After taking what he needed with Morita Schof, Chen Zhiwen immediately arranged for someone to go to South Korea, where he set up a subsidiary, and then began to slowly acquire shares of Samsung Electronics Industry on the stock market, which was founded in 1969 Samsung Group subsidiary, the main business is currently the production of refrigerators, washing machines, televisions and other large goods, the most famous of which is black and white TV, in two years, Samsung's black and white TV will become the world's largest manufacturer.

The black-and-white television industry is an industry that developed countries such as Europe, the United States and Japan do not look down on, and this kind of product has no market in developed countries, and the profits cannot cover the income of workers in developed countries, so it has become the same as the textile industry needs to be transferred to developing countries.

Samsung Electronics is seizing this opportunity, black and white TVs in Europe, America and Japan are indeed not good, but in Asia, South America is very popular, this backward industry has also brought very rich profits to Samsung, in the mid-70s, Samsung Electronics also began to produce color TVs, began their own technological upgrading.

From black and white to color, this is a normal business development process, but at this time, Samsung Electronics suddenly entered the semiconductor industry, but countless people ridiculed themselves for not being able to do it, and there were many people within the company who opposed it, and President Lee Byung-cheol did not agree, but the youngest son Lee Kun-hee insisted on it, and finally began the beginning of Samsung Electronics' global domination in the hardware field.

Even if Samsung after the 90s was supported by American capital to deal with the Japanese semiconductor industry, only Samsung seized this opportunity for so many companies, which is enough to show Samsung's ability.

The current stock of Samsung Electronics Industry, the market value in South Korea and the top ranking, but compared to the future generations are too much worse, Midea's overseas account is generating a lot of cash every month, therefore, taking a small part to buy Samsung Electronics Industry shares, is also a good investment, better than putting it in an overseas bank, no interest.

However, this is just a pure investment, and before the Asian financial crisis, sell at a high price, and then take advantage of the Korean crisis, you can also make another profit, but it is still the same principle, just make some money behind the American capital, and it is a bit unrealistic to be anti-customer-oriented.

The time soon came to August, the professional construction team hired from the United States has completed the construction of the dust-free workshop and related supporting facilities required for chip wafers and LCD in the Midea Industrial Park, and the LCD production line and chip production line purchased from the United States have also been in place, and the relevant workers are also in the debugging stage day and night, and the relevant workers were also sent to the corresponding factory in the United States more than two months ago to study, and several experienced engineers were also recruited from Japan.

Although the investment in chips and liquid crystals is not high, Chen Zhiwen still attaches great importance to it, this is the first step of the Great Wall, this step is good, and the future can be said to be promising.

In an office in Midea Industrial Park, Hong Kong:

"XCMG, how is the living environment in Hong Kong?" Chen Zhiwen said to a middle-aged man about 40 years old wearing special work clothes.

This person's name is Xu Zhishan, a Chinese engineer who has worked in Hitachi in Japan for a long time, and is also responsible for chips, but not technology research and development, but production management.

In most industries, R&D is a more high-end job than production, even if it is the crown of the industrial car, but the chip industry, it is completely different, the technical content of chip production management is not lower than R&D, the future generation of Huawei, with this strong chip research and development capabilities, can do their own mobile phone chips to complete self-development, technical can not be said to exceed Qualcomm, but at least can compete, but because of the lack of ability to produce by themselves, and fell into a very passive situation.

Of course, the production of chips involves a lot of particularly high-tech equipment, which cannot be attributed to production technology, but in any case, the production aspect is also very important, even in the early 70s of semiconductors, just a yield control rate is the core of all investment, the yield rate can be reduced, and then there is a chance to continue to iterate and upgrade, occupy the market, otherwise it will be completely eliminated in the first round.

Therefore, Midea also spent a lot of money to entrust several top headhunting companies in Japan to poach a few engineers from Japan who have experience in chip or LCD factory management, but most of them are Japanese, only the Xu Zhishan in front of him is Chinese, from Wanwan, and entered Hitachi after graduating from Waseda University in Japan.

They are all Chinese, Lei Shengli naturally attaches great importance to him, this time Chen Zhiwen came to watch the chip factory, and arranged for Xu Zhishan to accompany the reception.

"Thank you for your concern, I live very well here." Xu Zhishan said.

"When will the chip factory start working?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

Xu Weishan replied: "Now the equipment has basically been debugged, we have created the corresponding chips according to the needs of many electronics factories in Hong Kong, but the yield rate still needs to be controlled, and we also need time to do testing, it is estimated that the results will be determined in October, and it will be possible to start large-scale production in December." ”

"Okay, then it's less than half a year." Chen Zhiwen nodded with satisfaction and said.

The first product of the chip factory is the electronic watch that is currently the most demanded in Hong Kong, because this is the simplest product of all electronic products, and the demand for chips is also the lowest.

Although the technology content is low, but in the past, Hong Kong and even Hong Kong in the history of cinema chains, there is no chip production capacity, and can only be imported from Japan.

This is naturally suitable for the Midea chip factory that has just opened, the product is simple, it can be said that it is one of the simplest products in the history of chips, once the qualified products are made, the amount is still very large.

In the same way, the same is true for LCD factories, and the liquid crystal on the electronic watch can also be said to be the smallest liquid crystal in demand on the market, and the amount is also very large.

"It's just that, chairman, in terms of employee proficiency, we are still a lot worse, with the current staff ability, the yield rate is difficult to control, this is only the chip of electronic watches, if you replace it with a more complex chip, then there are too many uncontrollable problems." Xu Zhishan said.

"And what do you think?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and asked. He knew that Xu Zhishan had said very tactfully, this kind of high-tech factory has very high requirements for the quality and ability of employees, and it is definitely not an ordinary processing plant.

Once many people are not familiar with, do not understand, or lack of ability, then the chip can be made in time, and there can also be a large number of scrapped, and this kind of technical problems, even if it is an expert like Xu Zhishan, it is difficult to find the source, once this kind of problem emerges in endlessly, the factory will not be able to produce, and if the problem is left in the hands of the client, it will be even bigger, all customers will cancel the order, and the chip factory will definitely be yellow, even if Chen Zhiwen has more funds in his hands, there is nothing to be done about this situation.

"I understand that the chairman and manager Lei want to train talents in chips in Hong Kong, but it takes a long time, at least two to three years, and the people you sent to the United States to study before have indeed learned some knowledge, but this is still far from enough, to solve the current problem, we need a large number of people with experience in chip factories to work here, and they will be responsible for each node, and other Hong Kong workers can help on the side, and then learn slowly, so that it will take about two years. There are a large number of experienced engineers or technicians, so that there will be no problems, and the situation may be the same in the LCD factory. Xu Zhishan said.

"A large number of skilled technicians?" Chen Zhiwen said with some frowns: "It's not a big problem to dig a few or even a dozen from Japan, but if there are more, it will be very troublesome, and it will take a long time. ”

"Chen Sheng, in fact, you don't need to poach a large number of people from Japan, there is one next door Wanwan." Lei Shengli said suddenly.

"Wanwan? Do they have a chip industry now? Chen Zhiwen asked in surprise, for Wanwan's semiconductors, he naturally knows how powerful the future generations are, TSMC is in many ways able to compete with Samsung, and even stronger in a few fields.

And in his impression, these things in Wanwan should have started when Zhang Zhongmou, vice president of Texas Instruments, left the United States and returned to Wanwan to establish TSMC, and it was still in the 80s, as far as he knows now, there are no well-known chip companies in Wanwan at all.

"There are not only chips, but also liquid crystals, but they have just been established." Lei Shengli said: "This is also some time ago, Xu Sheng accidentally learned from a friend that as early as a few years ago, the Wanwan government began to prepare for the development of the chip and LCD industry, just because of the low efficiency of the government, this matter has been going on slowly, Wanwan is also more economical in foreign exchange, and talked with many factories for a long time, until last year to set the production line, to this year to start production, much lower than our efficiency."

But there is one thing, the Wanwan government has long sent hundreds of electronics engineers to some of the largest factories in the United States for internships, and these people have studied in American factories for several years. ”

"And this kind of thing? God help us to be beautiful. Chen Zhiwen almost laughed happily.

It's really sleepy to send a pillow, there are many things that money can solve, such as buying production line equipment, buying technology patents, as long as it is not the most advanced, it is generally not a problem, but in terms of technical personnel, it is a headache, it is not difficult to have money to dig people, but if you want to dig a team, it is difficult, and engineers in all aspects of the chip or LCD workshop, it is even more difficult, almost impossible, which may be much more difficult than acquiring this company.

Especially here is Hong Kong, the desert of high-tech industry, digging people can only go overseas to dig, and the technology is better than the Japanese culture, the language is different, but Wanwan is different, at least everyone is Chinese, although Cantonese and Hokkien are not the same, but the foundation is the same, a little run-in, you can do it.

"I went to investigate this matter, these people were sent to IBM, Intel, HP and other factories for internships, they are high-tech engineers specially selected by Wanwan, and they all know English, and they must have a lot of experience in the past few years, but they have signed a training agreement with the Wanwan government, and if they want to leave, these people need to pay a lot of liquidated damages." Lei Shengli said.

"How much is a person?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Almost $10,000 a person, this price, with the price of Wanwan, is very high, and it is estimated that the Wanwan government is also worried that these people will be left behind by American companies." Lei Shengli said.

"What is their salary in Wanwan?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"That friend of mine is actually one of these engineers, and their salary when they return to Wanwan is almost NT$10,000 a month, which is actually a very high salary in Wanwan, but they still feel that it is too little, probably because they are used to the salary of their peers in the United States, so they accidentally contacted me, and he originally wanted to go to Japan through my relationship." Xu Zhishan said.

"I see, it makes sense." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

The value of talents in high-end industries has nothing to do with the location, and their value has always been in line with international standards, because in developed countries, they can also find very good jobs. This is also the reason why many talents in the mainland in later generations went to Europe and the United States, until the mainland economy reached a certain scale, coupled with low price control, it became easy to retain talents.

"So we can start from here, which is a $10,000 liquidated damages, which is a bit expensive, and we don't need hundreds of people on our side." Xu Zhishan said.

"It doesn't matter if it's 10,000 dollars per person, so let's arrange for the headhunting company over there, or your friend from XCMG, to get the information of these people first, understand the ability of each of them, and then you can comprehensively select and dig up which people we need, and you can talk about salary." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

10,000 US dollars, in Hong Kong, where housing prices have doubled, it is easy to buy a full-payment house in a non-high-quality area, or pay a down payment in a high-quality community such as Taikoo Shing and Whampoa Garden, which is the dream of many Hong Kong people for a lifetime, but compared to the chip industry, it is a drop in the bucket.

Just this kind of talent who is proficient in English and has a foundation in the electronics industry, it is difficult to find hundreds of people in Hong Kong, who can be selected by the Wanwan government to be sent to the United States, which is basically a professional level in this regard, and a few years of experience in a large chip factory, it is even more difficult to find, if it is not for the Wanwan government to come forward, want to arrange so many people to go to Intel, HP and other factories to intern, I'm afraid it's not a pipe dream?

"There is another problem, these are the core personnel of Wanwan's semiconductor industry, and we are poaching people on such a large scale, I am afraid that it will cause them to be dissatisfied." Lei Shengli said.

"If we are not satisfied, what can they do with us?" Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "As long as we don't do it and dig up a part, it won't be a big deal." It's good to have a balance. ”

(End of chapter)