Enter semiconductors! The 76-year-old soul of TSMC joined Honorable Hai and said: TSMC will not be copied
On November 22, Hon Hai Technology Group’s official website announced that Dr. Jiang Shangyi will be recruited as the group’s chief semiconductor strategy officer immediately, and will report directly to Chairman Liu Yangwei.
Honorable Hai said that relying on Dr. Jiang Shangyi’s rich experience in the semiconductor industry, he will provide Hon Hai Technology Group with a global semiconductor deployment strategy and technical guidance in the future.
As soon as this news came out, it caused heated discussions. It is assumed in the industry that Hon Hai is seeking Jiang Shangyi to join, and that it will use advanced semiconductor packages.
According to the Financial Associated Press, Hon Hai founder Terry Gou said today that the strategies of Hon Hai and TSMC are completely dispersed, and Hon Hai products are more specialized, such as next-generation materials, next-generation processes, and packaging a new generation.Hon Hai does not need to copy the markets that TSMC has already done or done well. TSMC has its main market. In the future, Hon Hai should focus on automobiles, as well as various markets and technologies that seems small but has a great field of use. development.
According to public information, 76-year-old Jiang Shangyi is a leader in the chip industry and was once an important soul of TSMC, playing an important role in the development of TSMC’s process progress. Jiang Shangyi joined TSMC in 1997 and retired twice during his time at TSMC.
After that, he served as an independent director of SMIC in 2016. After resigning as an independent director of SMIC in 2019, he transferred to Wuhan Hongxin as the CEO.
At the end of 2020, he returned to SMIC again as vice-chairman, and resigned in 2021.
Hon Hai Group is an important buyer in the global semiconductor market.According to statistics, Hon Hai Group’s annual semiconductor procurement volume has exceeded 60 billion US dollars, accounting for more than 10% of the global semiconductor procurement market.
According to industry analysis, Hon Hai Group and its subsidiaries are actively using the semiconductor sector under the supply chain crisis caused by the “core shortage and price increase” in the electronics industry during the last few years.
