Chapter 98 Disassembly, check the chip source

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, it was early morning.

The Eagle National Laboratory and Research Center, located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is a five-story white building with a classical and magnificent appearance.

It is now half past eight in the morning. Of course, not many people come to work, so it is very quiet.

In the staff area on the first floor, there were already two people sitting there, each with a cup of coffee, chatting while drinking.

These two have Asian faces and are in fact Chinese.

Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong, both from Taiwan Province, are chip engineers at TSMC.

The two of them happened to be staying in Yinglijian during this period, so they were found.

Ma Yong asked: "Why did you ask us to come here this time?"

Qiu Yongbo whispered, "It seems like they want us to identify the chip."

Ma Yong was stunned: "Identification chip? What chip?"

Qiu Yongbo took a sip of coffee and said, "I heard that they bought a lot of mobile phones from mainland China. Let's see if the processor chips inside are made by TSMC."

"Cellphone? What brand? Whatever the chip is, isn't it made by us?"

"uncertain."

"... Not necessarily? Why? Regardless of which company the chips are from, aren't they all made by TSMC?"

Ma Yong was indeed confused.

The mobile phone processors on the market are either Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips or LTECH's chips, and they are indeed all manufactured by TSMC.

Huayao's Kirin chip is also a masterpiece of TSMC.

Ma Yong suddenly remembered and said, "Could it be Sansang's phone? Their Orion may not be manufactured by us."

Qiu Yongbo shook his head: "It's Huayao's phone."

"...Huayao mobile phone? Kirin? Isn't that manufactured by us?"

Qiu Yongbo waved his hand and said, "What they mean is that some of Huayao's Kirin chips may not be made by TSMC. They want us to identify them."

Ma Yong suddenly realized: "Come to think of it, there is a rumor on the Internet that Huayao has found a new chip foundry."

Qiu Yongbo smiled: "So you saw it too."

Ma Yong nodded: "Of course, people often say this online these days."

"Do you think this is possible?"

"Damn it, I think it's a joke."

Qiu Yongbo also laughed.

Both of them are experienced and professional chip engineers, and are experts among experts.

They are well aware of how difficult it is to manufacture high-end chips, especially those below ten nanometers.

TSMC has spent more than ten years to mass-produce seven-nanometer mobile processor chips, and it was only through the cooperation of equipment manufacturers such as ASML that it succeeded.

TSMC's engineers are very confident that they are the only company in the entire Blue Planet that can perfectly handle the 7-nanometer process technology.

Even Sansang’s semiconductor process technology is not very good, and the yield rate is too poor.

Ma Yong said: "Do people here really think Huayao has found a chip foundry? They are too naive!"

Qiu Yongbo sighed: "We don't need to worry about these, we just do whatever they tell us to do."

The two of them waited for more than an hour.

Jenny Jonathan enters.

Jenny is the director of the national laboratory and she has the final say here.

Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong quickly stood up and greeted Jenny.

Jenny acted like a strong woman and waved at the two of them: "Hello, Asian boys."

Qiu Yongbo said: "Ms. Jonathan, what are we going to do next?"

"etc?"

Jenny said, "Yes, there are two more handsome guys coming over. We can't work until they come. Okay, I'm going to have breakfast. I got up too early today. Damn it!"

With that, Jenny went to her office, leaving Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong staring at each other in silence.

Half an hour later, the other two finally arrived.

A white guy named Max.

A Bharata named Amir.

Both of them are from university research institutes and are also resident researchers in national laboratories.

Led by Jenny, the four of them came to an engineering room.

There are a full range of tools and equipment here, which can be used for some small engineering modifications, as well as hardware disassembly and testing.

Jenny asked her assistant to bring a box.

I opened the lid of the box and found a cell phone inside.

There are a total of twenty units, and all of them are of the same brand and model.

That is Huayao mate20pro.

The twenty mobile phones were recently purchased by an informant in China.

Amir whistled, "Wow, Huayao's phones are very expensive. It must be a huge investment to have so many phones."

Max said: "Huayao's phones are nothing special, they are far less useful than Apple phones."

Jenny said, "Okay, everyone, start showing off your best skills!"

Jenny turned to Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong and said, "Asian boys, your mission is to assist these two researchers in finding out the source of this damn chip. Do you understand?"

Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong were stunned at first, then nodded in unison.

What can they say? Now that they are here, they should just do as they are told.

After Jenny gave these instructions, she left the engineering room, leaving only four people to start the preparation work.

Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong looked at these mobile phones in a daze.

Ma Yong picked up a mobile phone and looked at the production date.

"Damn, these were produced five days ago. It must be hard to buy so many of them, right?"

Qiu Yongbo said: "Have you heard? Huayao has released a large amount of goods in China. It is not difficult to buy them now."

Ma Yong was stunned. "Large quantities of goods? Do they have that many chips? I remember that they only have about 990 to million Kirin chips in stock at most. If they sell like this, they won't be able to sustain it for long."

Ma Yong thought for a moment and said, "Yongbo, you don't really believe that they have found a new chip foundry, do you?"

Qiu Yongbo smiled coldly: "How is that possible? No one would believe it. I bet that the chips in these mobile phones are all made by our TSMC."

Max was a small leader. He gave orders and asked the three people to unpack all twenty mobile phones and take them out of the boxes.

Twenty Huayao mate20pros are neatly placed on the workbench, in various colors.

It is very imposing and exquisite.

A moment later, the first phone had its back cover removed, the battery removed, the motherboard flipped open, and the main processor chip removed.

Then came the second phone, the third phone, the fourth phone…

Disassembling twenty mobile phones was a huge workload. The four people were sweating profusely and it took them two hours to complete the disassembly.

All twenty chips were removed and cleaned up.

Michael said to Qiu Yongbo and Ma Yong, "Okay, it's your turn. Check to see if these chips are made by TSMC."

Qiu Yongbo picked up a chip with tweezers and smiled.

There is no doubt that this chip is the work of TSMC.

Then there will probably be no surprises with the other 19 chips.

(End of this chapter)

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