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Chapter 300 Acquisition of mold? Germination reaps the benefits!

"Mr. Zhang, regarding the group's participation in China Microelectronics' financing, we have completed the internal process, and the relevant funds will be transferred to China Microelectronics' account within a week." Lu Kai continued to report.

The investment in Huaxia Microelectronics was also in the name of Sprout Investment.

to this end.

The group allocated an additional 2 billion special funds to Germination Investment.

"In addition to investing in China Microelectronics, I have decided to allocate an additional billion to the Particle Fund for investment in the semiconductor industry. The Investment and M&A Department must complete market research as soon as possible."

Zhang Shuo also kept his word.

The Particle Fund's investment in the semiconductor industry chain will also intentionally avoid China Microelectronics' core business and focus on upstream raw material processing and refining, and downstream chip packaging and testing.

Concentrate on playing support to avoid involution.

"good!"

Lu Kai was naturally happy and eager to expand the group's investment business. He said with a smile: "The official intention is to accelerate the development of the semiconductor industry. It is indeed worth increasing investment in the semiconductor industry."

"Um."

Zhang Shuo turned to look at Gu Mingzhang, "How are the preparations for Daosui Semiconductor going?"

In the semiconductor industry, in addition to investment, the sprout also has to deal with it personally.

The first task is to activate the shell company that has been registered before - Binhai City Daosui Semiconductor Co., Ltd., which focuses on integrated circuit design business and mainly chip design.

The target is none other than Warwick Hayes.

Compared with Warwick Hays, Inosui Semiconductor not only started late, but also has far less technical reserves than Warwick. Naturally, it needs to make more efforts to catch up.

Zhang Shuo had previously considered whether to give up self-research and choose to cooperate with Warwick instead?

Not only do you get twice the result with half the effort, but you also avoid involution.

But if you think about it carefully, Maili mobile phones and Warwick mobile phones follow different technical paths. The different technical parameters determine the different demands for mobile phone chips, making cooperation very difficult.

This is why.

High-end mobile phone brands almost all adopt the path of self-design.

What's more, the number of domestic chip R&D and design companies is still quite sparse, and there is no excessive competition. On the contrary, it has an added layer of protection.

After all, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

"Binhai City Daosui Semiconductor Co., Ltd. has completed the registration work, and the initial team has transferred directly from the mobile phone chip design department of Maili Technology. The problems we are facing now are: first, the technical reserve is weak, and only the relevant technology purchased from Nokia; second,

It’s because the talent pool is thin and the team has less than a hundred people.”

Warwick Hayes employed more than 7,000 people at its peak.

A R&D and design team of one hundred people is indeed not impressive enough, even a fraction of that of Hayes.

What's more, Zhang Shuo's expectations for Daosui Semiconductor are even higher than those of Hays. Not only must he strive to become the world's most competitive chip R&D and design company, but he must also form a separate team to develop EDA software.

The reason is also very simple.

EDA software is an indispensable tool for chip design, but these tools are all in the hands of beautiful countries. Once the situation changes, they may be stuck.

It's so painful and uncomfortable.

Of course, Inaho Semiconductor alone is definitely not enough. As mentioned before, the technical categories involved in the semiconductor industry are too complex, and even EDA software cannot be handled by one or two companies.

While Daosui Semiconductor is conducting self-research, the Particle Fund will also accelerate its investment layout in related fields.

Strive to move forward together.

In the semiconductor industry, funds are indeed not everything, but there is nothing you can do without funds.

Zhang Shuo still doesn't believe it. If he plans to make plans seven or eight years in advance and throws hundreds of billions of additional funds into the semiconductor industry, ten years later, with the wisdom of the Chinese people, there will be no sound.

If you work hard for a long time, your efforts will always be rewarded.

"The technology is weak, so we can only concentrate on research and development. There is no shortcut. As for the talent, we can leave it to the human resources department to solve the problem." Zhang Shuo looked at Wu Sheyuan.

"Then let me introduce the spring recruitment work by the way."

Wu Sheyuan also came prepared. “In view of the development of new businesses such as Panda Live Broadcast and Tiantian Toutiao, as well as the group’s layout in the semiconductor field, the human resources plan is to recruit another 2,000 people in the spring based on last year’s autumn recruitment.

Fresh graduates can fill in the gaps and meet the group’s various business development needs.”

After all, the spring recruitment is what is left over from the autumn recruitment, and the quality of the personnel is slightly worse.

Last year, Germination had no choice but to recruit 5,000 new employees in the spring recruitment. The results were not satisfactory and the dismissal rate was very high.

This year, even if we are checking for deficiencies and filling them, we will no longer recruit people on a large scale.

"In addition to spring recruitment, Human Resources is currently planning Operation Spark, cooperating with major domestic and foreign headhunting companies to jointly find needed talents from all walks of life."

Wu Sheyuan also became furious.

I just won the President’s Special Contribution Award last year, so I can’t let myself slip this year.

"Have the personnel arrangements for the two teams of Assistant 71 and Motu Xiuxiu been finalized?" Zhang Shuo asked.

"The dust has basically settled." Wu Sheyuan said: "One-third of the R&D personnel of the Motu Xiuxiu team have stayed and collectively joined Panda Live to develop the video beauty function for Panda Live.

"About one-fifth of the members of the 71 Assistant team remain, some stay in the Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment Operations Department, a small part went to Qinghe Technology, and the rest joined Maili Technology."

"It seems that the stickiness of our employees is not high enough."

Zhang Shuo felt a little disappointed when he learned that nearly 80% of the employees in the 71 Assistant team had chosen to join Qiandu.

"The Human Resources Council will strengthen values ​​training." Wu Sheyuan was under great pressure.

"Um."

Zhang Shuo did not mean to criticize Wu Sheyuan harshly.

Firstly, the current sprouts cannot compete with the established giant Qiandu; secondly, strictly speaking, sprouts were the first to abandon 71 Assistant, so no wonder they jumped ship.

It doesn't make sense morally either.

"According to this, 12,000 new employees will join Sprout in July. Can the office area be arranged?" Zhang Shuo then looked at Jiang Yue, the vice president in charge of administrative affairs.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It is definitely not possible under the current office conditions."

Jiang Yuezheng is having a headache over this matter. Once new employees arrive, the total number of employees in Germination will double again.

No company can handle it.

"The preliminary plan is to appropriately delay the construction progress of the main tower of Houhai Germination Building, give priority to the construction of the auxiliary tower, and strive to complete and deliver the auxiliary tower before July."

Of the 12,000 new employees, less than half will stay in Marina City.

After completing the training of new employees, the rest will be distributed to Yangcheng, Magic City, Jingshi, Lin'an, Jiangxia, Shancheng, Rongcheng and other places.

Qingcheng Group alone will receive more than 3,000 new employees.

In order to accommodate employees outside the headquarters, Sprout Real Estate has also launched a new round of office rental and purchase plans. In principle, it plans to purchase a Grade A office building in three locations: Shanghai, Jiangxia and Chengdu.

The remaining second- and third-tier cities still mainly rent offices.

The longer-term plan is to accelerate the construction of the Germinal Industrial Park. According to the overall plan of the industrial park, when fully completed, it will be able to accommodate more than 30,000 people working at the same time.

Definitely a world-class office hub.

"The office building purchase plans in Shanghai, Jiangxia and Chengdu should be started as soon as possible. If necessary, Binhai City can also purchase another Grade A office building. The only principle is that office conditions cannot be worsened."

Zhang Shuo doesn’t want to say that as the number of employees at Sprout Group increases, the office environment will return to the crowded state of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment at the beginning.

So how can employees feel happy?

"good!"

Now that there are sufficient funds in Germination's account, Jiang Yue did not refuse.

Have money and be willful!

"The other thing is that after Daosui Semiconductor is established, Maili Technology should also be upgraded."

Zhang Shuo brought up another topic, "My idea is to build a Maili Group based on Maili Technology, Maili Electronics and Daosui Semiconductor."

This will also be the second group subsidiary of Buya.

Although Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment is also a subsidiary of the group, it has only been upgraded in level and its influence is not comparable.

A major feature of the group's subsidiaries is their broad business scope.

Like the previous Qingcheng Group, it involves new and old businesses such as new retail, takeout, shared bicycles, online ticketing, shared power banks, etc. Only group operations can sustain it.

The same is true for the newly established Maili Group.

Although Maili Group has not yet been able to produce a finished mobile phone, the smartphone industry is extremely complex. Even if Maili Group is only involved in a part of it, its business is also very broad.

After upgrading.

Maili Technology will focus on the R&D and design of software and hardware, Maili Electronics will focus on the production and manufacturing of mobile phones, and Daosui Semiconductor will focus on the R&D and design of chips.

At the Maili Group headquarters level, the first is to provide functional support, the second is to be responsible for the research and development of cutting-edge cutting-edge technologies, and the third is to be responsible for the incubation of new businesses, such as wearable devices, VR equipment, and AR equipment.

It cannot be ruled out in the future.

Maili Group will also follow Apple's example and get involved in laptops, tablets and other businesses.

Such a huge system can only be supported by the group structure.

In addition to management needs, upgrading a first-level subsidiary to a group subsidiary also has two major benefits. One is to facilitate external financing, and the other is to facilitate independent financing or listing of its second-level subsidiaries.

For example, for Maili Electronics, we do not rule out the possibility of an independent listing in the future.

After the promotion, Gu Mingzhang will still serve as the vice president of the Germination Group and the president of the Maili Group. Since it is a part-time job, there will be no change in his rank.

There will not be any major changes in the personnel of Maili Group.

At the end of the morning meeting, Wang Yan, Director of the Technology Center, raised a question: "Since the registration of domestic CN domain names was opened in March 2003, more and more attention has been paid to it. I suggest that the group should take precautions and register all CN domain names of Sprout and all its sub-brands.

.If there is a preemptive registration, it should be purchased from the registrant to avoid adverse effects on brand recognition in the future."

Nowadays, the mainstream domain names are still international domain names, and the impact of CN domain names is very limited.

Zhang Shuo remembered, however, that it was not until 2022 that well-known companies such as Xiaomi and OV gradually paid attention to CN domain names and began to openly display CN domain names in overseas markets to reflect cultural confidence.

Sadly.

After the CN domain name of ICQ owned by Tenda was squatted, it has never been recovered.

"Can!"

Zhang Shuo immediately agreed to Wang Yan's proposal because he did not want to follow in Tengda's footsteps.

It doesn’t cost much anyway.

Moreover, as a company born and raised in China, Sprout Group should take the initiative to activate the CN domain name and show its pedigree to overseas markets without hesitation.

Unlike some companies that appear to be domestically produced but insist on claiming to be international.

………

After the morning meeting, Zhang Shuo called Wu Sheyuan to the office alone and asked with a smile: "How many scientists are currently selected for the Germinating Hundreds Project?"

"58 people are domestic and 35 people are overseas."

"That is to say, the quota for the Hundred Talents Plan is almost full?"

"Yes."

Wu Sheyuan had a smile on her face.

This is the most fruitful result for human resources, especially the recruitment of overseas scientists. With the cooperation of Jiaoyang Holdings, it went extremely smoothly.

"Since the previously set goals are about to be achieved, and Bu Ya's desire for scientists continues, we will follow the trend and upgrade the Hundred Talents Plan to the Thousand Talents Plan, and the salary will remain unchanged."

Zhang Shuo is also very ambitious.

If you want to make a difference in the semiconductor industry, scientists are indispensable.

The upgrade of the Hundred Talents Plan to the Thousand Talents Plan is not a simple name change or a play on words, but requires the Germination Group to come up with real funds to support it.

Calculated based on the annual salary of tens of millions per scientist, the annual salary expenditure of a hundred scientists alone is one billion. Once the Thousand Talents Plan is implemented, it will be tens of billions of expenditures.

Looking around the world, not many large companies can sustain it.

But in Zhang Shuo's view, it is a basic requirement to provide top scientists with matching salaries. Compared to those blind entertainment stars, the annual salary of tens of millions is really nothing.

"good!"

Wu Sheyuan was both excited and stressed.

Recruiting a hundred outstanding scientists has already exhausted all means, and now the KPI has been raised to a thousand outstanding scientists, which is really an extremely arduous task.

The critical time is still tight.

Based on Wu Sheyuan's judgment on the R&D and expansion of budding technologies, the time left for the Thousand Talents Plan will be three or four years at most, and will definitely not exceed five years.

Maybe even shorter.

This means that the human resources team he leads needs to work harder.

"By the way, take the time to go to Xiangjiang, get in touch with this person, and see if you can invite him and his team to join the Fertile Land Research Institute to work together on the development of artificial intelligence."

Zhang Shuo smiled and handed Wu Sheyuan a business card.

Artificial intelligence is a very broad concept, which does not mean that just setting up an artificial intelligence laboratory at Fertile Land Research Institute will solve the problem.

This is not enough!

"Professor Tang Ou, I have heard of this person. It is said that he founded a multimedia laboratory at Xiangjiang University, focusing on artificial intelligence research and development." Wu Sheyuan is also well-informed.

"it's him!"

Zhang Shuo smiled and nodded. He got Professor Tang Ou's business card from Professor Wu.

And this currently unknown multimedia laboratory gave birth to Entropy Tang Technology, the largest unicorn company in the field of artificial intelligence.

if you can.

Zhang Shuo certainly hopes to bring this laboratory under his control to strengthen the budding technological reserves in artificial intelligence.

The biggest achievement of the laboratory is that after 18 years, it finally improved the face recognition accuracy to 99.55% in March 2014, surpassing the recognition ability of the human eye (97.53%) for the first time.

This opened the era of technology implementation in the entire face recognition industry.

From this example, we can also see how technology research and development needs to endure loneliness. The breakthrough in facial recognition technology alone took only twenty years.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand why Zhang Shuo is so "eager for quick success" in terms of technology research and development layout.

There really is no rush.

"Okay, I will collect some information first, and then I will visit Professor Tang Ou." Of course, Wu Sheyuan must pay special attention to the task assigned by the big boss himself.

………

The next day is Valentine's Day.

Zhang Shuo usually had no interest in these foreign gadgets, but he couldn't stand the excitement of the men and women in the school. Girls holding flowers could be seen everywhere.

I would say it's a bit old-fashioned.

Zhang Shuo remembered that the original time and space was in 2022, and sending flowers was no longer new. Young lovers began to return to their original nature, riding on the popularity of traditional culture. Hand-written Lin Fu and hand-made peach wood hairpins were popular.

I don’t know how sincere it is, but my hand hurts for sure.

The post-2000 generation is worthy of being the king of revolts. They even start to get involved in craziness by spreading dog-food. Who can they ask to reason?

The only thing that remains unchanged is the sadness of being single...

Of course, Zhang Shuo also had his own sorrows. First, he was pulled by Tang Yu, and he called the four single beauties in the dormitory to celebrate Valentine's Day together. In the evening, they had a meal at a food stall.

He had every reason to suspect that Tang Yu was just here to eat and drink.

Return to Xili Building.

I had to accept the Valentine's Day dinner carefully prepared by Chen Lu, and I vomited immediately after eating it.

Zhang Shuo doesn't look forward to Valentine's Day, but Chen Lu considers herself a lover, so she pays special attention to Valentine's Day. She prepares it carefully every year and always comes up with some new tricks.

Don't tell me, it's quite exciting...

………

After working hard most of the night, Zhang Shuo was late for work again the next day.

Fortunately, he is the big boss. Even if he arrives at the company in time for lunch, let alone arriving at the company at 10 a.m., no one would dare to say no.

Especially after the establishment of the rotating president system, Zhang Shuo's working hours have become more flexible.

This is obviously a very wise move.

To Zhang Shuo's surprise, he welcomed a special guest today - the bad boy Wang Xin.

"Mr. Wang is looking for me, is there something wrong?"

Zhang Shuo and Wang Xin were really not familiar with each other, and they were of course very familiar with each other in the original time and space. Although the Germination Group and Moutuan had some business connections in this life, they had never met once.

Since we are not familiar with each other, there is no need to be polite.

Choose to go straight to the point!

And with Zhang Shuo's current status, he doesn't need to pretend to be enthusiastic towards anyone, he speaks very straightforwardly.

“Is it possible for Sprout to invest in mold?”

Wang Xin also got straight to the point and revealed the purpose of meeting Zhang Shuo. Recently, he has been really pushed to the wall. If there is no new capital injection, the mold group will face the risk of bankruptcy.

In desperation, I finally turned to Zhang Shuo.

In Wang Xin's view, although the competition among the three giants in the food delivery industry has taken shape, Qingcheng Group has always been aloof and should not have no interest in the bad guys.

Once Qingcheng Group joins forces with Moutuan, it will become a powerful player in the food delivery industry in one fell swoop.

"Mr. Wang may have misunderstood. Qingcheng Group has never had much ambition in the takeout business, and has always pursued the market segment of lunch for office workers and white-collar workers. So, I'm sorry, Moya has no intention of investing in mold group."

Zhang Shuo flatly refused.

Are you kidding? He finally managed to bring down the bad guys, so why would he lend a helping hand?

Then don't you slap yourself in the face?

"so……"

Wang Xin was indeed very disappointed, his eyes became bleaker, and then he made up his mind, raised his head and asked: "If Moutuan is willing to accept a wholly-owned acquisition, is Qingcheng Group interested?"

"Wholly-owned acquisition?"

Now it was Zhang Shuo's turn to be surprised. Wasn't it because of Wang Xin's insistence on independence that Ahri had a quarrel with Mituan? Now he is willing to be fully acquired, which is really an eye-opener.

It also proves from the side that once people are forced to a dead end, there is no point in adhering to principles.

The most important thing is to survive!

"I'm very curious. Since Mr. Wang is willing to accept the full acquisition of Moutuan by Qingcheng Group, why doesn't he go to Ahli? Ahli should be more interested than Moya."

Zhang Shuo has not forgotten that Ali has not sold its shares in Mituan yet.

He is also one of the shareholders of Miltuan.

Ahri rejects Moutuan simply because Moutuan is unwilling to integrate into the Ahri system. If Moutuan is willing to be fully acquired, then Ahri will definitely have no problem with it.

It’s not just Ahri.

It is estimated that Tengda and Qiandu will also be interested in Mold Tuan.

The three giants are already in a stalemate in the food delivery industry. At this moment, whoever can acquire the bad company may break the existing fragile balance in one round.

Zhang Shuo even got the news a long time ago, and Tengda has never given up contact with the mold group in private.

But who would have thought.

Wang Xin actually abandoned the Big Three and took the initiative to find Zhang Shuo.

"I have observed, no, to be precise, I have been studying Qingcheng Group for a long time. In the food delivery field, no, to be more precise, in the local life service field, I am more optimistic about the future of Qingcheng Group."

Wang Xin is also open and honest.

After the Big Three fell out one after another, he has accepted the reality that the bad guys cannot survive alone.

But even if he has to sell himself, Wang Xin still hopes to find the right buyer. After selling the bad group, he can join the Qingcheng Group and continue to stay on the battlefield with a new identity.

"Yeah?"

Zhang Shuo really believed it.

Wang Xin of the original time and space can make a mold, his ability is undoubtedly outstanding, and his understanding of local life services is also the best in the country.

Being able to choose Qingcheng Group is also a recognition of Zhang Shuo.

"But if Mei Ya acquires Mold Group, Ahli will be an obstacle that cannot be overcome. There is also Scarlet Capital. You should know that Scarlet Capital is Bu Ya's mortal enemy, right?" Zhang Shuo was still puzzled.

Even if Su Ya intends to acquire Moutuan, there will be many obstacles. Not only is Scarlet Capital not willing to do so, but it is also easy to hate Ah Li.

"In Moutuan, my team and I still have a controlling stake. Whether it is Ali or Scarlet Capital, they can vote against it, but in the end they have to respect my decision." Wang Xin explained.

This is also his last bargaining chip.


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