At this time, Mr. Yu Youcheng finally stretched out his hand to Hu Yiting: "Hello, Xiaohu." ”

Hu Yiting hurriedly stretched out his hands, held Yu Youcheng's outstretched hand tightly, bowed slightly, and said respectfully: "Hello Mr. Yu, I have admired my name for a long time!"

Yu Youcheng saw that Hu Yiting was very respectful to him, and he was satisfied, and smiled at him: "I have also admired your name for a long time, and when I see it today, it is indeed a hero from ancient times!

According to the information in Hu Yiting's memory, Yu Youcheng was born in Puhai during World War II, received a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University in the United States, joined Intel in 72, and held many important positions such as semiconductor process development and transistor product development, and is also a member of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Stanford Computer Science and Systems Committee. In 79 years, in response to the call of reform and opening up, he resolutely left Intel and returned to China to do business, wanting to rely on agent PC products to start his own computer company, but the Chinese computer market in the early stage of the reform was too small, and finally ended in 1981 and returned to Intel as a technical developer.

Hu Yiting replied respectfully: "We chose the development of multimedia instruction set, but also out of helplessness, after all, the PC market is crowded, and if we want to survive such a small company, we can only develop heterogeneously and take the road that those big factories have not taken." ”

Yu Youcheng smiled and nodded, expressing his approval of Hu Yiting's statement, adding: "Besides, you have caught up with the good times, when I returned to the mainland to do business in 79, how can there be a personal computer market in the mainland, only enterprises and state units have demand, and the scale is not large, at that time I held new technology training courses in Hong Kong, trained more than 200 customers and technicians, and now many of them have become the technical backbone of the mainland, and some of them have gone to the sea to do business and engaged in the production or sales of electronic products, and now they are already big bosses." Hehehehehe......"

Seeing that everyone was getting along, Harold smiled heartily and suggested, "It may be fate that we can meet together today, but it is really pleasant, why don't we find a big table together." ”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone agreed, so the five of them found a small round table near the center of the store, just big enough for five people to sit down.

After Hu Yiting sat down, he continued to talk eagerly with the three of them: "Mr. Zhang Rujing, are you still building a factory for AMD?"

Zhang Rujing smiled gently: "Yes, we run around all day in our business, the United States, Europe, Japan, Singapore, not only to ensure that the factory is built and the assembly line is commissioned, but also to be responsible for technology transfer, personnel training, the formulation of management regulations, the design of the operation process, and then go to the next project from scratch, year after year without stopping, although the salary is high, every dollar earned is hard money, haha."

Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang said that you are a technical backbone, and any country in the world is striving for it." ”

Zhang Rujing was complimented by Hu Yiting like a spring breeze, smiling and silent.

Hu Yiting sincerely complimented: "Everyone in our domestic IC design and manufacturing industry admires Mr. Zhang! I know that TI (Texas Instruments) will formulate the strategy of team building, product marketization, process technology and process manufacturing process in the initial stage of building each factory. Then the implementation details of the production line, such as the optimization of machine configuration, factory and logistics control system, quality control, etc., must be considered in advance, and even the key business elements such as operation system and cost accounting after production must be taken into account. Almost at the same time as the completion of the factory, these systems and business elements are organically integrated with the hardware of the factory, so that a complete manufacturing, marketing and operation system can be formed.

Zhang Rujing was held to the sky by Hu Yiting, especially when he learned that his reputation was even known in the mainland IC industry, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart at all, his mouth couldn't close with a smile, and he shouted: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, this is also the result of the whole team's efforts, hehehehehe." ”

Huang also said: "Mr. Zhang is really amazing, I admired your name when I was working at AMD, and I salute Mr. Zhang." After speaking, he picked up his beer glass and drank more than half of it, and suddenly two blush appeared on his cheekbones.

Hu Yiting, Yu Youcheng, and Harold also hurriedly picked up the cup, Zhang Rujing was very happy at this time, and even picked up the cup and drank a liter of beer in one go, winning everyone's cheers and applause, laughing and applauding.

Hu Yiting said in his heart that the iron should be struck while it was hot, so he asked: "Now that Silicon Valley is full of technology gold collars who have gone to the sea to start a business, have you ever thought of going down and doing your own business vigorously? I see that TSMC, which Mr. Zhang Zhongmou of TI did by himself after leaving Texas Instruments, is now very large-scale. ”

Three points of wine came up, Zhang Rujing sighed with a smile: "I have thought about it, but the IC manufacturing industry is a capital-intensive industry, unlike IC design and software engineering, seven or eight people, a dozen computers, and hundreds of thousands of dollars can start a company."

Do you know that none of the factory construction projects I did at TI had an investment of less than $500 million, and in recent years, with the improvement of the manufacturing process, the price of equipment has also risen, and new projects cannot be done without a billion dollars! This is only the main construction of the wafer factory, and if you want to build supporting industries at the same time, it will be 3 to 500 million US dollars. ”

Saying that, Zhang Rujing took a bite of French fries and continued: "And today's IC manufacturing industry is an industry closely integrated with the IC design industry, if you don't determine the production project in the next two years before the factory is built, then what to eat after completion? The development of new processes will not be TSMC, Taiwan UMC, Samsung, NEC, and the manufacturing industry is like this, once you are opened up by the opponent, it will be over, you can only pick up the leftover orders of others to live, and never think about turning over. Xiaohu, if you don't believe it, Boss Yu of Intel is here today, and you ask him if he said so?"

Hu Yiting looked at Yu Youcheng with a smile, Yu Youcheng smiled warmly: "Brother Rujing is the leader of our industry, at the moment the IC manufacturing industry is like what he said, if there is no customer support, there will be no sufficient orders in the first two years of the new factory to maintain full capacity operation and profitability, then wait for a huge loss."

According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit doubles every 18 months, and the performance also doubles, which is no joke!

This means that the wafer fab you just put into production this year will become a second-generation line that lags behind the world's advanced level in two years!

If Intel's wafer factory is not backed by the company's endless list, it will definitely lose to those foundries in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan in terms of cost alone.

For example, memory chips, the bubble economy brought abundant funds to Japanese manufacturers, causing them to invest in more than a dozen wafer factories in 90 and 91 in one go, and when they were put into production in 93, there were no other chips to make, so they all put into memory production, resulting in an avalanche-like plunge in international memory chip prices in 93.

At that time, a strange phenomenon occurred at Intel, that is, 80 percent of the R&D funds were spent on memory research and development, while memory profits accounted for only 10 percent of the company's profits! In the end, we had to cut a large amount of memory research and development funds and devote all our energy to the research and development of processors. ”

Hu Yiting said: "Mr. Yu, you are really amazing, now your Intel is the leader in processors, and last year's turnover has exceeded 11.8 billion US dollars. ”

Yu Youcheng looked at Hu Yiting, and saw that his expression was sincere and not fake, so he smiled faintly, nodded and said: "But now there are challenges, there are disruptors like you Chongguang in the market, which we didn't expect at Intel." ”