Reborn in the red age

"Zizzi"

In the Huaxin Building, the fax machine was running and kept making working sounds.

He Guangqin, who was waiting in front of the machine for the fax to be completed, did not dare to be negligent in the face of the documents being transmitted by the running fax machine, and carefully sorted out each printed paper.

As the last page of paper was slowly spit out, the fax finally ended.

He Guangqin quickly picked up the document and carefully checked the contents of each page. After confirming that everything was correct, he carefully sorted out the document and went straight to Li Qingfeng's office.

"Teacher Li, here comes a fax from the Education Committee. Please take a look." He Guangqin gently knocked on the office door and handed the document to Li Qingfeng who was looking at him expectantly.

I quickly took the freshly prepared document and saw on the first page, it clearly stated: "Mr. Li Qingfeng is specially invited to serve as the chief editor of semiconductor and computer textbooks for colleges and universities across the country."

After receiving the official written authorization from the Education Commission, Li Qingfeng took action that same day.

Not only were personnel drawn from Huaxin and Lemon companies in the mainland, but senior engineers from companies in Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Europe and other countries also received transfer orders.

A large number of elite engineers accumulated by Lemon Company over the years were gathered in the capital, the heart of the country, by a transfer order from Li Qingfeng.

The companies under Li Qingfeng, together with professors and scholars from top domestic universities coordinated by the Education Commission, quickly formed a luxurious textbook writing team.

This team brings together elites from many fields such as theoretical research, technical practice, and education and teaching. Considering the current situation of domestic textbook writing, this staffing configuration is definitely the ceiling level.

Because of Li Qingfeng's relationship, Jiang Yiping also got into the editing team this time, and was mainly responsible for the liaison work between corporate personnel and university personnel.

After Jiang Yiping carefully studied the list of members and backgrounds of the writing team, he found Li Qingfeng and pointed out the deficiencies in staffing.

"Qingfeng, I think there are some problems with the team's personnel configuration this time"

"Huh? Problem? What problem?" Li Qingfeng was also stunned, and quickly took the list of people and started to check it.

Seeing Li Qingfeng anxiously flipping through the personnel list, Jiang Yiping reminded him, "Didn't you notice? The people in this team are mainly computer practitioners. Although semiconductor practitioners are enough, their resumes are completely incomparable to computer experts."

Stopping the action of flipping through the pages, Qingfeng Li looked at Jiang Yiping speechlessly.

Lemon Company started out as a software company and is the largest software producer in the world, but not the largest semiconductor company. The people mainly working for Lemon Company are naturally strong in the computer field.

Facing Li Qingfeng's rolling eyes, Jiang Yiping explained awkwardly: "Qingfeng, because of your relationship, China's software industry is also first-class internationally. This time the textbook mainly focuses on the semiconductor industry."

"I was wondering how such a good thing could happen to me, so this is what you were planning."

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Qingfeng reacted immediately. He had received the news about compiling textbooks before, and was a little excited, but he did not think too deeply about it.

Now that I have come to my senses and listened to what Jiang Yiping said, I immediately realized what the Education Commission was thinking. This was asking me to contribute.

After looking at Jiang Yiping for a while, the honest Jiang Yiping soon gave in and gave two dry laughs to cover up his embarrassment.

Li Qingfeng curled his lips and said without saying anything more, "Okay, I'll try to invite some foreign experts to come over."

"That's great, Qingfeng, I believe you"

“Your trust is worthless”

"..."

After understanding what the Education Committee meant, Qingfeng Li had an idea in his mind and immediately began to think about who he should invite.

First of all, there is definitely no problem with Stanford. With the support of Silicon Valley in recent years, Stanford has become extremely strong and has demonstrated strong capabilities in academic research, talent training, industrial cooperation and many other aspects.

Not only has it begun to make efforts in the fields of computers and software, but it has also reached a very leading level in the field of semiconductors worldwide.

Since the late 70s, Stanford has carried out many cutting-edge research in the chip field, especially in the research of semiconductor materials, and its strength is amazing.

It covers several key directions including semiconductor materials, integrated circuit design, nanoelectronics, etc.

The new materials they are currently researching to improve chip performance and reduce power consumption will lay the foundation for future breakthroughs in chip technology.

As a well-known alumnus of Stanford and a beneficiary, Li Qingfeng would be honored by the board of directors as long as he extended an invitation to the school, even if the relationship between the two countries was not friendly at that time.

After all, science has no borders...

Apart from Stanford, Intel should not have any major problems. So although there is some dirty stuff between Intel and Huaxin, it does not affect their alliance with Lemon.

If Li Qingfeng asked for this small favor, he would not refuse it.

There is also Nokia in Europe, which has cooperation with Lemon Company. If Li Qingfeng invites them, they probably will not refuse.

Although its strength is a bit weaker, it is still quite strong in the field of mobile phone chips, and there are still a few leading figures.

Especially in digital circuit design and analog circuit design, he has rich experience, no worse than Motorola's senior engineers.

Apart from these three, the rest are a bit difficult. You can only rely on your luck to send out some invitation letters. If they come, they come. If they don’t, forget it.

Li Qingfeng acted quickly. He first sent a heartfelt email to the vice president of academic exchanges at Stanford University.

In the email, he elaborated in detail the importance of this textbook compilation to China's semiconductor education and its far-reaching significance to the development of the global semiconductor industry.

At the same time, he also mentioned his deep roots with Stanford and his contributions to the development of the school and Silicon Valley over the years.

Not long after, Stanford University responded.

The result was not beyond Li Qingfeng's expectations. The vice president said in an email that Stanford attached great importance to this cooperation and was happy to send top professors and researchers in the semiconductor field to join the writing team.

They feel honored to contribute to the cultivation of semiconductor talents for China, and believe that this will further promote the exchange between China and the United States in the field of semiconductor academics. They have no other requirements except to add the names of the professors sent to them on the first page of the list of editors.

Nokia's side was even simpler. Lemon Company just sent an email, and they immediately agreed to Lemon Company's request and promised to send the company's best engineers to participate in the writing of the textbooks.

Compared to the successful Stanford and Nokia, Intel's situation was not so smooth.

Intel has always been resentful about Li Qingfeng's dirty deeds at Huaxin. In response to Li Qingfeng's invitation, it was reluctant to send its own senior engineers and just wanted to find someone to get rid of the matter.

At Intel's Santa Clara headquarters, Chief Technology Officer Kevin Mitchell was frowning as he stared at an email from Lemon Company.

Kevin flicked the ash off his hand and said disdainfully, "Are you kidding me? Let Intel's senior engineers teach the Chinese how to make chips?"

"Yes, after discussion at the board of directors, the board feels that we have no reason to reject Mr. Li's invitation. After all, China is in its infancy in the chip industry and needs a helping hand from our great Intel," Assistant Caesar shrugged and said helplessly.

Kevin slammed the printed email on the table and said angrily: "Last year, Huaxin took away all our market share in graphics accelerator cards, and this year they asked us for help. This is simply shameless. I will never allow it."

"But Lemon Company has just updated the licensing agreement for the memory management technology patent." Assistant Caesar gently reminded: "If they withdraw the patent sharing of the memory management technology patent, it will be very disadvantageous to our company."

"In addition, according to a representative of Lemon, AMD has recently been seeking technical support from Lemon."

Kevin's fingers, which were pulling at his tie to loosen it, froze in mid-air, a threat, a naked threat.

Anyone who is not a fool can hear the threat in the words of the Lemon Company representative. No wonder the board of directors passed this resolution.

Kevin secretly groaned in his heart. He knew that in the face of commercial interests, it would be difficult for Intel to refuse this small proposal from Lemon Company.

After a long silence, Kevin finally sighed and said helplessly, "It seems that we have no other choice. Notify George from the Technology Department and Emily from the R&D Department and ask them to prepare and join the textbook writing team going to China. These two people have deep attainments in chip architecture and process technology and should be able to meet the other party's needs."

Caesar nodded and was about to turn around and leave when Kevin added, "Tell them that although they are here to help, they cannot reveal Intel's core technology without reservation. They must be careful while ensuring the quality of the teaching materials."

In addition to the above three universities and enterprises that are 100% sure, many other universities have also accepted Li Qingfeng's invitation and agreed to participate in the compilation of textbooks.

As more international experts joined, Li Qingfeng readjusted the structure of the writing team.

Domestic university professors, engineers and international experts were rationally grouped to ensure that each group could complement each other's strengths in knowledge and experience.

When experts, scholars and engineers with outstanding achievements in the field of semiconductors from all over the world arrived in the capital of China one after another, Li Qingfeng personally went to the airport to greet them.

After every scholar or expert got off the plane, Li Qingfeng would take the initiative to step forward and shake hands with each other, thanking them for their support for China's education.

At the welcome luncheon on the second day, Qingfeng Li raised his glass and addressed everyone: "Everyone, thank you for coming here from afar to participate in this meaningful textbook compilation work."

"We gather here to jointly promote the progress of semiconductor education and cultivate more outstanding semiconductor talents for the world. This is not only a responsibility, but also our love and commitment to this industry."

There was warm applause from the audience. David, a professor at Stanford University, stood up and responded with a smile: "Li, it is our honor to be involved in this. Stanford has always been committed to academic exchanges and cooperation. I hope that this time we can jointly write a groundbreaking textbook."

After the lunch, Li Qingfeng immediately organized the writing team to hold the first plenary meeting.

In the meeting room, members from different backgrounds sat together and the atmosphere was quite lively.

The semiconductor industry is not big, but not small either, and there are only a few famous experts and scholars.

Many of them know each other, and some even have teacher-student relationships.

We usually don't see each other, but this time we finally met, and we started to communicate enthusiastically. The conference room was instantly filled with greetings and small talk in various languages.

After everyone finished their greetings, Qingfeng Li began to introduce the overall goals and general framework of textbook compilation.

"Our textbooks should cover the basic theories, cutting-edge technologies and practical applications of semiconductors, so as to not only enable students to master solid knowledge but also cultivate their innovative thinking and practical ability."

George from Intel then spoke: "In terms of chip architecture, I suggest adding the latest heterogeneous computing architecture, which is an important direction for future chip development."

This view was shared by many people, and even Qingfeng Li nodded secretly.

The people at Intel are indeed quite capable. After the rise of artificial intelligence, heterogeneous computing architecture has indeed shown great potential, and it is generally believed that heterogeneous computing architecture is likely to be the future development direction of chips.

In addition, Anna, an engineer from Nokia, also suggested that in the chapters on digital circuit and analog circuit design, actual cases of mobile phone chips could be combined to help students better understand the application of theoretical knowledge in practice.

Everyone expressed their opinions and the discussion was extremely heated.

Li Qingfeng listened carefully to everyone's speech and wrote down the key points in his notebook from time to time.

After an afternoon and more than half an evening of discussion, the team initially determined the general framework of the teaching materials.

It took another three days to determine the specific division of labor and time nodes for writing each chapter, forming a writing model with university professors as the main body and engineers from large technology companies as the auxiliary. Each member had a clear definition of his or her own tasks.

In the following days, I began the intensive work of collecting information and writing content.

Due to the differences in educational concepts at home and abroad, there were significant differences in the depth and breadth of the textbook content when they were jointly written.

Foreign members believed that professional knowledge should be explained in depth to meet the needs of high-level students.

Domestic professors and experts advocate that the content should be more easy to understand and take into account the acceptance ability of most students.

The disagreement between the two sides forced Li Qingfeng to step forward and organize everyone to have several discussions, and finally reached a consensus.

On the premise of ensuring that basic knowledge is comprehensive and accurate, a layered explanation approach is adopted for key and difficult content.

Set up basic part, extension part and in-depth research part to meet the learning needs of students at different levels. (End of this chapter)