Chapter 606: Genius Boy, Qingyun Project! 7.64 million per day, 147,000 yuan per square meter!

"If I have the opportunity, I would also be happy to be a Chinese!"

Tan Linlu, who studies electronic engineering at the University of Cambridge in the UK, sat in the classroom, staring at the video on his mobile phone with an incredible look on his face.

Could it be that Tiangong Technology is not a chip design company, but a company that develops mind-control drugs?

If not, it would be hard to explain why Daniel would bring his family, overcome numerous obstacles, and travel thousands of miles to China.

What is the charm of Tiangong Technology?

"Lin Lu! I knew you were here! Our advisor has already written letters of recommendation for both of us. We just need to go through the interview process and we're guaranteed to get into STMicroelectronics."

Tan Linlu suddenly looked up and saw his classmate Meng Lingzhong walking towards him quickly with two letters of recommendation, his face full of excitement.

The two were alumni of the same department and class at Yenching University. Later, they came to study in the UK together and became classmates, so they became more familiar with each other.

"Lao Meng, I want to return to China to develop."

If it were a week ago, Tan Linlu might have been happy to join STMicroelectronics.

But now, he has a new choice in his mind.

He wants to go to Tiangong Technology!

On the one hand, I was curious: What was the secret to a company that attracted industry giants like Daniel and Lu Mingyan? Was it the generous salaries or the world-class research environment?

On the other hand, there was a sense of belonging that quietly sprouted in his heart.

During his years studying abroad, he always heard doubts about China's chip technology at some international academic conferences, and he was also aware of the monopoly position of European and American semiconductor companies in the high-end market.

But since the emergence of Tiangong Technology, China's chip industry has been rising step by step.

It is said that ARM's revenue shrank by 30% last year!

This is because Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung and Huawei have all abandoned the ARM architecture and switched to the instruction set encoding rules of Orange Z1.

Moreover, Tiangong Technology’s salary and benefits are not bad, and are not inferior to those of international first-tier companies.

Why not return to serve your country while ensuring your own interests?

Meng Lingzhong was slightly startled, and the letter of recommendation in his hand almost fell to the ground. He stared at his friend and advised, "There are simply no decent companies in the field of memory chip R&D in China. Don't be silly. Let's go to STMicroelectronics first, and then go to Micron, Sanxing, or SK Hynix after gaining experience. This is the right direction for life."

In his eyes, Tan Linlu was probably confused, which was why he wanted to run back.

"Tiangong Technology's founder, Chen Yansen, said they will invest 10 billion yuan annually in memory chip research and development in the future..."

Tan Linlu explained slowly.

"You don't believe it, do you?" Meng Lingzhong asked immediately.

He didn't know Tiangong Technology, but he knew very well about the situation of other semiconductor companies.

Forming cliques and engaging in intrigue are the norm. Everyone is good at getting subsidies, but they get stuck when it comes to core technology.

Overseas counterparts are busy improving the yield rate of the 14nm process, while China has not even mastered the 28nm production process.

10 billion is nothing!

It’s barely enough to set up a memory chip production line!

"I believe in Chen Yansen." Tan Linlu replied firmly.

Only two years after its establishment, Tiangong Technology has launched four processors: Tiangong T100, Tiangong A100, Tiangong B100 and Tiangong C100.

Especially the Tiangong T100. Almost all smart speaker products on the market are equipped with this AI chip with local computing power.

Although MediaTek and Qualcomm also have similar AI-specific chips, they are ultimately inferior to Tiangong T100 in terms of performance, power consumption control and computing power.

Meng Lingzhong opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Finally, he followed his mentor's advice and went to STMicroelectronics with a letter of recommendation. After receiving a job invitation from Tiangong Technology, Tan Linlu packed his luggage and set off on the journey back to China.

Also traveling with them were many R&D engineers from the UK and France.

With the addition of Daniel and Lu Mingyan, and the generous treatment given by Chen Yansen to scientific researchers, many people have begun to consider working at Tiangong Technology.

After all, Tiangong Technology's strength in chip design has long broken the outside world's inherent impression of "Chinese enterprises."

The other side.

Tiangong Technology's Human Resources Department has successively held spring recruitment activities at universities such as Tsinghua University, Yan University, Jiangsu and Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Jinling University and Luzhou University of Science and Technology, recruiting a large number of engineers in the fields of memory cell design, analog mixed signal design, peripheral circuit design and custom layout.

The annual salary offered in this spring recruitment starts at a minimum of 600,000 yuan. Among them, Li Daoming, a talented young man majoring in microelectronics from Luzhou University of Science and Technology, received an annual salary of 2.7 million yuan.

As soon as the news came out, it instantly ignited the entire Internet.

"Holy crap! 2.7 million a year? That's 20 years of my income!"

"I heard that a 2 million yuan car was given to me on my first day of employment."

"Brother Sen never plays games. The best way to show respect to talent is to spend a lot of money!"

"Tan Linlu from Cambridge University is also very impressive, with a starting salary of 2.3 million."

"Did you see yesterday's report? A bunch of European and American microelectronics engineers joined Tiangong Technology, at least dozens of them."

"We suggest that Tiangong Technology ensure confidentiality and prevent corporate spies from exploiting this loophole."

Netizens are also very concerned and offer advice to Chen Yansen in the comment section.

at the same time.

Chen Yansen sat in the office, listening to the work report of Meng Xinyan, general manager of the human resources department of Tiangong Technology.

"Currently, a total of 327 people have been hired, of which 45% have PhDs and 30% have overseas R&D experience.

"In addition, Li Daoming and Tan Linlu have completed their onboarding procedures and reported to the memory chip R&D department this morning," Meng Xinyan said.

She paused, then added, "We've also noticed the online discussions about confidentiality. The security department has developed a new management plan. All R&D personnel must sign a confidentiality agreement before joining the company. The office area is divided into zones with permissions, and computers are prohibited from connecting to external devices. Even laboratory waste must undergo special disposal."

Chen Yansen hummed, picked up a document from the table and handed it to Meng Xinyan. "Also, let's have the background check of European and American engineers conducted by the Security Department and a third-party agency. Oh, and let's make the Qingyun Project public."

"Okay, boss." Meng Xinyan nodded in agreement, then turned and walked out.

An hour later, Senlian Capital’s official Weibo account posted a message.

The details of the Qingyun Project were announced for the first time.

The poster has a very eye-catching copy: Soar to the sky and shape the future with technology!

To put it simply, the Qingyun Project is the Talented Youth Project.

Regardless of academic qualifications or nationality, as long as you have skills in artificial intelligence, big data, microelectronics engineering and other fields, once selected, you will receive a minimum annual salary of 2 million yuan and be provided with a car and a house.

5 billion in special R&D funds, the right for core personnel to independently establish projects, a share of up to 30% in project profits, a fault-tolerant mechanism for failed projects, and even generous equity incentive policies.

Of course, the difficulty is not ordinary high.

You know, after layers of screening, so far, only Li Daoming and Tan Linlu have been successfully selected.

"Two million yuan a year? Pure cash! Even Ali P9 doesn't earn that much, right?"

"Don't look at it. It has nothing to do with ordinary people like us. There is only one Li Daoming elected in the whole country."

"Damn it! I regret not listening to the teacher. It turns out there really is a golden house in the book!"

The more netizens thought about it, the more sad they felt and the more envious they were.

…

…

After get off work, Chen Yansen asked Huang Boxiang to go to the headquarters of Xingyuan Technology.

The area of ​​this industrial park is as high as 1.2 million square meters, which is naturally much larger than the Senlian Science and Technology Park, but at present, only a small half of the ground buildings in the park have been completed.

I'm afraid that by the time Liang Jinsong increases the yield rate of the 28-nanometer process to 95%, the current industrial park will be difficult to complete.

Chen Yansen waved his hand, signaling Lao Huang to go home.

"Boss, uh, which one?" Huang Boxiang scratched his head and asked with a wry smile.

"Whatever, anything is fine." Chen Yansen looked indifferent.

Can this also be random?

Old Huang was secretly shocked.

At this time, Chen Yansen's cell phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and then clicked the answer button.

"Can't you just behave yourself? The Lighthouse Country has even called Yanjing to file a complaint." Li Qingsong criticized with a smile.

But the tone of his words seemed encouraging, with a hint of pride.

In the past, Chinese scientists always went to Europe and North America. This was the first time Li Qingsong met someone like Daniel Skinner, who kept saying he wanted to change his nationality. He was secretly happy.

On the surface, China simply gained one more foreign scientific researcher.

But in general, this shows that China's economic, technological and academic development has been recognized by the overseas scientific community.

"Mr. Li, I'm truly sorry. I didn't expect Tiangong Technology's recruitment to cause such a stir. In the future, I will pay more attention to the impact and appropriately reduce the proportion of foreign engineers we recruit."

Chen Yansen said this deliberately.

"That won't do!" Li Qingsong smiled. "That Daniel wants to become a citizen? You can ask Meng Yuanzhi to arrange it later. We have to give special consideration to such high-end talents."

"Okay, Mr. Li." Chen Yansen leaned back in his chair and agreed readily.

He knew in his heart that Li Qingsong was obviously trying to cause trouble and provoke the Lighthouse Country.

Three minutes later, the two ended the call.

Chen Yansen looked up and saw that Old Huang had chosen the villa complex where Ye Qiuping lived, so he asked, "Old Huang, did Ye Qiuping give you some money?"

"Ah? Boss, no!" Huang Boxiang suddenly felt wronged, and muttered to himself: Brother Sen, I chose you because I saw that you go to Mr. Ye's house the most often.

"Just a joke." Chen Yansen smiled lightly.

Old Huang looked resentful and thought to himself: Boss, please don't play tricks on me.

At the same time.

Far away in Shanghai at the Orange Supermarket headquarters, Byron and Hou Yi had just finished their weekly business meeting. After some discussion, all employees approved the "East China Region Expansion Plan."

Next, Orange Supermarket will take Shanghai as its center and gradually expand its business scope to Hangzhou, Jinling, Luzhou and other places, and eventually cover the entire East China region.

After gaining a firm foothold, they will advance into North China, Central China, South China and Southwest China.

Within two weeks of opening, the eight self-operated stores in Shanghai had a cumulative transaction volume of 107 million yuan, an average of 7.64 million yuan per day, and a sales per square meter of 147,000 yuan.

This is mainly because the locations of these eight self-operated stores have been carefully considered: first, they are close to the CBD and large communities, so the customer flow is guaranteed; second, there are no decent competitors in the surrounding area, so there is less pressure to divert traffic, which has created a sales per square meter that far exceeds the industry average.

However, if we blindly increase the number of self-operated stores and expand the scope of services, the efficiency per square meter will inevitably decline. This is an unavoidable reality.

Even for a giant like Walmart, the average sales per square meter of its stores worldwide is only over 50,000 yuan; as for supermarkets like Yonghui, the sales per square meter is only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Therefore, within an hour of Orange Supermarket’s recruitment notice being posted on its official website, the HR department’s mailbox was filled with resumes.

For example, there are 80 cashier vacancies, but the number of resumes is as high as 600.

The deadline for submitting resumes is in a week. By then, won’t there be thousands of people competing for one job opportunity?

The next morning, after seeing Byron's work email, Chen Yansen thought for a moment and replied: "First, stop accepting new resumes. Second, reserve half of the positions for candidates who will be interviewed in person."

After finishing the work at hand, he shook his head helplessly, wondering in his heart: I remember that the employment environment in 2014 was pretty good. Is a cashier position worth hundreds of people fighting for it?

When the resume submission entrance of Orange Supermarket was closed, many people were immediately dumbfounded.

"I just revised my resume. What do you mean? Brother Sen, I also want to work for you."

"Orange Supermarket's official WeChat account posted an announcement. Apparently, because there were too many people submitting resumes, they closed the entrance early to avoid wasting everyone's time."

"I should have applied yesterday. Now I don't even have the chance to interview!"

The comment section of Orange Supermarket’s official Weibo account is filled with the regret and resentment of job seekers.

Some people posted their academic certificates and work experience in an attempt to secure extra interview spots, while others tagged Byron, Hou Yi or Chen Yansen in the hope of getting an interview opportunity.

"I didn't expect everyone to be so enthusiastic about Orange Supermarket. But I've looked at a lot of resumes, including graduate students and undergraduates. In fact, the Orange Mobile Factory, Kuaipao, and Yunsu also need relevant talent for basic management positions. Everyone is welcome to submit their resumes."

After Chen Yansen learned about it, he posted a reply on his personal account on Toutiao.

"It is not recommended that Orange Supermarket recruit undergraduate or graduate students to work as cashiers, stockers, and cleaners. This is undoubtedly a waste of highly educated talent."

A famous internet professor jumped out to make accusations.

"Thank you, but I don't accept your advice! I've looked around for jobs in Shanghai, and the starting salary is generally 4,000 yuan, not including food and accommodation. I can't even save 500 yuan a month. I mop the floor at Orange Supermarket and I can earn 7,000 or 8,000 yuan a month. So let me ask you, what should I choose?"

"I also have a bachelor's degree, but I can't really find a reliable job with a liberal arts major. My parents asked me to go back to my hometown and take the civil service exam, but I think killing fish at Orange Supermarket is pretty good too. The working atmosphere is great, and I love it here."

"Haha, I'm the same. Although the work is a bit tiring, I get a 40% discount on employee meals every day, and the 500 yuan meal allowance every month is just right. I've worked at Orange Supermarket for half a month and I've actually gained more than ten pounds."

As soon as the professor showed up, he was criticized by countless college students.

Who doesn’t want to sit in an air-conditioned office, typing on the keyboard, and earn over ten thousand yuan a month?

But reality doesn’t allow it!

Although the average salary in Shanghai is high, 99% of people are lagging behind, and less than 1% earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

The internet-famous professor wanted to refute the comments, but netizens cursed him too harshly, so he had to quickly close the comment section and act like a coward.

Immediately afterwards, a piece of news overshadowed the Orange Supermarket's recruitment enthusiasm.

"This heartless daughter-in-law has taken away the custody of her granddaughter. Not only does she not support the elderly, she is also taking her parents-in-law to court!"

(End of this chapter)