Xi Xiaoding hung up the phone, looked at the stars in the sky, and frowned.

Yang Yiwen turned on the street lamp on the lawn and walked to the bench with Qin Si - the house and the garden had been bought by them and rearranged in their preferred style.

Xi Xiaoding retracted his gaze and saw the two beauties standing in front of him with serious faces, and couldn't help but smile: "Why are you so nervous? ”

"Nonsense. Yang Yiwen glared and said: "Now the foundation of Yuanxin is EDA, and without EDA, we will run out of food in an instant." ”

"What did Mr. Xiao Su say?" Qin Si saw Xi Xiaoding holding the engineering prototype, and guessed that Xi Xiaoding waited until the evening to make this call, it must be to wait for Su Yuanshan.

He said let the bullets fly for a while. Xi Xiaoding smiled: "It means wait, don't panic." ”

As soon as Yang Yiwen heard Su Yuanshan say not to panic, her expression immediately relaxed, and she said with a smile: "Since he said so, there must be a way." Otherwise, if we wait for the opponent to go public and then fight a lawsuit, we will be stunned just by dragging it out. ”

Nearly half a year after coming to Silicon Valley, Yang Yiwen has applied for a visa extension. In the past few months, in addition to the various patents that have been passed down from Yuanxin, she has also been familiar with various laws here. I know that fighting a lawsuit here, especially this kind of infringement lawsuit that requires oneself to provide evidence, is protracted and costly.

Of course, if it wins, the compensation is also very generous - the problem is that the goal of Yuanxin is not to get compensation, but to use technology to kill opponents rather than relying on patent lawsuits. Because in that case, even if Yuanxin can monopolize the market, it is likely to be subjected to the iron fist of the anti-monopoly law.

According to the Anti-Monopoly Law, it is not illegal for a company to obtain a monopoly position in the market by the choice of users in normal competition. However, it is a bit dangerous to prohibit other enterprises from entering the industry by means of patent barriers and low-price dumping.

So Yang Yiwen is very worried, after all, the anti-monopoly law here is really not recognized by the six relatives.

Compared with Yang Yiwen's trust in Su Yuanshan, Xi Xiaoding is obviously much more sober, but he naturally won't let the two girls worry, and said with a smile: "Well, rest early-by the way, how do you feel after trying that customer management software? Is there anything else that needs to be improved?"

As soon as he said this, Qin Si immediately came to the spirit: "Very good, very strong! It is especially suitable for us to manage users who have multiple customers, especially enterprise customers." ”

"That's good, you guys test it first, and then release it in a month. ”

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Su Yuanshan laughed for a long time after hanging up the phone, and then went up to the tenth floor for the first time.

As Yang Yiwen worried, even if Yuanxin is far from reaching a monopoly position at this moment, he still tries to avoid initiating a lawsuit before completely knocking down his peers.

After all, EDA is not about making money at all, but in order to become the Microsoft of EDA - unless Synopsys really doesn't want to copy code directly, then don't blame Su Yuanshan for being polite.

"Lao Jiang, can you draw a few people out here?"

went up to Jiang Wanchao's office, and Su Yuanshan got straight to the point.

Jiang Wanchao was scratching his scalp, and immediately became nervous when he heard this: "What do you want to do?" On my side, Qu Hui brought a group of elites to Chengguang Institute, and Zhu Jianting brought a group of skilled hands to help Party A do CAD for mechanical engineering. Where do I have so many people? Now I only have about a dozen people in the beginning......"

Su Yuanshan was stunned: "Manpower is so tight?"

"Otherwise?" Jiang Wanchao smiled bitterly: "I have opened a quota of twenty interns here, and you will have to satisfy me first when the time comes." ”

"That will be satisfied. Su Yuanshan tugged at the tooth flower, and then frowned: "Old Jiang, that's the case." Brother Xi called me just now and said that Synopsys is testing the chip design part with almost the same function and method as ours. ”

"What the hell?" Jiang Wanchao exploded when he heard it: "Nima, they are the source code of the copy, right?"

Su Yuanshan nodded: "So I plan to develop a few free and open source plugins by the official here." ”

Jiang Wanchao stared at Su Yuanshan, and the previous nervousness slowly disappeared: "You mean that we use the form of open source plug-ins to enhance the functions of EDA?"

"Yes, the main thing is to get the open source community up. ”

Su Yuanshan sighed as he spoke, he overestimated the programming level of those chip designers in the west, or their enthusiasm for research. When he left, the forum with Xi Xiaodingjian was not very popular now, and so far only five open source plug-ins have been submitted, and the level is still average......

"Let's sort it out first, and then open up more interfaces and data out. No, we just need to keep the design and simulation capabilities, and leave the rest to the open source community. ”

Su Yuanshan explained with a smile: "This is called ecological warfare. ”

After arranging a task for Jiang Wanchao's people, Su Yuanshan quickly went downstairs and opened the C++ that he hadn't used for a long time. Then create a new project.

[An Enhanced MCU Design Plug-in]

......

In the next few days, Su Yuanshan contacted Xi Xiaoding by email a few times, and told Xi Xiaoding about his arrangements, so that he could also write some plug-ins to the open source forum in his spare time, and at the same time let the forum be promoted more. Form a plug-in application ecology with Yuanxin as the core as soon as possible.

A week later, NEC's representatives, accompanied by the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, visited the headquarters of Yuanxin, accompanied by Su Xinghe.

Perhaps it is rare to share his son's worries, but this time Professor Su Xinghe was very positive, he received the representatives of NEC throughout the process and signed an agreement on cooperation.

Su Xinghe has only one request, hoping that NEC can send engineers to assist Yuanxin in building a clean room.

"Professor Su, why do you want to build a clean room? Do you have the idea of building a fab?"

When the request was made, the representative of the NEC, Kazuo Karasawa, was surprised.

At this time, the investment promotion team made it clear to NEC that this time it was only to buy software, and it was not that it had left in a huff after inspecting the project. It was Su Yuanshan who also went directly from the ninth floor to the thirtieth floor of the sky teahouse.

Su Xinghe smiled slightly, and looked at Mr. Lin, who was temporarily working as a translator from the Department of Foreign Languages of the Provincial University: "Please translate Mr. Lin, let's just say that we don't have the idea of establishing a wafer factory for the time being, and the floorless room is only a part of the research center." ”

"I see. Tang Ze nodded, and asked like a curious baby: "But why did you choose us? Your wafer factory seems to have been cooperating with the West all along." ”

Su Yuanshan listened quietly on the side, although he had lost his Japanese for many years, he could barely understand it.

When Mr. Lin was still rectifying the word crystallization factory, Su Yuanshan said softly: "Trouble Mr. Lin to tell him, just say that we appreciate their craftsmanship very much, and the floorless room they built must be the cleanest in the world." ”

"At the same time, we want to cooperate with them more deeply, especially in the field of semiconductors. This includes, but is not limited to, providing chip design support and pipeline process improvements. ”