Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Best Chance
Zhou Xin is no longer there in 2021, and he only remembers that when he heard that he was going to Zhongxing as a lobbyist, he persuaded him: "Even me, an old man, knows not to take advantage of the fire."
The situation is only going to get worse, and it's almost impossible for you to succeed.
I don't know what Fei Teng does? From the number and variety of chips they buy from us every year, I can guess how well their supercomputers are progressing.
I told them privately to be prepared to lose Feiteng's biggest customer altogether.
Feiteng's situation is much better than ZTE, I'm making this kind of preparation, you young people don't always think about things that can't be done! ”
Guan Jianying at the end of the 20th century was much more energetic than twenty years later:
"Hu, I've been wanting to come to Berkeley to talk to you since I left Simplex Solutions, Inc.
But recently, since I was starting a business with someone else, there were so many things that I had to deal with when starting a new company, and I hadn't sorted everything out yet, so I never found the time.
I would like to say that with your character, I will definitely come to participate in this year's ISSCC, especially for such an excellent student.
This is your student Newman, right? Thanks to him, I can often see your name in the media magazines.
I even thought I was wrong, Newman was really young and promising, I only started my business in my forties, and I was already successful in my twenties.
People really can't compare with people. ”
Although Guan Jianying is crooked, Zhou Xin has always felt that the other party is a typical Ludi appearance after seeing Guan Jianying when he was young, with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a high nose bridge, and exudes a simple temperament.
When praising you, you feel that he is very sincere, without the slightest hint of yin and yang.
When Zhou Xin was studying for a doctorate at Berkeley, he met an old man and an old lady from Shen Hailai, and when he heard that you were studying for a doctorate at Berkeley, even if they were praising you, Zhou Xin always felt that he was yin and yang.
As a side note, Simplex Solutions, Inc. was also acquired by Cadence two years later.
"I'm Guan Jianying, and I've known Lao Hu for many years, and I used to work at Sunnyvale, where he taught at Berkeley.
I sometimes ask him questions I have.
Lao Hu is an encyclopedia of Chinese in the field of semiconductors! We engineers like to go to him when we have any problem, and even if we can't give us an answer, he will tell us where to go to find ideas. ”
This is in line with Zhou Xin's perception of Hu Zhengming, otherwise the other party would not have such a high reputation in the group of bending engineers.
Zhou Xin: "Hello, I just came to California, and I don't know much about the Chinese circle in the field of integrated circuits here, so it seems that the professor is really enthusiastic." ”
Guan Jianying waved his hand: "Lao Hu is not warm-hearted, he loves to show off, and he likes to be touted by others."
After accepting you as a student, all kinds of show off like us.
Sometimes I send an email in the morning with just a link to your news.
Makes us so angry that we can't do it.
But you can't help him, after all, your grades are really good, and we middle-aged men are ashamed. ”
Zhou Xin was a little embarrassed, because he was standing on the shoulders of countless predecessors, and he didn't know what to say at this time, so he had to look at Hu Zhengming.
Hu Zhengming knew that Zhou Xin was embarrassed, and Zhou Xin had never shown off anything in front of him and other classmates.
After earning money, there is not much difference in dress, clothing, food, housing and transportation, the only change is that I moved from the dormitory to the affluent area of San Francisco.
For Chinese people like Zhou Xin, who have no roots and are rich, safety comes first.
Therefore, Hu Zhengming knew that Zhou Xin liked to hide clumsy, so he diverted the topic and said: "Lao Guan, so according to your meaning, after the WTO is liberalized, these integrated circuit giants will successively transfer their production capacity to China?" ”
Guan Jianying nodded and said, "Isn't this an obvious thing?"
China has a vast market and a large population, as well as low prices for basic resources and a stable supply of electricity.
When my company reaches a certain scale, I will also put the OEM in China.
The only problem is that the number of engineers in the field of integrated circuits in China is too small, although the population base is large enough, but the training of engineers is in ten years.
The process takes ten years from choosing an integrated circuit field in college to graduating and working as a qualified engineer in the field of integrated circuits.
Therefore, I expect that after the mainland joins the WTO, there will be enterprises that want to become the first to eat crabs, and then in ten years, China's semiconductors will usher in a golden period of development. ”
It's just that no one thought that there was such a thing as Hanxin, which led to the later talents, but there was no soil for entrepreneurship, and this kind of thing of grinding off the original manufacturer's trademark and then reprinting its own trademark could be mixed for three years before it was revealed.
This is something that Ameriken and his gang of integrated circuit practitioners could never have imagined.
Even Hanxin No. 1 was fake, all the way to Hanxin No. 5.
The end result is even more nonsense, and no one in the entire process chain has been held legally responsible.
As a result, the consequences of this kind of thing have to be borne by the entire Huaguo semiconductor industry, and the entire Huaguo semiconductor industry has fallen into a situation of ten thousand horses.
When Zhou Xin had dinner with Guan Jianying and Hu Zhengming before, he listened to Guan Jianying spray the vested interests of those who made Hanxin.
"*** is definitely not something that Chen Jin can do alone, isn't it just that the basket is getting bigger and bigger, and no one can hold it, so he keeps cheating!"
Back in 1998, Zhou Xin said: "So I plan to return to China as a trail opener." ”
Guan Jianying praised: "With good ambition, the mainland's integrated circuit industry lacks a trailblazer."
Huaguo definitely has enough potential in this regard.
The population base alone and the ingenuity of the Chinese people determine that China's integrated circuit industry will definitely not be worse than Goryeo and Wanwan in the future.
It's just that the upfront cost will be high, the cost of cultivating talents and the cost of technology patent licensing. ”
Zhou Xin saw Guan Jianying and remembered that the other party had started a business with a friend before founding Shixin, and that entrepreneurship ended in being kicked out.
With more than 20 years of experience in the IC design industry, Kwan held the positions of Technical Director and Executive Vice President when he started his business with friends.
Later, after the company was on the right track, it was directly killed by the airborne faction found by the major shareholder.
After being kicked out of the game and falling into frustration for a long time, he used his connections to regroup and established Shixin.
The success of Alchip fully proves that the other party is an excellent management talent.
Zhou Xin realized that he could cut off Hu when Guan Jianying's business failed, he is also Chinese, has rich experience in the industry, has proven himself in the future, and has feelings for China, is there a better candidate than this?
The more he recalled, the more Zhou Xin realized that there were too many people at this ISSCC conference, as long as they seized the opportunity, there were a lot of opportunities to cut off their beards.