Global monopoly of technology

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

The 30-year-old Li Haidong is a returnee with a Ph.D. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Synopsys for three months. Everything is fine, but he finally chose to return to China. At that time, many classmates or students in the United States Friends all urged him to stay in the US, and he got his green card.

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

Now he is an entrepreneur. He returned to China and found a few friends to discuss a joint venture.

"In Homer's epic "Iliad", the ancient Greek god of war Achilles is invulnerable and dominates Greece as a half-man and a demigod. But he has a fatal weakness: his heel is vulnerable, because it is the only one. There was no place to soak in the water. In the end, he died in the Trojan War because of this weakness."

Li Haidong told several partners about this western legend. After a while, he eloquently said: "In the long river of history, the'Achilles' Heel' has also become a warning mantra for people: always beware of yourself. Weaknesses. Today, industrial software has become the “Achilles’ heel” of my country’s manufacturing development. This is definitely not a joke or an exaggeration.”

At this moment, Li Haidong and several of his friends and partners have discussed and decided to co-found a technology company. The name is decided, and it is called "Jingchuang Technology", which means "keep improving and innovating", no doubt Their start-up company can be seen from Li Haidong's remarks just now that it is in that field.

Obviously belongs to the field of industrial software.

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

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

Another friend nodded: "Yes, you just gave up the high salary of the new Cisco and chose to come back to start a business. What you do is EDA."

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

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

With the rise of computers, EDA vendors have emerged one after another. After more than two decades of mergers and acquisitions, only Synopsy, Candence and Mentor are left in the EDA field. These three giants currently occupy more than 90% of the EDA software market.

The really 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 only, if chips are bullets and food, then chip EDA tools are tools for making bullets and processing food. The market may be small, but it can't stand it. This is a terrible thing. In the semiconductor industry and lithography machines The status of the company is no less convincing.

The current EDA company mainly sells EDA tools to downstream customers, and its source of income mainly relies on certificate authorization fees, just like the use of office software, anti-virus software or other software requires a registered serial number.

However, this authorization certificate from EDA is quite expensive.

How expensive is it?

Lens Semiconductor spent 24.8 million U.S. dollars, or about 170 million yuan, in order to obtain the software certificate of KD Electronics in 2008.

You can still see the evaluation of the head of the AP processor division of Lens Semiconductor on the official website of KD Electronics: From the small 3 million payload to the design of hundreds of millions of departments, we can easily and effectively ensure System functions.

At the beginning of 2009 this year, another major industry giant Synopsys also reached an EDA strategic partnership with Lens Semiconductor.

But if the supply of EDA ceases, how much impact will it have on Lens Semiconductor and even the Cote d'Azur?

At present, the existing software of Lens Semiconductor can still be used within the validity period. If it is discontinued, 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 subsequent software. The new version, the current semiconductor process evolution speed is extremely fast, almost one and a half to two years, a generation gap, the emergence of new generation chips requires an updated EDA software version.

Therefore, assuming that Lens Semiconductor’s EDA tools are discontinued, even IC design cannot be done, which will inevitably lead to the failure of the Blue Coast to launch next-generation smart phone products.

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

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that Lao Mei can "raise pigs" so confidently. From the perspective of Americans, you really don't have to panic because you will be disabled if you stop EDA.

EDA you got it?What about the wafer purification card; this is also a breakthrough?What is the chip manufacturing card?This is also a breakthrough?Then the lithography machine is stuck for you...

If any link is stuck, a chip cannot be produced smoothly.

This shows how tight the siege of the integrated circuit industry is. It breaks through a mountain and there is a larger mountain waiting behind it.

Finally, there is the ultimate darkness, facing the suppression of the world's hegemon with the power of the country.

It is not unreasonable that Huaguo's semiconductor business has not been conquered for so long.

"I can pay a hundred thousand quick cash."

"I have 150,000."

"I have eighty thousand."

"I can pay out 120,000."

At this moment, Li Haidong and several friends and partners are discussing the business of Jingchuang Technology, and the pieces together are less than 500,000...

"Not enough, you have to find a venture capital company for financing." Li Haidong said with a wry smile.

"If investors hear us say we are going to do EDA, they probably think we are crazy..." a partner laughed at himself.

Nowadays, the domestic EDA industrial software is almost wiped out, and there is no hope. As long as investors are not fools or lunatics, it is generally impossible for investors to spend money on Li Haidong's team.

"Hey, do you know that the hottest in the VC industry during this period is also the newly established Shengfeng Capital?" Just when these aspiring young people are distressed because they are shy and helpless, one of them The partner suddenly said something.

"Shengfeng Capital?"

"Yes, it is the investment fund established by Luo Sheng." The partner nodded repeatedly before smacking his lips: "It is indeed the 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, and there is a background of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office and Wall Street."

For people who want to start a business, they must understand the information of the investment industry if they want to do a business. If venture capital is not available, it is even more impossible to find bank loans. Banks are not interested in small and medium-sized startups, especially It’s a technology entrepreneurship, and the risk is almost 99% loss. Banks generally make your achievements and will come to lend you money when they see that you are not short of money.

And as long as you understand the news in the investment world, it is impossible not to know that Shengfeng Capital has been in full swing in the investment world recently.

"Then give it a try."

Li Haidong immediately made a decision. In the start-up company Jingchuang Technology, he is the leader, and the top-level design of the company has largely referred to Luo Sheng's Bluestar Technology.

The limited partnership structure is adopted. Nowadays, companies are popular in the limited partnership structure. Although there were few before, Luo Sheng has brought this trend.

Especially in the IT field, there are countless follow-up companies.

However, no founder can be as strong as Luo Sheng. It is enough to know that investors only pay money from him, don't care about anything else, don't ask anything, don't think about anything.

Countless entrepreneurs dream of doing things, but when facing investors, they basically call Dad.

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

It turned out that I couldn't get through because there were too many people calling at the same time.

I had no choice but to seek help from customer service on the official website, and found that the online customer service was also busy and needed to queue up.

After a long time of tossing, I finally figured out that Shengfeng Capital is a capital management institution for science and technology investment, that is, a startup company that focuses on investing in technology.

No investment in other financial, real estate, etc.

This makes Li Haidong and others extremely excited. This kind of venture capital institution is simply the only one. It is no wonder that the customer service phone number will be broken, and the online customer service team is also waiting for information.

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