City: Start A Chip Factory

Du Bo entered the reception room of the office building and saw the guest as expected.

It was none other than Luo Yulong’s little friend Zhu Xiaomu.

Wei Tao is receiving Zhu Xiaomu.

Seeing Du Bo come in, Zhu Xiaomu stood up immediately.

Zhu Xiaomu: "Boss Du, I brought the things over."

Sure enough, Zhu Xiaomu came specially to deliver baseband chip samples.

Du Bo smiled and said: "Mr. Zhu, why are you here so early?"

Zhu Xiaomu: "Hey, I was quarreled by Lao Luo. I was sleeping. He called me several times. There was nothing I could do. It was a big deal."

This was a very important matter. Luo Yulong even asked Zhu Xiaomu to deliver it in person. Others were worried when they came to do things. This shows how anxious Luo Yulong was.

Du Bo joked: "Mr. Luo, didn't you sleep all night?"

Zhu Xiaomu: "That's for sure. He has been suffering from insomnia recently and hasn't slept for a few days."

Du Bo nodded, feeling the pressure on his shoulders increase.

Du Bo really wants to help Luo Yulong now.

When he was working as a worker, he often watched Luo Yulong's impromptu speeches and felt that this person was quite powerful. The mobile phones he made should not be eliminated because of such supply chain issues.

Du Bo: "Mr. Zhu, leave it to me. I'll make the tape-out quickly and send it over."

Zhu Xiaomu waved his hand quickly: "No, Boss Du, if you have a tape-out, call me immediately and I will come and pick it up."

Du Bo: "Is this what Teacher Luo said?"

Zhu Xiaomu nodded.

Du Bo: "Okay, no problem."

After Zhu Xiaomu finished explaining everything, he left with peace of mind.

In fact, according to Luo Yulong, Zhu Xiaomu was asked to wait here for the tape-out.

But Zhu Xiaomu refused.

Wouldn't that make him an overseer and be too unfriendly to Boss Du Bo?

Luo Yulong thought about it for a moment and gave up on this somewhat nonsense idea.

As a result, Du Bo not only got the information about the Awl t3 baseband chip, but also got samples.

If this still fails to produce a usable baseband chip, then Du Bo has no choice.

And there is another important question, can we avoid the issue of intellectual property rights?

If an intellectual property dispute does arise, it will be difficult to handle.

However, based on Du Bo's understanding of the Light of Civilization system, if it can be done, there should not be such a serious problem.

Du Bo took these things and entered the control center of the chip factory production line.

Du Bo first used a USB flash drive to input the data of the baseband chip into the central computer, and then several lines of information popped up.

[Production Project]: Gaotu 5g baseband chip type 10

[Chip Process]: 7 nanometers

[Chip type]: Silicon-based chip

Du Bo was shocked when he saw it.

7nm baseband chip, advanced high-tech process!

But it’s normal. After all, it’s Gaotu’s 5G baseband chip, which has a relatively high technical content.

Probably second only to similar products from Huawei.

No wonder the shortage is so serious. There are only two chip factories that can make this kind of chips, namely Bay Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Sanzang Electronics.

Both factories are fully loaded, and there is no spare capacity.

Even if there is production capacity, such mainstream 5g baseband chips will be snapped up.

Aizi belongs to the second and third tier domestic mobile phone manufacturers, so of course it cannot be snatched up.

Du Bo started to worry.

Can a first-tier chip factory handle 7-nanometer chips?

If it can be done, it is still unknown to what extent the yield rate can be controlled.

Anyway, let’s tape it out first.

Du Bo clicked the "OK" button again, and a warning box popped up.

[System]: Insufficient manufacturing information, tape-out may not be successful, success rate is 58%.

Du Bo was startled. Sure enough, just having these information is not enough, the possibility of failure is not small.

Du Bo took out the baseband chip sample that Zhu Xiaomu brought over.

Then, Du Bo put the baseband chip into the analysis cabinet on one side of the control center.

The production line system will analyze the baseband chip and then separate out the IC design.

Yes, this production line is so smart, incredibly smart.

As the progress bar reached 100%, Du Bo made another tape-out request.

A warning dialog box also popped up this time, but the content was different from last time.

[System]: The system detects that the IC design of this chip involves intellectual property protection issues, and will automatically circumvent it for you and make design changes. Do you agree to do this?

Of course Du Bo was so happy and immediately pressed the OK button.

Tape-out begins.

So the production line started running.

The tapeout time this time was higher than before, taking five hours.

This is normal. This is a 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process, which can be said to be quite difficult.

If the tape-out can be completed in five hours, it can already set a record in the world!

During this time, Du Bo simply went to his boss's office to take a nap.

When Du Bo was in a daze, he was disturbed by a burst of music.

Du Bo reluctantly climbed up from the sofa, picked up his phone and saw that it was Luo Yulong calling.

Teacher Luo, Teacher Luo, fortunately you met me, Du Bo.