The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 34 Christmas

Time always slips away inadvertently, and it has been almost a year since Zhou Xin arrived in 1998.

For Western countries, Christmas is the most important festival of the year, similar to the Spring Festival in Huaguo.

Zhou Xin originally wanted to spend the holidays with Cao Yongluo. We were all strangers in a foreign land, and we could find a better restaurant to have dinner together as a holiday.

Before he greeted Cao Yongluo, Aimo, the assistant lawyer of the law firm that helped him handle the patent application, asked Zhou Xin to go to the Davis Concert Hall to listen to the holiday concert on Christmas night.

It's not bad to spend Christmas with beautiful women. In the end, Hu Zhengming asked Zhou Xin to go to his house for Christmas, and Zhou Xin agreed without hesitation.

Spending Christmas with beautiful women, I feel comfortable without going to my mentor's house.

After all, during the more than four years when he was studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, every Christmas was spent at Hu Zhengming's home with his family.

"Professor, thank you for your care in the past year, it's a small gesture."

Hu Zhengming has two sons named Jason and Raymond.

They are all slightly older than Zhou Xin. If it is Zhou Xin 20 years later, he will be much older than him.

Now everyone is in their 20s, and there is no generation gap.

Hu Zhengming looked at the Christmas gift that Zhou Xin handed him, a thin envelope with holiday packaging.

Christmas gifts belong to foreign customs. Hu Zhengming called Zhou Xin to come over to spend Christmas together, but he never thought about it. He opened it directly:

"Wow what a nice gift, how do you know I like her?"

"I've been to your office a few times, and once in your office the record player was playing Collins.

It happened that Collins was coming to L.A. for a concert in March, so I gave it as a Christmas present. "

Judy Collins, an American singer active in the 60s to 90s.

Then Zhou Xin handed Raymond and Jason the same two similar envelopes: "Fist game product exchange voucher.

This can be used to redeem any game we publish on Riot Games.

I don't know what you guys like either. "

Raymond is an artist specializing in watercolors.Jason is also an artist, focusing on 3D art.

In a worldly sense, neither of them had achieved much in the field of art.

Raymond gave Zhou Xin a friendly hug, "Very good.

I really like the games made by your company, your art style is very characteristic.

Including Christmas DLC, also very distinctive.

It just changed the background and character painting, which made me feel like a completely different game. "

Fortunately, Hu Zhengming's family is different from the traditional Huaguo family. He and his wife will not always compare other people's children with their own.

Even when talking about Zhou Xin at home, it is mainly in a declarative tone.

But even so, Raymond and Jason still felt frustrated.

However, after Zhou Xin sold part of Riot Games shares to Microsoft for [-] million US dollars, Raymond and Jason felt no frustration in an instant.

Jason nodded and said, "It's very good.

It took me a long time to get through.

I'm also looking forward to your sequel. "

Zhou Xin thought, Raymond and Jason are not much different from 20 years later, they still like video games the same.

Just 20 years later, Raymond was working as a volunteer at FCSN, the Federation for the Assistance of Exceptional Children, while creating.

Jason, on the other hand, is doing 3D design in a special effects company.

Whenever he saw the two, they would all sit together and play FIFA video games.

"Newman, the Ph.D. basic exam here at Berkeley shouldn't be a problem for you.

The previous paper has been published in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

You try to produce some results every year, and it’s okay to publish one or two papers, right? "

Hu Zhengming also put his mind at ease, and Zhou Xin cannot be managed as an ordinary doctoral student.

As Zhou Xin's doctoral supervisor, he just mentioned the goal.

This request was easy for Zhou Xin to fulfill, so he simply replied: "Okay.

I will keep the frequency of one paper per year.

From the perspective of entrepreneurship, there will be more things to deal with at the company level this year.

The professor may need your help with something later. "

Hu Zhengming asked: "I will try my best to help you within my ability.

You can tell me what it is first. "

"I hope to meet some senior professors who have enough reputation in academia."

"That's no problem. I'll introduce you later."

"Professor, I split the part of the game production team from Riot Games and set up a game production company.

I see that both Raymond and Jason are very interested in video games. You can ask them if they have any idea of ​​working in a game production company. "

This is essentially an exchange of interests.

Hu Zhengming didn't shy away: "Okay, I'll ask them.

You don't have to treat them above ordinary employees for my sake.

Or they have no talent and no interest in the field of integrated circuits.

My contacts and social relations are basically in the field of integrated circuits.

I helped them find an Internet company before, and Raymond came back after working for two months. I heard from him that the management was chaotic. "

"It's normal that most startups in Silicon Valley lack a set of management logic.

For startups, management is a luxury.

Only after they don't have to worry about survival issues, companies will consider standardizing management and management structures. "

In the process of Internet development, 1998 was a very important year.This year, Google and PayPal were established, and eBay began to sell various souvenirs on the Internet.

With electronic payment, electronic shopping has officially entered the stage.

For Huaguo, they launched the second phase of the Internet backbone network construction project, expanding the backbone broadband to 155m.

For Zhou Xin, this year completed the accumulation of original capital.

No longer need to think about selling patents to get the first pot of gold.

The patent of the UWP dual-chipset is worthless in later generations, but it does not mean that it is worthless in this era.

Now files need to be transferred between cables, and the UWP dual chipset can realize point-to-multipoint file transfer.

This product bypasses Texas Instruments' patented serial wireless USB, and instead adopts a point-to-multipoint method to build an IP network to provide broadband video services for residential users.

The architecture has been upgraded from MIMO to Ultra-MIMO for greater range, higher link reliability and RF penetration through walls.

A perfect replacement for Texas Instruments patents can be achieved.

Zhou Xin plans to go back to Huaguo after the Huaguo branch is established, and set up a company in Huaguo based on the UWP dual-chipset to exclusively operate the product.

At the same time, it also accumulates talents for the follow-up semiconductor industry.

(End of this chapter)