Chapter 603: Can't be achieved overnight

Zhang Ke saw that Liu Zhicheng had many concerns, so he proposed to first recruit dozens of engineers who had withdrawn from TSMC.

The previous investor registered a technology technology company in Kuala Lumpur, and dozens of engineers were all carrying out technical preparations for the wafer fab construction project under that company.

Most investors choose to withdraw. Zhang Ke only accepts Guo Songyan in the name of any company, and Liu Zhicheng's shares in the technology company will take over those dozens of engineers.

Of course, it is unknown how many technical personnel will stay in that technology company and obey the scientific research institutions sent to Jianye, Hong Kong or Tokyo after the change of ownership; Liu Zhicheng's role is quite critical.

At the visiting site, Liu Zhicheng didn't say much. After sending Li Yuanhu, Luo Jun, Xiao Mingjian, Wang Weijun, Lu Wenfu and other provincial and municipal officials away, everyone returned to the Oak Park Venture Capital Center. Since it was rebuilt from the factory building of the Lifeng Printing and Dyeing Factory, the construction workers are accustomed to calling this place Lifeng Park. The Venture Capital Center and Laboratory Preparation Office are located in an office building renovated in the innermost corner of the park.

Standing on the road, you can no longer see the house with traces of the printing and dyeing factory workshop. The high-end stone veneer outlines the fantastic pattern. A half-meter-high lake stone lying in the flower of the room. The words "Oak Garden Venture Capital Center" are engraved on the front of Hu Shi, which is regarded as the company's logo.

Zhang Ke entrusted Chen Xinsheng to hire a five-person team from Singapore with rich experience in incubating high-tech enterprises to manage the venture capital center and a 300 million-yuan venture capital fund; the current staff of the entire venture capital center is less than 20; half of the office area in this office building is reserved for laboratory preparation.

The preparation of the laboratory and the operation after completion all require first-class research talents, which is exactly what the country is in urgent need. Fortunately, Southeast Asia suffered this disaster, and the electronics industry in Japan, South Korea and other places is also in the worst recession in history. The overseas students who study abroad and stay in overseas electronic companies feel the most serious sense of crisis at this time.

This is a great time to welcome overseas students to return to China. Zhang Ke specially transferred Jiang Wei to Hong Kong to replace Xu Si. On the one hand, Xu Si has his own career and wants to do it. On the other hand, the work of hunting senior technicians in Southeast Asia through Hong Kong's headhunting company must also be carried out quickly.

In any case, the more than 30 engineering and technical personnel who left TSMC earlier were definitely a valuable asset.

This tall factory building, which is divided into two floors of office areas. When you walk in, you will find a six-meter-high front hall. It is spacious and bright. The front desk is backed by a frosted glass wall. A red oak logo made of colored plexiglass and a company nameplate are pasted on the frosted glass wall.

Walk from the arc escalator on the left side of the front hall to the second floor. Under the south window of the second floor is an open-plan employee rest area with a modern art style. Zhang Ke asked Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng to sit in the rest area and speak.

"If you really want to support this fab project, it is not enough without one or two hundred mature engineering and technical personnel..." Liu Zhicheng sat down and said sincerely. Zhang Ke proposed to take over more than 30 engineers who have withdrawn from TSMC. He would naturally speculate that Kumho might force his fab project.

"Uh," Zhang Ke nodded when he heard Liu Zhicheng's reminder. There was no complete technical team, and no core figure like Liu Zhicheng was responsible for this project. Of course, he would not rashly do the fab project. However, he didn't say that. He just looked at Liu Zhicheng's eyes with a calm look and said with a faint smile, "Some things must be done by someone. I am very indifferent to wealth. It is easy to get it and it fails quickly. I am just unwilling to accept that the market of 1.3 billion people in the mainland is just a place for overseas electronic manufacturers to compete..."

"Ah..." Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng were slightly moved when they heard this.

In order to promote the trust relationship between the two parties, in the past ten days, Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan have also roughly learned about the history of Kumho's rise in the past three years. Kumho's market miracle is amazing; like Guo Songyan has been working hard in the business world for so many years, he has seen young talents like carp trees crossing the river, but few people have achieved such brilliant achievements as young as Zhang Ke.

Zhang Ke is a person with a distinct personality, which makes Kumho also branded with a distinctive color.

Guo Songyan and Liu Zhicheng seemed to believe Zhang Ke's words.

There are always many coincidences in history. Even without Liu Zhicheng, Zhang Rujing would lead the crowd to the mainland to establish SMIC after the merger of TSMC.

Zhang Ke just hopes to advance this historical process three years ago.

Although the financial crisis had just passed the first round, Zhang Ke knew about the normal development trend. As the situation in Hong Kong improved, the financial crisis might end several months earlier than another period of history he experienced.

The next three years will be three years for Japanese and Korean electronic companies to recover after suffering a heavy blow, and it will be a critical era for digital signal technology to completely replace analog signal technology; the so-called decline and rise, as long as domestic electronic companies and Kumho achieve great development in these three years, they can squeeze the space for Japanese and Korean electronic companies to revive the 1.3 billion mainland population market.

These three years are crucial.

If there is a possibility, Zhang Ke will still try his best to promote this project, although Liu Zhicheng seems to be a little confident and has many concerns.

Thirty engineering and technical personnel are far from being able to support this fab project. If there are 200 experienced players, Chen Xinsheng may be able to bear the heavy responsibility; then again, if he can maintain a good cooperative relationship with Deyi and do not poach people from Deyi, Deyi may also support Jinhu to build a second-rate fab in the mainland - this is the technology that Deyi has entered the elimination period.

Of course, Zhang Ke has his other plans.

The integrated circuit industry developed into four distinct industrial groups, including integrated circuit manufacturing, application design, packaging and testing, in the mid-to-late 1980s.

TSMC mainly provides integrated circuit manufacturing services to other electronic manufacturers, including packaging and product testing, but does not involve application development of specific chip products.

This is a characteristic of Taiwan's electronics industry development. With TSMC as the cornerstone, it has prompted other companies with chip development and design as their main business to achieve great development.

Taiwan Mingjun Electronics Co., Ltd., the main supplier of disc system control chips, developed the technology of disc system control chips and then commissioned TSMC to produce the final chip products for sale to various disc system manufacturers.

Aida Electronics also has the ability to develop disc system control chips, but it was commissioned to DSA Instruments for OEM.

The foundry model can make TSMC more professional in wafer manufacturing, but it also has its disadvantages. TSMC does not have its own chip products to ensure that the company has a stable profit. Once the entire industry falls into a trough, TSMC's performance will be greatly affected.

The Southeast Asian financial crisis will continue to spread. Not only will the economic environment in the entire Southeast Asian region deteriorate further, but the economies including Taiwan, Singapore, RB and other places will inevitably fall into recession, and the economy of H will directly blow the financial crisis. I am afraid that no one can predict as clearly as Zhang Ke that this moment will not be too far away, and TSMC will also fall into a short-term business dilemma.

This will prompt TSMC's internal contradictions to surface and even intensify.

As long as they can take over the first batch of engineers, when Liu Zhicheng and other engineers under him choose to leave TSMC without feeling that there is still a way out in the future, they will not have too many other choices.

In the next nearly two years, major wafer fabs around the world will fall into a brief dilemma of overcapacity, and Zhang Ke is not worried that the group of engineers under the technology company will choose to leave.

Zhang Ke naturally would not express all his intentions clearly. He chose a very inspiring statement, indicating that Kumho will face the difficulties.

After the five-day business visit, although Liu Zhicheng did not finally make up his mind, he agreed to transfer the shares of the technology company registered in Malaysia with Guo Songyan to a company registered in the Cayman Islands, and Zhang Ke injected some funds so that the preliminary preparations for this project can continue to be maintained.

Although Liu Zhicheng no longer had much confidence in the investment project of this wafer fab at this time, at least he would leave a way out for himself and the group of engineers under his command, he would not immediately escape from this project.

Liu Zhicheng and Guo Songyan returned to Hong Kong, Zhang Ke asked Chen Xinsheng to accompany him, and also asked Chen Xinsheng to accompany Guo Songyan to Malaysia personally, signing engineering and technical personnel who were willing to work in the mainland first in the Ida Group to return to China to participate in the preparations for the laboratory. Other hesitant engineering and technical personnel were placed in Malaysian technology companies to continue to be responsible for the technical preparations for the wafer factory. It is not realistic to bring people back to China at once, but this work must be done unremittingly.

The matter did not make any practical progress, and the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government did not slacken, but aroused greater interest.

Luo Jun, secretary of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee, even found Zhang Ke and asked Jin Hu if he could undertake the project alone. Zhang Ke clearly told Luo Jun that without Liu Zhicheng and his group of engineering and technical personnel, even if he could obtain some second-rate wafer manufacturing technology from Deyi or Singapore charter, Jin Hu would do his own thing to build a third-rate factory at most, and there was very limited room for future progress.

Luo Jun knew that Zhang Ke had the courage to reject Li Yuanhu, so he did not force it on this, but just once again expressed the position of the Jianye Municipal Party Committee. As long as there is a front-line possibility, the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will also do all its efforts to strive for it.

Not only did the Jianye Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government express their stance so firmly, but the central government is also very enthusiastic about this project because the news received from Ye Zhenmin is not easy to support.

Ye Zhenmin visited Singapore on behalf of the Liaison Office of the Central Committee and Hong Kong representatives to discuss cooperation with the Singapore government to resist the impact of the financial crisis. Vice Premier Zhao Jidong has agreed to Kumho and the Jianye Municipal Government to send staff to accompany him to test the Singapore government's attitude towards the move of the wafer factory project to the mainland - this involves whether we can continue to obtain some of the wafer manufacturing technology from Singapore.

In September, Kumho will continue to launch new products such as digital mobile phones and electronic dictionaries. As the general manager of the operation department, Su Jindong will stay at the Haizhou headquarters to take charge.

The work of the overseas product R&D center is temporarily under the responsibility of Xiao Jincheng, general manager of the Overseas Operations Department. In addition, Xiao Jincheng is also responsible for preparing for the overseas sales network, preparing for the successful launch of MP3 players in the overseas market by the end of the year, and also responsible for the recruitment of overseas students.

Chen Hanzhang was in charge of the work of the ESS experimental base, and to continue to develop the latest product technologies, and to consider transferring some of the not particularly important research work to the country first, and to secretly prepare a research and development team to develop mobile phone baseband chips.

In addition to coordinating the overall situation, the main work of Oak Garden is still on Chen Xinsheng's shoulders. At this time, he was responsible for taking on the heavy responsibility of the wafer fab project without hesitation.

Yuexiu Holdings also made equity adjustments at the end of August. Sun Shangyi became the chairman of Yuexiu Holdings. Zhang Ke hoped that Jinhu would be able to exert his influence when he went to Southeast Asia to pick up fruits. However, at this time, Sun Shangyi had to negotiate with the Huishan Municipal Government on behalf of Yuexiu Holdings to discuss the infusion of funds for Xiang Xuehai.

The hedge fund affairs can only be left to Ye Jianbin, Nick Lisen and others to stare together.

On September 4, Zhang Ke temporarily threw everything aside and returned to Haizhou. September 6 was the first day for freshmen from Donghai University to register.
Chapter completed!