Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

After the inauguration ceremony, the entire Datang Heavy Industry quickly became busy.

Large trucks kept transporting various equipment and supplies inside. Some of them were old equipment shipped from Pingjiang, and some were new equipment purchased from all over the country.

Almost as soon as the equipment was shipped in, it was quickly installed by more than 10,000 engineers and then put into use.

The largest department in the entire Datang Heavy Industry is the oil production insect manufacturing department, with more than 8,000 people, with Fang Qiang as the department head.

This department is divided into ten major groups and one hundred groups.

Each group is assigned the task of manufacturing dozens to one hundred parts, which are then assembled by the assembly group and finally sent to the assembly shop for final assembly.

Therefore, except for the hundreds of senior engineers responsible for final assembly, most of them still know nothing about the things they build, even if they have been working at Datang Heavy Industries for more than half a month.

Secondly, there is the lithography machine department responsible for "OEM" EUV lithography machines for Daqin Optics. This department has 3,000 employees, with Yan Hui as the department head.

The remaining one thousand are the most high-end R\u0026D technicians who truly have self-research and development capabilities and are good at R\u0026D and innovation rather than production and manufacturing.

These people belong to the company's mobile and flexible team, are directly under Kang Chi's command, and can go wherever they are needed.

At present, the main task assigned to them by Kangchi is to assist the other two departments to complete the installation of the company's instruments and equipment, and to assist them in quickly entering production status.

If you have nothing to do, you can propose a scientific research project yourself, and Kangchi will be responsible for review and approval. You can also choose to hang it on the task board, similar to small projects such as miniaturization and diversification of automatic cooking machines.

Just as Datang Heavy Industry was gradually getting on track, a solar power station in a Gobi desert in South Asia began to take shape after several months of construction.

To the northeast of this solar power station is a Yadan landform formed by wind erosion. These earthen walls are like ancient castles, standing quietly in the desert.

At this time, two men wearing yellow camouflage uniforms were lying on the waist of an 'old castle', quietly observing the solar power station in the distance through telescopes.

"What on earth are these Chinese guys doing?"

After putting down the telescope, Bytes couldn't help but say a line he had said countless times.

"It's clear they're preparing to exploit the shale oil underneath."

"I know, but six oil wells have been drilled, and the power station has been laid out so big. What about the oil? Why haven't they found a drop of oil?"

"Perhaps they were conducting a mining experiment here? But the experiment failed?"

"Experiment? Are they having a brain attack? They came all the way to PK country to build such a large solar power station for shale oil extraction experiments? The tens of billions of tons of resources in China are not enough for their experiments?"

"Uh... I think this problem should be left to the higher-ups to worry about. Now I just hope that these people can end this damn experiment quickly so that I can go home early and take a comfortable hot bath, otherwise If we continue like this, even lice will eat us!”

"In order to expect them to end the experiment, it is better to pray that someone from above will be replaced..."

In fact, they have discussed this topic several times almost every day.

And the results of every discussion seem meaningless.

But they still enjoy it.

In other words, after lurking in this barren place for nearly a month, Baiters and his teammates had to find something to talk about.

Otherwise it would be so boring that I would have a schizophrenia.

Just after the two ended their conversation, another group of teammates quietly came up and changed guard with them.

Baite immediately smiled and packed up his equipment, preparing to return to the shelter to take a comfortable nap during the period when the sun was at its strongest at noon...

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The spring breeze of March began to blow quietly on the earth.

Daqin's optical camera R\u0026D department received project feedback from Kangchi at the beginning of the year and found that Kangchi had directly helped them solve almost all key problems. They were so surprised that they could not even speak.

However, after Wu'an's research and development experience, their ability to connect is no longer what it used to be.

He Yongbin even kept silent in his mind, thinking that Kang Chi smiled and said to him: Don't do six things.

There is no sense of violation and.

After the key issues were resolved, all that remained were minor matching issues. He Yongbin directly announced that the project had entered the prototype manufacturing and debugging phase.

Only three weeks later, Kang Chi received a mobile phone prototype from He Yongbin.

This mobile phone is actually an ordinary mobile phone on the market. He Yongbin removed its original camera, replaced it with a lens module they developed, and debugged the system's camera driver.

After Kangchi simply tested it a few times and confirmed that the effect was in line with his design expectations and there was no major deviation, he made a call to Fang Qiming.

“Have the research and development costs and manufacturing costs of mobile phone lenses been calculated?”

"Yes." Fang Qiming quickly replied, "The research and development expenses so far are about 140 million, of which CMOS tape-out expenses are 90 million, which accounts for the largest part."

"If Shanghai Silicon Industry were to contract CMOS, and we would be responsible for manufacturing the lenses ourselves, the manufacturing cost of a camera module with a scale of 100,000 would be around 150, and if it exceeds one million, it could be reduced by another 20 to 30."

Kang Chi nodded: "Dahan Core Industry's first production line will be almost put into production next month. There is no need to trouble Shencheng Silicon Industry in the future."

The 'trouble' Kang Chi mentioned here is actually the truth.

The first lithography machine built by Kangchi is currently used by Shanghai Silicon Industry, and with the current gap and market for domestic high-end process chips, they have no shortage of orders.

However, Kangchi always came to them for tape-out, and the machine had to be debugged for each tape-out, which was equivalent to becoming Kangchi's laboratory, which was a huge waste of time.

So they have long been eager to build Kangchi's own wafer factory quickly, so as not to delay their production plan...

After Fang Qiming was silent for a moment, he couldn't help but say: "If Dahan Core Industry comes to do the manufacturing, then I won't be able to determine the cost for the time being."

"You don't have to worry about any brother companies. How much is the OEM fee for Shanghai Silicon Industry? Dahan Core Industry only has so much. Let them be responsible for their own profits and losses." Kang Chi replied directly, "If they offer OEM fees in the future, If the market price is too high, I will allow you to find another foundry."

After hearing this, Fang Qiming couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

It is indeed more convenient in a sense for their own group to build a wafer fab, but this actually limits their options.

The most important data to measure the strength of a wafer fab, besides production capacity and manufacturing process, is the yield rate.

If the production yield is low, then its foundry costs will certainly not be much cheaper.

As an emerging wafer fab, Dahan Semiconductor enjoys priority supply of equipment resources from the group, but its technical and talent foundation are certainly not comparable to those of established wafer fabs such as SMIC and Shanghai Silicon Industry. The rate is not expected to be very high.

If Dahan Semiconductor were to make an actual quotation based on production costs, the foundry fee would likely be much higher than that of Shanghai Silicon Industry.

This will increase the cost of Daqin Optics' products and compress their profitability.

Kangchi's current intention is obviously to let its subsidiaries not favor each other, be responsible for their own profits and losses, and speak on the strength of their strength.

Although Kangchi will ultimately be responsible for profits or losses, at least the people below will not be tied up by this, let alone because the customers are our own people, so they will have a worry-free mentality, or even slaughter their own people with confidence. Eventually, it completely loses its market competitiveness.

This phenomenon once happened to some state-owned enterprises. Later, after many rounds of reforms, it gradually improved.

After discussing the manufacturing process of the lens, Kangchi and Fang Qiming finalized the shipping price of this mobile phone lens.

699.

This price is definitely expensive for a mobile phone lens.

But with an initial investment of 140 million, even if you can earn 500 by selling one lens, the shipment volume must be about 250,000 to barely recoup the cost. If you spend more, you can make money, if you sell less, you will lose money.

In fact, Fang Qiming feels that with the performance of this mobile phone lens, even if it sells for 999, it is no exaggeration. However, Kangchi feels that now is the stage of grabbing the market, and we still have to adhere to the principle of low price and high volume.

Even if he seizes the market, he should go to overseas markets to harvest leeks when it is really time to cut them. In the Chinese market, he will always focus on high quality and low price!

After finalizing some details, the two ended the call.

Next, Fang Qiming personally led a team to discuss cooperation with major mobile phone manufacturers.