The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 225 Before Going to San Francisco

Hua Hong's representative was stunned at the unrealistic nature of the meat eaters, and then understood. It was precisely because he didn't understand the situation on the front line that he needed to investigate.

Now is not 20 years later, the hidden attributes of Hua Hong's corporate nature are stable, and it is not worth mentioning in front of the treatment of private enterprises.

He felt helpless, and said calmly: "We have also considered this plan. At the same time, Xinxin has also expressed its willingness to cooperate with us in the field of research and development on different occasions. Cooperation is possible, but there may be some problems in personnel training.

The problem here is similar to the siphon effect of countries such as Lion City, Neon, and Korea on the talents we have cultivated in the field of integrated circuits. After knowing the remuneration given by Xinxin, it is difficult for employees who go to Xinxin to receive training and work not to germinate. The idea of ​​quitting.

In addition, they have been trained in Xinxin for at least half a year. If they do not perform well, they will have limited value in training, and their value to Hua Hong will also be limited. Once they perform well, Xinxin will also look at this valuable talent.

Once the mechanism is formed, the talents cultivated in this training mechanism will be continuously attracted by Xinxin in the future. "

The gravity of the real world is always more direct than the brilliance of idealism, not to mention that idealism was bleaker than it is now 20 years ago.

"At the end of the first quarter of this year, Hua Hong and Xinxin established a joint venture. The organizational relationship of the employees of an 8-inch chip production plant in Shenhai was transferred to the newly established joint venture." Hua Hong's The representative paused after speaking.

Sure enough, the other party answered: "I know about this matter. This has sparked a lot of discussions in our country. In the process of cooperation between state-owned assets and private capital or overseas capital, whether the cooperation model of the same share with different rights involves asset loss."

Huaguo is a conservative and progressive country in the world, and the same is true in terms of capital operations. Various show operations emerge in endlessly, but they are extremely conservative in certain fields.

The cooperation model between Huahong and Xinxin has made the local government eager to move, because it is not ten years ago, and after the launch of UnionPay, the capital control of local state-owned enterprises is unprecedented.

In this form, cooperation with private capital still maintains the controlling stake in the state-owned enterprise, but the actual management of the enterprise is handed over to private entrepreneurs. In this way, can it avoid the control of UnionPay?Continue to profit for individuals from state-owned enterprises in the new cooperation model.

After Shenhai took the first step in the cooperation model of the same share with different rights, other places soon followed. As for the reasons mentioned above, it is only one of them, and some of them really want to revitalize some not-so-good assets. The place.

Therefore, whether this model is good or not can only be tested by time.

After the research representative finished speaking, the representative of Huahong said: "For us, the cooperation with Xinxin has brought us a brand new management model and advanced concepts.

Because Huahong not only has one 8-inch production line in Shenhai, but also two 8-inch production lines in Huahong NEC, so after Xinxin took over Huahong's production line, we sent some engineers to the production line taken over by Xinxin to learn. .

Most of Xinxin's first-line engineers come from Texas Instruments, IBM, and Intel. Their management experience and production experience are quite different from those of Neon, and there are many places to learn from.

However, once the engineers who have been to the Xinxin production line to study, they will inquire about whether they can be transferred to the joint venture company established by Xinxin and Huahong after they come back. This kind of willingness is particularly strong.

Why?Because Xinxin pays grassroots engineers twice as much as Hua Hong, mid-level engineers three times as much as Hua Hong, and senior engineers five times as much as Hua Hong.

In other words, if any engineer hears that everyone does similar work, he can learn more in Xinxin. Xinxin will give outstanding engineers the opportunity to study abroad at public expense, not necessarily to colleges, but also to Texas Instruments. , Intel and other companies have learned.

In terms of various treatment, Huahong has no way to compare with Xinxin, so if we send people to Xinxin to learn, there is a high probability that they will have different ideas. "

IBM now also has a chip foundry business. While they have their own chip foundry business, they also make money by selling advanced patents in the field of chip manufacturing.

After IBM fell behind in the field of chip foundry, they paid $15 billion to transfer the chip foundry business to GlobalFoundries.

If Lenovo buys a ThinkPad in a few years, maybe IBM will give it away for nothing.

"I understand that the fundamental problem is that the company has no profits. If the company does not have profits, the company cannot pay employees wages that match the market price. It is difficult for us to achieve breakthroughs in the field of chip design." The research representative concluded, and then he Ask again:
"Then how does Hua Hong plan to solve this problem?

The problem is temporary, it is impossible for us to keep looking at this problem without solving it?

Many people are watching the cooperation between Hua Hong and Xinxin, and many people are paying attention to whether this cooperation model can work.

Judging from the current situation, the fundamental reason why the production line after the merger of Xinxin and Huahong can have such dazzling data is that Xinxin’s chip design capabilities are strong enough, and they can design chips with absolute technical advantages in a certain field. Sell ​​chips through technological advantages.

In other words, if we adopt a similar model to cooperate with other semiconductor companies in the future, we also need the semiconductor company to have strong enough chip design capabilities. "

Since Xinxin stands behind Xinxin, the UnionPay proposed by Zhou Xin has affected the interests of too many people, so many people are staring at the cooperation between Xinxin and Huahong. If this cooperation fails, they will find a lot of criticism reasons and excuses.

Of course, even if the cooperation between Xinxin and Hua Hong is a great success, they can still find reasons to attack. The most typical one is the loss of assets: if you don’t cooperate with Xinxin, you can do it. Why should you hand over control.

Hua Hong’s representative said: “It’s difficult, because a semiconductor design company with such chip strength would not think about acquiring a chip foundry company.

Because it is now a trend to separate chip design, chip foundry, chip packaging and testing, and chip sales, fewer and fewer companies are obsessed with doing everything in one hand.

If it is a company that focuses on chip design from the very beginning, they have long-term partners and stable sources of chip foundry, and they do not need or need to enter the field of chip foundry.

And vertical chip manufacturers like Samsung, the so-called single-handed chip manufacturers, cooperate with Hua Hong, and the chip foundry orders for Hua Hong are limited. They will definitely give priority to supplying Samsung's own chip factories, and then What Samsung itself is unwilling to do, the orders with low profit margins will be the turn of the joint venture.

So now this model, we have also done internal research and judgment, and almost only Xinxin can offer this kind of cooperation conditions.

Another important point is that Hua Hong's chip production line technology can only be said to be relatively advanced, a generation behind the most advanced chip manufacturing process. "

The outside world may think that the success of Xinxin (Hua Hong) is easy, as if it is readily available, and it can be achieved with another partner.

However, Hua Hong has done many researches and judgments internally, and it is impossible to achieve the level of Xinxin with any partner.

Xinxin not only has strong research and development capabilities, but more importantly, they have extensive resources in Silicon Valley and can sell chips to giants in the consumer electronics field such as Sony and Apple.

For other partners, they have technical advantages, and it will take time to transform their technical advantages into market advantages. For Xinxin, this time is extremely short.

It is also because of this that Hua Hong and Xinxin decided to cooperate at the end of March, and it will be effective in May. If Samsung comes in, they have to cut off their business and move it from the left hand to the right hand for Hua Hong.

At the end of the first quarter, in addition to the cooperation between Huahong and Xinxin, Lei Jun also boarded the plane to San Francisco. After thinking about it, he finally decided to accept the new offer next week.

Zhou Xin gave him two months to hand over work. After all, as the president of Kingsoft and the founder of Joyo.com, he has a lot of work to hand over.

"From the perspective of the company, I really don't want you to leave. Without you, Jinshan Software is missing the most important general. Whether it is the follow-up work or the follow-up development of wps, including Jinshan's follow-up listing plan, without you the whole Timelines need to be reassessed.

Originally, I planned to hand over all the things in my hand to you one after another. Now I am in charge of Jianxia Qingyuan, and you are in charge of other businesses. I can only do the game itself, which is more interesting than office software.

If you go to Silicon Valley, I will have to go back to my old job. " Qiu Bojun said.

Lei Jun had a good chat with Qiu Bojun before making a decision. As Lei Jun's guide, Qiu Bojun brought him into Kingsoft and gave Lei Jun great trust.

Including the start-up of Joyo.com, it also received investment from Kingsoft.If Lei Jun leaves Jinshan to accept Zhou Xin's offer, he must obtain Qiu Bojun's consent anyway.

If the other party disagrees or shows that he wants to stay, Lei Jun will choose to stay.

Jinshan Software is in a good situation at this time. It has three product lines at the same time, one is office software, and the other is Kingsoft Antivirus. The Kingsoft Antivirus launched in the millennium also has a large market in China. The last one is games. "Widely acclaimed.

After being impacted by "Legend" last year, Kingsoft decided to make an online game version of "Swordsman Love", and Qiu Bojun is in charge of this matter.

Seeing this, Lei Jun immediately said: "I didn't say I wanted to leave, but I discussed it with you. In fact, I couldn't make up my mind. Leaving Jinshan is easy to say, but I spent half of my youth in Jinshan. I joined Jinshan when I was 23, and I am 33 now.

I don't want to leave Jinshan emotionally. "

Later, even though Lei Jun founded Xiaomi, he still held the position of Kingsoft.

Qiu Bojun interrupted: "I don't want you to leave from Kingsoft's level, but from the personal relationship between the two of us, I think going to Matrix is ​​a rare opportunity for you.

It may even be the most precious opportunity in your life. Personally, I absolutely support you in going to Silicon Valley.

No matter how Jinshan Software develops, it can only be valued at hundreds of millions, and the valuation unit is RMB, but if you go to Silicon Valley and develop well, the valuation is calculated in US dollars, like Ma Yun and Ma Huateng who are your peers Silicon Valley is booming.

Including Li Yanhong, who became the second richest Chinese citizen after Baidu went public not long ago, without exception, they all got help from Zhou Xin before going to Silicon Valley to work hard.

Zhou Xin not only has a strong ability to start a business, but also has a good eye for people and projects. Since he has taken a fancy to you, he will definitely give you enough resources in the future.

While you are working at Matrix, if you have entrepreneurial ideas, Zhou Xin will definitely give you some resources.This is a very rare opportunity.

Not to mention that Matrix is ​​a company that has changed the structure of the mobile phone industry. It is definitely more interesting to go to Matrix than to follow Microsoft in Kingsoft, what Microsoft's office does, and what we follow.

You are equivalent to changing from a follower to an industry leader, which is a completely different concept.

From the perspective of personal development, you will definitely be able to achieve greater success and a different life experience if you go.

We have known each other for so many years, I know you must be tempted, we are both programmers, and we have both used Mphone, we all know the potential of Mphone.

It is definitely not as simple as a mobile phone, especially after it is equipped with an application store, it can be regarded as a handheld computer equipped with a calling function, and even has a higher degree of freedom than a handheld computer.

According to this definition, many Internet companies will also be born in the mobile phone field in the future. "

Many people have vision and can see the future to a certain extent, but very few people believe in the future they see and stick to it.

Lei Jun was a little silent after listening, because what Qiu Bojun said was right, he was indeed moved, if he hadn't been moved, he would not have talked to Qiu Bojun at all.

I chatted with the other party because I wanted to ask for their opinions, and secondly, I wanted to leave without a psychological burden. "I really want to go, but I don't have the confidence. I'm not sure I can do it well. I came from Sanse Company to Jinshan, Both of these companies are engaged in office software, so they don't need any adaptation.

Do Joyo, Joyo is also software, an Internet application, and there is Amazon's model to learn from, so there is no difficulty.

We were all engaged in software before, and Matrix is ​​a hardware company, which is equivalent to switching to Dell. I don't understand many places.

Including the form of Mphone, it is the future development direction, we all know, but how to develop specifically?I have no idea.

Move all the applications on the computer over?
And we have used Mphone, due to geographical restrictions, I did not really experience all the subtleties of Mphone.There is no reference for going to Matrix, I have no idea in which direction to develop, and there is no guidance.

I need to make up a lot of lessons, I lack confidence, including my English is not very good. "

Qiu Bojun patted the other party: "What are you afraid of? Since Zhou Xin will find you, it means that he has confidence in you, and I have confidence in you. You must be able to do well.

As for my poor English, I just need to find someone to teach me. It is easy to practice in a new environment.

As for the direction, you don't have to worry about it. With Zhou Xin here, you don't need to worry about the future development direction of Mphone at all. "

(End of this chapter)