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The semiconductor industry is a highly capital-intensive industry, and now the total investment in a state-of-the-art 5-inch standard wafer fab with a monthly investment of 10,000 pieces has climbed to $25 million. Four or five years ago, the total investment of a 3-inch standard wafer fab with a monthly investment of 10,000 pieces was only $15 million. The cost of building a new fab is increasing at a rate of 15% per year.

While the semiconductor industry has invested a huge scale, the technology is being upgraded very quickly. The depreciation period of ordinary factory equipment is usually more than 10 years, but the semiconductor industry is not more than 5 years at most. Five years ago, 3-inch fabs were the mainstream technology, and now as 5-inch fabs continue to emerge, 4-inch technology will soon be withdrawn from the mainstream.

At the same time, because the technology of the semiconductor industry is upgrading too quickly, the competition in the industry is extremely fierce, and if you are not careful, you may be surpassed by your opponents. For example, five or six years ago, American semiconductor companies were still the absolute hegemon of the memory market.

However, in the past six months, Japanese semiconductor companies have launched a fierce price strangulation war, the price of 128K and 256K memory chips has fallen in an avalanche, and American memory chip manufacturing companies have fallen into industry-wide losses.

And in the emerging processor market, Intel Corporation, where I previously worked, has been a leader in this field. But last year, Dongfang Electronics suddenly rose to prominence, relying on a new ERM-based processor to quickly dominate the market. Intel Corporation, neither the previous 8086 processor, nor the new 80286 processor launched this year, can not compete with it, has lost its market dominance!

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Yu Youcheng's speech did not involve too much professional knowledge, but talked eloquently about the latest development of the semiconductor industry at home and abroad. Most of the audience present were students from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Everyone listened very carefully. Now is not the era of information explosion in the future, and the two gods of Baidu and Google can know the world's affairs.

People of the eighties. There are very few opportunities to learn about the outside world. Domestic professional and technical journals may introduce some of the latest foreign technology trends. But that's just a few words. Such a high-level macro analysis of the big picture may only come about at a high-level expert seminar organized by the Ministry of Electronics Industry. As for the secrets of many business competitions, domestic counterparts rarely have the opportunity to understand them, so everyone present can hear them with relish.

Lizhi is not a person in the field of electronics, and she is not interested in these situations, so she inevitably finds it a little boring and boring. So she paid more attention to the man next to her.

Li Xuan kept a smile on his face, and Li Zhi asked curiously, "Do you know this Dr. Yu?" You seem to have been smiling since you came in!"

"Is there one?" Li Xuan said softly, he saw that Li Zhi looked bored. So he simply pulled her out of the venue.

"Don't you continue listening, in fact, you don't have to worry about me!" Li Zhi thought that he had disturbed Li Xuan's interest in continuing to listen to the speech, and said with some uneasiness.

"It's okay, I already know everything I need to know!" Li Xuan shook his head with a smile.

Li Xuan didn't have much interest in the content of Yu Youcheng's speech, and the things that the other party said on the stage were all rotten street content to him. What Li Xuan is really interested in is some of the things that are reflected behind Tong Guò's speech.

Yu Youcheng's speech was very humorous and infectious. And he can control the rhythm of the conversation very well, Li Xuan didn't feel cold after listening to it for dozens of minutes. It's not hard to see from this. Yu Youcheng is a person with high emotional intelligence and is very good at communicating and communicating with people.

After obtaining a doctorate in electrical engineering from the prestigious Stanford University, Yu Youcheng first joined the "Whampoa Military Academy" of the United States semiconductor-Fairchild. After accumulating some experience, he switched to Intel. In another time and space, he worked his way up to chief technology officer (CTO) at Intel, where he oversaw the entire R&D department at Intel Corporation.

Such talents are the compound talents that Li Xuan urgently needs. The Institute of Oriental Studies has been lacking a suitable person at the helm. The predecessor of the Oriental Research Institute was the Oriental Real Room, which was jointly established by Oriental Electronics Company, CUHK and the University of Hong Kong, and the person in charge of the Real Indoor Office at that time had always been Professor Chiu Wai-ming of CUHK.

But with the gradual expansion of the scale of the Oriental Research Institute. Zhao Weiming felt that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to lead the entire research institute, and he had repeatedly asked Li Xuanjian to find a more suitable person to be in charge. But such talents are not good. Because the Institute of Oriental Studies is no longer as obscure as it was two years ago. The success of the ERM architecture on the ABC-3 computer has made the Oriental Research Institute a household name in the field of semiconductors.

Therefore, the person in charge of the Oriental Research Institute must first have sufficient technical strength, otherwise he will not be able to subdue the developers below. And more important than technology is to gain Li Xuan's trust, after all, the Oriental Research Institute is one of the most valuable core assets of the entire Oriental Group.

It is not so easy to gain Li Xuan's trust, although the headhunter has provided him with many candidates before, and many of them are also well-known in the industry, but Li Xuan is not very satisfied.

At present, the high-level structure of the entire Oriental Research Institute is composed of one principal and three deputies. Li Xuan personally served as the president, and Li Xuan had three vice presidents responsible for reporting directly to him. One of the vice presidents is in charge of personnel and logistics, and the other two vice presidents are jointly responsible for leading the technology research and development of the entire Oriental Institute.

In order to share the pressure of Professor Zhao, Professor Hennessy, who had just come to Hong Kong Chinese University as a visiting student, was also moved by Li Xuan. For the next three years, Professor Hennessy will serve as Vice President of the Institute of Oriental Studies, where he will lead all technology research and development work together with Chiu Wai-ming.

The two of them, plus Li Xuan, who will personally check the general direction, can temporarily support the Oriental Research Institute, so the matter of finding the helmsman is no longer so urgent. Li Xuan hopes to cultivate a successor within the Institute of Oriental Studies, so that his loyalty is more guaranteed.

In fact, Li Xuan first considered poaching Yu Youcheng from Intel, but unfortunately the headhunting company couldn't find anyone, so he had to give up at that time. Today, when Li Xuan was walking on the campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University, he happened to meet the future CTO (chief technology officer) of Intel Corporation, and the thoughts that had been extinguished in his heart came alive again.

It is not easy to cultivate a top talent with sufficient technical level and superb management and coordination skills. Now Yu Youcheng is already a semi-finished product, and after graduating from his doctorate, he has worked in Fairchild and Intel for more than ten years, and has enough experience. And his actual talent is definitely good, otherwise it would not have been possible to stand out in Intel Corporation, and later rose all the way to CTO.

Although Li Xuan only listened to the other party's lecture for dozens of minutes today, his impression of Yu Youcheng was very good. He showed that he must be a good person to deal with, which is essential to be a good manager, because you need to be charismatic enough to convince your team.

What's more, if Li Xuan can subdue him, Yu Youcheng's loyalty is also guaranteed, because he is not a person who likes to jump around. In another time and space, Yu Youcheng worked at Intel until his retirement in 2002. If Li Xuan trains him to take over the Oriental Research Institute, he will not need to worry about the helm for at least twenty years.

It's just that Li Xuan doesn't know now that Yu Youcheng unexpectedly left Intel to seek his own development, whether it was because he was influenced by his butterfly, or whether there was such an episode in the other party's experience.

After coming out of the auditorium of Jiaotong University, Li Xuan and Li Zhi continued to walk around the campus before returning home. After arriving home, Li Xuan immediately called his assistant Ke Lilun and asked him to get in touch with Shanghai and Haijiao University.

Since the other party can invite Yu Youcheng to give a lecture at the school, he must know his recent situation. Li Xuan wanted to find out the other party's current situation first, and then consider whether to extend an olive branch to him. (To be continued......)