Reinventing the Millennium

Morningstar Semiconductor's unconditional offer has entered the second half of the process, making privatization almost impossible.

Yongke Real Estate successfully completed the mandatory offer and will definitely complete the process before the Spring Festival.

Two consecutive offers from listed companies, involving tens of billions of funds, caused the stock prices of real estate stocks on the three exchanges to fluctuate... The actions of the mainland's richest man have attracted widespread attention.

However, this is not over yet. There is less than a month left before the Spring Festival, and there are rumors that Tesco will go on the market this year. Soon there will be news that Ice Core will also launch this year.

Both Yiguo and Bingxin are not small players in their respective fields. The former is one of the two leading players in domestic e-commerce, and the latter has become synonymous with domestic wafer manufacturing.

If they were to go public together... what would this wave of wealth growth be like for the richest man in the Mainland?

Such turmoil in the stock market coupled with specious, real and fake capital actions has caused a lot of discussion in the media. Many financial reporters are already eager to predict Fang Zong's position on the world's richest list.

It is worth mentioning that Mr. Fang’s short-lived bid to become the world’s richest man twice in 2009 made it difficult for many relevant institutions and media to accurately assess Mr. Fang’s net worth.

Yikola exploded the short position, retail investors ate up, Mr. Fang said he was innocent, do you believe it or not?

This once resulted in different agencies providing assessments with widely varying upper and lower limits.

There was some excitement in the public opinion, but Fang Zhuo remained calm. He has actually kept a distance from the media this year. During the National Day last year, he couldn't help but say hello to Pony from a distance on Weibo.

After all, he is a hero, so he must be steady.

For the rest of January's business arrangements, Fang Zhuo left time to sort out the business and problems of each company. One of the problems that increasingly troubled him was that there were differences within the ice core on the next technical route.

Ice Core's budget for 2009 is sufficient. The research and development of advanced processes is not linear. Today's 45nm is still further improving its yield. There are some intense discussions on material processes and technical solutions for 32nm and 28nm, which are still looking forward.

Compared with 45nm, 32nm is based on better materials and continues the old path of reducing size. On the one hand, the ice core is using the previous generation Ge strain process, and on the other hand, it is also studying the second generation high -k insulation layer/metal gate process to achieve better results.

28nm is basically the last node of the transistor planar structure. The next three technology paths of 3D transistor FinFET, compromise FD-SOI, and planar bulk silicon, Bingxin will definitely go straight to it with the two generals Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong. FinFET.

However, the two of them have some differences on the 28nm process plan.

To be precise, Liang Mengsong, Qiu Ciyun, and Hu Zhengming had very different opinions on the front and rear gate plans.

Liang Mengsong's team prefers the gate-last solution, while Qiu Ciyun and Hu Zhengming prefer the former gate-first solution.

The front-gate solution is a technology led by IBM, and the back-gate solution is Intel.

This kind of technical dispute left Fang Zhuo at his wits end. Money was easy to come by, and in the technical field... he had always respected professionals.

When professionals have different opinions... he has always respected the most professional people...

However, with Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong in front of them, how should we judge?

Fang Zhuo also has a rough idea for situations involving technology. Let’s see how leading companies choose.

However, this trick has failed now, because Taiwan Journal seems to be hesitant. It has always supported gate-first in the past, but last year it expressed support for gate-last technology.

However, according to some sources, Taiwan's LP, HP, and HPL do not all use gate-first, but use a mixture of the two solutions.

When catching up to a certain distance, the following strategy is also questionable.

Fang Zhuo heard Liang Mengsong briefly talk about this difference in technical views last year. This month, he looked at the different explanations from both sides. With the progress of research and development, the advantages of each seemed reasonable.

How to settle this situation?

Fang Zhuo thought about it, first of all, he could not be the driving force behind technical decisions, and it would easily hurt internal emotions. Secondly, after many arguments, Bingxin had previously added technologies from IBM, Charter, Infineon, Samsung and Freescale. Alliance, more exchanges may be beneficial.

If external communication and internal research can lead to a unified opinion, even if it is wrong, maintaining the original energy and atmosphere will be regarded as a lesson learned, and you can always start again.

Fang Zhuo lowered the bottom line of his expectations and tried to be optimistic. At least there would be no problem now and in the near future.

On January 27, calls came in from Xiong Xiaoge and Lei Jun, wanting to make an appointment to talk about things. Fang Zhuo had just checked the schedule when another enthusiastic call came from Luo Minghua, his administrative friend in Luzhou.

"Mr. Fang, when will you return to Luzhou? I'll wish you a good year." Luo Minghua once had the reputation of "Chef Secretary-General" and was very familiar with Fang Zhuo.

"Just now I was thinking about when to go to Luzhou to pay New Year greetings to the leaders. I don't have time before this year. I have to go to the capital." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "I will definitely go to you with wine after the New Year."

Luo Minghua laughed a little, talked about the competition between Yi Ke and Penguin, which he was also paying attention to, and then expressed his gratitude.

Mr. Fang is a celebrity in Luzhou and a guest of Anhui Province. His news has always attracted attention. This month, the situation of Hong Kong stocks has also been widely circulated. However, there is a rumor that suddenly a good thing comes to the door. .

On the 24th, Morningstar Semiconductor, a party to the news, suddenly called Luzhou and sought to build a mainland R\u0026D center...

Regardless of what is said in the news, which is both sad and tempered, Morningstar Semiconductor’s industry leadership and market capitalization are definitely popular. In particular, it is extremely suitable for Luzhou, which is now aiming to build China’s semiconductor industry base. match!

How did Morning Star come over?

Needless to say?

Luo Minghua did not call Mr. Fang immediately to thank him. Instead, he made this call after working overtime continuously to implement the situation and settle the preliminary matters of the R\u0026D center.

Mr. Fang thinks about his hometown all the time. Even when he goes out to do evil, he doesn’t forget to pick up things from home...

This behavior is so worthy of gratitude and...encouragement!

Luo Minghua was so sincere that he wished he could appear in front of Mr. Fang immediately and toast him three times!

"The better the industrial ecology of Luzhou is, the better it will be for our ice core. This is also for ourselves." Fang Zhuo accepted his thanks and said it was true.

Luo Minghua smiled and said: "By the way, Mr. Fang, there is one more thing that happened to be discussed by others. I think you are professional in this area, and I also want to hear your opinion."

Fang Zhuo waited for the next step.

"We in Luzhou also have several people who are engaged in group buying projects. They approached the city and wanted to attract investment. Now that group buying is so popular, the city is wondering if they can also invest in it?" Luo Minghua said.

Since January, group buying has become more and more popular and has spread from big cities to downwards.

This has successively included Google’s intended acquisition abroad, Mr. Fang’s domestic investment in Lei Jun, Penguin’s internal and external efforts... Such giants have verified that venture capital is willing to spend money, and entrepreneurs of all sizes are actively working on it. Take a chance.

"The competition will be extremely fierce this year." Fang Zhuo mused, "There are already more than a hundred group buying companies on the market, and you may not necessarily be able to invest in the right person."

Luo Minghua continued to ask: "What if we also vote for rice balls?"

He knew that Mr. Fang had invested in Miduan.com, which was the first group buying website in China.

Fang Zhuo thought: "Well..."

Mi Tuan is not short of money now, and if he is really short of money, he can make up for it immediately. Moreover, he has to consider Lei Jun's wishes, which is a sign of respect for others.

Luo Minghua immediately said thoughtfully: "Mr. Fang, I'm just asking. You don't have to be embarrassed. Since the competition is fierce, let's take a look."

He was really just asking in passing.

Fang Zhuo thought for a while and said, "This is really not an easy investment. Let's do this. I'll think about it after the year and see if there are any other good opportunities."

Luo Minghua wanted to offer Mr. Fang three more glasses of wine.

After the call with his hometown ended, Fang Zhuo's heart turned to Mi Tuan.

Group buying and entrepreneurship has become a bit crazy. Many websites have begun to pay money to attract people, but Mi Tuan has been holding back.

Fang Zhuo had some doubts about this. He felt it was time to do something about it. It was right to seek stability and accumulate operational experience before, but he also had to keep up with changes in the competitive situation.

However, Yi Ke has always respected Mi Tuan’s independent operations. He couldn’t say anything and just kept observing.

On the other side of Miduan.com, Lei Jun also had some doubts. He had long wanted to talk to Mr. Fang, but he could only know what Mr. Fang was busy with from the media.

Just like this, his doubts were amplified. Mr. Fang went straight to Chenxing, and Mr. Liang was defeated. This seemed too easy.

At a glance, seven years have not flattened the general's toughness. What he really wants is to rush forward no matter what, whoever it is... has to re-examine their relationship and future.

Lei Jun knew that Mr. Fang respected him, but seeing the unexpectedly fierce competition in the group buying market, he was worried that there would be problems with the boundaries of this respect.

I have been in meetings for the past two days and will catch up on the weekends.