1991 Starting from the core

Yuan Xin and others are all very capable of execution. Pony didn't care that he had already separated from the family. He sat down and picked up an A4 paper and began to conceive of the page layout. Zhu Yuanxin was pointing at the side - drawing. Well, he is familiar with this job.

Su Yuanshan looked at his watch and saw that the incident was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"When will Hua Wei come over?"

"I haven't replied to them yet - how can I dare to arrange your itinerary?" Zhang Xiaolong smiled and picked up the phone: "Can you set a time?"

Su Yuanshan thought for a while and said directly: "Let's do it now, and then arrange a dinner later, and then find a teahouse to have a good chat."

"Want to arrange a dinner party?" Zhang Xiaolong glanced at Su Yuanshan in surprise, but quickly dialed the number of the general manager's office of Sinomicro.

——Huawei is considered an old partner of Yuanxin. From the very beginning, they were the first batch of EDA purchasers. Later, we immediately obtained the authorization for the YX architecture, and based on this architecture, we designed two excellent switch-specific chips.

Nowadays, China Micro's path has been clearly determined, that is, they adopt the telecommunications cable system and provide a package of services including digital computer rooms, switches, broadband equipment, and interconnection infrastructure equipment.

If FarCore's communications division is taking the direction of wireless base stations, then they are taking the direction of wired networks.

Therefore, as a technology provider of data computer rooms, Sinomicro has a lot of interactions with the Internet Center. Zhang Xiaolong also met Mr. Ren from Sinomicro at several entrepreneur meetings held in the special zone on behalf of the Internet Center.

Today, Mr. Ren heard the news from somewhere and knew that Su Yuanshan was coming to the Special Administrative Region, so he called Zhang Xiaolong and asked Zhang Xiaolong to introduce him. He wanted to pay a visit to Mr. Shan.

Zhang Xiaolong’s reply to Mr. Ren was that he could contact Mr. Shan, but he didn’t know whether Mr. Shan would be available.

However, when he called Su Yuanshan, Su Yuanshan just stayed on the phone for two seconds and then agreed.

He agreed not to say anything... and returned to the Special Administrative Region on the same day.

Now, Mr. Shan actually said that he would arrange a dinner party in the evening?

——Yuan Xin Everyone knows that what Mr. Shan hates the most is dinner parties.

"Lao Ren said he will be there soon." After hanging up the phone, Zhang Xiaolong looked at Su Yuanshan: "Mr. Shan, where are the dinner arrangements?"

"Anything, just the hotel opposite." Su Yuanshan thought of his old club's style, and the corner of his mouth curled up slightly: "I've heard of Mr. Ren. He is a soldier, and he does things vigorously and resolutely."

Zhang Xiaolong nodded and smiled: "If you don't tell me, most people won't be able to tell. The old man is quite technical."

Su Yuanshan said to himself, of course. This person was an expert in self-taught computers, numbers and automatic control... and even taught himself foreign languages ​​after that. Even if he joins the army, he will still be an engineer, the kind who engages in technology.

Looking at his watch again, Su Yuanshan estimated that this person was almost out, so he straightened his clothes and walked outside.

——According to his understanding, if his old club cannot arrive within 20 minutes, he will lose!

"Why are you following me...can you let me get some air?"

Seeing that Zhang Xiaolong and Wen Xiaoqian were about to get up, Su Yuanshan quickly stopped them.

…

In less than twenty minutes, Huawei CEO Ren Zhifei and his deputy Zheng Baoyong rushed to the Internet Center in a hurry.

When he saw Su Yuanshan at the door, Ren Zhifei almost missed it. It was his deputy who pulled him, and he suddenly stopped and looked at the young man who smiled at him.

"Mr. Shan?" Ren Zhifei was obviously a little surprised and shouted tentatively - although Su Yuanshan's name is well known in the industry, he rarely appears in formal occasions and does not even leave any photos.

Ren Zhifei had only seen him briefly on TV.

"It's me, Su Yuanshan."

"Mr. Ren, Mr. Zheng, hello." Su Yuanshan smiled and stretched out his hand: "Welcome to Yuanxin."

Ren Zhifei and Zheng Baoyong hurriedly stepped forward. After shaking hands, they both felt a little uneasy at the same time - Su Yuanshan was too busy to say anything, and his identity was impossible to greet him at the door alone...

Even though Huawei is now well-known in the industry, compared to Yuanxin, Huawei cannot even compare with one of its departments.

"Let's go in and chat."

Su Yuanshan saw the doubts of the two people and invited them into the elevator with a smile.

This time he personally welcomed them out just to express his respect for the two old leaders in his memory.

…

After sitting down in the reception room, Su Yuanshan joked first.

"Mr. Ren, it is said in China that our two companies are two telecom giants, one engaged in wireline and the other in wireless. So, do we count as joining forces in Jinggangshan today?"

"Forget it." Although Ren Zhifei was over fifty years old, he was still as energetic as a middle-aged man. He looked at Su Yuanshan with a hearty smile: "Mr. Shan, our business is far behind yours. We really don't dare to say that." Giant."

"It will get better. The main reason we suffer is because of our fundamentals. No matter how difficult the foreign business is, as long as the domestic market develops rapidly, we will be trembling when we jump on board in the future."

"Yes, the domestic market does have great potential to be tapped." Ren Zhifei followed Su Yuanshan's two sentences and then looked at Su Yuanshan with bright eyes: "But foreign markets are also good opportunities for expansion."

Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile and motioned for Mr. Ren to continue.

"We... came here mainly because we wanted to take a ride on Yuanxin's boat."

"Oh?" Su Yuanshan's thoughts turned and he immediately guessed that his old club was probably targeting the market space created by the cooperation between Yuanxin and Siam.

"What does Mr. Ren mean?"

"What we mean is that we can also make some contribution to Yuanxin's expansion into Southeast Asia."

As he spoke, Ren Zhifei opened his briefcase, pulled out a document and handed it to Su Yuanshan: "We currently have technical reserves that are no less than Cisco in the field of gateways and switches, and our overseas goals will mainly be in Southeast Asia... If we can cooperate with Yuanxin and face international giants such as Cisco, Nokia, and Motorola, our competitiveness will definitely be greatly enhanced."

Su Yuanshan took the document and browsed it quickly.

This document is nothing more than the current success stories of Sinomicro and the solutions it can provide.

After reading, Su Yuanshan nodded slightly, pondered for a few seconds and then smiled: "Yes, it is the eve of the explosion of the Internet and mobile networks. If we can go hand in hand, we will definitely have more say in the world. "

Ren Zhifei's expression perked up! He glanced at Zheng Baoyong, who understood and immediately pulled out another document.

"Mr. Shan, we have another idea."

"Oh? Mr. Zheng, please tell me."

"That's right, we found that in many fields of special equipment, the cost of the chip accounts for more than half of the cost of the entire equipment, and this is mainly because the cost of designing and manufacturing ASICs is too high - because of these Special chips for special equipment cannot be produced in volume. I think the same is true for base station chips, right?"

Su Yuanshan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Zheng Baoyong with a smile - this top technical general, does he want to engage in FPGA?

FPGA——Field Programmable Gate Array, translated as field programmable gate array.

What does that mean? Laymen have a way of describing it - "universal chip".

Although this description is very civilized, it is also very appropriate. It can achieve different functions through different programming solutions. It can even be a video decoding chip one second and a communication data processing chip the next second.

It and its predecessors, PAL and GAL, are now used in half of the verification procedures after the chip design is completed. Of course, it can also be programmed directly to be used as a functional chip - this was the function it had at the time of its birth.

Sure enough, Zheng Baoyong's next sentence was: "In the past, when the data processing volume was not large, we could also use GAL and other chips instead. But as the demand for data processing becomes higher and higher, chips like GAL are not enough. . We either design special ICs or use the most advanced FPGA chips."

"In our country, the field of FPGA is still blank..."

Zheng Baoyong knew that the young man in front of him was a genius who was once a powerful figure in Silicon Valley. He knew a lot about chip design, so he no longer hid it. He smiled shyly and said, "So we thought, could we cooperate with Yuanxin? Get FPGA up."

"It can be done." Su Yuanshan agreed immediately. But he immediately asked: "Do you have any technical background? Don't forget that abroad, PAL and GAL alone have been developed for decades, and FPGA has also been developed for more than ten years. The patent wall is quite high."

Su Yuanshan's words confused Zheng Baoyong. He held it in for two seconds and then said: "We... can explore together with Zhiyuan."

"..."

Su Yuanshan laughed when he saw this.

You don’t even have a clue about your feelings? He thought his old club could give him a surprise...

Hmm...but it's good to be aware of the importance of FPGA.

And the ambition is not small.

Although Su Yuanshan specialized in central processing units in his previous life, as an industry insider, he certainly understands how big a market FPGA will have in the field of mobile base stations in the future—not to mention in aerospace, military and other fields.

However, doing FPGA is not something you can do with just one mouthful.

Unlike ordinary IC chips, FPGA is an industry with extremely high technical barriers. Some people think that an FPGA company is half an IC design company + half an EDA software company. The hardware structure is complex and the yield rate is low. The collaboration between software and hardware makes research and development more difficult. .

The hardware development part of FPGA companies belongs to typical IC design companies. Unlike general IC design companies, because FPGA hardware needs to be used together with EDA software, FPGA companies usually need to develop their own EDA software that adapts to their own hardware, so it is also considered half. An EDA software company.

Due to the complex layout and wiring of FPGA, hardware design is difficult. In addition, the collaborative development of software and hardware further escalates the difficulty of system engineering.

After thinking about it, Su Yuanshan smiled and said: "I won't hide it from you. In fact, Zhiyuan has already started to join forces with PEG to try."

"PEG? Panda Electronics?"

"Yes. If you want to get involved, I can give you a connection."

"..." Zheng Baoyong looked at Su Yuanshan dumbfounded: "Isn't Yuanxin optimistic about FPGA? Don't you want to get involved?"

"No...I think about it very much."

Of course Su Yuanshan is optimistic about FPGA.

Therefore, after discovering that Yuanxin had no spare capacity and no domestic technical reserves, Su Yuanshan planned to save the country in a curve.