Chapter 291 Aiding the construction of a wafer factory?
The core of the science and technology industrial park is naturally a series of preferential policies provided by the government, as well as supporting guarantees in terms of administration, logistics, and talents. Among them, the rights to policy support and tax incentives are not something that the Shenhai SAR government can approve by itself, but needs support at the national level.
However, if the leaders of the SAR are willing, they can first make relevant plans. Even if various support policies cannot be approved for a while, at least the localities can be circled first. By the time of the Southern Patrol early next year, if Deng Lao can say yes, the problem will be solved.
During this meal, Li Xuan and the two leaders in the city had a very happy conversation, and as for the original reason for the meal, the newly established 126 paging station of the Sino-Hong Kong joint venture, almost everyone ignored it. Of course, according to Li Xuan's previous instructions, Li Zhi gave a digital pager to every leader when everyone was halfway through the tour.
"Now I finally understand how a big boss like you talks about business, and when I open my mouth to talk about industrial layout and economic planning! When I talked about cooperation with telecommunications companies before, they were very careful about every clause, as if I had taken a big advantage!" Li Zhi snuggled in Li Xuan's arms and said lazily.
"Haha, your husband's pattern is naturally beyond the reach of ordinary small businessmen! Our company will also pick out the details when negotiating specifically, but that kind of thing doesn't need your husband and me to do it personally!
You have indeed taken a big advantage, and in less than three years, the current 126 pager will become a chicken that can lay golden eggs. It's just that in the next year or two, you may have to be mentally prepared to endure losses. I'm guessing you'll have your paging station turned on. This year, the total number of customers can exceed 500, thank God! But it is the so-called long-term fishing for big fish, and people who really want to grab huge profits. It's about taking a long-term view. ”
A playful smile appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and he continued to teach earnestly, "But you can also make good use of the loss period in the next year or two." The mainland's attraction of foreign investment has always been held high by the slogan of mutual benefit and win-win, since we Limei people actively respond to the call to return to China to invest, the government naturally cannot let patriotic businessmen like you suffer.
You have taken advantage of the continuous losses in the early stage to encourage the SAR government to make some concessions. It's best to get them to come up with a higher threshold for paging station to bid for admission, so as to keep most of the later competitors out as much as possible!"
"You mean to engage in monopoly?" Recently, Li Zhi has read a lot of business books. I also know that the profits under the market monopoly are the most lucrative.
"Yes, this project should be considered a long-term investment, and I have a good project here that can pay off immediately. If you move quickly, you will be able to become what everyone calls a strong woman in the mall within the year!" Li Xuan turned his head to look at Li Zhi and said.
"What project?" asked Lizhi with a look of surprise.
"It's up to you to do next!" Li Xuan said, plopping Li Zhi down on the sofa, and then gently lifted the hem of the nightdress. A pair of hands are familiar with the smooth and delicate body of the beauty.
After a fierce lingering. Like a four-legged octopus, Li Zhi lay on Li Xuan's body softly, and said softly with a slight breath: "Bad guy, you are about to be killed, you know how to practice me!"
Li Xuan gently stroked Li Zhi's jade-like back, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Just now, with the cooperation of the beautiful woman's music, the two tried many difficult movements.
"You big rascal, you can talk about it now!" Li Zhi hadn't forgotten what Li Xuan had just said.
"My idea is simple. Open a large supermarket in the Special Economic Zone! Now the supply of materials in the mainland is tight, especially many in-demand commodities need to be supplied by ticket! If you can be in Shenhai City. Open a large supermarket that is open to supply all kinds of goods, and it will be full of customers in no time!" Li Xuan did not continue to sell guanzi.
"However, you also said that the mainland is short of supplies, and all commodities are allocated according to the plan by the supply and marketing system of the government, where can I buy them?" asked Li Zhi with some suspicion.
Of course, if you open a supermarket in the deep-sea special zone, you will need to consume a lot of foreign exchange to import goods, and the SAR government will not be able to allocate so much foreign exchange to you for procurement. Therefore, if your supermarket wants to maintain the foreign exchange balance, all goods must only be sold in Hong Kong dollars!
In other major cities in China, there are friendship shops for foreign friends to use foreign exchange coupons to purchase supplies. However, the SAR has only been established for two or three years, and there is no friendship store at all. In the past two years, more and more Hong Kong compatriots have been living in the SAR.
If you apply to the city government for the establishment of such a supermarket settled in Hong Kong dollars under the banner of serving other Hong Kong people, you will definitely be able to approve it! When the supermarket is operational, no matter whether he is a Hong Kong citizen or a mainlander, as long as he has Hong Kong dollars, he will naturally be our customer!" Li Xuan said with a smile.
At present, the circulation of Hong Kong dollars is no less than that of the renminbi. At one point, the SAR Government even applied to the Central Government to make the Hong Kong dollar the legal tender in the HKSAR.
"Don't meddle this time, let me handle it all by myself!" Li Zhi propped his hand on Li Xuan's chest, raised his head and gave a fragrant kiss. After the joy, there is still a flush aftertaste on the pretty face, and there is a little more excitement.
The next day, Li Xuan had the heart to go out for a walk and take a look around the city where he had lived for eighteen years in his previous life. But before he could go out, someone had already come to the door.
"Mr. Li, there is something I am going to report to you!" The person who came to Li Xuan was Yu Youcheng, who joined the Institute of Oriental Studies at the end of last year.
In mid-September last year, when Liu Xuan was on a trip to Shanghai, he unexpectedly met Yu Youcheng on the campus of Jiaotong University, who was being invited to give a speech to students. After returning to Hong Kong, Li Xuan immediately asked people to collect relevant information about the other party.
It turned out that as early as 1979, Yu Youcheng left Intel Corporation and returned to Hong Kong, and co-founded an integrated circuit technology training company with two friends. When Yu Youcheng's company was first established, Hong Kong's semiconductor industry had barely become a climate, and Yu Youcheng's training business was naturally unpopular.
In order to develop new customers. He kept going north to petition the mainland, which had just begun to reform and open up. However, although mainland research institutes and universities are very interested in new international frontier technologies, they generally lack funding. In another time and space. After persevering for three years, Yu Youcheng finally closed his training company in 1982, and then returned to Intel to join the development of the next 80386 processor.
However, in this life, affected by the rise of Dongfang Electronics, Hong Kong's electronics industry has developed more vigorously, and the demand for semiconductor technology has become more vigorous. For example, when Dongfang Electronics was rising in the early days, the arcade business was a huge success. Immediately afterwards, it attracted countless follow-up capital into the arcade industry.
At that time, the motherboards of arcade machines were generally equipped with two processors, the 6502 and Z80. However, many technicians don't really know much about the internal architecture and performance characteristics of these two processors. So Yu Youcheng's training company took advantage of the trend to launch a series of courses on the technical specifications and application case analysis of these two processors. For a time, it was sought after by many technical R&D personnel.
In the past two years, with the increasing success of Dongfang Electronics Company, the entire Hong Kong, and even the neighboring Taiwan and mainland China have been profoundly affected, and more and more capital has been invested in IT fields such as semiconductors, computers, and game consoles.
Yu Youcheng joined Fairchild in 1967 after graduating with a Ph.D. degree. He has been studying in the semiconductor industry for more than ten years. It has its own profound insights in terms of technology and industrial development trends. Under his leadership, the days of the technical training company are also becoming more and more nourishing. Since he is on the right entrepreneurial path, Yu Youcheng will definitely not have the idea of returning to work at Intel.
After Li Xuan returned to Hong Kong, he personally interviewed him twice, gave him the position of assistant to the president of the Institute of Oriental Studies, and finally moved the other party. Don't look at Aikang Computer Company is in the limelight, but the discerning people in the industry know that the Oriental Research Institute really has ERM and MIPS architecture. The development potential is undoubtedly broader.
When Yu Youcheng left Intel, he could only be regarded as a middle-level manager, and Li Xuan gave him the position of assistant to the president of the Oriental Research Institute. It can be said that he is the fifth-in-command after Li Xuan, the dean, and the other three vice presidents. Li Xuan also revealed to the other party that he intends to train him to take over the Oriental Research Institute in the future.
Moreover, Li Xuan did not need him to close his company, but let Yu Youcheng and his company join the system of the Oriental Group through mergers and acquisitions by the Oriental Research Institute, so as to ensure Yu Youcheng's interests in the greatest way.
In fact, the technical training company that Yu Youcheng is now running is not without value to the Eastern Group. It has played a non-negligible role in promoting the application of semiconductor technology in Hong Kong.
In addition to the newly acquired semiconductor technology training company, Dongfang Games has also previously established a training institution to train software talents. As a result, Li Xuan simply merged the two training institutions to form a new Oriental Technical College, which was mainly used to promote a series of technical standards of the Oriental Group.
For example, since its launch in 1981, the Oriental Research Institute has never stopped in-depth research and development of the ERM architecture. In addition to the new ERM-2 architecture, which will be launched at the end of this year, based on the previous ERM-1 architecture, the Oriental Research Institute has also conducted in-depth excavations. A series of sub-model processors have been developed one after another, which have now been used in personal computers, industrial computers, program-controlled digital telephone exchanges, printers and many other equipment.
It is undoubtedly very important for more technicians to understand and master the technical characteristics of ERM architecture, which is undoubtedly very important for ERM series processors to obtain a wider range of applications in the future. Previously, Li Xuan expressed his full support for Professor Hennessy of Stanford University to write an academic monograph on computer architecture based on ERM and MIPS architectures. The hidden purpose behind this is the same as the technical training, which is to expand the influence of a series of technical standards in the industry in the hands of Dongfang Company as much as possible.
After the Oriental Group completed the acquisition of Yu Youcheng's company, he was soon transferred to Oriental Research as the assistant to the dean, and there will definitely be voices of internal dissatisfaction, but this requires him to gradually establish his prestige with his superb skills.
In October last year, in order to strengthen the nation's leadership over computers and large-scale integrated circuits, the State Council set up a "leading group for electronic computers and large-scale integrated circuits" headed by Vice Premier Wan. Not long ago, the leading group just held an industry-wide meeting in Guangdong City, preparing to formulate China's IC industry development plan for the next five to ten years.
The Oriental Research Institute was also invited to participate, and it was Yu Youcheng, who had just taken office, who went north to attend the meeting on behalf of the Institute. In the past three or four years, he has flown to almost every city in China in order to develop the business of the training company. During this period, Yu Youcheng also established a good relationship with various departments of the domestic integrated circuit and electronics industry. Therefore, it is naturally most appropriate for him to attend this conference on behalf of the Institute of Oriental Studies.
"After the conference, Vice President Wan specially talked to me, hoping that our Oriental Research Institute could come forward to build a complete wafer factory for the mainland! I didn't dare to express my position directly, but only said that I needed to give them a reply after a detailed evaluation!" Yu Youcheng looked at Li Xuan and said.
"This matter is not easy, the United States is still relatively sensitive to the export of semiconductor technology and other high-tech to the mainland!" Li Xuan said with a frown.
Yu Youcheng paused for a few seconds to organize his language before continuing: "In fact, since last year, China has gradually introduced some semiconductor manufacturing equipment from Japan, the Netherlands, France and other countries. However, most of the introduction of these equipment is relatively scattered and messy, and cannot really form a system! Therefore, this time, the mainland government deliberately put forward the slogan of 'rectifying scattered and disorderly', and wanted to concentrate on doing something big!
I think about it this way, the first two wafer factories that we Dongfang Semiconductor Company acquired in California used 3-inch wafer and 3.5-micron process technology. However, with the continuous introduction of new architecture products such as ERM-1, MIPS, and ERM-2, factories need more advanced technology to support the production of these new products.
These two old factories in the United States have reached the time when it is time to replace the equipment. The U.S. semiconductor industry is suffering from the impact of Japanese chips, and many fabs have closed due to losses. The 3-inch wafer production line on the market is in a state of oversupply, and it is difficult to dispose of second-hand equipment!
In fact, under the competition of 4-inch and 5-inch wafers, the disadvantages of production costs of 3-inch wafers are becoming more and more obvious, and they have gradually begun to withdraw from mainstream competition. I believe that the U.S. government will be much more relaxed on the export of second-rate technology.
As for the process, the lithography machine manufacturing company that our group invested in Silicon Valley has just developed a 5-micron process technology. This level of technology is almost not competitive in markets such as the United States and Japan, after all, the current cutting-edge level has reached the level of 1.5 microns. Only in the mainland, where the production system of large-scale integrated circuits is almost zero, will it be very happy to accept the lithography machine with a 5-micron process. (To be continued......)