Chapter 51: Purification Success
San Xin Group, District Manager’s Office.
“Are you saying that Xinghai’s funds for the past few months have all been used on research and development for Graphene Purification?”
Jin Ze touched his chin, and in front of him was Yu Zheng, who had just been drinking with Lu Youbin not long ago.
Yu Zheng nodded. He did not dare to be the slightest bit negligent in front of this successor of the Jin Family who had come down from headquarters for training.
When replying, he always slightly bowed his body, full of respect.
“That’s how it is. Lu Youbin is in the Research and Development Department at Xinghai Technology, serving as the Team Leader of Research and Development Group Four. Moreover, during this period, he has been in the laboratory handling related matters, so what he says should not be false.”
Pausing for a moment, he added with some regret: “It’s just a pity that due to the Confidentiality Agreement, Lu Youbin only mentioned it briefly in the end. According to him, Xinghai’s current Graphene Purification project should be advance preparation for some cutting-edge technology afterward.”
Jin Ze nodded and pointed to the seat: “Sit down. You did a very good job this time. Tell me your thoughts.”
Yu Zheng repeatedly expressed thanks and then sat down straight-backed on the seat. Before coming, he had thought of quite a few possible plans for Xinghai and immediately shared his ideas.
“General Manager Jin, in my guess, based on General Manager Fan’s previous research direction in the power Battery field, given Graphene’s many characteristics, I personally think it should continue in-depth research on these two technologies.”
Jin Ze glanced at him, noncommittal. He thought about it but was not too certain.
Mainly, the impression Fan Ren gave him was too unconventional. He held a high position in San Xin, and his understanding of such matters differed from these Senior Executives.
For an enterprise to put nearly 100% of its interests into a single project, such a practice was generally only done when facing a life-or-death crisis for the enterprise, making such a desperate decision.
Jin Ze knew his sister very well. An absolute elite in Business Management.
From what Jin Ze knew of Jin Qiaoying’s temperament, in the domain she was good at, she would absolutely not allow others to interfere randomly.
Unless like him, directly bringing the appointment report from headquarters to remove her.
But now, with Xinghai under her management, for it to make such a decision, it should not be that simple.
Thinking of this, he said in a low voice: “Like this, the company will approve a sum of Public Relations Fee for you. During this time, you’ve worked hard; continue to contact Lu Youbin. If you can get information from him about Xinghai Technology’s new project, it will be recorded as your first merit.”
Pausing, with some fatigue in his expression, he said: “You also know about the China Region position. I’m just here for training; in two years, I still have to return to headquarters. At that time, I think you can do this position very well.”
Hearing this, Yu Zheng’s expression instantly became excited.
One week later, nearly half a year had passed since the establishment of the laboratory.
After the testing of this batch of Experimental Results was completed, Fan Ren breathed a sigh of relief and announced the completion of the Graphene Purification technology.
This Solution provided by the system uses a plant-based Material in the synthesis facilities to adsorb the carbon source in Graphene into Cells. Through its unique Cell structure, after Catalysis, the Cells discharge it through Metabolism, leaving the original molecular arrangement structure, thereby allowing Carbon Atoms to directly utilize this structure to form the nanoscale structure of Graphene.
Subsequently obtaining high-purity Graphene Raw Material that can be used in the Chip field.
An entire half year of time, with large amounts of Raw Materials failing repeatedly and being destroyed, Xinghai’s money was spent on this aspect.
Nearly 3.5 billion in Research and Development fees were completely spent by him.
But the results were also extremely gratifying. Nowadays on the market, high-purity Graphene at a thousand yuan per gram, they had managed to compress the Production Cost by nearly half.
This was just one of them, and the most important one was that this cultivation method could directly, during the purification process, perform tubular curling arrangement on the biomass Cells to produce nanoscale Graphene Carbon Tubes in a tubular state.
Thereby directly forming Graphene Carbon Nanotube Raw Materials that can produce Chips, to further reduce the cost of Chip production.
Fan Ren collected the relevant Technical Data, submitted the Patent Application, and then gave all the Employees in the laboratory a one-week Holiday.
Next to face was the truly challenging Graphene film production process.
But before that, they still needed to wait for the purchased etching, Lithography Machine, and other cutting-edge production Equipment to be delivered to the laboratory.
For these Equipment, Jin Qiaoying had devoted basically all her energy to this over the past half year.
Also thanks to the Battery Department being spun off, as well as the High-Voltage Radio Department becoming independent.
Xinghai Parent Company now, in terms of specific Business, basically just supports a group of Technical Department Employees, responsible for providing Factory Upgrade Solutions to various enterprises with Technology demands.
Company management matters were thus greatly reduced, and she had more time to focus on procuring Equipment.
At Fan Ren’s request, due to Production Capacity limitations, the 14-nanometer Lithography Machine was procured from As Company in Helan Country, original price 1 billion, but due to urgent demand, the queue added 500 million, totaling a huge sum of 1.5 billion.
While the matching Etching Equipment was procured from a domestic enterprise in China, costing only around 500 million.
Plus other scattered expenses adding up, the entire Chip Laboratory, before even being put into use, had already spent a massive 2.5 billion in funds.
Just as all this was proceeding in an orderly manner, Lu Youbin changed into a very ordinary set of clothes and arrived at the Restaurant where he had met Yu Zheng last time, as agreed.
After waking up from last time’s heavy drinking, he also had some belated realization.
The other party, as District Vice President, calling him brother on the drinking table, could not possibly be simply because of getting along with him for such nonsense reasons.
Sure enough, just one week later, Yu Zheng invited him out to eat again.
However, this time Lu Youbin was not as naive as last time, getting drunk by Yu Zheng unknowingly.
After three rounds of drinks.
“Brother Lu, you rarely have a week off. Could it be that your company’s new project has already been researched and completed?”
Yu Zheng spoke with an inadvertent tone of curiosity.
Although Lu Youbin’s face was red, his eyes were very clear, and he immediately smiled back: “Just Phased Achievement, the real Research and Development Plan hasn’t started yet.”
Hearing this, Yu Zheng’s face showed slight surprise. The meaning in these words was that Xinghai had great ambitions, smashing nearly half a year’s Revenue on just a Phased Achievement?
He immediately said in astonishment: “What project? Tens of billions just made a Splash?”
Pausing, he quickly added: “Uh, I’m just curious. Of course, if Brother Lu it’s inconvenient, just pretend I didn’t ask, come, drink.”
Saying this, with an indifferent look, he raised his glass and downed one himself.
Lu Youbin secretly chuckled and, without answering, followed by downing one.
Then he leisurely spoke up.
“Speaking of which, our company’s new project actually has a Relationship with your San Xin.”
After saying that, he lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly.
Hearing this, Yu Zheng was stunned.
His mind began frantically searching for San Xin Group’s related Industry, which ones were projects requiring tens of billions in investment at the early Research and Development stage.
But no matter how boldly he imagined, he never thought to connect Xinghai with the Semiconductor Chip field.
‘Cough cough’, Lu Youbin suddenly choked on a puff of smoke and couldn’t help coughing.
Yu Zheng reacted, his current expression was too obvious.
He immediately gave an awkward laugh.
“Brother Lu, I won’t beat around the bush. If you can provide some information, San Xin won’t be stingy with the Reward for you.”
Hearing this, Lu Youbin did not refute and leisurely said: “After all, Xinghai treats me well. I’ve been working here for nearly a year, to be honest, Salary and Bonus added up, I’ve taken over a million here.”
This was indeed a number that surprised Yu Zheng. Xinghai’s Salary and Bonus were indeed frighteningly high, no wonder that group of Engineers and Technicians could, under Fan Ren’s leadership, successively overcome one technical difficulty after another.
He knew what Lu Youbin meant and immediately said in a low voice: “Five million!”
As the words fell, Lu Youbin’s eyes immediately lit up.
As expected of San Xin Group, rich and powerful!
