Yang Xiaoxu ran in hurriedly and handed a newspaper to his eyes.
There was an eye-catching line in the newspaper.
[International EDA giant Cadence announced that it will soon enter the Chinese market, and the Batumi embargo may collapse! 】
Cao Weidong's face quickly darkened.
This is.......
Are the Big Three going to enter the Chinese market?
After I rejected the acquisition request of the three EDA giants, the other party has not made any move. Now it seems that they are waiting for this opportunity.
Doing publicity in the country in advance and cooperating with the compradors at that time is likely to have a huge impact on the sales of Spark EDA.
And 1994 happened to be the time when the Batumi embargo was lifted...
"The embargo in Batumi..."
Cao Weidong's eyes fell on the newspaper title.
With his mind wandering, he began to recall the history he had experienced in his previous life.
At that time, in order to cooperate with the containment and blockade of the red camp in public opinion, military, economic and other aspects, an "Iron Curtain" began to brew in the scientific and technological world.
In 1949, a conference group composed of relevant leaders from 17 major Western capitalist countries gathered in Paris with the purpose of "imposing embargoes and trade restrictions on the Red camp."
Because it is headquartered in Paris, it is also called "Batum".
The embargo list for the red camp formulated by this organization is the Paris embargo list.
EDA software and semiconductor-related technologies and equipment are included in this embargo list.
Over time, Batumi’s prohibited list once reached more than 400 prohibited items.
It was not until the early 1990s, as the world structure changed, that this organization, which had been maintained for more than 40 years, gradually came to exist in name only.
On April 1, 1994, Batumi officially announced its dissolution.
However, just before this, in February 1994, EDA giant Cadence officially entered the Chinese market, and then the other two EDA giants Synopsys and Mentraphics also quietly entered the Chinese market.
With the mature and advanced technologies of foreign technology giants, China's integrated circuit design EDA market is basically divided among these three companies.
Domestic software Panda system only occupies a very small share.
In the survival of the fittest in the market, the domestic Panda EDA eventually died.
Several years later, when scholars looked back at this period of history, they couldn't help but ask questions.
Why is the timing so coincidental?
Just in time for China to independently develop the EDA system, the ban was lifted?
And before the embargo is completely lifted, why are overseas giants announcing their entry into China?
coincide?
of course not!
Cao Weidong couldn't help but sneer.
First implement a technology blockade, forcing domestic companies to purchase foreign patented products and earn high patent fees. When domestic companies begin to develop results, they will then be suppressed and disintegrated through economic, political and other means.
The time now is 1993, a year before the Batumi embargo was lifted.
In this life, Batumi also exists.
In this life, China does not have domestic Panda EDA, but it has domestic Spark EDA, which has broken through the overseas technology blockade and has huge influence in the domestic and overseas markets.
Cao Weidong took a deep breath.
He knew that the next step was the test he would face.
In the mainland market, a direct confrontation with the three giants!
Yang Xiaoxu said anxiously.
"Director, Cadence is about to enter the Chinese market. What should we do?"
"Don't worry, there will be a solution when the time comes."
Cao Weidong signaled to Yang Xiaoxu not to be nervous.
After Yang Xiaoxu went out, Cao Weidong sat in the office for a while and was silent for a long time. He got up and walked out of the room and went straight to a heavily guarded room.
This is the research base of Xinghuo Electronics Factory.
After entering, the researchers stopped their work and sent greetings to Cao Weidong.
"You guys go on... Master Lu, come here."
Cao Weidong said warmly, and then waved to a scientific researcher wearing a white coat.
Lu Youtong responded, walked over, and said respectfully.
"Director."
Cao Weidong said as he walked towards the office of the research laboratory.
"Master Lu, you don't have to be so polite. I came here this time to understand the progress of the research."
Lu Youtong is the person in charge of the research base and a well-known scholar in the field of electronic semiconductors. He resigned from abroad and returned to China a few years ago and was hired by Cao Weidong with a high salary.
Lu Youtong followed Cao Weidong into the office and said proudly.
"We are developing Spark EDA 4.0 version, which is expected to add several most advanced module functions and enable it to support smaller-scale chip design. It is expected that after the successful development of this EDA, our EDA software will reach the most advanced level in the world.
field, and is expected to even surpass the Big Three."
"We have now overcome several technical difficulties one after another, and it is only a matter of time before it is completed."
Cao Weidong took the technical materials handed over by Lu Youtong, read them carefully, and said with satisfaction.
"Master Lu, it's such an honor for Xinghuo to have such a great person like you in our factory."
He has purchased EDA software from Wanjie Mall and has a rough understanding of it. Through this information, we can see the efforts and improvements made by Lu Youtong's team in this regard.
At this time, nearly ten years have passed since the first generation of EDA software.
In recent years, EDA has been iterated three times and has basically reached the first echelon in the world.
In fact, he could purchase more advanced EDA technology through Wanjie Mall, but he did not do so because the technology developed by Lu Youtong's team was sufficient.
Moreover, in the current environment, rashly coming up with technology that is sufficiently iterative may cause unnecessary trouble for oneself.
It’s a crime to possess a jade!
When the country becomes truly strong and strong enough to compete with Yingjiang, then it is time for us to take out the advanced technology in our hands, shine and exert its value.
After a moment of silence, Cao Weidong said.
"Master Lu, can you suspend the development of new software and make some improvements to the existing EDA software?"
Lu Youtong was stunned and subconsciously asked.
"Why?"
He soon realized that his attitude seemed to be a bit tough, so he apologized quickly.
Cao Weidong waved his hand, knowing that this was a typical researcher, so he didn't care, but said patiently.
"Master Lu, please listen to me first."
Then he expressed his idea.
Lu Youtong's expression turned strange.
"You want to research an open source EDA software that is easy to spread. The only requirement is to bury a secret backdoor in the software, but what is the use of this?"
"You don't have to worry about the specifics, I will naturally be useful."
He said thoughtfully.
"This open source software can be developed based on EDA2.0. How long will it take to complete?"
Lu Youtong thought for a while.
"It took about two months. I just made some modifications based on the previous ones. It was actually very fast. However, the code to bury the backdoor required research and trial and error, which took some time."
Cao Weidong smiled.
"Very good, I'm waiting for your good news."
After coming out of the research base, Cao Weidong got into his car and headed alone to the more secretive lithography machine research base.