Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 343: Half a year of preparation, just for this day!
Just like celebrity couples, they always send birthday wishes to each other on Weibo at exactly midnight. If they suddenly stop sending birthday wishes for a year, it proves that there must be something wrong between them.

Could it be that Mi fans, especially the female Mi fans, eyes suddenly lit up, thinking that something was going on between Chen Mo and Lei Jun?

As a result, on August 8, a media outlet released a photo of Chen Mo.

The location was in the VIP box of the closing ceremony of the London Olympics last night. Chen Mo was watching the performance below with a champagne in his hand.

Maybe because the location is quite far away, only Chen Mo's tall figure can be vaguely made out in the photo. There seems to be other people in the box in the background, but they are difficult to identify.

Whenever there is news about Chen Mo, it will attract people's discussion.

"My husband has been working so hard, I finally want to relax."

"The sun rises from the west. It's rare to see Xiaomo on vacation~"

"I just want to know who else is in the room. Jealousy makes my face twisted."

"Instead of attending the Xiaomi press conference, he went to watch the closing ceremony of the Olympics? I don't believe it if it has nothing to do with Lei Jun."

"Xiao Mo, please come back. How can you live without Jun'er~"

"No, don't you guys watch TV? Bi'an is one of the sponsors of this Olympics. There are advertisements for Bi'an in popular events all the time. It's reasonable for me to be invited to watch the ceremony."

For a moment, the comment section under Chen Mo's latest Weibo post turned into a melon-eating party, and the content on it remained "Tonight at 8 o'clock, Bi'an press conference, remember to come to A station, YY, Douyu to watch the live broadcast, there will be a lucky draw~ [heart]"

The reason why Chen Mo is so popular among netizens is closely related to the Young Rich List selected by Hurun two months ago.

This list consists of young people under the age of 40.

31-year-old Yang Huiyan became the richest person on this list for the first time thanks to her 360 billion worth of assets after inheriting Country Garden. She is also one of the eight rich second generations who inherited wealth.

The next second-generation rich man to inherit wealth is Li Zhaohui, whose father was shot by his childhood friend. After inheriting Haixin Steel, he invested properly. He is worth 120 billion. He is also the ex-husband of actress Che Xiao. He is currently ranked fourth. It is said that the two met because of the matchmaking of the duangduangduang brother Long.
Below Yang Huiyan is 28-year-old Chen Mo, who has become the richest young self-made man with a fortune of 160 billion yuan.

If the age is lowered to under 30 years old, Chen Mo will become the richest man with a huge lead and deserved title.

As soon as the list was released, Chen Mo and Hui Yan became the national husband and sister in the eyes of countless netizens.

However, compared to the latter, apart from his extremely wealthy net worth, Chen Mo has a lot of additional potential. He has a handsome face, an upright figure, no scandals and is focused on making money and pursuing his career. He is not arrogant and plays memes with netizens. He is approachable and he is not even 30 years old yet, which is the age when he is full of fighting spirit.

Even when many popular first-line film and television actresses were interviewed by media reporters about their ideal boyfriends, Chen Mo became the standard answer among them.

Even Liu Yifei, who played the roles of Fairy Sister and Little Dragon Girl, told the media,

I choose Chen Mo, he is pleasing to the eye and wealthy, who wouldn’t love him?

As to whether it was a joke or used as a shield, no one knows.

Let’s go back a few days, to August 8th, the sky was clear and blue. Avoid arguing; do pronounce the verdict!

On the same day, Taiwan’s Supreme Court ruled in the final instance that Liang Mengsong lost the case, which means that Liang Mengsong will not be allowed to engage in work related to Samsung Electronics for a certain period of time.

In fact, on the surface, this lawsuit is an old grudge between TSMC and Liang Mengsong, but behind the scenes it is a dispute between TSMC and Samsung Electronics.

TSMC and Samsung Electronics have a long history of feud. Under the shadow of the global financial crisis in the past few years, the two leaders, Morris Chang and Lee Kun-hee, both saw an opportunity to reverse the investment cycle. Unlike all other companies that shrunk in size and switched from offense to defense, the two companies invested heavily in related chip industries, with investment amounts starting from tens of billions of US dollars.

As early as the year before last, Samsung became the main supplier of SOC chips for Apple mobile phones. Moreover, Samsung Electronics is both a competitor and a major customer for Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers. With this dual identity, it has the best of both worlds and regards many Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers as its production capacity backup.

That is to say, when Samsung does not have many orders, it will handle them by itself. When the order volume is too large to handle, it will cooperate with these manufacturers to help them handle the orders.

Otherwise, why do people say that capitalists have evil hearts? By doing this, Samsung can not only ensure that its production capacity is always fully utilized, but also maintain a sense of crisis and spur its factories to improve their competitiveness. At the same time, as a user, it can also keep abreast of the technological developments of Taiwan's semiconductor industry at any time and may even obtain business intelligence. It is killing two birds with one stone.

However, Morris Chang had already seen Samsung's intentions and had no good way to deal with them, so TSMC had long regarded it as a major threat. Of course, TSMC was not idle. During the visit of Apple's COO to Taiwan, TSMC finalized the follow-up cooperation between the two companies at Morris Chang's family dinner and snatched the Apple chip order from Samsung.

Because Apple has suffered from Samsung for a long time. As Apple's biggest competitor in the market, the two companies have either one or two market shares in the field of smartphones. As for Nokia, it has long been left behind and is nowhere to be seen. Now it can only rely on its old capital to survive and does not pose any threat at all.

Especially with the emergence of Samsung's Galaxy series, its sales performance in the global market is more than 5 points ahead of Apple, making Apple feel seriously threatened. At this time, it is inappropriate to give chip foundry orders to Samsung.

So as soon as Apple had secured its cooperation with TSMC, it immediately sued its former partner, accusing it of copying Apple phones. Samsung was no pushover and immediately threatened Apple that if it dared to sue, it would cut off the supply of LCD panels and batteries. This made Apple's top management very angry. On the one hand, they negotiated with Samsung, and on the other hand, they urged TSMC to speed up the construction of Apple's foundry.
As long as interests are involved, whether at home or abroad, war is inevitable. The Three Kingdoms War was in chaos and lasted until the end of last year.

The war between giants during this period has given the domestic smartphone industry space and time to develop.

Morris Chang, who thought he had a slight advantage, accidentally learned that Liang Mengsong, a core technology general who was thought to have retired, was secretly working for Samsung. You have to know that this guy holds more than 500 core technology patents of TSMC, so it's better to be safe than sorry.

Over the past six months, Samsung's chip research and development progress has made great strides, from 45nm to 28nm, and even jumped to a 32nm version in the middle. It has not only caught up with TSMC's research and development progress, but also has a momentum to surpass it. This made TSMC feel like it was facing a formidable enemy, and it began to criticize Samsung Electronics through the media for maliciously poaching Liang Mengsong and suspected of unfair competition.

However, in response to TSMC’s questioning, Samsung stated to the media that Samsung Electronics’ achievements in chips are entirely the result of the accumulated experience of Samsung’s scientific research team and have nothing to do with Dr. Liang. This statement completely regards Morris Chang as a fool!
TSMC knew about Samsung's terrifying influence in South Korea, and filed a lawsuit directly against Liang Mengsong in a Taiwanese court.

Yes, the person who was sued was Liang personally, not Samsung. Perhaps Liang Mengsong just pointed out a direction for Samsung, and the specific implementation plan and technology are completely Samsung's own solutions.

TSMC does not have sufficient evidence to prove that Samsung infringed its rights, but it can sue Liang Mengsong on the grounds of non-compete agreement and leaking trade secrets, forcing him to leave Samsung.

TSMC’s lawsuit was dismissed in the first instance, after all, it was fighting at home. The results of the second instance and final instance were a direct reversal of two levels.

The result was that Liang was not allowed to leak TSMC's business secrets and any R&D personnel information to Samsung, and was prohibited from working for Samsung. This shows the "efforts" TSMC made behind the scenes and Morris Chang's anger.

At the same time, TSMC also took the opportunity to make a warning to some employees in the company who wanted to change jobs. After all, in the two years since Liang Mengsong left TSMC, Samsung had poached many backbones and talents from TSMC by offering them 3 to 5 times higher salaries.

At the time, there was a saying in the media, "Working for TSMC for ten years is not as good as working for Samsung for two years."

Even Samsung sent a team of HR and headhunters to station around TSMC's factories under the pretext of inspecting cooperation with Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers, and they would dig as many people as they could without killing them.

This scene is somewhat similar to some scenes in the country at that time.

After all, real money represents sincerity, and sincerity is the greatest killer move, and few people can withstand it.

But for technical experts like Liang Mengsong who have reached the ceiling in a field, money, fame and fortune will always be by-products of his pursuit.

Wasting time is the most difficult thing for him to accept.

Otherwise, he, who had already achieved financial independence, could have chosen to retire instead of being a university professor in name only, while actually having students who were all technical experts from Samsung.

At the beginning of August, the final trial of Liang Mengsong's case ended. Liang Mengsong's next choice and move are not only of great concern to TSMC and Samsung, but also concern to a number of chip giants such as Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and ARM.

It was only because of Liang Mengsong's performance in Samsung over the past year that his technical bottleneck was as easy as paper, and everyone could see his strategic value in the chip field.

Many chip giants have sent headhunters and representatives to contact Liang Mengsong and recruit him.

For a talent who is close to the ceiling in this field, pointing out the right direction for development with just a few words may save hundreds of millions of yuan in R&D investment and countless time.
This scene even has a hint of the Three Kingdoms period. It has long been known that whoever gets the Sleeping Dragon gets the world, but Liu Bei has not yet had the feeling of déjà vu of the Peach Garden Oath.
At this time, several parties received reports from their subordinates that Liang Mengsong had "disappeared".
In fact, Liang Mengsong had just been sentenced and had not yet appeared in court when he met Chen Mo, who had been waiting at the entrance of the passage for a long time wearing a mask.

Knowing that this day would eventually come, Chen Mo asked the core members of the Other Shore Intelligence Center and the All-Army Attack to make many versions of the plan, including revising the words used to persuade Liang Mengsong several times and carefully considering every word.

At the same time, we deduced and carefully deployed the follow-up plans, and even invited many psychology experts to provide argumentation.

Chen Mo also personally conducted several simulation drills to ensure that everything would go smoothly.

The level of thoroughness of this system is almost the same as the underground espionage work during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Unintentionally, he intercepted Liang Mengsong!
Half a year of preparation, just for this day!
(End of this chapter)