A newly established storage company should at least have a research and development director to set up the framework of the research and development team.

As a company directly managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of China, the R&D director can only be selected from among Chinese people, including Taiwanese people, who may also become R&D directors.

As for Japan and Korea, although they are leaders in the storage industry, they are more likely to be executives than R&D directors.

Firstly, it's about trust; secondly, others won't let such talent go, as the non-compete agreements signed with these individuals are extremely stringent. It's primarily a matter of trust.

Guan Yang listed the names of the people he thought were qualified to be the R&D director on a piece of paper, but he hadn't heard of any of them leaving.

Including the production line, I haven't heard of any senior production engineers in the industry leaving.

There are very few players in this industry, and even fewer qualified talents, all of whom Guan Yang knows. If someone were to switch jobs, especially to a state-owned enterprise, he would definitely know immediately.

There is only one explanation for this: all these people can only be found after he arrives first.

Thinking about this gave Guan Yang a headache; starting from scratch is always the most painful.

Of course, watching a company grow little by little under your care is also a sense of accomplishment that is hard to describe in words.

"The memory chip industry? The problem is that there are already many players in this field in China, such as GigaDevice, SMIC, and Unigroup Microelectronics. The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund holds shares in these companies."

Guan Yang pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. He could only comfort himself by taking one step at a time.

In addition, when he was researching DeepBlue Storage online, he also discovered that another company held a 50% stake in DeepBlue Storage.

This company is a Russian company.

His doubts deepened.

Russia isn't very prominent in the memory industry either. Their software might be strong, but their semiconductor industry is practically undeveloped, far behind China's.

......

The National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund has hinted that it will sell some of its shares in Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.

They are trying to find a player to take over in the primary market.

“Yangtze Memory Technologies? This project is not bad. It has high growth potential and is related to the concept of domestic substitution. Moreover, it has no competitors in this niche market. Based on my intuition, I think it is entirely worth taking over.”

Even if a company is struggling financially and needs funds, listing on the Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR ​​Market) and then reselling it on the secondary market after the lock-up period expires is still a lucrative business.

Many of the institutions that participated in Cambricon's second round of investment had this purpose in mind.

"Another question is whether Yangtze Memory will accept foreign investment? I remember when Yangtze Memory was established, both we, Samsung, and Japanese investment institutions wanted to become investors."

It seems that China rejected everyone at that time.

All of Yangtze Memory's investors are state-owned enterprises, including the China National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund and Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Investment Group.

"Yes, back then, both Samsung and Taiwanese investors wanted to invest in Yangtze Memory Technologies. Even the Taiwanese investors failed to do so and went through a lot of trouble, but China blocked them."

However, what's strange is that when the China National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (CNIFIC) offered its shares, it didn't reject foreign investment; instead, it proactively contacted foreign investors.

"It's estimated that they can't withstand the pressure. With a total investment of 160 billion, they may need to bring in foreign investment."

"China is not short of money, but there are also many places where money is needed, so it is indeed possible."

Finally, the China National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund sold 20% of its shares to Temasek, SoftBank International, and other foreign investment institutions for approximately RMB 32 billion.

Guan Yang received information during the handover of his work and had new guesses about the mission of Deep Blue Storage.

There must be some overlap with Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC), which is why the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund) sold its shares in YMTC.

But he still didn't understand why they didn't continue planting a tree that had already been planted for five years, instead of starting from a single seed and cultivating a new tree from scratch.

What he didn't expect was that instead of cultivating a new tree from a seed, he would inherit a fully mature tree, one that was already taller and larger in its seedling stage than the previous mature tree.

"Bio-storage?"

"Is it the biological storage technology I understand, where DNA molecules store information?"

Guan Yang didn't know if he was crazy or if the world was crazy. The R&D director of DeepBlue Storage told him that DeepBlue Storage's main business in the future would be biological storage.

I've only ever seen this term in academic papers and popular science articles in the media.

He felt a bit doubtful about life.