Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

The next morning, due to Chen Yiran's urging, Liang Mengsong and his wife Li Ningnan were picked up and taken to Seoul.

Fortunately, Samsung's semiconductor industrial park is not far away, located in Hwaseong, which is just an hour's drive from Seoul.

Liang Mengsong was actually a little uneasy on the way. He didn't know Chen Yiran's purpose in contacting him. On the bright side, it was probably to poach him; on the other hand, it was possible that Chen Yiran had come to interrogate him. After all, Chen Yiran was now a shareholder and director of TSMC, while in Taiwan, he was practically a notorious figure, labeled a traitor by major newspapers.

Li Ningnan kept comforting him, while she remained relatively calm. She figured the worst that could happen was they could just retire completely. She used to be a semiconductor technician and earned quite a bit of money, and Liang Mengsong's salary in recent years had been incredibly high. The two of them were basically financially independent and didn't have any children, so they could do whatever they wanted.

She had actually made up her mind not to return to Taiwan. Liang Mengsong's last few years in Taiwan were far from pleasant; she felt that the place was not suitable for them to live in.

She was thinking that if Liang Mengsong was really persuaded to return to TSMC, she would make a small fuss. If it was Wanguoyuan in Beijing, she could consider it.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the place and met Chen Yi in a small garden, Liang Mengsong immediately started complaining, first blocking the way to Wanguoyuan.

"Mr. Chen, you have no idea how wronged I felt. Back then, I failed to become the vice president of R&D. I admit that the other two people were also invaluable top-notch technical talents."

Sun Yuancheng is an authority on logic process integration and an architect who connects R&D and mass production, while Luo Weiren is a manufacturing operations master poached from Intel.

But am I worse than them? I led the R&D of 10 generations of processes from 0.25μm to 16nm at TSMC. I was the number two contributor to the 130nm copper process that defeated IBM in 2003. Without me, TSMC might not have been able to widen the gap with UMC.

I always thought that when Chiang Shang-yi retired, I was the obvious choice for VP of R&D. Who knew that after his retirement, TSMC decided to create two VPs of R&D positions, and they didn't choose me!

What did Chiang Shang-yi say back then? He said that Liang Meng-song's technical skills were more profound but also narrower! Now someone actually dares to say that I am his apprentice? Bah! I only have one teacher, who is my doctoral advisor, the inventor of FinFET, Dr. Hu Cheng-ming.

Do you know which department he recommended me to after he left? He asked me to lead a project to surpass Moore's Law, developing a variety of products in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), automotive ICs, and sensors.

This made me completely deny my own beliefs about technology! It made me question my own technological path!

I have great respect for Mr. Chiang Shang-yi, but I believe he cannot impose his technological approach on me!

Chen Yiran nodded: "I understand, I understand. I did come here this time to poach you. But I have no intention of sending you to Wanguoyuan in Beijing to work with Jiang Shangyi."

Liang Mengsong immediately shifted his focus and began to criticize TSMC: "TSMC is a company with problems too. Although I disagreed with the technical approach at the time, I still made do with it and only complained a little."

Later they started to insult people. Once, when I went abroad on business, I came back to find that my private office had been converted into four engineer seats, which was a clear humiliation of me.

Later, TSMC didn't communicate with me about any personnel decisions regarding me. I couldn't face anyone who knew me, and I couldn't answer what I was supposed to do next. During that time, I didn't even dare to go to the employee cafeteria for meals, afraid of seeing my former colleagues.

The higher-ups completely disregard me; all they do is deceive me!

Chen Yiran remained silent, listening to Liang Mengsong's rambling complaints for nearly ten minutes. The most frequent complaint he made was that his private office had been taken away, and even the flowers he grew had been thrown away.

Li Ningnan stood to the side, looking at Chen Yiran with an embarrassed expression. Later, unable to resist, she secretly stepped on Liang Mengsong's foot.

Liang Mengsong then stopped and said to Chen Yiran, "You should understand what I mean, right? I'm quite happy here right now, and I don't really want to leave."

Chen Yiran knew that it was pointless to talk to him about treatment, so he started with what Liang Mengsong cared about most.

"What Samsung can give you, I can give you too. What Samsung can't give you, I can still give you. I've heard that Moore's Law is your belief? Have you ever thought about truly carrying it forward? Crazy research and development, crazy advancement of the process. Even, promoting your achievements to more places?"

"Explain in detail?"

"I will set up a factory in Singapore, which you will be in charge of entirely."

The initial plan was to acquire GlobalFoundries' factory there, which was formerly Chartered Semiconductor's old factory in Singapore. However, I've already inquired and learned that due to the recent surge in the chip industry, they have just undergone upgrades and their equipment is already quite complete.

If you need anything later, just let me know, and I'll do my best to meet your needs. Singapore has no lockdown policies, so you can buy anything there. And in the chip industry, we're the dominant player now; we can even cut in line to get equipment.

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I need you to push the manufacturing process relentlessly, without any regard for the consequences. You know the demands AI places on chips. My only requirement for you is to climb as high as you can!

Liang Mengsong was somewhat interested, but still asked about a point he had been focusing on earlier: "You mentioned earlier that you'd be promoting my results to more places? Using FlowEDA?"

"Why not? FlowEDA is based on the Deepflow framework, which is fully compatible with current AI systems. Moreover, we have raw wafer measurement data, design rule windows, and TCAD calibration data from all major wafer foundries worldwide."

In Singapore, when you're working on a manufacturing process, I'll have AI track the data in real time, and we can distill universal process intelligence. This includes OPC formulations, DFM rules, multiple exposure strategies, and design rule windows, upgrading FlowEDA's collaborative optimization capabilities for process design.

AI can combine the raw data of each manufacturer to tailor systematic process optimizations for them, allowing each manufacturer to squeeze the physical limits of existing equipment!

We want to commercialize all our technological secrets, selling process know-how directly, so that wafer fabs worldwide can all accelerate their manufacturing processes in a unified manner.

Liang Mengsong first turned to look at his wife, and when he saw her nod, his eyes lit up. He excitedly said, "I don't know anything about AI, so you'll have to take charge of that. If you want to fully support me, then I'll have to make a list, which will need to be two or three hundred people, including people from Samsung, TSMC, and even SMIC."

"You need to help me bring them over. I can assure you that the people I've listed are all willing to come to Singapore with me. However, you'll be responsible for resolving their non-compete agreements with their current companies, as well as their housing and salary requirements."

"It's simple. I already reached an agreement with Samsung yesterday. TSMC is a bit more complicated, so you should write less about it. As for SMIC, there shouldn't be any major problems."

Why is TSMC so complicated?

"We just had a board meeting, and I just said that we dismissed a CEO to protect the interests of shareholders. It's not good to start poaching people so openly now. I'm a Beijing man, and I have my pride. Let's wait a few months and make our move next year."

"That works too. How about we get more from Samsung?"

"Pick whatever you like!"

On the same day, under Chen Yiran's urging, Samsung Lightspeed terminated its contract with Liang Mengsong, and Aurora Group Lightspeed signed a new contract with Liang Mengsong.

In the morning, Liang Mengsong was still a Samsung employee; by the afternoon, he was already a member of the Aurora Group.

Chen Yiran happily boarded the plane back to Lanai Island. As soon as he landed, Amit ran over and told him some big news.

Chen Yiran looked at the message on the tablet and quickly called Liang Mengsong.

They've changed their previous strategy and are now going to great lengths to poach talent from TSMC.

Google and Nvidia launched a surprise attack, and the chip industry is about to undergo another major reshuffle.

TSMC, once the dominant player in the chip foundry industry, is about to become a talent market for various companies amidst their own self-serving ambitions.