“Today, we have more than 40 overseas students who have returned from Silicon Valley and are creating new technologies. Our starting point was very difficult and very backward.” Deng Zhonghan talked about his entrepreneurial history.
"I will be back"
"Just in 2001, three of our four founders went to Japan to promote chips and visited Sony. Just now TV
As mentioned, a Sony executive, when we met, had not yet listened to what we had to say, and said that he was from Beijing and wanted to sell them chips for image processing, camera, etc. They said that we Sony has thousands of such products and hundreds of such patents. We at Sony are the originators of this technology. If you want to learn, you can go to the exhibition and see their products, but they don’t have time and you still need to go Other meetings.”
Deng Zhonghan recalled the embarrassing experience of “selling” to SONY in Japan a few years ago.
"In the end, we made an appointment with him for an hour, but we only met for five or six minutes. We were very embarrassed. Think about it, going to Japan, a small company, and making very little money. We had to pay a lot of money for air tickets, hotels, etc., and we only went to Japan to meet him for five minutes.”
The five-minute meeting was obviously not pleasant.
"When I left the house, I told Zhang Hui that we would come back. The movie "Terminator" happened to be showing at that time, and I said I would come back." Deng said, "Many people look down upon it. We, as Akio Shoda felt at the time, and my feeling at the time, made me more confident. I want to challenge, I want to come back, and I want to break into Sony. This is a pursuit for us."
Enter the "originator" Sony
In March 2001, after more than ten months of hard work, Vimicro developed the first chip "Starlight One" and entered the market International companies like Philips.
"After I came back, I told everyone in the company that we had already entered Samsung and Philips. I said we must enter Sony, even though he was the originator, even though he was the founder of the company. Photography and other equipment were invented by Sony, which is also the most famous brand in the world, but it is of great significance. Just like the Challenge Cup, it is a challenge and a carrier of spirit and culture for the company," Deng repeated. Said that the Challenge Cup in his junior year of college had a profound impact on him.
After four years, by this summer, the cameras on Sony’s new generation laptops have been implanted with Starlight China chips.
"In front of thousands of patents and this originator, we as Chinese people stood up and incorporated our chips into the products of our originator. Your core technology , from now on, it is not Sony’s own, but our Chinese people’s. This has become the treasure of today’s spirit of Zhongxing Micro, allowing us to continuously find strength from it, and this strength, this innovative spirit, this sense of responsibility and its influence The power and the driving force are what our Challenge Cup or the challenge I feel today inspires for each of us," said Deng Zhonghan.
Feeling about the international status of Chinese technology
“After several years of development, Vimicro has sold 50 million Xingguang Chinese chips and has obtained the With more than 500 patents, as the first core chip design company, it was successfully listed on NASDAQ on November 15, and I encountered the same challenge again on the day of listing.
Despite being successfully listed on Nasdaq, Deng still encountered an embarrassment in the general environment.
Deng recalled, “At that time, I was interviewing the same person who was listed on Baidu on the CNBC channel, doing Nasdaq. At the bell-ringing ceremony for Dak’s market closing, the host of CNBC asked me, as China’s first chip design company, have you infringed on intellectual property rights? It made me feel again the international doubts, challenges and resistance I have received as a Chinese chip design company. ”
“The first question we asked about listing was completely different from Baidu’s, and they asked us with a suspicion, even a contemptuous and slanderous perspective. At the same time, in the satellite Live broadcast on. "Obviously, "Chinese technology" has not received the courtesy it deserves.
At that time, Deng replied that Vitex has independent intellectual property rights and has never had any knowledge with any company in its six-year operation. Property rights disputes.
Foreign reporters then raised questions about how Vimicro protects its intellectual property rights.
Deng said that Zhongxing has applied for more than 500 technology patents, including many Chinese patents.
The reporter was "aggressive", "Can China's intellectual property rights be protected? Can China's intellectual property rights be compared with international intellectual property rights?"
At that time, Deng's answer was , "For example, Sony is the originator of digital multimedia cameras. They have thousands of patents. Today they use our chips in their notebook products. We have used our chips in their ancestors. We have not followed suit. Is it the same most advanced technology in the world? ”