Chapter 539： choose

TSMC headquarters building.

In the chairman's office, we welcomed a special visitor today.

A 91-year-old man with white hair in a suit, black-rimmed glasses.

And sitting opposite the old man is a respectful middle-aged man, the current chairman of TSMC Liu Deyin (homonym).

While the two were talking, the phone on the table rang.

Liu Deyin answered the phone, and after ten seconds, the expression on his face became solemn.

"I'm waiting for you in the office, and Dong Zhang is there too."

After hanging up the phone, the old man raised his brows, "What's the matter?"

Liu Deyin gave a wry smile and explained, "It might be a little troublesome."

After a while, a middle-aged man rushed to the office.

"Chairman."

"Liu Dong."

Zhang Dong in front naturally called Zhang Zhongmou (homonym), a man known as the godfather of Baodao Semiconductor.

Although the other party has left TSMC in June 2018, in the minds of TSMC, Zhang Zhongmou will always be the chairman.

Zhang Zhongmou, an American from Zhejiang Province, was born in Ningbo and studied in Shancheng. He went to the United States to study in 1949, and then came to Baodao to establish TSMC.

And what is the status of TSMC in Baodao today?

A TSMC company uses 30% of Baodao's electricity!

Even if there is a power outage in the Executive Yuan, the power of the TSMC fab cannot be stopped, which is evident from this.

After saying hello, Zhang Bingheng, the current deputy general manager of human resources, could not help handing the list to Liu Deyin.

"Dong Liu, this list is the list of employees who have applied for resignation in the last half month. You should read it first."

Liu Deyin took over and scanned the names on the list...

【Hu Qing】

【Li Ziwei】

【Linbei】

...

Although many of them are engineers in the R&D department, they have not found anything related to the core department.

And the number is only a few dozen. As a large international company with more than 40,000 employees, it is normal for dozens of people to leave.

Even companies like Apple and Microsoft have employees leaving. Although TSMC is the largest company on the island, there are always some employees who leave for various reasons.

"Is there any problem with this list?" Seeing that there were few familiar names above, Liu Deyin was not suspicious. After passing the list to Zhang Zhongmou, he looked at Zhang Bingheng suspiciously.

"It's normal for employees to leave, but 90% of this list is from the R&D department, and the employees are all newcomers who have been in the company for less than 5 years. I felt something was wrong. I investigated and found that Guan Yi may be among them. "..." Zhang Bingheng said with an unpleasant expression.

"Guan Yi..." Liu Deyin had a headache, and the three big men here are not unfamiliar with this name.

Baodao has pro-beautiful, pro-Japanese, and naturally there are pro-China.

Guan Yi is the pro-China person, and his position in the R&D department of TSMC is not low, especially when he was very close to Liang Yiqing.

With such an association, this resignation list may not be very simple.

"This year, the company invested and built a factory in the United States, and there are also some internal opponents, plus Liang..."

Speaking of this surname, Zhang Bingheng paused and said uncomfortably, "Liang is in Ludao now, and many employees would rather choose to go to Ludao than the United States."

Although in the eyes of many people on Baodao, the mainland is still very backward, the people who have this kind of thinking are basically people with low cultural level.

Those who can enter TSMC are the most outstanding elites on the island, and they will not be so ignorant of the mainland.

The relationship between Baodao and Hu Province is quite complicated. The two places have similar accents and basically the same food culture.

In recent years, with the rise of the mainland, many people from Baodao choose to come to Hu Province for development. Compared with the distant United States, it seems that Ludao and Rongcheng are also a good choice.

"Dong Liu, do you want to start a non-compete agreement?" Zhang Bingheng asked.

The non-compete agreement is also called the non-compete agreement. Some core employees of the company will sign this agreement, which will prohibit job-hopping to companies in the same industry within a certain period of time.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you can't change jobs after signing. As long as the original company does not pay non-compete compensation, the agreement will become invalid.

"This……"

Liu Deyin hesitated. Most of the non-compete agreements on this list were signed. As long as the compensation procedure was started, they could not go to Guanghua IC.

But...that would tear him apart from Guanghua.

Obviously, Guan Yi is in series with some R&D personnel who jumped to Guanghua, and it seems that it is not possible to not start the compensation process.

Finally, he looked at Zhang Zhongmou.

Zhang Zhongmou sighed and asked the two a question.

"How long do you think it will take to develop the optical core on the other side?"

Liu Deyin and Zhang Bingheng were silent.

It is only a matter of time before the optical core is successfully developed. With Liang Yiqing joining Guanghua, the shortcomings in chip manufacturing will most likely be made up for.

As for the final packaging and testing, the technology in the mainland is already at the international top level, but it is held back by chip manufacturing.

Where should the huge TSMC go?

"In the United States, after all, it is still unreliable, and the company's focus must be adjusted!" Zhang Zhongmou was actually a little annoyed when he mentioned that country.

At present, TSMC has a total of 28.05 billion shares, including 25.93 billion listed shares and 2.12 billion unissued shares.

To put it simply, in the ownership structure, the Zhongbao Island government holds 6.38%, financial institutions hold 2.8%, other legal persons hold 4.55%, foreign institutions and foreigners hold 78.48%, and individuals hold 7.79%.

It sounds like TSMC is controlled by foreigners, so many mainland companies began to rumor that TSMC is controlled by the United States, but it is not.

Although 78.48% are controlled by foreigners and foreign institutions, the "foreign" here actually refers to investment institutions, mutual funds and individuals outside Baodao, and even a lot of funds come from China.

These investments are scattered and have no impact on TSMC's production and operation. In fact, the largest shareholder is the Baodao Executive Yuan. In addition, TSMC executives and employees also hold a lot of shares, and they have also reserved 7.56% of the shares are used for employee incentives, and TSMC is still a "provincial enterprise" in Baodao.

The reason for relying on the United States, of course, is that technology is controlled by the United States. If it does not turn to the United States, the tragedy of Huaxing can also be staged at TSMC.

"Will this offend Washington..." Liu Deyin said worriedly while suppressing his inner anger.

TSMC's top two customers are Apple and Huaxing. The two mobile phone chip giants contributed more than 40% of TSMC's revenue, but because of the old America...the loss of Huaxing as a major customer.

In order to make up for this missing share, I had to rely on Lao Mei, only to find out...

Investing in a factory in the United States is a huge pit!

This is completely on a road of no return, and in the end, I have to go on swallowing my breath.

"If there is no optical core, naturally you can't offend Washington, but once the optical core is available..."

Zhang Zhongmou rubbed his eyebrows and sighed, "That's the end of our TSMC."

"It's really troublesome, I'll contact the Executive Yuan later, this matter must be communicated."

Liu Deyin frowned. The importance of TSMC to the economy of Baodao is too great. Once TSMC has an accident, it will be a heavy blow to the economy of the entire Baodao!

On the other hand, Zhang Bingheng, the deputy general manager of human resources, who was regarded as the background board, was a little stunned. According to the dialogue between Zhang Zhongmou and Liu Deyin, the impact of that...

Zhang Zhongmou stood up and said to the two in a serious tone: "For tsmc (TSMC), the most important thing at the moment is to survive!"

"Please!" After speaking, Zhang Zhongmou bowed deeply.

Liu Deyin and Zhang Bingheng also quickly responded by bowing.

After processing Zhang Zhongmou left, after all, he had stepped down as the chairman of the company.

But outside the company building, Zhang Zhongmou got in the car and went to the east to take a deep look.

"Liang, this time you won."

...

Two days later.

Guan Yi, who had already got in touch with Liang Yiqing and was busy connecting with him, suddenly found that many technicians who were hesitant before had agreed, and the resignation procedure seemed to be surprisingly smooth?

Thinking about it carefully, Guan Yi's back got wet.

He hurriedly walked to the company toilet, picked up his mobile phone and made a call to go out.

ps: There is only one chapter today... The previous chapters have not been revised, I hope the previous ones can be revised in the past two days, alas.

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