1991 Starting from the core

"What is the pattern? It is the impact on the industry and the explanation for future generations."

"Yuanxin is a leading technology company in China and even the world. It is the top leader. No matter whether the bottom line is crooked or not in the future, at least we cannot let them shirk their responsibilities when they are scolded, saying that we learned from Yuanxin."

He Wei hummed softly.

"The Internet is just the beginning now, He Wei... As you know, as the cost of mobile phones decreases and people's living standards improve, it is only a matter of time that it will be popularized and fully integrated into people's lives. At that time, one thing that can Things that arouse people's interest and attention can be pushed to hundreds of millions of people in an instant."

"We have this ability, and even you have already used this ability."

He Wei lowered her head and hummed again.

Su Yuanshan smiled and said slowly: "You should have heard a saying, the greater the ability..."

He Wei answered softly: "The greater the responsibility."

"Not entirely right. Or let me provide another interpretation."

"Ah?" He Wei looked at Su Yuanshan a little stupidly.

Su Yuanshan pulled up the chair and sat in front of He Wei.

"With great power comes great responsibility. If I remember correctly, this sentence comes from Marvel's Spider-Man."

"Yes..." He Wei nodded again.

"The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility... The 'responsibility' in the last sentence includes the responsibility of using the ability and the responsibility of restraining the ability. Right?"

He Wei pursed her lips: "Yeah."

Su Yuanshan laughed slowly: "But have you ever seen, in the modern Western narrative model, when has restraint been achieved? They use abilities more than restrain abilities."

"But under our Eastern Chinese civilization narrative model...the greater your ability, the more you have to constrain your ability."

"When the attitude towards ability is to encourage its use, then the state of restraint is divergent and is in danger of being indulged and abused. And if the attitude towards ability is to restrain, then the state of restraint is convergent. , even if there is an occasional 'Don't say it without warning', it will not be indulged or abused."

He Wei was silent. She rarely heard Su Yuanshan talk about this - this was not like the thinking that a scientist or engineer would show at all...

But she has always been smart and can draw inferences from one instance to another.

She thought for a moment and then said: "So in American movies, whenever you have some superpower, you want to save the world, such as this kind of hero or that kind of hero. And here we live a small life on "The Fairy Wife"?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "It kind of means that."

After a pause, he continued: "This sentence can be regarded as a summary and declaration of individual heroism born under the behavioral logic of Western civilization. In other words, it is the embodiment of the ideology of Western civilization into individual heroism. representation.”

"Hollywood uses the logic behind this sentence and adds Western narrative models to justify its civilized behavior."

He Wei breathed out softly: "World Police."

"Um."

He Wei fell into silence again. After a moment, she looked up, still a little confused: "But Mr. Shan, you always need the police, right?"

Su Yuanshan was slightly startled.

After a moment, he slowly laughed.

"Yes, but what is needed is the people's police."

"The people's police are not happy to pull the entire Internet to verbally criticize an ordinary person, even if it can not only satisfy your sense of moral superiority but also create marketing results."

He Wei crossed her legs, lowered her head, and said in a sweet tone like a primary school student: "Mr. Shan... I really know I was wrong."

"Yeah. Do you want to give you a few days off?" Su Yuanshan saw that her eye sockets were a little sunken, and knew that she was very nervous and busy these days and was indeed very tired, so he smiled slightly and said: "Otherwise, my old classmate will call at the door. If you say I abused you, then I will have no choice but to hide.”

"Ah?" He Wei looked up, a little dumbfounded.

"Ah, what, you and Lao Sun - why are you so awkward when you scream?" Su Yuanshan moved his chair and looked at her with a smile: "Everyone has known about you and Guoqiao for a long time."

"..." He Wei's face immediately turned red: "No way."

"Well, actually you are quite strict with your mouth, but Guoqiao's mouth... well, I don't blame him, but if I do, I blame my wife for being too nosy. Hahaha!"

——As one of the people who entered the Electrical Engineering Department through competition, Su Yuanshan didn’t have much time, but Ye Rudai had both time and interest, and everyone was connected with each other.

Su Yuanshan only learned about He Wei and Sun Guoqiao through Ye Rudai's words.

He Wei: "..."

"Go ahead and apply to Mr. Duan. I'll say hello to him - when will you treat me to a wedding banquet?"

He Wei was embarrassed: "I guess... next year."

"Okay, I'm waiting for your wedding invitation."

…

After watching He Wei leave, Su Yuanshan turned his chair and took a look at his motto. After smiling, he stood up, grabbed the phone and called Qin Weimin.

After a while, he left the office and walked towards the next building.

…

"Senior brother, why haven't you made any move yet?"

Su Yuanshan sat down on Qin Weimin's desk and joked.

——The family will separate and move away at the end of the month, but along the way, everyone he met was unhurried, greeting him as always, and busy with the things at hand.

"Are you driving me away?" Qin Weimin grabbed a book and was about to smash it.

"Then I wouldn't dare." Su Yuanshan tilted his head and returned to the sofa to sit down.

Qin Weimin also walked out from behind the desk and sat with him.

The two brothers looked at each other and suddenly smiled at the same time.

"To be honest, I find it incredible now that one day I will be the first to lead the team out." Qin Weimin patted Su Yuanshan on the back and took a long breath: "I always thought it was Lao Gao or Lao Chen."

"Well... there is no way. The popularity of mobile Internet and smartphones is the last chance for other low-power instruction sets and processors to catch up. We cannot make any mistakes."

Qin Weimin nodded slowly and sighed with emotion: "Yes, I heard that several universities in the United States are planning to join forces to develop an open source RISC architecture... If they seize the opportunity, we are really in danger."

"So, strengthen the faith of our partners, seize the wave of expansion of the smartphone market, and completely improve and consolidate the software and hardware ecology." Su Yuanshan looked at Qin Weimin and wanted to remind him something, but found that over the years, his own Senior brother... was also my guide in the previous life. In fact, there is nothing I need to remind him anymore.

After all, Qin Weimin himself is a boss-level figure, even in his previous life. It's just that because of the passion and passion in Guoxin, too much effort was spent and too many years were wasted, and in the end it failed to shine in a way that attracted the world's attention.

Today, whether it is the idea of ​​large and small cores, power consumption control, or the direction of the architecture itself, Qin Weimin's grasp and understanding of the YX architecture is no less than or even better than that of Su Yuanshan.

Qin Weimin is no longer the doctoral student who needed Su Yuanshan's reminder ten years ago.

"Yes, I understand." Qin Weimin nodded, and after a moment of silence he said softly: "Xiaoshan, I want to withdraw from the executive board of directors and the science and technology committee."

"Ah? Why?" Su Yuanshan was a little anxious: "Both of them retreat?"

"Don't worry, listen to me." Qin Weimin smiled slightly and patted Su Yuanshan on the shoulder: "Our separation will be of the same nature as EDA's original separation."

Su Yuanshan nodded after being silent for a few seconds.

Yes, the biggest significance of EDA being separated is to develop independently, occupy the market through advanced operation and promotion methods, and then become a sharp dagger.

RISC-YX, too.

If I had to give a code name to the deepest meaning of these actions, the most appropriate one would be "Zang Feng."

Since it needs to be divided, it must be divided cleanly. As long as the technology itself belongs to the country, everything else is easy to say.

If Qin Weimin still serves as a member of Yuanxin's executive board of directors and a member of the Science and Technology Committee, then... there is obviously no clear distinction.

"You once said that you should either give up profits to Wall Street, give up the market to old American companies, or hire employees to set up factories in the United States and provide tax revenue - if you don't do any of the three, why should the old Americans give you the market? Let you make money and develop? You are not its father."

"Unless you make socks, toys, and Christmas gifts... it likes these, and it's fine to give them all to you. But what's the use of them? Just print some Franklin and give it to you, and you have to be grateful."

Su Yuanshan pursed his lips and nodded silently: "Yes."

"So, Xiaoshan... if the YX architecture wants to truly become a RISC architecture that monopolizes the world, it still has to accept capital from the United States, hire more employees from the United States, and cooperate with old and American companies to make money with them."

"Um."

"We are no better than the irreplaceable ones like Deyuan, so we can only separate them first to avoid being sloppy and making people gossip."

Su Yuanshan was silent: "Yeah."

"Anyway, just come back when the time comes." Qin Weimin patted Su Yuanshan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "By the way, when I was considering replacement candidates for the Executive Committee recently, I came up with a plan."

"Um?"

"We currently have a total of twelve R\u0026D centers around the world, five in China including Hong Kong. Two in North America, one in Tokyo, one in Singapore, one in London, one in Moscow and one in Lyon."

"Fourteen soon, R\u0026D centers in Berlin and Toronto are already preparing."

"Well, you see, although Mr. Chen has been engaging in team exchanges between R\u0026D centers in the past two years and has achieved results, I feel that foreign R\u0026D centers still have a serious sense of alienation from us." Qin Weimin frowned and looked at Looking at Su Yuanshan: "Of course, this is not because of habits, customs, or race. It's..."

Su Yuanshan also immediately looked at Qin Weimin seriously.

He also knew that this was a very... somewhat unspeakable situation.

But an R\u0026D center is an independent company and unit. This is basically an established fact. Therefore, when Chen Jing proposed team communication, she didn't think much about anything else. Her biggest purpose was to break the domestic mountain-headism.

After all, Yuanxin’s roots are still in China.

A domestic R\u0026D center can easily have tens of thousands of people. The provincial capital headquarters has corporate department headquarters there, and the total number of people has reached 40,000.

If these people are not broken up and reunited, they will form various small groups, which may not be more lively than Causeway Bay (Young and Dangerous).

But for R\u0026D centers located abroad... let's put it this way, as long as they can produce results and complete their R\u0026D tasks, let them go.

Listening to Qin Weimin's wishes, he seems to have a solution?

"It's that the distance from Yuanxin is too far. This is not in terms of space, but also in concepts and thoughts. For employees in overseas R\u0026D centers, they simply think that they are just employees and have no understanding of Yuanxin. Forming identity and belonging.”

"Is this a common problem among overseas branches of all enterprises?" Su Yuanshan frowned.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean we just let things go..." Qin Weimin smiled slightly: "A soldier is a raging soldier, and there is a raging den of bears. In terms of the sense of belonging, in fact, it mainly depends on the person in charge."

"Senior brother, what do you mean by that, the domestic person in charge and the person in charge of the overseas R\u0026D center will be swapped?"

"This is one way, and the other way is... to let the person in charge join the overall strategy and development plan of Yuanxin to gain a sense of participation and honor."

"So, can the heads of overseas R\u0026D centers also participate in business and technical meetings of the Executive Committee and Science and Technology Committee that do not involve extremely confidential matters?"

"And for ordinary employees, in addition to team exchanges and business trips, can they engage in cross-border team activities... Well, just like a spring outing, and they can also be given commendations and rewards to promote..."

Su Yuanshan blinked immediately after hearing the last part.

"Brother, have you read the book "Team Building"?"

Qin Weimin was startled: "Ah? What the hell?"

"Team Building, or Team construction, translates to team building - enhancing team cohesion and improving team capabilities... um..."

Su Yuanshan said to his heart that this thing is still a new word even abroad.

"Yes, you can try it." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Thanks for the reminder, senior brother."

Qin Weimin: "...Which book have you read?"

"I've heard of this year's new book. I'll recommend Mr. Chen to read it later. Hmm... Yes, senior brother, you said it very well. No matter how cohesive the overseas R\u0026D center is, we have to give it a try, and we do need more information. More genes can ensure sufficient creativity."

Qin Weimin nodded with a smile, "Well, it's okay to rely on you alone."

Su Yuanshan chuckled: "I have a lot of creativity. I am brave and lucky."

…

After bidding farewell to Qin Weimin, Su Yuanshan returned to Tian Yaoming's side. Compared with Qin Weimin, Tian Yaoming was obviously more nervous - Qin Weimin simply left, but he had to make up for the resulting fragmentation of cross-department cooperation. Therefore, seeing Su Yuanshan immediately felt like seeing a relative, indicating that the Kirin team needed to expand its manpower.

"Hiring, hiring immediately." Su Yuanshan agreed with a smile: "Now counting all the NEWBEE laboratory, communications and Qilin departments, how many people do you have here?"

“Including overseas teams, it’s around 15,000.”

"Hmm...it's indeed a bit small, and you also need a professional sales and marketing team." Su Yuanshan touched his chin, thinking that Qualcomm would have nearly 40,000 people in the future - Tian Yaoming's communication technology laboratory plus Qilin, in fact, already It’s a complete Qualcomm.

"What the hell, what are you thinking?" Tian Yaoming immediately became alert: "You won't separate us out, will you?"

"Senior Brother Tian, ​​what are you thinking..." Su Yuanshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Tian Yaoming immediately laughed: "I'm a little scared of you. I have been discussing with Lao Li about retiring together in the future. But in the blink of an eye, your own senior brother was kicked out by you..."

Su Yuanshan was speechless for a while: "Senior Brother Tian, ​​you know why my senior brother was separated."

At this point, Tian Yaoming stopped joking and sighed: "Well, actually everyone is saying privately that if it hadn't been for 914 last year, we would have suffered a lot."

"Hmm... So we must seize the time and take advantage of the war over there to seize the market, win over the wealthy gentry, and form interest groups. If they try to target us at that time, their own companies will not be able to bear it and will rebel. .”

"Yeah, but it's none of my business. I just want to take care of myself in peace and contentment." Tian Yaoming smiled and said, "You came here to take a walk, right?"

"It counts as a stroll, but the main thing is to see what difficulties you have here."

"The other thing to say is the lack of people. There is also a shortage of radio frequency front-end, transceiver, and WiFi departments."

"Recruit, recruit and dig at the same time, poach Qualcomm, poach MediaTek, poach Nokia, poach Siemens... poach all over the world!"

"Okay! Then you have to say hello to Mr. Chen."

"Okay. Is there anything else? If it's okay, I'll go take a look at NEWBEE."

"Go ahead - look at fingerprint recognition?"

"Um."

"That's probably no big deal. Little Plum is in trouble."

Su Yuanshan: "..."

But even so, he still went to NewBee Laboratory.

As Tian Yaoming said, he did come for a "walk" today - only on the first day after getting off the plane, there were not so many things waiting for him and he had time to walk around the science and technology park.

While the design project of Yidoo4 was approved, two projects were also followed up.

A fingerprint recognition is handled by NewBEE, and an artificial intelligence voice assistant is handled by Pandora.

In terms of AI, Su Yuanshan is not worried at all. After so many years, Pandora has long been the world's top artificial intelligence laboratory, with scientists from all over the world. It is the department with the most overseas employees and international exchange activities of FarCore. It is really more than enough to train an AI.

But fingerprint recognition... is a bit difficult.

In fact, fingerprint recognition is no longer a cutting-edge technology. As early as a few years ago, laptops had fingerprint recognition systems, and then Microsoft followed up with fingerprint password accounts. Although it is useless, it is still an application scenario.

Later, two mobile phone manufacturers also planned to engage in it, but neither made any waves.

Only this year, HP is expected to follow Yuanxin's example of leading technology, equipped with a fingerprint recognition sensor that is said to be dustproof, waterproof, oilproof, moisture-proof, and can adapt to extreme temperatures, providing a more accurate fingerprint scanning experience...

Make a CMIS thermal silicon sensing technology the same as Zenith Star Technology.

According to rumors, a group of companies in Niguo, including Sony, are also actively following up.

As for why Su Yuanshan knew... of course it was because YOS also needed to follow up.

For fingerprint recognition to become truly popular, it is inseparable from system support.

…

"I heard you're in trouble?"

Su Yuanshan happily smiled at Li Yinan who was pouring tea for him.

"Well, it's a bit troublesome." Li Yinan handed the water cup to Su Yuanshan and sat down opposite him: "At first, we just thought it was just a matter of shrinking the sensor of a punch card and then developing a set of pattern recognition algorithms ourselves... As a result After getting deeper into it, especially after the guys in the design center kept making requests, I found that this matter was really annoying."

"Oh? What's the idea of ​​the design center?"

"Their idea is to integrate the recognition module on the Home button, and then..." Li Yinan took out his mobile phone to demonstrate to Su Yuanshan: "While pressing the Home button, the fingerprint recognition is also immediately triggered to unlock. But. Note that when unlocking, Home cannot be pressed, because the login of the APP application must be taken into account, or other situations also need to be unlocked.”

"This requires that when receiving the prompt, lightly touch the home button with your finger, and it will be resolved immediately."

Li Yinan shrugged: "Do you think these grandsons are tormenting people?"

Su Yuanshan laughed.

At the same time, "Lao Huai comforts".

Yes, it seems that the people in the design center have really grown up - the fingerprint unlocking they proposed is officially Apple's original unlocking and application method.

However, when Apple realized it, it acquired AuthenTec, Authen Technology, which was the number one in the fingerprint recognition sensor industry at the time, and it was already 13 years ago when it was launched...

The reason why Yuanxin is engaged in fingerprint recognition now is not only because the "grandsons" in the design center are tormenting people with their imaginations, but also because Su Yuanshan also feels that fingerprint recognition may be possible earlier.

Because historically, before Apple appeared, there was no such thing as a “smartphone”. And feature phones...even if they use the most powerful fingerprint recognition, it's just a gimmick.

What's more, they are not awesome at all, and they don't even follow the right path.

But now, because of the birth of YOS and the emergence of Yidoo4, mobile phone fingerprint recognition has really come into play.

"I'm not saying it's difficult. We have been in Yuanxin for so many years. What kind of storms and waves have we not seen?" Li Yinan shook his head and said with a smile: "It's just a bit complicated and troublesome. Do you think I really have to make great efforts to get rid of him... I feel like I'm killing a chicken with a big knife. You said I let a small team keep an eye on it, but I keep saying it can't be done all day long. This thing is not a core technology..."

Su Yuanshan laughed again, but this time, he shook his head while laughing.

"Yitan, you are wrong about this."

"Um?"

"Looking at it now, this thing is indeed not a core component or a necessity. But in fact... it is really necessary for the future."

Li Yinan immediately frowned and started thinking, but after a moment, he still shook his head: "I don't quite understand."

"How many times do you turn off and light up the screen a day?" Su Yuanshan looked at his mobile phone.

"I don't work much. When I get off work...it's only a few times, except for making phone calls. But I don't make many phone calls. I'm used to using the landline in the office."

"Uh..." Su Yuanshan knew that he was giving the wrong example. And there aren’t many things you can “play” with mobile phones now.

"Then let's put it this way, when one day, the mobile phone becomes a tool that users keep with them every day, and they have to turn off the screen more than ten times a day, dozens of times... Do you think it will be annoying to enter the password every time?"

"You can cancel the password..."

"...I can't tell you clearly." Su Yuanshan couldn't laugh or cry: "What if I cancel the password and lose my phone?"

"buy one?"

"Are there important documents in it? Are there important photos? For example, those photos of your wife, right... You don't set a password for others to see?"

"Damn... I don't have that much fun." Although Li Yinan said this, he was nodding slowly.

"Well, indeed, my question is. I hardly use my mobile phone, so it's hard to understand what fun it is for the people in the design center to hold this gadget all day long. If... it's as you said, what they proposed The fingerprint identification solution is indeed the most in line with the actual situation and user needs."

Su Yuanshan breathed out.

This guy can actually reflect on himself, which is good.

"Then make it a key project?"

"Well, do it! The sooner the better."

Su Yuanshan nodded and took out his mobile phone.

The caller ID showed Zheng Zhenchuan.

"Uncle Zheng, are you done?"

In Li Yinan's office, Su Yuanshan directly turned on the phone.

"Haha, how can you be so busy? Are you free?"

"Uncle Zheng summoned me, I will definitely be free." Su Yuanshan laughed: "But you have to tell me something first so that I can be prepared."

Half a month has passed since the press conference of the immersion lithography machine. Not to mention the domestic glory. In addition to long and lengthy reports, it is said that the hats for Lin Benjian, Zhao Kaidong and Zheng Zhenchuan have also been prepared. The next batch of academicians of the Academy of Engineering will definitely not be able to escape.

This is the first time that China has caught up with developed countries in the field of lithography machines. It is said that when the news reached the capital, the leader who first came to inspect Yuanxin applauded and laughed, and personally called Zheng Zhenchuan. Bian Yizi encouraged.

——You know, when Zheng Zhenchuan reported to the leadership at that time, he said that he would catch up within twenty years.

In less than ten years, it has already caught up or even surpassed it.

Of course, there were some tricks involved, but in the end, we still won the highest crown.

Such an achievement cannot be rewarded enough.

Therefore, in the past half month, except for one phone call with Zheng Zhenchuan, Su Yuanshan never bothered him again.

He knew that with Zheng Zhenchuan's reputation, he would be constantly busy with various reports.

"Haha, we plan to buy SVGL. Please give us some advice and see if we can find some connections to make the merger and acquisition smoother."

"Huh?" Su Yuanshan raised his voice and stood up immediately.

"Wasn't SVGL acquired by ASML?"

"No... there was talk of it a year ago, but later it was said that the price could not be reached."

"..."

Su Yuanshan took a deep breath.

"Buy, where are you now?"

"But Xiaoshan... let me remind you first, this merger and acquisition must be conditional."

On the phone, Zheng Zhenchuan took a gentle breath: "There is someone from the Old American Semiconductor Alliance on the other side to deliver the message...Based on the current simple judgment, we may need to make some kind of commitment. So this matter is still deeply involved, and I also I haven’t said it yet, I just want to discuss it with you first.”

"Okay, I'll go back to the office right away."

Su Yuanshan held the phone, nodded to Li Yinan, and strode out of the door.