Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

"What a brilliant strategist! You're truly a first-rate, ruthless villain. What about the third plan?"

Thank you for the compliment. The third point is my trump card, which can directly cut off Synaptics' escape route. That is Synaptics' second-largest revenue-generating business line: IP licensing.

No matter how much we suppress his EDA business, his IP licensing business will continue to provide him with funding, and he can always stick to us like a leech.

So we can do a little sabotage on the servers they deliver to customers. We won't modify the IP core source files, as that would be too easy to detect.

We'll modify the delivery packaging script, changing just a few small numbers. For example, when packaging an IP core that is a PCIe Gen2 controller, we'll change the decision window from 1.2ns to 1.1ns in the timing check assertion of the verification script.

This won't cause large-scale damage, but it will fail if you prioritize performance. Synopsys' technicians will go crazy because they can't find the problem at the company because their source code is version 1.2.

"Can't they find anything by looking at the data? Hmm, that intuition is kicking in again. Is it because the timing itself fluctuates under different processes?"

[That's right! Sure enough, I've been using your brain all along, and you're unintentionally acquiring knowledge. At this rate, in another 300 years, you'll be a chip expert!]

"Who are you mocking! Speak properly!"

In short, because this process itself fluctuates—temperature and voltage can cause deviations—they won't detect the problem. Moreover, it's only sporadic, not an issue every time, making it even harder to detect. Even if they do detect it, they'll simply assume it's an adjustment during a particular iteration.

However, this is a slow poison; their customers will only feel that Synaptics' technology is becoming increasingly unstable, and after a few months, their customers will gradually choose to license their IP from other providers.

"Okay, let's get started. Let's hurry up and kill Xin Si. We still need to pick up Lily and go to the company for a visit this afternoon."

With the carnivorous plant in hand, these operations are not difficult; all you need to do is issue commands.

A dozen minutes later, Chen Yiran took Pidan Mocha and Latte to Stanford to pick up Lily.

Lily originally wanted to audit classes at Berkeley, but Chen Yiran persuaded her to change her plans to Stanford. Berkeley is a bit far, and Stanford's journalism program is sufficient; she's just auditing classes to refresh her knowledge anyway.

When they arrived at Stanford, Lily was already waiting at the entrance, dressed in a long yellow dress, perfectly matching Chen Yiran's aesthetic.

The three dogs all started wagging their tails like crazy when they saw Lily.

After Lily got in the car, she took out some dried duck meat from her bag and started feeding it to the baby.

Chen Yiran started driving towards the company, complaining as she did so, "You just spoil those three. Now they even carry dried duck with them. It's outrageous."

"Dogs are meant to be pampered, hurry up and start. I saw Catherine's tweet, your company is really lively today. This April Fool's Day is like Halloween."

"I feel that April Fool's Day is similar to Halloween. Since today is Friday, I'll just treat it as a holiday for tomorrow and the day after."

Chen Yiran thought he was mentally prepared, but he still underestimated how exaggerated it could be when those who worked overtime all year round let loose.

When you arrive at FlowEDA, you'll see that the palm trees at the entrance have been wrapped in colorful crepe paper to resemble giant lollipops.

Things got even more outrageous once they got inside the company. Chen Yiran, utterly speechless, yelled at Catherine, who was throwing toilet paper everywhere, "How old are you guys?! You've completely wrecked the office!"

As Catherine threw away toilet paper, she handed Chen Yiran a pack from the side. Chen Yiran didn't take it, but Lily did, and they started throwing it around together.

Toilet paper, abbreviated as TP, generally refers to a prank played by mentally ill teenagers in the United States. It's very silly; they just throw toilet paper everywhere, one strip at a time, making a mess.

Chen Yiran found it very difficult to understand what was so fun about it, but Americans really enjoyed it; they were very enthusiastic about burying everything with toilet paper.

Catherine threw things around while complaining, "It's all Raj's fault, he started it!"

Chen Yiran turned to Raj, who looked completely innocent, and said, "Aren't you Indian?"

Raj feigned fear and shouted, "The boss is racist! He said I can't work for TP company because I'm Indian!"

Enraged, Chen Yiran took the lead and wrapped Raj in toilet paper, turning him into a mummy.

On the second floor, they weren't drowning in toilet paper. Several groups had already started tearing off name tags in a fierce battle, something Chen Yiran had suggested earlier. Putting aside everything else, South Korea's variety shows are all pretty good; they were Chen Yiran's go-to entertainment in her past life.

For this April Fool's Day team building activity, he had Catherine prepare name-brand outfits for each group in advance, so that anyone who wanted to participate could join.

Upon seeing Chen Yiran approach, the groups that were locked in a stalemate all turned around.

Chen Yiran quickly waved his hand: "Don't worry about me, I need to take care of something important. The company's news for today hasn't been released yet."

Upon entering the legal office, Chen Yiran discovered that Wang Zhiwu was hiding under the table.

"What are you doing hiding down there?"

Wang Zhiwu quickly raised his finger to signal for silence, then glanced warily outside and said, "The name tag ripping game is divided into departments and teams, and I'm the only legal counsel in the company! To win, I have to hide for now."

As Chen Yiran turned on her computer, she said, "Then go hide somewhere else. It's not easy to be found hiding in your own office."

"The most dangerous place is the safest place. They wouldn't expect me to be hiding under my desk in my office. Several groups of people came by just now, and they all left after glancing at me and leaving."

Chen Yiran ignored him and turned on her computer to start editing the information.

After Wang Zhiwu arrived, he was put in charge of the company's major communication channels.

Chen Yiran first logged into the company's GitHub page and pinned a message to the top.

FlowEDA has officially announced its acquisition of AMD, and AMD is now part of the FlowEDA family. The original pet shop has been upgraded to a zoo, and AMD's brand animal image has been changed to a white tiger. The new company is named MacroHard, and the announcement included a photo of a white tiger cub next to a picture of a preserved egg.

The same information was also posted on Hacker News and Twitter.

After finishing, Chen Yiran took out her phone and posted a tweet on her personal Twitter account, which already had quite a few followers.

"FlowEDA's consumer-grade product, Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, will be launched in a year, abbreviated as ChatGPT."

While sending the message, Chen Yiran glanced at the chaotic Silicon Valley news. Google, as the king of April Fools, officially released Gmail Motion, which allows users to operate email with motion gestures. It was accompanied by a very serious product demonstration video, and the page looked like a completely formal release.

Raise your hand to reply to emails, flick to the right to forward them, and a thumbs-up to add a tag. It even thoughtfully includes a safety guide, stating that you need to ensure there is enough space around you before using it.

Groupon, a group-buying platform, is featuring a very cheap deal on male hormone supplements on its homepage. You can participate by using the discount code MANLY.

TomTom Navigation announced that it will add the Queen of England's voice in the next version. This seemingly simple addition has sparked much discussion about whether it's an April Fool's joke.

In fact, it seems that only companies with a strong engineering culture tend to create April Fool's Day surprises.

Established companies like Oracle, IBM, and Intel are not participating.

Microsoft is interesting. People on Twitter are saying that Bing search found an Easter egg, which is probably a small-scale prank by the team.

That's normal; Ballmer doesn't seem like someone who can take a joke.

Looking at the comments section of their own company's Twitter account, a group of people had already started replying.

Gao Dewei secured the first floor and immediately said that he had too much work ahead of him and needed to retire.

A crowd gathered to see him off, and some even began volunteering to take over Gao Dewei's position.

Chen Yiran scrolled through her messages for a while, just as she was about to go out to play the name tag ripping game, when she saw the tweet from before, and the person involved had actually responded.

AMD announced on its Twitter account that it has been acquired by FLowEDA and is very pleased to have chosen the White Tiger as its mascot. We hope CEO Chen Yiran can lead the company to greater success and profitability.

Having just lifted his buttocks, Chen Yiran sat down again and began to consider the AMD issue.

Leather Jacket Huang has been getting a bit too arrogant lately thanks to CUDA. It's time to put him down a bit. We can't let CUDA, this moat, develop so easily.