Chapter 1432 Establish Overseas Research Institute
Zhang Ruxin, he was a self-funded international student in the United States fourteen years ago. After graduation, he worked at Texas Instruments for ten years and built ten chip factories in the United States.
Yin Zhi, who has been in Silicon Valley for ten years, has worked for Intel and Fanlin Applications. He was poached from the United States by Wang Haijun. After returning to China, he led the Semiconductor Semiconductor business of Synsi and has a world-class level in dielectric etching machines.
In the past, Huanan Guang was the well-deserved technical leader of the Shensi Group, but in just three years, his technical level was no longer the first. Zhang Ruxin and Yin Zhi became the two pillars of the Shensi Group. They are younger and have the same skills as the times.
The ability to advance knowledge and continuous learning is stronger than that of Huanan Guang.
But Hua Nanguang didn't have any jealousy. Instead, he boldly delegated power and let the two of them rush to the front. He was willing to be the green leaf.
As Hua Nanguang himself said, my dream is to develop the country's chips, not just for the sake of fame. As long as the country actually produces chips, I will be happy even as a janitor.
Now that the sealing and testing of "Fuxi No. 2" has been completed, Hua Nanguang's long-cherished wish has finally come true. This 60-year-old man burst into tears. According to Wang Haijun, he drank a lot of wine on the night of success, crying and laughing like a child.
I am really happy from the bottom of my heart, happy for myself, happy for my mind, and even happier for the country.
Of course, Huanan Guang was equally energetic and high-spirited the next day. He knew that this was only the first step. Next, "Fuxi No. 2" would be installed on Synsi's latest generation computer and put on the market to accept the test of the market.
The test will not be smooth sailing, and you will definitely experience various twists and turns. The key lies in running-in. Yes, the chip also needs to be run-in and constantly changed to adapt to the needs of the market.
Liu Lang is the chairman of Shensi Group, Wang Haijun is the general manager, and Huanan Guangze is the chief engineer. However, Liu Lang completely delegates power to Wang Haijun and makes him responsible for everything. As for Liu Lang himself, just pay him.
In the past, when Wang Haijun was in charge of the lithography machine project at SMIC, he also had the title of project manager. But at that time, Wang Haijun only had technical authority, no management authority, and no autonomy in hiring and corporate development. Now he is the president of Synthetic Group.
As the manager, Liu Lang's human resources and financial rights of the company were handed over to him, and Liu Lang only proposed the macro development direction.
After gaining absolute power, Wang Haijun fully unleashed his potential. In more than two years, he led Shensi Group to expand its territory, and his management capabilities were no less than those of top entrepreneurs such as Bai Weiren and "Dad Ma".
"Mr. Liu, I have an idea. The next step is to set up a Synthetic Semiconductor Research Institute in the island country."
Wang Haijun always proposed some new ideas every time he met Liu Lang, and Liu Lang always agreed to him.
"Establishing a research institute in an island country? Why? Tell us!"
"When I studied abroad from an island country, it was in the early 1990s. At that time, the semiconductor industry in the island country was really developed and accounted for almost half of the world. However, in recent years, it has not been as good as before due to the financial crisis and American suppression.
I went back last year and met with my mentor at that time. He gave me a set of data. From 1990 to 1997, the island country’s semiconductor market share in the global market dropped from 49% to 49%.
20. In its heyday, it dominated six of the top ten semiconductor companies in the world. Last year, only Toshiba and Sanyo Semiconductor were the only ones. But don’t underestimate the island country’s semiconductor companies. What they gave up was the mid-stream and downstream semiconductor industries.
The upstream industry remains strong.
The production of semiconductor chips requires nineteen essential materials, most of which have extremely high technical barriers. The island country has great advantages in fourteen important materials such as silicon wafers, synthetic semiconductor wafers, and photomasks, and it also occupies a leading position.
It accounts for about 30% of the world semiconductor market.
By the way, the silicone supplier we work with is Shin-Etsu Chemical. This company was founded in the 1920s and has been producing silicon products since 1939. It was the first to successfully develop the most cutting-edge 300 silicon wafers and realize i
Regarding the mass production of silicon wafers, I also visited this company last year. The technology is so powerful that it is breathtaking.
In addition, in the process of making integrated circuits, photolithography technology is used to copy patterns onto the wafer, and a photomask is used.
Now the world's largest photomask manufacturer also comes from the island country, and it is Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
There is also the key material photoresist that enables the photolithography process to achieve selective etching. Currently, the island nation's synthetic rubber company JSR is the world's largest photoresist manufacturer.
In addition, they have not lost any important front-end semiconductor equipment such as electron beam drawing equipment, coating, developing equipment, cleaning equipment, oxidation furnaces, and decompression CVD equipment, but have become more powerful.
In terms of back-end semiconductor equipment, the island country’s dicing machines and molders are also top-notch in the world, but there is still a big gap between us and each other.”
"Brother Wang! It seems that you are not only a management talent, but also a strategic analyst. Yes, the information I have is similar to what you got, but I hired experts to do this, and you relied entirely on
Analyzing it yourself is really admirable.”
"Mr. Liu, you are kidding. I can't compare with you. I can only work harder to catch up with you. Setting up a research institute in the island country is an important step. I heard from my mentor that there are a large number of industrial workers in the semiconductor companies in the island country.
Unemployment, these workers are actually very high-level, and they only lost their jobs because of the bad environment. We can definitely recruit some workers.
Moreover, the technology of the island countries is not bad. We can communicate more with them and learn more advanced technologies, which is also our ultimate goal."
Liu Lang strongly agrees with Wang Haijun's suggestion that technology cannot rest on its laurels and requires constant learning, especially from countries with advanced technology. For example, Guowei Company in its previous life designed research institutes in Canada and the United States to recruit local technical personnel.
Some people may say that those developed countries will agree to give technology to other countries?
If you say this, you underestimate the laws of the market economy. The first need of talents is to improve their lives and gain recognition of their self-worth. As long as they are given high salaries, more than 90% of talents will make choices that are beneficial to them.
For example, there are more than a dozen foreigners in the current state-owned company. Their annual salary is as much as 100,000 US dollars, which is more than 30% more than their income in their own country. This is their choice.
A high-quality life is always the first pursuit of most talents. Not everyone can be like Qian Xuesen, Xiong Huaizhi and their predecessors, regardless of personal gains and losses. People like them are rare.