My Age of Investment

  Chapter 1082 Extracting value

  "Dalun, didn't Fuxing Industrial Group set up an AI laboratory in China with a $1 billion investment? These two are both top talents in the AI ​​field. You can ask them more."

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Yang Zhiyuan, knowing that the other party started to cooperate, and immediately followed the other party’s words and said: "Yes, today I met the true god, so I have to ask for some advice."

  Li Feifei was surprised when he heard the astronomical figure of 1 billion U.S. dollars: "Mr. Xia, do you invest so much money in AI research and development?"

  "Not only AI, but also a cloud computing project. The US$1 billion is only an investment this year and will be added next year."

  Li Feifei was overwhelmed by Xia Jingxing’s understatement. She thought that in order to build the ImageNet database, she could cut the price of a few cents for an image with the crowdsourcing part-time staff on the Amazon platform for half a day.

  The other party paid $1 billion for AI without blinking their eyelids, and also said that they would invest more next year.

  It’s good to be an entrepreneur and never worry about research funding.

  Wu Enda suddenly interjected: "Dalun, is it convenient to talk about the direction of your AI research? If it involves commercial secrets, then forget it."

   "What is inconvenient?"

  Xia Jingxing smiled, and then started to introduce one by one, "Voice recognition, this is the new technology we will use to revive mobile phones next;

  Image recognition, this should be used on social and video websites to identify some prohibited pictures and videos;

  Unmanned driving is preparing to establish a project, but has not found a suitable development leader..."

  Yang Zhiyuan praised from the side: "Shen Xiangyang is now the head of Fuxing Industry AI, but there are too many scientific research projects under Fuxing Industry, and he can't manage it alone."

Xia Jingxing emphasized, "Yes, there are still quite a few industries under the Fuxing Industry. From an industrial perspective, we really need some AI research to go out of the laboratory and apply it to home appliances, mobile phones, automobiles, drones and other products. The product has a higher technological content."

   Hearing the drone, Wu Enda immediately asked: “The DJI Wizard 1 that appeared at the press conference that day is very interesting, and the integrated aerial photography design is even more genius-like.”

  Yang Zhiyuan smiled and said: "I remember a few years ago, you led the Stanford research team to develop the world's most advanced automatic control helicopter, right?"

Wu Enda smiled and said modestly: "That was a long time ago, and the project was not very commercialized, so I was so surprised when I saw the quad-rotor integrated aerial photography drone. This is what we wait for these days. Business and market thinking that people in the laboratory don’t have."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "You're overwhelmed. The current technology of DJI Elf is not perfect. Next, we plan to add functions such as automatic follow-up and automatic obstacle avoidance. Computer vision, training algorithm models, etc. are needed behind this. Technology."

  Li Feifei and Wu Enda nodded one after another, these are very practical AI landings.

   is worthy of being a technology entrepreneur, very forward-looking about the combination of technology and business.

  Several people were chatting, Lu Qi suddenly came over with a middle-aged man in his forties.

  "Dalun, this is my brother and sister from Fudan University, and Chen Zongjian, your brother from Stanford. He is now the vice president of PASemi."

  Xia Jingxing has some impressions of Chen Zongjian. The other party is one of the few Chinese executives at the headquarters of Wisdom Fruit. He is also the hidden **** behind Wisdom Fruit’s chip. One person holds 60 or 70 semiconductor patents.

  "Brother Chen, hello!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled and shook hands with Chen Zongjian, and then introduced a few people around him to know each other.

  Lu Qi is very familiar with Wu Enda. Both of them graduated from Carnegie Mellon, a famous computer school founded by the Mellon Consortium.

  Others are the same, they are all circles and circles, either alumni or common friends.

  Just a few words of greetings, it narrowed the sense of distance between each other.

  Lu Qi pretended to inadvertently and said: “Dalun, isn’t Fuxing Semiconductor planning to enter the field of chip design? Zong Jian is an expert in this field.

He was the No. 1 student in the college entrance examination of the Magic City in 1984, and was selected by the Sino-US joint physics graduate program founded by Mr. Li Zhengdao to come to Stanford. He successively obtained a master's degree and a doctorate degree in electronic engineering and applied physics. After graduation, he followed low-power processing. Doppel, a leading figure in the field of devices, has been in business for more than ten years, and he is very knowledgeable in the field of processor design.

  You can ask Zong Jian for advice, so you can avoid a lot of detours. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "Brother Chen, there are very few Chinese engineers engaged in processor design in the United States, let alone a technical executive. Your professional ability is admirable."

  Chen Zongjian is not good at talking, and he is also introverted. Xia Jingxing’s enthusiasm makes him a little at a loss.

  Fortunately, senior brother Lu Qi relieved him: "Dai Lun, Zong Jian prefers research work, so people are quieter. Don't be surprised."

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "How come, I like dealing with semiconductor experts the most, practical, sincere, and frank."

   "I heard that PASemi was acquired by Wisdom Fruit more than a month ago. Has Brother Chen joined Wisdom Fruit?"

  Chen Zongjian squeezed a smile at Xia Jingxing, "No, I am planning to sign an employment agreement recently."

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "I heard that the exchange price of Wisdom Fruit is not so kind. Brother Chen, as the entrepreneurs of PASemi, I am afraid that you will suffer a lot of losses."

  Chen Zongjian's expression was a little unnatural, because Xia Jingxing was poked by his sadness.

  The reason why a group of their entrepreneurial backbones dragged their hands on not signing the entry agreement, because they wanted to negotiate with Wisdom Fruit to discuss the entry conditions that would be beneficial to them.

  Especially Duo Popper, the CEO of the company who is also a teacher and friend of him, the old man has been engaged in semiconductors for nearly 40 years, and he is regarded as a Taishan Beidou-level figure in the US semiconductor industry.

  The old man resented Wisdom Fruit very much, and felt that the other party had used dirty means to embezzle his company.

  However, the shareholders insist on selling, and the old man, as a founder and CEO with a small shareholding, is helpless.

  But the old man still wants to create some good salary for the little brothers who have been following his own business for many years, so recently he has been leading them to talk about wisdom fruit.

   Xia Jingxing observed his words and looks, and found that Chen Zongjian's face was indeed dissatisfied.

  If you are dissatisfied with Wisdom Fruit, it will be easier! I will double the price!

  Xia Jingxing looked at Lu Qi, who blinked at him lightly.

  It seemed that Lu Qi understood what he meant. They couldn't let go of any opportunity that could weaken Wisdom Fruit and strengthen themselves.

  Xia Jingxing looked at Yang Zhiyuan again, who was talking with Wu Enda and Li Feifei at the moment.

   Seeing Xia Jingxing's gaze swept over, Yang Zhiyuan nodded imperceptibly.

   Seeing this, Xia Jingxing chuckles, Lao Yang is another HR who he hates, and he understands his mission very well.

  Wu and Li, Fuxing Industry is definitely going to win, and it must not be given to Google, because it is an act of adversary.

   chatted for a while, Xia Jingxing excused something and walked away with wine.

   Lin Bing, Zhou Guangping, and Li Zexiang leaned close to him, and began to report their achievements.

   "I just chatted with Ms. Su Zifeng, she is now the chief technology officer of Freescale, and may not look down on our little temple."

   Lin Bing spread out his hands, his tone was quite lost.

  Xia Jingxing looked openly and smiled faintly, “Just forget it if you don’t come, and our platform may not be suitable for her.”

  Zhou Guangping went on to report: “I just met Dai Weili, the younger sister of the Dai’s three brothers and sisters, and she wants to cooperate with us to become a chip design supplier for Fuxing Mobile.”

  Xia Jingxing's face was a little bit wrong, but he quickly figured out the key.

  Dai’s three brothers and sisters are well-known in the industry. All three brothers and sisters graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Big brother Dai Weimin founded Strategy Technology in 1995, and later sold the company to Cadence, one of the three EDA software giants, for US$135 million. In 2001, he returned to China and founded VeriSilicon shares in Magic City. The entrepreneurial direction is chips. IP, which can be regarded as filling the domestic technological gap, later became the first domestic chip IP;

The company founded by the second brother Dai Weijin was first acquired by Kadden Electronics at a price of 500 million US dollars. In 2007, he chose to start a second venture and founded the GPUIP enterprise graphics core, mainly for image processor IP licensing. The previous Hisilicon launched The quad-core architecture processor "K3V2" uses Vivante's GPUIP. In the future, this company will be acquired by VeriSilicon;

  The third sister Dai Weili and her Indonesian husband Zhou Xiuwen founded Marvell in 1995. They were listed on the Nasdaq in 2000. They are mainly engaged in memory chip design, and their market value has reached 60 to 70 billion US dollars.

  According to statistics, the three brothers and sisters have built a total of 6 chip companies, of which two have been listed, three have been acquired, and one is under development. The high success rate is simply outrageous.

Zhou Guangping continued: “Meiman Electronics started by designing memory chips, and once occupied 60% of the global market share at its peak. In recent years, they have taken a fancy to processor chips and have now signed a contract to become a chip design partner of China Mobile’s OMS program. "

   "OMS?" Xia Jingxing asked.

   "Yes, it's the one you talked to Mobile before, Mr. Xia. I heard that both Conscience Mobile and Hisense Mobile are interested in joining the OMS project."

  Xia Jingxing smiled faintly, a skin-changing operating system, sooner or later it will be cold, but Meiman Electronics can take this opportunity to enter the Chinese market.

  He meditated in his mind that if Fuxing Semiconductor can successfully acquire the industries of the three Dai brothers and sisters, it can fill many of its shortcomings and greatly shorten the development time.

   "Where is she?"

  Zhou Guangping replied: "Go away, she thinks you are too busy, and said to visit you another day."

  Xia Jingxing nodded slightly, Fuxing Mobile wants to fight Wisdom Fruit, maybe it will have to rely on the power of this company.

  Li Zexianghui reported: “I have a chat with Mr. Yang Peidong, a lifelong professor of chemistry at Berkeley. He is a top expert in nanomaterials, but our company does not involve materials, so it is difficult to recruit him.”

This person is a top man in the field of nanomaterials, and Xia Jingxing's spirit suddenly lifted, "Why don't we involve materials? He is an expert in nanowire solar cells, right? We have an energy business group in Fuxing Industry, which is quite professional. ."

  Li Zexiang laughed, “The key is that we cannot provide a top-level scientific research environment. Some scientists value this very seriously and want to get the Nobel Prize.”

  Xia Jingxing is silent, because the Fuxing Industry Group is indeed inferior to the scientific research environment provided by the University of California, Berkeley.

But Yang Peidong is indeed a very powerful scientist. The "artificial photosynthesis system" he led is very helpful even for human migration to Mars. This technology can use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and acetate, simulating the living environment of the earth. .

  Even if interstellar migration is not possible, this technology can help solve the problems of energy shortages and carbon dioxide emissions leading to global warming on the earth, which is very valuable.

   "But his staying in an American university is not necessarily a good thing in the long run."

  Xia Jingxing remembered something. Charles Li Bo, a doctoral supervisor of Yang Peidong in the past, a foreign academician of Rabbit, and the world’s top nanomaterials scientist, was arrested and sentenced by Eagle Sauce for helping Rabbit University with scientific research.

  In order to suppress the rabbits, Yingjiang has become so frantic that even his own citizens and academics have to do it.

  This incident frightened all Eagle Sauce scientists, and it is estimated that they would not dare to cooperate with rabbits casually.

  Professor Li Bo unfortunately became the chicken that killed the chicken and the monkey.

  As a disciple of Li Bo, Yang Peidong is also a Chinese. He also returned to China to work at the Magic University of Science and Technology. Maybe he will follow in the footsteps of his teacher in the future.

  Li Zexiang did not understand Xia Jingxing’s words, and thought that the boss meant that Chinese scientists would be suppressed if they stayed in the United States.

  He smiled and said: “A choice made by an individual has to bear the consequences, and neither good nor bad has nothing to do with others.”

  If it were not for the serious lack of top scientists in the Fuxing Industry Group, Xia Jingxing would not bother to care about other people's road choices.

  Now he still hopes to absorb as many Chinese scientists in Silicon Valley as possible, even if the other party is not willing to return to China, as long as he can join the Silicon Valley laboratory of Renaissance Industry, he can extract a certain amount of value.

  (End of this chapter)