City: Start A Chip Factory

At this time, the screen showed that the tape-out progress had reached 95%.

In about half an hour, the tape-out work of Kirin 9000 will be completed.

Taking advantage of this time, Du Bo returned to the office, drank a cup of coffee, and rested for a while.

Du Bo found that Huawei seems to be quite calm and has not called to inquire yet.

Of course, maybe I didn’t have high hopes.

The coffee at Jingjing is really delicious. Du Bo feels that staying here is relaxing.

After finishing a cup of coffee, Du Bo returned to the production line control center.

Sure enough, the tape-out has been completed.

Du Bo took out the Kirin 9000 tape-out wafers from the shipping room.

I have to say that to the naked eye it does look much finer than those chips made with the 28nm process.

Du Bo felt quite satisfied with "Three Five Three" and packed the precious wafer.

Just then, Du Bo's cell phone rang.

Du Bo was happy, it was Huawei who called, and it seemed that he couldn't wait any longer.

Du Bo pressed the answer button, and there was still the mysterious man who had called Du Bo before to contact him. He was probably Yu Chengxi's assistant or something like that.

Mysterious male voice: "Hello, is this Boss Du?"

Du Bo: "Well, I am. w

Mysterious male voice: "That's right, Mr. Yu told me that your film will be released tomorrow. Let's make an appointment to meet again."

Du Bo hesitated for a moment: "Okay, tell Mr. Yu that the tape-out is out now."

After a few seconds, there was an "ah" sound.

Mysterious male voice: "Du, Boss Du, what did you say? I didn't, didn't hear you clearly."

Du Bo was a little speechless and had to repeat it again: "I mean, the tape-out has been completed.

The mysterious male voice was really panicked: "Are you referring to the tape-out of Kirin 9000?"

Du Bo: “Yes, it’s the Kirin 9000.”

Mysterious male voice: "..........Boss Du, wait, wait! Wait a moment!"

Du Bo was confused, what did this kid do?

What's there to wait for? Why don't we just call back later!

Only a few seconds later, another voice rang on the other side of the phone. When Du Bo heard it, it turned out to be Yu Chengxi.

Yu Chengxi: "Boss Du! Boss Du! Taping out has been completed!?"

Hearing Yu Chengxi's voice, he sounded quite urgent, not at all what a big shot in the tech world should be.

Perhaps I didn’t expect Du Bo Semiconductor to tape out so quickly.

Du Bo: "Yes, it's done. Tomorrow we...

Yu Chengxi finally calmed down: "Boss Du, let's do it today, is it okay today?"

Du Bo: "Okay, or Starbucks?"

Yu Chengxi: "Yes, it's still there."

The meeting time is set at two o'clock in the afternoon.

It's already eleven o'clock, time is tight, and the company cafeteria hasn't been opened yet, so Du Bo just ate some cakes and biscuits.

Du Bo took the box containing the wafers, got in the car and left.

There was a bit of traffic on the road, and it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon when Du Bo arrived at the Starbucks in Colorful City.

Du Bo glanced inside and saw Yu Chengxi.

This time Yu Chengxi still brought those two people, Cao Qingfei and Deng Zheng.

The three of them had been looking at the door, and when they saw Du Bo coming in, they stood up in unison.

Yu Chengxi shook hands with Du Bo.

Du Bo smiled and said: "Sorry, I'm late."

Yu Chengxi: "No, no, this is just the beginning!"

Yu Chengxi pulled Du Bo to sit down.

Cao Qingfei got up and went to ask for coffee.

Du Bo noticed that Yu Chengxi had been glancing at the box he was carrying, so he simply took it to the table and opened it.

Du Bo: "Mr. Yu, take a look, this is the tape-out of Kirin 9000."

Yu Chengxi couldn't wait for a long time, but he didn't reach out to get it. He motioned to Deng Zheng.

Yu Chengxi: "Deng Zheng, come and take a look."

Deng Zheng nodded, with some excitement on his face.

Deng Zheng and Cao Qingfei are both core personnel of HiSilicon, the chip design department.

Since the batch of Kirin 9000 was shipped back to China from Bay Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the IC design has been sealed. Unexpectedly, there is still a chance for tape-out.

Of course, we have to wait and see whether the Kirin 9000 is actually tape-out.

Deng Zheng took out the wafer from the package and his eyes lit up.

Well, I saw it.

At this time, Cao Qingfei also came over with coffee.

He quickly put the coffee on the table, and then followed Deng Zheng there to look at the sun.0

They looked at it very seriously and kept whispering there.

Yu Chengxi's face was a little nervous, and he looked over at Cao Qingfei and Deng Zheng from time to time.

This is normal. Yu Chengxi hopes to get a satisfactory answer, but feels that this answer is unrealistic.

To put it bluntly, Du Bo Semiconductor gave Yu Chengxi hope.

Whether Du Bo Semiconductor is reliable or not has a huge impact on Huawei's mobile phone department.

No, maybe not just the mobile phone department, it will affect almost all businesses.

Du Bo is relatively calm.

He has complete confidence in his own chip production line and there will be no problems.

Cao Qingfei and Deng Zheng finished their research, and could not hide their excitement.

Yu Chengxi put down his coffee cup and asked eagerly: "How was it? What's the result?"

Cao Qingfei responded: "Mr. Yu, judging from the wafer, it is indeed the IC design of Kirin 9000, but..."

Yu Chengxi's expression changed: "Just what?"

Cao Qingfei: "We have to take it back and test it with instruments. This is at the nanometer level, and what we can see with the naked eye is limited."

Yu Chengxi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking something was wrong, so he said: "Of course, I have to test it. Can you please stop gasping when you talk in the future?"

Cao Qingfei smiled awkwardly.

Yu Chengxi turned to Du Bo and said, "Boss Du, can we take away the 2.9 wafer?"

Du Bo: "Of course."

Yu Chengxi: "For the cost of tape-out, I will send the money to you later, okay?"

Du Bo: "There's no rush."

Yu Chengxi nodded. He felt that talking to Du Bo was very refreshing and made a good impression. He felt a little more hopeful.

As long as the tape-out test can be passed, all problems will be solved!

Du Bo saw that Yu Chengxi and the other three could no longer sit still, so he took the initiative and said: "I still have something to do, so I'll leave now. Let's talk another day."

Yu Chengxi: "Okay, okay, I'll call you immediately when the results are available.

Du Bo nodded and left.

Du Bo knew that Huawei's people would step up testing, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

Only one day later, Huawei called again. .