He is from Taiwan, but he was expelled from the Taiwan Province of China and was sued twice by TSMC for eight consecutive years. He claimed to be a factory building maniac. In just 396 days, SMIC was born. He is the "father of Chinese semiconductors" Zhang Rujing .
Zhang Rujing
With a shout, you can take away more than 300 technical backbones and let more than 100 Chinese engineers in the United States return to China. He raised $1 billion for SMIC in a year, and everyone could see the achievements he had presented before him, but few people knew about his bitter and ups and downs. Zhang Rujing, who graduated from the engineering major of
, obtained his doctorate degree from the State University in New York, USA, and joined Texas Instruments in 1977. He worked for 20 years. At this time, Zhang Zhongmou was also in Texas Instruments . His position as vice president is much higher than that of Zhang Rujing, and he does not have much intersection in normal times, but who would have thought that the two people would continue to have grudges 20 years later.
Zhang Zhongmou
During the 20 years in Texas, Zhang Rujing has successively built chip factories around the world, and is known as the "factory building maniac" in the industry. He has witnessed the development of the entire chip and deeply realized the importance of chips. Zhang Rujing wants to contribute to the motherland in a difficult situation, and he wants to return to China to build a factory. Zhang Rujing, who is 49 years old, returned to Taiwan and founded Shida Semiconductor Company. With the help of Texas Instruments, he soon became a prosperous field in the semiconductor field. Shida's rapid rise and jealousy of TSMC's Zhang Zhongmou, who quietly acquired Shida at a high price, and also suspended Zhang Rujing's plan to build a factory in the mainland. Zhang Rujing's first entrepreneurship failed. At this point, the grudge between Zhang Rujin and Zhang Zhongmou kicked off.
SMIC
In order to achieve a curve to save the country, Zhang Rujing wanted to build a factory in the mainland, but Zhang Zhongmou was reluctant to fulfill the agreement. In anger, Zhang Rujing gave up his position as an executive and stock in the World University University and brought more than 300 technical backbones to the mainland to build chips for the motherland.
2000 was a heartbreaking year. Just the moment Zhang Rujing set foot on the mainland, Xie Xide, the "mother of Chinese semiconductors", passed away. 50 years ago, Xie Xide, a PhD at MIT, was like Zhang Rujing now. Breaking through many obstacles and returning to China for development, destiny is like a cycle of reincarnation. While we lost Xie Xide, we have Zhang Rujing and the current SMIC.
Xiexide
Shanghai gave SMIC good factory construction conditions, exempting taxes for the first five years and halving taxes for the next five years. At the same time, the factory has all the supporting facilities, including kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, and shopping plazas. This gave Zhang Rujing great confidence. It took SMIC a mere 396 days to build the factory. Behind the rapid factory construction is Zhang Rujing's running around for more than a year, not only raising 1 billion US dollars, but also 0.18 micron chip technology. Since then, SMIC has made rapid progress, expanding 6 factories in three years, turning the grade of China-chip from 1.5 micron to 1.3 micron, and until the last 90-nanometer chip, it became the third largest foundry after TSMC.
Xie Xide
According to this rate, it will be no problem to surpass TSMC in less than 5 years, but what Zhang Rujing never expected was that a disaster against SMIC was coming. Since the acquisition of World War II, all Zhang Rujing's behavior was seen by Zhang Zhongmou and he has always hated it to the core. The rapid rise of China's chips has given Zhang Zhongmou a deep sense of oppression. Integrated circuits have always been TSMC's technical pillar, for fear of having an impact on its own company. On the grounds of investing in Shanghai without permission, they fined SMIC 5 million and asked Zhang Rujing to withdraw their investment within half a year. The grudge between Zhang Rujin and Zhang Zhongmou officially kicked off.
Zhang Zhongmou sued SMIC for stealing commercial secrets and claimed 1 billion US dollars, which even revoked Zhang Rujing's Taiwan Provincial household registration.Such high compensation is to completely kill the rising SMIC. At this time, Zhang Rujing was tortured and exhausted. SMIC was founded by him. It is impossible to watch it fall down the day before it went public. Without SMIC, our chip technology will be backwards for ten years or even more. In order to give SMIC a glimmer of life, in 2009, Zhang Rujing chose to settle out of court. He knew that Zhang Zhongmou was targeting him, and only by being eliminated can he understand this matter. Zhang Rujing resigned from SMIC and was not allowed to engage in chip-related work within three years from the second year of his resignation.
The day after leaving SMIC, Zhang Rujing, who was in his sixties, came to the place where the factory started and wandered around for several hours. He remembered the scenes from more than ten years ago, scanned the bricks and tiles in the factory, and said three words to the young man who saw him off: Don’t lie down. Now Mr. Zhang is over 70 years old. In the years when he was banned, he has not given up his love for chips. Three years later, Mr. Zhang returned to the chip industry he is familiar with and continues to carry out research and development for the country.
In 2018, Xin'an Integrated Circuit Company was established to make up for the shortcomings of chip technology for the motherland. As Zhang often said, if the motherland's chip technology is not good enough, then we will strive to make it better. Now, Zhang, who is 74 years old, has not stopped his pace and has once again led China's semiconductor industry and invested 3 billion yuan in chip mask project. At a time when the global semiconductor industry chain is changing, Zhang resolutely chose to continue moving forward, with a pure "Chinese chip" in hand, and striving to be the forefront of China's semiconductor industry!
