Galaxy Network's IPO raised $1.6 billion, which is a huge amount of money, enough for Galaxy Network to launch a series of acquisitions, merge competitors in the industry, eliminate potential threats on the one hand, and acquire talent on the other hand , patented technology and products, etc., so as to rapidly expand their own strength!
On the road to success, it is to walk past countless "corpses" of other companies, and it will be deadly.
Shopping malls are so cruel, big fish eat small fish, and the strong survive!
Not to mention how shocking the Galaxy Network is when it shows its fangs. At this moment, Applied Materials has finally developed the "Precision 5000 (Precision5000)" device using a single chip assembly process technology.
With traditional technology, one mistake may cause all 48 wafers to be scrapped, but Precision5000 enables wafers to be completed in different processes on the same equipment. The advantage of using this product is: if an error occurs in the production process, the loss is only A wafer.
This technology is the most important milestone in the semiconductor industry!
It is because of this technology that the semiconductor industry thrives, and the semiconductor industry drives the development of technology in the entire world!
It is no exaggeration that the core of future technology is the chip!
Every electronic product you can see has chips, and even biological chips!
After Li Zetian heard that Precision5000 equipment was manufactured, he was ecstatic and could not help coming to Applied Materials in person. At the same time, Intel CEO Andy Grove was called over.
“nd Mr. Groff, this is Precision5000…”
In the laboratory of Applied Materials, Wang Ningguo, the main leader of the project, pointed to a machine and introduced it in detail.
Li Zetian nodded frequently, extremely satisfied.
Andy Grove's face was full of shock. With Precision5000, the number, speed and profit of chip production have increased many times! ! !
After visiting Precision5000, Li Zetian, Andy Grove, and Wang Ningguo came to the office of James Morgan, CEO of Applied Materials, and began to discuss cooperation matters.
Li Zetian said: "Precision5000 is a great invention, and it will definitely be remembered in history! Applied Materials will also skyrocket from now on! Grove, what do you think?"
"Mr. Li is absolutely right! Precision5000 is indeed one of the greatest inventions in the semiconductor industry. Any semiconductor company will flock to it, including Intel, and Intel's chip manufacturing plant. Time for a full upgrade!" Andy Grove said.
When James Morgan and Wang Ningguo heard the words, they couldn't help but look at each other with joy in their eyes.
Li Zetian suddenly said at this time: "I have a better plan! The original machinery and equipment of the Intel factory is also a wealth, and selling it at a low price or stopping production is a loss. Therefore, I think Intel should develop a new business model - foundry!"
Foundry?
Everyone present was puzzled.
Li Zetian explained with a smile: "At the moment, almost all semiconductor companies both design their own chips and have their own fabs. In fact, for many semiconductor companies, the cost of establishing fabs is too high and the pressure is too great, causing capital chains. Nervous. If Intel can make chips for them, and the price is more cost-effective than they do it themselves, then they will choose 'foundry'!"
"Applied Materials launches Precision5000, and Intel's factories will definitely be fully upgraded, but the old machines do not mean that they can't make money, they just make less money. The excess capacity can be used to produce chips for other factories! So, this time it is The best time for Intel to monopolize the chip manufacturing industry!!!”
Andy Grove was stunned. Chronos Li's genius brain is really unusual, and he has created a new business model "casually". If successful, the global semiconductor chip manufacturing will be calculated by Intel. It's... just terrifying! ! !
At this point, Andy Grove was speechless.
James Morgan and Wang Ningguo were also shocked. As a person who has worked, studied and lived in the United States for many years, Wang Ningguo can truly feel a change in the attitude of Americans towards their Chinese in these years. Undoubtedly, all these transformations came from one person, and he was Li Zetian. For Wang Ningguo, Li Zetian, an incomparable Chinese genius leader, made him involuntarily proud, especially at this moment!
Seeing their shocked and adoring eyes, Li Zetian smiled faintly, didn't he just say the foundry mode of adding TSMC? However, Intel was originally a giant in the semiconductor industry. At this time, there was Precision5000 from Applied Materials to help out. The right time and place provided Intel with the best opportunity to monopolize the global chip manufacturing industry!
There is no doubt that good products are reserved for their own use first.
Li Zetian will not let Applied Materials announce Precision5000, but let Intel contract all of its production capacity, until it is finally overwhelmed and can't eat anymore, and then let Applied Materials announce Precision5000. At that time, the semiconductor company suddenly realized that there is such a product against the sky. In order to catch up with Intel, they will also buy Precision5000 in large quantities and replace it.
At this time, Andy Grove had already reacted and praised Li Zetian's suggestion: "Chronos Li, the foundry model you have created is really shocking, and it is bound to rewrite the entire semiconductor manufacturing industry. The pattern!!!"
Li Zetian said modestly: "Computers, game consoles, TVs and other electronic products can be OEM, why can't chip manufacturing? Therefore, the foundry model is not such an extraordinary idea. I believe that sooner or later, someone will think about it. It came out! I just thought about it earlier than others!"
One step ahead, one step ahead!
Li Zetian relies on the memory of his previous life, which is equivalent to opening a plug-in while playing a game. Naturally, he is invincible!
Next, the four discussed in the office for a long time.
Intel has ordered $4 billion in machinery from Applied Materials, not just the Precision5000, but other products, including deposition, etching, ion implantation, thermal processing, chemical mechanical polishing, and wafer packaging essential for chip manufacturing equipment!
After discussing cooperation with Applied Materials, Andy Grove asked Li Zetian, "Mr. Li, where do you plan to build a foundry?"
As for this issue, Li Zetian certainly thought about it.
Hong Kong is adjacent to mainland China and has established a science and technology park. Many of Li Zetian's technology companies have established branches there.
"Building in Hong Kong! Hong Kong is one of the world's trade centers, with developed shipping and shipping, and being established there will help us export chips to all parts of the world! In addition, workers can be recruited from mainland China, which greatly reduces labor costs!!! "
Andy Grove nodded, having no problem with that.
Three days later, Applied Materials and Intel reached a cooperation agreement and signed an agreement. However, the news was not announced to the public.
Since then, Applied Materials has received huge orders from Intel, with abundant funds, and continues to invest heavily in research and development, which will be far ahead of other semiconductor equipment manufacturing companies. At the same time, Wang Ningguo was offered as vice president of Applied Materials and served as chief technology officer, becoming the company's third-largest figure after chairman Li Zetian and chief executive James Morgan.
Intel wants to build a foundry factory, and the first talent Li Zetian thinks of is naturally Zhang Zhongmou, the founder of TSMC.
Zhang Zhongmou became famous earlier than Wang Ningguo. At the age of 27, as a master student who graduated from MIT, he entered the semiconductor industry with Moore, the founder of semiconductor and founder of Intel Corporation, and Jack Kobe, the inventor of integrated circuits. At the same time entered the United States Texas Instruments. After that, in 1972, he successively served as the vice president and senior vice president of Texas Instruments. He was the third person in Texas Instruments, second only to the chairman and president. At that time, Texas Instruments had already become the number one in the world, with 60,000 employees worldwide, half of which were managed by Zhang Zhongmou. He was the first Chinese to enter the top management of a large American company.
However, by the end of the 1970s, Intel was invincible in the memory market. At that time, President Xia Bai attached great importance to consumer electronic products and was reluctant to increase investment in semiconductors. Zhang Zhongmou was too stubborn and unwilling to make compromises. He shouted for more investment in semiconductors, but he was not supported. Finally, he was invited by the Taiwan authorities in 1985 to serve as the president of the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute. Then he established TSMC and made outstanding contributions to the rise and industrial upgrading of Taiwan's semiconductor industry!
Many people call him the "chip king" and Taiwan's "semiconductor godfather", but he is not actually a Taiwanese. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong. He went to Nanjing to study high school, and then went to Taiwan, after a short stay, went to the United States and obtained American citizenship. His undergraduate degree is Harvard University, his master's degree is MIT, and his Ph.D. degree is Stanford University. He has read all three of the best schools in the United States, which is very good.
In fact, Li Zetian was just thinking that since Zhang Zhongmou has little connection with Taiwan, when his career is at a low point at this moment, the success rate of winning him over should be very high.
Thinking of this, Li Zetian immediately asked Dongfang Yuqin to contact Zhang Zhongmou, ask him to meet, and try to get in front of the Taiwan authorities!
If Zhang Zhongmou is on his side, he will undoubtedly reduce one competitor, and at the same time he will get a "general" who can be on his own!
Therefore, no matter which aspect is considered, digging Zhang Zhongmou is a must!
Soon, Zhang Zhongmou received a call from Dongfang Yuqin. At this time, he was very surprised. Li Zetian had nothing to do with him, why did he suddenly ask him to meet
Although Li Zetian is young, he has a good reputation and is already a leader of the Chinese, and can even be said to be the representative of the Chinese in the world! Although Zhang Zhongmou was in Texas Instruments and was a competitor of Intel, he also admired Li Zetian. So, he readily agreed to the meeting.
The next day, Zhang Zhongmou rushed to Los Angeles from Texas, and then came to a hotel in Beverly Hills to meet Li Zetian.
The reason why he didn't meet at home was because Li Zetian was worried that the paparazzi would take pictures at his door, which would cause him some trouble in the process of poaching.