Throughout the day, Jiang Hui was constantly meeting with various headhunting companies, putting forward the requirements of the candidates he wanted to recruit, and understanding some of the candidates that the companies were ready to recommend.

After a whole day, Jiang Hui also had a deeper understanding of the chip and other industries.

Again, the circle is really too small.

This time, the talents recommended by several headhunters are generally TSMC and UMC, and some are Samsung, Hynix, Intel, IBM, Epita and Micron and other companies.

It can be said that it includes the world's most important chip design companies and chip foundry companies.

Especially TSMC and UMC, almost everyone is staring at the target, after all, they are all from the Celestial Empire, it will be much easier to communicate, and the cultural differences are not so big, and it is always more reassuring to use than sticks and island people.

"I didn't expect that Baodao Semiconductor is still very rich in talents. Originally, I only knew that there was TSMC, but I didn't know that there was a UMC behind that was not worse than TSMC", Jiang Hui said with emotion when he had dinner with Shanyu, Guan Weidong, Shi Liang, Dai Fuqian, Zhu Zhengfeng and others in the evening.

"Yes, speaking of TSMC, the relationship between TSMC and UMC is still very deep, and for a period of time, TSMC's Zhang Dong also served as the chairman of UMC," Shanyu said with a smile.

"Well, it's not served yet, you can give everyone a literacy. After the group enters this field in the future, everyone needs to know more or less about this industry," Jiang Hui said.

"Extremely happy", after taking a sip of tea, Flash Rain began to introduce the situation of TSMC and UMC.

"UMC was founded in 1980 as the first semiconductor company on Treasure Island. The group has four wafer foundries, including UMC, Liancheng, Novoray and Lianjia, and is the fourth largest semiconductor investor in the world, after Intel, Motorola and Siemens. In terms of the number of patent applications related to Baodao semiconductors, UMC ranked first, ITRI second, and TSMC third, and in terms of the number of U.S. patents obtained, UMC accumulated twice as many as TSMC and three times as many as Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute from 1993 to 1997."

"Moreover, the founder of UMC is a native of Baodao. After graduating from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree from the Institute of Management Science of Jiaotong University, Cao Xingcheng joined the Industrial Technology Research Institute of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in 1980 and established UMC in 1980, and then became the deputy general manager of UMC in 1981 and the general manager the following year, but a few years later, in 1985, Zhang Zhongmou, the current chairman and founder of TSMC, concurrently served as the chairman of UMC as the president of ITRI," Shanyu continued.

"Zhang Zhongmou, this person is still very powerful, I have seen some news about him," Jiang Hui said.

"Yes, a cow indeed. Zhang Zhongmou went to the United States in 1949 to study, and received a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"I don't know if you know Texas Instruments, in the chip industry, he is an existence that no one can ignore, and even Intel has really surpassed Texas Instruments in the past ten years.

Texas Instruments' history dates back to 1930, when J. Clarence Katcher and Eugene McDermott founded a geophysical business company called Geophysics Business Company to provide geological surveys for the petroleum industry.

In 1939, the company was reorganized as Coronado. In 1941, McDermott and three other GSI employees bought GSI. During World War II, GSI manufactured electronic equipment for the U.S. Military Signals Corporation and the U.S. Navy.

After the end of the war, the GSI company continued the production of its electronic products.

In 1951, the company was renamed Texas Instruments, and GSI became a wholly owned subsidiary of Texas Instruments.

In 1952, it became the only company at that time to mass-produce silicon transistors.

In 1954, Texas Instruments developed and manufactured the first transistor radio.

In 1958, Texas Instruments successfully developed the first integrated circuit.

In 1961, Texas Instruments manufactured the first integrated circuit computer.

In 1971, Texas Instruments invented the single-chip microcomputer.

In 1982, Texas Instruments introduced the world's first single-chip commercial digital signal processor.

In 1996, the Timeline technology with 0.18 micron process was introduced.

In 2000, the industry's lowest power chip, the TMS320C55x DSP, was launched.

Texas Instruments has maintained its position in the top 10 semiconductor sales. In 2007, it was second only to Intel and Samsung, followed by Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, etc.", talking about what he knew, Flashing Rain's spirit came up all of a sudden, regardless of whether several other people could understand it or not.

"This is really a prehistoric semiconductor giant," Jiang Hui said with emotion.

"Yes, when Zhang Zhongmou first joined Texas Instruments, this company was producing four transistors for IBM, IBM provided the design, and Deyi foundry, which can be said to be the prototype of wafer foundry. Zhang Zhongmou led several engineers to successfully increase Deyi's yield rate from 2%-3% to more than 20%, even surpassing IBM's own production line," said Shanyu with a bit of admiration.

Zhang Zhongmou stayed in Deyi for 25 years, until 1983, when it was determined that there was no longer a chance for promotion.

So in 1985, Zhang Zhongmou was invited by Sun Yunxuan, Minister of Economic Affairs of Baodao, to return to Taiwan to serve as the president of ITRI, and Zhang Zhongmou was 54 years old at that time", Shanyu continued.

"I didn't expect Zhang Dong to start a new journey in life at this age," Guan Weidong said.

"Yes, it takes a lot of determination to bring more than 20 years to a company and then change the environment. The most important thing is that they have also succeeded and created a new situation in the semiconductor industry of Baodao", Shi Liang also interjected on the side.

"It seems that the rise of TSMC is inseparable from Zhang Zhongmou's contributions," Dai Fuqian said.

"Don't say it, a cow man is a cow man. In 1986, Zhang Zhongmou founded TSMC and served as the chairman of ITRI, UMC and TSMC. Compared with UMC, which focuses on integrated component design and develops its own processor and memory products, TSMC specializes in foundry.

At the time, this was a complete innovation, and it was not well thought that it was impossible for the chip company to hand over the chip to an outsider, because there was a risk of leaking secrets, and the added value created by the foundry was much lower than that of selling the chip.

However, Zhang believes that the capital expenditure of setting up a fab is very expensive, and if the design and manufacturing of wafers are separated, chip design companies can focus their efforts and costs on circuit design and sales, while companies specializing in wafer foundry can provide services to multiple chip design companies at the same time, maximize the utilization of their production lines, and invest capital and operations in expensive fabs.

Needless to say, TSMC succeeded, which also led to the rise of factoryless semiconductors, that is, Fabless," Shanyu said.

(End of chapter)