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After a while, Yu Wenfei took Zhou Mengqi to the café downstairs to take a break and chat at the same time.

"It's time for you to be an exchange student, right?"

Holding the coffee cup, Yu Wenfei asked while holding a silver spoon and stirring gently.

Zhou Mengqi is a Stanford after this year, and generally this kind of exchange student has a study period of one year, and he still has to return to his original school after the end.

"That...... I was given a full scholarship here, and you want me to continue studying......" Zhou Mengqi hesitated for a moment and said.

Yu Wenfei smiled, it seems that Zhou Mengqi has performed quite well in the past year, and it is much more difficult to get a full scholarship from Stanford than to be admitted to Tsinghua University.

"What do you think, do you want to stay here?" he asked again.

"From an academic point of view, I think it might be better to stay here, after all, for my major, the world's top masters are concentrated here. Zhou Mengqi sighed.

Her professional direction is to focus on IC design, that is, "integrated circuit design", and the most commonly used material for integrated circuits is "silicon"!

When you think of Silicon Valley, not far from Stanford University, it's not surprising that the world's IC design masters are concentrated here.

As for China, it's okay to learn some basic knowledge in this major, but if you want to get in touch with the world's most cutting-edge technology, you really want to think too much.

Therefore, Zhou Mengqi's tendency is to stay here.

"Then stay at Stanford, by the way, do you have access to those top IC experts now?" Yu Wenfei suddenly thought of something and asked.

"Yes, the school will often invite some industry experts to be visiting professors, and give lectures from time to time. What's wrong?" replied Zhou Mengqi.

"You keep an eye on me, and in a while I might be digging up some experts in this area. In addition to IC experts, there are also talents in industrial design, materials science, batteries, etc., which are also needed. Yu Wenfei said.

Zhou Mengqi understood that Yu Wenfei had told her what she was going to do in the future, and now let her pay attention to experts in this area, naturally preparing to make mobile phones.

However, listening to the meaning of Yu Wenfei's words, he wants to learn from mobile phone giants such as Nokia and Motorola, and conduct comprehensive self-research and development starting from chips.

"Chip research and development is very, very difficult, whether it is a computer chip or a mobile phone chip, which requires huge and long-term investment. However, this investment is also worth it, if you want to be an industry giant, you can't always be controlled by people on the core components. Zhou Mengqi said with a smile.

If more than ten years later, someone says that they are going to make mobile phones, and then all the main components such as chips are developed and produced by themselves, then others will definitely treat you as a neurotic.

Because by that time, the chip industry has long been highly monopolized, and in advance of mobile phone chips, everyone will only think of Qualcomm and Apple, and reluctantly add HiSilicon. Even a giant like Samsung, which eats all over the whole industry chain, has to give up its own chips!

But in 2003, the chip industry was still in the era of chaos.

Desktop-class CPUs have long been decided, with Intel and AMD competing for the title.

But on the mobile side, there are too many companies that design and produce chips, and the major mobile phone giants have their own chips, as well as Texas Instruments, Pukot, Qualcomm, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, etc., too many.

At that time, no single chip could dominate the world, and everyone did not attach too much importance to chips, and no country or company regarded chip technology as a cutting-edge technology.

Huawei's HiSilicon was able to start developing its own chips only after obtaining a permanent license from ARM in 04.

By the way, whether it is Huawei HiSilicon, Qualcomm or Apple or Samsung, their chips are all developed on the basis of the ARM instruction set after being authorized by ARM's instruction set.

Of course, ARM didn't expect that he would make mobile chips, and he originally wanted to compete with Intel and AMD, but ARM's architecture did not compete with the X86 architecture and was defeated.

The x86 architecture adopted by AMD and Intel takes the "three highs" route of "high cost, high power consumption, and high performance", so it is applied to large devices such as desktop computers like a fish in water, and quickly occupies the market.

However, ARM is a "double low" route of "low power consumption and low cost", and it is naturally impossible to beat the X86 architecture in that era of pursuit of performance, and there is naturally no market for computers and mainframes.

However, on mobile devices such as mobile phones, ARM unexpectedly found its own suitable market and was widely adopted by major manufacturers.

Yuwenfei's plan is also to develop his own chip on this basis after obtaining the permanent authorization of ARM!

Of course, the research and development of chips is still a trivial matter, he began to prepare around 2003, and when it comes to the era of smart phones, he will definitely be able to achieve a relative lead.

But R&D alone is not enough, and Huawei's HiSilicon is still a very clear case!

At the beginning, the United States wanted to "sanction" and cut off Huawei's ZTE chips, but ZTE was directly interrupted "backbone".

However, Huawei took out its own Kirin chip, not only turned the crisis into safety, but also became famous all over the world, let everyone know, it turned out that Huawei's layout on the chip has been more than ten years!

Seeing that this still can't contain Huawei, the United States has done even more, not only not allowing European and American companies to provide chips to Huawei, but also not allowing all wafer factories outside China not to give Huawei chip foundry!

This is very fatal, because the domestic wafer factories are too backward in technology and have no ability to produce high-end chips at all.

Therefore, from beginning to end, Yuwenfei considered the bigger issue of chip production!

That's what's even trickier!

The production of chips requires a wafer factory, and the investment in building a wafer factory can be described as a "massive amount of money".

At least the current Yu Wenfei does not have the corresponding strength, he still has to make money for another two years, and after doing enough foreshadowing and layout, he can start with the wafer factory.

…………

"You should also be doing IC design after graduation, do you want to help me? Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

Zhou Mengqi smiled and said without hesitation: "I must go, otherwise why would I study this major." ”

Looking at the girl in front of him, Yu Wenfei's eyes were very gentle, perhaps because Zhou Mengqi was the first girl he was tempted to wake up from his dream, so his feelings for Zhou Mengqi and other girls were completely different.

When facing girls such as Zhou Mengyi, Wu Xiu, Hu Jingjing, and Mo Wenxin, Yu Wenfei unconsciously treated him with an "elderly" attitude.

…………

McKenzie Law Firm, specially arranged the scene of the cocktail party.

All the staff are well-dressed, brightly lit, and everyone is holding a red wine glass when they speak, talking elegantly and politely.

When Yu Wenfei, the protagonist of the drinking party, appeared with Zhou Mengqi in his arms, everyone looked at him, and there was a burst of applause.

McKenzie greeted him warmly and said with a spring breeze on his face: "Welcome to our Mr. Fei." ”

looked at Zhou Mengqi and asked, "Who is this beautiful lady ......?"

"My girlfriend, Zhou Mengqi. Yu Wenfei said dryly.

This is the first time he has said that a certain girl is his girlfriend in front of others!

Zhou Mengqi didn't say anything, but the joy in her eyes couldn't be hidden, and it was the first time she heard Yu Wenfei tell others that he was his girlfriend.

…………

After the evening reception, Yu Wenfei personally sent Zhou Mengqi back to school.

This surprised Hu Jingjing, seeing Yu Wenfei and Zhou Mengqi together, she thought something would happen tonight.

The car was parked on the campus of Stanford University, under the apartment building where Zhou Mengqi lived, Yu Wenfei got out of the car first, and then held on to the car door, and gentlemanly helped Zhou Mengqi down.

Hu Jingjing sat in the co-pilot's seat, and did not go down to disturb the two.

"Okay, you go back and rest, I'll be back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Yu Wenfei said softly.

Zhou Mengqi looked at Yuwenfei stunned for a few seconds, then lowered his head and said in a low voice, "You won't blame me, right?"

Although this is a brainless statement, Yuwen Feisecond understands.

"How come, you can have something you like to do, and I'm happy for you. But don't get used to the environment here, I don't want to go back in the future, I can tell you, no matter how developed European and American countries are, the so-called freedom will be elected, but this is not our hometown, and it is not suitable for us to live permanently. Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

"I knew that when I finished my studies, I would go back immediately. Zhou Mengqi said without hesitation.

Why did she take the Tsinghua exam, why did she choose that major, and why did she go abroad for further study.

Zhou Mengqi did not explain these things to Yu Wenfei, because she thought that there was no need to explain, Yu Wenfei would understand her.

In fact, Yu Wenfei really understood, so he didn't stop her, but let her choose what she wanted to do.

Even in the future, she will be allowed to choose the life she wants to live.

When parting, Zhou Mengqi had already walked towards the apartment building, and Yu Wenfei stood behind and watched her back.

Suddenly, Zhou Mengqi stopped, turned around and walked back.

When Yu Wenfei was about to ask her what else was going on, Zhou Mengqi had already gently thrown herself into his arms, hugging his neck with both arms.

There was a burst of warmth on his lips, and he was actually "sneak attacked"......

As soon as Yu Wenfei reacted, he heard Zhou Mengqi whisper in his ear: "You, I don't ask you to clean yourself, but ...... You have to grasp the scale, your little secretary didn't look at me right, you even brought her to see me, deliberately angry with me?"

Just opened his mouth to say something, Zhou Mengqi stretched out a finger and pressed it on his lips, "Hehe, I'm joking with you, no need to explain, I believe you." ”

Looking at Zhou Mengqi's back as he walked into the apartment building again, Yu Wenfei had a smile on his face.