"You're Zhou Xin, right? Professor Hu asked me to pick you up. ”

A young Chinese man was holding a cardboard with the word Zhou Xin written on it, and he had been seeing the young man waving the cardboard in his hand since Zhou Xin walked out of the airport exit.

Zhou Xin walked quickly in front of him, and then stretched out his hand: "Hello, I'm Zhou Xin, may I ask who you are?" ”

"Hello, my name is Zhang Zhongbo, and I am currently in the third year of my doctorate under Professor Hu, and Professor Hu has arranged for me to pick you up this time.

In the follow-up period, Professor Hu will arrange for me to answer some of your questions and help you plan your current learning path. ”

Zhang Zhongbo? Zhou Xin slandered in his heart: Why does this name feel so similar to Zhang Zhongmou, he remembers that Hu Zhengming will be a little contradictory to Zhang Zhongmou in the future.

The conflict mainly revolves around Hu Zhengming's most proud student Liang Mengsong, who has made great contributions to TSMC, but has not obtained the corresponding status.

Later, Liang Mengsong jumped from TSMC to Samsung, and TSMC also caused TSMC to sue him in court and force him to leave Samsung.

Zhang Zhongmou is the founder of TSMC, and Hu Zhengming is not only Liang Mengsong's mentor, but also the chief expert of TSMC for four years.

Zhou Xin was silent on the surface: "Senior brother, I still need you to take care of it in the future."

It's my first time going abroad, and I'm not very familiar with everything here, and there are many things that my brother needs to pay more attention to. ”

Entrepreneurs need to master all aspects of ability, one of the most important is to watch people cook.

Zhang Zhongbo, whether it is tone, appearance or temperament, is a typical Chinese questioner, and judging from his fluent Chinese expression, he should also be a former student in mainland China.

There will be a bend cavity in the bends.

For the questioner, you need to clearly express your needs, and the other party generally can't pull down his face to reject you.

Especially when you call the other person's senior brother.

What's more, Zhou Xin does have a lot of things to trouble the other party.

After arriving at San Francisco International Airport, Zhou Xin followed Zhang Zhongbo, sat on the other party's broken Nissan who didn't know how many hands, and drove all the way back to Berkeley.

San Francisco International Airport is about a 30-minute drive from Berkeley, and only in August does Berkeley offer a centralized pick-up service.

Zhou Xin came over in March, so naturally there is no such service.

"Senior brother, do you usually have heavy scientific research tasks here?"

"Of course, although Professor Hu is very kind, the requirements for graduating from EECS for a PhD are there.

If you want to get a PhD, you have to work to produce results. ”

"So it's purely result-oriented?

As long as there is a result, not a process orientation?

In other words, as long as I have the corresponding results, even if I don't go to the lab, it won't have a negative impact on me, right? ”

"In theory, that's true.

But you'd better not think so.

Because the subdivision of integrated circuits belongs to the engineering category, and it is an engineering direction that requires extremely high hands-on ability.

If you don't work, you will inevitably not be able to get the corresponding experimental results, let alone produce them.

It is different from theoretical physics and mathematics, and it requires more hands-on practical ability. Zhang Zhongbo drove while persuading his mother-in-law.

In this era, he came to Berkeley from mainland China to study for a doctorate, and Zhang Zhongbo is a top problemalist even if he is a problemalist.

After just ten minutes of conversation, Zhang Zhongbo judged that his junior brother had the illusion of self-esteem.

In the field of engineering, on the premise that there is no obvious gap in IQ, the outcome is highly positively correlated with your work intensity.

Zhou Xin wanted to say that in my previous life, when I was studying for a PhD at Berkeley, I would get up at 8 o'clock in the morning and go back to the dormitory at 11 o'clock in the evening to rest.

The difference is that the graduation he ushered in and the graduation ushered in by the workers of the Internet factory are two different things.

Later, whether it was a year in ZTE or during his own business, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as the king of volumes.

The more people in the industry, the more they will not have a fluke mentality about the competition in the semiconductor industry.

Because this is the industry of pure investment, manpower investment, capital investment, and policy support.

Of course, the most important thing is that there are no application scenarios, whether it is domestic equipment or domestic semiconductor materials, there is a lack of application scenarios.

With application scenarios, you know where you can optimize, and you can quickly iterate and optimize.

It's just that no one thought that in this form, domestic semiconductor equipment and materials shouting slogans are greater than practice, and neon Dutch Goryeo equipment and materials are trying to stuff them for you.

"Haha, brother, don't be too serious, it's like a game, I'm exploring its rule boundaries.

It doesn't mean that I really have to touch the boundaries of its rules. ”

After Zhang Zhongbo took Zhou Xin to the international student dormitory arranged for him by Hu Zhengming, it was already very late, and after Zhou Xin politely sent Zhang Zhongbo away, he half lay on the bed in the international student dormitory.

Twenty years later, in 2018, I happened to graduate from Berkeley, and my heart was full of longing and expectation for the unknown.

In the same place, at different times, Zhou Xin was thinking about his future and destiny, and whether he could achieve personal success in the future.

It's just that he didn't expect to return to Berkeley again, not after becoming famous in the future, but back in the past, back to Berkeley twenty years ago.

At this time, he was not thinking about success in the personal sense, because he had memories of the next twenty years, and success in the secular sense was like a small grass that could be broken on the side of the road.

There is no challenge.

The stupidest way is to buy BTC, buy a few BTC, wait patiently until BTC skyrockets, and then have free wealth casually.

Lithography machines are mainly divided into DUV and EUV, DUV can only be used to manufacture chips required by 7nm and above process requirements, and EUV is just needed for chips with 5nm and higher advanced process requirements.

In other words, EUV is the core of future lithography technology and advanced processes, and DUV is a relatively backward technology.

Now he has to think about how to achieve a breakthrough in the entire semiconductor industry.

Zhou Xin sorted out the plan again in his heart.

This time in Berkeley was a crucial step in the accumulation of raw capital.