Fight To the Third Generation

Chapter 565: Qualcomm Pdq

On the way to the Hilton Garden Inn.

Su Yehao and Mr. Zhang talked all the way, and after seeing them open the room and settling down, they continued to chat about the follow-up development plan in the small bar of the hotel.

The reason why Zhang Rujing suggested to take the order first and then formally invest heavily is not because he does not know enough about the industry situation, but because he knows too much, so he is a little worried.

The current chip foundry market is not yet saturated, but counting several wafer foundries under construction, the future production capacity appears to be relatively ample.

For example, in the recent dispute between Japan and South Korea and the United States for r memory chips, the oversupply situation and the decline in profits have continued from 1996 to the present, and it still does not mean to end.

Often the more products sold, the more serious the losses.

The situation is a bit similar to the war of attrition between Internet companies. Everyone is grabbing market share, and everyone has more pockets than anyone else.

During the Asian financial crisis in the previous year and last year, South Korea’s r memory chip company was bought by US capital. For example, Samsung Electronics, more than half of the equity is in the hands of foreign companies.

With the support of American capital, it has now overwhelmed its Japanese counterparts, forcing several large Japanese factories to join hands to form the “Erbida” company that Su Yehao had seen in the documents.

Huajing in the mainland adopts Japanese technology, and the wafer factory is lagging behind as soon as it is put into production.

Hua Hong in the Shanghai Stock Exchange also put into production 64 r memory chips in February this year.

By the way.

Under the recommendation of Academician Ni Danan, the R-chip produced by Hua Hong was used in the Yellow Diamond computer that was prepared to be assembled, and Japanese technology was also used.

Up to now, the lithography light source has been stuck at 193 nanometers and cannot progress for two decades.

Countless scientists and industries have been discussing solutions beyond 193 nanometers, but none have been successful.

As a result, as long as many companies are willing to spend money, the starting point is actually the same. What they are fighting for is the yield and scale, and earn some hard money from it. The number of foundries continues to increase, and the competition situation is severe.

Therefore, Zhang Rujing tends to choose not to see the rabbit and not the eagle, and plans to wait until the order is clear.

You must know that in the 1980s, TSMC first got a small number of foundry orders from Intel, and then slowly accumulated it soaring into the sky.

In this July of 1999.

The competitive pressure in the foundry industry is much greater than when TSMC first started in the 1980s, which means that it must be more cautious.

It can only be said that Zhang Rujing has been dealing with other investors for a long time and knows nothing about Su Yehao’s wealth.

Before the business clearly started, Su Yehao had already spent ten years pouring in 10 billion US dollars, and his preparation for the collapse after losing money was far beyond what others could match.

With the market size in the next two decades, if you increase the technology and scale, I am afraid it will not be easy to lose money, it is just a matter of earning more and earning less.

The cake is so big that even if it only occupies part of it, it is enough for him to recoup his current investment with interest.

It clearly stated that he was optimistic about the future market, and conveyed the development concept of “no need to save money, just do it” to Zhang Rujing.

After listening to the other party’s promise to contact Canon, Nikon, and s, and try to see who is willing to provide technology and jointly set up a lithography machine research laboratory, Su Yehao was satisfied.

The so-called joint venture refers to the technical support provided by a third party. Su Yehao took out the research and development funds to build a lithography machine research and development center based on the idea proposed by the Vietnamese scientist Lin Baojian.

Although it was inevitable to spend money, after chatting with Zhang Rujing and others, I felt a little more in my heart.

Not to mention, the current lithography machines are easy to buy. Once a wafer foundry is built in the mainland, the gap will not be widened in the short term.

Considering that the Internet winter period is coming, seize this opportunity and put the chips in the development of OEM and lithography machine research and development. At least the hope of overtaking in the corner can be seen, and it is not particularly slim.

The next morning.

Su Yehao was afraid that Yin Liuli would be bored, so he took her to follow the team and went to Qualcomm for inspection.

Qualcomm originally planned to go the route of self-production and self-marketing, but later it charged royalties. Facing the concerns of customers, and in order to avoid being sued for monopoly, Qualcomm decisively decided to package and transfer the mobile phone production business as a whole.

Representatives of Goldman Sachs Group, who have cooperated with them, are responsible for matching them. They learned that Su Yehao came in person, and the chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Qualcomm were jointly responsible for receiving them.

Qualcomm’s mobile phone is called p, with a reversible keyboard, and is equipped with a 160240 resolution screen, equipped with a processor frequency of 16, and 2b memory, but also supports ps applications.

In layman’s terms, it is equipped with an operating system and supports Internet surfing, which is equivalent to allowing a PDA to make phone calls, and provides a maximum Internet speed of 144bps, allowing users to browse emails anytime, anywhere.

When it was first launched last year, it shocked many peers, but the price of up to 800 US dollars and the tasteless function~www.readwn.com~ make this product destined to be difficult to make money.

As a result, the base station business spun off from Qualcomm was rushing to buy, but the mobile phone production business was tepid. There were many people asking for the price, but no one who really took the shot has yet appeared.

Companies such as Nokia and Motorola dislike it, and small companies that like it are reluctant to pay.

This sale is very enthusiastic about the realization of Qualcomm’s junk assets. The executives who accompanied them to visit the R&D laboratory were very enthusiastic. They deliberately skipped sales and inventory, and focused on describing the advanced performance of the product.

now.

An Indian-born senior engineer named Sanjay Ja, helped to demonstrate the web surfing function under development, adopting the next-generation new technology to browse emails and web pages faster.

Su Yehao waved his hand indifferently and said:

“Before 3 mobile networks were really popular, I don’t think that many people needed to go online, quite a promising technology, but with its current capabilities, it is difficult to attract enough customers, sales have proved this, no doubt. I What I’m looking at this time is just a full set of mobile phone production solutions, as well as the supporting services provided by your company, give me a fair quotation, and how much are you willing to sell to me in a package?”

Gray, Qualcomm’s chief operating officer, said calmly: “For $200 million, we have signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Verizon, etc., and it will be easy to sell products to the United States in the future.”

Su Yehao replied calmly and shrugged:

“I can agree, as long as you give me the 30 chip OEM order. This quotation is completely unreasonable, you must know that I use your solution to develop and produce mobile phones, which can open up the Asian market for your company, especially Huaxia’s market, in the long run, I think $80 million is a reasonable figure.”