Chapter 452 Afanti's Lament and Suggestion of "Fighting C"

A month later, several guests from Singapore were welcomed to the headquarters of Avant!, a pioneering company in the United States, located in the town of Fremont in Silicon Valley.

The leader was Li Xiaofan from Singapore Yifan Holdings, as well as a group of colleagues such as Lin Muqiu and Gu Qijun.

At the gate of Avant! Pioneer Company, Gu Qijun looked at the company's LOGO and asked curiously: "Why does this company add an exclamation mark '!' after its name?"

Lin Muchiu smiled and said: "Maybe they are imitating Yahoo! Yahoo! There is also a big exclamation point after it!"

"Then why does Yahoo add another exclamation mark?" Men in science and engineering have many problems, and they pay attention to logic.

Lin Muchiu smiled at Li Xiaofan and said, "Director Li, you are a shareholder of Yahoo and the earliest angel investor. Maybe you can only explain this story to us?"

"Haha, it's like this. When Jerry Yang and Philo were choosing a name for their website last year, because the first letter of Yang Zhiyuan's pinyin was Y, they finally chose the name of the famous British writer Swift. Yahoo is the name of a group of savages encountered by Gulliver in the famous book "Gulliver's Travels". Jerry Yang and Ferro felt that Yahoo represented those who were neither experienced nor educated. The foreign tourists are very similar to these computer people who have just learned to surf the Internet. However, when the company was registered and checked, it was found that Yahoo had been registered by others for products such as barbecue sauce, knives, and human boats. Therefore, in order to obtain the trademark rights, Fees Luo and Jerry Yang added an exclamation point after Yahoo to indicate the difference, and at the same time emphasized the exclamation of logging onto the Internet as if they were discovering a savage! "

"Haha, it turns out there is such an allusion. Director Li, if you don't explain it, we really can't understand it."

Li Xiaofan continued:

"I also heard a story about the naming of the pioneer company Avant!. After their company went public in June last year, they acquired Integrated Silicon Systems in North Carolina at the end of the year. At first they wanted to rename the original company 'ArcSys' The name was changed to 'Avanti Avanti'. However, at that time, President Xu Jianguo suddenly pointed to the last letter i and said: Write the i upside down! Several vice presidents asked why? Feng Shui, letter i? When reversed, it’s an exclamation point!. So, the name originally called ‘Avanti’ was changed to ‘Avant!’, Avant means pioneer in English, and the name originally called Avanti Company was changed to Pioneer Company. I personally feel that they seem to be. I want to take advantage of fellow Taiwanese Jerry Yang’s success after founding Yahoo!”

This story is an old incident that was exposed on the Internet in 2001 after the Avant! Pioneer Company was completely defeated.

When Li Xiaofan told this story, he seemed to feel the fear in Xu Jianguo's heart at that time: after all, after he switched jobs to Avant! Pioneer Company, when he was frantically poaching people from Cadence Company last year, he shamefully copied a lot of the old employer's work, and Those old Cadence employees who moved to Pioneer left many records on their computers of sending emails to their personal accounts or copying source code...

At that time, it was estimated that Lao Xu wanted to use Feng Shui to get through this "disaster".

"Director Li, welcome, welcome, come, everyone, please take a seat!"

In the conference room of Avant! Pioneer Company, Xu Jianguo, wearing a large tortoise shell frame, received a visit from Li Xiaofan and others.

At first glance, Xu Jianguo's name sounds like he comes from mainland China. In fact, he graduated from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. Like the four Chinese founders who first came out of Cadence to create ArcSys, they were all Chinese from Taiwan who worked hard in Silicon Valley in their early years. .

This visit of Li Xiaofan and the others was introduced by Yang Zhiyuan.

The tall Xu Jianguo spoke quickly and had sharp eyes. As soon as Li Xiaofan sat down, he seemed to be able to feel a strong aura about him.

However, Xu Jianguo still respects Li Xiaofan. After all, he is a director of two Nasdaq-listed companies, and he is a clean and successful entrepreneur with no "original sin" on his body.

After the two parties exchanged pleasantries, Xu Jianguo took Li Xiaofan's business card and found that Li Xiaofan's business card had a new title of "Director of Beijing Panda Systems Co., Ltd." printed on it. He said curiously:

"Director Li, you also returned to mainland China to invest in a software company?"

Before, when Yang Zhiyuan introduced Xu Jianguo on the phone, Xu Jianguo only knew that Li Xiaofan was a director of Yahoo and the founder of Singapore Pacific Network Technology Co., Ltd., and also engaged in some emerging venture capital businesses.

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Yes. Mr. Xu, let me introduce to you. This Beijing Panda System Co., Ltd. is a newly established joint venture between me and BIDC, the Beijing Integrated Circuit Design Center in mainland China. All the knowledge about the Panda domestic EDA system project that originally belonged to BIDC The property rights and assets were spun off to the new Beijing Panda Systems Co., Ltd. "

"Oh, I've heard of the Panda EDA system independently developed by mainland China. Director Li, so we are in the same boat!"

After Xu Jianguo finished speaking, he changed the subject and said to Li Xiaofan with a smile:

"Mr. Li, I heard that after the successful development of the Panda EDA system in mainland China, several EDA companies such as Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics entered the mainland market on a large scale to dump their products. It seems that you Pandas are having a hard time. Mr. Li, why do you want to go back to the mainland to invest in such an EDA project with no prospects? If you have money, just invest in our Avant! Pioneer company's stocks!"

Old Xu's words are full of disdain for the mainland's domestic Panda EDA.

Just after a chaotic battle in the EDA market four or five years ago, there are only a few EDA giants left in the world:

Cadence counterattacked and became the leader of the EDA industry at that time, with a layout and routing market share of more than 80%, basically monopolizing the back-end technology and verification technology, occupying nearly 80% of the market; Synopsys basically dominated the front-end technology, occupying nearly 60% of the market;

Mentor Graphics' strongest point is multi-level verification technology and PCB circuit board design system.

Although other EDA companies survive, their market share and profits are struggling.

At present, Avant! Pioneer, led by Xu Jianguo, is a dark horse that suddenly emerged overnight.

However, the industry knows that the founders and core employees of Avant! Pioneer are almost all from Cadence, and this Avant! Pioneer seems to be a small Cadence company.

Moreover, the "infringement and theft of trade secrets" lawsuit between Cadence and Avant! Pioneer is currently in full swing.

After hearing this, Li Xiaofan continued to smile at Xu Jianguo and said:

"Mr. Xu, I came to you today just to form an alliance with you, and we can fight against Cadence together. Although, in the US market, we may be powerless. But in the mainland market, the two of us can join forces to fight against Cadence, jointly establish a "fighting C office", and establish a positive and glorious image of you and Avant! Pioneer!"