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

Chen Yiran stayed in Palm Springs for half a month without returning to Silicon Valley, and even used Skype for interviews.

As it turns out, the Morongo casino was indeed his lucky place.

He won over $70,000 in blackjack purely by luck. He also dominated the Texas Hold'em table.

Jasmine seems to really enjoy playing Texas Hold'em, and she's incredibly cunning in tormenting other players.

This luck even extended to his work; a recruitment process that seemed fraught with difficulties was completed very smoothly in the end.

That's why he had the confidence to take a two-week vacation.

Samsung's OPC operators joined the company almost instantly; one of them was Kim Sung-ho.

In fact, when Samsung's management approached them one by one to ask if they were willing to switch jobs, these OPC operators were completely bewildered.

I've seen people fire employees, I've seen people persuade employees to leave, and now I've seen it all – people even advise their own employees to switch jobs.

Most employees felt that this was a despicable loyalty test by their superiors, who wanted to see which of them was determined not to leave so they could be promoted.

However, there are also a few honest people who say what they think, highlighting their sincerity.

Kim Sung-ho is an honest man, and he naturally expressed to his boss that he really wanted to switch jobs to the United States if the opportunity arose.

The reason is very simple: they pay more in the US.

Jin Chenghao has a dream: to work like a beast of burden until he is fifty years old, then quit his job and travel the world with all kinds of high-end cameras and lenses to observe birds.

He earns a considerable amount at Samsung in South Korea, so he should be able to quit his job at fifty. However, if he wants to travel the world with an extravagantly expensive camera and lens that easily costs tens of thousands of dollars for bird watching, that won't be enough.

He really wanted to come to the United States to earn more money, so Samsung quickly negotiated his resignation terms with him and, very considerately, did not sign any exclusivity clauses before sending him to the United States to join FlowEDA.

It's worth noting that, according to the tradition of Korean companies, employees who switch jobs are required to sign a six-month non-compete agreement. This time, giving Chen Yiran complete freedom is a huge concession.

Optical simulation engineers are even simpler. Chen Yiran is no longer a nobody in the industry; he already has some reputation.

Moreover, he had a very good relationship with Andrew Ng, and through this relationship, he chose a postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering at Stanford who was working on electromagnetic simulation.

Matthew, of Italian descent, had been considering switching to industry after his contract expired. His research interests were also a perfect match for Chen Yiran's requirements.

In addition to these, Chen Zelin also sent two FAEs, which are field application engineers.

This was something Gao Dewei strongly insisted on prioritizing, since the company had already signed many contracts and many companies had begun testing.

However, in the company, only Gao Dewei is actually able to communicate effectively with clients; the others don't have a sufficient overall understanding of Grey.

Moreover, they are already very busy with their own jobs, so it's not realistic to ask them to become field application engineers now.

So Gao Dewei has been extremely busy these past two days, replying to emails at a high intensity every day.

Each customer uses Grey for different purposes. HiSilicon runs Balong baseband chips, SiTime uses them for MEMS clocks, and Adapteva uses new architectures. Different chip types require different benchmark parameters and various debugging methods.

Gao Dewei had to communicate with each person individually and make various adjustments. After two days, he couldn't hold on any longer and called Chen Yiran for help, requesting an expansion of the army.

Fortunately, it wasn't too difficult to recruit people in this field. Chen Zelin poached two experienced people from TSMC, both of whom were seasoned veterans who had worked with physical design teams from more than a dozen design companies.

However, it will still take them another week or two to get familiar with their Grey team before they can replace Gao Dewei. After all, the learning curve for EDA is quite steep.

Chen Yiran had anticipated all of this going smoothly, but the fact that recruiting computational lithography experts, whom he had expected to be extremely troublesome, was surprisingly easy was a pleasant surprise.

After the Huamen Association facilitated the connection, Chen Yiran, Gao Dewei, Raj, and Zhou Feng had a video call.

After a few more things were confirmed and Zhou Feng's abilities met the requirements, the two parties signed a contract at lightning speed. Zhou Feng didn't have any unreasonable demands and started working at lightning speed.

This matter was so bizarre that Chen Yiran and the others even suspected that there might be something wrong with it.

Zhou Feng noticed their questions and directly revealed the reason: it was because of his wife.

He actually didn't have any negative feelings towards Mentor Graphics and was quite satisfied with his treatment at the company.

However, he still chose to switch jobs, and he didn't have any special requirements for the next company, as long as it was in Silicon Valley and the salary wasn't lower than before.

The reason was very simple and unpretentious: his wife wanted to eat authentic Chinese food.

Mentor is not located in Silicon Valley, but in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Zhou Feng has worked here for 5 years and actually has a good impression of this place. He doesn't really like big cities and prefers small and medium-sized cities like this.

Moreover, he also found his wife here, a blonde girl born and raised in Oregon.

Zhou Feng originally thought he would spend the rest of his life in Oregon, but a vacation last year completely changed that.

Last year, Zhou Feng took his wife to New York for New Year's Eve and then ate several Chinese restaurants, not the American kind, but authentic Chinese food.

Actually, his taste is quite peculiar. His wife was initially not used to the taste of authentic Chinese food at all, and still thought that American Chinese food was more delicious.

However, after eating it for a few days, she felt that the taste had changed slightly.

Back in Oregon, she started to miss even more shredded pork with garlic sauce, Kung Pao chicken, braised beef, boiled sliced ​​pork, sliced ​​beef and tripe in chili sauce, Mapo tofu, twice-cooked pork, dry-fried green beans, eggplant with minced pork, Sichuan-style chicken, spicy shrimp, spicy chicken nuggets, Chongqing hot pot, chicken tofu pudding, hot and sour shredded potatoes, spicy chicken, shredded pork with green peppers...

Chinese restaurants in Oregon certainly can't serve any of the authentic Sichuan dishes mentioned above.

This year, the two of them came to Silicon Valley again for the Spring Festival. They ate Peking duck, Lanzhou noodles, and Cantonese dim sum.

Later, in order to satisfy the appetite of the blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Zhou Feng contacted an acquaintance in the Chinese American Association to see what opportunities were available in Silicon Valley.

After all, the Chinese restaurants in Silicon Valley, or rather the entire San Francisco Bay Area, are top-tier, on par with those in New York and Los Angeles.

With this, FlowEDA's first expansion was completed.

Gao Dewei held a meeting with all employees, and Chen Yiran, who was on vacation, attended via Skype.

The meeting was about mobilization, since we were just one step away from delivering the first complete commercial version to our customers.

If all goes well, I might even receive annual fees from several companies by the end of August.

On the OPC side, Samsung went even further, offering a base price of one million US dollars per year.

Profitability is just around the corner. If all these things can be settled, Chen Yiran, who will have the opportunity to take the stage at the GTC conference in September, can finally show off.

It could even cause a shock to the industry, and the company would be immediately suppressed by various lawsuits from the three major EDA firms.

Chen Yiran concluded: "We need to understand that we haven't received a single lawsuit yet. Let's not even talk about what happened before; we attracted so many people at the US semiconductor exhibition."

They're actually reluctant to hire lawyers to sue us. We need to change that. In September, when I take the lead, I need enough data and results. We need to instill fear in the Big Three EDA firms, to the point where we receive three lawyer's letters a day, to demonstrate our company's value!

After the meeting, the company began to accelerate its efforts.

Actually, since July, the company's top performers have been working at a high intensity. Chen Yiran also put in some effort at that time, but now he's completely done.

I just check emails and group messages at regular intervals each day, and then I hand over the work to my subordinates.

I even took the time to call Dong Jianlong back, basically turning down all offers.

Although he should be going back in September, he feels that it's enough to go with the Chinese American Association. He feels a bit pressured to let Dong Jianlong make arrangements on his own.

In this phone call, Dong Jianlong continued to make empty promises, but perhaps because a phone call is not face-to-face, he did not fully utilize many of the diplomat's skills.

So Chen Yiran remained unmoved, and when Dong Jianlong suggested meeting to discuss things in detail, Chen Yiran declined, saying he was traveling.

After a brief tug-of-war, perhaps realizing the principle that too much of a good thing can be bad, Dong Jianlong politely hung up the phone.

Chen Yiran sighed. Talking to diplomats was still very annoying; their persuasive skills were really strong.

After resolving that issue, a new problem arose: the man in yellow leather jacket called.

"Chen Yiran, we've also done an internal evaluation of the Grey data. I'd like to use Grey at NVIDIA to run the physics design for our next-generation GPU. The evaluation agreement should be the same as the ones you've signed with other clients. I heard it's 30 days free for one project, right?"

"Great, that's good. I thought you guys would keep using the three major EDA providers. I'll have someone send you the standard legal template."

"Okay, there's something else I need to tell you. Xinshi has been asking us about you these past few days."

Chen Yiran sat up from the sofa: "What are you asking about?"

"Synopsys' R&D VP called one of our VPs to ask about the details of NVIDIA's collaboration with FlowEDA. They mainly asked which CUDA operators we used in the Placemen engine and whether our multi-GPU scheduling was jointly developed with us."

"That's not right. How did they know you were working with us? Why would they think of contacting you?"

Before the man in yellow could answer, Jasmine jumped out.

【╮(╯▽╰)╭ You forgot? When you updated your GitHub, you acknowledged the CUDA toolchain team for their low-level optimizations of DeepFlow.】

Chen Yiran blushed slightly; he had completely forgotten about it. He quickly added, "Oh, I remember now, I updated this on GitHub. They must have seen that information before taking the photos of you. What was your response?"

"They didn't reply to anything, just gave us a few perfunctory answers. But you need to know this. It's not common for Xinsi to proactively call us to ask for information. They usually don't bother asking these kinds of questions. They probably can't handle something themselves, which is why they're looking for solutions outside."

"They're trying to steal my things?"

"Haha, don't worry, stealing is impossible. Right now, they're probably trying to see if they can prove you stole something from them, or at least take a bite. But it seems they didn't succeed."

"Okay, thank you. So, am I finally going to be sued?"

"It's hard to say. Synaptics is considered one of the three major EDA firms that doesn't like to take the initiative, but it's not impossible. However, it's more in line with the stereotype that Kaden would make the first move. Anyway, we've already included your GTC presentation in September in our agenda. Get ready."

"Yes, I'm already putting together my signature outfit, but unfortunately I can't choose the sweater or the leather jacket anymore."

"Um... try letting your girlfriend give you something random. My leather jacket was a gift from my wife, and it's not really my style."

After a few more jokes about the leather jacket, they hung up the phone.

Lying on the sofa, Chen Yiran began to plan her first public speech.

Chen Yiran wasn't joking about the logo clothing; he knew that no matter how low-key he kept to himself, he would eventually become world-famous.

Why not establish your own brand early on, become famous sooner, and then it will be easier to recruit people later?

Although Chen Yiran had been planning to return to China at the right time, she was still somewhat insecure.

His goal is to at least have the same appeal as Zhang Rujing.

With a single call to action, he could summon nearly five hundred people from all over the world to come to China and work for him.

Hannah pushed the dinner delivered by room service and said, "What call did you take? Are we going back? School starts soon, it's so annoying, I really don't want to go to school."

"Yes, it's time to go back. August is a harvest month."