Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 369 Enthusiastic Onlookers (Two in One)

In mid-June, Shencheng Yike passed several resolutions.

The product department was divided into two, and the hardware team set up a product center, with Xu Keden still serving as the product director.

The software team is set as the IM center, with Chen Ming, the former deputy technical director of the Medical Group, serving as the technical director. The iMusic software is jointly developed by the technical teams of Guahao.com and Yike, and the transfer channel between the two sides is very smooth.

At the same time, the company established a music center to divest the team that originally followed up the cooperation with Sony Music. The main office is located in New York, and the domestic department personnel are responsible for providing timely feedback and support for music and software.

In addition, the marketing department has been divided into two areas, the Huaxia District and the Overseas District. The former is promoted by Yang Wan to two levels as the marketing director, and the latter is the overseas marketing director by Vice President Yu Hong.

Other departments have also made minor adjustments, mainly the merger of similar functions, and further clarified the authority of Su Wei as the vice president, and will recruit a chief financial officer from the outside to promote the company's listing process.

Yike held a three-day meeting in a row, clearly released a signal to seek listing opportunities, and after releasing such a signal, it announced the removal of three middle-level managers at the last meeting and sent it to the court.

This time it's still an economic issue.

The salary set by Yike is at an excellent level in the same industry, but there are still people who want more, and take advantage of Yike's extensive management during the rapid development period to make profits.

Fang Zhuo was not relentless. Even if one of them was transferred during the policy change of Guahao.com, he had already used Tang Shangde's case as a warning before, and he really couldn't find a reason not to take it seriously.

After three days of sweetness and bitterness, the atmosphere of Yike's management was clear, and everyone read a message that the boss would personally take charge of Yike's listing.

Following the events of Sina, Real Estate, and Hanxin, the boss finally remembered that his own son was still waiting to be fed.

However, Su Wei expressed doubts about everyone's optimism. President Fang, it's not that he doesn't pay attention to Yike. He flies the most back and forth to the United States in the whole company. He is just a step forward at key points to push the company forward.

Even, it cannot be said to be a step, it should be said to be a leap.

The closure from hardware to digital music copyright is such a thrilling leap.

It takes time for the market to respond. Although it seems that it is only a supplement to the product at the moment, and although the domestic environment does not realize its significance, Su Wei believes that the importance of this node will be assessed in the next year or even half a year.

On June 6, Yike's internal adjustments were completed, leaving only one CFO candidate still looking for.

On this day, exactly one week after the "6 Hanxin", the conclusion of the official investigation team finally came out - Hanxin was fake.

What followed was the handling of the parties involved, revoking various honorary titles, recovering scientific research funds, and disbanding large and small projects.

Given that Chen Jin is still being investigated by the police for his financial problems, such a handling can be regarded as a formal confession in the academic field.

At the very least, the public level has a certain degree of satisfaction with this, and everyone knows that the judicial process will take time.

As for the experts and leaders involved in the Hanxin project, this is not within the purview of the investigation team, and the official announcement did not give a response.

The news media is still tracking this, and a series of analysis reports and criticisms will continue for a period of time, but such a project that deceives the world and steals its name in such a clumsy and fake way can be regarded as the end of its subject.

On this day, Su Wei returned to the company after a busy afternoon. When she wanted to chat with the boss, she learned from the assistant to the president that he was going to receive guests in the conference room.

"Xiao Chen, where is the guest? The leader?" she asked.

"It's not the leader. It seems that Director Xu invited us here. The person hasn't arrived yet. Mr. Fang is looking at the materials in the meeting room." The assistant replied.

Su Wei looked at her watch, it was a quarter past two in the afternoon: "When will the guests arrive?"

"02:30." The assistant replied again.

Su Wei nodded, tidied up the documents a little before heading to the conference room.

The conference room at Hang Lung 23 is very large, with a projection screen at the front, and the long tables are often full of seats. The signal here supports the conference call very well, and also guarantees the smoothness of the online conference to the greatest extent.

It is a pity that the foreign conference software that has been used is sometimes not very good.

At this moment, there are only two people in the conference room, President Fang and his biographer Liang Mu.

Both of them were looking at the materials, and the latter would occasionally ask a question in a chat style.

Su Wei came in to say hello, listening to Liang Mu's question and the boss's answer, she was surprised, Mr. Fang seemed to be talking nonsense, did Liang Mu seem to believe it?

"Mr. Fang, who are you going to receive today? Is it related to a new model?" She waited for 2 minutes and asked curiously.

"Oh, no, no, I asked Mr. Xu to find teachers and practitioners in the IC industry to find out what's going on in this industry." Fang Zhuo pondered for a while, and mentioned the new product, "The M2 they are making now is a bit conservative. I'm not satisfied and have called back."

Su Wei knew that the M2 submitted by the product department was to further increase the storage and optimize the sound quality. She felt that it was just enough, because the previous improved model was adding storage.

"I have nothing to do in the afternoon, so I'll listen too?" the vice president said tentatively.

"Sure, where's Teacher Liang?" Fang Zhuo looked at Liang Mu. He didn't feel comfortable addressing this former reporter and current author who claimed to be leaving after two years. He simply called him Teacher, which was regarded as respect.

Liang Mu knew the identity of the guests and the meeting time earlier than Su Wei, nodded and said: "Listen, see if there is anything worth writing."

The tea was changed again in the meeting room, and the guests arrived.

Introduced by product director Xu Kedeng, two are associate professor Yu Jun and lecturer Zeng Xiaoyang from Fudan University majoring in microelectronics and solid-state electronics, and one is Lu Ronghui, a PIE semiconductor engineer from Shencheng Huahong.

Fudan does not have a School of Microelectronics, and Jiaotong University was just established this year with the help of the Hanxin project, but...the latter cannot be said to be overshadowed, and it was directly covered in sacks. Therefore, these two are already senior in the industry. Intellectuals, authorities, and PIE engineers are responsible for the process integration of the entire process, and they are indeed the backbone of the industry.

This trip received the invitation, and the three of them were also very curious about the recently famous richest man in Shanghai. It can be said that the entire industry in China is very keen on this rich man who revealed the truth about Hanxin.

After some politeness, Fang Zhuo didn't mention Hanxin, but only expressed a layman's curiosity about semiconductors.

This is not surprising, after all, many people know that President Fang and Professor Chen have a business cooperation on a chip project - some people still feel that if Professor Chen did not find President Fang, they might still be able to continue cheating.

The 2+1 lineup of guests and guests did not make the meeting in the afternoon so interesting. Su Wei and Liang Mu were both dazed, and the abbreviations and technical terms that popped up from time to time made people feel like falling into the clouds.

However, if you don't understand the advanced and professional knowledge, you also know some common sense.

IC industry, the abbreviation of Integrated Circuit (Integrated Circuit), the whole industry chain is divided into IC design, IC manufacturing, IC packaging and testing, followed by upstream, midstream, and downstream links.

Among them, IC manufacturing is the core link with the highest value and a relatively high gross profit rate in the industry.

At present, these three links in China are lagging behind compared with the world.

"The country is paying more attention to it. There is a gap between us and the international market, but SMIC has developed very well in the past two years." Lecturer Zeng Xiaoyang is 31 years old this year. He is always concerned about the development of the industry. It took only 13 months for SMIC's first production line to be completed and put into production. Since its establishment in 2000, in the past three years, there have been four 4-inch production lines and one 8-inch production line."

Fang Zhuo rubbed his chin. It sounded good. He thought for a while and asked, "Is the technology level of SMIC much different from the international one?"

Zeng Xiaoyang evaluated silently, hesitated and did not give an answer.

Associate Professor Yu Jun has been supplementing the content. Faced with this question, he slowly said: "Take TSMC as a comparison. I heard from a friend that he heard an internal statement from SMIC's founder Zhang Rujing. He said, The gap between SMIC and TSMC is only one or two years, and he can even catch up in nine months."

Fang Zhuo heard this for the first time. He knew that Zhang Rujing was the founder of SMIC. He used to be a colleague of TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou in Texas Instruments. Later, the company he worked for in Baodao was acquired by TSMC. He came here because he didn’t want to join. Mainland China founded SMIC.

Naturally, what such a person said was not empty talk, so...why didn't the later SMIC catch up with this gap?

Fang Zhuo stood at the current point of time and looked back, feeling a little dazed for a while.

Huahong PIE engineer Lu Ronghui, as a competitor in the industry, couldn't help but praise: "SMIC is really powerful, the development speed is too fast, and the future can be expected, and the future can be expected."

Fang Zhuo came back to his senses, took a sip of tea, and asked a more personal question: "How much is the budget for building a production line?"

The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay. Although they had certain psychological expectations, it was quite unusual to hear this from the mouth of the richest man in Shencheng.

Fang Zhuo smiled: "I'll just ask."

Zeng Xiaoyang said directly: "President Fang, SMIC built a fab in Beijing at the end of last year, and the announced investment amount was 12.5 billion."

He paused before saying the following unit: "U.S. dollars."

Fang Zhuo couldn't help taking a breath when he heard this number: "A factory is almost a wave."

Zeng Xiaoyang: "?"

Su Wei, who was rather boring at first, suddenly became alarmed when she heard the boss asking about the budget. Hearing this sentence, she glanced at him, and it was indeed close to a wave, and the market value of Sina was only 15 billion US dollars.

She expressed the most intuitive feeling in her heart: "It's really expensive!"

"It is indeed expensive, and, from a global perspective, the entire IC industry is now in a low tide period." Zeng Xiaoyang added information.

At this time, Lu Ronghui of Hua Hong suddenly raised a different opinion: "The factory in Beijing has the latest 12-inch production line. In fact, many manufacturers in the world like to buy second-hand equipment, which will reduce the cost a lot. The industry as a whole is in a downturn this year. There must be a lot of second-hand equipment on the market.”

He continued: "Equipment is one aspect. What really needs to be paid attention to is the process and the yield rate. This is not simple, and it is also a matter of life and death for a production line."

The perspective of practitioners is somewhat different from that of teachers in schools, which sounds more down-to-earth.

Zeng Xiaoyang frowned, glanced at Professor Yu, and refuted the content of the equipment. The production line takes time from project approval to production, and second-hand equipment on the market is often lagging behind.

The two argued a little.

Fang Zhuo didn't speak, just silently absorbing information.

At 04:30 in the afternoon, a small meeting with science popularization, debate, latest industry information, and industry development forecast ended.

Fang Zhuo also had a conference call with New York, so he made an appointment to have dinner together to express his gratitude. In addition, he also chatted about Fudan Semiconductor-related scholarships.

He hasn't thought about the production line yet, but it doesn't hinder the cultivation of talents.

This is much, much cheaper than the budget calculated by "wave".

When the three of them left, the dazed Liang Mu also got up to leave.

"Things this afternoon are too boring. I think Mr. Liang is so bored that he drew a few pandas in his notebook." Su Wei had some thoughts in her mind, so she joked first.

"Really? He was quite energetic when he left," Fang Zhuo said.

"That was the last time I heard you ask about the budget, and felt that something worth writing about was about to happen." Su Wei stared at the boss's expression, trying to read more accurate information, "Don't you have the idea of ​​rashly entering an unfamiliar field?"

Fang Zhuo hesitated rarely.

"Could it be that you were hit by Professor Chen's cooperation, and you want to invest in semiconductors out of righteous indignation?" Su Wei asked again.

Fang Zhuo said, "It's reasonable to think so."

Su Wei said calmly: "It is indeed reasonable. This time, this Hanxin is a victim no matter how you look at it, but I think you have never been a person who suffers..."

Fang Zhuo quickly said, "What you say next will start to be unreasonable."

"Then tell me something reasonable." Su Wei stared at the boss.

"The reasonable thing is that an enthusiastic onlooker looks at the semiconductor industry." Fang Zhuo positioned himself and shrugged. "There are three problems with this look. No money, no experience."

Su Wei complained: "Three realistic questions, then I want to ask this enthusiastic onlooker, it's like this, so what are you looking for?"

"The three questions seem difficult, but I'm thinking about whether one thing is difficult to do now or will be more difficult to do in the future." Fang Zhuo said seriously.

Su Wei didn't quite understand: "What do you mean?"

Fang Zhuo explained: "For example, if you can do one thing with 10 billion yuan now, will it cost 20 billion, 30 billion, or 50 billion in ten or 100 years, and you may also face changes in the environment."

Make up 10 billion...

Forget about others, although Su Wei is not fully aware of the money in the hands of the boss, but she can vaguely guess some, just the MIGA fund, which previously held more than 5% of the shares of NetEase and Sohu, although the reduction of holdings is not enough now. It is obvious that it is on the list, and it must also rise with the current stock price rise.

She thought for a while: "Be careful, Mr. Fang, be careful."

"Yes, be careful. We lack a core talent in this area. Money can find a way and experience can be accumulated. It will be difficult without anyone." Fang Zhuo frowned, like Zhang Rujing of SMIC. As the "Godfather of Huaxia Semiconductor".

"You are missing one." Su Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Well, SMIC is in Shencheng. Let's go visit that President Zhang Rujing together some other day." Fang Zhuo thought about it and decided to listen to such a person's opinion.

(End of this chapter)