Zhou Xin is no longer here in 2021. He only remembers that when Key Eagle heard that he was going to work as a lobbyist for ZTE, he advised him: “Even an old man like me knows not to take advantage of the fire.
The situation will only become more severe, and it will be almost impossible for you to succeed.
Am I not sure what Feiteng is doing? From the number and variety of chips they buy from us every year, I can infer the progress of their supercomputers.
I told them privately that they should be prepared to completely lose Feiteng, their largest customer.
The situation of Feiteng is much better than that of ZTE. I have made such preparations. You young people should not always think about things that cannot be done! "
Guan Jianying at the end of the 20th century was much more energetic than twenty years later:
"Lao Hu, I have been wanting to come to Berkeley to talk to you since I resigned from Simplex Solutions, Inc.
But recently, because I am starting a business with others, there are so many things that need to be dealt with when setting up a new company, and I haven’t sorted everything out yet, so I haven’t found the time.
I said that with your personality, you will definitely come to participate in this year’s ISSCC, especially to find such an outstanding student.
Is this your student Newman? Thanks to him, I can often see your name in media magazines.
I even thought I was wrong. Newman was indeed young and promising. I didn’t start my business until I was in my forties, and I had already successfully started my own business when I was twenty.
There really is no comparison between people. "
Although Guan Jianying is curvy, Zhou Xin always felt that Guan Jianying had a typical Lu Di appearance after seeing him when he was young, with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a high nose, and exuding a simple temperament.
When he praises you, he makes you feel that he is sincere and not mean at all.
When Zhou Xin was studying for a Ph.D. in Berkeley, he met a tour group of old men and ladies from Shen Hai. When he heard that you were studying for a Ph.D. in Berkeley, Zhou Xin always felt that they were being weird even if they were praising you.
One more thing to mention here is that Simplex Solutions, Inc was also acquired by Cadence two years later.
"I am Guan Jianying, and I have known Hu for many years. I used to work in Sunnyvale and he taught at Berkeley.
Sometimes I would ask him if I have some questions.
Lao Hu is the Chinese encyclopedia in the semiconductor field! We engineers like to go to him whenever we encounter any problems. Even if he cannot give us the answer, he will tell us where to look for ideas. "
This is in line with Zhou Xin's understanding of Hu Zhengming, otherwise Hu Zhengming would not have such a high reputation among Wanwan engineers.
Zhou Xin: "Hello, I just came to California and I don't know much about the Chinese community in the integrated circuit field here. It seems that the professor is really warm-hearted."
Guan Jianying waved her hand: "Lao Hu is not warm-hearted, he loves to show off, and he likes to be praised by others.
After accepting you as a student, you show off to us in various ways.
Sometimes I send an email in the morning, and the content in the email is only a link to your news.
It makes us so angry.
But there is nothing you can do against him. After all, your grades are indeed too good, which makes us middle-aged men feel ashamed. "
Zhou Xin was a little embarrassed, because he was standing on the shoulders of countless predecessors. At this time, he didn't know what to say, so he had to look at Hu Zhengming.
Hu Zhengming knew that Zhou Xin was embarrassed. Zhou Xin had never shown off anything in front of him or other classmates.
After making money, my clothes, clothing, food, housing and transportation were not much different from before. The only change was that I moved from the dormitory to a wealthy area in San Francisco.
For Chinese people like Zhou Xin, who suddenly became rich without any foundation, safety is the first priority.
Therefore, Hu Zhengming knew that Zhou Xin liked to hide his clumsiness, so he changed the topic and said: "Lao Guan, so according to your opinion, after the WTO is liberalized, these integrated circuit giants will gradually transfer their production capacity to China?"
Guan Jianying nodded and said: "Isn't this an obvious thing?
China has a vast market and a massive population, as well as low basic resource prices and stable power supply.
When my company reaches a certain scale, I will also move the OEM to China.
The only problem is that there are too few engineers in the integrated circuit field in China. Although the population base is large enough, the training of engineers is based on ten years.
This process takes ten years from choosing the integrated circuit field in college to becoming a qualified engineer in the integrated circuit field after graduation.
Therefore, I predict that after mainland China joins the WTO, there will be companies that want to be the first to take advantage of the market. Then within ten years, China's semiconductors will usher in a golden period of development. "
It’s just that no one thought there was such a thing as Hanxin, which led to people coming up with it later, but there was no soil for entrepreneurship. This kind of thing of erasing the original manufacturer’s trademark and then reprinting its own trademark could take three years before being exposed.
This is something that Amerikan and other integrated circuit practitioners would never have imagined.
Even Hanxin No. 1 was faked, and it was made until Hanxin No. 5.
The final result was even more ridiculous. No one in the entire process chain was held legally responsible.
As a result, the entire Chinese semiconductor industry has to bear the consequences of this kind of thing, and the entire Chinese semiconductor industry has fallen into a state of silence.
When Zhou Xin had dinner with Guan Jianying and Hu Zhengming, he heard Guan Jianying rant about the vested interests of those who created Hanxin.
"This is definitely not something that Chen Jin can do alone. Isn't it because the trap is getting bigger and bigger and no one can contain it? That's why he keeps cheating!"
Back in 1998, Zhou Xin said: "So I plan to return to China as a trailblazer."
Guan Jianying praised: "With great ambition, the mainland's integrated circuit industry lacks a trailblazer.
China definitely has enough potential in this regard.
The population base alone and the intelligence of the Chinese determine that China's integrated circuit industry will never be worse than Korea and Wanwan in the future.
It’s just that the upfront costs will be very high, including the cost of training talents and the cost of licensing technology patents. "
When Zhou Xin saw Guan Jianying, he remembered that before he founded Shixin, he had started a business with his friends, and that venture ended in being kicked out.
Guan Jianying has more than 20 years of experience in the IC design industry, so he served as technical director and executive vice president when he started a business with his friends.
Later, after the company got on the right track, he was directly killed by the airborne faction sent by the major shareholder.
After being kicked out and feeling frustrated for a long time, he used his connections to regroup and established Shixin.
Shixin's success fully proves that the other party is an outstanding management talent.
Zhou Xin realized that he could stop Guan Jianying when his business failed. He is also Chinese, has rich experience in the industry, has proven himself in the future, and has feelings for China. Is there any better candidate than this?
The more he recalled, the more Zhou Xin realized that there were too many talented people at this ISSCC conference who had plenty of opportunities to cut them off as long as they seized the opportunity.
