When Wu Hao came to Xiucheng, he regretfully found that he had missed Zhou Shuo.

Tu Anbei has been in great trouble recently. Due to differences in business philosophy, his Fantasy Group has exempted him from all his senior positions. Now this dignified Hanlin Academy of Engineering has to stay at home at the peak of his life.

"Old Tu, Professor Zhao Xia'an from the Institute of 173 is here. Do you want to meet him?" Tu Anbei's wife has seen it these days and is worried. Professor Zhao Xia'an knows such a person who has little to do with work. She also hopes that Tu Anbei can walk out of the study to relax.

Tu Anbei put down the pen in his hand and said, "Zhao Xia'an? Oh, the director of Posts and Telecommunications Office 173, why did he come?"

He stood up, moved his wrists, stretched his waist and walked outside.

"I don't know, but I brought a young man here." The wife put on her coat and tidied it up.

Zhou Shuo stood beside Professor Zhao and quietly looked at Tu Anbei who came out of the study. Although he suffered a heavy blow in his career, he did not calm down. His bright eyes and two thick eyebrows made him look restrained and wise. His smile was gentle, his behavior was soothing and light, and his steps were vigorous and powerful.

"Old Zhao, what wind blows you?"

Zhao Xia'an shook hands with a smile. Although Tu Anbei is an academician of the Hanlin Academy of Engineering, he is much younger than Zhao Xia'an. Professor Zhao pointed to Zhou Shuo next to him and said, "Old Tu, I will introduce you to your personal understanding. Do you know the X-architecture keyboard? It is Zhou Shuo's invention."

As the largest computer brand assembly manufacturer in China at that time, Dream Group was of course closely following the US market. Lenovo had long noticed the X-architecture keyboard, which is a unique peripheral. As the former chief engineer of Dream Group, Tu Anbei naturally heard about it.

"Hello, Mr. Tu, I've heard of the famous name for a long time." Zhou Shuo took the initiative to reach out and hold it with Tu Anbei.

"Hello, everyone, sit down." Tu Anbei greeted him, and the three of them sat down in the living room.

After sitting down, Tu Anbei asked straight to the point: "I don't know what's wrong with Mr. Zhou looking for me?"

Zhou Shuo knew that Tu Anbei was not very polite, so he said directly: "I want Mr. Tu to design an ASIC chip for me. I wonder if you would like to?"

The so-called ASIC chip means Application Specific Integrated Circuits. It refers to a special integrated circuit designed and manufactured according to the specific needs of the user. In contrast, it is a general circuit. The general circuit has a wide range of use, but it has a large size, high power consumption, and its reliability and processing performance are not as good as that of a special integrated circuit.

In China in 1995, not many people were able to perform such circuit designs. Tu Anbei and the engineers of the Fantasy Group he led only did 5 ASIC designs in ten years. Even such experience is already considered rich.

Tu Anbei asked with a little interest: "Oh? Where are your ASIC chips used?"

Zhou Shuo said simply: "It is the modem's command control processor and the underlying algorithm data pump."

"Are you working on a modem?" Tu Anbei said in surprise: "The data processing volume of this project does not require ASIC."

With the data processing volume of 28.9Kbps modems, the general-purpose circuits on the market are indeed enough to cope with it. However, when the processing volume reaches 10Mbps, even the most advanced general-purpose processor in 1994 cannot bear the requirements of soft Modem.

After editing the software part of Modem, Zhou Shuo discovered this serious problem just after testing. Even the best Pentium computer can afford only the minimum data requirement of a cable modem of 2Mbps.

Zhou Shuo shook his head and said, "We are developing a broadband modem for cable TV networks, with a design transmission speed of 2 to 10Mbps. At the current processor level, if it is a soft solution, it can only support a maximum speed of 512Kbps in pursuit of economic benefits."

Zhou Shuo looked at Tu Anbei nervously. An academician of the Chinese Hanlin Academy of Engineering is not easy to invite even in idle work. This is an academician of the Academy of Engineering, not a cabbage.

Zhou Shuo quickly used a color to Zhao Xia'an next to him. Professor Zhao laughed and said, "Old Tu, Xiao Zhou is quite an idea. If you are convenient, just treat him as a favor."

Tu Anbei struggled for a moment, shook his head and said, "I am still working in Dream Group, so it's hard to take on the project myself."

Zhou Shuo said urgently: "Forgive me, why don't you stand alone by yourself? I know that Dream Group has recently removed your position as chief engineer. Since that's the case, why bother to be in the Dream Group. With your abilities, don't you have to trap yourself, right?"

"I..." Tu Anbei waved his hand and said, "Some things are not good to outsiders, you should ask for help."

Zhou Shuo stood up with a silence and said with a serious expression: "I know, you are for the Menghai Microelectronics Design Center, right?"

Tu Anbei looked at him in amazement, then smiled bitterly, "Since you know, you should understand why I rejected you."

Zhou Shuo of course understood that the entanglement between Tu Anbei and Dream Group was a famous case in later generations. As a scientist, Tu Anbei hoped that Dream Group would enter the chip industry, but Liu Zongnan, the helmsman of the group, did not agree with his opinion. The two finally parted ways due to business differences. Tu Anbei could not defeat Liu Zongnan, who was more like a businessman. After a fight, he lost his position as chief engineer of Dream Group.

At this time, the Menghai Microelectronics Design Center, which was jointly established by Dream Group and Fudan University’s Special Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory, was about to sign a contract. Fudan University’s Special Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory is the only national key laboratory in China that specializes in integrated circuit design research at this time and even in the next ten years. This is the last hope of Tu'anbei’s Chinese chip dream, and he must not ignore it.

Even in order to facilitate the establishment of Menghai Microelectronics, he cannot leave Dream Group at this time.

"You should also understand-" Zhou Shuo asserted: "Menghai Microelectronics is impossible. How could Liu Zongnan agree to invest tens of millions into the field of chip design that he doesn't want to do at all? You didn't work when you were the chief engineer, and even worse now."

Tu Anbei fell on the chair, waved his hand weakly, and said, "You go. No matter what, I always have to work harder."

Tu Anbei certainly knew that Menghai Microelectronics' future was slim, but he still didn't want to give up hope. Zhou Shuo's words were like a sharp arrow, completely shattering his disguise. He also knew that, he was just unwilling to face it.

Zhou Shuo stood there and said softly: "If I replace Dream Group for investment, would you like?"

Tu Anbei suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhou Shuo. Then he shook his head and said, "Impossible, do you know how much investment does Dream Group need to invest in Menghai Microelectronics? 60 million, 10 million appropriation, and 50 million loan."

"Sixty million, I have it." Zhou Shuo said calmly.

"What a joke, that's 60 million, not 60,000 yuan." Tu Anbei smiled anxiously. For such an important thing, he could not accept the discussion of someone as if he was buying a watermelon.

Zhou Shuo shrugged: "If you don't believe it, I can immediately take out ten million. Give me a month to raise the remaining 50 million."

Tu Anbeiling said: "What you said is true?"

"It's true." Zhou Shuo took out a passbook from his pocket and handed it to him and said, "If I can't provide the remaining 50 million on time, this ten million will be considered as compensation for you."

Tu Anbei took the passbook and opened it. When he saw a long string of "0s" in the balance column, he couldn't help but feel dazed. What he had always dreamed of was realized so simply? Aren't he dreaming of?

"This..." Tu Anbei didn't know what to say. He hadn't even figured out what Zhou Shuo came from, his identity, and his character. It was too risky to accept his investment rashly. He had nothing to do with his personal risk, but it was a bit too heavy to take the country's only integrated circuit laboratory.

You should know that not anyone can cooperate with the integrated circuit laboratory of Fudan University. This is equivalent to Tu Anbei endorsing Zhou Shuo's investment. If it weren't for him, even if Zhou Shuo took out 100 or 200 million, he would not have looked at him directly.

Tu Anbei was hesitating, but his wife ran over with a newspaper in a panic look.

The wife stuffed the newspaper over and slapped it into Tu Anbei's ear and said, "Old Tu, do you see if Zhou Shuo is mentioned above? "

Tu Anbei looked at the newspaper and saw a half-body photo on the front page of the Science and Technology Daily. Isn’t it just Zhou Shuo standing in front of him? He quickly looked down and saw the title read: A new chapter in the development of trade in science and technology, and innovation consciousness makes a lot of money!

He was quite restless these days and couldn't even raise his mood to read the newspaper. This is the first time he saw this report, and he quickly looked down with a glance.

The article reports in detail about Zhou Shuo's deeds starting with X-architecture keyboard, selling ERP software to Microsoft, and then forming Xinke Computer Company to take on software outsourcing business in the United States.

Science and Technology Daily is the People's Daily in the science and technology industry. What else can explain more than its front page headlines?

Tu Anbei was ecstatic. With this report, his endorsement was not as stressed. There were huge differences in political recognition between an unknown person and a propaganda role model.

"Okay, I agree!" Tu Anbei said excitedly: "As long as you can invest 60 million, I will give up this old face to convince the superiors to change the investor!"

ps. The content of this chapter processes the facts and only represents the author's views. Only the parties involved can explain the right and wrong of the dream group in reality and Tu Anbei in reality. Everyone has a different position in society and the perspective of looking at problems, so there are millions of facts. It cannot be said that which one is wrong or which one is right, because history is not like a novel, and there is no if.

Dream Group chose its own path. Being able to survive means that it chose the right path. But this does not affect our sitting down. If we had taken a different path, would it become different today.
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