Chapter 454: Secret Meeting of "Old Jianghu"

At present, Cadence has requested the above-mentioned court to ban the ArcCell series of infringing products sold by Avant! Pioneer Company. What is even more "difficult" is the prosecutor Finkelstein, who is persevering in order to advance the case...

At the moment, the entire Avant! Pioneer Company and Lao Xu are shrouded in fear of lawsuits, and their military morale is unstable.

To be honest, Lao Xu doesn’t know whether he can avoid prison in the future...

"Director Li, can you elaborate on your suggestions?"

Lao Xu smiled at Li Xiaofan.

Li Xiaofan read the signal he sent from his sincere smile: I am interested!

"Mr. Xu, if you are interested, I have a suggestion. Together with Singapore Yifan Holdings and Panda Systems, we are willing to work with your Avant! Pioneer Company to first establish a new joint venture in Singapore to be responsible for the entire Asia-Pacific region including the mainland. EDA market development in the mainland market. Then this joint venture will invest in a wholly-owned subsidiary in the mainland to compete with Cadence! At the same time, in addition to exploring the market in the mainland, we can also use our resource advantages to help You build a positive image..."

Li Xiaofan's suggestion did not go directly to the mainland to set up a joint venture in order to avoid suspicion and touch the sensitive nerves of some people in the United States.

Li Xiaofan continued: "Of course, Mr. Xu, in addition to opening up the market, we are also interested in strengthening the EDA product research and development cooperation between Panda Systems Company and Avant! Pioneer Company. The Panda EDA system in mainland China also has many advantages, such as the STANZ we invested in The company is unique in layout editing, and even Synopsys wants to acquire it..."

"Director Li, your suggestions are very interesting. I will seriously consider them."

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Since it was their first meeting and there was a lot of talk, Li Xiaofan didn't say much. He extended an olive branch and said goodbye after a courtesy visit.

However, the two of them made a separate appointment for dinner at Tang Zixin's Tangyuan Chinese Restaurant the next night.

After three rounds of drinking, and when his ears were warm from the wine, Li Xiaofan said to Lao Xu:

"Mr. Xu, I drank too much anyway. Let me tell you the truth. I am not very optimistic about your Avant! lawsuit between Pioneer Company and Cadence Company. You should have made plans in advance..."

If someone usually said this to Lao Xu, Lao Xu would definitely turn his face and curse them.

However, today is different. Li Xiaofan sitting across from him is the entrepreneurial partner of his friend Yang Zhiyuan, a director of Yahoo and the chairman of Pacific Network Technology Co., Ltd., a young rich man with a net worth of more than 600 million US dollars.

Moreover, behind the Chinese BIDC of the Panda Systems Co., Ltd. that Li Xiaofan invested in is the electronics department, which has a profound background...

Besides, there is no one else present now, so he doesn't need to "wear" a strong appearance.

"Hey, bad luck!" He sighed, "Come on, Director Li, have a drink!"

At this time, Lao Xu couldn't express his pain.

The ArcCell program they launched last year was later evaluated by experts hired by Cadence. Only a few thousand lines of code out of 1.45 million lines were suspected of infringement. Most of the rest of the code is the hard work of programmers from Avant! Pioneer Company!

Last year, in order to go public and achieve performance, I "copied" some data management work from Cadence in a hurry. Unexpectedly, Cadence found a fatal loophole and exploited it, becoming a fatal "copy". Homework” ironclad evidence.

In that era when the concept of IP was still very weak, there was no clear line between right and wrong. Sometimes, driven by interests, it is inevitable to go too far.

Li Xiaofan also knows that Lao Xu and his Avant! Pioneer Company team are currently trying their best to get rid of the shadow of plagiarism, and they are investing heavily in next-generation technology.

They later used "clean room" methods to rewrite the source program of their Arccell to ensure its legality. The new product is called Milkyway-Apollo.

However, no matter how advanced the technology developed later, it cannot escape the shadow of "original sin". With the support of local prosecutors, Cadence launched civil and criminal lawsuits like a sword of Damocles hanging over them. The top of my head, I don’t know when it will fall down...

As the lawsuit progresses, the situation of Avant! Pioneer Company becomes worse. Although revenue is growing, talent is constantly being lost.

Li Xiaofan toasted Lao Xu with a glass of wine and said softly:

"Mr. Xu, if you are willing, I can transfer 10% of the shares to Jingcheng Panda System Co., Ltd. to you. The transfer price can be based on the original value or we can negotiate a lower price. If it is inconvenient for you, I can help you first. If you hold it on your behalf, we can sign a confidential holding agreement. If you are not satisfied with this condition, we can discuss it again... The goal I set for Jingcheng Panda Systems Co., Ltd. is to be ranked A in Hong Kong or domestic stocks within three years. The stock is listed..."

At this time, Lao Xu also knew that if they, Avant! Pioneer Company, lost the current lawsuit, even if they were spared from jail, there would be no place for Lao Xu in Silicon Valley!

In the future, Asian regions such as mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore may be his best place to settle.

So he was indeed a little tempted by the olive branch offered by Li Xiaofan...

As for Li Xiaofan now, as long as Lao Xu agrees to cooperate with him, he is willing to pay no matter how high the price is!

The third-generation Apollo program currently being developed by Avant! Pioneer Company integrates front-end technologies such as Jupiter. In the future, it can catch up with Synopsys' products and become an EDA giant spanning the front and back ends.

The next-generation product Astro developed later was 30 times faster than the previous product in terms of timing optimization. After it was later acquired by Synopsys, it became one of the latter's flagship products, leaving Cadence unable to fight back in this field. .

As long as Avant! Pioneer Company agrees to cooperate with Panda Company, anything can be negotiated.

For Lao Xu, Li Xiaofan's current identity and worth are a strong guarantee for fulfilling his promise, and Avant! Pioneer Company has the current first-class EDA technology. These are what Panda Company and Li Xiaofan dream of and urgently want. Once this lawsuit is lost in the future, this Avant! pioneer company will no longer have anything to do with him...

As a result, the two reached some preliminary cooperation intentions that night.

Lao Xu is also a "laojianghu". He did not agree to all Li Xiaofan's conditions and requirements at once. He is currently taking one step at a time and taking a look...

In the evening, the secret meeting with Lao Xu started well and made very good progress, which made Li Xiaofan very happy.

The importance of EDA in the entire chip industry chain is self-evident.

The next day, Li Xiaofan led the team to fly to Texas and came to a place called Richardson.

Richardson is located on the outskirts of Dallas, at the junction of Dallas County and Collins County in terms of administrative division. It is the seat of the University of Texas at Dallas and is also a famous telecommunications corridor in the world.

Within more than 70 square kilometers centered on Richardson, there are thousands of IT companies or factories such as the famous TI, ATT, Cisco, Ericsson, Samsung, and Fujitsu.

On this trip, they were not looking for Texas Instruments TI, but another company called Cyrix that produces cheap CPUs.