Urban Sims

Chapter 344 Zhao Renhao (Second Update)
If it is said that the first two characters belonged to character flaws and being too fraternal, and thus got into relatively big trouble, the third guy was a bit bad in nature.

It can even be said that what he has done is outrageous.

This guy, named Zhao Renhao, is 47 years old, a shrewd professional manager, and is currently the CEO of Lixin International Company of Z Country.

Lixin International is the third private enterprise in country Z that produces wafers larger than 12 inches. The most advanced 3nm process is more than three generations behind, but in country Z, it can be regarded as a wafer factory with a high level of technology.

After all, under the strict foreign blockade, they can independently break through the 28nm large-size wafer production process, and the domestic wafer companies in country Z can count them with one hand.

The achievement of Lixin International can be attributed to one person, that person is Zhao Renhao who has served as the executive president of Lixin International for five years.

Zhao Renhao had served as the general manager of the technical department for five years in Aijidian Company in Baodao.
And Aijidian is the largest wafer foundry company in the world, with the most advanced 10nm wafer production process, and its technical level is second to none in the world.

During his work in Aijidian Company, Zhao Renhao's working ability was outstanding, and he made outstanding contributions to the increase of the company's market share and performance.

Just because the salary is too low, under the temptation of Lixin International's 10% shares + [-] million yuan annual salary, Zhao Renhao decisively chooses to change jobs. In Lixin International, he will work for five years.

In the past five years, Zhao Renhao lived up to expectations and led Lixin International to achieve many breakthroughs from zero to some, which gave great confidence to the company's investors. In two years, after the company's wafer production process once again achieves a breakthrough from 28 to 22 nanometers, Lixin International's market performance will also flourish.

The technical team has confidence, and the investors have confidence... But Zhao Renhao, the CEO, is getting less and less confident.

Why do you say that?

Performance.

The main reason is the performance of the company, which has not been significantly improved.

The annual sales of wafers are less than 5 million yuan, and the annual investment in scientific research exceeds 3 million yuan. After deducting various costs, Lixin International will lose 3 million yuan a year.

Lixin gave Zhao Renhao 10% of the shares. In the past five years, he has not received a penny of dividends.

It is not that Lixin International does not want to make performance, but that the 28nm process is more than three generations behind the international mainstream. The wafers produced by Lixin International have no competitiveness in the private market except for a batch of support orders from the state.

If you want to make performance, unless Lixin International can immediately realize the international mainstream 10nm process, or the slightly worse 12nm process.

28nm is too backward, without any competitiveness, and can only survive in the low-end market.

If we increase investment and speed up research and development, can we catch up in a few years and realize the 10nm process, won't we be at the same level as other wafer companies?
shook his head.

This is impossible.

First of all, the technological gap of more than three generations cannot be caught up within a few years, and it may take more than ten or twenty years.

Secondly, even if you catch up within a few years, competitors will not stand still and wait for you. They may popularize more advanced 7nm and 5nm processes, but you are still two or three generations behind others, and you are still not competitive.

The consequence of lack of competitiveness is that it is impossible to obtain a large amount of profits in the civilian market, invest in the research and development of new technology and new products, cannot self-generate blood, cannot develop normally, and the result is that it will always lag behind others.

Because of the support of huge profits, the leader can continuously invest in R&D, maintain its leading edge, form a complete production-R&D-production cycle, and finally continue to lead.

If the latecomer wants to catch up, unless the leader makes a fatal mistake, there is no possibility at all.

So after five years of hard work, Zhao Renhao, who was full of pride and ambition, was left with a plan to give up.

He is ready to accept the invitation of Samsung in the country to serve as the general manager of the technology department of the company's fab.

However, when he was about to send an email and reply to Samsung, the deep and fascinating branch of the Technology Tree Network appeared in front of him.

22nm process wafer production technology, free of charge.

18nm process wafer production technology, purchase price: 5000 million.

14nm process wafer production technology, purchase price: 1 million.

10nm process...Purchase price: 2 million.

There are also 7nm, 5nm, and 3nm processes, and the purchase price ranges from hundreds of millions to more than a billion, which is completely beyond Zhao Renhao's expectations.

Cheap, really cheap!

These processes, even the free 22nm, require at least billions of research and development funds to achieve breakthroughs.

The smaller the post-production process, the higher the research and development price, which may be tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or trillions.

The exchange price on this website is only one billion...

Zhao Renhao rolled his eyes and immediately came up with an idea.

First, it rejected Samsung's invitation, then skipped the 22-14nm process, spent 2 million, and directly purchased the 10nm process.

Then, with this information, contact foundry companies similar to Lixin International within the scope of country Z, and sell it privately.

Not bad!

Zhao Renhao didn't intend to lead his scientific research team to study the new wafer production process wholeheartedly, and put most of his energy on being a "second-hand dealer" selling technology.

The research and development funds of Lixin International have almost been consumed. Even if there are funds, it will take about 10-3 years to fully understand the 5nm process.

If you want to enter the 7nm process in one step and stand on the same level as leading companies, you need to spend tens of billions of funds to purchase advanced equipment such as single-crystal ion implanters and lithography machines, and more than 5 years.

Kelixin International does not have so much money. As for equipment such as ion implantation machines and photolithography machines, they cannot be bought abroad, so they can only be developed by themselves.

However, the manufacturing technology of these devices is included in the "Wafer Processing Technology" of Science and Technology Tree Network, which is of a supporting nature.

These technologies are worth tens of billions.

Zhao Renhao's mind started to move, and he didn't want to waste any more time, selling all these technologies, he wanted to make a fortune!
Yes, Zhao Renhao, who graduated from a university majoring in finance, has never been a saint. He entered the wafer foundry industry because he was optimistic about the prospects of this industry. On top of the annual salary of hundreds of millions, there has never been an element of faith in it.

If you want to talk about beliefs, he may be the same as all people with financial backgrounds, what he believes in is money.

Always researching how to get the most money in the shortest time.

Therefore, in the face of these wafer processing technologies open to the technology tree network, Zhao Renhao's first thought was to sell and resell the technology, and strive to sell it to more customers.

And these customers can be domestic wafer companies in Z country, Samsung in Bang country, or Toshiba in Basin country...

So, through his personal network, he distributed some technical information to these companies, which attracted the attention of these companies and... great interest.

Because Technology Tree.com has a rule that "the technical information of this website shall not be spread abroad", after buying and copying the complete set of technical information of "10nm Wafer Production Process", I took the information with me, sneaked secretly, and prepared to take the plane and go to the Zhao Renhao, who was trading with China, was still noticed by his assistant Yiyi.

Because the assistant Yiyi will monitor the travel and whereabouts of each bound person in real time. Whether it is a bus, train, or plane, as long as its identity information appears in these transportation systems, it will be detected and locked.

Zhao Renhao, who was waiting for his flight at the airport, was taken away by a group of agents of the National Security Bureau. It is unknown where he was taken.

In short, for a long time after that, Zhao Renhao seemed to have evaporated from the world, and no one could find him.

That technical document was also successfully left on the land of Country Z.

The Zhao Renhao incident made Zhou Ming realize that it will become more and more difficult in the future to ensure that the technology tree network is not exposed and that technical information is not leaked out.

Someone will definitely find a way to transfer these technical materials abroad, and in an instant, the wealth will increase from zero to billions.

Because, no industry in this world is as profitable as this industry.

In any industry, there is no such thing as quick money.

How to prevent the leakage of technical information has become a very difficult problem in front of Zhou Ming.

(End of this chapter)