Pengcheng, in an apartment building, three or five men sat in a room.

The 30-year-old Li Haidong is a returnee Ph.D. graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Synopsys for three months, and everything was good, but he finally chose to return to China, when many classmates or friends in the United States persuaded him to stay in the United States, and he got a green card.

But Li Donghai returned his green card to the United States and chose to return to China to start a business.

Now he is an entrepreneur, and when he returned to China, he found a few friends to discuss a partnership.

"In Homer's epic poem The Iliad, Achilles, the ancient Greek god of war, was invulnerable and dominated Greece as a demigod. But he has a fatal weakness: his heels are vulnerable, as he is the only place where he has not been immersed in divine water. In the end, he also died in the Trojan War because of this weakness. ”

Li Haidong told several partners about this Western legend, and after a while, he said eloquently: "In the long river of history, the 'Achilles heel' has also become a warning to people: always be wary of your own weaknesses. Nowadays, industrial software has become the 'Achilles heel' of the development of China's manufacturing industry, which is definitely not a joke or an exaggeration. ”

At this moment, Li Haidong and several of his friends and partners discussed and decided to jointly establish a technology company, the name of which is "Jingchuang Technology", which means "excellence, innovation is not stopped", there is no doubt that their startup company can be seen from Li Haidong's remarks just now that it is in that field.

Clearly in the field of industrial software.

"What exactly is the field? There are many categories of industrial software, such ......as industrial design software, mechanical and product design software, processing programming software, simulation analysis software, etc.

Hearing the inquiry of one of his friends, Li Haidong said without hesitation: "Of course our startup company makes EDA software!" ”

Another friend nodded: "Yes, you just gave up the high salary of the new Cisco and chose to come back to start a business, and you are in the EDA industry." ”

The so-called industrial software is dedicated to or mainly used in the industrial field to improve the R&D, manufacturing, production management level and industrial management performance of industrial enterprises, which is the "brain" of modern industrial equipment, which shows the importance of industrial software.

For example, various EDA software in the chip industry chain, CAD software in the field of mechanical design, etc.

After more than 20 years of mergers and acquisitions, only three giants remain, Synopsy, Candence, and Mentor, which currently account for more than 90% of the EDA software market.

The real problem is that the contribution of domestic EDA tools to the entire chip design process is almost zero, which can be said to be completely wiped out.

For system manufacturers, if the chip is a bullet and food, then the chip EDA tool is a tool for manufacturing bullets and processing food, the market may not be large, but it can't stand this is a fatal thing, and the position of the lithography machine in the semiconductor industry is not much better.

Today's EDA companies mainly sell EDA tools to downstream customers, and their revenue source mainly relies on certificate authorization fees, just like the use of office software, anti-virus software, or other software requires registration of serial numbers.

It's just that this authorization certificate of EDA is quite expensive.

How expensive is it?

In 2008, Lens Semiconductor spent 24.8 million US dollars, or about 170 million yuan, on a single acquisition to obtain the software license of Kaideng Electronics.

You can still see the comments of the head of Lens's AP Processor Division on the official website of Lens Electronics: from a small payload of 3 million to the design of hundreds of millions of departments, we can easily and effectively ensure the functionality of the system.

At the beginning of 2009, another industry giant, Synopsys, also entered into a premier strategic partnership for EDA with Lens Semiconductor.

But if EDA is shut down, how much impact will it have on the current Lens Semiconductor and even the Cote d'Azur?

At present, the existing software of Lens Semiconductor can still be used within the validity period, if it is suspended, it will have two impacts, the first is that there is no technical support, if there is a problem, you need to explore it yourself, and the second is that there is no new version of the software in the future.

Therefore, assuming that Lens Semiconductor's EDA tools are discontinued, even IC design cannot be done, which will inevitably lead to the inability of the Cote d'Azur to launch the next generation of smartphone products.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the Americans are determined to kill the Cote d'Azur, it can be said that there are N ways.

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that Lao Mei will be so fearless "pig raising", from the perspective of Americans, there is really no need to panic, you will be crippled if EDA stops supply.

EDA, you've got it? The wafer purification card will give you a look; This also broke through? That chip manufacturing card for you; What the? This also broke through? The lithography machine will jam you......

If any link is stuck, it is impossible for a chip to be produced smoothly.

It can be seen that the siege of the integrated circuit industry is so tight, breaking through a big mountain, there is a bigger mountain waiting for it.

Finally, there is the ultimate darkness, facing the suppression of the world hegemon with the power of the state.

It makes sense that Huaguo's semiconductor business has not been conquered for so long.

"I can pay 100,000 quick money."

"I have 150,000."

"I have eighty thousand."

"I can give 120,000."

At this moment, Li Haidong and several friends and partners are discussing the career of Jingchuang Technology, and the number of people who have put together is less than 500,000......

"It's not enough, you have to find a venture capital company to raise money." Li Haidong said with a wry smile.

"If investors hear us say we want to do EDA, they probably think we are crazy...... "One partner laughed at himself.

Nowadays, the domestic EDA industrial software is almost wiped out, and there is no hope in sight, and investors are generally impossible to throw money into Li Haidong's team as long as they are not fools or madmen.

"Hey, do you know that the hottest VC industry during this period of time is also Shengfeng Capital, which has just been established?" Just when this group of aspiring young people who were helpless because of their shyness in their pockets were distressed, one of the partners suddenly spoke.

"Shengfeng Capital?"

"Yes, it's the investment fund set up by Luo Sheng." The partner nodded again and again, and then couldn't stop smacking his lips and said: "It is worthy of being the idol in my heart, Shengfeng Capital is really exaggerated, according to the content of the news report, it has raised more than 300 billion yuan of capital, my God, 300 billion, and there is also a background in the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office and Wall Street." ”

For people who want to start a business, if you want to do a career, you must understand the information of the investment community, if you can't pull venture capital, it is even more impossible to find a bank loan, the bank is not interested in small and medium-sized start-ups at all, especially if you do science and technology entrepreneurship, the risk is almost 99% loss, the bank is generally you make achievements, see that you are not short of money will run to the door to lend you money.

As long as you know the news of the investment community, it is impossible not to know that the investment community has been booming recently.

"Then give it a try."

Li Haidong immediately made a decision, in the start-up company of Jingchuang Technology, he is the leader, and the company's top-level design largely refers to Luo Sheng's Bluestar Technology.

The use of the limited partnership structure, now enterprises are popular to play limited partnership structure, although there were few before, now by Luo Sheng led this trend.

Especially in the IT field, there are many start-ups.

However, no founder can be as strong as Luo Sheng, you must know that investors only need to pay money from him, and don't care about anything else, don't ask anything, don't think about anything.

Countless entrepreneurs dream of doing things, but when facing investors, they basically call Dad.

Li Haidong and several partners immediately took action, first visited the official website of Shengfeng Capital on the Internet, then found the consultation number, and then made a phone call.

It turned out that it was impossible to get through at all, because at the same time, there were too many people calling.

I had no choice but to seek customer service help on the official website, and found that the online customer service was also busy and needed to queue up.

After tossing for most of the day, I finally figured out that Shengfeng Capital is a capital management institution for science and technology investment, that is, a start-up company that focuses on investing in the field of science and technology.

I don't invest in any other finance, real estate or the like.

This makes Li Haidong and others extremely excited, this kind of venture capital institution is simply the only one, no wonder the customer service phone will be blown up, and the online customer service is also waiting in line for information.

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