Rebirth

In the previous life, the later UMC was finally slowly declining, and Cao Xingcheng finally left the semiconductor industry and retired completely early, while the Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Zhang Zhongmou eventually became the final winners in the foundry and chip manufacturing industries. The real boss.

The later Zhang Zhongmou’s position in the global semiconductor industry is definitely a top talent. Cao Xingcheng, who originally proposed the foundry project, eventually declined with the failure of UMC. It can also be seen from this that the world is still a hero. of.

Naturally, how the history of this life develops, Li Feng is a little bit looking forward to it, especially if after he really buys a stake in UMC, whether UMC can really compete with SMC in the future, for Li Feng, this is a good one. Career development proposition.

Regarding UMC, Li Feng has also worked hard recently. After reading many investigation reports, he has a certain understanding.

Naturally, Li Feng proposed to directly acquire the shares of the design company and become an independent company of UMC to focus on developing the foundry business. This is also the summary of Li Feng, Wang Chaoyong, Xu Haifeng and others after some analysis.

What Li Feng didn't know was that these strategies were actually the plans that UMC finally put forward in 1999 to get rid of the difficulties of all parties, and provided a great boost to UMC's subsequent development.

Even if it was a two-year delay due to a fire, UMC's strength was actually slightly inferior to that of SMC around 2000, and the gap was not obvious.

In the end, UMC's decline was due to another reason, so I won't go into details here.

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In Li Feng's view, this is the most talked-about complicated competitive relationship between Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and UMC, as well as the dispute between the two Gulf Semiconductor leaders, including this unexpected fire and the financial crisis that is beginning to prevail in Asia. All these have created opportunities for me to become a shareholder of UMC. After all, Li Feng’s joining is obviously very helpful for joining the strength of one party.

First of all, the first point is financial support. You must know that it is not cheap to build a foundry. If you want to integrate several foundries under its umbrella, this requires a lot of money.

The second point is naturally the human resources. For example, Li Feng is now Apple's invisible largest shareholder. If Apple's chip manufacturing is placed in UMC, it will bring huge prestige and benefits to UMC.

For another example, Li Feng can try to contact Samsung. If it can push Samsung to hand over the chip manufacturing to UMC, the influence of it will go without saying.

And there are many things that can be done that can be affected. This is all one of them. If UMC wins the business, the company will naturally decline.

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Talking and laughing, after about an hour's drive, the convoy arrived in Hsinchu and checked into a 5-star hotel that was arranged long ago.

As Bay Bay’s Silicon Valley, even a science and technology park with an annual output value of 10% of Bay Bay’s GDP, there is no shortage of high-end hotels. Unfortunately, Hilton has not yet owned a hotel here.

This time, Li Feng stayed at the 5-star hotel in Hsinchu under the luxury brand Sheraton of Starwood International Hotel Management Company, and it was booked by UMC for Li Feng and his party.

Unfortunately, Li Feng found that most of them were deluxe single rooms and double rooms. Although they looked good, I have to say that from this point of view, Li Feng was really the worst hotel stay.

I was in Hong Kong or the mainland before, and when it wasn’t the top presidential suite of the hotel or simply the villa hotel of the State Guest House, the accommodation environment shouldn’t be much better.

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"Dong Li, it's almost time to see, or else, let's have dinner together and talk about other things tomorrow. What do you think?" Watching Li Feng and his party arrange accommodation, Cao Xingcheng, a UMC leader, couldn't help but smile Tao.

"It's really not appropriate to talk about things today. I hope to reach a cooperation with President Cao and your UMC as soon as possible. However, if we really want to cooperate, it is not easy for us to be sure. Now we can only book a rough plan.

As for the specifics, it needs a professional team to complete it. I want to go around and visit the major factories and design companies under UMC. I don't know if I have this honor?"

"Of course, in the next few days, I will personally accompany you to tour our foundry. I believe UMC's strength will not disappoint anyone."

"Haha..., I naturally believe in the strength of UMC, otherwise I would not fly directly to Wanwan from the mainland, and we would not have this meeting, right?

If it succeeds, maybe I will have more time to come to Wanwan in the future. Perhaps, I should think about whether to find a land and purchase real estate here in Beiwan, so as not to pay back when I come to Wanwan next time. To stay in a hotel."Li Feng replied with a big laugh.

"Oh, I think maybe I can recommend some good properties for Li Dong."

"Haha..., I won't talk about official business today. Since you are a landlord here, I will listen to your landlord's arrangements for the next dinner, and the guest will do whatever you want."

"Wow, you are really not familiar with Chinese culture. If you didn't know that you were from the United States, I would really think that the person standing in front of me is an authentic Chinese. Since you have said so, then Just please!"

"Thanks for the compliment, please!"

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The dinner was quite hearty, and a meal of the unique delicacies of Wanwan felt pretty good.After the meal, a group of UMC people bid farewell and left, but Wang Siqing took Li Feng to the hotel's SPA to relax.

In the evening, Li Feng naturally took Wang Siqing, the housekeeper, into his arms and had a big sleep. As for the luxurious single room reserved by others, it naturally became vacant.

For UMC, through the understanding of this period, including the structure of its major companies and this group of company managers and executives, Li Feng's impression is really good.

It was a pity for Li Feng to see the final decline of UMC. Tonight, I saw not only a group of UMC executives, but also the managers of various branches of UMC.

For example, Cai Mingjie, general manager of MediaTek, a well-known and reputed Asian chip design leader in the future, etc.

Yes, just a few months after the establishment of MediaTek at this time, according to the history of the previous life, a group of companies including Lianyong, Lianyang, and Zhiyuan Technology will be established in the next two years. These original They are all independently developed by the foundry design department of UMC.

The initial measure taken by UMC was to only participate in investment holding, but not to participate in management. The managers of these departments have become one of the bosses of the company, giving full play to the subjective initiative of the design company.

Naturally, and precisely because of this, UMC's foundry finally dispelled the concerns of those IC design companies and laid the foundation for the subsequent integration of several major foundry resources.Today’s Li Feng wants to take a stake in UMC, and he also wants to start doing so two years in advance. From this point of view, several of Li Feng’s subordinates, Wang Chaoyong, etc., are indeed capable people who directly advance the future development plan of UMC. Out.

Naturally, with the decline of UMC, the controlling rights of these companies were slowly taken back by subsequent managers.

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Facts have proved that UMC’s move is right. In the future, a group of companies, including MediaTek and UMC, will create a well-known "joint gang" in Bay Bay, and support most of the Bay Bay chip design.

For example, a group of bosses including MediaTek such as Cai Mingjie, although their careers were better and bigger than that of UMC, these people still have to respectfully call "the boss" when they see Cao Xingcheng. The prestige among people is great.

In this regard, although UMC has finally declined, in terms of talent training, it is even better than SEMC. SEMC is only doing foundry.

UMC’s Cao Xingcheng, in the eyes of Li Feng, is a very good corporate manager CEO. It is a pity that the final failure is really bad.

For example, this year’s fire. Prior to this fire, UMC’s managers once clamored that they would completely defeat the old rival, Jidian, within two years. Unfortunately, the fire caused all UMC’s plans to be burned and suffered heavy losses. , Waited until the integration was completed in 1999, and then slowed down.