The atmosphere in the car felt a little heavy for a while.
When Xu Yun was writing novels in his previous life, he also mentioned these things to his readers.
In the chapter at that time, he also listed a list of overseas scientists who died unexpectedly before returning to China.
Later, there was a comment that deeply touched him:
[Every word is bloody].
yes.....
Each of those seemingly unremarkable names was cruelly stained with blood behind them.
How deplorable...
But soon.
Lu Xiao took the initiative to change the topic.
He glanced at Xu Yun with a smile, and said casually::
"Dr. Xu, can you introduce to me the specific situation of your company now?"
When Xu Yun heard this, his heart suddenly trembled.
coming.
Although with the help of the Academy of Sciences, Lu Xiao successfully became one of the three 'compensations'.
But as a top research talent in the industry.
It is obviously impossible for Lu Xiao to completely tie herself to Huadun Biotech, a seemingly immature company, in order to return to China.
If he wants to be able to choose ALLIN's partner without any worries, he must at least be at the BAT level.
Therefore, during the previous contact process, Lu Xiao and the Academy of Sciences had made an agreement:
He will only work for Huadun Biotech unconditionally for one year, after which he has the right to choose whether to continue to perform the contract.
Actually.
As a living human being with the ability to think independently.
Lu Xiao's so-called "one year of work" also covers a wide range of flexibility.
For example, fishing for one year is fulfilling the contract.
Working hard is also fulfilling your contract.
Working overtime all night is still fulfilling the contract.
Different mentality, efficiency and results are two completely different levels.
Therefore, this conversation at this time is, in a sense...
interview.
It was not Xu Yun interviewing Lu Xiao, but Lu Xiao interviewing Xu Yun.
After Lu Xiao opened his mouth.
The expressions of Chen Yunji and Tian Liangwei still looked normal, but there was a hint of concern in their eyes at the same time.
Lu Xiao is a well-known expert in biological intelligence and is well-known in the industry for his abilities in three-dimensional display technology and scene modeling technology.
It may be an exaggeration to say that he is the world's number one in the industry, but the Chinese are definitely worthy of being number one.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been worried that he wouldn't be able to come back.
So although Chen Yunji's trip is indeed just to help his senior brother, if Lu Xiao really only fishes in Huadun Biotech for one year...
Then naturally Chen Yunji would not let go of this good opportunity that came to his door.
And the other side.
Although Xu Yun paid great attention to Lu Xiao's problem, his expression still looked very relaxed. This was also one of the skills he learned from Gu Qunqing during this period:
"Okay, since Dr. Lu is interested, I will introduce the current situation of our company."
"At present, our company has only conducted one round of informal financing... It can be regarded as an angel round. The equity structure is divided into four parts: myself, the HKUST New Venture Fund, the School of Life Medicine of HKUST, and the School of Physics of HKUST."
"In addition, there is a small part of the option pool used for dividends, and there should be no follow-up financing in the short term."
"Now the company owns a production plant for fifth-generation imidacloprid products, with a total of twelve production lines. Counting the factory management personnel, there are about fifty employees in this production area."
"As for the company's headquarters...the clerical staff, that is, the personnel, finance, public relations, operations, network security, and customer service departments, total about 110 people."
"In addition, the University of Science and Technology has 20-30 working students, basically all master's or doctoral students. This is a project we cooperate with the University of Science and Technology."
"In addition, the company now has two biological research laboratories. The person in charge of laboratory No. 001 is a friend of mine who speaks loudly, named Qiu Sheng."
"The person in charge of the laboratory numbered 002 is Academician Zhou Shan, and he is now responsible for the related breeding of local donkeys."
I heard the name Zhou Shan.
Lu Xiao's expression suddenly became more solemn.
Although Zhou Shan has now lost his academician title, he is regarded as "white body".
But for an insider like Lu Xiao.
Zhou Shan is still a senior worthy of respect.
Then Xu Yun paused, glanced at Lu Xiao calmly, and continued:
"As of December last year, our company's monthly gross profit was about over one million, and occasionally it could reach two million."
"However, with the outbreak of public opinion incidents not long ago, our products have been greatly exposed, and sales have increased significantly."
"Even after the retaliatory consumption has passed, the company's monthly gross profit will still be maintained at more than 10 million - this is still a short-term value."
"When we get our tickets in Europe, and with the increased frequency of cockroaches in summer, our monthly profits can conservatively exceed 25 million."
"In addition, we have two other products, Yi'anji toothpaste and microbial battery, which have achieved breakthroughs. They will be able to increase profits to some extent after being launched online."
After listening to these words.
Lu Xiao's expression remained unchanged, but he quickly made calculations in his mind.
It is different from knowing the information about Academician Zhou Shan.
This is the first time he has learned about the actual operating conditions of Huadun Biotech in detail - after all, Huadun Biotech is not listed on the market, and its revenue cannot be seen from the financial report.
At least the situation Xu Yun introduced so far somewhat surprised him.
To know.
These values mentioned by Xu Yun are all gross profits, which are essentially different from the concept of turnover.
The first 25 million may seem a bit misleading to Lu Xiao, after all, we are talking about something that has not happened yet.
This is just like many novel writers saying that they have ordered women's clothing, but they haven't even written out their horoscopes yet.
But even the lower 10 million, the accumulated amount in one year is enough to exceed 100 million.
Although talking directly about money is a bit philistine, the financial health of a company will often directly determine how far the company can go.
Now that he knows about the financial health of Huadun Biotech, there is only one thing left that Lu Xiao cares about...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He straightened his body, his expression changed from casual to serious, and said to Xu Yun:
"Dr. Xu, I wonder how much support the company can give me?"
Huadun Biotech's current main field is biochemical engineering, but Lu Xiao is an expert in biological intelligence.
It's not like there's no overlap between the two.
But one thing is obvious...
Huadun Biotech currently does not have mature departments or personnel for Lu Xiao to connect with.
In other words, the company must set up a new department for Lu Xiao, so the level of support is an issue that must be discussed.
If only three or two kittens were given to Lu Xiao, the annual funding would be one to two million...
So no matter how good the company's current financial situation is, he can't work full-time.
Faced with Lu Xiao’s questions.
Xu Yun was silent for a moment, took out a document from his side and handed it to him:
"Dr. Lu, take a look at this first."
Although Lu Xiao was confused, she still took the document out of politeness.
He first pinched the upper corner to scan the page number and thickness, and then continued reading.
But soon.
Lu Xiao's originally somewhat casual gaze gradually became serious.
After a while.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Xu Yun with some joy:
"Dr. Xu, did you write all these contents?"
Xu Yun waved his hand, shook his head humbly, and explained:
"It's not all my fault. Our company's CTO Mr. Xiaorong, Director Wang Qingchen from HKUST, and Teacher Liu Ligang from HKUST have all contributed a lot."
"If I have to say it, this can be regarded as the culmination of collective efforts."
Chen Yunji on the side was a little curious about his senior brother's reaction. When he saw this, he couldn't help but stepped forward and took a few glances:
"Huadun Biotech..MR Technology Research Center is preparing a letter of intent and project prospects?"
That's right.
The document Xu Yun handed to Lu Xiao contained exactly what was written on it...
Content related to MR technology.
After all, Lu Xiao’s major is scene modeling and natural interaction, which belongs to the orthodox category of MR.
HealthTOHO, which Microsoft and AstraZeneca made famous at the CIIE, is an application of MR technology.
The original Halo rewards happened to include part of the MR technology.
Of course.
What Halo gives is not mature technology, but some key nodes.
So before this meeting.
Xu Yun prepared such a material.
As for whether this material will appear to be significantly different from Xu Yun's professional...
do not forget.
Although Xu Yun has never majored in computer science in his life, the condensed matter physics he chose is actually a field that covers a wide area.
As we all know.
Traditional condensed matter has two themes:
One is the energy band theory based on Landau-Fermi liquid theory, with mean field approximation and perturbation theory as the main methods.
The other is based on Landau's second-order phase transition theory, which classifies phases with different symmetries through group theory, which is attributed to different order parameters.
The latter studies phase transitions, symmetry breaking, and critical phenomena. Later, the introduction of renormalization groups further improved this paradigm.
The perfect foundation for the latter can be divided into two aspects.
One is the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity.
It foreshadows new physics beyond Fermi Liquid in strongly correlated electronic systems. The KT phase transition of superfluidity and superconductivity in two-dimensional systems reveals a third type of phase transition besides finite temperature phase transitions, prompting people to start paying attention to topological phases.
The other is the quantum Hall effect family.
In particular, the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect and the quantum spin Hall effect as an example of topological phases have clarified parameters that are different from the usual diagonal or non-diagonal long program parameters.
The above is very simple and easy to understand.
And the quantum Hall effect...
It is one of the key directions in the field of chips and VR, AR and MR.
Although for the vast majority of condensed matter students, they may only study a certain sub-direction throughout their lives.
But if we don’t consider ‘fine’, but simply consider ‘many’...
In other words, considering the scope of research, condensed matter can have some connection with almost every field of science and technology.
What's more, in the document, Xu Yun only presented a very small part of MR-related technologies.
He chose to retain the remaining professional knowledge that was too much beyond "personality".
In addition, he did seek help from Xiaorong Wang Qingchen and Professor Liu Ligang, the most authoritative person in the field of VR at the University of Science and Technology, so he was not worried about exposing any chicken feet.
After all, the current MR technology is far from mature, and there are a lot of unknown areas that need to be broken through.
To describe it with another metaphor that is closer to life...
Lu Xiao is equivalent to a cook, and Xu Yun is a gourmet.
Nowadays, everyone knows that "fish" can be used for cooking, and it is foreseeable that this is a promising ingredient.
But it's one thing to know the prospects, and it's another thing to master the specific cooking techniques - Lu Xiao only knows how to make braised fish and scallion oil fish.
At this time, Xu Yun appeared.
He didn't know how to cook, but he suggested some directions - for example, could we cut the fish into thin slices and add a lot of seasonings to make soup?
Xu Yun did not come up with the finished product or specific formula, but the direction he mentioned gave Lu Xiao a lot of inspiration.
Of course.
Xu Yun only gave a small part of his thoughts in the document, otherwise he would not have allowed Chen Yunji to look into it.
Then he paused and struck while the iron was hot:
"Dr. Lu, you may not know something, but the whole company is actually very welcoming to your arrival."
"Although our company currently focuses on biochemical engineering, the future span will inevitably transcend this industry - for example, we are cooperating with the University of Science and Technology on the ground state research of solitary point particles, and the supercomputing assembly currently in preparation, etc.
..."
"Super computing?"
Before Xu Yun finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lu Xiao curiously:
"Dr. Xu, is our company still planning to develop supercomputing?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing the word 'we' from Lu Xiao's mouth, Xu Yun's mouth curved slightly, but he soon returned to normal again:
"Yes, this is also one of the company's plans for future development."
"Although it is very cheap to rent out supercomputer cores these days, it is still not as good as having it in your own hands, especially when it comes to some business secrets."
Lu Xiao nodded in agreement.
Nowadays, the core time of supercomputer is generally only around two or three cents, and many up owners often rent core time for rendering.
But for a technology company.
Owning your own supercomputer is equivalent to buying a house in Chinese terms.
Only with supercomputing can this technology company be complete.
Then he thought about it and asked again:
"Dr. Xu, I'm curious, who is your company planning to customize a supercomputer with, the Liu family?"
"Liu family?"
Xu Yun's face darkened when he heard this, and a trace of disgust appeared in his eyes.
This disgust is not directed at Lu Xiao, but at the Liu family:
"of course not."
Speaking of the Liu family, few people in China have a good impression of them nowadays.
Not to mention that Xu Yun is still a member of the Academy of Sciences and knows a lot more about some things about the Liu family than ordinary people.
But on the other hand.
What has to be admitted is that the current Liu family is also the most important supercomputing manufacturer in China.
Until 2022.
Among the top 500 global supercomputers, there are 173 Chinese supercomputers on the list, of which 138 are from the Liu family, accounting for nearly 80%.
But it needs to be emphasized.
The Liu family's supercomputer is a standard trade, industry and technology model.
Because except for Liujia, all other suppliers use or have used their own chips.
And in most supercomputers, the cluster architecture used still comes from Intel and Mellanox. The only Liu family technology listed as core level is water cooling. Can you believe it... (You can see the list of the top 500 supercomputers, before
I gave it once (top500/list)
So why do Liu’s supercomputers account for a high proportion of the market in China?
One is the water cooling mentioned above.
In the business world, performance and energy consumption are always two 'attributes' that need to be considered.
The Liu family’s water-cooling technology is currently among the top echelons in the world, and is only provided to supercomputers through its own channels.
When production costs are similar, most businesses will naturally consider Liujia.
The second reason is that the Liu family took over IBM's x86 server business.
Although the performance indicators of IBM servers...including the most critical reliability are average, to be honest, in the case of horizontal comparison, they still beat the current purebred domestic servers, such as ThinkPad Shenzhou.
So you will find that after the Liu family acquired IBM's x86 server business in 2015, its supercomputing share began to increase significantly.
The last and most critical point is...
Except for the supercomputer produced by the first company, other Chinese supercomputer suppliers have been sanctioned - the reason given by Haidian is that it endangers national security because "supercomputer computers can be used for nuclear explosion tests."
For example, five supercomputing companies related to Sugon and Shenwei were included in the sanctions list in 2019.
The "Tianhe" series was included in the "Entity List" as early as 2015.
Well, this shows that the * family is upright and can't find any reason for sanctions across the sea. Our Warwick should learn more from others.
all in all.
as far as I can tell.
If you want to customize supercomputers, few companies in China can avoid the Liu family.
But don't forget...
Xu Yun has the artificial intelligence Mimi with the halo reward.
After upgrading the computing power module of 1850 copies.
Mimi's computing power has increased by 1.14514%, and its computing power is close to 24290TFlop/s.
Even among the top 500 companies in the world, it ranks around 270.
So rather than saying that he is customizing a supercomputer, it is better to say that Xu Yun is just borrowing a shell.
Therefore, he could completely avoid the Liu family and tinker with another supercomputer.
even.....
You don't even need to consider the server, as long as the chip meets the conditions.
For example, Zhongke Cambrian, founded by Chen Yunji, is a very suitable chip supplier.
Think of this.
Xu Yun couldn't help but take a deep breath again and solemnly said to Lu Xiao:
"Dr. Lu, I can assure you right now that if you are willing to join our company, within one month, the company will allocate at least a start-up capital of no less than five million Chinese coins to you."
"In addition, every three months, another five million funds will be received."
"In addition, although the company has not yet established an MR R&D department, we have reached an agreement with the University of Science and Technology. The manpower you need can be recruited directly from the University of Science and Technology. Of course, if you want to recruit from the public or have familiar candidates, you can also feel free to do so.
Open your mouth."
"Dr. Lu, this promise and the stack of documents of intention are ours..."
"Sincerity."
inside the car.
Looking at Xu Yun with a sincere face, Lu Xiao remained silent.
If he rejected Xu Yun at this time, he would not be able to leave right away due to the restrictions of his previous agreement with the Academy of Sciences.
But the funds and authority that Xu Yun mentioned are obviously impossible to be approved.
After all, no one would be willing to provide too many favorable conditions to a visitor who is only staying for a year.
be honest.
Originally his idea was actually very simple.
Just work normally for one year at Huadun Biotech, not fishing but not working hard either, and make one or two things that can bring a profit of two to three million, which is worthy of your salary.
Wait until one year is up.
He may go to the Academy of Sciences, he may go to Cambrian, or he may go south to other companies.
In short, it is unlikely to stay at Huadun Biotech.
But after this conversation with Xu Yun...
He hesitated a little.
Mentioned it a long time ago.
Compared with AR and VR technologies, MR is much less well-known.
This understanding is not limited to the general public, but also includes many leaders in charge. Don’t think that all leaders of the Academy of Sciences are professionals. Office politics also exists in the Academy of Sciences.
Therefore, Lu Xiao had to consider a question:
If I rejected Xu Yun at this time, would anyone be able to understand the MR industry like Xu Yun?
The answer is obviously no.
I am afraid that even Chen Yunji, a fellow junior fellow student, cannot do this.
Whether a superior has a common language is a situation that must be considered.
then.....
He thought of himself again.
After going to the other side of the sea to study for a Ph.D., he once lost himself under the temptation of money and life on the other side of the sea.
But later on, as I got older and my experience improved.
He suddenly discovered...
It’s actually not that good abroad.
For example, his rank.
His rank at Microsoft has not changed for nine years, and he has been stuck at Senior SDE... which is level 63.
The reason is because he is a Chinese.
Coupled with some of his experiences in the society across the sea over the years, his desire to return home became even stronger.
Although China is still in the development stage, there are disadvantages of one kind or another.
But after all, it is my home...
At least you don’t have to find an ear-picking shop to have a comfortable ear-picking like you do abroad.
So after the Academy of Science contacted me.
Lu Xiao agreed to the entire plan without any hesitation.
He left his homeland at the age of 25, and now, at the age of 43, he has just returned to this land again.
Nowadays, money is no longer the goal he pursues. Instead, his innocent heart of serving the country while studying is becoming more and more intense at this time.
Whether Huadun Biotech is backed by the University of Science and Technology, or its healthy financial situation, coupled with the promises made by Xu Yun, it seems...
Is it still a very nice environment?
Think of this.
A trace of determination flashed in Lu Xiao's eyes, she pondered for a moment, and then took the initiative to reach out to Xu Yun:
"Dr. Xu, it's a pleasure to work with you."
Xu Yun originally thought that it would take more effort to convince Lu Xiao, but he couldn't help but be slightly startled when he heard this.
But he quickly reacted and quickly reached out his hand again and shook Lu Xiao's hand:
"Dr. Lu, it's a pleasure to work with you."
So far.
The last piece of the puzzle for Huadun Biotech in the short term...