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Chapter 312 WPG0311: Carbon Transformation! The Beginning of Carbon-Based Transformation! 234K [Subscribe for monthly tickets]

The current situation of the Carbon Change team is indeed very bad.

Tan Jinming has contacted all the connections he can to try to save the Carbon Change team.

However, the historical record of the Carbon Change team is too bad!
What should I do if the battle record cannot be checked?
The Carbon Change team was established more than seven years ago. At its peak, the total number of team members exceeded one hundred. It also consumed 1.75 million yuan of research and development funds from Shuimu University, but ultimately did not produce any results.

Although it is indeed wishful thinking to hope to achieve results in the chip field with only 1.75 million in R&D funds, what if?
Shuimu University originally went there with the mentality of giving it a try. Wouldn’t it be great if they won the prize?
But the probability of winning is too low!
It’s almost four o’clock in the afternoon, Beiluoguxiang.

When Tan Jinming arrived at the teahouse, no one left, whether it was Li Shiyu and Zhu Guanghao, Chen Hongzhi and his two companions, or Gu Mingyue's small team.

Apparently they were also interested in hearing about the Carbon Change team.

Tan Jinming brought two middle-aged men with him. When he saw so many people at the scene, he first introduced himself, "Hello everyone, I am Tan Jinming, a former professor at Shuimu University and the head of the carbon change team. I am currently leading the carbon change team independently."

Tan Jinming then introduced to everyone the two middle-aged men he brought with him.

"This is Niu Bosheng, formerly an associate professor in the Computer Department of Shuimu University, and also the second-in-command of our carbon change team." Tan Jinming introduced Niu Bosheng who was standing on the left.

"The person on the right is Ma Yuanjie, also a former associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Shuimu University. He is now the third in command of the Carbon Change Team," Tan Jinming added.

When An Wuyang heard Tan Jinming's introduction, he secretly complained in his heart, "What kind of cow-horse combination is this?"

But this Niu Ma combination is actually both associate professors in the Computer Department of Mizuki University?
The two of them look to be around 30 years old, but they have already become associate professors. It seems they have some ability!
After Tan Jinming finished his introduction, Chen Hongzhi introduced Tan Jinming and said, "This is Mr. An Wuyang, the executive president of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group."

An Wuyang stood up and shook hands with Tan Jinming and the other two, then invited them to sit down.

Tan Jinming just sat down and said, "Mr. An, about our carbon conversion team..."

An Wuyang raised his hand to interrupt Tan Jinming's introduction. He asked first, "Professor Tan, let me ask a key question first."

"Excuse me." Tan Jinming responded.

An Wuyang asked, "With the support of Shuimu University, you have been conducting research and development on carbon-based chips for more than seven years and have spent 1.75 million yuan. What is your current relationship with Shuimu University?"

An Wuyang had previously entrusted Chen Hongzhi to look into this issue, but his previous understanding was only superficial. Now that he was having a face-to-face interview, he naturally had to understand the specific situation in depth.

In response to An Wuyang's question, Tan Jinming said, "We have nothing to do with Shuimu University now."

"Whether it's me, Niu Bosheng, or Ma Yuanjie, the three of us have already withdrawn from Shuimu University," Tan Jinming responded.

"As for future carbon-change projects, they also have nothing to do with Shuimu University," added Tan Jinming.

At this point, Tan Jinming hesitated for a moment before continuing to add, "Shuimu University's optoelectronics team has made a breakthrough, and Shuimu is more inclined to invest in the optoelectronics team."

"In addition, the traditional silicon-based chip microelectronics team has also made some progress, but our carbon change team still has zero results. So with limited funds, we are naturally eliminated." Tan Jinming said with a sigh.

An Wuyang heard the inside story. Perhaps the relationship between the three teams was not as trivial as Tan Jinming said on the surface?
"So the research and development results of your team still belong to your team, not Shuimu University?" Li Shiyu asked curiously.

Tan Jinming responded self-deprecatingly, "We haven't developed any results in more than seven years."

What Tan Jinming means is that since there are no results, where does the issue of ownership of R&D results come from?

"."Li Shiyu was speechless.

Such a record is really tragic!

Gu Mingyue continued, "Even if you haven't developed any results, what about the research data? Shuimu University generously gave it to you?"

There is no data summary of achievements but failures, right?
These failed research data are equally valuable.

Tan Jinming responded, "All research data are jointly owned by us and Shuimu University. The specific affiliation is that the research data before April 2021, 4 is unconditionally and permanently authorized to us by Shuimu University for free use."

"The new results we have achieved based on previous research data have nothing to do with Shuimu University." Tan Jinming explained the specific situation.

An Wuyang felt relieved. Since there was no problem with the ownership and usage rights of the research data, there was no need to worry about the trouble caused by hidden mines.

"Professor Tan, if your carbon change team wants to continue the research, what do you need?" An Wuyang asked.

Tan Jinming responded, "Only three things are needed."

"Money, people and time," added Tan Jinming.

"We've talked about this before. First of all, we'll need at least 100 million in funding to build the basic framework." While explaining, Tan Jinming took out a document from his briefcase and pushed it to An Wuyang on the tea table.

"We want to rebuild the carbon change laboratory and need to purchase a large number of related equipment. An initial investment of 10 million is the minimum. If we really want to fully set up a comprehensive research environment, at least billion yuan will be needed," added Tan Jinming.

This matches the prompt information fed back by the Happy Life system: 'Phase 10: When the investment scale reaches billion, the theoretical technology of carbon-based chips will be successfully verified;'

In view of the prompt information provided by the Happy Life System, An Wuyang naturally did not doubt the investment amount stated by Tan Jinming.

"As for the issue of people, there are only 26 members left in our carbon change team. We hope to expand the research team, for example, by poaching people from Shuimu University, as well as from other universities and companies," Tan Jinming added.

When An Wuyang heard Tan Jinming's intention to poach students from Shuimu University, he almost laughed out loud!

Chen Hongzhi and Li Shiyu couldn't help laughing, and the others followed suit.

This guy Tan Jinming just jumped out of Shuimu University, and he can't wait to poach people from his former employer, right?

Let's put aside the question of whether this is ethical.
Anyway, Tan Jinming thinks that the talents of Shuimu University are really useful!
Besides, they were already familiar with each other and didn't need any further adjustment. They could start working directly, so Tan Jinming expressed his intention to poach employees from his former employer.

"Mr. An, do you have any taboos regarding the age of your employees?" Tan Jinming asked tentatively.

An Wuyang asked back, "Why do you ask this question?"

Tan Jinming responded, "If we want to poach employees, it's best to poach those who are over 30, especially over 35. After all, employees of this age are always discriminated against in the current workplace."

"I only care about one thing, are they capable of doing the corresponding work?" An Wuyang asked.

"Of course!" Tan Jinming answered affirmatively. "In fact, in my opinion, these people are more adaptable to the work." Tan Jinming added.

"For example, if we ask a researcher in his thirties to work twelve hours a day, they can only work twelve hours. After all, such people are likely to have elderly parents and young children to support, and they are burdened with mortgages, pensions, education and other expenses. How can they not work hard?" Tan Jinming explained the specific situation.

An Wuyang asked jokingly, "Does Professor Tan know about our Wugengtian?"

"I have looked up some information about your Wu Geng Tian on the Internet, and I roughly know that your Wu Geng Tian has a high profit level, which can fully support the research work of the Carbon Change team." Tan Jinming responded.

"You obviously don't understand us at Wugengtian, and you don't understand why I'm asking this." An Wuyang sighed.

Tan Jinming was a little nervous. He thought An Wuyang was superstitious about the age of his employees and also didn't like employees over 30 years old.

An Wuyang continued, "We at Wugengtian have no interest in exploiting our employees!"

"If Professor Tan wants to cooperate with us, he must follow our rules in the future," An Wuyang reminded.

"For example, working twelve hours a day, isn't that illegal?" An Wuyang joked.

"You should say that employees are willing to work overtime voluntarily, and then we are willing to pay the corresponding overtime wages at 5 a.m." An Wuyang added.

"Don't worry, we at Wugengtian are willing to pay you high wages." An Wuyang continued.

"I remember you said before that the average salary of your carbon-changing team is only 10,000, right?" An Wuyang asked.

Tan Jinming answered affirmatively, "Yes."

"With this salary level, I can only say it's not as good as the security guard who guards our house at dawn." An Wuyang joked.

Zhu Guanghao laughed and continued, "I can prove this. As long as the security guards who guard the door at dawn have a little more experience, they can easily make more than 15,000 yuan a month."

???

Tan Jinming, Niu Bosheng, and Ma Yuanjie were all full of questions.

The security guard at the door?
Length of service?

Monthly salary of more than 15,000?

What kind of niche combination is this?

So they who develop chips are not as good as those who guard the gates?
"I don't care if you want to poach people, but don't do anything illegal. We will redesign the salary structure," An Wuyang added.

Tan Jinming naturally agreed.

After all, the security guards who guard the gate at Wugengtian have high salaries, and even their length of service is taken into account. These senior talents who develop chips should also be paid a lot by Wugengtian, right?
No matter what, you can't be lower than the security guard?
If it is higher than the security guards, then it means their salary has increased by more than 50%?
So their team is about to welcome a soft-hearted financial sponsor?

"If you are given sufficient funds and enough R&D personnel, how long do you think it will take to produce results?" An Wuyang asked casually.

Tan Jinming hesitated slightly, then responded awkwardly, "I don't know about that, because there are too many unknowns in the research and development process. We can only guarantee that it will be as soon as possible."

"Okay!" An Wuyang smiled, "This is actually a test for you!"

"Although we at Wugengtian don't understand the chip field, we know a lot about research and development. If you dare to promise a time just now... Haha!" An Wuyang chuckled. Although he didn't mention the consequences, he actually omitted the consequences with a single word 'haha'.

Tan Jinming secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He actually thought about giving a conservative time to keep An safe, but in the end he did not make any promises.

An Wuyang took out his phone to check the information, and then continued, "We at Wugengtian have already registered a corresponding subsidiary in the imperial capital, but the current situation has changed a bit."

"Brother Hongzhi, please take care of this for us. We will re-register two subsidiaries, one corresponding to the carbon change team and the team led by Professor Wei Zhenghong." An Wuyang looked at Chen Hongzhi.

Chen Hongzhi responded affirmatively, "Okay, small problem."

"Professor Tan, you can start recruiting people. After we register the company, we will first inject 1 million Xia Guoyuan into the new company." An Wuyang explained.

Tan Jinming answered affirmatively, "Mr. An, I have already made all these preparations. We just need to wait for the two sides to reach an agreement and the funds to come in, and then we can act quickly."

"We have also selected the office location. We prefer Nakamura in the Ocean District, which is the central area of the imperial capital. If we choose this place, firstly it can demonstrate our strength, and secondly it will be more convenient to poach talents from major universities." Tan Jinming explained.

An Wuyang asked, "Is there a specific location?"

"Yes, we have initially set our sights on the Electronic Building, which is right opposite Microsoft's Asia-Pacific headquarters and is cheap enough. If we rent half a floor of 1000 square meters, the daily rental cost per square meter is only 10 yuan," responded Tan Jinming.

"Is it okay for you to do chip research in a high-rise building?" An Wuyang asked curiously.

"It's okay in the early stages." Tan Jinming replied.

"When we have achievements in the future, for example, when we can manufacture carbon-based chips with a 14-nanometer process node, we will need a more advanced environment, such as an independent factory building with a hydraulic ground stabilization system," Tan Jinming explained in detail.

"We are just starting out now and do not need these high-end support environments. After all, it takes huge amounts of money to build these high-end support environments," added Tan Jinming.

"Okay, you are professionals, you have the final say." An Wuyang replied.

"But we don't rent half a floor, we rent the whole floor directly." An Wuyang added.

"Please arrange it in one step. I hope you can speed up your research, and I hope your research will tend to support the field of artificial intelligence." An Wuyang made additional requests.

Then An Wuyang expressed his vision, "We at Wugengtian invested in your Carbon Change team so that we can better conduct medical research and development in the future, not to let you develop general-purpose computer chips. Do you understand?"

General-purpose computer chips in the silicon-based chip field have reached the point where they are about to hit the limits of the rules of physics, and Wu Geng Tiancai has no interest in going in and getting beaten up.

An Wuyang is more inclined to make artificial intelligence chips to promote Wugengtian’s medical research and development.

Of course, if we can create an AGI-level artificial intelligence system.
The so-called AGI is the abbreviation of [Artificial General Intelligence / General Artificial Intelligence], which means
Simply understand it as Jarvis in the movie.

If an artificial intelligence system of this level can be achieved in the future, it will definitely be a good thing for Wugengtian!
It would be terrifying to put this level of artificial intelligence system into the field of drug research and development, right?

(End of this chapter)