1991 Starting from the core

Zhou Xingbo is a graduate student under Lu Xuechao, director of the Department of Electrical Engineering Physics. When Lu Xuechao sent Zhou Xingbo to Su Yuanshan, his main purpose was to let Zhou Xingbo get in touch with Yuanxin as soon as possible so that he could have a better future. After Su Yuanshan's evaluation, he "assigned" Zhou Xingbo to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and asked him to follow Brother Chen Jianguo to do physical and chemical vapor precipitation.

And because He Chunhua was the senior who had "led" Su Yuanshan in the P laboratory, he immediately formed a team and started researching graphene.

Now He Chunhua and Xia Xiaoxuan have jointly published two Nature articles on the properties of graphene, and there are as many as five or six articles in other more "watery" journals... They can be regarded as well-known young scholars in the field of graphene. .

While He Chunhua was traveling between Shanghai and the provincial capital to conduct experiments, he and Zhou Xingbo also became familiar with each other. I don’t know where the two of them connected... They actually wanted to challenge nanoscale carbon-based components, and they hit it off right away...

In other fields, Su Yuanshan could say he didn't understand. But Su Yuanshan still knows a little bit about carbon-based components.

Before etching machines and photolithography machines entered the nanometer field, it was just a dream to create meaningful carbon-based components.

However, Su Yuanshan did not dissipate their enthusiasm, because in addition to the equipment in place, this thing also requires a lot of theoretical support. This alone is enough for them to drink a pot - and technology is constantly pursuing all kinds of impossible , looking for breakthroughs in various solutions.

"I plan to return to the Special Administrative Region the day after tomorrow. You can arrange the team here. If you can confirm the team members before I go back, I can also help you cheer them up." Su Yuanshan glanced at the time and prepared to leave and go to the wafer fab. Take a look - he helped Yuanxin master the technology of three major chips in one go. This should be worthy of his personal encouragement anyway.

And with the early release of MLC particles, Su Yuanshan vaguely felt that the semiconductor cycle might change because of this.

——Historically, the next two years will be the hottest two years in the semiconductor market. The reason is simple, because the emergence of WIN95 has boosted demand and because of the popularity of the Internet.

Then as the outbreak period ends, excess production capacity will instantly overwhelm those blindly expanding fabs that focus on storage equipment—memory chip fabs to be precise. Then Samsung’s largest countercyclical investment succeeded and it began to become a force that cannot be ignored in the semiconductor field.

Frankly speaking, this kind of future that is very likely to change makes Su Yuanshan a little panicked.

In his plan, when the semiconductor winter comes, he will draw out the hot money from the Internet and open his claws to make countercyclical investments. After fighting a good battle, he will usher in the Internet winter at the beginning of the new century - by then He then went against the current and swallowed up those Internet companies with potential in one fell swoop to complete the final layout.

Now it seems... MLC is very likely to change the semiconductor industry, especially the pattern of wafer fabs.

Therefore, it is very necessary for him to seek advice from Dr. Zhang Rujin, a veteran in the semiconductor industry.

"Well, then I will arrange a meeting tomorrow afternoon, and you can attend it then."

"good."

…

There is only a fence separating the wafer factory from the science and technology park. This fence was specially built to avoid misunderstandings. Since it was built deliberately, it has only symbolic meaning and no practical significance.

The door was opened wide, with two security guards standing symbolically on both sides. For those with work badges, the security guards would almost let them go without even looking at them. If you don’t have a work permit, you can simply register and pass.

"Su Yuanshan, Wen Xiaoqian." The security guard wrote Su Yuanshan's name honestly and pressed the remote control button, and the retractable door opened.

Su Yuanshan saw that there was only one retractable door on both sides, but there were two security guards. He couldn't help but said happily: "Master, you are doing something unnecessary, right? Can't you do it alone?"

"As you said, although we only manage one door together, Lao Wang and I belong to different systems - he is Yuanxin Technology Park, and I am Deyuan Wafer Factory."

"...This wall is well repaired, tsk tsk." Su Yuanshan smiled while walking towards the office building of the wafer fab with Wen Xiaoqian who was snickering.

Not far away, Chen Jianguo was walking over quickly.

…

"Lao Zhang is having a meeting over there, why don't you go to my office for a while first?" Chen Jianguo said happily, pinching Su Yuanshan's shoulder.

"Okay." Su Yuanshan was not polite.

He always didn't like to bother people, so before coming here, he just greeted Zhang Rujin in advance to avoid Zhang Rujin accidentally going on a business trip. As for picking up and dropping off, he no longer bothered Zhang Rujin, but only gave Chen Jianguo some relief.

After all, my senior brother.

In the office, Chen Jianguo and Su Yuanshan chatted about how the process flow was achieved, and then briefly talked about the yield and progress of several current chips. Not long after, Zhang Rujin and Liang Mengsong arrived hand in hand.

After exchanging pleasantries, the four of them sat in the reception area.

"Dr. Zhang, Dr. Liang, first of all, I want to thank you for your hard work on our major chips this year." Su Yuanshan looked at the two of them and said sincerely: "Especially the flash memory particles, I really didn't expect to see tape-out this year. the dawn of."

Zhang Rujin and Liang Mengsong looked at each other here. They were actually a little surprised that Su Yuanshan came in a hurry this time.

The three major chips taped out this year are Tamron CPU, YX integrated baseband, and flash memory particles. The first two Su Yuanshan came to take a look after the tape-out was successful - no, Su Yuanshan only came over in person only after the Tamron series CPU was successfully tape-out and even packaged.

As for the baseband chip, Su Yuanshan was not present during the whole process.

On the contrary, Su Yuanshan came over as soon as he got the news about the flash memory particles, which were ranked last in importance in everyone's eyes.

Listen - "especially flash memory particles".

Does this mean that in Su Yuanshan's eyes, flash memory particles are more important than CPUs?

Of course, as veterans of the semiconductor industry, both Zhang Rujin and Liang Mengsong know that memory chips have always been the main profit and scale contributors to the semiconductor industry. But that memory is not flash memory... but DRAM memory. A must-have for every computer!

Which computer must have this flash memory?

"What we should do." Zhang Rujin looked away, chuckled, and looked at Su Yuanshan with bright eyes.

Now that Su Yuanshan is here, he will obviously give the answer, so he can just wait.

"Well, that's it." Su Yuanshan pursed his lips and smiled: "I want to know how long it will take for us to expand a production line specifically for the production of flash memory particles...?"

"Or put it this way, how long will it take to bring its yield rate to an acceptable range."