Chapter 222: Before Going to San Francisco
Hua Hong's representative was stunned by the unreality of the meat eaters, and then he understood, precisely because he did not understand the situation on the front line, he needed to investigate.
Now is not twenty years later, the hidden attributes of Huahong's corporate nature are stable in the face of the treatment of private enterprises are not worth mentioning.
He was helpless in his heart, and said quietly on the surface: "We have also considered this plan, and at the same time, Xinxin has also expressed its willingness to cooperate with us in the field of research and development on different occasions, and cooperation is possible, but there may be some problems in talent training."
The problem here is similar to the siphoning effect of the integrated circuit talents cultivated by us in countries such as Lion City, Neon, and Goryeo.
In addition, their training in Xinxin is at least half a year, and the value of training is limited if they do not perform well, and the value of Huahong is also limited.
Once the mechanism is formed, the talents cultivated in this training mechanism will be attracted by Xinxin in the future. ”
The gravitational pull of the real world will always be more direct than the light of idealism, not to mention that idealism twenty years ago was even bleaker than it is now.
"At the end of the first quarter of this year, Huahong and Xinxin established a joint venture, and the organizational relationship of the employees of an 8-inch chip production plant in Shenhai was transferred to the newly established joint venture." Hua Hong's representative paused after speaking.
The other party really answered: "I know about this matter, which has triggered a lot of discussion in our country, whether the cooperation model of state-owned assets with private capital or overseas capital involves the loss of assets." ”
China is a conservative and progressive country in the world, and the same is true in terms of capital operation.
The cooperation model between Huahong and Xinxin has made the local government ready to move, because it is not ten years ago, and the capital control of local state-owned enterprises after the launch of UnionPay is unprecedented.
In this form, if you cooperate with private capital and still maintain the controlling stake of the state-owned enterprise, but hand over the actual management right of the enterprise to private entrepreneurs, can you circumvent the control of UnionPay? Continue to profit for individuals from state-owned enterprises in the new model of cooperation.
After Shenhai took the first step in the cooperation model of weighted voting rights, other places soon followed, and as for the reasons mentioned above, it is only one of them, and there are indeed places where it wants to revitalize some assets that are not so good.
Therefore, whether this model is good or not can only be tested by time.
After the research representative finished speaking, the representative of Huahong said: "For us, the cooperation with Xinxin has brought us a new management model and advanced concepts.
Because Huahong not only has an 8-inch production line in Shenhai, but also two 8-inch production lines in Huahong NEC, after Xinxin took over Huahong's production line, we sent some engineers to learn from the production line taken over by Xinxin.
Most of the front-line engineers of Xinxin come from Texas Instruments, IBM, and Intel, and their management experience and production experience are quite different from Neon, and there are many places to learn.
However, once the engineers who have been to the Xinxin production line to study will inquire whether they can be transferred to the joint venture company established by Xinxin and Huahong after they come back, and this willingness is particularly strong.
Why? Because Xinxin's treatment for grassroots engineers is twice that of Huahong, the treatment of intermediate engineers is three times that of Huahong, and the treatment of senior engineers is five times that of Huahong.
In other words, any engineer who hears that everyone is doing the same work, and can learn more things in Xinxin, Xinxin will give outstanding engineers the opportunity to study abroad at public expense, not necessarily to go to universities, but also to Texas Instruments, Intel and other companies to study.
In terms of various treatments, Huahong can't compare with Xinxin, so if we send people to Xinxin to learn, there is a high probability that they will have different ideas. ”
IBM now also has a chip foundry business, and while they have their own chip foundry business, they also make a profit by selling advanced patents in the field of chip manufacturing.
After IBM lagged behind in the chip foundry field, they sold the chip foundry business to GF for $1.5 billion.
If Lenovo buys a ThinkPad in a few years, maybe IBM will give it away for nothing.
"I understand that the fundamental problem is that the company has no profit, and the company cannot pay employees a salary that matches the market price, and it is difficult for us to achieve a breakthrough in the field of chip design." The survey representative concluded, and then he asked:
"Then how does Hua Hong plan to solve this problem?
The problem is temporary, and we can't just keep looking at the problem and not solve it?
There are many people watching the cooperation between Huahong and Xinxin, and many people are paying attention to whether this cooperation model can work.
Judging from the current situation, the fundamental reason why the production line after the merger of Xinxin and Huahong can have such dazzling data is that Xinxin's chip design capabilities are strong enough, and they can design chips with absolute technical advantages in a certain field and sell chips through technical advantages.
That is to say, we will adopt a similar model to cooperate with other semiconductor companies in the future, and the semiconductor company also needs to have strong enough chip design capabilities. ”
Because Zhou Xin is standing behind Xinxin, Zhou Xin's previous proposed UnionPay has affected the interests of too many people, so many people are staring at the cooperation between Xinxin and Huahong, if this cooperation fails, then they can find a lot of reasons and excuses for attacking.
Of course, even if the cooperation between Xinxin and Huahong is successful, you can find a reason for the attack, the most typical is the loss of assets: you can do it without cooperating with Xinxin, why give up control.
Huahong's representative said: "This is difficult, because semiconductor design companies with this chip strength will not think about acquiring chip foundry companies."
Because it is now the trend of separating chip design, chip foundry, chip packaging and testing, and chip sales, fewer and fewer companies are obsessed with taking care of everything.
If they are companies that focus on chip design from the beginning, they have long-term partners and a stable source of chip foundry, and there is no need or need to enter the field of chip foundry.
And vertical chip manufacturing companies like Samsung, that is, the so-called single-handed chip manufacturing enterprises, they cooperate with Huahong, and the chip foundry orders handed over to Huahong are limited, and they will definitely give priority to supplying Samsung's own chip factory, and then Samsung itself is unwilling to do, and orders with low profit margins will be the turn of the joint venture.
Therefore, we have also done internal research and judgment on this model, and almost only Xinxin can open this kind of cooperation conditions.
Another important point is that Huahong's chip production line technology can only be said to be relatively leading, a generation behind the most advanced chip process. ”
The outside world may think that the success of Xinxin (Huahong) is very easy, as if it is easy to get it, and it can be done by changing partners.
However, Huahong has done many internal research and judgments, and it is impossible to achieve the level of Xinxin if it is changed to a new partner.
Xinxin not only has super R&D capabilities, but more importantly, they have vast resources in Silicon Valley and can sell chips to giants in the field of consumer electronics such as Sony and Apple.
For other partners, they have technical advantages, and it takes time to transform technical advantages into market advantages, which is extremely short for Xinxin.
Because of this, Huahong and Xinxin decided to cooperate at the end of March, and it will be effective in May.
At the end of the first quarter, in addition to the cooperation between Huahong and Xinxin, Lei Jun also stepped on the plane to San Francisco, and after thinking about it repeatedly, he finally decided to accept the new offer given next week.
Zhou Xin gave him two months to do the handover, after all, as the president of Kingsoft and the founder of Excellence.com, he has a lot of work to do.
"From the company's point of view, I don't want you to go, Kingsoft lacks you is equal to the loss of the most important generals, whether it is the follow-up work or WPS follow-up development, including Kingsoft's follow-up listing plan, the entire time schedule needs to be re-evaluated.
Originally, I was going to hand over all the things in my hands to you one after another, but now I'm in charge of the swordsman relationship, and you're in charge of other businesses, and I can just do the game itself, which is more interesting than office software.
If you go to Silicon Valley, I'll have to go back to what I used to do. Qiu Bojun said.
Lei Jun had a good chat with Qiu Bojun before making a decision, and Qiu Bojun, as Lei Jun's guide, brought him into Kingsoft Software and gave Lei Jun great trust.
Including the entrepreneurship of Excellence.com, it has also received investment from Kingsoft. If Lei Jun leaves Jinshan and takes a new offer next week, he must obtain the consent of Qiu Bojun no matter what.
If the other party does not agree or shows that he wants to stay, Lei Jun will choose to stay.
Kingsoft is in a good situation at this time, and there are three product lines at the same time, one is office software, and the other is Kingsoft Poison, which was launched in the millennium and also has a large market in China, and the last one is the game, and their previous "Swordsman Love" has been widely acclaimed.
After being hit by last year's "Legend", Kingsoft decided to also make the online game version of "Swordsman Love", and Qiu Bojun was in charge of this matter.
Seeing this, Lei Jun immediately said: "I didn't say I wanted to leave, but discussed with you, in fact, I can't make up this mind in my heart, leaving Jinshan is easy to say, but I spent half of my youth in Jinshan, I joined Jinshan when I was 23 years old, and now I am 33 years old."
I didn't want to leave Jinshan emotionally. ”
Later, even when Lei Jun founded Xiaomi, he has been holding the position of Kingsoft software.
Qiu Bojun interrupted: "I don't want you to leave from the level of Kingsoft Software, but from the personal relationship between the two of us, I think going to Matrix is a rare opportunity for you."
It may even be the most precious opportunity of your life, and I absolutely support you from a personal and emotional point of view to venture into Silicon Valley.
No matter how much Kingsoft develops, it is only a valuation of hundreds of millions, and the valuation unit is still RMB, and if you go to Silicon Valley and develop well, the valuation is calculated in US dollars.
Including after Baidu's listing not long ago, Li Yanhong became the second richest Chinese, and these people, without exception, all received Zhou Xin's help before going to Silicon Valley to work hard.
Zhou Xin not only has a strong ability to start his own business, but his vision of people and picking projects is also very accurate, since he has taken a fancy to you, he will definitely give you enough resources in the future.
While you are doing it at Matrix, if you have the idea of starting a business, Zhou Xin will definitely give you some resources. This is a very rare opportunity.
Not to mention that Matrix is a company that has changed the pattern of the mobile phone industry, going to Matrix is definitely more interesting than following Microsoft, Microsoft's office, and what we do at Kingsoft.
You have changed from a follower to a leader in the industry, which is a completely different concept.
From a personal development point of view, you will definitely be able to achieve greater success and a more different life experience.
We've known each other for so many years, and I know you're all impressed, we're all programmers, we've all used Mphone, and we all know the potential of Mphone.
It's definitely not just a mobile phone, especially after carrying the app store, it can be regarded as a handheld computer equipped with a call function, and even a higher degree of freedom than a handheld computer.
According to this definition, there will also be many Internet companies in the field of mobile phones in the future. ”
Many people have vision and can see the future to a certain extent, but there are very few people who believe in the future they see and insist on doing it.
Lei Jun was a little silent after hearing this, because what Qiu Bojun said was right, he was indeed moved, if he was not moved, he would not talk to Qiu Bojun at all.
I want to ask for the other party's opinion, and I don't have to feel the psychological burden when I leave, "I do want to go, but I don't have confidence, I'm not sure I can do a good job." I went from Sanse Company to Jinshan, both of which are office software, and they don't need to adapt.
To be a good network, the excellent network is also software, it is an Internet application, and there is Amazon's model to learn from, and there is nothing difficult about it.
We used to be in software, and Matrix is a hardware company, which is equivalent to moving to Dell, which I don't know about in many places.
Including the form of Mphone, it is the future development direction, we all know, but how to develop specifically? I have no idea.
Move all the apps from your computer?
And we have used Mphone, and I didn't really experience all the subtleties of Mphone due to geographical restrictions. I didn't learn anything from Matrix, I didn't know which direction to go in at all, there was no guidance.
There are a lot of classes I need to make up and I lack confidence, including my English is not very good. ”
Qiu Bojun patted the other party: "What are you afraid of?" Since Zhou Xin will look for you, it means that he has confidence in you, and I also have confidence in you, you will definitely be able to do a good job.
As for not being good at English, it's good to find someone to teach you, and it's easy to exercise when you go to a new environment.
As for the direction, you don't have to worry about it, with Zhou Xin, you don't need to worry about the future development direction of Mphone. ”
(End of chapter)