The spin-off of Spreadtrum involves many things, such as the foundry agreement between Singapore Chartered Semiconductor and SMIC. Although due to the maturity of the process, Spreadtrum's highest-end chips are foundry by TSMC, most of the next-tier chips and such as baseband are still licensed by Singapore. SMIC is mainly responsible for the manufacturing of feature computer chips.

The joining of Liang Mengsong's team plays a key role in the improvement of licensed semiconductor technology. You must know that the sales revenue of Samsung's foundry division was only 300 million US dollars last year, Singapore's licensed semiconductors were 1.5 billion US dollars, and TSMC was close to 9 billion US dollars. After digging Liang Mengsong, the revenue of Samsung's semiconductor foundry department reached $5 billion in less than ten years, and it has developed rapidly, and it is likely to achieve annual revenue of $10 billion within ten years, while TSMC's revenue scale at this time is about $30 billion.

In the short term, Singapore's licensed semiconductor competitor will not be TSMC, but UMC, the Taiwanese company. Last year's revenue of $2.8 billion was almost half of that of chartered semiconductors. The key to catching up with UMC is 28nm technology, and TSMC has made a lot of money in the next four years with this mature process technology. However, the six fabs licensed in Singapore are all 200nm production lines, except for one 300nm. This production line in China, because the government is responsible for most of the loans, is also a 300nm production line. As for the production technology, the licensed semiconductor has put into production 40nm process products, and the 32nm process technology has also been perfected, and I believe that the 28nm process process can also be quickly completed under the leadership of Liang Mengsong's team. The accumulation is different, the Singapore franchise is still much stronger than Samsung, and the development should not be worse than Samsung Semiconductor.

As for SMIC's development, there is no need to report too much hope in the short term. The lack of key technologies, insufficient accumulation, and talent reserves are all factors restricting SMIC's development.

There are still many problems in the semiconductor foundry industry, but unfortunately Zhou Shi doesn't know anything about it, and Singapore Chartered Semiconductor is a member of IBM's General Technology Alliance, and the direction of major technology development has long been set. Zhou Shi had no other way to help them except to provide them with financial support and technical support for them to poach people.

In Huawei's negotiations, the procurement of Spreadtrum tablet chip suddenly increased, and the corresponding Android system company also had a lot of inquiries about the adoption of Android on tablets. Seeing that Guoke and Apple have entered the industry one after another, and sales and profits have soared, other companies have finally reacted and started to try. However, it is still much slower than the launch of the nut tablet. Worried about long nights and dreams, Huawei quickly reached an agreement with Spreadtrum on the matter of investing in shares, and obtained 19.9% of Spreadtrum Communications' equity in the form of patents and cash at a valuation of $6 billion. This may be the largest investment in Huawei's history, Zhou Shi doesn't know whether it is right to accept Huawei's investment this time, this company is particularly magical, and I don't know if it will be implicated in the future. A few years later, it was resisted by many countries, and if it was just commercial competition, Zhou Shi believed that it would not be like that, just as he did not believe that Huawei was a purely private enterprise. However, he still believes that Huawei's competitiveness surpasses that of the vast majority of telecommunications companies in Europe and the United States.

As soon as Huawei invested in Spreadtrum signed the agreement, the news came out, and it was boiling, and Li Yinan stood at the front desk again. The media doesn't care who is behind the scenes, the company's boss is the focus of their attention. Li Yinan, a specially created scientific and technological genius and entrepreneurial hero, once again detonated the public's enthusiasm.

Li Yinan, former successor of Huawei, founder of Harbor Network, founder of Android System Company, head of Android development, former chairman of Datang Telecom, and chairman of Spreadtrum Communications. A series of achievements and fame are very bluffing.

"The re-entrepreneurship of a tech genius. ”

"After the harbor, continue the frontier!"

"The most powerful technology entrepreneur in China!"

"The story that Li Yinan and Ren Zhengfei have to say!"

"A new breakthrough in the domestic semiconductor industry!"

"The strongest semiconductor design company in China!"

Countless online and offline media magazines interviewed him, including Ren Zhengfei and Li Yinan, who were surrounded by reporters and found it difficult to get out. CCTV interviewed the two one after another, and this news time even appeared in the focus interview. Spreadtrum's achievements were also widely reported at this moment, and Spreadtrum, which had not been actively promoted due to the cooperation of Fruit Nuts, shone brightly at this moment.

The past and present life of Spreadtrum Communications has also been reported clearly, and after the privatization of Spreadtrum by a consortium led by the Four Elephants Fund, such a huge breakthrough has been made in just two years, which is a miracle of investment. As for how Li Yinan became the chairman of Spreadtrum, this is not enough for outsiders, except for very professional financial reporters, not many people care.

"Xiao Zhou, Spreadtrum wants to invest, why don't you look for me?" Lenovo's Liu Lao is a person who understands and knows the relationship between Spreadtrum and Zhou Shi.

"There are many reasons for this, first of all, Android, which Time has re-privatized. Originally, Huawei did not agree, and Spreadtrum made it a condition for them to take a stake. ”

"Doesn't Lenovo have this opportunity?"

"Huawei has the technology and patents we need, as for Lenovo ......" Zhou Shi did not say, but the meaning is obvious, what do you have?

"Isn't there a Lenovo?" Liu Lao didn't seem to understand

"Lenovo's patents don't meet our requirements! And I never need a simple financial investor......" What Zhou Shi didn't say was that if he couldn't give us enough help, there was no need to accept investment. If Lenovo does not purchase Spreadtrum's chips because Zhou Shi does not accept investment, it can only show that the company's management has a problem. However, it is very difficult to say, the domestic superstructure has always had the fine tradition of "rather with foreigners, not with domestic slaves", Liu Lao is not a good man and a woman, and Yang Yuanqing's ability is obviously not enough to become the leader of domestic high-tech enterprises.

"In addition, the agreement we reached has a commitment not to make a profit within three years and not to go public within five years, and we will focus on the accumulation and research and development of technology...... If Lenovo has this idea, we can talk about ......" Of course, Zhou Shi would not refuse willingly at this time, or say something hurtful, and it would be more appropriate for him to make his own choice.

"Focus on technology research and development? let me think about it again......" Liu Lao felt uncomfortable when he heard these words, these three words of trade, industry and technology are almost his representatives, as if his life is also limited in it, it is difficult to detach. It will always be in trade and industry, and it is not yet time to develop technology.

"Of course, you've figured it out, you can come to me at any time. "Zhou Shi

"Even if it is not as good, but the cooperation between us can still be deeper," Liu Lao

(End of chapter)