The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

"You are Zhou Xin, right? Professor Hu asked me to pick you up."

A young Chinese man was holding a cardboard with Zhou Xin written on it. Since Zhou Xin walked out of the airport exit, he had been seeing the young man waving the cardboard in his hand.

Zhou Xin walked up to him quickly, and then stretched out his hand: "Hi, I'm Zhou Xin, may I ask who you are?"

"Hello, my name is Zhang Zhongbo, and I am currently in the third year of my Ph.D. under Professor Hu. This time, Professor Hu arranged for me to pick you up.

Follow up to estimate your early adaptation stage, Professor Hu will arrange for me to answer some of your questions, and help you plan the current learning path. "

Zhang Zhongbo? Zhou Xin cursed in his heart: Why does this name seem so similar to Zhang Zhongmou? He remembered that Hu Zhengming would have a little conflict with Zhang Zhongmou in the future.

The conflict mainly revolves around Liang Mengsong, Hu Zhengming's most proud student. Liang Mengsong has made great contributions to TSMC, but has not obtained the corresponding status.

Later, Liang Mengsong switched from TSMC to Samsung, which also caused TSMC to take him to court and force him to leave Samsung.

Zhang Zhongmou is the founder of TSMC, and Hu Zhengming is not only the mentor of Liang Mengsong, but also the chief expert of TSMC for four years.

Zhou Xin kept his expression on the surface: "Hi brother, I still need you to take care of me in the future.

It's my first time going abroad, so I'm not very familiar with everything here, and there are many things that need my brother's attention. "

Entrepreneurs need to master all aspects of ability, one of which is to see people order dishes.

Regardless of his tone, appearance or temperament, Zhang Zhongbo is a typical Chinese as a questioner, and judging from his fluent Chinese expression, he should also be an overseas student in the mainland of China.

There will be a bend in the bend.

As a questioner, you need to clearly express your needs, and the other party generally has no shame in rejecting you.

Especially when you call each other's brother.

What's more, Zhou Xin does have a lot of things to trouble the other party.

After arriving at the San Francisco International Airport, Zhou Xin followed Zhang Zhongbo, got into the Nissan that the other party drove, and drove all the way back to Berkeley.

It takes about 30 minutes to drive from San Francisco International Airport to Berkeley. Only in August, Berkeley will provide a centralized pick-up service.

Zhou Xin came here in March, so naturally there is no such service.

"Brother, is your usual scientific research task here heavy?"

"Of course, although Professor Hu is very kind, the EECS doctoral degree graduation requirements are there.

If you want to get a Ph.D., you have to work to produce results. "

"So it's purely result-oriented?

As long as there are results, not process-oriented?

In other words, as long as I have the corresponding results, even if I don't go to the laboratory, it won't have a negative impact on me, right? "

"In theory it is.

But you better not have that idea.

Because the subdivision of integrated circuits belongs to engineering, and it is an engineering direction that requires extremely high hands-on ability.

If you don't work, you will inevitably not be able to get the corresponding experimental results, let alone be productive.

It is different from majors such as theoretical physics and mathematics. It has higher requirements for hands-on practical ability. " Zhang Zhongbo tried to persuade him while driving.

To be able to come to Berkeley from mainland China to study a Ph.D. in this era, even if Zhang Zhongbo is a problem writer, he is also a top problem solver.

In just ten minutes of conversation, Zhang Zhongbo judged that his junior had an illusion of self-esteem.

In the field of engineering, under the premise that there is no obvious gap in IQ, the results are highly positively correlated with your work intensity.

Zhou Xin would like to say that when I was a Ph.D. student in Berkeley in my previous life, I woke up at 8:00 in the morning and went back to the dormitory at 11:00 in the evening to rest. The employees of Huaguo Internet giants would cry when they saw the intensity of the work.

The difference is that the graduation he ushered in is different from the graduation ushered in by the Internet workers.

Later, whether it was a year in ZTE or during his own business, it is no exaggeration to describe it as the king of volume.

The more people in the industry, the more competition in the semiconductor industry will not be left to chance.

Because this is the industry that purely invests in, manpower investment, capital investment, and policy support.

Of course, the most important thing is that there are no application scenarios, whether it is domestic equipment or domestic semiconductor materials, there is a lack of application scenarios.

Only when there are application scenarios can you know where you can optimize, and you can quickly iteratively optimize.

It’s just that no one expected that in this form, the slogans of domestic semiconductor equipment and materials are more important than practical operations, and the equipment and materials of Neon Holland and Korea are trying their best to stuff them for you.

"Haha brother, don't be too serious, this is like a game, I'm exploring the boundaries of its rules.

It doesn't mean that I really want to touch its rule boundaries. "

After Zhang Zhongbo took Zhou Xin to the international student dormitory arranged for him by Hu Zhengming, it was already very late. After Zhou Xin politely sent Zhang Zhongbo away, he half-lyed on the bed in the international student dormitory.

Twenty years later, in 2018, I just graduated from Berkeley, and my heart was full of longing and expectation for the unknown.

At the same place, but at a different time, Zhou Xin was thinking about his own future and destiny, and whether he could achieve personal success in the future.

It's just that he didn't expect to return to Berkeley again, not after becoming famous in the future, but back to the past, back to Berkeley twenty years ago.

What he is thinking about at this time is not success in the personal sense, because with the memory of the next twenty years, success in the worldly sense is like a grass that can be snapped off at the side of the road.

No challenge at all.

The most stupid way is to buy BTC, buy a few BTC, wait patiently until BTC soars, and you will be free of wealth casually.

Lithography machines are mainly divided into DUV and EUV. DUV can only be used to manufacture chips with 7nm and above process requirements, while EUV is just needed for 5nm and more advanced process chips.

That is to say, EUV is the core of future lithography technology and advanced manufacturing process, while DUV is a relatively backward technology.

Now what he wants to think about is how to achieve a breakthrough in the entire semiconductor industry.

Zhou Xin sorted out the plan again in his heart.

During this time in Berkeley, it is a critical step, which needs to complete the accumulation of original capital.