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

Chen Yiran felt a great sense of wicked pleasure as he watched the TSMC vice president rush over, trying to catch his breath and politely greeting him.

"Hello, what can I do for you?"

"Your OPC software, the one with the little bunny, right, Tiya? We're very interested. We hope to collaborate, and we'll assist with the PDK certification as soon as possible. We'll send someone to liaise with you."

We have many clients, and they are all eager for us to support your EDA as soon as possible. Let's get this settled quickly, and we can also discuss the OPC licensing fees together.

Chen Yiran laughed and said, "That's not right. I visited your booth at the US Semiconductor Show just a month ago. I was hoping to discuss PDK certification, and the person who received me said the fastest turnaround time was nine to fifteen months."

Cassidy's expression changed several times, first with embarrassment, then with annoyance.

Finally, he could only try to maintain a professional smile and say, "At that time, we didn't understand the situation well enough. The colleague in charge of the first round of reception didn't have the authority to make decisions and could only follow the normal procedures. Now that I'm handling this coordination personally, we will give it the highest level of attention."

"It's alright, I understand. After all, we're a small company, so it's normal that we're not highly regarded. But we're a small company with a small workforce, and our schedules are packed right now. Communication with GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and SMIC has taken up all our R&D resources."

What's more, we also need to help Samsung optimize OPC, and Samsung is paying close attention to it, saying they want to use this opportunity to become the industry leader. It's not that I'm just giving you the runaround; we're not like you big companies that can just push people away, right? We genuinely don't have enough manpower.

If TSMC needs to go through the FlowEDA PDK certification process, I estimate the fastest turnaround time will be nine to fifteen months. If TSMC has this requirement, please contact us again.

Chen Yiran waved his hand, ignoring Cassidy's reply, and led his men out of the venue.

In reality, it would be very unwise to completely reject TSMC, but Chen Yiran was determined to drag things out for a while and give Samsung a sufficient first-mover advantage.

Ultimately, TSMC is a definite enemy in the long run. Samsung can be a friend, but TSMC will inevitably be an enemy.

Moreover, starting today, Chen Yiran will be establishing her own persona.

An 18-year-old tech genius leads a powerful technical team. He's inflexible in business, and doesn't understand compromise. If things don't go his way, he throws a fit of adolescent angst, ready to fight and kill, even if it means giving up money.

In Chinese parlance, that's what Beijing men are like—they care about their reputation.

In the American context, that's what they call a typical teenager—a typical immature teenager.

This character setting fits Chen Yiran's current situation of being young, rich, and skilled, and it also brings many advantages.

His personality profile will definitely be studied by major companies. They will think that if they are not sincere or neglectful in their dealings with Chen Yiran, Chen Yiran may hold a grudge.

This will give Chen Yi a huge advantage in subsequent business negotiations.

In business negotiations, compromise often means a win-win situation. In fact, negotiation is a process of testing the bottom lines of both parties, ultimately reaching a compromise and striving for a win-win outcome.

Most business negotiations are just verbal sparring at the table, but friendly behind the scenes; it's all about verbal maneuvering to gain a little more benefit.

However, if they encounter an 18-year-old tech-savvy teenager who is not short of money, other companies will have to think twice, wondering if they might be overturned if they make even the slightest attempt to test the waters.

Therefore, Chen Yiran must make TSMC kneel down this time.

A mere vice president position wouldn't be enough to stop him from making any concessions. Every industry has struggled since the financial crisis, and TSMC has been on the verge of losses for the past two years. Morris Chang has even returned to the role of CEO.

No matter how many others come, it's useless. Only when Morris Chang comes to apologize, or even publicly begs for cooperation, will Chen Yiran agree.

The company's employees followed behind Chen Yiran, and they were all very pleased to see their boss completely ignoring TSMC. They chattered about whether Samsung could work harder and just drive TSMC into bankruptcy.

Upon arriving at the parking lot, the dozen or so people boarded three cars and drove to a barbecue restaurant that Chen Yiran had booked earlier.

There's a barbecue restaurant called Homey Skewer on Saratoga Ave in San Jose.

It's a barbecue restaurant run by people from Northeast China. The storefront is small, the taste is average, and the prices aren't cheap.

However, Chen Yiran really liked their grilled chicken skin, and since having barbecue was convenient for team building, they chose this place.

Gao Dewei filmed the whole way with a small camera, and he seemed quite spirited today.

When the dishes arrived, Chen Yiran quickly grabbed a skewer of chicken skin. The edges of the chicken skin were slightly charred from the charcoal fire, with cumin and chili powder sticking to the surface. When you bite into it, you get a charred aroma with the fragrance of chicken oil. The outside is crispy, while the inside has a gelatinous texture.

While eating, he asked Gao Dewei, "Old Gao, why are you in such high spirits today? You're not like your usual calm self."

Gao Dewei, holding the camera, tapped the screen on several tables before replying, "Hey, you know me, I'm definitely a veteran in this industry. Most of my peers have started their own businesses, and even those that failed have basically been acquired by others. In short, they haven't lost money and have all made some."

Among my friends, only I don't like starting my own business, probably because of my personality; I feel insecure about it. Although it's not exactly my own startup, at least I have initial shares, which makes me feel like I'm on my own two feet. I'll also have more face in front of my friends in the future.

"Do I have that much influence? You've always been looking for stability, so why did you come all the way here after just a few words with me?"

Gao Dewei smiled sheepishly and said, "Hey, mainly it's because my child is graduating from university soon and won't need to spend any more money, so I feel at ease. Before, I was always worried that I would mess things up and cause financial problems for the family. My husband is a doctor, but not a very skilled one, and he doesn't earn as much as a surgeon. Besides, we have two children, and each one is more expensive than the last."

"That's great, isn't that my good fortune?"

More and more skewers were served later: lamb skewers, chicken wings, eggplant, enoki mushrooms, chives, and lamb and pork kidneys.

They even ordered beef. The two Indians would pretend to look at their phones each time, and then very smoothly and accidentally pick up the beef bracelet and eat it.

The people at the next table started asking to order drinks.

Chen Yiran quickly stopped him: "No drinking! Let me explain the company rules! No drinking during team building activities from now on. If you want to drink during team building activities, you'd better work diligently at the company for three years before you can drink at team building events."

Although Chen Yiran exudes a domineering aura in public, he is actually quite good to his employees.

He was able to get along well with his subordinates, but now a group of people have started chattering and criticizing him.

They all knew what Chen Yiran meant: only when he, the boss, turned 21 and was legally allowed to drink alcohol could the company allow drinking.

After a few jokes, everyone gave him face and obediently drank their Cokes.

Chen Yiran tapped the table twice with his Coke cup and began to make empty promises.

"Today is the day we truly declare war on the three major EDA companies. I can say with certainty that they will definitely retaliate. In the three months following 2010, we must sprint with all our might and lay a solid foundation this year."

Don't worry, the company will continue to grow. After signing the contract with Samsung, we expect to expand our recruitment. I will also reconsider the company's location. As long as the progress in the next three months meets the schedule I set before, I promise that by the end of the year, everyone will receive a bonus equivalent to their annual salary!

Kim Sung-ho was the first to react, holding up his Coke and shouting in broken Chinese.

"Long live the boss!"

Amit hesitated for a moment, and Kim Sung-ho beat him to it, which he now deeply regrets.

He simply stood up, raised his arms high, and shouted in perfect Chinese, "Boss is awesome! Boss is amazing!"

Everyone else started showering Chen Yiran with compliments.

Chen Yiran felt very satisfied, feeling that the money hadn't been wasted.

The employees are easy to fool; since the company was established, it has basically been operating at high capacity. They're always sprinting at full speed, and the employees seem to have gotten used to it.

On the third day after that, Chen Yiran did not go to see her, and the company's employees all returned to the company to continue working overtime.

The questions that day simply didn't suit his taste.

But he brought it on time on the fourth day, after all, the various themes of the day were very attractive to him.

It's all about robotics and computer vision, which are actually intricately related to later AI. It's just that people don't use the term AI yet; they use deep learning or computer vision instead.

To be honest, it sounds much more practical than AI.

Chen Yiran originally wanted to listen to the speeches of industry leaders and absorb some new ideas, but she didn't expect that on the last day, all the new ideas of these leaders were Chen Yiran's deepflow.

The Japanese detector ultimately claimed that, after evaluation, the feature extraction part was ported from CUDA to DeepFlow, and preliminary tests showed a 60% increase in frame rate with the same hardware.

An MIT researcher who is helping Facebook with facial recognition technology pointed out that Deepflow provides ready-made technology, which has saved him a lot of time and brought facial recognition technology very close to being implemented. He has already written two papers on it.

The most outrageous was Google. They talked at length about DeepFlow's advantages in neuroscience and almost openly expressed their goodwill, declaring their readiness to further collaborate with Chen Yiran.

In his closing speech, Dr. Sebastian Troon, a pioneer in probabilistic robotics, spent almost the entire presentation advocating for deepflow.

They have been collaborating with NVIDIA for a long time, using handwritten CUDA for optimization, with the goal of autonomous driving.

After trying open-source accelerators like Deepflow, Sebastian was amazed.

In his words, DeepFlow made him feel that autonomous driving is no longer a long-term goal that will take ten to fifteen years to achieve, but a project that can yield certain results within five years.

Finally, he extended a public invitation, hoping that anyone in the Deepflow community working on robot perception adaptations would contact his lab at Stanford to discuss collaboration. He added that if Chen Yiran could personally undertake the project, the Stanford lab would provide full support.

Chen Yiran, sitting in the front row, wore sunglasses and pretended to be calm.

He was still very happy, after all, a whole day had passed with a bunch of important people taking turns praising him.

However, he knew in his heart that among these people, Sebastian was probably the only one who truly understood Deepflow.

The other companies are most likely just jumping on the bandwagon to gain attention and attract more sponsorship funds.

After the conference ended, most people left immediately.

However, a small number of people did not leave because Nvidia gave a last-minute notice that the closing speech would be postponed.

Another chip manufacturing subcommittee has been added, where several manufacturers will come to talk about the application of new technologies.

Rick Cassidy of TSMC followed behind Chen Yiran, his smile completely gone.

"Mr. Chen, you can name any conditions you want. For your OPC, we can skip the testing and just pay upfront. We're willing to pay five million US dollars a year and sign a five-year contract."

We have already prepared the relevant PDK, and a dedicated team is on hand to handle the entire process, so we can coordinate with you anytime. Please feel free to mention any other conditions you may have, and we will do our best to meet them.

Chen Yiran remained unmoved, smiling as he said, "Alright, alright, let's see who's here at this newly added meeting. Samsung, GlobalFoundries, SMIC. Hey, Mr. Cassidy, aren't you from TSMC going up to say anything?"