Chang Qingheng, Duan Qingmei and other senior executives were willing to come to the newly established Onyx Technology because the sudden emergence of Onyx Technology gave them high salaries!

If you only talk about salary, then with Duan Qingmei and his qualifications, no matter which company they go to, the treatment will not be bad, let alone Onyx Red Diamond Technology, which is not as famous as any other company.

But if you put aside Onyx technology, the Chuke technology behind Onyx technology alone will inevitably make people think a lot.

Only people in the electronics industry know how much Chuke Technology, which has always been famous in the Internet industry, has invested in the electronic hardware industry in recent years!

It is no exaggeration to say that Chuke Technology's investment in graphics cards, processors, and electronic screen panels is almost comparable to the sum of its domestic similar industries. Except for Pengcheng Huawei, which is also crazy investing in the communication equipment market, there is no one in the domestic electronic hardware industry that can be compared with Chuke Technology!

Especially in terms of graphics cards and processors, Chuke Technology is unique, and it has penetrated into upstream design and mid-downstream production and manufacturing. Although it is not very famous yet, many people from the outside world think that the C1 processor is a joke, but Chuke Technology's investment in this area is definitely surprising.

Chen Chu, He Yaoguo and others walked towards the R&D center together. Chen Chu could clearly feel that the entire R&D center was a world of difference compared to when he came last year.

Last year, only Louis Jackson's graphics card R&D laboratory team was alone in the newly built R&D center, and today the entire R&D center began to become noisy.

"The fourteen R&D buildings that have been invested have used, and four major R&D departments, including graphics cards, processors, screens and hardware equipment, have all been moved here!"

After arriving at the R&D area, He Yaoguo said to Chen Chu, "In addition, major electronic research institutes that cooperate with the Hardware Equipment Department will also be moved in one after another!"

Now it is working with Chuke Technology and Onyx Technology, including the Ninth Institute of Solid Circuits, Xijing Thirteen Electronics Research Institute and other major research institutes. Chuke Technology has tied these electronics research institutes to Chuke Technology's pirate ship. Otherwise, how could Chuke Technology develop a C1 processor? Don't look at it, it seems that it is not a top processor. But looking at the country, this processor that can be basically produced locally is already considered top!

Chen Chu nodded and said to He Yaoguo, "The treatment of these electronic research institutes must be handled well. You must coordinate the cooperative relationship between these electronic research institutes and Chuke Technology!"

Major electronic research institutes that cooperate with Chuke Technology are nominally "seconded" Chuke Technology. For example, Xu Shaode and others from the Ninth Institute of Solid Circuits, although they are "seconded", in fact, there is not much difference with Chuke Technology's technicians. The only difference is that their work unit is still the original unit, and the additional salary must be handed over to the original unit.

These technicians have gradually integrated into Chuke Technology. The salary, bonus and benefits given by Chuke Technology are very different from their original units. If you want to transfer them back, no one is willing to do so!

He Yaoguo laughed and took Chen Chu to the production center of the C1 processor. He said to Chen Chu as he walked, "There are more than 112 electronic research institutes that cooperate with Chuke and Onyx, and more than 79 research institutes have sent personnel to cooperate with Chuke. There are more than 1,000 researchers working in Chuke technology!"

These personnel who were sent to Chuke Technology and Onyx Technology in cooperation with Chuke Technology are equivalent to creating "foreign exchange" for their units. Chuke Technology pays a considerable R&D expense to these cooperative electronics institutes every year, which is definitely an unexpected surprise for the domestic electronics institutes that have been in a trough in recent years.

This is also why major research institutes are willing to cooperate with Chuke. In addition to maintaining the staff size and projects of the research institute, they can also obtain R&D expenses. For major electronic research institutes, it is self-evident how to choose.

After arriving at the chip processor production center, there was obviously more security here. After several rounds of inspections, after entering the workshop and after dust removal, Chen Chu walked into the processor production workshop.

Chen Chu had seen many equipment before when he was in the processor laboratory, but when it was actually put into production, it was completely different from what he had seen in the laboratory.

After entering, Chen Chu saw many people busy, and there were many technicians wearing dustproof suits surrounded in front of each device.

An experimental production line is slowly running, being melted at high temperature, injected into a large high-temperature quartz container, specially processed, and purified silicon specially used for semiconductors.

After purification, a highly pure single crystal silicon with a diameter of 200 mm was taken out from a high-temperature quartz container by rotary stretching.

Then the entire production line began to operate, the silicon ingot was cut by the equipment, various raw materials were added, and formal production began. After a series of processes such as photolithography, dissolving photoresist, etching, electroplating, and crystal slices, the last process was test and sealing, and each process had to be inspected by technical personnel.

Chen Chu walked to the end of the production line, where some of the chip processors that were tested were already produced, and are being graded by technicians using high-power microscopes.

When Chen Chu picked up a chip processor, he sighed in his heart. In order to produce such a thing, Chuke Technology's funds were almost drained, and countless funds were invested in, and thousands of people almost stopped for its appearance!

"If production starts, what's the production capacity?" Chen Chu asked He Yaoguo.

He Yaoguo felt a little helpless when he heard about the production capacity. "He is still in trial production and equipment debugging. The frequency, power consumption and heating of the processors produced are not stable, and equipment debugging is also required!"

"But the technical department will solve these problems as soon as possible. After the trial production starts, it is expected to reach a production capacity of 10,000 pieces per day!" He Yaoguo said to Chen Chu.

Chen Chu is not surprised by the problems that arise from trial production. He always encounters troubles when he comes out of the laboratory to the production line. After all, the laboratory can use various means to pile up a piece of processor, but when it comes to large-scale production, the problems they have to face are not that simple.

But Chen Chu was not satisfied with the production capacity. This production capacity was too low. For example, Texas Instruments, which occupied the mobile CPU market, is expected to produce 300 million chips per year. Intel and AMD, which focus on computer PUs, have chip production capacity of more than 100 million and more than 70 million!

In comparison, Chuke Technology is not even a mosquito leg, so it is estimated that chip OEM manufacturers are unwilling to take the orders from Chuke Technology!

Seeing Chen Chu with a frown, He Yaoguo said. He Yaoguo glanced at the chip processor production line behind him and said to Chen Chu, "Mr. Chen, the early R&D costs, coupled with the immature process, the cost of raw materials, salary, and the later human resources and promotion costs, the current cost of our production of a C1 processor will not be less than US$62!"

"If the sales of Onyx electronic reader cannot meet expectations, the expected revenue of Onyx is probably..." He Yaoguo did not finish his words, but Chen Chu understood what it meant.

The cost of producing processors between Chuke Technology and Onyx is too high, and the performance is not the most advanced. The personnel of Onyx Technology are also a little confused. They don’t know why Chen Chu tried so hard to produce it themselves. If you use other chips directly, the Texas Instruments chip with better performance than C1 will be up to $29. Even the latest high-end chip for Nokia will be priced no more than $42!

Chang Qingheng and Duan Qingmei and other Onyx Technology management teams couldn't help but look at Chen Chu. In the era when domestic electronics and other industries are pursuing the maximization of interests, there is almost no R&D department. From purchasing parts from major international parts manufacturers to assembly and handing them over to OEM companies, everything is for the maximization of interests.

Onyx Technology and Chuke Technology are almost the opposite. Almost everything is controlled by Chuke Technology itself. In order to develop a product, it invested more than hundreds of millions of dollars in the early stage to buy a processor production line and build a R&D team. It is estimated that Chuke Technology is the only one who can do it, and there is nothing else!

The electronics industry, like the Internet industry, is a large-scale industry. The larger the scale, the higher the profit, and the cost can be minimized.

The Onyx brand e-reader has not yet been launched, so the sales volume is really uncertain. But now, it will cost 62 US dollars to produce a C1 processor. This is a sure thing. In addition to the production of other parts, if the electronic reader cannot be sold, it is estimated that Onyx Technology, which has not been established for a long time, will probably be able to lose revenue at the end of the year!

"In terms of cost, don't worry about it. Increase the production capacity as soon as possible, and at least meet the needs of the electronic readers!" Chen Chu said to He Yaoguo.

Hearing Chen Chu's words, He Yaoguo and others were not saying anything. Chen Chu was in a decisive manner!

Now that Chen Chu is facing the path, there is only one way to go. If the C1 processor is not produced on a large scale, the early investment of Chuke technology will be wasted. Only large-scale production can reduce costs. Chuke technology has no way out!
Chapter completed!