Chapter 185 The night before leaving
"Brother Liang, why do I feel like you're a little sad?" Chen Yuanguang asked. This emotion was very rare for him.

He knew very well that the other party was a person with a fighter's mentality and it would be difficult for him to have emotional fluctuations.

Liang Mengsong said: "Have you watched the news recently?"

Chen Yuanguang said: "I haven't watched it for a while."

Liang Mengsong gave a brief account of TSMC’s recent experiences.

Chen Yuanguang said: "This is a good thing. TSMC will always be a distant cousin at 4V, but it will become a biological son after going to Federal."

After listening to this, Liang Mengsong realized that the other party still didn't understand, "After they go to the Federation, they will definitely disappear within five years.

Either it was acquired by Intel or by Texas Instruments.

TSMC can only avoid the fate of being acquired by 4V, but if it goes to Federal, it will have no choice.

Don’t you know that when TSMC built a factory in Arizona, it was required to disclose large-scale key technical details? If it were all moved to the federal government, there might be even more excessive requirements. "

Chen Yuanguang said: “Well, that’s a good thing, being acquired doesn’t mean disappearing.

TSMC’s production capacity and production lines are still there, but the name is gone.”

He has no feelings for TSMC, unlike Liang Mengsong. Chen Yuanguang also cannot understand why Liang Mengsong still has feelings for his old employer.

You have to know that TSMC’s treatment of him cannot be described as bad, it is simply terrible, from Samsung to SMIC.

In the end, he reconciled with TSMC not only because he paid a sufficient price, but also because he had overcome his age and the technology he had mastered.

By the time the lawsuit was over, Liang Mengsong was almost seventy years old and the technology he mastered was already outdated. TSMC let him go, which shows how vicious their intentions were.

Therefore, after hearing about this past event from Liang Mengsong, Chen Yuanguang really couldn't understand it.

After listening to this, Liang Mengsong said helplessly: "Yuanguang, you still don't understand. TSMC is not good to me. This is a problem of management, but TSMC engineers and 4V people are innocent.

After TSMC is forced to move to the federal government, it will cause severe damage to 4V's GDP and the entire economy.

The entire 4V semiconductor industry and consumer electronics industry will be severely affected, and everyone will probably have a hard time.”

Chen Yuanguang now understood why the other party was sad, but he was not sad at all. As a former senior netizen, he knew the mentality of the islanders very well and how deep their hostility towards them was, even deeper and more inexplicable than that of the Japanese.

Therefore, he hoped that the islanders would be unlucky. If they were not unlucky, how could they realize the cruelty of the current situation and seek change?

Chen Yuanguang thought so.

But considering Liang Mengsong's mood, Chen Yuanguang comforted him: "If TSMC engineers don't want to go to America, they can consider coming to the mainland, where there is a shortage of engineers.

If we want to expand rapidly in the semiconductor industry, we need talent from all over the world.

4V and we share the same roots, so there is no cultural or language barrier when we work together.”

Liang Mengsong nodded: "Yuanguang, before I even asked my former colleagues at TSMC, they had already approached me to ask if they could come to the mainland.

They are not just asking themselves, but asking for a group of people behind them, many of whom do not want to go to America.

They asked me what the treatment would be like if they came to a Chinese chip company and whether I could help pay the penalty.

SMIC has currently formed a special working group internally to connect with these engineers and recruit them to the mainland.

They are the real essence of TSMC. They have worked in TSMC for their entire lives and are absolutely experts in technology.

Some of these engineers have been working at TSMC since the 1990s, and their proficiency in Nikon equipment is unmatched by young people.”

The young man Liang Mengsong mentioned is at least forty years old.

“Yes, it’s not a good thing for TSMC, but it’s definitely a good thing for us and the mainland’s semiconductor industry.

I remember that every time there was an internal struggle or a process failure at TSMC, some engineers would leave," said Chen Yuanguang.

Liang Mengsong nodded and said, "You are right. When SMIC was first established, it poached many engineers from TSMC.

At that time, there was a fierce struggle among the top management, which led to a group of people leaving TSMC and joining SMIC.

This time, the most essential part of TSMC was relocated to Federal, which was an unprecedented turmoil. Any old bird who could stay in TSMC for so long must have experienced all kinds of turmoil in the past few years.

They definitely don't want to be involved in new turmoil, so the number of people who want to come to the mainland is far beyond my imagination. And now the mainland understands that there are a lot of opportunities. The market size and future prospects brought by topological semimetals are visible to the naked eye.

Even if America does not cooperate with us, the technological strength of Chinese local companies alone is enough to build a new semiconductor empire.

Opportunities, stability, culture, etc. are all better for them than America, so many TSMC engineers want to come to the mainland.

The only thing that can hinder this is TSMC. Whether they can tolerate it or not, there will be all kinds of lawsuits at that time.

However, it is different from what I encountered back then. If TSMC sues again, we can completely ignore it. China has the confidence to do so.

So the situation they face is much better than what I faced back then." Liang Mengsong seemed a little melancholy.

In his opinion, all the past events have vanished into thin air, and the grievances with TSMC can be written off.

He believes that the reason why TSMC was forced to leave its homeland and move to Texas is because topological semimetals put too much pressure on America, so much so that they needed to take a lot of unconventional measures to maintain the situation.

"After I bought my first BYD car, I started to buy more and more Chinese products in my life. Earlier this year, I bought an Xpeng X9.
Sorry, this damn name is really hard to pronounce. It is equipped with China's latest perovskite battery technology and has a range of up to 800 kilometers. Considering the energy replenishment effect of the perovskite battery, it can allow you to avoid mileage anxiety when traveling.

Its price is only 6 euros. You should know that this is a large MPV with a length of 5293 and a width of 1988. If we choose a European brand, we can only buy ID.BUZZ, which has a stupid design, not to mention that it does not have perovskite batteries. It cannot compare with Xiaopeng in terms of actual battery life, riding experience and comfort.

However, today, the high-end flagship phone of Huawei, the Chinese brand that I was most looking forward to, has finally returned. I spent 2 euros to buy the latest Huawei Super Master in the seafood market.

It is equipped with China's latest chip technology, a kind of topological semimetal, which is a really tongue-twisting name, and it helps it achieve the same user experience as a 1nm chip.

You in front of the screen heard it right. The Chinese have advanced the chip manufacturing process to 1nm. The Huawei in my hand uses a 1nm chip. Are you scared?
While Apple's chips are still at the 4nm process and will only reach the 3nm process this year, the Chinese have quietly advanced the process technology to 1nm.

What an exaggeration this is! The various measures taken by the Federation seem like a joke in front of Huawei's latest extraordinary master!
This also makes us realize that the Federation is not omnipotent. Their technological myth has once again been broken by the Chinese. Why say again? Because room-temperature superconductivity is not far away.

Well, let me bring you the latest experience of this phone equipped with a 1nm chip."

YouTube and foreign TikToks are filled with a large number of reviews about this extraordinary master, and everyone has given it extremely high praise.

Even YouTube's traffic restrictions couldn't stop it from becoming an explosive topic around the world.

With Musk's promotion and the impression Huawei left on consumers around the world a few years ago, everyone's memory has been awakened.

Why did Huawei suddenly disappear? How much effort did it take to come back this time? China's technological level has made great progress in the past two years. China's semiconductor industry has developed to such a great extent.

All of this is becoming a hot topic around the world.

Europe is gloating because they do not have a smartphone industry and their semiconductor industry is mainly based on chip design, so the impact is limited.

Third world countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are rejoicing that there is more than one voice on Earth. In the future, they may be able to escape the fate of being exploited by the ebb and flow of the US dollar, and have more room to maneuver when facing the federation.

"Mr. Qin, to use a Chinese idiom, people at TSMC should be changing their minds. I heard that many engineers are in contact with Chinese companies and are trying to leave and join them.

Is that true?" Ursula Burns asked.

Ursula is TSMC’s new independent director, and his real identity is the vice chairman of the Supply Chain Competitiveness Advisory Committee of the Federal Department of Commerce.

Simply put, he is a supervisor sent by the federal government to TSMC, specifically responsible for supervising their relocation.

The first thing this person did after arriving at 4v was to visit AIT.

When Qin Yongpei heard Ursula say this, he knew that the other party knew about this matter: “I heard about it too.

After all, not everyone can adapt to the American environment. The customs and habits in China are closer to those of 4V, so it is natural that they would want to work in China."

After chatting with Ursula once, Qin Yongpei knew that this person was not easy to deal with. The fact that she spoke fluent Chinese alone showed that Ursula had a very good understanding of Chinese culture.

“So TSMC is just going to watch its engineers being poached by its competitors?” Ursula asked.

"No, we have a non-compete agreement to constrain them, and they will have to pay a huge price if they want to leave," said Qin Yongpei.

Qin Yongpei was forced to move away, and since he would be away for the rest of his life, he did not make things difficult for his old friends. If they wanted to go to China, they could go, as long as they paid the penalty according to the contract.

At this point, everyone is forced to flee when disaster strikes.

"No, no, no, the non-compete agreement may not be enough. If they go to China, how can the non-compete agreement between 4V and the Federation constrain them?

You should understand the coercion and inducement, right? Let none of them leave TSMC!" Ursula's tone was full of murderous intent.

(End of this chapter)