Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1448 First Meeting
The car slowly stopped at the entrance of Lijing Hotel. After Duan Yun got off the car, Pan Zongguang greeted him immediately. After exchanging a few simple greetings, they immediately entered the western restaurant on the second floor.

According to the agreement, today was the day when Duan Yun and Hu Zhengming met. Duan Yun came to the restaurant half an hour earlier, but he didn't see Hu Zhengming.

After chatting with Pan Zongguang for a while, the clock in the restaurant just hit 6 o'clock, and a middle-aged man in a gray suit and red tie appeared at the entrance of the restaurant.

"Professor Hu, you are here!" After seeing the middle-aged man, Pan Zongguang immediately stood up and greeted with a smile on his face.

"I really didn't expect that the two of you came together." At this time, Hu Zhengming also smiled, looking very friendly.

"Professor Hu has looked up to me for a long time, and today I finally saw the real person." Duan Yun also got up to meet him at this time, and the two immediately held hands together.

This is also the first time Duan Yun saw Hu Zhengming in person. He had only seen Hu Zhengming's photos before, but the photos were somewhat different from the person himself, so he didn't recognize him immediately.

With more high-level people in contact, Duan Yun also has a certain ability to know people. Unlike some entrepreneurs he has come into contact with before, Hu Zhengming does not have the momentum of a high-ranking person. The year-old looks like he is in his early 40s and is obviously well maintained.

"Sit!" Duan Yun pulled out the chair himself, and then motioned Hu Zhengming to sit down respectfully.

"You are Manager Duan. I really didn't expect you to be so young." After Hu Zhengming sat down, Duan Yun looked at him carefully, his eyes showing a bit of surprise.

As the most well-known Chinese-American expert in the microelectronics industry, many companies have invited him to join over the years, but Hu Zhengming himself is not interested in joining companies, and prefers to teach and educate people, so most of the time, he will politely reject these companies requirements.

However, half a year ago, Hu Zhengming heard for the first time that a company in mainland China invited him to join the company, and the other party offered an annual salary of 1 million US dollars, and there was also a share share, which surprised him very much.

You know, when companies in the United States and Taiwan invited him to join, they offered an annual salary of about 80 to 100 million US dollars, but Duan Yun's price was twice that of the United States and Taiwan, which made it very difficult for him. Imagine that the donors will come from the poor and backward mainland China.

Hu Zhengming himself is very familiar with the development of semiconductors in mainland China. Since the early 80s, he has visited the mainland almost every year. Most of them are invited by scientific research institutions and universities in the mainland to participate in forum lectures. He can put forward some constructive suggestions for the development of China's microelectronics.

In 1985, at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hu Zhengming and three other American scientists put forward strategic and important consulting suggestions for the development of China's microelectronics science and technology. The 531 plan was formulated in Xiamen, which is of great significance to the development of China's semiconductor industry.

However, a private company in mainland China would invite him to join. This is the first time Hu Zhengming has encountered it, especially the annual salary of 1 million US dollars offered by Duan Yun makes him feel a little incredible, because in his impression, the Chinese mainland Most of the semiconductor companies are state-owned companies with very backward technology and production. There is no such rich and powerful company at all, and it is still a private company, which makes Hu Zhengming feel even more incredible.

Out of curiosity about Tianyin Group and the tireless "harassment" by headhunters, Hu Zhengming finally agreed to meet Duan Yun. He also wanted to know what kind of company Tianyin Group was.

Just as soon as we met, Hu Zhengming was taken aback. He really didn't expect Duan Yun to be so young. He looked only in his 20s, almost the same as his American students, but he had already become a student in mainland China. big boss.

"Ever since I started an integrated circuit company, I have heard Professor Hu's name more than once. In my opinion, Professor Hu is the most prestigious Chinese expert in the field of microelectronics today. It is my honor to see you here today. It's an honor." Duan Yun said with a smile on his face.

"Learning is endless, all I have is a false name." Hu Zhenglin said modestly, and then asked Duan Yun: "As early as half a year ago, someone told me about your Tianyin Group. It is a private enterprise with a large output value and scale, can you tell me about the specific situation of your enterprise?"

"Our Tianyin Group was established as early as 6 years ago. At that time, it was just a small electronics factory. Products such as video recorders were restructured into a group company the year before last, and now the annual profit is about 5 million yuan, which is more than 7 million yuan when converted into US dollars..."

"Um...the annual profit is more than [-] million yuan, and the scale is not small." Hearing this, Hu Zhengming exclaimed.

Although compared with IBM, Microsoft and Apple, Duan Yun's annual profit is less than a fraction of these companies, but companies that can achieve such a high profit in mainland China are really rare, and even in Japan, the United States and Europe, the annual profit There are actually very few companies that can reach hundreds of millions. From this point of view, Tianyin Group is indeed a very powerful company.

"Our company is still far behind the big international companies..." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "However, our company has developed very fast in the past two years. The electronic products produced by our group company are not only sold in the domestic market. It sells well and has also opened up the Southeast Asian market, with an annual export volume of tens of millions of dollars. It is a key enterprise in our SZ city."

"Great!" Hu Zhengming nodded, and then asked Duan Yun: "Since your electronic products are so popular, why are you starting to develop and produce semiconductors now? I heard that your group is suitable for Toshiba to jointly develop a chip factory, right? Tell me about your joint venture chip factory?"

"Yes, we did cooperate with Japan's Toshiba to open a chip factory." Duan Yun responded, and then said: "Speaking of opening this joint venture chip factory, it was entirely due to some opportunities and coincidences. At that time, our electronics factory wanted to Research a new electronic product to open up the international market, but this product requires some core integrated circuits, and this kind of circuit cannot be produced with domestic technology, so I can only find another way, as it happens, that One year I participated in the CES exhibition in the United States, and found a flash memory chip called "Flash" in Toshiba's exhibition area, which immediately attracted my attention..."

Duan Yun began to tell Hu Zhengming in detail about his original intention of starting a chip factory, and the difficult negotiations with Toshiba, which cost a huge amount of money to introduce production lines and related equipment.

(End of this chapter)