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Xu Liang went to the side to show his friendly image, and Lei Jun, who was standing behind him, immediately stepped forward to shake hands with Liang Mengsong.

"Old Liang, welcome to Kunlun. With a talent like you, Kunlun Semiconductor has hope."

Liang Mengsong smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you. Kunlun is a very good company. Mr. Xu and you, Old Lei, are also excellent corporate leaders. It's a pity that I was confused for a while and didn't join earlier."

The two have met more than once and can be considered friends.

They are also much closer in terms of address.

"It's not too late to join now." Lei Jun smiled.

Liang Mengsong nodded gently and said nothing.

At this time, he realized how ridiculous his hesitation some time ago was.

How could a person who is willing to spend a lot of money to recruit semiconductor talents and build houses and schools for talents be short-sighted?

Started from scratch in the United States and became the world's super-rich second only to old Gates in his twenties.

He has been involved in global finance, creating miracles repeatedly in eight years, and has beaten the famous Soros who dominated half of Asia...

Xu Liang has too many legends.

Now he is entering the field of hard technology and semiconductors, which is bound to subvert the old pattern.

"Thank you for your hard work along the way. On behalf of Kunlun Industrial Group, I welcome you to join."

After shaking hands with the last technician in the team, Xu Liang found that so many of them gathered together, which had attracted the attention of many tourists around.

However, because there were more than a dozen security personnel in suits and leather shoes blocking them all around, the surrounding tourists did not come around.

"Dr. Liang, the group has prepared a welcoming banquet for you at the hotel. Let's go directly there now."

Xu Liang approached Liang Mengsong and said with a smile.

Liang Mengsong nodded quickly.

At this time, he also noticed that there were more and more onlookers around.

Xu Liang and Liang Mengsong walked in front, leading the mighty group to the side of the road.

There were more than a dozen black Mercedes-Benz parked on the side of the road, forming a long line, which was very impressive.

Xu Liang invited Liang Mengsong to get in his Maybach and drove out first. More than a dozen other Mercedes-Benz cars followed in turn, and the convoy headed towards Liangmuyuan Hotel.

Sitting in the back seat of the spacious car, Liang Mengsong looked at the scenery outside through the car window and couldn't help but sigh:

"The capital is developing too fast. It looks different every year. I'm afraid I won't recognize it in a few years."

Xu Liang: "Not only the capital, but the entire continent is developing rapidly. The Chinese nation is a hardworking and wise nation. It will definitely return to its original position in the future."

"Original position?" Liang Mengsong asked.

"Papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and compass, the four ancient technologies, were all invented by the Chinese. We have a splendid civilization, and our technology was once unique in the world.

Today's backwardness is only temporary. All fields are catching up. Some have already caught up, and some are just a matter of time."

Liang Mengsong smiled and nodded.

"Mr. Xu has a good idea. Apart from other things, which big company in the global semiconductor industry does not have Chinese people?

The mainland fell behind for some reasons in the past, but now it is focusing on the economy, and it will catch up in technology sooner or later.

Mr. Xu is willing to stand up. I believe that Chinese scientists and technicians in the semiconductor field will be willing to gather under Kunlun Semiconductor in the future."

Xu Liang smiled and said, "Why not TSMC?"

Liang Mengsong said lightly, "There are many factions within TSMC, and rewards and punishments are unclear.

When Morris Chang was still there, TSMC could still make a living.

When he left, TSMC's glory would end."

Xu Liang smiled. As expected of a senior executive of TSMC, he had a clear understanding of the company's internal weaknesses.

In 2005, after Morris Chang retired, he handed over TSMC to Li-Hsing Tsai.

As a result, he ran into Samsung's massive counterattack and the financial crisis as soon as he took office. The strict performance appraisal and cost optimization measures caused a strong backlash within the company, forcing Morris Chang to come out again and return to TSMC in 2009 at the age of 78.

However, in Xu Liang's view, the biggest failure of Cai Lixing's taking office was to force Liang Mengsong away.

Lao Liang is a famous technology fanatic at TSMC and the "disciple" of Hu Zhengming, the inventor of the mainstream chip transistor configuration FinFET.

When TSMC defeated IBM's 130-nanometer "copper process" project, Liang Mengsong was the second hero.

He has worked diligently at TSMC for decades, has more than 500 patents, and has published more than 350 technical papers. Liang Mengsong has participated in every generation of TSMC's process technology. He is a real technical expert.

But he never thought that he would follow the same path as Zhang Rujing.

In the year when Morris Chang retired for the first time, TSMC's Vice President of Technology Chiang Shangyi also retired. Liang Mengsong felt that the position of Vice President of Technology belonged to him, and Chiang Shangyi also pushed Liang Mengsong.

But unexpectedly, CEO Rick Tsai wanted to use his own people, and poached his senior when he was studying in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University - Luo Weiren, former Associate Director of Advanced Technology Research and Development at Intel.

It is normal for a new official to promote a few of his own people in order to secure his position.

But the key is to see how you treat people.

Top technical experts like Liang, who have MAX R\u0026D capabilities, are the most valuable talents for any high-tech company, and they must be retained.

Pure management talents like presidents, vice general managers, and HR are the ones who are suitable for establishing authority.

But not.

Rick Tsai's nepotism is simply an insult to Liang Mengsong.

After all, I have boasted about my achievements.

Many people have already gone to congratulate him on his promotion in advance.

Now, he has become the laughing stock of the entire company.

If you want to save face, you won't be able to stay.

As a man in science and engineering, Lao Liang still needs to be proud.

Some media reported that Liang Mengsong "cried loudly" when he left.

Liang Mengsong cried, but Nan Bang smiled.

At this time, Nanbang was making every effort to develop the chip foundry industry, although it ranked only eighth in the world, not even as good as SMIC.

But Samsung has the courage to choose "countercyclical factory building" like Zhang Rujing.

Billions of dollars were spent building foundries.

Samsung is like an eagle lurking in the dark, staring closely at TSMC and preparing to deliver a fatal blow.

South Korea's chip industry also needs a technical leader. Because Liang Mengsong's wife is Korean, Samsung sent people to find Liang Mengsong's wife, hoping that she would persuade Liang Mengsong to develop at Samsung.

The price offered by Samsung is very generous, with an annual salary of US$1 million, which is three times the annual salary of TSMC.

In addition, considering that Liang Mengsong resigned due to lack of respect, the company's special plane was specially dispatched to take Liang Mengsong to work in South Korea.

This kind of courtesy was in sharp contrast to TSMC, and Liang Mengsong simply couldn't resist.

This is why Xu Liang is willing to personally bring Lei Jun to greet him.

Corporal courtesy has always been the basic operation of the superior.

Since Liang Mengsong had a non-competition agreement with TSMC and could not join Samsung, Liang Mengsong went to Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea as a visiting professor.

But everyone has arrived in South Korea, what exactly can TSMC do?

What's more, Sungkyunkwan University is controlled by Samsung.

Soon Liang Mengsong was "sent" by Sungkyunkwan University to teach at Samsung Semiconductor Institute of Technology, but those who listened to his class were not ordinary students, but all top Samsung engineers.

At that time, Samsung was at the 28nm process level and was working on 20nm. After reading it, Liang Mengsong said that it is impossible for you to follow TSMC like this. If you want to defeat TSMC, you must surpass it.

With the joining of Mr. Liang, Samsung's chip technology has improved rapidly, leapfrogging directly to conquer 14nm, half a year earlier than TSMC!

Relying on this half-year time difference, Samsung grabbed TSMC’s global first order for the Apple A9, and even snatched some orders from TSMC’s good friend Qualcomm.

This brought not only order losses to TSMC, but also a plummeting stock price. The total losses totaled US$1 billion, one-third of the net profit that year.

Can Zhang Zhongmou, the traitorous general, endure this?

I've dealt with Zhang Rujing, but I can't deal with Liang Mengsong?

Soon, TSMC sued Liang Mengsong, accusing him of leaking TSMC’s core secrets to Samsung.

The evidence is also clear: when Liang Mengsong did not go, Samsung's foundry revenue was only US$400 million, but after he left, it soared to US$1.2 billion.

TSMC also invited external experts to produce a "TSMC/Samsung/IBM product key process structure analysis and comparison report."

The report shows: Because Samsung’s technology originated from IBM, the chip structure was still very similar to IBM during the 2nd process.

But in the 45, 32, and 28 generations, it became more and more similar to TSMC.

When it comes to 14nm.

"It is impossible to tell whether it comes from Samsung or TSMC based on pure structural analysis."

This has nothing to do with Liang Mengsong to be called a ghost.

In the words of TSMC's Legal Minister Fang Shuhua: "Even if he doesn't take the initiative to leak secrets, when Samsung chooses a technical direction, as long as he reminds it and says, 'Don't go in this direction,' Samsung can save a lot of material resources and time. "

In 2014, the court ruled that Liang Mengsong lost the case and was forced to leave Samsung.

Liang Mengsong is a man who is engaged in technology. People who are engaged in technology will have an obsession to make breakthroughs and breakthroughs until they reach the limit of Moore's Law.

After Liang Mengsong left Samsung, although he was not short of money, he left the technology career he loved. For a technology person, this was more uncomfortable than killing him.

At this time, SMIC extended an olive branch.

In 2017, Liang Mengsong joined SMIC as co-CEO, responsible for technology research and development, with an annual salary of US$200,000.

Although the money is not much, it is enough to kill TSMC instead of fighting for steamed buns.

Therefore, he didn't even take the 200,000, but donated it to an education foundation.

In the three years since I arrived at SMIC, I have directly copied Samsung’s progress.

Completed technology research and development from 28nm to 7nm.

Technologies such as 28nm, 14nm, 12nm, and n+1 have all entered large-scale mass production. In particular, the yield rate of 14nm has increased from 3% to 95%.

Although 14nm is still two generations behind TSMC's 5nm, 14nm chips can already meet more than 70% of needs in the manufacturing field.

However, with the help of Xu Liang, SMIC made Zhang Rujing's position as stable as Mount Tai. Although the lawsuit was ongoing, it was never lost.

So Liang Mengsong did not go to SMIC, but was invited to Kunlun Semiconductor by him.

Xu Liang did not continue the topic of TSMC.

"Kunlun Semiconductor started building it from scratch, and I'm going to work hard on you from now on."

Liang Mengsong said seriously: "Mr. Xu, you trust me and are willing to leave Kunlun Semiconductor to me.

No matter how hard I work, I can bring Kunlun Semiconductor close to, or even catch up with, the level of the first echelon in the world. "

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Xu Liang smiled bitterly. Liang Mengsong, such a great man, did not dare to say "surpass". The more he knew about the industry, the less he dared to speak nonsense.

However, it has been so many years behind, Xu Liang is not in a hurry for a while, and he can't be in a hurry at all.

"Just do research and development with confidence, funding is not a problem."

Liang Mengsong nodded.

Boss Xu is not short of money.

"By the way, I heard that the mainland provides a lot of policy support for companies developing high-tech industries, especially chip industries.

So, can the company get a low-interest loan?"

"We are talking to the Beijing government."

Although he is not short of money, he can't miss the preferential treatment he should strive for.

After a while, the convoy arrived downstairs of Liangmuyuan Hotel in the "Future Science City".

Looking at the back of the distant figure.

Lei Jun said: "Mr. Xu, Kunlun has already arranged it, but what about SMIC...?"

"Don't worry, I've talked to Zhang Rujing.

When Liang Mengsong joins, Kunlun Semiconductor can sign a strategic chip alliance with SMIC, and the two sides will jointly develop 45nm and more advanced processes.

The patents will be shared by both parties."

Lei Jun nodded and hesitated.

"Mr. Xu, is Liang Mengsong really that important?"

"Yes."

Xu Liang nodded affirmatively.

Liang Mengsong is undoubtedly a strategic talent in the field of chip manufacturing.

After taking over SMIC, he would never allow such talents to be taken in by Samsung. Otherwise, SMIC would not just face TSMC.

So, he would rather spend more money to set up a chip manufacturing department under Kunlun Semiconductor than let Liang Mengsong be poached by Samsung.

Of course, he did not think about putting Liang Mengsong in SMIC.

But SMIC's R\u0026D director is Zhang Rujing's old subordinate, a die-hard.

It is impossible for him to let Liang Mengsong take over without using his own people.

How else can he lead the team?

So Xu Liang had no choice but to save the country in a roundabout way.

When Zhang Rujing retires in the future, the two companies will be merged to support Liang Mengsong to take the position.

"Let's go, take a rest, and come back in the evening." Xu Liang said.

"Yes."

...

After Liang Mengsong and his party arrived at the hotel, they were exhausted, so they went into their rooms to rest for a few hours.

In the evening, Liang Mengsong, who had washed up and changed into clean clothes, led his Wanwan engineers to the banquet hall as scheduled.

There were already more than a dozen people waiting in the banquet hall.

Seeing Liang Mengsong appear with a large group of people, Xu Liang and Lei Jun greeted him with a smile.

He was led to the main table and introduced to him the Kunlun executives at the same table.

"Dr. Liang, welcome to Kunlun, I toast you a glass."

Xu Liang was the first to raise his glass.

Liang Mengsong did not dare to neglect it, and quickly stood up with the glass.

After Xu Liang, other senior executives of Kunlun Industry in Beijing also toasted one by one.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the topic inevitably turned to work.

"At present, the entire chip industry chain in my country is trying its best to catch up. The most backward are semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials, followed by the manufacturing link.

Kunlun Semiconductor has currently acquired many chip design companies.

The next task of the company is to establish a chip manufacturing foundry company while doing a good job in design, and strive to achieve world-class level."

Xu Liang's impassioned voice instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

Seeing this, he simply stood up, looked around and continued with a smile:

"When I decided to enter the field of chip manufacturing, many people advised me: Mr. Xu, the chip industry is a bottomless pit of money.

The country has invested so much manpower and material resources, but it has not solved this problem.

Kunlun Industrial Group is just a private enterprise, so it is better not to get involved in this mess.

Many executives in the group think that I am floating. Isn't it better to sell mobile phones, home appliances, and drones peacefully?

And chips are hard work. It will not be profitable within three to five years. The preliminary work alone will require tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of funds. After the production capacity and technology are improved, we will face the "arms race" with our peers.

Everyone knows Moore's Law. The number of circuits integrated on an integrated circuit chip doubles every 18 months, and the price drops by half.

Now the 65-nanometer process, which represents the advanced level of the industry, has been mass-produced, and the 45-nanometer process is also under development. It will be mass-produced and listed in the next one or two years.

Kunlun Semiconductor is only entering the semiconductor manufacturing industry at this time. Whether we choose to enter the 90-nanometer technology node or directly jump to the 65-nanometer technology node representing the advanced mass production level, our technology will always lag behind the world's first-class manufacturers by one or two generations.

In the chip industry, lagging behind by one or two generations of technology is like looking at the mountain and running to the dead horse. It looks very close, but it is actually a world away.

This is because the investment amount required for each new generation of technology will increase compared to the previous generation of technology. Therefore, only the top few companies in the industry will have enough market share and profits to support the investment in the next generation of technology.

Technology needs to be accumulated to promote the development of the next generation. If the technology of semiconductor manufacturing companies cannot support the launch of new processes as soon as possible, they can only stay in the old process without upgrading, or exit the market.

This is the biggest problem facing Kunlun Semiconductor.

Although we are rushing forward into the chip manufacturing industry, our competitors are not idle either. They are not only running, but also running faster than us. "

Liang Mengsong and other Taiwanese engineers were nodding. They discovered another great advantage of the new boss, who was not blindly confident and could accurately recognize and admit his own shortcomings.

Xu Liang took a long breath and said seriously:

"Although there are many difficulties ahead, chip manufacturing is the long-term development strategy set by Kunlun Industrial Group.

From 2007 to 2027, we plan to catch up in 20 years.

During these 20 years, we will not cut Kunlun Semiconductor's R\u0026D funds and wafer production line expansion plans, nor will we rely solely on Kunlun Semiconductor's own profits for expansion.

Kunlun Industrial Group will withdraw most of its profits every year to support the development of Kunlun Semiconductor.

If this is not enough, I personally have other industries under my control, and I will continue to invest in Kunlun Semiconductor."

Wow...

Loud applause rang out throughout the banquet hall.

Regardless of whether the boss's words can be fulfilled in the end, at least it is exciting now.

Xu Liang pressed his right hand down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"The whole of China is saying: lack of chips and screens!

For screens, we invested in BOE, a panel manufacturer;

For chips, we acquired and established a chip design department, and personally established Kunlun Semiconductor.

Panels and chips are among the top imported products in China every year.

This means that these are two industries with infinite potential. They do not need to completely replace imports. As long as they can take up a small piece of the market, they will be enough to bring rich returns to entrepreneurs and investors."

"Okay, let's not talk about the future. Today, everyone is gathered here for Kunlun Semiconductor.

I am very grateful that everyone is willing to participate in this project and start from scratch!

Here, I also make a promise that as long as Kunlun Semiconductor succeeds in the future, everyone here can share this glory."

"Come on, I will toast everyone. Thank you for coming to Beijing from Taiwan. Let's work together in the future."

Seeing Xu Liang raise his glass, the Taiwanese engineers present stood up and raised their glasses to Xu Liang from afar.

In this way, the dinner ended in a very warm atmosphere.

In order to win over these top talents, Xu Liang gave them enough face.