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Zhang Ke saw that Liu Zhicheng had a lot of concerns, so he proposed to first recruit the dozens of engineers who had quit TSMC into his portfolio. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The previous investor registered a technology company in Kuala Lumpur, and dozens of engineers were working on the technical preparation of the fab construction project under that company.

Most of the investors chose to withdraw, and Zhang Ke only had to accept the shares of the technology company in the hands of Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng in the name of any company, even if he took over the dozens of engineers.

Of course, it is unclear how many technicians will remain at that technology company and be sent to work at a research institute in Kin Ye or Hong Kong or Tokyo after the tech company changes ownership. Liu Zhicheng's role is quite crucial.

After sending Li Yuanhu, Luo Jun, Xiao Mingjian, Wang Weijun, Lu Wenfu and other provincial and municipal officials away, everyone returned to the Oak Park Venture Capital Center -- since it was rebuilt by using the factory building of Lifeng Printing and Dyeing Factory, the construction personnel are accustomed to calling this place Lifeng Park, and the venture capital center and laboratory preparation office are located in an office building converted from a factory building in the innermost corner of the park.

Standing on the road, there are no traces of the printing and dyeing factory workshop in the house, the high-grade stone veneer outlines the whimsical pattern, and there is a half-meter-high lake stone lying in the flower in the room, and the words "Oak Park Venture Capital Center" are engraved on the front of the Hu stone, which is the company's logo.

Zhang Ke entrusted Chen Xinsheng to hire a five-person team with rich experience in incubating high-tech enterprises from Singapore to manage the venture capital center and a venture capital fund with a limit of 300 million; The entire venture capital center currently has less than 20 employees; Half of the office space in this building is reserved for laboratory preparation.

The preparation and operation of the laboratory after completion require first-class research talents, which is precisely what is urgently needed in China. Fortunately, Southeast Asia has suffered from this disaster, and the electronics industry in Japan and South Korea is also falling into the worst recession in history.

At this time, it is a good time to welcome overseas students to return to China, Zhang Ke specially transferred Jiang Wei to Hong Kong to replace Xu Si, on the one hand, Xu Si has his own career to do, on the other hand, through Hong Kong's headhunting companies in Southeast Asia to hunt for a wide range of senior technical personnel The work must also be carried out quickly.

In any case, the more than 30 engineers and technicians who left TSMC earlier are definitely a valuable asset.

This tall building is divided into two floors of office areas, and into the entrance is a six-meter-high vestibule, spacious and bright, with a frosted glass wall behind the front desk, with a red oak logo made of stained plexiglass and a company nameplate pasted on the frosted glass wall.

Walking from the curved escalator on the left side of the front hall to the second floor, under the south window on the second floor is an open staff rest area with a modern art style, Zhang Ke invited Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng to sit in the rest area to talk.

"To really support this fab project, there is simply not enough one or two hundred mature engineers and technicians...... Liu Zhicheng sat down and said sincerely, Zhang Ke proposed to take over more than 30 engineers who had withdrawn from TSMC, and he naturally guessed that Kumho might force the fab project.

"Uh," hearing Liu Zhicheng's reminder, Zhang Ke nodded, there is no complete technical team, no core figure like Liu Zhicheng to preside over this project, of course he will not rashly do the project of the wafer factory, but he didn't say so in his mouth, just looked at Liu Zhicheng's eyes with calm eyes, and said with a faint smile, "Some things must be done, I look at wealth very lightly, it is easy to come by, and it is quick to lose, but I am very unwilling to accept that the market of 1.3 billion people in the mainland is just a place for overseas electronics manufacturers... …”

"Ah......" Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng were slightly moved when they heard this.

In order to promote the relationship of trust between the two sides, in the past ten days, Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan have also roughly learned about the history of Kumho's rise in the past three years, and the market miracle of Kumho is amazing; Like Guo Songyan, who has worked hard in the business world for so many years, he has seen young talents like carp crossing the river, but few people have achieved such brilliant achievements at such a young age as Zhang Ke.

Zhang Ke is a person with a distinct personality, which makes Kumho also branded with bright colors.

Zhang Ke's words, Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng believed it.

There are always many coincidences in history, even if there is no Liu Zhicheng, three years later, Zhang Rujing will lead the crowd to the mainland to prepare for the establishment of SMIC after the merger of TSMC by the World University.

Zhang Ke just hopes to bring this historical process forward by three years.

Although the first round of the financial turmoil has just passed, Zhang Ke knows that the trend is generally good, and that as the situation in Hong Kong improves, the financial storm may end a few months earlier than the other part of his history.

The next three years will be three years of recuperation after heavy setbacks for Japanese and South Korean electronics companies, and it will be a critical era for digital signal technology to fully replace analog signal technology; As long as domestic electronics companies and Kumho have made great strides in the past three years, they will be able to squeeze the space for Japanese and South Korean electronics companies to recover from the mainland's population of 1.3 billion.

These three years are crucial.

If there is a chance, Zhang Ke will still try his best to promote the project, although Liu Zhicheng seems to be a little less confident and worried.

Thirty engineers and technicians are far from being able to support this wafer factory project, and with 200 skilled hands, Chen Xinsheng may be able to barely bear the heavy responsibility; Having said that, if we can maintain a good cooperative relationship with Deyi and not poach people from Deyi, maybe Deyi will also support Kumho to build a second-rate wafer fab in the mainland - this is the technology that Deyi has entered the obsolescence period.

Of course, Zhang Ke has other plans.

By the mid-to-late 80s, the integrated circuit industry had been divided into four distinct industrial clusters, including integrated circuit manufacturing, application design, packaging and testing.

TSMC mainly provides integrated circuit manufacturing services for other electronics manufacturers, including packaging and product testing, but does not involve the application development of specific chip products.

This is the characteristic of the development of Taiwan's electronics industry, with TSMC as the cornerstone, which has prompted other companies with chip development and design as their main business to achieve great development.

Taiwan Mingjun Electronics Co., Ltd., a major supplier of disc system control chips, developed the technology of disc system control chips, and then commissioned TSMC to produce the final chip products and sell them to various disc machine manufacturers.

AIDA Electronics also has the ability to develop disk system control chips, but it is entrusted to Texas Instruments.

The foundry model can make TSMC more professional in wafer manufacturing, but it also has its disadvantages, TSMC does not have its own developed chip products to ensure that the company has a stable profit, once the entire industry falls into a trough, TSMC's performance will also be greatly affected.

The financial turmoil in Southeast Asia will spread further, not only will the economic environment in the entire Southeast Asia region deteriorate further, but even the economies of Taiwan, Singapore, RB and other places will inevitably fall into recession, and the economy of country H will directly blow the financial turmoil - I am afraid that no one can predict this moment as clearly and clearly as Zhang Ke, and TSMC will also fall into a short-term business predicament.

This will prompt TSMC's internal contradictions to surface, and may even intensify.

As long as they can take over the first batch of engineers, when Liu Zhicheng and his other engineers choose to leave TSMC because they don't feel that there is a way out in the future, they won't have many other options.

In the next two years, the world's major wafer fabs will fall into a temporary predicament of overcapacity, and Zhang Ke is not worried that the group of engineers under the technology company will choose to leave.

Naturally, Zhang Ke would not make all his intentions clear, and he chose a very inspiring statement to show Kumho's determination to rise to the occasion.

At the end of the five-day business visit, Liu Zhicheng did not make up his mind, but agreed to work with Kwok Songyan to transfer the shares of the Malaysian-registered technology company to a company registered in the Cayman Islands, and Zhang Ke would inject some of the funds to keep the preparatory work for the project going.

Although Liu Zhicheng no longer has much confidence in the investment project of this fab at this time, at least leaving a way out for himself and his group of engineers, he will not get out of this project immediately.

Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan returned to Hong Kong, Zhang Ke asked Chen Xinsheng to accompany him, and also asked Chen Xinsheng to personally accompany Guo Songyan to Malaysia, and the engineers and technicians who were willing to work in the mainland were first signed to the Aida Group to return to China to participate in the preparatory work of the laboratory, and the other hesitant engineers and technicians were first placed in the Malaysian technology company to continue to be responsible for the technical preparations of the wafer factory -- it is not realistic to bring everyone back to China all at once, but this work must be done unremittingly.

There was no real progress in the matter, and the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Government did not slack off, but aroused greater interest.

Luo Jun, secretary of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee, even approached Zhang Ke and asked Kumho if he could undertake the project on his own, and Zhang Ke clearly told Luo Jun that without Liu Zhicheng and his group of engineers and technicians, even if he could obtain some second-rate wafer manufacturing technology from Deyi or Singapore, Kumho would do it alone, and at most build a third-rate factory, and the future room for improvement was very limited.

Luo Jun knew that Zhang Ke had the courage to refuse Li Yuanhu, so he did not force it, but once again stated the position of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee, as long as there was a glimmer of possibility, the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government would do everything possible to fight for it.

Not only did the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government make such a firm statement, but the central government was also very enthusiastic about the project because of the feedback from Ye Zhenmin, but the project did not have any eyebrows, and it was inconvenient to directly support it.

In mid-September, Ye Zhenmin will visit Singapore on behalf of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government and representatives from Hong Kong to discuss cooperation with the Singapore government to jointly resist the impact of the financial turmoil.

In September, Kumho will continue to launch new products such as digital mobile phones and electronic dictionaries, and Su Jindong, as the general manager of the operation department, will stay at the headquarters in Haizhou.

In addition, Xiao Jincheng is also responsible for preparing for the overseas sales network, preparing for the smooth launch of MP3 players in overseas markets at the end of the year, and also responsible for the recruitment of overseas students.

Chen Hanzhang presided over the work of the ESS experimental base, and to continue to develop the latest product technology, but also to consider transferring some of the research work that is not particularly important to China first, and to secretly prepare a research and development team to develop mobile phone baseband chips.

In addition to the overall situation, the main work of Oak Park is still on the shoulders of Chen Xinsheng, and at this time, he is duty-bound to take on the heavy responsibility of the wafer fab project.

Yuexiu Holdings, at the end of August, also carried out equity adjustments, Sun Shangyi as the chairman of Yuexiu Holdings, Zhang Ke hopes that when Kumho goes to Southeast Asia to pick up fruits, he can exert his influence, but at this time, Sun Shangyi is going to negotiate with the Huishan Municipal Government on behalf of Yuexiu Holdings to inject money into Xiangxuehai.

The hedge fund matter can only continue to be left to Ye Jianbin and Nick Leeson to stare at together.

On September 4, Zhang Ke put everything aside for the time being and went back to Haizhou, and September 6 was the first day of registration for freshmen at Tunghai University.