Chapter 366 Offshore Incubation + Acceleration + Industrialization Strategy Provides Momentum
"Hello, Dr. Chen, do you know there is a company called ADI in the United States?" Li Xiaofan asked on the phone.
"Director Li, are you talking about AnalogDeviceInc.?"
"Yes, this is the company."
"Well, I know that when I used to work at National Semiconductor, this ADI company was once a competitor of my old employer. This ADI company focused on the production of operational amplifiers in the early days, and then expanded to other products including data converters. Linear IC, and later expanded to digital signal processing DSP products, providing analog and digital integration solutions for signal processing applications..."
"Dr. Chen, do you know the two founders of this company?"
"I don't know you, but I have old colleagues and Tsinghua alumni working in this company. What's the matter, Director Li, do you want to find this ADI company?"
"I saw a piece of news today saying that this ADI company has successfully developed a micro accelerometer using MEMS technology, which is widely used in the pop-up control of automobile anti-collision airbags. So I want to know about these MEMS technologies and this company's situation... …”
"Oh, Mr. Li, you said it is an inertial MEMS sensor. I have done some research before. The market prospect of this inertial MEMS sensor is very broad. In the future, high-precision MEMS inertial sensors can be used for inclination and acceleration in the fields of industry, national defense and aerospace. and vibration measurements…”
What Li Xiaofan didn't expect was that Dr. Chen Datong was very knowledgeable in the field of MEMS and introduced it in detail.
"Director Li, ADI actually developed this miniature accelerometer MEMS sensor product in 1993. The year before last, the German company BOSCH invented the deep reactive ion etching process for silicon high aspect ratio processing, which became the mainstream process for MEMS. Since then, , MEMS technology has developed rapidly, especially the development of a variety of new processing technologies around deep groove etching technology. Currently, this MEMS is mainly used in inkjet print heads, hard disk read-write heads, silicon accelerometers and digital micromirror device products. …”
Li Xiaofan's heart skipped a beat when he heard "hard disk read and write head". Isn't this the technology Dr. Mao Siming is researching?
After talking on the phone with Dr. Chen Datong, Li Xiaofan went to the R&D building next door and found Dr. Mao Siming who was leading a group of technicians to install R&D equipment.
Li Xiaofan ran over to Dr. Mao for advice.
Dr. Mao explained with a smile: "Actually, what we are currently studying is a MEMS-GMR integrated magnetic sensor technology. The GMR giant magnetoresistive sensor chip we are currently developing is like making a cake, consisting of dozens of layers of complex processes. . It is a technology that integrates magnetic thin films, semiconductor integration and nanotechnology. We can apply a mathematical formula to this technical structure: GMR giant magnetoresistance sensor chip = magnetic material + nanotechnology + semiconductor integration..."
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After communicating with Dr. Chen Datong and Dr. Mao Siming, Li Xiaofan slowly came up with an idea.
After Dr. Mao Siming finished his work, he asked his secretary Liang Beini to invite Dr. Pan Zhanlong and Dr. Mao Siming to his office.
"Two of you, I have invited you here. I want to discuss with you the future development strategy of Yifan's technology sector..."
Suddenly it rose to the level of the future development strategy of the entire technology sector, and the two doctors were flattered.
Dr. Pan Zhanlong and Dr. Mao Siming laughed and said:
"Director Li, you must have some new ideas, right? Let's put it bluntly. We are engaged in technology. We don't know much about such profound issues as strategic research and investment and have not done any research..."
"Actually, it's not as complicated and profound as you said!" Li Xiaofan smiled.
He continued: "Zhanlong, you and I have recently returned to China to interact more with domestic experts such as Academician Ni, and you have a better understanding of the domestic industrial development level. Dr. Mao has just come out of an American multinational company and is familiar with the latest cutting-edge technologies in Silicon Valley. I understand it quite well. I think the combination of your two technical talents is very good. You can combine the Chinese and the Western and use the foreign for the Chinese..."
After hearing this, Pan Zhanlong was happy: "Director Li, I almost heard it as a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine! Director Li, just tell me, do you have any new ideas?"
"Haha! I have a preliminary idea now and would like to hear the opinions of the two doctors. I want to have a clear positioning and plan for the future development of our Yifan Technology sector."
Li Xiaofan continued:
"My initial idea is: currently we are going to the Silicon Valley of the United States to establish a high-tech incubator. Our positioning here in Singapore is headquarters + incubation + accelerator, and then our domestic positioning is accelerator + industrialization base. In general, the focus of project incubation is In the United States, the focus of industrial acceleration is in Singapore, and the focus of industrialization is in Shanghai!”
After listening, Dr. Mao Siming gave a thumbs up and said:
"Director Li, you have a very good vision. I support this strategic plan! Before the end of World War II in the United States, the military and intelligence agencies jointly formulated a special plan called 'Paperclip'. Its main content was to rob people. , even in the areas that the former Soviet Union had conquered, as long as there were talents, they would snatch them, and later more than 700 top German scientists were snatched back. And during World War II. The open policy and relaxed scientific research environment of the United States are particularly attractive to scientists and talents from around the world. According to my personal understanding, there are currently nearly 10,000 graduates of Tsinghua University and Peking University staying in the United States with many of the world's most cutting-edge technologies. Among these well-known universities in the United States and the surrounding large companies, the most representative ones are Stanford University and the Bay Area Silicon Valley..."
Dr. Pan Zhanlong said puzzledly:
"Director Li, since the entrepreneurial environment in Silicon Valley in the United States is so good, why do we invite Dr. Mao and others to set up a R&D center here in Singapore?"
Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "This is my preliminary layout. Singapore is equivalent to the bridgehead for our march to the United States. Our future rear base will be in the mainland of the mainland, and the forward combat position will be in the United States. Singapore plays a buffer role, and can be attacked. You can retreat. Especially in the future, core technicians like Dr. Mao who have just graduated from a large American company will have a lot of core technologies. If they immediately return to China to start a business and conduct research, they will easily attract the attention of the United States. It can avoid a lot of trouble..."
Dr. Mao Siming nodded and said: "Director Li, your arrangement is very good. Because Singapore has a good relationship with the United States, our research and development in Singapore will not be so sensitive, and it will be convenient for us to enter and exit the United States in the future. Moreover, our current magnetic sensing project requires To attract more talents to join, it would be great if we had an offshore incubator in Silicon Valley. In particular, some talents with families in the United States can directly stay and work in our offshore incubator without having to go to Singapore or go back to China... …”
"Well, next I plan to go to the San Francisco Bay Area to find a suitable venue to establish our Yifan company's first offshore incubator. Using the Yifan venture capital fund we have launched, I believe we will definitely find many more Good technology, better projects and better talents! ”