The big thing has been decided.

Although the accumulated power is digging holes for SMIC, it is very unkind.

But the old saying goes, shopping malls are like battlefields.

This is the cruelty of normal business competition.

In order to seize the market, either you die or I live.

The CPC has agreed to a "out-of-court settlement", so it is a question of how much to pay.

Even if it doubles the $175 million they proposed, as long as the dispute can be resolved once and for all, Ye Feng believes it is worth it.

In later generations, the demand for chips in China was unimaginable.

As long as SMIC maintains the generation difference between CNK and CNK only has one generation, and it even catches up.

You can earn it easily.

If the gap is more than the second generation, basically no manufacturer will come to order the order. SMIC will fall into a Jedi.

The mysterious conference room finally opened.

The senior executives of the SMIC were waiting outside anxiously.

Seeing Zhang Rujing, Xu Wenyang and Ye Feng coming out one after another, everyone was excited.

"Dr. Zhang!"

"Xu-Mayor-Mayor"

"Mr. Ye..."

Everyone greeted him one by one, and it can be said that these three people are the three who decide the fate of SMIC.

Zhang Rujing laughed at Ye Feng and said, "Mr. Ye, you rarely come to the company. Why not take this opportunity to get to know each other. Let me introduce it to you."

Today, the old man's lawsuit against Jidian was resolved, and the old man felt like he was unloading a big stone in his heart.

Pointing to the elites who came over, he said, "This is Dr. Liu Yong from the General Manager's Office. He has been with me for many years."

"This is Dr. Deng Juewei, the director of the wafer factory, and a chip veteran."

"This is our money bag, Mark, the chief financial officer..."

"This is……"

Ye Feng had sharp eyes and suddenly saw his senior brother Song Yuanting waved shyly at him in the crowd.

Ye Feng smiled and said, "This is my senior brother Song Yuanting... Haha, Dr. Zhang, he didn't cause trouble for you."

"Hey, this is the most promising young man I have ever met." Zhang Rujing praised:

"After all, the world belongs to you young people. Yuanting, this child, has good skills and strong abilities, is worthy of training. I am going to transfer him to the memory business department as the head of the memory business department, to stand alone."

"ah……"

Hearing Zhang Rujing's amazing words.

Song Yuanting was shocked. Even the senior officials behind him were surprised.

After Song Yuanting returned from Intel's internship in the United States, he joined SMIC. He worked as a process engineering project in the wafer factory and chip manufacturing workshop. He was later transferred to SMIC headquarters as a manager, responsible for corporate culture. Unexpectedly, he would be sent to the memory business department to be the head of the memory business department.

No wonder he was mobilized so hard, because Dr. Zhang Rujing wanted to train him.

Ye Feng patted Song Yuanting on the shoulder, "Senior Brother, congratulations in advance. I will be in the evening, so let's find a place to gather."

Ye Feng was relieved to hear that Song Yuanting was responsible for SMIC's memory business.

In his previous life, SMIC's memory business was really regrettable.

Before 2008, SMIC maintained its industry-leading level in memory technology, and Fujitsu, Infineon and others were all major customers of SMIC.

However, SMIC, which was severely damaged in litigation compensation, was then hit hard by the financial crisis that began in 2008.

SMIC's major customer Qimengda (the memory business department independent from Infineon) announced its bankruptcy, which eventually completely destroyed SMIC's memory business and withdrew from the memory market.

Thousands of kilometers away, another chip tycoon, Samsung Electronics, made Zhang Rujing's countercyclical expansion strategy that he was best at, and after the subprime mortgage crisis, he became the world's leading memory chip manufacturer with the rise of smartphones. Its Dram product market accounts for about 48%, and Nand product market accounts for about 35.4%. The former is mainly used for memory, while the latter is used for flash memory for storing data. Two types of products are widely used in the mobile phone, computer and server market.

By 2018, when Ye Feng was reborn, the global memory chip market size was US$100 billion, and Samsung accounted for half of the market. Samsung, which monopolizes the market, began to raise prices continuously, and the crazy memory sticks increased by 300% in one year.

Storage exceeds the screen and CPU, becoming the biggest cost of mobile phones.

After Samsung's failure due to a "battery explosion" in mobile phones, its profits did not decrease but increased, because semiconductors such as storage have become Samsung's main source of profit. Even the National Development and Reform Commission has begun to interview Samsung on this issue, but it has little effect.

Ye Feng is very confident in his senior brother Song Yuanting. He has no stock-gathering lawsuit in this life. He believes that SMIC can safely survive the economic crisis in 2008 and enter the next semiconductor economic cycle. At that time, it will be impossible for Samsung to dominate.

Samsung dares to raise prices soar, and SMIC dares to make it a bargain.

...

Light the lights of the stars!

Night in the Middle Sea.

Ye Feng and Song Yuanting came to a private restaurant near Yuyuan.

"Wow, I haven't been to this place yet. I didn't expect there was such a high-end private restaurant here." Song Yuanting exclaimed.

"Haha, this restaurant only makes 5 tables a week. The appointments were all a month later, but I finally made an appointment tonight." Ye Feng laughed.

"Come on, let's make two bottles first." Ye Feng brought two bottles of Maotai aged wine.

The two of them sat down. During the meal, Ye Feng asked Song Yuanting's internal employees, how was it like?

"Oh, it's hard to say anything else, I just feel that the people here are too lazy."

Song Yuanting sighed: "When I was doing R&D, I needed to run movies in the factory, and there were different priority levels for running movies. The highest priority was that all machines had to stop and wait for wafers, and there was no delay. Sub-priority was similar, just like the national and vice-national inspections, and the police needed to lead the way. Logically speaking, everyone should pay attention to such key tasks, right? But it is not."

"Once, a device engineer worked overtime until 8 o'clock in the evening. After processing all the parameters of the processing, he went home directly without any handover. As a result, the engineer who was responsible for the integrated completion waited until 11 o'clock in the evening. Before he could wait for the news, he thought that it had not been done yet and was fine tonight, so he went home. As a result, the wafers that were running fast were not known, and the workers on the production line did not know, and all the wafers were reimbursed. What followed was the overtime and hard work of everyone."

"This is not a artificial satellite or an atomic bomb, it is a mass production of semiconductor integrated circuits. Without the paranoid spirit advocated by Andy Grove, any minor mistake can cause devastating consequences. The device department is already the company's most elite department. An engineer has done his job and forgot to pass the results to the next one. Can you imagine?"

"It is not easy to fire an engineer. With labor law protection, what about the boss of that engineer? What was he doing at that time? What should he bear? I had a quality management system at Intel. I must analyze and review the causes of the accident afterwards, distinguish the human, systematic, and method issues, and improve them one by one. Doing so may be overcorrect, but without this system, Moore's Law is not a reality, but a fantasy."

"Dr. Zhang asked me to be responsible for corporate culture and quality management systems. Of course, this quality system has nothing to do with the quality of the product. It is a system of basic qualities and culture of R&D participants. It was originally intended to solve this kind of problem, but SMIC's R&D managers come from all over the world, not only Intel, but also ibm, Texas Instruments, and most of the factories are accumulated, and there are also locals in mainland China. Some managers directly reflect on the accident as a slander."

"If something goes wrong, just admit it if you know it. Why do you have to dig three feet of the ground without leaving dust? Isn't this embarrassing?" Song Yuanting learned the original words of the engineer in this factory.

He laughed and said, "This is the real reason why I am a knowledgeable person in the world and asked Dr. Zhang to quickly deport me to the front line for production and undergo transformation. If I don't fight, I will become a ignorant person and specialize in slandering people."
Chapter completed!