Thousands of employees wearing white cloths gathered in the square at the entrance of the Hynix factory. There were heavily armed riot police at the entrance of the factory. The number of employees increased significantly from yesterday.
Dozens of explosion-proof police cars with barbed wire fences, high-pressure water hose trucks and police propaganda vehicles with loudspeakers were parked at the entrance of the factory, leaving a narrow road several meters wide leading into the factory.
The Han Bangzi Trade Union has a very strong fighting and inciting power, and has won many victories in its confrontations with management.
In particular, there is a strong hostility towards foreign capital. In the past, it was American and Japanese companies, but now it is Hong Kong capital, and the confrontation is even more vigorous.
This is not about fighting for workers' rights, but purely out of narrow national sentiments to exclude foreign capital.
on the square
The loudspeakers of the police kept announcing the legal assembly, calling for peaceful protest, reasonable struggle for workers' rights, and clichés such as using violence will be punished by law. A clear female voice echoed over the square.
The workers organized themselves into groups, shouting slogans in unison under the leadership of the backbone of the trade union;
"Drive away the exploitative foreign capital and the evil Hong Kong capitalists. Han Bangzi is the real owner of the enterprise."
"Never give in to external pressure, long live democracy and freedom!"
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Slogans were shouted loudly, and the situation at the scene became increasingly tense. Explosion-proof police officers formed a human wall and were on high alert.
More and more workers gathered in the square. Faced with the ultimatum issued by Atlantic Jinko Group, they became agitated and began to attack the police defense line in an organized manner, one after another.
The situation at the scene quickly turned bad. The police defended themselves with shields and fired back with batons. Workers picked up bricks and threw empty wine bottles at them. From time to time, people were hit and injured. The ground was covered with rubble and broken glass. It was a messy and dangerous mess.
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a moment later
The police opened the high-pressure water cannon and used white water cannons to attack the gathering place of protesting workers to forcefully disperse the illegal assembly.
On the building in the factory area
The left-behind staff of Atlantic Jinko Group watched all this quietly, and there was no sound. Many people who had never experienced such a large-scale worker protest rally turned pale with fear.
President Huo Jiaguang looked on with a calm expression. He had experienced workers' strikes in Armonk City and was already immune to such a degree of impact.
"Everyone should pay attention to self-protection. If workers rush in, we are wearing the same work clothes as them, so we can blend in and avoid injury."
"I know, Mr. Huo."
President Zhang Rujing shook his head when he saw this. Baodao's labor union was not a fuel-saving lamp. He agreed with the boss's tough measures from the bottom of his heart;
Trade unions are not allowed to carry out activities or recruit members in the factory.
Trade unions are powerful in Western countries and have gradually evolved from fighting for workers' rights to becoming a tool to demonstrate social and political influence, with many complex connotations attached to it.
While the labor movement activities are on the rise, it has greatly increased the production costs of enterprises and weakened their competitiveness. It is under this trend that the wave of deindustrialization in Europe and the United States was formed.
The world's multinational companies seek price depressions to rebuild their competitiveness, and the production and operation activities of the primary and secondary industries are gradually shifting to the third world. This is the general trend of the global rational allocation of resources.
The four Asian Tigers, Han Bangzi, Baodao, Hong Kong and Singapore that emerged in the 1990s are the beneficiaries of industrial transfer from Europe and the United States.
now
Foreign investors have turned their attention to the reform and opening-up mainland, which has endless human resources, a mouth-watering market, endless opportunities and unlimited possibilities.
By operating an eight-inch wafer production plant in mainland China, President Zhang Rujing deeply felt;
The mainland is the most suitable place in the world to set up factories. It has the best workers, the most disciplined workers, the most obedient, hard-working, and the benefits are endless.
If possible, he still hopes to relocate these factories to the mainland, which will reduce countless troubles and save a lot of costs.
Hongkong
Ling Xiao Pavilion, Victoria Peak
"Uh-huh……
There is no need to contact the trade union. It is no longer a legal organization within the company and does not have the qualifications to dialogue with the company.
From now on, for employers, there will be no benefits or any cash compensation plan for workers who have been fired for violating their contracts.
Yes...contact Gunsan Police Station directly...um...
My request is to act in accordance with the law and everything shall be subject to the contract.
If a fired worker refuses the opportunity given by us to re-employ, he will be deemed to have given up automatically and cannot be given the opportunity again and again.
Workers who voluntarily sign contracts excluding union clauses will first be given a week of intensive training to emphasize the factory management system and strict corporate discipline.
Uh-huh……
There is no rush to resume the production line, and there is no shortage of cash flow. We will lose as much as we produce.
First, please bring discipline to the workers and repeatedly instill the concept of discipline and strict corporate system. Violations of the employment contract will be severely punished until expulsion.
...Okay, please pay attention to your own safety and review the prevention plan again and again.
Uh-huh……
Two six-inch production lines are temporarily closed,...well...
Then we will open two eight-inch wafer production lines now. How many people will do the same thing, and the remaining equipment will be dismantled and relocated.
Shenzhen Atlantic Science and Technology Park is ready to receive production lines at any time, and at least two local production lines of Korean sticks must be retained.
...Hmm...Strive to retain the three articles, well, after all, too many unemployed workers are not good for us, and the government is under great pressure.
…Okay, okay.”
After finishing the call with Zhang Rujing, the president of Atlantic Company in Seoul, he put down the phone. Wang Yaocheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. These Korean sticks are really bad.
With the cooperation of the local government and police, Atlantic Jinko Group has adopted a policy of one hand with a stick and one with butter. It has been almost a month since the strike, and most of it has been resolved.
Some of the leading troublemakers were arrested by the police, and some workers gradually gave in and initialed employment contracts. There are about 5,200 people in this group, and they are undergoing safety and management training.
After completing the training, the two eight-inch wafer production lines can be maintained in normal operation.
The deadlock has been going on for more than a month now, and some workers have gradually dispersed, either looking for another way out, looking for another job, or heading to the big city of Seoul to look for opportunities.
There are still a small half of the die-hard workers, nearly 2,000 people, who still adopt a confrontational attitude, which has a great impact on the normal production and operation of the company.
They held protests near the Gunsan production base, set up obstacles on the roads, blocked employees from entering the company to work, incited family members to antagonize and create trouble, and even attacked management personnel.
These are no longer striking workers, but rioters.
Jinko Group has no need to interfere with what happens outside the factory. It specially mobilized more than 600 key personnel from China, 1/3 of which are security personnel, and recruited employees in the factory to form a factory protection team to maintain law and order.
For Wang Yaocheng, the focus of his attention is not the Gunsan factory, but the Hynix Research Center in Seoul.
Hynix Research Center has more than 1,400 employees, including more than 300 core senior researchers. More than half of these personnel are sent to the Shenzhen Future Science and Technology Park in China, and more than a hundred people are sent to the Red Hat Laboratory in Silicon Valley.
The remaining personnel were screened and separated, and the integration work was quickly completed. In addition to the resignation of nearly two hundred low-level scientific and technological personnel, the most important scientific research strength was preserved. This is the biggest gain.
The latest technological products of Hynix Research Center will be produced by Jinling J1 and J2 factories as soon as possible. It is estimated that they will be fully launched into the market in one month and outdated products will be eliminated.
Within half a year, Huaizhou h1 and h2 factories will also introduce new products to expand sales, break out of the mainstream mass merchandise shopping pattern, and use new products to bring huge returns to the company.
according to plan
The two eight-inch wafer production plants of the Kunshan factory will be moved to the Shenzhen wafer production base to form new s2 and s3 plants and put into production. This will be completed within half a year.
Hynix's eight-inch wafer fab adopts Han Bangzi's unique production technology. Each fab has 18 memory chip packaging lines, which is half more than the 12 lines of similar wafer fabs of Jinko Group, and the production efficiency is one step higher.
By absorbing Hynix's unique technology, Jinko Group can transform its own production lines and gain a little more than half its production capacity for nothing.
In the field of applied science and technology, Han Bangziguo still has its own uniqueness. Hynix Scientific Research Center hired Park Sun-jin, a world-class expert from Samsung Group, to make the scientific research center one of the world's first-class.
Park Sunjin's team not only brings advanced scientific research concepts, but also creates many unique patented technologies that have reached the first-class level, including the two latest flagship products developed by Hynix, which are all outstanding achievements of this scientific research team.
A scientific research team has improved the level of the entire research center. This was unimaginable more than ten years later, but now it has actually happened.
Wang Yaocheng knew;
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, which was the period when large-scale integrated circuits were taking off, a scientific research team's few months' efforts and genius ideas were able to create a classic CPU microprocessor that sold well around the world.
According to the classic Moore’s Law;
When the price remains constant, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double. In other words, the computer performance that can be purchased per dollar
, will more than double every 18-24 months.
This is a very scary growth rate, and the difficulty of research and development increases exponentially.
See intuitively;
The number of transistors on a single chip increased from 2,300 on the 4004 processor in 1971 to 7.5 million on the Pentium II processor in 1997 and 9.77 million on the Athlon RISC-V microprocessor.
number, an increase of 4,200 times in 26 years.
According to the prediction of "doubling every two years", 26 years should include 13 doubling cycles. After each cycle, the number of components integrated on the chip should increase by 2xn times.
For latecomers, the difficulty of catching up has increased from difficult level to hell level, and will rise to epic level in a few years.
At the end of 1994, Athlon began to develop the core property RISC-V microprocessor.
During the entire development process, as many as 1,770 high-level researchers were used to form dozens of special public relations research groups. It took a year and a half to complete the research and development, with a research fund of up to 680 million US dollars.
Today, facing severe market competition, Intel is vigorously developing a new generation of Pentium 3 high-performance microprocessors.
Intel uses a design team of 2,000 people and top semiconductor technology to reduce the performance gap between x86 and risc-v. It invests heavily in cutting-edge R&D. This is a competitive field where the strong are always strong.
According to the latest scientific and technological intelligence;
Inspired by the performance advantages of complex instructions in a simple pipeline, Intel researchers focused on the instruction decoder to convert complex x86 instructions into internal microinstructions similar to rsic-v during operation.
Then, the execution of risc-v microinstructions is pipelined.
Intel's talented researchers discovered that any ideas that RISC-V designers had about performance separation of instructions, data caches, on-chip L2 cache, deep pipelines, and fetching and executing multiple instructions simultaneously could be used in x86 designs.
It can be used as a reference for development.
After entering the 1990s, electronic technology has developed rapidly.
Taking 1989 as the historical dividing line, after the advent of 16m memory chips, 35 million transistors were integrated on one square centimeter of silicon wafer, truly entering the era of very large-scale integrated circuits.
The production process of advanced eight-inch wafer production plants has since entered the sub-micron VLSI era.
Chip size continues to decrease, with the minimum processing size being less than 1 μm, and hardware advancements continue to advance.
The semiconductor industries in South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China are also growing rapidly. Taiwan's semiconductors are mainly based on foundry methods and have successfully played the role of semiconductor production bases.
The mainland wafer production plants of Han Bangziguo and the Wang Consortium are mainly for self-use, supplemented by the world market, and are fully competing.
The current typical products are Athlon 1 processors and Pentium 1st generation processors, which use a 0.35μm process, which was further reduced to a 0.25μm process, and production requirements increased sharply.
Science and technology promotion always complements each other, and a rising tide lifts all boats. Athlon is fortunate to have caught the last train of historical opportunities and is at the world's advanced level in the field of microprocessor research and development.
The reason for going public for financing is that Athlon needs to continuously invest huge amounts of money in research and development.
This scientific research cost is so high that even the world’s richest man, Wang Yaocheng, cannot afford it alone.
In 1998 alone, Athlon Company's R&D expenditure plan for the Athlon 2 project reached a huge amount of US$860 million, and it will continue to increase year by year. By the beginning of the 21st century, it will exceed the level of US$1.6 billion, and even more will be needed.
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It can be seen that
In this world's top research and development field, no amount of money is enough to spend. We must pool the power of the public and pool social resources for joint research and development to always maintain the world's advanced research level.
Similarly, building an eight-inch wafer production plant in 1994 cost US$800-900 million.
After 1998, the same eight-inch wafer production plant was built. Because the production process was improved to the 65-90mm level, the investment in high-precision equipment increased dramatically, and the plant construction funds increased rapidly to the level of 1.4-1.5 billion US dollars.
More than ten years later, when the chip size shrinks to the 0.1 micron level, the cost of building a 12-inch wafer factory will exceed 10 billion US dollars, which is more than the cost of building a nuclear power plant, and the total investment is astonishingly high.