Chapter Eighty-Five: The Death of Semiconductors

The busy month of May slipped away quietly.

A hotter June ensued.

There is even more hot news, with Dr. Zhang Rujing, the founder of Huaxin International (SMIC), as the general manager, and the 300mm large silicon wafer project of Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.

On June 10, there was a major personnel change: Dr. Zhang Rujing's three-year term ended and the Board of Directors decided that Dr. Zhang Rujing would no longer serve as the general manager of Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.

Wang Fuxiang, chairman of Shanghai Xinyang Semiconductor Materials Co., Ltd., who also served as the chairman of Xinsheng Semiconductor, also resigned at the same time.

Dr. Zhang Rujing and Mr. Wang Fuxiang continue to serve as directors.

According to official sources, the reason for this adjustment is that Dr. Zhang's term of office expires on May 30, 2017, and he will not be renewed after the expiration date.

However, there are also voices that indicate that it is mainly due to the current pressure from the management to mass produce as soon as possible.

The current leader, Mr. Zhang Rujing, gave Dongtang's local suppliers too much time to improve the yield, resulting in the extension of the mass production time of Xinsheng.

How anxious is this? At present, the investment at the national level in the semiconductor industry is to make money or to improve the overall technical level of the industry as a whole?

In addition, information from multiple sources shows that the date of this decision was earlier last week, but at the beginning of the decision, it was not Dr. Zhang Rujing and Chairman Wang Fuxiang who jointly resigned, but the management first proposed to add Nabeel Gareeb to the management level, similar to the dual-CEO model, one of Dr. Zhang and Mr. Wang Fuxiang proposed to resign, and the other also said to resign.

Huang Haojie looked at the news and immediately squinted his eyes and thought.

Since the development of Dongtang semiconductor industry, it has been in a state of continuous catch-up for a long time, just like Dongtang football.

Due to the characteristics of the semiconductor industry as a long industrial chain, at the beginning of its development and even now, it has faced a strict blockade of upstream equipment and materials.

The existence of the Batumi-Wassenaar agreement, the embargo of high-tech products imposed by the Great Western Alliance and the Mi Lijia on the Eastern Tang Dynasty, generally they are approved according to the N-2 principle, that is, two generations later than the most advanced technology, and the approval process is delayed for some time.

Basically, the technical equipment that Dongtang can get will be 3 generations or even longer than the most advanced in developed countries.

The formation of constraints on the manufacturing process, although it is struggling to catch up in the process, but the bottlenecks of the constraints are still there, and these bottlenecks, relying on the investment of scholars and officials in the early days, such as Shanghu Beiling, have fallen behind in the current tide of the times.

When it comes to Dongtang Semiconductor, it is reminiscent of Dongtang football, and Huang Haojie often remembers two people: Zhang Rujing and Xu Genbao.

At the same time, there is also such another group of people: the real power of the capital (named experts and scholars, but there is considerable administrative endorsement, and at the same time, they also reach out to the operation and management of the enterprise. and the official background.

This makes Dongtang Semiconductor and Dongtang Football somewhat similar, Dongtang Football needless to say was made bad by whose tenure, Dongtang Semiconductor, has also infiltrated the influence of many eager people over the years.

In 2000, after Shida was acquired by Taijidian, Zhang Rujing, who could have already retired, felt that he had the responsibility to improve the technical level of Dongtang's semiconductor industry.

He came to Dongtang without hesitation, and attracted a large number of his colleagues at Texas Instruments TI and his colleagues in the East Island to start a business in the mainland.

At that time, he not only sold many properties in Mi Li's family, brought his wife and children to the mainland, and even moved to Shanghai with his 90-year-old mother.

Huaxin International, founded by Dr. Zhang Rujing, not only made great contributions to Dongtang in chip manufacturing, such as laying out a 12-inch production line as early as the early 21st century, and with personal resources, he found all the five major churches of Quanmi to endorse his personality, guaranteeing that what he said was honest and credible, and promising that the products of Huaxin of the national government must only be used for commercial purposes and will not be used for military purposes.

In December 2007, Huaxin successfully obtained the production equipment of 45nm products, only about one year later than developed countries such as the Great Western Alliance, and on January 1, 2009, they successfully obtained the export license of 32nm production equipment.

However, the semiconductor industry, especially the manufacturing industry, as an industry that requires large capital investment, needs to have national financial support, but it is difficult to introduce equipment from Western countries, and it is difficult to get national financial support without introducing state-owned shares.

It is difficult for Huang Haojie to imagine what kind of persistence and hard work, Dr. Zhang Rujing will establish Huaxin International and continue to break through the constraints and blockades of equipment in the manufacturing process, and at the same time withstand the pressure of many parties to lay out the 12-inch production line, in the past few years, the production capacity of the 12-inch market has already proved his original vision layout.

In addition to the field of chip manufacturing, Dr. Zhang Rujing's greater contribution is that he has cultivated many talents for the Dongtang semiconductor industry, and now many of the executives, CTOs/COOs/CEOs of Dongtang Manufacturing and even enterprises in other fields come from Huaxin International.

At the same time, Dr. Zhang Rujing has always been interested in cultivating local enterprises in Dongtang, if they use foreign equipment, they may be mass-produced immediately, and if they use the equipment of local companies in Dongtang, the yield may not be enough, and continuous improvement may take several months or even 1 year for mass production.

And in all this, Mr. Lao does not care about personal interests, whether it is the shares of Huaxin International, or in order to settle as soon as possible, give up the counterclaim in Dongtang and leave SMIC, or found Xinsheng.

Dr. Zhang Rujing is more of an industry evangelist than a profit-seeking entrepreneur.

Thinking of Xu Genbao, who withdrew from the Dongtang football system, founded a football base, and cultivated a young generation should have been a matter that should have fallen on scholars and officials who should have a strategic vision, but they had to be carried by Lao Xu, and they were constantly facing financial problems, and they continued to supply blood to the base.

During the top 12 matches, Dongtang Football had a total of 8 players produced by the original Genbao Chongming base, such as Yan Junling and Gu Chao.

But for a long time, Dongtang Football has been too eager for quick success, and only he is attaching importance to the youth team and doing basic things in a down-to-earth manner.

Too, the semiconductor industry should not be rushed for quick success.

However, for a listed company (SMIC), it is still possible to understand the mood of ordinary secondary market investors, the secondary market chases short-term interests, and a large amount of depreciation on the financial statements leads to an ugly market value downturn, which is difficult for the leeks and analysts in the secondary market to accept, and it is difficult to have such feelings to fully understand.

However, for an unlisted company, a 300mm large silicon wafer project that has just been put into construction, is recruiting talents with the personal influence of the founder, and how many local companies in the upstream and downstream of the industry can be driven to develop together by using this project.

This year, there is a global wafer shortage, and Sumco, a major wafer manufacturer in Dongying, refuses to supply to Wuhan Xinxin, giving priority to Intel, Taijidian, Micron and other companies.

Dongtang has seen the importance of silicon wafers, but how can the production process of silicon wafers, specifically the production equipment, be directly bought overseas?

It is precisely because it is important that it should be localized as much as possible.

The semiconductor industry is an important tool of the country, and for this reason, in the key industrial projects, the indicators of mass production should be biased towards the promotion of local enterprises in upstream and downstream industries.

Huang Haojie felt that this was an opportunity, although Zhang Rujing was a Mi-Chinese and a native of Dongdao.

But Zhang Rujing is definitely biased towards the Eastern Tang Dynasty.

Huang Haojie decided to make an exception for him and grabbed the phone:

"Hey! Lao Li! ”

"Mr. Huang."

"You can help me make an appointment with Zhang Rujing, who just resigned from Xinsheng Semiconductor, and I plan to meet him." Huang Haojie commanded directly.

"Okay, when will Mr. Huang go to see the other party." Although he was very puzzled by Huang Haojie's whimsy, he followed the instructions.

"The sooner the better! I'll take the high-speed train to Shanghai tomorrow. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Huang Haojie wrote semiconductors on a piece of scratch paper, and then wrote about superconductors at room temperature.

In fact, the quantum computer chip that Huang Haojie obtained from parallel time and space is a superconducting quantum computer chip.

But in fact, before superconducting quantum computer chips, there was a brief period of superconducting electronic chips in parallel space-time.