Hu Zhengming was surprised. What surprised him was that the thesis written by the other party was similar to the thesis written by a doctor who had experienced long-term academic training.
Even if Zhang Zhongbo were to write this paper, it would not be better than Zhou Xin's.
Generally, even if there are a large number of papers for reference, some mistakes that newcomers should make cannot be avoided.
"It's very good. I can't find anything wrong with it. I'll put my name on it and submit it to IEEE's Solid State Circuits Magazine.
I also published this magazine about MOSFET models before. "
Zhou Xin nodded and said, "Okay."
Hu Zhengming always knew that Zhou Xin was very talented, but the other party's talent was beyond his expectation.
Exams, paper writing, and scientific research abilities are all impeccable.
The only questionable thing is the hands-on ability, that is, the ability to do experiments.
In the field of integrated circuits, experiments must be done.
Hu Zhengming was not in a hurry. The other party would graduate from his bachelor's degree in about four months. He would make corresponding demands on the other party after Zhou Xin came to study for his doctorate.
"Go to Microsoft and work hard. Of course, we have to agree first. If Microsoft wants to keep you, even if Microsoft is willing to give you a work visa, you can't agree. You have to come and study for my doctorate."
Of course, what Hu Zhengming fears most is that after interning at Microsoft, he will be qualified to become a full-time employee because of his outstanding performance.
Needless to say, Microsoft's treatment is needless to say. What if Zhou Xin can't resist the temptation and gives him up?
It is not easy to recruit a doctor, and it is even more difficult to recruit a doctor with such a high talent.
And based on his understanding of Zhou Xin's abilities, it would not be difficult for him to stay at Microsoft.
This was the Hu Zhengming he was familiar with. Zhou Xin smiled: "Professor, don't worry, it won't happen.
The Internet is work, and integrated circuits are life. "
Hu Zhengming couldn't understand this joke at all, let alone how integrated circuits are life.
Zhou Xin further explained: “My interest in integrated circuits is far greater than my interest in the Internet.”
This is true. There was nothing about the Internet products in 1998 that could make Zhou Xin feel fresh.
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"I'm sure we will succeed!" Stephen waved his hand vigorously.
“I think so too, this game is very interesting, it’s very special.
If my favorite game before was Fallout, this is it now. ” Ashish was equally excited.
It has been two months since Zhou Xin arrived as an intern at Microsoft.
In the past two months, Zhou Xin got to know Stephen and Ashish, who are programmers and UI designers respectively.
Both of them are typical technical nerds. In addition to working, they also play games, and they have always hoped to make a game of their own.
So with Zhou Xin's intentional acquaintance, the three quickly formed a three-person team that was inseparable at Microsoft.
After a long discussion, they decided to start their own business in their spare time.
The idea Zhou Xin came up with was Angry Birds.
The game is too complicated for three people to handle.
Something like Angry Birds is very suitable for this era.
Development is not difficult.
Silicon Valley has always had a tradition of entrepreneurship, and workshop entrepreneurship is particularly popular.
It’s just that I didn’t know it until I did it myself. Once I started, Zhou Xin was dumbfounded. The monthly rent for a garage in Silicon Valley was around US$2,000.
When Google was founded in 1998, Sergey Brin and Page rented a garage in Menlo Park for $1,700.
You must know that Menlo Park is a very remote county in southern California, with a population of about 30,000.
In a place like this, a garage could be rented for $1,700 a month in 1998.
Zhou Xin, Ashish and Stephen were able to rent a garage for US$2,000 a month only because of Stephen's personal connections.
They rented Stephen's father's garage.
This price is very expensive for Zhou Xin. After all, his internship salary at Microsoft is only 2,000 US dollars a month.
The local internship salary of Microsoft America in 2015 was 3.5k US dollars per month. Based on the conversion of America's per capita GDP, it was estimated that Microsoft's internship salary in 1998 was 2k per month.
Because Microsoft's status in 1998 has basically remained unchanged from 2015.
(I really can’t find specific data for 1998, so I can only rely on estimates.)
For Ashish and Stephen, it would be no problem for them to pay all of the two thousand.
The rent was shared equally between the three of them, and the computers at home were moved over. Zhou Xin used an IBM ThinkPad 560X bought from the second-hand market.
Thinkpads of that era already had little red dots.
Under Zhou Xin's plan, it took them two months to complete the first dozen or so levels.
Zhou Xin nodded and said: "This is just the first step of RIOT!"
Yes, Zhou Xin directly used the name of Riot Games. If Blizzard hadn't been established as early as 1991, Zhou Xin would have snatched the name Blizzard.
Registering a company is much simpler than registering a patent.
Riot Games, also known as Riot Games, is a company in which Zhou Xin holds 70% of the shares, while Ashish and Stephen each hold 15%.
The main reason why Zhou Xin occupies the largest position is that he is a game producer.
Yes, the concept of game producers has been around for a long time. This concept already existed as early as 1982.
By 1998, game companies fully realized that an excellent game producer was the key to the survival of game companies.
As avid video game enthusiasts, Ashish and Stephen know this very well.
Of course, the two of them also want to be game producers, but during their daily conversations, Zhou Xin is too far ahead of them in terms of game concepts.
Therefore, the two may have opinions about the share ratio, but in the end they both accepted this ratio.
After the first draft of Angry Birds came out, the two of them had no opinion on the equity allocation.
"We now need to discuss how the game will be released.
I think we need a little trick!
Instead of going to game publishers, we should let game publishers come to us! "
Stephen seemed less confident: "Newman, I know this game is great.
We can also see this from the trial play.
But Riot Games is just a startup after all.
We don’t have the capital to communicate with channels yet.
I think we still need to go to the game publisher with the demo. "
Ashley nodded: "Yes, and more importantly, we need to perfect it.
There are still too few levels now.
There are only 10 levels, which for a puzzle game cannot support a complete launch game. "
"Is there a possibility that we don't necessarily have to make money through the game itself?"
The free ones are the most expensive. As a player who has experienced the baptism of Goose Factory, Zhou Xin understands this sentence deeply.
"you mean?"
"We can build our own official website and put it on the official website for everyone to play for free."
