Chapter 323： [The "brain" of modern industrial equipment]

In Pengcheng, in an apartment building, three or five men were sitting in a room in a piecemeal manner.

Li Haidong, a 30-year-old returnee, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for three months at Synopsys. Everything was fine, but he finally took the brain and chose to return home. At that time, many of his classmates or in the United States All his friends advised him to stay in the United States and got his green card.

But Li Donghai returned the green card to the United States and chose to return to China to start a business.

Now his situation is an entrepreneur. He returned to China and found a few friends to discuss partnerships.

"In Homer's epic" Iliad, "the ancient Greek **** of war Achilles was impenetrable and dominated Greece with a half-man and a half-god. But he had a fatal weakness: he was flimsy because he was the only He didn't soak in Shenshui. In the end, he also lost his life in the Trojan War because of this weakness. "

Li Haidong talked to several partners about this western legend, and after a moment he said eloquently: "In the long river of history, the Achilles' heel has also become a cautionary motto of people: Always beware of yourself Weaknesses. Nowadays, industrial software has become the Achilles heel of the development of China's manufacturing industry. This is definitely not a joke or an exaggeration. "

At this moment, Li Haidong and several of his friends and partners have decided to co-found a technology company. The name of the company is "Jingchuang Technology", which means "keep improving and innovating". There is no doubt Their startup company can tell from Li Haidong's recent remarks that they are in that field.

Obviously belongs to the field of industrial software.

"What specific fields? There are many categories of industrial software, industrial design software, mechanical and product design software, processing programming software, simulation analysis software, etc ..."

After hearing the inquiry from one of his friends, Li Haidong said without hesitation: "Of course our startup company does EDA software!"

Another friend nodded: "Also, you just gave up the high salary of the new Cisco and chose to come back to start a business. You are doing EDA."

The so-called industrial software is software that is dedicated or mainly used in the industrial field to improve the level of R & D, manufacturing, production management and industrial management performance of industrial enterprises. This is the "brain" of modern industrial equipment, showing the importance of industrial software.

For example, various EDA software in the chip industry chain, CAD software in the field of mechanical design, and so on.

With the rise of computers, EDA vendors have sprung up. After more than 20 years of mergers and acquisitions, EDA field currently has only Synopsy, Kaiden Electronics (CE) and Mentor International (Mentor). Of these three giants, three of them currently occupy more than 90% of the EDA software market.

The real terrible problem is that the current contribution of domestic EDA tools in the entire chip design process is almost zero, which can be said to be annihilated.

For system manufacturers, if the chip is a bullet and food, then the chip EDA tool is a tool for making bullets and processing food. The market may not be large, but it is a terrible thing. In the semiconductor industry and lithography machines, The status is not to be overstated.

The current EDA company mainly sells EDA tools to downstream customers. Its source of income mainly depends on certificate authorization fees, just like the use of office software, antivirus software or other software requires registration of serial numbers.

However, this authorization certificate from EDA is quite expensive.

How expensive is it?

In 2008, Lansi Semiconductor spent US $ 24.8 million, or approximately 170 million yuan, to obtain a software certificate for Kaideng Electronics.

Today, we can still see the evaluation of the product of the AP processor division of Lansi Semiconductor on the official website of Kaideng Electronics: from a small payload of 3 million to the design of hundreds of millions of departments, we can simply and effectively ensure that System functions.

年初 In early 2009 of this year, another major industry giant Synopsys also reached EDA's premier strategic partnership with Lansi Semiconductor.

But if EDA is suspended, how much will it affect the current Lansi Semiconductor and even the French Riviera?

At present, Lansi Semiconductor's existing software is still available for use. If it is stopped, it will have two effects. The first is that there is no technical support. If there is a problem, you need to explore it yourself. The second is that there is no software in the future. The new version, the current semiconductor process evolution speed is extremely fast, almost a year and a half to two years, a generation difference, the emergence of the new generation of chips requires updated EDA software version.

Therefore, if Lansi Semiconductor's EDA tools are stopped, even IC design cannot be done, and it will certainly result in the inability to launch the next generation of smart phone products.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Americans are determined to put the Cote d'Azur to death, there are N ways to say.

也许 Maybe it is because of this that Laomei has such a fearless "pig raising". From an American perspective, there is no need to panic, EDA will be disabled if you stop offering.

EDA, are you done? How about the wafer purification card? The chip makes the card for you; what? Did this also break? Then click on the lithography machine ...

If any link is stuck, a chip cannot be successfully output.

From this we can see how tight the perimeter of the integrated circuit industry is, breaking through a large mountain, and there is a larger mountain waiting behind.

Finally, there is extreme darkness, facing the suppression of the world hegemony with the power of the country.

Huahua ’s semiconductor business has not been conquered for so long.

"I can pay 100,000 quick money."

"I have 150,000."

"I have 80,000."

"I can make 120,000."

At this moment, Li Haidong and several friends and partners are discussing the cause of innovating science and technology. Several people have put together less than 500,000 ...

"Not enough, you have to find a venture capital company to raise funds." Li Haidong said wryly.

"If the investor hears us say that we want to do EDA, I think we are neurotic ..." A partner laughed at himself with a smile.

Nowadays, domestic EDA industrial software is almost obliterated and no hope is seen. As long as investors are not fools or lunatics, it is generally impossible to smash money to the Li Haidong team.

"Hey, do you know that the most popular in the VC world during this time is also the recently established Shengfeng Capital?" Just when these aspiring young people were distressed because of the shyness in their pockets, one of them The partner suddenly said something.

"Shengfeng Capital?"

"Yes, that's the investment fund established by Luo Sheng." The partner nodded again and again and pouted, "It is indeed an idol in my heart. Shengfeng Capital is really exaggerated. According to the content of the news report, It has raised more than 300 billion yuan of capital. My God, 300 billion yuan, and it also has a background of the State-owned Assets Management Office and Wall Street. "

For those who want to start a business, they must understand the information of the investment community if they want to do a business. If they ca n’t get venture capital, then it is even more impossible to find a bank loan. The bank has no interest in small and medium-sized startups, especially It is a technology venture, and the risk is almost 99% of the loss. Generally, the bank has made your achievements. When you see that you are not short of money, you will come to the door to lend you money.

只要 As long as you know the news of the investment community, it is impossible to know that Shengfeng Capital, which has been in the investment community recently, is so influential.

"Then try it."

海 Li Haidong immediately made a decision ~ www.novelhall.com ~ He is the leading person in Jingchuang Technology, a startup company, and the company has largely referenced Luo Sheng's Bluestar Technology in the top-level design.

I used the limited partnership structure. Today's companies are playing the limited partnership structure. Although there were few before, they are now led by Luo Sheng.

Especially in the field of IT startups, there are countless followers.

However, none of the founders can be as powerful as Luo Sheng. It is enough to know that investors only need to pay for money with him. Don't worry about anything else, don't ask anything, don't think about anything.

Countless entrepreneurs dream about what they want to do, but they basically call their dad when facing investors.

海 Li Haidong and several partners immediately started to act. First, they visited the official website of Shengfeng Capital on the Internet, then found the consultation phone number, and then made a phone call.

It turned out that it didn't work at all, because at the same time, there were too many people calling.

I was out of luck, so I had to ask for customer service help on the official website, and found that the online customer service was also busy and needed to line up.

I tossed for more than half a day and finally figured it out, Shengfeng Capital is a capital management organization for science and technology investment, that is, a startup company focused on investing in the technology field.

都不 No other financial or real estate investment.

This makes Li Haidong and others very excited. This kind of venture capital organization is just the only one. No wonder the customer service phone will be blasted, and online customer service is also waiting in line for information.

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