Chapter 639

"Dong Li, I didn't expect you to be familiar with Mayor Chen and Mr. Song." In the car, Cao Xingcheng said to Li Feng with a smile.

"I didn't expect my arrival. I was flattered to let them come together. However, I came only because I am interested in the United States. I don't want to know anything else. I don't participate in politics, do I? If we can reach cooperation, we may stay a few more days. If there is no chance of cooperation, I will leave here soon. " Li Feng replied with a smile.

"I really envy Dong Li's carefree and comfortable. Although the fire caused heavy losses to liandian and the pressure from all parties increased greatly, it did not hurt our muscles and bones. We have several other factories. As long as we integrate, the production capacity is actually no worse than any one."

Obviously, although Cao Xingcheng is willing to cooperate, the meaning in his words is still very clear. He just wants to express that even though liandian has suffered heavy losses in the fire, its strength is still there. Whoever wants to fight the autumn wind is dreaming.

Similarly, since Li Feng has been invited, there is naturally an opportunity for cooperation. As for the final outcome, it depends on the abilities of all parties.

"Yes, I heard that several factories were established in cooperation with IC design companies. Among the factories of liandian, it seems that you have set up your own IC design department since last year.

Although the cooperative investment in building factories has indeed opened up the market for liandian, as far as I know, because you have established an independent design department, these design companies are worried about the leakage of product design technology, which is not a day or two.

TSMC is not so confused. I think Cao Dong should be worried about this. Nowadays, liandian is in the most difficult period, but in my opinion, don't you think this is also an opportunity to solve the problem.

There's a saying I've always believed in, 'crisis, crisis is organic', what do you think? "

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After listening to Li Feng's words, the old man with a flash in his eyes said positively: "yes, these are the biggest difficulties at present. Although cooperating with the design company has advantages, such as being able to develop the market and get orders, it is also inconvenient.

First, as you said, design companies are worried about technology outflow. Second, each foundry undertakes production design independently, and the mutual cooperation between different factories restricts the production capacity. This is also the reason why our capacity can not go up. What do you think we should do? "

"Hehe... I think it should not be difficult for Cao Dong. Since there are difficulties in cooperation, it's OK for one party to withdraw, isn't it?

If we reorganize Tailian power and completely separate the IC design department from the OEM, I wonder if President Cao is interested? Or directly acquire the shares of other people's design companies, which is the most convenient and direct. "

"I'd like to, but it takes a lot of money to acquire the other party's factory shares. Liandian can't get so much money for the time being."

Obviously, Cao Xingcheng pays more attention to the direct acquisition of OEM.

"Ha ha... Isn't that why I came here?"

"That's true. Moreover, I think with your influence in the United States today, Mr. Li, perhaps after real cooperation, it should be conducive to our market development."

"Hehe... I can't guarantee this. However, I naturally pay attention to the development of my company."

Sure enough, people also have a heart. If Li Feng can take a stake in liandian and become a major shareholder, he will not only integrate funds, but also have Li Feng's influence in Meidi, which must be very good for the development of the company. After all, Meidi is a big country in chip design, production and consumption.

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Since he wants to get involved in liandian and take a stake in the wafer foundry, Li Feng naturally has an understanding of these.

At first, the semiconductor and chip industries can be traced back to the former leader of the semiconductor industry, Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild Semiconductor is known as the "West Point Military Academy" in the semiconductor, electronics and computer industries.

The departure and departure of a batch of elite talents has led to the glorious history of Meidi Silicon Valley. For example, Intel and AMD, which now occupy more than half of the country's semiconductor chips, were founded by the elite talents of Fairchild company.

At first, the major semiconductor companies adopted the strategy of taking all the responsibility, that is, the company is responsible for both design and production. In this way, there is a problem, that is, the cost problem.

Semiconductor chip design and R & D is often the R & D capital of one billion US dollars, and the design of chip manufacturing factories and the R & D of new manufacturing technologies are not inferior to and only a lot more than chip design.

This makes the semiconductor industry a technology and capital intensive and expensive enterprise. After all, it often starts with a unit of US $1 billion. As a result, several giants are firmly in control, and the latecomers have almost no chance to insert.

Under the background of this semiconductor industry, the semiconductor industry of wanwan has taken a bold and innovative step, that is, dividing design and manufacturing into two, which gave birth to two semiconductor industries, namely chip design and chip manufacturing.

This subdivision has greatly reduced the cost of finding food in the semiconductor industry, and the market originally controlled by a few oligarchs has changed. Zhang Zhongmou of Jidian is considered to be the initiator of this change.

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In the late 1980s, Zhang Zhongmou, who was also the global vice president of Texas Instruments, was invited by wan wan to develop the semiconductor industry here.

In the later history, most people know that Zhang Zhongmou finally established a wafer foundry focusing on chip manufacturing, that is, TSMC. Later, TSMC became one of the giants in the global semiconductor industry.

Naturally, with the rapid development of Jidian, Zhang Zhongmou has become a hero and Savior of the whole bay semiconductor industry. Even in the global semiconductor industry, he has also made a great reputation. After all, because of a major innovation of Jidian, two chip industries have been born.

However, just when people thought that Zhang Zhongmou of Jidian was the initiator of this great innovation, another person in wanwan disagreed, that is Cao Xingcheng of liandian.

In Cao Xingcheng's view, chip OEM is his own creativity, and Zhang Zhongmou is just a "plagiarist". He has publicly expressed this statement, but Zhang Zhongmou has never responded to it.

It turned out that when Zhang Zhongmou returned to Wan Wan and began to preside over the semiconductor industry, Cao Xingcheng, a subordinate, analyzed the semiconductor industry, then made an industry development plan, that is, a wafer foundry business plan, and handed it to Zhang Zhongmou.

Unfortunately, after the plan was handed in, there was no reply.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Zhongmou completely left the United States and returned to the Bay, he directly established TSMC, a company focusing on wafer foundry and dedicated to chip manufacturing. In Cao Xingcheng's view, this is obviously that his plan has been completely plagiarized by Zhang Zhongmou.

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Since then, Cao Xingcheng's confrontation with Zhang Zhongmou has been going on. Similarly, with the dispute between the two giants, the competition between the two companies also began. For example, before the 1990s, whether it was Jidian or liandian, the boss of the company was Zhang Zhongmou. As a result, in the early 1990s, Cao Xingcheng passed a series of operations to drive Zhang Zhongmou out of liandian and control him in his own hands.

The competition between liandian and Jidian has become a wonderful game in the Bay semiconductor industry and even the global chip manufacturing industry in the past two years.

Every game between the two can cause waves in the global semiconductor industry. After all, the chips of most semiconductor design companies are produced by these foundry factories specializing in chip manufacturing, and liandian and Jidian are the largest two poles of chip manufacturing factories.

Well, the question about who put forward the idea of the wafer foundry project was first exposed by Cao Xingcheng in front of the media. He said that Zhang Zhongmou plagiarized his project idea, and Zhang Zhongmou didn't officially respond to it in the media.

However, Li Feng believed what Cao said. I think Cao Xingcheng shouldn't lie about this. Maybe it's true. After all, with Cao Xingcheng's current status in the semiconductor industry, there is no need to lie. Today's liandian is not inferior to TSMC. Now is not the time for TSMC to dominate the world in the future, and Zhang Zhongmou has no clear refutation. In Li Feng's opinion, it means a little tacit recognition.

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As for why the Gulf government let Zhang Zhongmou take power in the first place, in fact, it is well understood that Zhang Zhongmou returned from the United States and was specially hired by the government; Cao Xingcheng, however, rose from the mainland and was initially a small minion in government departments.