In recent years, the new economic wave has surged, and many new wealthy people in the technology industry have emerged unknowingly. Even though they have tens of billions of net worth, their names are rarely mentioned.
Huang Minqi, chairman of Hanmin Technology, is a geek in the semiconductor industry. Although he has a net worth of tens of billions and his Hanmin Technology is the largest semiconductor equipment company in Taiwan, few people have noticed it, let alone why Huang Minqi makes money like this. deep.
Why is Huang Minqi’s money-making pocket so deep!
Hanmin Technology Chairman Huang Minqi (middle)
2022 Forbes China Taiwan Rich List, a total of 50 rich people are on the list. If it is the most low-key and quietly making a lot of money, Hanmin Technology Chairman Huang Minqi is one of them. Huang Minqi ranks 34th among Taiwan's 50 richest people, with a net worth of 1.55 billion yuan. If converted according to the latest exchange rate, his net worth is approximately 10.325 billion yuan.
Huang Minqi has been on the list for many years, but most people don’t know why his money-making pockets are so deep, and the media rarely reports on him. He can be called a typical invisible version of a semiconductor tycoon who makes a lot of money in a low-key manner.
Huang Minqi is an academician of the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute. He founded Hanmin Technology in Taipei in 1977. He started as an equipment agent and system integration, and later transferred to the R&D and manufacturing of semiconductor equipment, from 4 inches to 12 inches, helping to establish semiconductor factories in the Asia-Pacific region. More than 164, equipped with more than tens of thousands of semiconductor equipment.
Huang Minqi is the first Chinese chairman of the Global Semiconductor Equipment Organization (SEMI). He pioneered the technical service model of Taiwan's equipment industry agent, and successfully developed the first "electron beam detector" and "ion beam detector" invested and developed by Chinese. implant machine". It was Huang Minqi who invested in two corporate brands, Hanchen Technology and Hanmin Micro, which broke the past situation where semiconductor equipment was dominated by foreign companies.
Huang Minqi, Chairman of Hanmin Technology
Since Hanmin Technology is not listed, only Hanmin Micro, a subsidiary of the group, was listed on the Taiwan stock market in 2012. The outside world does not know much about Huang Minqi’s career map. As for the people listed on the Forbes rich list US$1.55 billion is probably not all of Huang Minqi’s net worth.
The employees of Hanmin Technology all know that their boss has many companies that he has invested in. As for why Hanmin Technology is not listed, the answers given by the employees seem to be similar: "Because we are not short of money! "
Why should Huang Minqi be mentioned? A “star-studded” investment company? For example, Horizons Investment, controlled by the Li Ka Shing Foundation and "confidante" Zhou Kaixuan, became famous for its investment in Zoom, founded by Yuan Zheng, and received huge returns, and the media reported it with great fanfare. In fact, Victoria Harbor Investment holds only 8.5% of Zoom’s shares. The biggest winner of Zoom’s stock price surge last year was Chen Xianzhe, another Taiwanese invisible technology tycoon and chairman of Songhan Technology . His personal investment company Digital Mobile Venture held He has a 9.3% stake in Zoom, which is more than Li Ka-shing , but the media rarely mentions it, and he does not appear on the rich list.
Let’s talk about Huang Minqi, chairman of Hanmin Technology. He and Chen Xianzhe are both invisible tycoons in the semiconductor technology industry and have always made a lot of money in a low profile. As Taiwan's semiconductor equipment leader, Huang Minqi, six years ago he invested in Hanmin Micro, which was sold to , a Dutch ASML company, for NT$100 billion. (Note: translated as ASML in mainland China, and ASML in Taiwan ), he personally has at least NT$30 billion in his pocket.
Hanmin Micro was listed on the Taiwan stock market in 2012. The second picture on the right is Huang Minqi.
Over the years, Huang Minqi has also had a good cooperative relationship with the Dutch ASML company, which has made him "invincible" in the field of semiconductor processing equipment and made a lot of money. .
The outside world only knows that in 2016, Hanmin Micro sold the electron beam detection company Huang Minqi invested in in return for ASML at a high price of NT$100 billion. A person familiar with Hanmin Technology revealed that the annual revenue of Hanmin Micro alone is at least tens of billions of NT dollars, and the operating income of its two companies "Hanlei" and "Jiajing" alone exceeds NT$ 8 billion yuan, while the revenue scale of other local semiconductor equipment companies in Taiwan is only around 3 to 4 billion yuan.
Hanmin Technology’s official website disclosed that they have participated in the construction of quite a few wafer factories and photovoltaic factories in Taiwan, Southeast Asia and mainland China over the years. They have been deeply involved in the mainland market for 21 years and have installed various equipment. At least tens of thousands of them, and they are engaged in a highly profitable business. Therefore, the industry generally believes that the Forbes rich list greatly underestimates his wealth.
Why is Huang Minqi’s money-making pocket so deep! I'm afraid it's a difficult mystery to solve. "One leaf can't see the mountain," and it's difficult for the outside world to see everything about him.
The low-key technology upstart Huang Minqi and a bowl of tribute ball soup
In 2004, Huang Minqi (1st from the right) participated in the Hanmin Technology Staff Sports Meeting
An engineer from Dutch ASML company once said: "You can't make an lithography machine even if you give the Chinese drawings." Even the CEO of Japanese photoresist giant JSR said that although China is promoting the chip industry, it cannot master extreme ultraviolet lithography machine technology.
Chinese people have backbone. Others can create it, why can’t we? !
In fact, the lithography machine of the Dutch Asmail company integrates technologies from all over the world, including the acquisition of the "electron beam inspection machine" technology invested by Huang Minqi.
Huang Minqi graduated from the Department of Electronic Physics of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Hanmin Technology was founded in Taipei in 1977. In 1979, after the establishment of Hsinchu Science and Technology Park , he rented the first phase of the park's standard factory building in 1980; in 1985, "Hanlei Technology" invested by Huang Minqi's Hanmin Technology was established. By 1988, he worked with Dutch ASML established a cooperative company and introduced Steppers technology. The next year, Hanmin Technology cooperated with Japan's TEL and introduced its full range of products. In 1990, Huang Minqi moved his office to Hsinchu .
In 1992, Huang Minqi established Hanmin Technology (Singapore) Co., Ltd. in Singapore, and settled in the factory and operation headquarters of Hsinchu Science and Technology Park the next year. By 1997, he was the agent for EBARA chemical grinding machines, and later its electroplating machine business.
In 2001, Huang Minqi moved westward and established Hanmin Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Pudong . From then on, he has been deeply involved in the mainland market for 20 years. More than a year.
In 2003, Hanmin Micro (Hanmin Microtest Technology), which he invested in, assembled the first eScan machine in Taiwan; in 2004, another company he invested in, Hanchen Technology, assembled Taiwan's first iStar machine. .
Judging from the past history, Huang Minqi can be called a wizard in Taiwan's semiconductor industry. Many people see him playing and singing, but do not get to know him deeply. In fact, because of his cooperation with ASML of the Netherlands, ASML also placed its R&D and talent training base in the Southern Science and Technology Park. As early as 2012, Hanmin Technology's second phase factory building was opened in Nanke.
In the past few years, since the sale of Hanweike in 2016, he has successively resigned as the chairman of Hanlei, Jiajing and other companies. Later, he also stopped being the chairman of Hanmin Technology and has rarely made public appearances since then. The current chairman of Hanmin Technology is Lin Shiqing, and the general manager is Peng Shenxiang.
By the way, Hanmin Technology has invested in the research and development of third-generation semiconductor materials, products and manufacturing technologies under the rapid development of 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and autonomous driving. In addition to Shanghai, the company has established service bases in Beijing, Nanjing, Wuxi, Xiamen, Wuhan, Hefei and other cities. In Shenyang there are "Hanke", Haimen biomedical projects, Changzhou "Hanjie", Changshu "High-Tech", and Hefei has bases such as "Hemeng" and "Hanhui".
Hanmin Technology, which has been in business for 45 years, has left its footprints in serving hundreds of semiconductor and photovoltaic factories on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in Southeast Asia. However, his boss is hidden behind the scenes, quietly making a fortune, and the outside world does not know about him. Why the pockets of money are so deep.
In 2019, Huang Minqi (middle) won the "Pan Wenyuan Award"
In the past few years, Huang Minqi has also spent a lot of time in Singapore in addition to being in the mainland, and has made a new round of investment and layout in Singapore. Due to his full schedule and low profile, even ordinary Hanmin Technology employees rarely see him.
People who have been to Hanmin Technology will never forget their soup if they eat in his restaurant. In his restaurant, lunch is free and the food is excellent. The company's internal computer will display the weekly dishes, and the IT department will also send out real-time questionnaires, allowing you to comment on each dish.
Huang Minqi believes that in order to capture a person's heart, you must first capture his stomach. In Hanmin Technology’s restaurants, the ingredients are not only natural, organic, and additive-free, but the dishes are also nutritionally balanced. Even the meals are deliberately designed, with vegetarian food first and then meat, to guide employees to eat healthily.
A pot full of tribute balls at the Hanmin Science and Technology Restaurant. Outsiders will find that only the tribute balls are seen but no soup. When the tribute balls are scooped up, many more tribute balls emerge. No wonder people say that his family is not "Gong Wan Soup", but "Tang Gong Wan".
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