Deng Zhonghan has a deep dream of being a scientist in his blood, and he has a very keen entrepreneurial thinking.
Deng Zhonghan's short resume
Dr. Deng Zhonghan, Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Master in Economic Management and Master in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Worked for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, USA, and participated in the development of the first generation CPU of Ultrasparc I, the fastest CPU in the world. Later, he worked in IBM, USA, and studied Peta-Flop VLSI quantum computer with single magneton. Later, he founded the semiconductor company Pixim in Silicon Valley and served as the first chairman, leading the research and development of high-end digital imaging semiconductor sensors for high-end applications such as monitoring, satellite and outer space exploration. Starting from 1999, Beijing Zhongxing Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was established in Zhongguancun, Beijing with the chairman of the Ministry of Information Industry, leading the research and development of the starlight series "China Core" and successfully realizing the industrialization of the products "Starlight 1", "Starlight 2", "Starlight 3", "Starlight 4" and "Starlight 5". At the same time, Deng Zhonghan is also an adjunct professor in Tsinghua University, an expert in the evaluation of the National 863 Project and a member of the China Association for Science and Technology.
From University of Science and Technology of China to Berkeley
Deng Zhonghan was fascinated by the starry sky since he was a child.
Tayu Lo's lyrics once made Deng Zhonghan have endless reverie when he was a teenager. With the passage of time and the growth of age, Deng Zhonghan's problems go deep into time, space and the universe. From 65438 to 0987, Deng Zhonghan was admitted to China University of Science and Technology with excellent results. You know, HKUST scored more than Tsinghua.
Deng Zhonghan was addicted to the process of seeking knowledge, and began to try to explain geological problems with the theory of quantum physics in his third year of college. The paper was published in Science Bulletin, and won the "Challenge Cup Award of National College Students' Science and Technology Competition" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and China Association for Science and Technology.
Like many elite students of that era, 1992 Deng Zhonghan, who graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China, came to Berkeley, California to study. He studied physics and continued to pursue the dream of exploring the mysteries of the world in college and youth. What kind of university is Berkeley? 18 portraits of Nobel Prize winners are hung high in the corridor of the teaching building, and many people give classes to students on the podium. This is very attractive to students. Deng Zhonghan learned all the difficult theories of quantum mechanics and relativity in a short time.
If there is no other choice, Deng Zhonghan may become an excellent physicist. The best explanation for Deng Zhonghan's new choice is that the wave of the information age involves almost all the best talents in the world, not to mention Berkeley's proximity to Silicon Valley. Although a tutor transferred from Deng Zhonghan disapproved of his idea, Deng Zhonghan applied to the school to transfer to the Department of Electronic Engineering. From the perspective of basic knowledge structure, physics and electronic engineering are not very compatible, but Deng Zhonghan's persistence and tenacity once again made him finally realize his wish-he completed the transformation of knowledge structure in a short time, successfully passed the exam, and "conquered" the teacher with his own ability of independent design and experiment.
At this time, Deng Zhonghan did not stop his thirst for interdisciplinary knowledge. He chose economic management. The motivation for choosing economic management is said to be a very strong idea, that is, 1995, Deng Zhonghan went to Japan with his tutor to attend an academic conference, and stayed in Japan for a week due to visa issues. Deng Zhonghan is not a bookworm, but a person who has strong ideas about joining the WTO. He has always wanted to do something. He knows very well that in the current world, economic ability is self-evident, otherwise physics will consume all his intelligence and energy. At this point, Deng Zhonghan also created a miracle. He became the first person to get a master's degree in physics, a doctor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in economics in the history of Berkeley 130 years, which also made everyone understand that the wisdom of China people should not be underestimated.
While studying in Berkeley, Deng Zhonghan had little time for entertainment. In his schedule, he only studies and works. Fortunately for Deng Zhonghan, two of his economics teachers won the Nobel Prize in the 1990s, and Deng Zhonghan was happily immersed in the thoughts and atmosphere of these intellectual elites. Indeed, in Berkeley, it is difficult to think ordinary.
It is the study of economics that gives Deng Zhonghan a profound understanding of the American economy and the world economy, how economy and politics work, how the United States uses its own strength to make other countries "work" for it, and how an enterprise can profit from the torrent and general trend of these times. Deng Zhonghan's accumulation is so precious and necessary for Zhongxingwei, who was born later.
"The idea came so quickly and strongly."
Facing the examiner's question "What is the limit of computer technology", Deng Zhonghan's answer is that there is no limit.
This is the scene when interviewed by IBM. Deng Zhonghan explained it with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. As a result, Deng Zhonghan was hired. In fact, from 65438 to 0997, while studying in Berkeley, Deng Zhonghan joined a commercial company to do practical work. Every time Deng Zhonghan is in a place, he becomes the focus of this place. Whether in Berkeley, IBM or Sun Company, he did his best. As a senior researcher at IBM, he is responsible for the design and research of VLSI CMOS integrated circuits. Deng Zhonghan applied for many invention patents and won the "IBM Invention Award". Today, in his chairman's office near Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road, Sun's chips, which he helped design and manufacture, are still preserved. Deng Zhonghan said that these chips are still widely used in some central processing units.
Deng Zhonghan is very modest and polite. He said he couldn't help being modest. There are so many masters in Berkeley, so many excellent enterprises in Silicon Valley, and the founders of many excellent enterprises are Berkeley alumni. In front of so many human elites, why should I be proud?
Modesty and sincere humility make Deng Zhonghan have a very good popularity, and behind the popularity is opportunity. Tian Changlin, president of Berkeley University, has made great academic achievements. Deng Zhonghan is really lucky to have the opportunity to meet such a mentor. More importantly, it is this responsible teacher who recommended his favorite student to Zhou, the president of China Association for Science and Technology. During his visit to Berkeley, Zhou had many in-depth conversations with him and made unforgettable friends. Later, Zhou Ba was introduced to the Ministry of Information Industry, which was the initial starting point for him to eventually become the chief commander of Starlight China Core Project.
During the period of 1998, while the IT market in China is booming, international giants are increasing their investment in the China market, and China enterprises are also striving for their position in the international IT market. Qu, Vice Minister of Information Industry who is visiting the United States, met his doctor through Zhou's introduction. Qu He made an in-depth discussion on the international and domestic information industry situation. Qu was deeply impressed by his deep insight into the IT market and his devotion to the motherland.
199 10, Deng Zhonghan returned to China at the invitation of the State Council to attend the 50th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). At that time, Deng Zhonghan was cordially received by the party and state leaders, and told Li Lanqing and other leaders in charge of science and technology about the current situation and prospects of Silicon Valley and the international IT community. At the same time, Deng Zhonghan had extensive exchanges with leaders at all levels. The great changes and vitality of the motherland strongly attracted him, and the care and pity of the party and governments at all levels deeply touched him.
It was at this celebration that Deng Zhonghan made up his mind to return to China to start a business. "The idea came so fast, so strong, overwhelming, let a person feel heart palpitations. Now there seems to be no chance to appreciate that passion, and I miss it a little. " Deng Zhonghan said.
Deng Zhonghan came up with the idea of setting up a local chip design company in China. With the support of the Ministry of Information Industry and relevant leaders at all levels, his idea was realized in June of 5438+099 10. Deng Zhonghan and Zhang Hui of Lucent Bell Laboratories and Yang Xiaodong of Hewlett-Packard Company gave up their careers and achievements in the United States and returned to China, and established Zhongxing Microelectronics Company with reference to the Silicon Valley model. A group of like-minded partners form the core leadership team of ZTE today, and their unity and tacit understanding are admirable.
However, before Deng Zhonghan chose to go back to China to start his own business, Deng Zhonghan founded the integrated circuit company Pixim in Silicon Valley, and its market value soon reached $65,438+$50 million. Deng Zhonghan has reached a career height that students like him can't reach. Deng Zhonghan used patriotism to explain the real reason why he returned to China to start a business. Many people may not really understand it, but it was really his initial idea. "Our team are all returnees. Privately, we found that there are at least three points about why we returned to China to start a business. The first is patriotism. Many people may think this is a high-profile speech. Then I suggested that he travel abroad, preferably to America. Only when you are in a foreign country can you know what' China Heart' is; Secondly, I am enterprising. My partner and I are ambitious, and we don't want to work in Silicon Valley and other people's sites all our lives. Another point may be the' old problem' of our technicians. It is the most straightforward and challenging job to pursue first-class technology into first-class productivity, start your own business, do your own technology and do your own business. " Deng Zhonghan said, "We people go out to come back."
Zhongxing Micro started, virtually dividing an era of China chip industry.
"Hard and happy."
Zhongxingwei's office on the edge of Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road often lights up all night.
Because of the busy work, the core team of Zhongxing Micro led by Deng Zhonghan had to hold a meeting in the evening, which they called "a touch", sometimes it was midnight. There are really too many things to do for zhongxingwei.
At the beginning of its establishment, Zhongxing Microelectronics communicated and discussed with the leaders of the Ministry of Information Industry for many times, and decided to learn from Microsoft's practice and start the strategic layout of the company's main products from the blank spot in the world market. Compared with general-purpose CPU and memory chips, there are already international leading fields such as Intel and Samsung, or such as ARM and MIPS have established a strong position in the embedded processor market. For small companies that lack talents and market operation experience, it seems to be "throwing eggs at stones" or even falling short. However, the world-renowned digital multimedia chip field is still in a melee situation, and digital multimedia chips will play a "heart" role in the future, whether it is PC or mobile communication services, or consumer electronics applications in the 3C integration era. Deng Zhonghan believes that "under the huge market demand, China manufacturers will join hands to conquer the field of digital multimedia chips, just as the United States occupied general-purpose CPU and South Korea occupied memory chips, they have every chance to succeed".
Therefore, the key point of Zhongxing Micro's entry into the market is to develop the processing chip of one million ultra-large-scale special digital cameras based on CMOS digital technology. Because the application fields of this chip involve personal digital cameras, industrial quality inspection, production monitoring, astronomical instruments, medical equipment, etc., it can also be used in transportation, banking, visual toys, communications and other aspects, and the market capacity is large. Most importantly, Deng Zhonghan saw that under the trend of "3C in one" in the future, the market of digital camera processing chips will be broader, occupying the high point of digital camera processing chips and possibly occupying the high end of the industrial chain. China's chip industry will grow in the interaction with the world.
From chip definition to design, film streaming and mass production needs 1 year or more. On March 2001March 1 1 day, Zhongxing Microelectronics launched China's first mega-scale digital multimedia chip "Xingguang No.1" with independent intellectual property rights. The integration level reached the Pentium series level, and millions of transistors were integrated in a space the size of a button, and the lithography scale reached 0.25 micron. Zhongxing Micro has always been in the leading position of digital camera processing chips. Subsequently, zhongxingwei established a strategic partnership with Microsoft, and successfully developed all the single chips for digital image processing, compression, storage and high-speed transmission required by PC multimedia digital shooting system. Chip industry is a group army battle, and talents, capital, technology, marketing and international cooperation are indispensable.
Next, the second-generation product "Starlight II" of Zhongxing Micro realized the fusion and synchronization of video and audio, ending the era of "silent movies" of image processing chips. "Starlight II" has been adopted by the latest camera products of famous manufacturers such as South Korea's Samsung and American Creative. From June 5438 to October 2002 10, the third generation product "Starlight III" of Zhongxing Micro extended from PC field to intelligent monitoring field, becoming the "eye" of the world's first mobile phone-controlled robot produced by Fujitsu. In February, 2003, the fourth generation product "Starlight IV" became the first mobile phone MMS chip with independent intellectual property rights in China. From June 5438 to October 2003 10, Starlight V with all the functions of Starlight I to Starlight IV was born. It is an integrated image processing chip. Up to now, the sales volume of ZTE microchips in the global market has exceeded100000. According to the plan of zhongxingwei, the next step will be to seek a breakthrough in the field of mobile multimedia.
By analyzing the global industrial environment, local industrial chain and market resources, we can quickly launch competitive products under the cost competitive advantage. This is the winning way of "China Core", the true meaning of the successful breakthrough of Zhongxing Microelectronics, and the feeling that Deng Zhonghan found after five years' efforts.
However, for Zhongxing Micro, the escalating multimedia application demand, technology and product development challenges are increasing day by day, but the most headache is the human problem. The multimedia application market is changing very fast, so we must think clearly about the target market in the next two or three years, and then carry out product development and promotion, and this kind of talent with market forecasting ability is scarce in China. In addition to constantly introducing talents in line with the company's culture and development rhythm, the management of talents, communication efficiency, and the ability to maintain rapid response in the initial stage of entrepreneurship are the biggest challenges for an entrepreneurial company like Zhongxing Microelectronics.
It's hard and I'm happy. Deng Zhonghan has such an evaluation on the development of Zhongxing Micro in the past five years, and he is also soberly aware that today's Zhongxing Micro can never be said to have reached the other side of success. "The survival rate of enterprises in the start-up stage is very low, and every step can be said to be a narrow escape. However, seeing an enterprise grow up from scratch will also bring unspeakable happiness. " Deng Zhonghan said, "All Zhongxing Wei people regard Zhongxing Wei as their own children, and this feeling is to cherish the birth and growth of life. It should also be emphasized that zhongxingwei is not qualified to say that he has succeeded. Facing the ever-changing science and market,
Character impression
Scientists? Entrepreneur?
Deng Zhonghan's low profile embarrassed reporters.
He looked at you sincerely and said, "Can you stop writing about me? What you do is more important than who you are. Things are not done by one person, but the whole team works together. " Such interviewees are rare in human operations.
Deng Zhonghan's childhood dream was to become a great scientist, hoping to know and transform the world. Sleeping with science is Deng Zhonghan's greatest dream. In today's Zhongxingwei, everyone calls him "Dr. Deng" instead of "Mr. Deng", which may be due to Deng Zhonghan's scientist complex.
However, Deng Zhonghan, who has a dream of being a scientist in his blood, has a very keen entrepreneurial thinking. From the beginning, zhongxingwei insisted on filling the market gap rather than the technical gap, and making products that can occupy the market rather than laboratory products. These ideas are being verified as pragmatic and correct with the completion of the "Starlight China Core Project". Deng Zhonghan has always stressed that the vitality of the brand is the vitality of the enterprise. "A great enterprise is great because it is the creator and carrier of a great brand." .
Deng Zhonghan not only grasps the overall situation, but also pays attention to details. At the office meeting, he casually said about the engineer's recent workload, which was both moved and surprised. He is independent, but he can understand others. When others don't know what he can do, he has "promoted" people to the position that suits him best. He can live a fine life or a rough life, sometimes he doesn't eat fireworks, and more often, he is not even as good as the people; His speech can make people excited, and I hope I can fight for it, but when the crowd is excited, his calmness and sobriety can make people immediately realize the problems they are facing.
The words "national interests" and "national self-improvement", which seem to be far away from enterprise management, can be seen everywhere in the communication between Deng Zhonghan and his team, and a strong sense of social responsibility and patriotic complex will also be reflected in the formulation and implementation of each goal. Listening to their communication, you will be moved by the upward and pure, as if you were on campus; As soon as they turned around, they took out the real goods and fought with their opponents in the cruel international market, making the people proud.
(Computer World No.35 A33, A34)