Seeing the smile on Chen Xu's face, Liu Weiping was very embarrassed.

Huada Jiutian is said to be the leading EDA company in China, but in fact, it has a pitiful market share.

In 2021, the total sales of domestic EDA will only be 450 million, accounting for less than 5% of the domestic market share, and the remaining more than 95% are foreign products, while the global market share is only a pitiful 0.8%.

In this case, whether it is technology or market channels, Huada Jiutian can't provide it, and saying that cooperative development of EDA is completely putting gold on its face.

"Although... We may be a little behind in terms of technology,......" Liu Weiping said while organizing the wording: "However, our company has a good understanding of the development of the domestic industry. ”

"And then?"

Liu Weiping felt that Chen Xu's gaze was like a knife, as if it could penetrate his soul, and even gave him the illusion of being naked, as if all the secrets had been seen through by him.

Under such circumstances, Liu Weiping forgot to sell melons on the way to Wang Po, and said with some shame: "Well, the development of the domestic EDA industry... It's really bad now. ”

Dr. Zhou Donglin sighed when he heard this, "Well, if you insisted on taking the road of independent innovation at the beginning, the situation should be much better now." ”

In 1992, China was still in the dilemma of being embargoed by the West on EDA supply to China.

Then a large number of Chinese scientists and engineers invested in the state-led development of domestic EDA, and at that time, the industry emerged with infinite vitality.

Under the efforts of more than 200 developers, the ultra-large-scale integrated aided design system Panda IC and CAD passed the appraisal, covering all the functions of the forward design of fully customized integrated circuits, and won the first prize of China's scientific and technological progress that year, which was also regarded as a milestone in breaking through the Western blockade.

However, what I didn't expect was that as soon as the Chinese project was successful, the United States quickly lifted the ban on China's EDA.

Coupled with the fact that the idea of "market for technology" became the mainstream, in the following decades, the high-end and mature EDA tools of the United States conquered the Chinese market like a wolf pack.

As a result, the R&D pace of China's EDA independent manufacturers has slowed down, and they have embarked on the subsidiary development path of "secondary development" and "agency integration", resulting in China's chip design companies gradually losing their choice and bargaining power.

In the market competition, it is necessary to pay the license royalties of multiple sets of EDA tools, and at the same time, the high cost directly drags down the design cycle and competitiveness.

Chen Xu has been researching chip development during this time, and he is naturally familiar with the development of China's entire industrial chain.

Seeing Zhou Donglin and Liu Weiping sighing, he couldn't help but smile.

EDA software does not pose any challenge to him at all, let alone Xiaobai, even if he himself only needs to spend some time to write a "full-process" EDA software with an accuracy of at least 5nm.

Chip design is divided into front-end and back-end, a total of more than a dozen processes, involving more than 10 kinds of EDA, and domestic EDA can involve less than half of the processes, and they are all low-end chips like 16nm and 28nm.

However, the EDA he wants to develop is not just as simple as designing ordinary chips, but also capable of designing AI chips.

AI chips are the next main battlefield, and it is also the key to whether China can achieve corner overtaking in the semiconductor industry chain!

Just when Liu Weiping was a little nervous, Chen Xu smiled and said, "Where is Mr. Liu's hometown?"

"A native of Wuhu, Hui Province. ”

"yes, I remember that Wuhu Duck was quite famous, and what else... Scumbag steamed rice?"

Liu Weiping couldn't help but burst out laughing, "...... It's not scumbag steamed rice, it's scumbag steamed rice.

It is to cut the pork into pieces for marinating, add slag powder after marinating, put it on top of the washed glutinous rice, and then put it in the cage drawer to steam. ”

"I didn't remember where I saw it a long time ago. Chen Xu laughed for a while, and then chatted casually with Liu Weiping.

He had invaded Liu Weiping's mobile phone through biological brain waves before, and checked various privacy secrets.

Through the information in the mobile phone, it was found that Liu Weiping's private life was relatively inspected, and he was not as arrogant and lascivious as the average nouveau riche, this is a person who does business.

And the reason why Liu Weiping has a feeling of being seen through is precisely this reason.

Now Chen Xu is chatting with Liu Weiping, judging his ability.

It's not good to be reliable and incompetent, and to cooperate with a useless mediocre talent, he might as well develop it himself!

……

An hour later, Liu Weiping left with an indescribable mood.

Chen Xu said to give them a chance, but asked Huada Jiutian to recruit 200 domestic EDA designers within a week, and asked to sign a three-year employment contract.

This requirement is not difficult to say, and it is not easy to say that it is simple.

There are only about 500 domestic EDA practitioners in China, and the only way for Huada Jiutian to recruit so many people in such a short period of time is to offer generous conditions.

But the problem is that Chen Xu asked Huada Jiutian to sign a three-year contract with the recruited employees, which is a bit difficult for strong people.

Recruiting so many people at once, and signing a three-year contract, if Xinghai Technology can't develop excellent EDA software in a short period of time, he will definitely be criticized by his superiors and criticized by the outside world, or even dismissed.

It's a gamble!

Liu Weiping returned to Kyoto in the afternoon and held a board meeting in the evening.

At the meeting, seeing that the directors and executives were silent and did not say a word, Liu Weiping remembered the confused smile on Chen Xu's face when he left, and knew what the other party was laughing at.

Huada Jiutian has a background in state-owned enterprises, and the common problem of state-owned enterprises is "big but not strong", because of the lack of an effective competitive environment, like captive wild animals, eating more and moving less, lacking combat effectiveness.

There is another reason why these executives are reluctant to work hard, they can't get any benefits if they do a good job, and they are very likely to be criticized and punished by their superiors if they do a bad job.

Over time, no one wants to be the first bird, sweeping the snow in front of the door one by one, and don't care about the frost on the company's tiles.

"Xinghai Technology's R&D capabilities must be clear to everyone, especially in the software field, which has world-class development capabilities, if we can take this ride......"

Liu Weiping said a lot, and his saliva was dry, but those executives were still unmoved, looking at their noses and noses one by one, sitting there without moving!

If you are in a hurry, say something like "Let's study it again" or "Think about it".

Liu Weiping can see it, counting on this group of corpse vegetarian people, Chinese EDA wants to develop.

This concludes the meeting.

After a night of thinking, Liu Weiping decided to take a gamble, and if he lost, it was a big deal to resign.

Subsequently, he directly crossed the board of directors and issued a recruitment notice in the name of the chairman, recruiting designers with domestic EDA design experience with high salaries......

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