After resting in the hotel for one night, having breakfast with He Guoyuan, Lei Yunrong rushed to Texas with him.

Texas is the second largest state in the United States, second only to Alaska, and is also the most noisy state in America.

Texans have always hoped to restore the Republic of Texas and break free from America's independence.

But this is simply impossible. Texas occupies an important position in Amerika. Not to mention other things, just Texas' oil resources, the federal government cannot let Texas break away from Amerika.

Taking America's strength, no force dares to make trouble in this regard, and even the current polar bears dare not.

And in fact, Texas people dare not make too much trouble. If they make a fuss, don’t joke about the federal government.

Texas are also famous for their hot tempers and draw their guns at any time, so Texas cowboys have always been regarded as rude and savage by people in other states, but Texas think they are not Texas sissy.

However, Texas, which gave the outside world a rough impression, was born a world-class semiconductor company, Texas Instruments.

Later Ameriga had two important IT towns, one was the world-famous Silicon Valley in California, and the other was the "Silicon Hill" located in Texas.

Silicon Hill actually refers to Austin, the capital of Texas. It happens to be close to the hilly terrain of Texas, so it is nicknamed "Silicon Hill".

Although Austin is the capital of Texas, its popularity may not be high. However, the other three cities in Texas, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, are very famous. Austin is between these three cities and has very convenient transportation.

At the same time, the University of Texas, one of the most famous institutions in Texas, is also located in Austin. Of course, Austin has not yet begun to have a connection with the semiconductor industry.

Lei Yunrong's destination for this trip is Dallas, and Texas Instruments' headquarters is in Dallas.

Now that the h?1 chip streaming is successful, Lei Yunrong also wants to implement the wafer factory as soon as possible.

The mos6502 processors used by most of Honor Electronics' products were produced by the wafer fab under Yipeng Seiko Epson.

The mos6502 chip is one of the mainstream chips on the market now, and mos technology has widely licensed its technology.

Even if Seiko Epson's wafer factory is unexpected, Honor Electronics is ready to find alternative suppliers.

But for the h?1 chip, Lei Yunrong certainly cannot hand it over to a company for OEM.

Not to mention that Lei Yunrong has a strategic plan to create his own wafer factory, handing over the core chip of Honor Electronics to others for OEM is equivalent to handing over his life to the other party.

So now it is also taking this opportunity to build Honor Electronics’ wafer factory.

Of course, Lei Yunrong didn't plan to build a wafer factory from scratch. This took too long. After the wafer factory was built, the daylily became cold. The best strategy was to acquire a ready-made wafer factory.

Since last year, many wafer factories in Ameriga have had a hard time.

A wafer fab led by Hitachi, N, Fujitsu and others began to lower the 32k DRA deposit ex-factory price, and Ameriga manufacturers were forced to fight. The fierce price war has caused many Ameriga companies to fall into the quagmire of losses...

In the 1980s, the America business community had reached a point where it was scared to talk about the weather. After the manufacturers of the America industry invaded the America market, they defeated the America peers so that they could only resist but not fight back.

Now this trend has finally spread to the semiconductor industry.

According to the latest statistics from the Ameriga Semiconductor Association, in the 16k DRA storage market, the market share of a manufacturer has reached 60%.

Seven or eight years ago, Yiben semiconductor industry only transferred some elimination technologies that Americans looked down upon, but now the technology gap between the two sides is only one or two years left in the generation gap.

At an academic conference earlier this year, HP technicians released data that made Amerikas very ashamed from the perspective of buyers.

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Pu Company conducted quality inspections on the 16kdr*** of major manufacturers in the two countries. As a result, the unqualified rate of products of the three companies with the highest pass rate is six times that of the three companies with the lowest pass rate.

This sentence may be a bit confusing. To put it simply, the worst manufacturer is also higher than the highest manufacturer in America.

The three companies with the highest pass rates in America are Texas Instruments, Intel and Mostek.

After a few years of retreat, it was these three companies that monopolized the main share of the world's memory market.

But as the saying goes, thirty years from Hedong to Hexi, the rise of his own makes the lives of these semiconductor giants more and more difficult.

As an industry giant in America, Texas Instruments is the first to be hit and life is even more difficult.

This time, Lei Yunrong came to Texas, hoping to acquire a wafer factory of Texas Instruments.

In addition to the fact that Lei Yunrong chose Texas Instruments, in addition to the fact that they can fully meet the requirements of Honor Electronics and guarantee the quality of the production line, there is another important reason for this to meet someone.

Before Lei Yunrong and his group left Los Angeles, it was raining in Los Angeles, but when they arrived at Fort Worth Airport in Dallas, it was clear. Through the glass curtain walls of the airport hall, the blue sky outside the window was cloudless.

Fort Worth Airport is one of the very busy and important hubs in Ameriga. Planes keep taking off or landing from the runway, and the traffic in the airport lobby is very large.

Lei Yunrong and He Guoyuan walked towards the pick-up entrance with their entourage.

"Kuohara, I've said hello to them about visiting Texas Instruments."

"I have already communicated with them. Although it is quite hasty, Texas Instruments is still very enthusiastic and said that it will arrange someone to come and pick up the plane."

"Of course they are enthusiastic when we can bring them profits, and now these big companies in America are not having a good time."

As soon as Lei Yunrong and his group walked out of the pick-up gate, they saw a handsome eastern hole and waved at him with a smile.

"Mr. Lei Yunrong, welcome to Dallas!"

When you are young, you are successful and respectful when you are old. You can create an industry and influence an industry! This sentence should be the best description of the man in front of you.

"Mr. Zhang Zhongmou, please come to the airport to greet him!" Lei Yunrong expressed his gratitude appropriately...

Lei Yunrong is no stranger to the person in front of him who is known as the "Godfather of Wanwan Semiconductor". He was described by later newspapers as a person who supported the economy of a region.

Zhang Zhongmou was born in Ningbo. At the age of 18, he entered Harvard University as the only Chinese and at the age of 27, he entered Texas Instruments. He was also the first Chinese employee in the entire company at that time.

Fifteen years later, in 1972, Zhang Zhongmou took office as vice president of Texas Instruments, the third largest figure in Texas Instruments, second only to the chairman and president.

At this time, Texas Instruments ranked among the top three in the world in the field of industrial semiconductors, with more than 60,000 employees, half of which were managed by Zhang Zhongmou.

He should also be one of the earliest and most successful Chinese executives in the America IT industry, but he has never been able to break through the last ceiling and become the real leader of this big company.

Many people may not know this person, but when it comes to the company he returned to Wanwan to establish, Wanwan Plastic Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which is TSMC, everyone should be very familiar with it.

Later generations TSMC was the most famous wafer foundry company in the world, and even Samsung Electronics was slightly inferior.

Let’s not talk about the attitude of TSMC towards Chinese companies. The reasons are very complicated, and personal attitude can only play a very small role.

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In fact, it is not only TSMC, but also the shareholder behind Samsung Electronics, but also America Capital accounts for the majority.

Therefore, their decision-making will be greatly influenced by Ameriga.

Just recently, the incident of TSMC's announcement that it would build a new factory in America was a hot topic. The people of Bay Bay and many economic experts called this incident a brutal robbery of TSMC by America.

This can be imagined how much TSMC is affected by Amelica.

At this moment, if you go to America to invest and build a factory, you would not have made such a decision if you were not the helm of the mind.

But no matter what, Zhang Zhongmou, who built TSMC, is indeed a very powerful person, and he is also a person that Honor Electronics needs very much.

Lei Yunrong came to Texas Instruments for a large part of the reason why he came here for him.

Lei Yunrong specially read his autobiography in later generations and knew that he was a serious and indomitable person.

Otherwise, He Guoyuan would just come forward for business negotiations like purchasing production lines, and Lei Yunrong didn't need to come forward in person at all.

Zhang Zhongmou seemed very enthusiastic about Lei Yunrong and specially prepared a family dinner for Lei Yunrong at his home.

Of course, Lei Yunrong accepted the invitation happily, and he was about to have a good conversation with him!

Lei Yunrong asked He Guoyuan to take people to the hotel first, but he followed Zhang Zhongmou to his house. Zhang Zhongmou's wife specially prepared a sumptuous table of Chinese food for guests who came from afar.

The two had a great time talking at the dinner table. Zhang Zhongmou and Lei Yunrong were both people who like to read history. From "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" to "Zizhi Tongjian", they found many common languages...

The communication at the dinner table gave Lei Yunrong and the other party more understanding.

After the meal, Lei Yunrong first visited this very Chinese-style home decorated by Mrs. Zhang under the guidance of his master. Then, the two entered the study and started a real conversation.

"Mr. Zhang, I really didn't expect that Texas Instruments actually asked you to pick you up. Fortunately, I asked you to pick you up so that I would not miss the world of Amerika, a hero like you."

For Lei Yunrong's compliment, Zhang Zhongmou replied with a smile:

"Mr. Lei, when it comes to Junjie, you are the real Junjie. If it weren't for the company's temporary arrangement, I wouldn't have expected that someone would be able to build a large electronics company in Dongfang."

"I always thought it was difficult to build a company in the East that was technologically intensive and could participate in international competition. Mr. Lei, your Honor Electronics broke my inherent impression."

"Mr. Zhang, in fact, we Eastern people are not worse than Western people. What we are worse than our basics. You are the best example."

"In recent years, the situation in Wanwan has improved a lot. The authorities have also supported the electronic technology industry very much, and the results are also very good. If you have time, I think you can go and have a look."

If Zhang Zhongmou hadn't been able to go further in Texas Instruments, and then someone from Wanwan strongly invited him back to Wanwan, he might not have thought about returning to Wanwan to start a business.

"Okay, if you have time, I'll go back and take a look. Speaking of which, I haven't been back for a long time."

The two chatted for a while, and Lei Yunrong also knew that Zhang Zhongmou specially invited him to visit his house, and it was absolutely impossible to just chat.

Maybe I saw the kindness of both Chinese, or maybe I was curious about Lei Yunrong, but it certainly also included helping Texas Instruments understand Lei Yunrong's situation in advance.

However, Lei Yunrong also had intentions for Zhang Zhongmou, so he seemed to ask casually:

"Mr. Zhang, what do you think of Yipin semiconductor manufacturers entering the America market?"

"One book?" Zhang Zhongmou personally brewed a cup of Pu'er tea for Lei Yunrong, and then continued:

"I have had many conversations with several companies of Yipin. They will take any reform measures that may reduce costs and improve efficiency seriously and pursue them persistently."

"And Ameriga's companies are much less sensitive in cost.

As a result, the consequence is that both parties use the same process technology, the yield rate of Ameriga wafer fab is only 50%, while a factory can reach 70%, or even 80%.

"Such a huge yield gap makes the costs of both parties not on the same starting line at all!"
To be continued...