February 8, the sixth day of the first lunar month.
The Spring Festival holiday is not completely over yet.
Ye Shuqing, a twenty-nine-year-old young man, drove a BYD electric car away from his hometown and came to the Shiniushan Industrial Park at the foot of Mount Lu - also known as the Magic City. He reported to work at the Magic Chip Company in advance and started the new year.
Work.
There was nothing he could do. It wasn't that he didn't want to relax and rest for a few more days, but the pressure at home to get married and go on a blind date was too strong. Although he was considered a motivated young man, he belonged to the car-owning family, his appearance, height and other conditions were not bad, and he had a savings of three months.
With over 100,000 yuan, there is no need to worry about finding a partner.
But he still left his hometown as if running away.
Because he is a native of Jiujiang, the price of betrothal gifts here has soared to as little as five or six hundred thousand, as many as eight hundred thousand, or even millions. The little capital he has on hand is nothing at all in the blind date market.
In terms of competitiveness, only those with master's or doctorate degrees from prestigious universities and an annual salary of three to five million yuan will have priority for selection. This is not an intentional exaggeration, but what Ye Shuqing saw with his own eyes. The fierce competition made him lose confidence.
He still plans to save another three to five years of money. When he is 35 years old and has about a million in hand, he will go to Europe, no matter what country, and bring back a blond foreign girl.
——Now there is chaos there. Almost all of them are paupers. Prices are sky-high and living standards are miserable. Even the species of the Virgin is about to disappear. Even the girls there have said that they are considering marrying to China.
It is simply a change that has not happened in hundreds of years.
Therefore, Ye Shuqing believes that his chance of leaving the single country lies abroad, so forget it at home.
Let’s talk about his current job as a chip design engineer. He has been working in the chip industry since he graduated from college. He happened to catch up with the trend of vigorously developing the chip industry in China. As soon as he graduated from school, he received a salary of 13k per month.
Earning a salary of sixteen months a year is more than 90% of college graduates.
The salary increased to 18k in the second year, to 20k in the third year, and to 45k when changing jobs in the fourth year.
But in the fifth year, his salary remained unchanged.
In the sixth year, that is, last year, I encountered a major layoff in the industry. Unfortunately, I was laid off. I submitted hundreds of resumes on the job search platform and lowered my salary requirements again and again, but there was no news. I was unemployed at home for several months and could not find anyone.
Work.
It is said that the chip industry in China is booming now, and a large number of talents are needed. How could he be unemployed and unable to find a job?
The reason is simple: ai.
Today's AI artificial intelligence has realized art painting, realized highly intelligent autonomous driving, replaced most workers in physical factories, and has the ability to design chips. It is naturally not surprising that there will be a wave of layoffs in the industry.
That is to say, Ye Shuqing and about 80% of his peers were replaced and killed by AI.
It just so happened that Ye Shuqing also had some research on the field of AI. Just when he was about to conduct in-depth exploration, he was eliminated. It must be said that this is an irony.
Fortunately, Magic City was established and Magic Chip Company recruited a large number of chip design engineers.
Ye Shuqing decisively submitted her resume, successfully passed the interview, and joined the Magic Chip Company.
But the monthly salary is only 18k, and you can only get 14k a year. In the future, the salary will increase by 500k per year. Unless the company achieves profitability, it is impossible to get a high salary and a huge year-end bonus. Don't think about these good things for the time being.
In order not to stay at home and be nagged by her parents and urge her to get married, Ye Shuqing accepted the lower salary. It was better than being unemployed without a job.
After joining the newly established company Magic Chip, after working for the past six months, Ye Shuqing feels that this company can indeed be described as "magical".
While other chip companies are vigorously developing 5nm, 3nm and other advanced process chips, this company does not even develop chips with the most backward tens of micron processes. Instead, it starts with analog chips and the most backward electronic tubes.
When I started researching, I actually started from scratch, starting from knowing nothing and nothing.
In the past two months or so, we manufactured and miniaturized the electronic tubes, and then started working on analog circuits, signal amplifiers, filters, magnetic tapes, etc. We clarified their principles and created many samples.
By the third month, after having basically understood and mastered all the basic knowledge, and with the help of high-precision processing machine tools and 3D printers, and mastered the production capacity of all core parts, the project development plan of [Classic Peak Radio] was officially announced.
start up!
It is estimated that RMB 1 billion will be invested in research and development.
Concentrating the talents of tens of thousands of chip R&D talents.
Referring to all the classic radios in the past one or two hundred years, we absorbed all their advantages, such as beautiful appearance, high sensitivity, ergonomics, easy operation, outstanding performance and sound quality, etc., and tried to integrate them into one to create a
The radio is more usable, beautiful and classic than these classic old radios.
Therefore, it is called the "peak of classics". It must not only surpass the classics of the past, but also form a peak that subsequent generations cannot surpass.
Phew~
When Ye Shuqing heard the introduction of this project, he almost burst into tears and had the urge to resign immediately.
radio?
I’ve heard of making computers, mobile phones, smart robots and game consoles. These are all very profitable. But are radios still used by people? Is anyone buying this thing? What is the approximate market capacity at home and abroad?
Can the R&D cost of one billion be recovered?
Speaking of which, the boss behind the company, is he serious, or is he just a money-burner who just wants to play around and create a piece of junk that is impossible to sell to satisfy himself?
Anyway, Ye Shuqing couldn't understand the big boss' brain circuit at all.
But after listening to the introduction of the project, even though he had numerous problems in his heart, Ye Shuqing still did not make the decision to resign and planned to work for a while longer.
Because the food in the company cafeteria is so fragrant and delicious, it is definitely beyond the five-star standard. Abalone, sea cucumber, lobster, crab, etc. are often eaten casually, just like a buffet, and there are fragrant black
Pork and seven or eight taels of sweet white rice can be eaten in one go. The quality of the food here may exceed that of any major Internet company in China.
A technical guru from Huayao Company, after eating here, said that even if other companies offered him a million-dollar annual salary, he would not consider changing jobs.
Secondly, the work content is very easy.
Because whether it is analog circuits, signal amplifiers, filters, tapes, etc., these things are very basic and have no technical difficulty. Even if there is something you don’t understand, you can understand it after a little research. There are almost no brain-burning parts.
No.
It is more about referencing, learning from, looking up existing technical reference materials, and even looking through technical documents from decades or hundreds of years ago, which is a bit like technological archeology.
Even if there is something you really don’t understand, if you do a little research on your own, you will soon understand it.
Compared with the previous design of extremely large and complex chip internal structures, the brain-burning level has been reduced to 1%.
Therefore, I am completely qualified for the job. I can complete the job requirements by working six or seven hours a day, and occasionally I can fish. Compared with the past, where I often worked overtime 996 hours a day and worked until I lost my hair and became bald, it is still more relaxed here, and sometimes I even find a lot of fun.
, I was inspired a lot by seeing the fantastic ideas of ancient people from decades or hundreds of years ago.
In addition, accommodation is free, commonly used items are provided for free or at low prices, and there are many leisure facilities such as stadiums, gyms, and swimming pools. His cost of living is very low. He can't even spend two thousand yuan a month, and he can save most of his salary.
That is, the actual 'effective wage' is not low.
Then when I think about eating super five-star meals every day, working nine to five and having a lot of personal time, and even my hairline starting to regain lost ground, only those with a sick mind choose to resign.
Dry!
Keep up the good work!
As long as the company's funds have not been burned out and the canteen has not been eaten up by the employees, then you will continue to work here and be a loyal employee who will not change jobs!
So in the next three months, Ye Shuqing devoted himself wholeheartedly to the [Classic Peak Radio] project and served as the leader of the 87th R&D team - the development of radios is indeed too easy, so there are tens of thousands of R&D personnel
, divided into 100 R&D teams, each team has to come up with a mature work, and finally engage in a brutal elimination battle. They have to compete in terms of performance, appearance, operation, etc. In the end, only one work can have the last laugh.
,become a winner.
However, due to the existence of the technology sharing mechanism, no matter how extreme a team's technology is, it must be shared for free. This makes it almost impossible to widen the gap in performance.
Ye Shuqing focused his breakthrough on appearance design and ease of operation design.
Especially the appearance, he put the most effort into it, borrowing industrial designs from Sony TPSL2, Ideal Goddess Grundig Satellit 700, Icom ic-r76 and other tape radios, trying to find ways to highlight the industrial beauty of the radio.
Secondly, Ye Shuqing also used a killer weapon: AI art design.
The specific operation is very simple, that is, let AI automatically produce thousands of design pictures, and then select the best-looking and most pleasing one as the radio's appearance design and painting scheme.
This not only saves countless brain cells, but also brings a lot of inspiration.
On January 20 last month, Ye Shuqing's 87th R&D team came up with their final mature product - the Classic Peak 87 radio.
On the 22nd, passed the first round of elimination.
On the 23rd, I was eliminated in the second round.
On the 25th, in the final round of PK, they lost to the 77th R&D team by only three votes, finishing second.
But things took a turn for the better on the 26th. The big boss thought that their No. 87 radio had two designs that were very good and very distinctive. He simply merged these two designs with the advantages of the 77 plan to create the most classic [Classic Peak]
877 Radio], was announced.
This made Ye Shuqing quite pleased. Although his plan was unsuccessful, two designs were applied, which is also very good.
Immediately, a factory assembly line was set up to mass-produce a batch of radios.
By February 9, despite the impact of the Spring Festival holiday, thanks to the efforts of the employees who stayed behind and those who came to work early, the first batch of 100 units of "Classic Peak Radio" was successfully mass-produced.
February 10th, the eighth day of the first lunar month at 8pm.
After several days of publicity and momentum, the Magic City has a stadium that can accommodate up to 20,000 people.
Magic Wheel Group's first technological product [Classic Peak Radio] officially held a live online product launch conference and launched it globally!