Chapter 543： Tangled Executive Yuan

"how do I say this?!"

The two deans asked questions at almost the same time.

No way, TSMC is too important to Baodao's economy!

If Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) and TSMC choose one, they will not hesitate to give up Hon Hai Group.

If the Hon Hai Group collapses, there can still be the Black Sea Group and the Green Sea Group, but TSMC is different. This is the only company with core competitiveness in the Baodao area.

And TSMC's largest shareholder and actual control are all under the Executive Yuan, a veritable "provincial enterprise", which is also related to their small treasury.

Zhang Zhongmou's face was a little gloomy, and he was in a bad mood. He waved his hand, "Let De Yin explain it to the two of you."

Liu Deyin, who was a transparent person on the side, was instantly refreshed, and he didn't dare to interject when the three bigwigs spoke. Now he finally has a chance to express.

"Generally speaking, TSMC would rather lose the mainland market than offend Washington. After all, the beautiful country has much more orders than the mainland, and because of technology licensing issues, if we offend Washington, we, TSMC, are likely to be sanctioned."

These words of Liu Deyin made the two deans agree.

The bulk of TSMC's orders is from the beautiful country, followed by the mainland.

The former accounts for about 60%, the latter 32%, and the remaining 8% are chip foundry orders from other countries.

TSMC has already lost orders from Huaxing because of problems in Washington.

You must know that TSMC's two major customers are Apple (24%) and Huaxing (16%). After losing Huaxing's orders, TSMC had to turn to Washington and plans to invest 100 billion US dollars in the beautiful country within three years to build a factory.

TSMC also wants to supply Huaxing. After all, making money is not shabby, but it is afraid of being discovered by Washington, and only hopes that the lost orders from Huaxing can be replenished in Beautiful Country.

It's just that Guanghua is now tossed, and the follow-up plan is completely messed up.

"At present, TSMC's 3nm chips are difficult to produce, and it may not be broken until next year. As for mass production..." Speaking of this, Liu Deyin's face was a little heavy.

He had to continue with difficulty: "If you are optimistic, mass production will not be completed until the first half of 2023. If there is no optical core, it will be fine, but when the optical core comes out, let alone 3nm chips, even 1nm can't handle it!"

"You mean that if TSMC wants to survive, it must reach a cooperation with Guanghua and get the production order for the optical core?" President Jiang said with a headache.

On the contrary, Vice President Xie frowned and asked two key questions, "How long will the optical core be available? Do we have no other way to deal with it?"

Liu Deyin and Zhang Zhongmou looked at each other.

Looking at Dean Jiang and Xie who looked hopeful, Zhang Zhongmou had no choice but to pour cold water: "According to our internal calculations, the optical core research at Guanghua has made breakthrough progress. Mass production is expected in the spring of 2022. As for the countermeasures..."

Zhang Zhongmou raised his head and said bitterly: "Unless we can develop chip technology that is more powerful than optical cores by the spring of 2022."

"Is this possible?" President Jiang asked anxiously.

"Yes." Zhang Zhongmou smiled slightly, "The probability is about 0.1%."

In fact, to be precise, the probability should be 0, but this is too shocking, so he added a 1 after the duck egg.

Dean Jiang's eyes turned black, and he only felt the world spinning for a while.

On the other hand, Vice President Xie was still calm, and asked calmly, "So our only way is to maintain a good relationship with the other side, and then cooperate with Guanghua to win the production order for the optical core?"

"If there was another way, I wouldn't come here." Zhang Zhongmou was a little disappointed.

As the godfather of Baodao Semiconductor, both SMIC and Liang Yiqing in Guanghua were all his generals.

After Dr. Liang Yiqing left TSMC, he came to Samsung and SMIC successively, using his own ability and talent to bring a leap forward in the chip manufacturing process of these two companies.

But he steadied.

Although a little nervous, but the mind can be stable.

But only this time...

He panicked!

Photonic chips and electronic chips, the gap is too big!

Instead of increasing the chip performance by 20%, 50%, but by 1000%!

A gap of more than ten times is completely open. It is obviously a technology that cannot be realized by current technology. As a result, the magical mainland actually did it.

Zhang Zhongmou was very depressed.

He founded TSMC with one hand and pushed TSMC to its current position. He is naturally a proud person.

But the situation is pressing, if TSMC does not do this, there is no way to survive!

That magical land has created many myths.

Especially in infrastructure...

The original Xiaotangshan Hospital, the Huoshenshan Hospital last year, and the new district around the capital, etc.

If Guanghua is purely doing chip design, similar to Huaxing's HiSilicon Kirin, he is not afraid, anyway, chip manufacturing cannot bypass their TSMC.

But the other party invited Liang Yiqing, and also set up an optical core industrial park on Ludao, and summoned a lot of chip manufacturing related companies in the Mainland to go there. This combination of punches came down...

He knew that Guanghua wanted to adopt the Samsung model, to solve everything from chip design to chip manufacturing, and to beautify and localize it from beginning to end.

If you don't participate in it again, when Guanghua IC's production capacity is up, then TSMC will really have no role at all!

"But, but if we want to cooperate with Guanghua, the capital will definitely not miss this opportunity, and even lions will open their mouths!" Dean Jiang said with a bitter face.

Dean Jiang's IQ is now online.

"Does President Jiang have any clever tricks?" Zhang Zhongmou snorted and took a sip from his teacup.

Dean Jiang was at a loss for words, but still said worriedly: "In this way, we will offend Washington!"

"Offend Washington? Actually, not all." Zhang Zhongmou raised his brows and said.

"Oh, what do you say?" Vice President Xie asked.

"As far as I know, Apple is also very concerned about Guanghua. In order to get the photonic screen, it did not hesitate to let Wall Street make Washington change some restrictions on Huaxing."

"We want to live, and Apple wants to live, and Washington has to face the guys on Wall Street, and the outcome is hard to say."

Vice President Xie nodded thoughtfully.

Only President Jiang shook his head like a rattle, biting his mouth and saying:

"No, no, Xiao Cai won't agree, and it's not good to go too close to the other side."

"Xiao Cai doesn't agree?"

Vice President Xie sneered, stood up suddenly, and looked down at President Jiang from a high position.

"The interests involved in TSMC are not something that Xiao Cai can do!"

After speaking, he directly ignored the pig-like teammate and extended his hand to Zhang Zhongmou and Liu Deyin.

"I will contact those companies about this matter. As for the other side and Guanghua, the Executive Yuan will also initiate an invitation to the other party, and make an appointment to sit down and discuss the conditions together. However, our own chip research and development cannot be left behind, it is best to have If you have your own technology, it is up to you.”

"Oh, I can only say that I did my best." Zhang Zhongmou sighed helplessly.

A meeting ended unpleasantly After Zhang Zhongmou and the two left, they went back to Hsinchu directly. As for President Jiang, he went out of the Executive Yuan and went straight to a certain mansion to find Xiao Cai to report the situation.

Vice President Xie went to visit several families.

Xiao Cai is nominally the leader of the Treasure Island area, but there are some things that Xiao Cai can't decide.

That night, after Xiao Cai answered a few calls, there was a crackling sound in the room.

three days later.

Treasure Island still issued an invitation to the other side.

The countdown to the four-party talks begins.

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