In the factory located in Zhangjiang Park, a batch of equipment that has just been shipped back to China is being commissioned.

Zhang Rujing took Song Weiyang all the way, he didn't take the initiative to talk to the employees, and the employees didn't exist at all, and they were all busy with their own work.

Song Weiyang laughed at himself: "As early as a few years ago, I wanted to start a chip manufacturing company. At that time, I had a little money in my hand, so I wanted to play with cutting-edge technology on a whim, but after carefully questioning Academician Ni, I was so frightened that I quickly dispelled my whimsical idea. ”

"Hahaha!" Zhang Rujing smiled happily.

A staunch nationalist like Academician Ni is bent on making independent chips and operating systems, but he doesn't dare to say that he will open a chip factory, so he can only design chips and let the company do the foundry.

There are three difficulties: one is money, the second is people, and the third is machines.

Among these three difficult factors, money is the best solution, and if the government really wants to do it, it can make tens of billions of dollars by smashing the pot and selling iron.

The real difficulty is the talent and the machine, and the Chinese government has spent all kinds of money on the development of semiconductors in the past 20 years. However, without qualified talents, no matter how awesome the teachers and students of Tsinghua University and USTC are, it is impossible to master relevant technologies out of thin air. At that time, the people who were responsible for the introduction of technology were all a group of people who grew up in the 60s and 70s, and what knowledge could they learn back then? Even if they spent money to introduce technology, they could not fully understand the technology in front of other people's drawings every day, let alone further technology research and development.

Leaders who want to make a difference think that since there are no excellent talents, then we will take the time to cultivate them slowly. Therefore, we continue to spend money on the introduction of technology and equipment, engage in joint ventures with multinational enterprises, and accumulate technology and talents while engaging in production practice. This idea works in other industries, including many manufacturing industries, and it has worked.

However, there is something called "Moore's Law", there is an organization called "Batumi", and there is an agreement called the "Wassenaar Agreement".

Moore's Law states that when the price remains the same, the number of components that an integrated computer can fit doubles and its performance doubles roughly every 18-24 months.

The Batumi and Wassenaar agreements stipulate that the export of the most advanced high-tech equipment to China is restricted, and the technical equipment that can be approved for export is usually two generations later than the most advanced (with the introduction time and landing digestion, the technology that China has obtained is usually three generations behind).

The combination of these things has led to the introduction of a large number of backward technologies and equipment in China. In the first year or two, it may be barely enough, but before it can be digested, these technologies and equipment have been completely eliminated. As a result, the state's support project failed, and after a few years, the government was still unwilling, and introduced billions of yuan of technology and equipment at every turn, but it was quickly eliminated.

Therefore, a few years ago, Song Weiyang didn't understand anything, and a little money in his hand was like doing chip manufacturing, and he quickly dispelled the idea after he understood the truth. Not to mention anything else, he can't buy equipment, and it's useless to buy things that are two or three generations behind!

Now Song Weiyang was very curious, staring at the equipment in the factory and asking, "Mr. Zhang, how did you get these advanced equipment?"

Zhang Rujing smiled: "Guess." ”

Song Weiyang said: "I heard a rumor that you asked five churches in the United States to guarantee that SMIC's chip technology would not be used for military purposes, and finally got the export license for these equipment. ”

"Hahahaha," Zhang Rujing's mouth crooked, "this statement is very imaginative. ”

Song Weiyang said tentatively: "Goldman Sachs is quietly exerting its strength?"

Zhang Rujing nodded and said: "The guarantees made by Goldman Sachs and Walden also contributed money to lobby some American departments. ”

"That makes sense. Song Weiyang figured it out instantly.

Last year, Zhang Rujing was forced to leave Shida Semiconductor and announced that he would open a company in the mainland. When the news came out, many companies in Chinese mainland, Wanwan, Singapore and the United States even took the initiative to contact Zhang Rujing to send him money, raising $1 billion in two months.

Among them are Goldman Sachs and Walden, both companies with huge influence in the United States, and it is relatively simple for them to help get high-end technical equipment.

At present, among the top ten shareholders of SMIC, Goldman Sachs holds the first share, Walden holds the second share, Shenzhou Technology holds the third share, SIIC (state-owned enterprise) holds the fourth share, H&Q (the United States) holds the fifth share, and Vertex (Singapore) holds the sixth share.

The team of more than 300 people brought by Zhang Rujing is not all from Wanwan, there are also Singaporean programmers, and even those who follow from Texas Instruments, and the company's executives also include Americans, Italians and other international friends. In the future, he will join the returnee faction and the civil engineering faction (Tsinghua University), plus the founding patriarch bending faction, there are many factions and chaos, and only Zhang Rujing can control the scene.

When SMIC got into a lawsuit and the future was hopeless, many foreign employees left automatically. Goldman Sachs and other shareholders have also reduced their holdings, and domestic companies have taken the opportunity to increase investment, turning SMIC into a "Chinese ancestry".

In this case, after each new president takes office, the first issue is not to grasp technology and market, but how to grasp the power of the company and balance the factional struggle. The strong president directly subdues me and will get out of me if he is disobedient; the weak president can only be a peacemaker and has difficulty developing in the midst of friction; and the most useless president directly plays SMIC badly.

And the three major shareholders are not worry-free, because the shareholding ratio is too close, no one can really control the company, and they can play dog brains with each other.

Song Weiyang stood on the factory floor and suddenly had an idea, that is, to go with the flow and let SMIC experience a big setback. Only at the most dangerous moment of the company, foreign shareholders such as Goldman Sachs, Walden, H&Q, and Vertex will be willing to sell their shares, and Shenzhou Technology will have the opportunity to control SMIC.

You must know that Zhang Rujing's ability is too strong, with a start-up capital of 10 billion yuan in his hand, he actually made SMIC the fourth in the world in two years. If this kind of hen that lays golden eggs is not maliciously suppressed, how can those foreign shareholders be willing to let go?

And if DCT cannot achieve a controlling stake, how can it ensure SMIC's long-term stable development?

Then let TSMC sue for infringement and sue SMIC to the point of bankruptcy, and Shenzhou Technology will throw money at it again, and by the way, protect Zhang Rujing, the president who can calm the scene!

There is also a focus on talent absorption and training, one is to recruit sea turtles, and the other is to make blood by themselves.

As we said earlier, there were no relevant talents in China in the 90s, but after 2000, they suddenly appeared.

These talents are not created out of thin air, they must complete their undergraduate studies in China, go to the United States, and work for multinational companies for several years to master truly practical cutting-edge semiconductor technology. From the time these students go abroad to return to China, the time span must be at least 10 years or more, otherwise they will come back with semi-finished products!

That is to say, it must be a talent who went abroad in the 80s, and only after returning to China can it hold up the sky of China's semiconductors.

Historically, most of the bigwigs in China's chip manufacturing industry returned to China after 2000, and many of them were poached by Huawei and ZTE.

After 2000, there was a wave of turtles returning to China, because in this year the "Opinions on Encouraging High-level Overseas Talents to Return to China" was promulgated, calling on state-owned enterprises and institutions to introduce turtles on their own. If these turtles preside over scientific research projects after returning to China, and it is an international advanced level or a project urgently needed in China, the state will directly provide scientific research matching funds.

After these turtles return to China, they can hold important positions and continue to get U.S. green cards, which was absolutely not allowed before. And returning to China to serve for a period of time and giving up the U.S. green card, you can also serve as the legal representative of state-owned enterprises and institutions, which also belongs to the regulations that only existed after 2000 - in the past, if you have taken a U.S. green card, unless you have been approved by special circumstances, you cannot serve as a legal person of state-owned enterprises and institutions.

Even, if the family of these turtles settles abroad, their income can be remitted directly in foreign exchange, and there is a special family leave abroad every year. If the family moves back to China, the spouse's work must be solved, and the children's school must also be solved, and it is even stipulated that they must be arranged to the nearest bilingual school or bilingual class with the best conditions, and these turtle children can also get extra points for taking the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination.

As soon as the "Opinions" on high-level sea turtles came out, it immediately triggered a wave of overseas return to China at the beginning of the 21st century, and these returning sea turtles later flooded various cutting-edge industries in China.

Moreover, many high-level sea turtles do not need these benefits, and it is not rare for the country to solve the life of their wives and children, but they still choose to quit their jobs and return to China with high salaries. Because this policy has released a special signal, that is, the country attaches great importance to high-end technical talents, and they can return to China to start a business all the way to the green light!