Chapter 51 Purification Success Sanxin Group, Regional Manager’s Office. "You mean, Xinghai has used all of its funds in the past few months on the research and development of graphene purification?" Jin Ze touched his chin and found Yu Zheng, who had just had a drink with Lu Youbin not long ago, in front of him. Yu Zheng nodded. He did not dare to be disrespectful in front of the heir of the Jin family who came down from the headquarters for training. When answering, he always bowed slightly, showing great respect. "It's like this. Lu Youbin is the leader of R&D Group 4 in Xinghai Technology's R&D department. He has been in charge of related affairs in the laboratory during this period. What he says is unlikely to be false." After a pause, he said with some regret: "It's a pity that due to the confidentiality agreement, Lu Youbin only mentioned it in the end. According to him, Xinghai's current graphene purification project should be an advance preparation for some cutting-edge technology in the future." Jin Ze nodded and pointed to a chair and said, "Sit down. You did a great job this time. Tell me what you think." Yu Zheng thanked him repeatedly, and then sat down straight on the chair. He had thought about a lot of Xinghai's possible plans before coming here, and he immediately expressed his thoughts. "Boss Jin, I guess that Boss Xinghai Fan's previous research direction was in the field of power batteries. Given the many properties of graphene, I personally think that we should continue to conduct in-depth research on these two technologies."
Jin Ze looked at him and didn't say anything. He thought about it and was still not sure. The main reason was that Fan Ren gave him the impression of being too evil. He was in a high position at Sanxin, and his views and understandings on this matter were different from those of the senior executives. A company will invest nearly 100% of its profits in a certain project only when it faces a life-and-death crisis. Jin Ze knew his sister very well. She was an absolute elite in business management. Based on what Jin Ze knows about Jin Qiaoying's temper, Jin Qiaoying will never allow others to interfere in the areas she is good at. Unless, like him, he directly brings the appointment report from the headquarters and removes it. But now that Xinghai is under her leadership, it should not be so simple to make such a decision. Thinking of this, he whispered, "Well, the company will approve some public relations expenses for you. You'll have to continue to contact Lu Youbin during this period of time. If you can get him to tell you about the new project of Xinghai Technology, you'll be credited as the first." After a pause, he said with a slightly tired look, "You know the position of the China Region. I am just here for training. I will return to the headquarters in two years. I think you will be able to do well in this position by then." Yu Zheng's expression instantly brightened when he heard this. A week later, nearly half a year had passed since the laboratory was established. After completing the testing of this batch of test results, Fan Ren breathed a sigh of relief and announced that the graphene purification technology had been completed. This solution provided by the system uses a plant-based material to adsorb the carbon source in graphene into cells within a synthesis facility. Through its unique cell structure, after catalysis, the cells excrete it through metabolism, leaving behind the original molecular arrangement structure, allowing carbon atoms to directly use this structure to generate graphene nanostructures. Then we can obtain high-purity graphene raw materials that can be used in the chip field. For a full six months, a large amount of raw materials were destroyed due to repeated failures, and Xinghai's money was spent on this. Nearly 35 billion yuan in R&D expenses were all spent by him. But the results are also extremely gratifying. Nowadays, high-purity graphene costs thousands of yuan per gram on the market, and they have reduced the production cost by nearly half. This is just one of them, and the most important one is that this culture method can be directly used to arrange the biomass cells in tubular curls during the purification process to produce tubular nano-scale graphene carbon tubes. This can directly form the graphene carbon nanotube raw materials for producing chips, thereby further reducing the cost of chip manufacturing.
After Fanren collected relevant technical information and submitted a patent application, he gave all the employees in the laboratory a week's vacation. What we have to face next is the truly difficult graphene production process. But before that, we still need to wait for the purchased etching, photolithography and other advanced production equipment to be delivered to the laboratory. For the sake of these devices, Jin Qiaoying has basically put all her energy into it over the past six months. It also benefited from the separation of the battery department and the independence of the high-voltage radio department. Xinghai's parent company now has only a group of technical staff to provide factory upgrade solutions to companies with technical needs. As a result, the company's management matters have been greatly reduced, and she has more time to spend on purchasing equipment. At Fan Ren's request, the 14-nanometer lithography machine was purchased from As Company in Helan State due to production capacity constraints. The original price was 10 billion, but due to urgent demand, the scheduling price was increased by 5 million, with a total cost of 15 billion. The matching etching equipment was purchased from a local Chinese company and only cost about 5 million yuan. Adding in other scattered expenses, the entire chip laboratory has already cost a huge amount of 25 billion before it is put into use. Just as everything was going on in an orderly manner, Lu Youbin changed into ordinary clothes and came to the restaurant where he and Yu Zheng had met last time as agreed. After his last hangover, he was a little slow to react when he woke up. The other party is the vice president of a region, and he treated me like a brother at the dinner table. It is impossible that he came up with this ridiculous reason simply because he gets along with me. Sure enough, just a week later, Yu Zheng asked him out for dinner again. However, this time, Lu Youbin was not as naive as last time, who was forced to drink by Yu Zheng without knowing it. After three rounds of drinking. "Brother Lu, it's rare for you to have a week's vacation. Could it be that your company's new project has been researched and completed?" Yu Zheng said this inadvertently with a curious tone. Although Lu Youbin's face was red, his eyes were clear. He immediately smiled and replied, "It's just a phased result. The real research and development plan hasn't started yet." Yu Zheng was slightly surprised when he heard this. The implication of this was that Xinghai had big plans and almost half a year's profit was spent on just one interim result? He was immediately surprised and asked, "What kind of project is this? Billions of dollars and it only made a splash?" After a pause, he quickly said, "Well, I'm just curious. Of course, if it's inconvenient for you, Brother Lu, just pretend I didn't ask and come and have a drink." As he said this, he looked nonchalant and raised his glass to drink it himself. Lu Youbin smiled secretly, and drank the glass without answering. Then he spoke slowly. "Speaking of which, our company's new project is actually related to your Sanxin." After saying that, he lit a cigarette and started smoking it. Yu Zheng was stunned when he heard this. His mind began to frantically search for the related industries of Sanxin Group, and which projects would require billions of dollars of investment in the early stages of research and development. But no matter how bold his ideas were, he never thought of connecting the starry sea with the field of semiconductor chips.
"Cough cough," Lu Youbin was suddenly choked by a puff of smoke and couldn't help coughing. Yu Zheng realized that his behavior at this moment was too obvious. He immediately laughed awkwardly. "Brother Lu, I won't keep you in suspense. If you can provide us with some information, Sanxin will not be stingy in rewarding you." Hearing this, Lu Youbin did not refute and said leisurely: "After all, Xinghai has treated me well. I have worked here for nearly a year. To be honest, I have earned more than one million in salary and bonuses." This was a number that surprised Yu Zheng. Xinghai's salary and bonus were indeed incredibly high. No wonder that group of engineers and technicians, under Fan Ren's leadership, were able to overcome one technical difficulty after another. He knew what Lu Youbin meant, and immediately whispered, "Five million!" As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Youbin's eyes suddenly lit up. After all, it is the Sanxin Group, which is very wealthy! (End of this chapter)