SMIC is the wafer foundry with the strongest technology and the largest development space in mainland my country. Compared with international giants such as TSMC and Samsung , there is still some gap.
TSMC has overwhelmed its peers for a long time and won more than half of the world's chip foundry orders. Due to TSMC's overly strong technical background, its profit margin reached about 35%. Among the top 500 companies in the world, no manufacturing company has a higher profit margin than TSMC, which has completely refreshed people's perception of foundry company .
Behind the strength of TSMC, what cannot be avoided is high-tech talents. Once, Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong and were both working at TSMC, and they were master-apprentice relationships. The two master-apprentice teamed up to successfully break through the technical bottleneck, and developed from 150nm to 130nm of process technology , directly defeating IBM in foundry technology, allowing TSMC to take the position of the leader of semiconductor foundry.
Samsung once surpassed TSMC for a period of time, but later TSMC sued Samsung in the International Court of Justice on the grounds of technical patents. In the end, TSMC won the case, and Samsung was surpassed by TSMC again.
Speaking of the development of TSMC, Samsung and SMIC, it is directly related to Liang Mengsong. It can be said that if these three companies were not for him, it would be difficult to achieve their current achievements. In the past 20 years, Liang Mengsong has worked at TSMC and Samsung respectively, and has now joined SMIC.
After helping TSMC defeat IBM, Liang Mengsong led TSMC to invade all the way, leaving behind all the international competitors. Later, there was a position within TSMC. In everyone's eyes, Liang Mengsong was the only one, but the board of directors promoted others, which made Liang Mengsong feel that his efforts were not proportional to the company's returns. As the grudges with the board of directors became deeper and deeper, Liang Mengsong chose to resign. After resigning from
, he jumped to Samsung. Samsung Electronics directly gave Liang Mengsong a salary of three times higher than TSMC as basic treatment, and quickly promoted him to the leader of Samsung Semiconductor.
For Samsung Group , especially Samsung electronics business, since Lee Kun-hee took over Samsung Electronics, Samsung's consumer electronics business and semiconductor business took off quickly. In order to attract top talents in the industry, Lee Kun-hee ordered to spend a lot of money at all costs and to attract internationally strong chip experts.
To say one more thing, when Huawei developed its communications business, it adopted a leadership plan similar to Lee Kun-hee. When other manufacturers grab patents or equipment, why don’t Hua want it? It only needs people. Huawei believes that only by grabbing those talents who can create technical patents can we continuously provide new technologies to the company and lead our peers in development space.
Back to the topic, Liang Mengsong led the Samsung team to go directly from the 28nm process to the 14nm process, giving Samsung the capital to compete with TSMC. As mentioned earlier, TSMC sued Samsung in the International Court of Justice, and Liang Mengsong was rejected by the court to return to work at Samsung. In desperation, Liang Mengsong left Samsung.
In 2017, Liang Mengsong was invited to join SMIC and served as CEO of SMIC. After 298 days after he joined SMIC, SMIC not only increased the yield rate of 28nm to more than 85%, but also successfully developed SMIC's technology from 28nm to 14nm. Regarding advanced process technology, SMIC has successfully mastered the 7nm technology four years after Liang Mengsong joined SMIC.
In other words, if Liang Mengsong was not available, SMIC would likely remain at the level of 28nm process. His arrival has allowed the semiconductor manufacturing industry in mainland China to see the direction of progress. However, surprisingly, in December 2020, Liang Mengsong submitted his resignation to SMIC, which caused a stir at the time. The industry speculated that it was because of the sudden appointment of Jiang Shangyi as vice chairman and executive director of SMIC.
Before TSMC, Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi were not very good at dealing with it.Without letting Liang Mengsong know, SMIC arbitrarily promoted Jiang Shangyi to the position of senior executive, which made Liang Mengsong feel disrespected. The resignation of Liang Mengsong directly caused SMIC's stock price to plummet. SMIC realized the seriousness of the matter and was ready to use high-ranking officials to retain him.
Center International increased Liang Mengsong's salary from the original US$340,000 to a total remuneration of US$4.93 million. In addition, Center International also presented Liang Mengsong with a house worth about 22.5 million yuan. The price of this house is already included in US$4.93 million.
For SMIC to spend money and leave Liang Mengsong behind, the industry generally believes that it is worth it. In his resignation letter, he wrote these contents:
I am not seeking high-ranking officials and paying a lot of money, but just want to do my best to the high-end integrated circuit in the mainland.
For Liang Mengsong, although he used to work in a large overseas factory, his personal strength and patriotic feelings are still worthy of recognition. , CEO of Meituan , Wang Xing once publicly paid tribute to Liang Mengsong, saying that he donated all his income from SMIC to the Mainland Education Foundation, not to make money, but to make a name for China.
According to netizens' analysis, Liang Mengsong should have donated his salary to [ China Soong Ching Ling Foundation ].
In 2019, the "China Soong Ching Ling Foundation SMIC Mengning Scholarship Project Donation Ceremony" was held at Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology . Liang Mengsong's wife, Ms. Li Ning, made a special trip to Hangzhou Dining to attend the donation ceremony.
Liang Mengsong and his wife hope to do their best to help China's semiconductor industry explore talents in a limited time, so that the domestic semiconductor industry has hope of development.
So, Liang Mengsong alone led the development of China's semiconductor manufacturing industry, this sentence is not unreasonable. The rise of large factories is necessary to attract talents. Whether it is Huawei, Samsung Electronics, or the current SMIC, only by gathering high-tech talents can we gain the initiative in later development. #Start the Pioneer of Technology#
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