Chapter 145: A Lean Camel is Still Bigger Than a Horse

Sirius, also known as the Po Jun star, the seventh star of the Big Dipper, has been synonymous with slaughter and war since ancient times!

Hearing Li Dongling name Dongxin Semiconductor's first chip "Sirius," Ni Guangnan, Liu Youguo, and Tan Minghua all immediately guessed Li Dongling's intentions; it was clearly a war aimed at companies like Ximen and Toshiba.

"With the Sirius chip, the Shenzhou telephone won't have to be controlled by Toshiba anymore in the future. The chances of winning the war against Ximen and other digital cordless telephone brands have also increased by a few points!"

Li Dongling said to Ni Guangnan. Now he truly realized what it meant to have an old person in the family as a treasure. When he first joined Dongxin Semiconductor, Ni Guangnan had patted his chest, indicating that developing a chip for the Shenzhou telephone would be a greeting gift for joining Dongxin Semiconductor, and also to prove that he wasn't old yet!

Now Ni Guangnan led the R&D team to prove all of this. Being able to develop the Sirius chip with a newly formed team in such a short time was enough to prove Ni Guangnan's experience in chip R&D and his ability to lead an R&D team.

However, being able to do all this was not easy. Li Dongling heard from people at Dongxin Semiconductor that Ni Guangnan basically spent his days in the laboratory, working even harder than a bunch of young people. One could tell just by looking at his thin physique.

"As long as it can help the Shenzhou telephone, it finally proves that I haven't reached the point of being toothless and eating for free!" Ni Guangnan laughed at himself.

Hearing this, Li Dongling knew that the resentment from Lenovo had not yet dissipated for Ni Guangnan. He had poured all his heart and soul into that place, only to end up with the notoriety of being mocked for doing useless work and delaying Lenovo's development. Ni Guangnan had never swallowed this resentment.

"Starting with the Sirius chip, everyone will know of your contributions in the field of domestic chips, Academician Ni!" Hearing Ni Guangnan's self-deprecation, Li Dongling comforted him.

Hearing this, Ni Guangnan, Liu Youguo, and Tan Minghua couldn't help but look at Li Dongling, not knowing what he was going to do.

"The Sirius chip is not only to be supplied to the Shenzhou telephone, but also to other domestic telephone brand companies. This will be the first chip Dongxin Semiconductor supplies to domestic and global telephone manufacturers!"

Li Dongling said. The country was becoming the world's largest producer of landline telephones, but the chips were all imported. A large portion of the profit from producing a landline telephone was taken away by chip companies like Toshiba, NEC, and Panasonic.

The Sirius chip would be the first shot fired by Dongxin Semiconductor in the chip field. Previously, Toshiba had used chips to hold the Shenzhou telephone hostage, raising prices multiple times in a row. This time, Li Dongling was prepared to send Toshiba a big gift, driving it out of the telephone chip field completely!

Ni Guangnan and Liu Youguo were both a bit stunned hearing Li Dongling's words; they hadn't expected Li Dongling to be prepared to play such a big game.

"All R&D personnel involved in the Sirius chip, in addition to this year's bonus, will each receive an additional reward of 30,000 yuan. In addition, Dongxin Semiconductor will build employee housing in the provincial capital. Sirius project R&D personnel can have priority in obtaining housing application qualifications!"

Li Dongling said to the group of R&D personnel in the chip department. Hearing Li Dongling's words, the group of R&D personnel in the chip department, even the technical personnel who were usually not good with words, couldn't help but burst into a cheer.

Ni Guangnan was now fighting for his beliefs and the resentment in his heart. He might not care too much about material conditions now, but the technical personnel in the chip department couldn't possibly not care. They had to support their families, with old people above and children below; it was exactly the time when they needed money. Li Dongling couldn't just draw a pie without giving them meat to eat; even if he could fool them for a while, he couldn't fool them for a lifetime.

If the money earned from the profession they were engaged in couldn't even fill their family's stomachs, then even if they loved a certain industry, it absolutely wouldn't last long.

Ni Guangnan watched this scene, feeling deeply moved. Comparing Dongxin Semiconductor with his former employer in their attitude toward technical personnel, it was simply a world of difference.

Ni Guangnan heard that over at Lenovo, the program-controlled switch project had been completely disbanded, and the technical personnel had all run away, with quite a few being poached by the "Chrysanthemum Factory." Just last month, he heard the news that the Chrysanthemum Factory, relying on the program-controlled switch project, had received 800 million yuan in orders in just half a year!

The group came to the office next to the laboratory. Coughing, Ni Guangnan said to Li Dongling, "The Sirius chip still needs to be continuously developed, optimized, and upgraded. Dongling Gao Ke always has new chip development tasks. I am truly too busy by myself. I think Dongxin Semiconductor should invite a few more people from the chip industry to join!"

"Academician Ni has suitable candidates?!"

Li Dongling asked with a smile. Li Dongling naturally understood the reason for the dissatisfaction and helplessness in Ni Guangnan's tone. Ni Guangnan was dedicated to researching and developing computer chips, but had always been entangled by other chip projects. Being able to start chip R&D was naturally accompanied by a hint of annoyance.

"There are a few candidates. Inviting them over might take some time and effort. The main suitable candidate currently is Huang Lingyi from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as some other R&D personnel!"

Ni Guangnan said to Li Dongling with a hint of expectation. Now, most of the top domestic talent was at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, or had worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After all, only the top talent had the opportunity to enter that place.

Hearing Ni Guangnan mention the name Huang Lingyi, Li Dongling was also a bit surprised. He hadn't expected Ni Guangnan to want to poach her to Dongxin Semiconductor.

Huang Lingyi's great name was absolutely thunderous in the chip industry in his previous life. The first domestic general-purpose chip was researched and developed by the team she led, giving the domestic computer industry its first domestic chip!

Regardless of whether that computer chip was advanced or backward, it was still that saying: having something was like a mushroom bomb; it didn't lie in whether the power was great or not, but in whether it existed!

"No problem. If Academician Ni can recruit Professor Huang and other personnel for Dongxin Semiconductor, there is absolutely no need to worry about the treatment!"

Li Dongling said directly. With Ni Guangnan plus Huang Lingyi, Dongxin Semiconductor would have two more pillars. In the future, if Dongxin Semiconductor could recruit more bigwigs like Deng Zhonghan, then in the future, Dongxin Semiconductor wouldn't need to worry too much for at least ten years, not to mention challenging chip giants like Toshiba, NEC, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

Hearing this, Ni Guangnan breathed a sigh of relief. If Huang Lingyi could join Dongxin Semiconductor, it would reduce a large part of his burden, and he could officially start computer chip R&D.

Researching and developing computer chips was completely different from researching and developing the Sirius chip. That was completely the pearl of the modern scientific research field. Without three or five years of work, it was impossible to achieve results. Ni Guangnan couldn't help but be anxious.

Li Dongling thought for a moment and said, "In addition to recruiting technical personnel like Professor Huang, I am prepared to recruit a portion of scientific research personnel and top mathematical personnel from the 'Old Maozi' side to provide support for Dongling Gao Ke and Dongxin Semiconductor!"

Ni Guangnan and Liu Youguo, hearing this, couldn't help but look at Li Dongling curiously, not knowing why Li Dongling thought of poaching people from the Old Maozi side.

The "Mao Xiong" had collapsed three years ago, shocking the whole world. The country was also greatly shocked. To a certain extent, the situation of the domestic tech industry now was also closely related to the collapse of the Mao Xiong.

Don't you see, the Mao Xiong, which had pressed the "Rabbit" until it couldn't breathe, had also been collapsed by the "Eagle Sauce." This deeply stimulated the nerves of countless people, even producing the feeling that the Eagle Sauce was invincible. After all, the Mao Xiong was so powerful and yet was played to death.

This led to the domestic tech industry crazily chasing and worshiping the American side, with everything being based on American products as the standard, and taking pride in using their technology and products. As for the Old Maozi who appeared after the collapse of the Mao Xiong, it became a place for "speculators" to revel. Domestically, besides still coveting the weapons left over from the Mao Xiong era, the rest of the culture, academics, and technology were being rapidly abandoned by the country, and were not looked upon at all.

Now, Li Dongling actually mentioned poaching people from the Old Maozi side, which naturally made Ni Guangnan and the others curious.

"The Mao Xiong has collapsed, but the Old Maozi inherited quite a few technical personnel left behind by the Mao Xiong. The mathematical talent on the Old Maozi side is still world-class. Recruiting them over will be of great benefit to Dongxin Semiconductor's R&D!"

"A lean camel is still bigger than a horse." This saying wasn't said randomly. After the collapse of the Mao Xiong, the legacy left behind was something the Old Maozi used for decades. Besides the visible weapons, resources, etc., the most important thing was the massive basic education.

Even decades later, in that state, the Old Maozi's mathematical talent was still looking down on the world, and they were famous for having many mathematical and software talents. Of course, they also produced many hackers.

Li Dongling remembered that in his previous life, when the Old Maozi were in the internet era and had already reached a corner, the Chrysanthemum Factory still set up an R&D center there to recruit Old Maozi technical talent. Quite a few domestic companies, like R&D teams for artificial intelligence, voice intelligence, language recognition, etc., all outsourced optimization work to teams on the Old Maozi side.

The reason for this was that the price there was cheap, and the second point was that the Old Maozi had many mathematical talents and were good at "grinding." Like in the field of voice recognition, products made by general companies in his previous life generally needed four or five seconds of recognition time, but after optimization by the Old Maozi technical team, it was shortened to one second, and the accuracy was also improved by a notch. Being able to do this relied entirely on mathematical logic to optimize programming.

"I didn't expect that one day we would be able to let the Old Maozi work for us!"

Liu Youguo couldn't help but laugh. Both he and Ni Guangnan knew the importance of mathematical talent in scientific research. Having an Old Maozi team to help out, the R&D speed could indeed be a few points faster.

Another thing was the psychological advantage. For the past few decades, the Mao Xiong had been the "Big Brother," and now the Big Brother had to be the "Little Brother." It truly fulfilled that saying: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river..."

"General Li Zong, there is one more thing I would like to ask for your help with!" Bringing this up, Ni Guangnan was slightly awkward and a bit embarrassed.

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