Chapter 163: Three Chapters of Agreement

"Professor Anatoly!"

Li Dongling also shook hands with Anatoly and the others one by one, including the technical personnel who followed Huang Lingyi from Yanjing, and all felt like a spring breeze.

"Are you used to it here?!"

Standing in the crowd, Liudmila suddenly heard Li Dongling's gentle voice, which made him stunned for a moment. This was like the oligarchs who covered the sky with one hand on the old Maozi side showing this kind of attitude of respecting the wise and lowering himself to the scholars, which instantly made Liudmila somewhat at a loss.

"I heard that you are a genius in multi-layer structure program design. Before, there was a Silicon Valley company that wanted to invite you over, but you weren't willing to go!"

Being brought up by Li Dongling about this matter, Liudmila had a hint of embarrassment on his face. Before, he encountered an entry invitation from a self-proclaimed Silicon Valley software company, which made Liudmila excited.

But the other party claimed that before hiring him, they needed to assess Tademila by having him optimize a piece of software. Tademila worked day and night for nearly a day to complete the optimization, but then... naturally, there was no "then." The other party had essentially scammed him for free labor; not a single cent of salary was paid, and there was no chance of being hired at all.

This kind of thing was not rare. It wasn't just Tademila; other geniuses from the old Mao Xiong region had frequently encountered such situations. Since both sides were in completely unequal positions, many companies in America and Western Europe treated that region as a source of free labor, throwing them away after getting what they wanted for free!

"Dongxin Semiconductor needs you. Very happy you could come!"

Li Dongling put his hand on Liudmila's shoulder, "I believe that in the future, more people will hear your name, Liudmila, and know that a structural program genius has joined Dongxin Semiconductor!"

Listening to Li Dongling's words, Liudmila felt half of his body was numb. These years on the old Maozi side, they no longer valued technology, engineers, etc. People like Liudmila in the academic industry fundamentally had no status in the old Maozi.

And in the East, in Dongxin Semiconductor, Liudmila received the attention of Li Dongling, the founder of a tech company who was much stronger than that group of old Maozi oligarchs who called the wind and summoned the rain, making him unable to help but give birth to the feeling of "a scholar dies for his confidant"!

Not just Liudmila, his mentor Anatoly beside him was also not much better. In reality, these people in the academic circle, like Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi, all wanted to get recognition and get a platform to display their ambitions, and Dongxin Semiconductor now gave them...

Patting Liudmila's shoulder, Li Dongling walked into the conference room. He said these words to Liudmila—did he really expect Liudmila to be a top genius? He definitely didn't expect it, but this kind of poisonous chicken soup didn't cost money, so what if he fed him some?

Liudmila graduated from Moscow State University, equivalent to domestic top universities like Tsinghua and Peking University. How much was the salary Dongxin Semiconductor gave him? 2,000 RMB, converted to US dollars, 240-plus US dollars!

It sounded like it wasn't cheap, but one had to know that Moscow University was the best university in the old Maozi. Converted to domestic, how many top students who graduated from Tsinghua, Peking, and Fudan were willing to join private enterprises now? Even if they were willing to join, most were joining foreign enterprises. How many were willing to take a salary of 2,000 yuan and bury their heads to do dirty and tiring work for Dongxin Semiconductor?!

But Liudmila could do it. As long as a typical example was set up and then promoted, in the future, he could dig more graduate students, doctors, and professors from Moscow University, St. Petersburg University, Novosibirsk University, and Peoples' Friendship University of Russia to work for Dongling High-Tech.

It wasn't that he couldn't afford Tsinghua and Peking University students, but the top students from Moscow University were more cost-effective. If operated properly in the future, it could form an industry chain, letting those old Maozi top university graduates all take pride in entering Dongling High-Tech and treat it as a winner in life. Then those universities on the old Maozi side would become Dongling High-Tech's talent pool...

Of course, doing this definitely wasn't easy. That group of old Maozi elites, even if they had suffered countless losses, still had their hearts toward Europe and America, being abused thousands of times, but still holding fantasies toward that side. Compared to giant companies in Europe and America, Dongling High-Tech's attraction to old Maozi people was a few points worse.

But human effort can achieve anything. Digging as many corners as possible was better than digging none at all. At least for the next four or five years, the old Maozi side would still fall into continuous turmoil, which was the best time to dig people.

A thin camel is bigger than a horse. The old Maozi, which inherited the old Maozi's family background, was still a strong country. If he could make the academic and R&D personnel of the old Maozi heart-oriented toward Dongling High-Tech and let the old Maozi cultivate talents for Dongling High-Tech, it would definitely be a huge profit!

After entering the conference room, Li Dongling said to the group of people in the conference room, "Shenzhou Phone being able to defeat Siemens in America, Dongxin Semiconductor and Academician Ni's R&D team have made indelible contributions!"

The conference room rang with a burst of applause. A smile also appeared on Ni Guangnan's face. This time, the Sirius chip resounded throughout the domestic tech industry. CCTV and many large media outlets had reports, and even overseas media had reports. Ni Guangnan had already equivalent to proving himself again.

"The Sirius chip, the chip carried by the Shenzhou series of phones, plus the commercial version of the chip launched in the second half of the year, will become the first chip project of Dongxin Semiconductor to achieve profitability. It is expected that the total revenue of the Sirius chip this year will break through the $100 million mark!"

After Li Dongling sat down, the first to speak was Dongxin Semiconductor General Manager Wu Xinyi. He was from Huajing Semiconductor. Although Huajing, one of the two major semiconductor companies in the country now, was somewhat lagging in the semiconductor industry, it was the Whampoa Military Academy of the domestic semiconductor industry and did indeed cultivate a large batch of talents.

In the future, domestic famous semiconductor companies like SMIC, Huahong, and JCET all had a large batch of supervisors from Huajing.

Wu Xinyi had also mixed in the semiconductor industry for many years and was an old gun in the industry. He participated in the establishment of Huajing's 1,000-nanometer production line and had dealt with domestic semiconductor companies and overseas companies, having very rich experience. He was dug over by Dongxin Semiconductor.

Ni Guangnan was the facade of Dongxin Semiconductor, but the person truly managing Dongxin Semiconductor was Wu Xinyi. As the person in charge of Dongxin Semiconductor on the surface, the first project launched, the Sirius chip, could make a profit, which was enough for Wu Xinyi to become a "famous commander" in the domestic chip industry.

That the Sirius chip made money was a certain thing. Everyone in the conference room was clear about this point. With Dongling High-Tech, this parent company, as long as the Sirius chip performance wasn't too lagging, Dongling High-Tech would purchase it.

Li Dongling nodded upon hearing this and didn't have too many expressions, because this revenue of Sirius was all contributed by Shenzhou Phone. The key was to see how many of the sold version of Sirius could be sold.

"The Sirius chip needs to continue to be optimized. Companies like Toshiba and Infineon are all developing new phone chips. The functions of the Sirius chip also need to be constantly upgraded. In addition..."

"The commercial external version of the Sirius chip also needs to be developed as soon as possible. The cost must be controlled well. This is related to how many phone chip orders Dongxin Semiconductor can snatch!"

Li Dongling said to Wu Xinyi, Ni Guangnan, and the others. The so-called external version of the Sirius chip was to adjust a part of the functions in performance compared to the chip carried by Shenzhou Phone, or focus on certain functions, and then the price must be absolutely lower than the phone chips of companies like Toshiba and Infineon, and even lower by a large chunk, so that it could be sold.

As a new player in the chip industry, Dongxin Semiconductor wanted to fight with those old-brand semiconductor manufacturers. What it could rely on was only the price advantage to snatch orders!

"The Sirius chip is just the first step for Dongxin Semiconductor. Dongxin Semiconductor still has a long way to go to survive. This year, the revenue of Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, broke through $22.7 billion. Dongxin Semiconductor has just started!"

"In the second half of this year, Dongxin Semiconductor still has multiple projects that need R&D..."

Hearing Li Dongling's words, Ni Guangnan suddenly felt a headache and couldn't help but stroke his face with his hand. He could hear what Li Dongling meant by this, which was to develop projects other than computer chips.

No matter how Ni Guangnan and the others thought, Li Dongling couldn't disrupt Dongxin Semiconductor's rhythm. With survival as the goal, rather than desperately, he had to die-hard on computer chips, die-hard on Intel, etc. Dongxin Semiconductor's body was too small. Intel could make mistakes 100 times, but if Dongxin Semiconductor made a mistake once, it would all be washed away.

"Silver Mink's new generation optical mouse, as well as Little PHS mobile phones, all need chips. I hope Dongxin Semiconductor can successfully develop the chips for these two projects as soon as possible!"

Li Dongling said to the group of people in the conference room, "Of course, just like the Sirius chip, as long as the Silver Mink optical mouse chip and Little PHS mobile phone chip are successfully developed, Dongling High-Tech will invest more funds, which can be used for the R&D of other projects!"

"Li Zong is willing to develop computer chips?!"

Just as Li Dongling finished speaking, Huang Lingyi, who had just joined Dongxin Semiconductor, asked directly. Ni Guangnan also instantly got spirit.

Dongxin Semiconductor's person in charge, Wu Xinyi, had a worried look on his face. Mouse chips, mobile phone chips—compared to computer chips, they were completely incomparable. The funds that needed to be invested every year for the latter were calculated in the hundreds of millions.

As the person in charge of Dongxin Semiconductor and having immersed in the chip industry for many years, Wu Xinyi wasn't a greenhorn. His head heated up, he patted his forehead, and rushed in to develop something.

Now Dongxin Semiconductor had too many places to spend money. The Sirius chip was finally successfully developed with great difficulty and started to earn some money, but one had to know that on the top floor of Dongxin Semiconductor, there was still this lithography machine, this gold-swallowing beast. Coming with another computer chip project, Wu Xinyi felt his head was big.

Under the focused gazes of Ni Guangnan, Huang Lingyi, Wu Xinyi, Anatoly, and others, Li Dongling still slowly nodded. This made Wu Xinyi feel helpless, while Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi were excited in their hearts!

"Computer chips can be developed, but I hope I can make a 'three-chapter agreement' with Academician Ni and Professor Huang!"

"You say!"

Just as Li Dongling finished speaking, Ni Guangnan couldn't help but say. As long as Li Dongling was willing to support the development of computer chips and was willing to invest funds, let alone three chapters, even if there were more, he was willing to agree.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 164 =====