Chapter 85 The Death of Semiconductors
The busy May slipped away quietly.
The hotter June followed.
There is even more hot news. Shanghu Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., founder of Huaxin International (smic), is the general manager of the 300mm large silicon wafer project.
There was a major personnel change on June 10: 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 Shanghu Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.
Wang Fuxiang, chairman of Shanghai Xinyang Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., who also served as the chairman of Shanghai Xinyang Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., also resigned from his post at the same time.
Dr. Zhang Rujing and Mr. Wang Fuxiang continued to serve as directors.
According to official sources, the reason for this adjustment is that Dr. Zhang Rujing's term of office expires on May 30, 2017, and he will not renew his employment after the expiration.
But there are also voices that it mainly comes from the current pressure from investors to mass production as soon as possible.
The current leader, Mr. Zhang Rujing, gave Dongtang local suppliers too much time to improve yield, resulting in the extension of the mass production time of the new stock.
How anxious is this? Is the current national investment in the semiconductor industry to make money or to improve the overall technical level of the industry as much as possible?
In addition, information from multiple channels shows that the date of this decision was earlier last week, but at the beginning of the decision, Dr. Zhang Rujing and Chairman Wang Fuxiang did not leave their job together, but the capital first proposed to add Nabeel Gareeb to the management. After similar to the dual CEO model, Dr. Zhang and Mr. Wang Fuxiang proposed to leave their jobs, and the other continued to say they left their jobs.
Huang Haojie looked at the news and immediately narrowed his eyes and thought.
Dongtang semiconductor industry has been developing to this day, and has been in a constant catching up for a long time, just like Dongtang football.
Since the semiconductor industry is a long industrial chain, it has faced strict blockade of upstream equipment and materials since its beginning of development.
With the existence of the Batumi-Wasenal Agreement, the Great Western Alliance and Milijia imposed an embargo on Dongtang's high-tech products. Generally, they approved the N2 principle, which is two generations later than the most advanced technology, and delayed some time during the approval process.
Basically, the technical equipment that Dongtang can obtain will be three generations later than the most advanced in developed countries or even longer.
There is a constraint on manufacturing technology. Although we are catching up with the technology, the bottlenecks of the constraints are still there. These bottlenecks, which were invested in Shanghubeiling, which was operated by scholars and officials in the early days, have fallen behind in the current wave of the times.
When it comes to Dongtang Semiconductor, people think of Dongtang Football, and Huang Haojie often remembers two people: Zhang Rujing and Xu Genbao.
At the same time, there are also another group of people: real-powered investors (named as experts and scholars, but have considerable administrative endorsements, and at the same time, they also extend their hands to the operation and management of the company.) and investors with official backgrounds.
This makes Dongtang Semiconductor somewhat similar to Dongtang Football. Needless to say, Dongtang Football was ruined by someone's term. Dongtang Semiconductor has also been influenced by many eager-seekers in recent years.
After the acquisition of Shida was acquired by Taiji Electric in 2000, Zhang Rujing, who had long been able to retire, felt that he had the responsibility to improve the technical level of Dongtang semiconductor industry.
He came to Dongtang without hesitation and attracted a large number of his colleagues at Texas Instruments and Dongdao to start businesses in the mainland.
At that time, he not only sold many properties in Mili's house, but also brought his wife and children to the mainland, but also moved to Shangshanghai with his 90s.
Huaxin International, founded by Dr. Zhang Rujing, not only made great contributions to Dongtang in the chip manufacturing level, but also laid out a 12-inch production line as early as the early 21st century. With personal resources, he found all five major churches to endorse him for his personality, guaranteeing that what he said was honest and trustworthy, and promised that the government's Huaxin products must be used only for commercial purposes and will not be used for military purposes.
In December 2007, Huaxin successfully obtained the production equipment for 45nm products, which was only about one year later than developed countries such as the Great Western Alliance. On January 1, 2009, they successfully obtained the export license for 32nm production equipment.
However, as an industry that requires large capital investment, the semiconductor industry, especially the manufacturing industry, needs state-owned capital support. However, if state-owned assets invest, it is difficult to introduce equipment from Western countries without introducing state-owned capital, but it is difficult to obtain state-owned capital support.
It is hard for Huang Haojie to imagine what kind of persistence and hard work it was that Dr. Zhang Rujing established Huaxin International and continuously broke through the restriction and blockade of equipment in the process, and at the same time withstood the pressure of multiple parties to lay out the 12-inch production line. In the past few years, the production capacity of the 12-inch market has long proved his original vision.
In addition to the field of chip manufacturing, Dr. Zhang Rujing's greater contribution lies in cultivating many talents for the Dongtang semiconductor industry. Now, many of the executives of Dongtang manufacturing and other companies in other fields come from Huaxin International.
At the same time, Dr. Zhang Rujing has always been interested in cultivating Dongtang local enterprises. If you use external equipment, you may be mass-produced immediately. If you use Dongtang local enterprises' equipment, the yield may be insufficient. It may take several months or even one year to continuously improve. Dr. Zhang prefers the latter, whether it is Huaxin International or Xinsheng.
In all this, the old man did not care about his personal interests, whether it was Huaxin International's shares, or to give up his counterclaim in Dongtang and leave Smic, or to establish Xinsheng in order to reconcile as soon as possible.
Dr. Zhang Rujing is more like an evangelist in the industry than a profit-seeking entrepreneur.
I remember Xu Genbao, who withdrew from the Dongtang football system, founded a football base, and cultivated the young generation should have been a matter of scholars and officials who should have strategic vision, but Mr. Xu had to bear it. He was constantly facing financial problems and continued to provide blood to the base.
During the top 12 matches, Dongtang Football had 8 players including Yan Junling and Gu Chao, who were originally produced by Genbao Chongming Base.
But for a long time, Dongtang Football has been eager for quick success and instant benefits, so he is the only one who attaches importance to the youth team and does basic things steadily.
Also, the semiconductor industry should not be eager for quick success and instant benefits.
However, for a listed company (smic), we can still understand the mood of ordinary secondary market investors. The secondary market pursues short-term interests and the ugly market value of the statements caused by large amounts of depreciation in financial statements is difficult for the leeks and analysts in the secondary market to accept, and it is difficult to have such a sentiment to fully understand.
However, for an unlisted company, a 300mm large silicon wafer project that has just been invested in construction, is a period when it is attracting talents with the personal influence of the founder. Using this project can drive the development of many upstream and downstream Dongtang local companies in the industry. It is too late to mass production, but the investors are so surprised that they can't sit still.
There is a global shortage of Wafer this year, and the major Japanese Wafer manufacturer Sumco refused to supply Wuhan Xinxin, giving priority to Intel Taiji Electric Micron and other companies.
Dongtang has seen the importance of silicon wafers, but how can the production process of silicon wafers be directly used as production equipment?
It is precisely because it is important that it should be made as domestic as possible. Others can stop supplying waffers. Can't we stop supplying equipment?
The semiconductor industry is a nationally important tool, and for this reason, the mass production indicators should tend to drive local enterprises in the upstream and downstream industries in key industrial projects.
Huang Haojie felt that this was an opportunity, even though Zhang Rujing was from Mi and from Dongdao.
But Zhang Rujing definitely favored Dong Tang.
Huang Haojie decided to make an exception for him and grabbed the phone:
"Hey! Old Li!"
"Mr. Huang."
"Please help me get an appointment with Zhang Rujing, who has just resigned from Xinsheng Semiconductor. I plan to meet him." Huang Haojie ordered directly.
"Okay, Mr. Huang probably will see the other party." Although he was very confused about Huang Haojie's wild imagination, he followed the instructions.
"The faster the better! I will take the high-speed train to Shanghai tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible."
After hanging up the phone, Huang Haojie wrote semiconductors on a draft paper, and then wrote down room temperature superconductors.
In fact, the quantum computer chip obtained by Huang Haojie from parallel space-time 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.
Chapter completed!