Reinventing the Millennium.

After meeting Bingxin's CEO and CTO successively, Ji Minghua did not meet him as Fang Zhuo said yesterday.

Later, he participated in a private banquet arranged by Mr. Hu himself, and met several R&D senior executives, and had a clearer understanding of the ecology inside the ice core and his own future.

"Where's Mr. Fang?" Ji Minghua asked the teacher when he was parting.

"Zhang Zhongmo's frequent actions in the south have directly increased the level of competition. Mr. Fang is busy with this matter today, and there will be an executive meeting tomorrow. You can go together then." Hu Zhengming replied.

Ji Minghua hesitated: "I will participate tomorrow, is this appropriate?"

Hu Zhengming asked back: "Aren't you planning to stay in China after you leave SMIC?"

If it is in China, but not in the core, it is an ice core.

Ji Minghua understood what the teacher meant, so he no longer declined.

If it is true as the news received now, the Lin'an factory will quickly become an important puzzle for ice cores.

"Teacher, there is one more thing. I don't know if I should say it." Ji Minghua said softly.

Hu Zhengming was originally at the door, but when he heard what his disciple said, he simply continued to send it out.

"There are still people from SMIC who want to come over, like Xie Ning and Liu Yue, who called me today." Ji Minghua said.

Hu Zhengming was not familiar with the two names given by his disciples: "This is Xie Ning and Liu Yue?"

"Xie Ning is the person in charge of SMIC's marketing and business center, and Liu Yue is the person in charge of SMIC's factory in Beijing, both of whom are very capable." Ji Minghua talked about his colleagues and the situation, "Since Mr. Zhang left, Dr. Jiang has served as the director. Long, Wang Ningguo is reorganizing the team as CEO, and the original DRAM business has been completely cut off, many people are not satisfied."

Hu Zhengming groaned slightly, the two people's positions are not low.

Ji Minghua and his teacher had nothing bad to say: "Is it appropriate for Mr. Fang and I to mention this kind of thing? DRAM is going to be turned on, and I just pulled people around when I first came to Bingxin..."

It would be fine if I have been working in Bingxin for a year or so, but some colleagues and friends of SMIC are equally determined and can't wait that long, but I may be too eager to do this, and I am suspected of forming a clique.

Ji Minghua has just experienced a similar situation at SMIC, and is very sensitive to such subtle perceptions.

"Minghua, you may not know that Mr. Fang has a gentleman's agreement with Mr. Zhang on ice core digging. Generally, he is unwilling to take the initiative to destroy the relationship. I even talked to Mr. Fang when you came here." Hu Zhengming thought He said, "I think your situation is special, so let's talk about it with Mr. Fang tomorrow."

He stopped, and finally said: "I know what you are worried about, but in Bingxin, you make decisions based on one standard, if it is really beneficial to Bingxin, then do it, don't be afraid of this or that, and don't be afraid of others How to say."

"If you are in a dilemma, I can bear it. If I am in a dilemma, Fang can always bear it."

"As long as the ice core can move forward, Mr. Fang will always be magnanimous."

"As long as the ice core can improve, no matter what, Fang always has a lot of ways."

Hearing what the teacher said, Ji Minghua breathed out slowly, vaguely feeling like he was dreaming back to the University of California.

The next morning, he really met Mr. Fang.

Speaking of which, although Mr. Fang has a good relationship with SMIC, this is his second meeting.

Ji Minghua quickly and truly felt the teacher's evaluation of Fang always "always has many methods".

After he went back yesterday, he was thinking about one thing, what Mr. Fang could do to improve Zhang Zhongmou's competitiveness, and he was really surprised to hear the content of the busy work today.

"Everyone here today is in charge, and they are all our own people, so I won't talk about it."

"Taiji is sure to engage in 10 billion research and development. I don't know how you are doing. I am under a lot of pressure."

There were only ten people in the meeting room, and Chairman Bingxin's voice was loud.

"In 2008, our revenue was US$14.18 billion, and our research and development expenses were less than 2 million yuan. It was already far behind the Taiwan record, but now we will be pulled apart again."

Ji Minghua was stunned when he heard Mr. Fang's data. IDC's data was wrong, it was not 13 billion, but 14 billion. In this case, it has already surpassed SMIC's revenue. It is not the fifth largest foundry in the world, but the fourth largest foundry in the world. !

"The day before yesterday, Professor Hu and I stated that our research and development will not set an upper limit this year. Hey, please don't be happy."

"This is prone to a situation of flood irrigation. The flood irrigation is not terrible. The terrible thing is that the needed places are not irrigated, and even irrigation will not produce results."

"This matter needs special attention. Dr. Liang and Professor Hu, you must take good care of it."

"In addition to the R&D budget today, there is another matter. I discussed with Infineon yesterday. Ice Core will join their semiconductor technology development cooperation alliance in the near future to seek more external cooperation."

Except for Liang Mengsong and Hu Zhengming, who had already been greeted by Mr. Fang in advance, everyone else in the meeting room said "ah".

Now that Infineon is mentioned, everyone knows who this semiconductor technology development cooperation alliance is.

At the earliest, Chartered Semiconductor signed an agreement with IBM in 2002 to jointly develop 90 and 65nm 12-inch wafer manufacturing processes.

Later, Infineon joined in, and then Samsung joined in.

Now, this is already a technology alliance of five well-known companies in the industry including IBM, Chartered, Infineon, Samsung and Freescale, and they have also created a common platform process and use common manufacturing electrical specifications, which helps the technology Easily transfer between member factories.

Ji Minghua is well aware of the achievements of this technical alliance, but he did not expect that Bingxin would join now.

He couldn't help looking at Boss Fang, curious about the process.

"Just relying on internal research and development, I always feel that it may not be able to maintain the progress. Well, I don't mean to distrust everyone, but you must be more aware of Taiji's technological leadership than me."

"This technical alliance can bring us technical assistance to some extent."

"It's a coincidence that I recently became a minority shareholder of Infineon. Yesterday I urgently went to discuss cooperation with IBM, and then talked with IBM about the technologies we can provide, and the matter was settled."

Fang Zhuo frowned and said: "This alliance has its own expertise. Our preliminary 45nm process foundation is not strong in it. The most important thing is the FinFET process that Professor Hu and Dr. Liang are good at. This is the greatest value displayed by Bingxin. .”

The 45nm process that Ice Core is testing is a threshold, and the real value is FinFET.

The two people who know FinFET best in the world are Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong.

This kind of cooperation can somewhat relieve the pressure brought by Tai Ji's increased competitiveness.

In addition, the platform effect of the world-class flexible outsourcing solutions created by the technology alliance is second. In this regard, the executives on the market side of Ice Core may be more happy.

There is no limit to the internal R&D budget, and external technology development alliances are sought.

This is Bingxin's response to the Taiwan Ji competition.

Ji Minghua thought a lot. He just came out of SMIC and couldn't help but compare the two clubs. I have to say that Bingxin's reaction speed is very quick.

Fang Zhuo let the senior management digest the news for a while, and then continued: "Ice Core has entered the second five-year period, and these five years are a critical stage for Ice Core to gain a foothold in the world's first-class level."

"Five years later, I don't know whether Ice Core can continue to obtain the license for equipment procurement and technology introduction from the United States. In this regard, I hope you all have a risk awareness."

"Even if I get it, I have to say that when the ice core is stronger, it is more likely to suffer from more and more complicated factors. Zhang Zhongmo of Tai Ji used the so-called industry white paper this time to leverage this point."

"Then what should we do? We need to accumulate technology faster and become stronger earlier. Only in this way can Ice Core have a stronger ability to withstand pressure in the future and can take out more bargaining chips."

Fang Zhuo initially expressed his awareness of important risks in the future internally.

He finally calmed down the slightly dignified atmosphere: "To be honest, many people outside, including the Yike Department, said that I care about Bing Xin the most, but in fact I am also very helpless. I can't do it if I don't care about Bing Xin. , everyone, work harder, the ice core should be stronger, and I will strive to retire with Professor Hu."

Hu Zhengming waved his hand and said with a smile: "President Fang, don't, I told Minghua yesterday that I would work for a few more years, and I haven't considered retirement yet."

"Okay, everyone saw it. This is what Professor Hu himself said. We study together. This is the spirit of Zhengming." Fang Zhuo collected the documents in front of him and announced the end of the high-level briefing.

Liang Mengsong still left in a hurry. His feeling of participating in the meeting today is very simple. Budget?good thing.Technical cooperation?good thing.it's over?OK, go to work.

Fang Zhuo has adapted to the style of the co-CEO, and only Professor Hu was left, and Professor Hu kept Ji Minghua.

"This five-member alliance, oh, now counting us, it should be said to be a six-member alliance, which means that members have the right to use the technologies jointly developed by everyone in their own production facilities."

"To what extent should we join together, and what kind of technology should we come up with, Professor Hu, you should think about it with Mr. Qiu later."

Hu Zhengming smiled slightly: "I knew about this technical alliance when I was in Taiji, but I didn't expect to join this alliance in Bingxin now."

Fang Zhuo heard this and asked, "Did Zhang Zhongmo comment on this alliance at the time?"

"He really commented that this is nothing to worry about." Hu Zhengming replied.

Fang Zhuo sighed: "Tai Ji is indeed qualified to say this."

Taiwan Kee defeated IBM's technical standards head-on at the beginning, and this alliance is precisely led by IBM. Joint development is often reserved, and cutting-edge technologies will not be easily produced.

But having said that, any promotion of ice cores is good now, and many companies can't join in if they want to.

If it hadn't coincided with Infineon's trough and Bingxin introduced some IBM technologies, this would not have been possible.

Fang Zhuo talked with Professor Hu again about the progress in Germany and planned to end the exchange.

"Mr. Fang, there is something I feel I need to communicate with you." Hu Zhengming pulled Mr. Fang back.

Fang Zhuo vaguely felt that this sentence seemed familiar, and motioned for the professor to continue.

"How many people don't know if they can come to Bingxin?" Hu Zhengming said.

Fang Zhuo was a little surprised: "This is a good thing."

wrong!

How come there is a feeling of reappearing the scene?
He froze for a moment, and realized that this was the beginning when the professor asked him to talk about Ji Minghua the day before yesterday, and he seemed to have given the same answer back then.

"No, professor, don't tell me that your students from SMIC are coming over again."

Hu Zhengming shook his head and said: "It's not my student, it's SMIC CEO Wang Ningguo who is reorganizing the team. Some talents may be left outside. Instead of this, it's better to come to Bingxin, Minghua, and you can introduce the situation to Mr. Fang."

Seeing that Fang always reacted like this, Ji Minghua bit the bullet and talked about the intentions of Xie Ning, Liu Yue and other executives.

Fang Zhuo looked at Professor Hu after listening, and said helplessly, "Professor, you know that I can't say that."

Hu Zhengming said seriously: "Then we will reject them, not let them make ice cores, and let them go to charter or record."

Fang Zhuo was speechless.

Hu Zhengming persuaded: "Otherwise, who else would speak up? Mr. Qiu is abroad, and he himself came from SMIC. I have to be embarrassed at my age, and you are still young. You have to plead guilty, and your body is strong enough to endure it."

Fang Zhuo was silent. He felt that Professor Hu was getting younger and younger.

The problem is, it's fine to just come one person, but this sudden group of people coming here is not appropriate no matter how you think about it, but it seems wasteful to let them go to other places.

"It's not that we don't recruit people from SMIC. Let's go. Although Mr. Zhang and I have a gentleman's appointment, those who resigned from SMIC through the normal process will also join the job, but they won't take the initiative to dig." Fang Zhuo looked at Ji Minghua, " How about this, Dr. Ji, you talk to the SMIC people and summarize it, and I will settle it once I open my mouth, otherwise it is not an apology, it is showing off."

Ji Minghua took a breath, and agreed simply: "Okay, Mr. Fang."

Because SMIC withdrew from the DRAM field, some of the people who came here this time are actually this factor, which also means that they will still be his colleagues in Bingxin, and they can be regarded as his team. It will be more convenient to start work in the future.

In the evening, Ji Minghua confirmed the list and provided it to Mr. Fang. It was clear that there were a total of 39 middle and high-level people involved in almost every business.

Fang Zhuo got the list, looked at the names and positions on it, and was silent for a while before letting Dr. Ji leave.

These are not ordinary people in SMIC.

Even he was really embarrassed to speak.

Fang Zhuo read the list twice and dialed Dr. Jiang.

"Hello, Mr. Fang?" Jiang Shangzhou had just finished work.

Fang Zhuo said seriously: "Dr. Jiang, please apologize to me first, I want to talk to you about something."

Jiang Shangzhou was puzzled: "What do I apologize to you?"

"I am now talking to you, the chairman of SMIC, as a shareholder of SMIC. I think that the internal actions of CEO Wang Ningguo are a little out of control. For the current SMIC, it is hard-earned.”

"The internal emotions should be calmed down. This is not just a matter of individual employees, but SMIC is watching from top to bottom."

"If one can't be handled well, that's centrifugation."

Fang Zhuo said earnestly: "As a shareholder of SMIC, I am very worried, but it is not convenient for me to go to SMIC to discuss these things, so I can only hope for the work of you, the chairman."

Jiang Shangzhou reflected: "Mr. Fang, we may have been a little too hasty recently."

Fang Zhuo sighed: "Yeah, it's too hasty. Now there are 39 people who have to leave the core to come to the ice core. Although this number is not too many, it also reflects a very important situation. I think that when necessary, we can invite Mr. Zhang to come back and talk to everyone." Let's talk, after all, Zhang always..."

"Wait, wait, Mr. Fang, you just said that 39 people went to the ice core?" Jiang Shangzhou interrupted.

Fang Zhuo said calmly: "Yes, so, I will talk to you about this internal governance issue as soon as I know the situation, if there is..."

"Wait, wait, Mr. Fang, you mean, 39 people?" Jiang Shangzhou interrupted again.

Fang Zhuo replied calmly: "Yes, 39 people."

Jiang Shangzhou: "..."

These 39 people must not be ordinary employees.

He was silent for a while before he said sincerely: "Mr. Fang, if it doesn't work, let's stop contacting."

Fang Zhuo also replied sincerely: "Dr. Jiang, I'm afraid that if I don't contact you, half of SMIC's people are here."

People go to high places. Every step forward by SMIC was the first step in mainland China. Now this position has become an ice core. Every progress is the progress of semiconductors in mainland China.

However, there was another situation inside SMIC, DRAM was cut, and the new CEO also needed a team to implement the strategy.

Jiang Shangzhou said with a wry smile: "Mr. Fang, it seems that I really have to go to Qingdao."

This situation needs the help of the founder to stabilize.

"It will be fine after the pain is over. I support SMIC 100%." ​​Fang Zhuo expressed his position as a minority shareholder.

Jiang Shangzhou said helplessly: "This is 100%... SMIC is a little bit unbearable."

"If you can't bear it, you have to accept it. I think Wang Ningguo said that this year we must strictly control expenditures. The current situation is that several competitors are raising their budgets. If SMIC needs it, I will ask ICBC to take the lead. Even if it is a loan, it cannot Relax investment in the technical field." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "This is the foundation."

Jiang Shangzhou was silent for a while, and said with complicated emotions: "Mr. Fang, thank you."

"It should be, everyone is united, and everything will be fine." Fang Zhuo comforted.

Jiang Shangzhou took a long breath, saying that his side was withering day by day, but the branches and leaves on the other side were growing more and more lush.

How to solve this mixed feeling of blessing, sadness, gratification and bitterness?

"Mr. Fang, we are in the same spirit, and we will communicate with each other. I will go to Qingdao to find Mr. Zhang at night, and keep in touch with ICBC." Jiang Shangzhou said.

Fang Zhuo agreed firmly, everything was easy to say, easy to say.