"I originally thought that Liang Mengsong would be my best student, but it turned out that you were far better than I thought.

In just one year, Riot Games is valued at more than $2 billion. ”

There are various theories about Riot's valuation, but the consensus is between $1 billion and $2 billion.

It's just that Yahoo wants to buy Riot Games and needs to bear a certain premium.

Yang Zhiyuan finally asked Hu Zhengming to be a lobbyist, and then chatted with Zhou Xin by himself.

He didn't quite tell the truth when he chatted with Abel, and if he could, Yang planned to buy Riot Games along with CEOcity.

Cash and stock swap is adopted.

Zhou Xin thought of Liang Mengsong, in his previous life, he and Liang Mengsong were partners with an excellent relationship, and they planned to get the technology that the other party didn't want from Samsung.

This kind of relationship can only be so iron. Doing bad things together is a sign of trust between the two parties.

You must know that if their actions are discovered, they will be prosecuted by the Goryeo court.

In 2023, seven former employees of SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung, were accused of stealing chip technology and transferring it to Chinese companies.

The technology is mainly the design blueprint and component list of the SEMES Lotus semiconductor cleaning machine.

One of them works as a researcher at SEMES.

They used the stolen information to form a rival company to produce semiconductor cleaning equipment using the stolen SEMES technology.

I haven't seen the other party yet, if his butterfly effect hasn't affected Liang Mengsong, the other party should still be working at TSMC now.

A lot of Zhou Xin's understanding of entrepreneurship comes from Liang Mengsong.

Including the management experience of the semiconductor industry, it also comes from the other party.

Semiconductors are an industry that requires a large amount of capital and talents, and management ability is crucial.

Zhou Xin also planned to dig Liang Mengsong over when Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi fought to the end.

"This is the dividend of the times.

My personal effort and talent are only a small part of it. ”

"The Internet makes money much faster than semiconductors, and it will take at least five years for semiconductor companies to exceed one billion in valuation.

There is still a premise of unique technology.

There is technology and market, and it is difficult for the semiconductor industry to raise funds in the securities market. ”

"Because the Internet industry is a complete market economy, and the semiconductor industry has reached this point, it is actually very dependent on government policy support."

"I'll send you some papers these days, you can take a good look at it, and ask me if there's anything you don't understand.

The ISSCC is going to be held in San Francisco next month, and you and I will go with you. ”

IEEE, also known as the Institute of Electronics Engineers in Americacan, hosts a large number of academic forums every year, from international communication conferences to industrial and commercial systems conferences to international conferences on control applications.

There are even aerospace conferences.

Among them, the integrated circuit conference held by IEEE is called ISSCC, which is also the most important academic conference in the semiconductor field of the year.

"I'm going to have you present your paper and publish it in the conference proceedings.

By the way, let's get ready together.

Didn't you say that you wanted to know some experts in integrated circuits with sufficient gold content, and this conference is the best opportunity. Hu Zhengming continued.

There are three important academic conferences in the semiconductor field every year, the ISSCC at the beginning of the year, the Hotchips at the end of the year and the IEDM at the end of the year.

Among them, IEDM and ISSCC began in 1954 and 1953 respectively, while hotchips began in 1989.

Zhou Xin nodded and said, "No problem, I will prepare well, one month is enough." ”

Hu Zhengming continued: "With your current net worth, you can start a business from some subdivisions of integrated circuits.

Many of the ISSCC attendees don't mind working in the industry, and you can use this as an opportunity to build a foundation. ”

This is also true, integrated circuits have basically not stayed in academia all the time, and most of them have repeatedly jumped sideways in academia and industry.

This is the case with Hu Zhengming himself.

"My recent patent application on UWP technology has come down.

I plan to specialize in chips in this field based on UWP technology. Zhou Xin said, "Professor, I'll send you the detailed information of UWP technology in the future." ”

Hu Zhengming was very curious, the other party also applied for a patent in the process of starting a business?

There is no concept of UWP chips yet, and Hu Zhengming has no impression of this and does not know how this technology is.

However, Zhou Xin said that he plans to specialize in UWP chips based on this, which should still be a very valuable technology.

"Okay, you send it to me, and I can also help you think about what application scenarios there are, or what connections I have that you can use."

Originally, Zhou Xin planned to sell this technology to Texas Instruments, but now he has close to 100 million in funds, so that he can run this matter by himself.

The technology that Samsung wants to transfer to small and medium-sized enterprises is not without value.

Under the organization of the Korean government, since these technologies will be transferred to small and medium-sized semiconductor companies in Korea free of charge, there will inevitably be a market.

It's just that these markets are too small in 2020, and the entire market size is not as large as Samsung.

This is like the personal credit market that banks look down on, but it does not mean that there is no value.

"I just have this idea right now, and what I need the most is a CEO to help me coordinate this whole thing.

Professor, why don't you come to my company again to work part-time?

And a CEO?

I can open shares to you. ”

For Zhou Xin, Hu Zhengming is really the best candidate.

Liang Mengsong is still in TSMC, and he will not leave TSMC until he fights to the death with Jiang Shangyi.

And Hu Zhengming himself has entrepreneurial experience, and later did well in TSMC.

What's more important is the 3D chip architecture he researched in the future, and Zhou Xin doesn't want to directly occupy the teacher's achievements.

But if Hu Zhengming is in his company, then he and Hu Zhengming can develop the architecture together.

The FinFET architecture can be regarded as a key technology that can be used in the semiconductor process to catch the neck of Intel and AMD.

In the more than ten years since the invention of this architecture, no more advanced architecture has been found in the entire field of integrated circuits.

To be precise, there are certainly more advanced architectures, but from an industrial point of view, those architectures are not mature enough.

The requirements for industrial and laboratory products are very different.

The cost is too high and the success rate is too low, and from a comprehensive point of view, the absolute owner of the transistor designed based on the FinFET architecture plays an irreplaceable role.

"Show me your UWP chip first, I can't promise you now."

Hu Zhengming will not have any change in mentality because of his job for Zhou Xin.

And he is not working full-time in Zhouxin's company, he also has Strategye Semiconductor under his own name.

"I was recently approached by Jerry, who offered to buy a stake in Riot Games at a price you were happy with."