Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1706 Return to Las Vegas

The plane landed in Las Vegas. As soon as Duan Yun, Li Yun and others walked out of the terminal, they saw the person picking up the plane at the door.

Now Tianyin Group has a total of 130 employees in its R&D center in the United States, and Chinese engineers account for about 2/3 of them.

It is also interesting to say that half of the Chinese engineers currently working in the U.S. R&D center of Tianyin Group are international students from Tsinghua University and Peking University. These people were sent by the government to study in the United States. After staying in the United States to work, many R&D centers including Silicon Valley have students from Tsinghua University and Peking University.

For Duan Yun, it is also his greatest hope that these elite overseas students can still serve Chinese companies in foreign countries.

The reason why many of these domestic students choose to work in the R&D center of Tianyin Group is that on the one hand, Duan Yun’s treatment is no worse than other American companies, and on the other hand, it is due to Hu Zhengming, a consultant hired by Duan Yun with a high salary. .

As a well-known top Chinese expert in the field of microelectronics in the world, Hu Zhengming served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before, and served as the chairman of the East Bay Chinese School in San Francisco for the past two years. The Chinese students were directly sent to the R&D center of Telling Group, and they also did a lot of work within their ability to expand the influence of Telling Group in the field of microelectronics in the United States.

At present, it is Hu Zhengming's student Liang Mengsong who is actually in charge of the Tianyin Group's U.S. R&D center. Since he resigned from the American chip giant AMD three years ago, he has been working in the Tianyin R&D center. His current annual salary has reached 50 US dollars. , It can be regarded as an absolute high salary in the entire Silicon Valley.

So far, Duan Yun has invested 1 million US dollars in this research and development center. The main research and development projects include USB software and hardware, memory chips and solid state drives, and other computer application software, including MP300 and MP3 software. These software will be used in the future. It is installed on the computers and MP4 players of Tianyin Group.

In general, Duan Yun is very satisfied with the work results of the US R&D center in the past two years. The R&D center located on the west coast of the United States has always maintained close contact with Tianyin Group's R&D center in Shenzhen. and phone calls to exchange their own information and data. The domestic 486 computer launched by Tianyin Group this time has the hardware and software technology developed by the American R&D center inside. Their team's research and development level and plans are often more avant-garde and bolder than domestic ones.

Engaging in technological development is not to build a car behind closed doors, it needs to open eyes to see the world at all times, and the American R&D Center is a pair of eyes that Duan Yun has placed in the world's scientific research center, so that he and the group company can more keenly feel the dynamics of the world's technological development, and Respond immediately.

After getting on the car that came to pick up the station, Duan Yun and his party went to the Las Vegas hotel.

"Mr. Duan, hello!"

After Duan Yun and others got off the car, Liang Mengsong, who had been waiting there for a long time, greeted him immediately with a smile on his face, and behind him were several core managers of the American R&D Center.

Compared with the first time he came to Las Vegas to participate in the CES conference a few years ago, Duan Yun now has his own company and base in the United States. When he comes to the United States to participate in the exhibition, there are people here to support and assist.

As early as half a month ago, Tianyin Group’s booth for this CES exhibition has been arranged through its branch in the United States. At present, there are still 4 days before the opening of the exhibition. It is only necessary to bring the products directly to the exhibition and set them up.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

Seeing Liang Mengsong and others, Duan Yun immediately stepped forward to shake hands with them one by one.

It was already past 7 o'clock in the evening. After a simple greeting, Liang Mengsong took Duan Yun and others to the restaurant for dinner.

In the nearly three years since he joined Telling Group, Liang Mengsong has worked in the United States most of the time. He has returned to China 4 times in the middle, and each time he will stay in Shenzhen for about 10 days and a half months to learn about the current head office. The research and development of chips and other projects here, in order to go back and coordinate with the United States.

Liang Mengsong was very surprised by the current development of Tianyin Group. He did not expect Duan Yun to be able to make a chip with a breakthrough of one micron under such a strict high-tech blockade in the United States, and with the help of the country, It is estimated that by the end of this year, Tianyin Group's chips should be able to be successfully upgraded to 0.5 microns, which has reached the synchronization with the most advanced international level.

According to the Moore cycle of one and a half to two years, Tianyin Group not only surpassed Taiwan and South Korea almost entirely by itself, but also brought China's microelectronic chip technology to the same level as the developed countries of the United States and Japan, and successfully completed the catch-up. In the eyes of industry insiders, this is simply an incredible thing. It is precisely because of this that Liang Mengsong now respects Duan Yun more and more, and has expressed in public and private occasions many times that he hopes to finally Worked in Tianyin Group until retirement.

At the dinner that day, Liang Mengsong gave Duan Yun a detailed statement of the current work progress of Tianyin Group's US R&D center, and put forward his own suggestions for the formulation of new projects for the R&D center in the future.

Currently, two-thirds of the more than 100 employees in the U.S. R&D center are engaged in specialized software research and development, so Liang Mengsong hopes that Duan Yun will pay attention to the development of current computer software for the development projects of Tianyin U.S. R&D Center in the next few years.

In 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, which was Microsoft's first graphical user interface version that really achieved great success in the world, and it was from this time that computer software ushered in a big explosion.

Computer software is divided into two categories: system software and application software. System software is various operating systems, such as windows, Linus, and Unix, etc., and also includes operating system patches and hardware drivers.

In the 80s, ordinary home computers did not have an operation interface, and they were all operated through the DOS system. After Microsoft released windows1990 in 3, it began to expand rapidly around the world and became the most popular computer operating system in the world. .

Liang Mengsong has lived in the United States for many years. He has seen the huge business opportunities hidden in the computer system. In addition, there are many outstanding talents in software research and development in the R&D center, so he suggested that it is best to seize these opportunities and add more Windows-based operating systems. Development of application software.

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