Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1447 Taiwan Model
"I see, you go to rest." Duan Yun nodded, and then signaled Guo Kai to leave.

After seeing Guo Kai gently close the door and leave, Duan Yun lay down on the bed directly, staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.

As Pan Zongguang said just now, it is very likely that Hu Zhengming will not agree to Duan Yun's invitation to join, because before that, integrated circuit companies in the United States and Taiwan had offered him olive branches and promised to give him a very high salary. Salary, but in the end Hu Zhengming still did not agree. It can be seen that Hu Zhengming is not short of money. It is very difficult to impress him with a high salary. He must be mentally prepared to fail in poaching.

In addition, in terms of company strength, Taiwan's semiconductor companies are also quite strong in strength. Because of the strong support of the local government in Taiwan, their integrated circuit development is also quite rapid, both in terms of technology scale and capital. Tianyin Group is much stronger.

When it comes to the development of integrated circuits in Taiwan, it started from the packaging process in the 20s, and it has been developed for more than 70 years by the end of the 80s.

The packaging link is actually the link with the lowest technical content in the entire integrated circuit production, and it is also the link with the meager profit. Many large multinational companies in the United States and Japan look down on this meager profit, so they often outsource the packaging link to foreign companies. Especially Taiwanese enterprises, since 1966, Taiwan has set up an export product processing zone in Kaohsiung City. With low labor force, it has attracted Philips, TI, Hitachi, Mitsubishi and other enterprises to set up processing plants here, which laid a solid foundation for Taiwan. It laid the foundation for technology transfer and soon made Taiwan the world's largest integrated circuit packaging base.

With the support of the Taiwan government, the Electronics Industry Research Center was established in 1974, and the integrated circuit demonstration factory setting plan was launched in 1975. The Industrial Research Institute established by it has begun to purchase technology from the United States to apply for patents, which has promoted the upgrading of industrial production lines. And organize professionals to go overseas for further study, including Cai Mingjie, founder of MediaTek, Wang Guozhao, chairman of Skyworth Technology, and Yang Dingyuan, founder of Winbond Electronics.

As early as 1977, the [-]-micron CMOS manufacturing process and the [-]-inch wafer production line had been completed, and at that time there were many industry hero entrepreneurs in Taiwan who promoted the transformation and upgrading of Taiwan's economy from low-labor manufacturing to high-value industrialization.

For example, Li Guoding supported several universities in semiconductor research in 1976, went to the United States to consult experts and scholars, attracted talents from all over the world to return to Taiwan, and almost single-handedly promoted the development of Taiwan's microelectronics industry.

In addition, Chen Zheng, Xu Xianxiu, Zhang Zhongmou and other industry leaders jointly promoted the development of professional wafer foundry in Taiwan.

Another point is that the rapid development of Taiwan's semiconductor industry is inseparable from their government-enterprise cooperation model. Taiwan's economy is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, and they are afraid of investment risks. Therefore, in the early development of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, a lot of funds came from the government. The special cooperation method between bureaucrats and private enterprises in Taiwan was strongly promoted during the economic transformation, insisted on privatization, and promoted the development of enterprises in the competition. This also allowed Taiwan to catch up from behind and once became the most developed region in the IC industry in the world. one.

In 1989, the establishment of TSMC led many small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the field of wafer foundry. Its perfect supply chain and complete industrial park for technological upgrading are the important foundation for the development of Taiwan wafer foundry. .

In addition, Taiwan has spent a lot of thought and invested a lot of money in attracting talents.

In 1976, Taiwan began to use Silicon Valley as a model to plan a semiconductor science park. Following the model of cooperation between prestigious universities such as Stanford Berkeley and industrial clusters, the park was set up adjacent to Taiwan's Tsinghua University, ITRI, and Taiwan Jiaotong University. I live in Hsinchu.

In the 60s and [-]s, many high-achieving students in Taiwan entered American universities to study, and after graduation, most of them stayed in the United States to start businesses, and some entered Silicon Valley to work in the United States, and these people also became Taiwanese in the future. An important boost to the development of the integrated circuit industry.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Taiwan Industrial Park, it was to attract Taiwanese entrepreneurs who started their businesses in the United States to return to Taiwan and support the development of Taiwan's high-tech industries.

In addition, some talents returning from Silicon Valley played the role of bridges, spreading new technologies and new business models to Taiwan's IC industry, promoting the transformation of enterprise organization scale, and forming a global production model with professional division of labor and vertical separation.

At that time, those overseas Chinese who stayed in the United States also maintained close ties with Taiwan's technical departments. Many highly mobile engineers worked in the United States and Taiwan, and traveled regularly between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean. Through transnational technology, the technical talents of the two places were jointly promoted. Excellent cooperation with enterprises, which also makes Taiwan's integrated circuit industry have very strong human resources.

In fact, Duan Yun’s idea of ​​developing the chip industry in Shenzhen is basically the same as that of developing the integrated circuit industry in Taiwan. He is also planning to set up a park outside Shenzhen Customs similar to Silicon Valley in the United States to gather the top high-tech enterprises and talents in China. Gradually establish a "China Silicon Valley" with the integrated circuit industry as the core.

Duan Yun's idea of ​​establishing China's Silicon Valley is very difficult in terms of the current domestic environment, but fortunately he has the support of the SZ Municipal Government. Mayor Li Hao saw the huge industry that the integrated circuit industry has brought to Shenzhen After the economic benefits, he also spared no effort to give Duan Yun great help.

In addition to funds and policies, if Duan Yun wants to complete his plan, he also needs a large number of top talents.

This time he plans to hire Hu Zhengming with a high salary, which is an important step in his later plan. In addition to using Hu Zhengming's reputation in the industry to establish private R&D centers in European and American countries, he can also use his identity as a Taiwanese Chinese to get in touch with more There are so many excellent Chinese engineers, so as to compete with Taiwan semiconductor companies for talents.

In fact, in terms of poaching Taiwan's semiconductor talents, later generations of mainland companies have always had a "good tradition" in this area. They will dig a lot of Taiwan's semiconductor production with up to three times the salary. It was also poached away, which caused a huge sensation at the time, and it was precisely because of these poached talents that semiconductor companies in mainland China were able to develop rapidly, narrowing the gap with the international advanced level...

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