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The semiconductor industry is a highly capital-intensive industry, and now the total investment in a state-of-the-art 5-inch standard wafer fab with monthly investment of 10,000 wafers has climbed to $25 million. ∽↗∽↗ǎn∽↗小∽↗ said that four or five years ago, the total investment of a 3-inch standard fab with a monthly investment of 10,000 wafers was only 15 million US dollars. The cost of new fabs is increasing at an annual rate of 15%.

While the scale of investment in the semiconductor industry is huge, the upgrading of technology is very fast. The depreciation period of common factory equipment is usually more than ten years, but the semiconductor industry is not more than five years at most. Five years ago, 3-inch fabs were the mainstream technology, and now as 5-inch fabs continue to emerge, 4-inch technology will soon be out of mainstream competition.

At the same time, due to the rapid technological upgrading of the semiconductor industry, the competition in the industry is extremely fierce, and it may be overtaken by competitors if you are not careful. For example, five or six years ago, American semiconductor companies were still the absolute dominant players in the memory market.

However, in the past six months, Japanese semiconductor companies have launched a fierce price strangulation war. The prices of 128 and 256 memory chips have fallen in an avalanche. American memory chip manufacturing companies have fallen into industry-wide losses. Army annihilated.

And in the emerging processor market, Intel, where I worked before, has been a leader in the field. But in the last year, Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. suddenly rose and quickly occupied the market with the new r-architecture processor. Neither the previous 8086 processor nor the new 80286 processor launched this year can compete with Intel, and it has lost its market dominance!

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Yu Youcheng's speech did not involve too professional knowledge, but talked about the latest development of the semiconductor industry at home and abroad. Most of the audience present were students of Shanghai Jiaotong University. Everyone listened very carefully. Now is not the era of information explosion in later generations. The two great gods of Baidu and Google can know the world's affairs.

people in the eighties. There are very few opportunities to learn about the outside world. Domestic professional technical journals may introduce some of the latest foreign technology trends. But that was just a few words. Such a high-level global macro analysis may only appear at a seminar of high-level experts organized by the Ministry of Electronics Industry-Ministry. As for the secrets of many business competitions, domestic counterparts rarely have the opportunity to understand, so everyone present can hear it with gusto.

Lizhi is not a person in the field of electronics, and she is not interested in these situations. It is inevitable that she feels a little boring and boring. So she paid more attention to the man next to her.

Li Xuan always had a smile on his face, and Lizhi asked curiously, "Do you know this Doctor Yu? You seem to have been smiling since you came in!"

"Is there?" Li Xuan turned his head and said softly, he saw Li Zhi looking bored. So he simply pulled her out of the venue together.

"Aren't you listening anymore? In fact, you don't have to worry about me!" Li Zhi thought that she had disturbed Li Xuan's interest in continuing to listen to the speech, and said a little uneasy.

"It doesn't matter, I already know what I need to know!" Li Xuan shook his head with a smile.

Li Xuan didn't have much interest in Yu Youcheng's speech. The things the other party said on stage were all bad street content to him. What Li Xuan is really interested in is what is reflected behind this speech.

Yu Youcheng's speech is very humorous and contagious. And he can control the rhythm of the conversation very well, Li Xuan did not feel cold after listening to it for dozens of minutes. It is not difficult to see from it. Yu Youcheng is a person with high emotional intelligence and is very good at communicating with people.

Yu Youcheng's professional level is even more impeccable. After obtaining a doctorate in electrical engineering from the prestigious Stanford University, he first joined Fairchild, the "Whampoa Military Academy" of American semiconductors. After accumulating some experience, he jumped to Intel. In another time and space, he worked his way up to CTO (o) at Intel, taking control of the entire R&D department at Intel Corporation.

Such talents are the compound talents that Li Xuan urgently needs. The Oriental Research Institute has always lacked a suitable helm. The predecessor of the Oriental Research Institute was the Oriental Laboratory, which was established in cooperation with the Oriental Electronics Company, CUHK and Hong Kong University. At that time, the head of the laboratory was Professor Zhao Weiming of CUHK.

However, with the gradual expansion of the scale of the Oriental Research Institute. Zhao Weiming felt that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to lead the entire research institute, and he had repeatedly suggested to Li Xuan to find a more suitable person to take charge. But such people are not good. Because the Oriental Research Institute is no longer as obscure as it was two years ago. The success of the r architecture on the ab-3 computer has made the Oriental Research Institute a household name in the semiconductor field.

Therefore, those who control the Oriental Research Institute must first have sufficient technical strength, otherwise they will not be able to convince the researchers below. More important than technology is to gain Li Xuan's trust. After all, the Oriental Research Institute is one of the most valuable core assets of the entire Oriental Group.

It is not easy to gain Li Xuan's trust. Although the headhunting company has provided him with many candidates, many of whom are also well-known in the industry, Li Xuan is not satisfied.

Now, the high-level structure of the entire Oriental Research Institute is one principal and three deputy. Li Xuan personally serves as the president, and there are three vice presidents under Li Xuan who are responsible for reporting directly to him. One of the vice presidents is in charge of personnel, logistics and other work, and the other two vice presidents are jointly responsible for leading the technology research and development of the entire Oriental Research Institute.

In order to share the pressure of Professor Zhao, Professor Hennessy, who had just visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was also persuaded by Li Xuan. In the next three years, during his exchange at CUHK, Professor Hennessy will serve as the vice president of the Oriental Research Institute, and will be responsible for leading all technology research and development work together with Zhao Weiming.

The two of them, plus Li Xuan, who will personally check the general direction, can temporarily support the Oriental Research Institute, so the task of finding the helm is no longer so urgent. Li Xuan hopes to cultivate a successor within the Oriental Research Institute, which will be more guaranteed in terms of loyalty.

In fact, Li Xuan first thought about poaching Yu Youcheng from Intel, but unfortunately the headhunting company failed to find him, so he had to give up at that time. Today, when Li Xuan was walking on the campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University, he happened to meet the future o (Chief Technology Officer) of Intel Corporation, and the thoughts that had been extinguished in his heart came alive again.

It is not easy to cultivate a top talent with sufficient technical level and superb management and coordination ability. Now Yu Youcheng is a semi-finished product. After graduating from his doctorate, he has worked in Fairchild and Intel for more than ten years, and has enough experience. And his actual talent is absolutely good, otherwise it is impossible to stand out in the Intel company, and later he was promoted all the way to ~www.readwn.com~ Although Li Xuan only listened to the other party's lecture for dozens of minutes today, he has a feeling for Yu Chengcheng. View is very good. His ability to speak with ease shows that he must be a good people-to-people person, which is crucial to being a good manager, because you need to be charismatic enough to convince your team.

More importantly, if Li Xuan can subdue him, Yu Youcheng's loyalty will also be guaranteed, because he is not a person who likes to jump around. In another time and space, Yu Youcheng worked at Intel until his retirement in 2002. If Li Xuan trains him to take over the Oriental Research Institute, he will not need to worry about the helm for at least 20 years.

It's just that Li Xuan doesn't know now that Yu Youcheng left Intel unexpectedly to pursue his own development, because of the influence of his butterfly, or because there was such an episode in the other party's experience.

After coming out of the auditorium of Jiaotong University, Li Xuan and Lizhi continued to stroll around the campus before returning home. After arriving home, Li Xuan immediately called his assistant Ke Lilun and asked him to get in touch with Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Since the other party can invite Yu Youcheng to come to the school to give a lecture, he must know his current situation. Li Xuan must first inquire about the current situation of the other party, and then consider whether to extend an olive branch to him. (To be continued..)