Chapter 562: Fuda Microelectronics
In the largest private room of Hongda Restaurant, a large round table with a diameter of two meters was filled with delicious delicacies, but there were only three people in the room.
Fosun International executive director Guo Guangchang, Soitong Group president Duan Yongji, and Lu Yiming.
Guo Guangchang and Duan Yongji are both members of the . This time they invited Lu Yiming to dinner, of course, it was on behalf of Lu Zhiqiang.
In fact, this is also what Boss Liu meant.
The three of them sat down, and Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Senior, there are only three of us. Isn't it too expensive to eat so much?"
Guo Guangchang quickly said, "Not much, not much. After all, you are the youngest richest man in mainland Xia, so you should show your due respect."
As a reborn person, Lu Yiming certainly knew that this occasion must not be an ordinary banquet, so he said directly: "Senior, I won't say any more polite words. Today's event is so grand, it shouldn't be as simple as eating and drinking, right?"
Guo Guangchang clapped his hands and said, "Junior brother is really quick to speak! Then I won't beat around the bush. We heard that you had a dispute with L Company? I also heard that you directly blasted President Liu in front of the media. I don't think you have any deep hatred, right?"
When Lu Yiming heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "I told you that something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. You invited me to dinner today with such fanfare. It turns out you are here to lobby. Oh, I remember, you all seem to be members of the Qinshan Club, right?"
Duan Yongji seemed very uncomfortable with Lu Yiming's straightforwardness. After all, at their level, half-speaking and evasive were the norm.
However, Guo Guangchang spends more time with Lu Yiming on a daily basis, so he is not surprised by Lu Yiming's personality.
"Yes, we are all members of the Qinshan Society."
Lu Yiming said frankly: "I have no intention of targeting L Company. I am not familiar with them, why would I target them? It doesn't make sense, right? These are all media fanning the flames and maliciously taking my words out of context."
Guo Guangchang readily accepted Lu Yiming's explanation, because just as Lu Yiming said, the two sides had never had any contact at all, so how could there be any hatred between them?
Guo Guangchang is well aware of the nature of today's media tabloids.
"It seems that there are indeed some misunderstandings. I told you that you are a reasonable person and you would not make enemies for no reason. To be honest, we came here today on behalf of Mr. Liu to ask what is going on. Now that the truth is out, our mission is accomplished. However, the impact of this incident is still very large. Do you think you should publish an advertisement to clarify it? Otherwise, those unscrupulous media will continue to spread rumors, and the rumors are getting more and more outrageous."
Lu Yiming grinned slightly, as if smiling but not smiling: "Senior, look at what you said. Now it is the media that is spreading rumors about me and Mr. Liu. The culprit is those unscrupulous media. Since Mr. Liu thinks this matter has a big impact, why doesn't he just go to the media directly? Why did he find me? There is a reason for every grievance, don't you think this is the truth? Does Mr. Liu think that the media is not easy to deal with, but I am easier to bully?"
“Ah, this…”
Guo Guangchang and Duan Yongji were both speechless by Lu Yiming. Duan Yongji had no choice but to speak: "But what you said about Mr. Liu choosing the trade, industry and technology route is wrong, and it is not a rumor made up by the media to say that Mr. Liu only has trade, neither industry nor technology, right?"
Lu Yiming admitted openly, "Yes, I said that. I just don't like his trade-first strategy. I just think that technology should be in our own hands. This is my opinion. Is there a problem? Can't I express my opinion? If Mr. Liu is not convinced and thinks I am wrong, then he can show his technology to the public and prove that I am wrong. Then I will go to the TV station to apologize to him in person. How about that?"
"Okay, I'm full. You two can eat slowly. I still have homework to finish today."
Lu Yiming stood up, bowed, then turned and left.
Seeing that Lu Yiming refused to give in, Duan Yongji and Guo Guangchang were dumbfounded. They looked at each other, feeling helpless.
Guo Guangchang was immediately overwhelmed and said to Duan Yongji in a depressed tone: "Old Duan, look at what has happened. What should we do now? Which side should we stand on?"
Although Duan Yongji and Boss Liu are both members of the Qinshan Society, it is definitely nonsense to say that they are as close as brothers. At most, they are just drinking buddies.
Now as a shareholder of Quwen, Duan Yongji has made a lot of money with Lu Yiming, so it is naturally impossible for him to defect at this time.
But we still have to give face to Boss Liu.
"Old Guo, to be honest, this is a fight between CEO Liu and CEO Lu. It has nothing to do with us. We'd better not get involved. Just convey CEO Lu's words to CEO Liu and let CEO Liu figure out the specific procedures. Don't let us get into trouble without getting into trouble. They want us to be lobbyists, and we've already received CEO Lu's reply, so we've accomplished our mission."
Guo Guangchang was helpless and sighed, "This is the only way now. My junior is really a young man who is not afraid of tigers. Come on, let's eat the food and don't waste it."
In Baiyun City, Li Yiwen, who has delegated power, no longer lives as tight a life as before. Many things are handed over to Wen Jindou. He can also sleep until he wakes up naturally every day, then drink coffee and read the newspaper to take charge of the overall situation.
Then he saw the newspapers were full of news about Lu Yiming angrily criticizing Boss Liu.
Who is Boss Liu? He is quite famous!
Li Yiwen quickly called Lu Yiming to inquire about the situation.
After all, he now depends on Lu Yiming for his livelihood, and he is a few years older than Lu Yiming, so naturally he wants to protect Lu Yiming.
"Cousin, I just read in the newspaper that you scolded Mr. Liu from L Company? What on earth is going on?"
Lu Yiming swore, "No, I have no grudge against him. We have never met. Why would I scold him? Those are just unscrupulous journalists who wrote them to attract attention."
Li Yiwen complained: "Don't come on, I don't know your mouth? You must have said nonsense again. If you hadn't said those words, would the reporters dare to write about them casually?"
Even after his true colors were exposed, Lu Yiming did not blush, but instead argued: Lenovo's trade, industry and technology strategy is bullshit, and I am not wrong.
Li Yiwen, who knew Lu Yiming's character well, didn't dwell on this matter too much. It was just Lenovo and Boss Liu. It didn't matter if he offended them. What bothered him more now was that Lu Yiming planned to invest in the chip industry.
Li Yiwen asked: "Are you really planning to make chips?"
Lu Yiming said: "That's for sure, I've already said it."
Li Yiwen said depressedly: "Investment in the chip industry is too risky. This is a super large project that Xiaguo may not be able to accomplish even with the whole country's strength. What can we use to do it? Are you so arrogant just because you are the richest man? Let me tell you, in the chip industry, your 10 or 8 billion is not useful at all! Otherwise, why does the country spend tens of billions of dollars to import chips every year?"
Lu Yiming, who has seen the situation twenty years later, naturally knows how difficult it is to make chips.
"Don't worry, I understand the difficulties better than you do. Maybe even if trillions of dollars were invested, there wouldn't be a single splash."
Li Yiwen said sternly: "Since you know this, why are you still doing it?"
Lu Yiming said calmly, "No matter how difficult some things are, someone has to do them. Maybe some people are just sitting there doing nothing, but I'm fighting for my reputation. Since I was born in this country, I always want to do something. Just think of it as me being a jerk, trying to curry favor with them."
If there is someone else who can shoulder this burden, Lu Yiming would actually be happy to be a salted fish.
But Lu Yiming, who had experienced the chip sales ban, knew that there was no one else in the country to take on this matter.
One of Lu Yiming's small goals is to compete with companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Google .
Unless we stop making this money, we will have to confront America sooner or later. In this case, we might as well prepare early.
It is better to start getting involved in the semiconductor industry now than to wait until you are sanctioned by the United States and then take action at the last minute.
As for how far we can go, we'll just leave it to fate.
Fu Ri University.
After a professional class ended, Lu Yiming was about to leave the classroom when Long Qiquan stopped him.
"Lu Yiming."
Lu Yiming stopped what he was doing and asked, "Professor Long, what's wrong?"
Long Qiquan asked: "Now people are saying that you want to develop your own chips. Is that true?"
Lu Yiming said: "Yes, I plan to work hard in this direction."
Long Qiquan asked: "Do you know Fuda Microelectronics?"
Lu Yiming frowned slightly, murmured "FuDa Microelectronics", then shook his head and said: "I really don't know about this."
Long Qiquan sighed and said, "In fact, in 1998, some people at Fu Ri University had already started researching domestic chips."
At that time, Fuda Microelectronics was born next to the water room of Fu Ri University. Twelve people were determined to develop domestic chips.
To date, Fuda Microelectronics has a team of more than 300 people engaged in the design, development and testing of very large-scale integrated circuits.
This company has a typical "academic" style and can be said to be from a famous school. Since its establishment, it has been accumulated by three generations of people.
Lu Yiming was a little surprised and said, "I'm not really sure about this."
When it comes to R&D capabilities, Fuda Microelectronics is indeed quite capable.
In the 1950s, the famous physicist Xie Xide returned to China and pioneered basic research in semiconductor physics in Japan, bringing out a group of disciples including Zhang Qianling.
In 1985, after visiting abroad, Professor Ye Yanglin realized the gap in domestic semiconductor development. After returning to China, he borrowed one million yuan from Fu Ri University and, together with Zhang Qianling and others, established the Fu Ri University National Key Laboratory of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits and Systems.
At that time, Xie Xide happened to be the president of Fu Ri University.
In order to retain talent, Ye and Zhang wanted to set up a company and found Shi Lei, a Fu Ri management schoolmate who worked in an investment company. Later, Ye died of illness, and the matter was delayed.
In 1998, Shi Lei found Yu Jun, who was then the deputy director of the laboratory, and brought up the company again. He raised three million yuan from an investment company and added the savings of the laboratory members. The twelve founding teams raised six million yuan and registered a joint-stock company. They were the first in Xiaguo's integrated circuit design industry.
As if he had high hopes for this company, or perhaps for other reasons, Long Qiquan started from the 1950s and told Lu Yiming the entire history of the company's development.
After listening to this, Lu Yiming was immediately shocked. He thought to himself, it turns out that there are people who do these things.
However, perhaps this road was indeed too difficult to travel, or perhaps someone deliberately blocked the road. In short, these things did not spread, and Lu Yiming did not even know about this company.
Long Qiquan said, "What you are going to do is actually the same as what Fu Ri University wants to do. Anyway, today's class is over. Are you interested in visiting the company with me?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Of course I'm interested."
Previously, Lu Yiming had spent 10 million to invest in a mechatronics research institute in Fu Ri University, which specializes in the application and development of artificial intelligence technology in the mechatronics field. That is, Yi Si Laboratory. Now, Long Qiquan wants to pull Lu Yiming to invest in Fu Ri Microelectronics.
No. 220, HD Road, Zhonghai City, Zhonghai Fu Ri University Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd.
Shi Lei and Yu Jun were sitting in the office, smoking and worrying .
Doing scientific research is not just a matter of impulse, but requires real money to be invested. It's a pity that in this impetuous era, everyone is thinking about making quick money, and there are very few people who are willing to settle down and engage in technological research and development.
Both of them are in their early thirties. They are executive directors of the company, serving as general manager and deputy general manager respectively , in charge of daily operations. So the burden of raising money naturally falls on them.
Shi Lei frowned and said, "The phone chips designed by the company are still in a loss-making state due to lack of experience, R&D investment, and market trial and error. It seems that even if we enter the market with light assets, we still cannot generate our own blood."
Yu Jun was also troubled by this and said, "That's right. No wonder no one in China is willing to engage in chip research and development. This thing really doesn't make money."
Shi Lei sighed and said, "The key is that the technological gap between us and foreign countries is too big."
Yu Jun was a little unconvinced and said, "If we don't do it now, the gap will only get bigger in the future. By the way, the Growth Enterprise Market in Hong Kong has been launched. Why don't we go public in Hong Kong, complete the IPO first, and then directly issue additional shares. We should be able to raise some funds to survive."
Shi Lei was a little worried and said, "Going public? Is it reliable? I don't know much about finance."
Yu Jun said helplessly: "I don't understand it either, but I have to try it even if I don't understand it. Otherwise, we can't do anything without money."
At this time, Cao Guoxing, who is also the executive director, walked into the office with excitement and said, "Good news, you guys hurry up and get ready, Principal Wang and Professor Long will bring people to visit later."
Upon hearing this, Yu Jun poked his cigarette butt into the ashtray in displeasure and said, "Why is there another visitor? Every time there is a big commotion, and we have to pay for dinner. Where did this leader come from?"
Cao Guoxing quickly explained: "This time it's different. The person who came this time is not a leader, but a student from Fu Ri University."
Shi Lei almost sucked the cigarette butt into his mouth, and quickly jumped up to brush off the ash that fell all over his body: "What did you say? Principal Wang and Professor Long brought a student from Fu Ri University to visit? What kind of myth is this? Could it be that this student is the prince?"
Cao Guoxing, who doesn't smoke, saw Shi Lei's flustered look and laughed: "Of course not, you must know this student, he is Lu Yiming, the youngest richest man in the mainland. I got the news that he may want to invest in our company."
Yu Jun laughed after hearing this: "Are there still fools willing to invest in chips these days? Don't make me laugh."
Cao Guoxing snorted and said, "Don't you guys read the newspaper? Mr. Lu himself has said that he will invest in supporting the domestic chip industry."
Yu Jun muttered, "I know he has money, but I'm afraid that the little money he has is not enough to invest in the chip industry. Besides, he is just a kid. If he invests some money and sees no results in half a year, he will probably just run away."
Shi Lei said: "Half a year is half a year, at least it helps us survive for half a year, it's better than nothing."
Cao Guoxing said: "That's right."
Then he knocked on the table and said, "Stop talking nonsense and clean up the office. Look at what a mess you have made."
He ran over and opened all the windows, then took out the air freshener and sprayed the office inside and out.
Half an hour later, Lu Yiming and his group arrived, and Shi Lei and others went to the company gate to greet them.
"Principal Wang, Professor Long..."
Lu Yiming was very sensible and politely called out, "Hello, seniors."
In addition to Shi Lei and Yu Jun, the other two executive directors, Cao Guoxing and Cheng Junxia, were also present. They both joined the company in 1998 and are among the founding members.
Cao Guoxing is 44 years old and is currently serving as the director of the Industrialization and School Property Management Office of Fu Ri University. Among the four, Cheng Junxia is the oldest and the only female. She was formerly the director of the Electronic Engineering Integrated Circuit Design Laboratory of Fu Ri University and has solid technical skills.
Professor Zhang Qianling, 85 years old, also serves as a non-executive director on the board.
The four executive directors are all members of the founding team. This group of Fudan elites have not had an easy time at many times.
Lu Yiming knew very well how difficult it was to develop the semiconductor industry in Xia Country at that time. Not only did he not get the understanding and support from all sectors of society, but comprador thinking was prevalent at the moment, and the same arguments as Lenovo's boss Liu were everywhere, as if there was an international division of labor and everything could be bought with money.
But the biggest problem in semiconductor manufacturing is still lack of money.
Looking at these people in front of him, some of whom had white hair but were still working hard for this matter, Lu Yiming was moved and couldn't help but say: "Dear seniors, you have all worked hard."
Wang Hongsheng smiled and said, "Let's go in and have a chat while drinking tea."
