Zhao Wei country hit billions of battle fierce chip market
Since 2013, under the guidance of the national IC industry promotion policy, Ziguang Group under the governance of the IC industry has undergone a drastic transformation and development, like a dark horse turned out to be one of the most powerful Chinese technology companies and began rewriting International chip market structure.
Zhao Weiguo was admitted to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1985 (formerly the Department of Radio and Electronic Science). He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in succession. Although he graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering, Zhao Wei-guo said: 'I was originally a IT insider , But I am not the original people in the circle of integrated circuits in China ', acquired through the acquisition of purple into this circle.In fact, his special chip on the university began to university.Zhao Weiguo said:' When I was in college, I remember the first Time to lab class, the first time I saw the chip, I found it amazing, a small chip can do a lot of functions, but those high-end chips are from overseas, I was thinking, when China can create such Integrated Circuits' The ambition to reshape the global memory chip industry has become a powerful driving force for Ziguang Group.
Chiu Wai-kuo will chip the characteristics of the industry as a - capital-intensive, talent-intensive, technology-intensive, global competition. 'Chip manufacturing is not only high-end manufacturing, but also cutting-edge manufacturing, this industry is not only advanced technology, and must have capacity, with capacity He has the right to speak. 'He vividly said,' This industry is BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, the worst is Passat, no Xiali, van, motorcycle. '
Changes in the storage market are rapidly changing, there is not enough chips, or grasp the timing, and can not keep up the rhythm, and only discard the cards do not play. '' Intel, TSMC, Samsung each year in the chip manufacturing capital spending more than 10 billion US dollars, Less than the average annual investment of 10 billion US dollars of investment scale, simply can not enter the first camp of chip manufacturing.Zhao Weiguo pointed out.Therefore, purple light plans to invest at least 100 billion USdollars in the next 10 years, equivalent to an average annual investment of 10 billion US dollars.
Faced with such a huge investment, Zhao Weiguo said frankly that there are indeed insufficient funds. In addition to being supported by such national financial institutions as the National Development Bank and China Development Bank, Ziguang also raised funds in various ways, including setting up various funds and plans to launch the 'China Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. '
M & A alliance to complete the ecological layout
As a catch-up in the field of integrated circuits, purple if unpleasant, obviously difficult to keep up with the pace of others backed by Tsinghua Unisplendour Group, led by Zhao Wei Guo in recent years around the acquisition, crazy expansion, first to spend 1.87 billion US dollars and 9.07 Hundreds of millions of dollars for the acquisition of the United States NASDAQ listed company Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics, becoming the world's third-largest mobile chip companies, and then jointly Intel, spend 2.5 billion acquisition of the original Hewlett Packard's 51% stake in Xinhua Group 3, becoming China ranked first in the world's second-ranked network products and services leader. Benefited from the rapid growth of Xinhua three, the first half of the company achieved operating income 16877000000 yuan, an increase of 82.11%; net profit of 806000000 yuan, a substantial increase 203.99%.
Zhao Weiguo said: "We made three alliances through three mergers and acquisitions and quickly completed the ecological layout in the field of integrated circuits in two years." The three mergers and acquisitions were: Spreadtrum, Ruidico and Xinhua III, and the three alliances were : Alliances with Intel, Western Digital, and Hewlett-Packard. Intel, for example, reached a strategic partnership with Intel, a global semiconductor giant, and Intel invested RMB9bn in a subsidiary of Ziguang Group holding Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics Acquired a 20% stake in the controlling subsidiary.
Zhaowei Guo's footsteps did not stop, and now, Ziguang Group shot again, China Semiconductor Packaging and Testing Company Silicon Precision Industry Co., Ltd. announced that the sale of subsidiary Silicon Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. 30% stake in Ziguang Group, The transaction amount was 1.026 billion yuan.
'The acquisition of Spreadtrum allows us to quickly identify the bridgehead in the field of chip design; the acquisition of RDA, consolidating Spreadtrum's position in the mobile chip, sit tight in the world's third, and to prepare for entering the Internet of Things; and we acquired Xinhua three The users of the chip are doing network, storage and cloud computing, and we see that there is a common memory chip between Spreadtrum and Xinhua III, said Zhao Weiguo.
In response, Ye Tiachun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commented: 'After seeing the action of a purple light and an action going on, I felt that everyone began to slowly see the ambition of the Purple Light and it was a strategic and charter Zhao Weiguo in the next set of chess, there is a great ambition in the industry He is not necessarily a businessman, I am afraid there is a sense of industry, and even very ambitious entrepreneurs!
Mount Everest climbing the core chip
Chips and integrated circuits is a must-have in the field, if the integrated circuit is the Himalayas, the core chip is Mount Everest, the world's most sophisticated technology needs.Zhao Weiguo believes he and purple are confident to do this, and in this In the context of long-term development and growth in this context, the Yangtze River storage came into being .2016 July, the Group of the Purple Group Technology Group Co., Ltd. Purple together the United States integrated circuit industry investment fund, Hubei Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund and Hubei Science and Technology Investment Group jointly funded the establishment of the Yangtze River in Wuhan Xinxin core storage, of which the state guangqi holdings 19.7 billion yuan, accounting for 51.04% of the shares in order to form a controlling stake in the Yangtze River storage. 'Yangtze River storage is China's science and technology aircraft carrier Liaoning . "Zhao Weiguo stressed:" This analogy is not an overstatement from the perspective of its investment scale, technological level, significance for national industrial safety and national information security. Through the Yangtze River Storage Project, China's IC industry really has a place in the world A certain status.
Relying on the Yangtze River storage layout and storage, and shares of Taiwan's silicon products, South Mao's subsidiary in mainland China, with the design, manufacture, packaging and other full industrial chain layout, has formed a more complete IDM (vertical manufacturing) giant integrated circuits The prototype.
Excitingly, at present, CKI's CKI has successfully developed engineering samples of 14-nanometer 32-layer 64G memory chips, which have accumulated over one billion U.S. dollars and took two years to complete. 14 nanometers 32-layer 64G, which is also the China is currently the closest to the world's top chip.
Facing the future, Zhao Wei-guo believes with confidence that we can gain a firm foothold in five years and another five years should have considerable achievements. Therefore, we must have the mental preparation and strategic endurance of 'bench to sit ten years cold' .