Black Technology Refresher Manual
Chapter 45 Shimmer [06] Explosion again!
The status of "Science" and "Nature" go hand in hand, both are comprehensive academic journals, and the requirements for reviewing manuscripts are almost the same.
In fact, Sheng Ming'an does not necessarily have to submit a paper to "Nature" or "Science". His current research results can be submitted to any journal.The reputation of the top journal itself will not cover up his glory, and ordinary journals will be honored by his achievements.
But before the thesis was sent, an unfamiliar number called suddenly, Sheng Mingan answered, and an unfamiliar and mellow voice was on the other side.
"install?"
Sheng Mingan: "Who are you?"
"I'm Edward Witten."
Sheng Ming'an straightened his back immediately: "May I ask if you have anything to do with me?"
Witten: "Is your thesis finished?"
Sheng Mingan: "It's finished..."
Wei Teng: "If you don't mind, send it to me for a look, and I can recommend it for you."
If a bigwig like Wei Teng recommends it, Sheng Ming'an's paper will definitely pass the level of reviewing and editing!
"I am very grateful for your generous help." Sheng Mingan thanked skillfully, and then asked about the mailbox.
Wei Teng said his email address, and then asked him: "Are you interested in studying abroad?"
Sheng Mingan: "Of course..."
I have to admit that the physics departments of the top universities in China are indeed inferior to those of the world's top universities in foreign countries.
If you want to study further, you have to go abroad.
Witten: "Are you interested in coming to Princeton?"
Princeton's physics department is also among the best, but even better is the mathematics department.
Sheng Mingan refused: "Sorry. I might like Mit better."
MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Department of Physics has always been the best in the world.
Although ua School of Optics has the strongest surface, but in terms of comprehensive ranking, its physics department is not yet in the top ten, and it is far behind Princeton.
Witten joked: "Believe me, you can be tactful to refuse, too direct will hurt my fragile heart-do you understand what I really mean? I am inviting you to be my student."
Sheng Mingan: "I know..." But he still refused.
I didn't say the rest of the sentence, just like Professor Witten's request: be tactful.
Professor Witten laughed, and instead of becoming angry after being rejected, he said: "If one day you change your mind, Princeton welcomes you at any time. By the way, I have read your previous papers, which are related to radar and optics respectively. The results are not bad. .You are not limited to a sub-discipline, you are like a fish in the sea in the field of physics."
Sheng Ming'an didn't quite understand what Professor Weiteng wanted to say.
The next moment, Professor Witten pointed out: "You have also used the knowledge of high-energy physics in quantum error correction calculations. Maybe you can study high-energy physics and try theoretical physics—"
He suddenly said in a deep voice: "Maybe you can try to study superstring theory."
Sheng Mingan's pupils constricted: "Your m theory?"
From the beginning of its inception, physics has been heading towards the goal of a grand unified theory. However, the theory of relativity in the macrocosm and quantum mechanics in the microcosm have parted ways, and they have never been able to be unified.
Superstring theory and the m-theory published by Professor Witten, which redefine superstring theory, are currently the most likely theory to unify the two physical theories.
Sheng Mingan: "I'm not sure yet..."
Professor Witten laughed again, obviously he is a very funny and cheerful old man.
Sheng Mingan heard Professor Weiteng sigh, and the other party said: "I haven't touched string theory for a long time, and even I don't know if the m-theory I created is a fallacy... This is just my suggestion, and it depends on whether you have it or not." interest."
"Ah! I still have something to do here, so I hung up."
After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone hastily without giving Sheng Mingan a chance to speak.
Sheng Mingan blinked, and briefly described to Chen Jingqiu why Professor Weiteng wanted him.
Chen Jingqiu: "Do you want to go to MIT to study for a Ph.D?"
Sheng Mingan: "Huh? Hmm..."
Chen Jingqiu: "When?"
Sheng Ming'an: "The year after next. I want to complete the credits ahead of schedule, and take a master's degree at HKUST by the way, and then go to Massachusetts."
Chen Jingqiu nodded, thoughtfully.
Sheng Ming'an didn't quite understand Chen Jingqiu's thoughts. Seeing that he was lost in thought, he took the opportunity to send the paper to Professor Wei Teng, and soon received the received email.
Sheng Mingan said: "If you send it to "Science", it will take about two or three weeks to get a reply, and the publication time will be two months at the earliest."
Chen Jingqiu was about to say something later, when the phone rang again, and he answered after listening to a few words: "You deal with it first, I'll go there as soon as possible."
After finishing the call, he said to Sheng Mingan: "Something happened to me at work, and I have to rush to San Diego to deal with it. Maybe, maybe I won't be able to go back to China with you."
Sheng Mingan made a sound to show that he knew, "Go and do your work. I don't have much to do here. I will return to school after the lecture the day after tomorrow."
Chen Jingqiu stood there for a while before saying: "Then I'm leaving..."
Sheng Mingan didn't turn his head back, and waved his back to Chen Jingqiu: "Bon voyage..."
Chen Jingqiu bought all his clothes at the hotel, only one set, and packed them up quickly, and the facts in San Diego urgently needed him to deal with them, so he left without delay.
As soon as the person left, the two ordered lunches were delivered before they could be cancelled. Sheng Mingan almost blurted out Chen Jingqiu before realizing that he had left. The room was surprisingly empty, which he was not used to.
After lunch, Sheng Mingan couldn't read the books and papers, so he went out for a stroll in the afternoon, and when he went out, he met strangers of different skin colors and ages who suddenly came up to say hello to him, and some people directly invited him with difficult problems such as quantum decoherence and string theory. He participated in research projects together.
Sheng Mingan refused one by one, and went directly to a clothing store to buy a hat and a high-necked coat to cover his face.
In this way, no one really recognized him, and he was able to spend a leisurely afternoon.
Scientific Discovery Channel, Office of the Television Assistant Editor.
Bob manipulated the computer in his office to watch the video shot yesterday afternoon. No matter how you look at it, it was obviously a successful lecture.
But he doesn't want this video to be handed over to Ferien now.
There are only two consequences for the video in Ferien's hands. One is that it is taken as his own, and his name, Bob, may only appear in the column of assisting the photographer.
The second is being refrigerated by Ferien because he hates Asians.
However, based on Bob's understanding of Ferien, once he sees the value of the lecture in the video, the mercenary Ferien will definitely keep it for himself, but he gets nothing after all his hard work.
Thinking of this, Bob made a decision to re-edit the video.
In fact, his level of video editing is comparable to that of shooting technology. Without professional technical appraisal, it is even impossible to distinguish the authenticity of the video. Thank God for the countless materials stored in his USB flash drive.
When the clip was over, Felien's assistant called out, "Bob, do you have a video of Stanford's public lecture yesterday?"
Bob: "Yes..."
Assistant: "How much?"
Bob: "More than 20, more than a dozen can be used as materials."
Assistant: "Great! Pass it to me quickly, the editor is in a hurry to use it!"
Bob pulled out the USB flash drive and handed it to him: "It's all stored in the folder marked Solvay meeting, you can take it."
The assistant turned around and left in a hurry without saying thank you.
Bob withdrew his gaze and looked at the original video in the computer storage file. As for the video of the public lecture on quantum error correction in the USB flash drive, it was the video he edited just now.
Ferien will definitely use the edited video when he sees it, and even use very excessively discriminatory copywriting to describe the Chinese scholars in the video, and then broadcast it to the outside world.
Bob knew that Science Discovery Channel would do two Solvay physics conference documentaries, divided into two parts.
The debate content of the first three days of the Solvay meeting and the lecture content of the second two days were made into videos and released to the public two weeks later, which must be two or three days later than the documentary broadcast of the Science Discovery Channel.
Two or three days is a perfect time difference!
It was enough for public opinion to ferment, and just when people's antipathy reached its peak, there was a sudden reversal of the truth.
If it was a week or more late, people at that time would have forgotten about it, and even if the truth was revealed, it would not cause too much controversy.
So the time difference is really perfect.
editing room...
The editors were editing the five-day shooting videos of the Solvay Physics Conference. When the editor-in-chief Ferien came to check the work progress, he suddenly saw a white USB flash drive on the corner of the editor's desk on the right.
The USB flash drive usually belongs to the editors in the TV station, and Ferien happened to know who this white USB flash drive belonged to.
He picked up the USB flash drive, and the editor next to him reminded: "This is the USB flash drive that Bob sent this morning. I haven't uploaded the video in it yet."
Ferien: "Plug it into the computer, and I'll look at the file."
The editor followed suit, and Ferien checked the files in the USB flash drive. They were all common materials, available or not.
His goal is not these miscellaneous materials, but to ask Bob to shoot a video of a public lecture by a young Chinese scholar yesterday.
Felien quickly found the lecture video of the young Huaguo scholar, clicked on it and watched it, and his stomach hurt from laughing: "Did you see it? This yellow-skinned monkey tried to solve the physical problem of quantum error correction in Stanford's public lecture!"
The in-house editor heard the words and asked: "So did he solve it?"
Ferien sneered: "Do you think a monkey that can only count bananas can solve problems that even physicists who have won the Nobel Prize have not been able to solve?"
The implication failed.
Editor: "That's a shame..."
Ferien: "No, the problem of quantum error correction has indeed been solved - but not those yellow-skinned monkeys, but the assistant professors of MIT. Of course, this result is announced. I believe they will be promoted to full-level professors soon. .”
The editor was curious: "What happened?"
Ferien: "The three assistant professors from MIT and the yellow-skinned monkey from Huaguo should meet in the same lecture. After the failure of the Huaguo people, the assistant professors who are also studying quantum error correction seem to be inspired to solve quantum entanglement on the spot. Wrong problem...hahaha, what an ironic comparison!"
- That's right!The video Ferien saw was edited deliberately by Bob, and even the editors on the TV station couldn't see the misplaced synthetic video of the editing traces.
Ferien: "This video doesn't need to be cut, and it will be placed in the next issue of the "Solvay Physics Conference" documentary. Now I have to prepare an excellent copy. Bob, that trash, finally made a useful video."
The editor asks, "So, the video director or you?"
Ferien patted the editor on the shoulder vigorously: "Who else do you think can make an excellent video besides me?"
of course not.Excellent videos and copywriting all belong to the editor-in-chief Ferien.
The editor knew it well and expressed his sympathy for Bob in his heart, but he also had to work, so he could only obediently obey, and helped Ferien take away the achievements that should have belonged to Bob for the umpteenth time.
Felien left the editing room contentedly. In fact, he was still worried about the series of vaguely racially discriminatory comments in scientific exploration journals that criticized Huaguo scholars at the beginning of the year but unfortunately overturned. He always hated Huaguo people for letting him lose To save face, Bob was sent to shoot after seeing the lecture schedule announced by Stanford yesterday.
The result did not disappoint him.
Bob made a trip to the editing room, and just by the sympathetic look of the editor he knew Ferien had used his video and, as usual, took credit for it.
After he came out, he sneered at Ferien's office, then returned to his seat, typed out the letter of resignation and submitted it.
After Filien knew about it, he agreed without hesitation.
Two days later, Stanford reopened a lecture. Physicists who were supposed to leave had already heard that the quantum error correction problem was solved by a young scholar. They suffered from not attending the lecture that day and neither Stanford nor Solvay Institute made it public. The video that day, so they postponed their departure time to listen to this lecture.
The lecture was held in Stanford's conference hall, which can accommodate three to 400 people, and the seats are full, even the back row and the left and right spaces are full of people, and the two doors are guarded by school staff to maintain order.
When Sheng Mingan came to the stage, many people whispered in surprise that the speaker was so young.
"How old is he?"
"Is he sixteen?"
"Maybe he's 30. Every Asian looks young."
"Latest news, this year."
"too small!"
"How do you know? You know him?"
"You can enter the word Sheng Ming'an on YouTube and you'll know what's going on."
"I saw it - couldn't believe my eyes!"
"I don't want to know anything else, I just want to say he's so cute!"
"Ah, I want to say that too! He is so beautiful!"
"... "
Sheng Mingan took the microphone, patted it twice, and began to speak: "Hello everyone..."
He started from the superconducting experiment, step by step and explained the profound things in a simple way. The English pronunciation is accurate and sophisticated, and he is good at using metaphors. exist.
All the sounds in the conference hall gradually disappeared, and everyone was immersed in it.
After Sheng Mingan finished his explanation, it was time for the questioning session.
Some of the questioners were physicists who were more famous and powerful than Sheng Mingan. Facing their questions, Sheng Mingan answered their questions without cowardice or arrogance. His attitude was in line with the modesty and peace of Hua people, very calm and confident.
Seeing this, the two senior brothers, Lu and Hong, were completely at ease. At the beginning, they were worried that the lecture with three to 400 people would bring psychological fear to Sheng Mingan.
Fortunately, the lecture ended perfectly.
Afterwards, Gross and the others invited Professor Pan, Sheng Ming'an and others to have dinner at the hotel, leaving their contact information and leaving.
Sheng Mingan drank some red wine, his face was a little flushed, he took a shower after returning to the room, then lay down on the bed, looked at the light and drizzle outside the window with his body sideways, didn't think about anything, and gradually fell asleep.
Qualcomm headquarters building in San Diego, California.
Chen Jingqiu looked relaxed but was actually sitting stiffly on the sofa. Opposite was a floor-to-ceiling window, from which he could see the green grass and the blue sky and white clouds.
Of course, there is no blue sky and white clouds at this time, because the sky is full of gray clouds, the weather is humid and dull, and the cold wind blows the leaves of the American red maple planted by the roadside.
The middle-aged man next to him walked back and forth restlessly, while Lin Chengjian ate hamburgers and Coke. If smoking was not banned, he might still light a cigarette.
Ye Xie, a middle-aged man, suppressed his anger: "When will someone who can be responsible and speak up come?!"
Chen Jingqiu pursed his lips and said nothing, Lin Chengjian looked up at Leaf Stalk, sneered and continued to eat the hamburger, Leaf Stalk was so angry that he rushed over and grabbed his collar and yelled: "You fucking work like this?! Are you from Wandao? The intermediary introduced by the side! Take so much money, you better do things obediently! Tell us now why we were left hanging for two days after sitting here for two days?!"
Lin Chengjian muttered while chewing: "Because you have been tricked."
Ye Xie was furious: "What did you say—"
"Wow! Are you really so naive? Do you think the Yankee is really willing to sell you a lithography machine? Don't make trouble, brothers, the Yankee is just playing with you. Even if you really buy a second-hand lithography machine, I guarantee that It’s also a tattered lithography machine that won’t last long.”
"We just bought a lithography machine that they eliminated! It's broken... We fucking recognize it!"
"Then increase the price..."
"Two hundred million dollars... more?!"
"You want it, they want to make more money. If you don't want it, you can refuse."
"Your mother—"
"Leaf stalk..." Chen Jingqiu yelled at Ye stalk, and stared at Lin Chengjian's face with black cold eyes, the latter's chewing movements stiffened for a moment. "Sit down and calm down."
Ye Xie took a deep breath, came to Chen Jingqiu and whispered: "We have no time to delay, Chen Tianhe suddenly invested in Hongxin and stole a lot of investment..." After a pause, he continued: "If Gexin does not come out again, The original boss may withdraw the investment, and they seem to be more optimistic about Hongxin. Without follow-up funds, R&D breaks down, and the whole project falls short.”
Ye Xie takes orders from Chen Jingqiu, and Chen Jingqiu is the vice president of a company called Blue River that was established less than five years ago.
Blue River Company is not well-known, and its scale is very small.
At first, I was engaged in chip design, and later turned to lithography machine research and development to formulate a leather chip plan. However, because lithography machine research and development itself is a concentrated industrial chain, and key technologies are blocked, research and development have stagnated for a while.
R&D companies burn money, and the big boss behind the investment in Blue River finally chose to raise funds from outsiders.
Gexin, like Hongxin, is a core-making plan for public fundraising. Unlike Hongxin, which only wants to make money, Gexin really wants to build a lithography machine.
Blue River has quietly researched and developed chip design and lithography machines for several years, and has raised a group of professional teams. It was not until this year that it made public the plan for the core innovation. It is a pity that in the middle of the revolution, Chen Tianhe intervened and lost to Hongxin.
If there is no progress, the leather core project may not last long.
They now need a lithography machine with a 28nm process.
The reason why Chen Jingqiu became the vice president of this small company, Blue River, and almost single-handedly handled the leather core project, was mainly because the big boss behind Blue River was a frequent visitor to the underground black boxing in Jin City.
He was a very gangster-like person, and he was optimistic about Chen Jingqiu, who was ruthless and ruthless, so he recruited him to do things for him.
Chen Jingqiu, who had done several things well and was admitted to a key 211 university, was naturally promoted, and his task was actually to revitalize the Gexin project.
Ye Xie: "Mr. Chen, Hongxin is clearly making money. If Gexin dies, all semiconductor-related companies in Jin City will be deceived by Hongxin."
Chen Jingqiu asked Lin Chengjian, "How much do they want?"
Lin Chengjian gestured: "6000 million..."
Ye Xie was going crazy: "Are you stealing money!"
Chen Jingqiu: "6000 million is impossible, at most 2000 million."
Lin Chengjian shrugged: "Someone is here, you talk to the Yankee."
When Chen Jingqiu and Ye Lian turned around, they saw two Yankees coming behind them. They were smiling, dignified and gentle, and they took the initiative to say hello. Their words were polite but could hardly conceal their arrogance.
The person in charge of the cooperation named Paul said firmly: "No, no, it's impossible. It seems that we can't reach an agreement. Believe me, we don't even lack a seller who is willing to pay [-] million yuan to buy a second-hand lithography machine. Except We, you can't buy an Asmer lithography machine in the United States."
Chen Jingqiu: "Mr. Paul, we came to discuss business with you with 100% sincerity, but it is too much to go back on the price after negotiating at the beginning, to raise the price, to go back on it, to raise the price again and again. We pay attention to harmony and integrity when doing business. When you raised the price for the first time, we agreed to double the market price, added it again in the middle, and added it now... At least we should be honest, and it is also for the convenience of future cooperation. "
Paul: "Future cooperation?"
Chen Jingqiu lowered his eyelids: "Yes. If possible, we will transfer the chip channel from Intel to Qualcomm."
Paul asked, "What channel?"
Chen Jingqiu mentioned the name of a company, Paul was stunned for a moment and then asked, "You guarantee that you can talk?"
Chen Jingqiu: "It depends on whether your company is interested in in-depth cooperation."
When Paul heard the words, he communicated with the people around him in a low voice, and finally said to Chen Jingqiu: "I can see your sincerity, we have never rejected sincere and friendly friends. In this way, I will make suggestions to the higher-ups, hoping that we can Complete the cooperation."
Even if the business with huge profits is delivered to them, their words are still full of arrogance, as if doing business with you is condescension.
Arrogant Yankees.
Chen Jingqiu smiled, stood up and shook hands with Paul: "Yes, I hope too."
The two of Paul got up and were about to leave, but when he saw Lin Chengjian, who was hunching his shoulders and eating a hamburger, he suddenly made a short and exaggerated ridicule: "Lin, you look very down and out. Do you need me to introduce you to a job?"
Lin Chengjian was expressionless, and replied bluntly: "No need..."
Paul shrugged, winked with his companion, and left.
"We waited for two or three days, but we met for less than 10 minutes. I didn't know that they were the president who is always busy!" Ye Bing opened the car door and said angrily.
Chen Jingqiu got into the rear seat, followed by Ye Xie, and then Lin Chengjian as the driver.
Lin Chengjian looked at Chen Jingqiu in the rear seat from the rearview mirror of the car. As soon as he got into the car, the other person was expressionless and indifferent. He was obviously younger than anyone else, but he was very calm.
After being left on the air for two or three days, he was asked to increase the price several times, and Ye Xie was so angry that he swears repeatedly. Even Lin Chengjian felt that his lungs were exploding when he substituted it occasionally, but Chen Jingqiu did not explode into anger from the beginning to the end. Talking and acting, demeanor advancing and retreating properly, I don't know, I thought this is a king who has fought in the mall for many years.
Chen Jingqiu took out his mobile phone, checked the message he received just a minute ago, and deleted it after reading it. His limbs that had been stiff all day stretched and relaxed.
He closed his eyes and rested for about ten seconds, and when he opened them again, he looked like a wild beast waking up and preparing to hunt.
"Lin Chengjian, were you very angry just now?" Chen Jingqiu asked.
"No..." Lin Chengjian perfunctorily denied.
Chen Jingqiu looked up at the rearview mirror of the car, and his sharp gaze shot straight at Lin Chengjian, who was also observing him from the rearview mirror of the car, and the latter shrank back as if frightened.
"Lin Chengjian, from Bay Island. Born in 1981, PhD student at Berkeley, joined Qualcomm IC designer at the age of 25, became a senior engineer of Qualcomm IC design at the age of 29, responsible for the CPU. Unemployed at the age of 30, not only expelled by Qualcomm, but also by the entire United States Banned by the Semiconductor Industry Association."
Lin Chengjian's face was so gloomy that water dripped out.
Chen Jingqiu paused, rubbed the phone screen and continued: "The American Semiconductor Industry Association is a circle that leads the world's advanced chip technology. If you are banned by the association, it is equivalent to being banned by the entire chip industry. You have not engaged in IC design for four years. .”
The complete semiconductor industry structure is design, production, packaging and testing assembly, which are the upstream, midstream and downstream of the industry respectively.
Chips are the most money-grabbing upstream industry. The value of the most sophisticated chips can reach 500 million yuan, but most chips are several, tens or hundreds, depending on their functions.
Chip design technology is almost monopolized by the United States, and they only control the most upstream and core IC design.
The second is production. The core technology is the mass production of nano-process lithography machines.
American lithography machines are mainly outsourced to Asmer in the Netherlands, but Asmer has long been infiltrated by the United States. It can be said that it is an American company headquartered in the Netherlands.
As for the core technology of packaging and testing assembly located downstream, it is easy to break through, so it is not important.
Lin Chengjian asked directly: "Why investigate me?"
Chen Jingqiu: "Know your future employees."
Lin Chengjian sneered: "It's useless to hire me! IC design is a team, not a one-person job. Even if you create a top-notch chip, it's useless to produce a lithography machine that can't keep up with the process."
Chen Jingqiu: "We are developing..."
Lin Chengjian: "Blow it up. You can't even buy a 28nm process lithography machine!"
Chen Jingqiu: "I bought it. A 22nm process lithography machine."
"What?!" Lin Chengjian Ye Xie screamed in unison.
"The lithography machine purchased from Japan was smuggled back to Jin City half an hour ago after being transferred to leather bag companies in several countries two months ago." Chen Jingqiu said meaningfully: "3 million US dollars is well spent. "
Ye Qiao murmured: "Japan...isn't it buying from the United States?"
Lin Chengjian reacted quickly: "Your goal of cooperation was not Qualcomm?" He was puzzled: "Why such a big circle?"
Chen Jingqiu said softly: "The lithography machine technology is too thorough to block China. To be conservative, first attract the attention of domestic semiconductor companies with great fanfare, and foreign eyes will also be placed on me because of the heated discussions of domestic companies. This is called the herd effect. .”
He laughed and said, "I saw it in the book. It's okay to use..."
Lin Chengjian was dumbfounded.
Chen Jingqiu said: "Mr. Lin is willing to stay in the United States for the rest of his life and be bullied by others? You and your wife were forcibly stopped because you wanted to resign and go back to China, and then encountered a car accident on the way to the airport—"
"Okay!" Lin Chengjian was furious suddenly, like a trapped animal.
Chen Jingqiu looked at him quietly, and what he didn't finish was: Lin Chengjian and his wife were the core technicians of Qualcomm's IC design and development back then, and they should have participated in a certain CPU research and development plan. The Ministry of National Defense judged that it was a spy trying to steal core technology and escape back to China, and obstructed it in every possible way.
On the way to the airport, Lin Chengjian and his wife deliberately caused a car accident, resulting in the death of their pregnant wife.
Lin Chengjian parked the car on the side of the road, smoked after turning off the engine, and sighed for a while: "It's not cheap to hire me..."
Chen Jingqiu: "Thousands of money can't buy an inch of time. For me, talents are equally rare."
Lin Chengjian said calmly: "Although it has been four years and I haven't touched IC design for four years, as long as I leave, I will still be noticed."
The United States has a domineering style. Once high-end talents are judged to leave, there will be a threat that they will be killed accidentally during the time they leave, especially Huaguo talents.
Chen Jingqiu: "If I have a showdown with you, it means that I am at least [-]% sure."
Lin Chengjian suddenly thought: Are you really only in your twenties?As cunning as an old goblin.
Chen Jingqiu smiled lightly, while Ye Xie patted her thigh and laughed laughingly: "What are you in your twenties? Mr. Chen!"
Lin Chengjian was really horrified this time, what kind of person is this?
"Do you still want to continue to cooperate with Qualcomm?" Lin Chengjian asked.
"Forget about the lithography machine. But we have to hand over the chip channel to Qualcomm."
"why?"
Lin Chengjian didn't understand why he would hand over the chip channel with such a huge profit to Qualcomm since he bought a 22nm process lithography machine that can be mass-produced.
Chen Jingqiu was silent.
There are two reasons. One is for the news released by Asmer, they will complete the mass-produced 15nm lithography machine prototype in 16.
The second is that if the supply of chips in Jin City and Seoul is cut off, at least there is a channel to unblock the disaster caused by the avalanche of chip making.
Chen Jingqiu thought to himself that he didn't have this kind of affection for family and people's livelihood, but if Sheng Mingan stood in his position, he would definitely do a more appropriate and selfless job than himself.
He is learning from Sheng Ming'an, trying to become a bright and kind person on the surface, at least he can stand by Sheng Ming'an's side without being criticized.
Seeing that he didn't tell, Lin Chengjian thought it was a secret, so he didn't ask.
Qualcomm headquarters.
Paul informed the senior management of the conversation between him and Chen Jingqiu, and the senior management agreed without much thought.
Paul: "Really sell the lithography machine to the cunning Chinese people?"
The executive waved his hand: "Huaguo people make the best money. They take the initiative to send money to your door. Why do you refuse? For the lithography machine, let them pay the deposit first, and then some accidents will delay it for two or three years. Wait a minute. Smail's 14nm process lithography machine will be ready!"
Paul was shocked and ecstatic: "14 nanometers?! Not 16?"
Qualcomm executives couldn't help saying proudly: "The research and development progress has exceeded the plan, and it is two nanometers more refined than the original 16-nanometer process. Asmer's extreme ultraviolet lithography will reset the global semiconductor industry. "
At least Nikon, which is still splitting half of the lithography machine with Asmer, will soon be thrown away, and resources and profits will once again be directed to the Semiconductor Association of the United States.
Sheng Mingan returned to USTC from Stanford with Professor Pan and others. The quantum error correction problem he solved at Stanford has long spread throughout the domestic physics academic circles, but it has not yet been out of the circle.
If there is no media coverage, things in the academic circle are rarely spread outside the world, because this circle is very closed.
Even at HKUST, only some professors know about it.
The strange thing is that even the school leaders don't know about it. It seems that those who know generally think that others know about it, but those who have no channels and are not interested in academic circles really don't know about it.
It caused Sheng Mingan to go back to school very calmly.
It was so calm that going to and from get out of class was as usual, and occasionally posting a blog post about an experiment I did today, a perfect score in the midterm exam, etc. only aroused a slight splash.
But it is quite concerned by the professors.
But he was also very concerned by the professors, so he became very ordinary.
Until one day, one month before New Year's Day in 2014, a certain big V posted a post, and even through the screen, he could feel his fantasy heart lying in a big hole.
The title of the post is: [Gentlemen, the problem of quantum error correction has been solved, is it still far from dominating quantum mechanics? 】
Many people started posting as soon as they went in before reading the post: [Here we go again!Every year, the water stickers that are forced to do tasks, are the year-end performance rushes coming? 】
[Boss, I didn't expect that even you would start to waste money [sorrowful]. 】
[What's wrong with Chafan?What a happy chafan!Why do you look down on Chafan? 】
[Did you read the post owner's supplement later?It seems to be really solved. 】
[Stop blowing water.If you have studied quantum mechanics, you should know that quantum error correction cannot be solved in 20 years. 】
[Fuck!Really solved? 】
[What's going on?I take a look. 】
But the content of the main building is: [The thing is like this, the author climbed the wall to take a look at the world of flowers outside as usual yesterday, and accidentally walked into the hot topic of Twitter. This kind of thing happens every day in the United States, there is nothing new under the sun. 】
[But usually those that can make a hot search, basically there will be bloodshed.The author thought it was again... as long as everyone understands it, but when I clicked in, it turned out to be a matter of the academic circle, and then I took a closer look, huh?How is it related to Asians?Why is it still related to Huaguo scholars? ! 】
[After my careful inspection, good guy! 】
[It turns out that in the documentary of the Solvay Physics Conference broadcast by the American Science Discovery Channel two days ago, a certain editor-in-chief insulted Asians openly and aboveboard. Head of MIT Scholars! 】
[In the beginning, the editor-in-chief was too racially discriminatory, which caused dissatisfaction among Chinese students in the United States.Then they called the hotline to complain and protest, but they were all suppressed, and the matter was over.who knows--】
The content of the main building ends here.
Some water friends couldn't help scolding: [Damn!The landlord gasped!Can't finish a sentence? 】
[As expected, the story is fascinating. 】
Turned to the bottom to see the big v's reply: [Next to the main building: who knows the parties involved, it is three MIT physicists who refuted rumors on Twitter that the documentary is not true, suspected of malicious editing and distorting the facts, the real glory should belong to the video A Huaguo scholar dubbed an arrogant yellow-skinned monkey! 】
[Hahaha, cheers! 】
【Should!Did the editor apologize? 】
[Who is the Huaguo scholar? 】
Big V: [Then!The really exciting plot is coming!The Science Discovery Channel and the editor-in-chief all pretended to be dead, and the documentary was broadcast as usual, and they refused to delete it!The Chinese student circle was so angry that they almost called the Chinese embassy in the United States and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to let them deal with this matter. However, some Yankees did not do anything about personnel and insisted on stopping this matter. 】
[Twitter deleted accounts, deleted speeches, and blocked MIT scholars' rumors on Twitter!The incident seemed to be the same as in the past when the mouths of ordinary people were blocked and waited to subside. On the second day, it was discovered that Gross, Witten and other bigwigs all accused the Science Discovery Channel documentary of being untrue, and the Solvay Institute also Release the video of the public lecture of the day!HD! 】
[The whole thing exploded!At first, it exploded in the American Chinese community, and then it exploded among overseas students——]
【Bros!Iron people!Because it is our young physicists in Huaguo who really solve the problem of quantum error correction! 】
[Fuck!Although I don't understand the cause and effect, it looks burning and awesome. 】
[Ah, this happened in just two days? 】
[Who are Gloss and Witten?What is the Solvay Physics Conference Documentary? @Okay, I know, it’s all me
In fact, Sheng Ming'an does not necessarily have to submit a paper to "Nature" or "Science". His current research results can be submitted to any journal.The reputation of the top journal itself will not cover up his glory, and ordinary journals will be honored by his achievements.
But before the thesis was sent, an unfamiliar number called suddenly, Sheng Mingan answered, and an unfamiliar and mellow voice was on the other side.
"install?"
Sheng Mingan: "Who are you?"
"I'm Edward Witten."
Sheng Ming'an straightened his back immediately: "May I ask if you have anything to do with me?"
Witten: "Is your thesis finished?"
Sheng Mingan: "It's finished..."
Wei Teng: "If you don't mind, send it to me for a look, and I can recommend it for you."
If a bigwig like Wei Teng recommends it, Sheng Ming'an's paper will definitely pass the level of reviewing and editing!
"I am very grateful for your generous help." Sheng Mingan thanked skillfully, and then asked about the mailbox.
Wei Teng said his email address, and then asked him: "Are you interested in studying abroad?"
Sheng Mingan: "Of course..."
I have to admit that the physics departments of the top universities in China are indeed inferior to those of the world's top universities in foreign countries.
If you want to study further, you have to go abroad.
Witten: "Are you interested in coming to Princeton?"
Princeton's physics department is also among the best, but even better is the mathematics department.
Sheng Mingan refused: "Sorry. I might like Mit better."
MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Department of Physics has always been the best in the world.
Although ua School of Optics has the strongest surface, but in terms of comprehensive ranking, its physics department is not yet in the top ten, and it is far behind Princeton.
Witten joked: "Believe me, you can be tactful to refuse, too direct will hurt my fragile heart-do you understand what I really mean? I am inviting you to be my student."
Sheng Mingan: "I know..." But he still refused.
I didn't say the rest of the sentence, just like Professor Witten's request: be tactful.
Professor Witten laughed, and instead of becoming angry after being rejected, he said: "If one day you change your mind, Princeton welcomes you at any time. By the way, I have read your previous papers, which are related to radar and optics respectively. The results are not bad. .You are not limited to a sub-discipline, you are like a fish in the sea in the field of physics."
Sheng Ming'an didn't quite understand what Professor Weiteng wanted to say.
The next moment, Professor Witten pointed out: "You have also used the knowledge of high-energy physics in quantum error correction calculations. Maybe you can study high-energy physics and try theoretical physics—"
He suddenly said in a deep voice: "Maybe you can try to study superstring theory."
Sheng Mingan's pupils constricted: "Your m theory?"
From the beginning of its inception, physics has been heading towards the goal of a grand unified theory. However, the theory of relativity in the macrocosm and quantum mechanics in the microcosm have parted ways, and they have never been able to be unified.
Superstring theory and the m-theory published by Professor Witten, which redefine superstring theory, are currently the most likely theory to unify the two physical theories.
Sheng Mingan: "I'm not sure yet..."
Professor Witten laughed again, obviously he is a very funny and cheerful old man.
Sheng Mingan heard Professor Weiteng sigh, and the other party said: "I haven't touched string theory for a long time, and even I don't know if the m-theory I created is a fallacy... This is just my suggestion, and it depends on whether you have it or not." interest."
"Ah! I still have something to do here, so I hung up."
After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone hastily without giving Sheng Mingan a chance to speak.
Sheng Mingan blinked, and briefly described to Chen Jingqiu why Professor Weiteng wanted him.
Chen Jingqiu: "Do you want to go to MIT to study for a Ph.D?"
Sheng Mingan: "Huh? Hmm..."
Chen Jingqiu: "When?"
Sheng Ming'an: "The year after next. I want to complete the credits ahead of schedule, and take a master's degree at HKUST by the way, and then go to Massachusetts."
Chen Jingqiu nodded, thoughtfully.
Sheng Ming'an didn't quite understand Chen Jingqiu's thoughts. Seeing that he was lost in thought, he took the opportunity to send the paper to Professor Wei Teng, and soon received the received email.
Sheng Mingan said: "If you send it to "Science", it will take about two or three weeks to get a reply, and the publication time will be two months at the earliest."
Chen Jingqiu was about to say something later, when the phone rang again, and he answered after listening to a few words: "You deal with it first, I'll go there as soon as possible."
After finishing the call, he said to Sheng Mingan: "Something happened to me at work, and I have to rush to San Diego to deal with it. Maybe, maybe I won't be able to go back to China with you."
Sheng Mingan made a sound to show that he knew, "Go and do your work. I don't have much to do here. I will return to school after the lecture the day after tomorrow."
Chen Jingqiu stood there for a while before saying: "Then I'm leaving..."
Sheng Mingan didn't turn his head back, and waved his back to Chen Jingqiu: "Bon voyage..."
Chen Jingqiu bought all his clothes at the hotel, only one set, and packed them up quickly, and the facts in San Diego urgently needed him to deal with them, so he left without delay.
As soon as the person left, the two ordered lunches were delivered before they could be cancelled. Sheng Mingan almost blurted out Chen Jingqiu before realizing that he had left. The room was surprisingly empty, which he was not used to.
After lunch, Sheng Mingan couldn't read the books and papers, so he went out for a stroll in the afternoon, and when he went out, he met strangers of different skin colors and ages who suddenly came up to say hello to him, and some people directly invited him with difficult problems such as quantum decoherence and string theory. He participated in research projects together.
Sheng Mingan refused one by one, and went directly to a clothing store to buy a hat and a high-necked coat to cover his face.
In this way, no one really recognized him, and he was able to spend a leisurely afternoon.
Scientific Discovery Channel, Office of the Television Assistant Editor.
Bob manipulated the computer in his office to watch the video shot yesterday afternoon. No matter how you look at it, it was obviously a successful lecture.
But he doesn't want this video to be handed over to Ferien now.
There are only two consequences for the video in Ferien's hands. One is that it is taken as his own, and his name, Bob, may only appear in the column of assisting the photographer.
The second is being refrigerated by Ferien because he hates Asians.
However, based on Bob's understanding of Ferien, once he sees the value of the lecture in the video, the mercenary Ferien will definitely keep it for himself, but he gets nothing after all his hard work.
Thinking of this, Bob made a decision to re-edit the video.
In fact, his level of video editing is comparable to that of shooting technology. Without professional technical appraisal, it is even impossible to distinguish the authenticity of the video. Thank God for the countless materials stored in his USB flash drive.
When the clip was over, Felien's assistant called out, "Bob, do you have a video of Stanford's public lecture yesterday?"
Bob: "Yes..."
Assistant: "How much?"
Bob: "More than 20, more than a dozen can be used as materials."
Assistant: "Great! Pass it to me quickly, the editor is in a hurry to use it!"
Bob pulled out the USB flash drive and handed it to him: "It's all stored in the folder marked Solvay meeting, you can take it."
The assistant turned around and left in a hurry without saying thank you.
Bob withdrew his gaze and looked at the original video in the computer storage file. As for the video of the public lecture on quantum error correction in the USB flash drive, it was the video he edited just now.
Ferien will definitely use the edited video when he sees it, and even use very excessively discriminatory copywriting to describe the Chinese scholars in the video, and then broadcast it to the outside world.
Bob knew that Science Discovery Channel would do two Solvay physics conference documentaries, divided into two parts.
The debate content of the first three days of the Solvay meeting and the lecture content of the second two days were made into videos and released to the public two weeks later, which must be two or three days later than the documentary broadcast of the Science Discovery Channel.
Two or three days is a perfect time difference!
It was enough for public opinion to ferment, and just when people's antipathy reached its peak, there was a sudden reversal of the truth.
If it was a week or more late, people at that time would have forgotten about it, and even if the truth was revealed, it would not cause too much controversy.
So the time difference is really perfect.
editing room...
The editors were editing the five-day shooting videos of the Solvay Physics Conference. When the editor-in-chief Ferien came to check the work progress, he suddenly saw a white USB flash drive on the corner of the editor's desk on the right.
The USB flash drive usually belongs to the editors in the TV station, and Ferien happened to know who this white USB flash drive belonged to.
He picked up the USB flash drive, and the editor next to him reminded: "This is the USB flash drive that Bob sent this morning. I haven't uploaded the video in it yet."
Ferien: "Plug it into the computer, and I'll look at the file."
The editor followed suit, and Ferien checked the files in the USB flash drive. They were all common materials, available or not.
His goal is not these miscellaneous materials, but to ask Bob to shoot a video of a public lecture by a young Chinese scholar yesterday.
Felien quickly found the lecture video of the young Huaguo scholar, clicked on it and watched it, and his stomach hurt from laughing: "Did you see it? This yellow-skinned monkey tried to solve the physical problem of quantum error correction in Stanford's public lecture!"
The in-house editor heard the words and asked: "So did he solve it?"
Ferien sneered: "Do you think a monkey that can only count bananas can solve problems that even physicists who have won the Nobel Prize have not been able to solve?"
The implication failed.
Editor: "That's a shame..."
Ferien: "No, the problem of quantum error correction has indeed been solved - but not those yellow-skinned monkeys, but the assistant professors of MIT. Of course, this result is announced. I believe they will be promoted to full-level professors soon. .”
The editor was curious: "What happened?"
Ferien: "The three assistant professors from MIT and the yellow-skinned monkey from Huaguo should meet in the same lecture. After the failure of the Huaguo people, the assistant professors who are also studying quantum error correction seem to be inspired to solve quantum entanglement on the spot. Wrong problem...hahaha, what an ironic comparison!"
- That's right!The video Ferien saw was edited deliberately by Bob, and even the editors on the TV station couldn't see the misplaced synthetic video of the editing traces.
Ferien: "This video doesn't need to be cut, and it will be placed in the next issue of the "Solvay Physics Conference" documentary. Now I have to prepare an excellent copy. Bob, that trash, finally made a useful video."
The editor asks, "So, the video director or you?"
Ferien patted the editor on the shoulder vigorously: "Who else do you think can make an excellent video besides me?"
of course not.Excellent videos and copywriting all belong to the editor-in-chief Ferien.
The editor knew it well and expressed his sympathy for Bob in his heart, but he also had to work, so he could only obediently obey, and helped Ferien take away the achievements that should have belonged to Bob for the umpteenth time.
Felien left the editing room contentedly. In fact, he was still worried about the series of vaguely racially discriminatory comments in scientific exploration journals that criticized Huaguo scholars at the beginning of the year but unfortunately overturned. He always hated Huaguo people for letting him lose To save face, Bob was sent to shoot after seeing the lecture schedule announced by Stanford yesterday.
The result did not disappoint him.
Bob made a trip to the editing room, and just by the sympathetic look of the editor he knew Ferien had used his video and, as usual, took credit for it.
After he came out, he sneered at Ferien's office, then returned to his seat, typed out the letter of resignation and submitted it.
After Filien knew about it, he agreed without hesitation.
Two days later, Stanford reopened a lecture. Physicists who were supposed to leave had already heard that the quantum error correction problem was solved by a young scholar. They suffered from not attending the lecture that day and neither Stanford nor Solvay Institute made it public. The video that day, so they postponed their departure time to listen to this lecture.
The lecture was held in Stanford's conference hall, which can accommodate three to 400 people, and the seats are full, even the back row and the left and right spaces are full of people, and the two doors are guarded by school staff to maintain order.
When Sheng Mingan came to the stage, many people whispered in surprise that the speaker was so young.
"How old is he?"
"Is he sixteen?"
"Maybe he's 30. Every Asian looks young."
"Latest news, this year."
"too small!"
"How do you know? You know him?"
"You can enter the word Sheng Ming'an on YouTube and you'll know what's going on."
"I saw it - couldn't believe my eyes!"
"I don't want to know anything else, I just want to say he's so cute!"
"Ah, I want to say that too! He is so beautiful!"
"... "
Sheng Mingan took the microphone, patted it twice, and began to speak: "Hello everyone..."
He started from the superconducting experiment, step by step and explained the profound things in a simple way. The English pronunciation is accurate and sophisticated, and he is good at using metaphors. exist.
All the sounds in the conference hall gradually disappeared, and everyone was immersed in it.
After Sheng Mingan finished his explanation, it was time for the questioning session.
Some of the questioners were physicists who were more famous and powerful than Sheng Mingan. Facing their questions, Sheng Mingan answered their questions without cowardice or arrogance. His attitude was in line with the modesty and peace of Hua people, very calm and confident.
Seeing this, the two senior brothers, Lu and Hong, were completely at ease. At the beginning, they were worried that the lecture with three to 400 people would bring psychological fear to Sheng Mingan.
Fortunately, the lecture ended perfectly.
Afterwards, Gross and the others invited Professor Pan, Sheng Ming'an and others to have dinner at the hotel, leaving their contact information and leaving.
Sheng Mingan drank some red wine, his face was a little flushed, he took a shower after returning to the room, then lay down on the bed, looked at the light and drizzle outside the window with his body sideways, didn't think about anything, and gradually fell asleep.
Qualcomm headquarters building in San Diego, California.
Chen Jingqiu looked relaxed but was actually sitting stiffly on the sofa. Opposite was a floor-to-ceiling window, from which he could see the green grass and the blue sky and white clouds.
Of course, there is no blue sky and white clouds at this time, because the sky is full of gray clouds, the weather is humid and dull, and the cold wind blows the leaves of the American red maple planted by the roadside.
The middle-aged man next to him walked back and forth restlessly, while Lin Chengjian ate hamburgers and Coke. If smoking was not banned, he might still light a cigarette.
Ye Xie, a middle-aged man, suppressed his anger: "When will someone who can be responsible and speak up come?!"
Chen Jingqiu pursed his lips and said nothing, Lin Chengjian looked up at Leaf Stalk, sneered and continued to eat the hamburger, Leaf Stalk was so angry that he rushed over and grabbed his collar and yelled: "You fucking work like this?! Are you from Wandao? The intermediary introduced by the side! Take so much money, you better do things obediently! Tell us now why we were left hanging for two days after sitting here for two days?!"
Lin Chengjian muttered while chewing: "Because you have been tricked."
Ye Xie was furious: "What did you say—"
"Wow! Are you really so naive? Do you think the Yankee is really willing to sell you a lithography machine? Don't make trouble, brothers, the Yankee is just playing with you. Even if you really buy a second-hand lithography machine, I guarantee that It’s also a tattered lithography machine that won’t last long.”
"We just bought a lithography machine that they eliminated! It's broken... We fucking recognize it!"
"Then increase the price..."
"Two hundred million dollars... more?!"
"You want it, they want to make more money. If you don't want it, you can refuse."
"Your mother—"
"Leaf stalk..." Chen Jingqiu yelled at Ye stalk, and stared at Lin Chengjian's face with black cold eyes, the latter's chewing movements stiffened for a moment. "Sit down and calm down."
Ye Xie took a deep breath, came to Chen Jingqiu and whispered: "We have no time to delay, Chen Tianhe suddenly invested in Hongxin and stole a lot of investment..." After a pause, he continued: "If Gexin does not come out again, The original boss may withdraw the investment, and they seem to be more optimistic about Hongxin. Without follow-up funds, R&D breaks down, and the whole project falls short.”
Ye Xie takes orders from Chen Jingqiu, and Chen Jingqiu is the vice president of a company called Blue River that was established less than five years ago.
Blue River Company is not well-known, and its scale is very small.
At first, I was engaged in chip design, and later turned to lithography machine research and development to formulate a leather chip plan. However, because lithography machine research and development itself is a concentrated industrial chain, and key technologies are blocked, research and development have stagnated for a while.
R&D companies burn money, and the big boss behind the investment in Blue River finally chose to raise funds from outsiders.
Gexin, like Hongxin, is a core-making plan for public fundraising. Unlike Hongxin, which only wants to make money, Gexin really wants to build a lithography machine.
Blue River has quietly researched and developed chip design and lithography machines for several years, and has raised a group of professional teams. It was not until this year that it made public the plan for the core innovation. It is a pity that in the middle of the revolution, Chen Tianhe intervened and lost to Hongxin.
If there is no progress, the leather core project may not last long.
They now need a lithography machine with a 28nm process.
The reason why Chen Jingqiu became the vice president of this small company, Blue River, and almost single-handedly handled the leather core project, was mainly because the big boss behind Blue River was a frequent visitor to the underground black boxing in Jin City.
He was a very gangster-like person, and he was optimistic about Chen Jingqiu, who was ruthless and ruthless, so he recruited him to do things for him.
Chen Jingqiu, who had done several things well and was admitted to a key 211 university, was naturally promoted, and his task was actually to revitalize the Gexin project.
Ye Xie: "Mr. Chen, Hongxin is clearly making money. If Gexin dies, all semiconductor-related companies in Jin City will be deceived by Hongxin."
Chen Jingqiu asked Lin Chengjian, "How much do they want?"
Lin Chengjian gestured: "6000 million..."
Ye Xie was going crazy: "Are you stealing money!"
Chen Jingqiu: "6000 million is impossible, at most 2000 million."
Lin Chengjian shrugged: "Someone is here, you talk to the Yankee."
When Chen Jingqiu and Ye Lian turned around, they saw two Yankees coming behind them. They were smiling, dignified and gentle, and they took the initiative to say hello. Their words were polite but could hardly conceal their arrogance.
The person in charge of the cooperation named Paul said firmly: "No, no, it's impossible. It seems that we can't reach an agreement. Believe me, we don't even lack a seller who is willing to pay [-] million yuan to buy a second-hand lithography machine. Except We, you can't buy an Asmer lithography machine in the United States."
Chen Jingqiu: "Mr. Paul, we came to discuss business with you with 100% sincerity, but it is too much to go back on the price after negotiating at the beginning, to raise the price, to go back on it, to raise the price again and again. We pay attention to harmony and integrity when doing business. When you raised the price for the first time, we agreed to double the market price, added it again in the middle, and added it now... At least we should be honest, and it is also for the convenience of future cooperation. "
Paul: "Future cooperation?"
Chen Jingqiu lowered his eyelids: "Yes. If possible, we will transfer the chip channel from Intel to Qualcomm."
Paul asked, "What channel?"
Chen Jingqiu mentioned the name of a company, Paul was stunned for a moment and then asked, "You guarantee that you can talk?"
Chen Jingqiu: "It depends on whether your company is interested in in-depth cooperation."
When Paul heard the words, he communicated with the people around him in a low voice, and finally said to Chen Jingqiu: "I can see your sincerity, we have never rejected sincere and friendly friends. In this way, I will make suggestions to the higher-ups, hoping that we can Complete the cooperation."
Even if the business with huge profits is delivered to them, their words are still full of arrogance, as if doing business with you is condescension.
Arrogant Yankees.
Chen Jingqiu smiled, stood up and shook hands with Paul: "Yes, I hope too."
The two of Paul got up and were about to leave, but when he saw Lin Chengjian, who was hunching his shoulders and eating a hamburger, he suddenly made a short and exaggerated ridicule: "Lin, you look very down and out. Do you need me to introduce you to a job?"
Lin Chengjian was expressionless, and replied bluntly: "No need..."
Paul shrugged, winked with his companion, and left.
"We waited for two or three days, but we met for less than 10 minutes. I didn't know that they were the president who is always busy!" Ye Bing opened the car door and said angrily.
Chen Jingqiu got into the rear seat, followed by Ye Xie, and then Lin Chengjian as the driver.
Lin Chengjian looked at Chen Jingqiu in the rear seat from the rearview mirror of the car. As soon as he got into the car, the other person was expressionless and indifferent. He was obviously younger than anyone else, but he was very calm.
After being left on the air for two or three days, he was asked to increase the price several times, and Ye Xie was so angry that he swears repeatedly. Even Lin Chengjian felt that his lungs were exploding when he substituted it occasionally, but Chen Jingqiu did not explode into anger from the beginning to the end. Talking and acting, demeanor advancing and retreating properly, I don't know, I thought this is a king who has fought in the mall for many years.
Chen Jingqiu took out his mobile phone, checked the message he received just a minute ago, and deleted it after reading it. His limbs that had been stiff all day stretched and relaxed.
He closed his eyes and rested for about ten seconds, and when he opened them again, he looked like a wild beast waking up and preparing to hunt.
"Lin Chengjian, were you very angry just now?" Chen Jingqiu asked.
"No..." Lin Chengjian perfunctorily denied.
Chen Jingqiu looked up at the rearview mirror of the car, and his sharp gaze shot straight at Lin Chengjian, who was also observing him from the rearview mirror of the car, and the latter shrank back as if frightened.
"Lin Chengjian, from Bay Island. Born in 1981, PhD student at Berkeley, joined Qualcomm IC designer at the age of 25, became a senior engineer of Qualcomm IC design at the age of 29, responsible for the CPU. Unemployed at the age of 30, not only expelled by Qualcomm, but also by the entire United States Banned by the Semiconductor Industry Association."
Lin Chengjian's face was so gloomy that water dripped out.
Chen Jingqiu paused, rubbed the phone screen and continued: "The American Semiconductor Industry Association is a circle that leads the world's advanced chip technology. If you are banned by the association, it is equivalent to being banned by the entire chip industry. You have not engaged in IC design for four years. .”
The complete semiconductor industry structure is design, production, packaging and testing assembly, which are the upstream, midstream and downstream of the industry respectively.
Chips are the most money-grabbing upstream industry. The value of the most sophisticated chips can reach 500 million yuan, but most chips are several, tens or hundreds, depending on their functions.
Chip design technology is almost monopolized by the United States, and they only control the most upstream and core IC design.
The second is production. The core technology is the mass production of nano-process lithography machines.
American lithography machines are mainly outsourced to Asmer in the Netherlands, but Asmer has long been infiltrated by the United States. It can be said that it is an American company headquartered in the Netherlands.
As for the core technology of packaging and testing assembly located downstream, it is easy to break through, so it is not important.
Lin Chengjian asked directly: "Why investigate me?"
Chen Jingqiu: "Know your future employees."
Lin Chengjian sneered: "It's useless to hire me! IC design is a team, not a one-person job. Even if you create a top-notch chip, it's useless to produce a lithography machine that can't keep up with the process."
Chen Jingqiu: "We are developing..."
Lin Chengjian: "Blow it up. You can't even buy a 28nm process lithography machine!"
Chen Jingqiu: "I bought it. A 22nm process lithography machine."
"What?!" Lin Chengjian Ye Xie screamed in unison.
"The lithography machine purchased from Japan was smuggled back to Jin City half an hour ago after being transferred to leather bag companies in several countries two months ago." Chen Jingqiu said meaningfully: "3 million US dollars is well spent. "
Ye Qiao murmured: "Japan...isn't it buying from the United States?"
Lin Chengjian reacted quickly: "Your goal of cooperation was not Qualcomm?" He was puzzled: "Why such a big circle?"
Chen Jingqiu said softly: "The lithography machine technology is too thorough to block China. To be conservative, first attract the attention of domestic semiconductor companies with great fanfare, and foreign eyes will also be placed on me because of the heated discussions of domestic companies. This is called the herd effect. .”
He laughed and said, "I saw it in the book. It's okay to use..."
Lin Chengjian was dumbfounded.
Chen Jingqiu said: "Mr. Lin is willing to stay in the United States for the rest of his life and be bullied by others? You and your wife were forcibly stopped because you wanted to resign and go back to China, and then encountered a car accident on the way to the airport—"
"Okay!" Lin Chengjian was furious suddenly, like a trapped animal.
Chen Jingqiu looked at him quietly, and what he didn't finish was: Lin Chengjian and his wife were the core technicians of Qualcomm's IC design and development back then, and they should have participated in a certain CPU research and development plan. The Ministry of National Defense judged that it was a spy trying to steal core technology and escape back to China, and obstructed it in every possible way.
On the way to the airport, Lin Chengjian and his wife deliberately caused a car accident, resulting in the death of their pregnant wife.
Lin Chengjian parked the car on the side of the road, smoked after turning off the engine, and sighed for a while: "It's not cheap to hire me..."
Chen Jingqiu: "Thousands of money can't buy an inch of time. For me, talents are equally rare."
Lin Chengjian said calmly: "Although it has been four years and I haven't touched IC design for four years, as long as I leave, I will still be noticed."
The United States has a domineering style. Once high-end talents are judged to leave, there will be a threat that they will be killed accidentally during the time they leave, especially Huaguo talents.
Chen Jingqiu: "If I have a showdown with you, it means that I am at least [-]% sure."
Lin Chengjian suddenly thought: Are you really only in your twenties?As cunning as an old goblin.
Chen Jingqiu smiled lightly, while Ye Xie patted her thigh and laughed laughingly: "What are you in your twenties? Mr. Chen!"
Lin Chengjian was really horrified this time, what kind of person is this?
"Do you still want to continue to cooperate with Qualcomm?" Lin Chengjian asked.
"Forget about the lithography machine. But we have to hand over the chip channel to Qualcomm."
"why?"
Lin Chengjian didn't understand why he would hand over the chip channel with such a huge profit to Qualcomm since he bought a 22nm process lithography machine that can be mass-produced.
Chen Jingqiu was silent.
There are two reasons. One is for the news released by Asmer, they will complete the mass-produced 15nm lithography machine prototype in 16.
The second is that if the supply of chips in Jin City and Seoul is cut off, at least there is a channel to unblock the disaster caused by the avalanche of chip making.
Chen Jingqiu thought to himself that he didn't have this kind of affection for family and people's livelihood, but if Sheng Mingan stood in his position, he would definitely do a more appropriate and selfless job than himself.
He is learning from Sheng Ming'an, trying to become a bright and kind person on the surface, at least he can stand by Sheng Ming'an's side without being criticized.
Seeing that he didn't tell, Lin Chengjian thought it was a secret, so he didn't ask.
Qualcomm headquarters.
Paul informed the senior management of the conversation between him and Chen Jingqiu, and the senior management agreed without much thought.
Paul: "Really sell the lithography machine to the cunning Chinese people?"
The executive waved his hand: "Huaguo people make the best money. They take the initiative to send money to your door. Why do you refuse? For the lithography machine, let them pay the deposit first, and then some accidents will delay it for two or three years. Wait a minute. Smail's 14nm process lithography machine will be ready!"
Paul was shocked and ecstatic: "14 nanometers?! Not 16?"
Qualcomm executives couldn't help saying proudly: "The research and development progress has exceeded the plan, and it is two nanometers more refined than the original 16-nanometer process. Asmer's extreme ultraviolet lithography will reset the global semiconductor industry. "
At least Nikon, which is still splitting half of the lithography machine with Asmer, will soon be thrown away, and resources and profits will once again be directed to the Semiconductor Association of the United States.
Sheng Mingan returned to USTC from Stanford with Professor Pan and others. The quantum error correction problem he solved at Stanford has long spread throughout the domestic physics academic circles, but it has not yet been out of the circle.
If there is no media coverage, things in the academic circle are rarely spread outside the world, because this circle is very closed.
Even at HKUST, only some professors know about it.
The strange thing is that even the school leaders don't know about it. It seems that those who know generally think that others know about it, but those who have no channels and are not interested in academic circles really don't know about it.
It caused Sheng Mingan to go back to school very calmly.
It was so calm that going to and from get out of class was as usual, and occasionally posting a blog post about an experiment I did today, a perfect score in the midterm exam, etc. only aroused a slight splash.
But it is quite concerned by the professors.
But he was also very concerned by the professors, so he became very ordinary.
Until one day, one month before New Year's Day in 2014, a certain big V posted a post, and even through the screen, he could feel his fantasy heart lying in a big hole.
The title of the post is: [Gentlemen, the problem of quantum error correction has been solved, is it still far from dominating quantum mechanics? 】
Many people started posting as soon as they went in before reading the post: [Here we go again!Every year, the water stickers that are forced to do tasks, are the year-end performance rushes coming? 】
[Boss, I didn't expect that even you would start to waste money [sorrowful]. 】
[What's wrong with Chafan?What a happy chafan!Why do you look down on Chafan? 】
[Did you read the post owner's supplement later?It seems to be really solved. 】
[Stop blowing water.If you have studied quantum mechanics, you should know that quantum error correction cannot be solved in 20 years. 】
[Fuck!Really solved? 】
[What's going on?I take a look. 】
But the content of the main building is: [The thing is like this, the author climbed the wall to take a look at the world of flowers outside as usual yesterday, and accidentally walked into the hot topic of Twitter. This kind of thing happens every day in the United States, there is nothing new under the sun. 】
[But usually those that can make a hot search, basically there will be bloodshed.The author thought it was again... as long as everyone understands it, but when I clicked in, it turned out to be a matter of the academic circle, and then I took a closer look, huh?How is it related to Asians?Why is it still related to Huaguo scholars? ! 】
[After my careful inspection, good guy! 】
[It turns out that in the documentary of the Solvay Physics Conference broadcast by the American Science Discovery Channel two days ago, a certain editor-in-chief insulted Asians openly and aboveboard. Head of MIT Scholars! 】
[In the beginning, the editor-in-chief was too racially discriminatory, which caused dissatisfaction among Chinese students in the United States.Then they called the hotline to complain and protest, but they were all suppressed, and the matter was over.who knows--】
The content of the main building ends here.
Some water friends couldn't help scolding: [Damn!The landlord gasped!Can't finish a sentence? 】
[As expected, the story is fascinating. 】
Turned to the bottom to see the big v's reply: [Next to the main building: who knows the parties involved, it is three MIT physicists who refuted rumors on Twitter that the documentary is not true, suspected of malicious editing and distorting the facts, the real glory should belong to the video A Huaguo scholar dubbed an arrogant yellow-skinned monkey! 】
[Hahaha, cheers! 】
【Should!Did the editor apologize? 】
[Who is the Huaguo scholar? 】
Big V: [Then!The really exciting plot is coming!The Science Discovery Channel and the editor-in-chief all pretended to be dead, and the documentary was broadcast as usual, and they refused to delete it!The Chinese student circle was so angry that they almost called the Chinese embassy in the United States and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to let them deal with this matter. However, some Yankees did not do anything about personnel and insisted on stopping this matter. 】
[Twitter deleted accounts, deleted speeches, and blocked MIT scholars' rumors on Twitter!The incident seemed to be the same as in the past when the mouths of ordinary people were blocked and waited to subside. On the second day, it was discovered that Gross, Witten and other bigwigs all accused the Science Discovery Channel documentary of being untrue, and the Solvay Institute also Release the video of the public lecture of the day!HD! 】
[The whole thing exploded!At first, it exploded in the American Chinese community, and then it exploded among overseas students——]
【Bros!Iron people!Because it is our young physicists in Huaguo who really solve the problem of quantum error correction! 】
[Fuck!Although I don't understand the cause and effect, it looks burning and awesome. 】
[Ah, this happened in just two days? 】
[Who are Gloss and Witten?What is the Solvay Physics Conference Documentary? @Okay, I know, it’s all me
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