Chapter 145: Returnees and Incubators
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"Lao Dou, I'm here!" Zheng Chengyi pushed his suitcase out of the pick-up gate, recognized his father from the crowd at a glance, he waved his hand, and his words were a little choked as soon as he spoke.
Zheng Chengyi hurriedly turned his head quietly and raised his hand to wipe away a trace of tears from the corner of his eye. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 1972, he went to study in the United States, where he stayed for eight years. His parents are not far away, but he has not followed this ancient admonition, although he will come back to visit relatives every year, but the opportunity to fulfill filial piety is limited after all.
He had thought about applying for a green card for his parents so that the whole family could be reunited in the United States. But my father couldn't stay in San Francisco for half a month, and bluntly said that living in the United States is like going to prison, and how can it be convenient and comfortable to live in Hong Kong.
“grangda!”
Zheng Chengyi's six-year-old daughter broke free from her mother's hand, shouted affectionately, and rushed forward to embrace her grandfather's arms. Zheng Chengyi glanced at his blonde wife beside him, with a happy smile on his face, and it was time to start tutoring his daughter and wife in Cantonese in the future.
Zheng Chengyi, a computer engineer, just changed jobs last year to join a small company called AD Computer Company. AD does not produce personal computers like Apple, which is in the limelight, but puts its research and development direction on industrial control computers. Zheng Chengyi gave up his lucrative job at DEC Company and joined the newly established AD Company, which was still unknown. It is optimistic about the application prospects of computers in the industrial field.
But before AD's first mature product, the MAC-150 industrial computer, was about to be launched on the market, Zheng Chengyi did not stay to enjoy the joy of success that should have belonged to him. Instead, he resolutely decided to resign again and return to his homeland on the other side of the distant Pacific Ocean. Hong Kong.
Mr. Zheng feels that he has lived in the United States for so many years, but he still does not fit in with American society, and when other colleagues in the company talk about football and baseball, he is very new to these sports. Compared with the popular "Star Wars", he prefers to watch Bruce Lee's "Raptors Across the River".
Although he had obtained American citizenship a few years earlier, and had taken a blonde and blue-eyed white girl as his wife, he still felt that he was just a passer-by here. So when a Hong Kong company called Dongfang Electronics approached him and invited him to return to Hong Kong to work, he thought twice and agreed.
After returning to Hong Kong, Zheng Chengyi will join the Hong Kong Oriental Real Yàn Room. He is still engaged in the research and development of engineering control computers, which he is optimistic about. Unlike what he did at AD, he finally had the opportunity to be the real leader of the entire project. Of course, there were some challenges ahead of him, and the new IPC project had to use a new RISC processor, ERM.
Li Xuan's expectation for ERM is not only as a processor for a personal computer, but also in the field of industrial control, imaging, as well as in the future wireless communication field and network application field.
The first IPC (Industrial Computer) in history to become known to the world was the IBM-7532 computer launched by IBM in 1985. It is an industrial computer specially designed by IBM on the basis of personal PCs for the needs of factory operations.
Early industrial computers. The design is basically similar to that of a personal computer, simply because the industrial production environment is more harsh in terms of temperature, humidity, dust, etc., and must be strengthened in terms of dust protection, enclosure and hard disk protection. To put it simply, the early industrial computer was a better quality PC. Industrial computers are an emerging category of computers. Dongfang Electronics naturally does not want to miss the opportunity to establish a market advantage in the early stage.
In fact, Zheng Chengyi and the industrial computer are just a microcosm of Dongfang Electronics' huge investment in scientific research. Almost every week, a Hong Kong engineer with the same feelings as Zheng Chengyi walked out of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport under the greeting of his family.
Although Li Xuan is very cautious about building a physical factory. But the investment in intelligence is very willing. DFE's R&D centers in Taipei, Cambridge, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong have been expanding rapidly, with a total of more than 500 researchers in just half a year.
In view of the dilemma of the lack of local scientific research talents in Hong Kong. Dongfang Electronics has never stopped hiring outstanding researchers from overseas to work in Hong Kong. Among them, the easiest to say is undoubtedly a Hong Kong engineer like Cheng Chengyi. If DFE can provide a similar or even better research environment than overseas, most of them are more than willing to return to Hong Kong for development.
After all, they have relatives and friends in Hong Kong. Have a familiar language environment and familiar eating habits. Chinese, whether from Taiwan, mainland China, or Hong Kong, live overseas, and few people can eat hot dog bread.
Thanks to DFE's global recruitment program, the faculty of the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic in electronic engineering have also been greatly strengthened. Dongfang Electronics attaches great importance to the combination of production, education and research, and many outstanding engineers will be employed by several universities as visiting professors while joining Dongfang Electronics. This is also part of DFE's talent training program in cooperation with three universities.
I believe that in three or four years, when the current batch of college students who have been trained by schools and enterprises graduate, Dongfang Electronics' talent pool will be more substantial. Hong Kong's electronics industry as a whole will also benefit from this, after all, Dongfang Electronics alone cannot pocket all graduates.
Just when Zheng Chengyi's wanderer returned home to reunite with his family, several other young people were very excited to move the table. The office vacated by the relocation of the headquarters of Dongfang Electronics Company in the Ansheng Industrial Building in Sha Tin Charcoal Industrial Zone has just been renovated.
Each storey industrial building is divided into several office blocks ranging in size from 500 to 1,000 feet (1 square meter about 0.1 square meters). The first batch of leases for these office areas has only been completed in the past few days. Huo Yaoliang and Tan Jiaming were among the tenants, and the two were sweating profusely carrying a desk into one of the office suites.
Fok Yiu-leung and Tam Ka-ming were secondary school classmates, and after graduating from the preparatory department, Fok Yiu-leung was admitted to the University of Hong Kong, while Tam Ka-ming's grades were worse. Entered the Polytechnic Institute. Not long ago, under the full sponsorship of Oriental Game Company, the first Hong Kong University Student Game Creative Competition was held.
Huo Yaoliang is a game fan. However, at the request of his parents, he chose to study law at HKU. After the promotional posters of the game competition were plastered, Huo Yaoliang's heart finally couldn't bear it. He decided to become a planner himself. I went to the Institute of Science and Technology to bring Tan Jiaming, an old classmate who studied electronics, and the two teamed up to sign up for the first college student game creative competition.
At the time, Gameboy had just hit the market, and the duo decided to avoid the arcade game with the most registrations, instead choosing to use Gameboy as a platform to develop a new game card. Their game is called Bomb Defusator, where a terrorist plants bombs in the ground around the town, and the bomb disposal hero Jack goes out to eliminate these dangers.
The player controls Jack, the bomb defuser, in the maze, constantly moving his position to eliminate the bombs that appear at various points. If the player's route is miscalculated, the bomb is not safely defused before it explodes. Jack will be blown up and the game will be over.
In the era of printed displays, designing an elaborate game is a test of the designer's ingenuity and imagination. The game should be designed to be reasonable, so that all the pictures will not be repeated and can be printed on the display, and it should be vivid and interesting, with enough playability to attract players to play again and again.
The handheld game "Bomb Defusator" designed by Tam Ka-ming and Fok Yiu-leung won the first prize in the first Hong Kong College Student Game Creative Competition, which just ended. The two not only received a bonus of 20,000 yuan. It was also quickly favored by Oriental Game Company. Oriental Games decided to bid 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy out the copyright of the "Bomb Defusman" game.
Two sophomores received the biggest sum of money they'd ever seen in their lives. This success made Huo Yaoliang's mind even bigger, and it happened that the newspapers in Hong Kong at that time. are all hyping the wealth myth of Li Xuan and Dongfang Electronics.
Sometimes the power of role models is endless, Huo Yaoliang decided to use the 300,000 funds obtained from the sale of the copyright of "Bomberman" to start his own business after discussing with Tan Jiaming. Maybe two or three years later. The two of them are the next "Little Li Sheng"!
There are definitely not a few people in Hong Kong who have the same mind as them, in the first game entrepreneurship competition. There are four or five teams of excellent game works, after being bought out of the game rights by Oriental Games. and Huo Yaoliang and Tan Jiaming made the same choice.
Of course, starting a company from scratch is not so easy. The reason why Li Xuan was able to succeed quickly at that time was because of the bonus of the rebirth aura. Before he developed Tank Wars and Hong Kong Cubes, he had a specific plan for what the game should look like. The development team only needs to follow the map and implement his idea step by step.
But for others, it is almost impossible to replicate Li Xuan's miracle. Just setting up a company is enough for these students who have not yet stepped into the society to work for a long time. Dealing with the application procedures, finding office space, purchasing equipment, all kinds of tedious things one after another.
At this time, a company called Oriental Entrepreneurship Incubation Park suddenly extended a helping hand. Listening to the name, you will know that it is an incubator specially established by Li Xuan to support these projects that are favored by Dongfang Electronics Company and considered to have certain potential.
The incubator took over the idle several floors of factories after Dongfang Electronics moved out of the AXA Building, converted them into small entrepreneurial parks, and then subleased them to these newly established seedling companies at a low price.
In addition to renting an office address, the incubator even provides a series of thoughtful services such as logistics services and entrepreneurial guidance. Of course, none of these services are free, such as the Mingyao Game Company established by Huo Yaoliang and Tan Jiaming, in addition to the 40% shares of each person, and 20% of the shares belong to the industrial incubation park.
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