Fang Chen looked at Zhang Rujing with a smile, but there was a trace of helplessness and even grief in his heart.

Zhang Rujing's tragic act of breaking the cauldron did not lead to a hearty victory like Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu.

In the third year of SMIC's establishment, the scene that happened to Shida happened to SMIC again.

A "dignitary" asked Zhang Rujing to meet and talk.

So, Zhang Rujing arrived in Xiangjiang with some wonder, and the big guy said with a gloomy face: "You and your SMIC stole my technology!"

Immediately afterwards, the "confession" of the departing employee was thrown in Zhang Rujing's face.

Because when I first came to the mainland to found SMIC, there was a large shortage of technical personnel, so many SMIC employees jumped from TSMC.

And the confession of the departing employee came from one of the employees who came from TSMC, who simply admitted his espionage.

As a result, the bigwig gave Zhang Rujing three ways, one is TSMC's acquisition of SMIC: the second is to file a lawsuit with SMIC, which will make SMIC discredited: the third way is that Zhang Rujing leaves SMIC and is not allowed to engage in the chip and electronics industry from now on.

But no matter which one, Zhang Rujing couldn't agree.

As a result, a huge lawsuit against SMIC and Zhang Rujing began.

Since 2003, TSMC has filed lawsuits in three U.S. courts, suing SMIC for infringement and stealing trade secrets, claiming $1 billion.

That's three times SMIC's annual sales.

Out of court, it was a humiliating settlement: SMIC compensated TSMC $175 million, after which it must deposit its technology in a third-party escrow account, and TSMC will check for infringement at any time for two years.

Zhang Rujing is fully planning to go public in order to expand SMIC, and with the fact that he has been realized, he agreed to the terms of settlement.

In 2004, SMIC went public in Hong Kong and the United States, creating the world's third-largest IPO and once again becoming the fastest-growing semiconductor foundry.

SMIC, which has been stamped with the "red" seal, has begun to quickly occupy the international market.

TSMC couldn't sit still, and once again suspected that SMIC, which was developing so rapidly, must have stolen its own technology.

In 2006, SMIC sued SMIC in a lawsuit, and Zhang Rujing ceded the land for the first time in compensation, only in exchange for a year and a half of peace.

TSMC won again, taking $200 million in compensation from SMIC, and 10% of the equity, becoming one of the major shareholders.

TSMC, which has been restricted by the Wanwan authorities' investment policies against the mainland, finally entered the mainland through litigation.

This is the famous "land cession compensation" case in the history of Huaxia's semiconductor industry.

However, this is not the end, in 2009, TSMC sued SMIC again, and a U.S. court ruled in favor of TSMC against SMIC in the "theft of trade secrets" case.

After losing the lawsuit three times in a row, even if Zhang Rujing is tenacious and can completely dedicate himself to the dream of building a top chip factory in Huaxia and making Huaxia a world-class chip manufacturing country, and even sacrifice his life, he has to admit defeat and give up his dream.

In order to make his beloved, the ideals and patriotic enthusiasm of his own and his father's generation SMIC no longer be hit, Zhang Rujing had to hurriedly announce his resignation on the third day.

After resigning, Zhang Rujing has nothing to do with chip R&D and production on the surface.

It wasn't until 2018 that 70-year-old Zhang Rujing started another business and established Xinen Integrated Circuit, which integrates chip design, manufacturing, packaging and testing.

It can be said that from beginning to end, Zhang Rujing has been serious and wants to make up for the weak links in the chip industry chain in the mainland of China. He stays in the chip industry, and his day doesn't end until the sun sets.

However, just as Fang Chen was seriously thinking about what he knew about Zhang Rujing, Zhang Rujing also looked at Fang Chen in front of him with a curious expression, whose face was still a little green.

To be honest, when he first received the news that Fang Chen wanted to see him, the whole person was stunned, even extremely stunned.

And this stunned feeling has been preserved to this day.

Maybe other overseas Chinese don't know about Fang Chen's existence, but as the vice president of Texas Instruments, how could he not know that Fang Chen, a wealthy man whose influence spans China, the United States and Russia in just four or five years, has suddenly risen to prominence.

It can be said that in the Chinese circle in the past two years, the most famous figure is Fang Chen.

But he really couldn't imagine why Fang Chen would invite him from the United States to Huaxia, and listen to the middleman, if he didn't come to Huaxia, Fang Chen would go to the United States to visit him.

This made him feel flattered for a moment.

Although he is the so-called vice president of Texas Instruments, he is also a figure in the eyes of ordinary people, and he has won the title of a factory builder and a sower in the chip industry in the world's chip industry.

But with Fang Chen, who is worth tens of billions of dollars and has a lot of friendship with the high-level leaders of China, the United States and Russia, it really feels a little small.

He estimated that in Fang Chen's eyes, he was probably not much different from ordinary people.

After all, in the eyes of elephants, no matter how strong an ant is, it is always an ant.

However, the most important thing is that he thought about it for a long time, and felt that there was nothing in him that would attract Fang Chen to make a special trip to the United States to visit him.

He can say over the years that he probably won't do anything except build a chip factory.

But does Huaxia need a chip factory?

According to his understanding of the current situation of Huaxia's chip industry, the need is naturally very needed, but it is not very needed.

The need is because the Huaxia chip industry is too weak, and the chip industry is too important for a country, especially a modern industrial and information country.

As for why it is not needed much, it is also because Huaxia's chip industry is too weak.

According to his understanding, there are more than 600 semiconductor production factories in the country, and the total amount of integrated circuits produced in a year is only equal to one-tenth of the monthly output of a large factory in Dongwei.

With the strength of the whole country, it is less than one-tenth of the monthly output of an enterprise in Dongwei.

It sounds shabby to the extreme.

According to the current situation of Huaxia's chip industry, it is probably impossible to build a chip factory.

There is no way, the foundation of Huaxia's chip industry is too weak.

In addition, the chip industry is an industry that requires continuous high investment, and a new company may not be able to achieve anything if it does not sit on the cold bench for ten years.

And in addition to the cold bench, the annual investment in scientific research must not be less than 20% of the revenue, so that it is possible to form a virtuous circle.

This is a bit too much, after all, the net profit of most enterprises is only about 10%, and the investment in scientific research of 20% of the revenue means that the business owner not only can't get a penny in the past ten years, but also has to throw a lot of money into it every month.

And such an enterprise must also have the most basic base, that is, two billion.

That is to say, at the beginning of the establishment of the factory, the company must have 2 billion revenue in the first year, and then it can take out 400 million yuan to invest in scientific research.

Otherwise, it's for nothing.

After all, it can't be said that if you build a chip factory with an investment of only one million, and then invest 200,000 a year, the chip factory will be able to enter a positive cycle?

This is too harsh for Huaxia, where the life span of the enterprise is about three years and the average enterprise assets are only a few hundred thousand.

Moreover, Huaxia now attaches great importance to chip production, and to be more precise, the direction of attention is not right, so he does not think that Huaxia is a good place to build a chip factory.

He has seen all the 908 and 909 projects carried out by Huaxia, although these projects have made up for the technical gaps in microelectronics, semiconductors and chips in Huaxia, but they only make up for it, and the results of its research are not suitable for large-scale production.

Because not to mention that the emergence of these achievements is achieved at the cost of nothing, there is no possibility of commercial use in itself, and it is said that these so-called achievements to fill the technological gap are themselves one to two generations behind the international advanced technology in the same period.

In an industry like chips, which is backward and a dead end, these achievements have no possibility of being realized, and they can be shelved sooner or later.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he really couldn't figure out why Fang Chen wanted to meet him with such fanfare.

Seeing that Zhang Rujing's eyes were full of curiosity, Fang Chen smiled, and after a few seconds of silence, he said with a straight face: "Dr. Zhang, I can't hide it, I want to set up a chip factory, but after thinking about it, the person who can help me realize this dream is you." ”

Fang Chen's words were like a heavy hammer slammed into Zhang Rujing's heart, his heart trembled, his lips trembled, his eyes trembled, and even his whole body couldn't help trembling.

It's a tremor of excitement.

He has always remembered what his father asked him about when he would be able to go to Huaxia to build a chip factory.

However, he has been working tirelessly for this and accumulating strength, just to wait until he has worked at Texas Instruments for 20 years, so that he can come to Huaxia to build a chip factory after retiring from Texas Instruments.

But he didn't tell anyone about this except his father and wife, and he just did it silently by himself.

Or rather, he is like a miner who silently digs a tunnel in the dark, digging, transporting soil by himself, and tamping the tunnel by himself, moving forward little by little, and even in his heart, he can't see any light before digging through the tunnel.

But now that he suddenly appeared, like-minded people who thought the same way as him, how could he not be excited.

Not to mention, Fang Chen still has such a lot of energy, it can be said that if Fang Chen helps, it will be a hundred times more powerful than him.

For a while, he seemed to have thousands of words to say to Fang Chen.

But seeing Fang Chen's face, which was a little too young, he suddenly felt like a basin of cold water was poured directly on his head, and the whole person was cold at the same time, and he also sobered up.

There is even more self-deprecation in my heart, I am in my forties, and I can't hold my breath at all.

Well, that's right, Fang Chen does have huge energy and extraordinary financial resources, and listening to this meaning, he does have plans to build a chip factory in Huaxia.

But the question is, at Fang Chen's age, does Fang Chen really understand what a chip factory is?

Do you know how much it costs to build a chip factory?

He felt that Fang Chen probably didn't know too much, and if he didn't make trouble, he just had a half-understanding of chips and chip factories, and felt that the chip factory was not bad and promising, so he immediately looked for him and wanted to build a chip factory on a whim.

But after Fang Chen understood how difficult it was to build a chip factory, and even worse, after touching his nose, he felt that Fang Chen would give up his plan to build a chip factory in Huaxia nine times out of ten.

After all, this tunnel still has to be dug by him alone, how can he rely on others, and he can't rely on others, Zhang Rujing thought quietly.

From Zhang Rujing's expression, he could guess what Zhang Rujing was thinking at a glance, Fang Chen smiled lightly, then poured a cup of tea with his own hands, put it in front of Zhang Rujing, and then said slowly: "Mr. Zhang, I am probably afraid that I am just a whim and cannot insist." ”

Zhang Rujing came back to his senses, glanced at Fang Chen with a complicated look, and after making up his mind, he also said with a smile: "Mr. Fang, you are joking, as the vice president of Texas Instruments, how can I help you build a chip factory." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Rujing paused for a moment, and said very seriously: "Mr. Fang, the investment in the chip factory is too big, and the return cycle factory, it is possible that you will invest more than seven or eight billion yuan, and after three or five years, you may not be able to see the money back, so you can only lose money." ”

Probably for fear of scaring Fang Chen, Zhang Rujing lowered the minimum of building a chip factory by three or four percent, and then told Fang Chen.

But the moment he said it, Zhang Rujing felt a little regretful in his heart.

I regret that I will build a chip factory so easily.

Sure enough, his heart is still extremely fragile, even weak, and he hopes that someone can help him.

And Fang Chen was in his subconscious at this time, just like that life-saving straw, no matter how rational he was, he still wanted to grab it subconsciously.

Zhang Rujing's heart was full of ridicule and ridicule of himself at this time.

However, this should be enough to scare Fang Chen off.

But who knows, Fang Chen didn't even think about it, and said to Zhang Rujing without hesitation: "Mr. Zhang, you don't have to worry about money, I'll cast a real bottom on you, I will use 100 billion to build a world-class and internationally competitive Huaxia chip enterprise within five years." ”

Zhang Rujing was suddenly frightened by Fang Chen, and he couldn't come to his senses for a long time.

After about two or three minutes, he said with a bitter face: "Mr. Fang, you are joking. ”

Can 100 billion be used to build a world-class chip company?

There is probably still some hope.

But the question is, can Fang Chen have so much money?

Even if there is, are you really willing to smash all the chip factories?

He really didn't think so.

At this time, Fang Chen's arrogant words just now seemed to him to be like the moon in the well and the flowers in the water, and they were not reliable.