Chapter 204: The Competitiveness of Tianke No. 1

News regarding Tianke No. 1 caused a global sensation, and major chip manufacturers immediately made appointments with Tianqi Core Technology to visit and inspect it.

Su Xin simply decided to receive everyone together.

The next day.

Executives from chip manufacturing enterprises from all over the world gathered at Tianxin Industrial Park.

Given Su Xin's status and position, there was naturally no need for him to receive them personally; he simply arranged for Jing Mingdong, the president of Tianqi Core Technology, to be responsible for the reception.

In the factory under the name of Tianqi Core Technology, everyone visited the finished product of Tianke No. 1. After a series of operational demonstrations and Jing Mingdong's explanations, everyone gained a deeper understanding of the technical principles and performance parameters of Tianke No. 1.

Most importantly.

Tianke No. 1 truly possesses 3nm precision.

And its operational stability is completely no weaker than ASML's Advanced Lithography Machine.

This made everyone present feel moved.

Jing Mingdong took in the expressions of the crowd, feeling a sense of pride in his heart, though he did not show it on his face, only smiling slightly:

"This Tianke No. 1 has been running continuously for five days, maintaining full-load operation the entire time, without a single malfunction occurring midway."

"And its production efficiency can process as many as 240 12-inch wafer products per hour."

"As everyone knows, the surface area of a 12-inch wafer is approximately 70,685 square millimeters. Taking the Xiangrui 990 chip as an example, its area is 113.31 square millimeters. If utilized at one hundred percent, one 12-inch wafer could be cut into 623 Xiangrui 990 chips."

"Of course, in reality, such high utilization does not exist; after all, chips are square and wafers are round, so there will inevitably be some waste from the edges."

"Taking the yield rate into account, one 12-inch wafer can actually produce about 500 chips."

"According to the production capacity of Tianke No. 1, which can process 240 12-inch wafers per hour, that calculates to... 120,000 Xiangrui 990 chips."

The executives visiting the scene could not help but have their pupils contract, and then they quietly exchanged glances with one another.

A production capacity of 240 wafers per hour is already twenty percent higher than the maximum capacity of ASML's latest generation EUV Lithography Machine.

This is an incredibly exaggerated gap.

In a corner of the crowd, Yu Dadong, CEO of the Consumer Business Group of Longwei Group, was full of surprise.

The birth of Tianke No. 1 can be called a shot in the arm for the entire Longwei Group, and it would not be an exaggeration to call it a savior.

Therefore, yesterday, upon learning the news that Tianke No. 1 was on the market, he immediately canceled all arrangements and flew urgently to Tianjing to participate in this inspection.

Before coming, he had prepared himself mentally: no matter what flaws Tianke No. 1 might have, he would purchase at least one unit to fill the biggest gap in Longwei Group's chip production, allowing Longwei Group to possess the independent production capability for high-end chips and no longer be held back by others from then on.

Now that he saw it, not only did Tianke No. 1 have no obvious flaws, but its production capacity was also clearly a cut above ASML's Advanced Lithography Machine.

This truly left him overjoyed.

At the front of the crowd, Jing Mingdong seemed to see Yu Dadong's expression, could not help but smile slightly, and continued to reel off a series of numbers:

"That is 2.88 million chips a day."

"That is 1.05 billion chips a year."

Every time he heard a number, the upward curve of Yu Dadong's mouth grew a bit larger.

Although these were just the simplest arithmetic problems, such massive numbers brought even greater shock and surprise.

Others present were equally shocked.

At this moment.

Someone in the crowd muttered:

"With such high production capacity, running at full load for a five-day trial production, what a waste!"

The energy consumption of an Advanced Lithography Machine is extremely high; running at full load for a day requires tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity, plus production material costs and labor costs—it can be said that once the machine starts, it costs a fortune.

It is indeed very wasteful to let Tianke No. 1 run at full load for five days just to verify stability.

But this remark still left many people speechless.

Everyone was focusing on the superiority of Tianke No. 1's production capacity, yet this guy was focusing on whether it was wasteful? He was simply a weirdo.

Many people immediately looked at the speaker with strange expressions.

Jing Mingdong was also stunned for a moment, then looked at the person, feigning helplessness as he spread his hands and smiled bitterly:

"There's no helping it; in order to verify stability and to train the engineers, the boss specifically ordered this Tianke No. 1 to be kept running."

"Waste it if we must; the boss doesn't care about that bit of money. After all, the parts scrapped previously just to hone the engineers' experience in assembly, debugging, and maintenance were equivalent to five Tianke No. 1 units."

These words made many people gasp.

A single state-of-the-art lithography machine from ASML costs at least 150 million Eagle Dollars, sometimes fluctuating due to the price of materials or equipment, and sometimes even reaching 190 million Eagle Dollars.

No matter what, Tianke No. 1 could not be much lower than this price.

Even calculating at the lowest 150 million Eagle Dollars, five units would be 750 million Eagle Dollars.

Converted, that is 5.2 billion Long Coins.

As expected of the wealthy and imposing Tianqi Group.

Everyone was almost suffocated.

After silently showing off, Jing Mingdong led everyone to continue visiting other workshops and departments of the Tianqi Core Technology factory.

Afterward, they went to other factories in Tianxin Industrial Park; these factories were all supporting enterprises for Tianke No. 1, and most of them were suppliers.

The entire Tianxin Industrial Park is equivalent to a single entity, working closely and coordinating with each other to take materials or equipment shipped from all over the world, process them layer by layer, and finally produce the Advanced Lithography Machine.

Today.

Tianxin Industrial Park also represents the most advanced and high-end aggregate among semiconductor manufacturers in Long Country, and even the whole world.

After the tour, everyone's confidence in Tianke No. 1 increased greatly, and they were all moved.

Finally.

Everyone returned to the Tianqi Core Technology factory and sat in a circle in a conference room.

Jing Mingdong sat in the main seat and smiled:

"After the tour and introduction just now, I believe everyone has gained enough understanding of Tianke No. 1, so I won't waste any more words: the ex-factory price for each Tianke No. 1 is 800 million Long Coins."

"As for the specific transportation and after-sales cooperation plans, we can negotiate and formulate them individually according to the situation of each enterprise."

"Tianqi Core Technology has officially stepped into the semiconductor industry, and we welcome and look forward to cooperating with every friend."

Hearing the price of 800 million Long Coins, the crowd immediately began to whisper.

This price was quite a bit cheaper than the price of ASML's 5nm Advanced Lithography Machine, and furthermore, the Tianke No. 1 had a more advanced manufacturing process and higher production capacity.

The competitiveness was truly too great!

Even if the Tianke No. 1 had just hit the market and had not yet been tested by the market, and its stability and after-sales service remained to be verified, in the face of the 800 million Long Coin price, these shortcomings were not worth mentioning.

What's more, with Su Xin's reputation standing there, everyone would not be too worried in their hearts; even if the performance of the Tianke No. 1 was truly unstable, there would absolutely not be any major problems.

Even if there were problems, they would certainly be solvable.

Yu Dadong of Longwei Group smiled and said:

"President Jing, I am very interested in the Tianke No. 1. If President Jing has time, can we discuss the details of cooperation later?"