Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Park Jae-sun could barely maintain her smile; she had never seen such a shameless person.

Not only do you refuse investment, but you also poach people by asking such a blunt question!

However, there was nothing he could do. Although he could tell from Chen Yiran's previous reaction that Chen Yiran might not have thought about doing OPC before, this only confirmed Park Jae-sun's suspicions about the news that had come from South Korea.

The technical team at Samsung's headquarters in South Korea is very optimistic about Deepflow's future. They also highly praise Chen Yiran, believing that he may simply not yet have a solid foundation of industry knowledge.

In other words, they felt that Chen Yiran was begging for food with a golden bowl; with such excellent technical skills, why did she insist on getting into EDA? OPC would have been much easier and easier to get started with.

Taking a few deep breaths, Park Jae-sun, relying on the professionalism he had cultivated in South Korea over the years, maintained a smile and agreed to Chen Yiran's request.

"We at Samsung can help you find an OPC operator. Our OPC team is located in Suwon, South Korea, and Austin, Texas. It might not be easy in Austin; the cost of living there is much lower than in Silicon Valley, so I doubt anyone would want to come to Silicon Valley. But in South Korea, it should be fine. We can see if anyone internally wants to come to the US and recommend someone for you."

"Okay, what about computational lithography experts? Could you help me with that too? I'd like to earn more money."

Park Jae-sun was furious. "Does Samsung really lack money?" she thought. "Sigh, don't get angry, don't get angry. We can't offend a genius."

"Well, there's really no way to find computational lithography experts. Even Samsung doesn't have enough of them. Everyone who can do computational lithography is a treasure. You can try your luck in academia. Berkeley has a lithography group, and Stanford has one too. Mentor and Synopsys, the big EDA companies, also have quite a few people in their OPC algorithm teams."

He seems easy to bully, so let's just ask PDK if he can get it for free (^▽^).

Although Chen Yiran felt it was a bit too shameless, he still asked, "Then I'll handle it myself. GlobalFoundries has waived our PDK certification fee. They also promised to send us the complete PDK documentation within a week of signing the confidentiality agreement."

"Okay, okay. I'll notify the legal department tonight, and the official contract will be sent to you within a week. Once you sign it, we'll immediately send you the complete set of PDK documents."

"That's great, I'll get the OPC issue sorted out as soon as possible."

"Then keep up the good work! We will definitely pay to use your OPC products once they are released."

Chen Yiran left Samsung's booth feeling refreshed. With Grey and OPC, he should be able to easily get a lot of gold coins from Samsung every year.

After wandering around the exhibition hall for a while, Chen Yiran headed towards the North Hall, as it was almost time.

The three-day exhibition was ending today. At the FlowEDA booth, Gao Dewei was already directing the young people to dismantle the backdrop; there wasn't much discussion about it anymore. It was mostly students collecting unused white papers, notebooks, and pens from various booths.

There are quite a lot of things to get at this huge exhibition. You can easily get enough stationery for a year or two, not to mention that some companies also give out souvenirs.

Gao Dewei handed Chen Yiran a letter of intent; it was from Botong.

"It was just confirmed. Including this, we have received usage applications from four companies: HiSilicon, Rockchip, SiTime, and Adapteva. This is quite a success. How about your side? How are the PDK inquiries going? SMIC alone is not enough."

"TSMC is out of the question, too much trouble. I've already negotiated with GlobalFoundries and Samsung, and they're very keen to cooperate. Neither of them will charge certification fees."

"That's great. GlobalFoundries is too good. I thought they were just joking or that they would rely on AMD."

"Alright, everyone's been tired these past few days, so let's all go home and sleep tonight. Then we'll all have a three-day holiday."

Chen Yiran's words drew a magnanimous response from the boss.

In the following days, FlowEDA began a full holiday, and even Catherine didn't go to the office to answer the phone.

However, Gao Dewei did not rest; several companies sent contracts to the company email address.

Chen Yiran was too lazy to deal with it, so he simply had the technical details reviewed and, once confirmed, contacted TED.

Actually, there's not much to review. Trial clients all use the same template, which is free for 30 days and limited to one design project.

Each company's specific requirements are listed as an attachment at the end, and they are basically the same as HiSilicon's requirement for local data storage.

SMIC and GlobalFoundries signed their contracts and sent over the PDK data that same day.

Samsung's contract was also very swift and very long, covering various priority rights for both parties, including priority rights for OPC.

After the three-day holiday, the company got busy again.

Suddenly, there were two PDK certifications and four design feedbacks. The staff became even busier, and Chen Yiran's promise of a long vacation during the previous two weeks of overtime was naturally not fulfilled.

To be honest, the previous three-day holiday actually included Saturday and Sunday, so it was only a one-day holiday, but it still made the cattle and horses very happy.

That's how startups are, but Chen Yiran still has some conscience. He's already considering hiring a few extra guys to share the workload while he's recruiting this time.

Because the job openings were quite specialized, Chen Yiran adopted a strategy of launching a full-scale attack and inquiring from all directions.

Gao Dewei started frantically contacting his former colleagues, asking if anyone wanted to switch jobs, and using technical skills and speed as bait.

Although it wasn't easy for Chen Zelin, he was actively using connections and asking around. The first company he contacted was TSMC, where promotions are limited each year, and many technically skilled people are stuck in middle management. However, becoming a computational lithography expert is still extremely difficult, and Chen Zelin said his chances weren't very high.

Finally, Gao Dewei also helped contact Meng Weiliang of the Chinese American Semiconductor Association. Meng was a member of the technical committee of the Chinese American Semiconductor Association and was originally the technical VP of Synopsys, but he made his fortune in the stock market and retired early.

However, he never left the industry and always liked to help his own people first.

This is a tradition of the Chinese American Institute. Although it is not a specific recruitment agency, the recommendations made by the Chinese American Institute are generally very reliable.

Many internal emails were sent to various groups, but in the end only one person named Zhou Feng was selected.

The resume does look very impressive: a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, a PhD in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, and then five years working in the OPC team at Mingdao Mentor.

His doctoral advisor was Andy Neureuther, hailed as the world's leading expert in computational lithography. His SAMPLE lithography simulator was the starting point for the entire OPC industry.

It can be said that all subsequent computational lithography experts should call him their patriarch.

It's unclear why he's considering changing jobs, but it's a good thing he's willing to do so. He's currently on his annual leave and has arranged to meet me in a week through the Chinese American Association.

For people at this level, it's not so much an interview as a two-way communication, more like a blind date.

After a week of intense work, 5 hours a day, Chen Yiran finally couldn't take it anymore.

He simply stayed home and lay around like a corpse, leaving all the work to his employees.

Yu Donglai put it well: if a boss works more than 20 hours a week in the office, it means that he has not delegated authority, does not trust his subordinates, and has not cultivated his team into people as excellent as himself.

Chen Yiran picked up Hannah, who was playing with the dog, and asked, "Let's go out and have some fun. I happen to have a week off from the company."

"Oh, how would I know where to go? How about Japan?"

"No, life's pretty boring."

"Hawaii, or the Maldives? Now would be a great season to go."

"Ah, I don't like swimming, and I'm indifferent to the ocean."

"You're afraid of water!"

"I never said I was afraid of water, I'm just lazy."

"No, I've noticed. You don't swim in the pool at home, but you can soak in the hot tub for a long time. You can't swim, so you're afraid of deep water, right?"

"How about I teach you to swim at home now?"

"No need. I'll learn when Pidan is a bit older and his 'little wife' arrives. By then, that dog will be trained too, and he'll be able to pull me out of the pool."

Hannah stood up, feigning anger: "Can't I just let you poop it out?"

Chen Yiran glanced at Hannah's entire body. She was curvy and not skinny due to running, but it would still be difficult to pull this big man of over 1.8 meters out of the water if he fell in. He was not to be trusted.

Seeing Chen Yiran's underestimation, Hannah immediately came over to suppress him and show her strength.

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Feeling refreshed, Chen Yiran grabbed a Coke and continued discussing where to go for fun.

After clearing her mind, Hannah's intelligence returned, and she cheerfully said, "I've got it! You said you have a photographic memory, so I won't say anything more. Can we go to the casino?"

"You big idiot, I already said I'm 18 and you're 19, the casino would just kick us out. No way, you'd really go and get a fake ID just to test if I have a photographic memory."

"No need, let's go to Palm Springs! I checked last time I was back, the Morongo Casino there only accepts 18-year-olds!"

"Okay, let's go win some money then." (Please let the God of Gamblers' entrance background music play automatically in your head)