1991 Starting from the core

That night, Su Yuanshan accompanied his drunken father and Zhang Rujin back to the hotel.

Sitting in the coffee shop, the three people continued to chat about the development of the domestic semiconductor industry. It’s just that compared to the “slogans” and predictions at the conference, this kind of small talk similar to a work meeting in the evening is much more pragmatic. The discussion mainly focused on the domestic semiconductor development in the next few years.

"Nowadays, foreign countries have relatively clearly divided the semiconductor industry according to the development scale and trend of the industry." Zhang Rujin, like Professor Su Xinghe, likes to drink tea. He took a sip from Longjing and said like a treasure: "From the application point of view It is said that semiconductors have formed four major fields: integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, discrete devices and sensors."

"Let's not talk about the other three for now, let's just talk about the integrated circuit." Zhang Rujin said and looked at Su Yuanshan.

Su Yuanshan smiled and took the topic softly: "Although the divisions in the west are a little inconsistent with ours, they are generally the same, four major categories. Microprocessors, logic ICs, memories, and analog circuits."

Zhang Rujin nodded: "Yes, integrated circuits are the most profitable area in the semiconductor industry and can be called a gold mine... and processors are the diamond mine in the gold mine."

From the industry classification, microprocessors are also divided into three parts: MPU, MCU, and DSP. The full name of MPU is Micro Processor Unit - in fact, it can be simply and crudely understood as CPU. MCU is a microcontroller, DSP, and digital signal processor.

"It's a pity that the MCU is now priced at a ridiculous price by us." Su Xinghe chuckled.

"The low price and popularization of MCU are the prerequisites for popularizing automatic control, and the bargain price is the price it should be." Zhang Rujin also smiled: "It seems that in the field of processors, Yuanxin is now inferior to DSP, right?"

"Well, we don't have much experience in professional DSP, but there is a laboratory that is preparing to start one."

Zhang Rujin was slightly surprised and said: "Oh? Are there any talents in this field in China?"

"No, I'm going to poach one from IBM."

Zhang Rujin laughed and said, "It's better to dig one from Deyi."

Su Yuanshan: "..."

However, what Zhang Rujin said does make sense. Currently, in the field of DSP, Deyi is indeed the number one player. It's just that Yuan Xin and Xing Hai both have a very good relationship with Deyi now. It's not an exaggeration to say that they are in the honeymoon period. If they want to poach people... there is really no way to do it.

So I had to settle for the next best thing and start with IBM.

Moreover, this person was not dug by Su Yuanshan, but by Xi Xiaoding.

Xi Xiaoding has been in the west for five years. Although he has been out of touch with others, he can still make a few friends. After he made up his mind to return to China, he had the intention to contact some friends to come back, but firstly, the overall time was not ripe, and secondly, Yuanxin was not popular at that time. So I just keep in touch with my friends in the west.

——You can’t let people stay well in big companies like IBM and TI and then have people come back to “help” people start businesses with you, right?

So even though Xinghai was so short of people when it was first established, Xi Xiaoding only mentioned it to friends like Shengguang Peak. The one who really worked hard to bring him in was Chen Haoming. But Chen Haoming is his junior brother, so the relationship is different.

But now, Yuanxin and Xinghai are blooming. Yuanxin has even established a wafer factory, and Xi Xiaoding himself is also in a high position. So, he thought it was time to try calling someone back.

And after the year, in order to reflect the high quality of the team he was responsible for - they were all high-IQ talents - Xi Xiaoding changed the name of his department to a very foreign name, Pandora.

It’s Pandora’s Pandora’s Box.

This Pandora Laboratory will represent Yuanxin’s highest IQ group and the most cutting-edge technological breakthroughs.

It does not provide any predictable returns and does not belong to any group, but it can theoretically cooperate with any group.

It also doesn’t require too many people, and it’s hard to get in because there’s only one requirement: awesomeness.

Xi Xiaoding's suggestion made Su Yuanshan almost lie down and even lift his legs.

Su Yuanshan has been emphasizing the style and temperament of Yuanxin in order to make Yuanxin a research and development-oriented enterprise and a model of focusing on talents. Whether it is the country or the private enterprises that are following behind, there is a successful case that can be used as a reference.

…

The three of them chatted until eleven o'clock at night. Zhang Rujin insisted on returning to the factory, so Su Xinghe and his son had no choice but to give up and sent a car to take him back. After Zhang Rujin went back to the hotel room, the father and son went to the hotel room.

Zhou Xiaohui returned to Yuanxin when Su Xinghe arrived. After all, she came here mainly because Su Yuanshan had to have technical exchanges with Yuanzhong's team in the past few days, and also to assist in the merger of the CPU team.

Now that the CPU team is done, it's natural for her to go back.

To say the least... Professor Su Xinghe came and saw that his son had already finished his work and brought a young and beautiful secretary with him, which was always not a good thing.

"Are you planning to go to Russia next?" Back in the suite, Su Xinghe sat on the sofa and asked his son.

"Well, probably September or October." Su Yuanshan thought for a while and replied: "There is still a bit of trouble over there. Now the men in the country are starting to be less kind, which makes the people there have a lot of opinions on us."

At this time, Su Yuanshan couldn't help but think of his former uncle. There were not many bad guys as kind as his uncle.

Su Xinghe chuckled and said, "Let your uncle accompany you when the time comes. He is familiar with the place."

"Yeah, but we have to build an office there first. And I thought about it, and it would be best to recruit a team of people..." Su Yuanshan closed his notebook and rubbed his eyebrows: "But it's still a bit annoying. , the Russians’ English is worse than ours, and they are quite irritable when communicating.”

There is a reason why Su Yuanshan said this. Back then, his old employer had a group of Russian scientists, and their English... Let's put it this way, their English is as good as the Japanese.

And the penetration rate is still very low! In the eyes of the Russians, software that can understand the English interface has already given you face. If you want them to speak English, just dream...

"Haha, take your time." Su Xinghe imitated Su Yuanshan's previous tone: "Don't be in a hurry."

"Well, don't worry, time is in our hands now."

…

Two days later, the father and son returned to the provincial capital.

After the plane landed, Su Yuanshan put his father in the car, but he had no intention of leaving.

"What are you going to do if you don't go home?" Su Xinghe looked at his son and asked doubtfully.

"I need to pick up someone." Su Yuanshan raised his wrist and looked at the time: "We will arrive in half an hour."

"Who to pick up? Is Chen Jing coming back?"

"Uh... no." Su Yuanshan paused and said with a smile: "Dad, you are going to be the dean. Can you pay more attention to the situation of our school? Today is our entry into the International College Students Programming Competition of the University of Electronic Science and Technology. The day when the team returns with great honors..."

Su Xinghe slapped his forehead and immediately pushed open the car door: "I think about it, I really forgot about this."

Three days ago, the electrical engineering competition team, captained by Ye Rudai, overcame all obstacles in the finals and won second place in one fell swoop.

Today is the day for their return.