Chapter 626: The new development direction of Kirin Semiconductor
Half past ten.
Yu Wenge happily hung up the phone.
During this period of time, he received a total of three orders, namely orders from Motorola, Nokia, and Ericsson. These three orders brought him orders for 40 million chips.
After Yu Wenge typed out all the orders, he picked up the landline and called Xu Guozhi of the wafer factory.
"Lao Xu, have you had breakfast?"
"I'm going to patrol the factory soon. Why did you call me?"
"I took an order worth 40 million yuan this morning. Can you arrange the schedule for me?"
"Send me the chip model and quantity, and I will help you schedule production. I will send you the specific time after I arrange it."
"Okay."
Yu Wenge happily hung up the phone again.
...
There is a large office not far from Yu Wenge.
This office was where Yu Wenge used to work. After Guo Kezun came to serve as CEO, this office was vacated for Guo Kezun.
At this time, Guo Kezun is studying the future direction of Kirin Semiconductor Company.
Kirin Semiconductor currently has four product lines: CPU, memory, WiFi chips and GPU.
Cao Mang has defined these four self-developed products. These products will only be used in his own products. In addition to these products, there are many things that the semiconductor industry can do.
Therefore, Guo Kezun plans to expand the product line of semiconductor companies.
Guo Kezun is eyeing two products, one is MUC chip and the other is power device. Power device is divided into two types: mosfet and igbt.
Both of these products can be used in automobiles. You must know that the demand of the automobile market is no less than that of the IT market, and these two chips can only be manufactured abroad.
China is still blank in this field.
Especially the power device product, this product can not only be used in automobiles, it can also be used in high-voltage electricity.
Kirin Group has the most advanced gallium nitride technology in the world.
Power devices made of gallium nitride are far more powerful than traditional mosfets and igbts.
Kirin Automobile's fast charging technology uses gallium nitride power devices. As long as this power device is modified properly, it can be used in high-voltage electricity.
Since Kirin Group has such a strong innate advantage, why not develop in this area.
"Ling ring ring~"
Guo Kezun put down the mouse and reached for the microphone.
"Hello, I am Guo Kezun."
"Mr. Guo, I am Cao Mang."
"Mr. Cao, what kind of work do you want to arrange for me?"
"Has Mr. Qiao's God chip been designed yet?"
I don’t know if Master Qiao was anxious to see God, so he named his chip God Chip. Not long after Master Qiao left China, Cao Mang handed over this task to Guo Kezun for implementation.
In fact, the so-called God chip is actually the Nuwa chip wearing a vest.
Cao Mang asked Guo Kezun to weaken Nuwa A2 and design a chip with slightly weaker performance.
"The design of the God chip has been completed. We have adjusted the chip architecture and the memory manager reading method. The performance has been reduced to 63% of Nuwa a2."
"When you are free later, please contact Mr. Qiao and arrange the production of the God Chip."
"Okay, Mr. Cao."
"How is the development of Kirin GPU going?"
Cao Mang had already given this project to Huang Zhiming for research and development, but he had never received any feedback from him.
Cao Mang plans to use this product in the next generation of high-end models.
Although the integrated GPU of Nuwa A2 is already very powerful, the integrated GPU in Caomang is always not as good as the independent one. This is also an undeniable fact.
Although the integrated graphics performance of Nuwa A2 is equivalent to geforce6800ultra, it is nearly 70% different from the latest geftx released by NVIDIA.
In the future, the gap between integrated graphics cards and independent graphics cards will only become wider and wider. The gap between the two cannot be bridged through technology. Integrated graphics cards are destined to be unable to become high-performance graphics cards.
The only way is for Kirin Semiconductor to design a discrete graphics card.
"The research and development of independent graphics cards is nearing completion. Originally they planned to design it from scratch, but Huang Zhiming found that their background was somewhat insufficient, so..." Guo Kezun said with a smile.
Originally, Huang Zhiming wanted to lead the R&D team to develop a graphics card from scratch.
But when he discovered that the Kirin R&D team had insufficient background in GPU design, Huang Zhiming chose a stealth method to design an independent graphics card.
That is to use the integrated graphics card of Nuwa a2 to expand and extend.
In fact, the architecture of the Nuwa A2 integrated graphics card is very advanced. What limits its performance is the lack of chip space. Designers cannot design more stream processors for it.
They just need to take out the Nuwa A2 integrated graphics card and modify it.
Just adding more stream processors to it can greatly improve the performance of the graphics card.
Although Huang Zhiming and others used the method of stealing chickens, they still completed the task assigned by Cao Mang. Guo Kezun did not blame them for this.
After Cao Mang heard this answer from Guo Kezun, he had no intention of blaming them.
"Mr. Guo, although they have completed the task this time, I hope they can develop independently next time, otherwise they will never be able to make progress. This matter is sad for Kirin Semiconductor.
If they continue to use this method of copying homework, they will definitely be surpassed by other peers in the future."
"I will definitely handle this matter. In addition, I have one more thing to tell you. I am adding two product lines, muc and power devices."
"This is a very good direction. Just do it boldly. The only support Qilin can give you is money."
"Thank you, Mr. Cao."
"It's nothing, I'll just hang up."
After Cao Mang finished speaking, he hung up the call on Guo Kezun.
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Kirin fab.
After Xu Guozhi arranged the chip production plan for Yu Wenge, he put on dustproof clothing and entered the wafer factory for inspection.
Because wafer fabs have been producing these types of chips, Kirin Semiconductor still has a lot of inventory.
He only needs to mobilize six memory lithography machines that are being produced for production to replenish inventory.
Fortunately, the memory chips are not in use yet, so part of the production capacity can be allocated. Otherwise, he would have to ask Yu Wenge to recruit external OEMs.
Although looking for external OEMs will greatly reduce the profits of chips, there is nothing you can do when production capacity is tight.
In the future, when Kirin Group needs to fully produce 65-nanometer and 45-nanometer chips.
These chips can only be produced by foreign foundry companies.
Now that the Freemasonry has lifted the blockade of Kirin, it is still very easy for Kirin to find other manufacturers for OEM. After all, these two chips use 130 nanometer and 90 nanometer processes.
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