Chen received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 1988 and was one of the first batch of semiconductor PhDs in China, and later engaged in postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the United States, and later served as Vice President of OV Technology in Silicon Valley and co-founder of Spreadtrum Communications. He resigned from Spreadtrum in March this year, and the reason for his resignation was nothing more than the arrival of the stock lock-up period, but the company's development prospects were not good, or there were other reasons, Zhou Shi didn't care about it. was supposed to meet a long time ago, but the outbreak of the earthquake made them postpone, and now Zhou Shi finally has time, so he made an appointment with Chen Datong to meet in Silicon Valley.

At the same time, Deng Feng of the Northern Lights was also met, Deng Feng is also a very awesome character, and his success in Silicon Valley was much earlier than Zhou Shi. In 1997, Deng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, Inc. with a few friends, making it one of the world's leading suppliers of network security equipment. In 2001, NetScreen was listed on the NASDAQ in the United States. In 2004, NetScreen was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion. He is also the president of the "Huayuan Science and Technology Association", and has been committed to helping Chinese people in the United States to successfully start their own businesses. However, Zhou Shi is obviously different from someone like him, under normal circumstances, he still helps others a little more, but he still has a lot of exchanges with Deng Feng.

"It's a non-disclosure agreement, it's harsh, if you don't want to, we'll just have a chat today. Zhou Shi met them with exhaustion. With the outbreak of the financial crisis, seeing the stock prices of many well-known companies plummet, as well as the changes in the industry now, he has more ambitions. However, the development of core areas is still in the first place. Zhou Shi found Chen Datong for the purpose of spreading the news, and Deng Feng's arrival was an accident, it turned out that Chen Datong had already joined Northern Light Investment. Maybe he's not just a scientist!

"Oh, Simon has another big move?" Deng Feng picked up the confidentiality agreement handed over by Zhou Shi and looked at it.

"Mr. Zhou, can you tell me why?" Chen Datong was quite cautious

"It has to do with Spreadtrum, I want to buy Spreadtrum, but it doesn't matter. Zhou Shi said frankly that Spreadtrum is a small company with a market value of several hundred million dollars, and its equity is scattered, and there is not much capital to compete with Zhou Shi.

"I'm out of Spreadtrum and basically don't care about the job there. "Chen Datong

"It doesn't matter if it's a spreadtrum, but if my target is Qualcomm or MediaTek, is Professor Chen interested?"

"Simon, Qualcomm has a market value of $80 billion, aren't you?"

"I will focus on the core areas related to smartphones!" Zhou Shi

Both of them were thinking about it, not knowing what Zhou Shi was going to do, and whether this harsh confidentiality agreement was worth signing. Zhou Shi is obviously a legend now, whether it is YouTube, Twitter, Time Friends or the previous post bar, all of which prove his legend. But what does it mean that he is going to enter IC design now, and does he want to develop across borders?

"Guoke was established by the joint investment of Time and Galaxy Capital, and there are no other shareholders. Zhou Shi calmly said the news that was still being kept secret for the time being.

"I'll sign!" Deng Feng decisively wrote down his name, and so did Chen Datong.

"All the technology patents of Nortel Networks are in my hands, and Galaxy Capital has joined the board of directors of IDCC. The next step is to take control of IDCC, delist and reorganize, then spin off, adjust patent licensing, and then acquire Spreadtrum......" Zhou Shi saw that they had signed a confidentiality agreement, and he readily said his biggest idea. Then explain to them in detail, such as what IDCC is, you must know that although this company is powerful, it does not have much reputation.

"Nortel's Patents for the Nortel Network?" Nortel ...... "Deng Feng, Nortel is not bankrupt now, many people may not be aware of the crisis of Nortel's bankruptcy, or more people think that this is their temporary weakness, Deng Feng is quite skeptical about the authenticity of this matter at this time.

"We made a bet that Nortel's network would go bankrupt within three years. Zhou Shi said simply, "But we still have to make preparations in the early stage, even if we don't have these patents, we have to surpass MediaTek ......" Zhou Shi explained in detail the idea of smart phones, as well as the current layout. Now no more than last year, Apple and Guoke have brought a lot of impact to everyone, and more people are optimistic about the future of smartphones. Zhou Shi doesn't need to be as tired as before, no one agrees no matter how he explains it.

IC design is only a part, Zhou Shi is also ready to intervene in chip manufacturing, his ultimate goal is to learn and surpass Samsung, improve the layout of the entire mobile phone industry chain. Although the development of LCD panels and memory is very difficult, it is an investment of tens of billions of dollars at every turn, which is not something that Zhou Shi can easily get involved in at this stage. But just what Zhou Shi said still made Deng and Chen feel that Zhou Shi's heart was too big.

"I can't judge your thoughts, but I think you should be more cautious. "Deng Feng

"To be honest, money doesn't mean much to me, and I'm willing to lose tens of billions for this opportunity. If I can see an opportunity, I am willing to continue to lose tens of billions. I'm willing to give up more if hope is great. In fact, Zhou Shi has a lot of unspoken, such as developing a CPU with its own architecture.

Zhou Shi's heroic words finally impressed Chen Datong, sufficient funds, generous treatment, in the field he is familiar with, and Zhou Shi's acquisition can give him a good opportunity to cash out. Spreadtrum now has a market value of less than $400 million, and even if Zhou Shi buys it for $500 million, it won't have much impact on him. He continued to invest in the crude oil market, and now the price of crude oil has risen to more than $120 per barrel, which has brought him too much wealth. Not to mention that there is also the Suzaku Fund shorting the United States, $500 million is really nothing for his goal, and he doesn't need to worry about a little money.

Another reason why Zhou Shi looked for Chen Datong is that Omnivision Technology, which is also known as omnivision, its main product is CMOS sensors, and one-third of the world's mobile phone cameras use Omnivision. Almost all mobile phone factories and design companies in Chinese mainland are Omnivision customers. In the previous life, OV was surpassed by Sony because of the wrong decision in the subprime mortgage crisis and the wrong direction of development, resulting in backwardness. Zhou Shi did not have the idea of acquiring him, becoming a major shareholder, and it was enough to adjust the direction of the company's development.

Spreadtrum and OV can bring huge benefits to Chen, and Zhou Shi believes he will have enough motivation to promote the development of these two things. Even after achieving these two goals, it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to work for Zhou Shi. Talent, Zhou Shi believes that he is now attractive enough for most talents. A handful of key talents may require him to work hard, but there aren't many of them.

Chen Datong agreed to Zhou Shi's cooperation unexpectedly, Deng Feng had no idea of doing things for Zhou Shi, but he also promised to find talents and enterprises with technical advantages for Zhou Shi.