365: Chapter 365 Domestically Produced Lithography Machine Exhibited

Although everyone wanted to question Professor Li Jiahui's explanation, seeing his expression, it didn't seem fake.

"Everyone, feel free to try the engineering prototypes next to you. There are no cooling modules installed inside, so you can get a feel for it first."

After he finished speaking, the staff nearby handed everyone an engineering prototype.

After Li Wanqiang received his, he did a quick test with AnTuTu. After all, if you want to make power consumption soar in a short time... this is the simplest way.

About 5 minutes later, the AnTuTu benchmark results came out: the Taishan 710 scored 42,000.

This parameter is inflated!

After all, for the Fire Dragon 800 from Qualcomm, the special edition they received only scored 38,000 points...

This isn't benchmarking against the Fire Dragon 800; it's clearly benchmarking against its own big brother, the Taishan 910.

And this is just the standard version. What would happen if the enhanced version came out?

Although he wasn't responsible for chip selection, he had seen quite a lot after working at Dami Company for so many years.

This is the first time he had seen a chip's potential pushed to this extent.

The Vivo representative next to him felt the same way. After all, Huawei and Transsion were selling well offline and were constantly expanding into the lower-tier markets... this made things difficult for their two companies.

Internally, they had long thought about transforming, wanting to enter the online market like Xiaomi, but they had always lacked a chip with a gimmick.

This was a good solution.

After everyone experienced it for a while, their attitudes changed immediately. The procurement manager from Oppo hurriedly shook Professor Li's hand.

"Professor Li, this Taishan 710 of yours is really good.

The flagship chip we used before could even freeze up the demo units in the summer. Users would touch them and say they were burning hot, and we didn't know how to explain it...

The power consumption control is so well done that even our engineers said it was impressive. We will definitely prioritize this chip for our upcoming models, but we don't know about the production capacity..."

The HTC representative was also nodding quickly... They had to nod; their market in China and other regions was being crushed by Transsion...

Although there was resentment, not bowing meant death!

"Production capacity is easy to address!

Currently, due to foundry issues, the monthly production is only about 800,000 units.

After the stocking for other models is finished, this capacity will increase significantly to 1.8 million units per month.

The price is 120 USD, and the 4G version will be an additional 30 USD.

For comparison, the current purchase price of the Fire Dragon 800 is about 65 to 75 USD.

Our price is indeed a bit expensive, but our experience is definitely something the Fire Dragon cannot compare with."

The previously good mood of the manufacturer representatives in the audience instantly vanished upon hearing the price.

A 4G feature costs 30 USD, nearly half the price of the Fire Dragon 800.

This 7-series from China Star is really not cheap.

Li Wanqiang, who was originally excited, instantly put down his pen. This chip could be passed over.

Factory Manager Yuan Guoqing didn't say much seeing everyone's reaction. After all, the Fire Dragon was delayed. If they waited until the Fire Dragon phones hit the market, this price could go up by another 30 USD...

After a while, when everyone had finished recording or confirming, he continued: "Let me introduce the other two chips to everyone."

The Taishan 620 terminal chip also uses a 14nm process.

It's just that the CPU uses a 6-core, three-cluster architecture.

Two magic-modified A15 big cores and four magic-modified A7 small cores, but the frequencies have reached 1.8G and 1.2G. Compared to the mid-to-high-end positioning of the previous generation, this generation has some downgrades.

However, the performance is 35% higher than the Fire Dragon 600, and power consumption is reduced by about 35%. It is also already in mass production and supports 4G and 3G options...

The price for over 100,000 units is 88 USD, and choosing the 4G feature also adds 20 USD.

Seeing these scores, everyone immediately understood that the Taishan 620 is positioned for the 1500~2500 price range.

Currently, this price range is still occupied by the MTK658 process four-core A7, and after Transsion's enhancement, the main frequency has reached 1.7G...

But it still can't beat the Taishan 620...

"This chip has much less premium. Used in mid-to-high-end series, it can elevate the experience of thousand-yuan phones to a new level."

After Factory Manager Yuan Guoqing finished speaking, Professor Li Jiahui looked at the Vivo representative.

After all, it wouldn't be impossible to use this chip in the 3000-yuan market; after all, a chip that doesn't want to aim high isn't a good chip.

Then, the PPT on the screen next to them switched again, and the parameters of the Taishan 430 appeared before everyone.

This one is purely low-end.

It adopts Transsion's very mature 28nm process, a 4-core design, magic-modified A7, with a maximum frequency of 1.3GHz. Of course, it's not useless; the power consumption is very low, only 1.2W.

And its power consumption is 15% lower than the MediaTek MTK6572 (dual-core A7).

"This Taishan 420 is positioned for entry-level smartphones in the 800~1500 price range, mainly for offline and Southeast Asia markets.

This chip is used to replace some older chips, such as the various derivatives of the MTK6573... these old chips should be retired."

Mentioning this, everyone smiled. Retiring old chips?

That depends on the price. Fortunately, the price of the Taishan 420 is not expensive, only 45 USD, with no 4G version for now.

Sure enough, as soon as the price was announced, the eyes of the procurement managers from Vivo and Oppo lit up completely.

This is 1500; isn't this dedicated to the 1999 price point?

After all, a benchmark score of 20,000+, a quad-core processor, and a 1GHz frequency is already last year's flagship level, which would definitely sell well offline...

At this moment, the two of them looked at each other, already thinking about how to allocate production capacity, as Transsion's 28nm capacity seemed a bit insufficient.

After everyone finished visiting the chips, the next stop was the Lithography Machine booth.

However, at this stop, the one who was most excited and also most regretful was Wang Jianping.

He was the Technical Vice President of SMIC.

47 years old, he had worked in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, from Texas Instruments in the United States to Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore, and then returned to the country...

He had seen ASML's machines and Nikon's machines, but none of them could compare to this machine...

It was just a great pity that SMIC once had the opportunity to be the first to receive the Lithography Machine, but the board of directors had misjudged the situation.

Later, because of this, some misunderstandings occurred, and in the end...

Two people were standing next to the Lithography Machine.

One of them was demonstrating to the leaders how to debug parameters on the operation panel.

One person was wearing ordinary work clothes, with the China Semiconductor Fund badge pinned to his chest!

Wang Jianping walked over without saying hello, squatted down directly, and looked at the workpiece stage inside through the observation window!

Beautiful, it's too beautiful!

After all, although this was a model, its next stop was the National Semiconductor Memorial Hall. For commemorative purposes, some core parts were all adopted in a scaled-down ratio.