1991 Starting from the core

Yang Yiwen drove Su Yuanshan back to the villa to sleep. Xi Xiaoding picked up the piece of paper, sent an email to Carly and then opened the forum.

After a wave of publicity at the CeBIT exhibition, and with the continuous release of some technical articles and troubleshooting solutions for FarCore EDA, as well as several official plug-ins, the number of daily visits to the forum has now increased from one or two hundred to thousands. It's not bad compared to other forums - after all, the forums that young people play most nowadays are the forums of each school.

Just when he finished writing the announcement and was about to publish it, he suddenly stopped.

Looking up at Qin Si who was about to go out, Xi Xiaoding asked: "Xiao Si, based on the current market situation, how much is an IP in the IC design field worth?"

Qin Siwei replied cautiously after a few seconds: "It's hard to say. If it's Intel's IP...right, it's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and they won't sell it yet."

Xi Xiaoding couldn't laugh or cry: "It's simple, just ordinary IC design solutions or even ideas."

"Then it's cheaper. It depends on the use, hours of work, and field. The cheapest one may cost a few thousand dollars. After all, it's similar to a wheel in programming. It's because it's created by industry software, so it's charged."

"understood."

Xi Xiaoding added another item to the announcement - an open source design solution based on Yuanxin EDA, and also adjusted the bonus.

After the announcement was sent, Carly's email was quickly responded to. She did not agree immediately, but asked: "Is your boss that magical boy?"

Xi Xiaoding was dumbfounded—Silicon Valley is too small. For the field of application software, Su Yuanshan’s nickname last year was nothing. But in the semiconductor industry, especially in the field of IC design, his reputation is really great. And his background from the East casts a veil of mystery over him - some stupid conspiracy theorists even suspected that he had used an intelligence-enhancing potion secretly developed by the Xia Kingdom, which was an experimental product and not human.

After replying YES, Carly immediately replied with two letters: OK.

Seeing that Carly agreed so simply, Xi Xiaoding suspected that she just wanted to see if Su Yuanshan was the legendary non-human being, nothing more.

…

The next day, Fields Cafe.

Su Yuanshan knew that a strong woman like Carly would never like to be late, so he arrived half an hour early. Moreover, Yang Yiwen was asked to help him and Xi Xiaoding prepare themselves before going out.

At nine fifty, a capable woman pushed in the door. Although she was nearly forty years old, her decent clothes and capable temperament made her look younger than her actual age. As soon as she entered the door, Carly looked at Xi Xiaoding. After nodding, she met Su Yuanshan's eyes, looked at him, and walked towards the booth.

"Hello, Ms. Carly." Su Yuanshan stood up and introduced himself: "I am Su Yuanshan."

"you know me?"

"There are not many outstanding people like Ms. Carly in Silicon Valley, and even fewer are beautiful." Su Yuanshan intertwined his fingers and said with a smile: "Let's talk, you are the only one."

Xi Xiaoding on the side sighed secretly - he really couldn't do such blatant flattery.

Carly was in a good mood and sat down facing Su Yuanshan: "You didn't want to compliment me when you asked me out today, did you?"

In view of the Eastern backgrounds of Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding, although Carly agreed quickly yesterday, she still did some work when she went back to speculate on Su Yuanshan's intentions - she naturally thought of the introduction project with Xia Guohua crystal that she was responsible for some time ago.

But now that both parties have reached an agreement and the Ministry of Commerce has approved it, what else will he do to him after it is packed and shipped?

"That's right, Ms. Carly. We will launch two new products at the Radio and Television Exhibition in two days. One is a digital video player based on MPEG1, and the other is a home short-distance wireless phone. I want to hear about it. Your market forecast for these two products.”

"Are you asking me for advice?" Carly asked with a smile, almost as if it was a condition, but she soon realized that she was thinking too much.

She took a deep look at Su Yuanshan, her eyes a little unpredictable.

Silicon Valley is too small, and everyone is interested in Yuanxin, a company that became popular in Las Vegas half a year ago. But I have a bit more contempt for OCSS Xinghai, which was established as an "agent" - if someone comes to Silicon Valley to work as an agent, isn't that like a country bumpkin entering the Academy of Sciences?

But it turns out that Xinghai is really not an agent. Not long after its establishment, they aggressively recruited people and engaged in research and development while investing. Soon they had the appearance of an emerging technology enterprise.

But due to commercial reasons, everyone only knows that Xinghai is developing software and hardware together, but there is no way to know what it is exactly.

Now Su Yuanshan told him that digital players and wireless phones will be launched soon - is this the result of their research and development in the past six months?

Then he asked himself...do you want to invite yourself?

Carly thought for a moment and replied in the most rigorous terms: "I haven't seen the product and don't understand its functions, so there's no way to predict it."

"Are you interested in taking a look?" Su Yuanshan still smiled and said: "Actually, we also have a commercial software that will be put on the market soon. If Ms. Carly serves as the CEO of Xinghai, we will have several project teams here waiting for your development. Develop your ambitions.”

"Frankly speaking, if it were me, I could complete Xinghai's IPO within three years and then ring the bell on Nasdaq."

Hearing this, Carly breathed out softly.

After being silent for a long time, she suddenly blinked and said with a smile, "Then I will watch it at the exhibition?"

*

Watching this capable woman leave in a hurry, even Xi Xiaoding guessed that she was tempted. Although in today's Silicon Valley, it is not difficult to start a Nasdaq-listed company. But being able to come up with one is at least a sign of ability. What's more, everyone knows that Xinghai here has strong cash flow support because it is backed by Yuanxin - unless EDA cannot hold on.

In addition, Xinghai has launched several innovative products in one fell swoop. As long as it can open up the market, it will be a high-tech company with a firm foothold.

"Senior brother, your idea yesterday was very good."

Su Yuanshan took a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "I have always considered doing full commercial licensing before, but now it seems that mobilizing the power of open source and providing free IP is indeed a good direction. And Yuanxin can also focus on developing More and more complete IPs can be used for charging - after all, this is a major direction of making money in the future, and we don’t need to block ourselves.”

"So I suggest that we can also build a code hosting platform and an IP trading platform - when the Internet becomes more developed, we can apply for financial products. By then, as long as we open the platform, we can connect to the IP library of chip design and PCB design. Just choose ready-made products like in the supermarket.”

Su Yuanshan smiled as he spoke: "Those bumpkins, they stupidly think that we are ahead only in technology."

Xi Xiaoding nodded with a smile, and suddenly thought of what Su Yuanshan said to Carly just now, he asked softly: "Are you planning to go public in three years?"

"To be precise, it's two years. You can't continue to play in Silicon Valley without going public, but some patents will be transferred before." Su Yuanshan squinted, glanced around and then said softly: "Offshore companies Xinghai and Yuanxin are not Those that will be listed will probably have employee shares. I haven’t figured out how to allocate them specifically yet—how many shares do you want?”

Xi Xiaoding chuckled: "Whatever."

Su Yuanshan glanced at him: "I don't believe you! But senior brother, you should know that you and I will not have to worry about food for the rest of our lives or even for the next few generations."

Xi Xiaoding thought for a moment and nodded with a smile.

"So the only thing I want to do is whether it goes as expected - senior brother, if you are unhappy with something, you must tell me!"

Xi Xiaoding didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Get out of here, how could I say I wasn't happy?"

"hey-hey……"

Two years later, in 1994, he wanted a lot more money.

*

On April 10th, Xinghai sent a “huge” team to Las Vegas. In comparison, the Yuanxin headquarters was much shabby. Apart from Su Yuanshan who arrived first, only Wang Rui came with Xiao Shouping and two other technicians.

After the two parties met, they first held a small party in the hotel. After getting to know each other, they rushed to the convention and exhibition center to arrange the venue.

Compared with the computer dealer conference held last year, the scale this time is much smaller. The giants are basically from Japan, such as Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi and other major TV manufacturers - after all, it is a radio and television exhibition.

But given Xinghai’s Silicon Valley label, Xi Xiaoding still grabbed the second most prominent spot in the convention and exhibition center a month ago.

On the 11th, everyone went to the Convention and Exhibition Center early in the morning.

While waiting for the door to open, Yuanxin was like a flag for domestic businesses, quickly attracting mainland delegations to gather around.

[Door: Recommended Ticket]