Rebirth of the Official Business Route

Zhang Ke saw that Liu Zhicheng had many concerns, so he proposed to recruit the dozens of engineers who had quit TSMC first.

The previous investor registered a technology company in Kuala Lumpur, and dozens of engineers were working under that company to carry out technical preparations for the fab construction project.

Most of the investors chose to withdraw. Zhang Ke only needs to accept the shares of the technology company held by Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng in the name of any company, even if he takes over the dozens of engineers. Novel chapters are updated the fastest

Of course, after a technology company changes ownership, it is not known how many technicians will remain in that technology company and be dispatched to work in Jianye, Hong Kong or Tokyo scientific research institutions; Liu Zhicheng's role is quite critical.

During the visit, Liu Zhicheng did not say much. After sending away Li Yuanhu, Luo Jun, Xiao Mingjian, Wang Weijun, Lu Wenfu and other provincial and municipal officials, everyone returned to the Oak Park Venture Capital Center. As a result, construction workers are used to calling it Lifeng Park. The venture capital center and laboratory preparatory office are located in an office building converted from a factory building in the innermost corner of the park.

Standing on the road, you can no longer see the traces of the printing and dyeing factory workshop in that house. The high-grade stone veneer outlines a whimsical pattern. A half-meter-high lake stone is placed in the flower pot of the room. The words Oak Park Venture Capital Center are engraved on the front, which is the company's logo. Fiction novel chapters are updated the fastest

Zhang Ke entrusted to hire a five-person team with rich experience in incubating high-tech enterprises from Singapore to manage the venture capital center and the venture capital fund with a quota of 300 million; the entire venture capital center currently has less than 20 employees; Half of the office area in the first office building is reserved for laboratory preparation.

The preparation of the laboratory and its operation after completion require first-class research, which is precisely what is urgently needed in China. Fortunately, Southeast Asia has suffered from this catastrophe, and the electronics industry in Japan, South Korea and other places is also falling into the worst recession in history. Those overseas students who study abroad and stay in overseas electronics companies feel the most serious sense of crisis at this time of.

At this time, it is the time to welcome overseas students who have studied abroad to return to China. Zhang Ke specially transferred Jiang Wei to replace Xu Si. On the one hand, Xu Si had his own business and wanted to do it. On the other hand, the large-scale hunting of senior technical personnel in Southeast Asia through Hong Kong headhunting companies had to be carried out quickly.

In any case, the more than 30 engineers and technicians who left TSMC earlier are definitely a valuable asset.

This tall factory building is divided into upper and lower office areas. When you walk in, you will find a six-meter-high front hall, which is spacious and bright. The front desk is backed by a frosted glass wall, and the red oak tree logo and company nameplate made of colored plexiglass are pasted on the frosted glass wall.

From the curved escalator on the left side of the front hall to the second floor,

Under the south window on the second floor is an open staff rest area with a modern art style. Zhang Ke invited Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng to sit in the rest area and talk.

To really support this fab project, it is not enough without one or two hundred mature engineers and technicians... Liu Zhicheng sat down and said sincerely. Zhang Ke proposed to recruit more than 30 engineers who had already quit TSMC After taking over, he would naturally guess that Kumho might force the fab project.

Uh, Liu Zhicheng reminded. Zhang Ke nodded. Without a complete technical team, without a core figure like Liu Zhicheng to preside over this project, of course he would not rush into a fab project, but he didn't say that, he just looked into Liu Zhicheng's eyes calmly, With a slight smile, he said, Some things must be done by someone. I don't see wealth very lightly. It's easy to win, but it's easy to lose. It's just that I'm not reconciled that the mainland market with a population of 1.3 billion is only a place for overseas electronics manufacturers to compete. ...

Ah... Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng were slightly moved when they heard this.

To promote a relationship of trust between the two parties. In the past ten days, Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan have also roughly understood the history of Kumho's rise in the past three years. Kumho's market miracle is amazing; He is as handsome as a crucian carp crossing the river, but few people have achieved such brilliant achievements at such a young age as Zhang Ke.

Zhang Ke is a person with a distinctive personality, which makes Kumho also branded with a distinctive color.

Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng believed what Zhang Ke said.

History is always full of coincidences. Even without Liu Zhicheng. Three years later, Zhang Rujing will also lead the crowd to the mainland to prepare for the establishment of SMIC after the merger of World University to TSMC.

Zhang Ke just hopes to advance this historical process by three years.

Although the financial turmoil has just blown through the first round. However, Zhang Ke knows that the development trend is generally not bad. Because the situation in Hong Kong has improved, the financial turmoil may end a few months earlier than another period of history he has experienced.

The next three years will be three years for Japanese and Korean electronics companies to recuperate after suffering heavy setbacks, and it will be a critical era for digital signal technology to completely replace analog signal technology; The rapid development in the country can squeeze the room for Japanese and Korean electronics companies to take advantage of the recovery of the mainland market with a population of 1.3 billion.

These three years are crucial.

If there is a chance, Zhang Ting will try his best to promote this project, although Liu Zhicheng seems to be a little lacking in confidence and has many worries.

Thirty engineers and technicians are far from enough to support this fab project. With two hundred skilled hands, Chen Xinsheng may be able to barely take on the heavy responsibility; If TI wants to poach people, maybe TI will also support Kumho to build a second-rate fab in the mainland-this is the technology that TI has entered the phase-out period.

Of course Zhang Ke had other plans.

By the middle and late 1980s, the integrated circuit industry had been divided into four distinct industrial groups: integrated circuit manufacturing, application design, packaging and testing.

TSMC mainly provides integrated circuit manufacturing services for other electronics manufacturers, including packaging and product testing, but does not involve the application development of specific chip products.

This is the characteristic of Taiwan Electronics Industry Exhibition. With TSMC as the cornerstone, other companies whose main business is chip development and design have achieved great development.

The main supplier of disc player system control chips Taiwan Mingjun Electronics Co., Ltd. developed the technology of disc player system control chips and then entrusted TSMC to produce the final chip products and sell them to various disc player manufacturers.

Aida Electronics also has the ability to develop control chips for disc player systems, but entrusts Texas Instruments to manufacture them.

The foundry model can make TSMC more professional in wafer manufacturing, but it also has its disadvantages. TSMC does not have its own chip products to ensure a stable profit for the company. Once the entire industry falls into a trough, TSMC’s performance will also be greatly affected. affected.

The financial turmoil in Southeast Asia will further spread. Not only will the economic environment of the entire Southeast Asian region deteriorate further, but the economies of Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and other places will inevitably fall into recession, and the Korean economy will be directly damaged by the financial turmoil—I’m afraid no one can be like that. Zhang Ke so clearly predicted that this moment would not be too far away, and TSMC would also be in short-term business difficulties.

This will prompt TSMC's internal conflicts to surface and even intensify.

As long as they can take over the first batch of engineers, when Liu Zhicheng and other engineers under him choose to leave TSMC because they feel that there is no future for them, they will not have many other choices.

In the next two years, major fabs around the world will fall into a short-term dilemma of overcapacity. Zhang Ke is not worried that the engineers under the technology company will choose to leave.

Naturally, Zhang Ke would not express all his heart, he chose a very inspiring speech. It shows Kumho's determination to face difficulties.

After the end of a five-day business visit. Although Liu Zhicheng did not make up his mind, he agreed with Guo Songyan to transfer the shares of the technology company registered in Malaysia to Zhang Ke's company registered in the Cayman Islands, and Zhang Ke injected part of the funds to make the early stage of the project Preparations can continue.

Although Liu Zhicheng no longer has much confidence in this fab investment project at this time, at least he will leave a way out for himself and the engineers under him, and he will not get out of this project immediately. When Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan returned to Hong Kong, Zhang Ke asked Chen Xinsheng to go with him, and also asked Chen Xinsheng to accompany Guo Songyan to Malaysia. The engineers and technicians who are willing to work in the Mainland will first sign up with the Aida Group to return to China to participate in the preparation of the laboratory, and the other engineers and technicians who are hesitant will be placed in a Malaysian technology company to continue to be responsible for the technical preparations for the fab. ——It is not realistic to bring people back to China all at once, but this work must be done unremittingly.

Things didn't actually progress. The Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government did not slack off, but aroused even greater interest.

Luo Jun, secretary of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee, even approached Zhang Ke and asked Kumho if he could undertake the project alone. Zhang Ke told Luo Jun clearly that without Liu Zhicheng and his group of engineering and technical personnel, even if he could obtain some second-rate wafers from Texas Instruments or Singapore For manufacturing technology, Kumho will do it alone, and at most it will build a third-rate factory. And the room for future improvement is very limited.

Luo Jun knew that Zhang Ke had the courage to reject Li Yuanhu. There is no insistence on this, but the position of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee is once again stated. As long as there is a glimmer of possibility, the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will make every effort to fight for it.

Not only did the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government make such a firm statement, but the central government was also very enthusiastic about the project from Ye Zhenmin's anti-radium news.

Ye Zhenmin will visit Singapore in mid-September on behalf of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government and representatives from Hong Kong to discuss cooperation with the Singapore government to jointly resist the impact of the financial turmoil. Vice Premier Zhao Jidong has agreed to send staff from Kumho and Jianye City Government to test the Singapore government The attitude towards moving the fab project to the mainland - this involves whether it can continue to obtain part of the wafer manufacturing technology from Singapore.

In September, Kumho will continue to launch new products such as digital mobile phones and electronic dictionaries. As the general manager of the operation department, Su Jindong will stay at the Haizhou headquarters.

The work of the overseas product research and development center is temporarily in charge of Xiao Jincheng, the general manager of the overseas operation department. Recruitment of overseas students.

Chen Hanzhang is in charge of the work of the ESS experimental base. He must continue to develop the latest product technology, and also consider sending some of the less important research work to China first, and secretly prepare a research team for developing mobile phone baseband chips.

In addition to coordinating the overall situation, the main work of Oak Park was still on the shoulders of Chen Xinsheng. At this time, he was duty-bound to undertake the heavy responsibility of the fab project.

Yuexiu Holdings also adjusted its shareholding at the end of August. Sun Shangyi became the chairman of Yuexiu Holdings. Zhang Ke hoped that when Kumho went to Southeast Asia to pick up fruit, he would be able to play his role. However, at this time, Sun Shangyi wanted to represent Yuexiu Holdings and The Huishan City Government negotiated to inject capital into Xiangxuehai.

The matter of the hedge fund can only be left to Ye Jianbin and Nick Leeson to watch together.