When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

Chapter 313 Acquisition, Current Status of Semiconductor Industry
the next day.

After Zhang Bietian, who was far away in the capital, received the news, he immediately flew to Tangdu.

Wang Donglai did not expect Zhang Yibyte to be so efficient, but after just a thought, he understood Zhang Yibyte's idea.

Galaxy Technology.

This was the first time Wang Donglai met Zhang Bietian, and he felt a little emotional.

In his previous life, he was just an outsourced employee of Zhang Bytedance, doing the work of an ox and getting paid the salary of an ox and a horse.

After starting over again, the identities of the two people have changed drastically.

Zhang Bytedance is no longer a new Internet upstart, while Wang Donglai has become a new rich man in the business world.

Not to mention the huge difference in their wealth.

Because of the appearance of Wang Donglai, the development of Zhang Yibyte in this world is slow, and the situation is not good.

The fact that it has held on until now and been acquired by Galaxy Technology is actually the best choice.

When Wang Donglai saw Zhang Yibyte, a lot of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

However, I quickly put these messy thoughts out of my mind.

"boss Zhang!"

Wang Donglai was the first to greet.

"Mr. Wang."

Zhang Bytedance wears glasses and looks gentle and elegant. He doesn't look like a manager but rather like a pure science and engineering worker.

But in fact, Zhang Bytedance has quite a bit of entrepreneurial experience. He is familiar with Wang Meituan and has worked on projects such as Jiujianfang.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Zhang Yitian took the lead in mentioning the acquisition: "Mr. Wang, I want to talk to you about your company's acquisition of our company."

"Of course there is no problem with that, please go ahead!" The reason why Wang Donglai wanted to acquire Zhang Bytedance was actually for Zhang Bytedance's group of executives. In their previous lives, they were able to create an Internet legend, and their abilities have been proven.

Wang Donglai didn't want to spend too much time on this, so if he could recruit this group of people, it would undoubtedly save a lot of effort.

After getting Wang Donglai's permission, Zhang Bie immediately said, "In fact, I have also paid attention to your company in the past two years. Based on my observation and understanding, your company's development is actually not reasonable! If analyzed from a business perspective, Galaxy Technology is actually not a qualified and successful company."

As soon as Zhang Yitu opened his mouth, he directly evaluated Galaxy Technology.

And the evaluation is not high.

After saying this, Zhang Bietian stared intently at Wang Donglai's expression through his glasses.

However, he did not see the expression he expected on Wang Donglai's face.

"Mr. Zhang, why don't you continue talking!" Wang Donglai stretched out his hand to signal Zhang Bie to continue.

After calming down, Zhang Yitian spoke again: "The reason why I made this judgment is that your company has developed to this level today, in fact, it relies on the ability of Mr. Wang alone. It is said that the first generation of the product of the connotation was developed by Mr. Wang alone."

"In addition, your company has never received any financing since its development. Every time it needed funds for development, it licensed mobile phone fast charging technology, artificial intelligence medical auxiliary diagnosis system, lithium batteries, and this time it developed lithium-sulfur batteries. All of these patents were created by Mr. Wang."

"Mr. Wang was born in the 1990s. He is only 21 years old this year. He was only 19 years old when he founded Galaxy Technology. He has already achieved such great success. He is really strong."

"At present, Galaxy Technology is valued at over 10 billion yuan, but in my opinion, this valuation is actually an estimate of Mr. Wang's academic research capabilities."

"Except for Mr. Wang's Galaxy Technology, in my opinion, it's actually nothing."

"Do you think what I said is correct, Mr. Wang?"

Zhang Yibyte spoke a lot in a very eloquent and well-reasoned manner. It seemed that he really knew Galaxy Technology very well, and he had a very high opinion of Wang Donglai.

After hearing Zhang Yitian's comments, Wang Donglai shook his head slightly and said seriously, "Mr. Zhang, it seems that you really understand and care about Galaxy Technology, and what you said seems to make sense, but I don't think so."

"The question is actually very simple: is it heroes who create history, or is it the people who change history?"

"Indeed, it is undeniable that I have played a big role in the development of Galaxy Technology, but I also cannot deny the value of the work of the 13,652 people at Galaxy Technology today."

"I understand Mr. Zhang's idea, but I don't agree with it."

Zhang Yitu thought about Wang Donglai's answer, but he didn't expect Wang Donglai to say this.

This answer was completely beyond his imagination.

In his heart, Zhang Yibyte readjusted his evaluation of Wang Donglai.

"I would like to ask Mr. Wang how he will arrange things after acquiring ByteDance. On the one hand, Galaxy Technology is engaged in high-tech research and development. From the current situation, it is clearly taking the route of light-asset patent licensing. On the other hand, it is recruiting a large number of employees to operate Internet products. The two seem somewhat complicated."

Zhang Bytedance is both a technician and a manager. After missing the previous topic, he directly asked a more critical question.

There are many cases in the business world where, after an acquisition, the original entrepreneurial team was directly kicked out and replaced with their own team.

As a result, problems arose in product operations, and not many could have done better.

Zhang Bytedance actually has his own unique views on the information flow business, and he firmly believes that this model can make a lot of money.

Now that it is being acquired by Galaxy Technology at a price of 500 million, he actually thinks it is a complete loss-making business.

However, because there was Galaxy Technology in the market with better development, investment institutions would not choose him at all. After his working capital dried up and he gradually fell into a disadvantage, he had no choice but to choose to be acquired.

At this time, Zhang Yitian asked this question in order to naturally bring out his views and thoughts on the information flow model.

He wanted to persuade Wang Donglai and also try to increase the purchase price.

Wang Donglai saw through Zhang Yibyte's idea at a glance, smiled, and said, "Actually, what Mr. Zhang said is right. I originally positioned Galaxy Technology as a high-tech technology research and development company, but research and development requires money, not just a little money, but a lot of money."

"Nowadays, the way to get a lot of money in the market is the Internet. To put it bluntly but realistically, as long as you can make a PPT, you can get a lot of financing from rich people waving money around."

"The artificial intelligence medical assisted diagnosis system is just a beginning. Ultimately, I want to develop real artificial intelligence technology."

"Although lithium-sulfur batteries have good performance, there are also solid-state batteries and graphene batteries above them."

"The funds required for the research and development of these projects are enormous."

"So, after acquiring your company, I will delegate power to you executives and formulate an incentive plan. As long as you can increase the daily active users and retention and reach certain standards, there will be corresponding incentives. This can be written into the contract, so you can rest assured." Wang Donglai did not tell the truth to Zhang Bytedance, but he did not lie either.

What to say to whom.

In his previous life, Zhang Bietian had another name called Zhang Huoxing, and he remembered it very clearly.

Although that incident was not Zhang Yitu's fault, some of Zhang Yitu's character can be seen from this incident.

What's more, this incentive plan is the most suitable for Zhang Bytedance and is in his best interests.

Sure enough, after hearing what Wang Donglai said, a look of satisfaction appeared on Zhang Yibyte's face.

This result is already quite good for Zhang Byte.

So Zhang Yitu didn't hesitate too much and agreed immediately, saying, "Boss Wang, a gentleman's word is as good as a promise. Since Boss Wang chooses to trust me, I will not let him down."

Wang Donglai nodded and held out his hand to Zhang Yibyte: "Then I'll wait and see!"

According to the development of the original time and space, Tik Tok is not online yet.

Wang Donglai was not prepared to launch it ahead of time.

The 4G standard has not yet been widely popularized, and at its current level, it cannot support the emergence of short video platforms.

However, in addition to Douyin, there are also products such as Toutiao and Neihan.

After discussing the most critical issues, Wang Donglai talked to Zhang Bytedance about the next operational requirements.

"After the acquisition, the headquarters must be placed in Tangdu, but a core base can be maintained in Beijing to undertake more tasks."

"In addition, the most important thing is that when doing business in China, you must know how to be respectful and establish correct values. I will not allow the company's products to contain content that is not in line with the three correct values. From company executives to employees, everyone must follow this principle."

"Respect the law and have the right values, so I set up an audit department at the beginning of the organization. I did not choose outsourcing, but directly recruited."

"In the future, we must continue to stick to this point. Content is important, but toxic content must be blocked. This is the bottom line and cannot be questioned or violated!"

When talking about this matter, Wang Donglai emphasized it very seriously.

The connotation of the previous life has been blocked, which is a pity emotionally, but it is reasonable rationally.

If it happens again, Wang Donglai will naturally not let it happen again.

Zhang Bietian looked at Wang Donglai's extremely serious expression, put away his contempt in his heart, and nodded seriously.

The acquisition terms had already been negotiated, so Wang Donglai adjusted his mindset quickly.

Communicate directly with Zhang Yitu as the boss.

The same was true for Zhang Yitu, who adapted to his identity quickly and nodded in agreement to all the requests made by Wang Donglai.

……

After completing the acquisition of Zhang Yimou.

Wang Donglai also had a preliminary idea of ​​what kind of technological breakthrough he would need to achieve the task.

semiconductor!
Whether it is artificial intelligence, drones, or new energy, they all require chips and the support of the semiconductor industry.

China is also a major consumer of semiconductors in the world, with imports reaching trillions of dollars.

From a technical perspective, domestic semiconductor technology lags behind the international advanced level in all aspects.

In terms of production capacity, domestic semiconductor production capacity can only meet 8% of its own demand, and the chip production capacity self-sufficiency rate is not enough to ensure the chip supply security of the domestic manufacturing industry chain.

In terms of semiconductor equipment, domestic semiconductor equipment is at the stage of fully imitating the products of major international equipment manufacturers. The domestic self-sufficiency rate of front-end equipment is between 7% and 11%. In addition to lithography systems, the field of measurement equipment is also lagging behind, with a localization rate of less than 5%. The same is true for high-end equipment in process equipment.

In terms of education and talent, the country lacks world-class semiconductor industry leaders and high-level technical personnel with rich practical experience, and practitioners generally lack high-level theoretical and practical education and training.

As for capital investment, the domestic semiconductor industry is seriously lacking in capital investment. Taking production capacity as an example, every 1% increase in domestic chip production capacity requires an investment of 1000 to 1200 billion yuan. However, the actual investment in the domestic semiconductor industry is less than 800 billion yuan per year.

If the semiconductor industry wants to catch up with the international advanced level, it must invest at least 500 billion yuan each year, and maintain this investment scale for many consecutive years. It must also gradually increase the scale of investment, and it can only be more, not less.

Even so, Wang Donglai did some calculations in his head and realized that if he didn't include himself, it would take at least ten years to make some achievements, and it would be far from independent. The production capacity might be close to the first echelon, but in terms of technology, it would take another twenty years.

Semiconductor is a process involving a variety of cutting-edge technologies, with a complex manufacturing process and extremely high requirements.

Upstream design, equipment, and materials, midstream wafer manufacturing, and downstream packaging and testing.

This is further subdivided into base materials and manufacturing materials as well as packaging materials.

The core links of semiconductors can be simply divided into four parts: design, equipment, materials and manufacturing.

The first step of design mainly involves EDA software, also known as electronic design automation software. Its function is simple, which is to perform electronic design (including functional design and physical design), synthesis, verification and other functions of very large-scale integrated circuits on a computer. It is equivalent to using it to manufacture an "electronic chip" on a computer, and then it can also perform simulation, verification and analog chip manufacturing, etc., which is tantamount to bringing the chip manufacturing link forward, saving a lot of time and economic costs.

At present, the global EDA market is mainly dominated by Synopsys, Cadence Electronics and Siemens EDA, which account for about 81% of the global market share.

As for the gap between domestic companies and giants, it is mainly reflected in three aspects: R&D technology, channels and products, and ecology and customer relations.

Of course, the most important thing is the technological gap.

Wang Donglai had already decided to get involved in the semiconductor industry, but before that he had only let Galaxy Technology make preparations, such as acquiring some upstream and downstream factories and slowly building a complete supply chain and industrial chain.

However, after receiving this temporary task, Wang Donglai's mind changed.

Time waits not for us!

If we delay any further, it will probably be too late.

So, after just a few days of thinking, Wang Donglai made up his mind to start the localization of the semiconductor industry ahead of schedule.

The first step is to use EDA software.

At the same time, he also needs to meet someone!

A legendary figure with a legendary reputation in the semiconductor industry!

(End of this chapter)