Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1456
Setting up a technology research and development center in the United States is much simpler than Duan Yun imagined.

In the second week after Hu Zhengming returned to the United States, he sent Duan Yun a report on the establishment of a research and development center in Silicon Valley by transoceanic fax.

In this report, Hu Zhengming chose the address of the US R&D center in San Jose, USA, and plans to lease a building covering an area of ​​16000 square feet (about 1486 square meters) in San Jose, and plans to Within, recruit 150 employees, engaged in software development.

As the center of world science and technology, Silicon Valley in the United States has always been a prosperous scene. Every year, a large number of entrepreneurs pour in, and many losers leave sadly. The money invested is burned out and no good products are made or acquired. Then The only thing waiting for these small technology companies is bankruptcy and bankruptcy. A few lucky ones can continue to receive investment and survive, and the cycle repeats itself. Silicon Valley is also constantly completing its own metabolism.

The building that Hu Zhengming plans to lease this time is left by a bankrupt American technology company before, and all office supplies and facilities are sold at a low price. build up.

This time, Duan Yun invested 300 million US dollars in the early stage, mainly including the rental of office space, early employees, water and electricity, etc., and Duan Yun will increase the investment scale year by year in the future, and set up more projects in the R&D center in the United States. Group.

In terms of employee recruitment, Duan Yunze handed over everything to Hu Zhengming, and Hu Zhengming quickly made a list. Before the end of this year, he planned to recruit 50 people first. By the middle of next year, the entire R&D center will expand. There are 150 people, and it is divided into three projects at the same time, respectively developing USB software, memory chips and solid-state drives, and other computer application software, and these software will eventually be pre-installed on the computers of Tianyin Group.

Among them, storage chips and solid-state drives are the key projects of Duan Yun's research and development center, and this is also the field that Hu Zhengming is best at.

In addition, most of the 50 people recommended by Hu Zhengming are Chinese engineers, some are Hu Zhengming's disciples, and some as long as they are industry experts he knows, it can be said that the R&D center in the United States was established entirely by Hu Zhengming's contacts.

Duan Yun gave Hu Zhengming very high authority in setting up the U.S. R&D center. On the one hand, it was out of Hu Zhengming’s own trust. It is impossible to send Huang Lingyi and others abroad, so the R&D center can only be operated according to Hu Zhengming's plan.

In addition, Hu Zhengming also provided Duan Yun with a list of Chinese experts in the semiconductor industry in the United States, including outstanding Chinese engineers and executives from IBM, Texas Instruments, HP, Apple and other companies. , and even published related papers, a detailed report was made and sent to Duan Yun by fax.

On this list, Duan Yun was surprised to find that there were many well-known Chinese semiconductor experts in later generations, including Zhang Rujing, the founder of SMIC, and Liang Mengsong, the later CEO.

Seeing these two names, Duan Yun felt as if he had found a treasure, and immediately made an international call to contact Hu Zhengming, hoping that he would dig them into his R&D center at any cost.

At this time, Zhang Rujing was still working at Texas Instruments. Zhang Rujing graduated from National Taiwan University, received a master's degree in engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and received a doctorate in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University. He entered Texas Instruments at the age of 29. Work, now has been working in Texas Instruments for 8 years, has been engaged in the research and development of IC chips, with outstanding achievements, and has published a number of patents and related papers.

At this time, Liang Mengsong was working for the American chip giant AMD. He was also a very good Chinese microelectronics engineer. The semiconductor company offered him an olive branch, hoping that he could jump ship and join.

It is common for American technicians to change jobs. Unlike Japanese companies, Americans do not have high loyalty to companies. Therefore, in several American technology giants, internal engineers often switch jobs. This has become a norm.

Duan Yun learned that at this time Liang Mengsong and Zhang Rujing both achieved high-level technical positions in their respective companies, but their annual salary did not exceed 15. The annual salary is about 13 US dollars, which is 8/2 of Liang Mengsong's.

However, in terms of ability, the level of the two is similar, and the annual salary of 8 US dollars is not low. You must know that in the late 80s, Japan's per capita GDP was more than 9000 US dollars, while the United States was more than 12 US dollars , From this point of view, both of them belong to the high-income class in the United States, and they are out-and-out middle class.

After Duan Yun learned of this situation, he directly poached people with three times the salary, giving Zhang Rujing an annual salary of 24 U.S. dollars, while Liang Mengsong's was 30 U.S. dollars.Reached the annual salary of senior professional managers in the United States.

A week later, Zhou Zhengming gave Duan Yun a reply, telling him that Zhang Rujing was unwilling to quit Texas Instruments, while Liang Mengsong proposed to have an annual salary of 50 US dollars before he would consider quitting.

Duan Yun hardly bargained, and directly agreed to Liang Mengsong's request, and asked him to resign and report to Shenzhen Tianyin Group. At that time, Duan Yun will sign a long-term contract with him with generous remuneration, and let him be responsible for managing Tianyin Group. Sound Group's R&D center in the United States.

Duan Yun never thought that he would be able to recruit such a celebrity in the microelectronics industry as Liang Mengsong so smoothly, and Hu Zhengming contributed a lot to this. Without him, Liang Mengsong probably would not have been able to change jobs.

Half a month later, Liang Mengsong flew to Shenzhen by plane and was warmly received by Duan Yun.

For Liang Mengsong, who is about to enter his forties, the main reason why he left AMD this time and chose to come to an integrated circuit company in mainland China that he has never heard of is that he has never been taken seriously in AMD before. , although he can be regarded as a well-known expert in the industry and has become a project leader of the company, his position in this company has always been slightly marginal, which is obviously not reconciled to Liang Mengsong, who has always had greater ambitions. A lifetime of mediocre work.

Apart from the high annual salary offered by Duan Yun, the main reason for choosing Tianyin Group was because Hu Zhengming was Liang Mengsong’s mentor. It was under Hu Zhengming’s guidance that Liang Mengsong finally obtained a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley So the two are a real master-student relationship.

As the saying goes, being a teacher for a day and being a father for life, the Chinese are a circle that respects teachers. If there is no Hu Zhengming, even if Duan Yun doubles his salary, Liang Mengsong will not consider joining a private company in mainland China at all.

(End of this chapter)