Regarding Fujitsu's proposal to package and sell five six-inch wafer fabs, Wang Yaocheng flatly rejected it, no matter how cheap it was.

Special girl!

I don't accept rags.

Fujitsu once again proposed that the construction of the new eight-inch wafer plant, which has been suspended, and most of the new equipment, be disposed of at a cost of US$300 million.

Wang Yaocheng still rejected it.

Although the value of this batch of equipment is close to 500 million US dollars, the risk of dismantling this batch of installed precision equipment is self-evident.

My special girl, you’re already married, and you still want to sell her for a big price?

Wang Yaocheng lay on his seat exhausted, recalling every detail of the negotiations over the past few days.

Fujitsu was very aggressive about the price. They refused to give up a single dollar of the 380 million U.S. dollars, as if they were determined to get it.

All right!

Wang Yaocheng put aside this issue and focused on imparting experience in Japanese finished products. He asked Japanese engineers to teach their experience step by step so that the yield rate of the new factory could reach the level of major Japanese factories.

Fujitsu firmly rejects this point.

But Wang Yaocheng's negotiation team refused to give in at all. If this requirement cannot be met, the deal cannot be concluded, no matter how cheap the eight-inch fab's wafer equipment is.

After many rounds of negotiations, the two sides reached a deadlock.

to this end

Wang Yaocheng paid a special visit to the residence of President Gao Zeliangren. After a confidential conversation, he took out a Citibank cashier's check worth 80 million US dollars and pushed it over calmly.

The negotiations became clearer and the final contract was reached.

A detailed calculation shows that excluding the advance payment of US$190 million and the secret bribe of US$80 million, Wang Yaocheng has spent a huge sum of US$270 million.

By the time this eight-inch wafer fab is put into production, including relocation costs, setting up an operations team, and building a 150,000-square-meter ultra-clean factory, it will still cost more than $200 million.

According to estimates, the total investment is more than US$700 million.

This is not the end yet. It is a long process from trial production to product yield acceptance. It depends on how quickly the production line operation team can learn from the experience of large Japanese factories and be able to operate the wafer factory independently and achieve breakeven.

Production yield.

This process may take several months, it may take a year or even longer, and the amount of funds consumed cannot be calculated specifically.

The semiconductor electronics industry is indeed a gold-eating beast.

All these expenses are worth it, especially the technical know-how of large Japanese companies operating wafer fabs. This time, it was obtained at a high cost, and it is worth it no matter how you look at it.

With the same equipment, the products of major Japanese manufacturers have better quality and higher yields, which means stronger competitiveness.

If Fujitsu had not withdrawn from the field of memory chip production, coupled with its large bank check of 80 million US dollars, and Chairman Ryoto Takazawa's internal and external troubles, and the urgent need for large sums of funds to fill the hole, this valuable technical experience would never have been passed on privately.

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To run an eight-inch wafer fab, an experienced team is hard to find.

Newbies who have just stepped into this field want to improve their product yields and compete with international major manufacturers. It can take as little as four or five years, or as many as ten years. They have to pay hundreds of millions in tuition fees, and they are US dollars.

Although I spent a little more money, I finally got satisfactory results. This is Wang Yaocheng's best result.
Chapter completed!