Because Linda Yun took a temporary leave, Su Yehao almost forgot to pick him up at the airport. Fortunately, she sent a message in advance, so the business was not delayed.
Hurrying to the exit, the members of the inspection team headed by Zhang Rujing happened to have picked up their luggage at the airport.
There were more than ten people in the group.
There are both the product director of Midea Group and the newly recruited former TSMC executives.
Marjorie, the former marketing director of Huashuo Computer, who used to make excuses to pass Su Yehao's plane at the Hong Kong City Airport, appeared among the crowd tonight.
She has officially resigned from Huashuo and entered Su Yehao's assistant office as a consultant.
Su Yehao shook hands with them one by one and greeted them with a bright smile on his face. Many subsequent plans still relied on this group of people, so it was necessary to establish a good relationship in advance.
At this moment.
Mr. Zhang Rujing shook hands with Su Yehao and joked:
"I finally had the honor to meet Mr. Su. It's not easy to meet you. After chatting with them on the way, I found out that you are really very busy. You have computers, mobile phones, and home appliances all at once. You have a variety of businesses. No wonder your business has skyrocketed in just two years.
soaring."
Su Yehao replied:
"It is because we are involved in these manufacturing industries that we need to develop into the semiconductor industry. If all parts and components are bought from outside, the money will be taken away by others, and there is no way to improve market competitiveness. It is not easy to ask you, the giant Buddha, for help.
I feel confident all of a sudden, and I’ll leave the OEM chip production business to you.”
"I don't think so. I can't talk about it. But after talking with Canon and Nikon, the issue of purchasing equipment has become clearer. This time I came to the United States to talk to several wafer factories that I have cooperated with before to see if they can
If we can’t cooperate, we’ll have to recruit more talents.”
Zhang Rujing has been working for others.
Although I have been encouraged by mainland officials in the past two years to have the idea of jumping out and starting a new company, I have never really implemented it.
Now I am working under Su Yehao again, receiving an annual salary of millions of dollars. I have been here for two months, and I must make some achievements.
So when we first met, I started to brag a little bit about myself, taking the opportunity to prove that I haven't been idle recently.
When Su Yehao heard this, he immediately asked: "Canon and Nikon's photolithography machines? How many nanometer equipment are they willing to sell to us?"
"...We haven't even talked about that yet. New models appear every year. I have encountered this trouble more than once or twice. The wavelength of the lithography machine is stuck at 193nm. Everyone.
Everyone is vying to develop new models. As long as you, Boss Su, are willing to spend money, there will always be companies willing to sell them, so don’t be too impatient."
After Zhang Rujing finished speaking, he continued to add:
"The current photolithography machine is almost the same as a money printing machine. After receiving the order and starting production, the profit is quite high. Buying the machine is not the focus. If you want to start a business, the key is how to get the order. We can't develop a computer."
CPU chips, and the home appliance industry does not need very high-end lithography machines. If we can negotiate a cooperation with Qualcomm this time, I will try to get a discount from Nikon or Canon, and I am familiar with their managers."
"..."
Su Yehao always felt something was strange.
Without a ready-made factory, it is difficult to receive OEM orders. However, without OEM orders, Zhang Rujing seems to be in no rush to take action.
This seemed to be a safer approach, but it ran counter to Su Yehao's ideas. In his opinion, it was a bit of a waste of time.
After greeting everyone on board, we headed to the Hilton Garden Inn in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley.
en route.
Su Yehao and Zhang Rujing were sitting in the back row together, and he continued to tell:
"Mr. Zhang, if we don't arrange the factory first, others may not trust us to place orders, right? As I say, hurry up and buy the machine first. Anyway, even if a new lithography machine is launched, we can just place the order when the time comes.
Older machines can still be used.”
Zhang Rujing didn't know what he was thinking, so he shook his head and said:
"The investment scale of the wafer foundry is too large, starting with hundreds of millions of dollars. If the factory machinery is in place but fails to start construction in time, I will lose money every day. In that case, my sin will be great, so I'd better be conservative
Better."
Su Yehao continued:
"Don't worry about the order. Even if we can't negotiate with Qualcomm, I'm sure to find other orders. Let's not talk about anything else. There are currently few wafer factories in the mainland, including Huajing and Huahong. There is definitely a market.
Even if you make a loss, start the machine first and accumulate some experience in the foundry field, otherwise you will only be widened by TSMC."
After listening.
Zhang Rujing sighed lightly and persuaded: "I have been to both Huajing and Huahong. The former has suffered serious losses, and the latter also uses Japanese technology to produce DRAM memory chips, and the market performance is not optimistic."
Su Yehao happened to see the report sent by Vice President Lin Youfeng, and Su Yehao said:
"I understand that South Korea's two major manufacturers have bucked the trend and expanded, squeezing the living space of other peers. If others can buck the trend, so can I. In fact, I am planning to watch them fight each other until one day they raise enough money.
If you have enough money, just buy some off-the-shelf technology.”
The words just fell.
Su Yehao felt that it was necessary to make it clearer to Zhang Rujing, and then added:
"I feel that personal computers may not necessarily be the mainstream in the future, and other types of mobile terminals will have more market."
"Last year, several companies joined forces to build the Symbian operating system. Sooner or later, 3G networks will become popular. By then, everyone may have a mobile phone and watch videos online anytime, anywhere. This will lead to my estimated market share far exceeding other
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"Based on this idea, it is necessary to lay out CPUs, DRAM memory chips, and LCD screens in advance... Just like the path South Korea's Samsung Electronics is taking, I will not hesitate to invest tens of billions of dollars."
"Actually, I am very optimistic about the new generation photolithography machine technology conceived by Mr. Lin Baojian. I have asked people to collect information and study it before, and I have sent people to contact him several times. Unfortunately, I do not have any experience in producing photolithography machines for the time being. Unless
Acquire an existing company, otherwise it will be difficult to attract him to join..."
"..."
Zhang Rujing finished listening.
Not only did I not think Su Yehao's ambitions were ambitious, but I thought his ideas were a bit idealistic.
Nokia and several companies are indeed working together to develop the Symbian operating system. However, so far, every technology company that has launched a handheld computer has been more unlucky than the other, and they have all lost their money.
With the development of science and technology, the possibility of the rise of mobile terminals is very high. However, Zhang Rujing hesitated for a moment and spoke honestly:
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"I highly doubt that you will go bankrupt before you can survive that day. I know that guy Lin Baojian. I have looked for Nikon and Canon, but no one is willing to invest."
"That's because he didn't find me. I'm happy to take the gamble."
Su Yehao looked at Zhang Rujing and said with a smile:
"You really don't need to save money for me. My ability to make money is better than you think. I raised several cash cows in advance. Even if I lose money for ten years and lose one billion US dollars every year, it won't be a big problem."
Zhang Rujing always felt that he was bragging, so she smiled awkwardly and said: "It's like playing cards, before you start playing, you always have better thoughts, right?"
With a positive tone, Su Yehao answered him:
"It's okay. I know my thoughts very well. Now I'm not afraid that you will go ahead and do it, but I am afraid that if you are not careful, you will miss the development opportunity. Apart from Canon, Nikon and ASML, which lithography company do you think has good technology?
, and it’s easy for me to control you?”
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Rujing scratched his head and said:
"Honestly, I think ASML's technology is very good and easy to be controlled. It only accounts for less than 10% of the photolithography machine market share. Nikon and Canon's machines are relatively stable. Generally, you will buy it if you can't buy it.