Before Klassen came to ISSCC, he heard that Hu Zhengming's students were going to talk about the optimization of MOSFET models, and his curiosity was immediately filled.
Because Zhou Xin was an entrepreneurial star in the entire Silicon Valley from last year to this year, Klassen had also heard about it.
After hearing about Newman's name and deeds, Klassen sent an email to Hu Zhengming to confirm whether Newman was his student.
After receiving a positive answer, Klassen thought that Zhou Xin would drop out of Berkeley soon like Bill Gates.
As a result, the other party not only did not drop out of school, but also gave a paper lecture at ISSCC.
Of course, there will be many scholars throughout the ISSCC conference, and they will be distributed in different rooms. During the seven-day conference, nearly two hundred papers will be presented at the conference.
It is not difficult to simply speak about your own paper. What is difficult is the overall paper, that is, the one that is spoken in front of all participants. There are close to two hundred papers. In the end, only a few papers have this opportunity.
"Chenming said you are very talented in academics. I believe you will soon surpass us old guys.
Well, I am an old guy and Chenming is still very young.
The world belongs to young people. Every time I attend ISSCC, I like to listen to the reports of young people. It makes me feel as if I have become younger. "
Klassen is now fifty-four, not too old in either industry or academia.
The career lifespan of executives is much longer than that of ordinary employees, especially executives who have been working in the technical field. As long as they want to work, they can work until they are eighty years old.
Even for R&D personnel, fifty-four is the end of a golden career.
Zhou Xin didn't know how old Klassen was. He could only judge from his appearance that the other party should be about the same age as Hu Zhengming, at most five years older.
He knew that the other party was being modest, so he smiled: "I also hope that I can stay young forever.
It’s just that the irreversibility of time makes each of us cherish our research career even more.
You look to be about the same age as my mentor, but my mentor never shows off his age in front of me. "
"Chenming is indeed very ambitious. He is obviously only two years younger than me. I have already planned to retire at Philips Semiconductor, and he has started his own business.
In terms of mental age, I am more than two years older than Chenming. "
Dr. Klassen joined Philips within two years of graduation and has been working for Philips ever since, from the director of the IC Research Center to the vice president of management and then to the executive vice president of Philips Semiconductors.
Almost his entire career was dedicated to Philips.
"Is this Newman? I have always heard Chenming talking about you. He told us that you are his outstanding disciple.
Let me introduce myself first. My name is Stuart Taylor. I was also a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
He can be regarded as your senior. "Another white man came over from the side and gave Hu Zhengming a simple hug.
Hu Zhengming introduced Zhou Xin: "Stuart Taylor, when I was in the last year of my Ph.D. at Berkeley, he was only in his first year of Ph.D. at Berkeley.
He is also the chairman of the ISSCC technical committee and the chief technical expert of TriQuint. "
TriQuint Semiconductor is an integrated circuit company whose main business is high-performance radio frequency modules, components and foundry services. It later merged with RF Micro Devices. The new company after the merger was called Qorvo.
RF Micro Devices is Lenovo's 2011 Best Supplier.
Zhou Xin: "Hello, nice to meet you."
Zhou Xin did think so in his heart.
He also got to know Taylor later in life, and met Taylor more than once when he and Hu Zhengming attended academic conferences.
After Stuart Taylor left TriQuint, he worked at MXIM for a few years before switching to Intel.
Taylor has worked at Intel for a full twenty years. In 2020, Taylor was still working at Intel and has always been Intel's chief technical expert.
When Zhou Xin graduated with his Ph.D., Taylor extended an invitation to him and asked him if he would like to come to Intel.
The salary offered by Intel is at most a little lower than that of ZTE, but with Taylor here, his career development will definitely be smoother than imagined.
This is the importance of connections. If you didn’t study for Hu Zhengming’s PhD, there would be no way for these top experts to know each other.
"You should be the richest and youngest researcher here." Taylor said: "I have read the information of all the participants.
You've just turned twenty and you've surpassed all of us in some ways.
No wonder Chenming always looks proud when he talks about you. "
Zhou Xin: “This is the result of a combination of ability and luck.
You can also interpret this as a coincidence. "
Klassen added: "Luck is also ability. I think be willing to see things like this happen.
Only when the need for food and clothing is met without the need for money can we be more likely to achieve top results.
I think Newman is in very good shape, achieving financial success first and then pursuing academic success. "
"I didn't say it was bad.
I am envious of Chenming for having such an outstanding student. If I had not chosen to work after graduating from Berkeley with my Ph.D., I would have stayed at Berkeley to teach.
Then you might be my student now. "Taylor teased.
Hu Zhengming felt helpless that his friends kept teasing him, and he quickly said: "Okay, I have to take Newman to prepare.
He will soon talk about the optimization of MOSFET models at Venue A. If you are interested, you can come and listen. "
Taylor, as this year's chairman of the technical committee, obviously didn't have time. "I won't bother you. Good luck, Newman."
Taylor shook hands with Zhou Xin and left.
Klassen showed an apologetic expression: "I also have a paper to talk about. Unfortunately, our time conflicts."
Before the two bosses left, Zhou Xin said, "Can you leave me an email address? The company under my name will have a product in the future. I hope you can experience it and give me some suggestions."
"Ask Chenming. Chenming has my email address and ask him to send it to you." Taylor said.
"Me too, please remember to leave a note in the mailbox." Klassen did not reject Zhou Xin's request.
After leaving, Hu Zhengming and Zhou Xin met several acquaintances one after another, either big figures in academia or experienced practitioners in the industry.
I don’t know most of Zhou Xin, but there are a few who have been active from 1998 to 2018.
Zhou Xin would ask almost everyone to leave an email address for him.
Some wrote the email address directly in Zhou Xin's notebook, while others asked Hu Zhengming to send it to Zhou Xin.
No one rejected Zhou Xin's request.
Zhou Xin was very happy to have met so many big shots, and at least established preliminary contacts.
If I want to recruit people later, I have a direction.
For example, Taylor has been Intel's chief technical expert since 2003. He could have stopped Taylor before he went to Intel.
