Chapter 157 8-inch wafer fab

These four core departments include the personal device department (mobile phone department), the network department, the official service and enterprise department, and the network home department.

Among them, the head of the personal device department, that is, the mobile phone department, is Firovsky.

This Firovsky is also a well-known person in history, and according to the history of his previous life, this person almost bought Birch Technology this year.

"It's time to take this seriously."

Speaking at this time was Christopher Galvin, the president and CEO of Moto Gongla.

Although this Galvin has always been not very good with the ambitious Firovsky, who wants to be on the throne, but when it comes to the future development of the motorcycle, the two can still reach an agreement.

"I think what we should pay attention to is how to abandon the semiconductor business, after all, we lost $284 million in the semiconductor business alone last year!"

At this time, it was none other than Edward Sandel of Motogong.

This Edward Sandel will defeat Firovsky in December 2003 to take over as CEO and president.

As for the original Galvin and the president who only served for a few months, Firovsky, according to history, they will be removed by the board of directors of Moto Gongla this year.

Among them, Firovsky is not to mention, and being ousted after only a few months as president seems a little wronged.

But Galvin's ouster is inevitable, because he has always advocated that Motoluola should have its own semiconductor factory, and for this reason, he set up the largest chip production factory outside of Meidi in the summer of the city.

But it turned out that Moto Gongla did not seem to have found a way to make a profit, and as a result, in 2002, Moto Gongla not only did not make money in the semiconductor business, but lost all its money.

In this case, at this time, many senior executives and even shareholders really complained a lot about Galvin, the president, and it can be said that if it were not for Christopher Galvin's surname Galvin.

It was the Galvins who created the Moto Gongla, and at that time Galvin had been forcibly removed by the board of directors like Jobs, although not now.

But according to history, Galvin did leave Motoluola in May this year, and the board of directors only left a little face for him to resign on his own, and the follow-up head was Firovsky, and then in December after a board resolution to replace him with Edward Sandel.

However, at this time, after hearing that the problem of the semiconductor business was to be solved, the head of the personal equipment business of Moto Gongla, Firovsky, also said approvingly:

"It's really time for us to think about giving up the semiconductor business, at least selling the 8-inch wafer factory and the affiliated semiconductor factory in the summer.

Didn't Zhongxin International reveal that they wanted to buy our 8-inch wafer fab and other affiliated semiconductor factories? I think we can talk about it! ”

At this time, the motorcycle gong pulled up and down, except for Galvin, who strongly advocated that the motorcycle gong pull should have its own head of the chip factory.

All the middle and senior management and shareholders hated the damn semiconductor business, because the semiconductor business caused huge losses to Motoluo, and their profits and income of these executives were reduced!

Therefore, the motorcycle gong up and down, including the shareholders, is really disgusted with the semiconductor business, and is eager to abandon the semiconductor business as soon as possible.

According to the history of the previous life, in October 2003, Zhongxin International will successfully acquire the eight-inch wafer factory and affiliated semiconductor factory of Moto Luola in Tianjin, and then establish a registered capital of 1.29 billion US dollars Zhongxin International Tianljin Branch.

But at this time, these have not happened yet, and it is possible for Lin Chen to obtain this eight-inch wafer factory pulled by the motorcycle.

After all, who sells is not selling, as long as Dawning Technology gives more than Zhongxin International, it is still possible for Dawning Technology to buy this eight-inch wafer factory and affiliated semiconductor factory in Tianjin.

Although this eight-inch wafer factory is nothing in the current era, the chip manufacturing process technology is even more backward in the world.

At present, there are only 350 nanometers and 180 nanometers chips that can be mass-produced in the chip process, and the 130 nanometer process has been losing money because of the problem of yield rate.

As for the wafer, it is only an 8-inch wafer, and even the 12-inch wafer that Renren Zhongxin International is currently building is not comparable, and the total cost of real production chips is definitely higher than that of other 12-inch wafers.

But even with so many shortcomings, this is also a complete chip factory.

A complete factory that can refine silicon ingots from raw materials and cut them, and then go to chip lithography and etching to probing and testing and packaging.

It can be said that in addition to a small number of key raw materials, such as high-precision silicon raw materials, photoresists and chemicals for chip production, etc., which need to be imported from island countries or Medita.

But even so, this is actually a fairly complete chip factory, which can be said to be ready to use when you buy it.

In this case, the 8-inch wafer factory is definitely the best choice for Sugon Technology.

But unfortunately, with the current strength and financial resources of Sugon Technology, it is not easy to buy an eight-inch wafer factory.

After all, even if it is only a world's third-rate 8-inch wafer factory and affiliated semiconductor factory, the price of the purchase is starting at 10 billion.

Especially now that there is Zhongxin International, a stirring stick that also wants to buy an 8-inch wafer factory, the motorcycle gong, which has the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise prices, will definitely not be soft-hearted when he swings his knife.

"Don't think about the sale of the semiconductor business, I will never agree!

Our semiconductor business is about to succeed, and if we sell the semiconductor business at this time, we will lose all our investment for many years. ”

At this time, Galvin, the head of Moto Luola, did not agree to sell the semiconductor business.

Although he has intellectually realized that Moto Gongla is indeed not playing with chip production, he also regrets why he spent money on semiconductor chip production in the first place.

But Moto Gongla has invested so much money in the semiconductor business over the years, and if it sells the semiconductor business at this time.

That is undoubtedly admitting his failure, and all the huge amount of money that was spent at the beginning has turned into a splash, which is too unacceptable.

"Dead ducks have hard mouths."

At this time, Sandel said an oriental proverb in his heart, and there was a disdainful expression in his eyes.

In fact, he also knew why Galvin was holding on to the semiconductor business, because if he did, it would undoubtedly represent the official admission of failure by Moto Gongla.

And as the price of failure, it is obviously impossible for Galvin to continue to sit in the position of leader, so Galvin has been holding on to the death and refusing to admit defeat.

But evasion will not solve the problem, and now the number of people who blame and complain about Galvin in the company is increasing day by day.

Maybe it won't take a year and a half for them to kick Galvin off the altar, let him roll as far as he can, and tell him that the Galvin family will no longer be welcome in Moto-Ra.

(End of chapter)