Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

To put it bluntly, all results speak for themselves.

When doing scientific research in universities, the candidates are either promoted or left.

No matter whether you have a PhD from a 985 university or a C9 university, if you fail to meet the assessment requirements and produce results, you will be fired.

The same is true in business.

Even if it is Pang Liguo, if the development of the Wing Loong 3000 baseband fails, it will also lead to the failure of the Kunpeng 700 and Kunpeng 702 SOC, and Wang Yi's billion investment will be wasted.

Then Wang Yi will also let him go!

In the semiconductor industry, there is no second chance!

Nie Zheng has been in the business for many years and is very familiar with these unspoken rules. He immediately expressed his opinion:

"Mr. Wang, don't worry. I will go all out and make a 28-nanometer CPU by the end of next year!"

"Okay, I'll wait to celebrate for you!"

Wang Yi spoke calmly, and next, it would depend on the performance of each R&D center.

We now have several R&D centers, and all three major businesses, CPU, GPU, and AI chips, are invested in.

However, subsequent financial support will depend on the performance of each R&D center.

To put it bluntly, it is about raising insects and internal competition.

Competition between different R&D centers in the same business unit.

There is also competition between different business units.

R&D centers with outstanding results will increase investment, upgrade their strategic level, and receive generous year-end bonuses.

R&D centers with mediocre results will have their funding support reduced and will be put on the waiting list for assessment, so they can forget about year-end bonuses.

As for R&D centers with poor or even no results, it is possible to change leaders, cut salaries and demote positions, lay off employees, or even cut the entire business unit.

Although VIA was previously a semiconductor retirement home, Wang Yi would not let them really retire.

Wang Yi acquired VIA and invested heavily in research and development in order to achieve results and make money.

As long as you can produce results, treatment and status will not be a problem.

But if they spend money and don’t get any results, Wang Yi will let the other party know what capitalist tactics are!

Afterwards, Wang Yi approached Williams again and said, "William, the CPU R&D Center and NPU R&D Center in the imperial capital are both in your hands. You are also responsible for the overseas Centaur team."

After all, NPU is integrated into the CPU SOC just like the integrated graphics card.

The current computer's CPU SOC includes CPU and integrated core graphics, and will also integrate NPU in the future.

For example, in the GPU department, if a powerful GPU is developed, Wang Yi will launch it separately.

If the performance of the GPU developed is too poor, Wang Yi would be embarrassed to launch it as a discrete graphics card, which would be too embarrassing.

At that time, it will be directly packaged together with the CPU to make the CPU's core graphics card.

Just like Intel's third-generation i5 next year, it will have integrated Intel HD Graphics 2500.

What level?

It is roughly equivalent to the GT210 on a desktop, an entry-level independent graphics card.

It is no problem to use it for office and study, but as for games, you can only play 2D games, such as CF, DNF, etc., don't even think about 3D games.

Similarly, if S3 graphic is powerful and the CPU it produces can catch up with Nvidia's mid-range graphics cards of the same generation, Wang Yi will mass-produce it and make it into an independent graphics card.

But if it is only equivalent to an entry-level low-end graphics card, it can only be made into the CPU's core graphics card.

If they can't even make an entry-level graphics card, then there's no need for S3 graphic to exist.

"Okay, Chairman, I'll take care of everything." Williams said solemnly.

One CPU R&D center headquarters, two NPU R&D centers, three core departments were handed over to him at once, which shows Wang Yi's trust in him.

There is no way, Wang Yi doesn’t know much about the overseas team.

Even if other people take charge, they won’t be able to control the situation.

Only Williams can play.

Williams developed the Kunpeng 702 SOC in such a short period of time, and achieved the feat of 40 nanometers beating Qualcomm's 28 nanometers. He became a legend in one fell swoop and has become a top player in the semiconductor field.

With him in charge, the overseas Centaur teams have nothing to say.

The performance is there.

Who dares to be arrogant unless they make a CPU that can defeat Intel?

But unfortunately, the current Centaur team no longer has such ability and can never catch up even in their dreams.

Then you can only obey Williams.

Another consideration is that Wang Yi trusts Williams.

Williams is not a power-hungry person; instead, he appoints people based on their merits.

People like George and Zhang Chao were recommended and promoted by Williams, and now they are both capable of leading their own businesses.

If it were someone else, they would never let George and Zhang Chao, their capable subordinates who might pose a threat to them, to come forward. Any chance of coming forward would be completely stifled!

Moreover, Williams has strong ability to withstand pressure, is good at leading the team to open up new areas, and is a qualified marshal.

Wang Yi will naturally make use of him!

"As for the GPU R&D center in Seoul (Wuhan), it will be temporarily handled by the current technical director. As the general manager of Xingyi Semiconductor, you should do a good job of the assessment. If that person is unqualified, we will replace him!" Wang Yi instructed.

"Yes!" Williams responded, only to feel the burden on his shoulders become heavier again.

Now Xingyi Semiconductor has a mobile phone SOC division, a mobile phone baseband division, a comprehensive chip division, a computer CPU division, a GPU division, and an AI chip division.

Each business unit has its own leader and its own R&D director.

But the head of the entire Xingyi Semiconductor is still Williams!

Wang Yi doesn't have time to keep an eye on it every day, so it is Williams who keeps abreast of the progress of each business unit and R&D center.

Grasp the assessment and talent discovery.

For example, Williams would recommend the core talents of the Centaur team, the VIA team, and the Seoul GPU team to Wang Yi once he discovered outstanding employees.

Each department should recommend at least three to five people.

Wang Yi then arranged for people to go through layers of assessments and selected the most suitable person to become the new leader.

In the following days, VIA's core semiconductor talents continued to fly back to the capital from Taiwan.

There are also core Centaurs talents flying to the imperial capital from overseas.

Of course, the latter is less.

After all, the Centaur team is not like the previous mobile chip team of Texas Instruments.

Texas Instruments is abandoning its mobile chip business and cutting its entire division.

George and others were about to lose their jobs, and couldn't find better treatment, so they had no choice but to come to the imperial capital and join Xingyi Technology.

To put it bluntly, George and his team came to the imperial capital and joined Xingyi Technology. It was somewhat forced and they had no choice.

But the Centaurs are different. They are very strong and can find a good job even if they leave and go to Intel or AMD.

Therefore, Wang Yi could only adopt a conciliatory policy.

Use high salaries to lure those who are willing to come to the capital. Give them high salaries.

Those who do not want to come can continue to work in the overseas Centaur team, where they will receive adequate remuneration and do not have to resign.

After all, the Centaur team is strong and capable of developing AI chips, and they have a bright future.

Wang Yidu treated it as a treasure.

Even if we don't come to the imperial capital now, we have to keep them stable.

Subsequently, they will be screened and evaluated based on their abilities and performance. Young people with outstanding performance will be transferred to the headquarters with the excuse of promotion and salary increase!

Well, if you stay in the overseas branch, promotions and salary increases will be slow.

Come to headquarters and get an immediate promotion and salary increase.

Wang Yi’s main point is that his virtue can convince people and his humbleness can make people approachable!

Jian Ziyan had already arranged reception and apartments for these incoming semiconductor talents.

After finishing the work, Jian Ziyan approached Wang Yi and said, "Chairman, we have arranged for the talents coming this time, but there will be several more batches of talents coming in the future. I have a suggestion. It is not appropriate for us to always rent apartments. How about buying a few apartment buildings in the name of the company and using them as dormitories for our talents?"

"Buy an apartment building in the name of the company?" Wang Yi's eyes lit up:

"That's a good idea. Xingyi Semiconductor keeps poaching people, and the big names we recruit need to find accommodation. We might as well just buy a house. But we won't buy an apartment because the tenants are too mixed. We'll buy a small house!"

Housing prices in the capital are high, and most houses are small in size.

There is no way, housing prices are too expensive and few people can afford large apartments.

When buying a house in second- and third-tier cities, you can either buy a small three-bedroom apartment of 100 square meters or a large three-bedroom apartment of 120 square meters.

But when buying a house in the capital, you usually buy a two-bedroom apartment of 40 to 50 square meters, or a small three-bedroom apartment of 70 to 80 square meters.

As for a house over 100 square meters? Too expensive, too extravagant.

At present, VIA employees coming to the capital need to solve the housing problem, and the big names and talents recruited later also need to solve the housing problem. Before, they all rented apartments and houses.

Might as well buy it now.

A few years later, housing prices in the capital skyrocketed. Even in Zhongguancun, the annual rent for a 50-square-meter house would be more than yuan.

Currently, a 100-square-meter house is only priced at 150 to million yuan.

The rent in the next ten years will almost catch up with the current house prices. There is no reason to just rent and not buy, and then work for the landlord.

Many years later, whether it was demolished or not, people made a lot of money.

It is easy to buy a house in the name of a company.

"Zi Yan, just go ahead and buy some houses. Buy the houses of those landlords who have many houses and use them as apartments for your employees. If you are short of money later, you can just mortgage them to the bank for a loan," Wang Yi instructed.

They only target landlords who own many houses. These people are too lucky and have not had to struggle for several generations.

The rent collected every month is higher than the income of elites in big companies, and there is no need to pay taxes!

No matter how many houses Wang Yi buys, it will not affect their quality of life. After all, as long as they don't do anything stupid, they will have endless money to spend.

It doesn't matter for ordinary people, but they should also be given the possibility of becoming multi-millionaires through demolition.

"Okay, Chairman, I'll do it right away."

After Jian Ziyan left, Wang Yi began to check the financial statements of each business unit.

With the addition of VIA talents, the CPU business unit of Didu has developed rapidly and has a large number of employees and generals.

Coupled with VIA's chip technology and foundation, it is only a matter of time before they develop a CPU.

The VIA headquarters in Taiwan also burst into new vitality due to Wang Yi's capital injection.

Although there were fewer people, we also cut off the original messy businesses and started to focus on CPU research and development.

Even the S3 graphic R&D team in Seoul has started recruiting people and focusing on developing a new GPU after receiving financial support!

There is no way. GPU is too difficult and it is unrealistic not to recruit people.

In the simplest case, a CPU may be produced in one year.

But GPU is estimated to take two years, or even longer!

Fortunately, we have the background and technology of S3 graphic, otherwise it would have been difficult for two years.

After all, S3 Graphics also produced several 3D graphics cards in the past few years, but they were much inferior to NVIDIA.

But whether the final product can be made into an independent graphics card or can only be used as the core graphics card of the CPU depends on their capabilities.

But Wang Yi had said the ugly truth in advance.

Whether the S3 graphic division can become an independent GPU team or be a subsidiary of the CPU department to produce integrated graphics depends on their results.

If a powerful independent graphics card is produced, the S3 Graphics Division will officially become the graphics card department of Xingyi Semiconductor, with the same SSS-level strategic positioning as the CPU department, and all treatment and status will rise.

But if it can only produce entry-level graphics cards that can only be used as core graphics cards, then the S3 graphic business unit will also become a group of the CPU business unit.