Fang Zhuo has no special requirements for the company’s annual meeting.
He has always felt that it would be better to do something else if he had this time and energy, but since everyone has enthusiasm and expectations, he just doesn't have to do anything awkward.
On the 29th, the songs from the rehearsal program echoed in my mind for a long time before disappearing, and most of the members of the Yangtze River Delta Business Association visiting Europe this time also arrived in Shanghai.
Although the trip to Europe this time was mainly promoted by business associations, the places where companies belong were also more or less involved. One was to protect economic and trade activities, and the other was to see if longer-term exchanges could be formed.
Fang Zhuo made it clear to the Chamber of Commerce that although his trip is mainly focused on semiconductor business, he will try his best to help with funds. At present, ICBC is much more comfortable with loans in this area than it was previously granted to the semiconductor field.
, and there are still talks with the German Bank.
That evening, he had a phone call with Ma Xiliang, the president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, to reconfirm his flight at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Because there are nearly 150 people in the European tour group, they will not take the Qingzi this time, but will travel by chartered flight.
At half past nine, Bingxin's team also arrived in Shanghai. This time, Bingxin's Vice President of Business Development Liao Chaoyong and Vice President of Research and Development Xu Keyu were responsible for more detailed contacts.
Fang Zhuo has already been to Germany once before and conducted some inspections.
Originally, Qiu Ciyun had always been opposed to building a factory in Germany, but the funding policy of German banks, the new round of targeted financing hinted by Fangzhuo, and his rather firm attitude made him think about what he could gain from building a factory in Germany.
Qiu Ciyun knew that Mr. Fang was worried about nip in the bud. His judgment on this point was different. He believed that if there were serious off-site factors, it would be difficult to avoid them even if there were overseas factories.
But thinking about it from another perspective, overseas factories may help Yike develop more international customers.
Semiconductors have encountered an inflection point this year and overall demand has weakened. This makes the 65nm production capacity upgraded by Ice Core a bit embarrassing. The only major international customers currently imported are Qualcomm and AMD. Although the orders of these two companies continue to increase, they are still lower than expected.
Wafer fabs need big brand partners with whom they can continue to cooperate. On the one hand, they have stable production capacity, and on the other hand, they can cooperate on technology upgrades.
For example, although the 45nm currently developed by Bingxin has not yet reached risk trial production, it has jointly developed next-generation process chips with Qualcomm.
Taiji is still the strongest and best in this aspect. It has a wide range of international major customers, and NVIDIA, STM, ADI and other companies are long-term partners.
After Qiu Ciyun was forced to change his thinking, he hoped to use the influence exerted by Germany to obtain more international orders.
Because Infineon, a well-known semiconductor company in Germany, specializes in the field of power semiconductors, he revised Mr. Fang's competitive thinking and believed that we should not focus on short-term attacks and develop the power semiconductor business, but should form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
However, the best technical capabilities for ice cores cannot be placed in Germany.
Therefore, after several discussions, Qiu Ciyun believes that Germany can build a 65nm wafer fab. By the time it is built there, the local manufacturing process will have progressed to 45nm as planned, which is exactly one generation away.
In the second half of 2009, 65nm is definitely still a mainstream mature technology in the world and still has strong competitiveness.
In this way, for the ice core team, the goal of this visit to Europe is very clear. Taking into account Germany's government subsidies, industry stability and the availability of skilled workers, try to include the expansion of regional customers as part of the pre-negotiation conditions.
When choosing a factory location, we basically look at two places, one is Dresden and the other is Magdeburg.
The former is the second largest city in eastern Germany after Berlin. It is an important scientific research center and has the highest proportion of researchers among large cities in Germany.
The latter is in the center of the European continent, with highways, universities and industrial areas nearby, which can meet transportation needs and provide sufficient talents and related production raw materials.
Specific city intentions must be investigated and contacted again in Germany.
If there is no agreement this time, there will be time in the future, and countries that are easy to contact such as Belgium and the Netherlands will be further considered. For example, some of the 90nm process technology introduced by Ice Core came from the Belgian Microelectronics Research Center.
Of course, according to the factors that Fang Zhuo puts first, he is most hoping to promote the establishment of a factory in Germany.
On the morning of the 30th, Fang Zhuo spent half a day communicating with Liao Chaoyong about the purpose of the trip, and confirmed that there were no problems with their mutual understanding. He finally made a phone call to his family before the trip.
This event lasted for two weeks, which also meant that he would be attending the company's annual meeting before the Chinese New Year.
We have gained a lot this year, but we also face risks.
Nokia, Yike's biggest risk, is still working hard in the United States.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the first economic and trade delegation of the Yangtze River Delta Business Association to Europe took a charter flight to Berlin, Germany.
It takes almost fifteen hours to fly from Shanghai to Berlin. Although it takes a long time, everyone on the passenger plane is relatively our own people. This time they are going for orders or investments, so everyone has quite a lot to talk about.
As the richest man in the Mainland and the initiator of this event, Fang Zhuo has to exchange business cards and chat with business leaders who leave their seats from time to time, most of which include "thank you", "care" and "cooperation".
Fang Zhuoneng can clearly feel that everyone's expectations for him are quite high.
To be honest, it was the first time for him to engage in such a large-scale event, and he didn't feel confident, so he took the time to talk about the strangeness he also felt in a very real way.
Although Fang Zhuo has been to Germany for inspection before, the foreign market he is most familiar with is the United States, and he has many friends there. He only has a few connections here such as Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bank.
We are still relatively cautious about what we can really negotiate and what we can really achieve.
The time difference between Shanghai and Berlin is 7 hours.
When the European delegation landed at Berlin Airport, it was 11 o'clock in the middle of the night on the 30th, German time.
However, even though it was late, Germany still attached great importance to organizing a substantial pick-up team.
At the very least, Ma Xiliang, the president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, felt that it was quite important. He heard the translator introduce that the person on the opposite side who was leading the pick-up was the second-in-command of the German economic department.
"Huh? Why didn't Gross come?"
When Ma Xiliang was thinking this, he heard Mr. Fang's whisper.
He asked with some surprise: "Has Gross decided to come?"
Gross is the head of the German economy.
Fang Zhuo frowned and did not answer this question. In fact, the arrangement he had received from Germany before did involve Gross, but now it was someone else.
Is that person temporarily busy or has his level of attention dropped?
Fang Zhuo changed his mind and soon saw that in addition to friends from Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bank, a good friend also appeared in the pick-up team.
After all, it was an economic and trade event. After the two parties introduced each other, shook hands and took pictures, the atmosphere quickly relaxed.
Fang Zhuo walked up to his old friend Luo Jianhua with a half-smile, and punched him on the shoulder with a moderate punch: "Mr. Luo, Mr. Luo, if you don't take good care of your Qimonda, why did you come here to pick him up?"
Me?"
He never expected that Luo Jianhua, the head of Qimonda who had filed for bankruptcy, would show up here.
Luo Jianhua saw that Fang always had such an attitude, and couldn't help but smile: "I heard that Mr. Fang is coming to Germany. I thought that I have to apologize to you in person as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will be too embarrassed to go to China in the future."
Fang Zhuo felt that he and Mr. Luo were not from the same place, so why didn’t he come to Germany?
"Hey, it's a pity about Qimonda. I always thought the German government would regret it." He shook his head and had to mention Qimonda.
"It is difficult in all aspects. Qimonda's bankruptcy is already difficult to recover." Luo Jianhua has been working intensively for more than a month, and many emotions have settled in his heart. He becomes very calm when talking about the company.
When he appeared in the German business group this time, he really felt that he should apologize to Mr. Fang in person, but on the other hand, the last communication with Mr. Fang also came to mind from time to time.
Mr. Fang’s second factory in Lin’an was severely cut off.
However, if Lin'an No. 2 Factory can really switch to the DRAM business, I won't be able to consider reemployment there.
Qimengda fell, but Luo Jianhua could still stand.
Luo Jianhua felt that he could take the time to talk to Mr. Fang about the package sale of Qimonda-related patents. If Mr. Fang was willing, he could come forward to talk to Infineon, the major shareholder of Qimonda, about the disposition of assets.
Anyway, who are you selling to?
Qimonda still owes the ice core OEM fee.
"This year, the world's semiconductor industry is no longer good. It is simply dire straits." Fang Zhuo sighed.
"Half sea water, half fire." Luo Jianhua bankrupted Qimonda, but now he is a little optimistic about the industry, "Samsung is still expanding production, Ice Core will also build a factory in Germany, and Qualcomm heard that its business growth is very good
, I think it is possible for the industry to recover in the second half of this year.”
"It's just an inspection, I'm not sure yet." Fang Zhuo shook his head.
Luo Jianhua said: "No matter how semiconductors are, Yike is always excellent."
"Mr. Luo still pays attention to my Yike?" Fang Zhuo asked.
Luo Jianhua smiled and said, "You can see it."
Fang Zhuo thought this was Mr. Luo observing the mobile phone market.
However, when the pick-up convoy slowly drove out of the airport, a huge billboard appeared in front of us.
——Yike's blockbuster mobile game "Temple Run"!
Past the first billboard, there is a second billboard with lights behind it.
——The King of Android Machines, Yike Mars!
Fang Zhuo pointed out the window: "Did you see that?"
Luo Jianhua nodded: "Yes, I saw it."
That’s the original view.
Two billboards passed by, but the third billboard showed news about factory discounts, and the fourth billboard turned into information about the bank's disposal of non-performing assets.
Half sea water, half fire.
Fang Zhuo looked thoughtfully for a few times. It was because of this economic environment that our Yangtze River Delta delegation to Europe received high-level attention.
"Germany is also looking for ways to dispose of toxic assets. I thought I would see Gross today. He would not be busy with this." Fang Zhuo took back his thoughts and asked about tonight's changes.
"Gross..." Luo Jianhua pondered.
After all, Fang Zhuo was a foreigner and was not as keen on information as a local like Mr. Luo. He felt something strange when he heard his tone and gave him a questioning look.
"The impact of the economic crisis has been too great. Gross has been accused in public opinion of not playing a role in the economic crisis." Luo Jianhua said succinctly, "Now that there is news claiming that he may resign, his CSU party may have some concerns.
Turmoil, I guess I’m not in the mood to ask you about this right now.”
Fang Zhuo frowned: "Resigning at this time... Then who will be replaced?"
"You can ask Merkel face to face in a few days." Luo Jianhua joked, still talking about the news he had heard, "The rumor is that it is Gutenberg, the secretary-general of the CSU, or it may be Brüder of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Well, no matter what the specific situation is, I don’t know.”
He shrugged: "Anyway, everyone's evaluation of Gross is very bad now, and the election will be held in a few months. Resigning at this time is tantamount to leaving Merkel to face a difficult economic situation alone."
Fang Zhuo nodded slightly, which sounded a little unreasonable.
His mind was spinning, thinking about chatting with Mr. Luo about Qimonda, but out of the corner of his eye, he looked at Ma Xiliang in the car, and President Ma wished he could prick up his ears, so he gave up the idea of talking about it.
The company is still going through bankruptcy proceedings. At this time, if outsiders heard me talking to Mr. Luo about Qimonda's more than 12,000 patents, it would be easy to misunderstand him.
More than 12,000 patents include more than 5,000 U.S. patents, involving more than 10 million DRAM technical documents. The corresponding most advanced chip process is 46nm, and the data is about 2.8TB.
It is better to discuss this matter privately.
Anyway, Mr. Luo personally picking him up has shown his subjective initiative, and it is not in vain that Lin'an No. 2 Factory has no regrets about cutting orders from Qimonda.
The motorcade was driving at high speed in the middle of the night, and it was already late. The government and business teams in Germany showed a warm welcome, and there would be positive negotiations the next day.
In the past two days, my family has gradually become positive, and I have no symptoms, so I am probably counting down the time.
This chapter has been completed!