A large investment of 20 billion yuan is a very important investment even in 2023, let alone 2010.

Therefore, the groundbreaking ceremony of this new factory of Nanshan Semiconductor was relatively grand.

The president of the Government Council also attended the ceremony in person, and also visited the factory of Nanshan Semiconductor next to it.

Basically, I was on Nanshan Semiconductor all day, which is very rare.

After all, Nanshan Semiconductor now has signs of being the first chip company in China.

Especially after the new factory was put into operation this time, although there is still a gap with SMIC in terms of production capacity, it has achieved a technological overtaking.

The most important thing is that all the main equipment of Nanshan Semiconductor is purchased from domestic equipment manufacturers.

This is something that no other chip company can do.

"Mr. Cao, during this time, I think it is necessary to strengthen the confidentiality education of the company's employees, and people from all walks of life seem to be inquiring about the construction of our new factory and the procurement of production equipment."

"Some of these people may be pure curiosity, and some of them are absolutely ill-intentioned."

Zhang Jing now feels that the pressure on his shoulders is still quite high.

This is the first 28nm chip factory in China, which is of extraordinary significance.

If something goes wrong in the construction process, the impact is absolutely huge.

"Mr. Pan of Nanshan Equipment also mentioned this topic to me, and it seems that those people who are glamorous and spooky are nervous about our technological breakthrough."

"Otherwise, they wouldn't have cared about what we were doing."

The showdown about building a 28-nanometer chip factory, Cao Yang knew that this time it would cause a lot of movement.

But hiding and tucking it can't change the situation.

The enemy won't stop you from trying to deal with you just because you're hiding it.

Nanshan Group has a big business, and there are many ways to deal with you.

Instead of doing so, it's better to do the opposite.

Directly show your strength and let everyone know that you are not easy to mess with.

Even let the chip giants and equipment giants know that there is no way to suppress Nanshan Semiconductor with restrictions and blockades, so it is better for everyone to open up and compete well.

After all, the current international environment is not as drastic as in later generations, and everything is still negotiable.

"28nm technology is now the mainstream chip technology, and TSMC has just achieved mass production at the beginning of this year, and we will catch up so quickly, they will definitely be very nervous."

"Even in their opinion, this change in Nanshan Semiconductor is detrimental to their interests."

Zhang Jing knows too well what those chip giants think.

Don't look at people, they usually have the image of a high-tech enterprise in the people's field of vision.

In fact, many of the practices of these companies are actually not glorious at all.

For the sake of technology monopoly and high profits, people can do everything.

"Although many people are trying to find a way to stuff nails into Nanshan Semiconductor, they still need to recruit personnel who should be recruited."

"Our current development speed is so fast, domestic talents have been a little unable to keep up with the demand."

"Even if we have close cooperation with the School of Semiconductors of Lingnan University of Science and Technology, it is far from meeting the needs of this aspect."

"I originally thought of building a new factory in Yangcheng at the same time, but there were not so many people at all."

Huaxia's chip industry is still too short of personnel.

In recent years, due to the development of Nanshan Semiconductor, basically all the people who can dig have been poached.

The two exclusive communities of Modu and Yangcheng are also full of technicians dug from all over the world.

But it's still not enough.

A large chip company has tens of thousands of employees at every turn, or even hundreds of thousands of employees.

Compared with those large chip companies, Nanshan Semiconductor is still very weak.

Until now, the number of employees of Nanshan Semiconductor is only more than 10,000.

Although it is growing rapidly every month, there is still a relatively large gap compared with the chip giants.

"This is a problem, our personnel department has also tried its best, Lingnan University of Science and Technology's semiconductor college is also expanding every year, and even Guanggong has opened a semiconductor college, but there is still no way to meet the demand."

"In the next step, we will find a way to select a group of professional employees who have some relationship with chips from among the fresh college students and send them to various factories to accelerate the training, and see if we can speed up the training of talents in a way that brings the old with the new."

"At the same time, we will further increase the recruitment plan from overseas."

"Considering that some people are reluctant to come to work in China, I plan to set up a branch in the United States, Dongying and Germany to be responsible for chip design-related business."

"As for chip packaging and testing, I specially arranged personnel to go to Southeast Asia to poach people, and there are quite a lot of talents related to packaging and testing."

"And the salaries of these people are not particularly high, and we don't have much pressure to dig up."

Zhang Jing has naturally also taken into account the problem of talent training.

In particular, the foundation stone for the new plant has already been laid, and various staffing needs to be considered in advance.

For the young Nanshan Semiconductor, this pressure is still quite large.

"I will also communicate with BYD Semiconductor and Huawei HiSilicon to see if they can support our group of technicians."

As a partner of Nanshan Semiconductor, Cao Yang felt the need to make use of the power of BYD Semiconductor and Huawei HiSilicon.

These companies started to engage in semiconductors earlier than Nanshan Semiconductor, and the situation of talent shortage is much better.

"I have the opportunity to learn 28nm chip technology, and I think they should be interested."

"This is a great learning opportunity and a win-win opportunity for both BYD Semiconductor and Huawei HiSilicon, as well as for their employees."

Zhang Jing is not worried that BYD Semiconductor and Huawei HiSilicon will learn the technology of Nanshan Semiconductor.

Having mastered the chip equipment industry chain, Zhang Jing is not worried that other domestic semiconductor companies will become his opponents.

Even SMIC, the current industry leader, no longer thinks of it as his opponent.

Nanshan Semiconductor has begun to lock the eyes of competitors on TSMC, Samsung, MediaTek and Qualcomm, Infineon and other companies.

Of the other domestic competitors, Cao Yang is no longer too careful.

"It's a good idea, and you can give it a try as soon as possible."

Zhang Jing obviously also felt that Cao Yang's idea was still feasible.

Although we are competitors to a certain extent, we are more partners.

Give each other a little help and it should be hard for the other person to refuse.

The most important thing is to learn new technologies.

The temptation is still great.

Sure enough, after hearing Cao Yang's request, Wang Fu agreed without too much entanglement.

Of course, agreeing is agreeing, and how to arrange personnel to support is another topic.

It is impossible for Cao Yang and Wang Fu to discuss such a specific matter on the phone.

"Mr. Wang, if we arrange all the company's elite employees to help, I am worried that these employees will be 'meat buns and dogs, and there will be no return'."

The matter of arranging personnel to support Nanshan Semiconductor was handed over by Wang Fu to Liang Chuanqing, who was in charge of research and development.

For this somewhat difficult matter, Liang Chuanqing has a lot of entanglements.

Things have to be done beautifully, and you can't suffer losses, that's not easy to do.

"This is a good learning opportunity for everyone to see how the chip factory with the 28nm process is designed, how the chips are processed, and what are the precautions."

"If the technical level of employees is not good, they will not learn anything."

"As for what you're worried about, it doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not to arrange for them to come over to support."

"In the past two years, Nanshan Semiconductor has not poached people from various companies, and some people in our company have jumped ship."

"It's raining, my mother wants to get married, and I can't stop it."

"Of course, in order to avoid employees from really changing jobs, we can also sign a non-compete agreement with the main technical personnel at that time."

"Even if they change jobs, there is no way to go to work at Nanshan Semiconductor."

Wang Fu is not a soft-hearted person.

The semiconductor industry is also an industry that he attaches more importance to.

Therefore, the opportunity for technological improvement must be seized.

Nanshan Semiconductor allows BYD Semiconductor's employees to support, and to a certain extent, it is also a difficult opportunity to learn.

Wang Fu definitely didn't want to miss it.

"Non-compete agreement?"

When Liang Chuanqing heard this, he immediately became interested.

In 2010, non-compete agreements were not popular in China.

But it's not that there are no companies doing it.

If BYD Semiconductor also uses this thing on key employees, it is completely feasible.

"Mr. Wang, this thing is good, I'll arrange it now, and let everyone sign it quickly."

"Only employees who have signed a non-compete agreement can be arranged to go to Nanshan Semiconductor for support."

Liang Chuanqing did not hesitate to carry out Wang Fu's proposal.

The strength of BYD Semiconductor is not comparable to Nanshan Semiconductor, if you want to really retain employees, you must have a variety of soft and hard methods together.

With a non-compete agreement, employees can work hard.

After all, not every talent is worth digging up with Nanshan Semiconductor.

……

The construction of Nanshan Semiconductor's 28-nanometer factory has driven the topic of chips.

Whether it is a mainstream media or a professional IT website, they are constantly posting chip-related articles.

Even some more professional articles on the introduction of chip production process have a high number of views.

This makes it natural for media outlets to become more active in writing relevant articles.

"Editor-in-Chief Wu, Nanshan Semiconductor has released such a large satellite this time, which can be regarded as completely activating the domestic chip industry."

"Ministries and commissions have successively announced new industrial support policies, and various venture capital funds are also ready to enter the semiconductor industry."

"Even in the past month, the number of newly registered chip companies has more than doubled compared with the same period last year."

"I feel that the spring of the development of Huaxia's semiconductor industry has arrived."

"In the future, we can arrange relevant personnel to track and report chip-related news."

As a veteran employee of Zhongguancun Online, Xie Min naturally has a very clear understanding of the changes in news popularity.

Smartphones and chips are now the two new rising traffic pools for their websites.

This kind of opportunity, Xie Min must hope that the website can seize it.

"It's really necessary, and even we need to recruit a professional chip-related technician."

"Otherwise, the articles written by people who don't understand chip technology may have some low-level errors in the eyes of professionals, which will directly affect the credibility of our website at that time."

Wu Xuebin considered the problem more thoroughly.

The development of the website is needed, and with the development of the website, the recruitment of fresh blood is naturally necessary.

There are so many colleges and universities in the imperial capital, and it is not so difficult to recruit a few people who understand chip technology.

After all, Zhongguancun Online is also a good employment unit in the eyes of many college students.

Not to mention Qingbei, there is no problem in recruiting students from at least 985 universities.

"I have a suggestion for this matter, don't we have a forum on our website?"

"There are some more active users on it, and some of them often post chip-related topics."

"I think we can find one or two suitable people from among these people."

Xie Min's proposal invisibly made the Zhongguancun Online forum a little more interesting.

posted in the forum, and became an employee of Zhongguancun Online.

It's kind of magical.

……

Compared with the people in Zhongguancun Online who are in a good mood, the mood of SMIC's people is more complicated.

"Mr. Wang, from what we have learned so far, Nanshan equipment may really have the production capacity of lithography machines, which can produce lithography machines required for 28-nanometer chip processing."

"And the technical route of their lithography machine is indeed not exactly the same as ASML, and the volume is much larger."

"Some of the other production equipment that Nanshan Semiconductor plans to purchase is also purchased from Nanshan Equipment or manufacturers of the Chip Equipment Alliance, which are basically domestic."

"There are some voices from the ministry asking why we can't consider buying chip processing equipment from China?"

Yang Bingning specifically mentioned this topic when he reported SMIC's next production capacity plan to Wang Anguo.

The purchase of chip production equipment is a large part of the investment in the new factory.

As the largest chip foundry company in China, SMIC invests a large amount of equipment procurement every year.

The most important thing is that more than ninety percent of this equipment is imported from overseas.

Not to mention the cost of foreign exchange, this risk alone is very uncontrollable.

In the past, there was no equipment manufacturer in China that could produce suitable chip equipment, so everyone naturally endured it.

Xiannanshan Semiconductor can use domestic equipment to process 28-nanometer chips, which is more advanced than SMIC's.

In this case, if SMIC continues to import equipment from overseas, it will definitely attract some criticism.

"Can the chip processing equipment produced by those manufacturers of Nanshan Equipment really produce 28-nanometer chips that meet the requirements of mass production?"

"They are full of calculations, and it will take no more than five years to study chip production equipment, and they can reach such a high level?"

Wang Anguo's question should be shared by many people.

How difficult the chip production equipment, especially the lithography machine, is, as long as anyone who knows how to do it, understands.

People can get stuck in your neck, that's because the threshold of this thing is really high, otherwise how can it be stuck?

Although Wang Anguo has read the papers published by Cao Yang before, he does not think that Nanshan equipment can easily produce lithography machines.

In particular, it is the kind of lithography machine that can process 28-nanometer chips.

"Although I don't believe in this situation very much, the groundbreaking ceremony of Nanshan Semiconductor's new factory was attended by the president of the Government Council."

"I don't think the Nanshan Group should have the courage to lie in front of the Government Council, and besides, with the current status of the Nanshan Group, there is no need to further enhance its influence through this kind of lie."

When Yang Bingning said this, Wang Anguo also felt reasonable.

Nanshan Group is already the first private enterprise in China, except for a few central enterprises that exceed its scale, there is no stronger opponent in China.

In terms of high-tech, Nanshan Group is unique and has achieved remarkable results.

In this case, steady progress is the most appropriate solution.

Since Nanshan Semiconductor dares to officially announce that it has mastered the 28-nanometer chip processing technology, it should really have mastered it.

At most, the maturity of the technology is not necessarily enough, but there is definitely technology.

"In this case, then we will invite equipment experts to go to Nanshan Equipment to inspect it, and express that we want to buy lithography machines and other equipment from Nanshan Equipment."

"In this inspection process, we also checked to see if they really have the technology in this area."

"If this is the case, then it is not impossible to purchase some lithography machines and other equipment from Nanshan Equipment in the future."

Wang Anguo naturally doesn't want all lithography machines to be purchased from ASML, so he doesn't have any right to speak.

The status of Party A and Party B is sometimes not easily determined based on who is the buyer and who is the seller.

Rather, it is necessary to make a comprehensive judgment based on their respective strength and substitutability.

Obviously, in the matter of purchasing lithography machines, ASML has absolutely no awareness of Party B.

SMIC has never felt that its party a party is respected.

"Well, it's true that you can go and investigate."

"It's a donkey or a horse, just pull it out and you'll know."

Regarding Wang Anguo's instructions, Yang Bingning naturally supported it.

Soon, SMIC's inspection team went to Nanshan Equipment and was warmly received by Cao Yang and Pan Jinxing.

Regardless of SMIC's technical level, it is the largest chip foundry company in China, and its production capacity is also ranked among the best in the world.

Such a big customer deserves respect!

Although it is impossible for such a major equipment procurement project to be made on the spot during the visit, Nanshan Equipment has given a good answer to the questions raised by SMIC's experts during the visit.

At the same time, we also saw the first prototype produced by Nanshan Equipment.

The relevant technical parameters make it impossible for SMIC people to find any fault.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Yang and Pan Jinxing also recommended SMIC people to visit Modu Microelectronics and Micro Semiconductor.

Let SMIC know that domestic equipment manufacturers really have the production capacity of chip equipment.

Even if it has not reached the strength to surpass its international counterparts, at least it has caught up with the ass of others.

SMIC's chip process is not world-leading, and it is even two generations behind companies such as TSMC and Samsung.

In this case, these domestic chip equipment can already meet the relevant requirements.

The most important thing is that according to the preliminary exchange information, domestic equipment can be at least half cheaper than imported equipment.

Even if it is half the price, it is the preliminary price after the equipment manufacturer has included a relatively reasonable profit and R & D expenses.

You can imagine how dark those international equipment giants are.

"Mr. Cao, I think the people at SMIC should be a little excited, and they can consider using the power of ministries and commissions to promote it again."

"After all, they are also enterprises with shareholders of state-owned enterprises, and as long as it is a reasonable request, the management cannot completely ignore it."

"The equipment produced by our own domestic equipment manufacturers is certainly not comparable to imported equipment in terms of after-sales service."

"The most critical thing is that this is also related to the stability of equipment of domestic chip processing enterprises in the future, and even related to the security of chip supply."

Pan Jinxing must be very hopeful that SMIC's equipment orders can be implemented.

Although Nanshan Equipment is now busy producing chip processing equipment for Nanshan Semiconductor, there is no particularly large surplus capacity in a short period of time.

However, the meaning of the representation of customers within the group and customers outside the group is completely different.

If Nanshan equipment wants to open up the market, it must not simply rely on users in the group.

In China's semiconductor market, SMIC's choice is very representative, which will be used as a reference for many other small and medium-sized chip processing companies.

"During this time, there are many people who have applied to visit our chip processing equipment, and there are many people who are interested."

"Not only SMIC, but also other customers should pay full attention."

"I have already asked the ministry to put pressure on SMIC, but now we can take it easy and let them think about it themselves, otherwise it will be easy to backfire."

With special influence to suppress the management of SMIC, the effect must have a certain effect.

But if you do this kind of thing too many times, the side effects will definitely be great.

Cao Yang himself is well aware of this, so he doesn't plan to push SMIC too hard.

As long as the new factory of Nanshan Semiconductor is built and the 28-nanometer chip processing technology is really mastered, SMIC itself will take the initiative to buy the chip processing equipment of Nanshan Equipment without being forced by the ministry at that time.

After all, looking at the world, it is estimated that only Nanshan Equipment will sincerely provide SMIC with a lithography machine that can process 28 nanometers.

There is no need to do things to quench your thirst!

However, Nanshan Equipment received so many visiting customers, and side effects soon appeared.

(End of chapter)