Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 934
Qimonda went bankrupt.

This news is embarrassing.

However, Fang Zhuo has recently lamented a lot due to the ups and downs of companies in the industry during the financial crisis, so he can only lament for Qimonda and Mr. Luo for a while.

Waiting until the sigh is over is to think about the value brought by Qimonda's bankruptcy.

Qimonda has factories, people, and patents, and the most important thing here is patents.

Losses are losses, and bankruptcy is bankruptcy. Qimonda still occupies 10% of the global DRAM market this year.

Of course, everyone is bleeding this year, but Qimonda's flow rate is too fast and the blood loss is too much.

For the internal reasons, Fang Zhuo believes that most of the factors that caused a well-known manufacturer to go bankrupt must not be attributed to individuals-Mr. Luo must not be so harshly criticized!
Moreover, Qimonda will never be the only one that goes bankrupt in this market. I heard that the situation of the Japanese manufacturer Elpida is not good. Its market share is larger than that of Qimonda. more.

However, Elpida has a relatively solid foundation. It is a company divested from giants such as Hitachi, NEC, and Mitsubishi. It also has a strong administrative color.

It's just that this wave of downward cycle encountered the financial crisis, which really smashed the DRAM market into pieces, and it was a global rout, so it is also struggling.

In such a situation, Samsung has silently increased its production capacity counter-cyclically...

This simply makes other manufacturers terrified, and it is really unstoppable. They want to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to continue bloodletting their opponents, and they want to weaken the other camps to the greatest extent.

The fall of Qimonda symbolizes the withdrawal of Europe from this field. Now the world's top five major DRAM manufacturers are only Samsung and Hynix from Korea, Micron from the United States, and Elpida from Japan.

Fang Zhuo sat in Silicon Valley, watching such a battle, and did not dare to set too high a goal for the second factory in Lin'an.

Now it is time to pack Qimonda's patents, gather Qimonda's remnants, and pick Qimonda's equipment. First, it will switch from niche storage to DRAM, and then run at a low speed to pass this period of gunpowder. Let's take a look Is there any trash to pick up...

After a few years of savings, the patents I picked up are enough to arm myself from infringement, and I may be able to try my hand at the end.

As for who will be at the helm of the Lin'an Second Factory that may be spun off...

Although Fang Zhuo asked Mr. Luo on the phone, he already had a recommended candidate in his mind.

Liang Mengsong mentioned his friend Gao Qiquan who is now the general manager of Huayake before he joined Bingxin. He is regarded as the "Godfather of DRAM" in Baodao.

Huayake itself also has a relationship with Qimonda. It is an OEM enterprise jointly established by Qimonda and Nanya Technology in 03.

The decline of Qimonda last year was very obvious. This year, Huayake had to introduce a replacement. In the end, Micron acquired 4% of Qimonda's shares for US$35.6 million.

At this point, Huayake was still facing Qimonda's bad debts, and had to take a loan from Micron for emergency.

Fang Zhuo and Gao Qiquan briefly chatted twice, and their initial impressions were good, but they didn't know how the other party felt.

The current Lin'an No. 65 Factory will definitely not be able to invite Gao Qiquan, and there must be a framework to talk about cooperation and prospects. This task falls on Qimonda again, and it falls on its 46nm process Buried Wordline Technically, it falls on the 6nm 2F[-] Buried Wordline technology announced this year.

But whether Gao Qiquan can be invited, although Fang Zhuo feels that he is skilled at poaching people, he is still not sure, after all, he is already the general manager of Huayake.

All I can say is, try your best to do it first, and then we will see the situation.

Fang Zhuo paid close attention to Qimonda's information and asked someone to collect its dynamics.

Filing for bankruptcy is only the first step, and the follow-up process may take several months. At this stage, I am afraid that no one party dares to easily take over Qimonda's business, and the most likely thing is to sell the assets.

Visiting Europe next month, I happened to sign up first, and I also comforted Mr. Luo's hurt heart face to face.

In the remaining half of November, on the one hand, the MIGA fund is slowly recovering in the golf course, and on the other hand, the news of various manufacturers layoffs or closures is still being continuously updated.

Compared with the busy schedule before, Fang Zhuo has been greatly relieved, and only maintains a flight frequency of about three days to attack key manufacturers and projects.

This continued until the end of the month, when he flew back to Silicon Valley from Chicago, Lawson, the person in charge of the personnel department, notified the last good news in November-Nokia laid off 600 people in the marketing and R&D departments.

"Good thing, um...Nokia doesn't make Trojan horses, does it?"

Fang Zhuo's first reaction was a little apprehensive after being happy, but then he thought, Nokia is the kind that is being Troyed.

What's more, Mars and the iPhone are on the market, and the other party insists on resistive screens in disdain, so there should be no problem in accommodating heartbroken employees.

But he also ordered Lawson, the person in charge of personnel, "If there is a Nokia R&D engineer coming, remember to tell me, I want to hear the real ecological situation inside Nokia."

Lawson remembered that she has been so busy recently that she didn't touch the ground, and she didn't forget to care about an important issue that the company is facing today: "Mr. Fang, how is our lawsuit with Nokia?"

Fang Zhuo smiled, citing Apple’s response to Nokia’s lawsuit that he saw just two days ago: “This issue will be properly resolved.”

It is also a patent issue, and Apple is also the defendant, but there is no rumor of any negotiation, and I wonder if it will finish the legal process before talking about it.

Judging from the judgment of the legal department, Yike and Apple are not easy to win. In terms of routine disposal, everyone should sit down and talk about it. However, the price tag after the legal procedure will definitely change greatly.

In the evening, Fang Zhuo invited several heads of the R&D center to have a meal together to discuss the changes brought to Yike in the past two months, as well as some adjustments in departmental functions.

Today's Yike, mobile phone research and development + chip design + cutting-edge functions + cooperation with friends and businessmen is the main body here in Silicon Valley.

Because more than 200 people have been recruited in two months, and there will be further expansion in the future. In addition to renting the building next door, more detailed research directions and investment budgets also need to be provided.

In addition, there is only the last month left in the Gregorian calendar year, and the development of these tasks must also be put on the agenda.

As a company growing against the trend of the economic crisis, the atmosphere of this dinner was quite pleasant.

Near the end, the secretary Liu Zonghong came over and told the latest news from China. Mr. Da Huang disappeared again, and it was said that it was related to manipulating the company's stock price.

Fang Zhuo was taken aback, feeling a sense of embarrassment flooding his heart again. His old friend withered, so this second entry into the palace must not have anything to do with him: "The economic crisis is appalling, the pressure is too great, and the stock price is manipulated."

Liu Zonghong also sighed. Although he was abroad with Mr. Fang, the news of Dangdang's prostitution and Mr. Huang's sinking in China seemed to happen in front of him. Hey, after all, the environment was not good and people were not nice.

I don't know when I will see you next time.

I don't even know what will happen to Gome, it won't go bankrupt, no, no.

　Severe cold, socializing and drinking, alternation of hot and cold, groggy, take some medicine and sleep first, see you tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)