Reinventing the Millennium

On September 9, at night, the autumn wind was cool.

Su Wei returned home happily.

She knew that Fang Zhuo had already arrived in Shanghai, and she had no other plans for the evening.

Su Wei hummed a little tune softly, put aside the e-buy business after a busy day, and as soon as she entered the house, she saw a half cup of coffee that had run out of heat quietly placed on the coffee table.

She put down her bag and went straight to the study without any hesitation, and she saw Fang Zhuo who was writing furiously.

"Why did Boss Fang come back so soon this time? I thought why you have to wait for the pre-sale of Yike mobile phone before coming back." Su Wei stood at the table with a smile and looked at the words on the rice paper.

——Since ancient times, every autumn is sad and lonely,
Su Wei stopped talking, and watched the writing quietly.

——I say autumn is better than spring.

Fang Zhuo stopped writing, looked at Su Wei, and asked, "How is it?"

"This character is thin, hard and cold, with a strong and sharp style, like Ouyang's style." Su Wei commented.

Fang Zhuo glanced at Su Wei in surprise, nodded slightly, put down the brush, and changed to a piece of rice paper.

Su Wei noticed some different emotions and reached out to study the ink.

After a while, Fang Zhuo wrote again.

——I used to see Huang Ju farewell to you, but now I hear Xuan Chan and I return.

——Five nights of sleeping in front of the pillow, and one year's face in the mirror.

——Ma Sibian's grassy fists move, Diao Kun Qingyun's sleepy eyes open.

——The heavens and the earth are so clear that you can look around, and go to the high platform to help the sick.

It is also Liu Yuxi's poem, "Beginning to Hear the Autumn Wind".

Fang Zhuo didn't stop writing after finishing writing. The first paragraph was "The book is presented by Dr. Jiang Yazheng", and the second paragraph was "Bingxin Fang Zhuo respected the book in the mid-autumn of Ding Hai".

It is rare for Su Wei to see Fang Zhuo so earnestly signing the double payment. After admiring the words for a while, she asked: "The horse is thinking of the frontier, and the bird of prey Gu Qingyun is for Dr. Jiang Shangzhou Jiang? What's wrong with him?"

Fang Zhuo briefly talked about how he went to see Jiang Shangzhou after he landed in Shencheng.

Su Wei is silent, birth, old age, sickness and death have been difficult since ancient times.

After a while, she said, "He should be pleased to hear the progress of the ice core, right?"

"Of course there is. No matter who is making progress in mainland semiconductors, if you don't talk about him, just talk about me or Mr. Zhang. I believe everyone will be happy." Fang Zhuo nodded and said, "But more is for SMIC. Anxiety, after all, he has been running for it since its inception, and now facing such a difficult situation, it is very sad."

He said solemnly: "I know that the impact on the storage business will be great, but I didn't expect the impact on SMIC to be so great."

"Fortunately, your Lin'an factory is a niche storage company, so it doesn't have much impact. When you say that, I vaguely recall that Qiu Ciyunqiu always had a different concept from Mr. Zhang at the beginning?" Su Wei said.

She remembered that one of the reasons why Qiu Ciyun left SMIC was that he had a steady and expanding disagreement with Zhang Rujing.

Different from SMIC’s diamond-shaped layout in major cities in recent years, Ice Core’s pursuit is relatively small but refined. Lin’an No. [-] Factory and Shencheng No. [-] Factory also have their own special routes.

"There are too many factors. Even if SMIC followed Mr. Qiu's thinking a few years ago, it may not be better. It is unfair to evaluate the original development based on the current situation." Fang Zhuo sighed, "In fact, The current market value of SMIC will definitely rebound, but all production lines must have a rapid depreciation period for machines, from high-speed expansion to stable development, that is, two or three years."

The question is whether there are two or three years.

Tai Kee's lawsuit is always the sword of Damocles.

Su Wei listened to the head of Bingxin's evaluation of SMIC, observed Fang Zhuo's frown, thought for two seconds, and tried to divert her attention: "So, the semiconductor industry is just worrying and worrying. Let's replace it with our e-commerce company." , all the way to advance, these are two kinds of state of mind."

Fang Zhuo glanced at Mr. Su, didn’t intend to talk about SMIC anymore, nodded and smiled: “Yes, rapid development is always the biggest weapon to solve business problems, and it’s very useful. With you, e-buy will definitely be able to sweep the world. .”

Su Wei pretended to be proud and raised her chin: "That is."

Fang Zhuo put away the complicated emotions in his heart, walked out of the study, and said, "You asked me what I was doing before, didn't you come back early? I originally wanted to wait for the pre-sale, but as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, I will come back to accompany you." My Weiwei celebrates a festival, let's eat mooncakes together."

The 25th of this month is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Su Wei nodded happily.Talking about his own arrangement: "Okay, then you will give me two days off and go with my arrangement, how about it?"

Fang Zhuo agreed and planned to rest for two days.

"It's rare to have a holiday. I have to go for a physical examination on the first day, so you can do it with me. On the second day, just go shopping and have a dinner with Zhou Xin and the others." Su Wei said quickly .

Fang Zhuo: "..."

Su Wei put on a straight face: "Don't think I don't know, your regular physical examination this year was postponed by you wantonly!"

Fang Zhuo just wanted to speak but was interrupted.

"Mr. Fang, you just agreed with yourself. You can't turn your back on it so quickly, can you?" Su Wei emphasized, "I haven't pulled up my pants yet."

Fang Zhuo was helpless: "Okay, listen to President Su, who will let President Su hold the power."

Su Wei blinked her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth. She couldn't control too much, she could only control the people around her as much as possible.

However, there are still 9 days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fang Zhuo’s arrangements before this are relatively tight. He needs to fly to the capital. 3G progress.

Yike and China Unicom basically reached a cooperation intention, and the latter also became a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance under the promotion of Fang Zhuo.

But the terms of the specific cooperation between the two sides are also troublesome.

However, compared with the United States, there are many more ways to solve this kind of trouble in China. At present, the biggest difference is the sharing conditions for new network users and network transfer users.

T-Mobile in the United States also had a case of cooperation between Apple and AT&T. There is no such situation in China, but Yike is trying to negotiate a way out.

Not easy, still talking.

Fang Zhuo met the main leaders who were almost certain to stay in China Unicom after the reform. Some of them met in the United States, and some met for the first time.

A deputy general manager put forward the point of disagreement very straightforwardly: "It is the first time for Yike to make a mobile phone. It is indeed very trendy, and the system cooperated with Google is also good. However, there are so many domestic brands in our country, and there is no such division. , it’s also inconvenient from a procedural point of view.”

For China Unicom, procedures are a very important issue, and there must be sufficient supporting reasons.

"There are so many domestic brands, who is the number one now? It is Lenovo." Fang Zhuo disclosed his own data for the first time at a meeting with the leaders of China Unicom. "We will start pre-sales at the end of this month or early October. National Day gift."

There was light laughter in the conference room, Mr. Fang was very humorous.

"First of all, this pre-sale situation will be a strong statement. We are not going to finalize the contract next month or even the next month. China Unicom has enough time to observe the market potential of Yike mobile phones."

"Secondly, before this pre-sale, we already had a substantive pre-sale, which took place one day after the press conference."

"That day was 10 machines sold in Northern Europe."

Fang Zhuo indicated to the executives around him to distribute the materials. This is the pre-sale from Deutsche Telekom, 46% in Finland, 28% in Norway, and 26% in Sweden.

He asked Zhang Zheyu, the deputy general manager of China Unicom: "Mr. Zhang, how many China Unicom mobile phones can we sell in a year?"

"No matter what this year, it can exceed [-] million." Zhang Zheyu, deputy general manager, is very familiar with market data.

Fang Zhuo asked again: "What about the sales of these tens of millions of mobile phones?"

Zhang Zheyu pondered: "30 billion? About the same."

Fang Zhuo signaled to continue distributing materials: "This is the pre-sale payment of 10 units paid by Deutsche Telekom, almost 1000 million."

Another China Unicom executive said: "1000 million is not bad."

Zhang Zheyu looked at the units that were not marked on the information, and said in a deep voice, "This is US dollars."

He added: "It's just a pre-sale, only a part."

"Mr. Zhang is right. The pre-sale payment was 99, and the remaining 300 was confiscated. The actual sales of the pre-sale this time were 3990 million." Fang Zhuo said, "This is the sales of one day, and it is our Why the drive to break into this market.”

Unicom executives in the meeting room heard the data disclosed by Yike for the first time, and they all calculated in their hearts that $3990 million is 3990*7.5=2.9925 million, which is basically one-tenth of Lenovo's annual sales of mobile phones.

Is it too exaggerated?

Is there data falsification?

Many people have doubts in their hearts. This is very different from normal cognition...!Lenovo mobile phone is the first in China!
"Mr. Fang, if you have 1 units a day, isn't that 10 million units in 365 days a year?" Some executives couldn't help but calculate in this way.

Fang Zhuo laughed: "How can it be calculated like this, the pre-sale is an overdraft."

But he also said: "A sales volume of 3000 million units a year is our medium and long-term goal."

This is regarded as bragging.

With such a sales method for one year, do you think you are Nokia?

The head of China Unicom has been silent all the time. He looked at Mr. Fang's information. During this period of time, he was optimistic about Yike's mobile phone. It happened that Mars still adopted WCDMA. If it sold well abroad, a wave of strong alliances would be enough Leading the domestic 3G market.

"Next year is the year of the Olympics, and Yike is now talking about the sponsorship of some important events." Fang Zhuo didn't say what kind of event it was, but he guessed that everyone could guess some, "These publicity and investment are bound to bring great sales expectations. China Unicom is our first choice, but we cannot waste the huge investment in those publicity."

He said sincerely: "Mobile has always wanted us to do a trial operation of TD-SCDMA in the first quarter of next year, but I still want to strive for cooperation with China Unicom, whether it is the continuation of the good relationship from Sina or the joining of China Unicom. Open Handset Alliance, which is Yike's first choice."

Not only China Unicom, China Mobile's willingness to cooperate is also good.

"Look at the pre-sale in October, and we will talk about it then." The head of China Unicom combined various factors and gave a time point, "The pre-sale has exceeded 50, and the Yike mobile phone is almost a season of Lenovo mobile phones. Everything will be easy to say by then. How is it, Boss Fang?"

Fang Zhuo stood up, shook hands with the head of the operator, and said confidently, "Okay, change the season every month, and make another Lenovo phone during the Chinese New Year."

Pre-sale in October, European and American consumers buy more products, and strive to recreate a Lenovo mobile phone, and everyone will present a gift for the National Day together.

……

On September 9, Fang Zhuo left the capital and flew to Luzhou.

In addition to promoting the cooperation intention with China Unicom, Beijing will also bid for the Spring Festival Gala in the near future, but he may not have time to wait for the results to be released.

In addition, the progress of domestic 3G is a bit complicated. He asked briefly, without getting involved, and only planned to take care of his mobile phone first.

It was evening when the Qingzi landed in Luzhou, and many manufacturers, including the Qualcomm team, were already waiting in Luzhou.

Since Ice Core has a clear news of 65nm, even if it has been as low-key as possible, the contact with customers must still be carried out.

Moreover, the first 65nm mass-produced wafer fab in China, the influence produced and brewed by this meaning is not only under the control of Fang Zhuo's personal wishes.

Wan Province and Luzhou kept a low profile, but they couldn't control the leaders from above.

Push left and right, push up and down, and finally, even Qiu Ciyun also gave suggestions that Bingxin can do a small commemorative ceremony for mass production, which is also an official announcement of acceptance of the order.

Like domestic IC design manufacturers that are developing rapidly, they could only go to Baodao, Europe and the United States for 65nm tape-out in the past, and they often failed to meet the production capacity. Now, the ice core production line will match the upstream link.

In the evening, Fang Zhuo held a small meeting with the local leaders and Bingxin executives to discuss the next day's activities. He still wanted to keep a low profile as much as possible.

"Recently, the industry has been spreading the news about our mass production time. I'm afraid it's not easy to keep a low profile." Qiu Ciyun gave a real experience.

"Taking pictures is inevitable. Everyone takes a group photo, and the leader has to write an inscription. Mr. Fang, you can't let the leader come to you and eat a bowl of noodles and leave." Luo Minghua, the secretary-general of Luzhou, said with a smile.

Fang Zhuo sighed: "I think, let's talk about it later."

"The meaning is different, the city is willing, the province is willing, but this time there is a retired old leader coming over, this matter can't be done that way." Luo Minghua persuaded.

Of course Fang Zhuo also knew that he just habitually didn't want Bing Xin to make public.

"I won't be serving tomorrow, Mr. Fang, let's have a drink when we go back." Luo Minghua joked.

There are too many leaders to get on the table.

"Then I will take the lead to respect Brother Luo tomorrow." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "I just said, without the dishes that Brother Luo cooked for me, Bing Xin would not be able to stay in Luzhou."

Luo Minghua laughed out loud.

Qiu Ciyun carefully judged Fang Zhuo's expression and found that he was really serious...

The next day, Luzhou, Yuhu Road.

Cars of different colors were parked outside the factory gate of No. [-] Yuhu Road on the road that was not so lively in the past.

When Fang Zhuo and the leaders arrived for inspection, not only the leaders, but even Fang Zhuo was stunned.

"This...is this?" He was surprised.

"Domestic manufacturers, there should be some teachers and students from cooperative universities." Qiu Ciyun was generally aware of the situation, and received calls one after another in the past two days, asking about the news of the official mass production of ice cores.

However, he did not expect so many people to come today.

The ice core plant prohibits foreign vehicles from entering, and these vehicles are parked outside.

When the leaders saw this scene, some were elderly, some looked immature, some wore Chinese tunic suits, and some were in suits and trousers. After seeing the convoy coming, these people walked forward spontaneously, but they did not enter the factory building. .

"Everyone is very enthusiastic, eager, and enthusiastic." A leader lamented.

"Mr. Qiu, let's make a temporary change, but maintain a good order. There will be no production line tours, but only on the periphery. Signs will be added, and the manufacturers and individuals will be written. It is our souvenir." Fang Zhuo made temporary arrangements, "Hurry up and buy some more. As a souvenir, it’s good to have 65nm written on the cup.”

Qiu Ciyun arranged for the secretary to do it. It was originally arranged for this group of people to have dinner together at night, but the scale was unexpected.

The convoy is not far from the ice core factory.

Fang Zhuo didn't want to sit in the car, so he pondered for a while: "Leader, this is almost the position. It was because of this road that I will never forget it for the rest of my life."

He motioned for the car to stop, and got out of the car first to explain something about Bing Xin to the leaders.

In fact, the big leader who pulled Fang Zhuo to choose a way to spend money in the province was also there, and many people have heard this story.

But today, the old things are brought up again without being complicated.

A group of people got out of the car, and spontaneously came to the side of the road to watch the official mass production of the ice core, the manufacturer's executives, teachers and students of the college, and some waved to Fang Zong and the leaders.

Fang Zhuo smiled back while explaining to the leader.

Both groups moved forward.

"That's Xu Jianye from the Jingcheng Instrument Factory, right? His father has worked in the instrument factory all his life, but he never made an ion implanter look good." A retired leader suddenly recognized a man in a Chinese tunic suit by the side of the road.

Fang Zhuo's explanation was interrupted, and he also looked over, pondering for a while: "Now it is Beijing Beiyi Innovative Vacuum Technology Company, and its ion implanter has won three bids in our Lin'an factory."

"Then I didn't give him a wrong name, it's considered a meritorious service." The retired leader laughed.

A group of leaders are all smiling.

"Xu Jianye, Xu Jianye, what are you doing here?" The retired leader suddenly shouted.

Xu Jianye was chatting excitedly with his colleagues when he was called suddenly, turned his head to look, and replied loudly: "Come and see Bingxin, come and take a picture!"

"Come here and take a look, and I'll show you." The retired leader smiled.

"Don't go, don't go, I'm uncomfortable." Xu Jianye didn't hesitate.

The retired leader laughed and cursed, but didn't force it.

The topic of the group changed, and it became a reminiscence of the old semiconductor factory.

Fang Zhuo walked and listened, and only then did he know that this leader had worked in the workshop of the Beijing Instrument Factory, and then went around doing integrated circuit related work.

While talking and walking, I arrived at the factory area unknowingly.

A group of people had to wear dust-proof clothing, and the production line did not shut down for inspections from afar, but the leaders did not take the trouble, but were quite happy and excited, especially when they saw the highly automated machines, they couldn't help but stop and watch.

Fang Zhuo had to urge everyone to move forward.

"Mr. Fang, how much has your yield rate climbed?" A counterpart leader suddenly asked.

Fang Zhuo laughed, without being too specific: "We expect that in October, the defect density will reach about 10."

The leader nodded silently.

"What about the production capacity?" Another asked.

"The goal for the fourth quarter is to produce 1W5 per month." Fang Zhuo replied.

"Can you compete with UMC and Taiji?" the leader continued to ask.

"After all, they are ahead of the curve. For example, Taiji is $5000 for a wafer, and UMC is $4500," Fang Zhuo said. Globally it's tight and our $4400 can last a long time."

He continued: "We will share some from Taiji and UMC, and grab some from 90nm. The monthly production capacity of this 1w5 will soon be full. The future plan is to continue to increase production capacity and further improve the competitiveness of the yield rate. "

"65nm can significantly improve product integration, high performance, low power consumption, small size, and high level. In fact, we have shipped nearly 1 yuan of wafers this quarter. This is the beginning of the mass production stage of our new technology, and it is also The beginning of further catch-up for our domestic wafer fabrication.”

When Fang Zhuo said this, he suddenly saw that the eyes of several leaders were a little hazy.

He paused, and said succinctly: "Ice Core's next 40nm research and development project has been approved. Ice Core will take time, and we are confident."

"Okay, I have confidence in Ice Core, we have confidence in Ice Core, if you have difficulties, you should speak up, if you need support, you must speak up." The leader in the middle said forcefully.

Fang Zhuo needs two supports.

But he didn't say it for the time being, and wanted to say it on a more suitable occasion.

A group of people continued to visit, stop and go.

There are many processes in the production line, but even the tour with explanation only takes more than an hour to finish.

A group of people walked to the factory area again. There are already various domestic manufacturers and college teachers and students who have signed in. Some are from Rongcheng, some are from Xi'an, some company branches are in Luzhou, and some are just about to discuss cooperation.

Ribbon cutting, photo taking, commemoration.

Qiu Ciyun, the president of Bingxin, proposed to ask the leaders to leave words of encouragement.

"I heard that Fang Zhuo's calligraphy is very good. From the beginning to the present, Fang Zhuo is worthy of Bing Xin's name." The leader pondered, "I'll just look at your handwriting at this important moment today, how about it? "

Fang Zhuo was startled, and didn't follow the procedure.

He quickly shied away, but the leader insisted.

"Question, Fang Zhuo, you can do it. His handwriting is ugly, so he can't do it." A retired leader laughed.

Fang Zhuo: "..."

So again and again, Fang Zhuo reluctantly complied.

He didn't prepare a draft in his mind, he looked at the rice paper in front of him, felt the sight of his surroundings, and finally remembered the seniors in the ward. Since ancient times, every autumn is sad and lonely, and I say autumn is better than spring.

Fang Zhuo picked up the pen and finished it in one go.

——Difficulties and hardships, Yuru Yucheng, sailing against the current, the true qualities of a hero.

"Sure enough, good writing, Yuru Yucheng, sailing against the current, good." The leader looked at the writing, a little surprised, glanced at Fang Zhuo, changed his mind, and smiled, "No, I'm here today, and I have to write two Even if the words are ugly, you have to write them."

The leaders around were also a little surprised. Most of them were familiar with the industry, so they naturally knew Zhang Rujing and Jiang Shangzhou of SMIC, one Ru and one boat. Today, the 65nm ice core is mass-produced, but Fang Zhuo himself was not mentioned.

The leader took the pen, pondered for a while, and swiped the pen.

The words are indeed a bit ugly, but very straightforward.

——Fang Zhuo is number one in the work of the ice core.

"Leader, this really annoys me." Fang Zhuo looked at the word and said quickly, "Boss Qiu, Professor Hu, they are all watching."

Qiu Ciyun said: "I have no objection."

Hu Zhengming also said: "You deserve it, you deserve it."

Fang Zhuo had no choice but to sigh: "It's not that I am humble. From the establishment of the project to the present, there are too many people who have helped Bingxin. Bingxin will be able to succeed due to fate, and it is inseparable from too many people, just like Secretary-General Luo Minghua Luo of Luzhou. It’s not that he cooks and stir-fries himself, and I’m afraid there is no ice core now.”

"Oh? Luo Minghua? Secretary General of Chaocai? I've never heard of this." The leader answered.

Fang Zhuo changed the topic from the inscription and threw out Secretary-General Luo, making a group of people listen to the interesting stories of the year with relish.

Since then, the title of Secretary-General of Chaocai has been circulated in the hearts of many leaders.

——Oh, it's the secretary-general who cooks for Fang Zhuo?
——I have heard that it is the secretary-general who cooks for Bingxin executives.

——Have heard of it, Luo Minghua, the secretary-general who went to Bingxin cafeteria to cook!

With Luo Minghua's unexpected fame, the 65nm process wafers produced by Bingxin in its Luzhou fab have entered a new stage of technical mass production.