1991 Starting from the core

Zhang Rujin was silent for a long time.

At this time, a Santana drove along the avenue. When it saw Su Yuanshan and Zhang Rujin, Santana stopped. An engineer about forty years old opened the door and walked quickly in front of the two.

"Hello Dr. Qiu." When Su Yuanshan saw this person, he glanced at Zhang Rujin again, feeling a strange emotion well up in his mind. Then he said hello first, smiled and extended his hand to the person coming.

Qiu Ciyun stretched out his hand to hold Su Yuanshan and said with a smile: "Last time I came back, I met you just after you left but couldn't see you. It's fate that we met you on the road this time."

"This is my neglect. I should have rushed over long ago to visit Dr. Qiu, a national expert who is willing to contribute to the semiconductor industry of the motherland."

"Don't dare, don't dare, I'm too serious, I'm too serious."

Su Yuanshan and Qiu Ciyun held each other's hands for a few seconds, then looked back at Zhang Rujin with a smile on his face - it could be seen that these two people should have cooperated well in the past few months.

Sometimes, fate is so wonderful.

Qiu Ciyun (cloud), the real second-generation boss of SMIC in the past (Wang Ningguo can only be considered a generation and a half), after graduating from Berkeley, he first went to Munich for a tour, and then took root in AT\u0026T Bell Labs, where he worked until Head of high-speed electronic circuits.

If he follows the current trajectory, he will have to wait a year before being poached back to the island by TSMC, and then get to know Zhang Rujin, the founder of Shida Semiconductor, which was acquired by TSMC, and finally follow Zhang Rujin to the mainland and establish SMIC together. Served as the vice president in charge of operations and became Lao Zhang's right-hand man.

However, within a few years, the two had irreconcilable differences in business philosophy, which ultimately led to Qiu Ciyun's resignation and departure from SMIC in 2005. I went to Huahong and a wafer fab in Malaysia.

Then, Lao Zhang was forced to leave SMIC because he lost two lawsuits. Without the founder, SMIC fell into the "Game of Thrones."

——The gossip during this period was endless for three days and three nights. After Zhang Rujin left, Wang Guoning, who represented the "old man" on the island, was recommended as CEO by Jiang Shangzhou, who died young, but the major shareholder at the time was Da T. Telecom wants to push Yang Shining to become the helmsman.

Conflicts arose at this time - the island faction and the mainland faction began to confront each other. The two sides who supported Wang Guoning and Yang Shining argued from internal forums to post bars, which was extremely embarrassing... In short, when the dust settled later, for this The internal fighting was described as "stinky".

The result of the internal fighting was that both sides suffered losses. In the end, Wang and Yang resigned at the same time. Then Qiu Ciyun returned to SMIC and began to balance the forces of all parties in the company, strengthen the unity and stability of the company, and became the true second generation leader who led SMIC from chaos to healthy development.

Generally speaking, at SMIC, Zhang is the founder, Qiu is the one who (weakly) turns the tide, and Liang is the breakthrough.

The reason why Qiu is said to be (weakly) turning the tide is because his policies are very conservative and he has almost no investment in process breakthroughs. He just expands the market, improves the yield rate of existing processes, and turns the wafer factory that has not been profitable for 9 years into a new one. became profitable.

As the beacon of hope for domestic wafer fabs, SMIC obviously assumes the historical responsibility for breakthroughs—that’s why Liang took over.

Now Qiu Ciyun came to the mainland in advance and established a friendly relationship with Lao Zhang. This can be regarded as a manifestation of historical inevitability.

And the most important thing is that with Yuanxin and Su Yuanshan here, Deyuan Semiconductor in this life will no longer be as scrupulous as SMIC in the previous life.

Su Yuanshan will burn out the manufacturing process at all costs.

// Regarding the gossip about several generations of SMIC, if you are interested, you can search it yourself. If you are too lazy to search, just wait for me to write it when I have time.

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After exchanging pleasantries on the road, Qiu Ciyun got back in the car and headed to the factory.

Watching Qiu Ciyun leave, Zhang Rujin turned back to look at Su Yuanshan and said solemnly: "Unless it is absolutely necessary, I will try my best to work at Deyi until 1997. This is not because I want to get a pension, but because I want to maintain a relationship with Deyi." A good relationship.”

"In the past three years, I will try my best to find ways to stay here." Zhang Rujin said with a smile: "In fact, it is easy to stay, as long as we continue to expand and build factories. As for the 0.5 micron process , you can consider letting Texas Instruments increase capital shares by converting technology into shares. Of course, this still has to be negotiated by you."

"……good."

Now that he got the reply from Zhang Rujin that he would definitely stay, Su Yuanshan breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Yuanshan added: "There is no problem in building a factory. The capital needs can be injected by Yuanxin or publicly raised. But how can we solve it without skilled engineers?"

"Senior engineers are responsible for researching key manufacturing processes, and ordinary engineers are responsible for production processes. Senior engineers need many years of work experience, but ordinary engineers can meet the needs through training, so building a factory only requires recruiting and training ordinary engineers in advance." Zhang Rujin smiled. Said: "The main reason is that it is difficult at the beginning. As long as the wafer factory under our feet is operating normally, everything will be easy to handle."

Su Yuanshan complimented: "You are an expert in this field."

Zhang Rujin smiled and shook his head: "Haha, as long as the technology is mature, it is still very easy to train ordinary engineers. The difficulty lies in the breakthrough of manufacturing processes and technology. There must be outstanding talents to lead them in countless subdivided fields. Technological breakthroughs. The current semiconductor industry and domestic situation do not give us time to explore and make mistakes. We can only introduce excellent talents."

Su Yuanshan deeply agreed.

At present, no matter Huajing, Shougang NEC or Beiling in China, only Huajing has a "vision" for process breakthroughs. Note that this is just vision, not ability.

Frankly speaking, there are too many backward generations in China. Even if there are established units like Yongchuan Semiconductor as the foundation, Huajing cannot keep up with the iterations of the process, let alone Huajing is still very poor.

In addition, 908 was originally given in the form of a loan... Therefore, Huajing's top priority is to achieve profitability, not to improve the manufacturing process.

You know, the manufacturing process really depends on money, one photomask and one wafer to burn it.

Of course, due to the sudden emergence of Yuanxin, the state also provided support to Huajing - and the support for Huajing was largely based on the opinions of Su Xinghe and his son.

As an authority in the semiconductor industry, Professor Su Xinghe's opinions are highly valued in the country's semiconductor planning. He has always agreed with his son's view that the country must support the semiconductor industry, and it must also provide centralized support!

So after many considerations, the state finally decided to increase direct capital investment in Huajing, and reached a tacit agreement with Yuanxin - that is, Yuanxin, which has "deep pockets", will be responsible for breakthroughs in the manufacturing process, while Huajing will focus on scale expansion. Complete the localization of low-end chips.

The support for Yuanxin is reflected in various policies, tax care, and foreign exchange tilt.

"Therefore, the talents that should be introduced must be introduced, especially the technical backbone of potential opponents."

Zhang Rujin smiled and continued: "As for the salary issue, I thought about it, and the people we introduced are mainly based on options, supplemented by salary. At the same time, we set up a reward pool for seniority and years, so that whether it is a hired employee or , whether they are mainland employees, they all have expectations for the future."

"Yeah, and we have to set a salary confidentiality rule." Su Yuanshan shook his head mockingly, thinking that many companies in later generations were not allowed to ask about salary. Suddenly he was slightly startled, thinking of Zhang Rujin's words about "the technical backbone of potential opponents."

"Uncle Zhang, have you ever heard of someone named Liang Mengsong from Semiconductor Manufacturing Company?"

Zhang Rujin thought for a while and then nodded: "I've heard of it, Qiu Ciyun's alumnus is from Berkeley."

"Can I dig it?"