The largest semiconductor project in China was attacked on the eve of its listing!
This is by no means just a matter for SMIC!
It will definitely have an impact on related industries that are already weak, and it will definitely cast a shadow on similar projects that are being approved or have been approved...
I am talking about you!
CSMC!
Ice core!
Xiong Xiaoge was sitting at home in Beijing when a knife came from the other end of the phone.
Everyone else was confused!
Soon, the call from Zhang Hongli of Deutsche Bank ended.
Xiong Xiaoge held the mobile phone and was speechless for a long time.
At this moment, he strangely did not think of President Yike immediately. Instead, he looked to his right hand and remained silent for a few seconds...
Xiong Xiaoge slapped her hand hard on the table, followed by an abnormal sound that she didn't know was the screen or something else, and muttered to herself: "Why can't I control my hand!"
He didn’t know how other people communicated with Fang Zhuo, but he did hear Fang Zhuo’s judgment on SMIC’s listing prospects with his own ears.
Even though Fang Zhuo was just talking casually at that time.
But I did hear it!
Xiong Xiaoge sat on the chair in the study. At this moment, he was not thinking about TSMC and SMIC, nor about the industry and ice core, nor about Fang Zhuo's behavior.
He was introspecting and confused.
When should you stick to your own judgment?
When should you trust the judgment of others?
How could Fang Zhuo have the nerve to catch one of his own sheep gathering wool?
Is all of this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?
I thought quietly in the study room for half an hour. As news from the industry spread further, IDG began to call me.
Xiong Xiaoge's mobile phone provides the function of communicating with each other even though he is physically disabled and mentally strong.
IDG is also going to hold an emergency meeting.
However, soon, the emergency meeting scheduled in the office was changed to be held on the fly on a passenger plane bound for Shanghai.
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9:40 p.m.
In the Shanghai DCM conference room, there is an overtime meeting on investment projects in the evening.
Connor, DCM's partner and head of business in China, was drinking coffee leisurely while listening to the investigation reports of his colleagues.
The cell phone on the table rang.
Connor took a look and signaled for a brief pause in the meeting. He answered the phone and heard the latest news notification from Zhang Hongli.
Is TSMC taking action against SMIC?
Connor was stunned.
The call hung up after a few seconds.
Connor stood up from his seat, weighing the shocking news over and over in his mind.
Somehow, he remembered the joke he made when he first met Fang Zhuo at Hang Lung 23.
"Before I came here, I heard some friends in Shanghai talk about Mr. Fang and asked me to pay attention to Mr. Fang, a venture capital hunter."
"Who among the real investors believes this?"
Connor suddenly laughed.
People in the conference room looked at each other, CEO, what's going on?
Connor laughed louder and louder. He supported the conference table with one hand and held his mobile phone with the other. He laughed like this for nearly a minute before he suddenly stopped laughing.
He sighed leisurely: "It's well-deserved."
"Mr. Connor, what happened?" The vice president of DCM looked at this scene and asked blankly the reason for Connor's gaffe.
Connor sat down again, waved his hand, and said calmly: "It's okay, continue with the meeting."
TSMC sues SMIC?
OK.
That's okay.
Compared with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, they invested in both SMIC and Bingxin. They are more anxious than themselves, right?
When Connor thought about it, he felt much relieved.
The meeting in the conference room continued, and the reports and explanations were given, but everyone could see that President Connor was thoughtful, and his mind was obviously not here anymore.
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Ten o'clock in the evening.
Xu Kaiwei, chief representative of Goldman Sachs Group in China, who is in the UK, called Bingxin President Fang Zhuo.
Xu Kaiwei was unable to attend SMIC's emergency meeting, but he was always paying attention to this matter. He also immediately thought of CSMC Ice Core, which Goldman Sachs invested in, and became worried about the future of this project.
After the meeting ended, Xu Kaiwei sent the contents of the emergency meeting to Fang Zhuo while thinking about the possible unfolding of the matter.
"Mr. Fang, have you received my email? Have you received any breaking news from SMIC?"
"I received it, I just clicked on it." Fang Zhuo said with emotion, "It's very sudden, very surprising, and very worrying."
It was difficult for Xu Kaiwei to disagree with this feeling and asked: "Mr. Fang, does TSMC's lawsuit have any impact on you?"
"For our ice core..." Fang Zhuo first corrected a small fallacy, and then said in a deep voice, "TSMC sued SMIC, what does this have to do with our ice core?"
Xu Kaiwei said: "Didn't you also poach TSMC employees? And Hu Zhengming."
"We dug up, but not many, and it didn't involve key process engineers. As for Hu Zhengming, he went to teach at the University of Science and Technology of China." Fang Zhuo talked eloquently, "What problems can there be in legal matters when he was invited by the University of Science and Technology of China?"
Xu Kaiwei fell into thinking.
After a while, he described his opinion in more detail, fearing that the other party would misunderstand his meaning: "Mr. Fang, what I mean is that even if there is a legal problem, we must make it no problem."
Fang Zhuo was surprised: "This..."
The next second, he understood what Goldman Sachs was thinking. All the money had been invested! Can it still be wasted? Regardless of the legal principles, it is the right thing to get the project done!
Moreover, Goldman Sachs is different from others in that it has benefited from Yike's listing and Sina's private placement.
"Mr. Fang, I have some SMIC information here. I will send it to you via another email address later so that I can comprehensively judge the current situation." Xu Kaiwei thought for a while and warned, "Destroy after reading. Remember to remember this."
"Okay, okay, definitely." Fang Zhuo immediately agreed. Although he was not very interested in SMIC's information, it was not easy to refuse the person's sincerity.
It's embarrassing to say that Qiu Ciyun is the former senior vice president of SMIC, and he already knows a lot of SMIC's internal information intentionally or unintentionally.
Now there are current institutional shareholders and board directors of SMIC sending confidential information...
Ashamed, ashamed.
A few minutes later, Fang Zhuo ended the call with Xu Kaiwei, who was in an uneasy mood, and then immediately logged into a new mailbox and clicked on emails from unfamiliar mailboxes.
Read and think.
In fact, you don’t really need much information. Just by logic, you can know that TSMC’s menacing attack this time is not a fake, and it will definitely use all its strength to severely damage SMIC.
Fang Zhuo picked up the pen and recorded his thoughts and judgments on the key data of several cores.
Before he could finish this small task, his phone rang again.
This time it’s IDG’s Xiong Xiaoge.
Pressed connect.
Xiong Xiaoge on the other end of the phone only said four words: "I'm going to Shanghai."
Fang Zhuo also only said two words: "You come."
He actually wanted to say more, but Lao Xiong had already hung up the phone.
Fang Zhuo glanced at the phone screen and knew that Mr. Xiong on the other end could not wait to come over to help solve problems for everyone's common project.
Right, that is it.
Investment that goes both ways is the most meaningful.
