With the successful advent and popularization of 5G technology, the era of the Internet of Everything is coming, and intelligence will be further developed under the blessing of 5G. In product intelligence, in addition to 5G technology, chips can be said to be the most important core equipment. However, due to modern history and other reasons, although our country has achieved technological leaps time and time again, it is still at a backward and blocked level in many fields, and chip manufacturing seems to be one of them. Especially in 2020, other countries will challenge Huawei with chip manufacturing, which has made my country aware of the importance of independent research and development and manufacturing of chips. In this case, a large number of semiconductor industries have entered the track of chip manufacturing research and development.
In the current layout of semiconductor companies in my country, SMIC is undoubtedly the leader and the most advanced company in domestic chip foundries. It has successfully mastered the production technology of 14nm chips and has begun to launch an offensive horn to 7nm. As for the achievements of SMIC, Liang Mengsong played a key role in it. It can even be said that without Liang Mengsong, there would be no SMIC today. However, it was such a leader in chip manufacturing and R&D who submitted his resignation to the SMIC Board of Directors at the end of 2020, which aroused widespread domestic discussion.
Liang Mengsong has worked for TSMC and Samsung, two companies with the world’s top chip manufacturing technology, and has made significant contributions during his tenure. In 2017, Liang Mengsong formally joined SMIC, served as its co-CEO, and became a director. While the precarious SMIC was respite, it also ushered in a major change. During Liang Mengsong’s tenure, he led SMIC to successfully achieve the five-generation leap. It took 300 days to upgrade SMIC from 28nm process level to 14nm process level, which enabled SMIC to secure its position as the most advanced chip foundry in China. Currently the only domestic chip foundry that has achieved 14nm mass production. However, why is such a powerful person in the field of chip manufacturing suddenly submitting his resignation? In this regard, the outside world has mainly speculated on three points.
One is because of the controversy over SMIC’s future development route
Liang Mengsong adheres to the advanced process technology route, and believes that SMIC should launch into 7nm and higher-level processes, and strive to catch up with the R&D and production steps of TSMC and Samsung, making SMIC a real breakthrough in technology. However, the new leader Jiang Shangyi believes that SMIC should adopt packaging technology and chiplet technology, and strive to make breakthroughs in these two areas to make SMIC gain more profits. In this environment, Liang Mengsong submitted his resignation.
The second is because of the checks and balances of power, or Liang Mengsong did not get the corresponding respect
As the company’s co-CEO, the company’s major personnel changes should be known long in advance. However, Liang Mengsong was not informed of the news until a few days before Jiang Shangyi took office, which made Liang Mengsong extremely unbalanced. Of course, Jiang Shangyi and Liang Mengsong had had grievances before, which further aggravated Liang Mengsong’s dissatisfaction and submitted his resignation.
The third is because of the internal power struggle of SMIC
Before Liang Mengsong joined SMIC, SMIC was in a state of disarray, with all parties competing with each other and no control. This is mainly because Zhang Rujing introduced capital from the United States, Singapore, China and other countries when he was founded. Under the leadership of Liang Mengsong, SMIC has made continuous breakthroughs in technology, and naturally some capital is not happy.
Although Liang Mengsong submitted his resignation to SMIC, he did not get a reply immediately. On the contrary, now it has been satisfactorily resolved, making SMIC a promising future. After the resignation storm, Liang Mengsong continued to serve as the co-CEO of SMIC, and achieved tremendous improvements in all aspects such as salary. Liang Mengsong’s resignation storm has come to an end! SMIC has laid down its capital and its salary has quadrupled. It is reported that Liang Mengsong’s annual salary has risen from US$340,000 to US$1.53 million, which has quadrupled, and he has obtained a house worth about 22.5 million yuan. It is not difficult to see from this that SMIC has indeed made a bloody effort in order to retain Liang Mengsong.
With a four-fold increase in salary and a delivery of properties worth 22.5 million, Liang Mengsong’s resignation finally ended. In this ending, some people might think that Liang Mengsong is just for the money? In fact, personally feel that whether it is or not, this is human instinct, even if it is the original intention of Liang Mengsong’s resignation, there is nothing wrong with it. From the perspective of Liang Mengsong’s contribution to SMIC, he can fully accept such treatment. Not to mention that Liang Mengsong almost donated his income from SMIC to Chinese charity.
After Liang Mengsong’s resignation storm ended successfully, SMIC was once again on the right track of research and development. It is reported that SMIC will conduct trial production of 7nm process chips in April this year, which is undoubtedly a huge piece of good news for the Chinese semiconductor industry. Once it succeeds, it shows that my country has successfully entered the high-end chip manufacturing process industry and solved the worries of many technology companies.
In fact, it should be expected that Liang Mengsong will stay at SMIC in the end. Liang Mengsong’s contribution to SMIC is indelible, and it also proves that Liang Mengsong’s key to SMIC’s future development. For such an outstanding semiconductor scientific research talent, SMIC will naturally not let Liang Mengsong go away at the critical moment of the national semiconductor industry and the shortage of related talents. And even if Liang Mengsong resigns from SMIC, with his own level, he can enter other major scientific research companies such as Huawei HiSilicon, continue to lead China’s semiconductor industry to prominence and shine in scientific research.
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