Despite the fact that the United States is a very developed country, its railway system is inefficient and the fares are not cheap.

Their philosophy is to fly when traveling long distances and drive when traveling short distances.

I don't know how they calculate distance.

Xing Baohua met Professor Li in the afternoon at a coffee shop.

If you're going to recruit someone, do your homework beforehand; the old lady's ancestral home is in Fujian Province.

Bring back some local specialties, like longan, black tea, or poria cocos paste; it's just a token gesture.

The old man is of overseas Chinese descent, and may not have returned to his hometown many times.

Products from one's hometown are not necessarily rare.

After the two sat down, they first exchanged pleasantries, and then began a discussion on their professional topics.

Fortunately, Xing Baohua had a solid foundation and answered the questions logically and clearly.

It was just like a thesis defense with my supervisor.

Looking back on my thesis defense, I jokingly call it a chaotic and disorganized event.

I'll be in charge of the talking.

The mentor was in charge of indiscriminate killing.

Looking back, it really felt like I was fighting a hellish dungeon.

Professor Li was very satisfied with Xing Baohua's knowledge, thinking he was a top expert from China. He wondered if Xing's blood pressure would rise if he knew Xing's academic background.

"You mean you want me to go back?"

"Yes, Aunt Li!" Xing Baohua addressed her as a junior from the beginning, and she didn't correct him. He just shamelessly kept calling her that.

"I'm building a large laboratory in China. We have many projects underway, but the most important research and development is upgrading lithography machines. We're striving to reach the second generation and develop chips below the micrometer level, truly entering the nanometer scale," Xing Baohua said.

"This road is difficult and challenging."

“I know that, so I’m going to make a lot of money to support all this research and development. All of it will cost 10 billion over ten years. As long as my factory doesn’t go bankrupt, I will allocate 15-30% of the profits to research and development in the future.”

Professor Li nodded, then mentioned that her project was also very expensive.

Xing Baohua had already anticipated this; those who work in superconductivity simply cannot survive without substantial financial resources.

Take rare earth research as an example. From material selection to refining and then to testing for experimental applications, the testing alone requires repeated research.

These things were all accumulated with money.

Therefore, products from the laboratory are often priced many times higher than those produced in mass production.

Despite the experimental research results, it will still take many years before mass production is possible.

If Professor Li were to join the team, Xing Baohua would have already prepared projects for her: the first is the research and development of memory chip, and the second is the research and development of optical sensor chip.

It's not about asking Professor Li to design the chip; I doubt he could do it anyway!

The materials are what matter most.

Good materials are essential for completing the chip architecture.

The main reason why current memory is low is due to the materials used.

Xing Baohua knew the contents of the large-capacity material, but he didn't know how to make it. He could only ask experts to extract it and then further process and improve it.

Finally, it goes into a lithography machine to make the desired chip.

Materials are key, and so is photolithography.

If Xing Baohua could get his hands on high-capacity memory chips, he wouldn't need a mechanical hard drive; he could just go straight for an SSD.

Both RAM and SSDs are crucial to Xing Baohua's next steps.

With a diverse range of multimedia devices, whether used on mobile phones, MP3 players, 4-pin, 5-pin, or computers, the copyrights we've acquired will soon generate profits.

The manufacturing process for memory chips is less complex than that for chips. With sufficient investment, domestic equipment can keep up, and even the domestically produced photolithography equipment that Xing Baohua acquired can be used for manufacturing.

The key is to have someone to mentor you! Professor Li is just right, and his expertise is a perfect match.

According to the original historical trajectory, Professor Li would have returned to China in the late 1980s to conduct research, and would have risen to a high-ranking project leadership position.

Besides, he is also a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

I'm puzzled that she didn't get into either the National People's Congress or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, even though she applied four times. I don't know why, but she wasn't successful each time.

Inviting her back ahead of time is a way of cutting off the conflict!

I'll give her a big project to lead, with plenty of funding. Maybe we can get ahead of the competition in materials science by several years?

Professor Li asked Xing Baohua what her ideal was.

This guy shamelessly said that he wanted to promote the development of national science and technology and not be held back by others, etc.

He spoke with great magnanimity, which inspired and excited the listener.

Xing Baohua promised that if Professor Li returned with his team, the compensation would be twice that of the United States. He would allocate 100 million US dollars in the first year to conduct research and experiment, and if the funding was insufficient after finding the right direction, more funds would be allocated.

He even said things that sounded good on the outside but were actually heartbroken, and that he didn't care even if Professor Li spent 1 billion yuan on him every year.

He's spouting nonsense again; he's fallen into his old habit of talking nonsense.

They successfully persuaded Professor Li to return, and she said she needed to hand over her resignation and ask the students who were with her if they would be willing to return to China with her to do research.

Both parties exchanged contact information, and Xing Baohua will arrange her trip later.

It's nothing more than first class and luxury car pick-up and drop-off; that's about all he has to offer. He's not so rich as to spend money on a private jet to give people away.

He wouldn't dare to buy a private jet if he didn't have tens of billions of dollars in his own pocket.

After spending one night here, Xing Baohua went directly to Seagate.

If Xing Baohua isn't in a hurry, he can travel across the entire Great America to the west coast.

Unfortunately, this guy had already been here many times before he transmigrated here.

Fly directly to San Francisco, California.

South of San Francisco lies a hub for electronics geniuses.

Silicon Valley is right there.

Several of the world's most famous electronics companies are gathered here, including Apple, Intel, HP, Fairchild, and others.

Later, many software companies emerged, including Facebook, Yahoo, and Google.

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