The drunken uncle was seriously forbidden to drive by Su Yuanshan, and Zhang Kezhi, who couldn't help it, took a taxi and returned to the electrical department with Su Yuanshan and his son.

After arriving home, her mother Zhang Xiuyun muttered while serving warm mung bean soup to sober up the two, and at the end she sniffed Su Yuanshan's cheek, and only after making sure that her son was not drinking did she return to the study to continue sorting out her work report - she also occasionally worked overtime.

"Xiaoshan, you said earlier that there was a high probability that they agreed, where did you judge it?" After leaving the Jiangdu Building, the three of them went home directly, and they just chatted briefly along the way, and did not discuss in depth. So as soon as he arrived home, Zhang Ke couldn't wait to ask his nephew.

"How do you say it......" Su Yuanshan pondered for a while, and slowly explained: "UMC is not monolithic internally, whether it is the wafer factory or the IC design department, they all need us, and the IC department needs us even more. And the only scruple on the other side is a little ......"

"What is it? trade secrets?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "Reluctantly, the foundation of a technology enterprise is patents and technology." Among them, the patent itself is an act of obtaining legal protection in the form of disclosure, and it is not considered confidential. As for technology, as long as it cannot be learned from outside, it is considered a trade secret. UMC's concern now is that our people used to steal ......"

The uncle pouted: "Then you also said that the other side would agree." ”

"I only said that the probability of agreeing is relatively high, and you don't know if my uncle doesn't engage in technology. Technology can be cultivated and introduced. As long as they understand this and really need us, they will probably say yes - after all, in their opinion, it is difficult to learn the technology, and we have no place to learn it. It's like if you get a car driver's license, but you only have a bicycle at home, and it's useless to learn it. ”

Su Yuanshan lowered his head and took a big sip of mung bean soup: "And he will discuss the permissions with us, which ones can let us move and which ones can't, anyway, it's not as simple as saying it." ”

Su Xinghe nodded as he listened: "That's right, according to this analysis, the possibility of the other side agreeing is indeed relatively large." And what about our candidates?"

Speaking of candidates, Su Yuanshan immediately had a headache: "I just thought about the team leader, and the others are really difficult to choose." ”

Now Yuanxin's steps are a bit big, even if it has been recruiting, it can't meet the needs of the team. Not to mention that the people who want to be sent over have to consider all aspects, both politically and technically.

Su Xinghe also knew that Yuanxin was short of people now, but he didn't expect his son to choose the team leader, and said in surprise: "Who will lead the team?"

"Senior Brother Jianguo. ”

Su Xinghe was stunned and puzzled: "Jianguo?"

Chen Jianguo is now a third year of research, and he doesn't speak much, so he belongs to a relatively dull type. Moreover, his programming level is not outstanding, and he is not very strong in architectural innovation...... In short, compared with Qin Weimin, who is talented in architecture, and Tang Wenjie, who is talented in circuit design, he seems to be the most mediocre of the three brothers.

This year, Su Xinghe recruited three more master's students, and in view of his lack of time, Su Xinghe handed over the task of taking his junior brother to Chen Jianguo - Chen Jianguo originally started to work on single-chip microcomputers. Su Xinghe originally thought that after adjusting Chen Jianguo's task, he, the most ordinary disciple, would complain, but he didn't expect that he would be very happy with his little junior brother.

Now Su Yuanshan stood up and asked Chen Jianguo to lead the team to UMC......

Facing his father's doubts, Su Yuanshan smiled. Now, even his father doesn't know Chen Jianguo himself—or rather, even Chen Jianguo doesn't know him about himself.

Chen Jianguo really does not belong to the kind of talent with pioneering thinking, to put it bluntly, he is not good at innovation. But he has a unique skill that several brothers and sisters are beyond the reach of his brothers - he is extremely sensitive to the microcosm and is extremely good at finding loopholes and bugs from the subtleties. Therefore, he is very suitable for work that requires keen observation, such as the debugging of embedded systems and the process improvement of chip production lines.

If the trajectory does not change, then Chen Jianguo will go to Sin Chew in 93 in response to Zhang Rujing's call - when Zhang Rujing persuaded the Sin Chew government to recruit 300 people in the mainland to TI's new wafer factory. These 300 people then followed Zhang Rujing back to SH, and Chen Jianguo was one of his most effective assistants.

"Brother Jianguo's specialty lies in his steadyness, carefulness, and ability to discover and solve problems, not in his imagination. Therefore, in the single-chip microcomputer project team, it really limited his play. It's just that he hasn't had a suitable job before, so he can only gain some experience. Su Yuanshan explained to his father with a smile: "Anyway, Senior Brother Jianguo's completion has been completed, and when the time comes, Dad will make a report, and call the school leaders to be accommodating and let him graduate first, and then he will have a little face when he goes out." ”

Su Xinghe was still a little hesitant: "It's no problem to graduate early, I also know that he is steady and careful...... But...... Does it really work?"

"Don't worry, Dad, when have I ever looked away?" Su Yuanshan looked at his father and said seriously.

This sentence undoubtedly gave Su Xinghe a reassurance-he knew that once his son used a serious tone, it would be most likely nine out of ten. nodded at the moment: "Then I'll do ideological work for him tomorrow, but I don't know if he is willing." ”

"Don't worry, I guess we'll have to talk about this for a while. ”

*

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The next day, Lin Yonggu and they got acquainted with Yuanxin for a day, and did not mention the matter of cooperation. On the third day, Lin Yonggu told Su Yuanshan that he had reported to the company, but the company's senior management still had to weigh it in all aspects.

Su Yuanshan said that he understood very much, and after Lin Yonggu revealed his intention to return as soon as possible, Su Yuanshan directly took out the installation CD and a set of video tapes for the class and handed them to Lin Yonggu.

"In principle, you can now design a chip with EDA, and you can directly tape out through simulation, which is what Philips and Bell did. ”

Lin Yonggu nodded, and sighed lightly: "Well, the two of them mainly design CMOS chips, which can be verified in advance on CPLD (programmable logic device), and it is not complicated. ”

The implication is that UMC is used to make more complex chips - what else is there besides the CPU?

Su Yuanshan smiled: "It's okay, you go back first, if you really find that you need someone, we will send it immediately." ”

"Okay, then we'll go back first—by the way, you guys want to go to Las Vegas on the 21st, right?"

"It's going to pass. ”

"I'll see you then. ”

......

In the days after the three returned, Lin Yonggu would occasionally call or fax to seek EDA resources, and he could not give any valuable information about the proposal for in-depth cooperation, and could only say that the senior management was still discussing.

After all, he is only the head of the main factory in charge of IC design, UMC has five factories, and there is a large unified department above.

Su Yuanshan had expected this situation, so he was not in a hurry at all, just like he said, as long as he had the mentality of rubbing it, he could get a surprise at any time.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is October 17th.

Su Yuanshan, Xi Xiaoding and Yang Yiwen stepped on the passenger plane to New York.

They didn't go with the delegation, but flew directly to New York and then to Philadelphia — Xi Xiaoding wanted to go back to Penn, where he still had his personal belongings and a few old friends to meet.