"This is really rare. There seems to be no good news from Motorola recently."

Hu Wenhai's words made Edison touch his nose a little embarrassedly, and then smiled heartily: "Don't worry, Mr. Hu, what I brought is definitely the good news you hope to hear the most."

"Oh, is the world peaceful? Or is the United States decided to issue a green card to every Chinese?"

"Haha, Mr. Hu is really good at joking!" Edison's head was sweating coldly and his smile was very stiff.

"I came on behalf of Motorola's Executive President Mr. Williams, who apologized for the unpleasantness of the last meeting and hoped that we could rebuild the friendship between Motorola and Xinke."

"Mr. Edison, there is an old saying in China that you can decide when the war begins, but you can't decide when the war ends."

“ooue/Of course.”

Edison's posture was astonishingly low: "Motorola is sincere, and whether it is satisfied depends on Mr. Hu's decision."

Hu Wenhai couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise and nodded, "Okay, then I'll listen to Motorola's sincerity."

It was a bit beyond Hu Wenhai's expectation that Motorola could take such a low posture. But of course, this did not affect anything.

If Motorola is so strong that it will be the follow-up partner of the wafer fab with Hu Wenhai's current face in the US semiconductor industry, whether it is TI or ibm.

In addition, there is also a wafer fab that can be cooperated with in Europe, and there is nothing unique to Motorola.

So the current situation is that Hu Wenhai is tough on the surface, as long as it does not affect the intern's training plan, Motorola becomes dispensable.

“Motorola can help Xinke build a wafer fab in mainland China.”

"Any semiconductor company can help us build a wafer factory." Hu Wenhai was unmoved. The plan to build a wafer factory was originally put on the agenda. If Motorola had not been a frequent attack, it was originally planned that by March 1986, Motorola should have begun to build a wafer factory the same as theirs in Austin at the request of Xinke Company.

"No, I think this is the sincerity that only Motorola can bring out. I mean, we can help Xinke. Build a 1.5-micron, six-inch wafer fab in mainland China. We can provide it from crystal pulling to etching, packaging, and even upstream integrated circuit design technology."

"In this way, I don't know that the US government exports these technologies to China..." Hu Wenhai seemed a little moved, but he was still a little worried.

"Please rest assured that these problems will be solved by Motorola!"

Edison almost made a promise: "The US government has not made a clear ban on the export of these technologies. We still have some relationships in Congress. It is not too difficult to promote the export of these technologies to China."

Hu Wenhai nodded as if he believed what he said.

It is now early 1986. The relationship between China and the United States can be said to be the best time. Motorola has been very good at government business in history. Whether it is the walkie-talkie of the US military in World War II or the later general application of the 68,000 series chips in national defense engineering, it all shows that this is a company with a very presence in the American political system.

It's not too difficult to do some work with Motorola, exporting a 1.5 micron, six-inch wafer fab.

As early as early as 1985, Intel had already used the 1.5 micron process to manufacture 80386cpu. By this year, many semiconductor companies were planning to launch the 1.5 micron process. In another three years, the development of chip technology will reach the 1 micron level. Even if it is really exported to a 1.5 micron process wafer factory in China, it will still be behind and become a second-rate process in less than five years.

In the field of electronic semiconductors, Americans have the ability to always keep the lead, which is also the confidence to not be afraid of exporting the same technology to other allies.

However, Hu Wenhai was not worried, and he had five years to develop. By the early 1990s, if he could not develop Xinke's wafer fabs to no less than any American semiconductor company, then he, a semiconductor process engineer in the next thirty years, would have been in vain.

It’s not that Hu Wenhai remembers the upgrade technology of the entire fab, or can there be any gold finger that uses backward equipment to make high-level process chips. But it’s that for the past five years, based on power components such as IGBT, it is mixed into the field of G** mobile communications, as well as the PN junction memory technology, Nand flash memory technology, LCD display technology, LED lighting technology...

In these areas that can be developed, as long as you capture two or three markets in five years, the profits you get will be enough to support China's semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry and maintain a generational difference from international leading technologies. As for industrial foundation, it is a matter of investment. Did China have any industrial foundation when it was first founded? Later, rockets, satellites and atomic bombs were built.

What's more, although China was blocked from importing lithography machines in later generations, the nature of capitalism selling ropes was there, and the most important lens of lithography machines could still be imported from Japan.

With these five years, Hu Wenhai believed that as long as he gave himself the conditions for a fair competition with Europe and the United States, he would definitely do better than them and make more money. It is not impossible to have money to invest in basic research and professional fields, artificially create an industry higher than the basics. In the future, China will be like this model, several outstanding industries, and most mid- and low-end manufacturing industries.

"If Motorola can really provide 1.5 micron, six-inch technology, it would be a very sincere expression."

Hu Wenhai nodded: "Well, then we have never had any unpleasantness before."

"That's great!" Edison was overjoyed and couldn't help laughing. A big rock in his heart fell to the ground. Unexpectedly, Hu Wenhai was so easy to talk to.

"To be honest, our Motorola company attaches great importance to cooperation with Xinke. The little unpleasantness in the past is like a test of God. Instead, it has witnessed the unbreakable friendship! As a friend, Motorola has a request, hoping that Mr. Hu can agree."

"Oh, please tell me." Hu Wenhai smiled on his face, looking very happy.

It seems that Williams' analysis is reasonable. Although wafer fabs are not as good as the water lithium battery market in terms of profits, for mainland China, the strategic significance of having a modern wafer fab obviously exceeds pure economic interests.

This is not surprising. Look at where Motorola's 68000 CPU is used? You can find the shadow of this CPU in every field that requires industrial control. In addition, it also has a large number and extensive presence in the US military system.

In the civil field, arcades, game consoles, printers, and 68,000 can also be seen. Macintosh, Capcom, SNK, and many familiar names all rely on the rise of the CPU 68,000.

The profits of a water lithium battery industry are obviously impossible to compare with the profits brought by informatization and automation of the entire society.

From a national perspective, it is not difficult to understand that Hu Wenhai attaches great importance to the construction of wafer fabs.

After having an idea in his heart, Edison was not panicked. He said confidently: "Motorola hopes to acquire shares of the Gadari Group in Mr. Hu. It is best all, otherwise he hopes to get at least 50% of the shares."

"oh"

Hu Wenhai shook his head with some regret: "I'm sorry. I have agreed with DuPont Group to sell the shares of the Gadari Group to them."

Edison said anxiously: "But the transaction has not been completed yet. You still own 70% of the shares, and Motorola only needs 50%."

"Sorry, I always have to be trustworthy when doing business. After all, I don't have as strong capital as Motorola."

Hu Wenhai smiled slightly, and Edison showed a embarrassed and bitter smile on his face. Motorola and Xinke cooperated, and many things were indeed not authentic.

Fortunately, after spending a long time in the mall, even Edison, who was a technician, has developed a shameless face.

He shook his head and said, "Mr. Hu, I must explain to you the way our capitalist society behaves. The United States is different from yours. China, and is a contract society. In other words, as long as it is not put on paper, it is not a valid commitment! Only the law can judge whether a person is guilty. As long as it does not violate the law, any behavior is allowed."

"Sorry, this is really not working."

Hu Wenhai waved his hand and flatly refused: "The deal with DuPont is as high as 8 billion US dollars, and I can't give up so easily."

Edison gritted his teeth and threw out his killer weapon today: "We can jointly build an integrated circuit design center, and China can send less than 500 people to the design center to work and study every year. Motorola's technical patents in China can be authorized to Xinke Company!"

Williams is really trying hard to do anything. He would rather give up the Chinese market than take over the shares of the Cardari Group.

Simply put, there are three so-called parts for integrated circuit semiconductor manufacturing, namely front-end design, wafer foundry and back-end testing. The technical requirements for back-end testing are relatively low, which accounts for a large proportion in this industry.

The wafer foundry industry has not been separated from the front-end design in the 1980s, and basically most of them are designed and manufactured by themselves. However, in another year, if TSMC is established, the industry will know how big this market is.

Needless to say, front-end design is the part of chip design in the front-end process of the industry. Although there is no precise equipment and various realistic thresholds, this part is the most difficult to catch up with. Because what determines the design level is human quality.

Needless to say, it is not difficult to catch up. Fabs were introduced in the United States in the 1980s. The biggest advantage of Americans is front-end design, and the talent advantages of the design industry that have been accumulated over the past few decades.

Motorola is now simply going to do one-stop "aid" with wafer fabs helping to build the most advanced ones and design talents helping to train them. This is really a "ghostly traitor".

What is Motorola?

It's not surprising to say that, let's take a look at Grumman, the "number one-spy" who is very troublesome to sell fighter jets, but the profit is really not high. The US Navy bought the F14, and the early quotation was $15 million, but later due to US dollar inflation, Grumman almost lost to death.

The US Navy received a total of 429 F14 fighter jets. The transaction volume was around 10 billion US dollars. The profits were 1 billion US dollars? Two billion US dollars? Or three billion US dollars? That's it. Grumman's profits would not exceed 30%. But looking at Viagra's sales, Viagra, which was launched in the first year of 1985, had not yet completely opened up the market, created $1.5 billion for Grumman.

Later generations dared to move the insurance industry, but did he dare to move the pharmaceutical industry? In the future, the pharmaceutical group will have long become the most influential political group in the United States. Even the famous military-industrial complex can only be externally slutty, and its domestic influence is far behind that of the pharmaceutical group.

Why? Because pharmaceutical groups are really easy to make money in the United States. Even if they have patents in other industries, they still have to create a competitor according to the antitrust law. However, in the pharmaceutical industry, American law encourages monopoly, seven-year franchise, high threshold for FDA, tricks between original drugs and generic drugs...

Hu Wenhai can go to Wharton's textbook if he engages in a 10 billion dollar acquisition in the manufacturing industry. But in the pharmaceutical industry, a 10 billion dollar acquisition is just an ordinary thing. This shows how rich the pharmaceutical giants are.

The emergence of Viagra is a miracle product that has brought Pfizer to the peak of the world's pharmaceutical giants. Now it has fallen on Grumman. The future "money prospects" are more than just optimistic, and it is impossible to see how good it can be.

Grumman is ready to move. Building planes is really risky and troublesome, so how can pharmaceuticals be better?

Otherwise, the voice of simply transforming into pharmaceuticals will be very popular among Grumman's shareholders starting this year, which is really embarrassing and amazing.

Like Grumman's problem, Motorola also has a tendency to be inactive.

Motorola has also tasted the sweetness in the water lithium battery business, with a total profit of US$2 billion per year. One-fifth of Motorola's revenue in 1985 was the dividends of Yizhuhu Company. Motorola also has no end to see how big the future market of the third-generation water lithium battery will be. If theoretical data can be truly achieved, it is not impossible to replace the internal combustion engine.

Motorola's vehicle-mounted electronics and microcontrollers also have to face hard competition, and they will suffer losses after falling behind in technology. There is no lightness or comfort in water lithium batteries. It makes twice the profit after importing and replacing them with Xinke. It is almost enough to be at the level of "trampling on all human laws".

In addition, the future development strategy of Motorola, mobile communications, also rely heavily on water lithium battery technology, has long been changing its business direction.

"If you want to leave it to the Chinese industry that is so difficult to make money in wafer factories. If the cost can be reduced by 50% like water lithium batteries, it would be a good idea to let Chinese people produce OEMs."

Of course, this is not mainstream in Motorola. After all, if you rely entirely on OEM, Motorola's own advantages will be too small and it is in a position that is easily replaced.

However, on the basis of ensuring that Motorola's own core position in its industry is unshakable, it has divided part of its OEM business to China, which has attracted many people.

Seeing the profits of water lithium batteries, it is impossible for Motorola's business strategy to be unaffected.

And this condition does come to Hu Wenhai's heart.

In this way, China's semiconductor design and manufacturing level can save at least ten years.

But on the other hand, DuPont's large chemical equipment manufacturing is also an industry that is crucial to the country.

Even if Motorola makes a fuss, Hu Wenhai will never let them interfere with his transaction with DuPont.

"I can only say a word of sorry for this." After waiting for a while, Hu Wenhai shook his head regretfully and said, "The transaction with DuPont cannot be interrupted for any reason. DuPont's funds and technology are very important to us. Of course, Motorola's conditions also make me very satisfied. This is a difficult decision to choose."

"Motorola is very sincere..." Edison wanted to work harder, but as soon as he spoke, Hu Wenhai raised his hand and stopped him.

"Mr. Edison, if Motorola is really sincere, then I have a choice to offer you."

"Please say it."

“We can form a new company and start from scratch.”

"From the beginning? Sorry, I don't really understand what this means."

Edison was confused. How to start from scratch? The third-generation water lithium battery has an absolute advantage over the first-generation water lithium battery, and the technical barriers that Yizhuhu Company has blocked all possible technical routes.

"I mean, don't use water and lithium ion solutions. Put aside the technical route of water lithium batteries. Consider using polymers as lithium ion carriers."

"The industry has a direction for research on polymer lithium batteries. However, there has been no progress over the years. Even with the most optimistic concerns, it will take ten years to put lithium-ion polymer batteries on the market. In ten years, the status of water lithium batteries will be very solid..."

Appison is worthy of being the technical director of Motorola and has a very sensitive sense of technology and market. Lithium-ion polymer batteries are currently incomplete in theory. If it weren't for the lithium-ion battery that seemed to pop out of a stone, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries entered the civilian market, almost no one was interested in this regard.

It is too difficult to develop lithium-ion polymer batteries from scratch! Even if they are finally developed and have been too long, facing the preconceived third-generation water lithium battery, they cannot shake the other party's market position, and it is probably not worth the loss.
To be continued...