City: Start A Chip Factory

Du Bo was startled.

It turns out that Huawei does not want to be a complete vehicle, but a supplier.

If you think about it carefully, this is normal. Smart electric vehicles are actually cars.

Building a car is not like choosing a mobile phone. It is relatively complicated and is an extremely heavy asset-heavy industry.

Huawei has two options if it wants to build a complete vehicle.

The first is to build a car factory by yourself, then recruit engineers by yourself, and recruit people from major traditional car manufacturers and new car-making forces.

This method is cumbersome and time-consuming. Generally speaking, it will not be possible to build a drivable engineering prototype vehicle within a few years.

The key is that there will be many detours.

People, especially capable people, are very confident in most cases and always feel that they are better than others, a hundred times or a thousand times better.

According to this logic, the detours taken by the new car-making forces cannot be avoided by Huawei Group's own car-making, and there may be even more detours.

Of course, Huawei Group has strong technical capabilities and relatively standardized R&D processes. In particular, the coordination of software and hardware is among the best in the world. The smart electric vehicles it ultimately produces will definitely be much stronger than those new car-making forces.

What's more, with the blessing of the Internet of Everything system - Hongmeng OS, it has greater advantages than other electric-powered competitors.

However, it is indeed unknown how low the cost of Huawei electric vehicles like the 547 can be controlled and how competitive it will be when launched on the market.

The second way to build a car is more convenient, and that is to cooperate with other car companies.

Treat other car companies as a foundry to customize smart electric vehicles of your own design.

This method is somewhat similar to Huawei's production of mobile phones. It is nothing more than finding a foundry and using the OEM method to produce electric vehicles.

There is an advantage to doing this, that is, the initial research and development costs can be reduced to a minimum, and a decent engineering prototype can be produced quickly.

In fact, most of the so-called new car-making forces now adopt this method.

However, there are many problems in doing this. For example, as a research and development company of smart electric vehicles, Huawei can cooperate and coordinate well with the OEM car companies.

Not to mention restoring 100% of the original design of the car, but it can be restored to 80%.

It is estimated that the possibility of being able to do it in the early stage is also very low.

Car quality control in the later stage is also a big problem.

A car is made up of tens of thousands of parts, and it doesn’t matter if there is a problem in any link.

If there is a defect and some major accidents are caused, the relevant departments will come to investigate and impose fines. Whether it is the car company's problem or Huawei's own problem will have to be debated.

Of course, this is not all the reasons why Huawei does not build complete vehicles.

Du Bo knows that Huawei has always had its own philosophy and is more accustomed to being a supplier than making end products.

In this way, we can serve many car companies, make the market bigger and stronger, and create greater glory.

If Huawei's motors, electric drives, and electronic controls can be sold to as many car companies as possible, it will be a huge success and it will account for 50% to 60% of the market. It will become a giant in the smart electric vehicle industry and a leader in the automotive supply chain. handle.

With Du Bo's current vision and perspective, of course, this can be imagined.

But as the boss of a chip manufacturing company, Du Bo is still a little worried.

Du Bo: "Mr. Yu, are our mobile phones still the best in the world?"

Yu Chengxi: "Nonsense, of course we have to do it. Not only must we strive to be number one in the world, but we must also be number one that will make those opponents forget about them."

Yu Chengxi knew what Du Bo was worried about: "Don't worry, our demand for high-end and high-process chips will only get higher and higher. I'm also worried that your Du Bo semiconductor production capacity won't be able to keep up."

Du Bo chuckled: "That's okay, Mr. Yu, as long as your orders from Huawei continue, our Du Bo semiconductor operations will not have any problems.

Yu Chengxi: "Don't underestimate car-grade chips. Huawei's car-grade chips are different from other car companies. We need stronger computing power and definitely need higher-process car-grade chips.

Generally speaking, the car-standard chips of smart electric vehicles are basically 28 nanometers higher. It would be good if they can be manufactured in the 22 nanometer process.

But Yu Chengxi claims that Huawei's car-standard chips are all made of 14 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes.

This level of chip manufacturing is indeed quite powerful.

Of course Du Bo said "ok" several times.

Yu Chengxi thought about it again and said: "But being a parts supplier for electric vehicles is not that simple. I will go to the Imperial City soon and talk to several car companies. Then we will find an opportunity to get together. Let's get together."

Du Bo: "Okay, no problem [I'm just waiting to eat the big meal arranged by Mr. Yu."

Yu Chengxi chatted with Du Bo some more, then hung up the phone and went to work.

Du Bo thought about it for a while and felt that Huawei's game was too big. Is it going to become a Huawei empire?

In fact, Du Bo previously rejected the American Warren Street Chamber of Commerce's investment request, and even ignored the large orders for fruits and Gaotu. Another biggest source of confidence was the Huawei Group.

With the current development momentum, Huawei Group is almost certain to become the world's sales champion in mobile phones, tablets, and even laptops.

This means that Huawei's orders will be more and more, and may even be larger than the orders of fruits and Gaotu combined.

As long as Du Bo Semiconductor has a good relationship with Huawei Group, it will not worry about making money.

Besides, China's domestic chip market and demand are already large enough, so why do we need to get orders from American companies?

In the future, there will be more orders for Huawei automotive chips, so there will be no need to worry.

Jing Jing saw Du Bo in a daze and asked curiously: "Boss, what happened? Why are you crying and laughing now?"

Du Bo came to his senses, walked over quickly, and continued to play two rounds of poker with Ning Jing to relax.

After Ning Jing packed up, she went outside the office to arrange work.

Now as Du Bo Semiconductor's reputation grows, Ning Jing's workload has increased significantly. Now he has a team to handle matters related to the boss's office.

Of course, the boss Du Bo will not be idle, so he turns on his laptop and checks the production status of the chip factory through a remote link.

Now I can't go to the chip factory from time to time, which is really a bit uncomfortable.

The operating status of the chip production line is normal, and the production speed is faster than Du Bo imagined.

There are dozens of trucks entering and exiting the Du Bo semiconductor production park every day.

Chip goods including Huawei, Coarley and various electric vehicle manufacturers are shipped to all parts of the country.

Du Bo started checking the status information of the chip factory again.

[Building type]: Chip factory

[Building Level]:Level 3

【Building Growth】:**/200 million

[Production capacity]: 8 million wafers/month

【Production efficiency】:92%

[Production yield rate]: 95%

【Cost efficiency】:90%.