ziwei Semiconductor jumped out and announced that it had better chip production technology, and the pass rate was so high, it was incredible.
Therefore, after discussion by the board of directors, Kuker finally led a team to inspect the chip process technology of Ziwei Semiconductor.
Of course, we also applied for trial production of their m3 and a17 processors.
Gao Lan also agreed to their request.
Since it is for trial production, Ziwei engineers followed the chip design drawings given by the fruit technical team and followed the corresponding process for manufacturing.
Several chips will be freshly baked soon.
Several fruit experts quickly took the equipment to test the chip.
After testing it several times, Ku Ke asked:
"Boss, the transistor density of their chip process meets our requirements. Although the transistor density at 10 nanometers is only 130 million per square millimeter, if it can be passed through multiple exposure technology, it may be further improved to 260MTr/mm2, compared to Tai
The mechanical and electrical performance needs to be even better."
"Are you sure it's true? What about the cost?" Cook's eyes widened when he heard this.
Judging from the words of this technical expert, if their fruit processor goes through Ziwei Semiconductor's 10-nanometer imprinting machine and undergoes multiple exposures, its performance will be even better than that of Tai Electromechanical.
However, the performance has passed its first level, but the subsequent cost is a problem.
"Well, it's hard to judge now, but based on Longguo's large-scale industrial manufacturing capabilities and complete industrial chain, it is estimated to be one-third lower than that of Tai Electromechanical."
One third!
The corner of Ku Ke's eyes couldn't help but jump. The cost price has dropped a lot.
It is very beneficial to them.
However, it is still unclear whether the process of Ziwei Semiconductor is immature and whether the yield rate will be as low as that of Sansang Hetai Electromechanical.
"Well, let's order a batch of 7-nanometer chips with Ziwei Company that have undergone exposure technology and see what the results are."
Other technical experts nodded in agreement.
Therefore, Kuker placed a batch of orders for 10,000 A17 processors with Gao Lan, and left several experts to import or guide the chip design drawings.
Seeing this, Ku Ke also returned to the other side of the ocean, waiting for news.