Rebirth of Hong Kong Island: I am a world tycoon

After parking the car, several people began to walk slowly, walking through the intersection of Grant Avenue and Busch Street, and suddenly felt as if they had left San Francisco and returned to Hong Kong Island, where everything was very Chinese, Chinese billboards, all kinds of Chinese and the ubiquitous Chinese style in the streets and alleys.

Large intestine wrapped in small intestine, Baodao chicken cutlet, flavored shrimp, meat sandwich bun, pancake fruit, Jingwu duck neck, etc., Chen Zhixue has eaten a few along the way, rich is capricious, there is no need to consider the price at all, Tiezhu and the four strong men have enough to eat even if they have a large amount of food.

While sitting on a stool on the side of the street to rest, Chen Zhixue saw a bookstore with a large billboard at the door: The famous Chinese writer Huang Xiaoyi's new work "Clockwork Girl" was shocking!

Chen Zhixue walked in curiously, and on the most conspicuous shelf in the bookstore was a row of new books called "Clockwork Girl", but they were all in English.

Zhu Qianwei, who followed up next to her, whispered in surprise: "Wow, boss, isn't this your novel, I didn't expect it to be sold here!"

"Of course, this book is sold not only in the United States, but also in almost all developed countries!" Chen Zhixue replied proudly.

"Hello two, do you need to buy any books?" A Chinese clerk not far away noticed the situation here and walked over.

"Girl, is this book selling well here?" Chen Zhixue asked the clerk.

Of course, you don't know, "Clockwork Girl" is now a super bestseller in the United States, topping the best-selling lists of "The New York Times", "Wall Street Magazine", "Publishers Weekly", "San Francisco Almanac" and other newspapers and magazines for two consecutive weeks. When the clerk introduced it, she was very proud as if this honor belonged to her.

"Is it so powerful, how much is the sales?" Zhu Qianwei asked curiously on the side.

"Judging from the statistics in the New York Times, there are more than five million copies in the United States, and if the global sales volume will definitely exceed 10 million copies, we are here because in Chinatown, Chinese people are not very interested in English novels, but they sell a lot every day, and you see, the magazine serialized, the content in it is also Huang Xiaoyi's novel, called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which is very popular with college and middle school students here. "The clerk was very welcoming.

"Where are you from? It sounds like a northeastern accent. Chen Zhixue chatted with her curiously.

"You are from Guangdong Province or Hong Kong Island, listen to you chat in Cantonese, this Chinatown is the most people in Guangdong Province, my grandfather's generation came to San Francisco to work hard, he is from the Northeast, to my generation, I haven't been back for a long time, but we still speak in our hometown dialect at home, grandpa said, the language of the ancestors must not be lost. Seeing that there were not many customers in the store, the clerk replied with a smile.

"You're right, we're coming from Hong Kong Island. Zhu Qianwei replied in her non-standard Mandarin.

"By the way, do you know any well-known Chinese technology bigwigs in the United States?" Chen Zhixue suddenly thought of this question, compared with the people of Hong Kong Island, the people living here will know better, and just ask them may be able to give him some inspiration.

"Ah, I want to think about it!" The girl, as a bookstore clerk, also read a lot of magazines and the like, although she wondered why Chen Zhixue would ask such a question, but she still racked her brains to think about it.

"By the way, Texas Instruments, I don't know if you've heard of it, this is the world's largest instrument company, and one of their vice presidents, it seems to be us Chinese, what's the name, I've seen him on the cover of a technology magazine before. The girl's eyes lit up and she thought of someone.

Then she ran to the storage area of the old magazines and flipped through it, then picked up one of the magazines and handed it to Chen Zhixue.

Chen Zhixue looked at the cover, it was a middle-aged Chinese, who looked to be in his forties, and his name was on the cover, Zhang Zhongmou.

When he saw this name, Chen Zhixue also thought of a person, the founder of TSMC in his previous life, wasn't he the same one? Unexpectedly, he actually started on the side of the United States.

In the previous life, TSMC and Intel had fierce competition in the manufacturing chip process, and it can be said that in the era before Chen Zhixue's crossing, TSMC's chip technology has always been at the world's leading level.

"How much is this magazine, I want it." Chen Zhixue asked.

"This is an old magazine, it was originally priced at one dollar, and now it can be discounted by 5%. The girl said with a smile.

"Give you money, don't look for the rest, give you a tip, thank you tonight." Chen Zhixue handed over a hundred dollars and asked her to help settle the bill.

"Sir, not so much, it's too much. The girl hurriedly handed the money back to Chen Zhixue.

"Take it for you, it's your reward for chatting with us. Chen Zhixue pulled Zhu Qianwei out of the bookstore, leaving only the clerk girl who suddenly made a small windfall to smirk in the back, a hundred dollars is very valuable in this era.

Although Zhu Qianwei wondered why the boss was suddenly so generous, she didn't say anything, and followed the boss out very obediently.

"Let's go back, you have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow you have to go to Silicon Valley to run errands. Chen Zhixue said to everyone.

"Good boss. They nodded, and the head of HSBC should take them to that semiconductor company tomorrow.

The group walked back to the parking lot and drove back to the hotel in the HSBC Tower in San Francisco.

Chen Zhixue, who returned to the hotel, did not rest after changing his pajamas, but took out the magazine and read it.

Turning to the page of Zhang Zhongmou's introduction, it is about how Texas Instruments rose in the semiconductor industry, and its key figure is Zhang Zhongmou, a Chinese.

In 1955, at the age of 24, Zhang Zhongmou entered the semiconductor industry as an engineer in the semiconductor department of an electrical company near Boston.

In 1958, 27-year-old Zhang Zhongmou came to Texas and joined Texas Instruments as the first Chinese employee of Texas Instruments.

In 1965, he was promoted to general manager of the integrated circuit department.

In 1972, he was appointed vice president and senior vice president of Texas Instruments, and was the third person in Texas Instruments, second only to chairman and president.

At this time, Texas Instruments had already become the world's No. 1, with 60,000 employees worldwide, half of which were managed by Zhang Zhongmou.

This is a real technology boss, which is why he was able to create a company like TSMC later, which has both technology and management capabilities.

"This kind of big man, do you have a chance to pull him over and do things for yourself?" Chen Zhixue thought with some annoyance.

No matter what, at least give it a try, and after the HSBC side is done, go to Texas to give it a try, the Chinese, after all, have a concern and longing for their motherland.