Chapter 159

Half an hour later, the reporter was invited out. In addition to Shi Zhenrong, he left one after another.

After all, Xiaoshan has just taken over as chairman of the board, and a lot of things are waiting.

Then Xiaoshan convened the board of directors.

The board of directors is the management organization elected by the general meeting of shareholders.

If the board of shareholders is the highest authority, the board of directors is the highest executive body.

The statutory board of directors shall have no less than five members and no more than 19 members. The board of directors of TSMC has nine members.

The general meeting of shareholders votes according to the number of shares held, and the board of directors votes according to the head.

Like all directors, major shareholders have one person, one vote, even if the director has no share.

The independent directors of Yingguo telecom could not participate and entrusted Cai Lixing, vice president, to vote on their behalf.

Although there are eight directors, there are still nine votes, and there will be no stalemate.

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Gong Hao was also one of the directors. He sat there looking at Xiaoshan with a cold face.

"Dear colleagues," Xiao Shan said in a loud voice as he sat in the position of chairman of the board, glancing at the crowd

"In the future, we will be comrades in arms fighting side by side. I hope we can trust and understand each other and strive for common goals. In the future, I will not participate in the specific management of the company. I will only put forward the concept at the strategic level and you will vote on it."

Chief technology officer Jiang Shangyi immediately interposed:

"Chairman, we have some technical problems, and you also need to give us directions."

He knows that Xiaoshan doesn't understand chip technology, but smart entrepreneurs don't need to understand technology at all, but they see it more accurately than those who understand technology.

In his eyes, Xiaoshan is undoubtedly such a person, just like he can't program, but knows where the needs are. He can command a large group of programmers to make websites, which is worth many times more than programmers.

"Vice President Jiang, please." Xiao Shan was very polite.

Jiang Shangyi said solemnly:

"I don't know whether the chairman understands that with the evolution of the chip process, one of the key links of the lithography technology has to continue to shorten the beam wavelength. All along, the industry has used air as the medium, that is, the" dry lithography "technology.

But now the technology has hit the wall and got stuck at 157 nm.

Lin benjian, our R & D staff, put forward an idea. He wanted to give up the R & D of 157 nm process, return to 193 nm, use water as the medium, and spare no effort to develop "wet lithography" technology.

Now we are faced with the problem of direction choice.

After Lin benjian put forward this idea, the upstream equipment suppliers were furious. Because those equipment manufacturers, Nikon, Canon and ASML, have invested US $1 billion in R & D and spent several years developing a new generation of dry lithography machine.

If taijidian suddenly changes to "wet lithography" technology, it will be useless for them to develop this lithography machine. The efforts of billions of dollars and years have been wasted. We can't buy his lithography machine.

On the contrary, if we adopt the wet lithography technology, we must let the lithography enterprise follow the R & D and production of the wet lithography lithography machine, otherwise the technology will break through, but there will be no lithography machine etching and production.

The contradiction is here.

They are unwilling to give up all their previous efforts and ask us to give up the research and development of "wet lithography" and continue to make a breakthrough from "dry lithography".

So now we are under a lot of pressure. If we let them turn with us, we have to go back to dry after R & D failure, which will not only cause huge losses to us, but also cause great harm to them.

How does the chairman think this contradiction should be solved? Is this direction correct? "

After Jiang Shangyi asked, everyone except Gong Hao looked at Xiaoshan with expectation.

Xiao Shan said without hesitation, "I don't know if the direction is correct, but I know what to do."

He smiled in his heart that wet lithography is certainly the right direction. This has been proved in previous lives, and it is an epoch-making change. It can be said that it is a milestone in the chip manufacturing process.

Even without his promotion, this problem will be solved next year, so that taijidian will span six or seven generations in one fell swoop, directly conquer the 130 nm fortress, become the world's leading chip manufacturing OEM enterprise, and leave the two stars far behind.

This is the real reason why Xiaoshan is eager to take a stake in TSMC. TSMC is on the eve of the outbreak. The best buying point is ah.

After listening to Xiao Shan's words, they were in high spirits and waited for Xiao Shan to point out the maze.

Xiao Shan continued: "it's very simple. Since there is no direction ahead, we must turn. Everything will be developed according to Lin benjian's idea, and ASML will follow the direction. It's enough to have this company. Nikon and Canon don't care."

Xiao Shan said, and several directors looked at each other.

Cai Lixing first explained:

"Chairman, if we adopt the wet lithography theory, we must let the whole industry adopt it, and the lithography equipment manufacturers will follow. If we are the only one, unless we succeed, they won't take risks with us."

Xiao Shan said with a smile, "it's not easy. Won't you be obedient if you buy ASML?"

"I object!" Gong Hao immediately refuted: "the reason why taijidian can become the world's leading OEM depends on focus. We only do OEM and nothing else!"

Zhang Zhongmou has a headache. Taijidian's development strategy is determined by him. He really focuses on chip OEM.

But Xiaoshan is completely another routine, and it can't be said that he is wrong, but these people who accumulate too much electricity certainly don't have the ability of Xiaoshan. They can control a large group of enterprises without making mistakes.

Should we support Xiaoshan?

Xie Jinghe, vice president, asked suspiciously, "Chairman, why did you choose ASML instead of Canon and Nikon?"

"Because the open development mode of ASML is the most advanced. The closed mode of self production of all parts of Nikon and canon is bound to be eliminated. Just like Philips's' big and complete 'will disintegrate sooner or later, and taijidian's' specificity' will become bigger and bigger. That's the truth."

The crowd was so dull that Xiao Shan decided that Philips would disintegrate?

Is that creepy?

But it's really possible to think about it. Otherwise, why would Philips sell taijidian shares?

"Chairman, since you think it's right to be single-minded, why do you let TSMC acquire ASML?" Zeng Fancheng, vice chairman, asked in disbelief.

Xiao Shan smiled: "I didn't ask you to manage him. Acquisition is acquisition. Just like investment, we have not only obtained investment income, but also controlled the most important link of the semiconductor industry chain. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Gong Hao immediately showed disdain:

"Chairman, why should we control this link? We should know that we are Taidao, not the main road, and there is no problem of technical blockade. This may be meaningful to the main road, but it is just a risk for us. In case the wet micro film fails, the loss will not be greater?"

Xiaoshan smiled: "it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you object. Let's raise our hands to vote."

Jiang Shangyi took the lead in raising his hand, because there is no lithography machine, so ASML must be developed synchronously.

Zhang Zhongmou also raised his hand. He didn't agree with the acquisition, but he didn't want Xiaoshan's first proposal to be rejected, which easily discouraged Xiaoshan.

When he raised his hand, Shi Zhenrong raised his hand.

Shi Zhenrong is an independent director whose main responsibility is supervision and does not excessively participate in decision-making. For such a proposal without benefit transmission, he fully respects Zhang Zhongmou's opinions.

Now with Xiaoshan, there are four votes.

The remaining Cai Lixing, Zeng Fancheng, Gong Hao and CFO did not raise their hands.

As a result, the resolution was not adopted.

Because Cai Lixing represents two votes.

Xiao Shan let go and he stopped talking nonsense. These fools don't know what a chance they missed.

After a year, they will regret that their intestines are green.

ASML followed closely with TSMC and took the lead in developing the wet lithography machine. As a result, ASML took the lead and completely occupied the high-end lithography machine market.

The dry lithography machine developed by Nikon and canon, with an investment of more than $1 billion, was eliminated before it was sold.

One step behind, you will never catch up.

Nikon and Canon gave up the market share of high-end lithography machines and stopped research and development.

As a result, ASML's market share soared directly from 20% to 80%, and its market value increased more than five times.

But this outcome, these seven people are absolutely unexpected.

Jiang Shangyi was afraid of Xiao Shan's anger and hurriedly asked, "how can we coordinate this matter with ASML?"

"I personally coordinated and immediately contacted adier, chairman of ASML." Xiao Shan answered calmly.

"Ah?" seven people were stunned. Are you two chairmen communicating about technical problems?

Xiaoshan smiled and said, "just follow the direction of wet micro shadow, and I'll make ASML obedient."

Shi Zhenrong asked tentatively, "Chairman, do you want to buy ASML yourself?"

"That's right." Xiao Shan didn't deny it.

Zhang Zhongmou was immediately shocked. If wet lithography failed, Xiaoshan's investment loss would be great.

Gong Hao sneered. Xiaoshan bought ASML entirely for the sake of the road. Which is for taijidian?

Shi Zhenrong is thoughtful. He doesn't think Xiaoshan is for the road. Otherwise, this step is too far. The semiconductor industry on the road doesn't even have a prototype. Why do you control the lithography machine?

Zhang Zhongmou simply dialed the chairman of ASML and handed the phone to Xiao Shan.

"Mr. Adele, this is Xiao Shan," Xiao Shan said directly in English.

"Mr. Xiaoshan, congratulations on your election as chairman of TSMC," adier said enthusiastically.

"I want to visit ASML and talk to you face to face. I don't know when it's convenient for you?"

"Oh, I'm at the headquarters of he Lanwei Hefen. Chairman Xiao is welcome to visit at any time."

"OK, I'll leave immediately." Xiao Shan hung up the phone and simply said to the people, "that's all for today."

Zhang Zhongmou hurriedly asked, "Chairman, what is your strategic plan?"

Xiaoshan glanced around the crowd and said with a smile, "my original plan was to acquire ASML and seize the commanding height of science and technology. Didn't you veto it?"

With that, he walked out of the meeting room directly, leaving seven directors with an ignorant face.

They couldn't guess whether what Xiao Shan said was true or false.