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From the moment he got off the plane at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Luo Nianzhong's mood was infected by the environment here.

The sky is clear and blue. Even though we are in the city, it still gives people a pleasant feeling of nature. Even Hong Kong Island does not have such a blue sky.

Luo Nianzhong finally understood why many wealthy people in the beautiful country bought a vacation farm and ranch here in Texas.

With the accompanying people, they walked through the crowded flow of people and arrived at the airport pick-up port. At this time, there was already a professional fleet waiting for them.

The purpose of Luo Nianzhong's trip is the world's semiconductor giant, Texas Instruments.

With the development of semiconductors in the island country, the semiconductor industry in the United States has had a very difficult time in recent years.

However, Luo Nianzhong knew that this was just the beginning. In a few years, their life would be like hell, and only a few of the tens of thousands of chip and related companies would survive.

Whether it is cost efficiency or employee work attitude, Meiguo Semiconductor is far inferior to the island countries, and recently it has begun to experience a wave of bankruptcies.

There is no way. When using the same technology, the yield rate of the beautiful country's wafer factory is about 40% different from that of the island country's wafer factory. This makes it difficult for the beautiful country's chips to be priced. Advantage.

Small companies have no choice but to go bankrupt or be acquired. And large companies like Texas Instruments will use more advanced technologies to reduce costs and thereby increase competitive advantages. Those backward production capacities will naturally need to be eliminated and liquidated.

Luo Nianzhong also saw this, so he came to Texas Instruments to see if he could get a bargain.

It's really a bargain. What Texas Instruments plans to eliminate are their three three-inch production lines in Houston, all of which use 2.5 micron manufacturing processes.

Strictly speaking, this is the current mainstream technology, and it can even be said to be the top technology.

But that's for other people, not Texas Instruments.

They have already begun building a four-inch factory, using the latest products developed by the current lithography machine giant GCA, which can manufacture 1.8-micron chips.

The first step in making a semiconductor chip is to make high-purity silicon crystals and then cut them into slices.

Three inches and four inches refer to the diameter of the wafer cylinder. The larger the wafer area, the more chips can be manufactured per wafer, and the cost is relatively reduced.

The 2.5 micron and 1.8 micron manufacturing processes refer to the width of the photolithography lines of the photolithography machine. The thinner the photolithography lines, the smaller the area of ​​the transistors on the chip. With the same number of crystals, the number of crystals used is The smaller the circle area, the lower the cost.

Therefore, when we later talked about advanced chips, we used these two indicators instead. Especially the indicators of photolithography lines. The chips we are familiar with are several nanometers, which are photolithography lines.

When I came to Texas Instruments, the conversation with their president went very smoothly. Luo Nianzhong was surprised by how smoothly it went.

With US$1000 million, Luo Nianzhong pocketed the three chip production lines they eliminated.

Compared with the wafer factories that later cost billions, the threshold of the current wafer factories is still very low. Even the latest factory built by TI did not cost more than US$10 million.

After signing an agreement with TI President Xia Bai, the two parties started negotiations on licensing some patents. This was also the second event of Luo Nianzhong's trip.

There is no way, Far East Semiconductor can be said to be a newborn baby, and its own patents can be described as penniless. After obtaining the authorization of some basic patents from TI in this area, Far East Semiconductor can save a lot of time.

This aspect is much simpler. For Deyi, this is not a secret.

Moreover, they have authorized many companies. Far East Semiconductor is not a big deal and can increase their income. Why not?

After both things were accomplished, Xia Bai opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate, and Luo Nianzhong also mentioned an idea of ​​his own.

"President Xia Bai, do you have any requirements for engineers to resign?"

Luo Nianzhong's words made Xia Bai pause for a moment as he was about to put the wine glass to his mouth. He didn't expect that just after the two companies signed the contract, Luo Nianzhong was about to poach Deyi.

"Our talents all have non-compete agreements. Even if they leave our company, they will not be able to engage in related industries within a year." Xia Bai didn't give Luo Nianzhong a good look, and his expression that was just like spring breeze suddenly dropped.

Luo Nianzhong smiled, "Mr. Xia Bai, I think you have misunderstood. I have no intention of poaching your executive-level talents.

My target is young people who have just entered the company for two or three years.

You also know that the production lines and basic patents I bought must be developed and researched, and I am very short of talents in this area."

Hearing what Luo Nianzhong said, Xia Bai's face improved a lot. He thought for a moment and told Luo Nianzhong, "Yes, you can take him away if you have been employed for less than three years, but you need to pay liquidated damages, if they are willing."

As a semiconductor giant, TI has no shortage of talents. Every year, there is a steady stream of graduates who want to join Deyi.

However, this was not the reason why Xia Bai agreed. The real reason was the internal struggle within the company.

Ever since Xia Bai came to power, the differences between him and Zhang Zhongmou have always been there.

Zhang Zhongmou advocates increasing research on semiconductors, but he is more inclined to consumer products to bring greater profits to shareholders.

Facts have proved that he succeeded and failed. How high were Tak Yi's profits during his time at the helm? Finished products with a profit margin of less than 70% will be eliminated and are considered a waste of TI's resources.

And why is he said to be a failure? Because of the reduction in investment in technology, it was later overtaken by Bay Area and South Korea, causing the world's number one semiconductor giant to even slip out of the top five. However, this was more than ten years later.

Xia Bai's idea is very simple. If Luo Nianzhong can poach these non-top talents, it can be said that it will greatly weaken the power of his opponent Zhang Zhongmou. If possible, he hopes that Luo Nianzhong can poach Zhang Zhongmou.

Don't tell me, Luo Nianzhong really has this idea. If he can be taken away, it will be a big help to Far East Semiconductor in attracting talents.

No matter how much he thought about what happened later, Luo Nianzhong still gave up.

Based on his understanding of the chip industry, as long as he grasps the general direction, Far East Semiconductor will not get lost and can use all its efforts in one direction. He believes that it will be no problem to complete overtaking in corners.

After three days in Dallas, Far East Group paid a total of US$2630 million to TI and took away their three production lines, a large number of basic patent licenses, and nearly two hundred scientific researchers.

Moreover, 80% of the two hundred scientific researchers are of Chinese descent, so integrating into life on Hong Kong Island should not be a problem.

Many of them are later big players, such as Zhang Rujing, who just joined Deyi two years ago.

Many people may not know that the Chinese contribute half of the beautiful country's semiconductor industry.

Especially in the chip industry, more than 60% of scientific researchers are of Chinese descent.

This also facilitated Luo Nianzhong's poaching. He asked Chris's team to play the emotional and patriotic card among these people.

There must be some who don't like this, so respect them materially.

Not to mention a lot, these engineers who changed jobs all started with at least a 10% salary increase. This is why he was able to successfully take over so many people in three days.

For other companies that cannot determine the future, doing so will definitely bring down the company with a high probability, and the labor cost will be too high.

But Luo Nianzhong is not afraid, because he knows where the right path is.

More than 200 scientific researchers, although they did not injure Texas Instruments, they also suffered a lot of losses. Zhang Zhongmou was furious when he found out.

This guy couldn't get any favor from Xia Bai, so he immediately hated Luo Nianzhong.