Because of the incident of the Fairchild factory, Zhang Heng postponed his return to Xiangjiang and stayed in Palo Alto.

Urge the consulting company to provide personnel information, patent information, hand it over to the headhunter to try to poach people, and establish a communication channel with Fairchild management through intermediaries.

Fortunately, Kim Helney agreed to join Daheng Group as the chief technology officer of Daheng Technology, mainly responsible for the preparation of Daheng wafer factory, this famous technology bull in Silicon Valley suddenly summoned three technical talents for Daheng Technology, all of whom have experience in production management of Intel and Fairchild factories.

This greatly reduced the pressure on Zhang Heng and others, and he also paid a huge price for it, first of all, salaries and subsidies, these people's salaries have increased by more than 20% compared with those in Silicon Valley, in addition to working in Xiangjiang also enjoy high housing subsidies, and secondly, the options gradually sprouting from high-tech enterprises in Silicon Valley.

Take Herney as an example, in addition to giving him an annual salary of 80,000 US dollars, Daheng also promised to give him an option of up to 1.5% of Daheng Technology according to the length of service, and the other three senior technical personnel add up to so much.

Zhang Heng also did not forget the magic money that he silently contributed to himself in Xiangjiang, raised his annual salary to 70,000 US dollars, and also signed an option contract of up to 1.5%.

Option contracts are accumulated based on the number of years of service, and a minimum of two years of service is required to fulfill the first batch, and only after six years of service can the maximum amount be enjoyed.

In Zhang Heng's planning, it is impossible for Daheng Technology to be listed, and in the future he will find a way to let them exchange the options for the shares of the companies that are about to be listed, believing that few people can resist the temptation of high liquidation.

With such a high salary and options for American technicians, local employees in Xiangjiang cannot ignore that it is impossible for salaries to rise so outrageously, but the options that can be used as a tool for the company to recruit and retain people still have to be taken out as turnips.

Zhang Heng and Lu Yuanteng discussed behind closed doors for a day, and drafted the option incentive plan for the middle and senior personnel of Daheng Group, which will be discussed with He Jie and others after returning to Xiangjiang, and is expected to be officially launched at the end of 73.

With his help and advice, the Jiexi team went out in all directions and obtained dozens of related patents.

The luxury suite of the Cleveland Hotel has become the temporary headquarters of Daheng Group, Zhang Heng, Lin Liang, Jiexi, Lu Yuanteng, and Holney have all temporarily added a set of desks and chairs here, and there are all kinds of people coming in and out every day, with their own companies, and more professional customers in the Silicon Valley area.

"Boss, here's a list of patents purchased last week. Jiexi walked into the bedroom and handed a list to Zhang Heng's desk.

As the owner, he enjoys a bit of privilege and has a separate bedroom office.

Zhang Heng saw that she was still followed by Lu Yuanteng, Holney and Lin Liang, knowing that there must be something important for them to come in together, so he casually glanced at the list, nodded and said: "Just buy it with the deposit and Federico's requirements, and if the amount does not exceed 100,000 US dollars, you don't need to report to me." ”

"Boss, we don't have much money...... Lu Yuanteng suddenly spoke, and handed over a report with a somewhat solemn expression.

Acquired and increased the capital of Mirohua, 20 million US dollars, set aside 5 million US dollars for Universal, acquired patents and compensated new employees for liquidated damages within 10 days, 1.5 million US dollars.

In less than two weeks since he came to the United States, he has already spent $2,650!

"Oh, I've used so much!" Zhang Heng covered his forehead.

Previously, he used Hang Seng Loan to short Hong Kong dollars, and he made $5.9 million, plus $400,000 of the advance payment he received from 3M in Los Angeles, bought 4,500 gold futures contracts, and sold them to Goldman Sachs at a price of $119 per ounce, making a profit of $23.4 million, and the total amount plus the principal amount is $29.7 million.

After deducting the team's operating expenses in the United States at this stage, there is only $3 million left with a fraction of the current cost.

"Boss, after several tentative contacts, Hogan's meaning is very clear, the bottom line of the board of directors of Fairchild's parent company is $8 million. "I don't think Heung Kong is worth the money, but if these people bite the bullet, I'd suggest we have to prepare so much." ”

Lu Yuanteng is responsible for the acquisition of the Fairchild Xiangjiang factory, Holney has explored the bottom first through personal relationships, and Hogan, the current president of Fairchild, has already given the sound of the reserve price, and Holney is naturally most concerned about this matter, after all, he went to Xiangjiang to be responsible for transforming and operating this wafer factory.

Fairchild Heung Kong Factory is also located in Kwun Tong, close to Kwun Tong Pier, is a single-storey building, covering an area of 13,000 square meters, currently has two bipolar semiconductor production lines, 1,000 skilled workers, and more than 60 management and technical personnel.

If the most valuable thing now is, of course, these management technicians and skilled workers, and a considerable part of the equipment of the two production lines can be retained, and the land price is not so eye-catching.

But Cheung Heng knew that by the end of the 70s at the latest, Kwun Tong's industrial land would run out, and the value of a 13,000-square-meter factory building would be immeasurable.

Not to mention that after the 21st century, due to the recession of Heung Kong's electronics, toys and clothing industries, coupled with the new opening of the Tuen Mun Industrial Zone, most of the industrial factories in Kwun Tong will be converted into commercial and residential buildings, and the unit price of Kwun Tong residential buildings will exceed 80,000 per square metre at that time.

According to the maximum plot ratio stipulated by the Hong Kong government, this land can build at least 70,000 square meters of residential buildings, and the market value will exceed 6 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Zhang Heng may not be able to see this money at that time, but a piece of land that can be expanded is very important to Daheng.

Lin Liang joined the discussion: "Boss, the GCA you asked me to communicate with, they promised to customize the front-end and back-end lithography machines for us, as for the matter of shareholding, they will not consider it until our wafer factory is put into production." ”

"That's right...... What about the excimer laser light source manufacturer?" Zhang Heng asked.

"Through the consulting firm, I found two well-known companies in the industry, one is Lambda Physik, the former is for textile printing and dyeing aids, and the other is GSI, which specializes in publishing houses, and the former welcomed our interest in taking a stake in the company, whose light sources have not been used in IC manufacturing. ”

"Boss, do you think an excimer laser might replace a mercury lamp?" Holney asked keenly.

"If Moore's language is accurate, IC will become more and more miniaturized, cost control will be correspondingly higher, and the requirements for light sources will naturally become higher and higher, and in these two aspects, excimer lasers have great potential. ”

Integrated circuits (ICs) require the construction of numerous electronic components (mainly CMOS tubes) on a single wafer (silicon wafer), and the various parts of these components, such as P-junctions, N-junctions, gates, etc., need to be built layer by layer through photolithography.

The factory manufactures the mask according to the defined integrated circuit layout, and then uses a lithography machine to project the mask onto the wafer that has been coated with the resist, so that the resist is exposed, and then the exposed resist is visualized, and the subsequent chemical etching of the wafer is performed, and then the etching part is physically removed, and what remains is formed into the desired component.

The whole process is like taking a photograph, a person can leave traces on the negative through the processing of an optical lens, and through the batch cleaning of chemical water, the image of the person can be revealed from the negative.

Therefore, the lithography machine is the main factor that determines the size of the integrated circuit, and it can give you as much exposure as the size of the integrated circuit.

The light source of the lithography machine is naturally the most important core component.

At present, most of the projection lithography machines used in Silicon Valley wafer factories use mercury lamps as light sources, and the disadvantages of mercury lamps are that the spectral lines are too high, the cost is also high, and the lens of the lithography machine cannot be moved under the projection mode, and the integrated circuit capacity that can be exposed is limited under the same light source.

Why did Zhang Heng pay attention to GCA, a small company that is not too famous, because this company developed the first step-by-step lithography machine in history in 1978, which greatly expanded the capacity of integrated circuits.

In layman's terms, the projection type can only take one photo at a time, and the moving step type can take at least two photos or even more at a time, and the resulting image is of course much larger.

"Since GCA doesn't agree to buy shares for the time being, there is no need to be too polite on the price, so you can cut them well. With the start of construction of the wafer factory, I believe that it will slowly establish a certain degree of trust with the other party, as long as Daheng develops well in the next few years, I am not afraid that they will not be on the ship.

After all, lithography machines are not bargains, manufacturers will inevitably be constrained by large customers, and it is normal to participate in shares or even holdings, and in the previous life, Intel and TSMC were both shareholders of ASML.

"Also, if we talk to the shareholders of Lambda Physik, we can buy their company as a whole, and if they want to continue in the textile printing industry, we can just buy their technology and tell them that I will take the company into a new and vast industry. ”

Zhang Heng has no impression of Lambda Physik, he does not know that the company founded by two doctors of chemistry will split into two companies by 79, one will continue to engage in the textile printing and dyeing industry, and the other will enter the integrated circuit lithography machine light source industry, and in the late eighties, the new company will be acquired by Cymer, who has just been established for a year.

Cymer is already familiar to Chinese IC practitioners, a specialist laser light source manufacturer that was acquired by ASML in 2012 and has since become a core member of the lithography machine factory that Chinese love and hate.

Lu Yuanteng's face became even more sad: "Boss, the funds ......"

"I'll take care of this, you go about your own business. Zhang Heng waved his hand and sent them away, first called Li Guowei of Hang Seng, and then called White of Goldman Sachs, and after ten minutes, he finally lay down on the soft chair with some ease.

Chen Zhenning suddenly knocked on the door and came in: "Boss, Mr. Machida from Sharp has come to visit you." ”

"Machida Katsuhiko, why is he here?" Zhang Heng was very surprised and asked him to invite someone in.