1991 Starting from the core

After the thunderstorm, the air in the special zone is fresh and the temperature is suitable, which is perfect for visiting the factory.

Motherboard, VCD, optical drive, three factories are built next to each other. They have a sister relationship in terms of capital, so the factories are connected to each other - of course, a door is opened, and only material trucks are allowed to pass through.

In fact, in addition to these three factories, there is also a Zhongxin BP machine production factory opposite. Just because Zhongxin is relatively independent, we don't have much contact with it.

After dinner, it was still early. Su Yuanshan, Chen Jing, Tian Yaoming, and Wang Rui, accompanied by several factory directors, started from the motherboard factory in the east and inspected all the way to the final optical drive factory - technically speaking, the optical drive factory Ni Guo was still mainly responsible, so Su Yuanshan only chatted for a few words and left.

Back at the hotel, Su Yuanshan drew a draft of a topographic map based on the urban map in the hotel.

"In the future, the BP machine and VCD factories will have to transform, so don't be stubborn when investing in production capacity. We must consider the development and transformation." Su Yuanshan said with a smile: "I don't know where Fu Tukang next door heard about it today. The news is that we have developed a mobile phone, and through some connections, we found my father, who said he could help us produce mobile phones at a very favorable price."

Chen Jing smiled and said: "If our investment is included, the price given by Lao Guo is indeed quite favorable."

Wang Rui laughed: "I guess Lao Guo hasn't realized that we are actually his opponents."

Everyone had a great time together.

From a long time ago, these Yuanxin executives knew that Su Yuanshan would build a large factory or industrial park in the special zone. This factory will mainly produce and even OEM various 3C products - a collective term for computer, communication and consumer electronics products.

The reason why the VCD factory acquired so much land was to facilitate its transformation. For example, this time the mobile phone production line was separated from the VCD factory.

After laughing, Su Yuanshan looked at Chen Jing again: "Sister Jing, what are your brother's thoughts?"

"He plans to listen to you and transfer the design center to the Special Administrative Region." Chen Jing paused and said, "No later than the end of the month."

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded.

During the Spring Festival, in order to "save" Mei Jie, he first allocated nearly 10 million U.S. dollars to the island, and then personally went to the island to hand over the patent to help Mei Jie create a high-end motherboard that can accurately detect errors. , it swept almost the entire DIY high-end market as soon as it came into being.

At the same time, Chen Daohua learned from experience and continued to expand the scale of the R\u0026D team. He also followed Su Yuanshan's guidance and set a high-end route of "doing it even if it can't be sold."

The dividends brought by technology can snowball. In the past six months, Meijie continued to study overclocking technology and rushed back to the high-end market in one breath. At the same time, he also successfully won an order of 200,000 pieces from Dell.

Therefore, Su Yuanshan was ready to give Mei Jie the next task - to design and produce accelerator cards for Xinghai's 3D chips.

The premise is that the technology must be implemented in the special zone.

In the previous life, 3DFX's 3D accelerator card was born two years later and was produced by itself. But in this life, since the 3DFX team has become a department of Xinghai, the simulation model is to only design and produce chips and become a chip supplier.

Therefore, you need to find someone to produce the 3D accelerator card.

As a product that has not yet been tested by the market, we can only ask our own family to help produce it.

Now this task is handed over to Mei Jie.

The reason why Chen Jing and Chen Daohua took over this "task" without hesitation was because Su Yuanshan was very sure that this accelerator card would be an epoch-making and great accelerator card.

Why is Su Yuanshan so sure?

Because Xinghai has invested in a small game studio called id Software that currently has only a dozen people, and is forcing the studio to upgrade the current Doom engine and create a more powerful one based on the DirectX interface. 3D engine.

Based on the pride of programmers, the founder of the studio, Mr. Carmack, originally disdained a game layman like Xinghai to "guide" him. Unexpectedly, his attitude annoyed Scott, who was in charge of the 3D core. Scott put a bunch of data on Carmack's face, saying that I don't understand games, but I understand that these so-called 3D games you are making now are not worthy at all. Use our core.

So a game tentatively named Quake was started, and both sides were holding back their enthusiasm to see who was not worthy of whom.

this……

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The next day, Chen Jing and Tian Yaoming returned to the provincial capital first, while Su Yuanshan continued to stay to provide his own ideas and suggestions.

As the saying goes, if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs walking. He has never designed a mobile phone, but he has seen countless mobile phones in later generations...

Compared with its peers, Yuanxin is already one year behind. If it does not make breakthroughs in design, it will be uncompetitive.

At the same time, under Su Yuanshan's instruction, Jiang Wanchao also began to invite various related semiconductor companies.

Two of the companies were personally invited by Su Xinghe.

A week later, when various invited companies came to the provincial capital, Su Yuanshan also returned to the provincial capital.

Su Yuanshan did not participate in the share sale - because legally, he did not own any shares of Yuanxin, they all belonged to his father and his brother-in-law.

While Professor Su Xinghe was going around among the big guys, Su Yuanshan quietly made an appointment with Vincenti from TI.

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"Mr. Vincenti, we meet again."

In front of the Yuanxin Administration Building, Su Yuanshan held Vincenti's hand vigorously.

"Yes, Mr. Su Yuanshan." Vincenti laughed happily and shook Su Yuanshan's hand: "I don't know how to evaluate your decision, but if it were me, I would definitely not be able to bear it."

Su Yuanshan smiled: "There is no way. As the foundation and tool of the semiconductor industry, EDA should not be monopolized by a certain related company."

Vincenti smiled and nodded: "Yes, I understand."

Su Yuanshan took Vincenti on a tour, and then came to Su Yuanshan's office.

Zhou Xiaohui made coffee for the two of them and exited the office, closing the door tightly at the same time.

Su Yuanshan held the coffee and said straight to the point: "Mr. Vincenti, how about working together again?"

Vincenti's eyes fell on Su Yuanshan's face. He remained calm and smiled slightly: "Tell me, what kind of cooperation is this?"

"Let's build two eight-inch wafer fabs and two 0.5-micron chip production lines in Shanghai together." Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

Vincenti's pupils shrank slightly!

When she figured out that she was the only one personally invited by Su Xinghe and Su Yuanshan, Vincenti knew that Su Yuanshan had something to discuss with her.

So he has been guessing what Su Yuanshan wants to do with him.

The first thing is definitely not to invest in Yuanxin - if that were the case, Vincenti would jump with joy. If last year's Yuanxin only had giant tendencies, then this year's Yuanxin has become a giant.

At the very least, it is a giant in mainland China and the only one among all private enterprises.

But he never thought that Su Yuanshan wanted to build a wafer fab.

As a close partner of Yuexin, this...