On December 16, 2020, a major news from the technology industry was circulated, that is, SMIC CEO Liang Mengsong directly announced his resignation at the shareholders' meeting.
resignation letter was also exposed online, the full text is as follows:
After seeing this resignation letter, netizens almost supported Liang Mengsong on social platforms.
First of all, from the resignation letter, he saw that his achievements were quite good and he was the soul of SMIC.
has completed five generations of technological development from 28nm to 7nm in more than three years. Under normal circumstances, it takes ten years to complete. The technology of
5nm and 3nm has been almost the same. As long as the EUV lithography machine arrives, it can enter the development stage.
The most important thing is that he came to SMIC not for money, but for the motherland's semiconductor .
Why did you resign? At the end of the article, it was revealed that it was related to Jiang Shangyi's appointment as vice chairman of SMIC.
1,
Liang Mengsong
Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi used to be colleagues in TSMC , and Jiang is Liang's boss.
They are both the R&D department of TSMC. At that time, Liang Mengsong was the senior R&D director of TSMC. In this position, he served for 17 years (1992 to 2009).
So they should spend a long time together. As for the holidays between both parties, they will be mentioned later.
According to SMIC's instructions, the chairman did not agree to Liang Mengsong's resignation. The importance of Liang Mengsong is self-evident.
Who is Liang Mengsong?
He is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he worked at AMD and then joined TSMC's R&D department in 1992.
finally has the opportunity to show off his skills after 11 years of joining TSMC.
2003 is an industrial innovation of semiconductors. Previously, it was an old technology for aluminum. IBM dominated in this regard, and 130nm requires the new technology of copper process. TSMC and IBM are racing. Whoever develops it first will be the boss.
Under the leadership of Liang Mengsong, TSMC made it first over its competitors, and since then TSMC has become the leader in the industry.
So Liang Mengsong made great contributions to TSMC's achievements in semiconductors today.
In this battle, Jiang Shangyi was his boss. In other words, they are teammates who once brought IBM down as the leader.
The turning point of the matter was in 2006, when Jiang Shangyi was preparing to retire from TSMC. As the boss of the R&D department, he intended to find two R&D vice presidents to take over his work. One of them was Luo Weiren, who was poached from Intel . There was no problem with this appointment. Liang Mengsong thought that the remaining vice president of R&D at
was himself at the time. After all, he worked hard at TSMC for more than ten years and helped win a beautiful battle, so he should be the one who should be the one who is there.
But the result was that Sun Yuancheng, a colleague who was more experienced than him, was promoted to vice president of R&D, and he became their subordinate.
This aroused his dissatisfaction and formed a complex of Yuliang from then on. No one will be convinced. After staying in a company for more than ten years, successfully defeating competitors and becoming the leader of the industry, but still not being reused, he simply left the company.
Samsung
After three years of tolerance, he resigned from TSMC in 2009. Because there was a no-compete clause, he had to wait for two years to join his peers. After waiting for two years, he joined Samsung in 2011. After joining Samsung,
proved his ability even more. After joining
, Samsung was like installing a rocket and soaring into the sky. At this time, the semiconductor process has come to the update moment, and the key to the update is Fin FET technology, which Liang Mengsong is proficient in this technology. After
came to Samsung, it helped it master Fin FET technology in advance, and directly allowed Samsung to go from 28nm to 14nm. At that time, TSMC had not yet developed 14nm, and it was not developed until half a year later.
developed 14nm six months ahead of TSMC, and Samsung successfully grabbed Qualcomm's order. It suddenly became TSMC's biggest rival, and TSMC directly sued Liang Mengsong on the grounds of leaking the company's secrets.
This lawsuit lasted for four years before Liang Mengsong was not allowed to serve on Samsung.
It can be said that after Samsung got Liang Mengsong, it directly overtook the bend.
Compared with TSMC, Samsung regarded Liang Mengsong as a treasure at that time, so it offered a sky-high price to poach him, full of sincerity.
At the beginning, Samsung offered him an annual salary of RMB 7 million, while at that time his annual salary at TSMC was more than RMB 600,000.
In order to get him immediately, Samsung also used a company's special plane to Taiwan to pick up and drop off Liang Mengsong to work in Seoul, which shows how much Samsung attaches importance to Liang.
2.
Why did you leave TSMC? How can you not get the talent?
is not afraid of competition, but you are afraid of no chance of competition. This sentence is perfect for him.
Liang Mengsong appeared in court for the only time and revealed the reason.
Eight months, I can only do odd jobs in the company. A genius engineer has fallen to the point where he can only do odd jobs, which is a great insult to his self-esteem. It can be seen that TSMC's senior executives do not pay attention to him at all.
He said, "Based on my qualifications and contributions to the company, I can only stay in a department that is useless, unable to play, and doing nothing all day. This is an insult to me."
TSMC
In other words, it was "refrigerated" at TSMC.
In the court, TSMC believes that this is not refrigeration, but rather a exercise. This explanation of
is actually difficult to convince. As an old employee who has worked in the company for 17 years, he has experienced so many ups and downs and has been trained long ago.
The reason why Liang Mengsong was arranged in this way is that there is a saying that others have poor popularity and are not in good relationship with their subordinates.
But later he joined Samsung with a hundred R&D technical talents. These people were former colleagues of TSMC. If they had bad popularity, there would not be so many people following him. The statement
is self-defeating.
In my opinion, it is actually not good for the senior management of TSMC. Like SMIC, this company has had internal struggles.
As early as 2006, Zhang Zhongmou stepped down as CEO for the first time, and took over the role of the factory director Cai Lixing, whom he trained for many years. Because TSMC's internal heroes were divided, everyone had opinions on this appointment, which affected their enthusiasm for work. There were often problems during that period. After Cai Lixing's reign for three years, TSMC almost suffered a loss in 2019.
There is no way, and Zhang Zhongmou came back to be a CEO again, which stabilized the development of TSMC. It was not until June 5, 2018 that it announced its retirement at the shareholders' meeting. In the era of Zhang Zhongmou born in
, TSMC implemented the dual-head system, and Liu Deyin and Wei Zhejia took over Zhang Zhongmou's work. Such a system has caused the company's internal strife to begin to appear. When everyone is doing things, they always want to do this. What does Liu Deyin think? Wei Zhejia thinks this way, and there is a choice invisibly.
Because Liang Mengsong was a R&D technical staff member, he did not understand the intrigues in the workplace, and engaged in R&D day and night, just to get a title and give him a historical position, but he was forced to leave in the end, which was a pity.
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After four years of lawsuits, Liang Mengsong had to leave Samsung in the end. Seeing this opportunity, SMIC sent an invitation to Liang Mengsong. The condition given by
is that the annual salary is US$200,000 after tax, and the position is CEO of SMIC. Judging from the conditions offered, he came to SMIC this time not just for money, but with a mission.
The mission is as he said in his resignation letter, in order to help mainland China's semiconductors keep up with the times.
At that time, the media reported that his joining was reported. Korean media news mentioned that China filled the gap in the semiconductor field. Samsung's super technology expert Liang Mengsong joined SMIC, which attracted the attention of the industry.
Taiwan media reported
At that time, the media in Taiwan also reported and called on the government to revise the law to prevent the loss of high-end talents. TSMC, a former company, said it believed that Liang Mengsong would not do anything that would be unfavorable to TSMC. From these news and the statements of related companies, we can know how important Liang Mengsong is.
Forum netizens commented
His joining SMIC caused heated discussions in the forum, and some people bluntly said that "Liang Mengsong is worth 30 billion."The latest message is that Liang Mengsong has been in the job for two years and is now moving towards 7nm, which is something that he dare not think about.
After the news that Liang Mengsong was about to resign on December 16, SMIC, which was listed on the A-share market, fell 10% at one time. For those listed on Hong Kong, they directly suspended and stopped losing by . It can be seen that the capital market believes that this incident has a huge impact on SMIC.
SMIC Hong Kong stocks were suspended
So let’s take a look at the situation before Liang Mengsong joined SMIC.
At the beginning of 2017, SMIC could only achieve 28nm, and the excellence rate was very low. At that time, it was just a luxury to do 14nm and it could not be done in a few years.
In October 2017, Liang Mengsong made a breakthrough in the 14nm process technology after coming to SMIC. The main reason is that Liang Mengsong took office and strengthened the construction of the R&D team and adjusted and updated the 14nm FinFET plan. In less than two years, SMIC successfully mass-produced 14nm chips in the fourth quarter of 2019.
SMIC
This means that SMIC's semiconductor technology only lags behind TSMC's second generation (about 3 years). In just two years, 14nm mass production was completed, attracting the attention of the United States.
SMIC has since become the target of US sanctions, from a wafer foundry that is looked down upon to now becoming a thorn in the eyes of the United States, because of Liang Mengsong's arrival.
is not just these, but more importantly, SMIC's future mastery of 7nm, 5nm, 3nm and other technologies. From the resignation letter, we can know that 7nm technology has been opened and mass production will be carried out in 2021. At the same time, 5nm and 3nm technologies are also being developed simultaneously. TSMC is just about to enter the 5nm era.
In other words, Liang Mengsong has adopted several generations of synchronous research and development methods in order to catch up with TSMC. No wonder he said that he had basically no rest during the more than 1,000 days of visiting SMIC and worked day and night.
No wonder the US sanctions have been strengthening during this period. Seeing this progress is because I am afraid that China will solve the problem of chip restriction.
So I said, "Qian Xuesen" in the chip industry. Isn't this an exaggeration?
On December 16, 2020, a major news from the technology industry was circulated, that is, SMIC CEO Liang Mengsong directly announced his resignation at the shareholders' meeting.
resignation letter was also exposed online, the full text is as follows:
After seeing this resignation letter, netizens almost supported Liang Mengsong on social platforms.
First of all, from the resignation letter, he saw that his achievements were quite good and he was the soul of SMIC.
has completed five generations of technological development from 28nm to 7nm in more than three years. Under normal circumstances, it takes ten years to complete. The technology of
5nm and 3nm has been almost the same. As long as the EUV lithography machine arrives, it can enter the development stage.
The most important thing is that he came to SMIC not for money, but for the motherland's semiconductor .
Why did you resign? At the end of the article, it was revealed that it was related to Jiang Shangyi's appointment as vice chairman of SMIC.
1,
Liang Mengsong
Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi used to be colleagues in TSMC , and Jiang is Liang's boss.
They are both the R&D department of TSMC. At that time, Liang Mengsong was the senior R&D director of TSMC. In this position, he served for 17 years (1992 to 2009).
So they should spend a long time together. As for the holidays between both parties, they will be mentioned later.
According to SMIC's instructions, the chairman did not agree to Liang Mengsong's resignation. The importance of Liang Mengsong is self-evident.
Who is Liang Mengsong?
He is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he worked at AMD and then joined TSMC's R&D department in 1992.
finally has the opportunity to show off his skills after 11 years of joining TSMC.
2003 is an industrial innovation of semiconductors. Previously, it was an old technology for aluminum. IBM dominated in this regard, and 130nm requires the new technology of copper process. TSMC and IBM are racing. Whoever develops it first will be the boss.
Under the leadership of Liang Mengsong, TSMC made it first over its competitors, and since then TSMC has become the leader in the industry.
So Liang Mengsong made great contributions to TSMC's achievements in semiconductors today.
In this battle, Jiang Shangyi was his boss. In other words, they are teammates who once brought IBM down as the leader.
The turning point of the matter was in 2006, when Jiang Shangyi was preparing to retire from TSMC. As the boss of the R&D department, he intended to find two R&D vice presidents to take over his work. One of them was Luo Weiren, who was poached from Intel . There was no problem with this appointment. Liang Mengsong thought that the remaining vice president of R&D at
was himself at the time. After all, he worked hard at TSMC for more than ten years and helped win a beautiful battle, so he should be the one who should be the one who is there.
But the result was that Sun Yuancheng, a colleague who was more experienced than him, was promoted to vice president of R&D, and he became their subordinate.
This aroused his dissatisfaction and formed a complex of Yuliang from then on. No one will be convinced. After staying in a company for more than ten years, successfully defeating competitors and becoming the leader of the industry, but still not being reused, he simply left the company.
Samsung
After three years of tolerance, he resigned from TSMC in 2009. Because there was a no-compete clause, he had to wait for two years to join his peers. After waiting for two years, he joined Samsung in 2011. After joining Samsung,
proved his ability even more. After joining
, Samsung was like installing a rocket and soaring into the sky. At this time, the semiconductor process has come to the update moment, and the key to the update is Fin FET technology, which Liang Mengsong is proficient in this technology. After
came to Samsung, it helped it master Fin FET technology in advance, and directly allowed Samsung to go from 28nm to 14nm. At that time, TSMC had not yet developed 14nm, and it was not developed until half a year later.
developed 14nm six months ahead of TSMC, and Samsung successfully grabbed Qualcomm's order. It suddenly became TSMC's biggest rival, and TSMC directly sued Liang Mengsong on the grounds of leaking the company's secrets.
This lawsuit lasted for four years before Liang Mengsong was not allowed to serve on Samsung.
It can be said that after Samsung got Liang Mengsong, it directly overtook the bend.
Compared with TSMC, Samsung regarded Liang Mengsong as a treasure at that time, so it offered a sky-high price to poach him, full of sincerity.
At the beginning, Samsung offered him an annual salary of RMB 7 million, while at that time his annual salary at TSMC was more than RMB 600,000.
In order to get him immediately, Samsung also used a company's special plane to Taiwan to pick up and drop off Liang Mengsong to work in Seoul, which shows how much Samsung attaches importance to Liang.
2.
Why did you leave TSMC? How can you not get the talent?
is not afraid of competition, but you are afraid of no chance of competition. This sentence is perfect for him.
Liang Mengsong appeared in court for the only time and revealed the reason.
Eight months, I can only do odd jobs in the company. A genius engineer has fallen to the point where he can only do odd jobs, which is a great insult to his self-esteem. It can be seen that TSMC's senior executives do not pay attention to him at all.
He said, "Based on my qualifications and contributions to the company, I can only stay in a department that is useless, unable to play, and doing nothing all day. This is an insult to me."
TSMC
In other words, it was "refrigerated" at TSMC.
In the court, TSMC believes that this is not refrigeration, but rather a exercise. This explanation of
is actually difficult to convince. As an old employee who has worked in the company for 17 years, he has experienced so many ups and downs and has been trained long ago.
The reason why Liang Mengsong was arranged in this way is that there is a saying that others have poor popularity and are not in good relationship with their subordinates.
But later he joined Samsung with a hundred R&D technical talents. These people were former colleagues of TSMC. If they had bad popularity, there would not be so many people following him. The statement
is self-defeating.
In my opinion, it is actually not good for the senior management of TSMC. Like SMIC, this company has had internal struggles.
As early as 2006, Zhang Zhongmou stepped down as CEO for the first time, and took over the role of the factory director Cai Lixing, whom he trained for many years. Because TSMC's internal heroes were divided, everyone had opinions on this appointment, which affected their enthusiasm for work. There were often problems during that period. After Cai Lixing's reign for three years, TSMC almost suffered a loss in 2019.
There is no way, and Zhang Zhongmou came back to be a CEO again, which stabilized the development of TSMC. It was not until June 5, 2018 that it announced its retirement at the shareholders' meeting. In the era of Zhang Zhongmou born in
, TSMC implemented the dual-head system, and Liu Deyin and Wei Zhejia took over Zhang Zhongmou's work. Such a system has caused the company's internal strife to begin to appear. When everyone is doing things, they always want to do this. What does Liu Deyin think? Wei Zhejia thinks this way, and there is a choice invisibly.
Because Liang Mengsong was a R&D technical staff member, he did not understand the intrigues in the workplace, and engaged in R&D day and night, just to get a title and give him a historical position, but he was forced to leave in the end, which was a pity.
3 and
After four years of lawsuits, Liang Mengsong had to leave Samsung in the end. Seeing this opportunity, SMIC sent an invitation to Liang Mengsong. The condition given by
is that the annual salary is US$200,000 after tax, and the position is CEO of SMIC. Judging from the conditions offered, he came to SMIC this time not just for money, but with a mission.
The mission is as he said in his resignation letter, in order to help mainland China's semiconductors keep up with the times.
At that time, the media reported that his joining was reported. Korean media news mentioned that China filled the gap in the semiconductor field. Samsung's super technology expert Liang Mengsong joined SMIC, which attracted the attention of the industry.
Taiwan media reported
At that time, the media in Taiwan also reported and called on the government to revise the law to prevent the loss of high-end talents. TSMC, a former company, said it believed that Liang Mengsong would not do anything that would be unfavorable to TSMC. From these news and the statements of related companies, we can know how important Liang Mengsong is.
Forum netizens commented
His joining SMIC caused heated discussions in the forum, and some people bluntly said that "Liang Mengsong is worth 30 billion."The latest message is that Liang Mengsong has been in the job for two years and is now moving towards 7nm, which is something that he dare not think about.
After the news that Liang Mengsong was about to resign on December 16, SMIC, which was listed on the A-share market, fell 10% at one time. For those listed on Hong Kong, they directly suspended and stopped losing by . It can be seen that the capital market believes that this incident has a huge impact on SMIC.
SMIC Hong Kong stocks were suspended
So let’s take a look at the situation before Liang Mengsong joined SMIC.
At the beginning of 2017, SMIC could only achieve 28nm, and the excellence rate was very low. At that time, it was just a luxury to do 14nm and it could not be done in a few years.
In October 2017, Liang Mengsong made a breakthrough in the 14nm process technology after coming to SMIC. The main reason is that Liang Mengsong took office and strengthened the construction of the R&D team and adjusted and updated the 14nm FinFET plan. In less than two years, SMIC successfully mass-produced 14nm chips in the fourth quarter of 2019.
SMIC
This means that SMIC's semiconductor technology only lags behind TSMC's second generation (about 3 years). In just two years, 14nm mass production was completed, attracting the attention of the United States.
SMIC has since become the target of US sanctions, from a wafer foundry that is looked down upon to now becoming a thorn in the eyes of the United States, because of Liang Mengsong's arrival.
is not just these, but more importantly, SMIC's future mastery of 7nm, 5nm, 3nm and other technologies. From the resignation letter, we can know that 7nm technology has been opened and mass production will be carried out in 2021. At the same time, 5nm and 3nm technologies are also being developed simultaneously. TSMC is just about to enter the 5nm era.
In other words, Liang Mengsong has adopted several generations of synchronous research and development methods in order to catch up with TSMC. No wonder he said that he had basically no rest during the more than 1,000 days of visiting SMIC and worked day and night.
No wonder the US sanctions have been strengthening during this period. Seeing this progress is because I am afraid that China will solve the problem of chip restriction.
So I said, "Qian Xuesen" in the chip industry. Isn't this an exaggeration?
The latest message is that Liang Mengsong has been in the job for two years and is now moving towards 7nm, which is something that he dare not think about.After the news that Liang Mengsong was about to resign on December 16, SMIC, which was listed on the A-share market, fell 10% at one time. For those listed on Hong Kong, they directly suspended and stopped losing by . It can be seen that the capital market believes that this incident has a huge impact on SMIC.
SMIC Hong Kong stocks were suspended
So let’s take a look at the situation before Liang Mengsong joined SMIC.
At the beginning of 2017, SMIC could only achieve 28nm, and the excellence rate was very low. At that time, it was just a luxury to do 14nm and it could not be done in a few years.
In October 2017, Liang Mengsong made a breakthrough in the 14nm process technology after coming to SMIC. The main reason is that Liang Mengsong took office and strengthened the construction of the R&D team and adjusted and updated the 14nm FinFET plan. In less than two years, SMIC successfully mass-produced 14nm chips in the fourth quarter of 2019.
SMIC
This means that SMIC's semiconductor technology only lags behind TSMC's second generation (about 3 years). In just two years, 14nm mass production was completed, attracting the attention of the United States.
SMIC has since become the target of US sanctions, from a wafer foundry that is looked down upon to now becoming a thorn in the eyes of the United States, because of Liang Mengsong's arrival.
is not just these, but more importantly, SMIC's future mastery of 7nm, 5nm, 3nm and other technologies. From the resignation letter, we can know that 7nm technology has been opened and mass production will be carried out in 2021. At the same time, 5nm and 3nm technologies are also being developed simultaneously. TSMC is just about to enter the 5nm era.
In other words, Liang Mengsong has adopted several generations of synchronous research and development methods in order to catch up with TSMC. No wonder he said that he had basically no rest during the more than 1,000 days of visiting SMIC and worked day and night.
No wonder the US sanctions have been strengthening during this period. Seeing this progress is because I am afraid that China will solve the problem of chip restriction.
So I said, "Qian Xuesen" in the chip industry. Isn't this an exaggeration?
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