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Mr. Hu said earnestly, “Plus, the three chips developed by George and his team are all made using the 40-nanometer process. I think our Xingyi wafer factory should also abandon the 45-nanometer research and development and start directly with 40-nanometer!”

"In this way, the wafer factory will be delivered by the end of the year, and we will be able to mass produce 40 nanometers next year! We can develop and produce those 40 nanometer chips ourselves!"

Wang Yi was in a good mood. He thought the same thing: "This couldn't be better. But will it be stressful to go directly to 40 nanometers?"

Mr. Hu waved his hand: "No pressure, no pressure at all."

Wang Yi suddenly realized that, yes, the core technology to break through 22 nanometers was all accomplished by Mr. Hu.

It would be a piece of cake for him to handle the backward 40-nanometer process.

What’s more, it’s not just Mr. Hu who joined Xingyi Semiconductor this time.

There are also many of Mr. Hu’s most proud students and many semiconductor talents!

At the beginning, Mr. Hu made a list and Wang Yi directly arranged people to negotiate. Salary was not an issue and all of them were poached.

Another part was brought directly by Mr. Hu.

In his previous life, when Mr. Liang joined SMIC, he brought with him hundreds of semiconductor talents, which enabled SMIC to rise rapidly in a short period of time.

Similarly, when Mr. Hu joined Xingyi Semiconductor, he brought with him hundreds of core talents.

Moreover, the strength of these talents is even stronger than those led by Mr. Liang.

After all, Mr. Liang is just Mr. Hu's favorite student.

With Mr. Hu and these talented people around, the 28nm process is only a matter of time, let alone the backward 40nm.

Wang Yi still underestimated Mr. Hu's strength!

“That’s good, there’s no pressure. Let’s just go straight to the 40nm process!” Wang Yi said with a smile.

"No problem!" Mr. Hu nodded: "Chairman, there is one more thing."

"Just say it!"

"It's like this, can we discuss the delivery of the wafer factory in installments?"

"Deliver in installments?" Wang Yi understood what Mr. Hu meant: "Do you want to deliver part of it in advance and start the verification of the 40-nanometer process as soon as possible?"

Whether it is chip research and development or wafer factory process research and development, the preliminary design work can be carried out in the scientific research building.

But later on, we have to enter the factory for formal trial production, verification, and adjustment!

Mr. Hu nodded and said, "Yes, if we can deliver part of the factory ahead of schedule in the second half of the year, even if it is just one factory, we can bring in equipment and use it as a research and development factory, debug and verify it as soon as possible. This means that we can start offline verification of 40 nanometers in the second half of this year."

"If there are any problems, we will solve them. If there are no problems, we can also conduct trial production, optimize the process and improve the yield rate. In this way, after the other factories are delivered at the end of the year, we will introduce equipment and can directly debug, conduct trial production and production."

Wang Yi's eyes lit up: "In this way, the entire process is accelerated by half a year!"

"Yes, that's it!" Hu said with a smile, "If we wait until the end of the year to deliver the equipment, then introduce and debug the equipment, and then conduct 40-nanometer verification, adjustment, and trial production... everything will be too slow. The fastest verification will be passed by the middle of next year, and mass production will be possible in the second half of next year."

"If we can deliver a factory ahead of schedule in the second half of this year, we can start the verification and trial production of the 40-nanometer process this year, and mass production in the first half of next year!"

"Okay, no problem, I will go to discuss this with Director Qin tomorrow. No, I'll go this afternoon!" Wang Yi said with a smile.

This matter is too crucial.

The half-year time difference is really important, very important.

After all, giants such as Intel and TSMC will begin verifying 20 nanometers next year.

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By then, Xingyi Semiconductor will only be mass-producing 40 nanometers, with 32 nanometers, 28 nanometers, and 22 nanometers in between, a full four generations apart!

If partial delivery can be achieved six months in advance, verification can be done six months in advance. In this way, 2013 nanometers can be mass-produced in the first half of 40, and then 32nm can be skipped to directly start 28 nanometer process research and development!

If all goes well, 2014 nanometers will be in mass production in 28, which means we will be only two generations away from TSMC's 20 nanometers!

The future is promising.

It’s exciting just thinking about it.

Wang Yi couldn't wait until tomorrow.

Seeing that Wang Yi was so dedicated to the semiconductor industry, Mr. Hu was in a good mood. He completely understood that Wang Yi was not just playing around in semiconductors, but was working hard for it!

"Then I'll have to trouble Mr. Wang for this matter."

Wang Yi waved his hand: "It's all my job. But I think the 20 lithography machines we ordered before are not enough!"

“???” Mr. Hu was confused.

20 lithography machines, not enough?

A production line requires multiple lithography machines.

The number of lithography machines required varies depending on the scale of production lines, output, and processes.

The monthly production capacity of a wafer fab is calculated in tens of thousands of wafers.

An 8-inch production line that produces 4.3 wafers per month requires an average of lithography machines.

A 12-inch production line can produce 28 wafers per month. Under mature processes such as 32nm, 40nm, and 8nm, an average of lithography machines are required.

If a 12-inch line with advanced FINFET process is used to produce 22nm, 20nm, and 16nm, an average of 7.5 units are needed!

Wang Yi ordered 20 lithography machines from ASML at one time. After all of them are put into use, they can produce 2.5 wafers per month!

It exceeds the production capacity of TSMC's Beijing South Plant. After all, the monthly production capacity of the Beijing South Plant is only 20,000 pieces.

A wafer can be cut into hundreds to thousands of chips.

Now Wang Yi still feels that it is not enough, and he wants to add more lithography machines. Could it be that he has big plans?

Mr. Hu frowned and said, "Chairman, are you going to build a second 12-inch wafer fab?"

Wang Yi nodded: "That's right, one wafer fab is not enough? We need at least one more! In this way, I will give you another 30 billion funds and order another lithography machines!"

"This... is good!" What else could Mr. Hu say?

All I can say is that as long as Mr. Wang is happy.

He hopes that Xingyi Semiconductor will become bigger and stronger and drive the rapid development of domestic semiconductors.

It would be best to surpass SMIC and catch up with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung. In this way, there will be no need to worry about being sanctioned or being strangled.

"Mr. Wang, in which city will our second wafer factory be built?" Mr. Hu was very curious.

Wang Yi smiled slightly: "We don't need to worry about this problem, someone will give it to us for free!"

"For free?" Hu Lao's eyes lit up, and he understood the reason: "Or was it given by the imperial capital?"

Wang Yi nodded.

According to the previous bet agreement with Didu, the wafer factory would be delivered and mass-produced with 55-nanometer process within two years. At that time, the 80-inch wafer factory worth 12 billion would be given to Wang Yi for free. Otherwise, Wang Yi would have to spend 80 billion to buy it back.

Wang Yi said something stupid at the time, what if we accidentally mass-produce the 40-nanometer process?

Several bigwigs laughed and said frankly that if the wafer factory can achieve 40-nanometer mass production within three years of delivery, they will directly give away another 12-inch wafer factory!

Now with Mr. Hu, we can achieve 40-nanometer mass production within one year, not to mention three years!