Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 84 The Death of Semiconductors

The busy May slipped away quietly.

A hotter June followed.

There is even hotter news about Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., the founder of Huaxin International (SMIC), Dr. Zhang Rujing, who serves as the general manager, and the 300mm large silicon wafer project.

There was a major personnel change on June 3: Dr. Zhang Rujing's three-year term ended, and the board of directors decided that Dr. Zhang Rujing would no longer serve as the general manager of Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.

Wang Fuxiang, the early investor representative of Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor and the chairman of Shanghai Xinyang Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., who also served as the chairman of Xinsheng, also resigned at the same time.

Dr. Zhang Rujing and Mr. Wang Fuxiang continue to serve as directors.

According to official sources, the reason for this adjustment is that the term of Dr. Zhang Rujing expires on May 2017, 5, and will not be renewed after the expiration.

But there are also voices indicating that it mainly comes from the current pressure from the management to mass-produce as soon as possible.

The current leader, Mr. Zhang Rujing, gave Dongtang local suppliers too much time to improve the yield rate, which led to the extension of the new mass production time.

How anxious is this?Is the current state-level investment in the semiconductor industry aimed at making money or trying to improve the overall technical level of the industry?
In addition, information from multiple channels shows that the decision was made earlier last week, but it was not at the beginning of the decision that Dr. Zhang Rujing and Chairman Wang Fuxiang resigned together, but that the management first proposed to add Nabeel Gareeb to the management, similar to the dual CEO model. One of Dr. Zhang and Mr. Wang Fuxiang proposed to resign, and the other followed suit.

Huang Haojie looked at the news, and suddenly narrowed his eyes and thought.

Since the development of Dongtang's semiconductor industry, it has been catching up for a long time just like Dongtang football.

Since the semiconductor industry is a feature of a long industrial chain, it is facing strict blockade of upstream equipment and materials from the beginning of its development to the present.

With the Batumi-Wassenaar agreement, Daxi Union and Milijia have imposed an embargo on high-tech products to Dongtang. Generally, they are approved in accordance with the principle of N-2, which is two generations later than the most advanced technology. There was some delay in the process.

Basically, the technical equipment that Dongtang can obtain will be 3 generations or even longer than the most advanced developed countries.

The manufacturing process is constrained. Although we are struggling to catch up in the process, the bottlenecks of the constraints still exist, and these bottlenecks have fallen behind the current wave of the times, relying on the investment of Shanghu Belling, which relied on scholars and officials in the early days.

When mentioning Dongtang Semiconductor, it reminds people of Dongtang football. Huang Haojie often remembers two people: Zhang Rujing and Xu Genbao.

At the same time, there is also another group of people: real power capitalists (named experts and scholars, but have considerable administrative endorsement, and at the same time, also extend their hands to the operation and management of enterprises.) and capitalists with official backgrounds.

This makes Dongtang Semiconductor and Dongtang Football somewhat similar. Needless to say, Dongtang Football was ruined by someone during their tenure. Dongtang Semiconductor has also been influenced by many eager for success in these years.

After World University was acquired by Taiji Electric in 2000, Zhang Rujing, who could retire long ago, felt that he had the responsibility to improve the technical level of Dongtang's semiconductor industry.

He came to Dongtang without hesitation, and attracted a large number of his colleagues from Texas Instruments and colleagues from Dongdao to start businesses in the mainland.

At that time, he not only sold many properties in Mi Li's house, but also brought his wife and children to the mainland, and even his 90-year-old mother moved to Shanghai together.

Huaxin International, founded by Dr. Zhang Rujing, not only made great contributions to Dongtang in terms of chip manufacturing. For example, as early as the early 21st century, it laid out a 12-inch production line. With personal resources, it found all the five major churches in Mimi to endorse his personality and guarantee what he said. All the words are honest and credible, and promised that the products of the country's government Huaxin must only be used for commercial purposes and will not be used for military purposes.

2007年12月，华芯顺利拿到了45纳米产品的生产设备，仅比大西联盟等发达国家晚了1年左右的时间，2009年1月1日，他们又顺利拿到了32纳米生产设备的出口许可。

However, the semiconductor industry, especially the manufacturing industry, as an industry that requires a large amount of capital investment, needs state financial support. However, with state-owned capital as a shareholder, it is difficult to import equipment from Western countries. Without the introduction of state-owned capital, it is difficult to obtain state financial support .

It is hard for Huang Haojie to imagine, with what kind of persistence and hard work, Dr. Zhang Rujing established Huaxin International and continued to break through the constraints and blockades of equipment in the manufacturing process. In the past few years, the production capacity of the 12-inch market has already proved his original vision.

In addition to the field of chip manufacturing, Dr. Zhang Rujing’s greater contribution is that he has trained many talents for Dongtang’s semiconductor industry. Now, many executives, CTO/COO/CEOs of Dongtang Manufacturing and other companies come from Huaxin International.

At the same time, Dr. Zhang Rujing has always been interested in cultivating Dongtang local enterprises. If foreign equipment is used, it may be mass-produced immediately. With Dongtang local company equipment, the yield rate may not be enough, and continuous improvement may take several months or even a year for mass production. Zhang Rujing Doctors tend to be the latter, whether it is Huaxin International or new promotions, it is the same.

In all of this, the old man does not care about personal interests, whether it is the shares of Huaxin International, or in order to reconcile as soon as possible, abandon the counterclaim in Dongtang and leave SMIC, or establish Xinsheng.

Dr. Zhang Rujing is more like an industry preacher than a profit-seeking entrepreneur.

Thinking of Xu Genbao, who withdrew from the Dongtang football system, established a football base, and cultivated the younger generation should have fallen on the scholars and officials who should have a strategic vision. Blood supply base.

During the round of 12, Dongtang football had 8 players who were produced at the Genbao Chongming base, including Yan Junling and Gu Chao.

But for a long time, Dongtang football was too eager for quick success and instant benefits. Only he was paying attention to the youth team and doing basic things in a down-to-earth manner.

The same should not be eager for quick success, including the semiconductor industry.

However, for a listed company (SMIC), it is still possible to understand the mood of ordinary investors in the secondary market. The secondary market pursues short-term interests, and a large amount of depreciation on the financial statements leads to unsightly financial statements. The low market value is the leek and analysis of the secondary market. It is difficult for teachers to accept, and it is difficult to fully understand with such feelings.

But for an unlisted company, a 300mm large silicon wafer project that has just been put into construction, and is in the period when the founder's personal influence is attracting talents, how many local Dongtang locals in the upstream and downstream of the industry can be driven by this project The company develops together, mass production later, but the management is so strange that they can't sit still.

There is a global shortage of wafers this year, and Sumco, a major Japanese wafer manufacturer, refused to supply Wuhan Xinxin, giving priority to supplying products to companies such as Intel, Taiji, and Micron.

Dongtang has already seen the importance of silicon wafers, but the production process of silicon wafers, specifically the production equipment, how can it be bought directly overseas?
Precisely because it is important, it is even more important to localize it as much as possible. Others can cut off the supply of wafers, can't they cut off the supply of equipment?
The semiconductor industry is an important weapon of the country, and because of this, in key industrial projects, the mass production indicators should be biased towards driving local enterprises in upstream and downstream industries.

Huang Haojie thinks this is an opportunity, even though Zhang Rujing is a rice Chinese, he is still from East Island.

But Zhang Rujing definitely favors Dongtang.

Huang Haojie decided to make an exception for him, grabbed the phone:

"Hey! Old Li!"

"Mr. Huang."

"Help me make an appointment with Zhang Rujing who just resigned from Xinsheng Semiconductor. I plan to meet him." Huang Haojie directly ordered.

"Okay, when will Mr. Huang go to see the other party?" Although he was very puzzled by Huang Haojie's unconstrained style, he followed the order.

"The sooner the better! I'll take the high-speed train to Shanghai tomorrow."

"Okay, I will arrange it as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Huang Haojie wrote semiconductor on a piece of draft paper, and then wrote room temperature superconductor.

In fact, the quantum computer chip obtained by Huang Haojie from parallel time and space is a superconducting quantum computer chip.

But in fact, before superconducting quantum computer chips, there was a short period of superconducting electronic chips in parallel time and space.

(End of this chapter)