Rewrite the Technological Landscape

At noon, I had dinner with the leaders of the School of Computer Science. In the afternoon, Meng Qian went to find Ji Kai. Then the two chatted about the development of their own lithography machines while waiting for news from TSMC.

At 2:30 in the afternoon, Jiang Jianming, Ji Kai's junior, who also attended the public lecture at TSMC on behalf of Shanghai Microelectronics, sorted out the situation at TSMC and passed it on.

Both Meng Qian and Ji Kai patiently read the content first, and then Meng Qian consulted Ji Kai for his opinion.

"Basically, it can be judged from the content disclosed today that Lin Benjian's views on the wet process are still at the theoretical level, and what he means now is to find a partner to verify his theories."

"But judging from the way he speaks, it feels very certain."

Ji Kai was a little self-deprecating, "Everyone who engages in theories is like this. This is our confidence in ourselves. If we don't believe in our own theories, who will take the effort to verify our theories?"

Regarding this topic, Meng Qian laughed it off, "What do you think of Mr. Ji's theory?"

There are many professional things Meng Qian can't understand at all, so he can only ask Ji Kai, "Basically, it is consistent with our research direction, but some details are not as deep as our research. Fortunately, we started earlier. When Lin Benjian comes back, we can have a good chat."

Speaking of this, Meng Qian couldn't help shaking his head, "Does Teacher Ji really think that Lin Benjian will come?"

Ji Kai was puzzled, "Didn't Jianming say that Lin Benjian will come to Shanghai Microelectronics Division in a while?"

Meng Qian pointed to the document, "According to Teacher Jiang's feedback, he mentioned to Lin Benjian about our Shanghai Microelectronics Department. He also said that he was very interested in the products, and told him that I would visit him, but he even took the initiative to say that he came to visit us.

But when to visit? Wait for his notification in a while. Mr. Ji seldom touches business matters and may not understand well. The most fearful thing about doing business is to say everything well, and then talk about the key points and then talk about it another day or let me think about it. "

"I understand, just go out to buy clothes with us. If you really like it, you will always counter the price. If you don't like it, I will say whatever the boss offers is good."

"Yeah, we didn't have any contact with TSMC before, so why did he have such a good impression of us? All the company's achievements in the past two years have been in software, and the previous experiments were carried out in secret. He boasted too much. Bar?"

"So he was just being polite on the surface, just perfunctory us."

"Well, I'm guessing this way now. It's not good to make the most basic face ugly by opening the door for business. But thinking about it carefully, from the past performance, Lin Benjian is a capable and ambitious person. Since his theory Teacher Ji agrees so much, then he will definitely try his best to sell his theory to the industry leader."

"Nikon." Ji Kai blurted out, "Then what should we do next? If it is what you think, it is basically impossible to cooperate with TSMC."

"Fortunately, Mr. Ji is here, let us take a step ahead, and you can keep everything as usual. I have prepared for the worst from the beginning, and I will deal with this matter. TSMC's own family, I am afraid that this One time is really unreliable."

"Okay." Meng Qian's performance along the way has long made Ji Kai and others habitually trust him. He said he had plans, and Ji Kai believed that he could handle things well.

For the next period of time, Meng Qian basically didn't travel far anymore, and stayed in the company all the time, shifting the focus of his work to the development of the database and the research of another technology. By the way, he met many people in the next few days. The owner of a domestic veteran software company of Dafeng Group.

After the high-priced contract between Dafeng Group and Daiwa House Industry was hammered out, more details were gradually exposed, such as the various concepts and technologies brought by Meng Qian in advance.

In view of Meng Qian's good reputation in the market, although many domestic software companies are in competition, they still come to Dafeng Group to ask Meng Qian for advice for the development of the company.

Of course, what Meng Qian wants is the common development of enterprises across the country, and he is naturally happy to give some advice. Meng Qian has no reservations about many ideas, but for some technologies, Meng Qian has appropriately charged licensing fees. Nothing is free.

Moreover, during this period of time, the company also acquired some software companies. Although the scale was not large, it also strengthened the company's team again.

As for the big companies, Meng Qian didn't touch their shares. The main Dafeng Group has a very important place to spend this year, and Meng Qian can't spend the money casually now.

In addition, not long after returning to China this time, He Yating got a formal contract. Generally speaking, Meng Qian was satisfied with her performance in the past three months, because she did not regard herself as a handyman. Learn to manage, learn to socialize.

The most important thing is that she has done what a secretary in Meng Qian's heart should do most. She is gradually learning to think from the boss's point of view.

For Meng Qian, the secretary is not here to do chores such as serving tea and pouring water, but to help him deal with some "challenges" in business conduct. For example, some people insist on seeing Meng Qian, but Meng Qian does not want to see him. At this time, he didn't want the secretary to come to ask him what to do, so that he had to allocate energy to deal with this kind of thing every day, but directly helped him solve the problem.

And to do this, the secretary must know the mind of the boss and have the courage to take the initiative to take responsibility.

Meng Qian was never afraid of employees making mistakes, but he was afraid that employees would not even have the courage to make mistakes. On this point, He Yating still made Meng Qian very satisfied.

The time to devote yourself to work always passes quickly, and it is mid-April in a blink of an eye. On the Saturday of April 20th, Meng Qian and Ding Mingyuan were staring at the database development in the company as usual. At one o'clock in the afternoon, He Yating came to the commercial software development Department, "Mr. Meng."

"What's wrong?"

"They're back."

"Okay." Meng Qian got up and took Ding Mingyuan out to greet him.

Today is the day when the industrial software team who stayed at Sony returned to China for docking work. They will stay in China for a week and then continue to work at Sony.

Of course, Meng Qian would spend a day or two working with them to complete the work, and the rest of the day would be considered a holiday for them, after all, he hadn't returned to China for so long.

Seeing Meng Qian go out to greet them in person, everyone was still very warm in their hearts. After entering the company, Meng Qian asked them to go back to the industrial software department to chat with their old colleagues for a while, and it took an hour before calling them into the conference room to report on their work.

Judging from the results of the report, industrial software has become increasingly mature. The company's industrial software has been used in actual combat on Sony's mid-range products and has delivered a perfect answer.

Moreover, Sony is indeed quite generous, providing a large amount of data for the company's industrial software. This thing cannot be bought with money, and it is also a threshold for the development of industrial software.

The overall response was good, and a stone in Meng Qian's heart was relieved. At this time, he called people from the system development department into the conference room.

After everyone sat down, Meng Qian habitually tapped on the blackboard to attract everyone's attention, "The company's industrial software has been developed for a while, and now it has finally gained something. Similarly, the system development department has also worked hard for a long time. Whether it is experience, ability, or teamwork, there has been a significant improvement.

Now that everything is ready, starting today, the company will start a new product development. "

Meng Qian wrote on the blackboard: CMOS image sensor.

"Anyone who knows this thing raises his hand."

Almost half of the people raised their hands, of course, everyone who came back from Sony raised their hands.

"Do you know who is the leading company in CMOS image sensors?"

"Is it Sony?" Someone in the team just returned from Sony whispered.

"I guess not." The other person was also not very sure.

Seeing that everyone really doesn’t know much about this, Meng Qian gave the answer directly, “It’s Micron Technology, which just acquired Photobit last November.”

The leading CMOS image sensor company of later generations is indeed Sony, but it was not Sony at this moment in 2002.

"Although the leading company is not Sony, just like you will consider Sony just now, it is because Sony is indeed determined to compete for the position of the leading company in this field, and in the era of CCD image sensors, Sony has already started research on CMOS image sensors.

This is one of the reasons why I started this project. We don't have the ability to develop hardware yet, but Sony does. And Sony just wants to grab the leadership in this market, so if we can push Sony at this time, we can not only continue to consolidate our relationship with Sony, but also help our product promotion and product status in the future.

So you should guess what I want to do, right? "

As a result, everyone was still silent, and Meng Qian was helpless. It seems that everyone is really unfamiliar with this thing in this era, so he had to give the answer again: a new CMOS image sensor chip architecture design.