Giant of the times

Li Zetian had seen photos of Zhang Zhongmou in his previous life. He was of medium build, liked to wear suits, had small eyes, and looked amiable. He was born in 1931 and is only 53 years old now. This is not a very old age. Many people retire in their 70s or 80s.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang Zhongmou!"

In the hotel box, Li Zetian smiled and stretched out his hand to say hello.

"Hello, Mr. Li!"

After greetings, the two sat down. Li Zetian motioned with his eyes to Dongfang Yuqin to order the hotel to serve food. Then he looked at Zhang Zhongmou and asked, knowingly: "Is Mr. Zhang still happy with his job at Texas Instruments?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Zhongmou immediately guessed Li Zetian's intention to poach him. Before coming, Zhang Zhongmou also thought about many reasons why Li Zetian asked him to meet, and poaching was the most likely possibility.

At this time, Zhang Zhongmou thought for a moment. Since the other party asked him to meet, he must have already investigated his information clearly, so there is no need to hide it, so he replied: "Although I hold an important position, you know that the company is not I have the final say. I have spoken loudly on different occasions inside and outside the company to increase investment in semiconductors, but the company has never taken it seriously."

"Then do you want to go to a brand new platform, such as Intel?"

"Mr. Li, are you trying to poach me?"

"Yes!" Li Zetian smiled and nodded. "If you can come, you will also be the vice president. Intel will soon establish a new department. In my opinion, you are the best candidate to head this department. !”

After a pause, Li Zetian said frankly and unfairly: "I sincerely invite you to join Intel this time. I believe you will be very interested after hearing about this new department! Intel is planning to create a new business model ——Wafer foundry!”

“All ICs are made by ourselves in our own factories, but in my opinion, the future direction should be to separate IC design and IC manufacturing, and the IC brand is separated from the IC design and IC manufacturing. For example, we are looking at personal computers now. , PC brand, PC design and PC manufacturing have begun to be separated. PC manufacturing is produced through OEM, PC design is ODM original design manufacturer, and PC brand is OEM by computer brand, with slight modifications. Then sell it yourself! Doing this will be beneficial to OEM, ODM, and brand owners!

OEM manufacturing can increase the scale and reduce manufacturing costs.

ODM design only needs to be responsible for designing and developing products. After the products are chosen, they will be sold by customers under their own brands. ODM has no factory, no sales channels, and little pressure, but it can get a share of the pie and focus on technology development, such as the current ARM company.

Brand owners can reduce their research and development time, launch products quickly, and seize the market. "

After Li Zetian finished speaking, Zhang Zhongmou looked very surprised.

"Mr. Li, your words completely reveal the future development direction of enterprises, not just in the IC and PC industries, but applicable to all countries!" He couldn't help but say.

Li Zetian smiled and just stated in advance the more mature business model in the future. Zhang Zhongmou is also extremely smart and can make things happen at a glance. Indeed, in the future, almost all industries will be separated from OEM, ODM and brand owners. Of course, a powerful company is naturally omnipotent. For example, South Korea's Samsung Electronics can do OEM, ODM and brand business!

"So... I wonder if Mr. Zhang is willing to come to Intel?" Li Zetian said with a smile.

Li Zetian told Zhang Zhongmou so much about his unsatisfactory work at Texas Instruments, and he was naturally very moved. Moreover, Li Zetian has been supporting the Chinese, improving the status of the Chinese, and also investing in charity and helping many people. Zhang Zhongmou admires these very much. If he works for him, he will naturally be willing to do so!

At that moment, Zhang Zhongmou no longer hesitated, nodded and replied: "Mr. Li, since you kindly invite me, I have decided to join Intel!!!"

When Li Zetian heard this, he felt happy, stretched out his hand and said: "On behalf of Intel, I welcome you to join!"

The two shook hands!

At this moment, TSMC’s game is over.

There was a knock on the door at the hotel box, and the waiter began to serve the food.

Li Zetian has a great appetite and feels very comfortable eating this meal.

After leaving the hotel, Zhang Zhongmou said: "Mr. Li, when I go back, I will go through the resignation procedures immediately. I will be able to take up the job in about two weeks!"

"OK, all right!"

Li Zetian watched him leave, then took out his Motorola mobile phone and called Intel CEO Andy Grove, telling him that he had hired Zhang Zhongmou, the third most important person from Texas Instruments, to Intel and would be responsible for Intel from now on. The company's "wafer foundry" factory.

"walk home!"

After Li Zetian hung up the phone, he said to Dongfang Yuqin happily.

The silver Rolls-Royce sedan quickly disappeared on the road of Beverly Hills like a flash of lightning...

Two weeks passed quickly, and Zhang Zhongmou's resignation caused a great shock to Texas Instruments. However, the company's main leaders still want him to leave. Due to different ideas, I felt he was getting in the way.

But soon after it was reported that Zhang Zhongmou had disappeared as vice president of Intel, it immediately attracted media attention.

Texas Instruments was also shocked.

Obviously, this was a premeditated resignation! Otherwise, how could you find your next home so quickly?

Not long after, rumors spread from Intel that Zhang Zhongmou was a rare talent. The world's richest man, Chronos Li, did not hesitate to personally recruit him to Intel. He also mocked Texas Instruments for not hiring people, leading to a brain drain.

For gossip or gossip, the media likes to add fuel to the fire and severely disparage Texas Instruments.

"Texas Instruments' top executives have resigned, and people within the company are panicking. The decline of Texas Instruments is an indisputable fact..."

As a result, Texas Instruments' stock price plummeted.

Let's talk about Zhang Zhongmou's official appointment. After learning about the company's situation, he was shocked, "Applied Materials has actually developed equipment and machines like Precision5000. No wonder Intel wants to build a wafer foundry factory!!!"

Andy Grove smiled and said: "When I first heard about Precision5000, I was just as shocked as you. I heard that it was Mr. Li who first proposed the idea of ​​a single chip integrated process technology, and then Wang Ningguo Lead the team to develop and realize Mr. Li’s vision!”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhongmou was shocked again and couldn't help but said: "Mr. Li is really the most talented person I have ever seen!!!"

Andy Grove nodded and said with great agreement: "Well, it is indeed true! By the way, Mr. Zhang, this trip to Hong Kong is a major task. You will be fully responsible for the Intel wafer foundry factory!!!"

"Don't worry, I will definitely work very hard! The outside world says that Chronos Li has a sharp eye and knows people, but I don't dare to embarrass him!"

After saying that, both of them laughed.