The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

Before coming to ISSCC, Klaassen heard that Hu Zhengming's students were going to talk about the optimization of MOSFET models, and he was immediately full of curiosity.

Because Zhou Xin, as an entrepreneurial star in the entire Silicon Valley from last year to this year, Klassen has 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 getting an affirmative answer, Klaassen thought that Zhou Xin would drop out of Berkeley as soon as Bill Gates did.

As a result, the other party not only did not drop out of school, but also gave a lecture on ISSCC.

Of course, there will be many scholars at the ISSCC conference site, and everyone will be distributed in different rooms. During the seven-day conference, nearly 200 papers will be presented at the conference.

It is not difficult to simply present one's own papers, but it is difficult to present all papers, that is, the ones presented in front of all participants. There are nearly 200 papers, and only a few papers can have this opportunity in the end.

"Chenming said that you are very talented academically, and I believe you will surpass us old guys soon.

Well, I'm an old guy, and Chenming is still young.

The world belongs to young people. Every time I participate in ISSCC, I like to listen to reports from young people, which makes me feel as if I have become younger. "

Klaassen is now fifty-four years old, not too old in industry or academia.

The career lifespan of executives is much longer than that of ordinary employees, especially this kind of executives who have been working in the technical field, as long as they want to do it, they can work until they are eighty years old.

Even for R\u0026D personnel, fifty-four is the end of a golden career.

Zhou Xin didn't know how old Klaassen was. He could only judge from the appearance of the other party 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 modest, so he smiled: "I also hope that I can be young forever.

It's just that the irreversibility of time makes each of us cherish our research career even more.

You seem to be about the same age as my mentor, but my mentor never pretends to be old in front of me. "

"Chenming is indeed very ambitious. He is obviously only two years younger than me. I already have the idea of ​​retirement in Philips Semiconductors. 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 after graduation, and has been working for Philips since then, from the director of the IC Research Center to the vice chairman of management to the executive vice president of Philips Semiconductors.

Dedicated almost his entire career to Philips.

"This is Newman, right? I have also heard Chenming talk about you all the time. He told us that you are his outstanding disciple.

Let me introduce myself first, I'm Stuart Taylor, and I was also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley.

It can be regarded as your senior. "Another white man came over from the side, and also simply hugged Hu Zhengming.

Hu Zhengming introduced to Zhou Xin: "Stuart Taylor, in the last year of my Ph.D. at Berkeley, he was only in the 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 is called Qorvo.

RF Micro Devices is Lenovo's 2011 Best Supplier.

Zhou Xin: "Hi, nice to meet you."

Zhou Xin really thought so in his heart.

He also knew Taylor in later generations, and met Taylor more than once when he and Hu Zhengming attended academic conferences.

After leaving TriQuint, Stuart Taylor moved to Intel after only a few years at MXIM.

Taylor has worked at Intel for a full 20 years. In 2020, Taylor was still working at Intel and has always been Intel's chief technical expert.

When Zhou Xin graduated with a Ph.D., Taylor also sent him an invitation, asking him if he would like to come to Intel.

Intel's salary is at most a little lower than ZTE's, but with Taylor, his career development is definitely smoother than expected.

This is the importance of connections. If you don't come to study Hu Zhengming's Ph.D., these top experts will have no way to get to know each other.

"You should be the richest and youngest among the researchers present." Taylor said: "I have read the profiles of all the participants.

You've only just turned twenty, and you surpass us all in some ways.

It's no wonder that every time Chenming talks about you, he looks smug. "

Zhou Xin: "This is the result of a combination of ability and luck.

You can also interpret this as a coincidence. "

Klaassen added: "Luck is ability. I think it's good to see that happen.

Only when the need for food and clothing is met, and there is no need for money, is it more likely to make top-level results.

I think Newman is in a very good state. First achieve success in the sense of money, and then pursue academic success. "

"I didn't say it was bad.

I am envious that Chenming has such an excellent student. If I did not choose to work after graduating from Berkeley, but stayed at Berkeley to teach.

Then you might be my student now. ’ Taylor quipped.

Hu Zhengming was a little helpless to his friends who kept teasing him, he quickly said: "Okay, I still have to take Newman to prepare.

He is going to talk about the optimization of the MOSFET model in the venue A. If you are interested, you can come and listen. "

Taylor, as chair of the technical committee this year, clearly didn't have the time, "I'll leave you alone, and good luck, Newman."

Taylor and Zhou Xin shook hands and left.

Klaassen showed an apologetic expression: "I also have a paper to speak, unfortunately, our time has conflicted."

Before the two bigwigs left, Zhou Xin said: "Can you leave me an email address? The company under my name has products in the future. I hope you can experience it and give some suggestions."

"You ask Chenming, Chenming has my email, let him send you." Taylor said.

"Me too, remember to make a note in the mailbox." Klaassen did not refuse Zhou Xin's request.

After leaving, Hu Zhengming led Zhou Xin to meet several acquaintances one after another, either they were bigwigs in academia or experienced practitioners in the industry.

Most Zhou Xin don’t know each other, and there are a few who have been active from 1998 to 2018.

Almost everyone, Zhou Xin will ask them to leave an email address for him.

Some of them directly wrote their email address in Zhou Xin's notebook, and some asked Hu Zhengming to send it to Zhou Xin.

No one rejected Zhou Xin's request.

Zhou Xin was very happy to have known so many big shots, at least he had established a preliminary contact.

In the future, if I want to poach people, I also have a direction.

Like Taylor, who has been Intel's chief technical expert since 2003, he can completely cut off Taylor before going to Intel.