Reinventing the Millennium

Fang Zhuo occasionally suffers from minor illnesses, which disrupts the rhythm of work and life.

But since I am in Yike, I would like to say that letting go is not easy.

He pushes things to go, and things push him to go.

Everything that can be put in front of him is necessary, and there are so many necessary things. This makes Fang Zhuo think about how Dongzi put down his work and went to the United States to study and fall in love.

On April 25, Fang Zhuo received another call from an American friend.

Because we haven’t seen each other for a long time, everyone misses the happy time of playing golf together.

Although Fang Zhuo had not played a few games together, he also talked about golf with gusto, mentioned the gasoline man who was doing research in Japan, and talked about his flight from Japan to New York in the near future.

Keywords, "Japan research", "Fly to New York"...

This made American friends think deeply. The notorious manager Kong must have smelled something when he traveled from Europe to Japan, and Mr. Fang's mention of it in this way was also a signal.

As for what channels and cooperation space there are, we can wait until the manager Kong comes.

Fang Zhuo also talked about postponing the trip to July on the phone, and then he would enjoy the golf course with his good friends.

After the call ended, he immediately called Gasoline Man and talked about his research and expectations in Japan. Judging from the current preliminary data, there must be something wrong with Olympus.

Kong Yu was not too surprised by the desire for American friends. When security gradually becomes less of a concern, how to use more power to muddy the situation is something worth thinking about.

This time, Japanese companies may have engaged in fraudulent activities. From the perspective of Olympus and Toshiba, the situation of many companies is quite worrying.

However, Kong Yu's team has also encountered problems now. Although they conducted investigations based on the abnormal data provided by IDC, Japan has no foundation after all, and it is not very easy to do things.

Kong Yu is considering looking for a suitable leading organization in Tokyo to see if he can get a bigger breakthrough.

It was just such a phone call that Fang Zhuo suddenly remembered that in addition to suspected financial fraud, there seemed to be a well-known situation in Japan regarding Japanese manufacturing fraud. Car companies? Steel company?

Fang Zhuo didn't know much about this aspect, but he had an idea in his mind. He assessed the direction and team, and considered the possibility of packaging a scandal.

If we can figure out something in this regard, there may be a wave of blood flowing from Japanese companies.

However, with the slight progress of Gasoline Man, Stringer and Sony are becoming more and more inclined to sacrifice the flag.

In the afternoon, Fang Zhuo happily participated in the city's work meeting, listened carefully to the ideas from the leaders, and also spoke about Yike's development experience.

The meeting didn't take too long, but Zheng Danrui, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, specifically chatted with Fang Zhuo after the meeting.

"I haven't seen you for a while, but you are..." Zheng Danrui looked at Fang Zhuo, who was smiling, and praised, "You have become kinder."

Fang Zhuo's first reaction was to ridicule himself.

Later, I felt that it was not necessary.

"Now we are kind-hearted, but what about before?" Fang Zhuo did not create distance because of the change in their status.

Zheng Danrui smiled slightly: "I used to be Jianmei Xingmu, and I am also top-notch among you businessmen."

He also smiled when he saw Fang Zhuo, and chatted a few more words about the development of Yike and Shencheng, and then sighed: "Mr. Fang, your Yike is doing very well now, and I hope to learn more about your successful experience from Yike in the future."

Fang Zhuo changed his mind and tried a little with a smile: "I'm in Shencheng. I'm always on call here."

"I may do some business work after the year." Zheng Danrui lowered his voice slightly, "I hope to see more good companies, big companies, and strong companies like Yike, and I also hope that Mr. Fang can talk more and share more about you. experience of."

Fang Zhuo understood that his brother was changing places.

He immediately smiled and said: "That's no problem, I'm eager to let everyone know that our Yi Keduo is successful."

Zheng Danrui stretched out his hand and shook it, knowing that this was Mr. Fang showing off his superficial attitude of not being annoying, so he did not continue to talk about this, but said: "There is a meeting in Zhangjiang next door. There are many semiconductor companies. It is probably about to end. Now, do you want to wait a moment?"

Fang Zhuo nodded and said goodbye to this leader whom he had known for more than ten years. In ten years, only...

The meeting next door did not last long, and when the door to the conference room opened, most of the people who came out were familiar faces.

Although Bingxin is headquartered in Luzhou, which has also reshaped the industrial ecology, the mature environment in Zhangjiang has not been wasted, whether it is the sensor production line in cooperation with Sony or the recently acquired "Huali Phase I" and Grace Semiconductor. Here, it can be regarded as an equally important role as SMIC.

The leader who had just walked out of the conference room saw Mr. Fang outside and was stunned for a moment. He immediately took this person's arm and dragged him into the conference room: "Come on, come on, Mr. Fang is outside. I just want to let him chat for a few more words." "

"What are you talking about? What's there to talk about? I just happened to be attending a meeting. I heard there was a meeting here and wanted to say hello." Fang Zhuo stopped the deputy district chief and said, "Next time, next time, hurry back. It’s time to eat.”

Wang Ningguo, CEO of SMIC, was also there and said with a smile: "It's better to choose a different day. Let's eat together in the evening."

Fang Zhuo was very moved, today was a good time.

"You eat, you eat, the company will wait for me to go back for another meeting in the evening." The person who spoke out was Yin Zhiyao, the head of China Microelectronics Corporation.

Fang Zhuo and Yin Zhiyao are also familiar with each other. AMEC is an A-level supplier assessed by the Wafer Alliance. Ice Core has cooperated with it in the Shencheng factory and Lin'an factory. This time, the same goes for "Huali Phase 1" and Grace Semiconductor. There is a tender.

"It takes a long time to eat at last minute. Everyone is busy, so just eat a few bites in a hurry, and you won't be happy. I will treat everyone to dinner another day." When Fang Zhuo saw what Mr. Yin said, he changed his mind.

The Ice Core Wafer Manufacturing Service Alliance has now been renamed the China Wafer Manufacturing Service Alliance, and most of the people who came here for the meeting today are members of the alliance.

Jiang Shangzhou once said that Fang Zhuo was already the leader of the alliance. Although he was joking, it was also a bit of a reaction to the status quo.

Everyone greeted Mr. Fang one after another, chatted more or less, and then dispersed.

Fang Zhuo had a final chat with the district leader. When he walked out, he saw Yin Zhiyao from Zhongwei waiting for him.

"Hey, Mr. Fang, let's go and take my car." Yin Zhiyao smiled.

Fang Zhuo did not refuse.

However, he didn't expect that the first thing Mr. Yin talked about after getting in the car was Dr. Jiang's condition.

"I went to see Jiang Shangzhou yesterday. His mental state was not very good." Yin Zhiyao frowned, his voice was quite calm, "When we talked about Bingxin and Sinocore, he suddenly became energetic."

Fang Zhuo said "hmm" and said, "I asked my secretary to sort out the ice core information today and plan to have it sent to the hospital tomorrow to prevent him from getting bored."

"Well, if he hadn't persuaded me to come back, I wouldn't have come back to engage in Zhongwei." Yin Zhiyao said, recalling the past.

Yin Zhiyao is Jiang Shangzhou's senior brother in Beijing No. 4 Middle School. In 2004, at the latter's invitation with all his strength, he returned to China to found China Micro. Before that, he worked in companies such as Intel, Fanlin, and Applied Materials, accumulating 86 A US patent and more than 200 international patents, he is known as "one of the most accomplished Chinese in Silicon Valley".

Under the leadership of Yin Zhiyao, AMEC successfully developed the first-generation 45nm etching machine in just 3 years. However, his old employer Applied Materials sued for stealing secrets. The reason was that AMEC had more than 30 people. It came from Applied Materials. To have such research and development results in such a short period of time must be a secret.

However, before returning to China, Yin Zhiyao promised not to bring back American technology, and indeed adopted newer concepts of technology. He specifically avoided the patent minefields of his opponents during the research and development process, and applied for more than 1,000 patent protections.

In this way, all subsequent lawsuits with giants such as Fanlin were settled or won.

Later, AMEC took the lead in breaking through 5nm etching technology and became the only semiconductor equipment manufacturer in the mainland to supply Taiji. It is one of its top five plasma etching equipment manufacturers.

Fang Zhuo knew about the relationship between Yin Zhiyao and Dr. Jiang, but he was more familiar with each other through the wafer alliance's information and production line bidding, because this is one of the few domestic manufacturers that can be verified by the Luzhou factory.

Because of this, foreign institutions led by the Wafer Alliance have given China Microelectronics a great deal of financial support after the 2008 financial crisis, hoping that this field can make further progress.

Similarly, the big funds above also invested money.

"The better Zhongwei is, the more proud Dr. Jiang will be of his decision to go all out to invite you back." Fang Zhuo comforted the head of Zhongwei.

Yin Zhiyao nodded. He wanted to talk about Jiang Shangzhou but felt that it was useless to talk more. As Mr. Fang said, the development of China Micro and Bingxin was what his junior wanted to see most.

He asked about news related to Ice Core: "Mr. Fang, I heard that Ice Core will conduct trial production of 32nm this year in the third quarter?"

Fang Zhuo hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Yesterday I spoke to Mr. Qiu. It will be July at the earliest. I also want to bring Dr. Jiang to Luzhou to have a look. If Mr. Yin is willing, we will Let's go through it together, risk trial production in July, and increase the yield rate later, and we may be closer to the Taiwan record."

"Taiwan's 28nm will be released by the end of the year?" Yin Zhiyao said uncertainly.

"Not bad, their progress is still very fast." Fang Zhuo mused, "I'm afraid 28nm will become a sweet node."

That is, a process node with a relatively long life cycle.

"Based on this, we are only one generation away from official mass production." Yin Zhiyao said with excitement.

Fang Zhuo opened his mouth. It would be fine if it were calculated this way. However, the results of the 28nm process verification within the ice core have not yet been produced, and the internal gap is still relatively large.

The development of ice core manufacturing processes has always been in line with the development of smartphone chips. At first, the cooperation with Qualcomm was a rush and a slow process. Now it is a little more relaxed, but it is indeed not the time to relax yet.

Yin Zhiyao suddenly saw Mr. Fang today. He was thinking about his junior brother in the hospital bed, just chatting about his feelings, and had no other special thoughts. Hearing the good news at this moment, the depression of the past few days was somewhat diluted.

He got interested in talking and talked a lot along the way, including the situation before and after returning to China, the current research and development progress of China Micro, and the ongoing lawsuit with his old employer.

"Mr. Yin, if you need help with the lawsuit, you can talk to me, or you can talk to the alliance." Fang Zhuo expressed concern after hearing the lawsuit.

"I know that Mr. Fang has some friends overseas." Yin Zhiyao suddenly paused, "There are also some rich friends."

Fang Zhuo's expression remained unchanged. There were some rumors about the Wafer Alliance taking the lead in investing from foreign institutions, but rumors were just rumors after all, so let it go.

"Everything is for development. We at Bingxin are gearing up, especially Dr. Liang. He is waiting for the day when he can catch up with Taiji." Fang Zhuo said.

"I heard that Dr. Liang will be elected as an academician this year." Yin Zhiyao said with a smile.

Fang Zhuo nodded and smiled: "I hope there will be no problem."

Yin Zhiyao was very sure that with Bingxin's current influence in the country, Liang Mengsong's honor should be guaranteed.

The car stopped slowly.

"Mr. Fang, the company has food, let's have a meal together?" Yin Zhiyao invited.

"Okay, Mr. Yin sent everyone else away, so let's start a small stove, right?" Fang Zhuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"We would like to take this opportunity to talk about our plan for the ice core Luzhou factory again, and hope that Mr. Fang can correct it." Yin Zhiyao was very serious and introduced the company's situation, "Our MOCVD has been almost completed recently. This It is a new direction pioneered by China Micro.”

Fang Zhuo readily agreed.

…

April time flies by.

Fang Zhuo remained quiet in Shanghai, silently handling the work brought about by the expansion of ice core.

According to the newly changed itinerary, he plans to resolve the hidden health problems at the end of May or early June, and then take half a month's rest before flying to the United States to try a new working situation.

However, he remained quiet, and Yi Ke did not stop.

With the free strategy of Amap, the map navigation market is gradually becoming more and more intense.

When the three giants Penguin, Baidu, and Yike emerged in this field, Alibaba, which had recently been plagued by Alipay public opinion, finally stepped aside and announced that it would enter this market through acquisitions.

The four giants are wrestling. In addition to the shock and wait-and-see of the navigation market itself, the outside world's perception of this is the looming confrontation in the era of giants.

Either take a shareholding, acquire, or build your own. When the giants spread like an octopus, how do you choose?

On May 8, news in the group buying market seemed to confirm the difficulties faced by small and medium-sized entrepreneurs in the face of competition from giants. Li Guoqing, the founder of Dangtuan.com, spoke out on Weibo, accusing Penguin of laying off some city teams without reason.

Li Guoqing is still very famous, whether it is his early qualifications at Dangdang.com, the turmoil in the group buying market in the past two years, or the Qingzi account flying in the sky, but he actually tried to pressure Penguin in this way.

Many people think that Guizhou Donkey must have run out of skills.

The problem is, if even a man like Mr. Li, who has repeatedly failed and fought, has fallen into such a situation and become a victim of the confrontation between giants, then... this world is indeed not easy to live in.