In 2014, a female scientist gave up the condition of holding shares offered by Silicon Valley companies and resolutely embarked on a flight back to her homeland.
After learning that she was going to return, the whole country was not only jubilant, but an expert in the field of communications immediately said that within 5 years, the high-end chips in Western countries would completely lose their monopoly position in the Chinese market. However, the expert's prediction was realized after only 3 years, and the female scientist saved Hundreds of billions of yuan of foreign exchange for China every year, but also completely made the domestic 25G chip have the confidence to compete with Western countries.
She is known as the "world's first talented woman" Mao Wei, today I will talk to you about what kind of status Mao Wei has in the chip field? And how does she help China?
In 1978, Mao Wei was born in a very ordinary small city in Jiangsu, and her parents were also very ordinary working-class people. However, the ordinary family did not hide Mao Wei's talent in learning, as early as the primary school, her intelligence was displayed, even if it is a high school math problem, she often only takes a few minutes to solve it.
After attending middle school, Mao Wei's strong mathematical talent was even more evident. In the usual cognition, men may be better at science, but Mao Wei has broken this fixed concept, from junior high school to high school, she has always been a participant in various competitions approved by the teacher, not only that, the awards of various competitions have also been softly won by Mao Wei.
Participating in international Olympic events has always been Mao Wei's dream, but in order to win these competitions, in addition to being talented enough, more than ten years of continuous efforts are also essential, and this is another feature of Mao Wei. She has been very hard since she was a child, and in the face of all kinds of toys that are enough to make other children addicted to it, Mao Wei has never moved her heart, and she is accompanied by only countless books of all kinds.
In 1995, Mao Wei, who was still a sophomore in high school, participated in a physics competition, which was of great significance to her, because as long as she performed well, she could have the opportunity to enter the "national team", so as to prove her strength in the next "Physics Olympiad" competition and win glory for the country.
After passing the level, Mao Wei was selected into the national team of only 5 people without suspense, compared to other players, Mao Wei did not have an advantage in terms of age or gender, but as the saying goes, diligence can make up for clumsiness, not to mention that Mao Wei is still such a genius.
In the next competition, Mao Wei only took 3 hours to solve the problem that could be solved in 5 hours, not only that, her accuracy rate was extremely high, even foreign scientists who were accustomed to seeing geniuses also praised Mao Wei's examination papers.
With the end of the exam and the results announced in the world's major academic forums, Mao Wei won the gold medal in the 1995 Physics Olympiad with her beautiful answers. Prior to this, this award has never had a history of girls winning awards, and because of this, domestic and foreign countries have called her "the world's first talented woman".
I have to say that Mao Wei is lucky, when many people can only see the back of their dreams in their lives, she has completed her dreams at the age of 17 and won the highest honor. However, for geniuses, life is often to complete one challenge after another, and now that the international awards have arrived, how should Mao Wei choose next?
After Mao Wei returned from the participating country of Australia, she received an olive branch from Tsinghua University before she had experienced the baptism of the college entrance examination, and after some deliberation, Mao Wei finally chose the Department of Electronic Engineering as her next goal. So, why did Mao Wei choose this major?
It turned out that the 1990s was the time when the Internet swept the world, but at that time, the mainland was relatively backward in this field, and because of this, Mao Wei, who was not yet 18 years old at the time, told himself that he must make achievements in the field of optoelectronics.
After completing her undergraduate degree, many famous universities in the world have sent her master's degree invitations, but four years of study have long filled Mao Wei with enthusiasm for making contributions, so she wants to devote herself to work immediately. At this moment, her mentor told Mao Wei: With your ingenuity and existing knowledge, you can completely find a well-paid job, not only that, but you will have no worries about food and clothing in the second half of your life, but if you want to achieve greater achievements in the field of optoelectronics, you can't achieve it with your current ability.
The mentor's words undoubtedly awakened Mao Wei, for a genius who is committed to changing China's technology, how can he be satisfied with a high-paying job?
So Mao Wei selected the University of Berkeley, which has a strong voice in the optoelectronic major, in the invitation letter sent by top universities such as MIT and Harvard University. If Mao Wei still has the characteristic "impetuousness" of immature geniuses before, then after becoming a master, she has completely become the kind of scientist who only wants to break through the limits.
After studying for a doctorate along the way, a number of Silicon Valley giants in the United States have also thrown olive branches to Mao Wei. "Which company can win Over Mao Wei is equivalent to 3 years ahead of other companies out of thin air" The phrase became the consensus among Silicon Valley companies at that time.
Of course, for employees to choose is always a two-way process, some companies promised Mao Wei an annual salary of tens of millions of yuan, some companies even bought her a villa in advance to visit the seaside, but in Mao Wei's view, eating, drinking and wearing are all external things, and because of this, she finally chose a company that is not the highest salary, but fully respects Mao Wei and fully provides her with research freedom.
After putting into work, Mao Wei not only made the company's market value soar in the fields of automotive optoelectronic radar and silicon optoelectronics, but also plunged into the research and development process of 5G communication. Because of her outstanding performance, the company where Mao Wei works also values her more and more, in addition to constantly giving her a salary increase, it is also the responsibility of The company's future development direction to Mao Wei.
At this point, Mao Wei also wanted to simply stay in the United States in this life, not only because his research was very free, but also because he had very rich material conditions. In 2014, however, her thinking changed.
An entrepreneur in the field of mainland communications once traveled to the United States on business, and after learning about Mao Wei's profession, the two naturally had a long conversation. In the conversation, Mao Wei learned that China's import rate of high-end chips reached 97% at that time, especially the optical chips above 25G, which have reached the point of being completely monopolized by foreign countries, and it takes hundreds of billions of dollars to import chips every year to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange.
You know, although Mao Wei has set goals such as winning awards in competitions and basing herself on optoelectronics since she was a child, behind these dreams, what she envisions is actually to serve the motherland. Because of this, Mao Wei felt that this was the time when the country needed her the most, so within a few days of talking with the entrepreneur, she offered her resignation to the enterprise that gave her generous conditions.
Faced with the situation that Mao Wei wanted to return to China, his boss naturally tried his best to retain it, and in addition to buying real estate for him, he also offered the conditions for giving away shares. However, at this time, Mao Wei's heart was like an arrow, even if the boss wanted to give the company to her, I am afraid that she could not stop the pace of her return to China.
After returning to his hometown of Jiangsu, Mao Wei opened a high-tech enterprise dedicated to getting China out of the disadvantage of being necked by foreign cards in the chip field. In 2017, Mao Wei and her team only took 3 years, in the case of blank research data, to develop a 25G high-end communication chip, which not only swept away the haze that China did not have such chips before, but also directly laid a solid foundation for 5G communication on the mainland.
Nowadays, the mainland's 5G communications are already at the forefront of the world, but not long ago, Mao Wei also said in an interview that her company has been on the road to developing a new generation of products. It is foreseeable that the mainland chip industry has such a "world's first talented woman" to operate, the future will not only not be stuck in the neck, but more likely to come to the industry's leading position.