1991 Starting from the core

Under the moonlight, Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu walked far away, and soon they arrived outside a coffee shop.

The name of this cafe is very melancholy, called Blues. The decoration is very bourgeois, the doors and windows are made of Nordic-style wood, and gravel painted white is piled in the corners to pretend to be snowdrifts. Even the parasols at the door are covered with white traces of snow.

All it takes is an old man with a white beard and a red hat to turn the beginning of September into the end of December.

A string of colored lights was lit under the umbrella. Chen Jianguo and a girl in her twenties were sitting under the umbrella, chatting over a cup of coffee. Seeing Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu approaching, Chen Jianguo quickly stood up and greeted them. The girl also stood up and stood behind Chen Jianguo with a smile, looking at Su Yuanshan expectantly.

"Old Li, Xiaoshan." Chen Jianguo said hello and saw Zhou Xiaohui who was speeding up his pace not far away. He waved his hand over there and turned to introduce Su Yuanshan: "This is the boss lady of the Blues, her name is Liu Yanqiao. "

"Yan Qiao, this is Mr. Li Mingliu from Yuanxin, and this is Su Yuanshan."

Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu looked at each other, and "get it" appeared in their eyes at the same time.

No wonder Chen Jianguo asked the two of them to meet at a coffee shop, and they fell in love with the proprietress.

But since it was the girl Chen Jianguo picked up... Su Yuanshan naturally wanted to give her face. He immediately said with a smile: "Hello, Sister Yan Qiao, this cafe is really good, I have such good taste."

"Haha, Mr. Shan is too polite. I'm just trying to imitate a cat." Liu Yanqiao generously stepped forward to shake hands with Su Yuanshan and Li Mingliu. After Chen Jianguo brought the two of them into the coffee shop, she also stood outside, waiting for Zhou Xiaohui to join them.

There are no private rooms in the coffee shop, but there are not many people there now, so Chen Jianguo led the two of them to find the most secluded booth and sit down.

"Senior brother, why did you fall in love so quietly?" After Su Yuanshan sat down, he glanced at the drink list on the table and found that this place was not pure. It said it was a coffee shop, but in fact it also sold steaks and the like. Western restaurants are more accurate.

"You ask me, how do I know?" Chen Jianguo said with a smile: "At my age, I have no problem finding a girlfriend, right?"

Nowadays, Chen Jianguo is nourished by love. In addition, he has been responsible for communicating and cooperating with several departments. He usually travels all over the country to visit big names in various fields in order to catch up, so he talks a lot more now. He is no longer as taciturn as Su Yuanshan remembered - it can be seen that the environment can indeed change people.

"No problem, I agree with both hands." Su Yuanshan glanced at Liu Yanqiao and saw her taking Zhou Xiaohui to the other side, and the two of them were talking and laughing. Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "I just don't know what his character is like. How about family and tutoring.”

Chen Jianguo immediately raised his head at Li Mingliu: "Old Li, do you think this guy is old-fashioned?"

"That's not an ordinary old-fashioned person - she's older than my mother." Li Mingliu nodded with a smile.

Su Yuanshan looked at the two of them inexplicably: "How can I be so old-fashioned?"

"Shouldn't the first reaction be based on how you look?" Li Mingliu asked.

"Uh..." Su Yuanshan knew that he had been exposed, and he chuckled and said: "Who knows, senior brother, how can you find an ugly one? Senior brother Wenjie can trap Sister Yiwen with his appearance... right?"

"Hahaha, if the second child doesn't lose weight, I think Yiwen will go crazy - her figure... uh, let's not talk about it." Chen Jianguo was about to make a joke, but suddenly realized that this was really unkind and shut up immediately.

The three of them laughed happily for a while. After a while, the proprietress Liu Yanqiao personally brought pastries and fruits. After saying hello to the three of them, she returned to the bar to prepare coffee for the three of them.

…

"Let's get down to business. Senior brother, what are Dr. Zhang's thoughts now?" Su Yuanshan asked softly while peeling the pistachios.

Speaking of this, Chen Jianguo became serious. He glanced around and replied softly: "Dr. Zhang should be very confused now. It will take him three years to officially retire... You have to know that he has feelings for Deyi. "

Su Yuanshan hummed.

Su Yuanshan actually thought a lot about how to keep Zhang Rujin.

You definitely have to stay, this is the premise.

——No matter in terms of qualifications or connections, there is no one more suitable than Lao Zhang to lead the construction and development of the wafer fab. The semiconductor industry is a circle that pays most attention to connections.

Moreover, Lao Zhang now has a "clean life" and will not be entangled in the infringement incident with TSMC in his previous life. As long as he is willing to stay, he will definitely be able to stay.

Su Yuanshan also knew that Zhang Rujin was willing to stay and develop the semiconductor industry in the mainland, but as an old semiconductor man, he still cared about his "perfection" at TI.

Therefore, Zhang Rujin still hopes that he can wait until 1997 and retire after serving 20 years at Deyi before officially joining Yuanxin.

But after the wafer fab is built, no one can guarantee that Deyi will not call him back - you know, the agreement signed by the two parties now is that Zhang Rujin will be responsible for the establishment of the wafer fab, not Zhang Rujin as the CEO of the wafer fab. ——That must be done by someone from Yuanxin.

In order to cope with this situation, Zhang Rujin's idea is to recruit a group of semiconductor talents from the island, and then run in with mainland engineers to set up the entire fab. Even if he leaves, the fab will not be affected.

But this raises the issue of "salary discrimination" - engineers on the island are poached, and their salaries cannot be lower than before. Mainland engineers are "newbies" and their salaries are unlikely to be high.

Put it this way, the salary of engineers poached from the island is basically more than ten times the salary of newcomers in the same position in China.

Su Yuanshan is willing to pay high salaries to the mainland engineers in the wafer fab, but in this case, not only will the cost of the wafer fab increase, it will also cause the collapse of the entire Yuanxin system's wage system...

Now Zhang Rujin's method is to only recruit high-level talents, such as those from Italy, such as Silicon Valley, such as those from Silicon Valley on the island - these people are elites and masters who were retained with stock options. But relying solely on elites, it is obviously impossible to maintain the official operation of a wafer factory. And once Zhang Rujin leaves, no one can really lead this group of people.

The current personnel structure of the wafer fab is centered on Zhang Rujin. The top management is the "international" experts he recruited through his connections. The next level is the "turtles" who returned from Singapore. The bottom level is the majority of fresh graduates.

——Yes, the students who were sent to Singapore by the Department of Electrical Engineering and major domestic universities two years ago have begun to return.

But in order to avoid causing trouble to the factories in Singapore, these people returned in batches.

But even if all 300 people from Singapore come back, they will not be able to support this wafer fab with an investment of more than one billion US dollars. In order for the wafer fab to achieve profitability and achieve technological breakthroughs, more talents with sufficient experience are needed.