1991 Starting from the core

As the recruited employees arrived, the available area on the ninth floor suddenly shrunk. Now there are more than 130 workstations alone, plus ten independent offices.

These offices are occupied by Li Mingliu, Tian Yaoming, Xi Xiaoding, Su Yuanshan, Qin Weimin, Su Xinghe, and logistics Sun Xihui. The office of the Finance Office has an extra sign, and Yang Yiwen is temporarily working together with the relatively quiet Finance Office. The remaining two offices are used for workstations.

Since the boss, Su Xinghe, is often absent, his largest office is also used as a conference room from time to time.

As for personnel allocation, currently the largest among Yuanxin's four teams is Xi Xiaoding's EDA team, which includes after-sales, with more than 60 people. Next, Tian Yaoming's communications team has nearly thirty people, and the remaining Li Mingliu and Qin Weimin have about twenty people each.

Among them, the teams of Tian Yaoming and Qin Weimin theoretically cannot produce results for a while, and at this stage they can only do purely theoretical research. And even Li Mingliu couldn't understand what Su Yuanshan meant when he asked him to engage in video decoding - MPEG has not yet become an international standard, and even if it is developed, there will be no usable products.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Yuanxin relies solely on one EDA to support three teams with no returns.

But in Su Yuanshan's eyes, the company's current personnel structure is far from enough. If we want to truly make achievements in the semiconductor industry in the future, these people will have to be expanded at least a hundred times to barely be enough. Now that wages are low, if you can afford it, then keep it first. If you can produce a patent, it's best. If you can't, at least you can come up with some ideas. It's better than not touching it at all.

After convening a small meeting with everyone, Su Yuanshan returned to his office and discussed the architectural layout of the decoding chip with Li Mingliu.

According to Su Yuanshan's vision, this video decoding chip needs to be highly integrated, which directly stops other companies from thinking about it. But there is a problem - Huajing can't handle it.

Huajing's wafer fab is still five inches and 2 microns, and the special packaging method is still plastic packaging, which is a bit embarrassing. Of course, this does not mean that plastic packaging is not possible. After all, CMOS chips require low voltage and generate little heat, so they are just suitable for plastic packaging - for example, pagers can be used without any problems.

But VCD is different, because the video needs to be continuously decoded, and the amount of calculation is beyond what a pager chip can match. Coupled with the existence of the optical drive, the VCD itself is a large heat generator, and various problems will inevitably arise if it is packaged in plastic.

Now there are many companies that can produce chips with processes below 2 microns, including TI, Intel, AMD, UMC, TSMC, and numerous chip factories in Neon Country to the east.

However, if you find these factories, just a set of chip tape-out costs nearly one million US dollars, and there is no market effect in the short term.

Home consumer products such as VCDs are no bigger than communication products such as mobile phones and paging. It does not have natural self-propagation properties - a simple example is that if you own a VCD, several of your neighbors will know about it. But communication products are different. After buying a mobile phone or paging, your entire circle of friends and relatives will know about it.

Wan Yan suffered a setback at the beginning. Firstly, she did not register a patent for the whole machine. Secondly, she spent too much money just promoting the concept of VCD in the early stage. In addition, there was insufficient funds and insufficient content in the future, so she was directly stepped on by subsequent manufacturers. It has become a stepping stone in the quagmire, and is used by countless people as negative teaching materials to be whipped from time to time.

Even the CEO of a certain VCD even said shamelessly: "I will never be the first to be the first or enter an unfamiliar market."

Although this sentence is shameless, it does make sense, especially when you are short of money.

"How about choosing 2 micron? At worst, we can make the chip bigger and get a heat sink?" Li Mingliu suggested.

Su Yuanshan put a pen to his chin, stared at the project list, and frowned deeply: "The theory is feasible, but the cost is too high, and there is no competitiveness."

Li Mingliu was stunned for a moment: "No one should be doing this now, right?"

"It's hard to say." Su Yuanshan shook his head and said thoughtfully: "In this way, we should follow the previous thinking. We cannot abandon advanced designs and choose backward ones."

"What about the abortion?"

"Abandon Huajing and find TI, NEC or UMC - our EDA has to enter the international market anyway, and these giants will always need to be contacted. It is better to bring business to your door than to sell products." Su Yuanshan grabbed the pen and quickly signed the project sheet. : "Can you handle it in two months? If you can handle it, I'll go to Senior Brother Weimin."

"..." Li Mingliu lowered his head and pondered. He knew that Su Yuanshan, the monster, was not only BOSS-level in programming, but also capable of stabilizing Qin Weimin, the strongest chip designer, in chip design. He was an out-and-out genius. If Su Yuanshan continues to do it with him, the time will be saved at least half a month.

"No problem!" Li Mingliu raised his head and smiled after signing: "We can't let everyone feel that they can't do anything without you."

Regarding this sentence, Su Yuanshan really didn't know how to answer it, so he could only shake his head and smile.

Seeing Li Mingliu straighten his back and go out, Su Yuanshan grabbed the document bag and went up to the tenth floor.

*

A month ago, the decoration of the tenth floor started. First, it was overseen by my uncle. Later, when my uncle went to Jiangyin to be responsible for building the factory, it was transferred to Sun Xihui, the logistics worker.

Sun Xihui is thirty this year, but wearing a black and white skirt, she looks almost like a girl in her twenties, and even has more temperament. She was originally the general manager of a primary school in the county below the provincial capital. After the primary schools merged, she, a private teacher, would lose her position for a while. If she wanted to continue teaching, she would have to go to the countryside, or take further studies to pass the normal school examination. Later, when she went to the provincial capital for further study, she saw the recruitment of Yuanxin and was shocked by Yuanxin's salary. Relying on her experience and ability as a general affairs officer in the school, she was selected by Zhang Ke with almost no effort and began to be responsible for Yuanxin's logistics. affairs.

At this time, the cleaning upstairs has come to an end. Sun Xihui carefully covered the slides borrowed from the Electrical Engineering Department with silk cloth to prevent the dust layer.

"Sister Sun."

"Mr. Xiao Su."

"Well, there are about 60 people coming here tomorrow, and we will be responsible for the food. You may need to contact Boss Cai of the restaurant in advance, so that our friends who come from afar will not be hungry."

"No problem." Sun Xihui smiled brightly at Su Yuanshan: "Mr. Su, will you come to class tomorrow?"

"No, let me try it out."

Upon seeing this, Sun Xihui removed the silk cloth, immediately turned around, picked up the basin, sprinkled a circle of water around, and at the same time told the cleaners to be careful of dust.

After a while the garbage was taken away, and she went around to pull the curtains again. When Su Yuanshan saw this, he rushed to help - the entire floor was nearly 1,500 square meters, and running around the edge would be exhausting for a person.

When the surroundings darkened, Su Yuanshan returned to the front hall and turned on the slide projector. Now the company doesn't have enough computers and no projector, so we have to use the original method of teaching with slides + pictures and text.

Sun Xihui ran around and when she returned to the slide projector, she was so tired that she was panting slightly.

"That... Mr. Su."

"What's the matter?" Su Yuanshan returned casually. He stared at the curtain and adjusted the focus.

"My uncle's son opened a computer training department in the provincial capital... Although he hired a teacher, I think no matter how good the teacher is, he is not as good as our company. So I don't know if we can ask our engineers to take classes during their breaks. , will give you money.”

Seeing Su Yuanshan turn around, Sun Xihui immediately became a little nervous: "I'm just using weekends and off-duty time, I don't know if I can..."

"Of course." Su Yuanshan couldn't help but said dumbly: "Why are you asking me? You can just ask them directly."

Sun Xihui breathed out: "Isn't this because I'm afraid of the negative impact?"

"Nothing, by the way, many training departments have been opened in the provincial capital recently. Which one is opened by your relative?"

"It's just beside the First Ring Road, over Taiping Street. It's called Oriental Computer Training Department."

"Oh, I've seen it before." Su Yuanshan recalled that every time he passed by Taiping Street, he seemed to see a big sign saying that famous teachers taught programming, and smiled and said: "We are a private company, and all the time after get off work belongs to us." Everything. Even state-owned enterprises can’t control this..."

"Okay! Thank you, Mr. Su. Mr. Su is also welcome to guide the work."

"Give me a chance to study."

Su Yuanshan smiled and responded casually, adjusted the focus and turned off the slide projector.

Tomorrow, in addition to engineers from Huajing, there will also be large semiconductor companies such as Belling and Yandong Microelectronics, as well as some lecturers from the Provincial Daiwa Electric Technology Co., Ltd.

The company that comes here is very famous, so tomorrow's opening speaker will be Xi Xiaoding, who is the most powerful in the company.

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