Time always slips away inadvertently. In the blink of an eye, it has been almost a year since Zhou Xin arrived in 1998.
For Western countries, Christmas is the most important holiday of the year, similar to the Spring Festival in China.
Zhou Xin originally wanted to spend the holiday with Cao Yongluo. We were strangers in a foreign land, so we could just find a better hotel to have dinner together and celebrate the holiday.
Before he said hello to Cao Yongluo, Ai Mo, an assistant lawyer at the law firm that helped him apply for a patent application, asked Zhou Xin to go to Davis Concert Hall to listen to a holiday concert on Christmas night.
It would be nice to spend Christmas with a beautiful woman. Finally, Hu Zhengming asked Zhou Xin to spend Christmas at his house, and Zhou Xin agreed without hesitation.
Spending Christmas with a beautiful woman is not as comfortable as going to my mentor’s house.
After all, during the more than four years he spent as a doctoral student at Berkeley, he spent every Christmas at Hu Zhengming’s home with his family.
"Professor, thank you for taking care of me over the past year. This is a small gesture."
Hu Zhengming has two sons, named Jason and Raymond.
They are all slightly older than Zhou Xin. If Zhou Xin is twenty years later, he will be much older than him.
Now everyone is in their twenties, and there is no generation gap.
Hu Zhengming looked at the Christmas gift Zhou Xin handed him, a thin envelope with festive packaging.
Christmas gifts are a foreign custom. Hu Zhengming asked Zhou Xin to come over to spend Christmas together without thinking about it. He opened it directly:
"Wow, that's a nice gift. How did you know I like her?"
“I’ve been to your office a few times, and one time when I was in your office, the record player was playing a Collins song.
Collins was coming to Los Angeles for a concert in March, so I gave it as a Christmas gift. "
Judy Collins was an American singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Then Zhou Xin handed two similar envelopes to Raymond and Jason: “Product redemption coupons for Riot Games.
You can use this to redeem any game we publish on Riot Games.
I don't know what you like either. "
Raymond is an artist specializing in watercolor painting. Jason is also an artist, focusing on 3D art.
Neither of them achieved much in the world of art in a worldly sense.
Raymond gave Zhou Xin a friendly hug and said, "Very good.
I really like the games your company makes. Your art style is very unique.
Including the Christmas DLC, which is also very unique.
Just changing the background and character paintings made me feel like I had completely changed the game. "
Fortunately, Hu Zhengming's family is different from traditional Chinese families. He and his wife do not always compare other people's children with their own.
Even when Zhou Xin is talked about at home, the tone is mainly descriptive.
But even so, Raymond and Jason still felt frustrated inside.
However, after Zhou Xin sold part of his Riot Games shares to Microsoft for US$200 million, Raymond and Jason instantly lost their sense of frustration. The gap was too big and they no longer regarded each other as a comparison object.
Jason nodded and said: "It's very good.
It took me a long time to get through it.
I'm also waiting for you guys to release a sequel. "
Zhou Xin thought to himself that Raymond and Jason were not much different from what they were twenty years later, and they still loved video games just as much.
Just twenty years later, Raymond was working as a volunteer at FCSN, the Federation for the Assistance of Special Children, while creating.
Jason, on the other hand, works as a 3D designer in a special effects company.
Every time he met the two, they would sit together and play the FIFA video game.
"Newman, the basic doctoral exam here at Berkeley shouldn't be a problem for you.
The previous paper has been published in the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine.
You try to produce some results every year. Is it okay to publish one or two papers? "
Hu Zhengming also calmed down, and Zhou Xin could not be managed as an ordinary doctoral student.
As Zhou Xin's doctoral supervisor, he only needs to mention his goals.
This request was easy for Zhou Xin to fulfill, so he simply replied: "Okay.
I will keep the frequency of one paper per year.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, there will be more to deal with at the corporate level this year.
The professor may need your help with something later. "
Hu Zhengming asked: "I will try my best to help you within my ability.
You can tell me what it is first. "
"I hope to meet some senior professors who have enough reputation in academia."
"That's no problem. I'll help you make a recommendation later."
"Professor, I separated out the game production people in Riot Games and established a game production company.
I see that both Raymond and Jason are very interested in video games. You can help me ask them if they have the idea of working in a game production company. "
This is essentially an exchange of interests.
Hu Zhengming did not shy away: “Okay, I’ll ask them.
You don’t need to give them more treatment than ordinary employees just for my sake.
Or they have no talent or interest in the field of integrated circuits.
My connections and social connections are basically in the integrated circuit field.
I helped them find an Internet company before. Later, Raymond came back after working there for two months. He said the management was chaotic. "
“It’s normal that most startups in Silicon Valley lack a set of management logic.
For startups, management is a luxury.
Only after they no longer have to worry about survival issues will companies consider standardizing management and management structures. "
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In the development process of the Internet, 1998 was a very important year. This year, Google and Paypal were established, and eBay began selling various souvenirs on the Internet.
With the advent of electronic payment, electronic shopping officially entered the stage.
For China, they launched the second phase of the Internet backbone network construction project to expand the backbone broadband to 155m.
For Zhou Xin, this year completed the accumulation of original capital.
There is no longer a need to consider selling patents to get the first pot of gold.
The UWP dual chipset patent will not be valuable in future generations, but it does not mean that it is not valuable in this era.
Nowadays, cables are required to transfer files, but UWP dual chipset can realize point-to-multipoint file transfer.
This product bypasses the serial wireless USB patented by Texas Instruments and instead adopts a point-to-multipoint approach to build an IP network to provide broadband video services to residential users.
The architecture has been upgraded from MIMO to Ultra-MIMO, which can achieve greater range, higher link reliability, and RF penetration through walls.
A perfect replacement for Texas Instruments patents.
Zhou Xin plans to wait until the Chinese branch is established, then return to China to set up a company based on the UWP dual chipset in China to specialize in operating this product.
At the same time, it also accumulates talents for the subsequent semiconductor industry.
