1991 Starting from the core

Jiang Wanchao was sitting on the sofa nearby, reading a book and drinking coffee as usual. Although his face was calm, he was still quite nervous in his heart. Smiling to himself, he turned his attention to discrete mathematics.

He and Li Mingliu joined Yuanxin at the same time. At that time, there were only about 30 people in Yuanxin, and everyone was busy working on programs. It was far from the current situation where several departments were involved in one go, and branches were even opened in Silicon Valley. . After the development of EDA was completed, Li Mingliu was recommended by Xi Xiaoding to become the head of the commercial IC design department, and he was promoted by Xi Xiaoding to become the actual head of the EDA department. The salary level was the same as that of Dr. Tian Li Mingliu and others. The only trouble is that there is no independent office downstairs, and the upstairs is not decorated, so he can only stay in the work area.

After Xi Xiaoding left, he knew that this office would be his own sooner or later. But every time he saw the technical director sign on the door, Jiang Wanchao felt a little guilty - even if he moved in, he wouldn't dare to put up this sign.

Except for the newcomers who just came in, everyone knows who is the strongest person in Yuanxin programming.

"Senior Brother Jiang."

"Little Mr. Su." When Jiang Wanchao heard Su Yuanshan come in, he quickly put away his thoughts, put down his book and stood up.

"I'll help Senior Brother Xi clean up. You can use this office then." Su Yuanshan opened the drawer, flipped through it, and found that there was nothing in it except snacks, so he took out the snacks and put them on the table, with a look of helplessness on his face: " This guy is really a hamster."

Jiang Wanchao chuckled: "I'll give it to Qu Hui and the others later. Anyway, they often come to Senior Brother Xi's place for snacks."

"Okay." Su Yuanshan replied casually, opened the computer, entered the password, and followed Xi Xiaoding's instructions to open a file.

This document is a capability assessment and summary of the strengths and weaknesses of all members of the entire Yuanxin Software Department. It can be regarded as a valuable asset he left behind as a technical director specializing in software.

After Su Yuanshan took a quick glance, he copied the files into the floppy disk, turned off the computer, and unplugged the cables.

"Senior Brother Xi's computer will be sealed up later. You can move it in - do you want to keep the sign?"

"No, it's better to change it." Jiang Wanchao quickly shook his head: "I can barely do the work of Senior Brother Xi, but I can't sit in his position." Jiang Wanchao said, holding up the book and smiling bitterly: "He told me to read more before he left. Look at this and delve more into algorithms. I pride myself on being good at advanced mathematics, but when I really study it, I find that it’s really difficult if you’re not a math major.”

"Yes." Su Yuanshan sighed and nodded: "At present, the field of algorithms has just started even abroad, and Senior Brother Xi is considered a big shot."

Jiang Wanchao endured it, but still couldn't hold it back: "What about you?"

Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Me? Half-assed."

"..." Jiang Wanchao couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. At present, he and Xi Xiaoding have almost half of Yuanxin EDA's algorithm patents. How can they be called half-hearted?

"Haha, you move the office first, and then show me the progress of the work later. We will try to complete the functions of the merger project before the end of the year, and then you will start Ethernet network collaboration."

Before the LAN standards were fully unified, Su Yuanshan was not in a hurry to develop the network collaborative development function. Instead, he first developed the project merging function - to put it simply, several computers can develop different modules at the same time and finally merge them together. . The advantage of this is that it can greatly improve efficiency - which is also the second tip Su Yuanshan has prepared for his colleagues.

When peers wake up and prepare to plagiarize, Ethernet will just become the standard for local area networks, and then peers will usher in their third blow.

If his peers still don't give up and continue to struggle, he will resort to the last trick - 3D overlapping multi-layer design.

In the future, only by changing circuits from the current 2D tiles to 3D multi-layer stacks can billions of transistors be installed on a wafer the size of a fingernail - that technology is called FinFET (Fin Field Effect Transistor), which will It was invented by Professor Hu Zhengming of TSMC in 1999. By then, fabs and EDA will be completely tied together.

If this doesn't kill those colleagues, it can only be said that they are not capitalist... but supported by the fucking state.

…

Not long after returning to his office, Su Yuanshan's phone rang. It was from across the Taiwan Strait.

On the phone, Lin Yonggu seemed to be smiling: "Mr. Su, I didn't disturb you, did I?"

"How could Mr. Lin's call be an interruption?" Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

"Haha, that's good." Lin Yonggu pondered for a moment, then said thoughtfully: "I heard the news that the company has decided to cooperate with you."

"Huh?" Su Yuanshan's eyebrows flew up, but he calmed down instantly. He knew that Lin Yonggu told him in this informal way, which was obviously not a sure thing. He asked in a deep voice: "Then what?"

"The main reason is that we still need to get permission from the government, so everything is still unknown, so I haven't contacted you officially." Lin Yonggu smiled and said casually: "It is said that all Synopsys employees have stationed at Intel. All the technical support staff have been withdrawn, leaving only one new person."

Su Yuanshan's eyebrows slowly slowed down and he smiled softly: "Thank you, Brother Lin. Next time you come over, I will definitely have a few drinks with you."

"Haha, okay. Hang up first."

Su Yuanshan exhaled and a smile appeared on his lips.

He thought of the analogy he made when giving a report in the capital.

Ni Guo is their son, and they are not allowed to surpass them. How can they accept Xia Guo surpassing them in EDA? If it weren't for the fact that only Yuanxin EDA's software was currently exported to the past, I'm afraid Xia Guo would have been forced to sign some kind of software trade agreement, right?

Although this news about Lin Yonggu is not a secret, it is indeed very important. Because Su Yuanshan knows that a group will be established in China next month specifically responsible for communicating with the opposite party, and then a consensus will be reached next year.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the two sides are flirting with each other. How can the other party block UMC's purely commercial cooperation? And it is still conducive to cooperation with UMC.

…

When Zhou Boguang received Su Yuanshan's call, he just got up and was about to go to the meeting - it is said that the top is a little loose. As long as Huajing works hard, maybe he can get the money this year.

"Hello, Director Zhou. It's me, Xiao Su."

The image of the young boy appeared in front of Zhou Boguang's eyes, and he couldn't help but smile: "Hello, Xiao Su, I heard that you killed some foreigners at the exhibition with great vigor?"

"Haha, it's all foreigners making a fuss."

"That shocked them." Zhou Boguang looked at his watch, put down the folder, leaned on the table and said with a smile: "Why are you calling this old man this time? Do you have any chip tape-outs?"

"No, I just want to poach a few of you."

Zhou Boguang was slightly startled: "Poaching people?"

"Well, during the last tapeout, I felt that Master Wang Dawei and his colleagues had a deep understanding of lithography machines, so I wanted to recruit a few of your senior engineers to come to our remote core."

On the phone, Su Yuanshan chuckled, seeming to be making an inappropriate joke.

Zhou Boguang raised his eyebrows slightly and said in a deep voice: "Xiao Su, don't beat around the bush."

Su Yuanshan's smile never diminished: "We really poached people and asked them to join Yuanxin. Then we went to the UMC factory opposite with Yuanxin's EDA support engineers to conduct reverse analysis of the CPU with them."

Zhou Boguang's eyes froze, and then he burst into countless expressions: "Okay! Well done!"

"Then let me dig it?"

Zhou Boguang put his hands on his waist and laughed loudly: "You don't need to dig, we will choose the best talents for you! How many people can you bring with you?"

"More than a dozen, you should prepare seven or eight. They should be younger, more experienced, and preferably know something about design and microcode."

"Okay, okay! Okay!" Zhou Boguang replied with several good words one after another.

Zhou Boguang punched the table hard. He was full of energy, grabbed the folder and strode towards the conference room.

…

Su Yuanshan smiled and shook his head after hanging up the phone.

Qin Weimin also shook his head, looked at him and said with a smile: "You seem to be very interested in Hua Jing. But can they help him?"

"Brother, you have to think about it this way." Su Yuanshan took Qin Weimin's documents and said: "If they can help them, then we have formed a good relationship with them. If they can't help them, then they are now helping us to cultivate talents, and They don’t need to be paid by us.”

"Do you think I can help you?"

Qin Weimin was stunned for a while, and then said: "...I accept it."