God of Rebirth Trader

Intel President Craig frowned and said to the Qualcomm representative in a heavy tone: "Correction, it's less than $550! According to the latest news, Infinity has lowered the price by about $50! Now, don't

It's said that we are the United States, but even in Europe, many people are tempted."

"I have just received a notification that France has decided to import some CPUs produced by Infinity Company for equipment upgrades based on independent research and development."

"****!" The semiconductor contractors in the conference room were in a collective uproar and couldn't help but curse!

Huaxia Company is such a bastard! Especially Infinite Company, that bastard named Chen Jie is even more bastard!

Many people believe that Chen Jie is the real controller of Infinite Company, because people are more willing to believe that he can make such "achievement" due to his age.

Their quotations are already shockingly low, and if they want to lower the price even more, they will not let their peers survive!

Originally, American semiconductor contractors would have a chance to regain the market if they upgraded their processes and worked hard to reduce costs.

But if this continues, they won't be able to eat meat, just bones, and won't even be able to take a sip of soup.

Because the other party is about to flip the pot!

Price war is a business behavior that people in all industries are least willing to accept.

But it is often the most effective for those who come from behind and want to enter this industry.

If these established semiconductor companies cannot widen the technological gap with each other in a short period of time, they will have no choice but to be passively involved in the vortex of price wars until one of them completely withdraws from the market.

In the future, if the whole world uses their cheap CPUs, will they be able to gradually penetrate and control the world's computer market by providing accessories and other methods?

Isn’t this dumping? Using dumping to occupy the market?!

And this is absolutely intolerable to the United States!

But for these semiconductor contractors, it is not an intolerable problem, it is even more incredible.

The purpose of dumping is to occupy the market at a low price.

China has been doing this for many years. Some cheap clothes, shoes, and light industrial products are transported to the United States through extremely low postage and occupy the American market.

But it doesn't matter.

Because these are low-end manufacturing industries and have little technical content.

The American people even enjoy the fact that they can buy a good-quality shirt for only two or three dollars.

But now, in the field of semiconductors, which is the crystallization of science and technology with the highest technological content in mankind, Infinite Company actually sells it for the price of a pair of undercut shoes.

This is intolerable to them.

For infinitely large companies, their costs must be extremely high!

Even if they sell a complete machine, they will lose money several times the selling price. How long can they keep selling it at such a low price?

Why hasn't Infinity Company gone bankrupt yet?

Craig, the president of Intel, is a professional manager with little knowledge of technology. He asked the TSMC representative: "The eight-inch processing technology is considered very poor. I remember that we used ten-inch processing technology a long time ago.

manufacturing technology."

"No no! Mr. Craig, the so-called inch processing technology is not the main basis for measuring technology. It only means that we can process ten-inch diameter silicon wafers. Since the diameter is larger than eight inches,

, so the number of chips that can be produced with a single silicon wafer each time is much greater than that of the eight-inch process."

"Because we process a large number of chips at one time, we can relatively save processing steps and better share costs." A representative from TSMC tried to explain in plain language.

"Yes, Mr. Craig, the level of semiconductor technology refers to the number of processes used to manufacture it. Its technical indicators are usually expressed in microns and nanometers."

"In the United States, we use 360 ​​nanometer technology in some low-level electrical products, as well as the 240 nanometer technology that was maturely used in the commercial field in the late 1980s, as well as the one used in our current CPUs.

One hundred and fifty-eight nanotechnology.”

"In other words, the smallest unit that we can now maturely apply to commercial applications is 158 nanometers." A representative from AMD patiently explained to him.

Intel President Craig nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and asked: "So, according to what you said, in the existing ten-inch wafer production, the potential has been tapped to the extreme and cannot be improved any further. Can we use larger ones?"

diameter wafer production line to reduce costs?”

"For example, transform your production line into twelve inches, or fourteen inches, or even sixteen inches?"

All the contractors were stunned on the spot.

After a moment of silence, a representative from TSMC said: "This... is indeed a solution in theory, but it also has many difficulties, such as production line costs."

"To convert from ten inches to twelve inches, this cost can already be set up a new production line. Moreover, as the difficulty of technical processing increases, the total investment for a twelve-inch production line now costs about

Three billion dollars…”

The representative of General Motors was afraid that he might not understand, so he said from another angle: "President Craig, the wafer rod we want to process has a characteristic, that is, the larger the diameter, the more edge impurities will appear when it is cut.

There will be more.”

"So before the wafer manufacturing process is improved, we cannot achieve the desired effect in utilizing large-size wafers. If we want to make full use of it, we must perform secondary processing on the cut wafers to let them

On the surface, another layer of crystal grows, and a semiconductor unit is manufactured on this crystal."

"Of course, you can also imagine that this adds another cost."

The representative of Qualcomm coughed twice, attracting the attention of everyone in the audience. He said: "If you want to reduce costs, the main thing is the yield rate. As long as the yield rate goes up, the cost will naturally come down, so we use mature methods."

Technology is the key to solving problems.”

"If we take a step back and adopt 180-nanometer technology, the yield rate can reach more than 50 percent, which can significantly reduce costs."

"How is this possible! If we use more backward technology to manufacture products, what will others think of us?" Intel President Craig pushed his chair hard and stood up.