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What Miaoxin is studying is mainly 28nm and 14nm technologies.

A 28nm lithography machine has been built, but there is still a big gap between performance and yield and ASML's contemporary products in terms of performance and yield.

It's a type that's just right.

What Miaoxin needs to do at present is to narrow this gap and build a 28nm second-generation lithography machine with better performance as soon as possible.

This will increase the competitiveness of domestic 28nm process chips.

As for the 14nm chip technology, although it has made considerable breakthroughs, it is obviously not the focus of Miaoxin's current research.

I can only say that the best research and digestion of 28nm process technology promote each other.

At the end of 2014, Samsung announced the world's first 14nm FinFET 3D transistor entering mass production, marking the entry of semiconductor transistors into the 3D era.

Wanji Electric mass-produced the 16nm FinFET process in the second half of 2015.

Compared with Samsung and Intel, although their node naming is different, Samsung and Intel are 14nm and TSMC is 16nm, they are in the same generation in practical process technology.

Miaoxin’s 14nm process is not an impatient thing.

28nm is enough to make it stand firm in the mid-range market, and it is a very huge market.

In the mid-to-high-end field, the mainstream process process nodes in the market are 22nm, 16/14nm, 10nm, 7nm, and the future 5nm and 3nm, which are called master nodes.

From the current point of view, 3nm is the limit.

As for why the top level given by the system is 2nm, Boss Lin doesn’t understand at all, so it’s useless to ask.

28nm, 20nm, 12nm, 8nm, etc. are called half nodes, and these nodes have strong transition attributes.

Therefore, overall, their market share is lower than those of the main nodes.

But 28nm is relatively special.

28nm is very cost-effective because it has a wide range of applications and is very mature.

After the 28nm process of Wanji Electric was put into mass production in 2011, its revenue share rose from 2% to 22% in just one year. The rapidly expanding advanced production capacity helped Wanji Electric to seize customer resources at every advanced process node, expand its first-mover advantage, and make its capacity structure significantly better than its competitors, bringing higher gross profit margins with higher product added value.

How profitable is 28nm?

Taking UMC as an example, which focuses on developing special processes, 28nm is its key business section. For this reason, the company has also given up the research and development of advanced processes below 14nm.

That is to say, it doesn't make sense if I don't go on researching and developing.

When the size of the transistor is reduced to a certain level (the industry believes that it is less than 10nm), quantum effects will occur. At this time, the characteristics of the transistor will be difficult to control and the difficulty of chip production will increase exponentially.

If you put too much energy into higher-end technologies, it is very likely that your company has gone bankrupt before you can research it.

Therefore, under Sun Moyu's plan, investment in 14nm technology is not the focus.

Let’s first make the second-generation 28nm lithography machine.

At least it will take a real 14nm lithography machine to appear in the second half of the year.

However, the boss came up with 10nm technology (note one, forget it, not note one, it means that I wrote it wrong in the previous chapter, this is 10nm).

So worried!

What do you want to do to others?

Miaosou General Manager Zhuang Xiang had already shut up, and this had nothing to do with him.

Whether it is holding the big Ivan as a command arrow, waving the 10nm chip to shut up, or the 14nm that hurts and is happy about 10nm without digestion, it has nothing to do with him.

This is Sun Moyu's business.

Wang Kuo, who was sitting next to Sun Moyu, bent down and picked up the chopsticks that Mr. Sun had fallen to the ground without realizing it, with a look of sympathy.

Is it a surprise or a surprise?

"Next..." Lin Dong originally wanted to name Li Changwei in the game, but judging from Sun Moyu's condition, he should solve this person quickly.

"Miao Xin, Mr. Sun, please report on your situation."

When Sun Moyu heard his boss calling his name, he regained a little rationality from his confusion.

"We...we are just studying, all day long..." When he said this, Sun Moyu felt wronged.

We have obviously worked very hard.

Why do you feel like you are useless?

"If the research task is very heavy, then continue to increase investment. How much did Wanji Electric invest in R&D last year and how many engineers did there?" Lin Dong asked.

His understanding of chip foundry is limited to Wanji Electric being very handsome.

"Wanji Electric spent 15 billion on R&D last year, and the number of R&D engineers increased from 5,123 in 2015 to 5,690, an increase of 11% annually." Sun Moyu said.

These are all basic skills that should be possessed in this industry.

"Where are us?" Lin Dong asked again.

"Putting aside the investment in production capacity, the total investment in R&D is 1.8 billion. In terms of R&D personnel, the main force is the chip alliance personnel, with a total of 1,643 people, and a total of 512 people working in Miaoxin." Sun Moyu replied.

"The gap is a bit big." Lin Dong was so envious that he was almost drooling.

Their R&D costs are 15 billion.

We only have 1.8 billion.

Nearly ten times the gap.

"Wanji Electric's market value has surpassed Intel to become the world's number one semiconductor company, and it has been established for the 30th anniversary." Sun Moyu was very innocent.

Can this be compared?

Can this be compared?

Our Miaoxin has just been established for a year, how can we compare with the accumulation of thirty years?

Moreover, the chip development in our mainland has been hit, which is not only reflected in technology, but also a fatal shortcoming.

The current more than 500 R&D engineers are all poached through hard work.

Some of them are the technical cores of other companies in the chip alliance. They dare not speak out even if they are poached. In addition, there is compensation to prevent them from making a big deal.

Some of them are R&D personnel in universities or research institutes. Sun Moyu ran around and persuaded them to lose their jobs and work in a private company.

Some of them are Chinese people working in the chip industry around the world, and it is more difficult to impress such people.

Not to mention that high-end talents are all collected in one go, but we have really tried our best.

"They have more than 6,000 people, can't we dig some here?" Lin Dong was dissatisfied.

"Well, this is probably even harder." Sun Moyu had to patiently teach the boss the grudges between Wanji Electric and Huaxin International.

The founder of Huaxin International once worked at Wanji Electric.

Later, he resigned due to some reasons and led some old subordinates to found Huaxin International.

Huaxin International has developed rapidly with the support of Guo Jia. In 2003, its production capacity reached 60,000 pieces per month, with a cumulative sales revenue of 3 billion yuan, and soon jumped to the top three chip foundry in the world, with a scale directly aimed at Bay Area Motor.

Wanji Electric could no longer sit still, and in 2003, a "sea-cross-sea" "technology war" broke out.

They filed lawsuits in the North District Court of California, the Alameda County Superior Court of Oakland, and the Miguo International Trade Commission, requesting to determine that Huaxin International and three companies in the Mainland infringe on patent rights, steal trade secrets, unfair competition and interfere with business relations, and demanded that they pay a $1 billion liquidated damages.

In 2009, the Migoala Lameda County High Court ruled that Huaxin International stole the commercial secrets of Wanjia Electric.

The two companies then settled at the cost of Huaxin International paying US$200 million in cash and 10% of the shares to Wanjiao.

In addition, the founder of Huaxin International has also resigned, and his resignation is considered a prerequisite for the two parties to reach a final settlement agreement.

Some media reported that after losing the lawsuit, the founder spoke on the phone with Huaxin International's lawyers and cried bitterly.

Wanji Electric finally won.

It is not that easy to poach their people.

"It sounds very powerful. Mr. Sun, we can't spoil them. It's a problem if we spoil too much." Boss Lin looked at Pei Qianlong: "Mr. Pei, are you right?"

"I think what you said is right, Mr. Lin. Anyway, we don't have any branches in Miguo, nor in Wanwan." Pei Qianlong smiled.

As long as we are shameless enough, we are invincible.

As for the impact, who cares?