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Chen Lie, the project leader of EBL lithography machine, watched Chairman Hao Qiang leave, then turned to face the team members with anticipation in his eyes.

"Brothers," he said, his voice slightly excited, "We'll volunteer to work overtime tonight so we can finish the packaging and testing as quickly as possible. Is that okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of enthusiastic response in the laboratory.

"We deserve to work overtime! I can't sleep at night until the results come out!" A senior engineer immediately expressed his opinion.

"Boss, I'd want to stay even if you didn't tell me," another young researcher chimed in, eagerness in his eyes. "We've been working on this project for a year or two, and now we're just one step away from success. The sooner we can get the results, the more peace of mind we'll have."

"Yes, our car factories are all waiting for our chips," a team leader added. "Every day chip production is delayed costs the group hundreds of millions. Time is money, and even more so, opportunity."

"Although the chairman hasn't said it explicitly, he's probably very anxious," someone reminded us, "but his usual style is never to put too much pressure on us."

In this project team, the chairman may be very young in terms of age.

But in terms of strength, everyone admires him.

Whenever you have a problem that cannot be solved, just look for him.

He initiated and designed the EBL lithography machine, and they couldn't understand how the chairman could design it.

But after seeing the drawings and analyzing the structure, we felt that the possibility of realization was very high, and our doubts were reduced a lot.

Without the skills of an expert, I can't even draw a picture.

As each part on the drawing was made, everyone became more convinced of the chairman and regarded him as the soul of the project team.

Of course, before they came, they had also heard legends about the chairman, such as that he personally designed future cars and that many core technologies of future cars were developed by him.

Chen Lie looked at the group of motivated team members in front of him and clapped his hands with satisfaction: "Okay, that's settled!

We worked overtime these two days to ensure that all the tests were completed.

Let’s give the chairman a perfect answer!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the leaders of each R&D team took the initiative to accept the tasks and immediately began to assign specific work to the team members.

Although this 300-person project team is large, they have clear division of labor and tacit cooperation.

Although the overall project leader is Chairman Hao Qiang and the specific executive person is Chen Lie, everyone in the team performs their duties and contributes to their strengths.

At Future Technology Group, position is not the only criterion for measuring a person's value.

What is valued here is strength and contribution. Some technical experts are willing to be lonely and focus on research in a certain niche field. They may not be good at management and are unwilling to assume management responsibilities, but their technical attainments and R&D contributions are also highly valued by the company.

For this reason, Hao Qiang emphasized in his guidance to the team: "In Future Technology, we must eliminate all forms of discrimination and prejudice.

It does not matter what level of education you have or what school you come from, and there is no so-called class discrimination.

Every employee who joins the research team is a rigorously screened talent. The company's salary and benefits system is based entirely on personal ability and actual contribution. The more you contribute, the greater the reward, regardless of your position."

In fact, every member of this project graduated from a 985 university, most of them have master's and doctoral degrees, and very few have only bachelor's degrees.

Because there are too many project details, no matter how great the expert is, it is impossible for him to know too much across multiple fields.

Therefore, managers only need to know what their subordinates are good at and what they cannot do, and coordinate and arrange work, rather than understanding their subordinates' specific work or even giving them guidance, acting as an outsider managing the work of experts.

Therefore, Hao Qiang particularly emphasizes the responsibilities of managers: "The core of a management position is to do a good job of coordination, rather than relying on coercive orders or suppressing newcomers to establish authority.

If you have any complaints about your direct supervisor, you can report them through the HR department. If reconciliation is truly impossible, the company will support your application for a department transfer."

"Of course," Hao Qiang's tone became serious, "Team cohesion and work efficiency are crucial. We must obey our superiors' work arrangements as much as possible and avoid excessive individualism.

I would like to remind you that if I find someone who is focusing too much on internal power struggles rather than scientific research, then the day when that person leaves the team will not be long.

At the time, his words were powerful and set the tone for the entire team: technology-based, strength-first, unity and cooperation, and common progress.

On Hao Qiang's side, after returning to the office, he sorted out the company's semiconductor industry situation.

The company has industries in upstream, midstream and downstream.

Generally speaking, the upstream semiconductor industry is divided into four major sectors:

1) The first segment, wafer manufacturing materials, has a domestic market size of approximately US$500 billion.

It is mainly divided into: silicon wafers (major share), EBL photoresist, CMP consumables and chemical materials.

The company has all four types of industries.

2) The second section, packaging materials: packaging substrates, etc.

The domestic market size is approximately US$250 billion.

To put it simply, a package substrate is a circuit board. For example, the substrate under a computer processor is a package substrate.

There are many manufacturers in China, but Hao Qiang has no intention of entering this industry.

3) The third segment is IC packaging equipment.

The domestic market size is approximately US$1000 billion.

It includes equipment such as thin film, oxidation, etching, lithography and ion implantation, among which EBL lithography accounts for the largest share without a doubt.

The company has its own research and development of these types of equipment and cannot rely on others.

4) The fourth segment, packaging and testing equipment, mainly includes dicing machines, etc., with a domestic market size of approximately US$150 billion.

Slicing machines, in layman's terms, are cutting machines, which are divided into grinding wheel cutting machines and laser cutting machines.

Chip manufacturing involves exposing the entire wafer, so after the chip is manufactured, it must be cut into individual chips.

The company has an organic processing department and an automation department, and this equipment is also independently developed.

In summary, Future Technology Group is involved in most upstream industries, with a domestic market size of US$1650 billion.

The semiconductor midstream, namely chip design and manufacturing, is divided into two major sectors: EDA and chip manufacturing.

1) The first section is EDA chip design software, which the company has successfully developed. The Qinglong 8124 currently being designed uses this software.

The domestic market size is approximately US$140 billion.

EDA chip design software cannot rely on others, so Hao Qiang exchanged this technology from a technology store.

2) The second sector is chip manufacturing.

There are many types of chips, mainly analog chips, digital chips, discrete devices (generally referring to semiconductor crystal diodes, semiconductor triodes), optical devices and sensors.

The domestic market size has reached 6000 billion US dollars!

The driving assistance system sensors developed by the company are all independently developed and are at the world's top level.

Chips such as automotive chips, mobile phone chips, computer processors CPUs, etc. usually contain a mixture of analog and digital circuits.

Like mobile phones, the processor is mainly a digital chip, while the RF chip and power management are analog chips, and the audio decoding is a hybrid chip.

The chips the company is involved in are currently mainly automotive chips.

The downstream semiconductor industry mainly consists of five major sectors: smartphones, AI intelligence, new energy vehicles, wireless headphones and smart watches.

Among them, the market size of smartphones reaches 6000 billion US dollars, the market size of AI intelligence can reach 4500 billion US dollars, the market size of new energy vehicle chips is about 1000 billion US dollars, and the market size of the other two categories is relatively small.

Of course, the market size mentioned above is just a rough estimate based on the future of 2020.

The upstream, midstream and downstream markets of the semiconductor industry chain are huge, generating nearly one trillion US dollars in domestic output value each year.

However, this lucrative market pie has long been divided up by international giants such as Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, who have firmly controlled the key links of the industrial chain through technological monopoly and patent barriers.

It is extremely difficult for domestic companies to get a piece of the pie, let alone gain a substantial market share.

Today, Future Technology Group has emerged, with a comprehensive layout in the upstream, midstream and downstream of the semiconductor industry chain, and has made breakthrough progress from materials, equipment to chip design and manufacturing.

This series of achievements will certainly make those international giants feel unprecedented threats.

What they are most worried about is that Future Technology Group will first "seize" China, the world's largest semiconductor consumer market, and then enter the international market with its strong technical strength and cost advantages.

In the eyes of these multinational giants, the Chinese market is naturally in their pocket. They are accustomed to selling technology and products at high prices and making huge profits.

However, it is useless to reason with these "robbers" who are accustomed to monopoly.

They are the superpowers that dominate the world by relying on their technological advantages and political influence. They adhere to the law of the jungle rather than fair competition.

Hao Qiang had already seen through this.

Go to Nima!

I will never let you control me again.

This confidence comes from Future Technology Group's strong technical strength and independent innovation capabilities.

Fortunately, it is now 2011, and China's comprehensive national strength is no longer what it used to be. It has the ability to compete with the great powers in all aspects, including politics, economy, and military.

If it were a few decades ago when China was weak, high-tech companies like Future Technology Group would likely face the fate of forced acquisition, just like the tragedies of many national industries in history.

At this critical historical juncture, the rise of Future Technology Group is not only the success of a single company, but also a microcosm of the entire nation's efforts to catch up in the field of high technology.

It shows the world the determination and ability of Chinese companies to reconstruct value in the global industrial chain, and also indicates that the global semiconductor industry landscape is about to undergo a profound change.