Reinventing the Millennium

Fang Zhuo’s itinerary in Qindao is three days.

In fact, whether from the perspective of ice core or service alliance, the development of semiconductors here in Qindao does not require too much attention. Although there are Zhang Rujing's large silicon wafers here, the overall situation still needs development.

Perhaps because of the impetus brought by Luzhou's investment in ice cores, many domestic cities are thinking about betting on key enterprises, hoping to build a domestic semiconductor industry base.

It was under this situation that Qindao issued a sincere invitation after Zhang Rujing was forced to leave SMIC.

The two parties hit it off right away. Zhang Rujing himself was restricted by Taiwan reporters and could only make a few choices. Qindao felt that core links in the industry chain like ice core were hard to come by, and looking at the domestic market, it was better to go upstream. Deeply cultivate and engage in research on raw materials and other aspects.

There is also a continuation of the first, second, and third generation semiconductor materials. If there can be breakthroughs in compounds such as SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride), the application scenarios will be quite wide.

In addition to these, Qindao itself has Haier, Hisense and other companies that can meet demand. Not only domestically, it can also radiate to Shandong Province.

This is the plan, but Fang Zhuo and his party really haven't had anything interesting to see yet.

Fang Zhuo listened to Zhang Rujing talk about large silicon wafers for one day. On the second day, he attended the leadership meeting. On the third day, everyone walked around Qindao semi-casually. By the way, he knocked out an ice core to cooperate on Qindao. Plans for a raw materials research laboratory.

On the fourth day, on the one hand, many people from the Wafer Service Alliance finished their work and came to Qindao to meet up. On the other hand, Zhang Rujing followed them, and everyone took the opportunity to head to the capital.

Zhang Rujing was still feeling emotional on the plane.

"There are people who have money and factories and can make decisions. Mr. Fang, your team is really strong now."

"A laboratory doesn't cost much." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "The leadership is enthusiastic, and I won't be embarrassed to leave after I eat and drink well."

"Hey, III-compound semiconductor materials, silicon carbide and oxide semiconductor materials are actually industry opportunities, but our investment is still small. As long as we are willing to work hard for a few years, we will definitely be able to accumulate a lot in the future." Zhang Rujing said.

"Ever since I started making ice cores, I have heard this saying all the time. Mr. Zhang, is it five years or ten years for you?" Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "It's like a teacher praising someone. The advantage of this child is that he is smart. He is determined to study and get into 985, but his shortcoming is that he doesn’t study.”

Zhang Rujing chose the middle number: "Seven or eight years of accumulation is necessary."

"Mr. Liu, let me make a note. After seven years, I will ask Mr. Zhang for the results, and I will pay him personally." Fang Zhuo turned to the Secretary General of the Service Alliance, Liu Yangyang.

"It's great to have money..." Zhang Rujing had the same emotion again.

"Well, Mr. Zhang, I have something good to do to make money that I am thinking about." Fang Zhuo stepped forward and said, "The work of the service alliance is too slow. We started to do domestic supply at the end of 2006." business, but this ratio is increasing too slowly.”

The Ice Core Factory produces advanced processes, and its production line equipment has always been the best and cannot be easily replaced. However, the production lines of Lin'an No. 2 Factory and Shencheng No. 3 Factory are trying to promote the use of domestic equipment.

At the end of 2006, the domestic production rate of equipment at Lin'an No. 2 Factory was 4%.

This year, that number has increased to 11%.

This is already the result of the Wafer Service Alliance formulating standards, leading funds, and coordinating work.

From single digits to double digits in one fell swoop, from the overall perspective of a weak industry, the progress is quite large, but from the perspective of dependence, it can only be said that the results are not much.

"This is something that cannot be rushed. I feel that Mr. Liu's work has been very good, and the service alliance has done a very practical job." Zhang Rujing thought for a while and said, "The most important thing now is to catch up with the ice core production process. If the core can obtain a license from the United States, it must make full use of this condition. When our market is up, it will naturally lead to an improvement in the overall level."

He was actually a little surprised by Mr. Yu Fang's impatience.

Bingxin hopes to compete with Taiwanese in the next few years. Now is the time to invest money, focus on research and development, and strive for speed. Why bother focusing on other things?

What's more, there is already a wafer manufacturing service alliance doing this.

"I'm afraid that Bingxin won't be able to get the next permit." Fang Zhuo said bluntly.

Zhang Rujing pondered, Bingxin and SMIC both have procurement licenses. It was really difficult to get the license for the first time, but it was much smoother the second time.

He has different feelings on this point. He is more optimistic about future development. With economic globalization, everyone is more closely connected.

only……

Zhang Rujing said more cautiously: "It is right to be prepared, but you must also know what to focus on."

Recently, technical differences within the ice core have not yet been resolved, involving issues across the entire industry chain, which require more action from above.

Zhang Rujing was willing to help a group of domestic manufacturers when he was at SMIC, but it must be said that it is a reality that he is too far behind.

Anyway, he feels that Mr. Fang can see all-round breakthroughs at his age, one is the development of the economy and market, and the other is that he will always be on the verge of physical limits.

In particular, as the latter approaches, the number of players who can afford it will quickly decrease.

"Well, I have many friends in the United States, but my judgment on this point is different." Fang Zhuo spoke concisely and did not argue with Mr. Zhang on this point. Instead, he went on to say, "There is a lack of domestic equipment suppliers." Stable iteration, I don’t know how long it will take to rely on the market alone.”

By the time the competition gets tight, it's time, but it's too late.

Zhang Rujing was a little confused and couldn't figure out what Mr. Fang wanted to express. Could it be that he had other lobbying tasks with him on this trip to the capital?

"I've been thinking recently, especially looking at IDC's data forecasts. Automotive electronics is developing very quickly, and the technical difficulty in this area is relatively low. Maybe we can try to build a backward production line using domestic + non-American products, which can be considered a first-class production line. A kind of stress test." Fang Zhuo said seriously.

He paused and continued: "I see that Huahong has set up a No. 5 factory in Zhangjiang and wants to build a new production line. Maybe we can buy it back for testing."

Zhang Rujing looked at Mr. Fang with an extremely strange look.

He understood.

Mr. Fang took a step forward from taking precautions and became paranoid about being persecuted.

Because domestic equipment manufacturers cannot provide advanced equipment, they will build a non-advanced production line to adapt downwards.

Because even if you adapt downward, you cannot build a complete production line, so you need to use non-American equipment to integrate it.

This makes it impossible to build advanced processes, so we have to focus on the automotive electronics field with non-advanced processes.

Is it competitive? Will you lose money? How much effect can it bring?

These have taken a back seat.

Also, Huahong has to buy the production lines planned by others. If it falls behind, it will be beaten, right?

Zhang Rujing really couldn't understand Mr. Fang's paranoia in this regard, but the strength of the man in front of him seemed to be really unpredictable, and the resources he could leverage were extraordinary.

He said in a tone of laughter: "Mr. Fang?"

"I am rich." Fang Zhuo stopped talking about friends at this time, pointed at himself with his index finger, and spoke in a deep tone.

Zhang Rujing was stunned for a moment and murmured: "It's great to have two bad money."

Mr. Fang today is no better than he was back then. Back then, he was poaching people from his own side, cheating money from venture capital investors, and desperately looking for customers from abroad...

Now that the army is strong and the horse is strong, and the money is extremely rich, the market cannot force it, so Mr. Fang will end up forcing him...

When invisible hands couldn't produce the desired results, Mr. Fang stretched out his visible hands.

This is substituting one’s own heart for Heaven’s heart.

Zhang Rujing thought about it, not knowing where to persuade him or whether he should persuade him.

After a while, he said: "Is Huahong willing to sell it?"

Fang Zhuo replied calmly: "Well, this is a big problem."