1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan coughed: "Let me add, Lao Duan, please sort out our vertical procurement system plan. I want it the day after tomorrow at the latest."

The so-called grasping with both hands means that both hands must be strong.

Reaching cooperation with Apple in the field of chip design is only one of Su Yuanshan's goals. As Chen Jing said, this only means that Yuanxin has officially entered the "big boss" threshold of Western IT companies. Yuanxin has never done so before. It's great, but it's only influential in China and some surrounding places, and it has to rely on Sony.

As for the cooperation with Xinghai...that actually doesn't count.

Another goal of Su Yuanshan is to allow Apple to join Yuanxin's foundry system in advance.

He knows that Apple is very strict about quality control and cost control, which requires the foundry to have extremely high quality. Because of this, Yuanxin's foundry can better grow and mature faster. .

For Apple to find Yuanxin to manufacture, it needs to come up with something real.

Based on the efficiency of the production line, Su Yuanshan believed that he would not be able to impress Steve Jobs. The only thing that Yuanxin can offer now that can tempt Jobs is perhaps the vertical procurement system that Jobs himself promoted.

"Okay!" Although Duan Yongping didn't understand why Su Yuanshan wanted this, he nodded without any hesitation: "After more than half a year of trial operation, the vertical procurement system has been very complete. And in terms of cost, we have also gained a lot. Good control.”

"Well, that's fine." Su Yuanshan nodded, looked at everyone and said with a smile, "You guys continue?"

"We've finished driving." Duan Yongping closed his notebook and said, "I opened it while taking advantage of the time."

"Okay, Lao Duan, come to my office later... Oh, let's go to your office." Su Yuanshan stood up, waited until Chen Jing also stood up, and walked out of the conference room with her.

…

Duan Yongping's office.

The three of them were sitting on the sofa in the reception area. Duan Yongping looked at Su Yuanshan and listened to Su Yuanshan explain his thoughts.

Duan Yongping thought for a few seconds, his eyes flickered, looked at Su Yuanshan and said hesitantly: "Mr. Shan, do you want to divide the foundry?"

Su Yuanshan and Chen Jing looked at each other, and they both laughed.

Su Yuanshan secretly praised, smiled and nodded: "Yes, since we want to become a world-class foundry, we must maintain a certain distance from Yuanxin. This is the law of business."

Duan Yongping expressed that he was not surprised. Although he is mainly responsible for the mobile phone business now, he has taken the title of President of Yuanxin and has become the nominal second person in Yuanxin Enterprises. So he will naturally pay attention to it. The big picture.

For example, in the semiconductor industry, UMC on the opposite island is already making drastic reforms, directly dividing all the chip design departments - and it is not a step-by-step separation like Yuanxin, but a direct "reward" In this way, the department was directly handed over to the person in charge of the relevant department, which was quite determined to cut off the strength of a strong man.

Currently, UMC and TSMC, two foundry-only wafer fabs on the island, have been poached by Deyuan, but they still rely on the island's semiconductor talents and are still developing amid the rising demand for chips. Very quickly.

Yuanxin's foundry is essentially the same as the two foundries, except that one OEMs all electronic products and the other only OEMs chip products.

"Sometimes I have to admit that to enter certain industries in developed countries, you need tickets." Su Yuanshan sighed softly: "So sometimes, even if we suffer losses, we still have to cooperate with others...just to get this Tickets.”

"Yeah!" Duan Yongping nodded with deep understanding: "So, how confident are you in cooperating with Apple?"

Su Yuanshan squinted, looked in the direction of the Shanghai stock market, and smiled slightly: "If senior brother and the others can get the integrated baseband chip before Mr. Qiao, then the certainty is 100%."

As soon as he finished speaking, his phone vibrated violently.

Qin is for the people.

…

"I'll give you good news in advance - even if only one out of eighty pieces comes out, we can still pick out chips that can be printed." On the phone, Qin Weimin's business voice sounded a little hoarse, but he was full of energy: "We will encapsulate it first. Let’s go through the testing process first, and Lao Tian and I will bring the finished product back the day after tomorrow.”

"Okay!" Su Yuanshan was overjoyed. After thinking for a while, he asked: "Only one wafer out of 80? Is the yield rate so exaggerated?"

"Haha, no...but because ours is a SOC chip and it is a new development process, you know, it is actually more complicated than the Tamron CPU."

"I know." Su Yuanshan hesitated and asked, "The person directly responsible for the manufacturing process over there now is Liang Mengsong, right?"

"Yes. In addition to being directly responsible for process advancement, he is also responsible for our yield rate."

"Then what did he say?" Su Yuanshan pursed his lips and looked a little anxious in his eyes.

He knows that Liang Mengsong is a talent, even a genius... But now Liang Mengsong is not the "process madman" he was when he became famous. Su Yuanshan is really not sure how good he is and whether he is worthy of the title in Su Yuanshan's memory.

Of course, by poaching Liang Mengsong, Su Yuanshan might not just fall to Liang Mengsong's death with a rope - at the very least, he could cut off one of TSMC's roots first.

Qin Weimin pondered on the phone for a while and then said: "How should I put it, Dr. Liang is a very rigorous person. Under normal circumstances, he will not give accurate answers."

"But judging from his working status, it should be certain."

"What's the certainty?"

"It can probably be improved to 80 or 90 - Dr. Liang said that if there is no 95% yield, then the wafer fab is just a name."

When Su Yuanshan heard this, his heart immediately calmed down.

Listen, this is the tone of an awesome person.

Fortunately for him, these words directly rejected his domestic counterparts - to this day, Huajing's 0.8 micron yield rate is only about 90%.

"Very good. Since Dr. Liang is confident that the yield rate will be improved, I can rest assured at the fab." Su Yuanshan stood up, smiled on the phone and said: "After I finish here, I will go to Deyuan Have a look."

"Well, hang up first. I have to take a rest."

Qin Weimin hung up the phone, and Su Yuanshan took a deep breath and looked at Duan Yongping.

Duan Yongping took a deep breath. He had heard the content of the call just now and knew that the baseband integrated chip that the mobile phone division had been waiting for had been successfully taped out.

"I'll call the design center and ask them to contact the Shanghai Stock Exchange immediately to try to come up with a prototype as soon as possible!"