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

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

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

In this case, Huada Jiutian cannot provide any technology or market channels. To cooperate in developing EDA, it is completely a gild on one's own face.

"Although... we may be a little worse in technology..." Liu Weiping said while organizing the wording: "However, our company is very familiar with the domestic industrial development."

"Then what?"

Liu Weiping felt that Chen Xu's eyes were like a knife, as if they could penetrate his soul, and even made him feel naked, as if all the secrets had been seen through.

Under such circumstances, when Liu Weiping came, he forgot about selling melons and said with shame: "Well, the domestic eda industry development... is really bad now."

Dr. Zhou Donglin sighed when he heard this, "Hey, if I had insisted on the path of independent innovation, the situation would have been much better now."

In 1992, China was still in the dilemma of the West's implementation of an EDA ban on China.

Then a large number of Chinese scientists and engineering people participated in the development of domestic EDA led by the state. At that time, the industry emerged with infinite vitality.

Under the challenge of more than 200 developers, the super-large-scale integrated auxiliary design system Panda I and Cad have covered all the functions of the forward design of fully customized integrated circuits through identification, winning the first prize of China's scientific and technological progress that year, and it is also regarded as a milestone in breaking through the Western blockade.

However, unexpectedly, the United States quickly lifted the ban on China's EDA just as the project was successful.

In addition, the idea of ​​"market for technology" became mainstream, resulting in the US's high-end mature eca tools conquered cities and land in the Chinese market like wolves in the following decades.

The research and development pace of Chinese EDA independent manufacturers has also slowed down, embarking on the subsidiary development path of "secondary development" and "agent integration", which has caused Chinese chip design companies to gradually lose their choice and bargaining power.

In market competition, it is necessary to pay license and patent fees for multiple sets of EDA tools, and the high costs directly drag down the design cycle and competitiveness.

Chen Xu has been studying chip development for a while and is naturally well aware of the development of China's entire industrial chain.

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

EDA software has no challenge for him at all. Let alone novice, even if he spends some time, he can write an EDA software with a "full process" and an accuracy of at least 5nm.

Chip design is divided into front-end and back-end, with a total of more than a dozen processes, involving more than a dozen EDAs, while domestic EDAs can involve less than half of the processes, and they are all low-end chips such as 16nm and 28nm.

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

The AI ​​chip is the next main battlefield and the key to whether China can overtake on the semiconductor industry chain!

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

"A native of Wuhu, Hui Province."

"Yes, I remember that Wuhu Ban Duck is quite famous, and what... a scumbag steamed rice?"

Liu Weiping couldn't help laughing and said, "...It's not a scumbag steamed rice, it's a scumbag steamed rice.

It is to cut the pork into pieces and marinate it. After marinating, add the residue powder, put it on the washed glutinous rice, and then put it in a cage to steam it.”

"I saw it a long time ago, I don't remember it very much." Chen Xu laughed for a while, then started chatting with Liu Weiping casually.

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

Through the information on your mobile phone, it was found that Liu Weiping's private life was quite accurate and he was not as arrogant and extravagant as ordinary nouveau riche. He was a career person.

This is why Liu Weiping felt like he was seen through.

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

It’s not okay to be reliable but not capable. It’s better to develop it yourself if he cooperates with a mediocre person who is useless!

...

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

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

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

There are only about 500 domestic EDA practitioners in China now. Huada Jiutian wants to recruit so many people in such a short time, and the only way 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.

He recruited so many people at once and signed a three-year contract. If Xinghai Technology cannot develop excellent EDA software in a short period of time, it will definitely be criticized by superiors and criticized by the outside world, and even dismissed.

This is a gamble!

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

At the meeting, watching the directors and senior executives silently, Liu Weiping's mind showed a confusing smile on Chen Xu's face when he left, and he knew in his heart what the other party was smiling.

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

Another reason is that these executives are unwilling to work hard. If they do it well, they will not get any benefits. If they do it badly, they are very likely to be criticized and punished by their superiors.

Over time, no one wants to be the first bird, one by one, one by one, and don’t care about the frost on the company’s tiles.

"I believe everyone knows the R&D capabilities of Xinghai Technology, especially in the software field, which has world-class development capabilities. If we can take this ride..."

Liu Weiping said a lot and said he had dried up his saliva, but the executives were still unmoved, looking at their noses and their hearts, sitting there as if they were not moving!

If you ask urgently, just say "Let's study it again" or "consider it" or something like that.

Liu Weiping can see that it is impossible to develop Chinese educators who are looking for the corpse-like people.

The meeting ends here.

After thinking for a night, Liu Weiping decided to take a gamble, but he would have to resign if he lost.

Then, 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 at high salaries...
Chapter completed!