"You are Zhou Xin, right? Professor Hu asked me to pick you up."
A young Chinese man was holding a cardboard with Zhou Xin written on it. 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 to him, then stretched out his hand: "Hello, I am Zhou Xin, who are you?"
"Hello, my name is Zhang Zhongbo, and I am currently in the third year of my PhD studies under Professor Hu. Professor Hu arranged for me to pick you up this time.
In the future, during the early adaptation stage, Professor Hu will arrange for me to answer some of your questions and help you plan your current learning path. "
Zhang Zhongbo? Zhou Xin cursed in his heart: This name feels so similar to Zhang Zhongmou. He remembered that Hu Zhengming had a slight conflict with Zhang Zhongmou in the future.
The conflict mainly revolves around Hu Zhengming's most proud student Liang Mengsong. Liang Mengsong made great contributions to TSMC, but did not obtain the corresponding status.
Later, Liang Mengsong switched from TSMC to Samsung, which also caused TSMC to take him to 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 served as TSMC’s chief expert for four years.
Zhou Xin said calmly: "Hello, senior brother, I will need more care from you in the future.
This is my first time going abroad, and I am not very familiar with everything here. There are many things that I still need to pay more attention to. "
Entrepreneurs need to master all aspects of ability, one of which is very important is to read people's orders.
Regardless of his tone, appearance or temperament, Zhang Zhongbo is a typical Chinese essayist, and judging from his fluent Chinese expression, he should be a former international student from mainland China.
There will always be a curved cavity.
For a question writer, you need to express your needs clearly, and the other party will generally be embarrassed to refuse you.
Especially when you call the other person senior brother.
What's more, Zhou Xin does have a lot of things to worry about.
After arriving at San Francisco International Airport, Zhou Xin followed Zhang Zhongbo, got into his old Nissan, and drove all the way back to Berkeley.
It takes about 30 minutes to drive from San Francisco International Airport to Berkeley. Only in August, Berkeley will provide a centralized pick-up service.
Zhou Xin came here in March, so of course there was no such service.
"Senior brother, do you usually have heavy scientific research tasks here?"
“Of course, although Professor Hu is very kind, the EECS PhD graduation requirements are there.
If you want to get a PhD, you have to work to produce results. "
“So this is purely results-oriented?
As long as there are results, not process-oriented?
In other words, as long as I have corresponding results, even if I don't go to the laboratory, it won't have a negative impact on me, right? "
“That’s the theory.
But you'd better not entertain such thoughts.
Because the subdivided field of integrated circuits belongs to the engineering field, and it is an engineering direction that requires extremely high hands-on skills.
If you don’t work, you will definitely not be able to get the corresponding experimental results, let alone have any output.
It is different from majors such as theoretical physics and mathematics. It has higher requirements for hands-on practical ability. "Zhang Zhongbo persuaded with earnest advice while driving.
Being able to come to Berkeley from mainland China to study for a Ph.D. in this era, Zhang Zhongbo is a top problem solver even if he is a problem solver.
After just ten minutes of conversation, Zhang Zhongbo concluded that his junior brother had the illusion of having a high self-esteem.
In the field of engineering, as long as there is no obvious gap in IQ, the results are highly positively correlated with your work intensity.
Zhou Xin wanted to say that in my previous life, when I was studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, I would get up at eight in the morning and go back to the dormitory to rest at 11 in the evening. The intensity of the work would make employees at major Chinese Internet companies shed tears when they saw it.
The difference is that the graduation he welcomes is completely different from the graduation welcomed by workers in major Internet companies.
Later, whether it was during the year of ZTE or when I started my own business, it is no exaggeration to describe him as a king.
The more industry insiders are, the less likely they are to take any chances in the competition in the semiconductor industry.
Because this is an industry that is purely devoted to investment, including human 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.
Only with application scenarios can you know where you can optimize, and then you can quickly iterate and optimize.
It’s just that no one expected that in this situation, domestic semiconductor equipment and materials would be more slogan-promoting than practical, and Neon Holland and Korea’s equipment and materials would be used in every possible way.
"Haha, senior brother, don't be too serious, this is like a game, I'm exploring the boundaries of its rules.
It doesn't mean that I really want to touch the boundaries of its rules. "
It was already very late after Zhang Zhongbo took Zhou Xin to the international student dormitory arranged for him by Hu Zhengming. Zhou Xin politely sent Zhang Zhongbo away and lay half on the bed in the international student dormitory.
Twenty years later, in 2018, I happened to graduate from Berkeley, and my heart was filled with longing and expectations for the unknown.
At the same place, at a different time, Zhou Xin was thinking about his future and destiny, and whether he could achieve personal success in the future.
But he didn't expect that he would return to Berkeley again, not after becoming famous in the future, but back in the past, back to Berkeley twenty years ago.
What he was thinking about at this time was not success in the personal sense, because he had memories of the next twenty years, and success in the worldly sense was like grass that could be easily broken by the roadside.
No challenge at all.
The stupidest way is to buy BTC, buy a few BTC, wait patiently for BTC to skyrocket, and you will have free wealth.
Lithography machines are mainly divided into two types: DUV and EUV. DUV can only be used to manufacture chips required for 7nm and above processes, while EUV is strictly needed for 5nm and more advanced process chips.
In other words, EUV is the core of future lithography technology and advanced processes, while DUV is a relatively backward technology.
Now he wants to think about how to achieve a breakthrough in the entire semiconductor industry.
Zhou Xin went over the plan again in his mind.
This period of time at Berkeley is a critical step that requires the completion of the accumulation of original capital.
