Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 116 Layout Flash Memory ([-] words, ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

The next day, the leader notified Zhao Ye that the matter of buying the land had passed the vote, and the 50-hectare land around Lujiazui was sold to the Wujiang Group.

Zhao Ye was overjoyed when he heard the words, thanked the leaders a thousand times, and expressed that he would continue to work hard to earn foreign exchange for the country.

That afternoon, Zhao Ye signed a land sale agreement with the government.

Fortunately, the land around Lujiazui is relatively barren, and the relocation work is relatively simple.

At this time, there are no nail households. If the leader wants you to move, if you dare not move, if you don’t move, it will hinder the construction of the country.

The government's executive power is super strong at this time!
Of course, the local residents are more conscious, and the relocation conditions are also good.

"The leader asked us to move. Of course we are willing to move. It is our duty to support the country's construction! What's more, Wujiang Group not only compensates us with a part of the funds, but also promises to build beautiful modern buildings for us, and also allows us to join in first. Work in the Wujiang factory. You don’t even know how envious people in other places in Pudong are after hearing the news!!!” A middle-aged man who was relocated said to the relocation management department with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, yes, high awareness. This can be regarded as your luck, and you have caught up with the good time."

"Yeah, Pudong is very barren. It would be great if we could move to Puxi!"

"You have a good idea. The new residential building is also in Pudong, called "Huimin Community", which is convenient for you to go to Wujiang Factory to work.In addition, "Huimin Community" also has a shopping supermarket!Do you know shopping supermarket?It is a huge department store, which has almost everything in it. You can go to the supermarket to buy vegetables and snacks. The things there are cheaper than those sold in stores outside! "

The middle-aged man grinned: "I've heard people talk about supermarkets, but I've never seen them."

……

Liu Yinyin walked over to Zhao Ye's office and said softly, "Boss, 10 construction companies have arrived and started construction!"

"Okay, I will go to the construction site to take a look when I find time." Zhao Ye replied.

In order to develop this newly purchased land as soon as possible, Zhao Ye contacted ten powerful domestic construction companies and asked them to build factories together.

It only took about a week, countless construction equipment was transferred to the area around Lujiazui, and thousands of construction workers began to get busy.

At this time, the scorching sun turned the area around Lujiazui into a large construction site. Workers in short-sleeved short-sleeved clothes were sweating profusely, but they still worked very hard.

The faster the progress of the project, the greater the bonus.

Such a good thing is usually not seen, but only when you encounter a rich and generous private company like Wujiang Group.
thing.

Zhao Ye also really needs them to build the factory as soon as possible, and the expansion of Wujiang factory is imminent.

Now, the Wujiang factory has implemented the "three shifts" system, where people rest and machines don't rest.

The production capacity of "Qongqi Home Game Console" has exploded, and the monthly output can reach 225 million units.

However, in the face of the global market, this production capacity is still not enough.

It is no problem to sell 3000 to [-] million game consoles a year.

FC has sold 8000 million game consoles in just a few years.

The performance of "Qongqi Home Game Console" is much stronger than that of FC. The game cartridge also has a picture enhancement chip MMC, and the developed games are also very classic. In addition, there are linkage effects between cartoons and comics. Therefore, "Qongqi It is not a problem for home game consoles to catch up with FC.

Once the number of "Qingqi home game consoles" continues to increase, Nintendo's third-party game developers have switched over.At that time, the offensive and defensive momentum was different!

Large-scale infrastructure construction has a great stimulating effect on the economy.

Wujiang Group has made outstanding contributions to Shanghai, which is not listed for the time being.

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However, at this time, Loongson Design's memory chip design project has made great progress.

There are two main aspects of memory chip design and development, one is to develop memory, and the other is to develop flash memory.

The main differences between memory and flash memory are:
Flash memory is a form of electronically erasable programmable read-only memory that allows it to be erased or written multiple times during operation. It is mainly used for general data storage, such as memory cards and U disks.EPROM is also widely used in Wujiang Group's Chinese cards, typewriters, game cassettes and other products.

Memory is one of the most important components in a computer, it is a bridge between external memory and CPU.It is used to temporarily store the calculation data in the CPU and the data exchanged with external storage such as hard disk.As long as the computer is running, the CPU will transfer the data that needs to be calculated to the memory for calculation. After the calculation is completed, the CPU will send the result out. The operation of the memory also determines the stable operation of the computer.

This progress is mainly due to the independent research and development of EPROM chips, because Wujiang Group currently has a relatively large demand for EPROMs and always imports them from abroad, which wastes a lot of foreign exchange and is also expensive.

A small EPROM chip actually sells for dozens of dollars.

The actual production cost is less than 10 yuan.

How can Zhao Ye endure being exploited by foreign chip companies all the time, so when researching memory chips, he mainly develops flash memory, and EPROM technology is relatively low, so he develops this first.

In the laboratory, everyone cheered.

Zhao Ye said with a smile: "Immediately carry out testing, and then go to the fab for tape-out, and strive to realize mass production of EPROM chips as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison.

Zhao Ye returned to the office, he was not overwhelmed with joy, EPROM is just the foundation.At this moment, he was thinking about what to do next in his mind.

It suddenly occurred to me that Toshiba first proposed the concept of flash memory, but it didn't pay much attention to it.Toshiba itself bet on the current mainstream semiconductor memory DRAM - after all, this is a business that can make Toshiba a daily income of 2 million yen at its peak.

In 1984, Masuoka Fujio's team published a paper on NOR flash memory at the IEEE International Electronic Components Meeting (IEDM).The new invention immediately caught Intel's attention.They quickly contacted Toshiba and Masuoka for this purpose, and they were the first to mass-produce NOR flash memory chips in 1988.

The concept of flash memory was first born in Toshiba, but the pioneer of the flash memory industry is Intel across the ocean.

This really made Fujio Masuoka hold his breath, and since then he has determined to go all the way to the dark on the flash memory.

The neglect of NOR flash memory did not make Masuoka give up his research and development direction. In 1986, Fujio Masuoka, who was not reconciled, went ahead of his peers again. He invented cheaper NAND flash memory, which is the kind that everyone used in mobile phones in his previous life.

"It's a rare opportunity. Since Toshiba doesn't pay attention to flash memory technology, it seems that I can take the opportunity to buy Masuoka Fuji's team and NAND flash memory technology!!!"

The more Zhao Ye thought about it, the more excited he became, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime technology.

If you miss NAND flash memory technology, you will lose a lot.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ye immediately picked up the phone in his hand and called Rex Eden, an expert in negotiation and acquisition. On the phone, Zhao Ye chatted with him for a long time, expressing his importance to the Masuoka Fuji team and NAND flash memory technology , asking him to buy the entire team and NADN technology.

Toshiba does not pay much attention to NAND flash memory technology at all. As the inventor, Masuoka Fuji, Toshiba only rewarded him with a few hundred dollars in bonuses.

At this time, Japan.

Toshiba Corporation.

Fujio Masuoka touched a few hundred dollars with an ugly expression on his face.

He worked so hard to lead the team to develop NAND flash memory technology, but the company only rewarded him a few hundred dollars.But also suffered the irony of the company's executives.

"Fujio Masuoka, take these few hundred dollars as a reward for your hard work over the past few years. Frankly speaking, the NADN flash memory developed by your team is almost useless. Although the NAND structure can achieve higher storage density and faster How can it be commercialized?" A Toshiba executive shook his head, disappointed with Masuoka Fuji.

"Besides, Toshiba's main focus is on the development of semiconductor memory DRAM. Not only is it not interested in NOR flash memory, but it is not interested in the NADN flash memory developed by your team.

The company will no longer give your team research and development funds in the future, so you give up developing NAND and develop DRAM chips! "

Fujio Masuoka said stubbornly: "NAND has a bright future, I hope the leaders can understand that as long as we give us time to improve, we will be able to develop NAND flash memory technology with commercial value!!!"

The leader shook his head and waved Fujio Masuoka out.

Masuoka Fujio was dejected and left the leader's office with a dejected face.

Resk Aiden put down the phone at this time, stood up, and said loudly to the assistant not far away: "Rowling, you immediately collect the information of Toshiba's NAND R&D team, the boss issued an order, asking us to acquire the NAND development team and NAND technology!"

"Okay, Mr. Aiden, I'm going to collect information now!" A blond and wavy Caucasian beauty in a black OL suit immediately said to Resk Aiden, then turned and walked out of the office.

……

Forewarned is forearmed, without prejudging the waste.

Rex Aiden will definitely do a detailed investigation before taking action.

So the preparation work in the early stage will be a little bit longer.

Shanghai, Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

With the completion of the development of EPROM chips and the acquisition of NAND flash memory technology, Wujiang Microelectronics will further increase its production tasks.

In addition, the expansion of "Qongqi Game Console" also requires more chips.

Zhao Ye specially came to Wujiang Microelectronics Company to inspect and understand the situation. Zhang Rujing accompanied him and took Zhao Ye to see several wafer production lines.

Zhang Rujing walked up to Zhao Ye and introduced, "Currently, Wujiang Microelectronics has four wafer production lines successfully put into production! In addition, four more production lines are under construction!"

Wujiang Group is too powerful, its products are selling so well, and the demand for chips is increasing day by day.In order to meet Wujiang Group's demand for "chips", Wujiang Microelectronics can only expand production crazily and increase wafer production lines!
At this time, the domestic semiconductor industry chain has obtained orders for various production equipment and raw materials due to the crazy expansion of Wujiang Microelectronics. These companies have made money one after another.

Wujiang Microelectronics Co., Ltd. is investing huge sums of money in developing more advanced lithography machines and building an 8-inch fab. This matter has also been communicated with their supporting companies in the production chain, and they are in close contact with them for collaborative research and development. If they themselves If you don't make progress and don't develop better technical products, it may be difficult to get orders from Wujiang Microelectronics in the future.

It can be said that many domestic semiconductor companies are forced to move forward by Wujiang Microelectronics.

The money earned can't be spent on wine and wine, but used for research and development. This is simply painful and happy.

After Zhao Ye visited the fab, he came to the lithography laboratory.

Huang Kun greeted him with Qin Guogang, Wang Shouwu, Wang Wei and several other technical leaders.

"Academicians, hello, are you happy working here?" Zhao Ye asked with concern, his tone was so sincere, so sincere.

These academicians are simply his darlings.

Whether the domestic lithography machine technology can make a rapid breakthrough depends on them.

The old academician Huang Kun said with a smile: "Of course it's what you want. There is no place in China that is better than here. Don't worry about anything. Everything will be taken care of by a dedicated person. We can just focus on research and development!"

Zhao Ye nodded: "As long as you work as you like, by the way, Academician Huang, what is the progress of the development of the new generation of lithography machines?"

Academician Huang Kun smiled and replied: "The progress is not bad. It is expected that a new generation of lithography machines may be developed next year, which will directly catch up with the lithography machines of Canon and Nikon in Japan."

After a pause, Academician Huang Kun talked eloquently, and carefully introduced to Zhao Ye: "We are now using a 193nm ArF laser light source, which has realized the simultaneous movement of the mask and the silicon wafer during the photolithography process, and has adopted a reduction projection lens. , the reduction ratio reaches 5:1, which effectively improves the use efficiency and exposure accuracy of the mask, thus raising the chip manufacturing process and production efficiency to a higher level!"

Zhao Ye also has a good understanding of the current lithography machines and chip production processes. Hearing the words of Academician Huang Kun at this moment, he couldn't help being overjoyed.

When the dry lithography machine reaches 193nm, it is almost over. It is extremely difficult to break through again.In the previous life, the lithography machine technology has hardly made any progress in the past 20 years, and it is stuck here. The optical lithography technology seems to have reached the "limit" of resolution.Later, it was not until Lin Benjian proposed the subversive technology of "immersion lithography" that the lithography machine technology made a breakthrough at 193nm.

As long as Wujiang Microelectronics develops a 193nm lithography machine, the lithography machine technology of Canon and Nikon will not be much different. Anyway, the other party will not be able to improve in the next 20 years.

On the contrary, Wujiang Microelectronics developed the immersion lithography technology to achieve overtaking on curves!

Zhao Ye encouraged everyone and left happily.

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Japan.

After Rex Aiden was fully prepared for the investigation, he launched the operation.

Before officially contacting Toshiba, he first quietly asked Fujio Masuoka, the inventor of NAND flash memory.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, Fujio Masuoka went to the appointment on time.

Rex Aiden looked at each other with a smile, and said: "Mr. Fujio Masuoka, hello, let me introduce myself first, my name is Rex Aiden, and I am currently working for China Wujiang Group. This time I have an appointment with you We met to find out if you plan to change jobs. Wujiang Group is very optimistic about the NAND flash memory technology you developed. If you can come to Wujiang Group, we will invest a lot of money to support you in continuing to develop NAND flash memory technology!"

Fujio Masuoka was taken aback when he heard the words. Thinking of Toshiba's unfair treatment to him, he had long wanted to leave Toshiba and change to a company that could support him in developing NAND flash memory technology.

Wujiang Group has recently become popular in Japan. Its games are popular in Japan, and the company is very strong.

Fujio Masuoka was moved immediately.

Rex Eden had known for a long time that Fujio Masuoka was not enjoying his stay at Toshiba, so he had this private meeting.

"What kind of treatment can Wujiang Group give me?"

"If you can help Wujiang Group acquire NAND flash memory technology and persuade the entire development team to join Wujiang Group, we can reward you with 20 US dollars. In terms of salary, you can rest assured that we will give you twice. In addition, we will improve NAND flash memory until If it can be commercialized, then the company will never be stingy with rewards, certainly not a few hundred dollars."

When Masuoka Fujio heard several hundred dollars, he immediately resented Toshiba.

"Okay, no problem, I'll help you get the NAND technology and the entire development team!!!" Fujio Masuoka gritted his teeth.

"Hehe, with the help of Mr. Fujio Masuoka, this mission must be successful! Come on, cheers, and wish us a happy cooperation!"

Fujio Masuoka nodded, raised his glass and clinked a glass with Rex Eden.

Later, the two talked about more details and agreed on a plan.

On the second day, Rex Eden led a team to officially visit Toshiba, and then proposed to acquire NAND technology.

Although Toshiba does not attach importance to NADN technology, it will not sell it easily.

But listen to the other party's quotation first, if the other party gives more, it is not impossible to sell.

Rex Aiden said: "The acquisition of Toshiba's NAND flash memory technology for US$300 million, if the development team is transferred together, Wujiang Group can get an extra US$10, which is US$310 million."

"Mr. Rex Eden, your quotation is too dishonest, isn't it, you want to use 300 million US dollars to acquire NAND flash memory technology?" A Toshiba executive shook his head.

Rex Eden said: "NAND flash memory technology has huge defects, but the transmission speed is only 1/1000 of NOR flash memory, which is difficult to commercialize. Our company needs to take a lot of risks to buy it."

It was 1989 before Toshiba perfected the NAND structure.

NAND flash memory is actually equivalent to a semi-finished product, which is far from being commercialized.

It can be seen from Toshiba's lack of attention to it that NAND flash memory has too many defects now.

In the future, only Zhao Ye knows what kind of NAND flash memory technology will develop in the whole world.

NOR flash memory seems to be more promising at the moment and can replace EPROM and EEPROM chips.

However, the NOR flash memory market is not big, and Toshiba is still more optimistic about DRAM, that is, the memory market.

Toshiba doesn't even look down on NOR flash memory, let alone NAND flash memory. It is conceivable that the NAND team led by Fujio Masuoka is extremely unpopular in Toshiba.

However, in the past, the market research company Omdia predicted that by 2025, the NAND flash memory market size will reach 843.78 billion US dollars, surpassing the DRAM market (833.97 billion US dollars) for the first time.

In the first round of negotiations, the two parties simply contacted each other to understand and test each other's attitudes.

Rex Eden isn't counting on the first negotiation to work out either.

The workings behind the negotiations are also important.

The executives in charge of negotiations at Toshiba called Fujio Masuoka to find out whether NAND had any prospects for development, although they already believed that NAND had nothing to do...

Fujio Masuoka has been bought by Rex Eden. Facing the questioning of the leader, he only talked about the shortcomings of NAND, and the future is at a loss.

The leader nodded, thinking, this is the same as what he understands, NAND really has no future, Toshiba still focuses on the development of DRAM.

If Fujio Masuoka said more good things about NAND at this moment, it might make it more difficult for Wujiang Group to acquire NAND flash memory technology, and even make Toshiba unwilling to sell NAND technology.

It's a pity that Fujio Masuoka has already been disappointed with Toshiba. Thinking of his years of hard work and only getting a reward of a few hundred dollars, Fujio Masuoka felt that this was a great humiliation to him.

Masuoka Fuji's ambitions are so cold, how can he continue to help Toshiba?

He now hopes that Toshiba will sell NAND flash memory technology to Wujiang Group, and then he can jump to Wujiang Group and continue to engage in NAND research.

The next day, Rex Eden came to Toshiba again.

The two sides started negotiations.

Toshiba also officially made an offer to Wujiang: "Toshiba is willing to sell NAND technology for $1200 million!"

Rex Eden shook his head violently, bluntly saying that it was too expensive.

Crazy bargaining with Toshiba.

"Is it possible to make a deal for $400 million?"

"Mr. Rex Eden, you have bargained too much. Otherwise, everyone should take a step back, and it will be 1000 million dollars!" Toshiba's negotiator shook his head.

Rex Aiden joked with a smile: "This is not a step back. You take a step back and only reduce 200 million US dollars. I have to take 3 steps back and increase 600 million US dollars! If the pursuit of fairness, I think the purchase price is 800 million US dollars is good, both sides will give 400 million US dollars in concessions!"

Toshiba negotiators looked at each other and seemed to think that the price was okay.

At this time, Fujio Masuoka also appeared in the Toshiba negotiating delegation. After all, he knows NAND technology best.

Toshiba's negotiator looked at Fujio Masuoka, and asked in a low voice, "Fujio Masuoka, what do you think of this price?"

Fujio Masuoka replied: "NAND receives less than US$50 in research and development funding each year. So far, Toshiba has only spent US$200 million on it. It is not bad to be able to sell US$800 million. Besides, the company also If you are not ready to invest money in research and development of NAND, it is better to sell the technology as soon as possible.”

When the person in charge heard this, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed in front of Fujio Masuoka. Toshiba basically did not provide R&D funds for the NAND development team, and a leader of Fujio Masuoka deducted a little from his R&D project funds. .

With Fujio Masuoka as the insider, the Toshiba negotiating team discussed it and decided to sell it to Wujiang for 800 million US dollars, and at the same time packaged and transferred the NAND development team to Wujiang Group.

The number of people in the development team is actually not many, seven or eight people, but these people are technical masters in the NAND field, which is very important to Godson Design Company.

In the afternoon, Wujiang Group signed an agreement with Toshiba to acquire Toshiba's NAND flash memory technology and development team.

A few years later, Toshiba's decision made it regret...

Zhao Ye received the news immediately.

He was immediately ecstatic, and then he was happy for several days, and told Rex Eden to bring the NAND flash memory technical materials and development team back to China as soon as possible!
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