1991 Starting from the core

Remote mountain office.

Even though the stool was right behind his butt, Yue Hongyi stood nervously behind Su Yuanshan and stared at Su Yuanshan's monitor.

This is the task given to him by Su Yuanshan, or the "entry exam".

——Five months ago, Su Yuanshan asked him to complete the design of a processor alone within three months, starting from the instruction set. During this period, he could consult everyone at Yuanxin.

Two months later, Yue Hongyi came up with his own plan and applied to Su Yuanshan for an extension of time. At that time, Su Yuanshan agreed without even looking at his plan.

This made Yue Hongyi breathe a sigh of relief, but also became slightly nervous - Professor Xiao Su didn't even take a look at the plan. What does this mean?

But being immersed in design, he no longer cared about trying to figure out his mentor's mentality, and instead focused all his energy on the design of the CPU.

Today is the moment for him to hand over the answer.

…

Su Yuanshan carefully inspected Yue Hongyi's design, and it could be seen that this kid was really ambitious - he designed a simple 16-bit reduced instruction set processor from scratch in five months, and also formed a A relatively complete paper.

"Not bad." Su Yuanshan raised his head and nodded to Yue Hongyi with a smile: "If the requirements for you are lower, you can graduate just by revising this paper."

Yue Hongyi was obviously relieved, but he didn't know how to answer the question - he was not good at words, so he could only smile shyly.

"It can be seen that you have your own understanding of chip design." Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "Can you tell me your plans for the future? Will you join a factory? Or continue your studies and specialize in a certain field?"

Yue Hongyi thought for a while and said: "I haven't considered that far yet. If I talk about wishes, my wish is to become an architectural designer."

"Yeah." Su Yuanshan thought for a few seconds and nodded: "Then you go back and rest for a few days, and then I will arrange a task for you."

Yue Hongyi nodded silently, paused and then asked: "Teacher, are you still designing the processor?"

"No, you are familiar with my project and help me describe the logical functions in hardware language. Of course, if you can come up with a better solution, I can also adopt your solution."

Yue Hongyi suppressed his joy and asked, "Are you joining the teacher's job?"

"Yes." Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded - he liked this kind of young man who didn't know the heights of the world and, well... dared to challenge.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaohui pushed the door open and entered.

…

"Hello, Mr. Li, I am Su Yuanshan."

Su Yuanshan walked out of his seat, shook hands with Li Junyou and Sun Xiaochuan, and introduced them to the reception area.

It can be seen that these two people are quite reserved. They must have found someone to inquire about the power structure of Yuanxin in the past two days.

"Mr. Shan, thanks to Yuanxin's high regard, our board of directors unanimously believes that... we can accept Yuanxin's acquisition conditions." Li Junyou saw that Su Yuanshan did not take the initiative to bring it up, but looked at him with a smile, and he sighed in his heart. He took out the acquisition offer that Zhou Xiaohui handed him and made his attitude clear at the same time.

Su Yuanshan and Zhou Xiaohui looked at each other and smiled at the same time.

"Mr. Shan, but we also have conditions." Li Junyou calmed down and tried his best to not be weaker than Su Yuanshan in terms of momentum.

"Well, you say."

"We hope to maintain Tianju's technological independence. After all, we are a car company with eight years of history. In these eight years, we have accumulated a lot of experience and obtained more than ten national patents - I believe It is precisely because of this that Yuanxin chose to cooperate with us."

After a pause, Li Junyou continued: "Of course, since it is a wholly-owned acquisition, we will definitely accept the supervision and leadership of Yuanxin. There is no doubt about it."

Su Yuanshan coughed and looked at this person with admiration.

Li Junyou's condition clearly means that although Yuanxin is wealthy and a high-tech enterprise, it is indeed a complete layman in the car-making industry.

Then, there is no need for laymen to lead experts.

"In addition, we feel that... the purchase price of 30 million... is a bit low."

Su Yuanshan smiled and nodded: "Is there more?"

Li Junyou made eye contact with Sun Xiaochuan, then shook his head.

"Then let me talk about the purchase price first." Su Yuanshan picked up the tea cup, blew on the tea foam and took a sip. Then he smiled and said: "First of all, I want to ask Mr. Li, Mr. Sun, what are you guys doing?" Do you want to build cars, or do you want to make money?"

Li Junyou was startled when he heard this, and then smiled and said: "Mr. Shan is right, of course he wants to build cars - you see, we are the only car factory in such a big provincial city. If we don't build it, then no one will." ”

Su Yuanshan shook his head: "The car factory is not a meat factory. There is no need for every city to have one. The Lighthouse Country is so big, how many companies can you count that make cars?"

His words left Li Junyou unable to answer.

Indeed, the larger the company and the more regular it is, the greater its market competitiveness will be.

Ten years ago, workshop-style car factories like Tianju could still survive by relying on low-priced cars and imitation cars. Nowadays, as the market becomes more and more standardized, users are becoming more and more picky about brands and configurations. Blindly following the ultra-low configuration and ultra-low price route can no longer meet the needs of users.

In the end, the domestic market will form a monopoly situation of a few giants, just like in developed countries.

"If Mr. Li's dream is to build a car, then this 30 million is enough. It is enough to allow those companies in Hongpailou to recover their investment, and also allows Mr. Li to resume his journey without any worries."

"Secondly, Yuanxin's subsequent investment in Tianju will be more than 30 million, or even more than 330 billion. To be honest, Mr. Li, don't mind. If Yuanxin has established a wafer fab of a moderate scale, conservative investment will It started with a billion dollars.”

Li Junyou was speechless for a moment, but after a moment, he still smiled and said: "Yes, they say that the wafer factory is the money printing factory, and the investment is certainly not comparable to that of the automobile industry."

"But the two industries are related." Su Yuanshan smiled meaningfully: "Mr. Li, you don't really think that Yuanxin acquired Tianju just to let Tianju improve the production line and expand production capacity step by step. Finally, Is this the way to compete for the market?”

At this time, Sun Xiaochuan finally couldn't help but ask: "So... who is Yuan Xin?"

"Smart cars, or car intelligence. It is the ultimate form that is foreseeable and achievable under the current technological conditions."

"So, what Mr. Li just said, don't interfere in the technology business..." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Then Yuanxin will just build a wafer factory and sell mobile phones. Why should I buy a car?"

Li Junyou and Sun Xiaochuan looked at each other again, their eyes full of shock.

However, there was a burning light in Sun Xiaochuan's eyes.

Su Yuanshan took in all this scorching heat.

——This chief engineer is said to have two brushes. But his arms couldn't hold his thighs, so he took out the four-cylinder car parked downstairs.

Sun Xiaochuan took a deep breath: "Ask Mr. Shan, can you be more specific about smart cars?"