The development of history has a strong inertia, such as the country, the government not to mention, even if it is an enterprise, if the reborn wants to force the reversal of its development trajectory, it is not achieved overnight.

This involves the general environment, the survival of the enterprise must depend on the overall pattern of the industry, the biggest price of being a pioneer is likely to fall in the darkness before dawn, leaving helpless bones to become a specimen or even a warning for latecomers.

The history of business is innumerable in the history of "forward-looking" companies that sacrificed in this way.

In view of this, Zhang Heng has no hope of changing the strategic decision of Intel's top management, and for the sake of his own grand blueprint, self-run wafer factory has become the primary problem that must be solved within a year.

It is no wonder that in the past 30 years from the 70s to the 90s, there have been no large manufacturers in the industry that have not opened supporting wafer factories, and the foundry model dominated by Wanwan people will gradually rise until the end of this century.

In the luxury suite of the Palo Alto Cleveland Hotel on June 1, Zhang Heng deeply understood for the first time the feat of Saeki Xu, then president of Sharp, to invest 7.5 billion yen to build a semiconductor factory, and according to historical development, Sharp will also borrow a huge amount of 200 million US dollars next year to build the first LCD production line.

Like Daheng at this time, the Japanese are also forced by the arrogant and stubborn American companies to have no choice, without their own production capacity, even if they create products with huge market potential?

In the end, they were all stuck in their throats!

This is where the overall advantage of a technology pioneer comes in.

The Japanese chose to break through from the LCD industry, and the Wanwan people chose to break through from the wafer foundry and design industry.

What Zhang Heng has always wanted to do is to establish a full set of production system of his own, so as to establish a unique electronics industry ecosystem outside the United States, even if the overall strength is not as good as the United States in the future, but at least it has a few unique leaders that can occupy an absolute advantage.

The mid-70s to the late 80s was the honeymoon period for Sino-US relations, and it was the best and only opportunity for him to transfer and absorb technology, otherwise it would have been a few years before China entered the WTO in the 21st century.

At that point, there won't be much of a blue ocean to swim in in terms of basic technology.

Zhang Heng didn't expect that the first thing that brought him good news was not the two local professional consulting companies, but Lu Yuanteng, who flew from Xiangjiang to handle Mirohua's affairs.

After hearing about his idea, Lu Yuanteng drove from Orange to Palo Alto in the evening, bringing unexpected news.

"Fairchild is going to sell the Xiangjiang factory?" Zhang Heng was a little stunned.

The factory was Lu Yuanteng's former employer, and although the number of employees has been declining in recent years, it is not impossible to operate, and he remembers that it would not be until the late 70s that Fairchild would be resold by the parent company to a French oil company.

Lu Yuanzhen said with emotion: "The bipolar process of the Xiangjiang factory is behind the times, if you want to change to the most advanced CMOS process, you need to invest a lot of money, and Fairchild has no core products in recent years, and the cash flow is very poor. ”

After Noyce left Fairchild in 68, Fairchild's parent company offered the highest salary in the history of Silicon Valley, and recruited Lester Hogan from Motorola to replace him.

It's a pity that the root of Fairchild's illness lies in its capital structure, and if it doesn't change the situation of the parent company desperately drawing blood, whoever comes will just barely continue to live.

"These skilled workers are high-quality assets, the key is the feasibility of process transformation and the corresponding capital investment, Yuan Teng, you find a consulting company to help, as soon as possible to come up with an analysis report, if appropriate, this is a good opportunity for us." ”

The factory site, the plant, the skilled workers, and the management are all suitable for Daheng Group to reach out, which is simply prepared for Daheng, and Zhang Heng is naturally full of interest.

What's more, there are not a few fabs in Silicon Valley that use CMOS processes to manufacture integrated circuits on a large scale, and Intel is one of the few pioneers.

Daheng wanted to acquire but could not find a very suitable object, so he could only adopt the strategy of acquisition and improvement of the process.

added a new project with a huge workload, but Lu Yuanteng did not sigh, but left in good spirits.

And the good news came in.

Jiexi successfully found and acquired the oscilloscope game patent that had been left behind by the patentee at a very small price, and countless patents in Silicon Valley were publicly listed and sold every day.

What's even more surprising is that Fakin recommended a very important professional to Zhang Heng, Kim Herney.

This person is also one of the "Eight Rebels", although few people have heard of it in the outside world, but he is well-known in the integrated circuit circle.

The 49-year-old Kim Herney, who has a Ph.D. in physics and chemistry, followed Noyce out of the Shockley Lab to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, and has been in charge of the process technology.

In 1959, Herney invented a planar process that used silicon instead of germanium to make transistors, and Noyce was inspired by his process to jot down the genius idea of a silicon-based integrated circuit in his notebook.

Silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust, it is extremely easy to obtain, and it is resistant to high temperatures and does not leak electricity, making it the best semiconductor material that the Creator has prepared for mankind.

Herney's invention of this process was patented by Fairchild in 1962 under the title "Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Devices", and now and in the future, all integrated circuit manufacturers in the world cannot do without this patent.

Until it expired, Fairchild relied on this patent to obtain a steady stream of income, which is an important reason why it was able to survive until the end of the 70s.

Unlike Noyce, who was initially favored by Fairchild's parent company, Herney did not receive particular attention from the board, even though he was in fact ushering in the era of silicon-based integrated circuits.

As a result, his career at Fairchild was short, and three years later he and two other members of the Eight Rebellion jumped out to start a semiconductor test equipment company, which he sold a few years later, and then created a new company to make integrated circuit counters and scales for the shipping industry.

In the spring of 1973, he sold off his second successful company and temporarily returned to his beach house in Fremont to recuperate, until his old friend Faggin called him and recommended him for the position of director of the Daheng Group's wafer factory.

Zhang Heng walked into the historic private room in Cleveland, and the little white man who was admiring the famous reproduction painting on the wall turned his head, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Zhang, Federico told me you were young, but I didn't expect you to be so young, it's unbelievable, but for the sake of you being able to make Federico willing to abandon the pleasant Silicon Valley and run to a desert island in Asia, I would like to come here to meet you, and now you have a few minutes to convince me. ”

Sure enough, it was as snarky as Faggin said.

Zhang Hengwen smiled gently: "Dr. Herney, no matter what the result is today, I would like to pay deep tribute to your breakthrough achievements in silicon integrated circuit technology, and your amazing professional talent cannot be questioned."

But as far as I know, after coming out of Fairchild, the direction you chose did not fit this path.

Today, I choose this box just to ask you, when you had the courage to decide to start a Fairchild from scratch here, and now on the desert island in Asia that you said, Federico and I, as well as countless colleagues, are preparing to follow the path you have created and open up the vast world of integrated circuit application, are you willing to act as a leader?"

Herney's expression was solemn, pondered for a long time, and said: "I have done a preliminary investigation of your products, and they are indeed a new application of integrated circuits, and there should be some achievements in the future, but such an entertaining product alone is not enough to form your so-called vast world, do you have a more far-reaching plan?"

"Of course!" Zhang Heng smiled and motioned for him to sit down, "I can't go into detail about the specific details, but I can still talk to you about the general direction, and by the way, I can also listen to your professional advice." ”

Next, he gave a brief overview of the company's plans for entertainment products, including arcades, video game consoles, small portable music players (cassette tapes and CDs), small portable game consoles, and home audio and video players (VCRs and VCDs).

"These products will change our future life mode, which will naturally bring about the wide application of integrated circuits, and even promote the continuous optimization of integrated circuit processes, and finally perfectly verify Moore's prediction." Dr. Herney, what do you think?"

Zhang Heng told for more than ten minutes, Herney did not speak the whole time, and then fell into a long contemplation, and then said with some emotion: "Integrated circuits should not be limited to a certain product, but should be deeply applied to every product in our lives, this is the contradiction between me and Noyce when Fairchild, Moore and I have the same philosophy, but he still chose to follow Neuss, leaving Fairchild for so many years, I continue to start a business, it is precisely to continue to develop new applications." ”

"The breakthrough direction you have chosen seems to be feasible, so I have a question, how are you going to build a wafer factory from scratch?" he stared at Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "From the acquisition of Fairchild...... How about the start of the semiconductor factory in Xiangjiang, where you are fully responsible for the transformation?"

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