In the previous life, the later UMC finally slowly declined, and Cao Xingcheng finally left the semiconductor industry and retired directly early, while Semiconductor Manufacturing and Zhang Zhongmou finally became the final winners, the real bigwigs in the wafer foundry and chip manufacturing industry.

The position of Zhang Zhongmou in the global semiconductor industry in later generations is definitely a top talent, and Cao Xingcheng, who originally proposed the wafer foundry plan, eventually declined with the failure of UMC.

Naturally, how the history of this life develops, Li Feng is a little looking forward to it, especially if he really invests in UMC, whether UMC can really compete with SMMC in the future, for Li Feng, this is a good career development proposition.

For Taiwan Union Electric, Li Feng has also put a lot of effort into it recently, and has read a lot of investigation reports, so he has a certain understanding.

Naturally, Li Feng's previous proposal to directly acquire the shares of the design company and become an independent company of UMC to concentrate on the development of wafer foundry business is also the summary of Li Feng, Wang Chaoyong, Xu Haifeng and others after some analysis.

What Li Feng didn't know was that these strategies were actually the plans that UMC finally put forward in 99 to get rid of the difficulties of all parties, which provided a great boost for UMC's later development.

Even if it was delayed for two years because of a fire, around 2000, UMC's strength was slightly inferior to that of Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and the gap was not obvious.

In the end, there were other reasons for the decline of UMC, which will not be detailed here.

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In Li Feng's view, the most talked-about complex competition between Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and UMC, as well as the dispute between the two Wanwan semiconductor bosses, and even this unexpected fire and the financial crisis that is beginning to prevail throughout Asia, have created opportunities for him to take a stake in UMC, after all, Li Feng's joining, obviously, is very helpful to the strength of the joining party.

First of all, the first point is financial support, you must know that it is not cheap to build a wafer foundry, and if you want to integrate several foundries, it will require a large amount of money.

The second point is naturally network resources, for example, Li Feng is now Apple's invisible largest shareholder, if Apple's chip manufacturing is put in UMC, it can bring huge prestige and benefits to UMC.

For another example, Li Feng can try to contact Samsung, if he can push Samsung to hand over the chip manufacturing industry to UMC, the influence of it will needless to say.

And there are many things that can be done that can be influenced, and if UMC wins the business, Semiconductor Manufacturing will naturally decline.

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After about 1 hour of driving, the team arrived in Hsinchu and stayed in a 5-star hotel that had been arranged long ago.

As the Silicon Valley of Wanwan, even the annual output value can reach 10% of Wanwan's GDP in the scale of the science and technology park industrial zone, there is naturally no shortage of various high-end hotels, but unfortunately, Hilton does not have a hotel here for the time being.

This time, Li Feng stayed in the 5-star hotel in Hsinchu, a luxury brand of Starwood International Hotel Management, and it was booked by UMC for Li Feng and his party.

It's a pity that Li Feng found that most of them are just luxury single rooms and double rooms, although they look good, I have to say that from this point of view, Li Feng is really the worst time to stay in the hotel.

In the past, in Hong Kong or the mainland, when it was not the top presidential suite of the hotel or simply the villa hotel of the state guesthouse, the accommodation environment was not really much better.

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"Dong Li, let's see that the time is almost up, otherwise, let's have dinner together, and talk about other things tomorrow, what do you think?" Seeing that Li Feng and his entourage had arranged accommodation, Cao Xingcheng, the UMC boss, couldn't help but smile and said.

"It's really not appropriate to talk about things today, I hope to reach a cooperation with Mr. Cao and your UMC as soon as possible, but if we really want to cooperate, it's not easy for us to be sure, and now we can only book a rough plan at most.

As for the specifics, it takes a professional team to complete, but I would like to take a good look and visit UMC's major factories and design companies, I wonder if I have this honor?"

"Of course, I'll personally accompany you on a tour of our foundry over the next few days, and I'm confident that UMC will not disappoint anyone. ”

"Haha... I naturally believe in UMC's strength, otherwise I wouldn't have flown directly from the mainland to Wanwan, and we wouldn't have had this meeting, wouldn't we?

If it succeeds, maybe I will have more time to come to Wanwan in the future, and perhaps, I should consider whether to find a land and buy a property here in Beiwan, so as not to stay in a hotel next time I come to Wanwan. Li Feng replied with a laugh.

"Oh, I thought maybe I could recommend a few good properties for Mr. Li. ”

"Haha... Since you are the landlord here, then I will listen to the arrangement of the landlord for the next dinner, and the guest is as the host. ”

"Wow, you are really not familiar with Chinese culture, if I didn't know that you are from the United States, I would really think that the person standing in front of me is an authentic Chinese. Since you've said so, please!"

"Thank you for the appreciation, please!"

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The dinner was quite sumptuous, and a unique meal of Wanwan felt pretty good. After the meal, a group of people from UMC said goodbye and left, but Wang Siqing took Li Feng to the hotel's SPA to relax.

At night, Li Feng naturally put Wang Siqing, the big housekeeper, into his arms and took a big sleep, and as for the luxurious single room booked by others, it was naturally vacant.

For UMC, through this period of understanding, including the structure of its major companies and this group of company managers and executives, Li Feng's impression is actually really good.

After the eventual decline of UMC, in Li Feng's opinion, it was a pity that he met not only a group of UMC executives, but also the managers of various UMC branches tonight.

For example, the future famous, known as the general manager of MediaTek, a leading chip design company in Asia, is Cai Mingjie.

Yes, MediaTek at this time has only been established for a few months, according to the history of the previous life, including a number of companies such as Lianyong, Lianyang, and Zhiyuan Technology, will be established in the next 2 years, and these were originally independent of the wafer foundry design department under UMC.

UMC's initial approach was to only participate in investment holdings, but not management, and the managers of these departments became one of the bosses of the company, giving full play to the initiative of the design company.

Naturally, it is precisely because of this that UMC's foundry finally dispelled the concerns of those IC design companies and laid the foundation for the later integration of the resources of several major foundries. Today's Li Feng wants to take a stake in UMC, and he also wants to start doing so directly two years in advance, from this point of view, several of Li Feng's subordinates, Wang Chaoyong, etc., are indeed capable people, and directly make the future development plan of UMC out in advance.

Naturally, with the decline of UMC, the controlling stakes in these companies were slowly taken back by later managers.

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Facts have proved that UMC's move is the right one, and a number of companies in the future, including MediaTek and Lianyong, have created the well-known 'Lianjia Gang' in Wanwan, supporting most of Wanwan's chip design.

For example, a group of bosses including MediaTek, such as Cai Mingjie, although their careers later became better and bigger than UMC, but when these people saw Cao Xingcheng, they still had to respectfully call 'boss', and Cao Xingcheng had great prestige among these people.

In this regard, although UMC finally declined, it has done a better job than Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in terms of talent training, and Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is only a wafer foundry.

UMC's Cao Xingcheng is a very good corporate manager CEO in Li Feng's opinion, and it is a pity that he failed in the end.

For example, this year's fire, before this fire, UMC's managers once clamored that they would completely defeat their old rival Semiconductor Manufacturing Company within 2 years, but unfortunately, a fire burned all UMC's plans and suffered heavy losses, and it was not until the integration was completed in 99 that it eased up.