Chapter 42 The upcoming ISSCC

"I originally thought Liang Mengsong would be my best student, but your excellence is far beyond my imagination.

In just one year, Riot Games' valuation has exceeded $2 billion."

There are various opinions on Riot Game's valuation, but the consensus is that it is between one billion and two billion dollars.

But if Yahoo wants to acquire Riot Games, it needs to bear a certain premium.

In the end, Yang Zhiyuan finally found Hu Zhengming as a lobbyist, and then chatted with Zhou Xin himself.

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

Take cash and stock exchange.

Zhou Xin thought of Liang Mengsong. In his previous life, he and Liang Mengsong were excellent partners, and they planned to obtain the technology they didn't want from Samsung.

This kind of relationship is only so strong. Doing bad things together is a manifestation of trust between both parties.

You should know that their behavior will be prosecuted by the Koryo court.

Semiconductors are an industry where both funds and talents need to be invested heavily, and management capabilities are crucial.

Didn’t you say you wanted to meet some integrated circuit experts with enough value? This conference is the best opportunity.” Hu Zhengming continued.

The technology is mainly the design blueprint and component list of SEMES Lotus Semiconductor Cleaning Machine.

There are three major 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.

Zhou Xin nodded and said, "No problem, I will prepare well. One month is enough."

“The patent I recently applied for about UWP technology has been downloaded.

However, according to Zhou Xin's statement that he intends to use this as a basis to specialize in UWP chips, it should be a very valuable technology.

This is also the truth. There are basically no integrated circuits that have been staying in the academic world all the time, and most of them are repeatedly jumping in the academic world and industry.

Like Hu Zhengming himself.

This is like a personal credit market that banks look down on, and does not mean it has no value.

I can open shares for you.”

FinFET architecture can be regarded as a key technology that can in turn plug Intel and AMD in semiconductor processes.

The cost is too high and the success rate is too low. From a comprehensive perspective, the transistor designed based on FinFET architecture is an irreplaceable role.

Zhou Xin also planned to dig Liang Mengsong over when Liang Mengsong and Jiang Shangyi were fighting to the point of blood.

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

The requirements for industrialization and laboratory products are very different.

One of them worked as a researcher at SEMES.

Among them, IEDM and ISSCC began in 1954 and 1953, respectively, and hotchips started in 1989.

My personal efforts and talent account for only a small part of it.”

Zhou Xin’s understanding of entrepreneurship comes from Liang Mengsong.

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

But if Hu Zhengming is in his company, he and Hu Zhengming can develop the architecture together.

Hu Zhengming himself has entrepreneurial experience and later did a good job with TSMC.

"The Internet makes money faster than semiconductors. It will take at least five years for semiconductor companies to value valuations of over one billion yuan.

But these markets are too small in 2020, and the entire market size is not favored by Samsung.

In 2023, seven former employees were accused of stealing chip technology and transferring it to Chinese companies.

In the past decade, no more advanced architecture was found in the entire field of integrated circuits.

"Because the Internet industry is a complete market economy, and the semiconductor industry has reached this point today, it actually relies heavily on government policy support."

What's more important is that Zhou Xin did not want to directly occupy the teacher's achievements in the 3D chip architecture he developed later.

Including the management experience in the semiconductor industry, it also comes from the other party.

There are even aerospace conferences.

Professor, why don’t you come to my company to work part-time again?

As a CEO?

To be precise, there must be more advanced architectures, but from the perspective of industrialization, those architectures are not mature enough.

I will hold an ISSCC in San Francisco next month, and you and I will attend it at that time."

There is no concept of UWP chip yet, so Hu Zhengming has no impression of this and does not know what this technology is.

“This is the dividend of the times.

Under the official organization of Goryeo, since these technologies will be transferred to Goryeo's small and medium-sized semiconductor companies free of charge, there will inevitably be a market.

IEEE, the Institute of Electronic Engineers in Amelicon, holds a large number of academic forums every year, from international communication conferences to industrial and commercial systems conferences to international conferences for control applications, etc.

You will also prepare together.

Hu Zhengming was very curious. Did the other party apply for a patent during the process of starting a business?

It is still under the premise of unique technology.

"I just have this idea now. What I lack the most is the CEO, who will help me coordinate this matter comprehensively.

Zhou Xin originally planned to sell this technology to Texas Instruments, but now he has nearly 100 million yuan in funds so that he can operate this matter by himself.

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.

Liang Mengsong is still at TSMC and will not leave TSMC until he fights Jiang Shangyi to the death.

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

For Zhou Xin, Hu Zhengming is really the best candidate.

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

With technology and market, it is difficult for the semiconductor industry to raise funds in the securities market."

Hu Zhengming continued: "With your current wealth, you can start starting a business in some integrated circuit segments.

"Okay, please send me a look. I can also help you think about what application scenarios there are or what connections I have, you can use them."

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.

“At that time, I plan to let you talk about your paper and publish it in the conference proceedings.

They used stolen information to form a competitor company and used stolen SEMES technology to produce semiconductor cleaning equipment.

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

Hu Zhengming would not change his mentality by giving Zhou Xin any work.

Moreover, he is not working full-time in Zhou Xin's company, and he has Siluo Semiconductor under his own name.

"In addition, Jerry recently found me again, and he expressed his willingness to buy a stake in Riot Games that is enough to satisfy you."

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