Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1576 Showing Sincerity
"1 million dollars!?"

Hearing the number reported by Duan Yun, several Soviet experts around showed expressions of disbelief.

Looking at the whole world, including developed countries in Europe and the United States, an annual R&D budget of US$1 million is definitely an astonishing figure. You must know that the annual research funding of St. In the early years, one dollar could be exchanged for 300 rubles, and 0.6 million rubles were equivalent to more than 300 million U.S. dollars.

At the end of last year, the ruble depreciated on a large scale, becoming 1.8 rubles per dollar, which shrunk by a full three times. However, the funding remained the same, which meant that the annual funding of St. Petersburg University was only about 150 million US dollars. However, there are nearly 160 professors and associate professors in St. Petersburg University, and this research funding is simply a drop in the bucket for them.

In addition, the salary of professors in Soviet universities is not high. The salary of professors in ordinary universities is 400-600 rubles per month. Before the ruble depreciates, it is equivalent to 700-1000 US dollars per month. This income is still quite good. However Since the depreciation of the ruble at the end of last year, their monthly income has become about 200 to 300 US dollars converted into US dollars, and their income level has shrunk sharply.

It is precisely because of this that after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, South Korea offered these engineers and technicians a monthly salary of 1500 to 2000 US dollars, and well-known experts could reach 3000 to 4000 US dollars a month, which is equivalent to Soviet experts before the devaluation of the ruble. About 2~3 times of income.

Tianyin Group is just a technology company, and it is also a Chinese company. To be able to invest 1 million U.S. dollars in research and development a year is like a fantasy to these Soviet experts.

In fact, although the economy of the Soviet Union has been sluggish these years, they still have a strong sense of superiority over China. In their view, China is the younger brother of the Soviet Union, with a large population but poor and backward. on a par.

But coming to Shenzhen this time has indeed caused these Soviet experts to have a huge change in their perception of China. Seeing that there are many tall buildings in Shenzhen, the industrial area is so huge, and the Tianying Group also has a chip technology with a micron process. This is far beyond their imagination. In some people's eyes, the development of Shenzhen has already looked like a developed country in Europe, and most of the original sense of superiority has been eliminated by this time.

"Our Tianyin Group's annual profit last year was 16 billion yuan. According to the current national exchange rate, it is about 4 million U.S. dollars. This year, our profit target will exceed 30 billion yuan, which is about 7 million U.S. dollars. It is a very reasonable investment for a technology company like ours to use 1 million US dollars of it as research and development funds." Duan Yun smiled slightly and continued: "In addition, our company is currently cooperating with many technology giants in the United States, such as IBM, Texas Instruments, AMD, and Western Digital have established business relationships, and our company's chips have become standard electronic components for these companies. Optical chips alone can bring us US$2 million in foreign exchange income every year ..."

At this time, it is the time for Duan Yun to show his muscles to these Soviet experts, because he knows that if he wants to recruit these top Soviet experts to change jobs, he has no strength. Potential, they may choose to work in China.

Sure enough, hearing what Duan Yun said, all the Soviet experts present showed expressions of amazement.

"Is what you said true?" Ferov and Dastan couldn't help asking.

"Of course these are all true. Although we are a private company, we are also very well-known in our country. The country has also set up a microelectronics base in Shenzhen with our company as the core enterprise. We had a meeting with you before Those domestic experts are all from Shenzhen Science and Technology Park, and they have helped our company solve many technical problems." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "In addition, our company has published many papers in the United States. The latest NAND flash memory chip published in a well-known technology magazine has also caused a huge response in the American technology community, and it is precisely because of this that we have so many American customers..."

"It's amazing!" Hearing this, Fei Luofu couldn't help giving Duan Yun a thumbs up.

In fact, last year, Ferov and others had already noticed the newly developed NAND flash memory chips in the world. However, the United States and the Soviet Union had technical barriers at that time, so Ferov and others learned about the birth of a new generation of flash memory chips. Not many, I only know that it was developed by a Chinese company and applied to a new generation of IBM computers.

At that time, new technologies such as these emerged one after another, and Japan and South Korea also had new technological breakthroughs in Asia, so the chip breakthroughs in China did not attract special attention from Soviet experts. Although they knew that Tianyin Group had developed a successful storage device Chips, but they did not expect that this kind of chip has been commercialized so quickly and obtained such a high profit, this is something they did not expect.

"In addition to us in Shenzhen, our group company currently has R&D centers in Silicon Valley, University of Munich, and Hong Kong. There are currently more than 1700 R&D engineers engaged in technology." Duan Yun glanced at Ferov, and then said: "And the Shenzhen Bao'an Bay Area Science and Technology Park we are visiting this time will become the largest technology research and development cluster in China in the future. Yes, the target is Silicon Valley in the United States..."

"You also have R&D centers in the United States and Europe." Hearing this, Dastan was also surprised.

"Technology has no borders. The development of human technology in the future must be the crystallization of all scientific and technological personnel. Therefore, from this point of view, our research and development road must expand international cooperation and absorb top talents at home and abroad as much as possible. Only in this way can technology companies like us remain invincible in the market competition." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "Actually, I really appreciate your talents and wisdom. If someone is willing to come to work in China In terms of remuneration, everything is easy to talk about, at least it will not be lower than the remuneration offered by European and American countries. I hope you can think about it carefully..."

Speaking of this, Duan Yun's purpose is already obvious. After all, he still hopes that these Soviet engineers can join his company.

But Duan Yun also knows that things will not be so simple. The Soviet Union has not yet disintegrated. Even if the salary is low, these experts will not consider working abroad for a while. After all, it needs to be away from family and hometown, which is very difficult. choice...

(End of this chapter)