Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1220 Golden Opportunity
Duan Yun tried his best to find the country's top technical talents. He also knew that this would have an impact on the country's scientific research work, but facing this once-in-a-century life opportunity, he really couldn't resist the temptation.

Scientific research is people-oriented. In countries such as Europe, America and Japan, especially Japan, the government has given great support. It has always encouraged outstanding students from top domestic public universities to engage in the chip industry, and there are also tax cuts and other support policies for the chip industry. It is precisely because of this that Japan's storage chip industry was able to defeat the United States, forcing the United States to give up competition in the field of storage chips, and thus become the overlord of the world's storage chips.

In addition, Taiwan spared no effort to support chip companies. In 1980, the pattern of the world chip industry was that the U.S. electronics industry belonged to the first echelon and had super strength. The overall level of China’s microelectronics industry was similar to that of Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan. , all belong to the second echelon, and South Korea and Taiwan are not even ranked third at this time, because at that time South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG had just started.

Taiwan’s TSMC, MediaTek, ASE Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI, Quanta, Wasion, etc., all of which did not exist and were still pregnant in the womb until 1986, when China’s National University of Defense Technology developed the Yinhe 2 supercomputer with a billion operations Well, TSMC hasn’t been established yet. These Taiwanese computer manufacturers that popped up all of a sudden were all supported by the United States after the US-Japan Semiconductor War in 10 to suppress Japan and China’s civilian electronics industry.

In fact, as early as 1976, Taiwan began to use Silicon Valley as a model to plan a semiconductor science park.

Following the model of Stanford, Berkeley and other famous universities and industrial clusters, the park is set up in Hsinchu, which is adjacent to Tsinghua University, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Jiaotong University, etc.

Six major industries including integrated circuits, computers and peripherals, communications, optoelectronics, precision machinery, and biotechnology are gathered here, making it a high-tech base in Taiwan.It is also a siphon for talents, and there is even a joke in Hsinchu that "if the signboard falls, it will hit a doctor".

It can be seen that the rise of Taiwan's chip industry is also inseparable from the strong support of their local government. Without the support of government departments, it is impossible for the chip industry in Japan and Taiwan to gather so many talents to make the entire industry work.

As the boss of a private enterprise, Duan Yun faced enormous difficulties in making China's chip industry work by himself. It was almost unimaginable in later generations. However, in the late 80s, Duan Yun To have such a rare opportunity, he earned a lot of cash by selling electronic products, and also got the support of the SZ city government, and most importantly, the current domestic policy of keeping a low profile and compradors has led to a large number of scientific research projects Due to the shortage of funds, scientific researchers were forced to go to sea with meager income, and this gave Duan Yun an opportunity to recruit a large number of soldiers.

It can be said that this is the only golden window period for private enterprises to get involved in the chip industry since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. After the 90s, even if Duan Yun increased his investment by 10 times, it would be difficult to catch up. It will be very difficult for foreign-funded enterprises to grab talents.

If Duan Yun wants to complete corner overtaking, he must have a top R&D team in China. Duan Yun actually does not lack ordinary R&D personnel. Technicians from all over the country come to Shenzhen to apply for jobs almost every day. As long as Duan Yun If you set the price higher, you don’t have to worry about not being able to recruit highly educated technical personnel. However, if Duan Yun wants to invite top domestic talents who can lead a team on their own, it will be more difficult. It is hard to find such talents who can take on national-level scientific research projects. It can be said that there are very few talents in China. It is not enough to have a high degree of education. What is important is experience and technical background.

It was precisely because of this that Duan Yun did not hesitate to offer a high price to ask someone like Li Yunpeng to come forward to help, and he must invite the chief engineer of the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Although poaching Jiang Mingwei would be a great loss to BISU, even if Duan Yun did not do so, Jiang Mingwei's fate would have already been doomed.

In the 90s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, the spring breeze of marketization has turned into a storm.

In the wave of the era of doing business, scientific research units within the system have limited funds, low income, and a constant loss of talents. Jiang Mingwei can only watch helplessly as the graduate students he has worked so hard to cultivate, one by one, grab the high-paying olive branches of foreign capital.

In 1994, Beizi Institute also started to go to sea, and chose a high-level foreign partner for itself, and established BJ Lima Automation Technology Co., Ltd., with Jiang Mingwei as the chief engineer and general manager.

However, the seemingly prosperous marketization did not promote the rise of domestic industrial software, but pushed pioneers such as BJ Lima into the abyss.

Because of embarrassing incidents, the industrial software researched by Jiang Mingwei and others was not well received.

Because the Chinese market in the 90s was in a state of running and repairing, the vast majority of private enterprises were manpower-intensive and extensively growing. As long as they caught up with an average GDP growth rate of more than 10%, they would be able to operate prosperously and impressively.

However, those bosses are still in the primitive stage of cognition of the operation of the enterprise, and they don't pay much attention to product development technology, let alone the level of informatization.

So it seems that the market demand is strong, but in fact there are not many people who actually pay the bill, and the price cannot be raised at all. Even the profitability of leading companies including BJ Lima is not optimistic, and they even lose money for years, and the investment in research and development is weak, let alone not. Go to the other younger brothers who followed the soup.

In the late 90s, foreign industrial software companies also invaded strongly, which plunged domestic industrial software into a major crisis.

At that time, the price of domestic CAD software in the market was adjusted from nearly 1 yuan to less than 5000 yuan, and some people even sold drawing software at the price of 500 yuan for a set of cabbage.

In addition, the country has always been lax in the management of intellectual property rights, and Chinese people generally lack copyright awareness. Foreign companies turn a blind eye to the flood of pirated software in the country, allowing piracy to seize the market, which makes domestic industrial software meager. The profit lost the space for survival and growth.

So much so that after 2000, domestic industrial software almost completely disappeared in the market.

In addition, the country invested huge manpower and material resources to develop the domestic "Panda" EDA software. After 7 years of research and development, it won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1993. However, the road to marketization of this software is full of hardships and difficulties. Frustrating, as the design center of the national layout, they have purchased the Panda system. However, due to the lack of follow-up software development and upgrading, and the entry of foreign industrial software manufacturers, Panda EDA was gradually abandoned by the national platform. Devotion, all turned into black smoke...

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