Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1414 Silicon Valley
In Duan Yun's impression, Silicon Valley should be a place full of high-rise buildings and full of sense of technology. However, after arriving here, Duan Yun District found that it is not as prosperous as imagined. All kinds of villas stand in the countryside, with a strong rural style.

In fact, the entire Silicon Valley is built along a roughly 25-mile stretch of Highway 101, which also includes parts of the southwestern San Francisco Bay area.

Thanks to the good weather in California, the plants here are growing very vigorously, which makes people look in a good mood.

In addition to the main building of the R&D center, there is a 3-story restaurant next to it. The interior environment is relaxed and elegant. I was outside the restaurant, and there were many open-air tables with parasols in the open air. Since it was working hours, there were no people outside.

The area of ​​the entire R&D center is also very large, there are fountains almost everywhere, and there is also a basketball court and gymnasium, and here, Duan Yun even saw a beach volleyball court, so that Duan Yun and those who sympathize with him have such a feeling The illusion is that this place is not like a research and development center at all, but more like a high-end resort hotel.

"It would be great to be able to work here..." In fact, Li Yun, who was following Duan Yun, was sitting at the dining table in the coffee shop on that floor, looking out the window at the flat and emerald green lawn, her eyes flashed brightly.

"This place is so beautiful." Duan Fang also said with some emotion at this time.

From Li Yun and Duan Fang's point of view, they have never thought that their working place will be like this. Whether it is the layout of the work area or the scenery outside, it seems more like a place for recuperation and vacation. Naturally it will be very good.

"In the future, our company will also set up such a research and development center in Shenzhen, with flower beds, lawns, coffee shops and newspaper columns. Then you can choose the office area at will." Seeing this, Duan Yun said with a smile.

In fact, the surrounding environment of Tianyin Group's two R&D centers in Shenzhen Industrial Zone is very beautiful, but they are not as relaxed and pleasant as the Silicon Valley R&D center. A garden-scale R&D center. On the other hand, when Duan Yun came to Shenzhen, he didn't have much money on hand, so he could only build an office building at most.

However, the working environment is also very important for attracting high-end talents. Duan Yun has been considering taking a piece of land around Shenzhen to build a large-scale science and technology park, which is similar to the R&D base established by Huawei in Songshan Lake, Dongguan in the future. , covering an area of ​​one or two thousand acres, with an investment of tens of billions, brings together cutting-edge talents from all over the world, so that they can have a relaxed and happy working and living environment.

Moreover, if this kind of science and technology park is well built, it is also very attractive in attracting international talents and returnees, especially in the case of similar salaries, companies with a good working environment are more likely to be attracted by senior talents. Favored, especially for some returning overseas Chinese, who have adapted to the overseas working environment and want to quickly find almost all conditions in China, Tianyin Group will become the first choice.

Duan Yun also had a lot of feelings when he visited the United States this time.

The person who led Duan Yun to visit the R&D center in Silicon Valley was Davis, the deputy director of a department of IBM. Davis is tall, only 1 meters, always smiling, and very friendly in speech. Bloch asked him to lead Official visits are obviously also these advantages of this person.

After visiting the IBM R&D Center, according to the plan, Duan Yun will stay here for one more day, and IBM will board the return flight the day after tomorrow.

However, apart from IBM, Duan Yun was invited this time by Texas Instruments, Essex Corporation, Harris Corporation, and Freescale Semiconductor, a branch of the well-known American Motorola Semi Corporation.

Duan Yun and his group came to the United States this time to apply for a 6-month business visa, and the two countries are far apart, so after Duan Yun came to the United States this time, he also greeted the company in advance and arranged the itinerary.

These companies have R&D centers in Silicon Valley. In the next few days, Duan Yun will visit the R&D center of his own American technology company to learn about the new technologies and projects they are currently researching, so that he can have an understanding of the current technological development. A clearer understanding.

For 5 consecutive days, Duan Yun and his team visited various R&D centers in Texas, and on the 6th day, he was invited to Dallas, Texas, in the southern United States, to visit the headquarters and chip factory of Texas Instruments .

Dallas is the ninth largest city in the United States, with a population of more than 500 million. Although the number of people is small, it is the center of medical education and finance in the southern United States. It was later listed as the No. Type 3 world-class cities, namely small world-class cities.

It can be seen that Dallas is a city with very advanced technology and a very prosperous economy, and the headquarters of Texas Instruments is located here.

Texas Instruments' semiconductor products account for almost 85% of its total revenue, and it occupies a leading position in different product fields including digital signal processors, digital-to-analog converters, and energy management analog integrated circuits. In later generations, wireless communication was a Texas Instruments Focus, about 50% of the world's mobile phones are equipped with chips produced by Texas FAW, and it also produces application-specific integrated circuits and single-chip microcomputers.

The NAND flash memory chips that Duan Yun authorized to IBM this time will be manufactured by this company in the future. This company has mastered the most advanced 0.8 micron process chip technology in the world, and produces more than one billion chips every year.

Duan Yun’s Tianyin chip factory is still far behind Texas Instruments. The annual chip production of Texas Instruments is more than ten times that of Tianyin’s chip factory, and the profit is as high as more than 50 billion US dollars. Telling Group wants to develop There is still a long way to go before reaching the scale of Texas Instruments.

However, Duan Yun’s chip factory has only developed in just over two years, while Texas Instruments has experienced half a century of development. From this point of view, Tianyin Electronics still has great potential for development in the future.

When Duan Yun and his team visited the headquarters of Texas Instruments and a chip production plant in the suburbs of Dallas, they were quite shocked.

Including Duan Fang, Li Yun and others, they have always been proud of Natural Group being the largest chip factory in mainland China, but after they witnessed Texas Instruments' powerful technology research and development and chip production team, the feeling of shock can no longer be felt. Describe it in words.

And this visit also made Duan Yun's own company and the huge gap between the international multinational giants. While absorbing some experience, it also gave him a deep sense of crisis, reminding himself not to be a frog in a well...

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