The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

"I originally thought that Liang Mengsong would be my best student, but it turns out that you are far beyond my imagination.

In just one year, the valuation of Riot Games has exceeded two billion US dollars. "

There are various opinions on the valuation of Riot Games, but the more consistent view is between one billion and two billion US dollars.

It’s just that Yahoo needs to pay a certain premium if it wants to acquire Riot Games.

In the end, Yang Zhiyuan still asked Hu Zhengming to be a lobbyist, and then he talked with Zhou Xin himself.

He didn't tell the truth when he was chatting with Abel. If possible, Jerry Yang planned to acquire Riot Games and CEOcity together.

Take the way of cash and stock replacement.

Zhou Xin thought of Liang Mengsong. In his previous life, he and Liang Mengsong were very good partners, and together they planned to obtain the unwanted technology from Samsung.

The relationship is only so strong. Doing bad things together is a manifestation of mutual trust.

You must know that if their behavior is discovered, they will be prosecuted by the Korean court.

In 2023, in SEMES, a Samsung subsidiary, seven former employees were accused of stealing chip technology and transferring it to Huaguo Enterprise.

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 seen 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 talents, and management ability is very important.

Zhou Xin also plans to dig Liang Mengsong over when Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi fight to the death.

"This is the dividend of the times.

My personal efforts and talents only account for a small part of it. "

"The Internet makes money faster than semiconductors, and it will take at least five years for semiconductor companies to be valued at over one billion.

Still under the premise of unique technology.

There are technologies and markets, 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 has reached the point it is today, it actually relies heavily on government policy support."

"I will send you some papers in the next few days, take a good look and ask me if you don't understand anything.

ISSCC will be held in San Francisco next month, and you and I will attend it together. "

IEEE, also known as the Institute of Electronics Engineers in American, holds a large number of academic forums every year, from international communication conferences to industrial and commercial system conferences to international conferences on control applications and so on.

There's even an aerospace conference.

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 give a lecture on your paper, and then publish it in the conference proceedings.

You also get ready together by the way.

Didn't you say that you want to meet some IC experts with enough gold content? 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 went on to say: "With your current wealth, you can start a business in some subdivided fields of integrated circuits.

Many of the ISSCC participants don’t mind working in the industry. You can use this as an opportunity to build a basic team. "

This is also true. Integrated circuits have basically never stayed in academia, and most of them have repeatedly jumped between academia and industry.

Like Hu Zhengming himself.

"The patent I recently applied for on UWP technology has come down.

I plan to use UWP technology as the basis and specialize in chips in this field. Zhou Xin said, "Professor, I will send you the detailed information of UWP technology in the future." "

Hu Zhengming was very curious, the other party also applied for a patent in the process of starting a business?

There is no concept of UWP chips yet, and Hu Zhengming has no impression of this, and does not know how this technology is.

But since Zhou Xin said that he intends to use this as a basis to specialize in UWP chips, it should still be a very valuable technology.

"Okay, you can send me a look, and I can help you think about any application scenarios, or what contacts I have that you can use."

Zhou Xin originally planned to sell this technology to Texas Instruments, but now he has close to 100 million in funds, allowing him to operate this matter by himself.

The technology that Samsung wants to transfer to small and medium-sized enterprises is not without value.

Under the official organization of Korea, since these technologies will be transferred to small and medium-sized semiconductor companies in Korea for free, there will inevitably be a market.

It’s just that these markets are too small in 2020, and the size of the entire market is underestimated by Samsung.

This is like the personal credit market that banks don't like, it doesn't mean it has no value.

"I just have this idea now, what I need most is a CEO, to help me make overall arrangements for this matter.

Professor, why don't you come to our company to work 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 he will not leave TSMC until he fights Jiang Shangyi to the death.

And Hu Zhengming himself has entrepreneurial experience, and later did a good job in TSMC.

What's more important is the 3D chip architecture he researched later, Zhou Xin didn't 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.

The FinFET architecture can be regarded as a key technology that can conversely hold Intel and AMD's neck in the semiconductor process.

From the invention of this architecture to the following ten years, no more advanced architecture has been found in the entire integrated circuit field.

To be precise, there must be more advanced architectures, but from the perspective of industrialization, 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 play an irreplaceable role for absolute owners.

"Show me your UWP chip first, I can't promise you now."

Hu Zhengming wouldn't change his mentality just because he gave Zhou Xin a job.

And he is not working full-time in Zhou Xin's company, he also has Silue Semiconductor under his own name.

"In addition, Jerry found me again recently, and he expressed his willingness to offer a price that is enough to satisfy you to acquire the shares of Riot Games."