Reinventing the Millennium

The meeting between the head of Bingxin and ASML executives did not achieve much results.

According to the observation of Pan Ben next to him, the boss's mood obviously fell into a deeper level of solemnity. However, what impressed him was that Mr. Fang quickly adjusted his mentality and regained his smile. With Lars' company Next visit ASML.

Even though Lars frequently heard the name of the reporter.

After the visit was over, Fang Zhuo still expressed his position on the cooperation between the two parties: "Lars, Ice Core has invested a lot in technology research and development, and it is increasingly gaining a place in the advanced process market. I know that EUV research and development has a lot of significance. Regardless of the big difficulties, whether it’s technology or funding, Ice Core will be a very reliable partner.”

It is difficult to develop EUV. Even if ASML has delivered a prototype to Taiji, it does not mean that the final result will be realized.

Lars smiled and nodded: "Mr. Fang, we have always been committed and believe that we can make EUV a success. When that day comes, ASML's orders will always be open to customers. Personally, I also think there is no shortage of products in the world." The reason for the goods is that I hope to establish further cooperative relations with Bingxin in the future.”

Fang Zhuo thanked Lars for his company and hospitality, ending the fruitless journey.

The group of people left in a car.

Pan Ben saw that even though his boss was looking at the scenery outside the car window, his smile seemed to be engraved on his face.

He thought about what he saw and heard for a while, and then his eyes were attracted by the fire truck extinguishing the spontaneous combustion vehicle on the roadside, and he said casually: "This ASML oil and salt can't get in, I really want to burn it with a fire."

Fang Zhuo was furious: "Is this your level, Mr. Pan? If someone doesn't sell it to you, you will set it on fire? Real progress is determined technological investment and sustained ecological win-win! What do you think this is?! "

"Is this how you look at European business? Is this how ambitious you are?"

"Okay, okay, I'll let you, the European CEO, light the fire yourself. You'll go there tomorrow with the oil drum! I'll see how you burn it!!"

Pan Ben looked disgraced after being scolded. He didn't expect that his emotional words would trigger such a reaction from his boss.

He secretly thought that he was unlucky, knowing that Mr. Fang was in a bad mood, and he was caught in the crossfire.

Fang Zhuo was still not finished and pointed out the reason why Pan Ben was so ignorant: "Mr. Pan, President Pan, you are no longer at IDG. Don't bring Old Xiong's unhealthy tendencies to our Yike again. You are responsible for the European business." , we should be more cautious in our words and deeds!”

Pan Ben said yes again and again, deeply realizing that his thinking was wrong, and it was all his fault that Mr. Xiong did not take care of him in the first place.

After arriving at the hotel, Mr. Fang went back to his room to rest. Pan Ben, who was quite depressed, was walking outside the hotel to smoke. Soon, he saw Mr. Fang's secretary Liu Zonghong coming over to take a cigarette with him.

Halfway through the cigarette, Liu Zonghong said: "Mr. Pan, EUV involves a lot, and Mr. Fang is also in a bad mood."

"Yes, I know." Pan Ben nodded, "Hey, it's okay. Mr. Fang is right. You have to be open-minded and look at it from a long-term development perspective."

Liu Zonghong nodded silently. Mr. Pan did make a mistake. At least it was a mistake in positioning. This kind of unbroad-minded thing should not be done by you.

Pan Ben smoked his second cigarette and his mentality had adjusted. When talking about ASML's EUV, he said: "I feel that Mr. Fang pays special attention to ASML. Is there any argument inside the ice core? I don't seem to see Dr. Liang in the materials. Views."

Liu Zonghong shook his head: "Dr. Liang is not responsible for this. The main thing is that Mr. Qiu and the others are in charge."

He paused and said what he heard from Mr. Fang and what he was thinking about: "Well, like the 3100 that ASML is assembling for Taiwan reporters in Baodao, if the ice core cannot get the prototype in the future, it will be like pulling the As Charles said, it will take four to five years before it is fully commercialized. The difference in these four to five years is not only the photolithography machine, but also the accumulation of technology and experience used in production."

"This is know-how. It's not enough to buy it. You have to have time to digest and advance it."

"Well, it's like many people can buy the same top-notch photography equipment, but they still can't compete with top photographers."

Pan Ben's eyes lit up, and he felt that Mr. Fang's words were really profound and simple.

After Liu Zonghong took the last puff of his cigarette, he hesitated for a moment and did not talk about the dispute over the technical route within the ice core. However, the reporter's side seemed to have clearly decided on a good direction.

He just smiled and said: "Although Mr. Fang is in a bad mood, ASML also has psychological expectations. After all, it is more about the future. There is still work that needs to be done solidly."

Pan Ben nodded slightly, his work belongs to now.

I have to say that talking to Secretary Liu made me feel better.

He patted Liu Zonghong on the shoulder and returned to the hotel with him.

When Liu Zonghong and Mr. Pan separated, he opened the boss's room again and saw a few new faces inside. Mr. Fang was chatting on the phone by the window. After hearing a few sentences, the content was not what he thought, but serious. Problem communication.

"What's the rush? There are objective laws for technological progress and development. I am a person who respects laws."

"Besides, we still have the accumulation of FinFET research going forward. Not only is it better than Taiwan Ji, but at least it is at the forefront of the world. This is not overtaking in a corner, it is a matter of accumulation and accumulation."

"I have high hopes for them."

Fang Zhuo smiled and chatted on the phone, turned around and talked a little more about his trip to Europe. He first waved to the people in the room, and then motioned for Liu Zonghong to sit down.

Liu Zonghong nodded at these new faces and saw their figures disappear from the room. He first poured a cup of tea for the boss, then sat down and picked up a local newspaper.

He listened to the call for a while, and roughly knew that the other end was Dr. Jiang Shangzhou from SMIC.

Sure enough, the boss mentioned Dr. Jiang's physical condition when he ended the call.

"I originally wanted to meet Dr. Jiang when I went back. It seems that he has been recuperating in the capital these days." Fang Zhuo put his phone on the coffee table and took the teacup handed by his secretary.

Liu Zonghong said: "I helped contact foreign experts before, but the situation was not good."

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly. He had called Dr. Jiang two years ago and two years ago. Judging from the sound of the call, he was not in a good state.

He sighed and did not talk about it anymore. He just said: "Fortunately, SMIC's performance is not bad and it is already recovering. He must be very pleased with this."

"I heard that Datang is going to strengthen cooperation with SMIC, and SMIC seems to be interested in making more efforts in the country." Liu Zonghong pays more attention to the news.

Fang Zhuo thought for a while, and before he could say anything, he saw another call coming from the cell phone on the coffee table.

This time it was a friend from the United States.

"There are still many people who care about me." Fang Zhuo said with a smile before answering the call from Washington.

Liu Zonghong also laughed, and after he finished laughing, he got up and left the room, looking for materials that his boss might want to read later.

He lingered outside for a while before coming back in. Mr. Fang's call ended again.

"Since the world is at peace, let's go to the United States at the end of next month or early April to visit my team, Steve Jobs, and our friends." Fang Zhuo set a time.

Liu Zonghong understood that there was probably an extra layer of safety factor.

After attending the exhibition, visiting Deutsche Telekom, and meeting with ASML to no avail, this trip to Europe was basically over. Fang Zhuo's departure abroad only caused some ripples in a small circle.

Even though there is the nickname of the mysterious man and the deeds of the King of Retail Investors, those have passed, and the general public is more concerned about other news.

When Fang Zhuo and his party left the Netherlands, he did not fly back to China immediately. Instead, accompanied by Pan Ben, he inspected Yike's business situation in Europe. He also received a temporary invitation from France and diverted to check out the investment environment.

Ice Core's initial investment and construction of a factory in Germany also fell into the eyes of neighboring countries. This time, Fang Zhuo's invitation was firstly because he came to Europe, and secondly, the German side had recently publicly praised the success of this overseas factory.

Fang Zhuo himself actually doesn’t think that Ice Core’s overseas wafer fabs are very successful, but this is indeed a bright spot in the situation where European wafer foundry companies are declining one after another.

In particular, for the last round of financing before the launch of Ice Core, Fang Zhuo communicated with Germany and promised to reinvest advanced process technology and funds. This is very optimistic in Germany against the background of the rebound of the global semiconductor industry.

Of course, this may also be related to the overall trend of Sino-German relations.

Since the financial crisis, cooperation between the two sides has gradually increased. In June this year, it is said that there will be a consultation mechanism to comprehensively promote the strategic partnership between the two countries. This is the eighth country that Germany has established a similar mechanism. Five of the previous seven are in Europe. , the other two are Israel and India, and for China, this is the first time for foreign countries.

The reason why Fang Zhuo got the news in advance was because the Yangtze River Delta business group had normalized European trade activities in the past two years. He himself was also named and hoped to travel with the group as a business representative at the end of June.

This matter has been agreed upon.

Fang Zhuo will take Qiu Ciyun and the others with him at that time, intending to see if he can take the opportunity to open up some sales for overseas orders of Bingxin. As for Bingxin's overseas factory, one of its current competition issues is between Infineon, STMicroelectronics and enterprises. Their strong working relationship requires a gap.

On February 27, Fang Zhuo ended his European trip and returned to Shanghai.

The first interesting news he saw after landing was from Sony. The old jazz was indeed right. Sony's financial report showed a small loss of US$190 million last year, and the overall business is expected to rebound in 2011.

In addition, domestic reports focused on some Chinese brand news from MWC 2011, praising the response received by companies such as Yike and Meizu.

That night, Fang Zhuo made no other arrangements. The whole family had dinner together, and he also gave himself a day off, intending to relieve the fatigue of this trip.

The dinner was all very pleasant, except for the fact that my mother, Zhao Shumei, frequently praised the public response to Tesco's listing, such as "new domestic giants", "Chinese business women", and "Amazon of the East"...

"Mom, this version of yours is lagging behind, what else can you say now?" Fang Zhuo couldn't help but said after hearing it for a while, feeling tired.

Zhao Shumei glared at her son, a master at pretending to be confused.

But she couldn't say anything directly. It was up to her to think about it. Su Wei had worked hard to build Tesco, and it was still on the rise, so it was hard to mention it too much.

"Ahem, I just think that Weiwei is really awesome, and I feel happy, right?" Zhao Shumei praised her in return.

Fang Zhuo nodded repeatedly: "Yeah, yeah."

Su Wei saw the inner meaning and just smiled without saying a word.

After finally finishing a dinner, Fang Zhuo was sitting on a deck chair in the yard thinking about things. When he saw Teacher Xiao Su sitting next to him, he casually talked about his trip to Europe.

Su Wei was concerned about one thing first, the safety situation and whether there was any abnormality.

Secondly, she picked the key point, and Bingxin was declined by ASML again.

"Alas, when Pan Ben was in Yike, when he saw us being rejected, he said he wanted to set fire to it. I felt like..." Fang Zhuo sighed, "I am in serious business after all."

Su Wei changed her thoughts and quickly asked and answered: "Is EUV really that important?"

"Well, I asked Mr. Qiu to ask Belgian Microelectronics again. It has a project cooperation with ASML. I hope we can mediate again." Fang Zhuo replied, "It is indeed very important."

Su Wei asked again: "Can it really succeed?"

Fang Zhuo nodded: "It can succeed."

Su Wei didn't ask about the basis for her judgment, but finally asked: "Can we do it rigorously?"

Fang Zhuo hesitated and did not answer. Listening to Teacher Xiao Su's tone, she was about to urge herself to do it.

However, there are many things that fall into traps due to self-righteousness.

Su Wei didn't answer the man in front of her. She probably guessed that the situation was indeed more difficult this time, otherwise she wouldn't be so entangled.

She thought carefully for a while and suddenly said: "I see that the competition between Yike and Penguin before and after years ago is very systematic. This time, since we know that ASML is the first customer to deliver the prototype, and also knows about the technical difficulties and financial problems, we even We have already made personnel arrangements, so why don’t we do it in a systematic way?”

After the Lantern Festival in China, some media conducted a comprehensive review of the competition between Yike and Penguin. Among them, Yike's system battle was most praised by everyone.

In the past 16 months, Penguin has been extremely passive under review. Its failure in core business will be a case written into the textbooks.

After Fang Zhuo left ASML, he had a burning passion in his heart. What he was thinking about was unconventional means. Now when he heard Teacher Xiao Su say this, the name of the company that ranked in front of the ice core suddenly appeared—— Taiji, Samsung, Imec, Intel, Toshiba, Hynix.

It is said that these six companies will gradually obtain ASML prototypes.

Well, they are all well-known big companies.

Can Bing Xin join the queue?

If I can’t jump in line, can I create a situation for Bingxin to jump in line?

Apart from anything else, Toshiba's recent performance has been mediocre, and it seemed that last year it was a small loss.

Fang Zhuo's thoughts were flowing in his mind, and he suddenly had a lot of ideas. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that this system of combat was very inspiring.

He said sincerely: "Teacher Xiao Su is indeed a strong business woman. Listening to your words is worth ten years of studying."

Su Wei said modestly: "I'm just helping you find yourself."