novelones Chapter 454 0.18 micron process
Chapter 454 0.18 micron process
"Through OTC trading at a securities firm?" Lin Xi asked in surprise.
"For example, the CFD business launched by Morgan Stanley, as long as we use it properly, we can continue to short Nasdaq without anyone noticing!" Yang Mo continued.
"Mr. Yang, what do you want to do?" Li Heping also asked with interest.
"The development of Sun, Palm, and Yahoo have all entered a bottleneck period, and they may not have the current market value in the future. But as a major shareholder, we have restrictions on reducing our holdings, and we cannot short-sell our own company's stocks with great fanfare, but we can use the price difference to The over-the-counter transaction of the contract to recover losses..." Yang Mo continued.
"But the size of CFDs is limited! It can't bear much trading volume!" Li Heping said with a bitter smile.
"Do you think we can let Merlo Bank open CFD business? Find a way to revitalize OTC trading?" Yang Mo asked thoughtfully.
"That's disgusting! Although Melo Bank is now quite large, its high-end net worth customer resources are not at the same level as investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Even if it opens a CFD business, it's okay to follow them and drink soup..." Li Heping said.
"What if Bank Merlo were to change the two-way charges for CFDs to only one-way charges for short-selling financial products?" Yang Mo asked.
"That's absolutely not possible! Cutting off a person's financial path is like killing his parents. Once Melo Bank does this, it will become the target of public criticism! It is tantamount to offending the entire top investment banking circle on Wall Street..." Li Heping shook his head repeatedly.
"I do have an idea. Major banks will offer privileged VIP gold cards and even supreme VIP black cards to their high-end net worth customers. Can you think of a way to do this?" Lin Xi interjected.
"This can attract some high-end users to open the Supreme VIP black card at Merlo Bank, but it still cannot increase the volume of CFD business!" Li Heping said.
"Yes! We want to sell the shares of Sun, Palm, and Yahoo, which are worth more than [-] billion US dollars..." Lin Xi also said.
Yang Mo pondered for a long time and then said: "Let's take it one step at a time! Peace, let the affiliated companies of Qianhai Asset Management try to participate in the CFD business first and see the effect. If nothing unexpected happens, the Nasdaq Index will enter This long period of shock can be put to good use!"
Yang Mo originally planned to personally plan how to use CFDs to make a profit, but a call from Zhang Rujing forced him to fly to the Netherlands non-stop.
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Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
This capital city with only over 80 people has a pitifully small airport...
As soon as Yang Mo and the two bodyguards walked down the spiral staircase, they saw Zhang Rujing and two Chinese-looking people waving to them...
"Mr. Yang, long time no see! Let me introduce to you, this is Jiang Shangyi, President of R&D of our Shida Semiconductor, and this is Lin Benjian, Director of R&D..." Zhang Rujing introduced with excitement.
"Hello everyone, Yang Mo of Zhiyuan Group!" Yang Mo smiled and stretched out his hand, saying politely.
"Director Lin, you may not know when you first come here, but Zhiyuan Group is also one of our shareholders of Shida Semiconductor!" Zhang Rujing said.
"Haha, then Mr. Yang is our boss! Please take care of us!" Lin Benjian chuckled.
"Mr. Yang, let's talk while we walk. There is no direct route to Veldhoven. Let's rent a commercial car and let's chat while we walk!" Zhang Rujing was about to greet everyone to get in the car, but was stopped by the accompanying bodyguards, who carefully After checking the vehicle, I got into the cockpit...
"Where has Shida Semiconductor's manufacturing process reached now?" Yang Mo asked.
"The 0.25 micron process is very mature, and the 0.18 micron process has begun mass production, but currently, the yield rate is still low!" Jiang Shangyi explained.
"What about TSMC and Samsung?" Yang Mo continued to ask.
"TSMC's 0.18 process has not yet entered mass production, which is a step behind us. Samsung is almost half a step behind TSMC, otherwise Intel would not have handed over all the newly designed Pentium [-] processors to us for production!" Jiang Shangyi said slightly. He said after pondering.
"Oh?" Yang Mo asked with interest.
"When we and TSMC were working on Intel Pentium III processors, Samsung's main orders were still Celeron processors, plus some chips they designed themselves!" Jiang Shangyi continued.
"Mr. Jiang, can you give me a detailed introduction to the technology and performance of these processors?" Yang Mo chuckled.
"The Intel Cy Young processor is a single-core processor launched by Intel the year before last. It has 266 MHz, 32 bits, 750 million transistors, and a 0.25 micron process! The Pentium III processor launched in 99, although it is also a 0.25 micron process, has already lost its efficacy. Reaching 500mhz and 950 million transistors, the performance and process of the Intel Pentium 4 processor just launched this year have been greatly improved, 1.5ghz, 4210 million transistors, 0.18 micron process!" Jiang Shangyi introduced. .
"What about Apple's powerpc processor?" Yang Mo asked.
Jiang Shangyi and Zhang Rujing looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yang, with all due respect, there is a generation gap between the PowerPC processors manufactured by your Xima Integrated Circuit Company and the Intel Pentium IV processors. The Yang processor is among the best, slightly inferior to the Pentium III..."
Yang Mo chuckled and said: "It seems that Xima Integrated Circuit Company has to work hard to catch up!"
"That's not true! The focus is different. Xima Integrated Circuit Company mainly focuses on industrial control system chips. Liang Mengsong still has some abilities and does very good cost control..." Jiang Shangyi explained.
"I think the current process has fallen into a development bottleneck? In the past few years, it has been stuck at the 0.25 micron process?" Yang Mo continued to ask.
Zhang Rujing nodded and said: "That's true! But the problem is not that the process technology is immature, but that the development of photolithography machines has encountered a bottleneck. This is why we made a special trip to the Netherlands this time!"
"The lithography machine technology has reached a dead end. It originally had nothing to do with us! But since our technology is already 1-2 years ahead of other chip foundry companies, if the lithography machine technology cannot make a breakthrough soon, it won't be long before everyone Back to the same starting line, Intel's latest processor design concept cannot be realized, and we will also lose our leading advantage..." Jiang Shangyi explained.
"Have you thought of a way to improve the production process of the photolithography machine?" Yang Mo asked curiously.