"I originally thought Liang Mengsong would be my best student, but it turns out you are far more outstanding than I imagined.
In just one year, Riot Games’ valuation has exceeded US$2 billion. "
There are various opinions on the valuation of Riot Games, but the more consistent view is that it is between one billion and two billion US dollars.
It’s just that if Yahoo wants to acquire Riot Games, it needs to bear a certain premium.
Yang Zhiyuan finally found Hu Zhengming as a lobbyist, and then talked with Zhou Xin himself.
He did not tell the truth completely when chatting with Abel. If possible, Jerry Yang planned to acquire Riot Games and CEOcity together.
Take the method of cash and stock exchange.
Zhou Xin thought of Liang Mengsong. In his previous life, he and Liang Mengsong were close partners, and together they planned to obtain unwanted technologies from Samsung.
This relationship is only so strong. Doing bad things together is a sign of trust between both parties.
You must know that if their behavior is discovered, they will be prosecuted by the Korean Court.
In 2023, seven former employees of Samsung subsidiary SEMES 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 met the other party yet. If his butterfly effect has not affected Liang Mengsong, the other party should still be working at TSMC.
Much of Zhou Xin’s understanding of entrepreneurship comes from Liang Mengsong.
Including the management experience in the semiconductor industry, it also comes from the other party.
Semiconductor is an industry that requires a lot of investment in capital and talent, and management capabilities are crucial.
Zhou Xin also planned to poach Liang Mengsong over when the fight between Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi was bloody.
“This is the dividend of the times.
My personal hard work and talent account for only a small part of that. "
“The Internet makes money much faster than semiconductors, and it will take at least five years for semiconductor companies to be valued over one billion.
Still on the premise of having 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 is at this point today, it actually relies heavily on government policy support."
"I will send you some papers in the next few days. Take a good look at them and ask me if you have anything you don't understand.
The ISSCC will be held in San Francisco next month. You and I will attend it then. "
IEEE, the Institute of Electronic Engineers of America, holds a large number of academic forums every year, from international communications conferences to industrial and commercial systems conferences to international conferences on control applications, etc.
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 throughout the year.
"At that time, I plan to ask you to talk about your paper and publish it in the conference proceedings.
You also take the opportunity to prepare together.
Didn't you say before that you wanted to meet some valuable integrated circuit experts? This conference is the best opportunity. "Hu Zhengming continued.
There are three important academic conferences in the semiconductor field every year, ISSCC at the beginning of the year, Hotchips at the end of the year and IEDM at the end of the year.
Among them, IEDM and ISSCC started in 1954 and 1953 respectively, while hotchips started in 1989.
Zhou Xin nodded and said: "No problem, I will prepare well. One month is enough."
Hu Zhengming continued: “With your current wealth, you can definitely start a business in some subdivided areas of integrated circuits.
Many of the ISSCC attendees don’t mind working in the industry. You can take this as an opportunity to build a basic team. "
This is also true. Basically, no one in integrated circuits stays in academia. Most of them jump back and forth between academia and industry.
This is the case for Hu Zhengming himself.
“The patent I recently applied for on UWP technology has been issued.
I plan to use UWP technology as the basis to specialize in chips in this field. "Zhou Xin said, "Professor, I will send you the detailed information on UWP technology later. "
Hu Zhengming was very curious. Did the other party apply for a patent during the process of starting a business?
There is no concept of UWP chips yet. Hu Zhengming has no impression of it and does not know what this technology is like.
But since Zhou Xin said that he plans to use this as a basis to specialize in UWP chips, it should still be a very valuable technology.
"Okay, you can send it to me and I can help you think of application scenarios or if I have any connections that you can use."
Zhou Xin originally planned to sell this technology to Texas Instruments, but now he has nearly 100 million in funds, allowing him to operate this thing himself.
The technology that Samsung wants to transfer to small and medium-sized enterprises is not without value.
Under the organization of Goryeo officials, since these technologies will be transferred to Goryeo's small and medium-sized semiconductor companies for free, there is bound to be a market.
It’s just that these markets are too small in 2020, and the entire market size is not comparable to Samsung’s size.
This is just like the personal credit market that banks look down upon, but it doesn't mean it has no value.
"I just have this idea now. What I need most is a CEO to help me fully coordinate this matter.
Professor, how about you come to my company part-time again?
Also a CEO?
I can open shares to you. "
For Zhou Xin, Hu Zhengming is really the best candidate.
Liang Mengsong is still at TSMC and will not leave TSMC until he has a life-and-death fight with Jiang Shangyi.
Hu Zhengming himself has entrepreneurial experience and later did well at TSMC.
What's more important is the 3D chip architecture he subsequently developed. Zhou Xin did not 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.
FinFET architecture can be regarded as a key technology that can in turn choke Intel and AMD in the semiconductor manufacturing process.
In the more than ten years since the invention of this architecture, no more advanced architecture has been found in the entire integrated circuit field.
To be precise, there are certainly more advanced architectures, but from an industrial perspective, those architectures are not mature enough.
Industrial and laboratory products have very different requirements.
The cost is too high and the success rate is too low. From a comprehensive perspective, transistors designed based on FinFET architecture have an irreplaceable role.
"Show me your UWP chip first. I can't agree to it now."
Hu Zhengming would not change his mentality because of working for Zhou Xin.
And he doesn't work full-time in Zhou Xin's company. He also has Strategy Semiconductor under his own name.
"In addition, Jerry came to me recently and expressed his willingness to acquire shares of Riot Games at a price that satisfies you."
