Chapter 260 Direct mass production

   "Isn't it, so unrestrained and unrestrained, don't you tape it out? So reckless?"

  The engineers at the four-star fab were stunned when they received the request from Umbrella. They had never heard of such an operation!

  Yes, the price of a tape-out is actually not cheap. A chip tape-out of the 20nm process costs about three to four million dollars.

  The mass production of chips is mainly lithography, which is equivalent to exposing on the wafer.

  The exposure process is also mainly divided into two parts, one is to make transistors on the wafer, and the other is to connect these transistors into circuits.

  Although it looks like two parts, each lithography requires a corresponding mask. The DUV lithography machine uses multiple exposures to achieve a process limit of 7nm.

  The 20nm process requires at least fifty masks, and each mask costs tens of thousands of dollars.

   It is also because of this that chips need to be mass-produced to reduce costs, because the price of a single wafer is only three or four thousand dollars, and one wafer can probably cut out five or six hundred chips.

  Of course, there is also the problem of yield rate, as well as the later chip packaging and so on.

   But in general, we can also see the complexity of chip production itself and the reasons why it must be mass-produced.

  For some chip companies, every failure of tape-out is a pain, but compared to directly entering mass production with problems, that is nothing at all!

   Here, Umbrella directly sent them to start mass production. Of course it is possible, no problem, but this is too fraught.

   "Umbrella is rich, but he is just in a hurry. Is there any way to do this? Test the performance of the chip while mass producing it."

  The two are also engineers who have been rooted in the semiconductor field for a long time, but this is the first time they have seen such a reckless company.

   I really didn't expect a company to be so arrogant, this time I saw it.

   "Be careful, he is our important partner, if the failure of mass production is caused by us, it will be a lot of fun."

   Originally, the party who was most worried about the tape-out should be the chip factory, but this time it fell on their fab inexplicably.

   It's really a turn of events...

  …

  The scenes that were not too bad also appeared in UMC.

  UMC has always been a very good company in the semiconductor field.

  At least in terms of manufacturing technology, they have always stabilized the first echelon, barely keeping up with those who did not fall.

   Its own 22nm process is quite mature, and 20nm is enough to ensure profitability.

  However, UMC has been under a lot of pressure recently, because they already have news that the top players have already reached the 14nm process, and it will be officially commercialized next year!

  But their own 14nm yield rate is still very bad. It can be manufactured, but if the yield rate is placed here and forced to manufacture, it may lose money!

  This is cutting-edge technology. Once you make the next step, it is very difficult to catch up.

  For UMC now, instead of pursuing the 14nm process that may lead to losses, it is better to manage its mature technology first.

   Chips are also divided into layers. The high-end market is only so big, and the most used ones are actually the low-end ones.

   It's just relatively less profitable.

   But less is less, at least there is still money to be made, which is better than losing money.

   Because of this, the order that Umbrella sent when they were about to lose touch still made them attach great importance to it. This may be the last time they participated in the production of top-level chips!

   But this is not a film, it is too urgent...

   "The customer is God. Hey, ARM's 64-bit public version architecture is not taped out. I heard that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 consumes quite an embarrassing power."

   "Umbrella is rich, so to put it bluntly, it doesn't matter if they treat mass production as tape-out."

   "Yeah, but let's do it well, hey, I don't know if there is still a chance to return to the first echelon."

  Actually, the engineers themselves were a little emotional. They probably heard the news from the upper echelons of the company, and maybe they didn’t want to catch up anymore.

   After all, the company wants to make money, and it may not be as big as the current profit if it has been reluctantly chasing behind.

  Desperately working hard, but not necessarily getting enough rewards, why bother?

   It is not cost-effective to make it.

  They want to make a profit, but they can't do business at a loss for some illusory ideal.

   As long as you lick it well enough, then cut your own flesh and give it to Dad when he is hungry, and there are still bones to eat...

  …

   In fact, there is no big secret in the semiconductor industry. Umbrella’s reckless operation without tape out can be said to have stunned a group of people in the industry.

  Although Umbrella is an iron-headed baby on weekdays, she didn't enter the semiconductor field before!

  Do you know the rules in the semiconductor field?

   Qualcomm, who rejected Umbrella before, and then found out that they really don't buy their own chips, was also a little confused at this time.

   No, are you serious?

   "Are they stupid? Why don't they buy our 810 with all this money wasted?"

  Qualcomm CEO felt as if he had been humiliated for a while.

  Qualcomm has also hit a wall many times in terms of chips, and problems with tape out are common.

   It’s not bad if there are some small bugs that can be bypassed by software. ECO is a headache after being dragged to silicon. Others only see chips making money, but they don’t see the scene of burning money.

  But now, people have started mass production directly, which makes Qualcomm feel like it has been slapped in the face.

   "Hehe, you Umbrellas are amazing and dare to be the first, so I have to congratulate you first."

  The CEO of Qualcomm hesitated for a while, but after all, he still did not directly publicly mock him on social software.

  Actually, it happens from time to time that some friends and businessmen ridicule each other and have eccentricities.

  For example, some people say that Moore's Law has been broken, while others say that it has not.

   There are also advertisements of two Coca-Cola companies stepping on each other and so on.

  If it is a normal company, Qualcomm will ridicule it if it ridicules it.

  What, you still want to teach us how to do things? Qualcomm, which holds a large number of patents, is not panicking at all, a typical hob meat.

  But after looking at Umbrella's record, Qualcomm CEO finally chose peace as the most important thing.

   Just read the joke, why bother.

   just secretly informed the media of this inside story.

   And the media, which has always been the top leader, didn't care at all about the identity of the other party, and a CNN report appeared the next day.

  《Is it self-confidence? Or stupid? Umbrella, which has aggressively stepped into the chip field, may have taken a bad move. "

  The whole report explained in an eloquent manner what Umbrella is doing now, and also briefly explained the significance of tape-out, and pointed out that all major chip factories will choose to tape-out first.

  How reckless and aggressive is Umbrella's move.

"...As far as I know, high-end chips have been divided up by major manufacturers, and Umbrella has no chips available. We also have doubts about the next mobile phone production. As for the performance of Red Queen-V1.0plus How, you have to come out to find out."

   Well, it is obvious that this reporter eats more than one fish. He ate both the bad money from the chip and the mobile phone.

  And for the reporters, many of them have paid special attention to Umbrella. After all, no one wants to disappear out of thin air for no reason.

   But through observation, it can be confirmed that Umbrella doesn't care about this kind of thing. When the slander of Piero's laboratory was thrown out, they didn't see what they did. Instead, they sent someone to protect Piero. This is their style.

   After all, it is not a listed company, and it doesn’t care about being bullish or bearish, and there is no need to pop some smoke from time to time to stimulate the stock market.

  Often lost is heavy news, without warning.

   In fact, people are like this. After knowing that others will not treat you, even a behemoth dares to tease you.

   On the contrary, if you are a local ruffian, or a black guy who passes by on the street and asks you for money, I am afraid you have to be honest.

  Now there is a simultaneous translation, it can be said that the foreign melons are brought back very quickly.

   Now Umbrella's mobile phone is really hard to find, and many people have chosen other models of mobile phones.

  Because after paying the 'IQ tax', the effects of ordinary mobile phones of various brands have gradually improved. Although they are not as good as Umbrella, they are still quite practical.

   After all, it is only a software enhancement, and the speed is still very fast.

   Especially many prices are cheap.

  The reports of the "authoritative" media such as CNN outside here also aroused the voice of a group of flatterers

   "Umbrella is still too radical."

   "Actually, just sell their services, there is no need to get involved."

   "Forget about entering the mobile phone field, but even enter the chip field? Is it so easy to enter the chip field? Funny."

   "I can't see you bragging about Umbrella, this company is too young."

   "How does it compare with those established companies?"

   "..."

  Of course, these CNNs take what they say and think that foreign news is the right guy, but they still don’t have as many supporters as Umbrella.

  How many people have benefited from a single hepatitis B immune globulin? There is also the following hematopoietic stem cell cultivation technology.

   At the moment, it was under a raging siege.

   "If you think that side is rounder, just roll over there!"

   "Didn't you see someone offering to help with wiring? It's very cheap, hurry up."

   "Laughing, does anyone still believe in CNN these days?"

   "They don't even believe in themselves, how can you still be a baby?"

   "Anyway, if Umbrella sells a brick, I will buy it! Just treat it as this life and give it back to them!"

   "..."

   With the sound of this debate, the first batch of Red Queen-V1.0plus has also begun to ship, with its own White Queen chip!

   And there are good people right away, and the evaluation is started at the same time.

  Evaluation objects include LG flagship phone equipped with Snapdragon 810, four-star flagship phone equipped with exynos5430, Fruit 6 equipped with A8, Red Queen-V1.0 and Red Queen V1.0plus, a total of five mobile phones.

"Hi everyone, I'm Yaozai. At the beginning, I was the first to complete the evaluation of the Umbrella A1 glasses in the whole network. However, I really didn't get the Red Queen-V1.0 before, and I didn't catch up. Now I have a hard time It’s hard to get all these from various channels, I hope everyone will like, bookmark and support, and those who like snacks can go to the little yellow car to have a look.”

   This unpacking UP lined up several mobile phones, and then made the audience a little speechless to find that the five mobile phones of Temo didn't look exactly the same, but they were not very different!

"I have to say that Umbrella's technology is awesome. The four-star and fruit companies that do it directly pay the money honestly and have to buy their components. It can be seen that in the current high-end mobile phone market, Umbrella's integrated It is already a consensus that mobile technology is integrated, and it can be said that whether a mobile phone is integrated means whether it is a high-end phone..."

   "Suddenly I don't want to test it. Can the Umbrella family really make money lying down, or make money like crazy..."

  In fact, when Yaozi started the evaluation, other mobile phone manufacturers had already lost.

  All of them use Umbrella’s mobile phone model, Umbrella’s screen and camera, the battery is also someone else’s, and even the smart voice is connected to someone else. How can you compare, Umbrella kills himself?

  The original competition directly turned into a civil war...

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   Third watch~First watch~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)