I Am the President of the University

"how do I say this?!"

The two deans asked questions almost at the same time.

There is no way, TSMC is too important to the economy of Baodao!

If Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) and TSMC choose one of the two, they will give up Hon Hai Group without hesitation.

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

The largest shareholder and actual control of TSMC is under the Executive Yuan. It is truly a "provincial enterprise", which is also related to their small treasury.

Zhang Zhongmou looked a little gloomy and was not in a good mood. He waved his hand and said, "Let Deyin explain it to you two."

Liu Deyin, who was acting as a transparent person on the side, suddenly became energetic. He didn't dare to interrupt the three big bosses, and now he finally had a chance to show off. \b

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

Liu Deyin's words deeply impressed the two deans.

The bulk of TSMC's orders come from beautiful countries, followed by the mainland.

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

Previously, TSMC had lost orders from Huaxing due to problems with Washington.

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

TSMC also wants to supply Huaxing. After all, it can make a lot of money, but it is afraid of being discovered by Washington. It just hopes that the orders lost with Huaxing can be replaced in the beautiful country.

But now that Guanghua has messed with him, all subsequent plans are in chaos.

"Currently, TSMC's 3nm chips are difficult to produce and may not be solved until next year. As for mass production..." At this point, Liu Deyin's face became a little heavy.

He had no choice but to continue with difficulty: "If we are optimistic, mass production will not be completed until the first half of 2023. It will be okay if there is no optical core, but once the optical core comes out, let alone 3nm chips, even 1nm chips will not be able to handle it!"

"You mean that if TSMC wants to survive, it must reach a cooperation with Guanghua and get production orders for optical cores?" Dean Jiang said with a headache.

However, Vice President Xie frowned and asked two key questions, "How long will it take for the optical core to be available? Don't we have any other ways to deal with it?"

Liu Deyin and Zhang Zhongmou looked at each other.

Looking at Dean Jiang and Dean Xie who looked hopeful, Zhang Zhongmou had no choice but to pour cold water on him and said: "According to our internal calculations, Guanghua's optical core research has made breakthrough progress. If everything goes well, it can be broken by the end of 2021. Mass production will probably be achieved in the spring of 2022. As for the countermeasures..."

Zhang Zhongmou raised his head and said bitterly: "Unless we can develop chip technology with stronger performance than optical cores before the spring of 2022."

"Is this possible?" Dean 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 was too shocking, so he added a 1 after the duck egg.

Dean Jiang's eyes turned black, and he felt like the world was spinning.

However, Vice President Xie could still stay 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 optical cores?"

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

As the godfather of Baodao Semiconductor, both the one at SMIC and Liang Yiqing at Guanghua were once his generals. \b

After Dr. Liang Yiqing left TSMC, he successively worked for Samsung and SMIC, using his own abilities and talents to bring a leap forward to the chip manufacturing processes of these two companies.

But he remained stable.

Although I was a little nervous, my mind was stable.

But only this time...

He panicked!

There is a huge gap between photonic chips and electronic chips!

It’s not about improving chip performance by 20% or 50%, but by 1000%!

A gap of more than ten times is completely cheating. It is obviously a technology that cannot be achieved with current technology, but the magical mainland actually did it.

Zhang Zhongmou was extremely depressed.

Having single-handedly created TSMC 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 will be no way out!

That magical land has created many myths.

Especially in terms of infrastructure...

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

If Guanghua was purely engaged in chip design, similar to Huaxing's HiSilicon Kirin, he wouldn't be afraid. Chip manufacturing cannot bypass TSMC anyway.

But the other party invited Liang Yiqing, built an optical core industrial park in Ludao, and convened many chip manufacturing-related companies from the mainland. This combination came down...

He knew that Guanghua wanted to create the Samsung model, handle everything from chip design to chip manufacturing by itself, and also beautify and localize it from beginning to end.

If we don't get involved, when Guanghua Integrated Circuit's production capacity increases, TSMC will really have no role to play!

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

Dean Jiang's IQ suddenly came back to his senses. \b

"Does Dean Jiang have any clever tricks?" Zhang Zhongmou chuckled, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

Dean Jiang was speechless for a moment, but still said worriedly: "We will offend Washington!"

"Offending Washington? Actually, that's not necessarily the case." Zhang Zhongmou said with a raised brow.

"Oh, what should I say?" Vice President Xie asked.

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

"We want to survive, and Apple also wants to survive. What Washington has to face is the guys on Wall Street, and the outcome is hard to predict."

Vice President Xie nodded thoughtfully.

Only Dean Jiang shook his head like a rattle and said firmly:

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

"Xiao Cai doesn't agree?"

Vice President Xie sneered, stood up suddenly, and looked down at President Jiang.

"The interests involved in TSMC are not something that she, Xiao Cai, can decide!"

After saying that, he ignored this pig-like teammate and reached out 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 invite them to make an appointment to sit down and discuss the conditions. However, our own chip research and development cannot be left behind. It is best to have I have my own technology, so I’ll leave it to you.”

"Well, I can only say that I tried my best." Zhang Zhongmou sighed helplessly.

A meeting ended unpleasantly.

After Zhang Zhongmou and the two left, they went directly back to Hsinchu. As for President Jiang, he left the Executive Yuan and went straight to XX Mansion to report to Xiao Cai.

Vice President Xie went to visit several families.

Xiao Cai is nominally the leader of the Baodao area, but there are some things that Xiao Cai cannot have the final say on.

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

Three days later.

Baodao still sent an invitation to the other side.

Countdown to the convening of the four-party talks.

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ps: I wrote about a certain region and used a lot of homophones to avoid being sensitive. Some parts may be deleted later, so please try to read it as soon as possible.

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