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Chapter 424: Reorganization Opportunity, Two Generals Arrive

“Our group is now in a position to take this risk.”

"The foundry business can help us quickly rise in the chip industry, and it is definitely worth trying."

Jiang Hui expressed his views very firmly, which moved Zhu Jiansheng quite a bit.

In his opinion, his son-in-law was determined to go down this path simply because he listened to his suggestion.

This is the greatest respect for yourself.

"When the time comes, I will also consult with experts from the Ministry of Electronics Industry about the precautions of chip foundry and see how to start Lingnan Semiconductor's foundry business as soon as possible."

Since his son-in-law respected him so much, Zhu Jiansheng felt that he must do something.

"Dad, please help me recruit a few more chip experts to work at Lingnan Semiconductor."

"We need professional technicians to purchase chip equipment and operate chip factories."

"As for the plans related to the development of the chip industry, I can formulate them myself."

Jiang Hui had no interest in the suggestions of domestic experts on the development direction of the chip industry at that time.

No matter how much they say, they don't understand as much as I do.

If you don't adopt their opinions when they express them, they might think you don't respect them and are just looking for trouble.

For Jiang Hui, what he needs most now is a large number of technical personnel to help buy Lingnan Semiconductor's equipment, debug the production line, and then realize mass production of wafers and chips.

The next step is to work on improving the yield rate and improving chip technology.

He can decide the direction of development.

Especially regarding the foundry business, TSMC was established this year and they also took the foundry route.

If Lingnan Semiconductor does not act quickly, it may be left behind by others.

How could Jiang Hui not understand the advantages of OEM?

The emergence of the foundry model has divided the chip industry into two parts: one part of the company is responsible for the production and manufacturing of chips, namely standard process manufacturing companies; the other part of the company is responsible for product design, namely pure chip design companies.

In this way, the economies of scale can be fully utilized.

The demand of a chip company is relatively limited. Through the foundry model, it can expand the production scale and reduce the unit product cost, thereby improving the company's competitiveness and reducing product prices.

At the same time, it began to break through the high investment threshold of the chip industry.

After all, the investment required for chip manufacturing is extremely high, and equipment investment accounts for the largest share.

Through the foundry model, chip design companies can avoid high equipment investment and focus on product design, thereby lowering the threshold to enter the market.

As a result, more and more chip design companies will emerge around the world.

To a certain extent, this is also a good thing for Lingnan Semiconductor.

After all, the emergence of more and more chip design companies means that the foundry market is also expanding.

Everyone plays a complementary role.

"You can do it this way. When it comes to the strategic development of many industries, your vision is much better than that of many experts."

Zhu Jiansheng did not continue to insist on his own idea, and quickly helped to get a group of people to Lingnan Semiconductor. This was the most important thing to do at the moment.

After talking about work with my father-in-law, the family had a happy meal together.

The next day, Zhu Jiansheng began to recruit semiconductor talents.

As a result, this question really made him find out a lot of things.

During this period, the Ministry of Electronics Industry was reorganizing some semiconductor research institutes and factories, hoping to achieve some results in this field.

However, any time there is a reorganization, there will definitely be some people who are unhappy.

And there will be some trouble in arranging personnel.

"Xiao Jiang, this time the Ministry of Electronics Industry is planning to reorganize the Jiangnan branches of Factory 742 and Institute 1424 to form a joint microelectronics company."

"The reorganization of the two organizations certainly cannot allow the original leaders of the two organizations to continue to be the leaders of the new company."

“Some people will see their positions decline.”

"For example, the director of Factory 742 will become the general manager of the Microelectronics Corporation, but some of the deputy directors can become deputy general managers of the new company, while some can only become heads of certain departments."

"The situation at the 1424 Jiangnan branch is similar."

"During this period, many people are using connections to get a good position for themselves."

"But the superiors wanted to reorganize in order to better develop the semiconductor industry, not to better place people. There must be some people whose positions cannot be properly arranged."

"I asked around and found two key people. You can go and talk to them."

There are people in the court who are easy to do things with.

Things like this kind of reorganization are not known to people outside until they are officially announced.

As for the job arrangements and the things behind the restructuring process, you will be even less clear if you are not an insider.

Even ordinary employees within Factory 742 could not know this information.

But Zhu Jiansheng simply made a few phone calls and got everything done.

I also found out which people were unhappy with their job arrangements.

Isn’t this the best time to recruit people?
"That's great, who are the two key figures?"

Jiang Hui didn't expect his father-in-law to be so efficient.

I had just started the preparations for the establishment of Lingnan Semiconductor when my father-in-law had already given me the target candidate.

"One is the deputy director of Factory 742, named Zhang Shaohua, a top student who graduated from Yenching University in the early s."

"He is quite prestigious in Factory 742. He understands both technology and management, but he is not very good at communicating with superiors. After this reorganization, he was arranged to be the head of the labor union of the new company."

"He certainly doesn't want to retire in places like the trade union. As long as you communicate with him, I believe he will be tempted."

"If it doesn't work, I'll ask the Ministry of Electronics Industry to do the lobbying work."

Obviously, the candidate that Zhu Jiansheng helped to find was the candidate for the general manager of Lingnan Semiconductor.

He has a professional background and many years of management experience, and is the perfect fit for Lingnan Semiconductor at this time.

"The other one is Chen Qingxiang, the deputy director of the 1424 Jiangnan Branch, who is also the kind of person who focuses on technology."

"He was involved in the production of my country's first large-scale integrated circuit."

"The MM1424 20×4096-bit single-tube unit dynamic random access memory developed by the 1 Institute was also a project he presided over. It was finalized and passed the ministerial appraisal several years ago."

"I think he is more suitable to be the chief engineer of Lingnan Semiconductor, responsible for R&D and process matters."

"As long as you can deal with these two people and have them bring a group of technical personnel with them, your initial management team and technical team will be established."

Zhu Jiansheng now completely treats Lingnan Semiconductor as his own business.

If there is no insider to inquire about these people, Lingnan Semiconductor will not be able to poach them.

Now that Zhu Jiansheng has figured out the situation they are facing, if Jiang Hui can communicate with them in a targeted manner, the possibility of dealing with them will be very high.

The two of them have been in the domestic semiconductor industry for decades and must be very familiar with all the major factories and research institutes.

Next, leaving the task of recruiting people to the two of them will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort.

"Dad, do you have any contact information?"

"I'll have someone book a plane ticket and visit their home in person."

Although Jiang Hui is very busy, he is still willing to spend time on recruiting key talents.

Some experts attach great importance to face and think that if the person in charge does not come to invite them, it means that he is not sincere.

I originally wanted to go, but maybe I won’t go.

Jiang Hui was not sure whether Zhang Shaohua and Chen Qingxiang were such people, but no matter whether they were or not, he was prepared to go and invite them in person.

Zhu Jiansheng naturally already had these basic contact information.

Soon, Jiang Hui wrote down the relevant information and asked Zhou Yun to book a plane ticket.

TSMC was established in February this year and will start mass production of 2-inch wafers next year.

As for Lingnan Semiconductor, although it is also preparing to introduce 4-inch wafer fabs and 3-micron process chip production equipment, everything has not yet started.

If TSMC is too far ahead, it will be very difficult for Lingnan Semiconductor to compete with others in the foundry market in the future.

In particular, TSMC’s personnel have very good relationships with people from Intel and Texas Instruments, which gives them an inherent advantage over Lingnan Semiconductor.

Not to mention that as the situation on the polar bear side changes, some attitudes on the American side will also change accordingly.

If we don't take advantage of this period of time to get the equipment back as soon as possible, it will not be so convenient in the future.

Fortunately, with Jiang Hui's influence in Lingnan Province, things like air tickets, which are difficult for ordinary people to buy, are not a problem for him at all.

The next day, he took his secretary and bodyguards to Baiyun Airport to catch a plane, and appeared at Zhang Shaohua's doorstep in the evening of the same day.

"Director Zhang, I apologize for the intrusion."

Although I had already told Zhang Shaohua in advance this morning through Zhu Jiansheng's relationship that I would visit her, otherwise she would not have been waiting for me at home.

But after all, it came a bit suddenly, so the attitude must be better.

"The BMW Group is now China's largest export-earning enterprise, and I am familiar with Director Jiang's deeds."

"But the BMW Group is now developing very well in the automotive industry. Even FAW and Second Automobile Works cannot compare with it at all."

“Why wade into the murky waters of the semiconductor industry now?”

"You know, once you enter the semiconductor industry, it will be very difficult for you to make money in this field in the next three years, or even the next five years."

"Even if you keep upgrading your technology and investing in new equipment, it's possible that you won't see any hope of making money."

The fact that Zhang Shaohua is willing to wait for Jiang Hui to come home is actually very telling.

But he was also afraid that if he rashly went to a semiconductor company that hadn't even existed yet, it would be embarrassing if Jiang Hui couldn't hold on halfway through. The semiconductor industry was changing very fast, and if Zhang Shaohua left the industry for a few years, his own development would be affected.

This is a situation he doesn't want to see.

"You're right."

"The semiconductor industry requires a lot of capital investment, including research and development, production, equipment purchase and other links."

“But its payback period is usually longer and there is a higher level of uncertainty.”

"So in recent years, the higher authorities have invested more funds in the chemical industry, which can produce results quickly."

"But if we want to develop high-tech industries, the semiconductor industry is indispensable."

"I think that in the future, China will pay more and more attention to the development of high-tech industries, and support for semiconductors will increase."

"The more we plan ahead, the more dividends we will be able to enjoy in the future."

"The most important thing is that in the future, in addition to developing in the automotive industry, our group will also enter new industries that have a great demand for semiconductor parts."

While on the plane, Jiang Hui was thinking about how to convince Zhang Shaohua.

The problems he raised now were all what Jiang Hui had expected.

"I heard that you are planning to directly introduce 4-inch wafer production lines and 3-micron chip process processing equipment?"

Zhang Shaohua did not argue too much with Jiang Hui about why BMW Group entered the semiconductor industry. He confirmed more of an attitude.

"Yes, I heard that there are already factories in China that want to introduce 4-inch wafer production lines, but they have not been approved."

"Under the current system and with limited funding, it is unknown when this 4-inch wafer production line will be approved, let alone when it can be put into production."

"We at Lingnan Semiconductor are different. We don't need funding from our superiors. Once I agree, we can go to the chip manufacturers in the United States to negotiate the purchase of their second-hand production lines."

"America invested in its first 4-inch wafer production line in the s, but now this technology is outdated for them."

"Previously, domestic manufacturers purchased more backward 3-inch wafer production lines and 5-micron process chip processing equipment."

"We at Lingnan Semiconductor will use the most advanced equipment in China from the beginning, and then strive to gradually catch up with the international advanced level."

Jiang Hui quickly communicated with Zhang Shaohua about the introduction of chip production equipment.

This thing is definitely attractive.

After all, everyone wants to be the head of China's most technologically advanced semiconductor factory.

Especially when Zhang Shaohua was not satisfied with the position arrangement in the newly established Microelectronics Joint Corporation, he wanted to prove his talent at Lingnan Semiconductor.

Then I will let those old colleagues see how I slap them in the face.

"In the semiconductor industry, the more technologically advanced the equipment, the more expensive it is."

“This is true even for second-hand equipment.”

Zhang Shaohua was worried that Jiang Hui was a little unaware of how much money the semiconductor industry consumed.

This will directly affect the future development of Lingnan Semiconductor.

"Our group now exports more than 5 Land Rover models each month to all over the world."

"These 5 vehicles can contribute more than $5000 million in net profit to us."

"Not to mention that we also have the Mercedes-Benz, BMW and various parts businesses."

"The initial capital needed for Lingnan Semiconductor will be enough for our group's profit for one month, right?"

After Jiang Hui said this, Zhang Shaohua was stunned for a moment, opened his mouth, and then said nothing.

Not to mention that BMW Group's monthly profit is more than 5000 million US dollars, even if it is only this much, it is enough.

A 4-inch wafer fab and 3-micron chip processing equipment, if they are brand new, would not be enough with $5000 million.

But now these two devices are second-hand equipment that have been discarded by others, and 5000 million US dollars is more than enough.

Not only can we buy back the equipment, but we can also build all the supporting facilities such as the factory building, and in the end it won’t cost more than 5000 million US dollars.

"Director Zhang, I have high hopes for Lingnan Semiconductor. There is no upper limit on the investment amount."

"Don't even mention $5000 million, even $5 million, as long as it's necessary, I'm willing to invest."

“I think Lingnan Semiconductor will be able to become a semiconductor company that gradually catches up with the international mainstream level in the 1990s.”

“After entering the 21st century, we will be able to become a world-leading semiconductor company in some fields, and eventually become the world’s largest and most technologically advanced chip company.”

"Not only that, in the future I will also ask Nanshan Semiconductor to cooperate in developing equipment needed by the chip industry, and in the future we will even produce some of the equipment ourselves."

"I plan to restart the lithography machine project that was discontinued a few years ago at Nanshan Equipment in a few years."

"I am serious about semiconductors!"

Seeing that Zhang Shaohua's attitude began to soften, Jiang Hui immediately increased his intensity and expressed his thoughts.

He knew that for people like Zhang Shaohua, discussing treatment was not the most important thing. What was important was to let them see hope and ignite their enthusiasm.

As for the treatment, the other party must have heard about the situation of the BMW Group and knows that it will not be worse than it is now.

"After Lingnan Semiconductor is established, what kind of chips will it produce?"

Zhang Shaohua's words basically mean that he is willing to go to Lingnan Semiconductor.

Jiang Hui immediately added fuel to the fire.

"This is what I think. Lingnan Semiconductor will walk on two legs in the future."

"On the one hand, we want to become a professional chip foundry and produce chips for other semiconductor companies."

"The other is to produce the chips that our group needs and follow the traditional development route."

Jiang Hui knew that Zhang Shaohua should be unfamiliar with chip foundry.

He took this opportunity to explain to the other party his unique views on chip foundry.

The two chatted for more than two hours and had a relatively deep understanding of each other.

In the end, Zhang Shaohua was completely moved.

"Director Jiang, I can go to work at Lingnan Semiconductor anytime. Anyway, the factory is eager for us to find a way out."

"But I definitely can't do it by myself."

“Lingnan Semiconductor’s vision is so grand that it requires a large number of professionals to realize it.”

After hearing what Zhang Shaohua said, Jiang Hui immediately said, "I will visit Chen Qingxiang, deputy director of the 1424 Jiangnan Branch, tomorrow and invite him to serve as the chief engineer of the new company."

"I am only responsible for the personnel arrangements of the factory director and the chief engineer. As for who to invite to join, I will rely on you two."

"As long as you two think he's a suitable person, no matter what conditions you use, I support you in recruiting him to our company."

"House, car, salary, bonus, you can ask for anything."

"Even if they are worried about the education of their children in Shenzhen, we can help arrange for them to go to school in Hong Kong."

For Jiang Hui, things that can be solved with money are really not a big deal.

At that time, wages in China were too low, so even if everyone had some material requirements, Jiang Hui thought they were easy to meet.

Is 1000 yuan a year in bonus not enough for you?
Is 10000 yuan enough for you?

Is a two-bedroom, one-living-room house not enough?
What about the four bedrooms and one living room?

Having trouble commuting to get off work?
Both shuttle bus and car rental are available!

As long as you are worth the price, everything is fine!

Compared with poaching people from abroad with high salaries, this amount of effort is nothing.

"I am also quite familiar with Deputy Director Chen. I can go to his house with you tomorrow."

"Or we don't have to wait until tomorrow, we can go there now."

Since he was preparing to join Lingnan Semiconductor as general manager, Zhang Shaohua naturally had to act as soon as possible.

He doesn't want to waste a single day.

Especially now that Jiang Hui has given him such great authority, he can arrange all the personnel.

There is no limit on the company's investment funds, and it also wants to import the most advanced equipment in the country.

He is fully prepared to roll up his sleeves and get to work.

"No problem, let's go now."

The 1424 Jiangnan Branch and the 742 Factory are both in the same city, otherwise their superiors would not have reorganized the two companies into a new company.

The current urban area is not big, and soon Jiang Hui and Zhang Shaohua appeared at the door of Chen Qingxiang's house.

This time, Jiang Hui didn't even have to waste his breath, as Zhang Shaohua went all out and complained with Chen Qingxiang about the current situation of the domestic semiconductor industry.

Then they expressed various opinions on the personnel arrangements for this reorganization.

Finally, he boasted about Lingnan Semiconductor’s various plans and repeated some of what Jiang Hui said.

Chen Qingxiang, who was also somewhat tempted, naturally expressed his desire to join Lingnan Semiconductor without any hesitation.

"Director Jiang, Director Zhang, there are some technical staff in our institute who have a good relationship with me. I will go to talk to them tomorrow. I think some of them are willing to go to Lingnan Semiconductor with me."

"Then at our headquarters, some people should also be willing to develop in Shenzhen."

"I will also try my best to communicate with other research institutes and factories to see if we can first form a research and development technical team of about 100 people."

"This way, we can build the new factory quickly and install the equipment more smoothly."

Naturally, Zhang Shaohua and Jiang Hui would have no objection to Chen Qingxiang's arrangement.

Move faster, this is what they all expect.

(End of this chapter)