Urban Sims

If the first two characters had character flaws and were too philanthropic, and therefore got into big trouble, the third guy was a bit evil in nature.

It can even be said that what he did made people angry.

This guy, named Zhao Renhao, is 47 years old, a shrewd professional manager, and is currently the CEO of Z Guolixin International Company.

Forcecore International is the third private company in country Z to produce wafers of 12 inches or more. Its monthly output reaches 30,000 wafers, and it has introduced a relatively advanced 28nm process technology. This precision process is far behind the international The most advanced 10nm process is more than three generations behind, but in country Z, it is considered a wafer factory with a high level of technology.

After all, under the severe foreign blockade, it can independently break through the 28nm large-size wafer production process. The domestic wafer companies in country Z can be counted on the palm of a hand.

The success of Lixin International can be attributed to one person, and that person is Zhao Renhao, who has served as the CEO of Lixin International for five years.

Zhao Renhao once served as the general manager of the technical department at AMC in Baodao for five years.

Ai Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is the largest wafer foundry company in the world. It has the most advanced 10nm wafer production technology and is second to none in the world in terms of technical level.

During his work at AMC, Zhao Renhao's outstanding work ability made a very outstanding contribution to the company's increase in market share and performance.

However, because the salary was too low, Zhao Renhao decisively chose to change jobs under the temptation of 10% of the shares of Lixin International and an annual salary of 100 million yuan. He stayed at Lixin International for five years.

In the past five years, Zhao Renhao has lived up to expectations and led Lixin International to achieve many breakthroughs from scratch, giving the company's investors great confidence. The company's scientific research team is even more vibrant, has a large number of outstanding talents, and firmly believes that it will continue to In two years' time, after the company's wafer production technology once again achieves a breakthrough from 28 to 22 nanometers, Lixin International's market performance will also flourish.

The technical team is confident, the investors are confident...but Zhao Renhao, the CEO, is becoming less and less confident.

Why do you say that?

Performance.

The main reason is that the company's performance has not been significantly improved.

The annual sales of wafers are less than 500 million, and the annual investment in scientific research exceeds 300 million. After deducting various costs, Forcecore International loses 300 million every year.

For the 10% shares that Lixin gave Zhao Renhao, he has not received a penny in dividends in the past five years.

It's not that Powerchip International doesn't want to achieve results, but the 28nm process is more than three generations behind the international mainstream. The wafers produced by Powerchip International, except for a batch of support orders from the state, are not competitive in the private market.

If it wants to achieve results, unless Forcecore International can immediately implement the internationally mainstream 10-nanometer process, or the slightly inferior 12-nanometer process.

28nm is too backward and has no competitiveness at all. It can only survive in the low-end market.

If we increase investment and speed up research and development, can we catch up and achieve the 10nm process in a few years? Then wouldn’t we be on the same level as other wafer companies?

Shaked his head.

This is impossible.

First of all, the process gap of more than three generations cannot be caught up in a few years. It may take more than ten or twenty years.

Secondly, even if you catch up within a few years, your competitors will not stand still and wait for you. They may have popularized more advanced 7nm and 5nm processes, but you will still be two or three generations behind others and still uncompetitive.

The consequence of not having competitiveness is that it is unable to make large profits in the civilian market and invest in the research and development of new processes and new products. It is unable to form its own hematopoiesis and develop normally. The result is that it will always lag behind others.

Because the leaders are supported by huge profits, they can continuously invest in research and development, maintain their leading edge, form a complete production-research-production cycle, and finally stay ahead.

If a latecomer wants to catch up, it will have no chance unless the leader makes a fatal mistake.

So after five years of hard work, Zhao Renhao, who was full of enthusiasm and ambition, was left frustrated and planned to give up.

He is ready to accept the invitation of Samsung in the United States to serve as the general manager of the technology department of the company's wafer factory.

However, just when he was about to send an email to reply to Samsung, the deep and fascinating branch of the Technology Tree appeared in front of him.

22nm process wafer production technology, free of charge.

18nm process wafer production technology, purchase price: 50 million.

14nm process wafer production technology, purchase price: 100 million.

10nm process...Purchase price: 200 million.

There are also 7nm, 5nm, and 3nm processes, with purchase prices ranging from hundreds of millions to more than one billion, which was completely beyond Zhao Renhao's expectation.

Cheap, really too cheap!

These processes, even the free 22nm, require at least billions of R\u0026D funds to achieve breakthroughs.

The smaller the post-production process, the higher the R\u0026D price, which may be tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or trillions.

The exchange price on this website is only over a billion...

Zhao Renhao rolled his eyes and immediately came up with an idea.

First, he rejected Samsung's invitation, then skipped the 22-14nm process and spent 200 million to directly purchase the 10nm process.

Then, take this information and contact wafer foundry companies similar to Powercore International in country Z to sell it privately.

good!

Zhao Renhao no longer intends to lead his scientific research team and focus solely on studying new wafer production processes. He will focus most of his energy on selling technology as a "second-hand dealer".

Lixin International's R\u0026D funds have been almost exhausted. Even if it has funds, it will take about 3-5 years to fully understand the 10nm process.

If you want to enter the 7nm process in one step and stand on the same level as leading companies, you will need to spend tens of billions of funds, purchase advanced equipment such as single-crystal ion implanters and photolithography machines, and more than five years.

Kelixin International does not have that much money. As for equipment such as ion implanters and photolithography machines, they cannot be purchased abroad and can only be developed by themselves.

However, the manufacturing technology of these equipments is included in the "Wafer Processing Technology" on the TechTree.com and is of a supporting nature.

These technologies are worth tens of billions.

Zhao Renhao got excited. He didn't want to waste any more time. He wanted to make a fortune by selling all these technologies!

Yes, Zhao Renhao, who graduated from university with a major in finance, has never been a saint. He entered the wafer foundry industry because he was optimistic about the prospects of this industry. He switched from AMC to Powercore International because of the 10% stake and the With an annual salary of hundreds of millions, there is never any element of faith in it.

If you want to talk about faith, maybe like all people with a background in finance, what he believes in is money.

Always researching how to get the most money in the shortest time.

Therefore, in the face of these wafer processing technologies opened by TechTree.com, Zhao Renhao's first thought was to sell and resell the technology in an effort to sell it to more customers.

And these customers can be domestic wafer companies in country Z, Samsung companies in the country of the United States, Toshiba companies in the country of the foot basin...

So, through his personal network, he distributed some technical information to these companies, attracting the attention of these companies and... great interest.

Because TechTree.com has a rule that "the technical information on this website shall not be spread abroad", after purchasing and copying the complete set of technical information on "10nm Wafer Production Process", I took the information with me, sneaked in secret, and prepared to take a plane to go to Bangkok. Zhao Renhao, who was conducting transactions with the country, was still noticed by his assistant Yiyi.

Because each bound person's travel whereabouts will be monitored in real time by the assistant Yiyi. Whether he is taking a bus, train, or airplane, as long as his identity information appears in these transportation systems, he will be detected and locked.

Zhao Renhao, who was waiting at the airport, was taken away by a group of National Security Agency agents. It is unknown where he was taken.

In short, for a long time after that, Zhao Renhao seemed to have disappeared from the world and no one could find him.

That technical information was also successfully left on the land of country Z.

The Zhao Renhao incident made Zhou Ming realize that it will be increasingly difficult to ensure that the technology tree network is not exposed and that technical data is not leaked out in the future.

Someone will definitely find a way to transfer these technical data abroad, and achieve a sudden increase in wealth from zero to billions in an instant.

Because no industry in the world is as profitable as this industry.

In any industry, there is no way to make money quickly.

How to prevent the leakage of technical data has become a very thorny issue facing Zhou Ming.