Chapter 434 The Three Siblings Take It All and the Eve of the Outbreak
I heard that the famous domestic Academician Ni was coming, and Li Xiaofan, a potential investor in his sister’s Marvell technology project and an upstart Internet player from Singapore, was also here. Dai Weili’s eldest brother Dai Weimin and second brother Dai Weijin didn’t say anything after receiving a call from his sister Dai Weili. I drove over for dinner.
Li Xiaofan also invited President Chen of the Chinese Engineers Association in Silicon Valley and Dr. Mao Siming, who had returned from purchasing equipment, to attend.
We are all friends, and there are so many people. If we get together together, there might be some sparks.
"Academician Ni, hello, I heard that your hometown is in Mingzhou? Grandpa Ala is also from Mingzhou and is an overseas Chinese in the United States. Counting together, the three of us brothers and sisters are all fellow residents of Mingzhou!"
Academician Ni and Li Xiaofan were very surprised by what their eldest brother, Professor Dai Weimin, said after meeting.
Academician Ni smiled and said: "Professor Dai, it seems this world is really small. Let me introduce to you, Director Li is also from Mingzhou!"
At this time, President Chen Chunlei beside him smiled and added: "Don't forget, I am also from Mingzhou!"
Chairman Chen currently works at the well-known Oracle software company. In his previous life, he also returned to China to start a business and founded the Silicon Ding Technology Project.
Dr. Mao Siming, who was tall and tall, laughed and said: "It feels like tonight here in Silicon Valley is like a gathering of you Mingzhou fellows. You see, my name is 'Siming'. It is fate that I am destined to be with you Mingzhou!"
Li Xiaofan smiled at Dr. Mao Siming and said: "Mao Bo, in the future I will go to Mingzhou to find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, invest in a high-tech industrial park, and develop a villa area next to it. At that time, part of our magnetic sensing R&D center will be moved Go there and build a villa for you next door. Dr. Mao, you will be a native of Xinmingzhou!"
Just like the song "Nostalgia" written by Mr. Yu Guangzhong, these Mingzhou fellows encounter everything overseas and feel extra friendly, which makes them closer to each other.
After drinking for three rounds, everyone began to introduce themselves to each other.
Dai Weili's eldest brother Dai Weimin is currently a tenured professor of computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the chairman of the International Conference on Multi-Chip Modules of the World Institute of Electronics Engineers. He is very energetic. While working as a professor, he also founded a computer-aided design company called Ultima Interconnect Technology, and personally served as chairman and president.
Academician Ni was very interested in Professor Dai Weimin’s academic background and that of the World Association of Electronics Engineers, and the two had a great conversation.
Dai Weili's second brother Dai Weijin is also a very powerful entrepreneurial engineer. After receiving a master's degree in electronic computing engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, he first worked at HP and Bell Labs. Then he served as the engineering director of a company called Quickturn Design Systems, and was a key R&D member of Kuteng's QuickTurn design system.
Dai Weijin introduced that he is currently starting his own business. He just left the Quickturn company and co-founded a company called Silicon Perspective Corporation with his friends, and personally served as the president of R&D.
The three Dai brothers and sisters are all very capable. Not only did they graduate from prestigious schools, but they also all have entrepreneurial talents.
When Dai Weijin introduced that he had been a key R&D member of the QuickTurn design system, Academician Ni exclaimed:
"Mr. Dai, I didn't expect that you personally participated in the design and development of the Quickturn hardware simulation tool!"
Dai Weijin asked curiously: "Academician Ni, do you actually know this QuickTurn design system?"
"Why don't you know? Because I have now established a project called Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center in Shanghai with Director Li, which is currently mainly engaged in the design of ASIC chips. I have seen articles introducing your Quickturn in professional magazines and on the Internet. The company has launched a Kuteng hardware emulator. Did you find it? I discovered a rapid prototyping solution that allows users to automatically generate and verify the prototype of their ASIC design within a week, greatly improving the efficiency of ASIC design and testing. Originally, I came to the United States this time, and I still have time. I want to check out this QuickTurn company..."
Today's complex ASIC designs need to be systematically tested, otherwise it will be difficult for the designed ASIC to ensure the normal operation of the system.
Quickturn Design Systems, where Dai Weijin once worked, is a world-famous company that develops, sells and services hardware simulation tools. Dai Weijin mainly participated in the research and development of the Kuteng hardware simulator, which enables users to automatically generate and verify prototypes of ASIC designs within a week. It can be completed within a few seconds, quickly create hardware prototypes, work at high speed, and save time and money.
Seeing that everyone is very curious about what the Kuteng hardware emulator is, Academician Ni and Dai Weijin introduced it to everyone:
Chip design is known as the smallest and most ambitious project in human history. After decades of development, chip developers have been able to integrate hundreds of millions of transistors onto chips less than the size of a fingernail. Achieving this goal relies on electronic design automation EDA tools.
EDA is the most upstream and high-end industry in the electronics industry, driving chip design, manufacturing, and terminal applications. According to different application scenarios, the use of EDA tools is mainly divided into several categories, such as design, verification, and manufacturing.
Verification is the most important part of the chip development process that cannot be ignored, and QuickTurn, where Dai Weijin used to work, is engaged in this key verification link and is a pioneer in this industry. Their QuickTurn company previously cooperated with IBM to introduce new technologies to solve its shortcomings such as poor debugging functions, long deployment and compilation time, and performance that cannot be linearly expanded with the design scale...
Academician Ni said happily:
"Mr. Dai, it's great to meet you tonight! Verification is an important guarantee for chip development, accounting for more than half of our chip development workload. This is a process of pushing errors to zero infinitely close to zero with mathematical methods. There is a lot of room for cooperation between the two sides in chip design in the future!"
In the previous life, just two years later in 1998, Cadence Electronics, one of the three giants of EDA in the United States, acquired QuickTurn and successfully established itself in the simulation hardware and software market, and launched a hardware simulation system called Palladium Guardian.
Five years later, in 2001, Cadence spent more than 500 million US dollars to acquire Silicon Valley Vision, co-founded by Dai Weijin, and established digital technology solutions based on Dai's technology. Dai Weijin then served as the vice president of the new company and the general manager of the digital integrated circuit design department. He was the president and CEO of Vivante Chip Technology Co., Ltd., which is engaged in graphics processor GPU products.
Before Li Xiaofan was reborn, the new generation of Pallaidum Z1 system launched by Cadence Electronics could provide pre-silicon hardware error correction efficiency and the highest software debugging throughput for the design of SoCs with billions of gates...
During dinner, Li Xiaofan looked at the three brothers and sisters of the Dai family in front of him and admired them very much. They were all outstanding figures in the semiconductor industry!
At this time, the three brothers and sisters of the Dai family admired Li Xiaofan even more. A young fellow from Minnesota in his twenties, he successively invested in two listed companies on NASDAQ, one of which was founded by himself.
At such a young age, his net worth has exceeded more than 500 million US dollars, which makes them feel inferior!
During the dinner, when Li Xiaofan extended an olive branch and invited the three Dai brothers and sisters to move their respective projects into the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator that he was about to put into use, they readily agreed.
Previously, when the distinctive sign of the "Y-Lab" entrepreneurship incubator was erected next to the Stanford Shopping Center, it attracted the attention of the three Dai brothers and sisters who passed by.
The various preferential conditions and soft and hard environments of the incubator are already very attractive, not to mention that there is Li Xiaofan, a potential investor and big money behind it.
For Li Xiaofan, each project of the three Dai brothers and sisters is a benchmark project that he wants to attract by creating this incubator.
The magnetic storage driver chip project of the younger sister Dai Weili has entered Seagate and is on the eve of an explosion. As long as he invests money in her, the Marvell Maiwei Technology project will be very explosive. After the product has the word-of-mouth effect of Seagate, major customers such as Samsung of South Korea and Toshiba of Japan will come one after another.
In the previous life, four years later in 2000, Marvell Maiwei Technology successfully listed on NASDAQ.
Now, according to Li Xiaofan's idea, he will invest more in Marvell to accelerate its listing on NASDAQ!
Ultima Interconnect Technology, the ultimate interconnection technology company of the eldest brother Dai Weimin, and Silicon Perspective, the second brother Dai Weijin, are both engaged in businesses closely related to chip design, which are highly consistent with the Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center project of Academician Ni, and are both core technologies urgently needed for domestic chip design!
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After the dinner, on the way back to the hotel in downtown San Francisco, Academician Ni's excitement was beyond words:
"Today's harvest is too great... No, it should be said that every day of the recent inspection in the United States has been very fruitful! Mr. Li, thank you, I feel that if it continues to develop at the current speed, I am full of confidence in our domestic semiconductor industry!"
"Academician Ni, you're welcome! You should rest early tonight. Tomorrow morning we will fly to Dallas, Texas to inspect Texas Instruments and communicate with Dr. Zhang..."
"Great, I am full of expectations for tomorrow's inspection of Texas Instruments and the communication with Dr. Zhang. I hope he can have good news!"