After SMIC's removal of the stock index by Nasdaq, the company's senior persons have changed, and the CEO Liang Mengsong resigned, and 74 -year -old Jiang Shangyi returned to the vice chairman.
Comprehensive CNBETA and surging news reports, SMIC announced on the 15th that Jiang Shangyi was appointed as the company's second type of executive director, vice chairman of the board of directors, and members of the strategic committee. It took effect on December 15, 2020.Jiang Shangyi served as an independent non -executive director of the company from December 20, 2016 to June 21, 2019.
The resume in the announcement shows that Jiang Shangyi is 74 years old. He obtained a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering at the National Taiwan University in 1968, obtained a master's degree in electronic engineering at Princeton University in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at Stanford University in 1974.After graduating, he worked at Texas Instruments and Hewlett -Packard.Later, he returned to Taiwan in 1997 and served as Vice President of TSMC.At the end of 2013, the position was the co -chief operating officer.Later, he was the chairman of TSMC, the director of SMIC's independence non -executive director, and the chief executive officer of Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
In the 45 years of the semiconductor industry, it has participated in the development of CMOS, NMOS, BIPOLAR, DMOS, SOS, SOI, GaaS laser, LED, electronic beam light, silicon -based solar cells and other projects.Among them, in Taiwan's accumulated circuit manufacturing Co., Ltd., led 0.25mu; M, 0.18mu; M, 0.15mu; M, 0.13mu; M, 90nm, 65nm, 40nm, 28nm, 20nm, 16nm FinFet and other key nodesR & D, the development of TSMC's industry status from technology followers to technical leaders.
The announcement shows that Jiang Shangyi's term from December 15, 2020 to the company's annual annual conference of 2021.According to Article 132 of the Articles of Association of the company, Jiang Shangyi was required to accept the company's shareholders re -election at the anniversary of the 2021 shareholder. If it was re -elected, it must be retired at least every three years in accordance with the company's organizational rules.
On the same day, there were reports that Liang Mengsong resigned at the same board of directors, but Zhou Zixue, chairman of SMIC, did not approve it on the spot.
According to Liang Mengsong's resignation statement circulating on the Internet, Liang Mengsong said that since November 2017, he has been a SMIC CEO for more than three years, and has never been vacated. With the hard work of more than 2,000 engineers he led, it has completedSMIC's five -generation technology development from 28nm to 7nm technology.
Liang Mengsong emphasized that this is a task that general companies need to spend more than 10 years to complete.
According to Liang Mengsong, SMIC's 28nm, 14nm, 12nm, and N+1 technologies at present have entered large -scale mass production, and the development of 7nm technology has also been completed. In April of next year, risk production can be entered immediately.The most critical and most arduous 8 major technologies of 5nm and 3nm have also developed in an orderly manner. Just wait for the arrival of the EUV lithography machine, you can enter the comprehensive development stage.
Regarding the reason for the resignation of this time, Liang Mengsong said that the personnel changes of Jiang Shangyi as the post of vice chairman of SMIC this time were informed by the chairman Zhou Zixue on December 9.Essence
The implication is that this personnel change has not fully communicated with it in advance.Liang Mengsong felt very confused and puzzled, and felt that he was no longer respected and not trusted, and thought that he no longer needed him to continue to fight for the company's prospects.
Therefore, after the company's board of directors and shareholders' associations nominated by Jiang Shangyi, Liang Mengsong officially proposed his resignation.
I did n’t come to Mainland China to seek senior officials, but I simply wanted to do my best for the high -end integrated circuit of the mainland.In the resignation letter, Liang Mengsong said that my short -term goal seemed to have exceeded expectations and successfully reaching hellip; hellip; I could temporarily rest for a moment.
As for why this statement was issued at the board of directors, Liang Mengsong emphasized: I did not intend to influence the voting of this personnel appointment, but I think I should let everyone know the most true feelings in my heart.
The company should give a comprehensive and fair evaluation to my contributions in the past three years, and I should have the right to accept and appeal.Liang Mengsong wrote in the statement.
In fact, after Liang Mengsong joined SMIC, there have been many rumors in the industry that Liang Mengsong and another joint CEO Zhao Haijun did not take the rumor to leave, but Chairman Zhou Zixue reconciled.
However, this time, due to the changes in the personnel of Jiang Shangyi as the vice chairman of SMIC, Liang Mengsong publicly resigned on the board of directors.
In this regard, the outside world believes that the original Jiang Shangyi served as SMIC's independent non -executive director from December 20, 2016 to June 21, 2019. It would not intervene in the company's research and development and operation management.Liang Mengsong's boss, Liang Mengsong only needed to report to Zhou Zi.
Now, Jiang Shangyi returns to serve as vice chairman, which is equivalent to Liang Mengsong's head suddenly there is a top boss, and he must also report to him business. This will definitely make Liang Mengsong, who is so arrogant.
In addition, according to previous media reports, Jiang Shangyi returned this time to realize its technical ideals, especially on advanced packaging technology and small chip technology (Chiplet).
Obviously, Jiang Shangyi will directly intervene in the research and development of SMIC, which is originally led by Liang Mengsong.However, Liang Mengsong's main technical direction is the advanced process. At present, due to the restrictions of the United States, the advanced process of SMIC's development is limited, especially the EUV lithography machine cannot be in place. SMIC will stop at 7nm.
The advanced packaging technology and small chip technology direction that Jiang Shangyi wants to promote is relatively unrestricted by the process. Under the existing process, it can achieve chip performance improvement through advanced packaging and small chip technology.
Obviously, under the background where the advanced process of SMIC's development is restricted by the United States, the technical direction that Jiang Shangyi hopes to promote may be more suitable for SMIC, and this may also be the reason why Liang Mengsong believes that SMIC no longer needs him.
At present, Jiang Shangyi's resolution has taken effect in the resolution of SMIC's vice chairman.Liang Mengsong has also officially submitted his resignation.Although the board of directors has not yet approved Liang Mengsong's resignation, from the perspective of Liang Mengsong's statement, there seems to be no room for rotation.The probability of Liang Mengsong's departure will become a set.
